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Patterson Pepple
Patterson Pepple

New York Times, Friday, January 19, 1990

27-Down : Easy as falling off ___

Author:
Patterson Pepple
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 62, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Patterson Pepple has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,682
Across
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Brazilian Indians : GES
4
___ Clark, U.S. Atty. Gen.: 1967-69 : RAMSEY
10
Betty White's role in "Golden Girls" : ROSE
14
Dos Passos trilogy : USA
15
Practical, as a gadget : USABLE
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Place for your dough : OVEN
17
Very pale : ASWHITEASASHEET
20
Two Gentlemen's milieu : VERONA
21
Prefix with lace or lock : INTER
22
Old Testament character: Gen. 14:13 : ANER
23
Cubbyhole : RECESS
26
Choose a new club member : TAP
29
Jampan : SEDAN
31
Letters on a chasuble : IHS
32
Whimper : PULE
33
Tropical fish : TETRA
35
What Stephen King evokes : HORROR
37
Phrase from "Keep the Home Fires Burning" : ASILVERLINING
40
African antelope : IMPALA
41
Ingredients for rickeys : LIMES
42
Rip of the films : TORN
43
Lemon-meringue dessert : PIE
44
Celery unit : STALK
48
___ Lanka : SRI
49
Optic membrane : SCLERA
52
___ fixe (obsession) : IDEE
53
Early Mexican Indian : NAHUA
55
The Promised Land : CANAAN
57
Have jealous or covetous feelings : BEGREENWITHENVY
61
Locale : AREA
62
Dermal decoration : TATTOO
63
Corp. boss : CEO
64
Attire : GARB
65
Solar-system model : ORRERY
66
White-tailed predator : ERN
Down
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Tropical fruits for jellies : GUAVAS
2
Early ascetic : ESSENE
3
Was most irate : SAWRED
4
Bankrupt : RUIN
5
"Hitch your wagon to ___": Emerson : ASTAR
6
Ginnie or Sallie chaser : MAE
7
Famed suffragette's monogram : SBA
8
Dinsmore, Janis and De Wolfe : ELSIES
9
Brings forth a lamb : YEANS
10
Architect Mies van der ___ : ROHE
11
Execute a coup : OVERTURN
12
Bishop's authority : SEE
13
Tolkien creature : ENT
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Kind of ode : HORATIAN
19
Rdwys. : STS
24
Emerald Isle, to a Gael : EIRE
25
Brown or McCarthy : CHARLIE
27
Easy as falling off ___ : ALOG
28
Part of r.p.m. : PER
30
Little Dickens heroine : NELL
32
Unsullied : PRISTINE
34
Dam syst. : TVA
35
Play by e. e. cummings : HIM
36
First numbers : ONES
37
Love, in Lugo : AMOR
38
Spaniel type : SPRINGER
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Reclining one : LIER
40
"___ a deal!" : ITS
43
Flat; level : PLANAR
45
"Ten Cents ___," 1930 song : ADANCE
46
Person taking off : LEAVER
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Gambler, Ohio, campus : KENYON
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Haggard classic : SHE
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"Were it my ___ fight ... ": Shak. : CUETO
51
Thespian : ACTOR
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Yemeni, e.g. : ARAB
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Sailor's greeting : AHOY
57
Diamond base : BAG
58
Feminists' goal : ERA
59
H2O : WTR
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Suffix with Jersey : ITE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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