PERU is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for PERU in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "PERU" answer was first appeared in "31 Dec 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "President Fujimori’s land". It was authored by Norman S. Wizer. Recently, the "PERU" answer has been used for "20 Nov 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Neighbor of Bolivia". It was authored by Sam Ezersky. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Lima’s land (12)". "PERU" appeared 150 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "PERU" word.
Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
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20 Nov 2023 | 27D | Neighbor of Bolivia | Sam Ezersky |
28 Oct 2023 | 26A | Paddington Bear’s place of origin, before arriving in England | Ryan McCarty |
17 Oct 2023 | 67A | Home of the Inca Trail | Dominic Grillo |
28 Jul 2023 | 6D | Its northernmost extreme is just 2.1 miles from the equator | Rafael Musa and Hoang-Kim Vu |
4 Jul 2023 | 2D | Lima’s home | Barbara Lin |
5 May 2023 | 26D | Source of the Amazon River | Jacob McDermott |
13 Mar 2023 | 28D | Country that’s home to the Inca Trail | Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen |
27 Aug 2022 | 47D | Country whose name can be typed on just the top row of a keyboard | Andrew Linzer |
26 Jun 2022 | 65A | Country whose name together with its capital city has only eight letters | Matthew Stock and Finn Vigeland |
19 May 2022 | 72A | Home to the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas | Alex Rosen |
10 May 2022 | 2D | Land in the Andes | Lou Weiss |
24 Mar 2022 | 39A | Machu Picchu locale | Jess Shulman |
16 Dec 2021 | 42D | Its flag has vertical stripes of red-white-red | Trenton Charlson |
30 Nov 2021 | 15A | Home of many of the world’s alpacas | Billy Ouska |
1 Aug 2021 | 12D | Its national drink is the pisco sour | Matthew Stock |
25 Oct 2020 | 67D | Indiana city that’s 100 miles west of Lima, Ohio | Peter A. Collins |
22 May 2020 | 59D | Country where Quechua and Aymara are spoken | Hal Moore |
4 Dec 2019 | 27D | Home of Machu Picchu | Evan Mahnken |
24 Oct 2019 | 14A | Home to a majority of the world’s alpacas | Matt Ginsberg |
9 Mar 2019 | 25A | Major exporter of artichokes and gold | Sam Trabucco |
31 Dec 2018 | 19A | Country between Ecuador and Bolivia | Brian Thomas |
22 Sep 2018 | 42A | Home of the 11,000-foot-deep Cotahuasi Canyon | Sam Trabucco |
30 Aug 2018 | 23D | Home of the oldest university in the Western Hemisphere (founded in 1551) | Grant Thackray |
14 Aug 2018 | 1D | Lima’s home | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
20 May 2018 | 27A | Mario Vargas Llosa’s country | Will Nediger |
6 May 2018 | 20D | Original home of Paddington Bear | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
3 Jan 2018 | 58A | Machu Picchu locale | Bruce Haight |
22 Oct 2017 | 111D | Arequipa is its second-largest city | Tracy Gray |
18 Sep 2017 | 7D | Lima’s land | Tom McCoy |
19 Jan 2017 | 52D | Source of the Amazon | Jacob Stulberg |
1 Dec 2016 | 33D | South American territory in the game Risk | Timothy Polin |
11 Oct 2016 | 16A | Lima’s home | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
15 Jan 2016 | 1D | Major quinoa exporter | Patrick Berry |
27 Aug 2015 | 52A | Birthplace of Paddington Bear | Joon Pahk |
4 Mar 2015 | 35D | Land bordering Lake Titicaca | Jeff Stillman |
27 Nov 2014 | 17A | Mario Vargas Llosa’s home | Stanley Newman |
4 Nov 2014 | 21A | Its national animal is the vicuña | Joel Fagliano |
5 May 2014 | 15A | Country located in what was once the Inca Empire | Lynn Lempel |
28 Aug 2013 | 57D | Big silver exporter | Erik Agard |
4 Aug 2013 | 16D | Paddington Bear’s country of origin | Steven Ginzburg |
17 Jul 2013 | 14A | Yma Sumac’s homeland | Robyn Weintraub |
2 Jul 2013 | 53D | Homeland of Literature Nobelist Mario Vargas Llosa | Daniel Raymon |
11 Feb 2013 | 45A | Country south of Ecuador | Gary Cee |
29 Oct 2012 | 67A | Lima’s land | Gareth Bain |
26 Sep 2012 | 53D | Country mentioned in Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” | Peter A. Collins |
26 Feb 2012 | 113D | Home of the Norte Chico civilization | Daniel A. Finan |
18 Oct 2011 | 55D | Home of former U.N. Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Patrick Berry |
30 Sep 2011 | 27A | Territory on a Risk board | Joe Krozel |
26 Sep 2011 | 2D | Llama land | David Gray |
6 May 2011 | 60A | Indiana town that’s home to the International Circus Hall of Fame | Natan Last |
26 Apr 2011 | 3D | Land with chinchillas | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
15 Apr 2011 | 51D | Where the 2003 true-life film “Touching the Void” is set | Patrick Berry |
28 Mar 2011 | 27D | Land conquered by Conquistadors | Robyn Weintraub |
5 Oct 2010 | 1A | Andean land | Paula Gamache |
6 Aug 2010 | 32A | El Misti’s location | Patrick Berry |
18 Jan 2010 | 6D | Lima’s locale | Adam Cohen |
5 Jan 2010 | 52D | Chile’s northern neighbor | C. W. Stewart |
27 Dec 2009 | 105D | Arequipa is its second-largest city | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
6 May 2009 | 2D | Machu Picchu’s land | Michael Callaway Barnhart |
14 Apr 2009 | 41D | Where Simón BolÃvar was once president | Barry Boone |
27 Feb 2009 | 35A | Big copper exporter | Joe DiPietro |
25 Dec 2008 | 22A | Its coat of arms includes a vicuña | Eric Tentarelli |
7 Dec 2008 | 49D | Equatorial land | Jim Page |
10 Oct 2008 | 2D | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born and buried | Kyle Mahowald |
31 Jul 2008 | 7D | Locale for Che Guevara in “The Motorcycle Diaries” | Allan E. Parrish |
15 May 2008 | 25A | Home of novelist Mario Vargas Llosa | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
21 Apr 2008 | 4D | Lima’s land | Janet R. Bender |
24 Mar 2008 | 43A | Land of Lima and llamas | David J. Kahn |
20 Mar 2008 | 58A | The Putumayo River forms part of its northern border | Stephen Edward Anderson |
25 Feb 2008 | 3D | Llama country | Randall J. Hartman |
9 Feb 2008 | 25A | One of the losers in the War of the Pacific | Shannon Burns |
11 Sep 2007 | 34D | The Pan-American Highway runs through it | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
23 Jul 2007 | 49D | Andean land | Randall J. Hartman |
3 Mar 2007 | 52D | Its flag has a vicuña on it | Karen M. Tracey |
15 Nov 2006 | 12D | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born | David Benkof |
13 Nov 2006 | 2D | Where Lima is | Peter A. Collins |
24 Sep 2006 | 14A | Modern home of the 10-Down | Mark Diehl and Kevin McCann |
28 Aug 2006 | 58D | Cuzco’s country | Stanley Newman |
18 Jul 2006 | 63A | Lima’s land | Kevan Choset |
2 May 2006 | 62A | Land north of Chile | Peter A. Collins |
12 Apr 2006 | 25D | Indiana city named for a foreign country | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
14 Mar 2006 | 15A | Andean territory | Lynn Lempel |
9 Feb 2006 | 63A | Cuzco’s home | Ethan Cooper |
12 Oct 2005 | 39D | Big silver exporter | Paul Guttormsson |
4 Oct 2005 | 58D | Lima’s land | Barry C. Silk |
5 Sep 2005 | 14A | Andean land | Lynn Lempel |
24 Aug 2005 | 52D | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born | Mel Taub |
14 Aug 2005 | 122A | 33-Down’s home today | Patrick Merrell |
23 Nov 2004 | 47D | Llama land | Kurt Mengel |
27 Oct 2004 | 44A | Andean country | Nathaniel Weiss |
26 Jun 2004 | 24D | Its highest point is Huascarán | Byron Walden |
4 Apr 2004 | 16D | El Misti’s locale | Manny Nosowsky |
15 Nov 2003 | 50D | Conquistador’s locale | Patrick Berry |
7 Jul 2003 | 4D | Lima’s locale | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
8 Apr 2003 | 43A | Cuzco’s country | Verna Suit |
2 Apr 2003 | 49D | Where the nuevo sol is spent | Kelly Clark |
24 Mar 2003 | 1A | Neighbor of Ecuador | Alison D. Donald |
12 Mar 2003 | 58D | Machu Picchu site | Myles Callum |
16 Dec 2002 | 16A | Llama’s land | Jim Hyres |
5 Jun 2002 | 28A | Site of El Misti volcano | Richard Silvestri |
28 Apr 2002 | 32D | Indiana town where Cole Porter was born | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
10 Apr 2002 | 2D | Big copper exporter | Gregory Casagrande |
17 Feb 2002 | 86A | Big cocaine exporter | Joe DiPietro |
25 Dec 2001 | 28D | Home for llamas | Peter Gordon |
29 Oct 2001 | 67A | Lima’s land | Richard Hughes |
26 Oct 2001 | 48A | Where the Marañón flows | Peter Gordon |
21 Oct 2001 | 1D | Home of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa | Robert H. Wolfe |
3 Jul 2001 | 40D | Andean land | Randall J. Hartman |
29 Jun 2001 | 48D | Where the Ucayali begins | Holden Baker |
14 Jun 2001 | 10D | Pan American Highway land | Mark Diehl |
1 May 2001 | 66A | Big copper exporter | Stanley Newman |
15 Mar 2001 | 30D | It borders the state of Amazonas | Cathy Millhauser |
18 Feb 2001 | 87A | Major silver exporter | David J. Kahn |
4 Feb 2001 | 24D | Big copper exporter | Frank A. Longo |
27 Aug 2000 | 73D | Fujimori’s land | Dana Motley |
26 Jul 2000 | 45A | Big coca producer | William I. Johnston |
25 May 2000 | 22A | Big copper exporter | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
27 Apr 2000 | 3D | Amazon’s source | Greg Staples |
28 Dec 1999 | 8D | Where the Amazon rises | Randall J. Hartman |
15 Nov 1999 | 11D | Llama country | Nick Grivas |
11 Aug 1999 | 7D | Incas’ land | Rich Norris |
16 May 1999 | 118D | Home to Shining Path guerrillas | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
12 May 1999 | 42A | Alpaca habitat | Nancy Salomon |
13 Apr 1999 | 8D | Pizarro conquest | Fred Piscop |
27 Feb 1999 | 12D | 24-Down town where Cole Porter was born | John Scott Marrone |
11 Jan 1999 | 34D | Lima’s land | Randall J. Hartman |
10 Jan 1999 | 110D | Mountainous land | David J. Kahn |
4 Jan 1999 | 26A | Land of the llama | Gregory E. Paul |
7 Nov 1998 | 4D | Home of the U.N.’s Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Raymond Hamel |
24 Aug 1998 | 24A | Country north of Chile | Alan Jay Weiss |
23 Aug 1998 | 83D | Old Spanish viceroyalty | Nelson Hardy |
22 Aug 1998 | 25D | Callao is its chief port | David J. Kahn |
15 Mar 1998 | 40D | Major fish exporter | Frank Longo |
9 Feb 1998 | 37A | Lima’s land | Robert Dillman |
16 Oct 1997 | 23D | Where El Misti volcano is | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
7 Oct 1997 | 62A | Andes land | Richard Hughes |
30 Sep 1997 | 11D | Lima’s land | Nancy Schuster |
19 Aug 1997 | 58A | Lima’s locale | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
3 Apr 1997 | 10A | Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa’s home | Richard Hughes |
6 Jan 1997 | 35D | Where the Amazon originates | S. L. Robbins |
21 Oct 1996 | 34A | Lima’s land | J. Bender |
6 Sep 1996 | 58D | Where the Ucayali flows | R. Norris |
13 May 1996 | 42D | Lima’s land | S. L. Robbins |
10 Dec 1995 | 53D | Where the Amazon arises | Jim Page |
23 Oct 1995 | 35A | Lima’s land | Sidney L. Robbins |
19 Jul 1995 | 42D | Huascarán is its highest point | Nancy S. Ross |
4 Jun 1995 | 84D | Aymara is spoken here | Bryant White |
21 Nov 1994 | 12D | Llama land | Norman S. Wizer |
18 Aug 1994 | 53A | Where Cuzco is | A.J. Santora |
31 Dec 1993 | 12D | President Fujimori’s land | Norman S. Wizer |
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