Crossword clues for apple pie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apple pie \Ap"ple pie`\ A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.
Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so
doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to
prevent any one from getting at his length between them.
--Halliwell
--Conybeare.
Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.]
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples. 2 (context figuratively English) Anything quintessentially American. vb. (context transitive English) Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.
WordNet
n. pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar
Wikipedia
An apple pie is a fruit pie, in which the principal filling ingredient is apple. It is, on occasion, served with whipped cream or ice cream on top, or alongside cheddar cheese. The pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making it a double-crust pie; the upper crust may be a circular or a pastry lattice woven of crosswise strips. Exceptions are deep-dish apple pie, with a top crust only, and open-face Tarte Tatin.
Apple Pie are a Russian progressive rock band founded by Vartan Mkhitaryan in 2000. Their debut album, Crossroad, was released in 2007 by Russian rock label MALS.
Apple Pie is a 1993 album by the Australian indie rock band Nice.
Apple pie is a dessert generally made from apples and pastry.
Apple pie or apple-pie may also refer to:
Apple Pie is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on the ABC network from September 23, 1978 until September 30, 1978. It is based on the play Nourish the Beast, by Steve Tesich.
Apple Pie starred Rue McClanahan as lonely hairdresser Ginger-Nell Hollyhock, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri during the Depression year of 1933.
"You can't pick your own relatives," goes the old saying, but that is exactly what Ginger-Nell does. Placing classified ads in the local newspapers, she recruits a con-man husband, "Fast Eddie" Murtaugh, played by Dabney Coleman; a tap-dancing daughter, Anna Marie Hollyhock, played by Caitlin O'Heaney; a son who wanted to fly like a bird, Junior Hollyhock, played by Derrel Maury; and a tottering old grandfather, Grandpa Hollyhock, played by Jack Gilford; all of whom come to live together—for the laughs.
When the TV sitcom Maude ended in early 1978, producer Norman Lear created Apple Pie as a vehicle for Rue McClanahan, who had played Vivian Cavender Harmon on Maude. The show, however, was not well received and was canceled after two episodes, though eight had been filmed under the direction of Peter Bonerz.
Usage examples of "apple pie".
As a matter of fact, the very issue of WiPP into which I had slipped the odd finding from my apple pie likewise contained Wellcome's review of my latest novel, Beloved Babylonian.
He was an American man, she knew that, a man who would have a taste for milk and apple pie, a man who would appreciate the homely beauty of red check and gingham.
She didn't want to make a life's work out of swabbing up puke and urine, but she could do what needed to be done without adding two half-used pieces of apple pie to the mix.
Nearby lay a jug of strawberry cordial and a half-finished apple pie which they had requisitioned from Goody's cupboard.
Sister Sage put the finishing touches to a raspberry and apple pie and, wiping her paws on a flour-dusted apron, the old mouse stood back and watched Simeon, the blind Herbalist.