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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, January 1, 1987

23-Across : Soldiers busy on Jan. 1

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 279 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,568
Across
1
Berth on a Hawaiian train? : ALOHA
6
Chick chaser : SHOO
10
Meter man's offering : POEM
14
Little Joe plus three : SEVEN
15
Bobbin : PIRN
16
Craft that crossed through Clashing Rocks : ARGO
17
Totally naked : STARK
18
Indigo : ANIL
19
Jan. 1 drinks : NOGS
20
Revelers' song : AULDLANGSYNE
23
Soldiers busy on Jan. 1 : MPS
24
Meritorious birds : ERNES
25
Chan man : OLAND
29
Hun king : ATLI
30
Garfunkel : ART
32
Chief, in Calcutta : MIR
33
Musical-chairs prize : SEAT
36
This may be tight or loose : END
38
Prickly: Comb. form : ECHINO
40
" ... out the ___": Tennyson : OLDRINGINTHENEW
43
Author Gordimer : NADINE
44
___ diem : PER
45
Ship's off. : BOSN
46
Mischievous Olympian : ATE
47
East, in Berlin : OST
49
Bed of roses : EASE
51
Painter Odilon : REDON
53
Spokes : RADII
55
Ewe said it : BAA
58
Drink, in 20 Across : CUPOKINDNESS
61
Spelter : ZINC
64
Dawn, in Arles : AUBE
65
"Anna Karenina" character : LEVIN
66
Beige : ECRU
67
Bath and Baden-Baden : SPAS
68
Get around : EVADE
69
Letter starter : DEAR
70
Waldorf-Astoria muralist : SERT
71
More reasonable : SANER
Down
1
Its capital is Gauhati : ASSAM
2
Slacken : LETUP
3
Race tracks : OVALS
4
Pack of camels : HERD
5
Bobby sock : ANKLET
6
Activity for Eads : SPANNING
7
Door part : HINGE
8
Bhubaneswar is its capital : ORISSA
9
Sole : ONLY
10
Jury : PANEL
11
Gold, in Peru : ORO
12
Ingredient of 19 Across : EGG
13
Dec. and Jan. : MOS
21
Francis and Dahl : ARLENES
22
Defile : NOTCH
26
Kind of acid : AMINO
27
Cubs and Mets : NINES
28
Inundate : DROWN
29
Longfellow town : ATRI
31
Instruct again : RETRAIN
33
Submarine finder : SONAR
34
Make happy : ELATE
35
Supplementary : ADDED
37
Skinny follower : DIP
39
Goddess of youth : HEBE
41
Turkish President: 1938-50 : INONU
42
Most penurious : NEEDIEST
48
They play : TROUPE
50
Moves sideways : SIDLES
52
Happen : OCCUR
54
Mogul emperor: 1556-1605 : AKBAR
55
Britain's Aneurin ___ : BEVAN
56
Coward's "To Step ___" : ASIDE
57
Actor from Kansas City : ASNER
59
Col : PASS
60
Leningrad's river : NEVA
61
John Bull's omega : ZED
62
Jan. 1 head-soother : ICE
63
Eagle of the 30's : NRA

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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