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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, October 26, 1982

21-Across : Talent

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 309 (avg 1.65)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 3
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,040
Across
1
___-my-thumb : HOPO
5
Actress Wilson : MARIE
10
Pitcher : EWER
14
At all times : EVER
15
Wing-shaped : ALARY
16
Dry: Comb. form : XERO
17
Rossini work, with "The" : BARBEROFSEVILLE
20
Dutch disease victim : ELM
21
Talent : GIFT
22
Shrub or tree : ALDER
23
Adak native : ALEUT
25
Part of the Lateran : APSE
27
Doubleday and Dean : ABNERS
29
Skip : OMIT
30
Cookbook meas. : TSP
33
Ruby and Sandra : DEES
34
Dine's companion : WINE
35
___ loss : ATA
36
Humperdinck work : HANSELANDGRETEL
41
Ref. work : ENC
42
Joke : JAPE
43
Hwys. : RTES
44
Cheeks of the N.B.A. : MOE
45
Supplemented, with "out" : EKED
46
Somewhat hostile : CHILLY
48
Bakery employee : ICER
49
Ichabod or Stephen : CRANE
50
Brisk : SMART
53
W.Va. product : COAL
54
Children's game : TAG
57
Offenbach work : TALESOFHOFFMANN
61
Dash : ELAN
62
Inched along : CREPT
63
Radius neighbor : ULNA
64
Extensive : WIDE
65
Cheap; crude : TATTY
66
Feline sound : MEOW
Down
1
Olympic cup-bearer : HEBE
2
Race track : OVAL
3
" ... ___ which the sea cannot claim": Hardy : PERMANENCE
4
Sphere : ORB
5
Sulla's foe : MARIUS
6
On high : ALOFT
7
Float : RAFT
8
Agcy. that revs up in April : IRS
9
Seeing ___ dog : EYE
10
Banish : EXILE
11
Unite : WELD
12
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
13
Dutch river : ROER
18
Historic Hungarian city : EGER
19
More enormous : VASTER
24
Counterpart of fewer : LESS
25
Encircled by : AMID
26
"Turandot" baritone role : PING
27
Abou Ben ___ : ADHEM
28
Numbers game : BEANO
29
Had : OWNED
30
___ gray (off-white) : TATTLETALE
31
Carnegie product : STEEL
32
___-walsy : PALSY
37
Discharges : EJECTS
38
Seneca or Oneida : LAKE
39
Mimic : APER
40
Tara site : ERIN
46
Sly : CRAFTY
47
Word with truth or way : HALF
48
Goddess of peace : IRENE
49
Elect by votes of members : COOPT
50
Fret : STEW
51
Neighbor of Algeria : MALI
52
"There was ___ ... ": Burns : ALAD
53
Pres. Arthur's nickname : CHET
55
Part of A.D. : ANNO
56
Corrode : GNAW
58
Bk. size : OCT
59
Angelico : FRA
60
Silent : MUM

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