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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Friday, November 2, 1984

38-Across : Companion of each

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,778
Across
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Kind of horse or man : POST
5
Iraqi port : BASRA
10
Word with rest or slide : BACK
14
Spotted fish : OPAH
15
Singer John : ELTON
16
A Gardner : ERLE
17
Defiant : REBELLIOUS
19
Toronto pitcher : LEAL
20
Disinfectant ingredient : CRESOL
21
W.W. II agcy. : OPA
22
Umbrella type : GAMP
23
Delicate blue perennial : HAREBELL
25
Salt : TAR
27
December 24 or 31 : EVE
28
Idle chatter : PALAVER
32
Golfer's need : CLUB
36
Farmer's helper at D.C. : USDA
38
Companion of each : EVERY
39
"___ Comes Cookie," 1935 song : HERE
40
Our planet : EARTH
42
"Bus Stop" playwright : INGE
43
Race tracks : OVALS
45
Kind of plane or scope : GYRO
46
Fusses : ADOS
47
Loot : PILLAGE
49
Novelist Levin : IRA
51
Adverse : ILL
52
Middle West region : CORNBELT
57
Variety of brandy : MARC
60
Supplement, with "out" : EKE
62
Pietro's home, to Pierre : ITALIE
63
Exchange fee : AGIO
64
Poe girl : ANNABELLEE
66
Understandings : KENS
67
Highway haven : MOTEL
68
Symbol : SIGN
69
Hem : EDGE
70
Vowed : SWORE
71
Enzyme suffixes : ASES
Down
1
Veranda : PORCH
2
"Martha" or "Norma" : OPERA
3
Cavalry sword : SABER
4
"We hold ___ truths ... " : THESE
5
N.Y.C. hospital : BELLEVUE
6
___ Baba : ALI
7
Draftsman's perch : STOOL
8
Poultry disease : ROUP
9
Crux ___ (key of life) : ANSATA
10
Posh London section : BELGRAVIA
11
Region : AREA
12
Cherrystone, e.g. : CLAM
13
Seaweed : KELP
18
Ear part : LOBE
24
"Gil Blas" writer : LESAGE
26
Pub order : ALE
28
Native, to Pablo : PATRIO
29
Sell : VEND
30
"Cogito, ___ sum" : ERGO
31
Bartender's grouping : RYES
32
Mince : CHOP
33
Third son of Jacob : LEVI
34
Orsk's river : URAL
35
Like certain hawks : BELLICOSE
37
Sere : DRY
41
Like Hagar of the comics : HORRIBLE
44
Term in pharmacy : SAL
48
Faint lights : GLEAMS
50
Stake : ANTE
52
Patchwork composition : CENTO
53
Light wood : BALSA
54
Author Havelock : ELLIS
55
Faithful : LIEGE
56
Some salad days : TEENS
57
___ up to (flatter) : MAKE
58
Ripened : AGED
59
Best man's burden : RING
61
Recognize : KNOW
65
Eastern Church chalice veil : AER

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

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