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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, November 23, 1989

72-Across : Madagascar denizen

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, 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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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,625
Across
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Slain Swedish leader : PALME
6
Thanksgiving Day event : FEAST
11
Thanksgiving tuber : YAM
14
Of a region : AREAL
15
Like 6 Across : AMPLE
16
Greek vowel : ETA
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Thanksgiving desserts : PUMPKINPIES
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Rumanian coin : LEU
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Marine mollusk : ABALONE
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Sheltered cozily : NESTLED
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Highway feature : LANE
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Psychedelic drug, for short : LSD
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Compete : VIE
27
Wind dir. : SSE
29
Come in again : REENTER
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Goal : AIM
36
Bewildered : ATSEA
38
Office for Bush : OVAL
40
Thanksgiving hosts' needs : KNIFESHARPENERS
44
Movie critic James : AGEE
45
Pre-W.W. II Berlin hotel : ADLON
46
Rent : LET
47
Expand : ENLARGE
50
Daffy : MAD
52
Single : ONE
53
Diamond holder : DOP
55
"___ for All Seasons" : AMAN
59
Writer of satire : IRONIST
63
Attaché-case material : COWHIDE
65
Cranberry source : BOG
66
Topping for 11 Across : MARSHMALLOW
68
Harsh : ILL
69
Winged : ALATE
70
Deceivers : LIARS
71
Irish Sea feeder : DEE
72
Madagascar denizen : LEMUR
73
Upton Sinclair's Budd : LANNY
Down
1
Like some bulls : PAPAL
2
Netherlands Antilles island : ARUBA
3
Geneva's lake : LEMAN
4
Sugar producers : MAPLES
5
Nev. city : ELKO
6
Temples, in poetry : FANES
7
Part of H.R.E. : EMP
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Neat as ___ : APIN
9
Raglan, e.g. : SLEEVE
10
Swiss canton, also called Ticino : TESSIN
11
Shout : YELL
12
To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
13
Tennyson work : MAUD
18
Rias : INLETS
22
Dakota Indian : TETON
25
Awesome : DREADED
28
So, in Perth : SAE
30
Countess's male counterpart : EARL
31
Knievel : EVEL
32
Underdone : RARE
33
Alias letters : AKA
34
"Bus Stop" playwright : INGE
35
Appearance : MIEN
37
Kind of rug : SHAG
39
W.W. II vessel : LST
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Criminal : FELON
42
Antiaircraft cannon : POMPOM
43
Bambi's aunt : ENA
48
Neither vegetable nor mineral : ANIMAL
49
Used-car deal : RESALE
51
Showy composite flower : DAHLIA
54
Earthy pigment : OCHER
56
Wide-brimmed straw hat : MILAN
57
Embellish : ADORN
58
Like Jennings's reports : NEWSY
59
Footnote abbr. : IBID
60
Cameo, e.g. : ROLE
61
Charles of the silents : OGLE
62
British streetcar : TRAM
64
Hersey work, with "The" : WALL
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Lexicographer Flexner, to friends : STU

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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