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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, December 10, 1986

60-Across : One of the Furies

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 }, Scrabble score: 288 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,546
Across
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Editors' needs: Abbr. : MSS
4
Ski-slope sight : TBAR
8
Iraqi language : ARABIC
14
Have : OWN
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Capital of Italia : ROMA
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Massine-Satie ballet : PARADE
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Football support : TEE
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Soon : ANON
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"Sophie's Choice" star : STREEP
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Accord signed by Ford and Brezhnev : HELSINKI
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Dusty mists : HAZES
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Pliable strip : SPLINE
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Scruffs : NAPES
27
Biblical king : OMRI
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Negative conjunction : NOR
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Freeze : ICE
33
Dispute : ARGUE
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Plexus : RETE
38
Washington office : OVAL
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United Nations observances since 1950 : HUMANRIGHTSDAYS
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Arkin or Alda : ALAN
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Move gradually : EDGE
44
Southern constellation : MENSA
45
Franklin or Hecht : BEN
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Adversary : FOE
47
Origin : ROOT
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Pinza was one : BASSO
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Hun king : ATTILA
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Spain's Cape of ___ : PALOS
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Peace Nobelist: 1975 : SAKHAROV
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One of the Furies : ALECTO
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Quote : CITE
63
Past : AGO
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Wealth : RICHES
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Hebrew month : ADAR
66
Bangkok native : TAI
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Capital of ancient Attica : ATHENS
68
Tatters : RAGS
69
Finis : END
Down
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Butterflies' cousins : MOTHS
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Pass swiftly over : SWEEP
3
Fish-line attachment : SNELL
4
Amtrak employees : TRAINMEN
5
Yelena ___, wife of 58 Across : BONNER
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In a violent rage : AMOK
7
Arrested : RANIN
8
Stamp collectors' org. : APS
9
Preferably : RATHER
10
Tapestry : ARRAS
11
Activist folk singer Joan : BAEZ
12
___ fixe : IDEE
13
Edible mushrooms : CEPS
21
Dakota, e.g. : SIOUAN
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Stamen part : ANTHER
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Dowson was one : POET
28
Crocuses : IRIDES
30
Lendl of tennis : IVAN
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Low islands : CAYS
32
Lohengrin's love : ELSA
33
Melville captain : AHAB
34
Govern : RULE
35
F.B.I. agt. : GMAN
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Heckler's missile : EGG
38
Folk singer from Birmingham : ODETTA
40
Old autos : REOS
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___ Brothers (Dick and Tom) : SMOTHERS
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Tie or clasp : FASTEN
48
Poster material : OAKTAG
49
German soldier, to a poilu : BOCHE
50
Award won by 19 Across : OSCAR
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Enraged : IRATE
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Boston airport : LOGAN
54
Shun : AVOID
55
Belém : PARA
56
Landed : ALIT
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Walesa : LECH
59
Radames's love : AIDA
61
W.W. II agcy. : OSS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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