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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, February 21, 1990

22-Across : Tuskegee Inst.'s Washington

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, 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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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,715
Across
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Varnish ingredient : LAC
4
Gilliflower : STOCK
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Multitude : HOST
13
An Upanishad : ISHA
15
"Gloria ___" : PATRI
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Lake W of Maggiore : ORTA
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Chow chaser : MEIN
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Late conductor Dorati : ANTAL
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Harem rooms : ODAS
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Author of "The Fire Next Time" : BALDWIN
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Tuskegee Inst.'s Washington : BOOKERT
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Did some mending : DARNED
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Courage : NERVE
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Repulsive : SLIMY
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Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" : READE
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But, to Sulla : SED
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Galileo's home : PISA
34
Across: Prefix : TRANS
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Director of the March on Washington: 1963 : APHILIPRANDOLPH
43
Genoese admiral Andrea ___ : DORIA
44
Demolish a block of flats : RASE
45
Time between avril and juin : MAI
48
Sudden fear : PANIC
50
Porto Novo is its capital : BENIN
51
Harold Gray's little heroine : ANNIE
53
Designation : NAMING
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Writer-lawyer James Weldon ___ : JOHNSON
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Noted actor-singer : ROBESON
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City on the Oka : OREL
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Caterpillar or tadpole : LARVA
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Norman town : STLO
65
___ avis : RARA
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Hail : GREET
67
Auction word : SOLD
68
Swerve : SKEW
69
Jewish months : ADARS
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Oban negative : NAE
Down
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Tree part : LIMB
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Cruising : ASEA
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Puerile : CHILDISH
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Figaro's land : SPAIN
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Henry Ossawa ___, painter of "The Banjo Lesson" : TANNER
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Baseball's Mel : OTT
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Hermit or Dungeness : CRAB
8
Metric unit, for short : KILO
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Great 17th-century English physicist : HOOKE
10
Waiters take them : ORDERS
11
Suffer from extreme hunger : STARVE
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Experienced : TASTED
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" ... a virtuous bachelor ___": Shak. : ANDAMAID
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Ironic : WRY
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Upright : ONEND
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Get off the Broadway Limited : DETRAIN
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Bath, e.g. : SPA
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Pitcher part : LIP
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Sky Altar : ARA
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Cupid : DAN
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Pain : SORENESS
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Davey of baseball : LOPES
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George's lyricist : IRA
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Brooch : PIN
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Poet Hughes : LANGSTON
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Penultimate Greek letter : PSI
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Layer : HEN
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Barbara and Hoople : MAJORS
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Warm hooded jacket : ANORAK
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Belong : INHERE
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Scientist George Washington ___ : CARVER
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Tucker's partner : BIB
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Brother's wife, e.g. : INLAW
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Castle defenses : MOATS
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Russian saint : OLGA
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Ointment : NARD
59
Spicy stew : OLLA
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Knob : NODE
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American cartoonist : REA

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

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