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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, February 21, 1990

53-Across : Designation

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
9
Multitude : HOST
13
An Upanishad : ISHA
15
"Gloria ___" : PATRI
16
Lake W of Maggiore : ORTA
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Chow chaser : MEIN
18
Late conductor Dorati : ANTAL
19
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
27
Repulsive : SLIMY
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Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth" : READE
32
But, to Sulla : SED
33
Galileo's home : PISA
34
Across: Prefix : TRANS
36
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
61
City on the Oka : OREL
62
Caterpillar or tadpole : LARVA
64
Norman town : STLO
65
___ avis : RARA
66
Hail : GREET
67
Auction word : SOLD
68
Swerve : SKEW
69
Jewish months : ADARS
70
Oban negative : NAE
Down
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Tree part : LIMB
2
Cruising : ASEA
3
Puerile : CHILDISH
4
Figaro's land : SPAIN
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Henry Ossawa ___, painter of "The Banjo Lesson" : TANNER
6
Baseball's Mel : OTT
7
Hermit or Dungeness : CRAB
8
Metric unit, for short : KILO
9
Great 17th-century English physicist : HOOKE
10
Waiters take them : ORDERS
11
Suffer from extreme hunger : STARVE
12
Experienced : TASTED
14
" ... a virtuous bachelor ___": Shak. : ANDAMAID
21
Ironic : WRY
23
Upright : ONEND
25
Get off the Broadway Limited : DETRAIN
27
Bath, e.g. : SPA
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Pitcher part : LIP
30
Sky Altar : ARA
31
Cupid : DAN
35
Pain : SORENESS
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Davey of baseball : LOPES
38
George's lyricist : IRA
39
Brooch : PIN
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Poet Hughes : LANGSTON
41
Penultimate Greek letter : PSI
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Layer : HEN
45
Barbara and Hoople : MAJORS
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Warm hooded jacket : ANORAK
47
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
54
Castle defenses : MOATS
56
Russian saint : OLGA
57
Ointment : NARD
59
Spicy stew : OLLA
60
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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