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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Monday, February 3, 1986

34-Across : Providing with weaponry

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 299 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 79, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, 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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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,236
Across
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Site of a Prussian defeat: 1806 : JENA
5
Attention-getting sound : AHEM
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South American plain : CAMPO
14
Girasol : OPAL
15
"Damn Yankees" girl : LOLA
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Egg-shaped : OVOID
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Guthrie novel: 1947 : THEBIGSKY
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Din : NOISE
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Mountain crests : ARETES
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Argentine tennis star : VILAS
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Diplomat Welles: 1892-1961 : SUMNER
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Author Mehta : VED
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The Ram : ARIES
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Provide food : CATER
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Doily : MAT
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Delivery trucks : VANS
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Providing with weaponry : ARMING
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Unclose, to Shakespeare : OPE
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Hardly ever : ONCEINABLUEMOON
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"The Murders in the ___ Morgue": Poe : RUE
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Central parts : NAVELS
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Therefore : ERGO
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Draft letters : SSS
43
Competitors : VIERS
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Show disdain : SNEER
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Set : GEL
46
Thriller episodes : CHASES
47
Friend of Pythias : DAMON
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Visigoth king : ALARIC
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Mature : ADULT
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Rodgers-Hart musical: 1942 : BYJUPITER
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Ralph ___ Emerson : WALDO
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Periods : ERAS
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___ Scotia : NOVA
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Trim, as a hedge : SHEAR
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Pub missile : DART
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Sprouted : GREW
Down
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Tittle : JOT
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Between Gal. and Phil. : EPH
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Scot's negative : NAE
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Soprano Licia : ALBANESE
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Author Horatio : ALGER
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Innkeeper : HOST
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Actress Sommer : ELKE
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Willie of baseball : MAYS
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Come together at a point : CONVERGE
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Shun : AVOID
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Drudge : MOIL
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Galileo's city : PISA
13
Keats products : ODES
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Angers : IRES
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Relishes : SAVORS
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Saturn's neighbor : URANUS
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Hashes : MINCES
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Mercury's neighbor : VENUS
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Desire : CRAVE
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Traffic-light color : AMBER
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Cultivates : TILLS
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Poets Marianne and Thomas : MOORES
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Farthest point : APOGEE
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Pavarotti and Domingo : TENORS
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"For want of ___ ... " : ANAIL
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Eli Whitney, e.g. : INVENTOR
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Ominous : MENACING
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Send : SHIP
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A memorable Meir : GOLDA
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Roll part : CRUST
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Grackles : DAWS
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A wife of Esau : ADAH
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Lounging slipper : MULE
50
Retired : ABED
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Where Vega is : LYRA
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Not in harmony : AJAR
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Anderson's "High ___" : TOR
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Cain's mother : EVE
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Immature : RAW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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