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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Friday, August 15, 1980

13-Across : Caesar's wife, e.g.

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, 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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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,238
Across
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Thin sheet placed over stage lights : GEL
4
Flying jib or spanker : SAIL
8
First words of "A Tale of Two Cities" : ITWAS
13
Caesar's wife, e.g. : UXOR
15
Radius's neighbor : ULNA
16
Spell of duty : TRICK
17
Wash : LAVE
18
Belfry residents : BATS
19
Game ragout : SALMI
20
"Mid ___ and palaces ... ": Payne : PLEASURES
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Done : ENDED
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Tourist, at times : STARER
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Bagels, e.g. : ROLLS
26
Old fiddle : REBEC
28
Furnish : AFFORD
32
Opposite a ship's middle : ABEAM
35
Its capital is N'Djamena : CHAD
37
Theater award : OBIE
38
Follower of high or base : BORN
39
Haircut's companion : SHAVE
40
It bestrides the Tevere : ROMA
41
Ship's jail : BRIG
42
Corn bread : PONE
43
Daub : SMEAR
44
Lamb, at Maxim's : AGNEAU
46
Garbo : GRETA
48
Subdivide minutely : MINCE
50
Behrman's "___ for Comedy" : NOTIME
54
Site of the House of Seven Gables : SALEM
57
Narrow margins : HAIRLINES
59
Families : CLANS
60
Spain's longest river : EBRO
61
Rows : OARS
62
Trunk vessel : AORTA
63
Greek political org. : ELAS
64
Garibaldi's birthplace : NICE
65
Beauty's companion : BEAST
66
Actor Holliday : KENE
67
Tyrannosaurus ___ : REX
Down
1
Swigs : GULPS
2
Aggrandize : EXALT
3
"I ___ Parade," 1931 song : LOVEA
4
Scarsdale or Shaker Heights : SUBURB
5
Wing-shaped : ALAR
6
Like some machine parts : INTERCHANGEABLE
7
Riata : LASSO
8
"For love is still most precious in ___": Shak. : ITSELF
9
Potion's effect on Dr. Jekyll : TRANSFORMATION
10
Like "the blue yonder" : WILD
11
Peak : ACME
12
Supporting plank : SKID
14
New dispositions : REARRANGEMENTS
21
Look : SEEM
25
Burden : LADE
27
High-low signal, in bridge : ECHO
29
Electronic navigation system : OBOE
30
"Green Mansions" girl : RIMA
31
Letter opener : DEAR
32
Popular Swedish quartet : ABBA
33
King of the courts : BORG
34
"Come Back to ___" : ERIN
36
Affirm : AVER
39
Kind of glass or sugar : SPUN
43
Aircraft acronym : STOL
45
Draws a bead on : AIMSAT
47
"La Vie ___," 1946 song : ENROSE
49
Nerve : CHEEK
51
" ... bombs bursting ___" : INAIR
52
Choreographer Cunningham : MERCE
53
Favorite of Elizabeth I : ESSEX
54
Nonstriker : SCAB
55
Lily's relative : ALOE
56
Pasternak heroine : LARA
58
Land bordering the Caspian : IRAN

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

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