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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, October 2, 1991

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Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q W X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,303
Across
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Winter pear : BOSC
5
Discharge : EMIT
9
An Astaire : ADELE
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A Faulkner woman : EULA
15
Labyrinth : MAZE
16
Birthplace of Apollo : DELOS
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A king of Sparta : AGIS
18
Writer Bombeck : ERMA
19
Shaded in tone : OMBRE
20
Emlyn Williams work: 1938 : THECORNISGREEN
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Tramontane : STRANGER
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"___ the ramparts ... " : OER
25
Cutting tool : DIE
26
Advent : ARRIVAL
30
Violin precursor : REBEC
33
"Comus" composer : ARNE
35
African antelope : TORA
36
Summer quaff : ADE
37
B. MacDonald's 1945 best seller, with "The" : EGGANDI
40
Cover : LID
41
Waller of jazz : FATS
43
Tibetan priest : LAMA
44
Poor : NEEDY
46
Farm vehicle : TRACTOR
48
Wife of Amen-Ra : MUT
49
Poet's always : EER
50
Quests : SEARCHES
55
H. L. Davis Pulitzer Prize novel: 1936 : HONEYINTHEHORN
58
"American Buffalo" playwright : MAMET
59
Point deep under the ocean's floor : MOHO
60
Dies ___ : IRAE
61
English county : SHIRE
62
Malay boat : PRAU
63
Houston agcy. : NASA
64
Attendant on Bacchus : SATYR
65
Dispatched : SENT
66
Turned right : GEED
Down
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Overcomes : BEATS
2
___ to (should) : OUGHT
3
Wilier : SLIER
4
Waterfall : CASCADE
5
Become visible : EMERGE
6
Seine tributary : MARNE
7
Smyrna, now : IZMIR
8
Hyson and Darjeeling : TEAS
9
Crèche figure : ADORER
10
Fault : DEMERIT
11
North Sea feeder : ELBE
12
Desolate : LORN
13
Ending for Taiwan : ESE
21
In abeyance : ONICE
22
Caught the matador : GORED
26
Christie or Held : ANNA
27
Field mouse : VOLE
28
Jejune : ARID
29
The Iron ___ (Mrs. Thatcher) : LADY
30
Topless craft : RAFT
31
Tower in Genesis : EDAR
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Second in a series : BETA
33
Petri-dish contents : AGAR
34
Aries : RAM
38
"The ___ of Love," 1936 song : GLORY
39
Habituate : INURE
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Postcard picture : SCENERY
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Rembrandt product : ETCHING
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Wobble : TEETER
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Elephant keeper : MAHOUT
50
Night sound : SNORE
51
Vt.'s Allen : ETHAN
52
Book of Hours : HORAE
53
Rub out : ERASE
54
Golf's Sam : SNEAD
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Sunken fence : HAHA
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Fail to include : OMIT
57
Small scamps : IMPS
58
Pubs.' needs : MSS

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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