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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, November 27, 1986

35-Down : Portmanteau word

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, 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. 13,533
Across
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Indian trade item : PELT
5
Sell : VEND
9
Thanksgiving pie : MINCE
14
Beehive State : UTAH
15
Jai ___ : ALAI
16
Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
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Labyrinth : MAZE
18
Shipments from India : LACS
19
Stravinsky and Sikorsky : IGORS
20
Site of first Thanksgiving : PLYMOUTHCOLONY
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Bonnet occupant? : BEE
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Encountered : MET
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Lowered lights : DIMMED
29
Stadium section : TIER
31
Some mun. groups : CCS
34
College at Oxford : ORIEL
35
Hymned : SANG
36
" ... just tickle her with ___ ... ": Jerrold : AHOE
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Proclaimer of first Thanksgiving : WILLIAMBRADFORD
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"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
41
Walesa, e.g. : POLE
42
Muster : RAISE
43
Operated : RAN
44
Kind of scale : WAGE
45
Reign of ___: 1793-94 : TERROR
46
Law-court part : BAR
47
Lima Mrs. : SRA
48
Thanksgiving date decreed in 1941 : FOURTHTHURSDAY
56
Homophone for wood : WOULD
57
Cinnabar and galena : ORES
58
Belém's other name : PARA
59
Cathedral area : AISLE
60
Borscht ingredient : BEET
61
Enos's grandfather : ADAM
62
Thorough : CLEAN
63
Observe : ESPY
64
Some turkeys : TOMS
Down
1
Question persistently : PUMP
2
Latin abbr. : ETAL
3
Otiose : LAZY
4
Oates book : THEM
5
Cherished : VALUED
6
Make joyful : ELATE
7
After, in Augsburg : NACH
8
Kind of harrow : DISC
9
He wrote "The Deer Park": 1955 : MAILER
10
Metal mold : INGOT
11
Light gas : NEON
12
Grant or Middlecoff : CARY
13
Vocalized pauses : ERS
21
Printers' daggers : OBELI
22
Psi chaser : OMEGA
25
Natural talent : DOWER
26
A Van Doren : IRITA
27
City not far from Turin : MILAN
28
Disintegrate : MELT
29
Gathering place on Thanksgiving : TABLE
30
As to : INRE
31
Hall-Johnson singers, e.g. : CHOIR
32
Promenade : CORSO
33
Passover feast : SEDER
35
Portmanteau word : SMOG
36
At a distance : AFAR
38
Separate : APART
39
Melancholy, to Keats : DREAR
44
Lewis Edward Lawes was one : WARDEN
45
Dependable : TRUSTY
46
Pope's seal : BULLA
47
Merinos or Romneys : SHEEP
48
Fencing weapon : FOIL
49
Buckingham's river : OUSE
50
___ Sound, Fla. resort : HOBE
51
Very, in Cannes : TRES
52
Tiff : SPAT
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Pedestal part : DADO
54
Composer Khachaturian : ARAM
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Thanksgiving vegetables : YAMS
56
G.I. Jane : WAC

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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