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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, November 4, 1986

30-Down : Skips a stone on water

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
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. 13,510
Across
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"Chapter Two" actor : CAAN
5
Nonsense : BOSH
9
Get out of : EVADE
14
Pisa's river : ARNO
15
Hold sway : RULE
16
Like maple leaves : LOBAR
17
Allot : METE
18
To ___ (precisely) : ATEE
19
Chopin opus : ETUDE
20
Where citizens exercise rights : POLLINGPLACE
23
Little: Suffix : ULE
24
Lauder or Burns : SCOT
25
Adjective for a front runner : STRONG
29
"Fédora" playwright : SARDOU
31
Kin of bbls. : CKS
32
Bill's companion : COO
33
Colmar's region : ALSACE
36
Pump or clog : SHOE
37
Oct. lapel ornaments : CAMPAIGNBUTTONS
42
Ripens : AGES
43
Wig : TOUPEE
44
Author Yutang : LIN
45
Aurora : EOS
47
Poet John Crowe ___ : RANSOM
51
Pavarotti's home town : MODENA
53
Painter Juan: 1887-1927 : GRIS
55
Nabokov heroine : ADA
56
Emmeline Pankhurst et al. : SUFFRAGETTES
59
Hollywood award : OSCAR
62
What a winning candidate takes : OATH
63
Diner offering : HASH
64
Worth : VALUE
65
Mine entrance : ADIT
66
Faulkner hero : ANSE
67
Faulty : AMISS
68
Composer Janácek : LEOS
69
Despot : TSAR
Down
1
College area : CAMPUS
2
Biological hollow : AREOLA
3
Stag feature : ANTLER
4
Coward : NOEL
5
"Bird in Space" sculptor : BRANCUSI
6
Expenditure : OUTGO
7
What Rip Van Winkle did : SLEPT
8
List at sea : HEEL
9
Chooses a candidate : ELECTS
10
V.I.P. in early Nov. : VOTER
11
___ Simbel, historic Egyptian site : ABU
12
Mom's mate : DAD
13
Poet's preposition : ERE
21
Capri or Sardinia : ISOLA
22
" ... ___ not what your country ... ": J.F.K. : ASK
26
Siete follower : OCHO
27
Midday : NOON
28
"As Maine ___ ... " : GOES
30
Skips a stone on water : DAPS
31
Philippine seaport : CEBU
34
Reps. : AGTS
35
C. W. Nimitz in 1945-47 : CNO
36
Actress Anna : STEN
37
Collected : CALM
38
Exchange fee : AGIO
39
Fix : MEND
40
Some pianos : UPRIGHTS
41
Raise a nap : TEASE
45
Habituates : ENURES
46
Clod : OAF
48
Devils : SATANS
49
Russian port : ODESSA
50
Kitchen device : MASHER
52
Namesakes of Jacob's twin : ESAUS
53
Rank : GRADE
54
Proportion : RATIO
57
Mare's baby : FOAL
58
"___ Hagen Girl," Reagan film : THAT
59
Roe, to Cato : OVA
60
Rayburn or Houston : SAM
61
One-tenth of MDX : CLI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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