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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, February 4, 1981

49-Down : Painter in Washington's army

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { W X Z }, Scrabble score: 289 (avg 1.56)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 14, XRef: 1, 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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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,411
Across
1
Sound's companion : SAFE
5
Sonny in "The Godfather" : CAAN
9
Walking, on the Champs Elysées : APIED
14
First victim : ABEL
15
Co-ed inst. overlooking the Hudson : USMA
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Kiev tender : RUBLE
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Numismatist, e.g. : COLLECTOR
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"___ wise father ... : Shak. : ITISA
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Flower-of-an-hour : BLACKEYEDSUSAN
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Crag : TOR
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Dem.'s opposite : REP
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"___ Flanders": Defoe : MOLL
28
Dancer Sono : OSATO
31
Actor Erwin : STU
34
Shun : AVOID
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They hear the call of the mall : SHOPPERS
39
Love-in-a-mist : JACKINTHEPULPIT
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Colette opus, with "The" : OTHERONE
43
Frontiersman celebrated in Byron's "Don Juan" : BOONE
44
In medias ___ : RES
45
Indian princes : RANAS
48
___ in the wool : DYED
49
Milne hero : PIM
51
Half of MIV : DII
53
Wild carrot : QUEENANNESLACE
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Dishearten : UNMAN
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Fabergé creation : EASTEREGG
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"___ of Two Cities" : ATALE
65
Musician's accessory : MUTE
66
Yemeni, e.g. : ARAB
67
Gussets : GORES
68
Hebrew seven-week period : OMER
69
"Twilight of the ___" : GODS
Down
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Fox's cousin : SAC
2
Nodding : ABOB
3
Lay low : FELL
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Fitzgerald : ELLA
5
Crackbrained : CUCKOO
6
Daisies' kin : ASTERS
7
Chinese port : AMOY
8
River in Colombia : NARE
9
"___, ye prisoners ... ": Pottier : ARISE
10
Preserved : PUTUP
11
Heron's kin : IBIS
12
Maxwell or Schiaparelli : ELSA
13
Jonathan Swift, e.g. : DEAN
18
Outside: Comb. form : ECT
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Flag : DROOP
24
"___ Barbara" : MAJOR
25
Like Humpty Dumpty : OVATE
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Ness and Lomond : LOCHS
27
Cotton to : LIKE
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Cinereous : ASHEN
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Beverage in Beauvais : THE
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___ Rebellion in India: 1857-58 : SEPOY
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Threefold : TRINE
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Cómo está ___? : USTED
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SW or ENE : DIR
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Tavern in Leeds : PUB
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Trudge : PLOD
40
Bellini opus : NORMA
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Explosive initials : TNA
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"___ Fideles" : ADESTE
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Lee, to Jackie : SISTER
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Painter in Washington's army : PEALE
50
Hammond ___, writer of suspense tales : INNES
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O'Neill play : ILE
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Morass : QUAG
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Golden-rule word : UNTO
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"Cielo ___," Ponchielli aria : EMAR
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Verne captain : NEMO
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Sculptor Gabo : NAUM
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Berlin's "He's ___ Picker" : ARAG
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Mackerel's relative : CERO
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Old oath : EGAD
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Literary monogram (see 24 Down) : GBS

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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