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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Monday, April 20, 1987

62-Down : Foreign: Comb. form

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 313 (avg 1.67)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,677
Across
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Witticisms : JESTS
6
Brag : BOAST
11
Brit. defenders : RAF
14
What "ye faithful" do : ADORE
15
Printers' daggers : OBELI
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Wallach or Whitney : ELI
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Seemingly contradictory : PARADOXICAL
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Bagel accompaniment : LOX
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Comes forth : EMANATES
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Make ineffective : NEGATE
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Rouse : STIR
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Saharan antelope : ADDAX
25
Saturn's wife : OPS
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Ancient Jewish ascetic : ESSENE
30
Byron work : LARA
33
Author O'Flaherty : LIAM
35
Broadcast : AIR
36
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
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Skirt style : MAXI
38
Crumbly earth deposits : MARLS
40
The act of: Br. suffix : XION
41
A Slaughter : ENOS
42
Elec. unit : AMP
43
Bondage : YOKE
44
Beat pounders : COPS
45
Wrestle : TUSSLE
49
Goddess of night : NYX
50
Ishmael's mother : HAGAR
52
Vehicle for Judd Hirsch : TAXI
54
Green stuff : MOOLAH
56
Dressing ingredient : SALADOIL
60
Have : OWN
61
Extremist socialist faction : MAXIMALISTS
63
Trevino or Remick : LEE
64
Rich or Dunne : IRENE
65
For rent : TOLET
66
Teeth spec.'s deg. : DDS
67
Curtain fabric : NINON
68
Attic promenades : STOAS
Down
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Make fun of : JAPE
2
Cheese town : EDAM
3
Carolina rail : SORA
4
Across: Prefix : TRANS
5
Composed : SEDATE
6
Louis and Charles : BOXERS
7
Sashes in Sendai : OBIS
8
N.R.C. predecessor : AEC
9
Defames : SLANDERS
10
Like some roofs : TILED
11
Workaholic's need : RELAXATION
12
"I'm quite illiterate, but I read ___": Salinger : ALOT
13
Idée ___ : FIXE
18
Elevator man : OTIS
22
Milky Way, e.g. : GALAXY
24
Indigo : ANIL
25
Veracruz Indian : OLMEC
26
Serkin's instrument : PIANO
27
Instruments for Getz and Parker : SAXOPHONES
29
Wyatt's family : EARPS
31
Full of crows : ROOKY
32
Ell : ANNEX
34
Mass book : MISSAL
38
W.W. I spy : MATAHARI
39
Asian river : AMUR
46
Flower part : STAMEN
47
Gershwin's "___, Lucille" : LALA
48
Elevates : EXALTS
51
Street urchin : GAMIN
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Dostoyevsky's "The ___" : IDIOT
54
Shape : MOLD
55
Was indebted : OWED
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___-Japanese War : SINO
57
Site of Akershus Castle : OSLO
58
Virginia willow : ITEA
59
Utah Beach craft : LSTS
62
Foreign: Comb. form : XEN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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