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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, August 12, 1992

47-Down : Flâneurs

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, 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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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,618
Across
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Dolls' sounds : MAMAS
6
Famous seven : SEAS
10
Kind of test : ACID
14
Cremona artisan : AMATI
15
Lhasa cleric : LAMA
16
City in Bergen County, N.J. : LODI
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Panamanian city : COLON
18
Jot : ATOM
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Chickpea, e.g. : GRAM
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Avocado : ALLIGATORPEAR
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Like Willie Winkie : WEE
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Level : EVEN
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Attu natives : ALEUTS
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Lima Mme. : SRA
29
Washington's bill : ONE
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Con's opposite : PRO
31
Impulse : URGE
34
Short distance : STEP
37
Provide meals : CATER
39
Ga. thoroughfare : PEACHTREESTREET
42
Ziti or orzo : PASTA
43
Foot part : INCH
44
Tots : ADDS
45
Modern bus. need : EDP
46
Tuck's partner : NIP
48
Shade tree : ELM
50
Put more powder into a musket : RELOAD
52
Norman town : STLO
54
Balt. or N.Y.C. : SPT
57
Flatterer or sycophant : APPLEPOLISHER
60
Sicilian resort : ENNA
62
Dash : ELAN
63
Naturalist Edwin Way ___ : TEALE
64
One of Alcott's "Little Women" : BETH
65
Astronaut Sally : RIDE
66
Everglades bird : EGRET
67
Decorative knob : BOSS
68
Prophet : SEER
69
Lassos : ROPES
Down
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Large parrot : MACAW
2
Soap plant : AMOLE
3
French film director : MALLE
4
Thine, in Arles : ATOI
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Nobelist Isaac Bashevis ___ : SINGER
6
Blackboard : SLATE
7
Industrialist Cyrus ___ : EATON
8
Cupid : AMOR
9
Small Chinese boat : SAMPAN
10
Water plants : ALGAE
11
Made venal : CORRUPTED
12
Mrs. Cantor : IDA
13
Dull, as a light : DIM
21
Haiti, at sea : AVAST
22
Choose : ELECT
26
Cornered : TREED
27
Kinds : SORTS
28
Religious denomination : SECT
29
Oil gp. : OPEC
31
Word with crust or hand : UPPER
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Peg Woffington's creator : READE
33
Rue relatives : GASPLANTS
35
Stumble : TRIP
36
Yet, to Yeats : EEN
38
Saroyan hero : ARAM
40
Medieval goblet : HANAP
41
Prepare peas : SHELL
47
Flâneurs : IDLERS
49
Emulate 47 Down : LOITER
51
Colorful fish : OPAHS
52
Fictional detective : SPADE
53
A facial cleanser : TONER
54
Becky ___, Thackeray minx : SHARP
55
Martinique volcano : PELEE
56
Weight allowances : TRETS
58
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
59
Utah's lily : SEGO
60
Wane : EBB
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Modernist : NEO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 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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