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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

STRUCTURAL WORKS

New York Times, Sunday, August 14, 1988

31-Down : Disband troops

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 536 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 113, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,159
Across
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Anthropologist Margaret : MEAD
5
Comprehension : GRASP
10
Old cries of contempt : PHOS
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Bust's opposite : BOOM
18
Peak : ACME
19
QE2, e.g. : LINER
20
Sweet-smelling : OLENT
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Taj Mahal site : AGRA
22
Wilder novel : THEBRIDGEOFSANLUISREY
26
Turned's partner : TOSSED
27
Thrown skyward : UPCAST
28
What QB's wish to gain : YDS
29
North Sea feeder : EMS
30
G-men : FEDS
32
One-horned fish : UNIE
33
Pt. of H.R.E. : EMP
35
Glossy silk fabric : ALAMODE
39
W. H. Hudson novel : GREENMANSIONS
45
Like knobs : NODAL
46
Bog : MORASS
48
Knead, formerly : ELT
49
Malayan boat : PROA
50
Vicki Baum novel : GRANDHOTEL
52
Writer Hammett : DASHIELL
54
Riga native : LETT
55
Hautboy : OBOE
56
Aquatic mammals : SEALS
59
In the least : ATALL
60
He wrote "The Hairy Ape" : ONEILL
62
Eats with others : PARTAKES
64
"L.A. Law" actress : DEY
65
Walpole novel, with "The" : CASTLEOFOTRANTO
70
Wheel projection : CAM
73
Church parts : STEEPLES
74
Painter André: 1880-1954 : DERAIN
78
Adjust oneself : ADAPT
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Sparables : NAILS
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"Die Frau ___ Schatten": R. Strauss : OHNE
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___ time (pronto) : INNO
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Sartre, e.g. : PARISIAN
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Tuchman work, with "The" : PROUDTOWER
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Tumult : RIOT
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Orléans-to-Paris dir. : NNE
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Garment with short flaps : COATEE
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Tocsin : ALARM
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Remarque novel : ARCHOFTRIUMPH
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Goes back in thought : REVERTS
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Suffragette's monogram : SBA
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Rowan, e.g. : TREE
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Ratio words : ISTO
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Snoop : PRY
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Miss Hogg : IMA
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Cloud type : CIRRUS
109
Character in "King Lear" : ALBANY
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Hawthorne novel, with "The" : HOUSEOFTHESEVENGABLES
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As to : INRE
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French ballot boxes : URNES
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Street show : RAREE
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Garbo film: 1927 : LOVE
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Tardy : LATE
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They fail to pass the bar : SOTS
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Large numbers : SLEWS
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Deneb, e.g. : STAR
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N.T. starter : MATT
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Lover of Narcissus : ECHO
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Iowa college town : AMES
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Five-time Presidential candidate : DEBS
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Moved smoothly : GLIDED
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Disencumber : RID
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Aberdeen ___ cattle : ANGUS
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Ooze : SEEP
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Pertaining to obtaining : PROCURAL
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Typewriter part : PLATEN
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Leghorn : HEN
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As recently as : ONLY
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To whom profs proffer ideas : STUDENTS
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___-relief : BAS
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Monster : OGRE
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Utah city : OREM
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Baseball Hall of Famer : MAYS
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Actor Davis et al. : OSSIES
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Pleat again : REFOLD
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Poets' temples : FANES
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Doctrines : ISMS
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Disband troops : DEMOB
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Small singing bird : PIPIT
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Certain American : ANGLO
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A 1961 Oscar winner : LOREN
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Radio's "___ With Judy" : ADATE
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Having prophetic power : MANTIC
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Victory, in Aberdeen : GREE
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Small, brown, applelike fruit : MEDLAR
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Neighbor of Siberia : ALASKA
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Mountain nymph : OREAD
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___ prosequi : NOLLE
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Quip : SALLY
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A Siouan : OTO
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Composer of "The Planets" : HOLST
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Dispatch : HASTE
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Bank items : SAFES
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Piccadilly Circus figure : EROS
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Business abbr. : ATT
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Shoemakers' needs : LASTS
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Head : POLL
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Done : ENDED
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Renter : TENANT
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Not so chubby : LEANER
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A New Hebrides island : EPI
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Young Babe Ruth : ORIOLE
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Film maker Frank : CAPRA
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Deborah of "Dynasty" : ADAIR
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Rabat's country, to Marie : MAROC
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Sadat : ANWAR
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Dull : INERT
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Standards : NORMS
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Gists : PITHS
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Straight: Comb. form : ORTH
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Garden tool : HOE
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Sudanese people : NUERS
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Notorious : INFAMOUS
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Wall painters' associates : PAPERERS
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Table, in Napoli : TAVOLA
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Radium discoverers : CURIES
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Hebrew measures : OMERS
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Theater award : OBIE
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Induces scratching : ITCHES
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Stories in a maison : ETAGES
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Grenoble's river : ISERE
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Comedian Silvers : PHIL
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Author Jaffe : RONA
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Mongolian felt tent : YURT
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Hair style : AFRO
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Of grapes : UVAL
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Some containers: Abbr. : BBLS
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"Thanks ___" : ALOT
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Leningrad's river : NEVA
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North Sea feeder : YSER
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Bishopric : SEE
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Explosive : TNT
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Recent : NEW

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7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 15 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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