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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Saturday, December 14, 1991

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 27.2
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,376
Across
1
Encourage burglary : ABET
5
Some arias : SOLI
9
English river : AVON
13
Tzara's art cult : DADA
14
Rugged rocks : CRAGS
16
Herrick's "Cherry ___" : RIPE
17
Killer of Eric IV : ABEL
18
Rust-fungi spores : AECIA
19
With, in Avignon : AVEC
20
Leroy Anderson music : SYNCOPATEDCLOCK
23
Beach south of Santa Monica : REDONDO
24
London store : HARRODS
28
Native of Luzon : ILOCANO
33
Vigorously : AMAIN
34
Expert : ACE
35
He loves, to Cato : AMAT
36
Aaron Copland work, with "A" : LINCOLNPORTRAIT
40
Chill : AGUE
41
Aged: Lat. abbr. : AET
42
Other, in Abruzzi : ALTRO
43
Catherine Malfitano, e.g. : SOPRANO
45
Director Jules and family : DASSINS
47
Ceramists : POTTERS
49
Leonard Bernstein work : TROUBLEINTAHITI
57
Step to success : RUNG
58
Turkish statesman : INONU
59
Of grandparents : AVAL
60
James biographer : EDEL
61
Niamey is its capital : NIGER
62
Close an oxford : LACE
63
Weird : EERY
64
London louts : CADS
65
Teammate of Stan the Man : ENOS
Down
1
Huxtable and Rehan : ADAS
2
Broadway musical: 1983 : BABY
3
She wrote "The Salamanca Drum" : EDEN
4
Soft mineral : TALC
5
Got away, once : SCAPED
6
Mountain nymphs : OREADS
7
Milk: Comb. form : LACTO
8
Sanitary, in Italia : IGIENICO
9
Brackish Soviet sea : ARAL
10
Lively, to Lizst : VIVO
11
Oil gp. : OPEC
12
This goes to your head : NECK
15
Hunt-club supplier : SADDLER
21
Black Bears' home : ORONO
22
Cote sound : COO
24
Memorable Chicago coach : HALAS
25
Friendly hombre : AMIGO
26
Let bills accumulate : RANUP
27
Kitchen utensil : RICER
29
Lewis and Carlton : CARLS
30
Cremona notable : AMATI
31
Scottish seaside resort : NAIRN
32
Four Holy Roman emperors : OTTOS
34
Appropriate : APT
37
Ointment base : LANOLIN
38
Retaining juvenile characteristics : NEOTENIC
39
Tax, in Torino : TASSA
44
P.D. alert : APB
45
Lived in a lair : DENNED
46
Rodzinski and Rubinstein : ARTURS
48
Autry's birthplace in Tex. : TIOGA
49
Deodar or baobab : TREE
50
Boorish : RUDE
51
Lollapalooza : ONER
52
Like Andersen's duckling : UGLY
53
Irwin of golf : HALE
54
Lendl of tennis : IVAN
55
Filled tortilla : TACO
56
Seine sights : ILES

Answer summary:
5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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