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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Monday, February 2, 1987

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, 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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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,600
Across
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Lunch, e.g. : MEAL
5
Indigo : ANIL
9
Lab animals' milieus : MAZES
14
"Aeneid" starter : ARMA
15
Fogy : DODO
16
Kind of acid : AMINO
17
Reporters' subject on February 2 : GROUNDHOG
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Annie's companion : SANDY
20
Rounded hills : MORROS
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"___ Fall in Love," 1933 song : LETS
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Romaine lettuce : COS
24
Floor covering : AREARUG
26
Petroleum : OIL
28
Seasonal listlessness : SPRINGFEVER
34
Try out : PROVE
38
Draft status : ONEA
39
Granular snow : NEVE
40
A son of Leah : LEVI
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Swiftly : APACE
42
Follow closely : TAIL
43
Purse stuffers : ONES
44
Fulfilled, as a promise : KEPT
45
Jackassery : FOLLY
46
Shakespeare play, with "The" : WINTERSTALE
49
Fuss : ADO
50
Of part of the eye : RETINAL
55
Poke : JAB
58
Monogram pt. : INIT
61
Isolated mathematical point : ACNODE
62
Skipper's "Halt!" : AVAST
64
Radio character who "knows" : THESHADOW
66
Very, in music : MOLTO
67
Rescue : SAVE
68
Actress Velez : LUPE
69
Curse : SWEAR
70
Inspired reverence : AWED
71
W.W. II vessels : LSTS
Down
1
Igneous-rock producer : MAGMA
2
Slip : ERROR
3
Love, in Livorno : AMORE
4
Author Hobson : LAURA
5
Makes sense : ADDSUP
6
Japanese drama : NOH
7
Fan-club hero : IDOL
8
Theater part : LOGE
9
Range backbone : MASSIF
10
Drs.' org. : AMA
11
Kind of oxide : ZINC
12
Inner: Comb. form : ENDO
13
Oriental sauces : SOYS
18
Vikings : NORSE
22
Garments for Cato : TOGAE
25
Feels one's way : GROPES
27
Slow, in music : LENTO
29
Lacking skill : INAPT
30
Bees' collection : NECTAR
31
Calf meat : VEAL
32
Wicked : EVIL
33
Depend (on) : RELY
34
Word with man or share : PLOW
35
Painter Guido ___ : RENI
36
Kitchen feature : OVEN
37
Outlook : VISTA
41
City SE of Cleveland : AKRON
45
"To ___ a pail of water" : FETCH
47
Redactor : EDITOR
48
Rented : LEASED
51
On the whole : INALL
52
Complication : NODUS
53
Take as one's own : ADOPT
54
George Eliot's mate : LEWES
55
Toast spreads : JAMS
56
Admit frankly : AVOW
57
Cotton bundle : BALE
59
"___ boy!" : ITSA
60
Spell of warm weather : THAW
63
RR depot : STA
65
Abel's mother : EVE

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

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