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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, February 7, 1985

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { B J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 43.3
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,875
Across
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Cuts down : MOWS
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Venous fluid of the gods : ICHOR
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Hounds : DOGS
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Square's length times width : AREA
15
Orifice : MOUTH
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"Typee" sequel : OMOO
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Coat superficially : GILD
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Noted Abstract Expressionist : MOTHERWELL
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The Vltava, to a Berliner : MOLDAU
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Place apart : SETASIDE
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Liquid used in dyes : ANILINE
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Divagate : ROVE
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Greek sea god : NEREUS
28
Met mezzo-soprano : RESNIK
32
Furious : ANGRY
34
Firm : SOLID
36
___ Duarte Perón : EVA
37
Large containers : VATS
38
Baby's bellyache : COLIC
39
Wax imprint : SEAL
40
W.W. II area : ETO
41
Pitcher Ryan : NOLAN
42
Château-Thierry's river : MARNE
43
Agree : CONCUR
45
Esteem : REGARD
47
Yorkshire river : AIRE
49
Hung up the receiver: Brit. : RANGOFF
52
Topple : OVERTURN
56
Mouse, for example : GNAWER
57
Source : WELLSPRING
59
___ precedent : SETA
60
French composer : LALO
61
Of musical sound quality : TONAL
62
Cut : SLIT
63
Brings to court : SUES
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Candidate list : SLATE
65
Famous name in motordom : OLDS
Down
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Source of igneous rock : MAGMA
2
Apollo 16 lunar lander : ORION
3
The Iron Duke : WELLINGTON
4
They supply horsemen : SADDLERS
5
Exempt from harm : IMMUNE
6
Cote sound : COO
7
Hovels : HUTS
8
Further : OTHER
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Grandiloquent language : RHETORIC
10
Uses a divining rod : DOWSES
11
Buddhist sacred mountain : OMEI
12
Olympic top award : GOLD
13
Lone : SOLE
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Uttered inanities : RAVED
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Light : AIRY
24
Antiseptic solution : EUSOL
27
Type of energy : SOLAR
29
Worthless one : NEERDOWELL
30
Karamazov brother : IVAN
31
Borecole : KALE
32
With, in Nice : AVEC
33
Acronym for a defense group : NATO
35
A cosmetic : LINER
38
Debases : CORRUPTS
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A North Atlantic sea : SARGASSO
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Parisian nights : NUITS
42
Horace or Thomas : MANN
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Verdi's "Don ___" : CARLOS
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Group of geese : GAGGLE
48
Flynn of films : ERROL
50
Malodorous : FETID
51
College socs. : FRATS
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Temple team : OWLS
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Offspring of a vache : VEAU
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French women's magazine : ELLE
55
Jazz singer Simone : NINA
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Cole or Turner : NAT

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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