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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

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New York Times, Sunday, February 23, 1992

53-Across : Some putti

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 563 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 130, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9, Grid flow: 18.3
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. 15,447
Across
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Part of a dart : SHAFT
6
Fuddy-duddies : DODOS
11
Author of "Two Years Before the Mast" : DANA
15
Hari or Hale : SPY
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Usher's milieu : AISLE
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A son of Midian: I Chr. 1:33 : HENOCH
20
"Iliad," e.g. : EPIC
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Like Willie Winkie : WEE
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Gaze with malicious pleasure : GLOAT
23
Sicilian code of silence : OMERTA
24
Primer dog : SPOT
25
Altar on high : ARA
26
Blue Frost subject? : SAPPHIREDMAN
28
Keeve : TUB
29
Product of a lorimer : SPUR
30
Infuriated : ENRAGED
31
Most ironic : WRIEST
33
Yellowish-brown European? : AMBERLINER
37
Zodiacal sign : LEO
38
One of a Michelangelo trio : PIETA
42
Prod : GOAD
43
Begley and Asner : EDS
44
Red onlooker? : RUBYSTANDER
47
Victoria's consort : ALBERT
49
Actor Vidov : OLEG
51
Old Faithful's activity : SPURTING
52
Let : LEASE
53
Some putti : CUPIDS
55
Kind : ILK
56
___ Paulo, Brazil : SAO
57
Greek port : SALONIKA
59
Labor leader Conboy: 1870-1928 : SARA
61
Que. neighbor : ONT
62
Bluish-green chiefs of an armed forces branch? : AQUAMARINECOMMANDANTS
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With, to Cato : CUM
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Titi or sapota : TREE
70
Truck-stop sights : TRAILERS
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Cover : CAP
72
Hasten : HIE
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___ Fair (N.Y. 1939 event) : WORLDS
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First Indian ruler to embrace Buddhism : ASOKA
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Grounds for belief : EVIDENCE
81
Sea east of the Caspian : ARAL
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Cheap: Slang : TWOBIT
83
Yellowish-green, foolish oldsters? : PERIDOTARDS
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Bern's river : AAR
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Catholic tribunal : ROTA
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Incline : TREND
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Number before sette : SEI
90
Deep-red gadfly? : GARNETTLER
93
Extents : GAMUTS
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Judge : ARBITER
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Buffoon : ZANY
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Peer Gynt's mother : ASE
101
Bright-green municipal officials? : EMERALDERMEN
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Eggs, to Caesar : OVA
107
Preside at tea : POUR
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Oily hydrocarbon in petroleum : CETANE
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Pale yellow : MAIZE
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Fall mo. : NOV
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Of an epoch : ERAL
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Attentive one : HEEDER
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Turn ___ new leaf : OVERA
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Lamb's dam : EWE
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Sly : WILY
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Heraldic borders : ORLES
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Of the kidneys : RENAL
Down
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Droops : SAGS
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Seed scars : HILA
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Wet : ASOP
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Hullabaloo : FLAP
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Leash : TETHER
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Humbles : DEMEANS
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Irritable : ONEDGE
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Roof window : DORMER
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Group of eight : OCTAD
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A Tai language : SHAN
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Ruins : DESTROYS
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Support, in Sedan : APPUI
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A queen of Thebes : NIOBE
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Play part : ACT
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Barter : SWAP
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Alpaca's habitat : PERU
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Oenologist's concern : YEAR
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Abominable : HORRID
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Estuary : INLET
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Limit : STINT
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"Charlotte's ___": E. B. White : WEB
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Glowing bit : SPARK
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Bedouin headband cord : AGAL
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Breakwater : MOLE
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___ ghanouj (Middle Eastern salad) : BABA
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City WNW of 57 Across : EDESSA
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Drags along : LUGS
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That Menlo Park man : EDISON
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Lessee : TENANT
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Jargons : ARGOTS
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Blue-pencil wielders : REDACTORS
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Helices : SPIRALS
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New Orleans institution : TULANE
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Extract juice from : REAM
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Suggest : OPINE
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Cotton to : LIKE
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Emend : CORRECT
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One-horned fish : UNIE
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Hispanic-American : LATINO
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In a state of parvitude : SMALL
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Surrounded by : AMID
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Believe in : ACCEPT
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Be tremulous : QUAVER
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Diamond figure : UMPIRE
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Odd, in Oban : ORRA
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Limn : DRAW
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Classify : ASSORT
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Gabler or Hopper : HEDDA
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Dry watercourse : WADI
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Payment for Charon : OBOL
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Forked-tailed hawk : KITE
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Opera by Salieri : ATAR
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Dismal : DINGY
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Describing winds from the Orient : EASTERLY
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Cornered : TREED
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Legal thing : RES
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French-built rockets : ARIANES
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Stag adornment : ANTLER
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She pulled a switch on a witch : GRETEL
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Rub off : ABRADE
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Earthquake feature : TREMOR
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Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, e.g. : MAORI
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Commonplace : USUAL
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"Abdul the Bulbul ___" : AMEER
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Region : ZONE
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Say it is so : AVOW
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Cathedral part : NAVE
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Dali's "Nostalgic ___" : ECHO
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Rant's partner : RAVE
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Appearance : MIEN
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Hebrew prophet : EZRA
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Colzie of the N.F.L. : NEAL
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"Treasure Island" character : PEW

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

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