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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, May 15, 1986

27-Across : Mutual fund?

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 23.5
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,337
Across
1
Paltry : MEAN
5
Hussein's capital : AMMAN
10
Syrian city : HAMA
14
Group of African warriors : IMPI
15
Bingo cousin : LOTTO
16
___ Bator, Mongolian capital : ULAN
17
Lather the garden? : SOAPPLANTS
19
Actor O'Shea : MILO
20
East River, e.g. : STRAIT
21
Washington Indian : SAHAPTIN
23
Even now : YET
24
By way of : VIA
26
Certain moths : IOS
27
Mutual fund? : COMMONWEALTH
33
Deliberate destroyer : SABOTEUR
36
Fixed payment for services : SALARY
37
Melville work : OMOO
38
Indian novelist : RAO
40
Above : ATOP
41
Precede : FOREGO
44
Ballroom dances : TWOSTEPS
47
Exchanges personnel? : TRADESPEOPLE
49
U.S. botanist Gray : ASA
50
Spire adornment : EPI
51
Actress Farrow : MIA
54
Offenders : CULPRITS
59
A branch of physics : OPTICS
61
Ended : OVER
62
Prepare kindling? : CHOPSTICKS
64
Meshed fabric : LENO
65
Tureen accessory : LADLE
66
Banjo part : FRET
67
Nihilistic art cult : DADA
68
Belgian painter : ENSOR
69
Composer Lukas ___ : FOSS
Down
1
F.D.R.'s LeHand : MISSY
2
Overact : EMOTE
3
Separate : APART
4
Asiatic palm : NIPA
5
Unsurpassed up to the present : ALLTIME
6
Extinct bird : MOA
7
Earth's raised pts. : MTNS
8
Accomplish : ATTAIN
9
Absentee ticket-holders : NOSHOWS
10
Mound : HUMP
11
Landed : ALIT
12
Where Bamako is : MALI
13
Soon : ANON
18
Central point : PIVOT
22
On the Red : ASEA
25
U.S.S.R.-China river : AMUR
27
Made dovelike sounds : COOED
28
Emulate W. J. Bryan : ORATE
29
Winged : ALATE
30
Recent : LATE
31
Too much, French style : TROP
32
Geom. lines : HYPS
33
Nonalcoholic : SOFT
34
Eros : AMOR
35
Adriatic wind : BORA
39
"___! thy canopy is dust ... ": Shak. : OWOE
42
Equipment : GEAR
43
Ear bone : OSSICLE
45
Anti : OPPOSER
46
Erred, to a poet : SLIPT
48
Afghan Moslem : PATHAN
51
Kind of wave : MICRO
52
Secretary of the Interior: 1933–46 : ICKES
53
Some profs. : ASSTS
54
Aloof : COLD
55
Eye part : UVEA
56
Give temporarily : LEND
57
Malay boat : PROA
58
Does a lawn job : SODS
60
Spat : TIFF
63
Arafat's gp. : PLO

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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