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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Monday, September 21, 1981

46-Down : Lighter

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { F J Q }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 15.5
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,640
Across
1
Thick piece : SLAB
5
Reading, e.g. : GAOL
9
Diminish : ABATE
14
Chanel : COCO
15
Bullets, etc., for short : AMMO
16
Panamanian city : COLON
17
Publisher Adolph : OCHS
18
City on the Truckee : RENO
19
Hollywood employee : EXTRA
20
Emlyn Williams play : THECORNISGREEN
23
Word with flower or water : BED
24
Entry in a teacher's roll bk. : ABS
25
Young member of a pride : LIONET
29
Dutch disease victim : ELM
31
Dir. from Zurich to Lucerne : SSW
34
Port in Caesar's day : OSTIA
35
Ratite bird : EMEU
36
Companion of tear : WEAR
37
Salinger opus : CATCHERINTHERYE
40
"Just ___ doch-an'-dorris": Lauder : AWEE
41
Electrical unit : VOLT
42
Choreographer Ailey : ALVIN
43
Small ape : LAR
44
Pompous one : ASS
45
Bits of land in water : ISLETS
46
Edict of a sort : BAN
48
Holder of an LL.B. : ATT
49
"Oats, peas, ___ grow," start of a nursery jingle : BEANSANDBARLEY
57
Yellowstone Park denizens : BEARS
58
Musical ending : CODA
59
Bog : OOZE
60
Grand : LARGE
61
Imposing work : EPIC
62
Rail : SORA
63
A Ford : EDSEL
64
Secretary, e.g. : DESK
65
Oriental maid : AMAH
Down
1
Dundee native : SCOT
2
Ness or Lomond : LOCH
3
Word with head or tooth : ACHE
4
Brown pear : BOSC
5
Attic : GARRET
6
Improve : AMEND
7
Prefix with potent or present : OMNI
8
She wrote "A Girl Like I" : LOOS
9
Bitter : ACERB
10
Emulates Larry Holmes : BOXES
11
Der ___ (Adenauer) : ALTE
12
Rent : TORN
13
Spanish queen before Sophia : ENA
21
West Indian sorcery : OBEAH
22
Range : GAMUT
25
Kind of train or government : LOCAL
26
"___ ship a-sailing ... " : ISAWA
27
Aquatic mammal : OTTER
28
Riviera resort : NICE
29
Jannings and Ludwig : EMILS
30
Imparted : LENT
31
Tennis play : SERVE
32
Berlin's "___ with Music": 1921 : SAYIT
33
British naval women : WRENS
35
Antithesis of Eris or Ares : EROS
36
In good health : WELL
38
Mary Ann ___ (George Eliot) : EVANS
39
"___ la vista!" : HASTA
45
"Give ___ to the Indians," 1939 song : ITBACK
46
Lighter : BARGE
47
Photographer Adams : ANSEL
48
___ Ababa : ADDIS
49
Gun sight : BEAD
50
Pitcher parts : EARS
51
Made a hole-in-one : ACED
52
Slangy negative : NOPE
53
Ponselle or Bonheur : ROSA
54
Weaver's gear : LOOM
55
Actor Stone : EZRA
56
Opposite of 52 Down : YEAH
57
Breton grain : BLE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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