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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, November 22, 1990

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { J K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 266 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 37.2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,989
Across
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Droop : FLAG
5
Chem. degree : SCB
8
"To ___ own self be true": Shak. : THINE
13
Author of "Pêcheur d'Islande" : LOTI
14
Hints : CUES
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Umbrette's cousin : HERON
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Utah ski resort : ALTA
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Innkeeper, in Orvieto : OSTE
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"___ Lady": Cather : ALOST
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Historic settlement: 1620 : PLYMOUTHCOLONY
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Cook's need : APRON
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Command to Fido : SIT
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Food holder : PLATE
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Important visitor to 20 Across : MASSASOIT
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Orators' platforms : ROSTRA
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Fudge on the facts : LIE
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Black cuckoo : ANI
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Guests at the first Thanksgiving : INDIANS
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Host at the first Thanksgiving : PILGRIM
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Farm sci. : AGR
43
Caroline Islands group : YAP
45
The external world : NONEGO
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Vessel for a 1620 voyage : MAYFLOWER
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Product of radium disintegration : RADON
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Poetic contraction : EEN
52
Map : CHART
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"We ___ to ask ... " (start of a Thanksgiving hymn) : GATHERTOGETHER
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Macaroni, e.g. : PASTA
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Bail : LADE
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Book by R. W. Chambers: 1905 : IOLE
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Penetrate : ENTER
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Actress Anna from Russia : STEN
65
To be, to Cato : ESSE
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Petri dishes' contents : AGARS
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Part of i.e. : EST
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Peruse : READ
Down
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Tent part : FLAP
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Droop : LOLL
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Bar. or sol. : ATTY
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Late baseball commissioner : GIAMATTI
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Wash away : SCOUR
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Habit : CUSTOM
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___ Green, part of London's East End : BETHNAL
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Muse of comedy : THALIA
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Spartan serfs : HELOTS
10
Press : IRON
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Inquisitive : NOSY
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Tolkien creature : ENT
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Not sweet, as wine : SEC
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"Norma" or "Martha" : OPERA
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Bone substance used in making gelatin : OSSEIN
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Hector's father : PRIAM
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"Ars ___, vita brevis" : LONGA
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___ as dust : ASDRY
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Use a straw : SIP
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Propelled a wherry : OARED
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Architect Jones : INIGO
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Shakespeare's Athenian misanthrope : TIMON
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"Tennis, ___?" : ANYONE
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Adage : SAW
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Actor Peter : LORRE
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Having more black flies : GNATTIER
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A salt of a water-insoluble acid : PECTATE
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Shackle : FETTER
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Hungarian composer's family : LEHARS
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A Dodecanese island : RHODES
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Representative : AGENT
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Capone's group : GANG
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Charleses' dog : ASTA
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Literary monogram : RLS
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Stockings : HOSE
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Lohengrin's love : ELSA
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Oboe part : REED
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A legume : PEA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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