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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, November 28, 1991

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { G J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 80, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 19.9
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,360
Across
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Family of silent actress Theda : BARAS
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Switch positions : OFFS
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Thanksgiving V.I.P. : COOK
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Prevent : AVERT
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Traditional learning : LORE
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Physics Nobelist: 1944 : RABI
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Part of TNT : NITRO
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Macho match : DUEL
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B ___ boy : ASIN
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Billiard shots : CAROMS
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Let up : RELENTED
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Post-Thanksgiving vehicle? : SNOWPLOW
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Royal symbol : ORB
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___-bel-Abbès, city near Oran : SIDI
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Erose : UNEVEN
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Sister of Osiris : ISIS
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Wire measure : MIL
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Screed : TIRADE
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Pig feature : SNOUT
40
Alphabetic trio : CDE
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Actor Flynn : ERROL
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Like many a Thanksgiving pie : MINCED
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Test : TRY
47
Thanksgiving tubers : YAMS
48
Typewriter bar : SPACER
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Plaintiff : USEE
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A Siouan : OTO
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Disavows : RETRACTS
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Docking tool : BOATHOOK
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Tell : IMPART
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Bean in 35 Down : LIMA
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Appeal : PLEA
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Exit : ISSUE
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Elevator man : OTIS
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Culbertson's namesakes : ELYS
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Elizabeth II to Edward VIII : NIECE
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Oxford gala : BASH
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Morse-code symbol : DASH
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Site of Krupp steel works : ESSEN
Down
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Judges' seats : BANCS
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Of certain fliers : AVIAN
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Kind of rocket : RETRO
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Missile for Powhatan : ARROW
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Jazz dances : STOMPS
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Like Methuselah : OLD
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Main course at the first Thanksgiving : FOURWILDTURKEYS
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Release : FREE
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Cause of an S.R.O. sign : SELLOUT
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Thanksgiving fruit : CRANBERRY
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Kiln : OAST
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Tony cousin : OBIE
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Class : KIND
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Comedian Summerville : SLIM
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Bert's TV friend : ERNIE
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Lyrical : ODIC
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Length unit in Vigo : VARA
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King Hadad's land : EDOM
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"I Remember Mama" role : NELS
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Doctrines : ISMS
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Bit : SNIP
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Scottish island : IONA
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Narragansett vegetable dish : SUCCOTASH
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Thirty-two are a mouthful : TEETH
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Gaelic : ERSE
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Languished : DROOPED
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Abominable Snowman : YETI
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Royal fur : ERMINE
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Point on a lunar orbit : APSIS
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Lawyers' needs : CASES
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Respite from conflict : TRUCE
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Dutch genre painter : STEEN
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Spot of color : BLOB
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Kyushu port : OITA
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"New Maps of Hell" author : AMIS
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Spicy stew : OLLA
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Residue : ASH

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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