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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, February 12, 1986

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 28.6
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. 13,245
Across
1
Disabled : LAME
5
Red-coated cheese : EDAM
9
Kind of flight : SOLO
13
"Waiting for Lefty" playwright : ODETS
15
Cathedral part : NAVE
16
Scottish group : CLAN
17
U.S. hero : WASHINGTON
19
Period of inactivity : REST
20
New Zealand native : MAORI
21
Tolkien creature : ENT
22
In re : ASTO
23
Religious groups : SECTS
25
Egyptian viper : ASP
27
Kind of scene : MOB
30
Wedel, e.g. : SKI
31
Bell part : CLAPPER
35
Class of birds : AVES
37
Within: Comb. form : ENDO
39
Courage : NERVE
40
Sight in West Potomac Park : LINCOLNMEMORIAL
43
Lend ___ (listen) : ANEAR
44
Book before Nehemiah : EZRA
45
Fizzy drink : SODA
46
Kind of tire : RETREAD
48
Saucer's companion : CUP
50
Spanish king : REY
51
Inventor Whitney : ELI
52
Some trks. : SEMIS
54
Very soft mineral : TALC
57
Q–U connection : RST
59
Laboratory vessels : ETNAS
62
Cupid : AMOR
63
R.W.R. residence : WHITEHOUSE
66
He fiddled while Rome burned : NERO
67
First-rate : AONE
68
Kinds : SORTS
69
Was aware of : KNEW
70
System of exercises : YOGA
71
Bygone : PAST
Down
1
Moo : LOW
2
He took a ribbing : ADAM
3
Small plateau : MESA
4
Beliefs of a group : ETHOS
5
Part of U.K. : ENG
6
Appointments : DATES
7
Stratford's river : AVON
8
Of the mind : MENTAL
9
Fighters : SCRAPPERS
10
Bullring sounds : OLES
11
Final : LAST
12
Hip : ONTO
14
Fathers : SIRES
18
It's n.g. if wooden : NICKEL
24
Did soldering : TINNED
26
"Mens sana in corpore ___" : SANO
27
Cheekbone : MALAR
28
Of sheep : OVINE
29
Poet Stephen Vincent : BENET
31
Force : COERCE
32
Earlier : PRIOR
33
Duck : EVADE
34
Kind of race : RELAY
36
Cornfield protector : SCARECROW
38
Area verboten to a G.I. : DMZ
41
Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
42
Toledo's river : MAUMEE
47
Plane route : AIRWAY
49
Gists : PITHS
52
Cheat a customer : STING
53
Pry : SNOOP
54
Army vehicle : TANK
55
Final word : AMEN
56
Knowledge : LORE
58
Word to chickens : SHOO
60
Atmosphere surrounding something : AURA
61
Fast planes: Abbr. : SSTS
64
Hyson, e.g. : TEA
65
Winter time in N.Y.C. : EST

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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