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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, March 17, 1987

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { Q X }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 28.1
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,643
Across
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"Ici on ___ français" : PARLE
6
Johann Sebastian ___ : BACH
10
Mandible : JAW
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Hautboys : OBOES
14
Regular: Comb. form : ORTHO
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Corrida sound : OLE
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Toward the stern : ABAFT
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Jeopardy : PERIL
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Weep aloud : SOB
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Yeats work, with "The" : CELTICTWILIGHT
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Branch of sci. : HYD
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Apr. and Nov. : MOS
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"___ Rosenkavalier" : DER
25
Linger : LAG
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August's shooting stars : PERSEIDS
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Paris legislature : SENAT
34
Withered : SERE
35
Pluck : GRIT
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"The Playboy of ___": Synge : THEWESTERNWORLD
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Cupid : EROS
40
Plays on words : PUNS
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Ph.D. hurdle : ORALS
42
Yehudi and Hephzibah : MENUHINS
44
Use a crowbar : PRY
45
Condition: Suffix : ION
46
Part of U.S.D.A. : AGR
47
Thus, to Burns : SAE
50
"A Portrait of the ___ Man": Joyce : ARTISTASAYOUNG
55
Turkish title : AGA
56
Pursue stealthily : STALK
57
Silly : INANE
58
Moroccan city : FEZ
59
"___ of Endearment," hit film : TERMS
60
Alexander Hamilton's birthplace : NEVIS
61
Football support : TEE
62
Sp. Miss : SRTA
63
Hail : GREET
Down
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Trample : POACH
2
Dublin theatre : ABBEY
3
Writer Dahl : ROALD
4
Departed : LEFT
5
Judgment : ESTIMATE
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Plot : BREW
7
Longfellow town : ATRI
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Offspring : CHILDREN
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Sacred places : HOLIES
10
Banter : JOSH
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"Thanks ___!" : ALOT
12
Network : WEB
14
Chooses : OPTS
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Gear tooth : COG
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Lady ___, a founder of Irish National Theatre : GREGORY
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Court case : LAWSUIT
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Hammer parts : PEENS
27
Bungles : ERRS
28
Soprano Petina : IRRA
29
Cousin of parsley : DILL
30
Bases of meas. of value : STDS
31
Check : STEM
32
Honor, in Ulm : EHRE
33
Light gas : NEON
34
Daze : STUN
37
Dickens's Miss Havisham, e.g. : SPINSTER
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"What's the use of ___?" : WORRYING
43
Elevators : HOISTS
44
Org. for Corey Pavin : PGA
46
Invites : ASKS
47
Urbane : SUAVE
48
Rooney or Laurie : ANNIE
49
Perspire, e.g. : EGEST
50
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
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Demolish : RAZE
52
Sour : TART
53
College in Mich. : ALMA
54
Rare person : ONER
55
P.M. period : AFT

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

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