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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, March 19, 1991

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 29.9
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. 15,106
Across
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Sentry's word : HALT
5
Bucks, e.g. : HES
8
Japanese beverage : SAKE
12
Graceful tree : ITEA
13
Aleutian island : ATTU
15
Kind of energy : SOLAR
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Actions taken by hot-dogs : GRANDSTANDPLAYS
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Pivot : HINGE
20
Muslim deity : ALLAH
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Concorde, e.g. : SST
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Lexicographer's abbr. : OBS
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Pry : LEVER
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Onager : ASS
29
Calif.'s Big ___ : SUR
31
Type of shaving-cream container : AEROSOL
35
Clock sound : TICK
37
Lascivious look : LEER
39
With great coldness : ICILY
40
Shirley Temple film: 1934 : STANDUPANDCHEER
43
Famed Swiss mathematician : EULER
44
Teacher of Heifetz : AUER
45
Bacchanal's cry : EVOE
46
Looms or seems : APPEARS
48
Soc. entrant : DEB
50
Sinuous letter : ESS
51
Flash flood : SPATE
53
Was successful : WON
55
Viper : ASP
58
"South Pacific" role : EMILE
60
Projecting foundation piece : SOCLE
64
Whence rahs emanate : CHEERINGSECTION
67
Funds : MONEY
68
Yawn : GAPE
69
"L'___ c'est moi" : ETAT
70
Pitcher : EWER
71
Deli bread : RYE
72
British sand hill : DENE
Down
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"___ Tor," Anderson play : HIGH
2
Longfellow town : ATRI
3
Like Cassius : LEAN
4
"Last ___ in Paris," Brando film : TANGO
5
Owns : HAS
6
Kett of comics : ETTA
7
Booth : STALL
8
The sun, to Seneca : SOL
9
"Woe is me!" : ALAS
10
Actress Francis et al. : KAYS
11
Formerly, formerly : ERST
14
Ignorant : UNLEARNED
15
Globular : SPHERIC
17
Five-time also-ran : DEBS
18
Baseball's Winfield : DAVE
23
"Star Trek" navigator : SULU
25
Rock, in Rouen : ROCHE
26
Bewildered : ATSEA
27
No-hands exercise : SITUP
28
Hair carrier : SCALP
30
Gluing again : REPASTING
32
Strainer : SIEVE
33
Butter substitutes : OLEOS
34
Instruments for Erato and Hermes : LYRES
36
Joints for genuflecting : KNEES
38
___ de Cologne : EAU
41
Loose clothing : DRAPERY
42
Actor John: 1853-1927 : DREW
47
Branches : RAMI
49
Winter pear : BOSC
52
"Pomp and Circumstance" composer : ELGAR
54
Eminent : NOTED
55
Peak : ACME
56
Display : SHOW
57
Painter Guy ___ du Bois : PENE
59
Descry : ESPY
61
Quote : CITE
62
Bank offering : LOAN
63
Being, in Granada : ENTE
65
Poetic contraction : EER
66
Shoe width : EEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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