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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Friday, April 26, 1991

37-Down : Pollu's weapon

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { K Q Y Z }, Scrabble score: 284 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
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. 15,144
Across
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Figs. person : CPA
4
Plays tricks : JAPES
9
Small branch : TWIG
13
Elia : LAMB
15
Kind of acid : AMINO
16
Possess : HAVE
17
Dawns, in Italia : ALBE
18
He wrote a life of Jesus : RENAN
19
Level : EVEN
20
Cryptesthetic people : SEERS
22
Caterpillar's hair : SETA
23
Scow chow : MESS
24
Pastry-loving lad : HORNER
26
Borough near Pittsburgh : ETNA
28
" ... all do fade as ___": Isa. 64:6 : ALEAF
31
Father of Theseus : AEGEUS
35
Biblical tower: Gen. 35:21 : EDAR
38
Seamstress's concealed interlacement : SLIPSTITCH
40
Some trousers : CORDS
42
Devon river : EXE
43
Actress Gia ___ : SCALA
44
Originators : COMMENCERS
47
Uninteresting : BLAH
48
Napoleon's St. Helena doctor : OMEARA
49
Ranch in "Giant" : REATA
51
Like a certain Marquand hero : LATE
53
Attic : GARRET
57
Queens stadium : SHEA
60
Single : UNAL
63
Test : PROVE
64
An "All About Eve" actress : HOLM
65
Archon, e.g. : RULER
67
Elbe tributary : EGER
68
Father, to an Arab : ABOU
69
Peloponnesian city : ARGOS
70
Camera part : LENS
71
Heal : MEND
72
Inclined : LEANT
73
Hwy. : RTE
Down
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Fail to harmonize : CLASH
2
Ancient: Comb. form : PALEO
3
Fossil resin : AMBER
4
Grate : JAR
5
Iowa college town : AMES
6
An evergreeen : PINE
7
Related in a way : ENATE
8
Beethoven products : SONATAS
9
Book of short stories by 14 Down : THEMAGICBARREL
10
Flutter : WAVE
11
Mrs. ___, sister of A.E.S. : IVES
12
Roman clan : GENS
14
U.S. author born on Apr. 26, 1914 : BERNARDMALAMUD
21
Salt for Escoffier : SEL
25
Legal thing : RES
27
N.J. team : NETS
29
Actor McCowen : ALEC
30
Novel by 14 Down, with "The" : FIXER
32
List abbr. : ETAL
33
Bruins' inst. : UCLA
34
Iranian leader : SHAH
35
"___ ridente," Rossini aria : ECCO
36
Gloom's partner : DOOM
37
Pollu's weapon : ARME
39
Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" : PERE
41
Body fluids : SERA
45
Work by 14 Down, with "The": 1952 : NATURAL
46
Droop : SAG
50
Spigot : TAP
52
Habituate : ENURE
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Sir ___ de Coverley : ROGER
55
Happening : EVENT
56
Concise : TERSE
57
Counterfeit : SHAM
58
Fla. sound : HOBE
59
A father-in-law of Esau : ELON
61
Anabaena : ALGA
62
Mexican city : LEON
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Q-U connection : RST

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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