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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Wednesday, May 28, 1986

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { K Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 9, XRef: 1, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 19.0
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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P
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H
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,350
Across
1
Kind of prof. : ASST
5
Marconi specialty : RADIO
10
Thailand, once : SIAM
14
Word with cream or grapes : SOUR
15
Correct : AMEND
16
Sicilian city : ENNA
17
Big horn : TUBA
18
Lost color : PALED
19
QB's objective : GAIN
20
___ Joe, killer exposed by Tom Sawyer : INJUN
22
"___ the season ... " : TIS
23
Kind of TV : CABLE
24
Popular : DEMOTIC
26
Jamie of "M*A*S*H" : FARR
27
Arrived : CAME
28
King or Arkin : ALAN
30
Diplomatic rep. : AMB
33
Salesman's speech : PATTER
35
Need of 30 Across : TACT
36
Shakespearean prince : HAL
37
Hawkeye State : IOWA
38
Attorney General Edwin ___ : MEESE
40
Bewilderment : DAZE
41
Alfonso's wife : ENA
42
Arm, e.g. : LIMB
43
Judged : DEEMED
45
Legal thing : RES
46
"___ boy!" : ITSA
47
Samovars : URNS
48
Rant's partner : RAVE
50
Limousine accessory : LAPROBE
53
Southwestern building : ADOBE
55
Nabokov novel : DAR
56
Certain aircraft, for short : STOLS
58
Intermediate: Comb. form : MESO
59
Pivot : HINGE
61
"___ and loved": Gibbon : ISAW
62
Chilled : ICED
63
Necktie : ASCOT
64
___ bene : NOTA
65
Medicinal amount : DOSE
66
Act part : SCENE
67
F.B.I. agents : GMEN
Down
1
Italian wine region : ASTI
2
Long Island ___ : SOUND
3
Gilroy's 1965 Pulitzer Prize play, with "The" : SUBJECTWASROSES
4
Injuries : TRAUMATA
5
Knock : RAP
6
Violinmaker : AMATI
7
Albee's 1967 Pulitzer Prize play, with "A" : DELICATEBALANCE
8
Feminine suffixes : INES
9
Like one or five : ODD
10
Creator of Alice the Goon : SEGAR
11
Green's 1927 Pulitzer Prize play : INABRAHAMSBOSOM
12
Indigo : ANIL
13
Leo's locks : MANE
21
Seward Peninsula city : NOME
23
Argot : CANT
25
House destroyer : TERMITE
26
Confronted boldly : FACEDUP
29
___ Vegas : LAS
31
Labyrinth : MAZE
32
Slovenian lake or town : BLED
33
Landing structure : PIER
34
Superior : AONE
39
North Sea feeder : EMS
40
Indicating : DENOTING
42
"Saturday Night ___" : LIVE
44
Slips : ERRS
49
Domicile : ABODE
51
Light-bulb gas : ARGON
52
Make happy : ELATE
53
Among : AMID
54
Art style of the late 1920's : DECO
55
Kind of brake : DISC
57
Duck's relative : SWAN
59
Possesses : HAS
60
Metz season : ETE

Answer summary:
2 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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