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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Thursday, June 11, 1992

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4, Grid flow: 32.5
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,556
Across
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Villa for Gorbachev : DACHA
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Insult : SLAP
10
Glut : SATE
14
Town near Fitchburg, Mass. : ATHOL
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Desire : WISH
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Walked on : TROD
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Spills the beans : BLABS
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Turkish title : AGHA
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Astronaut Sally : RIDE
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Merchant in "The Arabian Nights" : SINBADTHESAILOR
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Bartender's need : ICE
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Ruse : TRICK
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Goes full speed : CAREERS
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Clip : SHEAR
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Is contrite : RUES
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Bearing : MIEN
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Cosmetician Lauder : ESTEE
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Summer quaff : ADE
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Nags at : BADGERS
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Cup feature : RIM
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Beethoven's "___ Solemnis" : MISSA
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Tender : SORE
45
Heroine of "La Bohème : MIMI
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Pullulates : TEEMS
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Side by side : ABREAST
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At right angles to a ship's keel : ABEAM
53
Long time : EON
54
Where shuttlecocks fly : BADMINTONCOURTS
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Busy as ___ : ABEE
62
Thine, in Arles : ATOI
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Stock unit : SHARE
64
Taunt : JEER
65
Mountain lake : TARN
66
Princeton mascot : TIGER
67
European range : ALPS
68
Gaelic : ERSE
69
Plumber's pipe cleaner : SNAKE
Down
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Flatfish : DABS
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King of the Huns : ATLI
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Derr Biggers hero : CHAN
4
Leisure-time pursuits : HOBBIES
5
Where Strasbourg is : ALSACE
6
Hit a fly : SWAT
7
Delicate : LIGHT
8
Eighth son of Jacob : ASHER
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Aspect; stage : PHASIS
10
Occurrences in alleys : STRIKES
11
Seed coat : ARIL
12
Brouhaha : TODO
13
Large German dam : EDER
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Skin layer : DERMA
22
Has the flu : ACHES
25
Stuff : CRAM
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Do an I.R.S. job : AUDIT
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Baseball's Little Colonel : REESE
28
A Caesar and a Chaplin : SIDS
30
Roman central courts : ATRIA
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Scene of German surrender: 1945 : REIMS
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Self : EGO
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Tiber tributary : NERA
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Discharge : EMIT
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Salten fawn : BAMBI
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Precursor of a violin : REBEC
43
Certain sewers : SEAMERS
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Knighted violinist : MENUHIN
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Where Coats meets Hatfield : SENATE
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Perches : ROOSTS
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Rose product : ATTAR
52
Heaths : MOORS
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___ California : BAJA
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Explorer Tasman : ABEL
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Profound : DEEP
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Sayers's "The ___ Tailors" : NINE
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Indian music : RAGA
59
Long journey : TREK
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Like leas in winter : SERE

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2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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