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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, June 4, 1985

Author:
Joy L. Wouk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 34.7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Joy L. Wouk has 124 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 9 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,992
Across
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Clown : CUTUP
6
Waits : BIDES
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School of whales : GAM
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City near Silver Springs : OCALA
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Be very hot : ROAST
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Ram's mate : EWE
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Seafood treat : CLAMCHOWDER
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Newt : EFT
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Alpine stream : AAR
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Jot : IOTA
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Outflow : ISSUE
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D–I connection : EFGH
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Parts over doors : LINTELS
27
Handsome young man : ADONIS
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Freight : CARGO
31
Gogol's "Dead ___" : SOULS
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Rail : SORA
33
Shankar specialty : RAGA
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Seafood treats : SHRIMPCOCKTAILS
40
Russian news service : TASS
41
Framework for plaster : LATH
42
Heron's cousin : EGRET
43
Lobster ___ (seafood treats) : TAILS
45
Saroyan's city : FRESNO
46
Made tough : STEELED
49
Contends : WARS
50
Harpsichordist Landowska : WANDA
51
Middle East bread : PITA
52
Word with back or blanket : WET
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Finis : END
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Seafood treats : REDSNAPPERS
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Past : AGO
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___-depressive : MANIC
62
Ancient region of Asia Minor : IONIA
63
Anderson's "High ___" : TOR
64
Hide the loot : STASH
65
Fertilizer ingredient : NITER
Down
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Actress Imogene : COCA
2
Western inst. : UCLA
3
Arabian tambourine : TAAR
4
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
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Opposition to use of force : PACIFISM
6
Part of 17 Across : BROTH
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Hawkeye State : IOWA
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Mom's mate : DAD
9
Japan follower : ESE
10
Kind of quartet : STRING
11
Silly ones : GEESE
12
Appalling : AWFUL
13
Allots : METES
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Gluttons : HOGS
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Warehouses : STORAGES
24
Joined the armed forces : ENLISTED
25
Tamarack : LARCH
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Iranian neighbor : IRAK
27
Kind of prof. : ASST
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Capital of Qatar : DOHA
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Belonging to us : OURS
30
Scoters : COOTS
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Heat almost to boiling : SCALD
34
Publicizes : AIRS
35
Narrow valley : GLEN
36
Concerning : ASTO
38
Ballet movement : PLIE
39
Seafood treat : TERRAPIN
44
Tocsins : ALARMS
45
___ morgana (mirage) : FATA
46
Word with band or box : SWEAT
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S. American dance : TANGO
48
Where Saul met a witch : ENDOR
49
Hoisting apparatus : WINCH
51
Greek letters : PSIS
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Departed : WENT
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Part of HOMES : ERIE
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Despot : TSAR
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Consume : EAT
58
Genetic mtrl. : DNA
59
Luau treat : POI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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