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Joy L. Wouk
Joy L. Wouk

New York Times, Tuesday, June 4, 1985

11-Down : Silly ones

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 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
1
Clown : CUTUP
6
Waits : BIDES
11
School of whales : GAM
14
City near Silver Springs : OCALA
15
Be very hot : ROAST
16
Ram's mate : EWE
17
Seafood treat : CLAMCHOWDER
19
Newt : EFT
20
Alpine stream : AAR
21
Jot : IOTA
22
Outflow : ISSUE
24
D-I connection : EFGH
25
Parts over doors : LINTELS
27
Handsome young man : ADONIS
30
Freight : CARGO
31
Gogol's "Dead ___" : SOULS
32
Rail : SORA
33
Shankar specialty : RAGA
37
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
55
Finis : END
56
Seafood treats : REDSNAPPERS
60
Past : AGO
61
___-depressive : MANIC
62
Ancient region of Asia Minor : IONIA
63
Anderson's "High ___" : TOR
64
Hide the loot : STASH
65
Fertilizer ingredient : NITER
Down
1
Actress Imogene : COCA
2
Western inst. : UCLA
3
Arabian tambourine : TAAR
4
Einstein's birthplace : ULM
5
Opposition to use of force : PACIFISM
6
Part of 17 Across : BROTH
7
Hawkeye State : IOWA
8
Mom's mate : DAD
9
Japan follower : ESE
10
Kind of quartet : STRING
11
Silly ones : GEESE
12
Appalling : AWFUL
13
Allots : METES
18
Gluttons : HOGS
23
Warehouses : STORAGES
24
Joined the armed forces : ENLISTED
25
Tamarack : LARCH
26
Iranian neighbor : IRAK
27
Kind of prof. : ASST
28
Capital of Qatar : DOHA
29
Belonging to us : OURS
30
Scoters : COOTS
32
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
47
S. American dance : TANGO
48
Where Saul met a witch : ENDOR
49
Hoisting apparatus : WINCH
51
Greek letters : PSIS
52
Departed : WENT
53
Part of HOMES : ERIE
54
Despot : TSAR
57
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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