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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Tuesday, November 25, 1980

23-Across : Disband troops, British style

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid has duplicate clues.
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,340
Across
1
He once ran Iran : SHAH
5
Doctrine : ISM
8
Of robins and rollers : AVIAN
13
Dorothy's pooch : TOTO
14
Kind of tide : NEAP
16
General at Gettysburg : MEADE
17
Matty, Felipe or Jesus : ALOU
18
Temple, poetically : FANE
19
Metal mold : INGOT
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Disband troops, British style : DEMOB
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Suffix for journal or legal : ESE
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"___ Afternoon" : DOGDAY
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Canines : EYETEETH
33
Slangy, humorous suffixes : EROOS
34
Ivan or Boris : TSAR
35
Henry IV or Louis XIV : ROI
36
Flagship's boat : BARGE
37
Env. around Earth : ATM
38
Emends : EDITS
40
Supped : ATE
41
Comic-strip barks : ARFS
42
Making all stops : LOCAL
43
Children's game : REDROVER
46
Entertain royally : REGALE
47
He married Jackie : ARI
48
Units of news : ITEMS
50
Family in a Holmes tale : THEBASKERVILLES
57
Archeologist's find : RELIC
58
U.C.L.A., for one : UNIV
59
Slithery : EELY
60
Bay window : ORIEL
61
Advantage : EDGE
62
Hoover and Aswan : DAMS
63
Rib : TEASE
64
Kind of sack : SAD
65
Common canine name : SPOT
Down
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Sirius, for one : STAR
2
Frenchman's warning cry : HOLA
3
Yours, to Yves : ATOI
4
Presley hit : HOUNDDOG
5
Evil reputation : INFAMY
6
Treaty acronym of 1954 : SEATO
7
Canines : MANSBESTFRIENDS
8
Surrounded by : AMIDST
9
Buyer : VENDEE
10
"Othello" character : IAGO
11
Terhune's "Lad: ___" : ADOG
12
N.B.A. team : NETS
15
Word after chick and before hen : PEA
21
Desist's partner : CEASE
22
___-do-well : NEER
25
Preclude : DEBAR
26
Emulate Cato : ORATE
27
Injured a torero : GORED
29
Certain tubers : YAMS
30
Jong : ERICA
31
Wreck, as a car : TOTAL
32
Larry of the Brewers : HISLE
34
Weight allowance : TARE
38
Resin : ELEMI
39
Nanook's transports : DOGSLEDS
41
Rara ___ : AVIS
44
Canine contagion : RABIES
45
Apollo's was at Delphi : ORACLE
46
Gunned the motor : REVVED
49
Three-horse chariot : TRIGA
50
Jogger's pace : TROT
51
Roll-call response : HERE
52
Lamb's nom de plume : ELIA
53
It precedes ar : KUE
54
What one might do after looking : LEAP
55
Sailor's saint : ELMO
56
Method of order: Abbr. : SYST

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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