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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Monday, July 21, 1980

59-Across : Originated

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 3
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,213
Across
1
Popeye and Sinbad : TARS
5
Boss, in Africa : BWANA
10
Start of a Steinbeck title : EAST
14
Alda or Arkin : ALAN
15
Material on tables and beds : LINEN
16
Newspaper notice : ITEM
17
Stranger: Comb. form : XENO
18
Balance-sheet item : ASSET
19
Stab : GORE
20
Tevye's fantasy : IFIWEREARICHMAN
23
Uncle Remus's Rabbit : BRER
24
Make lace : TAT
25
Famous theater in London : STRAND
28
Spider or scorpion : ARACHNID
33
Russian city : OREL
34
Budgetary consideration for many : RENT
35
Steinem or Seaver concern: Abbr. : ERA
36
Figure on a $500 bill : WILLIAMMCKINLEY
41
Spire part : EPI
42
Icy deposit on grass : RIME
43
Radius's neighbor : ULNA
44
Made a bridge bid : DECLARED
46
Go downhill, in a way : WORSEN
48
Common abbr. : ETC
49
Knocks : RAPS
50
Figure on a $1,000 bill : GROVERCLEVELAND
58
One from the sticks : RUBE
59
Originated : AROSE
60
Role in "Frankenstein" : IGOR
61
Yaz or Lynn, in Boston : IDOL
62
Moslem mendicant : FAKIR
63
Prominent acronym on July 20, 1969 : NASA
64
Tom Watson's starting points : TEES
65
Romulus and Remus, e.g. : TWINS
66
Matured : GREW
Down
1
Downtown transport : TAXI
2
First of a Hebrew series : ALEF
3
Rajah's wife : RANI
4
Accumulate and accelerate : SNOWBALL
5
Proclaimed loudly : BLARED
6
Not so dumb : WISER
7
Handle, to an archeologist : ANSA
8
___-do-well : NEER
9
Adjective for a bazooka : ANTITANK
10
Octave : EIGHTH
11
Mighty mite : ATOM
12
Antitoxins : SERA
13
Washington operatives : TMEN
21
Sea eagle : ERN
22
Desert flora : CACTI
25
Broadcast : SOWED
26
Inferior material : TRIPE
27
Jalopy : RELIC
28
Prepared for combat : ARMED
29
Part of R & R : REC
30
Gwyn and Quickly : NELLS
31
Castle or Dunne : IRENE
32
Moshe of Israel : DAYAN
37
Choleric : IRATE
38
Glider or B-52 : AIRCRAFT
39
Sra.'s relative : MME
40
One being carefully tended to : NURSLING
45
Strata : LEVELS
46
Shows doubt : WAVERS
47
Unclose, to a poet : OPE
49
Plant exudation : RESIN
50
"True ___," John Wayne film : GRIT
51
Impolite : RUDE
52
Hautboy : OBOE
53
Bird's crop : CRAW
54
Norse god : LOKI
55
Gelatin from seaweed : AGAR
56
Pinocchio feature : NOSE
57
Word with back or bridge : DRAW

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