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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Saturday, March 30, 1991

43-Down : Takes by force

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { J Q X }, Scrabble score: 294 (avg 1.57)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,117
Across
1
Auto pioneer : BENZ
5
City on the Ocmulgee : MACON
10
Worst : BEST
14
In single file : AROW
15
Three-time A.L. batting champ : OLIVA
16
First name in jazz : ELLA
17
"Able was I ___ ... " : EREI
18
Pool : NATATORIUM
20
Symbol of remembrance : ROSEMARY
22
Lays to rest : INTERS
23
Michael Jackson hit : BAD
24
Mayor Dinkins's predecessor : KOCH
25
Monastic men : FRAS
27
___ Fats (Gleason role in "The Hustler") : MINNESOTA
32
Idle and Clapton : ERICS
33
Olive-tree genus : OLEA
34
Doughboys of today : GIS
35
39
Teutonic pronoun : ICH
40
Money in Mashhad : RIAL
41
Brumal precipitation : SLEET
42
Brown-and-white horses : SKEWBALDS
45
Bonny one : LASS
46
Wander through : ROVE
47
Dick Deadeye, e.g. : TAR
48
Sternutation : SNEEZE
51
Like tinsel : SHIMMERY
56
Pool : CONSORTIUM
58
" ... I eat what ___": Mad Hatter : ISEE
59
Heaps : ALOT
60
Scorch : SINGE
61
The Darlings' dog : NANA
62
Springsteen sobriquet : BOSS
63
Agog : EAGER
64
Moxie : GUTS
Down
1
He KO'd Carnera : BAER
2
Lapse, in Lisbon : ERRO
3
Motion opposers : NOES
4
Rusk : ZWIEBACK
5
Entity : MONAD
6
Winged : ALAR
7
Chaplin's "___ Lights" : CITY
8
Female gametes : OVA
9
Bill White's league : NATIONAL
10
Pullman accommodations : BERTHS
11
Nobelist Wiesel : ELIE
12
Calumny : SLUR
13
Scottish caps : TAMS
19
Head of a tale : ONCE
21
Billiard shot : MASSE
24
Exequial peals : KNELLS
25
Monastic garb : FROCK
26
Rolling in francs : RICHE
27
Art in suspended animation : MOBILE
28
Long series of woes : ILIAD
29
Fiendish fellows : OGRES
30
Mariners' concerns : TIDES
31
Kind of prof. : ASST
32
Apostolic N.T. letter : EPIS
36
Move through : TRAVERSE
37
Sufi's faith : ISLAM
38
Fraught with fear : ALARMING
43
Takes by force : WRESTS
44
Name for a clown : BOZO
47
Oven adjunct : TIMER
48
British blackleg : SCAB
49
___ contendere : NOLO
50
Cain nephew : ENOS
51
Troll, e.g. : SING
52
Immense : HUGE
53
Name meaning "hairy" : ESAU
54
Lessor's charge : RENT
55
Motion supporters : YEAS
57
Primo's parent : TIA

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

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