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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

ALL-AMERICAN

New York Times, Sunday, June 27, 1982

85-Down : Like a cheetah

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.38, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 574 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 132, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8 Grid has duplicate clues.
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,919
Across
1
Haberdasher's item : CRAVAT
7
Therapy, to a G.I. : REHAB
12
XYZ ___ of 1797 : AFFAIR
18
Hakka or Wu : CHINESE
19
Caribbean isle : ARUBA
20
Obscured : CLOUDED
22
Visitors' cry at Detroit? : HOLDTHATTIGER
24
Mosaic piece : TESSERA
25
Steinbeck's Joad : OKIE
26
Expresses love or hate : EMOTES
27
Persea and poon : TREES
29
Sine qua ___ : NON
30
A.L. player of yore : SEN
31
Hurok et al. : SOLS
32
Toppers for the Brewers? : HEADS
33
Draw's kin : STUD
34
Tense : EDGY
36
Major ending : ETTE
37
___ de combat : HORS
38
Rancor : SPITE
39
Seeps : OOZES
41
Zola heroine : RENEE
42
Kitchen implement : SLICER
43
Type of wrench : SPANNER
46
Became wan : PALED
47
Chamber instrument : VIOLA
48
Deter : HINDER
49
Quotidian : DAILY
50
Graceful ones : GAZELLES
53
Noun suffixes : ANCES
54
Admits : OWNS
55
White Sox foundations? : SOLES
56
Riv. project : TVA
57
Two of the Red Sox? : PAIR
58
Northeast nuisances? : DAMNYANKEES
61
Small shoot : TWIG
62
Compass pt. : ENE
63
First of 12 : ARIES
64
Roulette bet : NOIR
65
Cause to be : BRING
66
Region's residents : DENIZENS
68
Vessels for steaming : AGERS
69
Ricochet : GLANCE
70
Word on a penny : TRUST
71
Use a blast furnace : SMELT
72
Rode with the Rangers? : CRUISED
73
Circus men : TAMERS
75
Cartels : POOLS
76
Cookie pan : SHEET
77
Vacuous : INANE
78
Australian ratites : EMUS
79
Quid : CHEW
80
Cummerbund : SASH
84
Distaff donkey : MARE
85
D.C. art gallery : FREER
87
Kipling's "___ Sea to Sea" : FROM
88
"The Gold Bug" author : POE
89
Father of Phineas : ELI
90
On the qui vive : ALERT
91
Man in a manse : CLERIC
93
Representative of Osiris : APIS
94
Appointed anew : RENAMED
96
Hot times in Cleveland? : INDIANSUMMERS
99
Piney, e.g. : SCENTED
100
Prepares paint : MIXES
101
Boot-camp G.I. : TRAINEE
102
Rendezvous : TRYSTS
103
Beethoven's "Für ___" : ELISE
104
Break a union : SECEDE
Down
1
Prepared to bunt, with "up" : CHOKED
2
Bench jockey's activity : RILING
3
Peruvian Indian : ANDE
4
D.V.M. : VET
5
Tarheel county : ASHE
6
Semi man : TEAMSTER
7
Diamondback's warning : RATTLE
8
Iroquoians : ERIES
9
Embraces : HUGS
10
Honest one : ABE
11
Made a deal : BARTERED
12
Emulated Olivier : ACTED
13
Lams : FLEES
14
Trench : FOSS
15
Indian rice : AUS
16
Metropolitan Stadium siblings? : IDENTICALTWINS
17
Send by a new course : REROUTE
18
Elected : CHOSE
21
Hair particles : DANDER
23
Comics heroine : TOOTS
28
Make incised marks : RASE
32
Apiculturist's product : HONEY
33
Bicycle mishap : SPILL
35
There : YONDER
36
Israel's Weizman : EZER
37
Anaheim cyclists? : HELLSANGELS
38
Wild plums : SLOES
40
Numbers for the A's? : ONES
41
Wet : RAINY
42
Garment gradations : SIZES
43
Molded : SHAPED
44
Hydrocarbon from evergreens : PINANE
45
Seattle senior citizen? : ANCIENTMARINER
46
Karpov's octet : PAWNS
47
Singer Jerry : VALE
49
Cupolas : DOMES
50
Travelers : GOERS
51
Call forth : EVINCE
52
Weakened : SAGGED
55
Girl's garb : SKIRT
58
Girl's garb : DRESS
59
"It ___ Me, Babe," Dylan song : AINT
60
Carols : NOELS
61
Characteristics : TRAITS
63
Cerulean : AZURE
65
Sad, like the Jays? : BLUE
67
Vernon's dancing partner : IRENE
68
Chanson subject : AMOUR
69
Sprang up : GREW
71
Eventually : SOMETIME
72
British prescription fillers : CHEMISTS
73
Arena officials : TIMERS
74
Selection from a literary work : ANALECT
75
One of the Royals? : PEER
76
Fleeced : SHORN
79
Goalie's domain : CREASE
81
Attach : APPEND
82
Evening party : SOIREE
83
"Magister Ludi" author : HESSE
85
Like a cheetah : FLEET
86
Foxx's namesakes : REDDS
87
Emulates the Orioles? : FLIES
90
Aggregates: Abbr. : AMTS
91
411, to Livy : CDXI
92
Preserve, in a way : CURE
93
Gallic girlfriend : AMIE
95
No matter which : ANY
97
None : NIL
98
Singer Davis : MAC

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