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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Friday, August 26, 1983

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 20.8 Grid has duplicate clues.
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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N
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P
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P
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,344
Across
1
Kind of tree : CEDAR
6
Kind of tree : YEW
9
Kind of tree : LEMON
14
Kind of tree : OLIVE
15
Kind of tree : ASH
16
Destroy slowly : ERODE
17
Kind of tree : ELDER
18
Survived a storm : WEATHERED
20
Maple product : SYRUP
22
Footprints : TRACES
23
Puts a football in play : SNAPS
26
Guggenheim offering : ART
27
___ spumante : ASTI
30
Milton character : SATAN
32
Feudal underling : SERF
36
Blossom, as a tree : LEAVE
38
Joshua tree : YUCCA
40
Prefix meaning "life" : BIO
41
Innocents : BABESINTHEWOODS
44
___-Aztecan languages : UTO
45
Jejune : TRITE
46
Fits of madness, à la Shakespeare : LUNES
47
See 56 Down : MORO
49
Free from faults : EMEND
51
Sidon's neighbor : TYRE
52
"Oysters ___ season" : RIN
54
Museum piece : RELIC
56
Kind of tree : ACACIA
59
Family-tree member : INLAW
62
Mayo pro : CLINICIAN
65
Tibet's ___ Lama : DALAI
67
Saw : ADAGE
68
A daughter of Eloneus : DIA
69
Capri or Ischia : ISOLA
70
Suitor : WOOER
71
Kind of tree : ELM
72
Kind of tree : ASPEN
Down
1
Iowa college : COE
2
Building additions : ELLS
3
Baby's wear, for short : DIDY
4
Showing repugnance : AVERSIVE
5
Familiar flick : RERUN
6
Go off course : YAW
7
Compass pt. : ESE
8
Barrie's "___ Every Woman Knows" : WHAT
9
Hungarian composer : LEHAR
10
Sets up : ERECTS
11
Twist's request : MORE
12
Epinicia : ODES
13
Buntline or Sparks : NED
19
Medium's condition : TRANCE
21
Step for Lucia Chase : PAS
24
Moslem : PAYNIM
25
Emulate Porky the Pig : STUTTER
27
Collector's item : ALBUM
28
Former treaty acronym : SEATO
29
Small drum : TABOR
31
One-seeded fruit : ACHENE
33
Kind of tree : EBONY
34
Light Brigade member : RIDER
35
"All That Jazz" figure : FOSSE
37
Superlative suffix : EST
39
Shoemaker's tool : AWL
42
Peaceful : IRENIC
43
Surpass in quality : OUTCLASS
48
Kind of tree : ORANGE
50
551, to Claudius : DLI
53
Less friendly : ICIER
55
___-rubber tree : INDIA
56
With 47 Across, Italian statesman : ALDO
57
Farewell, in Firenze : CIAO
58
___-de-camp : AIDE
60
Skewed : ALOP
61
Fabric feature : WALE
62
Raven's remark : CAW
63
Trouble : AIL
64
Asian country, to a G.I. : NAM
66
"___ Hamilton's March" (Churchill book) : IAN

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2 debuted here and reused later.

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