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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Tuesday, November 17, 1981

43-Across : Item on a vanity

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Missing: { F J Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 2, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 45.6
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,697
Across
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Chagall : MARC
5
On the ___ (secretly) : SLY
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Traipses : GADS
12
Peary's base in Greenland : ETAH
13
Michelangelo masterpiece : PIETA
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Nimbus : AURA
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"___ Tired," Beatles song : IMSO
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Burden bearer : ATLAS
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Man without a date : STAG
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Moral of an Oz movie : NOPLACELIKEHOME
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Start of señor's year : ENERO
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Big buttes : MESAS
25
Red or yellow conditions : ALERTS
28
Contract terms : WAGES
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Skirt style : MAXI
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Quaff for Hans : BIER
33
Prefix for mix or fix : PRE
36
Role for 26 Down : THECOWARDLYLION
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Upperclassmen: Abbr. : SRS
42
Hindu queen : RANI
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Item on a vanity : ETUI
44
Certain button : PANIC
45
Clad like Claudius : TOGAED
47
Speed, to Tim Raines : ASSET
50
Arboreal marsupial : KOALA
52
Where 7 Down leads : INTOEMERALDCITY
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It can come in cakes : SOAP
59
Mutinied : AROSE
60
Livy's M : IOOO
61
Lounge : LOLL
62
Exhaust : DRAIN
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Pitcher : EWER
64
Blunted weapon : EPEE
65
Summer time initials : DST
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Can. province : SASK
Down
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Chow ___ : MEIN
2
Air: Abbr. : ATMO
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Harsh sound : RASP
4
Irascible : CHOLERIC
5
Hits a typewriter bar : SPACES
6
Quart's counterpart : LITER
7
What Dorothy followed : YELLOWBRICKROAD
8
Incisions : GASHES
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Pierce-Arrows, e.g. : AUTOS
10
Sophocles' forte : DRAMA
11
Venerable ones : SAGES
14
People of SE Asia : TAI
15
Catechize : ASK
21
Industrious one : ANT
22
An abrasive : EMERY
25
Aggregates: Abbr. : AMTS
26
Actor Bert : LAHR
27
Love-letter addenda : EXES
29
Facilitate : AID
30
Set : GEL
33
Century plant : PITA
34
Likely participant in an orgy : ROUE
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Oklahoma city : ENID
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Emulate Cicero : ORATE
38
Far from rubicund : WAN
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Cuckoo : ANI
40
Heirs' shares : LEGACIES
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Streisand hit: 1964 : PEOPLE
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Gift : TALENT
46
Like Nick or Harry : OLD
47
Bridal path : AISLE
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Detective of a sort : SNOOP
49
Trite : STALE
51
Saharan site : OASIS
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Deranged : MAD
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Stray : ERR
55
Corn country : IOWA
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Foot termini : TOES
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W.W. I hero : YORK

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

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