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I. Judah Koolyk
I. Judah Koolyk

New York Times, Wednesday, August 20, 1980

27-Across : Goddess wearing a cow's horns

Author:
I. Judah Koolyk
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 45.3
I. Judah Koolyk has 40 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,243
Across
1
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" author : BACH
5
Wealth : PELF
9
Mont Blanc is France's highest : PEAK
13
Author Wiesel : ELIE
14
"Take ___ leave it" : ITOR
15
"Texaco Star Theater" star on TV : BERLE
16
Prepare for a struggle : GIRD
17
"___ Homo," Titian painting : ECCE
18
End of a well-known Stein line : AROSE
19
Parents' break : SECONDHONEYMOON
22
Olfactory organ : NOSE
23
Irish Gaelic : ERSE
24
Of the eye : OPTIC
27
Goddess wearing a cow's horns : SATI
29
Skillful : DEFT
33
Seward's coup : ALASKA
35
Isinglass : MICA
37
Contend : VIE
38
Students' breaks : SUMMERVACATIONS
41
" ... appetyt hath he to ___ a mous": Chaucer : ETE
42
Edwardian expletive : DRAT
43
Bulb's holder : SOCKET
44
Scotch's partner : SODA
46
Richthofen and Rickenbacker : ACES
48
Requisites : NEEDS
49
Seat for Burger : BANC
51
Ruth's birthplace : MOAB
53
Professor's break : SABBATICALLEAVE
60
Word with ear or tube : INNER
61
Standard : NORM
62
"Life is ___!": Longfellow : REAL
63
Charter : LEASE
64
Tittle : IOTA
65
Auctioneer's final word : GONE
66
Former A.F.B. on Cape Cod : OTIS
67
Part of A.B.A. : ASSN
68
Old-time weapon : SNEE
Down
1
___ off (declines) : BEGS
2
"I cannot tell ___" : ALIE
3
Newspaper's average sales: Abbr. : CIRC
4
Epicurean doctrine : HEDONISM
5
Frenchmen's feet : PIEDS
6
Draws finely : ETCHES
7
Bonkers : LOCO
8
Wild and excited : FRENETIC
9
Did a beautician's job: Colloq. : PERMED
10
Sock's slangy suffix : EROO
11
"They ___ serve ... ": Milton : ALSO
12
Sharp : KEEN
15
Buzzards and Sheepshead : BAYS
20
Set an arrow into a bowstring : NOCKED
21
Heaths : ERICAS
24
Saharan stopovers : OASES
25
Tombaugh's 1930 discovery : PLUTO
26
No longer feral : TAMED
28
C.A. timber tree : AMATE
30
Elicit : EVOKE
31
Charged for an overdue book : FINED
32
Acid and rabbit : TESTS
34
Out-and-out : ARRANT
36
Without a keynote : ATONAL
39
Cowpox : VACCINIA
40
North Atlantic hazards : ICEBERGS
45
Convent head : ABBESS
47
Causes sharp pain : SMARTS
50
River to the Rhine : AARE
52
Kern's "___ River" : OLMAN
53
Missile's home : SILO
54
"They have prepared ___": Psalms : ANET
55
___ B'rith : BNAI
56
Cote sounds : COOS
57
Immeasurable time : AEON
58
Roof adjunct on a barn : VANE
59
Robert ___ : ELEE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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