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Anne Fox
Anne Fox

New York Times, Wednesday, February 19, 1964

61-Across : The color acier.

Author:
Anne Fox
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { V }, Scrabble score: 349 (avg 1.83)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7 Grid has duplicate clues.
Anne Fox has 46 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1964, The New York TimesNo. 5,316
Across
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Poetic feet. : IAMBI
6
In the next month: Abbr. : PROX
10
Throw ___. : AFIT
14
Miller's forte. : PLAYS
15
State. : IOWA
16
Terrible: Prefix. : DINO
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California river. : SANJOAQUIN
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Book of the Bible. : EZRA
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Japanese race. : AINU
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Place. : PUT
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Surprised. : AMAZED
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Down. : PILE
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Pastoral poem. : IDYLL
27
Old, in Italy. : ANTICO
30
Novelist Hamsun. : KNUT
31
Feminine suffix. : ESS
34
Means of identification, in fiction. : BIRTHMARK
36
Was compelled. : HADTO
38
"I cannot tell ___ ... " : ALIE
39
Tummocks. : BRAES
41
Wind. : COIL
42
Woo. : COURT
44
Spider. : TARANTULA
46
Gaseous envelope: Abbr. : ATM
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Explorer Tasman. : ABEL
49
Brightness. : LUSTER
50
Part of a rose. : PETAL
52
Belgrade name. : TITO
53
Collector of a sort. : ASHMAN
55
___ ton. : BON
56
Kudos. : FAME
60
Fall with a dull sound. : PLAP
61
The color acier. : QUAKERGRAY
64
Little fellow. : RUNT
65
Kind of duckling. : UGLY
66
Watered silk. : MOIRE
67
Bohemian. : ARTY
68
State. : OHIO
69
Tools. : ADZES
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Herself: Lat. : IPSA
2
Turkish regiment. : ALAI
3
Nobelist in literature, 1929. : MANN
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Mild oath. : BYJUPITER
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Equal: Prefix. : ISO
6
Cotton cloth. : PIQUE
7
Stampede. : ROUT
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Wartime agency. : OWI
9
Kubla Khan's city. : XANADU
10
Make ___. : ADEAL
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Failed after a good start: Colloq. : FIZZLEDOUT
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Concerning. : INRE
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Amphibian. : TOAD
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Poise. : APLOMB
23
Imaginary person. : MYTH
25
German pronoun. : ICH
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Printer's pad. : INKER
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Kind of hemp. : ABACA
28
Egyptian native. : NILOT
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Victorious. : TRIUMPHANT
30
Hottentot village. : KRAAL
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Fence steps. : STILE
33
Kind of disk. : SOLAR
35
Russian guild. : ARTEL
37
Unforeseen happenings. : ACTSOFGOD
40
Briny. : SALINE
43
Bye-bye. : TATA
45
Cashew. : NUT
48
Ghost in "Macbeth." : BANQUO
51
Blank. : EMPTY
52
Honshu bay. : TOKYO
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Port of Guam. : APRA
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Musical mark. : SLUR
55
Isle near Java. : BALI
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State: Abbr. : ARIZ
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Farm animal. : MARE
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Observes. : EYES
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Exclamation. : UGH
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Sandhurst: Abbr. : RMA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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