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Anthony B. Canning
Anthony B. Canning

New York Times, Thursday, June 12, 1975

54-Across : Sun circles

Author:
Anthony B. Canning
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F G J Q W Y Z }, Scrabble score: 245 (avg 1.30)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Anthony B. Canning has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,434
Across
1
Days or dressing : SALAD
6
Photocopy, for short : STAT
10
Dutch town : EDE
13
P. I. arrowroot : ARARAO
15
No. 6 for Henry VIII : PARR
16
Crossing-out marks : XES
17
Drinking bash : BACCHANALIA
19
Footlike part : PES
20
___ march on (gets the edge) : STEALSA
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Choice appetizer: Var. : CAVIARE
23
Part of TNT : NITRO
25
Kefauver : ESTES
26
"Coffee ___?" : ORTEA
29
Necktie-party figure : RUSTLER
32
Cheer : RAH
33
Grab, as a purse : SNATCH
35
Whale-oil cask : RIER
38
Burden : ONUS
40
Roman rooms : ATRIA
41
Roof part : EAVE
42
Sound : SANE
43
Glass-clinking rituals : TOASTS
45
Number : TEN
46
Does a cattle job : DEHORNS
48
Exclamation : THERE
50
Mountain spur : ARETE
52
Japan's neighbor : KOREA
54
Sun circles : CORONAS
57
Keep in office : REELECT
61
Extremely : TOO
62
Flagg or Rockwell, e.g. : ILLUSTRATOR
64
Woody Hayes's campus : OSU
65
___ belt : SEAT
66
Pay up : SETTLE
67
Football linemen: Abbr. : RTS
68
Allot : METE
69
Adminsters : DEALS
Down
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Religious days: Abbr. : SABS
2
Smell ___ : ARAT
3
___ curtain : LACE
4
Mysterious : ARCANE
5
Bright flowers : DAHLIAS
6
Belgian town : SPA
7
Soft mineral : TALC
8
Sills offering : ARIA
9
"Have tux, will ___" : TRAVEL
10
Picasso, for most of his life : EXPATRIATE
11
U. S. plow maker : DEERE
12
Letters : ESSES
14
Hops kiln : OAST
18
Scheherazade's role : NARRATOR
22
Rhone feeder : ISERE
24
Take precedence over : OUTRANK
26
Diamonds, in a Spanish card game : OROS
27
Frog genus : RANA
28
Like Thor : THUNDEROUS
30
Censor's need : SCISSORS
31
"Is ___ so?" : THAT
34
Treaty org. : NATO
36
Constantly : EVER
37
Frenchman's name : RENE
39
Look after : SEETO
44
Directed : STEERED
47
Philosophy of a single principle : HENISM
49
Acid salt : HALATE
50
John Drew, e.g. : ACTOR
51
Henhouse area : ROOST
53
Soaks, as flax : RETS
55
Toward shelter : ALEE
56
Blind part : SLAT
58
Miss Kett : ETTA
59
Part of a univ. : COLL
60
Very, in Paris : TRES
63
U. S. Indian : UTE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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