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Anthony B. Canning
Anthony B. Canning

New York Times, Saturday, July 12, 1975

40-Across : Season in Nice

Author:
Anthony B. Canning
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 265 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, 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. 9,464
Across
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Covenant : PACT
5
Temperate : SOBER
10
Record: Var. : DISC
14
Gudrun's mate : ATLI
15
Planet : PLUTO
16
Church court : ROTA
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Dining or elbow : ROOM
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British flying machines : AEROPLANES
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Family-tree V.I.P. : ANCESTOR
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Field or Ormandy : EUGENE
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Swiss painter : KLEE
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Taro root : EDDO
25
Red-blooded ones : HEMEN
27
Different spelling: Abbr. : VAR
29
Biblical town : ENDOR
33
"Woe is me" : ALAS
34
Rickenbacker, e.g. : AIRMAN
36
Over: Prefix : EPI
37
Talks idly : YAKS
38
Kind of strip : COMIC
39
Give backing to : ABET
40
Season in Nice : ETE
41
Word for Cal Coolidge : SILENT
42
Tidal or colossal : BORE
43
Newcombe's forte : SERVE
45
Freshwater fish : IDE
46
Ferber et al. : EDNAS
47
Ardor : ELAN
49
Get ___ for one's money : ARUN
50
Idolizing one : ADORER
53
Emulate Edward VIII : ABDICATE
57
Fiendish : DEMONIACAL
59
All even : TIED
60
Word of assent : AMEN
61
Stone pillar : STELE
62
Heraldic border : ORLE
63
Island off P. R. : MONA
64
Duck : EIDER
65
Stern : REAR
Down
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Kind of rubber : PARA
2
Solar deity : ATON
3
Seth Thomas, for one : CLOCKMAKER
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Seth Thomas, hardly ever : TIMELESS
5
Outpouring : SPATE
6
Spread : OLEO
7
Hamilton foe : BURR
8
W. W. II area : ETO
9
Did a rodeo job : ROPED
10
St. George's victim : DRAGON
11
Lytton heroine : IONE
12
Machine carbine : STEN
13
Word in Gardner titles : CASE
19
German historian : LUDEN
21
Japanese coin : SEN
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White fur : ERMINE
25
Winner over Tilden : HAYES
26
Buoy up : ELATE
27
Elman's instrument : VIOLIN
28
___ forces : ARMED
30
Name for Louis I, with "le" : DEBONNAIRE
31
Kind of house or hat : OPERA
32
Formalities : RITES
34
Chemical prefix : ACI
35
Feign : ACT
39
Hercules, to Iole : ABDUCTOR
41
Moon: Prefix : SELEN
44
Shakespearean gentlemen's home : VERONA
46
Silkworm : ERI
48
Occur : ARISE
49
Freud colleague : ADLER
50
Early sinner : ADAM
51
People: Prefix : DEMO
52
Augury : OMEN
53
Made a tennis score : ACED
54
Bundle : BALE
55
Tissue : TELA
56
Fulda feeder : EDER
58
Panay native : ATI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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