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Anthony B. Canning
Anthony B. Canning

New York Times, Saturday, June 19, 1976

27-Down : Letters

Author:
Anthony B. Canning
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.00, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Anthony B. Canning has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,807
Across
1
Sharp : TART
5
Like the mid-ocean : DEEP
9
___ dixit : IPSE
13
Drain : SEWER
14
Ferber : EDNA
15
Deception : SHAM
16
___ in the hole : ANACE
17
Major Wyoming resource : PETROLEUM
19
Visitors to Sutter's Mill : FORTYNINERS
21
Words with carte : ALA
22
Earth goddess : ERDA
23
Outside: Prefix : ECT
24
Assembly: Abbr. : SESS
26
As ___ a pin : NEATAS
29
Store : STASH
32
Three-___ (triple) : BAGGER
35
Scientist's place : LAB
37
Bet : ANTE
38
Complains : GROUSES
40
Horse, to a cowpoke : CRITTER
42
Dante locale : HELL
43
Brit. aces of the 1940's : RAF
45
Black Sea port : ODESSA
46
Now : TODAY
48
In the ___ the moon : DARKOF
50
Time of day: Abbr. : MRNG
52
Pronoun : SHE
53
Uhlans' weapons: Abbr. : LCES
57
Numerical prefix : TRI
59
Wyoming's state trees : COTTONWOODS
62
Liszt rhapsodies : HUNGARIAN
64
Expect : AWAIT
65
On the sheltered side : ALEE
66
Deliver : SEND
67
Women's belts of old : CESTS
68
Sleuth Wolfe : NERO
69
Mussolini's daughter : EDDA
70
Morsels : ORTS
Down
1
Drift : TENOR
2
Tony, for one : AWARD
3
Wyoming's shape : RECTANGULAR
4
Card : TREY
5
Limn : DEPICT
6
Lacking teeth : EDENTAL
7
Grafted, in heraldry : ENTE
8
Young salmon : PARRS
9
Atoll unit: Abbr. : ISL
10
Game birds : PHEASANTS
11
Biblical king : SAUL
12
Miss Eames : EMMA
13
Kind of cracker : SAFE
18
Simple sugars : OSES
20
More intimate : NEARER
25
Indian paintbrush, to Wyoming : STATEFLOWER
27
Letters : EES
28
Pouch : SAC
30
French holy ones: Abbr. : STES
31
Wife of Zeus : HERA
32
Purchased: Abbr. : BGHT
33
Mars: Prefix : AREO
34
Certain digger : GOLDMINER
36
Like some promises : BROKEN
39
Sorry : SAD
41
Promising words : IDO
44
Play ___ loose : FASTAND
47
Indian of Peru: Var. : YNCA
49
Actress Fleming : RHONDA
51
English shrub : GORSE
54
Glide : COAST
55
Works on copy : EDITS
56
Concordes : SSTS
57
Word of comparison : THAN
58
Control : RULE
60
Got even : TIED
61
Baylor's home : WACO
63
Earth: Prefix : GEO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 9 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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