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Anthony B. Canning
New York Times, Saturday, June 19, 1976
20-Down : More intimate
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, Grid flow: 60.5
Grid has double diagonal symmetry.
Anthony B. Canning has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 T | 2 A | 3 R | 4 T | 5 D | 6 E | 7 E | 8 P | 9 I | 10 P | 11 S | 12 E |
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13 S | E | W | E | R | 14 E | D | N | A | 15 S | H | A | M |
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16 A | N | A | C | E | 17 P | E | T | R | 18 O | L | E | U | M |
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19 F | O | R | T | Y | 20 N | I | N | E | R | S | 21 A | L | A |
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22 E | R | D | A | 23 E | C | T | 24 S | E | 25 S | S | ||||
26 N | 27 E | A | T | A | 28 S | 29 S | T | A | 30 S | 31 H |
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32 B | 33 A | 34 G | G | E | R | 35 L | A | 36 B | 37 A | N | T | E |
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38 G | R | O | U | S | E | 39 S | 40 C | R | 41 I | T | T | E | R |
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42 H | E | L | L | 43 R | A | 44 F | 45 O | D | E | S | S | A |
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46 T | O | D | A | 47 Y | 48 D | A | 49 R | K | O | F | ||||
50 M | R | N | 51 G | 52 S | H | E | 53 L | 54 C | 55 E | 56 S |
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57 T | 58 R | I | 59 C | O | 60 T | T | O | N | 61 W | O | O | D | S |
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62 H | U | N | 63 G | A | R | I | A | N | 64 A | W | A | I | T |
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65 A | L | E | E | 66 S | E | N | D | 67 C | E | S | T | S |
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68 N | E | R | O | 69 E | D | D | A | 70 O | R | T | S |
© 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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