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Anthony B. Canning
Anthony B. Canning

New York Times, Saturday, June 15, 1974

16-Across : Football shutout reading

Author:
Anthony B. Canning
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { G J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5
Anthony B. Canning has 26 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1
W
2
O
3
W
4
M
5
A
6
T
7
E
8
S
9
T
10
A
11
L
12
L
13
A
R
E
14
S
15
O
R
O
N
O
16
O
O
O
O
17
A
L
E
C
18
U
N
D
E
R
19
W
O
R
L
D
20
C
Y
T
H
21
E
R
E
A
22
B
O
T
T
L
E
23
O
R
N
E
24
B
O
R
O
25
D
26
A
27
L
L
A
S
28
S
U
N
L
O
29
V
30
E
31
R
32
E
L
I
A
S
33
B
L
I
N
D
34
I
R
I
35
B
E
A
R
36
T
O
O
L
E
37
T
R
A
D
38
I
N
N
39
E
R
U
P
T
40
S
E
A
T
O
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T
E
A
42
S
D
A
L
E
43
B
I
L
L
O
F
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T
I
D
E
45
C
A
N
A
46
R
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E
48
M
I
N
D
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S
O
L
O
M
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O
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N
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S
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A
P
O
C
A
L
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Y
P
S
E
55
O
X
A
N
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D
I
R
K
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E
N
A
T
E
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N
O
M
E
59
A
C
E
Y
60
S
E
D
A
N
61
F
E
D
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 9,072
Across
1
Cry of surprise : WOW
4
Partners : MATES
9
Kind of story or order : TALL
13
Friend of Aphrodite : ARES
15
Town on the Penobscot : ORONO
16
Football shutout reading : OOOO
17
Guinness : ALEC
18
Domain of Cerebus : UNDERWORLD
20
Name for Aphrodite : CYTHEREA
22
Container : BOTTLE
23
French river : ORNE
24
Rice of India : BORO
25
Cowboy's home : DALLAS
28
Beach habitué : SUNLOVER
32
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
33
Hunting enclosure : BLIND
34
Descendant of Benjamin : IRI
35
Brown or Kodiak : BEAR
36
Peter O'___ : TOOLE
37
Based on the past: Abbr. : TRAD
38
Traveler's spot : INN
39
Break out : ERUPT
40
Bangkok-based org. : SEATO
41
Poet Sara : TEASDALE
43
___ Rights : BILLOF
44
Word with Yule : TIDE
45
Site of Christ's first miracle : CANA
46
Jog one's memory : REMIND
49
___ seal (mystic symbol) : SOLOMONS
53
Revelation of St. John : APOCALYPSE
55
Colorless gas : OXAN
56
Actor Bogarde : DIRK
57
Growing out : ENATE
58
Alaskan port : NOME
59
___-deucy : ACEY
60
Kind of auto : SEDAN
61
Nourished : FED
Down
1
Corps of W. W. II : WAAC
2
French airport : ORLY
3
Know, to Shakespeare : WEET
4
Bewails : MOURNS
5
Wild buffalo : ARNEE
6
Ceylon hill dweller : TODA
7
Direction: Abbr. : ENE
8
University of Paris unit : SORBONNE
9
Excessive : TOOTOO
10
Heart artery: Prefix : AORT
11
Be relaxed : LOLL
12
Ore vein : LODE
14
Rhodes ___ : SCHOLAR
19
Court or Series : WORLD
21
Time period : ERAS
24
" ... house that Jack ___" : BUILT
25
Ledger entry : DEBIT
26
Coeur d'___ : ALENE
27
Climbing vine : LIANA
28
Skiing area : SLOPE
29
Of a disease germ : VIRAL
30
Muse : ERATO
31
Get ___ (shed) : RIDOF
33
Monte Carlo game : BOULE
36
Friend of David Copperfield : TRADDLES
37
One of the Argonauts : TELAMON
39
Minneapolis suburb : EDINA
40
Word form for an Asian land : SINO
42
___ wicket : STICKY
43
Whalebone : BALEEN
45
Italian painter Lorenzo : COSTA
46
Ukrainian body : RADA
47
On a grand scale : EPIC
48
Sir Thomas ___ : MORE
49
Mining nail : SPAD
50
___ Moses (heavenly animal of myth) : OXOF
51
Appoint : NAME
52
Prune, in Scotland : SNED
54
Chemical suffix : YNE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 10 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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