Answer: ANCIENT
ANCIENT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 34 times.
Referring Clues:
- Of interest to archaeologists
 - As old as the hills
 - With 31-Across, literary character "whose beard with age is hoar"
 - Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g.
 - Age-old
 - Antique
 - With 37-Across, prehistoric orange liqueur?
 - Person of olden times
 - Really old
 - "The Rime of the ___ Mariner"
 - Long-ago
 - Old as the hills
 - Venerable one
 - Like Stonehenge
 - Prehistoric
 - Antiquated
 - Like the Parthenon
 - Like Coleridge's mariner
 - Like dinosaurs
 - Very old
 - With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across
 - Like Phoenicia
 - Like the Dead Sea Scrolls
 - Antediluvian
 - Very, very old
 - Like the Mesopotamian people
 - Like the Sphinx
 - Like the Aramaic language
 - ___ history
 - Like S.T.C.'s mariner
 - Old-fashioned
 - Mega-old
 - Long gone
 - Primeval
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - February 01, 2023
 - New York Times - June 11, 2022
 - USA Today - May 19, 2022
 - Netword - July 19, 2019
 - Netword - August 31, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 26, 2018
 - LA Times - June 08, 2017
 - LA Times - May 15, 2017
 - USA Today - April 04, 2017
 - New York Times - September 29, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 29, 2016
 - USA Today - July 21, 2016
 - New York Times - February 21, 2016
 - LA Times - September 21, 2015
 - Netword - July 24, 2015
 - New York Times - March 10, 2015
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 22, 2014
 - Universal - December 10, 2014
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 23, 2013
 - Universal - June 13, 2013
 
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