Answer: BLACK
BLACK is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 56 times.
Referring Clues:
- With 42-Across, a famous pirate
 - African-American
 - Ravenous?
 - __ cow (root beer float)
 - Forbidding, as 25-Down
 - Coffee order
 - Served without milk or cream
 - Even-money roulette play
 - Enveloped in darkness
 - Panther color
 - Jet
 - Beginning of a transformation
 - Like coffee sans cream
 - Supreme Court justice for 34 years
 - Crow's color
 - Sans cream
 - __ belt
 - With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle
 - _ belt
 - ___ belt
 - Roulette bet
 - ______ maple
 - Publishing tycoon or CBC Radio host
 - ____ Spruce (Nfld's tree)
 - Conrad, for one
 - ____ Lake, Quebec
 - Halloween hue
 - Chess side
 - ______ Christmas (2006 horror movie)
 - Jack of Tenacious D
 - Coffee preference
 - Ebony
 - Magic color?
 - ___ comedy
 - Night vision?
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 - Jack of "School of Rock"
 - *Stephen Hawking subject
 - Chess board colour or Quebec lake
 - Like storm clouds
 - With "and" and 67-Across, what 17-, 29-, 45- and 59-Across are
 - *Comic actor / *Card game ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
 - *One side of a 23-Across piece
 - Poe title color
 - Arthur ____ ( Host of CBC's Basic Black )
 - *Hypothetical object that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation
 - Conrad and Barbara ______
 - ______ Berry , or notorious tycoon Conrad
 - One side in 70-Down
 - Jet color?
 - Hugo ___, longtime Supreme Court justice
 - The circled letters in the first shaded area
 - With 34-Down, regions that can only be entered ... and a hint to the starred answers
 - Word with tie or belt
 - One way to order coffee
 - One of the hues in a Crayola eight-pack
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
 - New York Times - June 02, 2024
 - New York Times - February 26, 2022
 - Universal - May 26, 2020
 - New York Times - March 29, 2020
 - New York Times - January 22, 2020
 - Universal - December 04, 2019
 - New York Times - July 07, 2019
 - Netword - December 30, 2018
 - Canadiana - September 17, 2018
 - USA Today - September 12, 2018
 - USA Today - September 06, 2018
 - Canadiana - June 25, 2018
 - LA Times - June 01, 2018
 - Canadiana - April 17, 2017
 - Netword - March 10, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 14, 2017
 - New York Times - January 10, 2017
 - New York Times - January 05, 2017
 - USA Today - July 06, 2016
 
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