Answer: OLD
OLD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 457 times.
Referring Clues:
- Superannuated
 - Aged
 - Like a centenarian
 - Dated
 - Part of O.T.
 - Like the gray mare
 - Elderly
 - Hackneyed
 - Much-used
 - Getting on in years
 - Vintage
 - Worn
 - Long in the tooth
 - Ancient
 - Gone gray, say
 - Experienced, as a pro
 - Archaic
 - Word with hand or hat
 - From an earlier time
 - With 34-Down, bygone Baltic language
 - Up there in years
 - Passe
 - Getting on
 - With 44-Across, a veteran
 - Previously heard
 - Unmodernized
 - Out of production
 - Medieval
 - Worn out
 - "There is no fool like an __ fool"
 - Gray, say
 - Like octogenarians
 - With 42-Down, out-of-date
 - Word before school or master
 - Fossillike
 - ___ Navy
 - Follower or preceder of age
 - Timeworn
 - Antique
 - With 58-Down, Civil War battle eagle named after the president
 - Prehistoric
 - 80 or over, say
 - "__ Devil Moon" (song from "Finian's Rainbow")
 - OPPOSITE OF 11-DOWN
 - Something ___ (bride's need)
 - "When I Grow Too __ to Dream"
 - Bygone
 - Not funny anymore
 - Not cutting-edge
 - Like the farmer MacDonald
 - Erstwhile
 - On in years
 - Moth-eaten
 - Hoary
 - Out of date
 - Used
 - 80-Across, in English
 - Outdated
 - Time-worn
 - Stale
 - Discontinued
 - Fossilized
 - Like the hills
 - See 51-Down
 - Past
 - Familiar
 - Not fresh
 - Outmoded
 - The "O" in G.O.P.
 - Outworn
 - Antediluvian
 - Getting tiresome
 - Antiquated
 - No longer funny
 - Going way back, as friends
 - Former
 - Like Methuselah
 - With 19-Across, language from which "steak" and "eggs" come
 - Out of vogue
 - With 41-Across, one you go way back with
 - Primeval
 - Part of G.O.P.
 - With 11-Down, U.S.S. Constitution nickname
 - Unlike a spring chicken
 - Done to death
 - Of long standing
 - Like the hills?
 - Having had many birthdays
 - Over 100
 - Word before hat or hand
 - Word before hat or bat
 - Venerable
 - Word before Faithful or Yeller
 - "The ___ Man and the Sea"
 - Familiar, as friends
 - "___ Yeller"
 - Up there
 - Trite
 - Long-lived
 - From the past
 - Of long standing, as a friend
 - Like a fogy
 - Like the gray mare of song
 - Past one's prime
 - Creaky
 - Overused
 - Over the hill
 - Word before country or school
 - Like Mother Hubbard
 - Glory or guard preceder
 - Like centenarians
 - Not original
 - GOP section
 - Jolly ___ Saint Nick
 - With 27-Down, veterans
 - Word with maid or master
 - ___ Milwaukee beer
 - Tiresome
 - ___-school (traditional)
 - Part of VSOP
 - Word with hat or hand
 - Like an antique
 - With 15-Across, dated
 - Like a geriatrician's patient
 - O.T. part
 - Unoriginal
 - Word with school or guard
 - Worn-out
 - Hardly cutting-edge
 - Like many 11-Down
 - "Something __, something ..."
 - Told too many times
 - Hardly fresh
 - Like overused jokes
 - Like the Curiosity Shop
 - Moth-eaten, maybe
 - Overfamiliar
 - Like MacDonald
 - From ancient times
 - From the year one
 - Noachian
 - "Something ___, something ..."
 - Hardly born yesterday
 - Word with ''chap'' or ''fellow''
 - In the low 90s?
 - No spring chicken
 - Form of English
 - ___ Hickory
 - The kind of friends that go way back
 - Hardly original
 - Word with maid or hand
 - Not very original
 - Word with "Spice" in a brand name
 - Long familiar
 - Unmodern
 - Outmoded, e.g.
 - 11-Down to the max
 - Like something from the Jurassic period
 - Word with hat or school
 - Word with guard or goat
 - What few want to grow
 - Resembling King Cole
 - Faithful or reliable word
 - Word with "school" or "guard"
 - ___ Faithful
 - Well-worn
 - Told too often
 - Word with "Faithful" or "Glory"
 - Medieval, e.g.
 - "It's still the same ___ story"
 - GOP segment?
 - Tried-and-true
 - 19th-century, say
 - Far from fresh
 - Familiar, as a joke
 - Like most carbon dating specimens
 - From way back
 - So last year
 - As __ as Methuselah
 - No longer used
 - Word with "chap" or "fellow"
 - GOP center
 - Like Glory
 - Long-time
 - Like stale jokes
 - As ___ as Methuselah
 - Like dirt?
 - Stale, perhaps
 - Out-of-date
 - Like most codgers
 - See 27-Down
 - Part of GOP
 - Long-known
 - Foster's "- Dog Tray"
 - Time-honored
 - Tried and true
 - Like tall redwoods
 - ___ Spice aftershave
 - Like Father Christmas
 - Word with man or maid
 - In need of replacement
 - Advanced in years
 - Pass
 - Up in years
 - Opposite of 52-Down
 - In need of repair
 - See 7-Down
 - See 44-Across
 - With 54-Across, senescence
 - With 57-Across, partner of 'Arsenic'
 - Opposite of 26-Across
 - See 1-Across
 - In need of fixing
 - In need of touching up
 - Longstanding
 - Needing repair
 - In disrepair
 - Like St. Nick
 - Gray-headed
 - With 84-Across kids' card game,
 - Stale, say
 - Master or guard start
 - Obsolete
 - Time-tested
 - Like a joke told far too often
 - ___ school
 - Like yesterday's news
 - Mossy
 - Definitely not new
 - Requiring many candles on a birthday cake
 - Grate, with "get," or what this puzzle's theme answers get
 - With 21-Across, senescence
 - Like most carbon-dating specimens
 - "No Country for ___ Men"
 - Antiquity
 - Yeller's adjective
 - Like chestnuts
 - Clichéd
 - Senile
 - "... at the ___ ball game!"
 - Like the man in a Hemingway title
 - Longtime
 - See 115-Down
 - ___ Glory (U.S. flag)
 - Collectible, maybe
 - Played out
 - Previously superseded
 - "___ lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal"
 - Requiring many candles on one's cake
 - Well-seasoned
 - Not new
 - No longer current
 - Unlike spring chickens
 - Seasoned
 - GOP member?
 - Getting up there
 - Long in tooth
 - Dilapidated
 - Mature
 - Like Glory?
 - On its last legs
 - Abe adjective
 - From some time back
 - No longer amusing
 - Traditional
 - Superseded
 - With 14 Across, veterans
 - Long-established
 - ___ faithful leader
 - Told far too often
 - Tedious
 - See 29-Across
 - Like very familiar jokes
 - With 126-Across, Disney title dog of 1957
 - Doddery
 - Hat or maid leader
 - Word with guard or gate
 - Gathering dust
 - Gray's partner?
 - Word with Glory or Testament
 - Like many a joke
 - Word with country or world
 - ___ Testament
 - Young's opposite
 - Onetime
 - Told too much
 - Fifty years your senior, e.g.
 - White-haired
 - Like some timers?
 - ___ glory
 - Like too many jokes
 - ___ guard
 - Word with "Glory" or "Testament"
 - Not a spring chicken
 - Rusted, perhaps
 - Like a chestnut
 - ___ hat
 - Out of use
 - Yeller
 - Like fossils
 - Like Yeller
 - ___ as the hills
 - "... an ___ dog new tricks"
 - "___ New Hampshire" (state song)
 - Tom "___ 98" harmon
 - "___ Black Magic"
 - Long practiced
 - Having lived many years
 - There's no fool like this kind
 - ___ school (like classic rap)
 - Like an octogenarian
 - Overdone
 - With 4-Down, Fred Gipson book that won a 1957 Newbery Honor
 - Faithful
 - So last month
 - Way past voting age
 - With 6 Down, name for the third-oldest US college
 - Like King Cole
 - Previous
 - Hat or hand preceder
 - Like most knock-knock jokes
 - Type of man, woman or maid
 - Right jolly ___ elf (Santa)
 - Hardly young
 - Having been around longer than most
 - 99
 - Elderly and then some
 - Far from new
 - What it takes decades to grow
 - What "paleo-" means
 - With 18-Down, 1957 Disney tearjerker
 - Not up-to-date
 - Like the hills, in a simile
 - Like a Hemingway title man
 - Told too often, as a joke
 - In one's golden years
 - ___ Navy: discount retailer
 - "... at the ___ ball game!": song lyric
 - Word before Scratch or Nick
 - Immemorial
 - Word before Vic or Bailey
 - Past one's "sell by" date
 - ___ Father Christmas
 - Like an oft-told joke
 - Not likely to breakdance
 - U-turn from new
 - Like jokes you've heard
 - Word before school or hat
 - Overused, as jokes
 - ___ Glory (US flag)
 - Past its prime
 - Overfamiliar, as a one-liner
 - "This ___ House"
 - Smelling of mothballs
 - Like pals who go way back
 - "Ask This ___ House"
 - Yellowstone's ___ Faithful
 - Pushing 90
 - Having a long history
 - ___-fashioned (quaint)
 - What King Cole is called
 - From way, way back
 - Not at all fresh
 - Like stuff from the '30s
 - The ____ and the useless
 - Like a kid in 80 years
 - Any ___ (whichever)
 - Having driven a Model T
 - Like Sophia Petrillo
 - Not yet updated
 - Up there, so to speak
 - 15-Across, perhaps
 - Gathering dust, say
 - Tired, as a joke
 - Overused, jokewise
 - What one gets after many years of work
 - Part of V.S.O.P.
 - Like MacDonald of song
 - Like many garage sale items
 - Like buffalo nickels
 - Like 1960s-'70s music
 - In disuse
 - With 53-Down, maxim
 - Antiquarian
 - With 33-Down, the U.S. flag, affectionately
 - Born many moons ago
 - No longer fresh
 - ___ Faithful (Yellowstone geyser)
 - What it takes years and years to grow
 - Not recent
 - Lacking originality
 - Like some jokes
 - Word before "times" or "news"
 - Same ___ story
 - The same ___ story
 - "___ King Cole"
 - Not current
 - ___-fashioned
 - Experienced
 - ___-school
 - Like a classic joke
 - Like farmer MacDonald
 - "___ Town Road" (Lil Nas X hit)
 - Unfunny from overfamiliarity
 - Word before "school" or "soul"
 - Like the year you ring out on December 31
 - Chip off the ___ block
 - How technology quickly starts to feel
 - Unlike the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers
 - Like Mother Hubbard and King Cole
 - With 42-Down, unlikely racetrack pick
 - Opposite of new
 - Like habits that die hard
 - ___ Man Winter
 - ___ Bay Seasoning
 - *___ Square (translation of "Vieux Carré")
 - Corny, maybe
 - Opposite of 41-Across
 - Grayed
 - Not young
 - Up there, you might say
 - Word before or after age
 - Hand-me-down
 - Like a joke you've heard many times before
 - Like antiques
 - Out of style
 - Like a relic
 - From long ago
 - Having celebrated many birthdays
 - "Out with the ___ ..."
 - Slightly gamy
 - Part of a bridal quartet?
 - Tired
 - Shabby, maybe
 - Far from current
 - What a good joke never gets
 - Lacking freshness
 - Like Saint Nick
 - Worn, maybe
 - "This ___ thing?"
 - Like Father Time
 - Like food you should probably smell before eating
 - Like the Muppets Statler and Waldorf
 - Stale, in a way
 - A chip off the ___ block
 - Like antique jewelry
 - Word with style or fashioned
 - From a past era
 - Like someone saying "How do you do, fellow kids?," maybe
 - Tiresome, maybe
 - Word with hand or saw
 - Like well-known news
 - Like yellowed pages
 - "I was today years ___ when ... "
 - "___ habits die screaming"
 - Like a stale joke
 - Like a nonagenarian
 
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