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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 7, 1995

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Saturday, January 7, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, January 7, 1995. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

64 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Skips
2
In general
3
Mental vacation, so to speak
4
Clothes hanger
5
"Show Boat" composer
6
Endeavour initials
7
River to the Missouri
8
Plant circulatory system
9
Cutting-edge
10
Villa Borghese site
11
Like dice
12
Attendant
14
Election tippers, sometimes
15
Presided over
22
Care
25
Mr. Rhodes of Rhodesia
26
Eli, for one
27
Shorten
29
Surges
31
M.D. specialty
33
Think tank: Abbr.
34
Rob
35
Female hormones
36
Use X-ray vision
38
Rolfing
39
Current calculator
40
Ushers
45
Org. co-founded by Victor Herbert
46
Coal burner
49
Rodolfo _____, first Mexican astronaut
51
Hoary
52
Prepare for action
53
Library catalogue abbr.

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Friday, January 6, 1995

across

1. Karate blow: CHOP
5. O'Neill specialty: DRAMA
10. Suffer consequences: PAY
13. Coleridge poem: LOVE
14. Tyr, Balder, etc.: AESIR
15. Magic incantation: RUNE
16. Start of quip: IRATEMAILCLERKS
19. Amigo: PAL
20. Arp art: DADA
21. Boxer Griffith: EMILE
22. Hard to corner: CAGY
23. Arrogates: ASSUMES
25. Strauss opera: SALOME
28. Phylum subdivision: CLASS
29. Botanist's angle: AXIL
30. "Dangerous Liaisons" star: CLOSE
31. One who stoops to conquer: SHE
34. Part 2 of the quip: NEVERGROUSETHEY
38. Isle of _____, England: ELY
39. "Werewolf of London" star, 1935: OLAND
40. Erect: REAR
41. Tickle: AMUSE
42. Restraint: BRIDLE
44. Curricula vitae: RESUMES
47. Startling success: COUP
48. Pass over: ELIDE
49. Factory: SHOP
50. Emblem of sovereignty: ORB
53. End of the quip: MERELYSTAMPAWAY
57. Sunday wrap: AMEN
58. Delete: ERASE
59. Nonmainstream group: SECT
60. Spare item: PIN
61. Clemson player: TIGER
62. What the genouillère protects: KNEE

down

1. Biker's aid: CLIP
2. Round dance: HORA
3. Amphitheater: OVAL
4. Darling: PET
5. 1992 Irons-Binoche film: DAMAGE
6. Start of a marksman's orders: READY
7. One of the Oceanides: ASIA
8. Wire measure: MIL
9. Path of a pass: ARC
10. Feast of Lots: PURIM
11. Hock: ANKLE
12. Approvals: YESES
15. Tale-spinning uncle: REMUS
17. Port on the Ijsselmeer: EDAM
18. Time sharer, e.g.: LESSEE
22. Big band drummer Cozy _____: COLE
23. Viva voce: ALOUD
24. Bratty talk: SASS
25. Reasoning: SANE
26. Oksana Baiul leap: AXEL
27. Roman historian: LIVY
28. Computer knockoff: CLONE
30. Without couth: CRASS
31. Strip: SHED
32. Time can do it: HEAL
33. Gothic governess: EYRE
35. Loser at El Alamein: ROMMEL
36. Model binder: GLUE
37. Do LSD: TRIP
41. "City Without Walls" poet: AUDEN
42. Thunderclap: BOOMER
43. Basketball coach Adolph: RUPP
44. Plot again: REMAP
45. Varnish ingredient: ELEMI
46. Silent screen slinker: SIREN
47. Portrait on a $10,000 bill: CHASE
49. Unpartnered: STAG
50. Social reformer Robert: OWEN
51. Camptown activity: RACE
52. "PC World" rival: BYTE
54. Nevertheless: YET
55. Title for Nehru: SRI
56. "Just _____": ASK

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 6

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