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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 1, 1995

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Monday, May 1, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, May 1, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
Out on _____ (vulnerable)
6
Jefferson's predecessor
11
Bleat
14
Novelist Puzo
15
Craze
16
Elbow's locale
17
With 37- and 64-Across, a seasonal observation
19
Here, in Paris
20
Secondhand transaction
21
Summer in Le Havre
22
Thin nail
23
Red vegetable
25
Scales, as a ladder
27
Sheltered, nautically
30
Cribbage marker
32
It's a plus
33
"Coriolanus" costume
34
Antenna
37
See 17-Across
43
Agreeable responses
44
Corncob or briar, e.g.
45
Shopping run
49
Health club
50
Strategize
51
_____ house (carnival attraction)
54
Star-Kist product
56
Dry
57
Greek letters
59
Easter floral display
63
Newsman Rather
64
See 17-Across
66
Pindar's pride
67
Mystery writers' award
68
Poet Stephen Vincent _____
69
Commit matrimony
70
Oceans
71
Heavenly spots

Down clues & answers

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Sunday, April 30, 1995

across

1. Play the stock market: INVEST
7. Name in a directory: LISTEE
13. Word of caution: BEWARE
19. Woodsy shelter: LEANTO
20. Joins: ENTERS
21. Taxco wraps: SERAPES
22. Slapping webbed feet, doing backflip into a stream, etc.?: OTTERNONSENSE
24. Stalls: CARRELS
25. Assault the nostrils: REEK
26. Pain in the neck: PEST
27. Edgar-winning mystery writer: MARSH
28. _____ d'amore (baroque instrument): OBOE
30. Put up with: ABIDE
32. Dweller along the Morava: SERB
33. Killer whale: ORCA
37. The Wilde-beest Weekly, e.g.?: GNUSPAPER
39. Old-time leading lady Dolores: DELRIO
41. Neighbor of China: LAOS
42. Poetic contraction: EER
43. Noted name in I.Q. testing: BINET
45. Christians' _____ Creed: NICENE
47. Coach: BUS
48. Strand: MAROON
51. Rephrased: EDITED
53. Altar part: RETABLE
55. Act mawkishly: SLOBBER
57. Hall of _____: FAMER
59. Defunct council: SOVIET
60. Egyptian judge of the dead: OSIRIS
62. Fishing equipment: FLYROD
64. In-class work: NOTES
65. Cpl.'s inferior: PFC
66. Pull up: STOP
68. Ancient meeting place: STOA
70. Change: Abbr.: CTS
71. Closefitting hat: TOQUE
73. More than irk: ENRAGE
77. Share the marquee: COSTAR
79. Toughened: INURED
81. "_____ Pyle, U.S.M.C.": GOMER
82. Bush's predecessor: MONDALE
85. Terry Bradshaw was one: STEELER
87. Ladies: MADAMS
90. Blotto: STONED
91. Cultivate: HOE
92. Add zing to: SEASON
94. Papal headdress: TIARA
96. Decline: SAG
97. Gossip queen Barrett: RONA
99. Gauchos' gear: RIATAS
101. Hit that causes the fans to roar?: LIONDRIVE
104. Moment: Abbr.: INST
105. Nautical twist: SLUE
106. Roman naturalist: PLINY
108. Habitual procedure: ROTE
109. Fish, in a way: TRAWL
111. Gist: MEAT
112. Kunta Kinte portrayer John: AMOS
114. _____ Islands (Guam and others): MARIANA
117. Halloween light that's a howl?: JACKALLANTERN
122. Faculty: ABILITY
123. Familiarize: ORIENT
124. Seesaw: TEETER
125. _____ Day (July 1): CANADA
126. Uses, as influence: EXERTS
127. Slips: ERRATA

down

1. U.N. agency: ILO
2. Capture: NET
3. Vintner's need: VAT
4. Summer months in Argentina: ENEROS
5. Best Actress of 1982: STREEP
6. Color quality: TONE
7. Novelist Deighton: LEN
8. Motivated: INSPIRED
9. Bucephalus, e.g.: STEED
10. Made taut: TENSED
11. Formerly, once: ERST
12. Language suffix: ESE
13. Den meal leftovers?: BEARBONES
14. Sins: ERRS
15. "Brillo Box" artist: WARHOL
16. Friend of Fossey: APE
17. Meth. or Luth. teaching: REL
18. Weaver's path: ESS
21. Less tame: SCARIER
23. Safari sighting: OKAPI
27. Hired soldier, in slang: MERC
28. 1993 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year: ONEAL
29. Slow-moving New York City transportation?: BURROOFQUEENS
31. _____ facta (brave deeds): Lat.: BENE
32. Curve balls: SLIDERS
34. Bus that makes short hops?: RABBITTRANSIT
35. Deep gulches, out West: COULEES
36. Financial report heading: ASSETS
37. Esteemed ones: GEMS
38. The Yokum boy and others: ABNERS
40. Kind of fire: ENEMY
44. Spat: TIFF
46. George Orwell's alma mater: ETON
49. "Jude the _____": OBSCURE
50. Kimono sash: OBI
52. 1960-61 chess champ: TAL
54. Salad ingredient: AVOCADO
56. Ceremony: RITE
58. Campus org.: ROTC
61. It comes in bars: SONG
63. Condemn: DOOM
65. Bridge type: PONTOON
67. Advertise: PROMOTE
69. Kyushu volcano: ASOSAN
71. Hebrew month: TISHRI
72. Spitchcocks: EELS
74. Name in appliances: AMANA
75. H.S. proficiency test: GED
76. Part of Q.E.D.: ERAT
78. Cable channel: TNT
80. Start of a Christmas letter from Rudolph?: DEERSANTA
83. Skiddoo: LEAVE
84. Honer's target: EDGE
86. Funicular: RAILWAY
88. Contentious: MILITANT
89. Johnny of the '40s Braves: SAIN
93. Author Bellow: SAUL
95. Queenly: ROYAL
98. Loser at Châlons-sur-Marne in 451: ATTILA
100. Coined money: SPECIE
102. Boring speaker: DRONER
103. Roll: ROSTER
107. Nonmaritime ship: LAKER
110. Harpers Ferry event: RAID
111. "Das Kapital" author: MARX
113. Friend Down Under: MATE
114. Bud: MAC
115. Coarse fabric: ABA
116. _____ Tin Tin: RIN
117. Average fellow: JOE
118. O.C.S. grads: LTS
119. Letter from Greece: ETA
120. Emeritus: Abbr.: RET
121. 3-million-member sporting grp.: NRA

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