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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 22, 1995

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Monday, May 22, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, May 22, 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.

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Sunday, May 21, 1995

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1. Register message: NOSALE
7. Slippery _____: ELM
10. Clayey deposit: MARL
14. Florentine statue: DAVID
19. Guyana's _____ Indians: ARAWAK
20. Kind of flour: SOY
21. Jai _____: ALAI
22. "_____, shine; for thy light is come...": Isaiah: ARISE
23. Vietnamese seaport: DANANG
24. ==}:‡]]: ABRAHAMLINCOLN
27. Bone cavities: ANTRA
28. "Indeed!" once: QUOTHA
29. Former gold coins of Spain: PISTOLES
30. Bye-bye: ADIEU
32. A good deal: LOTS
34. 78-Across's shoe width: EEE
35. Short spans: SECS
37. 8(:o): MICKEYMOUSE
41. Battle site of 1944: STLO
45. Bud: PAL
46. It starts "In the name of Allah...": KORAN
47. Dada papa: ARP
48. Implanted: SOWED
49. Basra resident: Var.: IRAKI
51. Evidence left behind: TRACE
54. Kind of neck: EWE
56. Drama kudos: OBIES
57. Certain solvents: ELUANTS
59. [g-}]: COLONELKLINK
62. Mark _____, Oliver of 1968 film: LESTER
63. Game full of traps: SKEET
64. Newspaper space: LINAGE
65. _____ Lee cheesecake: SARA
67. Tank: VAT
68. Hideaway: LAIR
69. Get-together: SOCIAL
71. First name in erotica: ANAIS
73. Garlicky dish: SCAMPI
78. *‡(:o)}: BOZOTHECLOWN
80. Square-cut-cigar: CHEROOT
81. Jazz style: BEBOP
82. Sign of a smash: SRO
83. Singer Bob Marley, e.g.: RASTA
85. Cotton thread: LISLE
86. 1919 Edith Day musical: IRENE
87. Teacher's grp.: NEA
89. One of the archangels: URIEL
91. Hog's thigh: HAM
92. Brute: OGRE
93. I8-#)""': GROUCHOMARX
97. Towel tag: HERS
98. Want-ad initials: EOE
99. Caboose position: REAR
100. Kumiss imbiber: NOMAD
102. Convoke: ASSEMBLE
107. Spoors: TRACKS
110. Author Calvino: ITALO
113. cI[:-=)I: CHARLIECHAPLIN
115. Speculator: PLAYER
116. Begrime, in Britain: COLLY
117. When les étoiles come out: NUIT
118. Dweller on the Mekong: LAO
119. Freshen: AERATE
120. Slight: TOKEN
121. Preserve, in a way: TAPE
122. Cry of pain: YOW
123. Criminal evidence: PRINTS

down

1. Nothing, in Nogales: NADA
2. Port south of Cartagena: ORAN
3. ⁎*‡:-)}}}}: SANTACLAUS
4. Stars and bars, e.g.: AWARDS
5. Hawaii island: LANAI
6. Record from the heart: Abbr.: EKG
7. Jacob's twin: ESAU
8. Western livestock peril: LOBO
9. Eucalyptus, e.g.: MYRTLE
10. Literally "high-souled": MAHATMA
11. _____ rigueur (to the fullest extent): Fr.: ALA
12. Mover's equipment: RAMP
13. Symbols of purity: LILIES
14. Pre-Raphaelite Rossetti: DANTE
15. Bowed, in music: ARCO
16. Early stringed instrument: VIOL
17. _____ Royale National Park: ISLE
18. Studies: DENS
25. Call on a yawl: AHOY
26. Encouraging words from a student: ISEE
28. Riding whips: QUIRTS
31. Comic Philips: EMO
33. Theologian Kierkegaard: SOREN
35. Fast pitch: SPIEL
36. _____ Naval Weapons Station, N.J.: EARLE
38. Passenger balloon part: CAR
39. Hang of it: KNACK
40. Rises, as water: UPWELLS
41. Ferber book: SOBIG
42. Wind around: TWINE
43. Kind of soup: LEEK
44. Indulges to the extreme, informally: ODS
46. Early TV medium: KINESCOPE
48. Battery type: SOLARCELL
50. Kit _____ (candy bar brand): KAT
52. Contemporary: COEVAL
53. Wife of Henry II: ELEANOR
55. Literary pseudonym: ELIA
58. Feature: TRAIT
60. Ontario-Quebec border river: OTTAWA
61. High-calorie snack: KNISH
63. Port in 1943 fighting: SALERNO
66. Crowd sounds: RAHS
69. Dried out: SOBER
70. _____ hole (modern worry): OZONE
72. "To wrap up...": INSUM
74. Christina's father: ARI
75. (¶-): MOSHEDAYAN
76. Kind of extremes: POLAR
77. Tabloid twosomes: ITEMS
78. North Atlantic sighting: BERG
79. _____ de Lion: COEUR
80. Stone memorials: CAIRNS
81. Such is a life: BIO
84. Chorus sound: TRA
88. Old recording disk: ACETATE
90. Prefix meaning "outer": EXO
93. Vast desert: GOBI
94. Give some slack: RELENT
95. Beethoven's "_____ Quartet": HARP
96. One way to convey information: ORALLY
97. John Wayne film: HATARI
98. Welsh actor Williams: EMLYN
101. One making rapid strides: MILER
102. S&L deposit: ACCT
103. "Out!": SHOO
104. _____ vaccine: SALK
105. First name in mysteries: ERLE
106. S.A. country: ECUA
108. Bye-bye: CIAO
109. Be close to: KNOW
111. Riga denizen: LETT
112. Assayers assay them: ORES
114. With it: HIP
115. Twaddle: PAP

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