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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 31, 1995

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Wednesday, May 31, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, May 31, 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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Tuesday, May 30, 1995

across

1. Guinness or Baldwin: ALEC
5. Parisian coin: FRANC
10. Resorts: SPAS
14. Papal tribunal: ROTA
15. Y's half brothers: AEIOU
16. Mr. Gingrich: NEWT
17. Caesar's résumé?: CURRICULUMVITAE
20. Enters: STEPSIN
21. Arrive feet first: SLIDEIN
22. Aunt _____ of "Oklahoma!": ELLER
24. Storm sirens: ALERTS
25. Former Clinton press secretary: DEEDEE
28. It flows in the Ebro: AGUA
30. New York's _____ Island: ELLIS
31. Geraint's wife: ENID
32. Passport endorsement: VISA
36. Fit: ABLE
37. Century plant: AGAVE
38. Rock's Billy _____: IDOL
39. Consider: DEEM
40. Forum site: ROME
41. Bitter: ACERB
42. Standard Oil logo: ESSO
43. Barn sounds: BLEATS
44. Onetime phone company sobriquet: MABELL
48. Russian ballet company: KIROV
50. Moon-landing missions: APOLLOS
52. Guard, e.g.: LINEMAN
56. Cassius, to Caesar?: PERSONANONGRATA
58. Turner of movies: LANA
59. Milton's "olive _____ of Academe": GROVE
60. Unwelcome roommate, perhaps: SLOB
61. Barely makes, with "out": EKES
62. Assistants: AIDES
63. "_____ for the poor": ALMS

down

1. Bows: ARCS
2. Boor: LOUT
3. To be, to Bernadete: ETRE
4. Advice from Caesar?: CARPEDIEM
5. Easy: FACILE
6. Get together, as grads: REUNE
7. Pain: AIL
8. Entre _____: NOUS
9. Graduation honors for Caesar?: CUMLAUDE
10. Nasty: SNIDE
11. Pumpkin eater of rhyme: PETER
12. Expect: AWAIT
13. British guns: STENS
18. Man and Capri, e.g.: ISLES
19. Handyman Bob: VILA
23. Went bananas: RANAMOK
25. _____ ringer: DEAD
26. North Sea feeder: ELBE
27. Vogue rival: ELLE
29. Award: GIVE
31. Some are super: EGOS
32. Caesar's opposite: VICEVERSA
33. Think about it: IDEA
34. Type: SORT
35. Priestly garb: ALBS
37. Start of Caesar's comment at a museum?: ARSLONGA
41. "_____ came a spider...": ALONG
42. Cockney greeting: ELLO
43. Pickling solutions: BRINES
44. Important Vermont tree: MAPLE
45. Approximately vertical, at sea: APEAK
46. Carried: BORNE
47. "_____ Dream" ("Lohengrin" soliloquy): ELSAS
49. "_____ a Parade": ILOVE
51. Asian dress: SARI
53. Shoppers' haven: MALL
54. Jot: ATOM
55. Catches: NABS
57. Nonverbal affirmation: NOD

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