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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 5, 1995

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Monday, June 5, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 5, 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

Down clues & answers

1
One way to order at a restaurant
2
Very much
3
Neatnik's counterpart
4
Grade-schooler
5
Natural fish food
6
Wrath
7
Hula-_____
8
Angled annex
9
Tone down
10
Steely
11
Zone
12
Fuzz
13
London's _____ Gallery
18
Char
23
"Great Expectations" boy
24
Completely pale
25
Wipe out
26
Gown
27
Alphabetically advanced boy
28
Bowling score
29
Prunes
30
Arthur Hailey novel
31
Egg-shaped
32
Golden Horde member
34
Trumpet
37
May birthstones
41
Miss America, e.g.
43
First-aid box
44
Witch's blemish
46
Unstressed vowel
47
With 44-Across, "Ain't Misbehavin" songwriter
48
Teen's fave
49
Mr. Saarinen
50
Elderly
51
Rani's garb
52
Seine feeder
53
Slave Scott
56
Savings for the elderly: Abbr.
57
California's Big _____

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Sunday, June 4, 1995

across

1. Ticks off: STEAMS
7. Gunlock catch: SEAR
11. Pythias' friend: DAMON
16. Half of a Samoan port: PAGO
20. 1950s terrorist: MAUMAU
21. Cankerous: ULCERATIVE
23. Ran "Ran," e.g.: AIRED
24. Viscera: ORGANS
25. "Cat's Eye" novelist?: MARGARETATHREEOD
27. Sugar suffix: OSE
28. Pupil watcher: OPTOMETRIST
30. Showoffs: HOTDOGS
31. Ale holder: TUN
32. One of a dozen: LEO
33. Treebeard and others of Middle-earth: ENTS
34. Kapow!: WHAM
35. Pope Paul II's successor?: SEVENTUSIV
41. 1971 Fonda-Sutherland thriller: KLUTE
42. Hanoi holidays: TETS
43. Land of Evangeline: NOVASCOTIA
49. Straight, to Stradivari: RETTO
52. Dweller along the Platte: PAWNEE
54. Roman rhetorician who wrote "Institutio Oratoria": QUINTILIAN
55. "I'm c-c-c-cold!": BRRRR
56. Slaves of the Morlocks, in fiction: ELOI
57. Normandy department: EURE
58. Timeless, in poesy: ETERNE
59. In wild confusion: ARIOT
60. Hook's opposite: SLICE
62. "Eat at _____": JOES
63. Oscar winner in "The Big Country": IVES
64. Picks out: ELECTS
65. Old German coin: Var.: TALER
66. LAX letters: ETD
67. Subjects to abusive tricks: HAZES
69. Many buttons: OFFS
70. Segar's Olive: OYL
71. Fine: NICE
73. Cousin of a truffle: MOREL
74. Acclaimed Philly conductor: MUTI
75. Kindergartner's trio: BCD
78. Courteous guy: GENT
79. Navigational aid: LORAN
80. Slob's home: PIT
81. Semisheer fabric: VOILE
83. Scanty: SPARSE
86. "The Kinsman Saga" author Ben: BOVA
87. Highlands tongue: ERSE
88. Chou _____: ENLAI
89. Opinion, forward or backward: TENET
90. Townships near Johannesburg: SOWETO
92. June bug: DORR
93. Dart: FLIT
94. Brightest star in Lepus: ARNEB
95. Gumption: INITIATIVE
97. 1920s jazz dance: SHIMMY
99. It's good in Mexico: BUENO
100. Fifth-century B.C. philosopher: ZENOOFELEA
101. Prefix with glider: PARA
102. Victor in music: BORGE
104. "Funeral in Berlin" author?: LENDNINEON
107. "Eugen Onegin" girl: OLGA
108. Prankish person: PUCK
112. Like Mahler's Symphony No. 4: ING
113. Penpoint: NIB
115. Judicious: POLITIC
118. Gunpowder alternative: ORANGEPEKOE
123. "Foucault's Pendulum" penman: ECO
124. Noted mountaineer?: ELEVENZINGNORGAY
126. Kittenish: FRISKY
128. Respected member: DOYEN
129. Emphasize: ACCENTUATE
130. Like lightning: FORKED
131. Littoral fliers: ERNS
132. Bassoonlike: REEDY
133. Blackmailed: BLED
134. They're loath to come out of their shells: SNAILS

down

1. _____-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930: SMOOT
2. Foot segment: TARSUS
3. Four-time Pulitzer-winning playwright?: EUGENETWOILL
4. Spock's org.: AMA
5. Corrida luminary: MANOLETE
6. Film genre: SUSPENSE
7. Japanese entertainment: SUMO
8. Susa was its capital: ELAM
9. Israel's Bay of _____: ACRE
10. Mil. unit: REGT
11. "Splish Splash" hitmaker of 1958: DARIN
12. Controversial explosion: ATEST
13. Gumshoe's hands: MITTS
14. Genetic lab materials: OVA
15. Willem I's land: Abbr.: NETH
16. Temporary lodgings: Var.: PIEDATERRES
17. Of a liquid's specific gravity: AREOMETRIC
18. Mercator's field: Abbr.: GEOG
19. Tout's concern: ODDS
22. Exceptional: RARE
23. Onetime British Prime Minister?: ARTHURBALFIVE
26. Quite a joke: HOWL
29. Jigger of rum, e.g.: TOT
36. Queen of the Adriatic: VENICE
37. Citer's end word: UNQUOTE
38. Deteriorated, as relations: SOURED
39. Slow climbers: IVIES
40. Ryder rental: VAN
41. See 45-Down: KANE
44. Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr.: STE
45. Classic 1941 film, with 41-Down: CITIZEN
46. British secondary school exam: OLEVEL
47. They thrive on inflation: TIRES
48. Actor Holm et al.: IANS
50. Sulky contest: TROT
51. Items for the disposal: ORTS
52. Rigatoni sauce: PESTO
53. Soothe: ALLAY
57. Pilot's decision: EJECT
61. Best Actor of 1955?: ERNESTBORGTEN
64. Crimson crawler: EFT
67. "I am dead, _____, Wretched queen, adieu!": HORATIO
68. Star-studded altar: ARA
69. _____ Mongolia: OUTER
72. Chemical conclusion: INE
73. Take up new residence at: MOVETO
74. Interpret wrongly: MISREAD
75. 1960 World Series hero?: BILLMAONESKI
76. Demand: CLAIM
77. Mercury, e.g.: DEITY
78. Bar supply: GREENOLIVES
79. _____ fat (diet phrase): LOWIN
80. Verified: PROVEN
82. Lit: ONFIRE
83. Poke with a pike: STAB
84. Aymara is spoken here: PERU
85. Elizabeth I's mother: ANNEBOLEYN
86. Small concession: BONE
87. Circus Maximus V.I.P.: EDILE
90. Tag info: SIZE
91. Numbskull: OAF
96. Commercial prefix with star: TEL
97. "Frasier" and "Maude," e.g.: SPINOFFS
98. Follower: HANGERON
103. Pick up: GAIN
105. Ending with beat or peace: NIK
106. Kind of plate: NICKEL
108. Puerto Rico's third-largest city: PONCE
109. Pressed upon: URGED
110. Careful: CANNY
111. Bow, e.g.: KNOT
114. Singers Bill and Jimmy: BOYDS
115. Ending with centi- or milli-: PEDE
116. Swan genus: OLOR
117. Basil, for one: CZAR
119. Chow: GRUB
120. Even, to Yvonne: EGAL
121. Crown: PATE
122. Used binoculars: EYED
125. Tray material: ICE
127. European mil. grp.: IRA

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