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

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Thursday, June 22, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Thursday, June 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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Wednesday, June 21, 1995

across

1. Buccaneer's home: TAMPA
6. Waylay: ACCOST
12. Witches' brews: POTIONS
14. ____ Rico: PUERTO
15. Patient's worry*: RELAPSE
16. Event for select customers*: PRESALE
18. ____ nutshell: INA
19. To be: Sp.: SER
20. Old spy org.: OSS
21. Novelist Josephine: TEY
22. Jazzman Herbie: MANN
24. Charlotte ____ (dessert): RUSSE
26. Ancient, in bygone days: OLDE
27. Necessity for Hillary: PITON
29. "Little old me?": MOI
30. Huxtable boy and others: THEOS
31. Linda of "Alice": LAVIN
33. Not alfresco: INDOORS
35. Where Rome and Athens are: GEORGIA
37. Fashion again: RESHAPE
40. Bashkir's belief: ISLAM
44. 1985 Michener best seller: TEXAS
45. W.W. I body: Abbr.: AEF
47. Dutch export: TULIP
49. Dutch export: EDAM
50. Holmes novel "____ Venner": ELSIE
52. Actress Lollobrigida: GINA
53. Word before and after "in": ARM
54. Diminutive suffix: CLE
55. Haile Selassie, e.g.: Abbr.: EMP
57. Witticism: MOT
58. Some laws*: REPEALS
60. Ballerinas, in a way*: LEAPERS
62. Polish, e.g.: SLAVIC
63. Propriety: DECENCY
64. Unruffled: SERENE
65. Oscar de la ____: RENTA

down

1. Pedicure's target: TOENAIL
2. XXVI Olympiad site: ATLANTA
3. "Mamma ____!": MIA
4. Daddy-o: POPS
5. Goose genus: ANSER
6. Next-door: APPOSING
7. A mummy may have one: CURSE
8. So-so grades: CEES
9. Surgery sites, for short: ORS
10. Music's ____ Brothers: STATLER
11. Steel-bladed swords: TOLEDOS
12. Get the hair just right: PRIMP
13. Blood ____: SERUM
17. Hurricane centers: EYES
23. Ballot time: Abbr.: NOV
25. Elite parties: SOIREES
26. "What have we here?!": OHO
28. Nears, old-style: NIGHS
30. Anniversary offering: TOAST
32. Teachers' org. since 1857: NEA
34. Sixth-century date: DII
36. Shimmer: OPALESCE
37. Satisfaction: REDRESS
38. Instruction clarifier: EXAMPLE
39. Newsman Donaldson: SAM
41. Kind of sail: LUG
42. Food: ALIMENT
43. Balearic island: MINORCA
44. It may be taped: TEAR
46. Word with "of honor" or "of vision": FIELD
48. Pushover: PATSY
50. Mystery writer Stanley: ELLIN
51. Qatar V.I.P.: EMEER
54. Locale for Ali Baba: CAVE
56. Tempo: PACE
59. Listener: EAR
61. Parker, e.g.: PEN

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Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
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