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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 7, 1995

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Friday, July 7, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, July 7, 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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Thursday, July 6, 1995

across

1. Recently: OFLATE
7. A Caesar partner: COCA
11. Pizazz: ZIP
14. "The Vicar of Wakefield" daughter: OLIVIA
15. "Boyz N the ____" (1991 film): HOOD
16. Promising words: IDO
17. Organically foolish?: HAREBRAINED
19. Classical beginning: NEO
20. Lean: SPARE
21. Kind of hunt: SCAVENGER
23. Sports page figure: STAT
25. Excitement: ADO
26. Organically loud?: LEATHERLUNGED
32. Actor Mantegna: JOE
34. Western justice, once: NOOSE
35. Roost: PERCH
36. Hardy boy: ANDY
38. Quiets: MUTES
40. Tijuana treat: TACO
41. ____ lodge: MOTOR
43. Source of family traits: GENES
45. Just opened: NEW
46. Organically sad?: BROKENHEARTED
49. Hockey's Tikkanen: ESA
50. Common fertilizer: MARL
51. Lively dance: GALLOPADE
56. Where Pocatello is: IDAHO
60. Rock's Rose: AXL
61. Organically afraid?: LILYLIVERED
63. Isr. neighbor: LEB
64. Marble marking: VEIN
65. Ridicule: DERIDE
66. Saatchi products: ADS
67. Late fashion illustrator: ERTE
68. Test formats: ESSAYS

down

1. Sounds of pleasure: OOHS
2. Tizzy: FLAP
3. San Remo currency: LIRA
4. Disinclined: AVERSE
5. Dalai Lama, e.g.: TIBETAN
6. Audience: EAR
7. Stylish: CHIC
8. A Chaplin: OONA
9. Of the same age: COEVAL
10. Made sense: ADDEDUP
11. Criticize cleverly: ZING
12. ____ fixe: IDEE
13. Needy: POOR
18. Like: ASTHOUGH
22. Trio trebled: NONET
24. First half of the alphabet: ATOM
26. Resulted in: LEDTO
27. First name in beauty: ESTEE
28. Give a new gloss to: REENAMEL
29. MGM ____: GRAND
30. ____ homo: ECCE
31. Lateen-rigged boat: DHOW
32. Sidepiece: JAMB
33. ____ about (lawyer's phrase): ONOR
37. Rube: YOKEL
39. Antitoxins: SERA
42. Settle a dispute: RESOLVE
44. Contends: STRIVES
47. "Cats" designer John: NAPIER
48. Church officials: ELDERS
51. Celebration: GALA
52. Let go: AXED
53. Law degrees: LLBS
54. Came down: ALIT
55. Unit of force: DYNE
57. Jessye Norman specialty: ARIA
58. Miss Lamarr: HEDY
59. Browning works: ODES
62. Chemical suffix: IDE

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