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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 24, 1995
Thursday, August 24, 1995
By WordFinderZ Puzzle TeamLast updated How we make hints
This archive page covers the The Crossword from Thursday, August 24, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 16
- 27
- 29
- 47
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 12
- 19
- 42
- 44
- 50
- 56
- 58
- 59
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Wednesday, August 23, 1995
across
- 1. Parts of addresses: ZIPS
- 5. Like some religions: PAGAN
- 10. "Hurry!": ASAP
- 14. Pip: ONER
- 15. Thrill to pieces: ELATE
- 16. Hip: COOL
- 17. Seagoing departure from a Scandinavian capital?: OSLOBOATTOCHINA
- 20. A Stooge: MOE
- 21. "As You Like It" forest: ARDEN
- 22. 50's rocker Bill: HALEY
- 23. One "T" of TNT: TRI
- 24. Item used in strokes: OAR
- 25. Anouk Aimée film in a Mideast capital?: AMMANANDAWOMAN
- 33. Destinations: GOALS
- 34. Mosquito genus: AEDES
- 35. Pourboire: TIP
- 37. Dictum: RULE
- 38. Friend of the Red Cross: DONOR
- 39. Overfeed: SATE
- 40. Picnic interloper: ANT
- 41. Ur's locale: SUMER
- 42. Vieux ____ (New Orleans locale): CARRE
- 43. Aggressive personality trait in the Far East?: TAIPEIBEHAVIOR
- 46. ____ King Cole: NAT
- 47. Function: USE
- 48. ____ Heep: URIAH
- 51. Latin "that is": IDEST
- 54. Trilogy that includes "1919": USA
- 57. South American football player?: SANTIAGOCHARGER
- 60. Longish dress: MIDI
- 61. Like Fellini's vita: DOLCE
- 62. Dash of panache: ELAN
- 63. Barbados export: ALOE
- 64. Sleipnir, for Odin: STEED
- 65. Computer unit: BYTE
down
- 1. Type of lens: ZOOM
- 2. ____ many words: INSO
- 3. One-name sports star: PELE
- 4. Box-office sign: SRO
- 5. Vaudevillian's bellwether: PEORIA
- 6. "When I was ____...": ALAD
- 7. Scandal suffix: GATE
- 8. Memo abbr.: ATTN
- 9. Paleo's opposite: NEO
- 10. Some things work like this: ACHARM
- 11. Ground: SOIL
- 12. Bang-up: AONE
- 13. QB's call: PLAY
- 18. Farm homes: BARNS
- 19. Pandemonium: CHAOS
- 23. It's hard to believe: TALE
- 24. Debtor: OWER
- 25. Pearl Mosque site: AGRA
- 26. Jockey's ride: MOUNT
- 27. W.W. II's most-bombed island: MALTA
- 28. Ruth's mother-in-law: NAOMI
- 29. Cygnus shiner: DENEB
- 30. Revere: ADORE
- 31. Arcade name: ATARI
- 32. Demolitionist's supply: NITRO
- 36. Look closely: PEER
- 38. "Ma mère, je la vois," in "Carmen": DUET
- 39. Cut costs: SAVE
- 41. Algerian cavalryman: SPAHI
- 42. ____ wide net: CASTA
- 44. Even, scorewise: INATIE
- 45. Quieted: HUSHED
- 48. West Point inits.: USMA
- 49. Amtrak travel: RAIL
- 50. ____-European: INDO
- 51. "____ Plenty o' Nuttin": IGOT
- 52. Big name in the pineapple biz: DOLE
- 53. Behold, to Brutus: ECCE
- 54. Hideous: UGLY
- 55. Bucket in a Buick: SEAT
- 56. Composer Thomas: ARNE
- 58. Classified items: ADS
- 59. One of Stonewall's soldiers: REB
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
- Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- 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.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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