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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 30, 1995

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Wednesday, August 30, 1995

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, August 30, 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.

74 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
Inspires wonder
2
Manufacturer Strauss
3
Tried for a title
4
Very noticeable
5
By physical means
6
More than great
7
Escapade
8
Jazz's Pepper or Tatum
9
Case for an ophthalmologist
10
"A ____ Is Waiting" (Cassavetes film)
11
Depend (on)
12
Peeper parts
13
"The Balcony" playwright
19
Bearing freight
21
"The Boys of Summer" author Roger
24
Give the once-over
25
Unfit for farming
26
Latest thing
27
Mosque priest
28
Metallic fabric
29
Overturn
32
They're slow going
33
Reb Robt. ____
34
Sweetie
36
Kind of gun
37
Whale herds
39
Authorizes
41
____ Island ("Jaws" locale)
42
Go belly up
44
Hayseeds
45
Violent wind carrying snow
46
Made over
47
Radiate
48
Electrical unit
49
Soviet co-op
52
Revue segment
53
Townspeople
54
Ointment container
55
Deli side order
57
Youth org.
58
Grain bristle

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Tuesday, August 29, 1995

across

1. False arguments: SOPHISMS
9. Most washed out: PALEST
15. Esthetically pleasing: ARTISTIC
16. 1963 Broadway hit: OLIVER
17. Beethoven opus in C-sharp minor: MOONLIGHTSONATA
19. "____ Rosenkavalier": DER
20. Served at a restaurant: WAITEDON
21. Forest fledgling: OWLET
24. Shopping place: MART
25. Computer key abbr.: ESC
26. Rumor: HEARSAY
28. Midafternoon: THREE
30. Mai ____: TAI
31. Throw, as a buckaroo: UNHORSE
35. Infrequently: ONCEINABLUEMOON
41. Squalid environment: RATHOLE
42. Quadri- minus one: TRI
43. Couldn't hit the broadside of ____: ABARN
46. Not given to schmoozing: ASOCIAL
49. Dismiss abruptly: CAN
50. Smallmouth fish: BASS
53. Pedal: CYCLE
54. Intestinal parasite: TRICHINA
57. Bank adjunct, for short: ATM
58. Brecht-Weill chorus line: OHMOONOFALABAMA
63. Wandered: ROAMED
64. Like some city railways: ELEVATED
65. Tears along: SPEEDS
66. Pittsburgh team: STEELERS

down

1. Uncle ____: SAM
2. Cortez's gold: ORO
3. School grp.: PTO
4. Impede: HINDER
5. Specks of land in the water: ISLETS
6. Budge: STIR
7. Russian-built fighter: MIG
8. Unstressed vowel: SCHWA
9. Set down as fact: POSIT
10. Oodles: ALOT
11. Motor vehicle bureau feature: LINE
12. Dodger: EVADER
13. Bristly: SETOSE
14. Hypnotic spell: TRANCE
18. Cigarette stat: TAR
21. "____ be in England": Browning: OHTO
22. Withdraw from a habit: WEAN
23. Of churchgoers: LAIC
24. One with nothing original to say?: MYNAH
27. Polly, to Tom Sawyer: AUNT
28. Mao ____-tung: TSE
29. It may be taken up in sewing class: HEM
32. Cable TV option: HBO
33. Southwestern stews: OLLAS
34. Regrets: RUES
36. Be mistaken: ERR
37. Author Fleming: IAN
38. Pertaining to the ear: OTIC
39. Exam type: ORAL
40. "Cleopatra" setting: NILE
43. Thespians: ACTORS
44. Paint the town red?: BARHOP
45. Souls: Lat.: ANIMAE
47. Musical range: OCTAVE
48. Crash maker: CYMBAL
50. Ties up: BINDS
51. Enero a diciembre: ANO
52. Bank repositories: SAFES
55. Arrive: COME
56. Gardened, in a way: HOED
57. Sheltered, nautically: ALEE
59. Elev.: ALT
60. Snacked: ATE
61. ____ Mediterranée: MER
62. Madison Avenue offerings: ADS

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