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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 16, 1997
Monday, June 16, 1997
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 16, 1997. 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
- 19
- 31
- 36
- 46
- 62
Down clues & answers
- 12
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across
- 1. Must: HASTO
- 6. Dispute: SPAR
- 10. Strip name: GAZA
- 14. Thrash: BASTE
- 19. Make suit, as a suit: ALTER
- 20. Noted Sao Paulo-born athlete: PELE
- 21. Pastoral pipe: REED
- 22. "God ___ refuge ...": Psalm 46: ISOUR
- 23. Wingding: ROAST
- 24. Jive men: CATS
- 25. Golf pro?: ACEOFCLUBS
- 27. Play 18 holes of miniature golf?: PUTTERAROUND
- 30. Place for a lace: EYELET
- 31. It's a matter of pride: EGO
- 32. Mr. ___ (old mystery game): REE
- 33. Rodents, jocularly: MEECE
- 35. Weekend golfer's club?: SUNDAYDRIVER
- 41. Golf course?: BALLPARK
- 45. Pizzeria ___ (fast food chain): UNO
- 46. Sunken treasure locale: SEABED
- 47. Bouquet ___: GARNI
- 48. French biography: VIE
- 49. Prepare garlic, perhaps: MINCE
- 52. Victimizes: PREYSON
- 54. Stamps: POSTAGE
- 56. Go quietly: STEAL
- 57. Dino, to Fred and Wilma: PET
- 58. Canaanite's deity: BAAL
- 60. Bird holder: TALON
- 61. ___ del Corso, Rome: VIA
- 63. 1770 patriot Attucks: CRISPUS
- 66. The stuff of folk tales: LORE
- 67. Divots, for instance?: WEARINGOFTHEGREEN
- 72. "___ gut" (German praise): SEHR
- 74. Nonets: ENNEADS
- 75. ___ Gabriel: SAN
- 76. Where the action is: ARENA
- 78. Recognizes: SEES
- 79. Overseas relative: TIA
- 82. Word before and after "of the": STATE
- 86. Fails to: DOESNOT
- 88. Preppy, e.g.: STUDENT
- 91. Robert Devereux's earldom: ESSEX
- 92. Woodworker's tool: ADZ
- 93. Lacking fresh air: CLOSE
- 95. Approaching: NEARTO
- 97. Kind of scores: SAT
- 98. Golfer's coverup?: TEESHIRT
- 100. Nostalgic for golf?: MISSINGLINKS
- 103. "Slithy" creatures: TOVES
- 104. Fine, informally: AOK
- 105. Staff: ROD
- 106. "King Solomon's Mines" plot line: SAFARI
- 109. Like some bad golf shots?: INTOTHEWOODS
- 116. L.P.G.A. player?: IRONMAIDEN
- 120. Haphazard collection: OLIO
- 121. Spotted animal: CIVET
- 122. Corn: MAIZE
- 123. Hollow: DELL
- 124. Ivy League team: PENN
- 125. Daughter of William the Conqueror: ADELA
- 126. "Er...um...": IMEAN
- 127. Less than solid: IFFY
- 128. Laze in the tub: SOAK
- 129. Introvert: LONER
down
- 1. Instrument held between the knees: HARP
- 2. Baseball brothers' name: ALOU
- 3. Copy of a photo, briefly: STAT
- 4. Like a Car and Driver car: TESTED
- 5. Spanish essayist ___ y Gasset: ORTEGA
- 6. Abbreviation for a pound: SPCA
- 7. Oviform : egg :: pyriform : ___: PEAR
- 8. Quarter of a quartet, maybe: ALTO
- 9. Check the boundaries again: RESURVEY
- 10. Teacher, frequently: GRADER
- 11. Federal agcy., 1946-75: AEC
- 12. Lexicographer's conclusion: ZEE
- 13. Pother: ADO
- 14. Many a Beijing commuter: BICYCLIST
- 15. Out: ASLEEP
- 16. Music category: SOUL
- 17. Couch potato's passion: TUBE
- 18. At one time, at one time: ERST
- 26. ___ pain: FEELNO
- 28. Rogers and Clark: ROYS
- 29. Basic ___: NEEDS
- 33. Wharton degree: MBA
- 34. Swimmer's stopper: EARPLUG
- 35. Arithmetic homework: SUMS
- 36. Condo: UNIT
- 37. Have ___ of (not allow): NONE
- 38. "Ed Wood" star, 1994: DEPP
- 39. Not easy to find: RARE
- 40. "Oh, right!": IBET
- 42. The Land of the Blessed: AVALON
- 43. Exactitude: RIGOR
- 44. New Hampshire college town: KEENE
- 47. Grind: GNASH
- 50. Popular tourist attractions: CAVERNS
- 51. "Essays of ___": ELIA
- 53. Parting words: OBITS
- 55. Ancient money: TALENTS
- 59. Act like: APE
- 62. Last word of Shelley's "Adonais": ARE
- 63. Take it easy: COAST
- 64. Mail abbr.: RFD
- 65. Graduating class: Abbr.: SRS
- 67. Old joke: WHEEZE
- 68. Waiting: INSTORE
- 69. Storm dir.: NNE
- 70. Whiteheads, e.g.: GEESE
- 71. Rest: EASE
- 72. Time's 1977 Man of the Year: SADAT
- 73. Slowly destroy: ERODE
- 77. Rather and Jennings, e.g.: ANCHORMEN
- 79. Sri Lankan exports: TEAS
- 80. Cross inscription: INRI
- 81. Memo starter: ATTN
- 83. Org.: ASSN
- 84. Furniture wood: TEAK
- 85. Office phone nos.: EXTS
- 87. Mrs. Walton of "The Waltons": OLIVIA
- 89. Wedding: UNION
- 90. Work areas: DESKTOPS
- 94. Blvds.: STS
- 96. Brute: OGRE
- 99. Verse: STANZA
- 100. By and large: MAINLY
- 101. Diet: LOWCAL
- 102. Enthusiastic yes: IDOIDO
- 106. Ventura County's ___ Valley: SIMI
- 107. Composer Khachaturian: ARAM
- 108. Pate base: FOIE
- 110. It melts in your mouth: OLEO
- 111. One of the Sinatras: TINA
- 112. Sign of impatience: HONK
- 113. Kind of mitt: OVEN
- 114. Drop: DELE
- 115. Award of merit: STAR
- 117. First name in dictators: IDI
- 118. Meaning, for short: DEF
- 119. Brownie: ELF
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