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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 18, 1997

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Wednesday, June 18, 1997

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, June 18, 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.

76 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

1
Needy
5
Cautious advice
9
Rope fiber
14
Michigan town or its college
15
"___ be in England": Browning
16
Going too far
17
Act of faith
18
Ram
19
Like Dennis the Menace
20
Craze
22
Like some raises
24
Farm distance
25
Pie in the sky
28
Bro, e.g.
29
Not having a surrounding colonnade, in architecture
32
Sixth sense
35
Japanese wraps
38
Sierra ___
39
Guy in the sky
43
City on the Po
44
Function as a medical device
45
6 on the dial
46
Everlasting
48
Diamonds, to a gangster
51
Eye in the sky
57
Go for it
59
"Ben-Hur" garb
60
Bank patron
61
The "her" of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
63
Bo Derek's first major film
65
Inner tubes, geometrically
66
Musical composition
67
"There oughta be ___!"
68
First name in mystery
69
Shoe material
70
A or O, e.g.
71
Used henna

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Tuesday, June 17, 1997

across

1. Bid: OFFER
6. Mesa dweller: HOPI
10. Nod off: DOZE
14. Site of Cnossus: CRETE
15. Big name in cosmetics: AVON
16. German biographer ___ Ludwig: EMIL
17. "___ looking at you, kid": HERES
18. Lady's man: GENT
19. Movers: VANS
20. Quirky: ODD
21. Impressive achievement: TOURDEFORCE
24. Sorbonne, e.g.: ECOLE
26. Tire channel: RUT
27. Peer, to his servant: MILORD
29. Plant with a medicinal root: GINSENG
33. More than peeved: IRATE
34. Charles's domain: WALES
35. Hemispheric assn.: OAS
37. Ready to come off the stove: DONE
38. Examined, as before a robbery: CASED
39. Skip: OMIT
40. Business mag: INC
41. Lawn: GRASS
42. "The Taming of the Shrew" setting: PADUA
43. Spy's byword: SECRECY
45. Police datum: ARREST
46. Assistance: AID
47. Like toast: CRISP
48. Final stroke: COUPDEGRACE
53. Fate: LOT
56. The "A" in A.D.: ANNO
57. Film ___: NOIR
58. Pan-fry: SAUTE
60. Harness part: REIN
61. Gusto: ZEST
62. Greek satirist: TIMON
63. These may be fine: ARTS
64. On the main: ASEA
65. Driving hazard: SLEET

down

1. Cuatro y cuatro: OCHO
2. N.F.L. receiver Biletnikoff: FRED
3. Tropical viper: FERDELANCE
4. Bastille Day season: ETE
5. Give back: RESTORE
6. World Court site, with "The": HAGUE
7. Finished: OVER
8. Thoreau subject: POND
9. Confined, as in wartime: INTERNED
10. Give, as time: DEVOTE
11. Gen. Bradley: OMAR
12. Over-the-counter cold remedy: ZINC
13. Otherwise: ELSE
22. Aged: OLD
23. Ado: FUSS
25. ___ d'Azur (French Riviera): COTE
27. Certain skirt: MIDI
28. Actor Jeremy: IRONS
29. Long-winded: GASSY
30. Nouvelle Caledonie and others: ILES
31. Pseudonym: NOMDEPLUME
32. Julius Caesar's first name: GAIUS
34. W.W. II enlistee: WAAC
36. Immediately, in the E.R.: STAT
38. Sideboard: CREDENZA
39. Sculls: OARS
41. Part of a crossword: GRID
42. Clergymen: PRIESTS
44. Poultry offerings: CAPONS
45. Compass tracing: ARC
47. Magna ___: CARTA
48. Dear, as a signorina: CARA
49. Unique person: ONER
50. Military group: UNIT
51. "Anything ___" (1934 or 1987 musical): GOES
52. Levitate: RISE
54. Siouan tribe: OTOE
55. Camp shelter: TENT
59. Be sick: AIL

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