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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 28, 1997
Saturday, June 28, 1997
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, June 28, 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
- 17
- 24
- 41
- 57
Down clues & answers
- 35
- 53
- 55
- 57
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Friday, June 27, 1997
across
- 1. Some clauses: ESCALATORS
- 11. Pond dross: SCUM
- 15. College in 1995 headlines: THECITADEL
- 16. Account: TALE
- 17. Unconventional ideas: HETERODOXY
- 18. Kennedy Center focus: ARTS
- 19. Fine and dandy, in old slang: OKE
- 20. On ___ with: APAR
- 21. French crowd?: TROIS
- 22. Slobodan Milosevic, e.g.: SERB
- 24. Like the surface of Mars: SERE
- 27. John's "Pulp Fiction" co-star: UMA
- 28. Stockpiled: LAIDIN
- 32. Chest muscle: PEC
- 33. What spirits may do: SAG
- 34. Total: DEMOLISH
- 36. Summer abroad: ETE
- 37. Axioms serving as starting points: FIRSTPRINCIPLES
- 41. What I may mean: ONE
- 42. "The Joy of Cooking" author: ROMBAUER
- 43. Mail abbr.: RFD
- 44. Simile center: ASA
- 45. Wound: LESION
- 48. Date for Dizzy: GIG
- 49. Spanish novelist who won a 1989 Nobel: CELA
- 51. 1980's police comedy: ENOS
- 53. Language that gave us "kayak": INUIT
- 55. Polish export: COAL
- 59. Speck: DOT
- 60. Ampule's kin: VIAL
- 61. Site of the Woodrow Wilson Sch. of Public and Intl. Affairs: PRINCETONU
- 64. Basic French verb: ETRE
- 65. Preserved oral history, e.g.: AUDIOTAPED
- 66. Jazz drummer Catlett et al.: SIDS
- 67. Exams: TESTPAPERS
down
- 1. Greek character?: ETHOS
- 2. Foreign currency: SHEKEL
- 3. The rest: CETERA
- 4. One with perfect pitch?: ACE
- 5. Foreign currency: LIRA
- 6. Over: ATOP
- 7. "There!": TADA
- 8. Osmics is the study of these: ODORS
- 9. Sergeant Preston's horse: REX
- 10. Rocky, really: SLY
- 11. Antares, for one: STAR
- 12. "If I Loved You" musical: CAROUSEL
- 13. Eventual: ULTIMATE
- 14. E-mail: MESSAGES
- 21. Computer experts, e.g.: TECHIES
- 23. They may be made in clubs: BIDS
- 25. French city on the Moselle: EPINAL
- 26. Deliver: RESCUE
- 29. Take away: DETRACT
- 30. Horn in (on): IMPOSE
- 31. Standard: NORMAL
- 35. Canadian pol. party: LIB
- 37. Excuses: FORGIVES
- 38. Q45, e.g.: INFINITI
- 39. 60's militant: REDGUARD
- 40. ___-dieu: PRIE
- 46. High, in a way: ONDOPE
- 47. Midday event: NOONER
- 50. They have low pH's: ACIDS
- 52. Harness features: STUDS
- 54. Mer sights: ILES
- 56. "Get ___!" (boss's order): ONIT
- 57. 1988 film "Rent-___": ACOP
- 58. "___ joy keep you": Sandburg: LETA
- 61. Show of support: PAT
- 62. Herb of grace: RUE
- 63. Keep time: TAP
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