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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 30, 2000

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Friday, June 30, 2000

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, June 30, 2000. 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.

68 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
Fam. tree member
2
1982 George Plimpton best seller
3
___ infra (see below)
4
Form of the verb "etre"
5
Fan setting
6
Declaim
7
Command
8
Acknowledge
9
Old musical notes
10
Big mfr. of point-of-sale terminals
11
Day care attendee
12
Most-wanted
13
Dodge
14
CPR pros
15
Handle: Fr.
21
Standard late-night TV fare
22
29-Across, often
23
Playwright Preston
24
Central
25
Port of ancient Rome
26
Bickering, say
28
"___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Shak.
29
Botch
30
Four Holy Roman emperors
31
Popular computer game
32
See 33-Down
33
With 32-Down, things that send people to jail
34
Gluttons
35
Brightly colored
41
Small bone of the middle ear
43
Strike ___
44
Lip-___ (fakes it)
45
Mark of Zorro?
46
"The Last of the Mohicans" girl
47
Con man?
48
___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting)
49
Football Hall-of-Famer Marchetti
50
"What ___!" ("That's rich!")
51
Kind of therapy
52
"No returns"
54
Prior to, to Prior
55
Help wanted notice?
56
"I see!"

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Thursday, June 29, 2000

across

1. Tree with a gourdlike fruit: BAOBAB
7. Nail site: PAW
10. Hangup: RUB
13. Lackadaisical response: MANANA
14. Hungarian patriot Nagy: IMRE
16. Suffix with glass: INE
17. Hits newsprint?: WHACKSPAPER
19. Bugs: VWS
20. "Primary Colors" author: KLEIN
21. "De amicitia" writer: CICERO
23. Bring down: ABASE
26. Paste: SOCK
28. "Sicut ___ in principio" (church lyric): ERAT
29. Blubber: SOB
30. Talks gangster-style: RASPS
31. Rx amts.: TSPS
32. Add as a bonus: THROWIN
35. Decree of a sovereign: ARRET
37. Like many Rod Serling works: IRONIC
38. More like Rod Serling works: EERIER
41. Spanish babies, informally: NENES
43. In reality: DEFACTO
44. Emulate Rembrandt, e.g.: ETCH
46. C-D-G, e.g.: CHORD
48. "Krazy" one: KAT
49. Emphatic aprobación: SISI
50. Jealous wife of myth: HERA
51. Rolls: LISTS
53. Parlor item: SETTEE
55. Hotfoot it: SCOOT
57. Air tester: Abbr.: EPA
58. Items holding up teacher notices?: SCHOOLTACKS
63. Naught: NIL
64. Defraud, slangily: SKIN
65. "It's about time!": ATLAST
66. Memphis-to-Nashville dir.: ENE
67. 1960's march organizer: Abbr.: SDS
68. Go out of business: FOLDUP

down

1. 325i maker: BMW
2. Sound at a spa: AAH
3. Put ___ show: ONA
4. Subsidizes: BACKS
5. Achilles reflex site: ANKLE
6. Pedestal: BASE
7. Bench sites: PIANOS
8. One coulomb/ second: AMP
9. Ruins an oboe?: WRECKSREED
10. Flotsam on the Mississippi?: RIVERSTICKS
11. Open: UNWRAP
12. Stupefies: BESOTS
15. "___ tu" (song sung by Renato): ERI
18. Galileo, notably: PISAN
22. Et ___: CETERA
23. Wine region: ASTI
24. ___ theory, in physics: BOHR
25. Rodeo yarn?: ABRONCSTALE
27. Book checker, for short: CPA
30. Grain inspections?: RICECHECKS
33. Kind of wonder: ONEHIT
34. Carry the day: WIN
36. Foul caller: REF
39. "L'___, c'est moi": ETAT
40. Turns: ROTS
42. 1887 romance novel: SHE
43. Athenian lawgiver: DRACO
44. Sect member around the time of Christ: ESSENE
45. Haberdashery item: TIEPIN
47. Bean and others: ORSONS
51. People are picky about this: LOTTO
52. "Darn ___!": ITALL
54. Bend in a river: ESS
56. King in an Elgar work: OLAF
59. Eclipsed: HID
60. Low one: CAD
61. Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf.: KSU
62. Big Nascar advertiser: STP

Hints and full breakdown for Jun 29

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