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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 13, 2000

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Thursday, July 13, 2000

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Thursday, July 13, 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.

76 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
Scour
2
Orenburg's river
3
Priest of the East
4
Diner souvenir
5
Sleeveless tunic worn over a knight's armor
6
Expiate
7
Singer Bill known as the Cowboy Rambler
8
Impair
9
Not at all resentful
10
Fat stuff
11
Kind of call
12
Anthem opening
13
Asian, e.g.
18
Did half a biathlon
21
Conventional
25
Officiates
26
"Ballad of John Henry" folk singer
27
Malfunction
28
Highest peak in the Philippines
29
Orders to go?
30
"In other words..."
31
Brass
32
They usually do no harm
34
Singer who formed the Love Unlimited Orchestra
37
Old antisubversive group
38
Den decorations
40
Din
41
Barely moved
43
Buildup
44
"The Real McCoys" co-star of 50's-60's TV
46
Team followers
47
Lab subject
48
"My ___!"
49
Dubai V.I.P.
51
Study of G.D.P. and such
52
Not supporting
53
"Cats" director Trevor
54
Durable wood
56
___-cone

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Wednesday, July 12, 2000

across

1. Ready: RIPE
5. Vast extents: DEEPS
10. Break in relations: RIFT
14. Cassowary cousins: EMUS
15. Look for: AWAIT
16. Sneaking suspicion: IDEA
17. Humor in its verse possible form?: PUNTAMETER
19. Showy flower, for short: GLAD
20. Basket twigs: OSIERS
21. Poetic palindrome: ERE
22. Wife of Zeus: HERA
23. Dernier ___: CRI
24. Prerevolutionary state: UNREST
26. Parts of geometry calculations: PIS
27. Edit comedy scripts?: BLUEPUNCIL
31. Scale member: SOL
32. Summon, in a way: BEEP
33. City ESE of Bombay: POONA
34. Plowed land: TILLAGE
36. It creates drafts: BREWPUB
38. Disney's middle name: ELIAS
39. Plummet's opposite: SOAR
40. ___ Missouri: USS
41. Comedy writing?: PUNMANSHIP
44. "___ China" policy: ONE
45. Full-service components?: PLATES
46. Gaelic "Gee!": OCH
47. Petit four finisher: ICER
50. When it's broken, that's good: PAR
51. Wedding sites: ALTARS
54. Move like molasses: OOZE
55. Joke postscripts?: APPUNDAGES
57. Lean and sinewy: WIRY
58. Wool source: LLAMA
59. Blow off steam: VENT
60. Word for Yorick: ALAS
61. Badlands formations: MESAS
62. Son of Seth: ENOS

down

1. Defaulter's loss: REPO
2. Stern competitor: IMUS
3. Cure for sick jokes?: PUNICILLIN
4. Fragrant compounds: ESTERS
5. Farm mothers: DAMS
6. Farm mother: EWE
7. Totally gone: EATENUP
8. Coyote State capital: PIERRE
9. "Sophie's Choice" Oscar winner: STREEP
10. "Stat!": RIGHTNOW
11. Like some rumors: IDLE
12. Four Freedoms subject: FEAR
13. "Behold!": TADA
18. Uris hero: ARI
24. 1997 Fonda role: ULEE
25. Fab: SUPER
26. W.W. I French soldier: POILU
27. Seek spare change: BEG
28. Witticism capital?: COPUNHAGEN
29. "Ocupado": INUSE
30. Where cures are discovered: LABS
31. Stage: STEP
32. ___ metabolism: BASAL
35. Eel look-alikes: LAMPREYS
36. ___ de Bologne (park west of Paris): BOIS
37. Grammy category: RAP
39. Hillary supporters: SHERPAS
42. Flamethrower fuel: NAPALM
43. Bread or butter: STAPLE
44. Pianist's span: OCTAVE
46. Getting on: OLD
47. Caucus state: IOWA
48. Slinky, basically: COIL
49. Browning's "Rabbi Ben ___": EZRA
51. Literary collections: ANAS
52. City near Sparks: RENO
53. Tu-144 and others: SSTS
56. Actress Thurman: UMA

Hints and full breakdown for Jul 12

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