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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 12, 2001

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Tuesday, June 12, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, June 12, 2001. 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.

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Monday, June 11, 2001

across

1. Open, as a toothpaste tube: UNCAP
6. Mare's meal: OATS
10. Price: COST
14. Oyster's prize: PEARL
15. Aberdeen native: SCOT
16. Killer whale: ORCA
17. Today's slide rule: CALCULATOR
19. Unkind: MEAN
20. Busch Stadium team: Abbr.: STL
21. Sunbeam: RAY
22. Oolong brewers: TEAPOTS
24. Foot the bill: PAY
25. Silents star ___ Bara: THEDA
26. Stopping at nothing: RUTHLESS
30. Pie nuts: PECANS
34. Butter look-alike: OLEO
35. Use a library: READ
37. Sen. Thurmond: STROM
38. "At once!": STAT
39. Binge: SPREE
41. "Whip It" rock group: DEVO
42. Typo: ERROR
44. Money drawer: TILL
45. ___ the beginning (present from the start): INAT
46. Daytona 500 acronym: NASCAR
48. Elizabeth II, to Elizabeth I: NAMESAKE
50. Alpha's opposite: OMEGA
52. Sort: ILK
53. Bottle cork: STOPPER
56. Jackie's second: ARI
57. Home of the Knicks: Abbr.: MSG
60. Sun dancer: HOPI
61. Today's telex: FAXMACHINE
64. Merle Haggard's "___ From Muskogee": OKIE
65. Falco of "The Sopranos": EDIE
66. Steel girder: IBEAM
67. Kind of pressure: PEER
68. Bridle strap: REIN
69. Hammer's partner: TONGS

down

1. They come in bars: Abbr.: UPCS
2. Not having a hair out of place: NEAT
3. Telephone: CALL
4. Path of a football pass: ARC
5. Like mice and geese: PLURAL
6. "___ can you see ...": OSAY
7. Misbehave, with "up": ACT
8. Molar, e.g.: TOOTH
9. "Sophie's Choice" star: STREEP
10. Today's record: COMPACTDISK
11. Cookie with a creamy middle: OREO
12. "Go away!": SCAT
13. Turns bronze: TANS
18. Strata: LAYERS
23. Fruit juices: ADES
24. Today's mimeograph: PHOTOCOPIER
25. Catherine the Great, e.g.: TSARINA
26. Al of the Indians: ROSEN
27. The "U" in UHF: ULTRA
28. Eye drops: TEARS
29. Aug. follower: SEPT
31. Boxing site: ARENA
32. Former CNN show "Evans & ___": NOVAK
33. Walloped, old-style: SMOTE
36. Crème ___ crème: DELA
40. New York city where Mark Twain lived: ELMIRA
43. Wheelchair access: RAMP
47. Illicit cigarette: REEFER
49. Draw out: ELICIT
51. A+ or C-: GRADE
53. Home ec's counterpart: SHOP
54. Use a 47-Down: TOKE
55. Sheriff Taylor's son: OPIE
56. Evangelical's cry: AMEN
57. Demeanor: MIEN
58. Fly in the ointment: SNAG
59. Rubies and such: GEMS
62. Midnight, on a grandfather's clock: XII
63. "The Sopranos" network: HBO

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
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