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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 6, 2001

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Friday, July 6, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, July 6, 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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Thursday, July 5, 2001

across

1. Suffix on color names: ISH
4. Shoot upward: ROCKET
10. 1950, in copyrights: MCML
14. DVD maker: RCA
15. In: ATHOME
16. Role for Ingrid: ILSA
17. N.Y.C. subway inits.: IRT
18. Moves suddenly: STARTS
19. Eartha Kitt role: CATWOMAN
20. Summer vacation locale: SEASHORE
22. Peter the Great, e.g.: TSAR
24. Fox's prey: HARE
25. 1980 Erich Segal novel: MANWOMANANDCHILD
29. A little over half the world: WOMANKIND
31. Time, in Torino: ORA
32. ___ Tomé: SAO
33. Mister: SIR
35. Deep blue: ANIL
36. Dict. listing: SYN
37. Percy Sledge hit of 1966: WHENAMANLOVESAWOMAN
41. Star of "The Facts of Life": RAE
42. Where E*Trade is traded: Abbr.: NYSE
43. Letter abbr.: ENC
44. Howard Hughes once controlled it: TWA
45. "Don't Bring Me Down" grp.: ELO
46. Kodak founder: EASTMAN
50. Ang Lee film, 1994 Best Foreign Film nominee: EATDRINKMANWOMAN
55. Sports org. since 1906: NCAA
56. Unexciting: SOSO
57. Eliminates: RULESOUT
59. Place for a Christmas card: MANTEL
61. Aggravation: TSURIS
63. It might be picked apart: ORE
64. Attack: GOAT
65. City whose name is Siouan for "a good place to dig potatoes": TOPEKA
66. End of a four-day hol., maybe: TUE
67. Mice catchers: OWLS
68. Degrades: ABASES
69. Draft org.: SSS

down

1. Edna O'Brien or Sinéad O'Connor: IRISHWOMAN
2. Shrill sound: SCREAK
3. John Wayne film set in Africa: HATARI
4. Rubella symptom: RASH
5. Place to put the feet up: OTTOMAN
6. Office building cleaner: CHARWOMAN
7. Asian peninsula: KOREA
8. CPR performer: EMT
9. Go out and back in an Outback, perhaps: TESTDRIVE
10. Book before Nahum: MICAH
11. "___ Explains It All" (cable series): CLARISSA
12. Phoenix setting: Abbr.: MST
13. Song and album by the Doors: LAWOMAN
21. Meaning: SENSE
23. Like a 3-4-5 triangle: SCALENE
26. Verboten thing: NONO
27. One who's not in the habit of wearing a habit: LAYWOMAN
28. Mafia leader: DON
30. Some fund-raisers: DINNERS
34. "GoodFellas" co-star: RAYLIOTTA
35. Cakes' partner: ALE
37. Electric guitar attachment: WAWA
38. Protect from the air, in a way: HEATSEAL
39. Singer Marilyn: MANSON
40. Skims: SCANS
41. Map abbr.: RTE
47. Darts: SCOOTS
48. Mother's Day baby, e.g.: TAURUS
49. Dugongs' kin: MANATEES
51. Noodleheads: DOLTS
52. Drummer Gene: KRUPA
53. Fertilizes: MANURES
54. Feminine: WOMANLIKE
58. Those, to José: ESAS
59. Tropical fruit: MANGO
60. Wrecker's job: TOW
62. Word with sister or story: SOB

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
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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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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.
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