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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 16, 2004

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, June 16, 2004. 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

1
Lowlife snitch
4
Woman of distinction
8
With 67-Across, author of "Ulysses"
13
Catherine who was the last wife of Henry VIII
14
Sacked out
15
The chosen, socially
16
Tinted windows locale
17
Tax-exempt bond, briefly
18
Wife of 56-Across who said 69-Across
19
Setting for "Ulysses"
22
Aussie outlaw Kelly
23
Industrial pollutant
24
Ancestry
28
Journalist/author Rick
30
Egyptian sun god
32
Roman sun god
33
Resort island near Venezuela
35
Nice, as clothes
38
1904 date in "Ulysses"
41
Cord that you hope doesn't break
42
Bert who hosted "Tattletales"
43
"___ Over but the Shoutin'" (book by 28-Across)
44
Go south, as a market
46
Stand for a portrait
50
Not stick to the path
53
Part of r.p.m.
55
Some germ cells
56
Hero in "Ulysses"
59
Three-toed animal
62
Others, to Cicero
63
Aleutian island
64
Dwight's two-time challenger
65
In the mail
66
Dear, in a billet-doux
67
See 8-Across
68
Outfits
69
Last word of "Ulysses"

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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

across

1. Rugged rock: CRAG
5. Incite: GOAD
9. Unlike a dirt road: PAVED
14. Whopper: LULU
15. White-tailed eagle: ERNE
16. Spry: AGILE
17. Fusses: ADOS
18. Makes lace: TATS
19. Like maples but not firs: LEAFY
20. Area between two scrimmage lines: NEUTRALZONE
23. Jul. follower: AUG
24. Largest of the British Virgin Islands: TORTOLA
29. Chemical process also called hyperfiltration: REVERSEOSMOSIS
33. Attention-getter: HEY
34. Radio feature: DIAL
35. Successful: ONTOP
36. Flared-spout pitcher: EWER
38. Military newbie: PLEBE
41. Heredity unit: GENE
42. Grief: DOLOR
44. Rotators under the hood: CAMS
46. ___ Lingus: AER
47. Make crazy: DRIVEUPTHEWALL
51. Increased: ADDEDTO
52. Took off: RAN
53. Yellowstone employees: PARKRANGERS
59. Video game pioneer: ATARI
63. Bluish green: TEAL
64. "The Grapes of Wrath" figure: OKIE
65. Get ready for Web-surfing: LOGON
66. Northern Oklahoma city: ENID
67. Take a break: REST
68. Hard stuff: BOOZE
69. Lightning catchers: RODS
70. Inquires: ASKS

down

1. Family group: CLAN
2. Obnoxious: RUDE
3. Baseball brothers' name: ALOU
4. Holst who composed "The Planets": GUSTAV
5. "Stop living in your fantasy world!": GETAGRIP
6. Kind of hygiene: ORAL
7. 1998 animated film with the voice of Woody Allen: ANTZ
8. Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi: DESOTO
9. Capital of Sicily: PALERMO
10. Get on in years: AGE
11. By way of: VIA
12. Keebler worker?: ELF
13. Susan of "L.A. Law": DEY
21. Regretted: RUED
22. Rejections: NOS
25. Chinese mafia: TONG
26. Bony: OSTEAL
27. Toy train maker: LIONEL
28. "___ your instructions ...": ASPER
29. Express differently: REWORD
30. Lash site: EYELID
31. Mineo of "Exodus": SAL
32. Vote in: ELECT
33. Gossipy Hopper: HEDDA
37. Gad about: ROVE
39. Relative of "Phooey!": BAH
40. Green gems: EMERALDS
43. Timber from Maine: REDPINE
45. Long-necked bird: SWAN
48. Hagen of Broadway: UTA
49. Luggage carrier: PORTER
50. Some wool: ANGORA
54. Gambler's game: KENO
55. Police cry: RAID
56. Stretches (out): EKES
57. Hazard: RISK
58. Nears the western horizon: SETS
59. Vestment for a priest: ALB
60. As well: TOO
61. Back then: AGO
62. Role on "Frasier": ROZ

Hints and full breakdown for Jun 15

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