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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 18, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, June 18, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 20
- 47
- 60
- 62
Down clues & answers
- 21
- 37
- 42
- 43
- 46
- 50
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
across
- 1. Cry from the block: SOLD
- 5. Welcoming: WARM
- 9. Dust bits: MOTES
- 14. "If I ___ ...": EVER
- 15. Et ___: ALIA
- 16. See 29-Down: TOOTH
- 17. Pay back: REVENGEON
- 19. Main male: ALPHA
- 20. Provoke: ARISEOUTOF
- 22. Biblical shepherd: ABEL
- 23. Already off: SENT
- 24. Be indisposed: FEELILL
- 26. Blocks: DETERS
- 29. Of an atrioventricular valve: MITRAL
- 30. Phil who sang "I Ain't Marching Anymore": OCHS
- 31. Sensitive things: SORES
- 32. Court call: LET
- 35. Noted guerrilla: CHE
- 36. Scram ... or a hint to solving 17-, 20-, 50- and 57-Across and 11- and 28-Down: GETLOST
- 38. Words of promise: IDO
- 39. Light source: SOL
- 40. "... ___ and hungry look": Shak.: ALEAN
- 41. Nabokov novel: PNIN
- 42. Comparatively compliant: EASIER
- 44. Composer Prokofiev: SERGEI
- 46. Spot to order a spot: TEASHOP
- 48. Farm unit: ACRE
- 49. Goals: ENDS
- 50. "Understand?": THEMESSAGE
- 55. Go around: AVOID
- 57. Be a hindrance: INONESWAY
- 58. Pointer mover: MOUSE
- 59. Symbol of Apollo: LYRE
- 60. Percolate slowly: OOZE
- 61. Substitute (for): SITIN
- 62. Rowers' muscles, for short: LATS
- 63. Cub or Red, briefly: NLER
down
- 1. Clinic fluids: SERA
- 2. In charge of: OVER
- 3. Forebear of one of Israel's 12 Tribes: LEVI
- 4. Shifts: DRESSES
- 5. 46-Across vehicles: WAGONS
- 6. Unalaska inhabitant: ALEUT
- 7. Run amok: RIOT
- 8. 1980 Andrzej Wajda film in which Lech Walesa appears: MANOFIRON
- 9. Inits. on N.Y.C. buses: MTA
- 10. "Verrry sexy!": OOLALA
- 11. Star: TOPBILLING
- 12. Waters of jazz: ETHEL
- 13. Are going to: SHALL
- 18. Not e'en once: NEER
- 21. Dos: FETES
- 25. Originally, once: ERST
- 26. Shot orderers: DOCS
- 27. Parrot: ECHO
- 28. Move it: THELEADOUT
- 29. Large 16-Across: MOLAR
- 31. Marathoner's challenge: STEEPHILL
- 33. Actress McClurg: EDIE
- 34. Novelist Morrison: TONI
- 36. Bad cut: GASH
- 37. "Middlemarch" author: ELIOT
- 41. Not call it quits: PRESSON
- 43. Umbrian town: ASSISI
- 44. Things between cuts: SCENES
- 45. European tongue: ERSE
- 46. Heat and Lightning: TEAMS
- 47. Short concluding stanza: ENVOI
- 48. Lifeless, old-style: AMORT
- 51. "The Memory of Trees" Grammy winner: ENYA
- 52. Truant, in a way: AWOL
- 53. It may be steely: GAZE
- 54. Viewer: EYER
- 56. Habitable hole: DEN
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- 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.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- 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.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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