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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 2, 2005

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Thursday, June 2, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Thursday, June 2, 2005. 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.

72 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

1
Fund-raising org.
4
Noted Tommy Dorsey Orchestra alumnus
11
Bridge builder, maybe: Abbr.
14
Wild thing?
15
Gear
16
Fictional TV planet
17
Start of a quip
19
Rapa ___ (Easter Island)
20
Fabric named after a French town
21
"A place you can go … when you're short on your dough," in a 1979 hit
22
Stereo part
23
Eventually
25
___ Planet (United Nations magazine)
26
Schedule abbr.
27
Quip, part 2
31
Close up
32
Bedevil
33
Compressed electronic file format
37
Quip, part 3
39
Colon parts
40
Eschews help
42
Bruin Phil, familiarly
45
Quip, part 4
52
Intoxicating agent: Abbr.
53
Commonly memorized info
54
Narrow grooves
55
Top-rated TV show of 2002-04
56
Arguin' with
58
Former track star ___ Rudolph
59
Caltech rival
60
End of the quip
63
Suffix with orange
64
Early automaker Henry and others
65
Atlanta-based media co.
66
___ Washington, who wrote "When You Wish Upon a Star"
67
Not get hung up on
68
Overseas carrier

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Wednesday, June 1, 2005

across

1. Purchases at nurseries and hardware stores: BULBS
6. "I ___ the opinion …": AMOF
10. Basics: ABCS
14. "You're ___ and don't even know it": APOET
15. Calamitous: DIRE
16. Model Banks: TYRA
17. Yogi's language: HINDI
18. First word of "The Raven": ONCE
19. Capital of Samoa: APIA
20. Totally harmless: GENTLEASALAMB
23. Not just laugh: CRACKUP
25. Cast items: VOTES
26. Good fortune, informally: LUCKOTHEIRISH
30. You can put them on: AIRS
31. Eyelid woes: STYES
32. Vane dir.: NNE
33. Apt title for this puzzle: INASTEW
36. Mahmoud Abbas's grp.: PLO
39. Oscar nominee for "A Beautiful Mind": CROWE
40. Carpet layer's calculation: AREA
41. Classic interrogatory ad slogan: WHERESTHEBEEF
45. Actor Delon: ALAIN
47. They generate lots of interest: USURERS
48. Advice after a bad golf shot: TAKEAMULLIGAN
52. Not kosher: TREF
53. Spicy cuisine: THAI
54. Cleans up, in a way: EDITS
57. Burglar's take: HAUL
58. Place for a pump: SUMP
59. Spanish babies: NENES
60. Take notice of: ESPY
61. Either of two N.T. books: THES
62. Gardening tool: EDGER

down

1. "Phooey!": BAH
2. News org.: UPI
3. ___ Square (Times Square, once): LONGACRE
4. Adorns: BEDECKS
5. Bombed: STINKO
6. Newspaperman Ochs: ADOLPH
7. Go for the gold?: MINE
8. Danger of the deep: ORCA
9. Users' costs: FEES
10. Completely mystified: ATALOSS
11. Secondary route: BYPATH
12. Part of "C.S.I.": CRIME
13. Swedish imports: SAABS
21. King in 1922 news: TUT
22. "___ to a Kill" (1985 Bond film): AVIEW
23. Tartan sporters: CLAN
24. Completely botch: RUIN
27. Sibilant sounds: ESSES
28. Onetime telecom giant: ITT
29. Alternative to whole wheat: RYE
33. "The Faerie Queene" character: IRENA
34. Easter's start?: NOR
35. Blow away: AWE
36. Getting dolled up: PREENING
37. Goatish glance: LEER
38. Bungling sorts: OAFS
39. In the main: CHIEFLY
40. Wore down: ABRADED
41. "Pay attention!": WAKEUP
42. Certain 1-Across, in time: TULIPS
43. Fu-___ (legendary Chinese sage): HSI
44. City south of Salem: EUGENE
45. "Casey ___ Bat": ATTHE
46. "___ Theme" ("Doctor Zhivago" tune): LARAS
49. ___ Helens: MTST
50. "Naw": UHUH
51. Weak, as an effort: LAME
55. Kind of time: TEE
56. Old map abbr.: SSR

Hints and full breakdown for Jun 1

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