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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 13, 2005
Monday, June 13, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 13, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 1
- 26
- 52
- 65
- 69
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 13
- 50
- 59
- 60
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Sunday, June 12, 2005
across
- 1. One crossing a line: SCAB
- 5. Major Libyan export: DATES
- 10. Checkers of entries, for short: CPAS
- 14. Jock of 1970's-80's TV: EWING
- 19. It's the end of the world: POLE
- 20. Volunteer's words: IWILL
- 21. Home of Interstate H1: OAHU
- 22. School locator: SONAR
- 23. The palest in the entire country?: AMERICASMOSTWAN
- 26. Sauce with pine nuts: PESTO
- 27. Pretty fast, on the highway: SEVENTY
- 28. Checks a particular box: OPTS
- 29. Big accident: SMASHUP
- 31. Eur. smoker: MTETNA
- 32. Uncle Remus title: BRER
- 33. Front-end alignment: TOEIN
- 35. Live: ARE
- 36. Late conductor Sir Georg: SOLTI
- 37. Executive's golf score?: PRESIDENTIALPAR
- 40. English quintet: AEIOU
- 42. Setting for an "Eloise" book: PARIS
- 43. Coral reef dwellers: EELS
- 44. Down: EAT
- 47. Cover: ALIAS
- 50. Sign of success: SRO
- 51. "You don't say!": GEE
- 53. 2000 Democratic campaign slogan?: GREATMINDSTHINKAL
- 58. Plays a prank on, informally: TPS
- 61. Saddle attachment: GIRTH
- 62. [Ah, me]: SIGH
- 63. ___ Hill, home of Theodore Roosevelt: SAGAMORE
- 65. Ingredient of a speedball: COCAINE
- 68. Gaming pioneer: ATARI
- 71. After a while: LATERON
- 72. There are lots of these for sale: USEDCARS
- 74. Family nickname: NANA
- 76. Delete: ERASE
- 77. Vote solicitor: POL
- 78. Fashion trend featuring white suits and black ties?: KENTUCKYFRIEDCHIC
- 83. Abbr. next to a telephone number: RES
- 84. Goings on: ADO
- 85. Dirties: SOILS
- 86. RR stop: STA
- 87. Clash: SPAT
- 90. Black who sang "Killin' Time": CLINT
- 92. Decorates expensively: GILDS
- 95. Get a new boyfriend?: HAVEACHANGEOFHE
- 100. Detailed map: INSET
- 104. Horologist Terry: ELI
- 105. Drawn-out fight: SIEGE
- 106. Agitated state: SNIT
- 107. Center of a square, maybe: STATUE
- 108. Like some areas prone to flooding: COASTAL
- 110. Hidden valley: GLEN
- 111. Extra: TOSPARE
- 112. Turbine part: ROTOR
- 113. Comparable to a small child's R2-D2 toy?: SOFTASABABYSBOT
- 117. Cubmaster, in Scouting: AKELA
- 118. Film director Petri: ELIO
- 119. Bluebloods: ELITE
- 120. French peak: ALPE
- 121. Villain: BADDY
- 122. Sugary drinks: ADES
- 123. Chest material: CEDAR
- 124. Go like mad: TEAR
down
- 1. Jerks: SPASMS
- 2. Reawaken: COMETO
- 3. Advanced British academic exam: ALEVEL
- 4. Popular pistol: BERETTA
- 5. Orders: DICTA
- 6. On vacation: AWAY
- 7. Poetic contraction: TIS
- 8. "Get Shorty" novelist Leonard: ELMORE
- 9. Hit the ___: SLOPES
- 10. Hospital sights: COTS
- 11. One leaving its mark: PAW
- 12. "Caught you!": AHA
- 13. Inspirations for many outdoor paintings: SUNSETS
- 14. Neighbor of Francia: ESPANA
- 15. Torments: WOES
- 16. Toned: INSHAPE
- 17. Untouched: NATURAL
- 18. Ones proceeding in the dark?: GROPERS
- 24. Navel type: INNIE
- 25. New York ___: STRIP
- 30. Early 11th-century year: MII
- 32. Team that plays home games in Westwood: BRUINS
- 33. Clark who sang "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me": TERRI
- 34. Bouillabaisse ingredients: ONIONS
- 37. ___ Sci (college dept.): POLI
- 38. Pizazz: DASH
- 39. County name in nine former Confederate states: LEE
- 41. "___ the Law" (Edward G. Robinson flick): IAM
- 44. Breakfast container: EGGCUP
- 45. Melodic passage: ARIOSO
- 46. Former Toyota: TERCEL
- 48. 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit: ADIA
- 49. Army N.C.O.: SSGT
- 51. Bowled over: GAGA
- 52. On cloud nine: ELATED
- 54. Somewhat: ATAD
- 55. Alan of "Growing Pains": THICKE
- 56. "___ heavens": THANK
- 57. Asian carrier, in brief: KAL
- 58. Sacred scrolls: TORAHS
- 59. Oktoberfest toast: PROSIT
- 60. One of the Finger Lakes: SENECA
- 64. Montego or Grand Marquis, for short: MERC
- 66. Scottish refusals: NAES
- 67. Sea eagle: ERN
- 69. Beams: RAYS
- 70. It's available at a "?" sign: INFO
- 73. "Hogan's Heroes" setting: STALAG
- 75. Properly: ARIGHT
- 79. City NE of Venice: UDINE
- 80. D.C. group: CONG
- 81. "Would ___?": ILIE
- 82. Immigrant's class: Abbr.: ESL
- 83. U.P.S. driver's assignment: RTE
- 87. Kind of soup, in Southern cookery: SHECRAB
- 88. Big oaf: PALOOKA
- 89. Barnstormed: AVIATED
- 90. 1990's White House occupant: CHELSEA
- 91. Induction motor inventor: TESLA
- 93. Airheaded: DITSY
- 94. Sharply reproves: SNAPSAT
- 96. Off: ASTRAY
- 97. Tom Clancy subj.: CIA
- 98. "Hold it!": ONESEC
- 99. "Grand" thing: FINALE
- 101. Patient's condition: STABLE
- 102. Icy moon of Jupiter: EUROPA
- 103. Be on the brink: TEETER
- 107. Dry: SOBER
- 109. Cry from one using a hammer: SOLD
- 110. Mustang competitors: GTOS
- 111. So long: TATA
- 114. Past: OLD
- 115. "A pox on you!": FIE
- 116. Preceder of 109-Down: BID
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