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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 20, 2005

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Monday, June 20, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 20, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Old hand
2
"Lent" body part
3
Short dagger
4
Like takeout orders
5
Pique
6
Like satin to the touch
7
North Pole worker
8
Gore and Sharpton
9
Salespeople, in brief
10
Cheese-covered chip
11
Cathay and environs, with "the"
12
Swerved
13
Impose, as a tax
18
Utmost
19
Short-lived things
22
"So that's it!"
23
Not wrong: Abbr.
25
Tangy hot sauce
26
Knit and ___
29
They're sometimes inflated
30
Certain Protestant
32
Snitched
35
Atmosphere
37
Egg cell
39
Ireland's Sinn ___
40
Magnificent
41
Lollapalooza
44
The "p" in r.p.m.
45
Santa ___, one of the Solomon Islands
46
With ominousness
47
"Smoke" to chew on
49
Traces of color
52
Wrongly
54
Brazilian vacation spot, informally
57
One whose nose is in the air
59
Corp. money managers
60
Sicilian volcano
62
Hewlett-Packard rival: Abbr.
63
At once
64
Sch. near Harvard
65
Hosp. areas

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Sunday, June 19, 2005

across

1. Sci-fi carrier: STARSHIP
9. Birds with green eggs: EMUS
13. Like a record: GROOVED
20. Pasta ingredient: SEMOLINA
21. At sea: LOST
22. Strong and proud: LEONINE
23. Brewer's container: TEACADDY
24. Saucy political group of the 1840's and 50's?: FREESOYPARTY
26. Jazz pianist Jarrett: KEITH
28. Per ___ (how budgets may be planned): ANNUM
29. Some football linemen: Abbr.: RTS
30. Classic saucy love song?: AIOLIHAVEEYESFORYOU
37. Sharp cheese: ROMANO
38. Cheep accommodations?: NEST
39. How anchovies are packed: INOIL
40. Due: OWING
41. Be undecided: HANG
43. Without a shirt: TOPLESS
47. Pal: MATE
48. Saucy health threat, according to the surgeon general?: TABASCOSMOKE
53. "___ interested": NOT
54. Choice on a multiple-choice test: Abbr.: ANS
55. Nods: DOZES
56. Modern ice cream flavor: OREO
57. Unique: ONLY
58. Carried away: GAGA
59. Gulps down: SWILLS
61. Sustenance for Oliver Twist: GRUEL
62. Saucy yuletide plan?: HOMEFORTHEHOLLANDAISE
68. Spaced out?: APART
69. Muffle: DEADEN
70. Whom Jezebel worshiped: BAAL
71. Rant and rave: VENT
72. Dover domestic: CHAR
73. Ask (about): QUERY
75. Ranting and raving: MAD
78. It may be found in a pocket: ORE
79. Saucy payment system?: CASHANDCURRY
83. Guitarist Hendrix: JIMI
84. Get scolded: CATCHIT
86. Chicks follow them: HENS
87. Prancer's partner: VIXEN
88. ___ a beet: REDAS
90. Mmes. of Madrid: SRAS
92. Driveway surface: PAVING
93. Had a saucy relationship?: WERETHEPESTOFRIENDS
97. Where clover grows: LEA
98. Ghostlike: EERIE
99. One of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece: SOLON
100. Saucy playground apparatus?: TEETERTARTAR
104. Go off: MOVEAWAY
109. Riders: ADDENDA
110. "Able was ___ …": IERE
111. Phone-answering instruction: PRESSONE
112. Low wind instrument: BASSSAX
113. ID's sought in phishing: SSNS
114. Where William the Conqueror conquered: HASTINGS

down

1. Air France flier until '03: SST
2. Ball-bearing item: TEE
3. Health standards org. since 1847: AMA
4. Sindbad hid behind its egg: ROC
5. Thirst-relieving: SLAKING
6. Cab Calloway's signature line: HIDEHO
7. Frequent customer support locale nowadays: INDIA
8. Cable for money: PAYTV
9. Little green man: ELF
10. Lamprey relatives: MORAYS
11. Online newsgroup system: USENET
12. Old British guns: STENS
13. Seize, slangily: GLOMONTO
14. El ___ (title for Juan Carlos): REY
15. Alley ___: OOP
16. Hot, in Vegas: ONAROLL
17. Art appreciation: VIRTU
18. Middle-earth beings: ENTS
19. TV actress Susan: DEY
25. Muslim mystic: SUFI
27. Reddish hair dyes: HENNAS
30. Cook's drawer: AROMA
31. Ann Landers was one: IOWAN
32. Drops: OMITS
33. Word with turning or memory: LANE
34. Head lines, for short?: EEGS
35. Man in a corner: ROOK
36. "Gosh!": YIPE
41. Thin ice, e.g.: HAZARD
42. Copper head?: ABE
44. The blahs: ENNUI
45. Foot pads: SOLES
46. Do: STYLE
48. Restaurant option: TOGO
49. One who's brand-conscious: COWHERD
50. Pleiades pursuer: ORION
51. Hawk: SELL
52. Fictional Flanders: MOLL
55. Ditzy: DAFT
57. Uttered: ORAL
58. What Hamlet never called his mom: GERT
59. DeVille or Bonneville: SEDAN
60. They may get rattled: SABERS
61. ___ : hello :: hooroo : goodbye: GDAY
62. Ruination: HAVOC
63. Bizet work: OPERA
64. "The Fife Player" painter: MANET
65. Part of M.I.T.: Abbr.: TECH
66. "That's hysterical!": HAHA
67. ___ a one: NARY
73. Knightly pursuits: QUESTS
74. Cemetery sight: URN
75. Add to, then stir: MIXIN
76. Alter: AMEND
77. Makes an impression?: DINGS
79. "Bang Bang" singer, 1966: CHER
80. "West Wing" extra: AIDE
81. School supporter: STATETAX
82. Cartoonist Addams: CHAS
83. Baloney: JIVE
85. Whips up: CREATES
87. Most apt to preen: VAINEST
89. View from New York's Grand Central Parkway: SHEA
90. Is venomous to: SPITES
91. Merit twice: REEARN
92. Bears out: PROVES
93. Their virtues "have not yet been discovered," wrote Emerson: WEEDS
94. "To ___ human …": ERRIS
95. Get-up-and-go: OOMPH
96. Plant life: FLORA
97. Yeats's "___ and the Swan": LEDA
100. Text pusher: TAB
101. Pulver's rank in "Mister Roberts": Abbr.: ENS
102. Amt. usually shown in grams: RDA
103. Hi-___ monitor: RES
105. "___ always say …": ASI
106. Wooed very well: WON
107. Director Lee: ANG
108. "Absolutely!": YES

Hints and full breakdown for Jun 19

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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.
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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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