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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 27, 2005
Monday, June 27, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 27, 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
- 19
- 43
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 27
- 38
- 44
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Sunday, June 26, 2005
across
- 1. Georgia state wildflower: AZALEA
- 7. Georgia neighbor: ALABAMA
- 14. 1970's-80's singer Ronnie: MILSAP
- 20. Fixes, as a bow: RETIES
- 21. Product usually used at night: SOMINEX
- 22. New York lake: ONEIDA
- 23. Puts to the test: PROVES
- 24. Girls at the playground?: SWINGSETMISSES
- 26. Word before and after "by," "on," or "to": ONE
- 27. Subsist: ARE
- 29. It may be relative: EASE
- 30. Wheat ___: THINS
- 31. Rear parts of an article of radio equipment?: HEADSETTAILS
- 36. Big atlas section: ASIA
- 38. Party person: HOSTESS
- 39. Kind of race: ARMS
- 40. "No way": CANTBE
- 44. Hero: SUB
- 45. Rest on: SITATOP
- 47. Assails: HASAT
- 50. Journalist Kupcinet: IRV
- 51. More than just a jaunt: TREK
- 53. Barely beats: NOSES
- 54. Slow dance with quick turns: BOLERO
- 55. Provision of the Natl. Security Act, 1947: CIA
- 56. Grand ___ (wine appellation): CRU
- 58. Golf club resembling an inverted V?: CARETDRIVER
- 60. ___-Tiki: KON
- 61. Retainers: DIKES
- 63. Ones with potato peelers, for short: KPS
- 64. Break time: EASTER
- 65. Shipping dept. stamp: RECD
- 66. First-aid item: ICEBAG
- 68. "___ takers?": ANY
- 69. Fume: SEETHE
- 71. Distillery items: VATS
- 72. Milk-related: LACTIC
- 76. 2001 album with the #1 hit "Ain't It Funny": JLO
- 79. Mass offering: WAFER
- 80. Time ___: INC
- 81. Metallic restraint on Baryshnikov?: BALLETCHAIN
- 83. Architectural feature: ELL
- 84. 55-Across relative: NSA
- 85. Northeast tollroad option: EZPASS
- 86. Emasculate: UNMAN
- 88. Catty comeback: MEOW
- 91. Symbol of slipperiness: EEL
- 92. Vikings' foes: LIONS
- 93. Wore briefly: TRIEDON
- 95. Map abbr.: AVE
- 96. Take out: DELETE
- 98. Alliance: BLOC
- 99. Con men often use them: ALIASES
- 101. The Baltics, once: Abbr.: SSRS
- 103. Ball bearing on a spaceship?: ROCKETROLLER
- 105. Spot for a spare tire: WAIST
- 108. Sister of Rachel: LEAH
- 110. Cartoon dog: REN
- 111. "Skip me": NAH
- 112. Beneath a pendant opener?: UNDERLOCKETKEY
- 117. Pretenses: GUISES
- 120. Witnessed in the area of: SEENAT
- 121. What's left: REMAINS
- 122. Prom date: ESCORT
- 123. TV ratings period: SWEEPS
- 124. Experimented with drugs, say: USEDPOT
- 125. "National Velvet" star: ROONEY
down
- 1. Ernst colleague: ARP
- 2. Time to attack: ZEROHOUR
- 3. Present for your communication with an English saint?: ATONESBECKETCALL
- 4. Occupy: LIVEAT
- 5. Like a really big shoe: EEE
- 6. Hired gun: ASSASSIN
- 7. Long suit: ASSET
- 8. Range setting: LOW
- 9. "But who ___ to …?": AMI
- 10. Coal holder: BIN
- 11. 2002 World Series champs: ANGELS
- 12. Hills without peaks: MESAS
- 13. Good fellers: AXES
- 14. Den ___: MOM
- 15. First-move maker: INITIATOR
- 16. "When Your Child Drives You Crazy" author: LESHAN
- 17. "Sure thing" for Speedy Gonzales: SISI
- 18. Mideast's Gulf of ___: ADEN
- 19. Part of a wagon train's route: PASS
- 25. Garden party, maybe: TEA
- 28. Order more of: RESTOCK
- 32. ___ Arc, Ark.: DES
- 33. Homers, slangily: TATERS
- 34. Sprang up: AROSE
- 35. Squirt: IMP
- 37. Ghosts or goblins: SCARERS
- 38. Presidential monogram: HST
- 41. When some insects are cited for biting?: TICKETFLEASEASON
- 42. Sweet roll: BRIOCHE
- 43. Boxer Holyfield: EVANDER
- 46. Quickly, briefly: ASAP
- 47. ___ de combat: HORS
- 48. Dismounted: ALIT
- 49. Golfer Ballesteros: SEVE
- 52. Maynard G. ___ of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis": KREBS
- 54. Annual celebration, for short: BDAY
- 57. "The good ol'" place: USA
- 59. "The Things We Do for Love" rock group, 1977: TENCC
- 61. Perceived intuitively: DIVINED
- 62. Miraculous cry at a revival meeting: ICANSEE
- 65. Empire: REALM
- 67. One who may improve your outlook: GLAZIER
- 68. Isles: AITS
- 70. Manchego cheese source: EWE
- 73. Food in bags or cans: ALPO
- 74. The Kennedys, e.g.: CLAN
- 75. 1979 Nastassia Kinski title role: TESS
- 76. Tony's sister on "The Sopranos": JANICE
- 77. Mexican beer go-with: LIME
- 78. Impetuously, maybe: ONADARE
- 81. Car seat securer: BELTSTRAP
- 82. Impresario Sol: HUROK
- 87. Only in the past: NOLONGER
- 89. "Psst!": OVERHERE
- 90. Unseld of the N.B.A.: WES
- 93. Lots of hugs, in brief: TLC
- 94. Lowest score: NIL
- 97. Ancient Palestinian: ESSENE
- 98. "La ___" (opera): BOHEME
- 100. Magnet alloy: ALNICO
- 102. Traffic caution: SLO
- 103. Landscapers' tools: RAKES
- 104. Assignation: TRYST
- 105. Weak one: WUSS
- 106. All over: ANEW
- 107. Creation of un philosophe: IDEE
- 109. Sandy hue: ECRU
- 113. Mil. titles: LTS
- 114. Little bit: TAD
- 115. Laotian money: KIP
- 116. 1970's Bowie collaborator: ENO
- 118. Show presenter, for short: USO
- 119. Farm area: STY
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