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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 28, 2005

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, June 28, 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

1
Wagering sites, for short
5
Rosary component
9
Big name in kitchen foil
14
When shadows are short
15
"___ want for Christmas …"
16
Elementary school door sign
17
Breakfast order
20
Lend ___ (listen)
21
Lug
22
Last of 26
23
"Wild Kingdom" host Marlin
26
What apartment dwellers have to pay
28
Actress Verdugo
30
Summer, in Somme
31
Lucky charms
38
Astronaut Grissom
39
Rock's ___ Fighters
40
Kind of instinct
41
U.S. senator's salary, e.g.
48
Crazy eights cousin
49
Jazz pianist Blake
50
House wrecker
54
Place for a Ping-Pong table
58
Inventor Whitney
59
Absorbs, with "up"
61
Redhead's helper
62
Bygone music collection
66
1008 on a monument
67
Jai ___
68
NBC's peacock, e.g.
69
Passover feast
70
Stampeders
71
___ Smith, who won the 1972 Wimbledon

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Monday, June 27, 2005

across

1. Smile: GRIN
5. Body of water in Italy: LAGO
9. Alternative to U.P.S.: FEDEX
14. City for a quickie marriage or divorce: RENO
15. Push up against: ABUT
16. Fred's dancing partner: ADELE
17. Aide: Abbr.: ASST
18. Filet of ___: SOLE
19. Stirs up: RILES
20. Choice at a supermarket checkout: PAPERORPLASTIC
23. Ram's mate: EWE
24. Sculptures and oils: ART
25. 52, in old Rome: LII
26. Choice offered at an electronic payment machine: CREDITORDEBIT
33. Man's name that's an alphabetic string: STU
34. Actress Gardner: AVA
35. Group of 100 in Washington: SENATE
36. Singer Sedaka: NEIL
37. Squeeze (out): EKE
39. Cap and gown wearer: GRAD
40. Single-celled creature: AMOEBA
43. Finish: END
45. Pipe bend: ELL
46. Choice at an airplane ticket counter: WINDOWORAISLE
49. Neither's partner: NOR
50. ___ tai (drink): MAI
51. Singer Sumac: YMA
54. Choice at a coffee bar: REGULARORDECAF
59. Runs across the field: LOPES
60. Hatcher of "Desperate Housewives": TERI
61. Actress Anderson: LONI
62. Dress style: ALINE
63. Sporting blade: EPEE
64. ___ Rabbit: BRER
65. Religious offshoots: SECTS
66. Grass clumps: SODS
67. The "a" in a.m.: ANTE

down

1. Vineyard fruit: GRAPE
2. Cut again: RESAW
3. State auto requirement: INSPECTION
4. Middle C, e.g.: NOTE
5. Longtime Dodger manager Tommy: LASORDA
6. Cut short, as an attempt: ABORTIVE
7. Big swallow: GULP
8. Verdi's Moor: OTELLO
9. Gary Larson comic, with "The": FARSIDE
10. Rewrite: EDIT
11. Meat slicer locale: DELI
12. It's A.C. or D.C.: ELEC
13. Crosses (out): XES
21. "Norma ___": RAE
22. Shows, as programs: AIRS
27. Governed: RULED
28. Giver's opposite: TAKER
29. TV actress Georgia: ENGEL
30. Malt liquor base: BARLEYCORN
31. Slanted, as type: Abbr.: ITAL
32. Excellent adventurer with Bill: TED
33. 18-wheeler: SEMI
36. No, slangily: NAW
38. Smitten: ENAMORED
41. Job rewards: BONUSES
42. Illegally off base: AWOL
44. Journals: DIARIES
47. Speechifies: ORATES
48. Half-brother of Tom Sawyer: SID
52. "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" painter: MANET
53. In flames: AFIRE
54. Actor's part: ROLE
55. Movie best seen on a wide screen: EPIC
56. Lady's man: GENT
57. Used auto, perhaps: REPO
58. Isle of exile for Napoleon: ELBA
59. ___ Cruces, N.M.: LAS

Hints and full breakdown for Jun 27

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