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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 22, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, May 22, 2006. 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
- 14
- 18
- 22
- 25
- 40
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 21
- 22
- 35
- 53
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
across
- 1. Codger: CUSS
- 5. Mischief maker of myth: LOKI
- 9. 1945 news, in headlines: ABOMB
- 14. "Amerika" author: KAFKA
- 19. Part of the Dept. of Labor: OSHA
- 20. Option for heads: IWIN
- 21. Indian queen: RANEE
- 22. It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son …": ILIAD
- 23. Seasonal salutation: DEARSANTA
- 25. "Jeopardy!" phrase: THEANSWERIS
- 27. Start of quote: BRITISHWAITINGLINE
- 29. Column of boxes on a questionnaire: YESES
- 30. Failing grades: EFS
- 31. Shipboard cries: AYS
- 32. Nursery cry: WAH
- 35. Column of boxes on a questionnaire: NOES
- 38. Of a heart chamber: ATRIAL
- 42. New at the beach, maybe: PALE
- 43. Part 2 of quote: SECONDPERSONSINGULAR
- 49. Very wide spec.: EEEE
- 50. Command to a dog: STAY
- 51. -like: ISH
- 52. Geometry figure?: EUCLID
- 53. Of a certain hydrocarbon group: ARYL
- 54. Crew alternative: VNECK
- 57. Bombay-born dancer Juliet: PROWSE
- 59. Lao-tzu follower: TAOIST
- 62. "The Return of the Jedi" girl: OOLA
- 64. Latin 101 verb: AMAT
- 65. Montgomery of jazz: WES
- 68. Part 3 of quote: OPRAHWINFREYSMAGAZINE
- 73. Originally: NEE
- 74. Carry: TOTE
- 75. Drug drop, maybe: KILO
- 76. Goolagong of tennis: EVONNE
- 77. Sight for sore eyes?: MIRAGE
- 79. Capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France: NANCY
- 82. Trials: WOES
- 83. Like some cats: CALICO
- 86. ___ minimum: ATA
- 88. Langston Hughes poem: ITOO
- 90. ___ the finish: INAT
- 91. Part 4 of quote: DRINKWITHJAMANDBREAD
- 96. Zero: LOVE
- 97. Shark, e.g.: MENACE
- 98. Postpaid encl.: SASE
- 99. Suffix with lact-: IDE
- 100. Cup holder: BRA
- 102. Alternative to gov or edu: COM
- 104. Related maternally: ENATE
- 108. End of quote: WORLDWIDEWEBPREFIX
- 115. Time to grow rice: RAINYSEASON
- 117. Pictorial: NONVERBAL
- 119. Kind of acid: BORIC
- 120. Dock site: INLET
- 121. Tongue site: SHOE
- 122. Slick: OILY
- 123. Actress Graff: ILENE
- 124. Goes a mile a minute: TEARS
- 125. Cache contents: ARMS
- 126. Fill: SATE
down
- 1. Shipping option, for short: COD
- 2. Words on a medicine bottle: USEBY
- 3. Opposite of hog: SHARE
- 4. Closet contents of a 21-Across: SARIS
- 5. Trysts: LIAISONS
- 6. Admits, with "up": OWNS
- 7. Acquaintances: KITH
- 8. Very impressed: INAWE
- 9. Ray, Klee and Millais: ARTISTS
- 10. Thai money: BAHT
- 11. "That's ___ haven't heard!": ONEI
- 12. Willfully tightening the screws, say: MEAN
- 13. Calcutta native: BENGALI
- 14. Wellington natives: KIWIS
- 15. Architect William van ___: ALEN
- 16. Computer protection: FIREWALL
- 17. Chiang ___-shek: KAI
- 18. Pop-ups, e.g.: ADS
- 24. Pad user: STENO
- 26. Slippery: SLY
- 28. Miles away: AFAR
- 33. Jai ___: ALAI
- 34. Drove: HERD
- 36. 1999 Ron Howard comedy: EDTV
- 37. Nine inches: SPAN
- 39. Robert, for one: ROI
- 40. Police dept. employee: INSP
- 41. Guru habitat: ASHRAM
- 42. Purple shade: PUCE
- 43. Colorful wrap: SERAPE
- 44. Fictional donkey: EEYORE
- 45. Oliver's love in "As You Like It": CELIA
- 46. "___ the Needle" (1981 movie): EYEOF
- 47. Like some acoustic music: NEWAGE
- 48. Composer Mahler: GUSTAV
- 49. Stationery brand: EATON
- 55. Something to pop: CORK
- 56. Nobel-winning economist Lawrence: KLEIN
- 58. Medical suffix: OMA
- 60. Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect," e.g.: SHTICK
- 61. Like the arrangement of gems in some bracelets: TWOROW
- 63. "The Shelters of Stone" heroine: AYLA
- 65. A Ryder: WINONA
- 66. The Supreme Court, e.g.: ENNEAD
- 67. View for Shakespeare?: SEEST
- 69. Eur. land: ITA
- 70. Undo: NEGATE
- 71. One of the Gandhis: SONIA
- 72. "Holy cow!": ZOWIE
- 77. Grabber's cry: MINE
- 78. People: Prefix: ETHN
- 80. Cig. purchases: CTNS
- 81. Film character who says "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'": YODA
- 83. Fifth-century year: CDLI
- 84. 2003 A.L. M.V.P., to fans: AROD
- 85. Go-getter: LIVEWIRE
- 87. 1977 double-platinum Steely Dan album: AJA
- 89. Checks out: OBSERVES
- 92. Exclamation at the end of a trip: IMADEIT
- 93. Résumé parts: ACCENTS
- 94. ___ Mix: MEOW
- 95. Actress Zellweger: RENEE
- 100. Utah's ___ Canyon: BRYCE
- 101. Literary inits.: RLS
- 103. Bright circle?: MENSA
- 105. Bushes rarely seen nowadays: AFROS
- 106. Leg part: TIBIA
- 107. Glorify: EXALT
- 109. "Come ___!": ONIN
- 110. Fall off: WANE
- 111. Madonna's "La ___ Bonita": ISLA
- 112. No bystander: DOER
- 113. Physicist with an element named after him: BOHR
- 114. ___ Penh: PNOM
- 115. Diamond stat.: RBI
- 116. MSN competitor: AOL
- 118. Burn cause: LYE
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- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
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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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- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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