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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 5, 2006
Monday, June 5, 2006
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 5, 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
Down clues & answers
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across
- 1. Wide-eyed: INAWE
- 6. "Help wanted": SOS
- 9. Bass productions: ALES
- 13. Big name in cards: TOPPS
- 18. Kind of spray: NASAL
- 19. Investment mgr.'s subject: IRA
- 20. Exasperated cry in a 1950's sitcom: LUCY
- 21. "Wake up!": FACEIT
- 22. Gold gathering dust?: SITTINGBULLION
- 25. Shish-kebab need: SKEWER
- 26. Tested in a fitting room: TRIEDON
- 27. Lower oneself: DEIGN
- 28. It has wings but doesn't fly: THEATRE
- 29. On Soc. Sec.: RET
- 30. Deportment on the Discovery?: MISSIONMANNERS
- 32. One having a ball at the circus?: SEAL
- 35. "Don't make such ___!": AFUSS
- 37. Prefix with phobia: ACRO
- 38. Hi-___: RES
- 39. Rear ends, slangily: CABOOSES
- 41. One slightly higher in a tree: AUNT
- 44. Very, very soft, in music: PPP
- 46. Supersized marathon?: RUNOFTHEMILLION
- 50. Attacked, in a way: RANAT
- 54. Summer cooler: ADE
- 55. Not agin: FER
- 56. Target: AIMAT
- 57. Hit musical with the song "Razzle Dazzle": CHICAGO
- 59. Kind of badge: MERIT
- 61. Mix: OLIO
- 62. Spread dirt: GOSSIPED
- 63. What Edmund Hillary had?: MOUNTAINPASSION
- 68. Advertising "spokesman" since 1916: MRPEANUT
- 71. Oscar ___ Hoya: DELA
- 72. Strepitous: NOISY
- 76. Model: PARAGON
- 77. 1945 Robert Mitchum war film: GIJOE
- 79. Datebook abbr.: TUE
- 81. Old home loan org.: NHA
- 82. Shorthand taker: STENO
- 83. "Let's try e-tailing!"?: NOTIONFORPROFIT
- 87. Dress (up): TOG
- 89. Snoopy: NOSY
- 90. Lets go: SETSFREE
- 91. Trouble: ADO
- 94. Place for a stream: DALE
- 96. Like some buggy drivers: AMISH
- 98. Sudoku and others: FADS
- 99. Pre-trial blunder?: DEPOSITIONSLIP
- 104. "Concentration" pronoun: EWE
- 106. Struck out: OMITTED
- 107. Turn red, maybe: RIPEN
- 108. She may be off her rocker: GRANDMA
- 112. Outdid in: BEATAT
- 113. Neigh?: PONYEXPRESSION
- 115. Diner: EATERY
- 116. Really digging: INTO
- 117. It may be inflated: EGO
- 118. Bait: TEMPT
- 119. Comics canine: SNERT
- 120. Role for 45-Down in "Angels in America": COHN
- 121. Spotted: SAW
- 122. Some hook shapes: ESSES
down
- 1. Acad.: INST
- 2. Product that comes as a cream or wax: NAIR
- 3. City ESE of Turin: ASTI
- 4. Ignominious end: WATERLOO
- 5. Pass over: ELIDE
- 6. Ink: SIGN
- 7. Venus or Mars: ORB
- 8. Allies in the Gulf war: SAUDIS
- 9. "___ lost!": ALLIS
- 10. Dramatist Pirandello who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author": LUIGI
- 11. Low-budget prefix: ECONO
- 12. Dict. listing: SYN
- 13. Ruthless attitude: TAKENOPRISONERS
- 14. Thalassographer's study: OCEAN
- 15. Tankard material: PEWTER
- 16. State capital since 1889: PIERRE
- 17. Pressure: STRESS
- 21. Only key Irving Berlin composed in: FSHARP
- 23. What a lover of kitsch has: NOTASTE
- 24. Marked down: LESS
- 28. HBO competitor: TMC
- 30. Deliberate: MUSE
- 31. Turkey club?: NATO
- 32. Split: SCRAM
- 33. ___ Cologne: EAUDE
- 34. Li'l Broadway role for Peter Palmer: ABNER
- 36. Longtime baseball union head Donald ___: FEHR
- 40. Strong out of the gate: OFFTOAGOODSTART
- 41. Hershey bar: ALMONDJOY
- 42. Diminutive suffix: ULA
- 43. Little louse: NIT
- 45. See 120-Across: PACINO
- 47. ___ fide (in bad faith): MALA
- 48. Sundial hour: IIII
- 49. Ones getting base pay?: Abbr.: NCOS
- 51. High fiber?: NAP
- 52. Sensitive subject, to some: AGE
- 53. Strauss's "___ und Verklärung": TOD
- 58. Philosopher Chu ___: HSI
- 60. Words from a backpedaler: IMEANT
- 61. 12-time baseball All-Star, 1934-45: OTT
- 62. Fed. property overseer: GSA
- 64. Game with a seven-card draw: UNO
- 65. Trevor who directed "Cats": NUNN
- 66. Low hand: PEON
- 67. First Hebrew letter: Var.: ALEF
- 68. AWOL chasers: MPS
- 69. Backstabber: RAT
- 70. Opposite of post-: PRE
- 73. Red leader?: INFRA
- 74. Drew back: SHIED
- 75. Eastwood's "Rawhide" role: YATES
- 77. It was "really lookin' fine" in a 1964 pop hit: GTO
- 78. "___ for Innocent" (Sue Grafton novel): IIS
- 79. Dos follower: TRES
- 80. In the sky, maybe: UPTHERE
- 84. "Dedicated to the ___ Love": ONEI
- 85. Russian poet ___ Mandelstam: OSIP
- 86. Transgressions: OFFENSES
- 88. High spirits: GAIETY
- 91. Building blocks: ADOBES
- 92. Put down: DEMEAN
- 93. Sleep inducer: OPIATE
- 95. Part of a U.K. business name: LTD
- 96. On the calm side: ALEE
- 97. Playful creatures: MINXES
- 100. Playful creature: OTTER
- 101. Home of the Black Bears: ORONO
- 102. Last inning, usually: NINTH
- 103. Secretly watch: SPYON
- 105. Refuse: WASTE
- 108. Wax: GROW
- 109. Turns down: DIMS
- 110. Brood: MOPE
- 111. Army members?: ANTS
- 113. Quick shot?: PIC
- 114. Org. for drivers: PGA
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