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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 9, 2007
Saturday, June 9, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, June 9, 2007. 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
- 17
- 23
- 48
- 49
- 58
Down clues & answers
- 8
- 21
- 36
- 41
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Friday, June 8, 2007
across
- 1. 1971 hit with the lyric "He danced for those at minstrel shows": MRBOJANGLES
- 12. Big shot? Hardly!: BBS
- 15. Film in which Ford was president: AIRFORCEONE
- 16. 1998 Tony winner for Best Play: ART
- 17. Clowns: PLAYSAROUND
- 18. Agatha Christie's "___ M?": NOR
- 19. Flower with a bulb: SEGO
- 20. Have insomnia: LIEAWAKE
- 22. Tough guys: RAMBOS
- 26. Group on Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool," e.g.: NONET
- 27. Boxer's training equipment: SPEEDBAG
- 30. Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures": MARC
- 31. Torah's beginning?: TAV
- 32. Grammy winner Blige: MARYJ
- 34. Like arctic winters: HARSH
- 35. Least interesting: ARIDEST
- 37. Issue: EMANATE
- 39. Curved nail: TALON
- 40. Seen enough: HADIT
- 42. Launch of 1986: MIR
- 43. Title boy in a 1964 Disney film: EMIL
- 44. McIntosh cousins: WINESAPS
- 46. Improves: HONES
- 48. Most of Mauritania: DESERT
- 49. Makes obsolete: OUTDATES
- 51. "The X-Files" fodder: UFOS
- 55. A, in Aix: UNE
- 56. Oscar winner between Tom Hanks and Geoffrey Rush: NICOLASCAGE
- 60. Victoria in London, e.g.: Abbr.: STN
- 61. Subject of "The Double Helix": DNAMOLECULE
- 62. Id follower: EST
- 63. Protected areas: SAFETYZONES
down
- 1. Google heading: MAPS
- 2. Bring to a boil: RILE
- 3. Crow: BRAG
- 4. In the distant past: OFYORE
- 5. ___ A. Bank, menswear retailer: JOS
- 6. Constellation near Norma: ARA
- 7. Big ATM maker: NCR
- 8. Topic in oil exploration: GEOLOGY
- 9. Tiffany who made Tiffany lamps: LOUIS
- 10. Relative of -trix: ENNE
- 11. Body type: SEDAN
- 12. Girl group with the 1986 #1 hit "Venus": BANANARAMA
- 13. "Buy now," e.g.: BROKERSTIP
- 14. Emergency equipment: STRETCHERS
- 21. Creation of Genesis 2:22: WOMAN
- 23. Some pitchers: ADMEN
- 24. Stern School degs.: MBAS
- 25. Author of "The Sot-Weed Factor": BARTH
- 27. Dome site: STATEHOUSE
- 28. Supreme rulers: PARAMOUNTS
- 29. Malice aforethought: EVILINTENT
- 33. Film knights: JEDIS
- 34. Misanthrope: HATER
- 36. Given (out): DOLED
- 38. Gold digger's destination: MINE
- 41. Skater dude's exclamation: AWESOME
- 45. Wall treatment: STUCCO
- 47. Erstwhile Vegas hotel: SANDS
- 48. After-dinner request: DECAF
- 50. Brown with a blue pencil: TINA
- 52. Pan, for one: FAUN
- 53. Give a body check?: OGLE
- 54. Meets: SEES
- 57. Ultimate outcome: LOT
- 58. One of the Khans: ALY
- 59. "___ who?": SEZ
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How the week is built
- 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.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- 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.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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