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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 16, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 16, 2008. 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
- 42
- 43
Down clues & answers
- 35
- 38
- 49
- 55
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
across
- 1. Fills to almost overflowing: TOPSOFF
- 8. Unposed photo: CANDID
- 14. Search blindly: GROPE
- 19. What some shoot in a golf round: EVENPAR
- 20. Decked out: ADORNED
- 22. Alternatives to Yodels: HOHOS
- 23. Memo about Stephen King's "Christine"?: REPOSSESSEDAUTO
- 25. Bob Marley's "___ the Sheriff": ISHOT
- 26. Drop from the invitation list, say: SNUB
- 27. Dig in: EAT
- 28. Staple figure in origami: CRANE
- 30. Emmy-winning Ward: SELA
- 31. Meeting of the minds?: ESP
- 32. Memo about an inveterate perjurer?: RELYINGONINSTINCT
- 37. Like the Honda Element: BOXY
- 38. BBC : Britain :: ___ : Italy: RAI
- 39. Part of 1/2: SLASH
- 40. Want to undo: RUE
- 41. Absentee: TRUANT
- 44. Kind of line: CONGA
- 46. "Now I see!": AHYES
- 48. Memo about a dating guide?: REPAIRMANUAL
- 50. Way around Paris: METRO
- 53. Contingencies: IFS
- 54. MSN rival: AOL
- 55. Board: MEALS
- 57. An essay may be on one: TEST
- 61. Loon: NUTCASE
- 64. Memo about where tariffs are imposed on incoming ships?: REPORTFORDUTY
- 68. In the slightest: ATALL
- 69. Mocks: JEERSAT
- 70. Apple gadget: CORER
- 71. Memo about stores for animal appendages?: RETAILOUTLETS
- 74. Falls on the border: NIAGARA
- 76. Strategic W.W. I river: YSER
- 77. Mower part: BLADE
- 78. Wee bit: TAD
- 79. D.C. bigwig: SEN
- 80. City on the Ruhr: ESSEN
- 82. Memo about a religious outpost for prisoners?: RECONMISSION
- 88. 1492 voyager: PINTA
- 91. Editorial take: SLANT
- 92. Have mercy (on): GOEASY
- 93. Bearded beast: GNU
- 94. Source of wool: LLAMA
- 99. Timecard abbr.: HRS
- 100. Flirtatious sort: MINX
- 101. Memo about why to buy an air purifier?: REMOTEPOSSIBILITY
- 105. Box office sign: SRO
- 108. Canned: AXED
- 109. Lightly moisten: BEDEW
- 110. Journey part: LEG
- 111. "Right on!": AMEN
- 112. Ready to roll? ... or not ready to roll?: TIRED
- 114. Memo about a lyricist?: REVERSEENGINEER
- 119. Top echelon: ELITE
- 120. Ignore the usual wake-up time: SLEEPIN
- 121. Clothing chain since 1994: OLDNAVY
- 122. It's distracting: DECOY
- 123. John James Audubon, e.g.: ARTIST
- 124. "Ain't gonna happen!": NOSIREE
down
- 1. Short and often not sweet: TERSE
- 2. Some are Dutch: OVENS
- 3. Give some zing: PEPUP
- 4. Hoity-toity type: SNOB
- 5. Special ___: OPS
- 6. Fourth members of a musical group: FAS
- 7. At will: FREELY
- 8. Inflexible, as some rules: CASTIRON
- 9. Suffix with stock or block: ADE
- 10. Go-ahead signal: NOD
- 11. ___ Malfoy, Harry Potter antagonist: DRACO
- 12. Buries: INURNS
- 13. Special military assignment: DETAIL
- 14. 4, on a phone: GHI
- 15. "Arrested Development" actress Portia de ___: ROSSI
- 16. Candy bar whose name is an exclamation: OHHENRY
- 17. It may be used for banking: POOLCUE
- 18. They're left behind: ESTATES
- 21. 1958 hit whose B-side was "La Bamba": DONNA
- 24. Articulate: SAY
- 29. Biggest section in a dictionary: ESS
- 32. Rice-A-___: RONI
- 33. All of a crowd, maybe: EXTRAS
- 34. When repeated, Mork's TV sign-off: NANU
- 35. Prefix with byte: GIGA
- 36. Whaling adverb: THAR
- 37. Kid's greeting: BAA
- 41. Threefold: TRINARY
- 42. Proves otherwise: REFUTES
- 43. Like Albany or Chicago: UPSTATE
- 44. Low-___: CAL
- 45. Bordering on: ALMOST
- 47. Frank: HOTDOG
- 49. One of a comedic trio: MOE
- 50. LeBlanc of "Joey": MATT
- 51. One with a pole position?: ELF
- 52. General on a Chinese menu: TSO
- 56. Long lines on a timeline: ERAS
- 58. Turkey is part of it: EURASIA
- 59. Music players: STEREOS
- 60. Rule before a revolution, maybe: TYRANNY
- 62. Popular table wine: CLARET
- 63. Clay, by another name: ALI
- 64. No longer working: Abbr.: RETD
- 65. Specialized fishermen: EELERS
- 66. Grand ___, setting for "Evangeline": PRE
- 67. HDTV maker: RCA
- 69. King ___ Carlos of Spain: JUAN
- 72. Figure-watchers' figs.: LBS
- 73. World Cup cheer: OLE
- 74. Where Forrest Gump did a tour: NAM
- 75. "Gotcha," to a beatnik: IDIGIT
- 78. Boom maker: TNT
- 81. Put (away): SALT
- 83. K-12 grades, collectively: ELHI
- 84. ___ loading: CARB
- 85. How a ringtone may be set: ONSILENT
- 86. Discman maker: SONY
- 87. ___ Ed: SEX
- 88. Like many nonanimated Disney films: PGRATED
- 89. Banished: INEXILE
- 90. Having digits: NUMERIC
- 95. Isr. neighbor: LEB
- 96. They do impressions: APERS
- 97. First Ford: MODELA
- 98. Invariably: ASEVER
- 100. Filet type: MIGNON
- 102. Schiller's "___ Joy": ODETO
- 103. Babydoll: SWEET
- 104. Old western actor Van Cleef: LEE
- 105. Makeup applier's boo-boo: SMEAR
- 106. One of the Canterbury pilgrims: REEVE
- 107. Ham ___: ONRYE
- 111. Years in old Rome: ANNI
- 113. Old Ottoman title: DEY
- 115. Univ. in Troy, N.Y.: RPI
- 116. Family nickname: SIS
- 117. Shine, in product names: GLO
- 118. Fingers: IDS
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