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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 19, 2009

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Friday, June 19, 2009

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, June 19, 2009. 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.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

across

1. Examines a passage: READS
6. Low islands: CAYS
10. Some Morgan Stanley announcements, for short: IPOS
14. Maker of Gauntlet and Area 51: ATARI
15. Cousin of a heckelphone: OBOE
16. Oscar winner Sorvino: MIRA
17. Hospital employee's role as an opera girl?: NURSESAIDA
19. Lord, e.g.: PEER
20. Swear words?: IDO
21. Mattress brand: SERTA
22. Tiramisu topper: COCOA
23. Locales for some orators: SENATES
25. Attorney general before Reno: BARR
26. What Starkist decided to do for "Charlie"?: NAMETHATTUNA
31. Circles overhead?: HALOS
34. Carbonium and others: IONS
35. Boom preceder: SIS
36. Grace period?: AMEN
37. Hard-to-refute evidence in court: TAPES
39. Boarding zones: Abbr.: STNS
40. Veto: NIX
41. Does some floor work: MOPS
42. In turmoil: UPSET
43. A girl, born 8:48 a.m., weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces, e.g.?: DELIVERYDATA
47. You might be safe with them: UMPS
48. Came out: EMERGED
52. Trajectories: PATHS
54. Where some dye for a living: SALON
56. Band from Japan: OBI
57. Hollow response: ECHO
58. Where a Hungarian toy inventor vacations in the Caribbean?: RUBIKSCUBA
60. McAn of footwear: THOM
61. Valuable deposits: ORES
62. Goof-off: IDLER
63. Orphan of literature: EYRE
64. 1976 top 10 hit for Kiss: BETH
65. Talk radio's G. Gordon ___: LIDDY

down

1. Indian royalty: RANIS
2. Exercise performed on a bench: ETUDE
3. Singer Neville: AARON
4. Vets, e.g.: Abbr.: DRS
5. Shop-closing occasions: SIESTAS
6. Not cultured: COARSE
7. Slightly: ABIT
8. His planet of exile is Dagobah: YODA
9. Last word of "America the Beautiful": SEA
10. BMW, e.g.: IMPORT
11. Cobbler bottoms: PIECRUSTS
12. Three-layer snack: OREO
13. Title sister played by Shirley MacLaine, 1970: SARA
18. "... bad as they ___": SEEM
22. Burmese and others: CATS
24. Not long from now: ANON
25. Most of the Ten Commandments, basically: BANS
27. A little stiff?: TIPSY
28. Furrow maker: HOE
29. Almost perfect?: NINE
30. Number two: Abbr.: ASST
31. Full house, e.g.: HAND
32. Gérard's girlfriend: AMIE
33. Villain from DC: LEXLUTHOR
37. Pirouette points: TOES
38. Shower time: Abbr.: APR
39. Train in a ring: SPAR
41. Court stars, maybe, in brief: MVPS
42. Knife, e.g.: UTENSIL
44. Returnee's "hello!": IMHOME
45. "Yum!": DELISH
46. Every which way: AMOK
49. Creator of "Dick Tracy": GOULD
50. Fell back: EBBED
51. Holder of secrets, often: DIARY
52. Black ___, archnemesis of Mickey Mouse: PETE
53. Sore: ACHY
54. "You betcha!": SURE
55. Support when one shouldn't: ABET
58. Take the wrong way?: ROB
59. Year Saint Innocent I became pope: CDI

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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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