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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 29, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 29, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 16
- 34
Down clues & answers
- 36
- 37
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across
- 1. Blade for blades: SCYTHE
- 7. Pandemonium: BEDLAM
- 13. 1965 title role for Peter O'Toole: LORDJIM
- 20. Rip into: TEARAT
- 21. Loose: ATEASE
- 22. Cow: OVERAWE
- 23. Battle of Trafalgar hero: ADMIRALNELSON
- 25. Last king of a united Israel, in the Bible: SOLOMON
- 26. Chinese export: TEA
- 27. Sleep like ___: ALOG
- 28. Kind of track: TENURE
- 30. Proceed: WEND
- 31. "God's ___ heaven, all's right with the world": INHIS
- 33. Manhattan neighborhood: NOHO
- 35. Two-time host of the Olympics: ATHENS
- 38. Oak or ash: COARSEGRAINEDWOOD
- 43. Antique, say: AGE
- 46. Obama cabinet member Salazar: KEN
- 47. Silents star Renée: ADOREE
- 48. Platypus, e.g.: MAMMAL
- 50. Hasty escape: LAM
- 53. Not so civil: RUDER
- 56. Slate, e.g., informally: EMAG
- 57. Computer letters: EMAILS
- 58. "She's ___ doll" (4 Seasons lyric): ARAG
- 60. Lucifer, notably: FALLENANGEL
- 63. ESPN topic: NCAA
- 64. It was flown by James Bond in "Dr. No": PANAM
- 66. Investor's concern: YIELD
- 67. Mimic of a sort: MYNAH
- 69. Site of many a fountain: PLAZA
- 70. ___ Club: SAMS
- 71. You may work on it: SPEC
- 74. Container that's hoisted: STEIN
- 77. Costume: GETUP
- 79. Kid: TEASE
- 80. Title girl of a 1964 Beach Boys song: WENDY
- 81. Runner Zátopek: EMIL
- 83. Suffer for acting unwisely: PAYTHEPIPER
- 88. Spiny ___ (aquarium fish): EELS
- 89. The Brady Bill is one: GUNLAW
- 91. Elvis's middle name: ARON
- 92. "Me too": SODOI
- 94. Bar stock: RYE
- 95. German chancellor Merkel: ANGELA
- 96. 1983 Peace Nobelist: WALESA
- 98. Magazine department: ART
- 100. Stop: DIE
- 101. New Jersey ecumenical institution: PRINCETONSEMINARY
- 108. Daydreamer's doing: DOODLE
- 110. Biblical kingdom: MOAB
- 111. Fifth-century pope: STLEO
- 112. Medical suffix: ITIS
- 114. Party to a financial transaction: DRAWEE
- 118. Transaction option: CASH
- 120. Upper limit: LID
- 121. Co-star of "Grumpy Old Men," 1993: MATTHAU
- 124. Tiny friend of Dumbo: TIMOTHYQMOUSE
- 127. Amorphous: AMOEBIC
- 128. Like a yellow polka dot bikini in a 1961 #1 hit: TEENIE
- 129. The Father of Genetics: MENDEL
- 130. Eat away: CORRODE
- 131. Tumult: UNREST
- 132. Lays low?: INTERS
down
- 1. Interference: STATIC
- 2. Cesar ___, five-time Gold Glove winner, 1972-76: CEDENO
- 3. Kawasaki competitor: YAMAHA
- 4. Numerical prefix: TRI
- 5. Tormentor: HARASSER
- 6. Abbr. after some names: ETAL
- 7. City on the Penobscot: BANGOR
- 8. When école is not in session: ETE
- 9. Shoulder muscle: DELTOID
- 10. Perform high-tech surgery on: LASE
- 11. "And she shall bring forth ___": Matthew 1:21: ASON
- 12. It may be written on a blackboard: MENU
- 13. Finish behind: LOSETO
- 14. Egg: Prefix: OVO
- 15. Brother or brother-in-law: Abbr.: REL
- 16. Be covered with, with "in": DROWN
- 17. "The World Is My Home" memoirist, 1991: JAMESAMICHENER
- 18. Cry of glee: IWON
- 19. Heal: MEND
- 24. Time-consuming: LONG
- 29. Possible source of salmonella poisoning: RAWEGG
- 32. Bug: IRK
- 34. Tulip-exporting city: HAARLEM
- 36. Plain: HOMELY
- 37. Cheese town: EDAM
- 39. Ample, informally: ENUF
- 40. ___ in sight: NOEND
- 41. Witty Bombeck: ERMA
- 42. School appointment: DEAN
- 44. Bash: GALA
- 45. Designer Schiaparelli: ELSA
- 49. Sighting off the Florida coast: MANATEE
- 50. Dweller on the Arctic Circle: LAPP
- 51. Uzbekistan's ___ Sea: ARAL
- 52. Deadline maker: MANAGINGEDITOR
- 54. Place for a masseuse: DAYSPA
- 55. "Dream Children" essayist: ELIA
- 59. Swift runner: GAZELLE
- 61. 2002 British Open champ: ELS
- 62. Made introductions, say: EMCEED
- 65. Gymnast's need: MAT
- 68. Australian state: Abbr.: NSW
- 71. Equinox mo.: SEP
- 72. Buddy: PAISANO
- 73. Former Orr teammate, familiarly: ESPO
- 75. Without purpose: IDLY
- 76. It has 1,366 seats: Abbr.: NYSE
- 78. To the stars: UPWARD
- 79. Principle: TENET
- 81. Old expletive: EGAD
- 82. Bond type, briefly: MUNI
- 84. Big bore: YAWNER
- 85. Gillette's ___ II: TRAC
- 86. Argument weakness: HOLE
- 87. Meander: ROAM
- 90. Purina brand: ALPO
- 93. Ones whose symbol is a harp: IRISHMEN
- 97. A person: SOMEONE
- 99. Coyote's supply in Road Runner cartoons: TNT
- 102. Axis leader: ILDUCE
- 103. Bag in a closet: SACHET
- 104. Web site with the headings "Toys & Hobbies" and "Music": EBAY
- 105. Refer: ALLUDE
- 106. Paul of "Mad About You": REISER
- 107. Snack food made by Drake's: YODELS
- 109. Blender brand: OSTER
- 112. G4 or G5: IMAC
- 113. ___-shanter: TAMO
- 115. North Pacific island: ATTU
- 116. Locale for Apfelstrudel and Sachertorte: WIEN
- 117. Like 911: Abbr.: EMER
- 119. 640 acres: Abbr.: SQMI
- 122. "Curb Your Enthusiasm" airer: HBO
- 123. First ___: AID
- 125. Poetic contraction: TIS
- 126. Home of Point Pelee Natl. Park: ONT
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