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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 7, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, June 7, 2011. 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
- 40
- 54
Down clues & answers
- 31
- 57
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Monday, June 6, 2011
across
- 1. Initials for 56-Across: USMA
- 5. Beginning on: ASOF
- 9. Scottish landowner: LAIRD
- 14. Grand ___ (annual race): PRIX
- 15. Scruff: NAPE
- 16. Take in or let out: ALTER
- 17. Serving on a jury, e.g.: CIVICDUTY
- 19. Mean-spirited: NASTY
- 20. Elvis's "Blue ___ Shoes": SUEDE
- 21. Look up to: ADMIRE
- 22. Channel with "Anderson Cooper 360°": CNN
- 25. Bride's attendant: MAIDOFHONOR
- 27. Get a closer look, as with a camera: ZOOMIN
- 29. Molten tar, e.g.: GOO
- 30. Not an accidental fire: ARSON
- 31. Saintly glow: HALO
- 33. Some NCOs: SGTS
- 37. Sudden military action: RAID
- 38. Enrollee at 56-Across: CADET
- 39. Magazine fig.: CIRC
- 40. Armenia and Azerbaijan, once: Abbr.: SSRS
- 41. Fashionable Christian: DIOR
- 42. Jug band instrument: KAZOO
- 43. Noah's boat: ARK
- 44. Clean, as a floor: WETMOP
- 45. Rural area: BACKCOUNTRY
- 51. Unlock, in verse: OPE
- 52. Sanctuary: ASYLUM
- 53. Father and victim of Oedipus: LAIUS
- 55. Play lightly, as a guitar: STRUM
- 56. School whose motto consists of the last words of 17-, 25- and 45-Across: WESTPOINT
- 60. Pan-fry: SAUTE
- 61. Commedia dell'___: ARTE
- 62. Aviated: FLEW
- 63. "A Doll's House" playwright: IBSEN
- 64. River of Flanders: YSER
- 65. Sax type: ALTO
down
- 1. It's scanned at checkout: Abbr.: UPC
- 2. ___ Lanka: SRI
- 3. 1,004, in old Rome: MIV
- 4. W.W. II foe, with "the": AXIS
- 5. Like llamas and Incas: ANDEAN
- 6. Riyadh resident: SAUDI
- 7. Made a choice: OPTED
- 8. Tina of "30 Rock": FEY
- 9. Cry from a crow's-nest: LANDHO
- 10. 1836 battle site: ALAMO
- 11. "___ the bag": ITSIN
- 12. Fashionable again: RETRO
- 13. Alternative to a clothesline: DRYER
- 18. Curry ingredient: CUMIN
- 21. "The game is ___": Sherlock Holmes: AFOOT
- 22. Ivan, Nicholas and Peter: CZARS
- 23. Author Ephron and others: NORAS
- 24. Military denial: NOSIR
- 26. Leering sort: OGLER
- 28. Hip '60s types: MODS
- 31. Poem with exactly 17 syllables: HAIKU
- 32. Hoopla: ADO
- 33. "Shoo!": SCAT
- 34. Thingamajig: GIZMO
- 35. Army unit: TROOP
- 36. Rifle attachment: SCOPE
- 38. Electronic storage device: CDROM
- 42. Excite: KEYUP
- 43. Keenness of mind: ACUMEN
- 44. Blogger, for one: WRITER
- 45. Low-voiced singers: BASSI
- 46. Take ___ at (try): ASTAB
- 47. "Hannah Montana" star Miley: CYRUS
- 48. 1971 Jane Fonda/Donald Sutherland film: KLUTE
- 49. Padres and Pirates, informally: NLERS
- 50. First small bite: TASTE
- 54. Divan: SOFA
- 56. Modus operandi: WAY
- 57. Under the weather: ILL
- 58. Equipment in badminton and fishing: NET
- 59. Start of D.C.'s ZIP codes or area code: TWO
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- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
- Connections: Sports EditionConnections with a sports-only word poolGuide & tips
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- Midi CrosswordThe mid-size crossword between the Mini and the dailyGuide & tips
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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