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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 25, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 25, 2012. 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
- 53
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 36
- 39
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
across
- 1. Went easy on: SPARED
- 7. Went 90, say: SPED
- 11. Pop's relative?: BANG
- 15. Nurse: SIP
- 18. 18th-century Russian emperor: PETERII
- 20. "___ homo": ECCE
- 21. Media executive Bob: IGER
- 22. Mobile info organizer: PDA
- 23. Every chemical element has one: ATOMICSYMBOL
- 25. Stalks in a soup kitchen: CELERIES
- 27. "Tough-actin'" medication: TINACTIN
- 28. Ginger cookie: SNAP
- 30. Eye salaciously: LEERAT
- 31. Bare: STARK
- 32. 2012 Mark Wahlberg comedy: TED
- 34. Load to bear: ONUS
- 36. Present from birth: INNATE
- 37. Antlered animal: ELK
- 38. Goggled: GAZED
- 40. Worrisome Arctic and Antarctic developments: OZONEHOLES
- 42. ___ anglais (English horn): COR
- 43. Congratulations indicator: PAT
- 45. Have loans: OWE
- 46. Sue Grafton's "___ for Outlaw": OIS
- 47. Popular Caribbean destination, informally: STBARTS
- 51. "___ 1138" (1971 sci-fi film): THX
- 53. Search with a fine-tooth comb: SCOUR
- 55. Realm: SPHERE
- 56. Sommelier's pick: CLARET
- 59. Drapery adornments: TASSELS
- 63. Backup procedure: PLANB
- 64. Chorus line leader?: TRA
- 65. Seeing someone socially: ONADATE
- 67. Fan sound: RAH
- 68. Cost: RANTO
- 69. Conservationist's catchphrase: SAVEWATER
- 71. Slope: GRADE
- 73. Pose: ASK
- 74. Falls for married women?: NIAGARA
- 76. Roker and Pacino: ALS
- 77. Supermarket datum: AISLE
- 78. To date: THUSFAR
- 80. Like puns among all forms of humor, it's said: LOWEST
- 82. In the arms of Morpheus: ASLEEP
- 83. Place: POSIT
- 85. ___ Diego: SAN
- 86. Harangues: SCREEDS
- 88. Arm of the U.S. Cong.: GAO
- 89. Big tippler: SOT
- 91. Financial page abbr.: YTD
- 93. Some nods: OKS
- 94. Arborist's catchphrase: PLANTATREE
- 98. Gemini and Virgo: SIGNS
- 100. Exchange purchase: Abbr.: STK
- 103. Dutch exports: TULIPS
- 104. Sight on an Alaskan cruise: ORCA
- 106. Animal pouch: SAC
- 107. Transnational cash: EUROS
- 109. Farm machines: BALERS
- 110. N.Y.C. home of van Gogh: MOMA
- 112. Cause panic in a theater, perhaps: YELLFIRE
- 114. Seltzer bottle capacity: ONELITER
- 117. Environmentalist's catchphrase: CONSERVEFUEL
- 119. Hubbub: ADO
- 120. Neighbor of Sask.: NDAK
- 121. Band with a juiced-up name?: ACDC
- 122. Tokenish: NOMINAL
- 123. Vacation acquisition, maybe: TAN
- 124. Edible root: TARO
- 125. ___ Hashana: ROSH
- 126. Flirtatious lot: VIXENS
down
- 1. Tiffs: SPATS
- 2. Tiny: PETITE
- 3. Like much avant-garde music: ATONAL
- 4. Comment: REMARK
- 5. Dampier of the N.B.A.: ERICK
- 6. Webster's ref.: DICT
- 7. Theological inst.: SEM
- 8. Potential landfill pollutants, for short: PCBS
- 9. Car opener?: ECONO
- 10. Presidential middle name: DELANO
- 11. Signature piece?: BIC
- 12. Century, say: AGE
- 13. Nervous ___: NELLIE
- 14. Atmospheric worries: GREENHOUSEGASES
- 15. Pasta shapes: SPIRALS
- 16. Brainstorm: IDEATE
- 17. Wallops: PASTES
- 19. Question to a museum visitor: ISITART
- 24. California's Santa ___ Mountains: YNEZ
- 26. "Girl With a Hoop" and "The Umbrellas": RENOIRS
- 29. "The Last Don" author: PUZO
- 33. Bank statement abbr.: DEP
- 35. Farm females: SOWS
- 38. 45th American vice president: GORE
- 39. Processed material: DATA
- 41. Fruity drinks: NECTARS
- 42. Global warming calculation whose shape is suggested by connecting 14 squares in this puzzle in a closed loop based on the appropriate 23-Across: CARBONFOOTPRINT
- 44. Kind of society that is careless of the environment: THROWAWAY
- 47. Éclat: SPLASH
- 48. 1998 Alanis Morissette hit: THANKU
- 49. Out of line?: BENT
- 50. Beanpole: SCRAG
- 52. Woman warrior: XENA
- 54. Nibble for Dobbin: OAT
- 55. Jack who's a picky eater: SPRAT
- 57. Montreal suburb: LAVAL
- 58. Farewells: TATAS
- 60. Cleared: ERASED
- 61. Soup servers: LADLES
- 62. Followers: SHEEP
- 64. Like pre-1917 Russia: TSARIST
- 66. Shoulder muscles, in gym-speak: DELTS
- 70. Love personified: EROS
- 72. Antagonize: RILE
- 75. ___ in igloo: IAS
- 79. Droopy-eared pet: SPANIEL
- 81. Tolkien forest creatures: ENTS
- 82. Scroll holders: ARKS
- 84. One frequently being waved at: TORO
- 87. Worry: CONCERN
- 88. Part of the Spanish Armada: GALLEON
- 90. Semester, e.g.: TERM
- 92. Put down: DIS
- 94. Mosquito fleet vessel: PTBOAT
- 95. Angola's capital: LUANDA
- 96. "Law & Order" figure: Abbr.: ASSTDA
- 97. Green vehicle: ECOCAR
- 99. Marvin who sang "Let's Get It On": GAYE
- 100. Follow-up letters?: SUFFIX
- 101. Father, Son and Holy Spirit: TRIUNE
- 102. Seoul soul: KOREAN
- 105. Old brand whose logo featured a torch: AMOCO
- 107. Varnish ingredient: ELEMI
- 108. Unloads: SELLS
- 111. English connections: ANDS
- 113. Ukrainian city, formerly: LVOV
- 115. Bud holder: EAR
- 116. "King Kong" studio: RKO
- 118. Educ. facility: SCH
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