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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 15, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, June 15, 2013. 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
- 15
- 20
- 38
- 43
Down clues & answers
- 12
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Friday, June 14, 2013
across
- 1. Low interest indicator: YAWN
- 5. Stick: STAB
- 9. "Debts and ___ are generally mixed together": Rabelais: LIES
- 13. Give a second hearing?: ECHO
- 14. Go places: TOUR
- 15. Buffet table utensil: LADLE
- 16. His death prompted Georges Pompidou to say "France is a widow": CHARLESDEGAULLE
- 19. Show stopper: COMMERCIALBREAK
- 20. Church cry: HOSANNA
- 21. Spoke lovingly: COOED
- 22. Vegas casino that hosts the World Series of Poker, with "the": RIO
- 23. Celebrated racehorse nicknamed "The Red Terror": PHARLAP
- 25. Furniture usually with pillows: DIVAN
- 28. Hangs on: WAITS
- 29. Surfing area?: WEB
- 31. Light weapon: EPEE
- 32. Uppercut targets: CHINS
- 33. Pier 1 furniture material: CANE
- 34. Not looking 100% well: WAN
- 35. Bad, for good: SLANG
- 36. Singer Taylor: DAYNE
- 37. Notwithstanding: DESPITE
- 39. Soft lens's makeup: GEL
- 40. Jewelry chain: ZALES
- 41. Ultimate problem solver: PANACEA
- 45. Words after "Oh well": YOUCANTWINEMALL
- 48. Loaded roll: EVERYTHINGBAGEL
- 49. They rate high on the Beaufort scale: GALES
- 50. Pot addition: ANTE
- 51. Terminus of the old Virginia and Truckee Railroad: RENO
- 52. Ziploc competitor: GLAD
- 53. They're often bagged: TEAS
- 54. "This is quite a surprise!": ISAY
down
- 1. Less polite way of saying "no thanks" to offered food: YECCH
- 2. Evidence of an allergic reaction: ACHOO
- 3. Collides with noisily: WHAMS
- 4. 1979 film based on the life of Crystal Lee Sutton: NORMARAE
- 5. Pink fuel: STERNO
- 6. Opera with the aria "Recondita armonia": TOSCA
- 7. Volkswagen subsidiary: AUDI
- 8. Getting through: BREACHING
- 9. Daphne, after her mythical transformation: LAUREL
- 10. Wasted, as time: IDLEDAWAY
- 11. "Phantom Lady" co-star Raines: ELLA
- 12. Go for: SEEK
- 15. Exerts oneself: LABORS
- 17. Survivor of two 1918 assassination attempts: LENIN
- 18. Rejoices tactlessly: GLOATS
- 23. "The American Crisis" pamphleteer: PAINE
- 24. One of the Colonial Colleges, informally: PENN
- 25. Ground water?: DEW
- 26. Paperless way to read the paper: IPAD
- 27. Only founding member of OPEC not located in the Mideast: VENEZUELA
- 28. "Come again?": WHATSTHAT
- 30. Wax worker: BEE
- 32. Ad agency acquisition: CLIENT
- 33. Fried appetizer: CALAMARI
- 35. Flares: SPLAYS
- 36. Summer Triangle star: DENEB
- 38. Not to be disrespected: SACRED
- 39. River mentioned in the Rig Veda: GANGES
- 41. Historic caravel: PINTA
- 42. Bar rooms?: CAGES
- 43. Tennis's Dementieva: ELENA
- 44. Many a filling material: ALLOY
- 45. One with a job opening?: YEGG
- 46. Like the leaves of a trailing arbutus: OVAL
- 47. Robert Louis Stevenson described it as "bottled poetry": WINE
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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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