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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 19, 2014

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Monday, May 19, 2014

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, May 19, 2014. 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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Sunday, May 18, 2014

across

1. Pat: DAB
4. Nosed around: PRIED
9. Univ. divisions: DEPTS
14. Early third-century year: CCIV
18. Univ. in Troy, N.Y.: RPI
19. Quarter back, possibly: CHANGE
20. Like some workers: APIAN
21. Edison's middle name: ALVA
22. Irish chemist?: ANGIEOGRAM
24. Irish arborist?: WILLOTREES
26. Harvey of Hollywood: WEINSTEIN
27. China's Zhou ___: ENLAI
28. How pastrami is usually ordered: ONRYE
29. Serenaded: SANGTO
30. "Scary Movie," for one: SPOOF
31. Love letters?: SWAK
32. Irish secretary?: JEANOTYPING
36. Targets for a delivery: SHIPSTO
39. One may take you in: SCAM
41. Mists: SPRAYS
42. Bird on a Canadian dollar: LOON
43. All-human bridge?: TOO
44. Barely bite: NIPAT
46. When the day's done, to Donne: EEN
47. Irish algebra teacher?: COREYOGRAPH
51. Missile Command maker: ATARI
52. Noodges: NAGS
54. Big name in restaurant reviews: ZAGAT
55. "Hard ___!" (nautical command): ALEE
56. Digs of pigs: PEN
57. When the day's done, to Denis: NUIT
59. End of a game?: ALAI
61. Long, angry complaint: SCREED
63. Irish woodworker?: PATTYOFURNITURE
67. Lie: REPOSE
70. Part of a dishwasher: RACK
71. California county or its seat: NAPA
72. Beat: TOP
75. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g.: ARUM
76. Finger-pointer: NAMER
79. ___ City (Baghdad area): SADR
81. Lie: STORY
83. Irish mountain climber?: NATEOSUMMIT
86. Family nickname: SIS
87. Canadian blockhead: HOSER
88. Suffix with zinc: ITE
89. Victory goddess: NIKE
90. Set crowd, maybe: EXTRAS
93. Where the Storting meets: OSLO
94. Light reddish-brown horses: SORRELS
96. Irish dogsled racer?: JUNEOALASKA
99. 1979 Roman Polanski film: TESS
100. Places for fuel: TANKS
101. Places for panels: DAISES
104. Fall shade: OCHRE
106. Some investment bonds, for short: MUNIS
107. Band with the 1974 #1 hit "The Night Chicago Died": PAPERLACE
110. Irish health care worker?: MAEOCLINIC
112. Irish painter?: MELOYELLOW
113. Do sometimes called a "natural": AFRO
114. Support: BRACE
115. "So true": IAGREE
116. Yard filler, maybe: ALE
117. Snorkeling locale: REEF
118. Director von Sternberg: JOSEF
119. Put up with: STAND
120. "___ not!": DID

down

1. Ties: DRAWS
2. Problem in bed, for some: APNEA
3. Like some bands with only modest Western popularity: BIGINJAPAN
4. Light quanta: PHOTONS
5. Burning sensation?: RAGE
6. Calvary inscription: INRI
7. Richard of "A Summer Place": EGAN
8. ___ Bums (Brooklyn Dodgers nickname): DEM
9. Suddenly strike: DAWNON
10. Novel ending: EPILOG
11. Rice dish: PILAF
12. Anklebones: TALI
13. ___-Caps (candy): SNO
14. Steal, as a vehicle: CARNAP
15. Chaucer work that invokes the book of Job, with "The": CLERKSTALE
16. Tony-winning actress Judith: IVEY
17. Still-life subject: VASE
19. Jai alai basket: CESTA
23. ___ Johansson, 1959-60 world heavyweight champion: INGEMAR
25. AAA service: TOWING
27. Protestant denom.: EPISC
30. One who bugs people?: SPY
31. Riddles with bullets: SHOOTSUP
33. Christmas Day urging: OPENIT
34. Compact: TREATY
35. Positive principle: YANG
36. Versatile bean: SOYA
37. Pith helmet: TOPEE
38. Voiced some pleasure: OOHED
39. Breeze: SNAP
40. Quote: CITE
42. Advantage, with "up": LEG
45. "Tony n' ___ Wedding": TINAS
48. Springfield Plateau area: OZARKS
49. Pour: RAIN
50. Numismatist's classification: RARE
53. Preinstalled iPhone browser: SAFARI
58. Setting set: UTENSILS
60. Montréal suburb Côte St.-___: LUC
62. Hard drive malfunction: CRASH
63. Pear or quince: POME
64. Utah city: OREM
65. One of the Gandhis: INDIRA
66. Foot bone: TARSAL
67. Indian princesses: RANIS
68. Orphic hymn charmer: ERATO
69. "Let's shake!": PUTERTHERE
72. Prepare the first course, say: TOSSASALAD
73. Pitcher Hershiser: OREL
74. Lighting expert?: PYRO
77. "Great" birds: AUKS
78. Marie Curie, e.g.: Abbr.: MME
80. About: ASTO
82. Got sick: TOOKILL
84. "I'll be right with you": ONESEC
85. Some distance races: TENKS
91. Marks (out): XES
92. Depressed-looking: SADEYED
95. Cover with new shingles: REROOF
96. She married Bobby on "The Sopranos": JANICE
97. Social welfare org.: UNICEF
98. Eastern wrap: Var.: SAREE
100. Bonito relatives: TUNAS
102. Possible water contaminator: ECOLI
103. Tailored: SEWED
104. Barbra's "Funny Girl" co-star: OMAR
105. ___ noir: CAFE
106. "The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)" painter: MIRO
107. Fertilizer ingredient: PEAT
108. Bit of stagnant-water growth: ALGA
109. Lucrative Internet biz: PORN
111. War on Poverty prez: LBJ
112. What can open files?: MIS

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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.

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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.
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