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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 30, 2014

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Friday, May 30, 2014

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, May 30, 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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Thursday, May 29, 2014

across

1. Knock silly: DAZE
5. Some Summer Olympics gear: EPEES
10. "Spider-Man" girl: GWEN
14. Stone, e.g.: UNIT
15. "The Alchemist" novelist ___ Coelho: PAULO
16. Facetious words of understanding: AHSO
17. Backdrop for the final scene of Antonioni's "L'Avventura": ETNA
18. How some legal proceedings are conducted: INREM
19. Apocryphal beast: YETI
20. #1: TICTACTOEBOARD
23. Comic ___ (typeface): SANS
24. Seaside bird: ERNE
25. Revolutionary body?: ORB
28. New York City's ___ Galerie: NEUE
30. Odds, e.g.: RATIOS
33. #2: POUNDSIGN
36. Sleep with, in slang: SHTUP
37. Simpleton: RUBE
38. Afflictions known technically as hordeola: STYES
40. This, to Tomás: ESTO
41. Comparably sized: ASBIG
43. #3: SPACEMARK
45. "Not in a million years!": HELLNO
47. Mode of transportación: TREN
48. Shape of a timeout signal: TEE
49. Genesis' "man of the field": ESAU
50. Symbol of softness: SNOW
52. #4: TWITTERHASHTAG
58. Waiting room distribution: FORM
59. Something that's on the record?: PRIOR
60. Where Macbeth, Malcolm and Duncan are buried: IONA
61. Aoki of the P.G.A.: ISAO
62. Things twins share: UTERI
63. TV greaser, with "the": FONZ
64. FiveThirtyEight owner: ESPN
65. Complete: Prefix: TELEO
66. Get out of town: FLEE

down

1. 1965's "I Got You Babe," e.g.: DUET
2. "No" voter: ANTI
3. Brass section?: ZINC
4. Solide and liquide: ETATS
5. Condition of being awesome, in modern slang: EPICNESS
6. Hillary Clinton wardrobe staples: PANTSUITS
7. Start to pop?: EURO
8. Gen. Robert ___: ELEE
9. Like many works in minor keys: SOMBER
10. "It's Raining Men," for one: GAYANTHEM
11. The place to be: WHEREITSAT
12. Abbr. on a historic building: ESTD
13. "___ insist!": NOI
21. ___ E (TV channel): AAND
22. "___ my dad would say ...": ORAS
25. Media icon with an eponymous Starbucks beverage: OPRAH
26. Shake, maybe: ROUSE
27. It might pop in the post office: BUBBLEWRAP
29. Memphis's home: EGYPT
31. More than quirky: OUTRE
32. Held forth: SPOKE
34. Writer with the most combined Tony and Oscar nominations: NEILSIMON
35. Littoral: NEARSHORE
39. Sequence of events: SCENARIO
42. Tiny irritant: GNAT
44. Genesis grandson: ENOS
46. Yield: OUTPUT
51. Swing and miss: WHIFF
52. Chuck: TOSS
53. Romain de Tirtoff's pseudonym: ERTE
54. Cambodian currency: RIEL
55. One being used: TOOL
56. ___ Bradstreet, America's first published poet: ANNE
57. The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats: GAZE
58. Outdated cry: FIE

Hints and full breakdown for May 29

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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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What is a rebus square?

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Can I see past crossword answers?

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