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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 23, 2014

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Monday, June 23, 2014

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, June 23, 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, June 22, 2014

across

1. Letter-shaped opening in a machine shop: TSLOT
6. Sticky stuff: GOOP
10. Mature: RIPEN
15. Not playing with a full deck: DAFT
19. Goonlike: APISH
20. River that drains the western Pyrenees: EBRO
21. Hersey's "A Bell for ___": ADANO
22. "House of Frankenstein" director ___ C. Kenton: ERLE
23. 2014, for Doublemint gum: CIENTENNIAL
25. Mexican president of the early 2000s: VICIENTEFOX
27. Triangle part: LEG
28. Tyler Perry, to Katy Perry, e.g.: NORELATION
30. Churning, as the stomach: UPSET
31. Draw (from): DERIVE
33. Kitchenette cooker: HOTPLATE
36. Happy refrain: TRALA
37. One with home protection?: SNAIL
40. Middle-of-the-road: CIENTRIST
44. Like mother-of-pearl: IRIDESCIENT
46. When repeated, White Rabbit's cry: IMLATE
48. Nonalcoholic brew: TEA
49. ___ souci (carefree): SANS
50. White-crested ducks: SMEWS
52. Game in a forest: ELK
53. Former political divs.: SSRS
54. Car ad fig.: MPG
55. Country whose name is an anagram of another country's capital: MALI
57. Part of i.o.u.: IOWE
59. Extra wager: SIDEBET
62. Took for booking: RANIN
63. Podiatrist's concern: TARSI
65. Southern university whose newspaper is the Hullabaloo: TULANE
66. Several days ago, say: RECIENTPAST
70. Bugs that technically are misnamed: CIENTIPEDES
72. Burn up: ENRAGE
73. Butler of book or film: RHETT
75. Prepares to be shot: POSES
76. Suggest: PROPOSE
78. "Dies ___": IRAE
79. In: AMID
80. ___-pitch: SLO
83. Mountains have developed over them: EONS
84. Soul: Fr.: AME
86. "Foreign Affairs" author Alison: LURIE
88. Whoop-de-do: STIR
89. Blood-typing letters: ABO
90. Bully: HARASS
93. Agent's cut: PERCIENTAGE
96. Total value of the symbols created by the special crossings in this puzzle: TENCIENTS
98. Doctor's orders: TESTS
100. "___ has no age": Picasso: YOUTH
101. Sand, maybe: SMOOTHEN
103. Fast crowd: JETSET
104. Floored: INAWE
107. Flaxseed or quinoa, e.g.: HEALTHFOOD
111. Opus ___: DEI
113. Something square to eat?: DECIENTMEAL
116. Defendant's cry: IMINNOCIENT
118. Mythological subject of a Michelangelo painting: LEDA
119. Hair extension: WEAVE
120. Of Peter O'Toole's eight Oscar nominations, how many he won: NONE
121. Scruffs: NAPES
122. Broadway singer Linda: EDER
123. Venomous snake: ADDER
124. Cries (for): ASKS
125. One for the books: ENTRY

down

1. Dangerous part of an alligator: TACIL
2. Where many tickets are distributed: SPEEDTRAP
3. Not going away: LINGERING
4. German direction: OST
5. Agatha Christie mystery setting: THENILE
6. Type: GENRE
7. Theater award: OBIE
8. Kind of fixation: ORAL
9. Film legend Negri: POLA
10. Entree item with crimped edges: RAVIOLI
11. Chowderhead: IDIOT
12. Percocet, for one: PACINPCILL
13. Suffix with ethyl: ENE
14. Partisan leader?: NON
15. More profound: DEEPER
16. Pounds' sounds: ARFS
17. Moving ice: FLOE
18. Message with an emoji, maybe: TEXT
24. Bright stars: NOVAS
26. "Così Fan ___": TUTTE
29. Summer weather stat.: THI
32. Dangerous units: RADS
34. Blabs, say: LEAKS
35. Crawler on an M. C. Escher Möbius strip: ANT
37. It may be a credit to you: SEMINAR
38. Mobile-to-Birmingham dir.: NNE
39. Nervously excited: ATWITTER
41. "Things are not looking good": ITSBAD
42. Untroubled: SERENE
43. Samples: TASTES
44. System of beliefs: ISM
45. Town on the south shore of Long Island: CISLIP
47. Reagan attorney general: MEESE
51. "___ man walks into a bar ...": SOA
53. Youngest-ever French Open winner, 1990: SELES
55. Fruit with a flat pit: MANGO
56. Pot collection: ANTES
58. Articles in a paper: WRCITEUPS
60. Formal reply to "Who's there?": ITISI
61. Snookered: DUPED
62. Harvests: REAPS
64. Two by two: INPAIRS
66. Shampoo instruction: REPEAT
67. Clothe: ENROBE
68. Like some patches: CIRONON
69. Starts: SHIES
71. Actress who co-starred in "The Lincoln Lawyer": TOMECI
74. Chess champ Mikhail: TAL
77. Keep an ___ the street: EARTO
80. Hillary Clinton's domain, once: Abbr.: STATEDEPT
81. Summer hair product: LIGHTENER
82. Some freight cargo: ORE
85. Times table?: MASTHEAD
87. Abbr. in many an officer's title: RET
88. N.B.A. coach Jackson and others: STUS
90. Muscle builders: HEMEN
91. Year in Madrid: ANO
92. One who's taking inventory?: STEALER
94. "Keep your ___ the prize!": EYEON
95. Half-baked, maybe: NOTDONE
97. "Honest!": CISWEAR
99. Make bigger: Abbr.: ENL
102. Emit, as a big sigh: HEAVE
103. Craving: JONES
104. Not lifting a finger: IDLE
105. Craving: NEED
106. Right hand: ACIDE
108. Funny Fey: TINA
109. Certain co. plans: HMOS
110. Informant: FINK
112. Wee, informally: ITSY
114. Pan Am rival: TWA
115. T-shirt size: Abbr.: MED
117. Actor McKellen: CIAN

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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.

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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.
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.
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Can I see past crossword answers?

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