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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 6, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 6, 2015. 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
- 39
- 42
Down clues & answers
- 30
- 35
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across
- 1. Monocle part: RIM
- 4. Bridge support: TRUSS
- 9. Many a Theravada Buddhist: THAI
- 13. Indiana city where auto manufacturing was pioneered: KOKOMO
- 16. Ruler in Richard Strauss's "Salome": HEROD
- 17. Construction site sight: HARDHAT
- 21. Art of flower arranging: IKEBANA
- 23. Red-wrapped imports: EDAMS
- 24. Prince of Darkness: EVILONE
- 25. Senate vote: NAY
- 26. Tea made by Peter Rabbit's mother: CAMOMILE
- 28. Restriction on Army enlistees: AGELIMIT
- 29. Part of CBS: Abbr.: SYST
- 31. Bring in a new staff for: REMAN
- 32. Blender sound: WHIR
- 34. "The Untouchables" role: NESS
- 35. Table d'___: HOTE
- 36. Grouch: CRANK
- 37. "Fasten your seatbelts ...": HEREWEGO
- 40. "Smack That" singer: AKON
- 41. Jaunty greeting: HIHO
- 42. Shunned ones: PARIAHS
- 43. Pharma fraud police: FDA
- 46. ___ of time: SANDS
- 48. Half-___ (java order): CAF
- 49. Plains Indian: OTO
- 50. Straw mats: TATAMIS
- 52. Senate vote: AYE
- 53. Hoppy brew, for short: IPA
- 55. Flawless routine: TEN
- 57. City on Utah Lake: OREM
- 59. Duds: TOGS
- 60. Astronomer who wrote "Pale Blue Dot": SAGAN
- 62. U.S. 66, e.g.: Abbr.: HWY
- 63. Like Fr. words after "la": FEM
- 64. Boston iceman: BRUIN
- 65. Plane folk?: GROUNDCREW
- 68. Pepper spray targets: ASSAILANTS
- 70. Extols: LAUDS
- 71. Comcast, e.g., for short: ISP
- 72. Bio subject: DNA
- 73. Trial that bombs, informally: NTEST
- 74. Piedmont city: ASTI
- 75. Stud money: ANTE
- 76. Interminable time: EON
- 77. G.E. and G.M.: COS
- 78. Singer Carly ___ Jepsen: RAE
- 81. Ball-like: SPHERIC
- 83. Award accepted by J. K. Rowling and turned down by C. S. Lewis: OBE
- 85. "___ Ho" ("Slumdog Millionaire" song): JAI
- 87. Big channel in reality programming: TRUTV
- 89. Man's name that's the code for Australia's busiest airport: SYD
- 90. Genre of Oasis and the Verve: BRITPOP
- 92. Works at the ballpark, maybe: UMPS
- 94. Movie dog: ASTA
- 95. Army-Navy stores?: ARSENALS
- 97. Kind of tiara and cross: PAPAL
- 98. Leg bone: SHIN
- 99. Okey-___: DOKE
- 101. Onetime Nair alternative: NEET
- 102. "___ a customer": ONETO
- 103. 10 cc's and 64 fl. oz.: AMTS
- 104. The person you want to be: EGOIDEAL
- 107. Give a thorough hosing: WASHDOWN
- 110. Away: OUT
- 111. What the buyer ends up paying: NETCOST
- 112. Old crime boss Frank: NITTI
- 113. "I Love Lucy" surname: RICARDO
- 115. Response to "Who, me?": YEAHYOU
- 116. Eight-related: OCTAL
- 117. Smooth fabric: SATEEN
- 118. Lip: SASS
- 119. Head of a crime lab?: SKULL
- 120. Prosciutto, e.g.: HAM
down
- 1. Hold up: ROB
- 2. Non-PC office purchase: IMAC
- 3. Beautiful butterfly: MONARCH
- 4. *Nickname for Thomas Jefferson: THEMANOFTHEPEOPLE
- 5. Debt, symbolically: REDINK
- 6. It flows to the Caspian: URAL
- 7. To a degree: SOMEWHAT
- 8. Campus grp. formed in 1960: SDS
- 9. *Nickname for Abraham Lincoln: THEGREATEMANCIPATOR
- 10. Eat or drink: HAVE
- 11. Seed cover: ARIL
- 12. Not going anywhere: IDLING
- 13. Capital on the Congo: KINSHASA
- 14. "I heard you the first time!": OKAYOKAY
- 15. See 18-Down: KEYSTONESOUTHDAKOTA
- 18. What 15-Down is ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues in left-to-right order: HOMEOFMOUNTRUSHMORE
- 19. Black birds: ANIS
- 20. Hanoi celebrations: TETS
- 22. *Nickname for George Washington: AMERICANCINCINNATUS
- 27. Union Pacific headquarters: OMAHA
- 28. "The ___ Breathe" (2007 drama with Kevin Bacon and Julie Delpy): AIRI
- 30. Minister (to): TEND
- 33. *Nickname for Theodore Roosevelt: HEROOFSANJUANHILL
- 38. "Kapow!": WHAM
- 39. Guinness Book suffix: EST
- 42. Pay (up): PONY
- 44. Thumb, for one: DIGIT
- 45. AARP and others: Abbr.: ASSNS
- 47. Subject of semiotics: SIGNS
- 51. Gillette products: ATRAS
- 54. Apartment, informally: PAD
- 56. Comment regarding a squashed bug: EWW
- 58. High-___ image: RES
- 61. Cornish of NPR: AUDIE
- 64. Consecrated, to Shakespeare: BLEST
- 65. Toaster's need: GLASS
- 66. Like a stereotypical mobster's voice: RASPY
- 67. Alphabet trio: RST
- 68. Four seasons in Seville: ANO
- 69. "Am ___ believe ...?": ITO
- 72. Worthy of pondering: DEEP
- 75. River through Yorkshire: AIRE
- 79. Truculent manner: ATTITUDE
- 80. Where Northwestern University is: EVANSTON
- 82. N.F.L. ball carriers: Abbr.: RBS
- 84. Barry of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show": BOSTWICK
- 86. Stoked, with "up": AMPED
- 88. Blank, as a tabula: RASA
- 91. Bygone Chinese money: TAEL
- 93. Not too swift: SLOWISH
- 96. Old German governments: REICHS
- 97. Unlike most mail nowadays: POSTAL
- 99. Gainsay: DENY
- 100. Kind of arch: OGEE
- 105. 1977 Electric Light Orchestra hit: DOYA
- 106. Those: Sp.: ESOS
- 108. Westernmost island of the Aleutians: ATTU
- 109. Org. with rules on eligibility: NCAA
- 112. Turndowns: NOS
- 114. Bread source, for short: ATM
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