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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for June 7, 2019
Friday, June 7, 2019
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, June 7, 2019. 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
- 24
- 35
- 39
- 62
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 30
- 33
- 41
- 45
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
across
- 1. Unrefined: CRASS
- 6. Coffee bar offering: MOCHA
- 11. Painter van Eyck: JAN
- 14. Navajo dwelling made of logs and mud: HOGAN
- 15. ___ Bell (Emily Brontë pen name): ELLIS
- 16. Word with single or fair: USE
- 17. Direct-to-customer beef retailer: OMAHASTEAKS
- 19. 1952 and 1994 Olympics locale: Abbr.: NOR
- 20. Cover over, as a wall: REPAPER
- 21. Remove, as a name tag: PEELOFF
- 23. Busy beaver: DOER
- 24. Rejections: NOS
- 26. Go one better than: TOP
- 27. Place to buy paint: ARTSHOP
- 31. Spirited horse: ARAB
- 34. Upscale hotel amenity: SAUNA
- 37. Now and for always: EVERMORE
- 39. Demolition aid: TNT
- 40. Calaverite or sylvanite: GOLDORE
- 43. Memory unit: BIT
- 44. Coated, in a way: ENAMELED
- 46. City NE of Manchester: LEEDS
- 48. Hawaiian entree, for short: MAHI
- 49. Ones playing the numbers?: DEEJAYS
- 52. Big brand with an oval logo: STP
- 54. Ticket datum: ROW
- 55. Something you might write an article on: SPEC
- 59. More daft: DOTTIER
- 63. Field a kickoff: RECEIVE
- 65. Subject of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine: DNA
- 66. Performer with a weapon: SWORDDANCER
- 68. Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" has one: ACT
- 69. Mailing category for reduced postage: MEDIA
- 70. Very little: SCANT
- 71. "___-haw!": YEE
- 72. Name on a "Citizen Kane" poster: ORSON
- 73. Things to run or pass: TESTS
down
- 1. Set of keys, maybe: CHORD
- 2. Beau: ROMEO
- 3. Slack-jawed: AGAPE
- 4. Hot and dry: SAHARAN
- 5. Lose one's cool: SNAP
- 6. Underground networks: METROS
- 7. Cry repeated at the start of the 1987 dance hit "Hot Hot Hot": OLE
- 8. Keep time with the beat, maybe: CLAP
- 9. Jack up: HIKE
- 10. Land, building or machine: ASSET
- 11. NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter: JUNOPROBE
- 12. Beginning: ASOF
- 13. ___ ball: NERF
- 18. Text message status: SENT
- 22. Good soil: LOAM
- 25. Labrador retriever or Alaskan malamute, notably: SHEDDER
- 28. Lose one's cool: RAGE
- 29. In ___ (embryonic): OVO
- 30. Individually: PER
- 32. Like much of Chile: ARID
- 33. Agrees to "make things interesting": BETS
- 34. Goblet feature: STEM
- 35. Visitor to King Mongkut: ANNA
- 36. The Aggies of the N.C.A.A.: UTAHSTATE
- 38. Bank: RELY
- 41. Discontinued: OLD
- 42. Abstract Expressionist Krasner: LEE
- 45. Helpful thing to have on hand?: MITT
- 47. Perfumer's extract: ESSENCE
- 50. River to the Dead Sea: JORDAN
- 51. Going "Wow, wow, wow!": AWED
- 53. ___ clam (mollusk found off the coast of California): PISMO
- 56. Typesetters' measures: PICAS
- 57. Javelin, e.g.: EVENT
- 58. Mints with Retsyn: CERTS
- 59. Its beaches begin five answers in this puzzle: DDAY
- 60. "There was a time ...": ONCE
- 61. Still life subject: EWER
- 62. Some retina cells: RODS
- 64. Closing credits heading: CAST
- 67. Feature on a Spanish map: RIO
More daily puzzle hints
- WordleGuess the five-letter word in six triesGuide & tips
- ConnectionsSort 16 words into four hidden groupsGuide & tips
- StrandsFind the themed words hidden in a letter gridGuide & tips
- Spelling BeeMake words from seven letters around a center letterGuide & tips
- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
- Connections: Sports EditionConnections with a sports-only word poolGuide & tips
- Letter BoxedChain words around a square using all 12 lettersGuide & tips
- Midi CrosswordThe mid-size crossword between the Mini and the dailyGuide & tips
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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