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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 1, 2019
Monday, July 1, 2019
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 1, 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
- 36
- 46
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 40
- 52
- 65
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across
- 1. Crawling marine mollusk: SEASLUG
- 8. Victorious cry: IDIDIT
- 14. At first, say: ONBASE
- 20. So-called "Crossroads of America": INDIANA
- 21. Wife in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night": NICOLE
- 22. Uprights, e.g.: PIANOS
- 23. Low end?: KNEEHIGHHEINIE
- 25. What sunblock blocks, briefly: UVRAYS
- 26. Rushes: HIES
- 27. Hangout on "The Simpsons": MOES
- 28. One of two for a buck?: ANTLER
- 30. Somewhat, slangily: SORTA
- 32. Go astray: ERR
- 33. Part of town that may be dangerous: BADAREA
- 35. Tater ___: TOT
- 38. Extraterrestrial from the planet Melmac: ALF
- 40. Emphatic ending with yes or no: SIREE
- 42. Bulging bicep, in slang: GUN
- 43. Raise: REAR
- 44. Wet: MOISTEN
- 48. Agreement for exporting essential oils?: TEATREETREATY
- 51. Raggedy ___: ANN
- 52. Around an hour after noon: ONEISH
- 54. Spend all weekend solving crosswords, say, with "out": NERD
- 55. Dummkopfs: ASSES
- 56. Movie-rating org.: MPAA
- 58. Semi-essential part?: CAB
- 59. Driver of "BlacKkKlansman": ADAM
- 61. Most pallid: ASHIEST
- 63. Exercise program done in formal attire?: BOWTIETAEBO
- 66. Horse operas: OATERS
- 68. Top squads: ATEAMS
- 69. Sports page listings: RESULTS
- 71. Avoid cooked foods: EATRAW
- 75. Beyond prim and proper: PRISSY
- 77. Sturdily built friend on "Friends"?: BEEFYPHOEBE
- 79. Relative of a flute: OCARINA
- 82. Statement often starting "I ...": OATH
- 84. Egg head?: OVI
- 85. Train transportation: RAIL
- 86. "Baby Blues" or "Rhymes With Orange": COMIC
- 87. PC key: CTRL
- 89. Rita who played Anita in "West Side Story": MORENO
- 92. Setting for many Twins games: Abbr.: CDT
- 93. Spotted animal with a lot of sore spots?: TOUCHYCHEETAH
- 96. Squirrels away: STASHES
- 98. "What ___?": ELSE
- 99. Maestro's gift: EAR
- 100. ___ Rousey, first female fighter inducted into the U.F.C. Hall of Fame: RONDA
- 102. Animal in un zoológico: OSO
- 103. First letter of "tsar" in Russian: TSE
- 104. Father of the Constitution: MADISON
- 106. PC key: ESC
- 108. Extended family: TRIBE
- 112. Utterly useless: NOHELP
- 113. Totally abandon one's plan: BAIL
- 114. Letter-shaped fastener: TNUT
- 115. Laugh riot: SCREAM
- 118. Cause of a work stoppage at a shoe factory?: LOAFERFURLOUGH
- 123. Tropical scurrier: IGUANA
- 124. Put on a pedestal: ESTEEM
- 125. Charm: BEGUILE
- 126. A cobbler might use one: PIEPAN
- 127. Expunge: DELETE
- 128. Word before shot or plot: SCATTER
down
- 1. Some turban wearers: SIKHS
- 2. Film composer Morricone: ENNIO
- 3. Doe follower, in song: ADEER
- 4. Breaks along the Panama Canal?: SIESTAS
- 5. "Well, ___-di-dah!": LAH
- 6. Commercial prefix with lever: UNI
- 7. "That's so-o-o gross!": GAGME
- 8. Is a willing participant?: INHERITS
- 9. Runs out of gas: DIES
- 10. Here, to Henri: ICI
- 11. Underworld boss: DON
- 12. Troy story: ILIAD
- 13. Joan of Arc, at the time of her death: TEENAGER
- 14. Fit for a king: OPULENT
- 15. Skin care brand: NIVEA
- 16. Attorney general under both Bush 41 and Trump: BARR
- 17. Santa ___ winds: ANA
- 18. ___ sauce: SOY
- 19. Symbol on a Mariners cap: ESS
- 24. ___ d'oeuvre: HORS
- 29. Slangy affirmation: TRUEDAT
- 31. Rare solo voice in opera: ALTO
- 33. Arthur with a Tony: BEA
- 34. UnitedHealthcare competitor: AETNA
- 35. Back-comb: TEASE
- 36. Multi-time Pulitzer finalist, including for the volume "Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories" (2014): OATES
- 37. Meet on the down-low: TRYST
- 39. Confines: FENCESIN
- 41. Fixes up, in a way: REHABS
- 43. Circuit board component: RESISTOR
- 44. Fearsome snake: MAMBA
- 45. Stoned: ONPOT
- 46. Dumbstruck: INAWE
- 47. Undiluted: NEAT
- 49. Like Easter Island: REMOTE
- 50. Full of enthusiasm: RAHRAH
- 53. Construction girders: IBARS
- 57. Not without sacrifice: ATAPRICE
- 60. Call into question: DOUBT
- 62. Permeate: SEEPINTO
- 64. Shout from a lottery winner: IMRICH
- 65. Kid-lit character with the catchphrase "Thanks for noticing me": EEYORE
- 67. In regard to: ASFOR
- 70. Big name in 2008 financial news: LEHMAN
- 72. Jurisdiction: REACH
- 73. Stomach: ABIDE
- 74. Painful paintball mementos: WELTS
- 76. Rapid movement of the eye from one point to another: SACCADE
- 78. Surrealist Tanguy: YVES
- 79. Groups in the quarterfinals, e.g.: OCTET
- 80. Loses enthusiasm: COOLS
- 81. Elicit a smile from: AMUSE
- 83. Last Oldsmobile ever produced: ALERO
- 88. Sent: THRILLED
- 90. Pearl clutcher's cry: OHDEARME
- 91. Bit of brewing equipment: OAST
- 94. "Sure thing, dude!": YEAHMAN
- 95. Boatload: TON
- 97. Untangle: SORTOUT
- 101. "In your dreams!": ASIF
- 104. 2016 film set in Polynesia: MOANA
- 105. Reckon, informally: SPOSE
- 107. Section of a high school yearbook: CLUBS
- 109. Native Alaskan: INUIT
- 110. Popular corn chip: BUGLE
- 111. What radio signals travel through, with "the": ETHER
- 112. Spring's opposite: NEAP
- 113. Nongreen salad ingredient: BEET
- 115. Merest taste: SIP
- 116. Part of a sci-fi film's budget: CGI
- 117. French way: RUE
- 119. The Braves, on scoreboards: ATL
- 120. One of many extras in air travel nowadays: FEE
- 121. A little fun?: REC
- 122. Letters on some luggage to New York: LGA
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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.
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