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June 2014 Crossword Puzzle Answer Key

Across

1. They’re orange on the highway

6. Laughing sounds

10. Early video game

14. National Zoo structure

18. Sign that dinner’s almost ready

19. Taking care of the problem

20. Completed

21. Civil disturbances

23. Where the “Lilacs” poet kept all her Cabernets?

26. “Find someone else”

27. David of the Red Sox

28. The Norfolk Tides for the Orioles, e.g.

30. Prez before JFK

31. Sensation of hunger or guilt

33. Land user, in feudalism

36. Party decoration

38. ” White Swan” (T. Rex song)

40. Suggest

43. Honduran’s house

44. Lofty lines

45. Protest led by a Strangers with Candy actress?

50. instant

53. Get pulled by a bout, sometimes

55. Words to the judge

56. Journalist’s concern

57. The Last Emperor director Bertolucci

61. Arthur and Midas

63. Nats stat

64. Troublemaking

67. To a minimal degree

69. It’s hot in Hong Kong

70. Winnie-the-Pooh author’s initials

71. Chimney sweep’s target

72. Person who wheels stuff around for a five-time Academy Award nominee?

76. Name in a Tolstoy title

77. Exist

78. To and

79. Tough, as punishment

80. Has been preempted

82. Cigar stuff

83. Battling

86. Phone-company offer

88. Tabloid subject

90. They can clash

92. Fan of Justin

96. Snow runner

97. Minnesota senator’s holiday acquisition?

101. Bother

102. Longtime local meteorologist Bob

104. 2012 Uma Thurman movie

105. “Mene, mene, , upharsin”

107. Maine courses?

111. Mystery

114. Joking Jay

115. How long you’ve been around

116. All in the Family role

119. Deodorant brand

121. The Republic author

123. Person who catches trout and bass for a Private Practice actress?

128. Eats very lightly

129. Poet

130. Play part

131. Scarlett of the Old South

132. Videotaped

133. They make CEOs rich, often

134. Try for a fly

135. Famed DC pizza place, or what each of this puzzle’s seven theme entries consists of

Down

1. Silent (presidential nickname)

2. Gold, in Guatemala

3 .“That explains it!”

4. Come to the forefront

5. Black (MacArthur Boulevard restaurant)

6. “My goodness!”

7. Mono-

8. Relations

9. Gwen of No Doubt

10. Indigent

11. Egg, to biologists

12. Hawk houses

13. Say hi to

14. Peninsula in recent news

15. Goal

16. Money awarded to the host of Democracy Now?

17. Practice piece

22. Suffix with joke or mob

24. Tyler of The Lord of the Rings

25. Brings to an end

29. Friendship (Chinatown landmark)

31. Item on a stage

32. Verdi masterwork

34. Clinton Cabinet member

35. No ma’am?

37. “It’s ” (Pet Shop Boys song)

39. Fools

41. Roadie equipment

42. Vocalize

46. Aviating Amelia

47. Ruckus

48. Outdoors store

49. “Pretty please?”

51. Lou of 1980s wrestling fame

52. Sports artist LeRoy

54. Some

56. Make inquiries

58. Michael Stipe’s old band

59. Quick race

60. Green grouch

62. Great Ape House resident

64. Stern and Asimov

65. Piece

66. Section of the coastline named for a Parks and Recreation star?

68. Plantation for 131 across

73. Wooden rod

74. Q-U connections

75. Prison, on a ship

76. Bancroft of Boleyn

78. Rival of Gainand Tide

81. Wonderful person

84. In the past

85. Former Virginia governor Chuck

87. Animal in your house

89. Ice-cream name

91. Take to court

93. Easter food

94. Genesis garden

95. Candy that comes in a cylinder

97. Joint used in squats

98. Do housework

99. Left-

100. “What doing?”

103. Ideally

106. Cuthbert of 24

107. Person from northern Finland, often

108. Can’t look away

109. Synagogue star

110. Guitar attachment

112. “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” painter

113. Dog’s sound

117. Drama star

118. Doesn’t keep going

120. Hit movie sequel of 2014

122. Ring decision, briefly

124. Use blades on blades

125. mode

126. Ending for brew or distill

127. Dorm heads,for short

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