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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 24, 1997

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Monday, March 24, 1997

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 24, 1997. 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.

76 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

1
Title car in a 1964 song
4
Month after marzo, in Mexico
9
Indian prince
14
Urban music
15
Tired
16
Uneven, as the border of a leaf
17
Oscar director for "Gentleman's Agreement"
19
___ Moore stew
20
N.Y. neighbor
21
Oscar actress for "The Accidental Tourist"
23
Dramatist Eugene
25
Taboo
26
Oscar actress for "Shampoo"
30
Doctrine: Suffix
33
Easy golf putt
36
In ___ land (spacy)
37
Make eyes at
38
Pleasingly mirthful
39
Rocker Brian
40
___ water (facing trouble)
41
In unison, musically
42
Johann Sebastian ___
43
Stop holding
44
___ de mer
45
Oscar actor for "Forrest Gump"
47
Bank job?
49
Shoot-'em-ups
53
Oscar actor for "The Color of Money"
58
Region
59
Beckon to enter
60
Oscar actor for "Harry and Tonto"
62
Depart
63
Fiend
64
"___ Got Sixpence"
65
Concentrated beam
66
Plant disease
67
Always, to a poet

Down clues & answers

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Sunday, March 23, 1997

across

1. Haughty refusal: NEVER
6. Sternward: ABAFT
11. Surveyor's chart: PLAT
15. Where scissors are made?: MAT
18. St. Theresa's birthplace: AVILA
19. Edit, possibly: REWORK
21. "An American in Paris" actress: NINAFOCH
23. ___ Orchestra (popular 30's band): BASIE
24. The Beatles' "I'm ___": ALOSER
25. Case: INSTANCE
26. Slangy refusal: NAH
27. Pop setting for a Mussorgsky work?: BALDMOUNTAINDEW
29. Spiral ___: NEBULA
32. Products of gamma rays: IONS
33. Thatching palm: NIPA
34. Horus's father: OSIRIS
35. Kind of fence: CYCLONE
38. Comes down pretty hard: SLEETS
40. Pop Anthony Burgess novel?: ACLOCKWORKORANGECRUSH
43. Prefix with drama: MELO
44. Louis I, to Charlemagne: FILS
45. College building: DORM
46. "___ beam up" ("Star Trek" order): TWOTO
48. Big dogs, for short: LABS
52. Glides: SASHAYS
57. Pop title role in a 1993 film?: GILBERTGRAPENEHI
62. Epithet of Athena: ALEA
63. Pitchers, in a way: ADMEN
64. Trifling: NOMINAL
65. Disagreeable sorts, in slang: PILLS
66. Actress Russo: RENE
67. Pop dance team, informally?: FREDANDGINGERALE
71. Hero sandwich: POORBOY
73. Joule fragments: ERGS
74. Containing the 58th element: CERIC
75. Alaska's first governor: EGAN
77. Dig: GIBE
78. 30's crooner Columbo: RUSS
82. Pop western of 1960?: THEMAGNIFICENTSEVENUP
91. Garden section: Var.: ROSERY
92. Catacomb recess: LOCULUS
93. Weed with purplish flowers: Var.: TEAZLE
94. Old alms box: ARCA
95. ___ de pont (bridgehead): TETE
96. Phoenician, e.g.: SEMITE
97. Pop 50's-60's TV star?: IMOGENECOCACOLA
105. A season: Abbr.: SPR
106. Medieval kingdom in western Europe: LORRAINE
107. Morgan le Fay's brother: ARTHUR
108. Sheepherders of the Southwest: HOPIS
110. Commences, as an adventure: ENTERSON
111. Gaines rival: PURINA
112. ___ Rogers St. Johns: ADELA
113. Scale notes: RES
114. Aid for Santa: LIST
115. "Oh boy!": GOODY
116. ___-tresses (orchid): LADYS

down

1. Collar: NAB
2. Dissolve: EVANESCE
3. Where charges may show up: VISABILL
4. Pop Peace Nobelist?: ELIHUROOTBEER
5. "Norma ___": RAE
6. Kind of summit: ARAB
7. Hungarian revolutionary Kun: BELA
8. M.P.'s prize: AWOL
9. Fearless one: FOSDICK
10. Vibrating effect: TREMOLO
11. 1957 Nabokov novel: PNIN
12. Scourge of serge: LINT
13. Amphora handle: ANSA
14. "Jour de Fete" star: TATI
15. Kin of "Sacre bleu!": MONDIEU
16. Swallows: ACCEPTS
17. Shallow bay on England's east coast: THEWASH
20. Swedish money: KRONOR
22. "Cleopatra" extra: FANNER
28. Jimmy Carter alma mater: Abbr.: USNA
29. Linguist Chomsky: NOAM
30. Tavern need: Abbr.: LIC
31. Solicit: ASKFOR
35. Obsession, e.g.: COLOGNE
36. Soph. and others: YRS
37. Cricket wicket: END
38. Mideast inn: SERAI
39. Math amts.: LCMS
41. 1984-88 Olympic figure-skating gold medalist: WITT
42. "No kidding!": GOSH
47. Cyst: WEN
48. Truman's birthplace: LAMAR
49. Burlesque activity: APING
50. Part of morning calisthenics: BENDS
51. Holdup: SNAG
53. Pop product at a barbershop?: HAIRCREAMSODA
54. "It was ___ joke!": ALLA
55. Protest in no uncertain terms: YELL
56. Ed.'s request: SASE
57. 1978 Irving character: GARP
58. Graphic beginning: IDEO
59. Alphabet quartet: LMNO
60. Tormented: RODE
61. Draws: ELICITS
65. Language authority Mario: PEI
67. Unclear: FOGGY
68. Fastballer known as "The Express": RYAN
69. Bills: NEBS
70. Waves at, perhaps: GREETS
72. One of a storied threesome: BEAR
76. Goose egg: NIL
77. Lion's prey: GNU
79. Open, in a way: UNZIPPED
80. How a siren walks: SULTRILY
81. He sank with the Scharnhorst: SPEE
82. Park item: TRAILER
83. Insulin, e.g.: HORMONE
84. Ones providing arms: ESCORTS
85. Thin, overseas: MEAGRE
86. Picture, commercially: FOTO
87. Cold pack?: ICECAP
88. Dance: CUTARUG
89. Hero robot of the comics: ELECTRO
90. Certain intersection: VEE
98. Rank below marquis: EARL
99. ___ prius (trial court): NISI
100. Grandson of Adam: ENOS
101. Tiny payment: CENT
102. Mississippi feeder: OHIO
103. Bergman in "Casablanca": LUND
104. Without ___ of hope: ARAY
108. Old-time Yankee great Chase: HAL
109. Eur. airline: SAS

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