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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 13, 1997

Sunday, July 13, 1997

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, July 13, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

  1. 1

    Cutaneous

  2. 7

    Rock group that sang "Let's Go"

  3. 14

    Splendid

  4. 19

    Conductor Toscanini

  5. 20

    Like some shoes

  6. 21

    Grammy-winning single of 1958

  7. 22

    Groundskeeper's bagful at an Atlantic City newspaper?

  8. 24

    Armpit

  9. 25

    Companion

  10. 26

    Oregon ___

  11. 27

    Playboy Khan

  12. 28

    Library ref.

  13. 29

    Where "Falstaff" premiered, 1893

  14. 32

    Start of a string of 13 Popes

  15. 34

    Dish alternative, maybe

  16. 36

    Loudness measure

  17. 37

    Musician who co-starred in "Trespass"

  18. 38

    Descartes conclusion

  19. 39

    Horse owned by a Boston newspaper?

  20. 42

    Hired hands at Microsoft

  21. 44

    Sponsorship

  22. 46

    Camera since 1924

  23. 47

    Bank sitters

  24. 49

    Some picture frames

  25. 52

    Used rubber

  26. 56

    Garden, in a way

  27. 57

    Correspondence to the editor of an Allentown newspaper?

  28. 60

    Allan-___

  29. 61

    Obviously sleep-deprived

  30. 63

    End of a Burns title

  31. 64

    Prepare to get juice

  32. 65

    Madonna's "La ___ Bonita"

  33. 67

    Kind of law

  34. 69

    Yeshiva product

  35. 71

    Off, so to speak

  36. 72

    Drink with 87-Across

  37. 74

    Concert memento

  38. 76

    Like a clover leaf

  39. 78

    Take over, in a way

  40. 79

    Columbia, S.C., newspaper's security department?

  41. 81

    Vane dir.

  42. 84

    Like a mule

  43. 86

    Mars, to Aries, in astrology

  44. 87

    Ingredient in a 72-Across

  45. 89

    Thunderstruck

  46. 91

    ___ facto

  47. 93

    Like Chippendale furniture

  48. 94

    Way into the bathroom at a Macon newspaper?

  49. 99

    Start to function?

  50. 101

    Snake oil, purportedly

  51. 102

    Hungary was a member of it

  52. 103

    Suffix with sect

  53. 104

    Named before

  54. 106

    Do some roadwork

  55. 107

    Automobile sticker fig.

  56. 108

    Jack-in-the-box part

  57. 109

    I.Q. recordholder Marilyn ___ Savant

  58. 111

    Prize

  59. 113

    Associated

  60. 115

    Shell shot at a Harrisburg newspaper?

  61. 120

    Come

  62. 121

    Nobel physicist Becquerel

  63. 122

    Frank

  64. 123

    Rather awkward

  65. 124

    Mouthing off more

  66. 125

    Crackers

Down clues & answers

  1. 1

    Skip, as a stone on water

  2. 2

    Muff

  3. 3

    Hwy.

  4. 4

    Sweet wine

  5. 5

    Some insurance fraud

  6. 6

    ___ Tay, Scotland

  7. 7

    Part of an old Greek fleet

  8. 8

    In the know about

  9. 9

    Subject of a psych. experiment

  10. 10

    Do

  11. 11

    Permanent-magnet alloy

  12. 12

    Seize again

  13. 13

    60's campus grp.

  14. 14

    Popular theater name

  15. 15

    Bulldog

  16. 16

    Big goon

  17. 17

    50's-60's "What's My Line?" panelist

  18. 18

    Beginning of a tape

  19. 21

    Harper, for one

  20. 23

    "Come Back, Little Sheba" wife

  21. 27

    Edits

  22. 29

    Book before Nahum

  23. 30

    Likeness: Prefix

  24. 31

    Come-on at a Lakeland newspaper?

  25. 33

    "Enough!"

  26. 35

    Handsome, as Henri

  27. 36

    Carmichael classic

  28. 38

    Sharon, for one

  29. 40

    Attorney-to-be's exams

  30. 41

    In base 8

  31. 43

    Shipping dept. stamp

  32. 45

    Pupil's reward

  33. 48

    Roy Rogers's real surname

  34. 50

    A great dist.

  35. 51

    "...and last in the American League" team

  36. 53

    Recruiter at a Wichita newspaper?

  37. 54

    Inter ___

  38. 55

    Say it ain't so

  39. 58

    ___ squares (statistical method)

  40. 59

    Malcontent

  41. 62

    They're full of beans

  42. 64

    A bobby pin may hold it

  43. 65

    "Look at me, ___..."

  44. 66

    Start of some Italian church names

  45. 68

    Tutsi foe

  46. 70

    ___-a-brac

  47. 73

    Cutting down

  48. 75

    Misrepresent

  49. 77

    Eddie Rickenbacker's 94th ___ Squadron

  50. 79

    Alaska air base

  51. 80

    Great Fire of London diarist

  52. 82

    Pelvic bones

  53. 83

    Tempter

  54. 85

    Acting Day

  55. 88

    Gets via computer

  56. 90

    Prefix with 1-Across

  57. 92

    Name dropper?

  58. 94

    Gong in an orchestra set

  59. 95

    Run out

  60. 96

    Hybrid cats

  61. 97

    Humidor item

  62. 98

    Fife player

  63. 100

    "As You Like It" servant

  64. 105

    In unison

  65. 106

    "Jurassic Park" mosquito preserver

  66. 108

    Roman historian

  67. 110

    Some B'way shows

  68. 112

    Bird whose male hatches the eggs

  69. 114

    Bad-mouth

  70. 115

    Stage setups, for short

  71. 116

    "Superman ___"

  72. 117

    ___ bind

  73. 118

    Baseball's Dykstra

  74. 119

    Before, once

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Saturday, July 12, 1997

across

  • 1. Emergency treatment: FIRSTAID
  • 9. Products of planning: LISTS
  • 14. Kind of correspondence: ONETOONE
  • 15. Authors: PENMEN
  • 16. Key locale?: RAMPARTS
  • 17. City on Lake Michigan: RACINE
  • 18. Dance lesson: STEP
  • 19. Maxwell Perkins, for a famous example: EDITOR
  • 20. Horn sound: TANTARA
  • 23. Watch mechanism: DETENT
  • 24. Southeastern salamander: MUDEEL
  • 25. Empty: INANE
  • 27. "Damn Yankees" composer: ADLER
  • 28. Montana tribe: CROW
  • 29. Vegas opening: LAS
  • 32. Not so fine: COARSER
  • 34. Clear: UNBLOCK
  • 37. Asian honorific: SRI
  • 38. Suburban sight: LAWN
  • 40. Milk: Prefix: LACTI
  • 41. Algae eater: AMEBA
  • 43. Trust: BANKON
  • 44. It might make your hair stand on end: STATIC
  • 47. Scornful sound: SNICKER
  • 49. Scout's discovery, maybe: TALENT
  • 50. Wind indicator: SOCK
  • 51. Flattened at the poles: OBLATE
  • 52. Important prefix: AREACODE
  • 57. Dark, on Broadway: CLOSED
  • 58. New partner: IMPROVED
  • 59. Attuned: KEYED
  • 60. Definitive statement: LASTWORD

down

  • 1. Backing: FOR
  • 2. Concert finale: INA
  • 3. "The One I Love" group: REM
  • 4. Indy 500 letters: STP
  • 5. They speak and drink: TOASTERS
  • 6. Of a blood line: AORTAL
  • 7. Lay low?: INTER
  • 8. Give up: DESPAIR
  • 9. Spiritless: LEADEN
  • 10. Stir up: INCITE
  • 11. Cuff: SMITE
  • 12. Part of a joint: TENON
  • 13. Comic strip canine: SNERT
  • 15. Early: PREDAWN
  • 20. Home style: TUDOR
  • 21. Name in 50's politics: ADLAI
  • 22. Poetic adverb: NEER
  • 24. Brolly alternatives: MACS
  • 26. Common thing?: NOUN
  • 28. Callaloo ingredient: CRAB
  • 29. "The Gauntlet" actress, 1977: LOCKE
  • 30. Ford or Hudson: ACTOR
  • 31. Excoriate: SKIN
  • 33. Kind of official: ELECTED
  • 35. Magic: BLACKART
  • 36. Like young Abe Lincoln: LANK
  • 39. Christmas drink: WASSAIL
  • 41. Military command: ATEASE
  • 42. Made cents: MINTED
  • 43. They have pull: BICEPS
  • 44. Standard: STOCK
  • 45. Put on ice: TABLE
  • 46. Solder, e.g.: ALLOY
  • 48. Marilyn, originally: NORMA
  • 53. Bully: COW
  • 54. Ab ___ (from the beginning): OVO
  • 55. Article written by Freud: DER
  • 56. Roush of baseball fame: EDD
Hints and full breakdown for Jul 12

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