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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 26, 1997

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Wednesday, November 26, 1997

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, November 26, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Sound at the movies
2
"Now you see it, now you don't!"
3
Skilled
4
Big Apple museum, for short, with "the"
5
Witches' brews
6
Well-informed about
7
Prize of the Nibelung
8
Bankrupt
9
Peanut butter choice
10
Working again
11
Jai ___
12
Single-named supermodel
13
Like first-place medals in Grenoble
21
Mauna ___
22
Nurmi, the Flying Finn
25
Cotton down
26
Yukon home
27
Gives over
28
Demographer's region
29
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise, e.g.
30
Feminist Germaine
31
First name in skin care
32
Simile's center
35
Quiz
37
Time for the werewolf alert
38
Out on ___
43
Che, formally
46
Collect, as volunteers
47
Tomcat
48
Combo bet at Belmont
51
Irish name part
52
Logo at Arthur Ashe Stadium
53
Austen heroine
54
Santa Fe Trail stop
55
Certain insurers
56
Nutcase
57
Acctg. principle
58
Kiwi's extinct cousin
61
Jollity

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Tuesday, November 25, 1997

across

1. Handle the situation: COPE
5. Harbinger: OMEN
9. Pancake topper: SYRUP
14. Drifters' "___ the Roof": UPON
15. Application form information: NAME
16. Monopoly purchase: HOUSE
17. Alex Raymond comic strip: JUNGLEJIM
19. Peter of Peter and Gordon: ASHER
20. C.I.A. forerunner: OSS
21. Tokyo, once: EDO
22. Coin side: OBVERSE
24. Feature of five U.S. Presidents: BEARD
26. Apollo vehicle: LEM
27. Manager Anderson: SPARKY
30. Following orders: OBEDIENT
35. Corporate emblems: LOGOS
36. Clumsy dancer's problems: TOES
37. The Magi, e.g.: TRIO
38. Christie or Quindlen: ANNA
39. Things to crack: CODES
40. Part of E.M.T.: Abbr.: EMER
41. Kind of tea: ICED
42. Pearl Buck heroine: OLAN
43. Sacred song: PSALM
44. Western Hemisphere: NEWWORLD
46. Sliding dance step: CHASSE
47. The Red Baron, for one: ACE
48. Curtain fabric: SCRIM
50. Musicians: PLAYERS
54. Electric swimmer: EEL
55. Telephonic 3: DEF
58. Kind of board: OUIJA
59. Legendary cowboy: PECOSBILL
62. Attach to a lapel: PINON
63. Wicked: EVIL
64. Come in last: LOSE
65. Adlai's 1956 running mate: ESTES
66. Broad valley: DALE
67. Sloth's home: TREE

down

1. Stephen King novel: CUJO
2. Musical composition: OPUS
3. Operatic Lily: PONS
4. H.S. course: ENG
5. "Sometime...": ONEDAY
6. Captain's superior: MAJOR
7. Record label with Capitol: EMI
8. Commander of the Nautilus: NEMO
9. Attacked the whiskers: SHAVED
10. Ornery Warner Bros. cartoon character: YOSEMITESAM
11. Essen's river: RUHR
12. Manipulates: USES
13. Father, in France: PERE
18. Vichyssoise ingredients: LEEKS
23. Give a benediction: BLESS
24. Namath's nickname: BROADWAYJOE
25. Gadgets: DOODADS
27. Done in: SLAIN
28. Puerto Rican port city: PONCE
29. 1973 resigner: AGNEW
31. Existed: BEEN
32. Humorist Bombeck et al.: ERMAS
33. Physicist Bohr: NIELS
34. The Velvet Fog: TORME
36. Bridge fee: TOLL
39. Kitchen utensil: CORER
43. Collins and Donahue: PHILS
45. Seas: OCEANS
46. Louisiana lingo: CREOLE
49. Heavy-hitting Fielder: CECIL
50. "Essay on Man" author: POPE
51. San ___ Obispo, Calif.: LUIS
52. "You ___ seen nothin' yet!": AINT
53. Raced: SPED
55. New Look designer: DIOR
56. If not: ELSE
57. Head for the hills: FLEE
60. Stowe girl: EVA
61. Lunch order, briefly: BLT

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