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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 6, 1998
Friday, March 6, 1998
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, March 6, 1998. 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
- 23
- 32
- 41
- 50
- 57
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 12
- 24
- 28
- 30
- 36
- 51
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Thursday, March 5, 1998
across
- 1. Composer Khachaturian: ARAM
- 5. Starting letters in military code: ALFAS
- 10. Asian holidays: TETS
- 14. Electronics giant: SONY
- 15. It may be sweet: TOOTH
- 16. Indian tourist town: AGRA
- 17. "Georgia on My Mind" composer: HOAGYCARMICHAEL
- 20. B.P.O.E. cousin: IOOF
- 21. Any of the Furies: ERINYS
- 22. Circumspect: CHARY
- 25. Serf: HELOT
- 27. War admiral under Charles II: EARLOFSANDWICH
- 32. O.R. personnel: DRS
- 33. Nasal partitions: SEPTA
- 34. Where to make waves: SALON
- 36. Half brother of Hermes: ARES
- 38. Deep-six: DITCH
- 40. Thou-shalt-not: NONO
- 41. Thousand Island alternative: RANCH
- 43. Outfit: GETUP
- 45. Jack of "Barney Miller": SOO
- 46. More than fans: HEROWORSHIPERS
- 49. Skips: OMITS
- 50. It can be found in runes: NORSE
- 51. Hot: STOLEN
- 54. Plutarch biographical subject: CATO
- 56. Blue Meanies musical: YELLOWSUBMARINE
- 62. Compelled: MADE
- 63. Japanese immigrant: ISSEI
- 64. Irish name: ERIN
- 65. Iditarod Trail transport: SLED
- 66. Gets 30-Down: NEARS
- 67. Tear to pieces: REND
down
- 1. Blond shade: ASH
- 2. Friend of Tigger: ROO
- 3. Literary snippets: ANA
- 4. 1965 Temptations hit: MYGIRL
- 5. Old record label: ATCO
- 6. It has two heels: LOAF
- 7. On behalf of: FOR
- 8. Where to use a PIN: ATM
- 9. Guard: SHIELD
- 10. Papeete resident: TAHITIAN
- 11. First governor of Alaska: EGAN
- 12. Rare trick-taker: TREY
- 13. "Do the Right Thing" pizzeria: SALS
- 18. Is wildly unstable: YOYOS
- 19. Toots one's own horn: CROWS
- 22. Moth-repellent wood: CEDAR
- 23. 70's-80's All-Star Toby: HARRAH
- 24. Leblanc's Lupin: ARSENE
- 25. They may be mad: HATTERS
- 26. Passes: ENACTS
- 28. Stoked: FED
- 29. Tap: SPIGOT
- 30. Comparatively contiguous: CLOSER
- 31. A-student's conferral: HONORS
- 35. Lasso loop: NOOSE
- 37. Viewed more text, perhaps: SCROLLED
- 39. "Say, what?": HUH
- 42. Similar: Prefix: HOMEO
- 44. Ship of 1492: PINTA
- 47. Advantageous to both sides: WINWIN
- 48. Not as good: POORER
- 51. Cabaret singer Sylvia: SYMS
- 52. Shade of blue: TEAL
- 53. "Ye" follower, sometimes: OLDE
- 54. One with a handle: CBER
- 55. "Jake's Thing" novelist: AMIS
- 57. Maui-to-Hawaii dir.: SSE
- 58. Olympics chant: USA
- 59. Steamed state: IRE
- 60. "Henry & June" role: NIN
- 61. Kind of user: END
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
- Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
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.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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