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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 7, 2000
Monday, August 7, 2000
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 7, 2000. 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
- 29
- 34
- 41
- 60
Down clues & answers
- 48
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Sunday, August 6, 2000
across
- 1. G: THOU
- 5. Select, with "for": OPT
- 8. Ah follower: CHOO
- 12. Atomic pile: REACTOR
- 19. Moroccolike leather: ROAN
- 20. Dramatic court action: SLAMDUNK
- 22. Vital engine conduit: OILLINE
- 23. Working in a mess: ONKP
- 24. Vain mountaineer's motto?: PIKESPEAKORBOAST
- 26. Didn't come to terms: DISAGREED
- 28. Rank in the 40-Down: CPO
- 29. Disney V.I.P.: EISNER
- 30. Inactivity: INERTIA
- 32. Auxiliary: AIDE
- 34. Like mesh: NETTY
- 35. People who love baths?: ALLDAYSOAKERS
- 39. Part of Q.E.D.: QUOD
- 41. "When in ___ tell the truth": Twain: DOUBT
- 42. Soldier material?: TIN
- 43. Some fraternity men: NUS
- 44. Poke holes in: STAB
- 48. Like a monster: OGRISH
- 50. Wiretap victim's wish?: GOODCLEANPHONE
- 54. Seethe: BOIL
- 55. Belgian river: YSER
- 57. U-___: HAUL
- 58. Actor Greene: LORNE
- 59. Düsseldorf donkey: ESEL
- 60. Put on: DON
- 61. Part of some gym exercise equipment: STAIR
- 63. The very best: TIPTOP
- 64. Problem for the Shanghai police?: ORIENTALROGUE
- 67. James Michener opus: IBERIA
- 71. "Something of Value" author Robert: RUARK
- 72. Blink of an eye: SEC
- 73. Abe's Mary: TODD
- 77. Lush material: SATIN
- 78. "___ Ha'i": BALI
- 79. Defraud: BILK
- 80. Switch add-on: EROO
- 81. Graffiti?: BLACKWALLNOTES
- 85. Coils: SKEINS
- 87. Rembrandt's land: Abbr.: NETH
- 88. High rollers?: ELS
- 89. Like a good bond: AAA
- 90. Make reparations: ATONE
- 91. Sign seen in Times Square: TKTS
- 93. Pirate flag in the summer sun?: HOTCROSSBONES
- 98. Alexander, to friends: SASHA
- 101. Like: ASIF
- 103. Stop listening: TUNEOUT
- 104. Praline ingredient: ALMOND
- 106. Suffix with honor: ARY
- 107. Spoiled brat's display: PETULANCE
- 111. Policy of a strict naval blockade?: NOIFSANDSORBOATS
- 115. Superman's mother: LARA
- 116. Spanish valentine sentiment: YOTEAMO
- 117. Give up: CRYUNCLE
- 118. Grandson of Eve: ENOS
- 119. It's far out: OPENSEA
- 120. Take note of: HEED
- 121. Turner in Atlanta: TED
- 122. Suggestive: RACY
down
- 1. Trampled: TROD
- 2. ___ soit qui mal y pense (classic motto): HONI
- 3. Squirrels' haunts: OAKS
- 4. Matter of growing interest: UNPAIDBILL
- 5. Fish hawk: OSPREY
- 6. Electrician's need: PLIERS
- 7. Become attracted by: TAKETO
- 8. Some savings accts.: CDS
- 9. Drillmaster's syllable: HUP
- 10. Kind of garage: ONECAR
- 11. Nocturnal animals of the upper Congo: OKAPIS
- 12. Aussie hopper, for short: ROO
- 13. Revolutionary Michael Collins's country: EIRE
- 14. Pink-eyed panther, say: ALBINO
- 15. Union site: CLOSEDSHOP
- 16. 1960's-70's All-Star Luis: TIANT
- 17. Start: ONSET
- 18. Hear again: RETRY
- 21. Go-between: MEDIATOR
- 25. Decked: KOD
- 27. No-see-ums: GNATS
- 31. Sony founder Morita: AKIO
- 33. Identical: EQUAL
- 35. Big name in Web software: ADOBE
- 36. Symbols of industry: LOGOS
- 37. Pulitzer winner Alison: LURIE
- 38. Call a halt to: END
- 40. Service for a 28-Across: USN
- 43. Freudian topic: NEUROSIS
- 45. Civil wrong: TORT
- 46. Part of A.D.: ANNO
- 47. Page: BEEP
- 49. Victim of Hercules: HYDRA
- 50. Big brass: GENERALS
- 51. Billiards need: CHALK
- 52. Retreat: LAIR
- 53. Ballet bend: PLIE
- 56. "___ lied!": SOI
- 61. One may be taken to the cleaners: STAIN
- 62. Besmirch: TAR
- 63. Plastic surgeons' work: TUCKS
- 64. Piggish remark: OINK
- 65. Zero: NULL
- 66. It may get in your hair: GEL
- 67. Novel ID: ISBN
- 68. Farm wagon item: BALE
- 69. Maine, e.g., in Metz: ETAT
- 70. Manfred von ___ (The Red Baron): RICHTHOFEN
- 73. Dry: TEETOTALER
- 74. Stars with a belt: ORION
- 75. Clergyman/poet John: DONNE
- 76. Medicates: DOSES
- 78. Light wood: BALSA
- 79. Be relevant to: BEARUPON
- 82. Dripping: WET
- 83. Meal starter?: OAT
- 84. Playing to someone's vanity, maybe: TACT
- 86. War-torn capital of the 1980's-90's: KABUL
- 92. Big Twelve school: KANSAS
- 93. Judd of "Taxi": HIRSCH
- 94. Long past: OFYORE
- 95. Like O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff": ONEACT
- 96. Avoid a trial, say: SETTLE
- 97. Blotto: SOUSED
- 98. Hitachi competitor: SANYO
- 99. Knock for ___: ALOOP
- 100. Lay low: SMITE
- 102. Regrettable: SAD
- 105. Gentlewoman: DAME
- 108. Zola heroine: NANA
- 109. Leathery sunbather: CROC
- 110. "No sweat": EASY
- 112. "...___ thousand times...": NOA
- 113. Deli choice: RYE
- 114. Early development: BUD
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