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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 9, 2000

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Wednesday, August 9, 2000

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, August 9, 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.

76 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
Home of L'Express
2
Overhead
3
Cover the gray again
4
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" writer
5
"Doonesbury" cartoonist
6
"I understand," facetiously
7
Help during hard times
8
Shortens a sentence, maybe
9
1973 Pacino blockbuster
10
Funny Bishop
11
Chalet site, perhaps
12
End of a series
13
Pulitzer winner Akins
21
French twist, e.g.
22
On ___ with
25
Mini, midi or maxi
26
1942 Preakness winner
27
"The Silence of the Lambs" director
29
Yen
30
They may be tossed back
32
Multiple of XXXV
33
Bambi et al.
34
Awards since 1956
35
Small brooks
36
Vociferate
37
Marvel superheroes
42
Poop out
43
Loads, as a plate
44
That the sun will rise in the East, e.g.
45
Terse pans
50
Antediluvian
52
Half of the Odd Couple
53
Dorothy, to Em
54
Fashion's Karan
55
Put a stake in a pool
56
**** review
57
Ersatz
58
Yahoo.com, e.g.
59
Hit the slopes
60
___ Holiness the Pope
61
It can be shocking

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Tuesday, August 8, 2000

across

1. Two smackers?: LIPS
5. "___ la Douce": IRMA
9. Is eliminated from competition: LOSES
14. Yearn (for): ACHE
15. Contemptible one: TOAD
16. Take over: USURP
17. Mason's wedge: SHIM
18. Italian lake: COMO
19. Hawaiian party site: LANAI
20. 1932 novel of crime and race by 40-Across: LIGHTINAUGUST
23. British biscuit: SCONE
25. Berlin bar need: EIS
26. One-on-one sport: EPEE
27. From a personal standpoint: HUMANLY
30. Slump: SAG
32. Genesis victim: ABEL
33. Symbol of sturdiness: OAK
35. Mind terribly: RESENT
40. See 20- and 57-Across: WILLIAMFAULKNER
43. Hung around: STAYED
44. ___-de-sac: CUL
45. Cutting part: EDGE
46. Q-U connection: RST
48. Kind of film: FEATURE
50. It may react with an acid: BASE
54. Swiss canton: URI
56. Fish that's split for cooking: SCROD
57. Fictional county, locale of 20-Across: YOKNAPATAWPHA
61. Hearty breakfast dish: GRITS
62. MOMA artist: DALI
63. "Bus Stop" playwright: INGE
66. Cheri of "Saturday Night Live": OTERI
67. Dash: ELAN
68. Hoops tournament org.: NCAA
69. Bells the cat: DARES
70. "Auld Lang ___": SYNE
71. Dinero: GELT

down

1. ___ Vegas: LAS
2. German pronoun: ICH
3. In myth she was changed into a nightingale: PHILOMELA
4. From the very beginning: SEMINALLY
5. Dermatologist's concern: ITCH
6. Kind of vegetable: ROOT
7. Ike's mate: MAMIE
8. Poster boy: ADONIS
9. Lollapalooza: LULU
10. ___ orange: OSAGE
11. Dawn: SUNUP
12. Delete: ERASE
13. Maliciousness: SPITE
21. Washington, e.g.: Abbr.: GEN
22. Usually: ASARULE
23. Bandleader Artie and others: SHAWS
24. Biblical length: CUBIT
28. Packs a lot in: LOADSUP
29. Edible 6-Down: YAM
31. Hair goop: GEL
34. Popular fast-food chain: KFC
36. Outlining: SKETCHING
37. Marathoner's trait: ENDURANCE
38. The "N" of U.N.C.F.: NEGRO
39. Unable to escape: TREED
41. Ending with cash or bombard: IER
42. "___ Wiedersehen": AUF
47. Swaps: TRADES
49. Nile reptile: ASP
50. "I swear...!": BYGOD
51. Feeder of the body's organs: AORTA
52. Winter sight at Tahoe: SKIER
53. ___ nous: ENTRE
55. Where Soave comes from: ITALY
58. Yard sale tag: ASIS
59. Ladd or Alda: ALAN
60. Soave, e.g.: WINE
64. Guy's honey: GAL
65. "Dig in!": EAT

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