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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for September 26, 2000

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Tuesday, September 26, 2000

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, September 26, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
Literary lioness
5
Titicaca, por ejemplo
9
Person with a handle
13
People to hang with
14
Wear down
16
Edison's middle name
17
"The jig ___!"
18
Cliffs ___ (study aids)
19
Exclamation after "What are you waiting for?"
20
December singer?
23
Not play fair
24
Blazed a trail
25
Hollywood Indian's word
28
Young ___ (tads)
29
Friend of François
31
Deviate from a direct course
34
___ dictum
36
Dean's world
38
Nick at ___
39
Like Cheerios
41
With 12-Down, a modern idler
42
No longer chic
44
Winner's crown
46
Bat wood
47
"How about that!"
48
Songwriter Coleman et al.
49
Gridiron divs.
50
Boo follower
52
Word with house or mouth
54
Fast-food addict?
60
Drop off
61
Triangular formation
62
The Crimson Tide, for short
63
Take down ___ (humble)
64
___ acid (soap ingredient)
65
They have pull
66
Kind of monster
67
Caen's river
68
Cherry variety

Down clues & answers

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Monday, September 25, 2000

across

1. Peanut, in the South: GOOBER
7. Kitten's plaything: YARN
11. Magazine with a fold-in back cover: MAD
14. Richly decorated: ORNATE
15. Eminently draftable: ONEA
16. Intense anger: IRE
17. Gab: YACKETYYACK
19. TV room: DEN
20. Aweather's opposite: ALEE
21. Winning tic-tac-toe row: OOO
22. College application part: ESSAY
24. Piece next to a knight: ROOK
26. Core group: CADRE
28. Sound from a moving train: CLICKETYCLICK
32. Winter forecast: SLEET
33. On guard: WARY
34. Explosive stuff: TNT
36. Hardly neatniks: PIGS
37. Dress with a flared bottom: ALINE
39. Uncles, in Cuba: TIOS
40. Doctors' org.: AMA
41. Les États-___: UNIS
42. Base stealer Lou: BROCK
43. Darned: BLANKETYBLANK
47. Novelists Ferber and O'Brien: EDNAS
48. Feedbag fill: OATS
49. Town square: PLAZA
51. Make a goof: ERR
52. Radio operators: HAMS
56. Captain's journal: LOG
57. Important person: MUCKETYMUCK
61. Bird that gives a hoot: OWL
62. French 101 verb: ETRE
63. Aviator Earhart: AMELIA
64. Driving range peg: TEE
65. Calendar units: DAYS
66. Stagecoach robber: BANDIT

down

1. "Naked Maja" painter: GOYA
2. Spoken: ORAL
3. Give the ___-over: ONCE
4. Pastry shops: BAKERIES
5. When the French fry: ETE
6. Seized again: RETOOK
7. Toy that goes "around the world": YOYO
8. Santa ___, Calif.: ANA
9. ___ room (place to play games): REC
10. In an unprotected manner: NAKEDLY
11. Torso: MIDSECTION
12. Zone: AREA
13. Contradict: DENY
18. Oxen connector: YOKE
23. ___ Lanka: SRI
25. Halloween's mo.: OCT
26. Shade of blue: CYAN
27. Big garden size: ACRE
28. Ascend: CLIMB
29. Top-notch lawyer: LEGALEAGLE
30. Chubby Checker's dance: TWIST
31. Word repeated before "Who's there?": KNOCK
32. Health resort: SPA
35. Sound of disappointment: TSK
37. "My Way" songwriter: ANKA
38. Commits perjury: LIES
39. Sanitation workers: TRASHMEN
41. Not specified: UNNAMED
42. Sandwich that usually contains mayo: BLT
44. Axlike tool: ADZ
45. Time past: YORE
46. It grows every time you get a shot: BARTAB
49. Parcel of land: PLOT
50. Actor Rob: LOWE
51. Meagerly maintains, with "out": EKES
53. "___ Lang Syne": AULD
54. Early 12th-century date: MCII
55. Three-person card game: SKAT
58. Actress Hagen: UTA
59. Weep: CRY
60. Singer Sumac: YMA

Hints and full breakdown for Sep 25

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