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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 27, 2000

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Monday, November 27, 2000

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, November 27, 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.

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Sunday, November 26, 2000

across

1. One wearing the pants in the family?: PAPA
5. Gulf war planes: AWACS
10. Gets back (to): RSVPS
15. Education grp.: PTA
18. Something you might get at work: THEAX
19. "Grease" singer: VALLI
20. Where "Aïda" premiered: CAIRO
21. It lasts and lasts: EON
22. OPEC-sold intangible?: BARRELOFFUN
24. Lighter offense?: ARSON
25. Call out: CRY
26. Plan for later yrs.: IRA
27. Café lightener: LAIT
28. Clear dishes: BUS
30. Not smart: DIM
31. Mike & ___ (candy brand): IKE
32. Bank posting: RATE
34. Wallet items: IDS
35. Quite a few auctioned-off intangibles?: FATLOTOFGOOD
39. Heading to the finish?: DOOMED
41. 1942 surrender site: BATAAN
42. Gunpowder ingredient: SULFUR
43. Fragment from an intangible?: SHREDOFDECENCY
46. Soprano ___ Lehmann: LOTTE
47. Take longer than expected: RUNLATE
48. Penalty imposer: EXACTOR
51. Person who spends a lot of time dressing: MEDIC
54. Hall-of-Famers Kaline and Lopez: ALS
55. Officeholders: INS
57. When not yet due: TOOSOON
60. Axle securer: UBOLT
61. Actress Headly: GLENNE
63. Bus. letter directive: ATTN
64. Radar anomaly: UFO
65. Aix-___-Bains, France: LES
66. Bright, shining intangible?: RAYOFHOPE
68. Air conditioner abbr.: BTU
69. Prior to: ERE
70. Dietary figures, for short: RDAS
72. Toddlers' rides: TRIKES
73. Notepaper feature: RULES
75. Bashed, as a door: STOVEIN
77. Wave carrier: SEA
78. Ambulance occupant, for short: EMT
79. One of the Horae: IRENE
80. Marker's marker: FELTTIP
82. Winter expense: HEATING
84. Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay, 1996: FARGO
86. Freighterborne intangible?: LOADOFNONSENSE
92. Certain sorority women: OMEGAS
94. Like some oak leaves: LOBATE
95. Like part of the circulatory system: VENOUS
96. Minuscule intangible?: GRAINOFTRUTH
98. Premium channel: HBO
100. Sugar amts.: TSPS
101. A pint, maybe: ALE
102. Blight: MAR
103. Confucian concept: TAO
104. Twelve ___ (Tara neighbor): OAKS
106. Org. with an Office of Water: EPA
107. Despot Amin: IDI
108. Summoned: PAGED
110. Tightly wrapped intangible?: BUNDLEOFJOY
113. It's thrown in anger: FIT
114. Name in 2000 headlines: ELIAN
115. Established: USUAL
116. Clean the hard-to-get-at areas, say: FLOSS
117. Kind of sauce: SOY
118. 1492 voyager: PINTA
119. Relays: SENDS
120. Part of a paper towel roll: TUBE

down

1. Dynasty member: PHARAOH
2. Faucet attachment: AERATOR
3. Standard: PAR
4. Olympics jump: AXEL
5. Duck: AVOID
6. Travels by air: WAFTS
7. 1980's NBC sitcom: ALF
8. Part of a driver, e.g.: CLUBFACE
9. Wavy: SINUATE
10. Indianapolis's ___ Dome: RCA
11. Cameo stone: SARDONYX
12. Pop by: VISIT
13. Trailers: PROMOS
14. ___ of a gun: SON
15. Eight-quart intangible?: PECKOFTROUBLE
16. Removed, in a way: TOREOUT
17. Some: ANY
18. Sporty Ford Motor products: TBIRDS
23. Applied: LAIDON
29. "South Park" boy: STAN
31. Inuit homes: IGLOOS
33. Chef Lagasse: EMERIL
36. They're poked in the eyes: LACES
37. Robert after whom seven U.S. counties are named: FULTON
38. Rap's Dr. ___: DRE
40. Extracted chemical: EDUCT
41. Fashion designer Johnson: BETSEY
44. Undisguised: FLAGRANT
45. Metroplex city: DALLAS
49. Certify: ATTESTTO
50. Item in a tent: COT
51. Plow pullers: MULES
52. Reviewer Roger: EBERT
53. Spoon-administered intangible?: DOSEOFREALITY
55. Prefix with structure: INFRA
56. Blue Cream Soda maker: NEHI
58. Commonly: OFTEN
59. "Don't even bother": NOUSE
62. Put down: NOTE
63. Evolutionary intermediate: APEMAN
67. 1940's-50's actor Dennis: OKEEFE
70. Advance again: RELOAN
71. Telegraph sound: DIT
73. Shampoo directive: RINSE
74. Like a FedEx package: URGENT
76. Meat shunner, informally: VEGGIE
77. Hound's trail: SPOOR
81. Do wrong by: ILLTREAT
82. Place of growing concern: HOTHOUSE
83. Call upon: INVOKE
84. Shore concealer: FOG
85. It's mostly talk nowadays: AMRADIO
87. Border: ABUT
88. Digital information carrier: DATABUS
89. Elective surgery: NOSEJOB
90. Gather: SUPPOSE
91. Lamb's output: ESSAYS
93. Dweller on the Gulf of Aden: SOMALI
97. Dickens villain: FAGIN
98. Beach impostor: HODAD
99. Part of a count: BALLS
105. Delicate: SOFT
107. Stipulations: IFS
108. Dash: PEP
109. It has a twist: DNA
111. Prioress: NUN
112. Unwanted "gift": FLU

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