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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 26, 2001

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Friday, January 26, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, January 26, 2001. 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.

72 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
Big talkers
2
Perfect
3
Not in time
4
Tyrant
5
Membership requirement, often
6
It has a creased crown
7
Exercise wheel locale
8
Some are pale
9
Give a 5, e.g.
10
Some clones
11
They may be ringing
12
Trample
13
Stand for trinkets
14
"China Beach" star
21
Crams
24
Sofia's portrayer in "The Color Purple"
28
Dispatch boat
29
Admeasure
30
Symbol of industry
31
Ring rampager
33
They're part of a good deal
35
Group of whizzes
37
Set-___
38
Flipped
39
Centrum competitor
40
All-out
42
Car reservoirs
43
Alabama slammer ingredient
44
Spanish Mannerist
47
Jacks
53
It may be worn after traveling
54
It opened in 1871
55
One in the sac
56
Gym set
57
Like some fireplaces
59
Cowboy's moniker
61
"Give ___ whirl"

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Thursday, January 25, 2001

across

1. Is in another form?: WAS
4. Rodin sculpture at the Met: ADAM
8. Best and others: EDNAS
13. Accident scene arrival: Abbr.: EMT
14. Hindi relative: URDU
15. Brewers' needs: YEASTS
17. See 32-Across: DOR
18. Morse T's: DAHS
19. Parisian palace: ELYSEE
20. Method of plant propagation: SEEDAGE
22. ___ Simbel, Egypt: ABU
23. Cartesian conclusion: IAM
24. Apiary?: BEECOMPLEX
26. Mr., in Mysore: SRI
27. Saved on supper, perhaps: ATEIN
28. Winglike appendages: ALAE
29. Make doilies: TAT
30. Shaky problem: DTS
31. Court target: RIM
32. With 17-Across, Dijon's department: COTE
33. Decongestant, maybe: SPRAY
36. Mountain: TON
37. Saharan sights: DUNES
38. Like ___ of sunshine: ARAY
39. ___ Avivian: TEL
40. Three Stooges prop: PIE
41. "The One I Love" singers: REM
42. Golfer Ballesteros: SEVE
43. Ax: LETGO
46. Ninny: ASS
47. Danny's allowance?: KAYERATION
49. "Do ___ Diddy Diddy" (1964 hit): WAH
50. Justice Fortas: ABE
51. Fast, informally: HISPEED
53. Rabbitlike rodent: AGOUTI
55. Fictional terrier: TOTO
56. Prefix with athlete: TRI
57. Gist: KERNEL
58. Took too much, briefly: ODED
59. Cabinet dept.: HUD
60. Boxer's threat: SNARL
61. "White Christmas" dancer ___-Ellen: VERA
62. Ambient music pioneer: ENO

down

1. Makes one: WEDS
2. It forms food vacuoles: AMOEBA
3. It may be curbed: STREET
4. Nerve: AUDACITY
5. Chinese parade features: DRAGONS
6. Leigh Hunt's "Abou Ben ___": ADHEM
7. Some fraternity chapters: MUS
8. Superman's revealing piercer?: EYEBEAM
9. Very fine: DELUXE
10. Formal refusal: NAY
11. Help with, as a project: ASSISTON
12. Zinc ___ (ointment ingredient): STEARATE
16. Arabs, e.g.: SEMITES
21. Time to honor Sandra?: DEEDAY
22. Bushed: ALLIN
25. One out?: PAROLEE
32. Pool ball hitter?: CUETIP
33. Malaysian state: SARAWAK
34. Harbingers: PRESAGES
35. It's blown on Yom Kippur: RAMSHORN
36. "If I Were a Rich Man" singer: TEVYE
37. Tab, e.g.: DIETSODA
39. Charge for an afternoon social?: TEABILL
40. Cornrow creator: PLAITER
42. Ice lander?: SKATER
44. "Roman Elegies" author: GOETHE
45. Like some ball games: ONERUN
48. ___ Island: RHODE
52. Prank: DIDO
54. "___ voce poco fa" (Rossini aria): UNA
55. Mazel ___: TOV

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 25

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