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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 7, 2001

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Wednesday, February 7, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, February 7, 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.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2001

across

1. Wedding entertainers: BAND
5. Wine containers: CASKS
10. Like fine wine: AGED
14. "Your turn," to a 5-Down: OVER
15. Cheerless: BLEAK
16. Trout's home: LAKE
17. Leon Uris's "___ 18": MILA
18. On "E": EMPTY
19. "You got that right!": AMEN
20. Sherlock Holmes in "The Woman in Green": BASILRATHBONE
23. When to return from lunch, maybe: ATONE
24. "___-hoo!": YOO
25. ___ Beta Kappa: PHI
28. Hankering: YEN
29. Place holders: TABS
33. Alien landings, telepaths, etc.: XFILES
35. Computer key: DELETE
37. Italian dearie: CARA
38. Betty Haynes in "White Christmas": ROSEMARYCLOONEY
43. First czar of Russia: IVAN
44. Like sauerkraut and strudel: GERMAN
45. Ingredient: FACTOR
48. Bankrupt: SUNK
49. Great respect: AWE
52. Antlered animal: ELK
53. Batman and Robin, e.g.: DUO
55. Old-timer: ELDER
57. Blanche Devereaux in TV's "The Golden Girls": RUEMCCLANAHAN
62. Close to closed: AJAR
64. Gentleman callers: BEAUX
65. Small dog, informally: PEKE
66. Isinglass: MICA
67. Egg size: LARGE
68. Makes angry: IRES
69. Labor leader I. W. ___: ABEL
70. Ceased: ENDED
71. Mailed: SENT

down

1. Its port is known as the Gateway to India: BOMBAY
2. Pilot: AVIATE
3. Ozzie or Harriet: NELSON
4. Sink feature: DRAIN
5. Many a trucker: CBER
6. ___ mater: ALMA
7. Back-to-school time: Abbr.: SEPT
8. Oscar winner Bates: KATHY
9. V.I.P.'s seating locale: SKYBOX
10. Fed chairman Greenspan: ALAN
11. Coach's strategy: GAMEPLAN
12. Squeeze (out): EKE
13. Cub's home: DEN
21. Gershwin's "___ Eat Cake": LETEM
22. Response to a punch in the stomach: OOF
26. Roll call response: HERE
27. Mary Higgins Clark's "Before ___ Good-Bye": ISAY
30. In the manner of: ALA
31. Chunk in the Arctic Ocean: BERG
32. Eye sores: STYES
34. James Dean or Marilyn Monroe: ICON
35. Job for a body shop: DENT
36. Beige: ECRU
38. Widespread: RIFE
39. White House office shape: OVAL
40. Company picnic activity: SACKRACE
41. K-O connection: LMN
42. Like some old buckets: OAKEN
46. Flowery verse: ODE
47. Gang fight: RUMBLE
49. Stick (to): ADHERE
50. Undermine: WEAKEN
51. Frank's partner in the comics: ERNEST
54. "Wavy waste," to Thomas Hood: OCEAN
56. ___ lazuli: LAPIS
58. Russia's ___ Mountains: URAL
59. Cutup: CARD
60. Downhill racer: LUGE
61. Canned: AXED
62. G.P.'s grp.: AMA
63. Sloop's sail: JIB

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
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