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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 5, 2001
Monday, March 5, 2001
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 5, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 30
- 36
- 58
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 28
- 41
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Sunday, March 4, 2001
across
- 1. Fuzzbuster's finding: RADAR
- 6. Abbr. in a G. & S. title: HMS
- 9. Alligator ___: PEAR
- 13. You can count on them: ABACI
- 18. Quick: AGILE
- 19. Cry at fireworks: OOH
- 20. Game ragout: SALMI
- 21. Oral vaccine developer: SABIN
- 22. Group that ignores four-way stops, e.g.?: THESHUNSIGNBOYS
- 25. Shirk duties, slangily: SKATE
- 26. South Seas islander: SAMOAN
- 27. Online item: EMAIL
- 28. Knight errant, often: QUESTER
- 30. What an inept surgeon might do?: SEWYOUTOYOURSHEET
- 34. British flashlight: TORCH
- 38. ___-Ration (dog food): KENL
- 39. Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace: ODENSE
- 40. Long (for): ACHE
- 41. La Guardia : LGA :: O'Hare : ___: ORD
- 42. Martha in denture ads: RAYE
- 44. Biblical name meaning "hairy": ESAU
- 48. Get hot and bothered: STEAMUP
- 50. Drinks fit for a lady?: SHEWORTHYSIPS
- 55. Assails: SETSAT
- 56. Cherokees, e.g.: JEEPS
- 57. Attention-getting calls: YOOHOOS
- 58. Furry floater: OTTER
- 59. "Popeye" creator: SEGAR
- 60. Censorship-fighting org.: ACLU
- 61. Inits. in journalism: NPR
- 62. Do some rummaging for a cabinet part?: SIFTFORONESHELF
- 67. Elvis's record label: RCA
- 70. Nothing other than: MERE
- 71. Gray area?: DIXIE
- 72. Lowest ship's deck: ORLOP
- 76. Quadratics and such: ALGEBRA
- 78. Some have tears: DUCTS
- 79. Pilot: AVIATE
- 80. Seeks legal redress with stunning effect?: SUESANDSHOCKS
- 83. Speaker's need: TWEETER
- 84. Impudent: PERT
- 85. Rake part: TINE
- 86. TV audience unit: Abbr.: MIL
- 87. Absolute twit: ZERO
- 88. Nomad: ROAMER
- 92. Very long stretch: AEON
- 94. Worth: MERIT
- 95. Internet bathing/grooming site come-on?: SOPONLINEANDSHAVE
- 101. Orbital extremes: APOGEES
- 102. Ranch in "Giant": REATA
- 103. Literary awards: EDGARS
- 108. Freshen: RENEW
- 109. What the drunk roofer's boss had to do?: FIREASHINGLESOT
- 113. Grantorto's victim in "The Faerie Queene": IRENA
- 114. Classic toy company: IDEAL
- 115. Afore: ERE
- 116. Jong with a "Fear of Fifty": ERICA
- 117. Impudent: SASSY
- 118. First-rate: TOPS
- 119. Consonantal trio: RST
- 120. Rising agent: YEAST
down
- 1. "Darn!": RATS
- 2. Turkish title: AGHA
- 3. Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh ___: DIEM
- 4. Additionally: ALSO
- 5. Hardly original writing: REHASH
- 6. Sweetums: HON
- 7. Shuffled (along): MOSEYED
- 8. Israel's Peres: SHIMON
- 9. Nobel poet Neruda: PABLO
- 10. "Xanadu" rock grp.: ELO
- 11. Author Tan: AMY
- 12. Suggestive: RISQUE
- 13. Take stock of: ASSESS
- 14. Payment to expedite service: BAKSHEESH
- 15. Let up: ABATE
- 16. One quoted: CITEE
- 17. Like some gases: INERT
- 20. Piqued state: SNIT
- 23. Article in Le Monde: UNE
- 24. Caesarean conquest: GAUL
- 29. Vessel at socials: URN
- 31. Radio station on old TV: WKRP
- 32. Toy making a comeback: YOYO
- 33. River of Brandenburg: ODER
- 34. Italian poet of "Rinaldo": TASSO
- 35. Vocal ensemble, maybe: OCTET
- 36. Bonnie Blue Butler's dad: RHETT
- 37. Ends: CEASES
- 41. Fully anesthetized: OUT
- 42. Xerox: REPRODUCE
- 43. "Isn't that cute!" exclamations: AWS
- 45. Capital of Valais canton, Switzerland: SION
- 46. Each: APOP
- 47. Boycotter of the '84 L.A. Olympics: USSR
- 49. Xylophone cousin: MARIMBA
- 50. ___ lily (Utah's flower): SEGO
- 51. Get wind of: HEAR
- 52. Greek goddess of chance: TYCHE
- 53. Driver's destination?: HOLE
- 54. Amas, to us: YOULOVE
- 56. Mexican leader: JEFE
- 59. Fine fiddle: STRAD
- 60. WYSIWYG, on sales tags: ASIS
- 63. Bracken, for one: FERN
- 64. Pottery flaw: NICK
- 65. Bus. phone components: EXTS
- 66. Entablature part: FRIEZE
- 67. Mobster's speech, maybe: RASP
- 68. Airhead's lack?: CLUE
- 69. Golden-___: AGER
- 73. Informal sign-off: LATER
- 74. Cheri of "S.N.L.": OTERI
- 75. 1992 also-ran: PEROT
- 77. Replacement therapy hormones: ESTROGENS
- 78. Put on: DON
- 79. Leatherworking tool: AWL
- 81. Anna of "Nana": STEN
- 82. Engage: HIRE
- 83. Perry Como hit "___ Marie": TINA
- 86. Goats' coats: MOHAIRS
- 89. Ticket type: ONEWAY
- 90. Public house potable: ALE
- 91. Nonconformist: MISFIT
- 92. Roles in "The Piano" and "Tobacco Road": ADAS
- 93. Job preceder: ESTHER
- 94. Olio: MEDLEY
- 95. Maharani wraps: SARIS
- 96. Field of Battle: OPERA
- 97. Corn-based loaves: PONES
- 98. Specialties: AREAS
- 99. Broten of hockey fame: NEAL
- 100. ___ out (relax, like, totally): VEG
- 104. Richard of "Runaway Bride": GERE
- 105. Polo field?: ASIA
- 106. Fliers in Arabian tales: ROCS
- 107. Order to a nurse: STAT
- 110. Oft-broken promise: IDO
- 111. Circle ___ (theater group): REP
- 112. It's a lifesaver: NET
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