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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 12, 2001
Monday, March 12, 2001
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 12, 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
- 16
- 48
- 73
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 19
- 27
- 42
- 45
- 51
- 52
- 54
- 58
- 62
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Sunday, March 11, 2001
across
- 1. Virtues: MERITS
- 7. More verdant: LUSHER
- 13. Avoided extinction, perhaps: ADAPTED
- 20. Busy: TIEDUP
- 21. Wolf down: INHALE
- 22. Maid on "Will & Grace": ROSARIO
- 23. Gas used as an anesthetic: ETHENE
- 24. Like Liz Taylor's eyes: VIOLET
- 25. Knit: ENTWINE
- 26. Start of a quip: THESECRETOFMANAGING
- 29. Like some drinks: NEAT
- 30. Pueblo in northern New Mexico: TAOS
- 31. Needlefish: GAR
- 32. Sheet music abbr.: ARR
- 33. Jerome Robbins's "Dances ___ Gathering": ATA
- 34. Waltz finale?: ZEE
- 37. It's full of drafts: PUB
- 39. Closet eater?: MOTH
- 43. Quip, part 2: ISTOKEEPTHEGUYSWHO
- 48. Sponge: MOISTEN
- 51. Warm welcomes: ALOHAS
- 52. Like clown faces: MADEUP
- 53. Sleep lab subject: APNEA
- 54. African families: PRIDES
- 55. "Drums Along the Mohawk" author: EDMONDS
- 56. Speaker of the quip: CASEYSTENGEL
- 59. Urge: PRESS
- 60. "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" rockers: ELO
- 61. ___ concours (not competing): HORS
- 62. Big ___: MAMA
- 63. J.F.K. sight: SST
- 66. It may light your fire: SPARK
- 68. Event for 56-Across: BASEBALLGAME
- 73. Cartoon ape of 60's TV: MAGILLA
- 76. One of the Brady Bunch girls: MARCIA
- 77. Set apart: ALLOT
- 78. Making no value judgments: AMORAL
- 79. Figure in a pickup line?: CABBIE
- 80. Mollify: ASSUAGE
- 82. Quip, part 3: HATEYOUAWAYFROMTHE
- 85. Mass-wedding chorus: IDOS
- 86. It may bring down the house: TNT
- 87. Fed. funds: SSI
- 88. Fed. funder: NEA
- 89. "Citizen Kane" studio: RKO
- 92. "___ du lieber!": ACH
- 94. Report: BANG
- 95. Ferret out: FIND
- 96. End of the quip: GUYSWHOAREUNDECIDED
- 104. Famed Rio beach: IPANEMA
- 106. Lifted: SWIPED
- 107. Blues guitarist Harvey: MANDEL
- 108. Biform beast: CENTAUR
- 109. Community along Ventura Blvd.: ENCINO
- 110. Opera set in Cyprus: OTELLO
- 111. Glut: ENGORGE
- 112. Refuse receptacle: ASHCAN
- 113. Most spare: MEREST
down
- 1. 11,000-ft. high smoker: MTETNA
- 2. Choice word: EITHER
- 3. Grant an appeal, perhaps: REHEAR
- 4. To be specific: IDEST
- 5. Fix a flat?: TUNE
- 6. Watch: SPECTATE
- 7. Georgia's state tree: LIVEOAK
- 8. Meters and liters: UNITS
- 9. ___-in: SHOO
- 10. 24 minutes, maybe: HALF
- 11. I, O or U, but not A or E: Abbr.: ELEM
- 12. Prepare for a sale, say: RETAG
- 13. It may be underfoot: AREARUG
- 14. Vietnamese currency: DONG
- 15. City southeast of Turin: ASTI
- 16. Board member?: PAWN
- 17. One may consider all the angles in it: TRIG
- 18. Hegelian article: EIN
- 19. Fawning one: DOE
- 27. Betray, in a way: RATON
- 28. Scruffs: NAPES
- 34. 1983 Woody Allen role: ZELIG
- 35. Verse form invented by Archilochus: EPODE
- 36. Neighbor of Lucy and Ricky: ETHEL
- 38. Short end of the stick: BUMDEAL
- 39. It helps many machines run: MSDOS
- 40. Irving's ___ Meany: OWEN
- 41. Faint sound?: THUD
- 42. Brewery stock: HOPS
- 43. Cry of epiphany: ISEE
- 44. "Sit" follower: STAY
- 45. Brings in: EARNS
- 46. Includes: HAS
- 47. Beta carotene sources: YAMS
- 48. Airborne defense?: MACE
- 49. Symbol of hope: OPAL
- 50. ___ many words: INSO
- 54. Fringe benefit: PERK
- 55. "Aunt" with a "Cope Book": ERMA
- 57. Bordelaise ingredient: SHALLOT
- 58. When tripled, a war film: TORA
- 59. Sunscreen compound: PABA
- 62. Getty Center architect Richard: MEIER
- 63. Casa chamber: SALA
- 64. It may be difficult to drive in: SMOG
- 65. Les oreilles are attached to it: TETE
- 66. Pedigree figures: SIRES
- 67. With 79-Down, something to do in the yard: PLAY
- 68. Cakes with kick: BABAS
- 69. Fast-food chain: ARBYS
- 70. Bookstore section: SCIFI
- 71. Eyewinker: LASH
- 72. Bond: GLUE
- 73. When doubled, a dolphinfish: MAHI
- 74. Make ___ dash for: AMAD
- 75. Attend: GOTO
- 76. Gaping hole: MAW
- 79. See 67-Down: CATCH
- 80. Better: AMEND
- 81. Child actor's biggest fan, perhaps: STAGEMOM
- 83. Out of it: UNAWARE
- 84. Way to drone: ONANDON
- 89. Turandot's test: RIDDLE
- 90. Shows subservience: KNEELS
- 91. 75 shares, e.g.: ODDLOT
- 93. Follower of Daniel: HOSEA
- 94. ___ Park, Calif.: BUENA
- 95. More exquisite: FINER
- 96. Something that may be busted: GANG
- 97. A law ___ itself: UNTO
- 98. Sentence division: YEAR
- 99. More than self-confident: SMUG
- 100. Barley beards: AWNS
- 101. Loaded: RICH
- 102. Like some proportions: EPIC
- 103. Blanchett of "Elizabeth": CATE
- 104. Sculpting medium: ICE
- 105. Signature piece?: PEN
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