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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 11, 2001

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Friday, May 11, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, May 11, 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.

68 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
Hearing aid?
2
K follower
3
Josip ___ Tito
4
Former Met maestro
5
Prussian pronoun
6
Carrier to Copenhagen
7
Income sharer: Abbr.
8
Goethe's "Die Leiden ___ jungen Werthers"
9
Several Norwegian kings
10
Asperity
11
Read at the supermarket?
12
Rage
13
Room offerer
14
Letter addenda
15
It may follow a wash
21
Secret
22
Leeds's river
23
Base leader?: Abbr.
25
Co-designee as Time's 1993 Man of the Year
26
Venom
27
Out of touch, with "out"
28
Treats with 26-Down
29
Diplomat Harriman
30
Diving fisher
31
Zilch
32
Didn't directly deal with, with "over"
34
School near Slough
38
Remscheid's region
41
Tend tables
45
Florentine friend
46
Samson
49
___ all-time high
51
Even's opposite
52
"Lay it ___!"
53
Syndicate
54
Copier
55
Riddle-me-___
56
Vane dir.
57
Discouraging words
58
Edwards, for one: Abbr.
59
Double standard?
60
Unrealized 60's Boeing project

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Thursday, May 10, 2001

across

1. Is a gamester: WAGERS
7. Band aid?: AMP
10. Neckline shape: VEE
13. Final words: EPILOG
14. Putting weight on?: LOADING
16. Buy bonds, e.g.: INVEST
17. Tongue-lash: GIVEITTO
18. One of the Canterbury pilgrims: REEVE
19. Care: GIVEADARN
20. Be bold: DARE
21. Knuckle under: GIVEIN
22. Smitten: INLOVE
24. A bit of chiding: TSKTSK
29. Cutting remarks?: OWS
31. Matter for the gray matter: IDEA
32. Box office: GATE
33. They might provide general delivery: JEEPS
35. Circular: Abbr.: RND
37. Schindler of "Schindler's List": OSKAR
38. Voice range: ALTO
39. Poker variety: DRAW
41. Blow it: ERR
42. "Yes! Yes!": IDOIDO
45. Singing or dancing: TALENT
47. Air, to a jet engine: INTAKE
49. "___ that's your game!": OHSO
52. Accidentally: BYMISTAKE
56. Bonnie Blue's father: RHETT
57. Catch up with: OVERTAKE
58. Show scorn to: JEERAT
59. Flipped: WENTAPE
60. Burning the midnight oil: UPLATE
61. What Leary tripped on: LSD
62. Elmore of the N.B.A.: LEN
63. High hat: TOPPER

down

1. Macabre: WEIRD
2. Reason to see a hypnologist: APNEA
3. Engender: GIVERISETO
4. One after another?: ELEVEN
5. Didn't sit still?: ROSE
6. Cpl.'s superior: SGT
7. Still in the game: ALIVE
8. "Get going now!": MOVEIT
9. Songs of praise: PAEANS
10. Life of Cicero: VITA
11. ___'acte: ENTR
12. Designer von Furstenberg: EGON
15. Carried out: DID
17. Good-natured exchange: GIVEANDTAKE
19. Unselfish sort: GIVER
21. Word on all U.S. coins: GOD
23. Fleur-de-___: LIS
25. Metric wts.: KGS
26. Assume blame: TAKETHERAP
27. Destiny: STAR
28. Brynner's co-star in film's "The King and I": KERR
29. California hometown for TV's Six Million Dollar Man: OJAI
30. Join: WELD
34. Luau serving: POI
36. Golden Hind captain: DRAKE
37. "You ___ it to yourself": OWE
40. Bass, e.g.: ALE
43. Proximal's opposite: DISTAL
44. Like sports highlights: ONTAPE
46. Unavailing: NOHELP
48. Occupied: TAKEN
50. Say: STATE
51. Virginia's ___ River: OTTER
52. Big sports event: BOWL
53. Part of Y.S.L.: YVES
54. Make whole: MEND
55. N.Y.C. subway line: IRT
56. Tow job: REPO
58. Stick (out): JUT

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