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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 9, 2001

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Monday, July 9, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 9, 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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Sunday, July 8, 2001

across

1. Feature of a murder mystery: CORPSE
7. It's often done by phone: POLL
11. Chocolate source: CACAO
16. Evanesces: FADES
21. Soporific: OPIATE
22. Bow to: OBEY
23. Hurdles to a degree?: ORALS
24. Take up room: EXIST
25. Classroom-supplies market report?: PENCILSLOSEPOINTS
28. Mustang catcher: RIATA
29. Family name with a checkered past?: UNSER
30. Passing comments?: AYES
31. Russian figure skater Sokolova: ELENA
32. Wood mill apparatus: PULPER
33. Unwanted look: LEER
34. Heidi's home: ALPS
35. Nike, e.g.: DEITY
36. Some eBay users: SELLERS
37. Recipe direction: ADD
38. Teacher of Samuel: ELI
39. Not hold it in: BURST
40. Pop up: APPEAR
41. Cutlery market report?: KNIVESUPSHARPLY
45. Site for spores: SAC
48. Kind of fork: SALAD
51. Rugged ridge: ARETE
52. First king of Phliasia, in myth: ARAS
53. Effuse: GUSH
54. Film job: EDITOR
56. Old Polo Grounds star: OTT
57. Ruined: SHOT
58. Wise guys?: MENSA
59. Put out: TAG
60. Bedding market report?: FEATHERSDOWN
65. Porter musical: CANCAN
66. 1968 champion at Forest Hills: ASHE
68. Conflict that ended at 11:00 on 11/11: WWI
69. Singer Easton: SHEENA
70. Like an excellent game for a pitcher: ONEHIT
71. State bordering Veracruz: TABASCO
74. Parlor letters: OTB
75. Rabbi's alma mater: YESHIVA
78. Knee-slapper: GASSER
80. Actress Pia: ZADORA
83. Joan, e.g.: Abbr.: STE
84. Six-footers: ANTS
87. Fix, as a pipe joint: REWELD
88. Fruit market report?: BANANASSPLIT
91. Former Portuguese colony in India: GOA
92. "___ Like You" (1967 hit): AGIRL
93. "Hee Haw" humor: CORN
94. It's usually 3, 4 or 5: PAR
95. 500 cars: RACERS
97. 500 places: PITS
98. Manipulate, as the books: COOK
99. Memento: RELIC
101. Wiggle room, in a shoe: WIDTH
102. Computer key: Abbr.: ESC
103. Farm-stock market report?: HORSESBUCKTREND
108. Subjects for hypnotists: HABITS
111. Pirate's box: CHEST
112. Charley's love in "Where's Charley?": AMY
113. Electricity source: DAM
116. Took an extra course?: OVERATE
118. Rafter's thrill: CHUTE
119. Downy: SOFT
121. Explorer's quest, with "the": POLE
122. Agave fibers: SISALS
123. Preferred invitees: ALIST
124. Broadcast: EMIT
125. Bridge enthusiast?: TROLL
126. Feat of clay?: ADOBE
127. Metals market report?: LEADHEAVILYTRADED
130. Infidel, in Islam: KAFIR
131. Endured: BORNE
132. Sample: BITE
133. Power problem: OUTAGE
134. Soviet subs: ALFAS
135. Player against Player: SNEAD
136. Arctic transport: SLED
137. Exercised pull?: WEEDED

down

1. Linking verb: COPULA
2. In full bloom: OPENED
3. Washed off: RINSED
4. Many an expectant father: PACER
5. Recipe direction: STIR
6. Sushi fare: EEL
7. Growth: POLYP
8. Reeds section: OBOES
9. Nothing ___: LESS
10. Eye burner: LYE
11. Distant: COOLISH
12. Short operatic piece: ARIETTA
13. Street-smart: CANNY
14. Utah ski resort: ALTA
15. Old spy org.: OSS
16. Schoolmarm's discipline dispenser: FERULE
17. Armpit: AXILLA
18. Nursery-supplies market report?: DIAPERSUNCHANGED
19. Ethyl acetate, e.g.: ESTER
20. Sky lights: STARS
26. Drivel: SALIVA
27. Barons and earls: PEERS
32. "___ Diary": PEPYS
34. Pugilist poet: ALI
35. Gull: DUPE
36. Comics sound: SPLAT
38. ___ an era: ENDOF
39. Isolated locales: BUTTES
40. Table part: APRON
41. Kit ___: KAT
42. Suggestive: EROTIC
43. See 57-Down: SETH
44. New Jersey city: RAHWAY
46. Very, in music: ASSAI
47. Sound from a monastery, maybe: CHANT
48. Stiff hair: SETA
49. County seats in Minnesota and Oklahoma: ADAS
50. Electrical equipment market report?: LIGHTSWITCHESOFF
53. League of Nations seat: GENEVA
55. Reason to rat: REWARD
57. 43-Down, to Adam: SON
58. "The ___ Love" (Gershwin tune): MANI
61. Expressions of disbelief: AWS
62. Window dresser of TV sitcom: RHODA
63. ___ Hall: SETON
64. Actress Messing of "Will & Grace": DEBRA
65. Sibling, often: COHEIR
67. Facilitators: EASERS
72. Unit of nautical time: BELL
73. Missouri vacation destination: OZARKS
76. Lively intelligence: ESPRIT
77. MO town: STL
78. Nehi flavor: GRAPE
79. Protection: AEGIS
81. Raggedy doll: ANN
82. Look: ASPECT
85. Slander, e.g.: TORT
86. Scarf: SASH
88. Yokels: BOORS
89. Polio scientist: SALK
90. Lion-colored: TAWNY
93. Robert of Broadway's "My Fair Lady": COOTE
96. El ___: CID
98. Notes of a sort: CHITS
99. Artifice: RUSE
100. Sly: CRAFTY
104. Animal that's fond of 84-Across: ECHIDNA
105. Like library talkers: SHUSHED
106. Balzac's "La Cousine ___": BETTE
107. One rushing to a hosp.: EMT
109. Land bordering Mesopotamia: ARABIA
110. Some field workers: BALERS
113. Thingamajig: DOODAD
114. Claim: ALLEGE
115. As one: MELDED
116. Honshu city: OSAKA
117. "1876" author: VIDAL
118. County of Ireland: CLARE
119. Whomp, old-style: SMITE
120. Tipsy: OILED
121. Chatter: PRATE
123. It seems like forever: AEON
124. Dark doings: EVIL
125. Test choice: TRUE
127. N.F.L. positions: LBS
128. Exercise target: ABS
129. Exercise pull?: TOW

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