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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 19, 2001

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Friday, October 19, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, October 19, 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.

72 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

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Thursday, October 18, 2001

across

1. Related on the mother's side: ENATE
6. Card game with the 13 spades laid out: FARO
10. Unadorned: BALD
14. Expensive watch: ROLEX
15. Fine horse: ARAB
16. "That's ___!": ALIE
17. Dessert made with pineapple: UPSIDEDOWNCAKE
19. Deli order: NOVA
20. Some facial features: TICS
21. Out-and-out: UTTER
22. Like some golf balls: TEED
23. Six, in Tuscany: SEI
24. Phone trio: MNO
25. Body of work: OEUVRE
27. Was considered special: RATED
29. Flip: UPEND
31. Strauss's "___ Heldenleben": EIN
32. Play stations?: ARENAS
34. Produced: SIRED
36. Alliance: BLOC
39. Car opener?: RENTA
41. Gridiron move: PASS
42. Left ventricle attachment: AORTA
44. Hunk: ADONIS
46. William, to Diana: SON
47. Partied, so to speak: GOTDOWN
49. Sentences: DOOMS
52. Very soon: INASEC
54. Chamber worker?: Abbr.: SEN
55. Part of i.o.u.: OWE
57. Old ___, Conn.: LYME
58. "___ letter" (office order): TAKEA
61. War maker: ARES
62. Wild goat: IBEX
63. Title song of a Duke Ellington album: UPTOWNDOWNBEAT
65. Gérard Depardieu work: CINE
66. One may be turning: LANE
67. Make merry: ELATE
68. Red army?: ANTS
69. Caltech grad: Abbr.: ENGR
70. Be economical with: REUSE

down

1. Explodes: ERUPTS
2. More of a buttinsky: NOSIER
3. Concert pianist de Larrocha: ALICIA
4. Nugent and Turner: TEDS
5. Letters ending a PC code file name: EXE
6. See 35-Down: FACTO
7. "I smell ___!": ARAT
8. Shed item: RAKE
9. Shakespearean fairy: OBERON
10. African language: BANTU
11. Soap ingredient: ALOEVERA
12. Rental stables: LIVERIES
13. They get you nowhere: DEADENDS
18. Where they say "G'day!": DOWNUNDER
24. Riviera vista: MER
26. Cosmo staff: EDS
28. Social grace: TACT
29. Yo-yoing: UPANDDOWN
30. This, to Jorge: ESTO
33. Like some drink orders: NEAT
35. With 6-Down, a logician's phrase: IPSO
36. Vatican attraction: BASILICA
37. Zoo, so to speak: LOONYBIN
38. Gargoyle, e.g.: ORNAMENT
40. Like native llamas: ANDEAN
43. Ripen: AGE
45. Charged item: ION
48. Eightfold: OCTUPLE
50. Doctor in an H. G. Wells title: MOREAU
51. Workout wear: SWEATS
53. Battle of the ___: SEXES
54. One who'll put you in stitches?: SEWER
56. Name on an atomizer: ESTEE
59. ___ impasse: ATAN
60. King ___: KONG
61. Competent: ABLE
64. Sedative, informally: DOWNER

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