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

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Friday, November 9, 2001

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, November 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
One whose work may be monumental
11
Cold-shoulder
15
"West Side Story" Oscar winner
16
Second start?
17
Some successful runners
18
One with a big mouth
19
Hill, in Haifa
20
Disney title role
22
Like some training
25
Peña of Clinton's cabinet
26
Lots of land
27
It may be a sin
28
When doubled, a sitcom sign-off
29
Go gaga
30
Euripides tragedy
34
Deep, reddish purple
39
"___ volat propriis" (Oregon's motto)
41
Orkney Islands ancient
42
Literally, "little tongues"
46
Unpolished leather
48
Became, with "to"
49
Being
50
Fall follower
51
Natl. Congress of Mothers, today
52
Chimp in a spacesuit
53
Digested
58
Be upwardly mobile?
59
Group associated with checks and balances
60
Proof word
61
Capitol Hill prize

Down clues & answers

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Thursday, November 8, 2001

across

1. Total: ADDUPTO
8. Sleepers: PAJAMAS
15. Shiraz resident: IRANIAN
16. Early Christian: APOSTLE
17. Dance floor request: MAYICUTINPLEASE
19. Airport northwest of LAX: SFO
20. Poor dancer: STIFF
21. Poi-producing plants: TAROS
22. ___ time: ATNO
24. Whittle: PARE
26. Skater Lipinski: TARA
27. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" writer: TSELIOT
30. First name on Broadway, 1951: YUL
32. Rarer than rare: RAW
33. Knucklehead: MORON
35. Odysseus, to the Cyclops Polyphemus: NOMAN
37. Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across: CONNECTICUT
39. "___ and the Pussycats" (2001 movie): JOSIE
40. Is extremely cool, slangily: ROCKS
41. Peaked: WAN
42. Have a bawl: CRY
44. In addition: BESIDES
48. Platter player: HIFI
50. Responsive to the helm, in nautical lingo: YARE
52. Time out?: COMA
53. ___ decent living: EARNA
55. Is defeated: LOSES
58. Cabin bed: COT
59. Power broker?: ELECTRICUTILITY
62. Actress Day of "Foreign Correspondent": LARAINE
63. Snake in the grass: RATTLER
64. Naps, in Nogales: SIESTAS
65. Escape artists: ELUDERS

down

1. Draws a bead on: AIMSAT
2. Preliminary write-ups: DRAFTS
3. The start of something: DAYONE
4. Prefix with valve: UNI
5. Shots, for short: PICS
6. Tight: TAUT
7. Walking quietly: ONTIPTOE
8. Make schnitzel, e.g.: PANFRY
9. Software program, briefly: APP
10. Shock: JOLT
11. "Save me ___" (movie request): ASEAT
12. Bibl. landing site: MTARARAT
13. One who's back in the pack: ALSORAN
14. Go up and down: SEESAW
18. "___ body meet ...": IFA
23. Actor Edward James ___: OLMOS
25. One of the Kennedys: EUNICE
28. Greek column type: IONIC
29. Pig-headed: ORNERY
31. Canal features: LOCKS
34. A.T.M.-making co.: NCR
36. "Sweet and healing medicine of troubles": Horace: MUSIC
37. Colleague: CONFRERE
38. "Of course ...": TOBESURE
39. Handball relative: JAIALAI
41. Crate that runs: WHEELS
43. Some Ivy Leaguers: YALIES
45. Easy to control: DOCILE
46. Ham on stage: EMOTER
47. Mates for forest nymphs: SATYRS
49. Onetime empire builders: INCAS
51. Sinbad's bird: ROC
54. Fighting: ATIT
56. Abbreviated Latin phrase: ETAL
57. In ___ (where found): SITU
60. Cytoplasm material: RNA
61. Inc., abroad: LTD

Hints and full breakdown for Nov 8

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