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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 7, 2002
Monday, January 7, 2002
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 7, 2002. 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
- 51
- 66
Down clues & answers
- 41
- 50
- 60
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Sunday, January 6, 2002
across
- 1. Makes a quick profit on: SCALPS
- 7. Urchins: SCAMPS
- 13. Rent-a-car offering: ROADMAP
- 20. Group: ASSORT
- 21. Singer Carey: MARIAH
- 22. Gate-crash: INTRUDE
- 23. Mammal that takes orders?: WAITERBUFFALO
- 25. More likely to break: FRAILER
- 26. A few Z's in Zaragoza: SIESTA
- 27. Mammal that lives in a cottonwood?: POPLARBEAR
- 29. Mammals that are merciful?: SPARINGHARES
- 34. With carelessness: REMISSLY
- 35. ABC News president, 1977-98: ARLEDGE
- 36. Sports inits. since 1922: NFL
- 37. Tenuous fragment: WISP
- 38. Some life jackets: MAEWESTS
- 40. "Yes, ___": MAAM
- 42. First course at a German restaurant, maybe: SUPPE
- 47. Fire places: PYRES
- 48. Sen. Stevens of Alaska: TED
- 51. Mammals that are Mets fans?: SHEAOTTERS
- 54. Baltic native: LETT
- 55. Hustles: HURRIES
- 58. Music of Oasis and Radiohead, e.g.: BRITPOP
- 59. Staff of Life: Abbr.: EDS
- 60. Walter Scott's title: BARONET
- 61. Barely makes out: SCRAPESBY
- 63. Mammal that has a permanent mark?: BRANDEDANTEATER
- 65. Polish turnovers: PIEROGIES
- 68. March events?: PARADES
- 69. Word heard by Cratchit: BAH
- 72. Free of burdens: UNLADEN
- 73. Like some ex-dictators: DEPOSED
- 74. Broad bean: FAVA
- 75. Mammal that's a severe critic?: FLAYINGFOX
- 78. Barbary ___: APE
- 79. Middle name in mystery: CONAN
- 80. Like some modesty: FALSE
- 81. Curtail: TRIM
- 83. Injurious: DAMAGING
- 86. Hat, symbolically: ROLE
- 88. "A Theory of Semiotics" author: ECO
- 91. Strong, in Salerno: ROBUSTO
- 92. Historical figure played by Robert De Niro: ALCAPONE
- 97. Mammal that's trained by the author of "Superfudge"?: BLUMEDOLPHIN
- 99. Mammal that's a reward for hard work?: EARNEDSEAL
- 101. Punk icon Joey: RAMONE
- 102. New hire: TRAINEE
- 103. Mammals with parts in "Guys and Dolls"?: LOESSERPANDAS
- 109. Create afresh: NEWMINT
- 110. Frequent Hope/Crosby co-star: LAMOUR
- 111. When the Great Lakes were formed: ICEAGE
- 112. Gives in (to): ASSENTS
- 113. Violent: STORMY
- 114. Milne's pessimist: EEYORE
down
- 1. Much-repeated words: SAW
- 2. Civil War inits.: CSA
- 3. "___ said ...": ASI
- 4. Mountain, so to speak: LOT
- 5. Is in the chair: PRESIDES
- 6. Composition of some quartets: STRINGS
- 7. Compress, informally: SMUSH
- 8. Lounger's cover-up: CAFTAN
- 9. Pound notes?: ARFARF
- 10. "Mamma ___!": MIA
- 11. Insect feelers: PALPS
- 12. Drive away: SHOO
- 13. You'll get a kick out of them: RIFLES
- 14. Cloverleaf component: ONRAMP
- 15. Asteroids producer: ATARI
- 16. Bits: DRIBS
- 17. Sterile hybrids: MULES
- 18. "You've got ___!": ADEAL
- 19. Clinton defense secretary: PERRY
- 24. Father: BEGET
- 28. Two, for one: PRIME
- 29. Statistical subset: SAMPLE
- 30. Talked up?: PRAYED
- 31. Advisories: ALERTS
- 32. Keep from drying out, perhaps: REWET
- 33. One may be blighted: ELM
- 37. Nursery noise: WAH
- 39. Stepped (across): STRODE
- 41. Nincompoop: ASS
- 42. Mushroom stems: STIPES
- 43. Absolute: UTTER
- 44. Vivifies, with "up": PEPS
- 45. "No ___" ("Piece of cake"): PROB
- 46. Spot: ESPY
- 49. White-tailed birds: ERNES
- 50. Burned out: DIED
- 52. Rub down: ABRADE
- 53. Soapboxed: ORATED
- 55. ___-Dazs: HAAGEN
- 56. Entombing, old-style: URNING
- 57. Infantry campsite: ETAPE
- 60. Miss Jean of stage and screen: BRODIE
- 61. Cutting edge creator: STROP
- 62. Cut out: CEASED
- 63. Mimics a 41-Down: BRAYS
- 64. California county or its seat: NAPA
- 65. Overblown praise: PUFF
- 66. "To Live and Die ___": INLA
- 67. Carrier since 1948: ELAL
- 69. Drive away: BANISH
- 70. 1972 Lemmon/Wilder comedy: AVANTI
- 71. Stick it out: HANGON
- 73. Sixth-century year: DXI
- 74. Get steamy: FOGUP
- 76. Army base near Petersburg, Va.: FTLEE
- 77. Part of a krone: ORE
- 79. Former annual TV award: CABLEACE
- 82. Actor Gibson: MEL
- 84. Fire: ARDOR
- 85. Popular chocolate and marshmallow snack: MOONPIE
- 86. Natural nibbler: RODENT
- 87. Geneses: ONSETS
- 89. Desktop arrow: CURSOR
- 90. Ruminant's third stomach: OMASUM
- 92. Prudential competitor: AETNA
- 93. Roman household spirits: LARES
- 94. Sticking points?: CRAWS
- 95. Japanese cartoon art: ANIME
- 96. Corral: PENIN
- 97. Swell: BLOAT
- 98. It may be applied across the board: EMERY
- 100. Shakespeare title starter: ALLS
- 104. Comic Philips: EMO
- 105. Marshal at Waterloo: NEY
- 106. 1957 Physics Nobelist Tsung-___ Lee: DAO
- 107. Part of U.S.D.A.: Abbr.: AGR
- 108. Cross-referencing directive: SEE
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