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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 7, 2002
Sunday, April 7, 2002
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, April 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
- 24
- 43
- 48
- 68
- 90
- 100
- 103
- 108
- 124
- 126
- 127
- 128
- 129
Down clues & answers
- 38
- 46
- 71
- 91
- 103
- 110
- 117
- 119
- 122
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Saturday, April 6, 2002
across
- 1. Author who received an O.B.E. in 2001: JKROWLING
- 10. Sheep predator: DINGO
- 15. Small plane, perhaps: ONESEATER
- 16. Noted Toho School of Music graduate: OZAWA
- 17. Person eligible for casting?: REGISTEREDVOTER
- 19. Clothing: GEAR
- 20. Like cream cheese or suntan lotion: SMEAREDON
- 21. ___ Bell (Emily Brontë pseudonym): ELLIS
- 23. Spot: SITE
- 24. HBO alternative: SHO
- 26. Pops: DADDIES
- 31. "So it's you!": AHA
- 34. Bird that may be groove-billed: ANI
- 36. Ex-president Obote, for one: UGANDAN
- 38. Member of a noted colony: PILGRIM
- 40. They may attract workers: NECTARS
- 41. Insiders are in it: THELOOP
- 42. 3,300-year-old king: TUT
- 43. Italian pronoun: MIA
- 44. Stewart's successor on the bench: OCONNOR
- 46. Holder of the Host: PYX
- 48. Noted count, for short: DRAC
- 50. Chow checker: LEASH
- 54. Fictional elocution student: DOOLITTLE
- 59. Western Athletic conference team: RICE
- 60. Alcuin's assertion to Charlemagne: VOXPOPULIVOXDEI
- 62. Commander in a kaffiyeh: EMEER
- 63. Almost scores: NINETEENS
- 64. Metric unit: TONNE
- 65. Absorbs: ENGROSSES
down
- 1. Novelist Amado: JORGE
- 2. Cry to a slave: KNEEL
- 3. À la king?: REGAL
- 4. Set slew him: OSIRIS
- 5. Montgomery of jazz: WES
- 6. Arm movers, briefly: LATS
- 7. List makeup: ITEMS
- 8. Moon of Neptune: NEREID
- 9. Woman in a tree?: GREATAUNT
- 10. Magician's live prop: DOVE
- 11. Kind of shirt: IZOD
- 12. Grp. with a secretary general: NATO
- 13. ___ Stefani, lead singer of No Doubt: GWEN
- 14. Crew member: OAR
- 18. Uncover: DREDGEUP
- 22. Likud party co-founder: SHARON
- 25. Chip topper: ONIONDIP
- 27. Toe, e.g.: DACTYL
- 28. Abbr. on some statements: INT
- 29. Dutch export: EDAM
- 30. Southern Asian apparel: SARI
- 31. Unusually intelligent: APT
- 32. Ritz rival: HIHO
- 33. Piano virtuoso Templeton: ALEC
- 35. Press persistently: IMPORTUNE
- 37. Hush-hush grp.: NSA
- 39. Day's end?: GLO
- 45. Nautical rope: Var.: RATLIN
- 47. Thermopylae victor: XERXES
- 49. Be tenacious: CLING
- 51. Embassy workers: AIDES
- 52. Script part: SCENE
- 53. 1960 figure skating gold medalist: HEISS
- 54. Major-___: DOMO
- 55. Draft team: OXEN
- 56. Uncover: OPEN
- 57. Knowledge: LORE
- 58. Who can come before it: EVER
- 60. Chow checker: VET
- 61. Plains people: OTO
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
- Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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