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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 26, 2002

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Friday, April 26, 2002

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, April 26, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
Alberta's ___ National Park
7
Take a surfing position
14
It's often in the 90's
15
Not too common
16
Lake ___, source of the Mississippi
17
Woodworking tool
18
Private motivator?
19
___ Vallis (where the Mars Pathfinder landed)
20
Ed.'s in-box filler
21
Neglected
23
View from Molokai
24
Like decals
25
Variety
26
Adjective often following good
27
Run
28
Almost final words
34
Bring in
35
Prefix with state
36
Mac
37
Decode, in a way
43
"Idylls of the King" lady
44
"The Name Above the Title" autobiographer
45
Global positioning fig.
46
Stand for
47
One up
48
Stressed
50
It's no occident
51
Meet with privately
52
Decent guy
53
Gin makers
54
Parts of stews

Down clues & answers

1
Enlist
2
Opening on stage
3
Posture
4
"Essay on Conics" author
5
Second coming?
6
Tongue-lashed
7
Learn by accident
8
Color of honey
9
Rock guitarist Lofgren
10
Princeton Review subj.
11
Macquarie Harbour site
12
Errata reducers
13
Like the best letters from home
15
Door that is not for visitors
22
Dunce cap earner
23
Simple
25
Set
27
Protester's tool, maybe
28
Inert
29
Numbers 5:22 finale
30
Kind of soup
31
Related
32
Two-cupper
33
Algerian port
37
Some bullets
38
Bogeyman
39
Like about 13% of Americans
40
Most pertinent
41
Channel
42
"___ crammed with heaven": E. B. Browning
44
Awful smell
46
Kind of bonding
49
Hardy follower

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Thursday, April 25, 2002

across

1. Binge: TOOT
5. Senior moment?: PROM
9. Urban abodes, for short: YMCAS
14. Meteorological effect: HALO
15. Kachina doll makers: HOPI
16. Marveled aloud: OOHED
17. Plugging away: ATIT
18. Be against: ABUT
19. Aerosol targets: ODORS
20. Advice from Ann Landers, part 1: NEVERTESTTHE
23. Krispy ___ doughnuts: KREME
24. Supporting posts: SHORING
28. It might precede "pfft": SSS
29. 60's do: AFRO
33. Singer Wahlberg of NKOTB: DONNIE
34. Cruise lines?: SCRIPT
36. Constituent of biotite: MICA
37. Advice, part 2: DEPTHOFTHEWATER
42. What Horton heard: AWHO
43. Connects (with): TIESIN
44. 1982 war zone: BEIRUT
47. "Fargo" director Joel: COEN
48. Slip a ___: COG
51. Former name in late-night talk: ARSENIO
53. Chili additive: CARNE
55. End of the advice: WITHBOTHFEET
59. Massenet heroine: THAIS
62. See 9-Down: WAVE
63. The best: TOPS
64. Literary middle name: WALDO
65. City near Utah Lake: OREM
66. Writer Wiesel: ELIE
67. Sen. Specter: ARLEN
68. Where Venus Flytrap worked, on an old sitcom: WKRP
69. Charter: RENT

down

1. "Much obliged!": THANKS
2. Saturday matinees of yesteryear: OATERS
3. Antipasto tidbits: OLIVES
4. Tribal figure: TOTEM
5. Terrific, in slang: PHAT
6. Boxer's attire: ROBE
7. Beethoven's Ninth, e.g.: OPUS
8. Paws: MITTS
9. Cry sometimes accompanied by a 62-Across: YOOHOO
10. No Neanderthal, he: MODERNMAN
11. Funny Margaret: CHO
12. ___ Lingus: AER
13. Antiwar grp.: SDS
21. "Stick 'em up!": REACH
22. Advanced religious deg.: THD
25. F. Murray Abraham feature: Abbr.: INIT
26. "Good going!": NICE
27. Snorkel, fins, etc.: GEAR
30. Not to: FRO
31. Split: RIFT
32. Some nerve: OPTIC
34. Like some clearances: STOREWIDE
35. Lt. Kojak: THEO
37. "The Aba ___ Honeymoon": DABA
38. Basin item: EWER
39. Letters from Crete: PHIS
40. Legal conclusion?: ESE
41. Hoisting device: WINCH
45. Choirs may sing in it: UNISON
46. Small songbird: TIT
48. Spicy cuisine: CREOLE
49. What might prevent a strike?: ONEPIN
50. Prepare (for): GETSET
52. "Cool, man!": OHWOW
54. In imitation of: AFTER
56. Burglar's worry, maybe: BARK
57. ___ there: OVER
58. Many a sub: TEMP
59. Bygone carrier: TWA
60. Part of a guffaw: HAR
61. Entirely: ALL

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