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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 6, 2002

Sunday, October 6, 2002

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, October 6, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

  1. 1

    "Eternal Spring" sculptor

  2. 6

    Bungle, with "up"

  3. 10

    Maker of Twix and Starburst

  4. 14

    Factory machinery, e.g.

  5. 19

    Six months from julio

  6. 20

    Loads

  7. 21

    "A Chapter on Ears" writer

  8. 22

    Paris rival

  9. 23

    "Excellent!"

  10. 24

    Festive event

  11. 25

    Cool

  12. 27

    Boorish boarder regretted scuttlebutt

  13. 30

    Rome-to-Athens dir.

  14. 31

    Kind of trip

  15. 32

    1994 Shirley MacLaine title role

  16. 33

    H, to Herodotus

  17. 34

    Kind of test

  18. 37

    Clothing retailer since 1969

  19. 39

    Toni Morrison book

  20. 41

    "Venus of Urbino" painter

  21. 43

    Depressed Dvorák was spendthrift

  22. 49

    Small amounts

  23. 52

    Chou En-___

  24. 53

    Ring leader?

  25. 54

    "Gotcha"

  26. 55

    Period of years

  27. 56

    Gave the O.K.

  28. 59

    ___ the way

  29. 60

    Jittery

  30. 61

    Bakery stock

  31. 63

    Bel ___ cheese

  32. 65

    November dish

  33. 66

    Collins's style permeates estate

  34. 73

    Wray of "King Kong"

  35. 74

    ___-Novo (Benin's capital)

  36. 75

    Off-Broadway's "The Beauty Queen of ___"

  37. 76

    Given by word of mouth, as evidence

  38. 79

    Prefix with linguistics

  39. 80

    Hard conditions

  40. 83

    NBC's former owner

  41. 84

    Former British protectorate

  42. 85

    Threaten

  43. 87

    Not only that but also

  44. 88

    Producer of sweet messages?

  45. 89

    Blockheaded lover has an accident on a rural road

  46. 94

    Chant

  47. 95

    Engage in frenzied concert activity

  48. 96

    Soccer stat

  49. 100

    Buzzing about

  50. 101

    Rotating piece

  51. 103

    Part of a military defense, for short

  52. 105

    Pioneering Dadaist

  53. 106

    Hide-hair connector

  54. 107

    Merchant recognized animal in the basement

  55. 113

    Alternative to "Saludo"

  56. 115

    Gets down

  57. 116

    Some Dodges

  58. 117

    Figure skater Protopopov and others

  59. 118

    "What's ___ you?"

  60. 119

    Arezzo's river

  61. 120

    Group of strings, maybe

  62. 121

    Clergy member

  63. 122

    Where William the Conqueror is buried

  64. 123

    Spring site

  65. 124

    Stout

Down clues & answers

  1. 1

    "To ___ deeply is to live afresh": Thoreau

  2. 2

    Charge

  3. 3

    Late rocker Ramone

  4. 4

    "Dies ___"

  5. 5

    Fake

  6. 6

    Cartoon Mr.

  7. 7

    Kingdom east of Babylonia

  8. 8

    Step on it

  9. 9

    Shake up

  10. 10

    Computer offerings

  11. 11

    Fugard's "A Lesson From ___"

  12. 12

    Zest producer

  13. 13

    Start of a French oath

  14. 14

    Like the words of Jesus

  15. 15

    Star turn

  16. 16

    Most insincere

  17. 17

    Poet's contraction

  18. 18

    Sprout

  19. 26

    Quarterback's call

  20. 28

    Old Soviet secret police org.

  21. 29

    Jump at a noise, e.g.

  22. 35

    Revs

  23. 36

    One way to sing

  24. 38

    Literary monogram

  25. 39

    Large number

  26. 40

    Commando weapons

  27. 42

    Victim in a 1932 mystery novel, with "the"

  28. 44

    "I Still See ___" ("Paint Your Wagon" tune)

  29. 45

    Wish

  30. 46

    Luca ___, "The Godfather" henchman

  31. 47

    Be candid

  32. 48

    "... ___ he drove out of sight"

  33. 49

    Bass

  34. 50

    Bend

  35. 51

    Indonesian tourist destination

  36. 56

    Cord fiber

  37. 57

    Black Knights of college sports

  38. 58

    Dividend, mathematically

  39. 60

    Actor Willie of "Eight Is Enough"

  40. 62

    Last Spanish king before Juan Carlos

  41. 64

    Dance, e.g.

  42. 65

    W.W. I battle site

  43. 67

    Salt-___ (rap trio)

  44. 68

    Observant one

  45. 69

    Two-time Oscar-winning director Frank ___

  46. 70

    One watching for traffic

  47. 71

    As soon as

  48. 72

    Caboose

  49. 76

    Conducting sites

  50. 77

    Rework

  51. 78

    Went downhill

  52. 79

    Metz Mrs.

  53. 81

    Football stats: Abbr.

  54. 82

    Big cut

  55. 85

    10's

  56. 86

    "The Silence of the Lambs" director

  57. 88

    Dept. of the Treasury dept.

  58. 90

    Ring

  59. 91

    "Easy!"

  60. 92

    British title

  61. 93

    Talk of Toledo

  62. 97

    Bars

  63. 98

    Browning piece

  64. 99

    Unfailing

  65. 102

    Treater

  66. 103

    Compete in the Winter Olympics, maybe

  67. 104

    Williams of "Happy Days"

  68. 105

    Journalist Joseph

  69. 108

    Bldg. contractor's hire

  70. 109

    Meter maid of song

  71. 110

    Novelist Caleb

  72. 111

    European peak

  73. 112

    Obtained: Fr.

  74. 113

    Some jazz

  75. 114

    Diminutive suffix

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Saturday, October 5, 2002

across

  • 1. Exhibit vibrancy: CRACKLE
  • 8. Diamond statistic: STEALS
  • 14. One in a balloon: AERONAUT
  • 16. No social butterfly: HERMIT
  • 17. Part of the pectoral girdle: CLAVICLE
  • 18. Cover up: ENROBE
  • 19. Land on a high plateau: TIBET
  • 20. Attack: ONSET
  • 22. Thwack: RAP
  • 23. Fermi or Faraday: UNIT
  • 24. ___ Heath ("The Return of the Native" setting): EGDON
  • 25. Member of the first family: SETH
  • 26. Captain's domain: SEA
  • 27. Utterance on the way out: ADIEU
  • 28. Doll: CUTIE
  • 29. Earlier: OLDER
  • 30. Reed's partner in silverware: BARTON
  • 31. Morning side: ENGLISHMUFFIN
  • 34. Ancient meeting places: AGORAE
  • 35. Moves slowly and carefully: EASES
  • 36. See 24-Down: MONEY
  • 37. Game in which players play one at a time: DARTS
  • 38. More, in Málaga: MAS
  • 41. Half of a 50's TV duo: AMOS
  • 42. Stripes: SORTS
  • 43. Barber's supply: TALC
  • 44. Ring ___ (marbles game): TAW
  • 45. Family member, informally: AUNTY
  • 46. From: SINCE
  • 47. It consists of a top and a bottom: INNING
  • 49. Cataclysmic occurrence: ERUPTION
  • 51. Gustav Klimt's birthplace: VIENNA
  • 52. Godforsaken: DESOLATE
  • 53. One who's taxed: EARNER
  • 54. Senses: DETECTS

down

  • 1. Natural sticker: CACTUS
  • 2. Fix, as brakes: RELINE
  • 3. Home of Ishmael's descendants: ARABIA
  • 4. Desire badly?: COVET
  • 5. Jersey, e.g.: KNIT
  • 6. Érié, e.g.: LAC
  • 7. Deliveries for the departed: EULOGIES
  • 8. Radiance: SHEEN
  • 9. Nomadic home: TENT
  • 10. Stumble: ERR
  • 11. Botticelli figures: AMORETTI
  • 12. Drink: LIBATION
  • 13. His feast day is December 26: STEPHEN
  • 15. Gentle: TENDERHEARTED
  • 21. Pittance: SOU
  • 24. With 36-Across, "Take Me Home Tonight" singer: EDDIE
  • 25. "___ up!" (beach cry): SURFS
  • 27. Dispel: ALLAY
  • 28. Champs-Élysées sights: CAFES
  • 29. Some giants: OGRES
  • 30. Exceeds 21, in a way: BUSTS
  • 31. Many a dictator's problem: EGOMANIA
  • 32. One without a 43-Down: NONOWNER
  • 33. Like 13-Down: MARTYRED
  • 34. In the mood: AMATIVE
  • 37. Get into: DON
  • 38. Psycho: MANIAC
  • 39. Marches' creator: ALCOTT
  • 40. Some people work behind them: SCENES
  • 42. Doll: SUGAR
  • 43. Deed: TITLE
  • 45. British royal: ANNE
  • 46. Kind of announcement: SPOT
  • 48. Overnight letter?: INN
  • 50. Consume: USE
Hints and full breakdown for Oct 5

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