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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 7, 2003

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Tuesday, January 7, 2003

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, January 7, 2003. 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.

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

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Andy of the comics
2
___ B'rith
3
Turned state's evidence
4
Like some noses and numerals
5
Overjoy
6
"Veni, vidi, ___"
7
Tennis great Lendl
8
Spy novelist Deighton
9
Pitcher's stat.
10
Luxury resorts
11
Smarts
12
Arkansas's ___ Mountains
13
New Orleans sandwich
18
"Open, sesame!" speaker
19
Set down
23
Japanese floor covering
24
Missouri River city
26
Snatch
27
In ___ land
28
Neighbor of Yemen
29
Chicken
30
Missouri town where Harry Truman was born
32
Actor Aykroyd
33
Noted Italian violinmaker
34
More, in Madrid
35
Body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
36
Hindu music form
37
Not fully shut
38
Space shuttle org.
43
Picture puzzle
44
Public square
45
Big gas brand
46
Frost relative
47
Early video game company
48
Famously temperamental singers
50
Future's opposite
51
Arrived
52
Employs
53
School orgs.
54
"Othello" villain
55
God of love
57
Play part
58
When repeated, a trombone sound

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Monday, January 6, 2003

across

1. First father: ADAM
5. "Voila!": THERE
10. Vocalized: SUNG
14. Characteristic carrier: GENE
15. Pass along: RELAY
16. "... with a banjo on my ___": KNEE
17. With 59-Across, indication of caring: HEARTINTHE
19. Author Turgenev: IVAN
20. ___ Deco: ART
21. Prefix with dynamic: AERO
22. Football great Favre: BRETT
23. Indication of larceny: HANDINTHETILL
27. Declares: AVERS
29. "___ Gang": OUR
30. Caustic chemical: LYE
31. 18-wheeler: SEMI
32. Test, as ore: ASSAY
34. Indication of detachment: HEADINTHECLOUDS
41. Bing, bang or boom: NOISE
42. Future attorney's hurdle: Abbr.: LSAT
43. Appropriate: APT
46. U.S. or Can. money: DOL
47. Like an oboe's sound: REEDY
48. Indication of opportunity: FOOTINTHEDOOR
53. Plant life: FLORA
54. Quark's place: ATOM
55. Place to retire: BED
58. Jazz's Fitzgerald: ELLA
59. See 17-Across: RIGHTPLACE
62. Like some dorms: COED
63. Patronized, as a restaurant: ATEAT
64. Starting from: ASOF
65. It ebbs and flows: TIDE
66. Tiny poker stake: PENNY
67. Having an angle: BENT

down

1. Turkish title: AGHA
2. Does and bucks: DEER
3. Object of loathing: ANATHEMA
4. Debussy's "La ___": MER
5. True's partner: TRIED
6. Painter Matisse: HENRI
7. Rock's ___ John: ELTON
8. Stadium sound: RAH
9. Watch closely: EYE
10. Blouse accompanier: SKIRT
11. Show, as plans: UNVEIL
12. With precision: NEATLY
13. Tamed: GENTLE
18. Gets some color, as they say: TANS
22. Gem mineral: BERYL
24. Like the Sahara: ARID
25. "... off ___ the wizard": TOSEE
26. 1950's Communist-hunting grp.: HUAC
27. Cigarette's end: ASH
28. Two-finger sign: VEE
32. Leaning: ATILT
33. Sounds from a librarian: SHS
35. Delhi's land: INDIA
36. It follows 11: NOON
37. Butter alternative: OLEO
38. Computer company's customers: USERBASE
39. Father: DAD
40. Where hogs wallow: STY
43. Have an influence on: AFFECT
44. Hoi ___: POLLOI
45. Drove (along): TOOLED
47. Frolic: ROMP
49. Give and take?: TRADE
50. Broadway actress Uta: HAGEN
51. Wharton's "___ Frome": ETHAN
52. Daft: DOTTY
56. Supply-and-demand subj.: ECON
57. Skillful: DEFT
59. Perform like Salt-N-Pepa: RAP
60. Suffix with Manhattan: ITE
61. Place for beakers: LAB

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 6

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