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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 10, 2003
Monday, February 10, 2003
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 10, 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.
Across clues & answers
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- 22
- 32
Down clues & answers
- 18
- 23
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Sunday, February 9, 2003
across
- 1. Rock-bottom: LEAST
- 6. Guards of mines, in folklore: GNOMES
- 12. Figures on some Egyptian relics: ASPS
- 16. With the help of: VIA
- 19. "First ___ …" (Washington): INWAR
- 20. Halogen salt: IODATE
- 21. Making a big profit, with "up": CLEANING
- 23. Landmark near the Arno: LEANINGTOWER
- 25. Fabled racer: TORTOISE
- 26. Airport abbr.: ARR
- 27. Ice fishing tools: AUGERS
- 28. Anatomical duct: VAS
- 30. Kind of moment: SENIOR
- 31. Add-ons, of a sort: CODICILS
- 33. Solidify: GEL
- 34. Piggies: TOES
- 35. Baby naming, e.g.: RITE
- 36. Colleague of Dana Carvey on "S.N.L.": NORADUNN
- 38. It follows April in Paris: MAI
- 41. Made cat calls: MEWED
- 44. Edinburgh daily, with "The": SCOTSMAN
- 46. Back: STERN
- 48. Have ___ (know someone): ANIN
- 49. Mazda model: MIATA
- 50. It may be a sacrifice: BUNT
- 52. Queue annoyance: WAIT
- 53. Alborg native: DANE
- 54. Forbiddance: BANNING
- 56. Port on the Norwegian Sea: BERGEN
- 58. "What Kind of Fool ___": AMI
- 59. Welsh breed: CORGI
- 60. Book before Jeremiah: Abbr.: ISA
- 62. Hawaiian verandas: LANAIS
- 64. Weight of some trucks: TENTONS
- 66. 16 of these are hidden in the answer grid, each reading left, right, up, down or diagonally in an unbroken straight line: NINAS
- 68. Tangled up: INAKNOT
- 70. Actress Kazan: LAINIE
- 71. And the rest: Abbr.: ETC
- 72. Coloring: TINCT
- 74. Merger partner of 1955: Abbr.: CIO
- 75. Entered: WENTIN
- 77. Orchestrate: ARRANGE
- 79. Unable to decide: TORN
- 80. Part of a Latin trio: AMAT
- 82. Smart one: ALEC
- 84. Realizes: EARNS
- 85. Flightless bird: Var.: EMEU
- 86. Reason for some medals: VALOR
- 88. Revelations: LEAKAGES
- 90. Pants parts: KNEES
- 91. Safe boat in a storm: ARK
- 92. Senescence: AGEDNESS
- 94. Crusading journalist for the old New York Sun: RIIS
- 96. Periods containing 2-Downs: ANOS
- 97. Spot: EYE
- 98. "Fates Worse Than Death" autobiographer: VONNEGUT
- 102. Aleve alternative: ANACIN
- 105. One who may be found at home: UMP
- 106. Track makers: TREADS
- 108. Roxy Music co-founder: ENO
- 109. Marx Brothers antics, e.g.: ZANINESS
- 111. Artist who hid 66-Across in his drawings: ALHIRSCHFELD
- 114. British unit equal to 14 pounds: ONESTONE
- 115. "Who ___?": DOESNT
- 116. Part of ancient Turkey: IONIA
- 117. Promise: VOW
- 118. ___ about (approximately): ONOR
- 119. Stirs up: STOKES
- 120. Like bogs: PEATY
down
- 1. Light purple: LILAC
- 2. Month in which José Martí was born: ENERO
- 3. Hugo, e.g.: AWARD
- 4. ___ Juan: SAN
- 5. Like some salts: TRIACID
- 6. Response to a double entendre: GIGGLE
- 7. Class reminders: NOTES
- 8. Must, e.g.: ODOR
- 9. Gullets: MAWS
- 10. Printemps follower: ETE
- 11. Automats lack them: SERVERS
- 12. ___ of Parliament: ACTS
- 13. Street caution: SLO
- 14. Someone: PERSON
- 15. Glossy fabrics: SATEENS
- 16. The last Pope Urban: VIII
- 17. ___ many words: INSO
- 18. Ripening agent: AGER
- 22. Votes in Québec: NONS
- 24. Van Gogh's "___ Étoilée à St. Rémy": NUIT
- 29. Gentle as ___: ALAMB
- 32. Castle in a ballroom: IRENE
- 33. Made more money: GOTANINCREASE
- 34. Series of underpasses: TUNNELINGS
- 36. Words of denial: NOTI
- 37. Paint without trying to stay within the lines, say: DAUB
- 38. Economist's statistic: MEANINCOME
- 39. Uris hero ___ Ben Canaan: ARI
- 40. Addition to an I.R.A.: Abbr.: INT
- 41. Furious with: MADAT
- 42. 45-Down cover: ENAMEL
- 43. Romp: WININAWALK
- 44. Tell all: SING
- 45. See 42-Down: CANINE
- 47. Make small adjustments in: TWEAK
- 49. Port on the Gulf of Lion: MARSEILLES
- 51. Under state?: TRANCE
- 54. "La Isla ___" (Madonna song): BONITA
- 55. Fed. govt. supplies distributor: GSA
- 57. No-see-um: GNAT
- 59. Fifth state to join the Union: Abbr.: CONN
- 61. Rubbernecking: ASTARE
- 63. Big do: SOIREE
- 65. Connect: TIETO
- 67. "Give ___ rest": ITA
- 69. Normal state of muscle tissue: TONUS
- 73. Resting places: INNS
- 76. Grant criterion, often: NEED
- 78. Maids' supplies: RAGS
- 79. It may be present: TENSE
- 80. Big name in 50's Hollywood: AVA
- 81. Ruin: MAR
- 83. Cave ___ (warning): CANEM
- 87. Met: RANINTO
- 89. Cell features: KEYPADS
- 90. Warm feeling: KINSHIP
- 93. Continued: GONEON
- 94. Some banquets: ROASTS
- 95. Where the U.S. Cong. is: INDC
- 96. Galatea's love: ACIS
- 98. Phileas Fogg's creator: VERNE
- 99. Actress Davis: GEENA
- 100. Dark: UNLIT
- 101. NBC staple: TODAY
- 102. Russia/Ukraine's Sea of ___: AZOV
- 103. Second introduction?: NANO
- 104. From the top: ANEW
- 105. Addict: USER
- 106. One of TV's Huxtables: THEO
- 107. Insurer's focus: RISK
- 110. ___-Cat: SNO
- 112. Fortune: LOT
- 113. Other side: FOE
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