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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 11, 2003
Monday, August 11, 2003
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 11, 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
- 23
- 47
Down clues & answers
- 25
- 53
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Sunday, August 10, 2003
across
- 1. Scriptures reading: LESSON
- 7. 1970's-80's singer Ronnie: MILSAP
- 13. "You just missed!": ALMOST
- 19. Adjust: ATTUNE
- 20. Colored ring: AREOLA
- 21. Wet: MOISTEN
- 23. British isle's textiles?: THECLOTHOFMAN
- 25. Ancient strategy game played with stones: MANCALA
- 26. Like many a parting: TEARY
- 27. Food, plates, silverware, etc.?: CONTENTSOFTABLE
- 29. Muppet who's tickled: ELMO
- 30. Renaissance artist Guido ___: RENI
- 31. Wide-mouthed comic Martha: RAYE
- 32. Puppet ending: EER
- 33. Author/illustrator Silverstein: SHEL
- 35. European carrier: SAS
- 37. Encircle: GIRD
- 39. Hardly a mark to be proud of: DEE
- 42. What avid auctioneers have?: LOVEOFLOTS
- 46. Modem speed measure: BAUD
- 48. Take in the mail: READ
- 49. Expend: USE
- 50. Proper name in Masses: JESU
- 51. Food-swapping at a rooming house?: TRADEOFBOARD
- 55. Hollywood display: GLAMOR
- 57. Spiraling part: THREAD
- 59. "Babes in Arms" star, 1939: ROONEY
- 60. Songs for one: SOLI
- 61. British poet laureate Tate: NAHUM
- 62. Cut corners: STINTED
- 64. Fishy idea?: THOUGHTOFSCHOOL
- 69. Surfeit: SATIATE
- 71. Artificial, after "in": VITRO
- 72. Morales in movies: ESAI
- 76. Evangelist's imperative: REPENT
- 77. Word with big or blue: CHEESE
- 79. Sticks in pits: BATONS
- 81. What a brass band has?: PLENTYOFHORN
- 84. Milldam: WEIR
- 86. Factor in protein synthesis: RNA
- 87. Twix candy maker: MARS
- 88. Barre room bend: PLIE
- 89. When the prisoners will escape?: DAYOFBREAK
- 92. Short: SHY
- 93. Moving targets?: PREY
- 95. St. Louis sked abbr.: CST
- 96. "The Simpsons" saxophonist: LISA
- 97. Sob syllable: HOO
- 98. Jazz singer Anita: ODAY
- 101. Bust, of a sort: RAID
- 103. Immediately: STAT
- 107. Pencil-sharpening problem?: NORETURNOFPOINT
- 112. Part of a black suit: SPADE
- 113. Like the music in "Turkey in the Straw": ANIMATO
- 114. Flute competition, e.g.?: WAROFTHEWINDS
- 116. Popular modern exercise system: PILATES
- 117. Ordered group of numbers in math: NTUPLE
- 118. Driving areas: RANGES
- 119. Choral group: TENORS
- 120. Approvals: YESSES
- 121. Wool source: ANGORA
down
- 1. Supply for a cappuccino machine: LATTE
- 2. "I Love Lucy" role: ETHEL
- 3. Cooking method: STEAM
- 4. C12H22O11: SUCROSE
- 5. As recently as: ONLY
- 6. Opposite of paleo-: NEO
- 7. Capital of Minorca: MAHON
- 8. One who uses words in ways opposite of their literal meaning: IRONIST
- 9. Southpaw's side: LEFT
- 10. Actress Suzanne: SOMERS
- 11. Actress Stewart: ALANA
- 12. Undergarment: PANTY
- 13. It flies through barrels: AMMO
- 14. Slip-on shoe: LOAFER
- 15. Made, as money: MINTED
- 16. ___ fever (annual February/March phenomenon): OSCAR
- 17. Attempt: STAB
- 18. Show's partner: TELL
- 22. Scottish refusal: NAE
- 24. Immune system lymphocytes: TCELLS
- 28. Smooth transition: SEGUE
- 30. Direct elsewhere: REFER
- 34. Chain hotel, for short: HOJO
- 36. Walking like a peacock: ASTRUT
- 38. Line before a reception: IDO
- 39. Silas of the Continental Congress: DEANE
- 40. Follower of lop or dog: EARED
- 41. Water whirl: EDDY
- 42. Hauls: LUGS
- 43. Winter Olympics site after St. Moritz: OSLO
- 44. Some white meat: VEAL
- 45. Power overload result: OUTAGE
- 46. Sheep's "Sheesh!": BAA
- 47. Insert: ADD
- 48. Tiny plant part: ROOTLET
- 52. Cartage company, e.g.: REMOVER
- 53. Cold, in Colombia: FRIO
- 54. Pro ___: BONO
- 56. They may be seen with snowballs: MITTENS
- 58. L.B.J.'s veep: HHH
- 61. Eccentric: NUT
- 62. Eccentric: SCREWY
- 63. Even if, briefly: THO
- 65. Charades gesture, e.g.: HINT
- 66. Like Cheerios: OATY
- 67. Ogres: FIENDS
- 68. Fleet, Wall, etc.: Abbr.: STS
- 69. Psalms interjection: SELAH
- 70. Mocking behavior: APERY
- 73. Resentful: SORE
- 74. Wife in "Finnegans Wake": ANNA
- 75. Author Dinesen: ISAK
- 76. Tach readings, for short: RPMS
- 77. ___-Town (Midwest hub): CHI
- 78. Furrow maker: HOE
- 79. Having two equal lobes: BIFID
- 80. Financial wheeler-dealers, briefly: ARBS
- 82. Unstop, poetically: OPE
- 83. Take, as an airline: FLYON
- 85. Crude stone artifact: EOLITH
- 90. To a small degree: ATRIFLE
- 91. Hoarse: RASPING
- 93. Vichyssoise ingredient: POTATO
- 94. Computer networking device: ROUTER
- 95. Locale of U.N. peacekeeping forces, 1964: CYPRUS
- 97. Virile one: HEMAN
- 99. Soft: DOWNY
- 100. Suffer ___ worse than death: AFATE
- 102. New kitties?: ANTES
- 104. Letter after sierra, in radio lingo: TANGO
- 105. Viper: ADDER
- 106. "The Gondoliers" girl: TESSA
- 107. Afternoon treat, maybe: NAP
- 108. "Let me sleep ___": ONIT
- 109. Stir: RILE
- 110. One of the friends on "Friends": ROSS
- 111. Unwelcome word from a surgeon: OOPS
- 112. Whooper, e.g.: SWAN
- 115. Grand time: ERA
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