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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 16, 2004
Monday, February 16, 2004
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 16, 2004. 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
- 11
- 21
- 22
- 45
- 54
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 18
- 25
- 26
- 37
- 48
- 51
- 56
- 61
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Sunday, February 15, 2004
across
- 1. Like the names at 33-, 51-, 61-, 73-, 93-, 101- and 120-Across: THREEPART
- 10. First alert, often: BARK
- 14. Put on a spit: IMPALE
- 20. Welcome abroad: BIENVENUE
- 21. "That's ___!" (angry retort): ALIE
- 22. "The Music Man" woman: MARIAN
- 23. Like many driveways: ASPHALTED
- 24. A security: NOTE
- 25. Stat: PRONTO
- 26. Dole (out): LADLE
- 27. Further condition to 1-Across: EQUALLENGTHS
- 29. 1929 Literature Nobelist: MANN
- 30. "Mon ___!": DIEU
- 32. Substitute in the kitchen: OLEO
- 33. Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton: JOYCECAROLOATES
- 39. Hunters' needs: Abbr.: LICS
- 43. Inventeur's need: IDEE
- 44. ___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement): EBONY
- 45. Fruits de ___: MER
- 46. Bob Dylan song "___ for You": IFNOT
- 47. Supplied: FED
- 48. Boatload: SLEW
- 49. Final bid: PASS
- 50. Carol starter: ADESTE
- 51. Actress whose great-grandfather was a British P.M.: HELENABONHAMCARTER
- 55. Tastiness: SAPOR
- 58. Soccer star Hamm: MIA
- 59. See 96-Across: TAT
- 60. Bauxite, e.g.: ORE
- 61. Three-time French Open champion: ARANTXASANCHEZVICARIO
- 69. "Delta of Venus" author: NIN
- 70. Four CD's: MDC
- 71. Part of a rainbow: HUE
- 72. "___ Gold" (1997 film): ULEES
- 73. 1988 and 1992 Olympic track gold medalist): JACKIEJOYNERKERSEE
- 81. Not yet shaped: UNHEWN
- 82. Little hopper: TOAD
- 83. Razor-billed birds: AUKS
- 84. "This Old House" address: PBS
- 87. "That's ___" (cautionary Roy Orbison song): ANONO
- 88. Since, informally: CUZ
- 89. Bar offering: SUSHI
- 91. Suffix with pluto-: CRAT
- 92. Stock market overseer: Abbr.: NASD
- 93. Six-time U.S. Open winner: CHRISEVERTLLOYD
- 96. With 59-Across, a knock: RATA
- 99. Stone made of silicon and oxygen: OPAL
- 100. They move shells: OARS
- 101. "Slaves of New York" actress: MARYBETHHURT
- 107. Standard deviation symbol: SIGMA
- 109. Knight from Atlanta: GLADYS
- 110. President Taft's alma mater: YALE
- 111. Stretches: ELONGATES
- 115. Most basic: MEREST
- 116. Annoyer: PILL
- 117. Opposite of chic: DOWDINESS
- 118. Minuscule: TEENSY
- 119. Oil of ___: OLAY
- 120. He developed the "Three Principles of the People": SUNYATSEN
down
- 1. TV schedule abbr.: TBA
- 2. Greetings: HIS
- 3. Shown again: REPLAYED
- 4. Better: ENHANCE
- 5. Daughter of Poseidon who was the ancestor of a prophetic clan: EVADNE
- 6. Educational grant named for a senator: PELL
- 7. Pot foundation: ANTE
- 8. St.-Honoré, in Paris: RUE
- 9. Spread, as hay: TED
- 10. Shakespearean haunter: BANQUO
- 11. Former Expos manager: ALOU
- 12. Girl in a Beatles song: RITA
- 13. Stem-to-stern item: KEEL
- 14. Drive: IMPEL
- 15. W.W. I battle locale: MARNE
- 16. Woods, e.g.: PROGOLFER
- 17. Aretha Franklin's "___ No Way": AINT
- 18. Wood strip: LATH
- 19. 1961 space chimp: ENOS
- 27. Wriggling: EELY
- 28. ___ Rios, Ecuador: LOS
- 29. Calculator button: MODE
- 30. Go under: DROWN
- 31. Kind of chamber: ION
- 33. Peter Pan rival: JIF
- 34. Theater turn-off?: CELL
- 35. Busy as ___: ABEE
- 36. With all agreeing, after "to": AMAN
- 37. Musical John: TESH
- 38. Bogus: ERSATZ
- 40. Awaiting: INSTORE
- 41. Circle: COTERIE
- 42. Pioneer products: STEREOS
- 46. Moscow's home: Abbr.: IDA
- 48. Spanish muralist: SERT
- 49. Stole: POACHED
- 50. Curtain-rising time: ACTI
- 51. Doll: HON
- 52. Grp. pledged to "do no harm": AMA
- 53. Storage place: BIN
- 54. Dallas hoopster: MAV
- 55. Western Hemisphere city founded in 1521: SANJUAN
- 56. Writer Huffington: ARIANNA
- 57. Mexico's Villa and others: PANCHOS
- 62. Comic superheroes: XMEN
- 63. Part of speech: Abbr.: ADJ
- 64. Nix: SCOTCH
- 65. Ben ___: HUR
- 66. Cry on opening a tax bill: EEK
- 67. Hints: CUES
- 68. Nog ingredient, maybe: ALE
- 74. N.H.L. Hall-of-Famer who played for Montreal: KENDRYDEN
- 75. W.W. II battle site, for short: IWO
- 76. "___ Hit Parade": YOUR
- 77. Many a part in "The Pianist": NAZI
- 78. Stand: EASEL
- 79. Essen's river: RUHR
- 80. Sketch: SKIT
- 84. Divides fairly: PRORATES
- 85. Seattle Slew and others: BAYS
- 86. Regular: Abbr.: STD
- 89. Ninth in a series: Abbr.: SEPT
- 90. Duke rival, for short: UVA
- 91. Noisy: CLAMANT
- 93. Jazzman: CAT
- 94. Very much: SORELY
- 95. Open-air arcade: LOGGIA
- 97. Gulf: ABYSS
- 98. Disagreeable: TESTY
- 101. Bus. heads: MGMT
- 102. Nautical direction: ALEE
- 103. Coin grade: RARE
- 104. Syringe: HYPO
- 105. "Huzzah!," e.g.: HAIL
- 106. "The Producers" role: ULLA
- 107. Distributed: SOWN
- 108. Home of the Brickyard 400: INDY
- 111. Mag. positions: EDS
- 112. Singer Reed: LOU
- 113. Like the Capitol bldg. vis-à-vis the White House: ESE
- 114. Nine-digit ID: SSN
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