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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 1, 2004
Monday, March 1, 2004
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 1, 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
- 42
- 69
Down clues & answers
- 39
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Sunday, February 29, 2004
across
- 1. Darkness: NIGHT
- 6. Pack carrier: LLAMA
- 11. Application datum: Abbr.: SSN
- 14. Background of Vladimir Putin, for short: KGB
- 17. Route indicator: ARROW
- 18. Traveler's woe: JETLAG
- 19. Island strings: UKE
- 20. Anti-inflammatory agent: ALOE
- 21. Striped animal: OKAPI
- 22. "The Witches of Eastwick" author: UPDIKE
- 23. A full course?: EIGHTEEN
- 25. Queens contest: METSGAME
- 27. Daughter of Hyperion: EOS
- 29. Strike, essentially: PROTEST
- 30. Thesis basis: IDEA
- 31. Big inits. in news and culture: NPR
- 32. Four fluid ounces: GILL
- 33. Food company with a sun in its logo: DOLE
- 34. Cigarette pkgs.: CTNS
- 36. Empire State Building decor: ARTDECO
- 38. Put in: EMBED
- 42. Shack topper: TINROOF
- 45. Sinatra scat syllable: DOO
- 46. Black bird: DAW
- 47. Express views: OPINE
- 48. Pry: SNOOP
- 49. Take off: REMOVE
- 52. Open, in a way: UNBUTTON
- 54. Writing: PROSE
- 55. 1968 Oscar-winning musical: OLIVER
- 56. Has trouble with words: STUTTERS
- 57. Smell, e.g.: SENSE
- 58. Cuts using a box: MITERS
- 59. Long period: EON
- 60. "It's you ___": ORME
- 61. Upright at sea: MAST
- 65. Ed.'s in-box filler: MSS
- 68. It's hard, to swallow: CAPLET
- 74. Just above average: CPLUS
- 79. "Enough already!": IVEHADIT
- 81. Red-faced: ABLUSH
- 82. Hangout: HAUNT
- 83. Spot for Roosevelt: FIRESIDE
- 84. Apt: LIABLE
- 85. Parenthetical passage: ASIDE
- 86. Blows: FLUBS
- 87. Nus to us: ENS
- 89. Co. in a 2000 telecommunications merger: GTE
- 90. Ripen: BLOSSOM
- 92. South Seas monarchy: SAMOA
- 93. "Frankenstein" props: TORCHES
- 95. Kiln: OAST
- 96. 1991 Gerardo hit "___ Suave": RICO
- 98. Fall's end: THUD
- 99. VJ's employer: MTV
- 100. "Dang!": HECK
- 104. Chicken go-with: NOODLES
- 107. Term. info: ARR
- 108. Minor minder: STAGEMOM
- 110. Sights: TAKESAIM
- 112. 1966 Mary Martin musical: IDOIDO
- 115. Deadly virus: EBOLA
- 116. Blender sound: WHIR
- 117. Reagan military inits.: SDI
- 118. Run with gates: SLALOM
- 119. Less seen: RARER
- 120. Calendar col.: TUE
- 121. Sinuous sea dweller: EEL
- 122. Administers, with "out": METES
- 123. It's a secret: TRYST
down
- 1. Biblical woman from Bethlehem: NAOMI
- 2. Troubled (by): IRKED
- 3. Worry for a wearer of high heels: GRATE
- 4. Takes a quickie vacation, say: HOPSACROSS
- 5. Bud holder: TWIG
- 6. Molokai resident: LEPER
- 7. Co. name end: LTD
- 8. 2001 biopic: ALI
- 9. Achieve significant progress: MAKEITOVER
- 10. Long-known: AGEOLD
- 11. Challenge, legally: SUE
- 12. Not read something completely: SKIPDOWNTO
- 13. Rio ___, part of the Venezuela/ Colombia boundary: NEGRO
- 14. Swiss abstract painting: KLEE
- 15. Takes a turn: GOES
- 16. Like a shepherd's staff: BENT
- 18. Has ever-changing loyalties: JUMPSFROM
- 20. Seek a lawyer's license: ATTEMPTTO
- 24. Sink a putt: HOLEOUT
- 26. Monumental year?: ANNO
- 28. Source of spills on hills: SLED
- 32. Channel: GROOVE
- 35. Lightweight helmet, in India: TOPEE
- 36. Come out of denial: ADMIT
- 37. Civil rights, e.g.: CAUSE
- 39. Snake, for one: BITER
- 40. Vast, in verse: ENORM
- 41. Like osmium, more than any other known element: DENSE
- 42. 48 in a cup: Abbr.: TSPS
- 43. As to: INRE
- 44. Twelve: NOON
- 50. "The Whiffenpoof Song" singer: ELI
- 51. Drs.' workplaces: ERS
- 53. Cafeteria worker's hairdo: BUN
- 61. Annoys: MIFFS
- 62. St. Teresa's birthplace: AVILA
- 63. Medical supply: SERUM
- 64. Answer continued: THEBORDER
- 65. 16th-century start: MDI
- 66. Answer continued: SIDETOSIDE
- 67. Gregg method user: STENO
- 68. Old White House nickname: CAL
- 69. Answer continued: ABIGHURDLE
- 70. Like chrome hubcaps: PLATED
- 71. Garage jobs: LUBES
- 72. Precitizenship course: Abbr.: ESL
- 73. Answer continued: THEBOTTOM
- 74. Utter breakdown: CHAOS
- 75. Answer continued: PASSTHEBAR
- 76. Physics Nobelist Alvarez: LUIS
- 77. Reverse: UNDO
- 78. Kind of cell: STEM
- 80. Has at: ASSAILS
- 88. Fem. in una casa: SRTA
- 91. Hot rock: LAVA
- 94. Oil used in church rites: CHRISM
- 97. Quit: CEASE
- 99. PC software: MSDOS
- 101. The Eagles of college sports: EMORY
- 102. Nat and Natalie: COLES
- 103. Target competitor: KMART
- 104. Pkg. no.: NTWT
- 105. Aiea locale: OAHU
- 106. Dust Bowl victim: OKIE
- 109. Frobe who played Goldfinger: GERT
- 111. "Thanks a ___!": MIL
- 113. Husk site: OAT
- 114. Suffix with infant: ILE
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