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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 22, 2004
Monday, March 22, 2004
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 22, 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
- 27
- 40
- 54
- 59
Down clues & answers
- 35
- 50
- 55
- 63
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Sunday, March 21, 2004
across
- 1. New Deal power project: Abbr.: TVA
- 4. ___ Club: FRIARS
- 10. Shelter grp.: SPCA
- 14. Big lie: FABLE
- 19. Trader and restaurant entrepreneur: VIC
- 20. Shout on a ship: LANDHO
- 21. Gene Cernan was the last man there: MOON
- 22. Later: AFTER
- 23. 2003 addition to the Museum of Flight: SST
- 24. Taking the place (of): INLIEU
- 25. Offering: ALMS
- 26. First distiller to sell whiskey by the bottle: DEWAR
- 27. A dozen mad bakers?: THIRTEENANGRYMEN
- 31. "And away ___!": WEGO
- 32. Part of a cornerstone inscription: ANNO
- 33. Down-to-earth ones, in brief?: ETS
- 34. Opposite of dis: DAT
- 35. "Bravo!": OLE
- 36. Sports photographer's bane: BLUR
- 37. It's played with a scrum: RUGBY
- 39. Let know: CLUEIN
- 41. Minor afflictions: PEEVES
- 43. Conductor's instruction to a percussionist?: BANGTHEDRUMFASTER
- 48. Laura Bush's alma mater, for short: SMU
- 51. Boors: YAHOOS
- 52. Xylophonist's need: MALLET
- 53. Back: HIND
- 55. Stanford rival, familiarly: CAL
- 56. Calendar abbr.: SEP
- 59. "___ won't!": NOI
- 60. European spa: EMS
- 63. Popular reality show, with "The": OSBOURNES
- 66. Classic Jaguar: XJS
- 68. Lyre-playing Muse: ERATO
- 70. NASA's Spirit and Opportunity?: THEGREATESTSHOWONMARS
- 75. C.D. issuer: SANDL
- 76. Prominence: TOR
- 77. Devilish: UNANGELIC
- 78. Money-raising grp.: PTA
- 79. Ore. neighbor: IDA
- 82. Down: SAD
- 84. Mountain curve: ESS
- 85. Bagel topper: NOVA
- 86. Dweller on the Red Sea: YEMENI
- 89. Comment after a failure, perhaps: ITRIED
- 92. Gen-___: XER
- 93. Having the Space Needle outside one's bedroom window?: SLEEPINGINSEATTLE
- 98. Cheese made from goat's milk: CHEVRE
- 99. Very large: UNTOLD
- 100. Apples introduced in 1998: IMACS
- 104. "Hurlyburly" playwright: RABE
- 105. Like Abner: LIL
- 107. Tycoon Onassis: ARI
- 108. 56-Across and others: MOS
- 111. It's surrounded by beaches: ISLE
- 112. It means "red" in Mongolian: ULAN
- 113. Remark regarding chili preference?: SOMELIKEITHOTTER
- 117. Patty Hearst's name in the S.L.A.: TANIA
- 119. Hatcher of "Lois & Clark": TERI
- 120. Where "three men" of rhyme are: INATUB
- 121. Yes, in Japan: HAI
- 122. Knockoff: CLONE
- 123. 1930's-40's leading lady born in Russia: ANNA
- 124. Opposite of all: NOTONE
- 125. N.Y.C. trains overseer: MTA
- 126. Is undecided: HANGS
- 127. See 123-Across: STEN
- 128. Smooth: GLASSY
- 129. Hand writing?: Abbr.: ASL
down
- 1. Lucille Ball or Monty Hall: TVSTAR
- 2. The Preserver: VISHNU
- 3. Dramatics: ACTING
- 4. Dart: FLIT
- 5. Indian dignitary: RANEE
- 6. Shoreline feature: INLET
- 7. Some tennis scores: ADINS
- 8. Actress Perlman: RHEA
- 9. Silent: SOUNDLESS
- 10. More stylish: SMARTER
- 11. Prefix with graph: POLY
- 12. Average Joe: COMMONMAN
- 13. Adams of Yosemite: ANSEL
- 14. Cabbage Patch dolls, e.g.: FAD
- 15. What divorced ladies want?: AFEWBETTERMEN
- 16. Vitamin needed for pernicious anemia: BTWELVE
- 17. Player in organized sport: LEAGUER
- 18. Faults: ERRORS
- 28. Former Virginia senator Charles: ROBB
- 29. Showy trinket: GAUD
- 30. Language related to Urdu: NEPALI
- 38. "Whoopee!": YAY
- 39. Comic Margaret: CHO
- 40. Elementary suffix: IUM
- 42. Syracuse-to-Albany dir.: ESE
- 44. Button material: NACRE
- 45. Kofi Annan's birthplace: GHANA
- 46. Available, in a way: TOLET
- 47. "Alice" spinoff: FLO
- 48. Photos: SHOTS
- 49. Tough luck: MISHAP
- 50. Straight: UNBENT
- 54. Hot summer night?: DOGDAYEVENING
- 57. Unneeded: EXTRA
- 58. Sleepover attire: PJS
- 61. Tums competitor: MAALOX
- 62. Fight (for): STRIVE
- 64. Web address, for short: URL
- 65. Having everything one needs: SET
- 67. ___ mai (dim sum dish): SHU
- 68. H.S. requirement: ENG
- 69. ___ night (annual event): OSCAR
- 71. It may be tapped out: SOS
- 72. Brutus's burdens: ONERA
- 73. "How ___?": WASIT
- 74. Start: ONSET
- 79. Pushes forward: IMPELS
- 80. "Angele ___" (Latin prayer): DEI
- 81. Ending of some relationships: ANNULMENT
- 83. Not taking kindly to: DISLIKING
- 87. Poetic contraction: EER
- 88. Car starter: Abbr.: IGN
- 90. Actor Danson: TED
- 91. 551, in 551: DLI
- 93. Nonsense syllables in a 1965 song title: SHALALA
- 94. City in Pennsylvania Dutch country: LEBANON
- 95. Like pizza: ITALIAN
- 96. "Me neither": NORI
- 97. Radiate: EMIT
- 98. Support staff?: CRUTCH
- 101. Allergy problem: ASTHMA
- 102. Baseballer's wear: CLEATS
- 103. "Buck Rogers," for one: SERIAL
- 106. Bits: IOTAS
- 108. Mazda convertible: MIATA
- 109. Four Holy Roman emperors: OTTOS
- 110. Blackballs: SHUNS
- 114. Sea flier: ERNE
- 115. Hydroxyl compound: ENOL
- 116. Mind: OBEY
- 118. Loser to D.D.E.: AES
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