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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 1, 2004

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Monday, November 1, 2004

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, November 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.

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Sunday, October 31, 2004

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1. How one must win in volleyball: BYTWO
6. Like most bicycle tires: TUBED
11. World Service provider: BBC
14. King of comedy: ALAN
18. Element #5: BORON
19. Stradivari's teacher: AMATI
20. Breeder's interest: BLOODLINE
22. What one gets from the hot dog vendor when paying with a $5 bill?: QUARTERBACK
24. Who we are: OURSELVES
25. Mesabi Range wealth: IRONORE
26. Under cover?: ABED
27. A stone may have one: CARAT
28. Not allow: DENY
30. Platinum blonde cheerleaders?: STADIUMBLEACHERS
34. Basic learning, for short: RRR
35. Tom, Dick and Harry: HES
36. It's murky: GRAYAREA
37. Singer Baker or Bryant: ANITA
39. Carpet type: SHAG
41. Horror maven Craven: WES
42. Clears: RIDS
46. Home viewers' HDTV's?: WIDERECEIVERS
51. Where the Danube ends: ROMANIA
53. Words before ghost or doctor: SEEA
54. Some fancy footwork: DANCE
55. Manage, with "out": EKE
57. Of lesser size: PUNIER
58. Star followers: MAGI
60. Ill-treats: MAULS
62. One who flies south in the winter: SANTA
63. Most popular beer brands at the concession stands?: NUMBERONEDRAFTPICKS
69. Easily bribed: VENAL
70. Bids one club, e.g.: OPENS
71. Marineland performer: ORCA
72. Time for a spring roll?: EASTER
74. 1990 Broadway one-man play: TRU
75. 33-Down output: FABLE
78. Lodge sign: BPOE
82. Led: STEERED
84. Trash talk?: OFFENSIVELINE
87. Babysitters' charges: TOTS
88. Sinker's call: SOS
90. Eye part: UVEA
91. Molokai colonist, once: LEPER
92. Tufted tweeter: TITMOUSE
95. E and G, e.g., in D.C.: STS
97. "Halloween ___" (1983 flick): III
98. Rule barring players from dating cheerleaders?: PASSINTERFERENCE
104. Stuart monarch: ANNE
105. Mo who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1976: UDALL
106. Some pats: OLEO
107. Flout the Volstead Act: BOOTLEG
109. Associated with: RELATEDTO
111. Untackled players?: THEUPRIGHTS
115. Mukluk attachments: SNOWSHOES
116. "And if that weren't bad enough ...": WORSE
117. Sea inlet: Var.: FIORD
118. Many ages: EONS
119. Part of E.S.T. : Abbr.: STD
120. Payments made before a deal is completed: ANTES
121. Politico Kefauver: ESTES

down

1. Jul. 4 happening: BBQ
2. 2-Down reader, right now: YOU
3. Track event?: TRAINRIDE
4. Cause of wrinkles: WORRY
5. Aware of: ONTO
6. Large decks: TAROTS
7. Spectral image: UMBRA
8. Bleated: BAAED
9. "..., ___": ETC
10. Hägar creator Browne: DIK
11. Store restriction: BLUELAW
12. Neighbor: BORDERER
13. N.Y.S.E. listings: COS
14. Subject of much praise: ALLAH
15. Été reading: LIVRE
16. Lend ___: ANEAR
17. Fits snugly: NESTS
20. Overseas whistle blower: BOBBY
21. Longtime record label: DECCA
23. Start of Massachusetts' motto: ENSE
26. Hosp. workers' org.: AMA
28. Picks at random: DRAWS
29. With 86-Down, 2002 British Open winner: ERNIE
31. 1997 Aaliyah hit "The One ___ My Heart To": IGAVE
32. Impulse: URGE
33. Name on many a children's book: AESOP
35. Laugh syllable: HAR
38. Ones on a bench together: TEAMMATES
39. One in 100: Abbr.: SEN
40. Sot's sound: HIC
42. Connected two computers, say: RANACABLE
43. Permanently: ININK
44. Cuts carbs, maybe: DIETS
45. 1986 #1 Starship hit: SARA
47. What a sphere lacks: EDGE
48. Home of Al-Azhar University: CAIRO
49. Chair filler: REAR
50. Arctic gull: SKUA
52. Work done to scale: MUSIC
56. One with a pole position?: ELF
59. More fit: ABLER
60. Rx prescribers: MDS
61. Russian export, familiarly: STOLI
63. Cool: NEATO
64. Loose, as stones: UNSET
65. Choose: OPT
66. Roman imperator: NERO
67. Sufficient, informally: ENUF
68. Beforehand: Abbr.: PREV
69. Third piece: VEST
73. Gum: RESIN
75. Head warmer?: FEVER
76. Suffix with oct-: ANE
77. Troop grp.: BSA
79. Fresh from the oven: PIPINGHOT
80. ___ ten (long odds): ONEIN
81. Unsettling: EERIE
83. Child's puzzle: DOTTODOT
85. Detonator: FUSE
86. See 29-Down: ELS
89. Refined: SMELTED
92. Jousting contests: TILTS
93. Snacks packaged in trays: OREOS
94. One evidently not filing a flight plan: UFO
95. Monkey Trial defendant, 1925: SCOPES
96. Having four parts: Prefix: TETR
98. Prize money: PURSE
99. Gland: Prefix: ADENO
100. Where a do is done: SALON
101. Certain side dishes: SLAWS
102. Chicago-based critic: EBERT
103. Hopeless: NOUSE
104. Auspices: AEGIS
108. Bio: LIFE
110. Geezers' interjections: EHS
111. Old "Up, up and away" sloganeer: TWA
112. Dearie: HON
113. Thrice uno: TRE
114. 60's campus grp.: SDS

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
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