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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 3, 2005

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Monday, January 3, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 3, 2005. 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, January 2, 2005

across

1. Garlicky seafood dish: SCAMPI
7. Vacuum tube: TRIODE
13. Trig function: SECANT
19. What imbibers might feel: NOPAIN
20. Desk-clearer: OUTBOX
21. Great Plains tribe: ARAPAHO
23. The optimist …: ICANSPAREEIGHTMINUTES
26. Bill extras: PORK
27. Tower supports: IBARS
28. John: TOILET
29. Contingency plans address them: IFS
30. Collector's suffix: IANA
32. High spots: TORS
33. Brain section: LOBE
34. The pessimist …: IWONTKNOWANYTHINGINIT
43. Overly studious types: NERDS
44. Fielders' choices: MITTS
45. It precedes one: NOON
46. Alphabet trio: RST
47. The Green Wave, in college sports: TULANE
50. Famed caravel: PINTA
52. Cousin of Wm. and Robt.: JOS
55. The self-hypnotist …: ITSMAKINGMEVERYSLEEPY
60. Approved: OKED
61. Site of the Grimaldis' 700-year reign: MONACO
62. Pull (in): REIN
63. It's seen in the dark: MOVIE
66. "McHale's Navy" craft: PTBOATS
69. Good looks: GAZES
70. Super-duper: ACES
71. Sharply reprimand: BARKAT
73. Rap music's Kris Kross and others: DUOS
75. The conformist …: WHATDIDOTHERPEOPLESAY
83. The sun: SOL
84. Some cheeses: EDAMS
85. Yellow: AFRAID
86. U.N. workers' grp.: ILO
87. Kind of sch.: ELEM
88. Israeli port: HAIFA
90. Fife accompanier: TABOR
92. The therapist …: WHATIDSAYISNTTHEISSUE
99. Function: ROLE
100. Docs prescribe them: MEDS
101. Tour de France challenge: ALPS
102. Señores say it in unison: OLE
103. Stuffed Indian dish: SAMOSA
106. "Hey! … yeah, you!": PSSST
109. New Rochelle college: IONA
113. The mentalist …: NEXTWEEKSLOOKSTOUGHER
117. Author of "Guerrilla Warfare": GUEVARA
118. Cry on a baseball field: IGOTIT
119. Money left at a secret location, maybe: RANSOM
120. Duel item: PISTOL
121. Rural hangouts: ROOSTS
122. Bean and others: ORSONS

down

1. Presumptuous one: SNIP
2. Popular fragrance from France: COCO
3. On ___ with: APAR
4. Race around the earth?: MANKIND
5. Mathematical constants: PIS
6. How baby girls are often dressed: INPINK
7. When said three times, a W.W. II film: TORA
8. One having second thoughts: RUER
9. Followers: Suffix: ITES
10. Sash: OBI
11. Rubber bones, e.g.: DOGTOYS
12. Urge: EXHORT
13. With 72-Down, a signature on the Declaration of Independence: SAML
14. Pennsylvania's northwesternmost county: ERIE
15. "Out of the question": CANT
16. Kwik-E-Mart clerk on "The Simpsons": APU
17. Land: NATION
18. It began in 1908 with 34 agts.: THEFBI
22. Caucasus native: OSSET
24. Impose ___ on (outlaw): ABAN
25. "Oh, pooh!": TISH
31. Risked: ATSTAKE
32. Cause of a big blowup: TNT
33. China's ___ Yutang: LIN
34. Cross inscription: INRI
35. One side in an annual football game: WEST
36. Leavings: ORTS
37. Arabian Sea borderer: OMAN
38. Wound, but not fatally: WING
39. Up and ___: ATEM
40. Where the 2004 Rep. Natl. Convention was held: INNYC
41. Untrue: NOTSO
42. Successful kick: GOAL
48. Four-stringer: UKE
49. Topper: LID
50. Constrained, with "up": PENT
51. Form 1040 declarations, for short: IRAS
52. "Holy mackerel!": JEEZ
53. Lad clipped by Floyd the barber: OPIE
54. Prim and proper, e.g.: Abbr.: SYNS
56. Like most lips: MOIST
57. Show feelings: EMOTE
58. Overseas broadcaster, in brief: VOA
59. Clear the tape: ERASE
63. Gaping holes: MAWS
64. Number below cinco on un teléfono: OCHO
65. Butcher's offering: VEAL
66. Event for limos: PROM
67. Longtime Times Sq. site: TKTS
68. "A Christmas Carol" exclamation: BAH
69. Fancy pen decoration: GOLDTIP
71. Waited: BIDED
72. See 13-Down: ADAMS
73. ___ good deed: DOA
74. News inits.: UPI
76. Supermarket section: DELI
77. Drops down from above: RAIN
78. Up in smoke: PFFT
79. Q.E.D. part: ERAT
80. Bedroom sharers, maybe: SIBS
81. Baseball's Felipe: ALOU
82. Those were the days: YORE
87. When Bastille Day is celebrated: ETE
88. The Father of Mexican Independence: HIDALGO
89. Numbskull: ASS
91. Gives: ASSIGNS
92. Injustice: WRONG
93. Hide out: HOLEUP
94. 2002 Olympic skating gold medalist Yagudin: ALEXEI
95. Every which way: AMOK
96. Boot camp reply: YESSIR
97. Verb with "thou": HAST
98. Corrida charger: ELTORO
103. Belt: SWAT
104. Designed for flying: AERO
105. Mess, e.g.: MEAL
106. Kitchenware: POTS
107. Camp performance: SKIT
108. Boomers, once?: SSTS
110. Quite: OHSO
111. Diner sign: NEON
112. Gives a piece: ARMS
114. Sets: TVS
115. Tic-tac-toe winner: OOO
116. Former polit. union: UAR

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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.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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