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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 7, 2005
Monday, February 7, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 7, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 10
- 54
- 64
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 26
- 28
- 33
- 42
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Sunday, February 6, 2005
across
- 1. Reserve: ICINESS
- 8. Sending a duplicate, for short: CCING
- 13. Hold up on the road: HIJACK
- 19. $5,000: MADISON
- 20. Something to file away: FOLDER
- 21. Best Supporting Actor winner for "Cocoon": AMECHE
- 22. Easily snapped: BRITTLE
- 23. Social reformer Bloomer: AMELIA
- 24. Aleve alternative: MOTRIN
- 25. 10¢: ROOSEVELT
- 27. ___ diagram: VENN
- 28. Often-unpaid worker: INTERN
- 29. City on the Danube: ULM
- 30. What you will: ESTATE
- 32. Vodka brand, briefly: STOLI
- 34. Make like: APE
- 35. Prose piece: ESSAY
- 38. Diplomat Boutros Boutros-___: GHALI
- 40. Giants manager before Durocher: OTT
- 41. Dropout's goal, perhaps: Abbr.: GED
- 42. 100 kopecks: RUBLE
- 45. ___ Rafael: SAN
- 46. Group of dyes: AZO
- 47. More than a little: VERY
- 48. $100: FRANKLIN
- 51. Great leveler: TNT
- 52. Dog star?: BENJI
- 54. Dawn deity: EOS
- 55. Seek damages: SUE
- 56. Indiana Jones's topper: FEDORA
- 58. Kilns: OASTS
- 62. Only O.K.: SOSO
- 64. Does nothing: IDLES
- 66. 25¢ or $1: WASHINGTON
- 69. Problem for a deejay: SKIP
- 70. Secure overhead, say: STOW
- 71. School V.I.P.: DEAN
- 72. It may be played: ROLE
- 73. $1: EISENHOWER
- 76. Problems addressed by podiatrists: CORNS
- 77. Utah resort: ALTA
- 78. Site of the Pont de Normandie: SEINE
- 79. Paris, for one: TROJAN
- 81. Understand: GET
- 83. Cry in cartoons: EEK
- 84. A conductor might pick it up: TEMPO
- 87. It may be labeled sl. or obs.: DEF
- 88. What 15 answers in this puzzle appear on: CURRENCY
- 90. Military flier's acronym: JATO
- 93. Part of some uniforms: CAP
- 94. Terrarium youngster: EFT
- 95. Better-chosen: APTER
- 96. "I'll take that as ___": ANO
- 97. Something to do at 77-Across: SKI
- 98. Words following a superlative: OFALL
- 100. Big test: FINAL
- 104. Debut of 6/1/1980: CNN
- 105. Color: TINCT
- 108. Human body's hardest substance: ENAMEL
- 111. Poetic preposition: ERE
- 112. Continue: KEEPON
- 114. Rime: HOAR
- 116. $1: SACAGAWEA
- 119. Constitutional: STROLL
- 120. Uses as a target: AIMSAT
- 122. Tennessee county named for a jurist who co-founded Memphis: OVERTON
- 123. See 91-Down: OTOOLE
- 124. Bar lineup: STOOLS
- 125. 1¢ or $5: LINCOLN
- 126. Anthony who won a Grammy for "What Kind of Fool Am I?": NEWLEY
- 127. Sizing up: EYING
- 128. Chants: INTONES
down
- 1. Stain: IMBRUE
- 2. "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" and others: CAROLS
- 3. "Hands down" and "cold feet": IDIOMS
- 4. These may be picked: NITS
- 5. 90° from norte: ESTE
- 6. Puzzle out: SOLVE
- 7. Oldtime daggers: SNEES
- 8. U.R.L. ender: COM
- 9. $1,000: CLEVELAND
- 10. Frequent Cleese co-star: IDLE
- 11. Ruhr refusals: NEINS
- 12. $50: GRANT
- 13. $10: HAMILTON
- 14. "Consider the job done": IMONIT
- 15. Joan who sang "I Love Rock 'n Roll": JETT
- 16. Lot statistic: ACREAGE
- 17. Cricket, at times: CHIRPER
- 18. 50¢: KENNEDY
- 20. Al ___ (guerrilla group): FATAH
- 26. Sporter of three stars: Abbr.: LTGEN
- 31. They often differ: TASTES
- 33. Percolate slowly: OOZE
- 36. Prince Valiant's son: ARN
- 37. Stooges' laughs: YUKS
- 39. Tagging along: INTOW
- 43. Skylike: BLUISH
- 44. Wasn't straight with: LIEDTO
- 46. Bully, often: ABASER
- 47. Medical breakthrough of 1998: VIAGRA
- 48. Comes clean, with "up": FESSES
- 49. Team tenderfoot: ROOKIE
- 50. Whence St. Clare: ASSISI
- 53. Tenor Vickers: JON
- 56. Not as many: FEWER
- 57. Invisible household hazard: RADON
- 59. In a chop shop, say: STOLEN
- 60. Pre-Aztec Indian: TOLTEC
- 61. Backdoor: SNEAKY
- 63. Willingly accepting: OPENTO
- 65. Like some sneakers: LOWTOP
- 67. Show no tolerance to telemarketers: HANGUP
- 68. Newspaper supplement: INSERT
- 74. Originally: NEE
- 75. Gaucho's gala: RODEO
- 76. Lounger's cover-up: CAFTAN
- 80. 5¢ or $2: JEFFERSON
- 82. Not kosher: TREF
- 85. $500: MCKINLEY
- 86. Bother: PAIN
- 88. Serenity, in Seville: CALMA
- 89. Verdi's "___ tu": ERI
- 90. $20: JACKSON
- 91. With 123-Across, "48HRS." actress: ANNETTE
- 92. Serial music sequence: TONEROW
- 97. Fred who won the 1966 U.S. tennis championship: STOLLE
- 99. Holds up: LASTS
- 101. "Opticks" writer: NEWTON
- 102. Anatomical interstice: AREOLE
- 103. Singer Rimes and others: LEANNS
- 106. $10,000: CHASE
- 107. Hoity-___: TOITY
- 109. Potential water contaminator: ECOLI
- 110. "Alice" star: LAVIN
- 113. Banking is an important part of it: POOL
- 115. Mine, in Montréal: AMOI
- 117. Lady's escort: GENT
- 118. Chevron competitor: ARCO
- 121. Follower of arith.: ALG
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