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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 28, 2005
Monday, February 28, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 28, 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
- 20
- 27
- 38
- 53
- 60
- 67
Down clues & answers
- 40
- 49
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
across
- 1. Former New York Philharmonic conductor Mitropoulis: DIMITRI
- 8. Most down: BLUEST
- 14. Potential lifesaver, for short: EMT
- 17. Struck: EXEDOUT
- 18. Advanced Latin class reading: AENEID
- 19. Con tender?: JAILER
- 22. Works off and on as a hospital resident?: INTERNSINTURNS
- 24. Weather Channel topic: ELNINO
- 25. Lotful: CARS
- 26. Syrian, say: ARAB
- 27. Not for free: ATACOST
- 28. Watch: EYE
- 29. Breathe during an ice storm?: INHALEINHAIL
- 35. "Take ___ a sign": ITAS
- 36. Spring time in Paris: MAI
- 37. Close call: NEARMISS
- 39. They're not normal: DEVIANTS
- 44. Scoundrels: KNAVES
- 45. Pioneering electrical engineer: TESLA
- 49. Scuba gear gaskets: ORINGS
- 50. Pharmaceutical ointments: OLEATES
- 52. Wound: LESION
- 53. "Thong Song" rapper: SISQO
- 54. Jai alai arena: FRONTON
- 55. Rossini opera setting: SEVILLE
- 56. Tricked twin: ESAU
- 57. Come up with: CREATE
- 58. New family member, maybe: SONINLAW
- 59. Raids at the Colossus?: INROADSINRHODES
- 63. Traditional Sunday fare: POTROAST
- 66. Hallmark of a perfect game: NOHITS
- 67. Seine sights: ILES
- 71. College with the mascot Lord Jeff: AMHERST
- 72. Threatens to topple: TEETERS
- 74. Web mag: EZINE
- 75. Big name in satellite radio: SIRIUS
- 76. Entertainer: ARTISTE
- 77. Unspecified alternative: ORELSE
- 78. Cold-cocks: STUNS
- 79. "___ bragh!": ERINGO
- 80. Air producer: SONGSTER
- 82. Eight-day observance: CHANUKAH
- 84. Classical opener: NEO
- 85. Signal receiver: DISH
- 88. Eat for fun?: INGESTINJEST
- 92. It has moles: Abbr.: CIA
- 95. Like many company publications: INHOUSE
- 97. Straight: NEAT
- 98. Course list?: MENU
- 99. 1970's-80's House speaker: ONEILL
- 100. Executive of an apple juice company?: INSIDERINCIDER
- 106. Worrywart's words: DEARME
- 107. Gruesome: MORBID
- 108. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" actress: MIASARA
- 109. Stumble: ERR
- 110. 7 and 11: PRIMES
- 111. Pros: EXPERTS
down
- 1. Unfreeze: DEICE
- 2. Slangy rejection: IXNAY
- 3. Reading unit?: METRE
- 4. March time: IDES
- 5. Crag: TOR
- 6. See print: RUN
- 7. Exclamation an angel loves to hear: ITSAHIT
- 8. Trite: BANAL
- 9. Do not disturb: LETBE
- 10. Three-time Burmese prime minister: UNU
- 11. Alway: EER
- 12. Pride, e.g.: SIN
- 13. They're each worth two F.G.'s: TDS
- 14. "Scenes of Clerical Life" writer, 1857: ELIOT
- 15. It's full of brains: MENSA
- 16. Moves briskly: TROTS
- 19. Martial arts star featured in "Romeo Must Die": JETLI
- 20. ___ king: ALA
- 21. Cuts to specific dimensions?: INCISESINSIZES
- 23. Savings option, briefly: IRA
- 27. Goals: AIMS
- 29. Adult insect: IMAGO
- 30. Photographer Goldin and others: NANS
- 31. Like octuplets?: INNATEINEIGHT
- 32. "Cool!": NEATO
- 33. Place of rest: HAVEN
- 34. Vultures were sacred to him: ARES
- 38. Singer Nicks: STEVIE
- 39. Bit of reality?: DOSE
- 40. Sister of 34-Down: ERIS
- 41. It has one stripe on its back: VISA
- 42. Ask the director of church singing?: INQUIREINCHOIR
- 43. Cross with: SOREAT
- 44. Smallville family: KENTS
- 46. Place for a catnap?: SILL
- 47. Joe Hardy's temptress: LOLA
- 48. Over: ANEW
- 51. Put film into: LOAD
- 52. Imparts: LENDS
- 54. "Punkin" coverer: FROST
- 55. Covers with coal dust: SOOTS
- 57. Boorish: CRASS
- 58. Traditional English hunting locale, with "the": SHIRES
- 60. "Take your time": NORUSH
- 61. False: NOTSO
- 62. Effective use of lang.: RHET
- 63. Route for a wagon train: PASS
- 64. Leave off: OMIT
- 65. Like some traffic: THRU
- 68. Light air: LILT
- 69. Massachusetts motto opener: ENSE
- 70. Oracle: SEER
- 72. Tot's wheels: TRIKE
- 73. Old lab burners: ETNAS
- 74. Headache for a grain farmer: ERGOT
- 76. Cut ___: ARUG
- 77. Change machine input: ONES
- 79. Relative of -trix: ENNE
- 81. Past: ONETIME
- 83. Grocery section: AISLE
- 85. Part of L.E.D.: DIODE
- 86. Secret: INNER
- 87. Cut: SHEAR
- 89. Art film, often: INDIE
- 90. Humanitarian concerns: NEEDS
- 91. It may be jam-packed: JAR
- 92. Closet wood: CEDAR
- 93. Lifeless: INERT
- 94. Subtle emanations: AURAS
- 96. City in Baden-Württemberg: ULM
- 98. ___-en-scène: MISE
- 100. Sitter's handful: IMP
- 101. Part of Scand.: NOR
- 102. Mr. abroad: SRI
- 103. Big Blue: IBM
- 104. 2-Down, translated: NIX
- 105. Budget limit: CAP
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