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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 23, 2005

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Saturday, April 23, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, April 23, 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.

66 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Garden divisions
2
Fleshy-leafed plant
3
Cocktail garnish
4
Monarchy since 1350
5
Group of rude dwellings
6
Mysterious locale, once, with "the"
7
Nuts
8
Cautionary note
9
"Something really should be done"
10
Fast-drying paint
11
P.M. elected in 2001
12
Putting on a pedestal
13
Kind of adapter
14
Scrapple ingredient
20
Ones spotted at Ascot?
23
Summer music festival site
24
Tea tray goodie
25
Some imported S.U.V.'s
26
Catch
27
Who "knows," in a 1958 Dion & the Belmonts hit
28
Bad choice to bet on
30
Nickname for director Peckinpah
33
Keel scraper
34
Touchy subject
36
Bette Midler ballad
37
Small servings
39
Word in many foreign company names
40
"Frasier" actress Peri
42
Toyota MR2 competitor
43
Shellacking
44
Mario ___ of the N.B.A.
45
Perfect
46
Grant
47
Diggers' discoveries
48
Behind us all

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Friday, April 22, 2005

across

1. New York is on it: EASTCOAST
10. TV Riddler portrayer: ASTIN
15. Frequent stop sign displayer: SCHOOLBUS
16. Trial figure: STENO
17. It may be cut before a reading: TAROTDECK
18. Kind of cell: SOLAR
19. Kind of menu: EDIT
20. Archaic word ending: ETH
21. Ones making great strides: STILTS
22. A, overseas: EIN
23. Is cautious: TAKESCARE
25. Flirt with, in a way: MAKEEYESAT
29. Negligible: SLIM
30. Paper feature: OPED
31. Cousin of -y: ISH
33. Restaurant block: ICE
34. Muse with a globe: URANIA
37. Quinn who played Annie: AILEEN
39. Old cartoonist ___ Key: TED
40. Dance part: CHA
42. It's set in Egypt: AIDA
43. Sci. course: ANAT
45. Barracuda and others, once: MUSCLECARS
50. Many an old sitcom mom: HOMEMAKER
52. With 54-Across, throat soother: HOT
53. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library locale: AUSTIN
54. See 52-Across: TEA
56. Membership list: ROTA
57. Growls: GNARS
58. Do without dates: STAGPARTY
60. Razzle-dazzle: ECLAT
61. Ios is in it: AEGEANSEA
62. Pinched: NEEDY
63. Farsighted: PRESCIENT

down

1. Treasure: ESTEEM
2. Mount Desert Island's national park: ACADIA
3. Shy: SHRINK
4. Sound of impatience: TOOT
5. Hotel extra: COT
6. Dated, formerly: OLDE
7. Helped in holding up: ABETTED
8. Like: SUCHAS
9. Disapproving sound: TSK
10. Some staffers: Abbr.: ASSTS
11. Zeno and Epictetus: STOICS
12. Be deceitful: TELLALIE
13. Very quickly: INATRICE
14. 10th-century raiders: NORSEMEN
21. Depart, in a way: SETSAIL
24. Trombonist Winding: KAI
26. It's quite a stretch: EON
27. Grand: EPIC
28. Cat's assent: YEAHMAN
32. Palm, say: HIDE
34. "A Challenge for the Actor" writer/actress: UTAHAGEN
35. Disown: RENOUNCE
36. Water: ADAMSALE
38. Léman, e.g.: LAC
41. Puffin's cousin: AUK
42. Spread statistic: ACREAGE
44. Cat's paws, e.g.: TETRAD
46. Game finder: SETTER
47. Ponied up?: AHORSE
48. No-good: ROTTEN
49. Patronize, as a motel: STAYAT
51. ___-eyed: MISTY
55. Word on a toy package: AGES
56. Important Indian: RANI
58. Chucklehead: SAP
59. Grp. interested in races: PAC

Hints and full breakdown for Apr 22

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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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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.
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