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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 6, 2005

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Saturday, August 6, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, August 6, 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

1
Dentist's concern
11
They're not advanced studies
15
Old soap, perhaps
16
Bar preference
17
You may slow down when it goes off
18
Tiber tributary whose name means "black"
19
Host seeker
20
"… on the head of ___"
21
Bloated
22
High-tech suffix
23
Large weight lifters
24
Kind of contract clause
28
One with a fitting job
29
Overthrow, say
30
Commute
33
Where shorts may be manufactured
35
Volcanic spew
36
Small arm
37
Secretary in both Clinton's and George W. Bush's cabinet
38
Least cold
40
Title girl in a 1977 Shaun Cassidy hit
41
Languish
42
How many people trust
43
Ding
44
"Nothin'"
48
Passengers' concerns, briefly
49
Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy"
51
Proceeded
52
Means of recapturing one's youth?
53
Components of un archipel
54
"Heavens!"

Down clues & answers

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Friday, August 5, 2005

across

1. Airplane passenger's option: SEATANGLE
10. Volunteer's response: IWILL
15. Some conic sections: PARABOLAS
16. "The Gene Krupa Story" title role portrayer, 1959: MINEO
17. Certifies: ACCREDITS
18. Colleague of Freud: ADLER
19. Gabs: SHOOTSTHEBREEZE
21. It has many decision points: MAZE
22. They make your business theirs: YENTAS
23. Mark of prestige: CACHET
27. Some shelter dwellers: PETS
28. Part of a stage: APRON
29. Prefix with professional: PARA
31. "Rugrats" dad: STU
34. Whupped: BEATTHETAROUTOF
38. Course setting: Abbr.: SSW
39. Drillers' group?: ARMY
40. Campbell Soup Co. brand: PREGO
41. Stop up: CORK
43. Some mouths: DELTAS
44. Downhill: SCHUSS
47. ___ effort: AFOR
49. Thingy: WHATCHAMACALLIT
55. "___ my way!": OUTTA
56. Bugbear: BETENOIRE
57. Common survey option: OTHER
58. Ditched: ABANDONED
59. Appropinquates: NEARS
60. Bite: SALTINESS

down

1. Ems and others: SPAS
2. A shot: EACH
3. Not pizzicato: ARCO
4. Tropical tuber: TARO
5. Help in holding up: ABETMENT
6. Signals: NODSAT
7. Flash: GLITZ
8. Bat spinner: LATHE
9. De bene ___ (provisionally): ESSE
10. Turkish hostel: IMARET
11. Increases in capacity: WIDENS
12. Sound: INLET
13. Gibbons of TV: LEEZA
14. Like some old monitors, for short: LORES
20. How some things are played: BYEAR
23. Semi-detachable parts?: CABS
24. Makes like: APES
25. Sticking point: CRAW
26. In, for now: HOT
27. Talk in the service, perhaps: PRAY
29. Extra: PERK
30. Bread box?: ATM
31. Galley mark: STET
32. Certain party attire: TOGA
33. Fantastic craft: UFOS
35. Iron-fisted: HARSH
36. Latin word in police work: OPERANDI
37. Modern link, for short: URL
41. Coast Guard vessel: CUTTER
42. Annual event with 7-Down: OSCARS
43. Museum person: DOCENT
44. Response to Beatlemania: SWOON
45. Water park feature: CHUTE
46. Kind of yoga: HATHA
47. Real low life?: AMEBA
48. Like some blows: FATAL
50. French mutineer's phrase: ABAS
51. Web-footed bird: LOON
52. Impatient person's annoyance: LINE
53. Tees off: IRES
54. Sen. Stevens and others: TEDS

Hints and full breakdown for Aug 5

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How the week is built

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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.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
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