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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 29, 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 29, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

  1. 1

    The "C" of U.S.M.C.

  2. 6

    Opinion tester

  3. 10

    "That's enough!"

  4. 14

    France's Joan ___

  5. 15

    Samoa's capital

  6. 16

    Spy Mata ___

  7. 17

    City chief

  8. 18

    Lady's escort

  9. 20

    Bit of encouragement

  10. 22

    Bent over

  11. 25

    Frankie of the Four Seasons

  12. 26

    Stephen King novel

  13. 30

    Wide shoe width

  14. 31

    "Farewell"

  15. 32

    The WB rival

  16. 33

    Old draft letters

  17. 34

    Casino supervisor

  18. 38

    Cambridge sch.

  19. 41

    Stocking's end

  20. 42

    "___ hooks" (box warning)

  21. 44

    CPR giver

  22. 47

    Antes

  23. 50

    "Me, too"

  24. 52

    Pixies

  25. 53

    Hoodwink

  26. 57

    On the way

  27. 58

    Wrinkled citrus fruits

  28. 62

    Barbara of "I Dream of Jeannie"

  29. 63

    Cries of surprise

  30. 64

    Poor

  31. 65

    Georgia and Lithuania, once: Abbr.

  32. 66

    Corduroy feature

  33. 67

    One with a dish towel

Down clues & answers

  1. 1

    Dot follower

  2. 2

    Son ___ gun

  3. 3

    Bit of sunshine

  4. 4

    Request a hand?

  5. 5

    Barely gather together, as funds

  6. 6

    Chinese temple

  7. 7

    Dentist's request

  8. 8

    ___ remover

  9. 9

    Plaster backing

  10. 10

    Queen of ___, biblical V.I.P.

  11. 11

    Mexican dish

  12. 12

    Soothsayer

  13. 13

    Little finger

  14. 19

    Impose, as a tax

  15. 21

    President pro ___

  16. 22

    Restful resorts

  17. 23

    Kennedy and Turner

  18. 24

    "Miss ___ Regrets"

  19. 27

    Centers of Christmas wrapping paper

  20. 28

    G.I.'s address

  21. 29

    M.D.'s associates

  22. 35

    Skater Midori

  23. 36

    Wee one

  24. 37

    Envelop

  25. 38

    Competition with shot putters and hurdlers

  26. 39

    As to, in legal memos

  27. 40

    Use a Frisbee

  28. 43

    Bee or wasp

  29. 44

    Catches sight of

  30. 45

    Piles

  31. 46

    Rag

  32. 47

    ___ colada

  33. 48

    Infectious fly

  34. 49

    Kind of financing, for short

  35. 51

    Daybreaks

  36. 54

    Plenty, to a poet

  37. 55

    Fed. workplace watchdog

  38. 56

    Six-stringed instrument

  39. 59

    Hula hoop?

  40. 60

    Suffix with chlor- or sulf-

  41. 61

    Damascus' land: Abbr.

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

across

  • 1. Turkic people: TATARS
  • 7. Series of movements: SONATA
  • 13. Patient form info: HMO
  • 16. Baron von Trapp: GEORG
  • 21. It may be folded for breakfast: OMELET
  • 22. Part of Isabella I's realm: ARAGON
  • 23. Sch. in Kingston: URI
  • 24. Connecticut or Delaware: RIVER
  • 25. How this answer is situated: NEXTTONOTHING
  • 27. Nothing: NIL
  • 28. "Gladiator" setting: ARENA
  • 29. Cookout aid: STERNO
  • 30. Eyelid afflictions: STYES
  • 32. Eventually: LATERON
  • 34. Thatching material: REEDS
  • 36. Irene ___ ("A Scandal in Bohemia" woman): ADLER
  • 38. Seventh-century Arab caliph: ALI
  • 39. March cry: HUT
  • 40. Paul Anka #1 hit: DIANA
  • 43. Must: HASTO
  • 46. Flighty sort?: AIRMAN
  • 48. Fuel suffix: ANE
  • 49. Up: ATBAT
  • 50. How this answer is situated: FOLLOWINGUP
  • 52. Purplish: PUCE
  • 53. Water carrier: DUCT
  • 54. Cassini and others: OLEGS
  • 55. Some mil. careerists: NCOS
  • 56. Decorative fabrics: TOILES
  • 58. Basilica feature: APSE
  • 59. Shave: PARE
  • 60. How this answer is situated: AFTERSHAVE
  • 63. Beer bash need: KEG
  • 64. Like Nehru jackets: RETRO
  • 66. Made known: IMPARTED
  • 70. Possible backache cause: LIFTING
  • 74. "Dies ___": IRAE
  • 75. Shepherd's pie ingredients: PEAS
  • 77. It gets a licking: CONE
  • 78. Goof-offs: IDLERS
  • 79. Out of memory?: AMNESIC
  • 81. Rennes resident: BRETON
  • 83. Gaze dreamily: MOON
  • 84. Sight from Taormina: ETNA
  • 86. Messieurs' mates: Abbr.: MMES
  • 87. Belly-dancers' accouterments: TASSELS
  • 88. "Heat" co-star, 1995: ALPACINO
  • 91. Gounod opera: FAUST
  • 92. "If the ___ is concealed, it succeeds": Ovid: ART
  • 93. How this answer is situated: BEFORELONG
  • 96. Long: ACHE
  • 98. Certain sorority member: ZETA
  • 102. Summer Olympics racers: SCULLS
  • 105. Wannabe, often: APER
  • 106. Got up: STOOD
  • 107. "What a pity!": ALAS
  • 108. Normandy river: ORNE
  • 109. How this answer is situated: AHEADOFTIME
  • 112. Time: EPOCH
  • 113. Topper: LID
  • 114. Faculties: SENSES
  • 116. Finish second: PLACE
  • 117. Resembling a beanpole: LANKY
  • 118. Suffix with Capri: OTE
  • 119. Identify: PEG
  • 120. Prefix with comic: SERIO
  • 122. Reference book for a writer: ROGET
  • 125. Charles who founded an investment firm: MERRILL
  • 127. Start of many sequel titles: SONOF
  • 129. Derelict: REMISS
  • 132. "That's an ___!": ORDER
  • 133. Oneself: EGO
  • 136. How this answer is situated: BESIDEONESELF
  • 140. Weeper of myth: NIOBE
  • 141. Pal of Rover: REX
  • 142. Prayer: ORISON
  • 143. Two-timing: UNTRUE
  • 144. Thick novels: SAGAS
  • 145. Censor's target: SEX
  • 146. African scourge: TSETSE
  • 147. Ostensible: STATED

down

  • 1. Boatload: TON
  • 2. Actor Leon of "Life With Father": AMES
  • 3. Sermon's basis: TEXT
  • 4. Sub: ALTERNATE
  • 5. Camp David, e.g.: RETREAT
  • 6. Curling item: STONE
  • 7. ___ Paulo: SAO
  • 8. Leftover morsel: ORT
  • 9. Casual turndowns: NAHS
  • 10. Hurried, musically: AGITATO
  • 11. "Leave It to Beaver" actor: TONYDOW
  • 12. Sweetheart: ANGEL
  • 13. Barbarian: HUN
  • 14. Diagnostic aid, for short: MRI
  • 15. Wick holder: OILLAMP
  • 16. Au ___: GRATIN
  • 17. Limerick locale: EIRE
  • 18. How this answer is situated: OVERHAUL
  • 19. Give up: RENOUNCE
  • 20. Scholarship winners: GRANTEES
  • 26. Doze: NOD
  • 31. Rap session?: SEANCE
  • 33. ___ maison (indoors): Fr.: ALA
  • 35. Farrier: SHOER
  • 37. Severity: RIGOR
  • 40. 1910's-20's movement: DADA
  • 41. Live ___: ITUP
  • 42. Fundamentals: ABCS
  • 44. Zouave, by birth: ALGERIAN
  • 45. Some Mercedes-Benzes: SLS
  • 47. Seller of Alaska, 1867: RUSSIA
  • 50. Ernest who designed Washington's Corcoran gallery: FLAGG
  • 51. Fascinated by: INTO
  • 52. Goes through: PIERCES
  • 54. Starts the betting: OPENS
  • 56. Cask control: TAP
  • 57. Reproductive cells: OVA
  • 60. ___ impasse: ATAN
  • 61. Ex-con: FREEMAN
  • 62. ___ Bounty: HMS
  • 63. Red apéritif: KIR
  • 65. Columnist Bombeck: ERMA
  • 67. Haul: TOTE
  • 68. Organic compound: ENOL
  • 69. Vulpine abodes: DENS
  • 70. City founded by Pizarro: LIMA
  • 71. Teen ___: IDOL
  • 72. Dog: FLOP
  • 73. Not easily debunked: TENABLE
  • 75. Burlesque props: PIES
  • 76. Transported: ECSTATIC
  • 80. Feeling superior: SMUG
  • 81. Revealed: BARED
  • 82. Q-U connection: RST
  • 84. Musician Brian: ENO
  • 85. Holy scrolls: TORAHS
  • 87. Western resort area: TAHOE
  • 89. Cartoonist's medium: CEL
  • 90. Suppositions: IFS
  • 91. Negotiator at Vladivostok, 1974: FORD
  • 94. Sports equipment waved in the air: EPEES
  • 95. Lets: LEASES
  • 97. Rising star: COMER
  • 98. Mexican rebel: ZAPATISTA
  • 99. Carolina university: ELON
  • 100. Yachter's heading: TACK
  • 101. Far from flushed: ASHY
  • 102. ___ seal (six-pointed star): SOLOMONS
  • 103. Yardsticks: CRITERIA
  • 104. How this answer is situated: UNDERDOG
  • 106. "Come ___?" (Italian greeting): STA
  • 109. Reel people: ANGLERS
  • 110. Willing interviewees, say: OPINERS
  • 111. Tart: Var.: FLOOSIE
  • 112. Copper or nickel: ELEMENT
  • 114. Oxford's "dreaming ___": SPIRES
  • 115. It may be smoked: EEL
  • 121. One with abs of steel?: ROBOT
  • 123. Colombian gold: ORO
  • 124. Trivial Pursuit edition: GENUS
  • 126. Sitcom about the Hart family: REBA
  • 128. One pounder: FIST
  • 130. Muralist José María ___: SERT
  • 131. Swing around: SLUE
  • 134. Ten C-notes: GEE
  • 135. Tic-tac-toe loser: OXX
  • 137. Couple in Cancún: DOS
  • 138. Springfield-to-Boston dir.: ENE
  • 139. Satiated: FED
Hints and full breakdown for Aug 28

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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.
  • Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
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