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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 3, 2005
Monday, October 3, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, October 3, 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
- 1
- 27
- 35
- 66
- 69
Down clues & answers
- 34
- 42
- 49
- 52
- 56
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Sunday, October 2, 2005
across
- 1. A pinch, maybe: SNUFF
- 6. Provide food for many: CATER
- 11. Some dance records, for short: EPS
- 14. Musical Young: NEIL
- 18. Snouted animal: TAPIR
- 19. Of service: UTILE
- 20. Double-crosser: RAT
- 21. "Lay it ___!": ONME
- 22. 1996 Helen Fielding book made into a film starring Renée Zellweger: BRIDGETJ1SSDIARY
- 25. Assault with a grenade, as a commanding officer: FRAG
- 26. Move, quickly: RELO
- 27. Space chimp of 1961: ENOS
- 28. Memo abbr.: ATTN
- 29. Olympic rings, e.g.: LOGO
- 30. Absorb the cost of: EAT
- 31. Suffix with social: IST
- 32. Best-selling 2003 Alice Sebold novel: THELOVELYB1S
- 36. Three of ___: AKIND
- 38. Capital of Hubei province: WUHAN
- 40. Israel's Weizman: EZER
- 41. 1995 Ellen DeGeneres best seller: MYPOINTANDIDOHAVE1
- 48. Very pleasant: SONICE
- 49. Like some translations: LITERAL
- 50. Alternative to oil: GAS
- 53. Larry McMurtry novel made into an Emmy-winning TV series: L1SOMEDOVE
- 57. Pharmaceutical giant: SEARLE
- 58. Longoria of "Desperate Housewives": EVA
- 59. A thief might take one: ALIAS
- 60. Salad ingredient: EGG
- 62. Part: ROLE
- 63. Not clerical: LAY
- 64. Battle reminder: LIMP
- 65. 2003 Bill O'Reilly political best seller: THENOSPINZ1
- 70. "Christ of St. John of the Cross" artist: DALI
- 71. "Wheel of Fortune" request: ANI
- 72. Bad party guest: BOOR
- 73. Kennel cry: ARF
- 74. Made up one's mind about: SETON
- 75. Grazing spot: LEA
- 76. Imperiled: ATRISK
- 79. 1994 semi-autobiographical novel by Anna Quindlen: 1TRUETHING
- 83. Son of Prince Valiant: ARN
- 84. Heroic deeds: RESCUES
- 86. Monopoly maker: HASBRO
- 87. 1939 Agatha Christie classic: ANDTHENTHEREWEREN1
- 92. Pakistani tongue: URDU
- 94. Early American diplomat Silas: DEANE
- 95. Nine: Prefix: ENNEA
- 96. 1929 Virginia Woolf title: AROOMOF1SOWN
- 101. Place for a team's insignia: CAP
- 103. Atlantic catch: COD
- 104. Winter Palace resident: TSAR
- 105. Sibilant talk: LISP
- 106. Dr. Pavlov: IVAN
- 108. Author Jaffe: RONA
- 109. Stay too long on the beach: BURN
- 110. 2000 essay collection by David Sedaris: METALKPRETTY1DAY
- 115. Protected, at sea: ALEE
- 116. Before: ERE
- 117. They give people big heads: AFROS
- 118. Key: ISLET
- 119. Sale site: YARD
- 120. Filch: COP
- 121. Lilac, e.g.: SCENT
- 122. Bonnie's beau: CLYDE
down
- 1. Like poorly washed windows: STREAKY
- 2. Something a maid might break: NAILTIP
- 3. Many a prom coif: UPDO
- 4. Cookie fruit: FIG
- 5. Springs: FREES
- 6. Stephen King canine: CUJO
- 7. Squares things: AT1S
- 8. "___ the season …": TIS
- 9. Trains in Chicago: ELS
- 10. Signal to stop: RED
- 11. Poet's inspiration: ERATO
- 12. Last of a Monday-to-Friday series: PARTV
- 13. "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" composer: STYNE
- 14. Restricted area: NOFLYZ1
- 15. Dress: ENROBE
- 16. "This looks verrry bad for me!": IMAG1R
- 17. Kids' blocks: LEGOS
- 22. Silver-scaled fish: BREAM
- 23. Big bang cause: TNT
- 24. Suffix with proverb: IAL
- 31. Subject in foreign language class: IDIOMS
- 32. Sem. degree: THD
- 33. Applaud: HAIL
- 34. "The ___ near": ENDIS
- 35. Actress Sobieski: LEELEE
- 37. "Uh-uh!": NOSOAP
- 38. Baylor's home: WACO
- 39. Odd: UNEVEN
- 42. Pilot's dir.: NNE
- 43. Rx instruction: TID
- 44. Capri suffix: OTE
- 45. George of "La Cage aux Folles": HEARN
- 46. Spanish rice: ARROZ
- 47. Actor Raf of "The Italian Job," 1969: VALL1
- 50. Fancy ice creams: GELATI
- 51. Toyota model: AVALON
- 52. Saw: SAYING
- 53. [I can't remember the words to this song]: LALALA
- 54. Henny Youngman specialty: 1LINER
- 55. Apelike: SIMIAN
- 56. It may need gratification: EGO
- 61. Fed. property manager: GSA
- 65. Schlepped: TOTED
- 66. Longtime photographer for Vogue: HORST
- 67. Author Segal: ERICH
- 68. Disposed: PR1
- 69. Kind of logic: IFTHEN
- 70. Take away the defenses of: DEHORN
- 72. Famed huckster: BARNUM
- 74. Actress Meryl: STREEP
- 77. Take to court: SUE
- 78. Japanese martial art: KENDO
- 80. Exceptional: RARE
- 81. Operate: USE
- 82. "Charlotte's Web" monogram: EBW
- 85. Fret: STEW
- 87. Dolled up: ADORNED
- 88. Chinese dynasty: HAN
- 89. Impossible to read: ENCODED
- 90. Nursery arrival: NEONATE
- 91. Vitamin dosage: 1ADAY
- 92. Author Le Guin: URSULA
- 93. Lion: ROARER
- 96. Held off: ATBAY
- 97. Ancient Mexican: OLMEC
- 98. 1980's Pontiac: FIERO
- 99. Ragtime dance: 1STEP
- 100. Massage locale: SPA
- 101. Bebopper: CAT
- 102. Marx Brothers-like: ANTIC
- 106. Press: IRON
- 107. A piece of a three-piece: VEST
- 108. "Tarzan" actor: R1LY
- 111. Vegas opening: LAS
- 112. Fast food inits.: KFC
- 113. Grand ___, Nova Scotia: PRE
- 114. Fashion inits.: YSL
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