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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 4, 2005
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, October 4, 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
- 27
- 48
- 66
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 57
- 65
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Monday, October 3, 2005
across
- 1. Top: ACME
- 5. ___ Lingus: AER
- 8. Sleeping sickness transmitter: TSETSE
- 14. Film ___ (movie genre): NOIR
- 15. Multiplatinum album with the 2002 hit "Ain't It Funny": JLO
- 16. Met productions: OPERAS
- 17. Star of 64-Across: DONADAMS
- 19. Dancer Ginger: ROGERS
- 20. 2004 World Series "curse" beaters: REDSOX
- 21. Exchange blows: SPAR
- 23. Summer drink: ADE
- 24. Henry Ford's son: EDSEL
- 25. Number of 17-Across in 64-Across: EIGHTYSIX
- 27. Putdown: SLUR
- 29. Shakespeare's "___ Like It": ASYOU
- 30. Explosive: TNT
- 33. "___, meeny, miney, mo": EENY
- 35. Sand: GRIT
- 38. Catchphrase of 25-Across: WOULDYOUBELIEVE
- 43. Out of kilter: AWRY
- 44. "___ Lisa": MONA
- 45. Bread with seeds: RYE
- 46. Paint palette accompanier: BRUSH
- 50. Artist Bonheur: ROSA
- 52. Gadget for 25-Across: SHOEPHONE
- 55. Check for odors: SNIFF
- 59. ___ Mahal: TAJ
- 60. Part of an interstate: LANE
- 61. Quite the party: SOIREE
- 62. Small garage capacity: ONECAR
- 64. Campy 1960's hit sitcom: GETSMART
- 66. Spin: ROTATE
- 67. "Xanadu" band, for short: ELO
- 68. "Don't look ___!": ATME
- 69. Fellow: MISTER
- 70. Ex-G.I.'s grp.: VFW
- 71. Gifts at Honolulu International Airport: LEIS
down
- 1. Tennis's Agassi: ANDRE
- 2. Murmured: COOED
- 3. Watches, as a store: MINDS
- 4. Wipes clean: ERASES
- 5. Comet competitor: AJAX
- 6. Nightmarish street, in film: ELM
- 7. Martini & ___ vermouth: ROSSI
- 8. Hebrew scrolls: TORAHS
- 9. Like Corvettes and Mustangs: SPORTY
- 10. Brain scan, for short: EEG
- 11. Money manager: TREASURER
- 12. Famed New York restaurateur: SARDI
- 13. Elizabethan earl: ESSEX
- 18. Dressed (up): DOLLED
- 22. Links org.: PGA
- 25. Rubik who invented Rubik's Cube: ERNO
- 26. Bear or Berra: YOGI
- 28. 180° turn, slangily: UEY
- 30. Bygone carrier: TWA
- 31. "This instant!": NOW
- 32. Some airplanes: TURBOJETS
- 34. "Tasty!": YUM
- 36. Old-fashioned Christmas trim: IVY
- 37. Summer shirt: TEE
- 39. Ancient Greek instrument: LYRE
- 40. Yawn inducer: BORE
- 41. British musician Brian: ENO
- 42. Ropes in: LASSOS
- 47. Still awake at 1 a.m., say: UPLATE
- 48. Generous one: SHARER
- 49. Darlin': HON
- 51. 20 Questions category: ANIMAL
- 52. Tempest: STORM
- 53. Vietnam's capital: HANOI
- 54. Israeli desert: NEGEV
- 56. Angered: IRATE
- 57. Physicist Enrico: FERMI
- 58. Honors in style: FETES
- 61. Pack away: STOW
- 63. Cool dude, in jazz: CAT
- 65. Keebler baker, supposedly: ELF
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- 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.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- 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.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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