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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 24, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, October 24, 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
- 14
- 19
- 24
- 65
- 67
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 13
- 22
- 29
- 36
- 42
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
across
- 1. Recovers, with "up": SOBERS
- 7. Delibes opera: LAKME
- 12. Wrinkle, maybe: AGELINE
- 19. Noted support group: ALANON
- 20. Gibson garnish: ONION
- 21. Caffeine source: Var.: COLANUT
- 22. A man goes for a walk and ...: FINDSABOTTLEONABEACH
- 25. Bird: Prefix: AVI
- 26. "Let's not go there": SKIPIT
- 27. Mother of Pollux and Helen: LEDA
- 28. ___ cheese: BLEU
- 30. Break: REST
- 32. Like Bruckner's Symphony No. 7: INE
- 33. Upper hand: EDGE
- 36. Activists: DOERS
- 37. When he pops the cork, a genie appears and says, "...": ISHALLGRANTYOUONEWISH
- 43. 2004 biopic that was a Best Picture nominee: RAY
- 44. Pronunciation difficulty: LISP
- 45. Like the sugar in cotton candy: SPUN
- 46. Piedmont wine city: ASTI
- 48. Lorelei Lee's creator: LOOS
- 50. Have a hunch: FEEL
- 51. Some health info ads, for short: PSAS
- 55. The man says, "I want to see ...": PEACEINTHEMIDDLEEAST
- 60. Kind of leather: ROAN
- 61. Fighting Tigers' sch.: LSU
- 62. John: LAV
- 63. Totaled: RANTO
- 64. 2003 Will Ferrell title role: ELF
- 65. He then hands the genie ...: AMAPOFTHEAREA
- 71. Springy steps: JIG
- 72. It's measured by the meter: POESY
- 74. Big-league: PRO
- 75. Scoundrel: CUR
- 76. One who's out of touch: FOGY
- 77. The genie studies it for a while and finally says, "This is impossible. So ...": IGRANTYOUANOTHERWISH
- 84. ZIP code 10001 locale: Abbr.: NYNY
- 85. Radiation units: REMS
- 86. Above, in Aachen: UBER
- 87. Support, in a way: ABET
- 88. Composer ___ Carlo Menotti: GIAN
- 89. Rye alternative: PITA
- 91. Fretted strings: UKE
- 92. The man says, "I always wanted to see ...": THECUBSINAWORLDSERIES
- 102. See 50-Down: HOURS
- 103. Starting: ASOF
- 104. "Sweet!": OOH
- 105. Go bonkers: SNAP
- 106. "Three Sisters" sister: OLGA
- 107. Exertion: DINT
- 110. Grab some chow?: DOGNAP
- 113. "The Waste Land" monogram: TSE
- 114. The genie replies, "...": LETMESEETHATMAPAGAIN
- 119. See 94-Down: ONEILLS
- 120. Double order, perhaps: LATTE
- 121. Conjured up: EVOKED
- 122. Some terriers: WESTIES
- 123. Jones of the Miracle Mets: CLEON
- 124. Scares off: DETERS
down
- 1. Bush activity: SAFARI
- 2. Big Turkish export: OLIVES
- 3. Outlaw: BANISH
- 4. Put a stopper on: END
- 5. "Mahogany" star, 1975: ROSS
- 6. How some rivers proceed: SNAKILY
- 7. Sewing machine gizmo: LOOPER
- 8. Con: ANTI
- 9. Coyly playful: KITTENISH
- 10. Small particle: Abbr.: MOL
- 11. Dir. of I-64 going up Ky.: ENE
- 12. Tough problem to face?: ACNE
- 13. Push: GOAD
- 14. Noted exile site: ELBA
- 15. Papua New Guinea port: LAE
- 16. How shoelaces are often tied: INABOW
- 17. Central parts: NUCLEI
- 18. Bygone numbers: ETHERS
- 23. Cherry variety: BING
- 24. Spread out on a table?: OLEO
- 29. Seat, slangily: USH
- 31. Highlander pattern: TARTAN
- 34. Sot's problem: DTS
- 35. Swindle: GYP
- 36. Remote location: DEN
- 38. Like some church matters: LAIC
- 39. Stacks: ALOT
- 40. Brought into play: USED
- 41. Kind of column: OPED
- 42. Invalid: NULL
- 46. Fight stopper: APOLOGY
- 47. Branching marine growth: SEAFERN
- 48. Phoebe's player on "Friends": LISA
- 49. "Movin' ___": ONUP
- 50. With 102-Across, London-New York time difference: FIVE
- 51. ___-green: PEA
- 52. City in a 1968 Dionne Warwick top 10 hit: SANJOSE
- 53. Comparably tense: ASTIGHT
- 54. Smelly smoke: STOGY
- 56. Popular street name: ELM
- 57. John of England: ELTON
- 58. ___-jongg: MAH
- 59. Eisenhower years, e.g.: ERA
- 60. Beat again in wrestling: REPIN
- 65. Writer Rand: AYN
- 66. Work: OPUS
- 67. Man in an order: FRA
- 68. Masseur's target: ACHE
- 69. One having second thoughts: RUER
- 70. Not set things right: ERR
- 73. By the way: SAY
- 76. Threads: FIBERS
- 78. Chicago daily, with "the": TRIB
- 79. Parliamentary nods: YEAS
- 80. Old Dodge: OMNI
- 81. Old: OUTOFDATE
- 82. Mountain lift: TBAR
- 83. Bring around: WAKE
- 88. Astronaut Grissom: GUS
- 89. ___ de trois (dance): PAS
- 90. W.W. II battle site, familiarly: IWO
- 91. Like a horseshoe: USHAPED
- 92. Granting that, in brief: THO
- 93. Meaningless: HOLLOW
- 94. With 119-Across, 1920's literary couple on Cape Cod, with "the": EUGENE
- 95. Jalopies: CRATES
- 96. "Six Feet Under" role: NATE
- 97. Lumberjacks: LOGMEN
- 98. "___ Flor and Her Two Husbands": DONA
- 99. Food: INTAKE
- 100. Not as strenuous: EASIER
- 101. Lays out: SPENDS
- 107. Place for a counter claim?: DELI
- 108. 14-Down, for one: ISLE
- 109. Good ending?: NESS
- 111. Art patron Kahn: OTTO
- 112. Macadamize, e.g.: PAVE
- 115. Benjamin Netanyahu's alma mater, for short: MIT
- 116. Mom's forte, quickly: TLC
- 117. Movie computer: HAL
- 118. Contracted: GOT
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