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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 15, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, January 15, 2006. 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
- 21
- 30
- 33
- 63
- 82
- 89
- 96
- 101
- 115
Down clues & answers
- 16
- 36
- 71
- 90
- 93
- 102
- 104
- 105
- 109
- 111
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
across
- 1. Soup line: MMMMGOOD
- 9. Erased: OFFED
- 14. One might request help getting started: AAAMEMBER
- 16. Inclined … or flat: PRONE
- 17. Makes something up: TELLSALIE
- 18. Roman land: TERRA
- 19. Company once taken over by Carl Icahn: TWA
- 20. "So sorry": THATSTOOBAD
- 22. Mr., abroad: HERR
- 24. Southwestern sign-off: ADIOS
- 25. Reminds a bit too much: NAGS
- 26. Like Indians: ASIAN
- 28. Suffix with jardin: IERE
- 29. Irish Sea feeder: DEE
- 30. Jazz fan, most likely: UTAHAN
- 32. Rubens painted her: STTERESA
- 35. Decor finish?: ATOR
- 37. Figs. in identity theft: SSNS
- 38. Goes off: EXPLODES
- 42. Like a lottery winner, typically: ENVIED
- 46. Boomer's kid: XER
- 47. He played J-Bone in "Johnny Mnemonic": ICET
- 49. Quaint schoolroom item: APPLE
- 50. "No ___!": PROB
- 52. Beau's belle: CHERI
- 54. Carmaker since 1949: SAAB
- 55. Layabouts: LOTUSEATERS
- 58. Opposite of always, in Augsburg: NIE
- 59. Round window: OXEYE
- 60. Tender shoot?: LOVESCENE
- 62. First name in TV talk: REGIS
- 63. Whip snapper: LIONTAMER
- 64. They're perfect: EDENS
- 65. Cross the line?: TRESPASS
down
- 1. Best Supporting Actor for "The Fortune Cookie," 1966: MATTHAU
- 2. She served eight days in jail for public obscenity: MAEWEST
- 3. Sub-Saharan scourge: MALARIA
- 4. Year for Super Bowl LXXXIV: MML
- 5. Exploit: GEST
- 6. Where the Enola Gay plane was built: OMAHA
- 7. Start of a Beatles title: OBLADI
- 8. Olympic team?: DEITIES
- 9. Vision: Prefix: OPTO
- 10. DuPont trademark: FREON
- 11. Made impossible: FORBADE
- 12. Steams up: ENRAGES
- 13. Hypersaline spot: DEADSEA
- 15. In places: RESORTS
- 21. Sub-Saharan scourge: TSETSE
- 23. 1986 Indy 500 winner: RAHAL
- 27. ___ forces: NATO
- 31. "Ixnay": NODICE
- 33. Italian province: ENNA
- 34. Gets back to, quickly: RSVPS
- 36. Foosball locale: RECHALL
- 38. Look into: EXPLORE
- 39. Like some copies: XEROXED
- 40. Mentor's companion: PROTEGE
- 41. Manager's terse order: SEETOIT
- 43. It's a short walk from Copacabana: IPANEMA
- 44. Celebrity-spotting eatery: ELAINES
- 45. "A diamond is forever" sloganeer: DEBEERS
- 48. "Key Largo" Oscar winner: TREVOR
- 51. Fee to enter a poker game: BUYIN
- 53. Daughter of Zeus: IRENE
- 56. Period in sch.: SESS
- 57. Out-of-commission cruisers: SSTS
- 61. Feather holder?: CAP
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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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