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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 31, 2006

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Monday, July 31, 2006

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 31, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
House in Spain
5
Keach of the small screen
10
Peter the Great, for one
14
European auto
15
Machine shop tool
16
River to the Seine
17
Little ___, Dickens girl
18
Place for sketches
20
Introduction in a Dr. Seuss book
22
Go on all fours
23
Coffee dispenser
24
Computer data holders
28
Order that may be scrambled or sunny-side up
30
Passed, as laws
32
Onetime Illinois governor Stevenson
34
"See ya!"
35
Golfer Ernie
36
Introduction in "Moby-Dick"
40
U.S./Gr. Brit. separator
41
6 on a phone pad
42
Answer
43
Like Marcel Duchamp's "Mona Lisa"
46
Jolt provider in a car
47
Typical Court TV programming
48
Berlin's land: Abbr.
50
Showbiz twin Mary-Kate or Ashley
54
Introduction in an NBC sitcom
57
Cleans up financially
60
100%
61
Line of rotation
62
Dweebs
63
Like ___ not
64
___ messaging (modern communication)
65
Judge the value of, as ore
66
Congers

Down clues & answers

1
Shaped like a dunce cap
2
"… partridge in ___ tree"
3
1965 Alabama march site
4
"Things are fine …"
5
Door-closing sound
6
Set of foot bones
7
Perfume from petals
8
Passageways for Santa
9
"Can" opener?
10
"Like wow, man"
11
Five-digit number on an envelope
12
Happy ___ lark
13
Ketchup-colored
19
"Look, I did it!"
21
Like pond scum
25
Stainless ___
26
Clarkson who won the first "American Idol"
27
Radical 60's grp.
29
"Hand it over, buster!"
31
First P.M. of modern India
32
Thespian
33
___ Lama
34
Life story
37
Chess finales
38
Office messages
39
With mom, symbol of Americanism
40
15-percenter: Abbr.
44
Least wild
45
Tarzan player Ron and others
46
Starr of the comics
49
Mideast leaders
51
Cook, as onions
52
Swashbuckler Flynn
53
Mets and Cubs, for short
55
"Peter Pan" dog
56
___-bitsy
57
Small rug
58
Logger's tool
59
General Mills cereal

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

across

1. Carousel contents: BAGS
5. Life may be spent here: PRISON
11. Ones whose work isn't picking up: SLOBS
16. Flightless birds: RHEAS
21. Nabisco brand: OREO
22. Against: CONTRA
23. Country/rock singer Steve: EARLE
24. "Anybody home?": HELLO
25. Start of a comment by 3- and 126-Down: MYOUTPUTISDOWNBUT
28. Oil holder, maybe: EASEL
29. Wig wearer: BARRISTER
30. "It's ___ to the finish": ARACE
31. Overhead bin, e.g.: STORAGE
33. Dearie: ANGEL
34. Kia model: RIO
36. Yellow or gray: AGE
37. Popped: BURST
38. 1914 battle line: YSER
39. Comment, part 2: MYINCOMEISUPITAKEA
46. Brim: TEEM
47. La-la lead-in: TRA
48. Trike rider: TOT
49. Some racehorses: PACERS
50. Puffed up: POMPOUS
54. Library Lovers Mo.: FEB
55. Natural pump outlet: AORTA
57. Former U.N. chief U ___: THANT
58. Comment, part 3: SHORTPOSITION
61. Proctor's call: TIME
63. Cabinet dept.: ENER
64. "So ___ to offend …": ASNOT
65. Phone book abbr.: RES
66. Where many Sargents hang, with "the": TATE
68. When repeated, an old TV sign-off: NANU
70. Spanish pronoun: ESO
71. Drink sometimes flavored with cinnamon: LATTE
72. Whiz: ACE
74. Dirt in a dump truck, maybe: FILL
76. Isle of Mull neighbor: IONA
78. "The Torch in ___" (Elias Canetti memoir): MYEAR
79. With 81-Across, landmark 1972 album by 3- and 126-Down: CLASS
81. See 79-Across: CLOWN
83. Actress Van Devere: TRISH
87. TV series featuring the war god Ares: XENA
89. D-Day transports: Abbr.: LSTS
91. Very narrow, in a way: AAA
92. Football Hall-of-Famer Herber: ARNIE
93. Dated: SAW
96. Russian assembly: DUMA
98. Spanish eyes: OJOS
100. Damone of song: VIC
102. Land on Lake Chad: NIGER
103. Swear: AVOW
105. Lexicographer's study: TERM
107. Comment, part 4: ONTHELONGBOND
110. Sloughs: MIRES
112. Cape in the Holy See: ORALE
114. Colorful moths: IOS
115. Piña ___ (drinks): COLADAS
116. Monetary unit of Panama: BALBOA
118. Where the Snake River snakes: Abbr.: IDA
119. Constellation near Cancer: LEO
120. Put out: SORE
121. Comment, part 5: ANDMYREVENUESTREAM
125. Seventh-century year: DCII
129. Opera singer Mitchell of "Porgy and Bess": ABBIE
130. Strand material: DNA
131. Afrique du ___: SUD
132. Had in view: MEANT
133. Most dear: CLOSEST
136. Ken and Lena of Hollywood: OLINS
138. Belt and hose, e.g.: AUTOPARTS
141. "I'm ___ here!": OUTTA
142. End of the comment: HASITSOWNCASHFLOW
145. Kind of call: SIREN
146. Publication that clicks with readers?: EZINE
147. Helping hands: AIDERS
148. A Sinatra: TINA
149. Some Romanovs: TSARS
150. Honey bunch?: ROSES
151. Entertain, as a child at bedtime: READTO
152. Real lulu: ONER

down

1. Base for the old British East India Company: BOMBAY
2. Indo-Europeans: ARYANS
3. With 126-Down, a noted humorist: GEORGE
4. Not so pleasant: SOURER
5. Some hallucinogens, for short: PCPS
6. Really clobber: ROUT
7. Temporary: INTERIM
8. Recipe direction: STIRIN
9. Places for R.N.'s: ORS
10. Bubkes: NADA
11. Waste: SEWAGE
12. Judge in 1990's news: LANCEITO
13. Kill ___ killed: ORBE
14. R & B singer Cantrell: BLU
15. Establishes: SETSUP
16. Electrical resistor: RHEOSTAT
17. Subject of many a sad ballad: HEARTACHE
18. Couturière Schiaparelli: ELSA
19. Something to break or shake, in phrase: ALEG
20. Unduplicated: SOLE
26. Up to, in ads: TIL
27. Slangy commercial suffix: ORAMA
32. Activate, as a switch: TRIP
35. String group, maybe: OCTET
37. Put oneself where one shouldn't: BUTTIN
39. "Beam ___ …": MEUP
40. "___ no?": YESOR
41. Ride around: ORBIT
42. Order: SORT
43. "The Family Circus" cartoonist: KEANE
44. Cousins of ospreys: ERNES
45. Minute Maid Park player: ASTRO
46. Barely got along: TOTTERED
50. One begins "The Lord is my light and my salvation": PSALM
51. Anthem start: OHSAY
52. Con game: MONTE
53. Favoring bigger government, say: PROTAX
54. Kind of conservative: FISCAL
55. Bit of tomfoolery: ANTIC
56. With full force: AMAIN
59. Circus trainee: SEAL
60. Butterfingers: OAF
62. Brian of early Roxy Music: ENO
67. Cinders of old comics: ELLA
69. Straighten: UNTANGLE
73. Station along Route 66: ESSO
75. Basis of a biblical miracle: LOAVES
77. Exuberant cry in Mexico: ARRIBA
79. Now you see it, now you don't: CAMEO
80. NW Missouri city, informally: STJOE
82. Cry one's head off: WAIL
84. Opening for a coin?: INGOD
85. Tuscany cathedral city: SIENA
86. Ranch stock: HERDS
88. Wrench's target: NUT
90. Sequel title starter: SON
93. Latin dance: SAMBA
94. Feathered, say: AVIAN
95. Tulsa daily, with "the": WORLD
97. Show up: ARRIVE
99. Trash pads?: STIES
101. Drink that's stirred: COCOA
104. On-site supervisor?: WEBMASTER
106. Concocted: MADE
108. Night calls: HOOTS
109. What's expected: NORM
111. Midwest harvest: SOYBEANS
113. Noncellular phone: LANDLINE
117. Wall St. figures: ARBS
119. Lists: LEANS
120. Led astray: SEDUCED
122. Flexible reply: EITHER
123. Plays peacemaker for: UNITES
124. Bantu language: RUANDA
125. Not hearing: DEAFTO
126. See 3-Down: CARLIN
127. Chant: INTONE
128. Battle cry: ITSWAR
132. Radar fig.: MPH
133. Toll: COST
134. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Aparicio: LUIS
135. Not this or that, in Spain: OTRA
136. Medical suffix: OSIS
137. Shoot up: SOAR
139. Acerb: TART
140. Italian bone: OSSO
143. ___ dye: AZO
144. Golfer Michelle: WIE

Hints and full breakdown for Jul 30

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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.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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