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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 1, 2007

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Monday, January 1, 2007

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 1, 2007. 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
Mrs. Dithers of the comics
5
Holder of billiard balls
9
County, in Britain
14
Breakfast chain
15
Jazz's Fitzgerald
16
Blender setting
17
Huge
18
Numbskull
19
Modern missive
20
Anger
21
Carnival treat
23
More shrewd
25
"It's not easy ___ green"
26
Like some modern music
29
___ Pieces
33
Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic destination
35
Farm billies
37
Charlottesville sch.
38
Cutlass, e.g., informally
39
Starts of 21- and 53-Across and 3- and 30-Down
40
Gets older
41
Golf ball position
42
Storms
43
Eurasian mountains
44
The Jayhawks of the Big 12
46
Groove-making tool
48
Tiny hill dwellers
50
Skip
53
Carbonated citrus-flavored drink
58
Medical care grp.
59
Cape ___ Islands
60
Diaper problem
61
Keep ___ on (watch)
62
___ tube
63
Nabisco best-seller
64
160 square rods
65
Jim Morrison's group, with "the"
66
Feathered missile
67
"Sure, go ahead"

Down clues & answers

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

across

1. Sharp competitor: RCA
4. "Do ___ to eat a peach?": Eliot: IDARE
9. German link: UND
12. Represent, as in legal matters: ACTFOR
18. Ectomorphic: LEAN
19. Worker with a chair: BARBER
20. Be a make-up artist?: LIE
21. Red fluorescent dye: Var.: EOSINE
22. 1954 film set in 16th-century Japan: SEVENSAMURAI
24. Old cable inits.: TNN
25. They may get into a jam: GUAVAS
26. Low digits: TOES
27. Elite groups: OLIGARCHIES
29. About: INRE
30. Many garden plantings: ANNUALS
32. Most broad?: HAMMIEST
34. Wide shoe spec: EEE
37. 1981 Alan Alda comedy, with "The": FOURSEASONS
42. Underground network: ROOTS
43. Diplomat Silas: DEANE
45. Flip (out): FREAK
46. Jubilant: ELATED
48. Barely beat: NIP
49. Director Welles: ORSON
50. Stockholm flier: SAS
51. 1982 Dudley Moore tearjerker: SIXWEEKS
54. British gun: STEN
55. In a sardonic way: WRYLY
56. Blood line: AORTA
57. Goldman ___: SACHS
59. Pre-Q queue: MNOP
60. Some accents: BROGUES
63. Bad beginning?: MAL
66. Prof.'s helpers: TAS
67. More manly-chested: HAIRIER
70. Charged: RANAT
71. "Yeah, that'll happen!": DREAMON
73. "All the Things You Are" composer: KERN
74. Avian meat: EMU
75. Wordsworth works: ODES
76. 1983 Charles Bronson thriller: TENTOMIDNIGHT
79. Symbol: ICON
80. Fed. medical research group: NIH
81. Fey of "30 Rock": TINA
82. Supremos: LEADERS
83. QB Favre: BRETT
84. Child's activity?: COOKING
86. Candy holder: TIN
87. Madrid Mrs.: SRA
88. Browns slowly: BRAISES
90. Roman man: UOMO
91. "___ new?": WHATS
93. Fights: BOUTS
94. Pang: THROE
96. Tale: YARN
97. 1990 sequel to "Chinatown," with "The": TWOJAKES
101. Half of a 1955 merger: Abbr.: CIO
104. January 1 events: BOWLS
105. Colorado Indian: UTE
106. Ghost: SPIRIT
107. Instruments with keys: MOOGS
109. Off: AMISS
110. Christopher who wrote "Still Me": REEVE
112. 1988 baseball flick: EIGHTMENOUT
115. Emeritus: Abbr.: RET
116. In an odd way: QUIRKILY
119. Magazine success: RENEWAL
120. Cart: HAUL
122. Subscription card option: BILLMELATER
127. Feminine suffix: ENNE
128. The Caribbean's ___ Islands: CAYMAN
130. Suffix with glass: INE
131. 1987 Peter Falk crime caper: HAPPYNEWYEAR
133. "Quantum Healing" author: CHOPRA
134. Some linemen: Abbr.: RGS
135. Heraldic silver: ARGENT
136. Towel embroidery: HERS
137. Reasons: CAUSES
138. Summer clock setting: Abbr.: DST
139. Entangle: SNARE
140. Gridiron figs.: YDS

down

1. Incomes: REVENUES
2. Pause in verse: CAESURA
3. Cape ___, Mass.: ANN
4. "___ Said" (Neil Diamond hit): IAMI
5. Knock out, say: DRUG
6. Start of a spell: ABRA
7. Tail end: REAR
8. "Love Story" author Segal: ERICH
9. Last month: ULTIMO
10. 1995 Hugh Grant farce: NINEMONTHS
11. Rock stats: DENSITIES
12. Auspices: AEGIS
13. With 81-Down, tradition suggested by this puzzle's theme: COUNTDOWNIN
14. Bygone despot: TSAR
15. 1970 Jack Nicholson picture: FIVEEASYPIECES
16. ___ lark: ONA
17. Thing in court: RES
18. Original title of Beethoven's "Fidelio": LEONORA
19. Rafter's wood: BALSA
22. Crooks: STAFFS
23. Dover delicacy: SOLE
28. Not liquidy: HARD
31. Begins courting: ASKSOUT
33. Cable staple since 1979: ESPN
35. Organic compound: ENOL
36. Choosing-up word: EENY
38. "___ needle pulling thread" ("The Sound of Music" lyric): SEWA
39. Flamenco cheer: OLE
40. Rob Roy's refusal: NAE
41. Co. shares: STK
44. Overthrowing, e.g.: ERROR
47. Twisty curve: ESS
52. Temper: IRE
53. Old IBM PC's: XTS
54. Price reader: SCANNER
56. Turkish V.I.P.'s: AGAS
58. Feuding (with): ATODDS
59. Gas station adjunct, often: MART
60. It may go for a couple of bucks: BRONC
61. Dashboard feature: RADIO
62. 1932 romance with Maurice Chevalier: ONEHOURWITHYOU
63. Actor with a mohawk: MRT
64. Kind of harp: AEOLIAN
65. Elegy: LAMENT
67. Laugh sound: HEH
68. Not play it straight: EMOTE
69. Peewees: RUNTS
71. Kind of test: DNA
72. War stat: MIA
73. Metric wts.: KGS
76. Baseball's Martinez: TINO
77. Part of E.S.L.: Abbr.: ENG
78. Bank offering: IRA
79. It's surrounded by white: IRIS
81. See 13-Down: TIMESSQUARE
83. Some cricketers: BATSMEN
85. Popular smokes: KOOLS
86. 1999 film set in the Persian Gulf: THREEKINGS
88. ___ choy: BOK
89. Parisian way: RUE
91. Flamingo, e.g.: WATERBIRD
92. Speedway letters: STP
93. Huge financial loss: BATH
94. It'll give you a lift: TBAR
95. Instruction to a chauffeur: HOME
96. Gagarin in space: YURI
98. Golf's Michelle: WIE
99. "... ___ quit!": ORI
100. Springy dance: JIG
101. Joint proprietors: COOWNERS
102. Cold-blooded pets: IGUANAS
103. Horse handler: OSTLER
106. Unload: SELL
108. Like a Cyclops: ONEEYED
111. Most loathsome: VILEST
113. 1545 council site: TRENT
114. No more than: MERE
117. Arm parts: ULNAS
118. Jewish orgs.: YMHAS
121. Concert gear: AMPS
123. Bring in: EARN
124. Org. for women drivers: LPGA
125. Copycat: APER
126. Actress Daly: TYNE
128. Junk bond rating: CCC
129. "I see!": AHA
132. "___ me?": WHY

Hints and full breakdown for Dec 31

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