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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 8, 2007

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Monday, January 8, 2007

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 8, 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.

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

Across clues & answers

1
Heartbeat
6
Impersonator in "Little Red Riding Hood"
10
Heavy, durable furniture wood
14
Santa ___ racetrack
15
Jai ___
16
Folkie Guthrie
17
Think tank products
18
Not so much
19
Dec. 25
20
Skeptic
23
Web address ender
24
"Little" girl of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
25
What a 20-Across might say
32
Washed (down), as a sidewalk
34
Just managed, with "out"
35
Historic time
36
Cut ___ (dance)
37
Ways
39
Nose-in-the-air type
40
Snoring sound
41
Plain crazy
42
Scalds, e.g.
43
What a 20-Across might say
47
Baseball stat
48
Hoopsters' org.
49
What a 20-Across might say, ignoring grammar
57
Tobacco plug
58
Jacob's twin
59
Designer Donna
60
Wintry
61
Angry outburst
62
Turn inside out
63
Meowers
64
Bend in the wind
65
50 minutes after the hour

Down clues & answers

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Sunday, January 7, 2007

across

1. Cross, maybe: MEDAL
6. Met expectations?: ARIAS
11. Refuge: SAFEHAVEN
20. Nitrogen compound: AMINE
21. TV exec Arledge: ROONE
22. Last czarina of Russia: ALEXANDRA
23. "Absolutely, ambassador": YESYOURXLNC
25. Colonies, e.g.: DOMINIONS
26. Frigid: ARCTIC
27. Southern group address: YALL
28. Alliance dissolved in 1977: SEATO
29. "Wonderful!": OOH
30. Pulitzer Prize subj.: HIST
32. Continental capital: EURO
34. Starter: Abbr.: IGN
36. Island with a Hindu majority: BALI
39. Like some unpopular leaders: BURNEDINFEG
45. Computer pioneer Lovelace and others: ADAS
48. The Huskies of the N.C.A.A.: UCONN
50. Fraternity letters: NUS
51. Captivate: ENGAGE
52. Antivenins, e.g.: SERA
53. Award-winning TV host: LNDGENERES
56. Charles Lindbergh, once: RANSOMER
58. Buzzer: BEE
59. Blue-pencil: REDACT
60. Advance: LOAN
62. Academy head: PLATO
63. Follower of mars: AVRIL
64. Modern greeting: ECARD
66. Narrow the gap with: GAINON
67. Marine mammal: SEALION
70. Advantageousness: XPDNC
71. Fair fare: CORNDOG
72. Friends: ALLIES
73. Went downhill: SKIED
74. "___ ramparts!": TOTHE
75. St.-Tropez's Place des ___: LICES
76. Bingo call: BTEN
77. Cuneiform discovery site: AMARNA
79. Cartesian conclusion: IAM
82. "It's dark in here!": ICANTSEE
84. x: UNKNOWNNTT
86. Ad time: NITE
87. Main international airport of Japan: NARITA
91. Width measure: EEE
92. Holy text: KORAN
93. Raison d'___: ETRE
94. 1 + 1 = 2, e.g.: LMNTARYMATH
97. Great American Ball Park team: REDS
98. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps: ASP
100. "Brave New World" drug: SOMA
101. Usher in: SEAT
103. ___-Boy: LAZ
105. Keep an ___ the ground: EARTO
109. Some Wall St. deals: LBOS
112. Daughter of Zeus: ATHENA
116. Claim: ASSERTION
118. Weighty issue?: OBCTPROBLEM
120. Scoots over: MAKESROOM
121. Prudential competitor: AETNA
122. Female demon: LAMIA
123. Nickname for Tasmania: APPLEISLE
124. Waste: DROSS
125. City on the Rhone: LYONS

down

1. "Apocalypto" subject: MAYA
2. Like some profs.: EMER
3. Wink in tiddlywinks, e.g.: DISC
4. "Take your pick": ANYTHING
5. Sainted pope of 682: LEOII
6. Airport sign abbr.: ARR
7. Classic theater name: ROXY
8. Seat of Allen County, Kan.: IOLA
9. Shaker leader: ANNLEE
10. Shut off: SECLUDE
11. Dirge: SADSONG
12. Natural balm: ALOE
13. Relief provider, for short: FEMA
14. Out: EXIT
15. Capital once known as Thang Long ("Ascending Dragon"): HANOI
16. Cuckoo bird: ANI
17. Streaming content: VDOONDEMAND
18. Composer Dohnányi: ERNO
19. Ambassador or Statesman of old autodom: NASH
24. Campus 100 miles NW of L.A.: UCSB
31. Hip: TUNEDIN
33. Oysters ___ season: RIN
35. Molotov cocktail component: GASOLINE
36. Onion, for one: BULB
37. Teen trouble: ACNE
38. Treasure-trove: LODE
40. Not built up: RURAL
41. Tiny time unit: Abbr.: NSEC
42. Capacitance measure: FARAD
43. Richard of old westerns and action films: EGAN
44. Pentagon fig.: GEN
46. Playground retort: ARETOO
47. It's a wrap: SARONG
49. Most gutsy: NERVIEST
54. ___ Circus (where St. Peter was crucified): NEROS
55. Enter: STEPIN
57. Fictional knight named for a bird of prey: SPARHAWK
60. Carriage: LANDAU
61. Fabulous monster: ORC
63. Property recipients: ALIENEES
65. Do, re, mi: CDE
66. "I've ___ Strings" (Pinocchio song): GOTNO
67. Like tears: SALINE
68. Bring out: ELICIT
69. Rare ex-prisoner: ALCATRAZSKP
70. Classic Jaguar: XKE
71. Some horns: CORNETS
73. Brooking no dissent: STERN
74. Lead-in to bow or hike: TAKEA
76. Show pride, in a way: BEAM
78. Memory: Prefix: MNEM
79. About: INRE
80. Just barely: ATAD
81. Much of Colo.: MTNS
83. "Mad TV" rival, for short: SNL
85. Marin and Sonoma's region: NORTHBAY
88. "I'll get this": ITSONME
89. Chinese "way": TAO
90. Two bags of groceries, say: ARMLOAD
95. Talk on and on, Down Under: YABBER
96. Get wind of: HEAR
99. Intrinsically: PERSE
102. Ringlike formation: ATOLL
103. Priest of the East: LAMA
104. "Pronto": ASAP
106. Longfellow's bell town: ATRI
107. Paraguay and others: RIOS
108. Cleaver or lever: TOOL
110. Numerical prefix: OCTO
111. RR stops: STNS
113. Sailor's saint: ELMO
114. Ruhr refusal: NEIN
115. Latin 101 verb: AMAS
117. Reef dweller: EEL
119. Not abroad: PAS

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