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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 19, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 19, 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.
Across clues & answers
- 19
- 34
- 41
- 45
- 49
- 50
- 60
- 63
- 64
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 27
- 47
- 53
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
across
- 1. Treat for a dog: TBONE
- 6. California's ___ Woods National Monument: MUIR
- 10. Near eternity: AEONS
- 15. Runner's place: SLED
- 19. Moses' brother: AARON
- 20. "___ cost to you!": ATNO
- 21. Civil War signature: RELEE
- 22. Sinatra's "Meet Me at the ___": COPA
- 23. Organisation des ___ Américains: ETATS
- 24. Calls the shots?: REFS
- 25. Einstein's asset?: GREATBRAIN
- 27. Acerbic rock/folk singer?: BITINGCROSBY
- 30. Plenty: OPULENCE
- 31. Like some garages: ONECAR
- 32. Jim Palmer, notably: ORIOLE
- 34. Graf ___: SPEE
- 35. "___ Tu" (1974 hit): ERES
- 37. Interminably: NOEND
- 39. Shell alternative: SUNOCO
- 43. Protest gone bad?: DEADLYSITIN
- 48. The Henry who founded the Tudor line: VII
- 50. Faulkner character ___ Varner: EULA
- 51. Little ___: UNS
- 52. Manche's capital: STLO
- 53. 15 minutes of tightrope walking and animal acts?: SHORTCIRCUS
- 57. Sign up for more: RENEW
- 60. By and by: SOON
- 62. 1993 Super Bowl M.V.P.: AIKMAN
- 63. Worked (up): HET
- 64. 1986 self-titled soul album: ARETHA
- 66. Done in: SLAIN
- 68. Con: ANTI
- 70. Magic words … or a hint to the other long answers in this puzzle: NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT
- 77. Fashion: MODE
- 78. Percolate: LEACH
- 79. Heretofore: ERENOW
- 80. Doo-wop syllable: SHA
- 83. Copy illegally: PIRATE
- 86. Greeting with a salute: HEIL
- 88. "Baloney!": NOTSO
- 89. Certain NASA probes?: SUNVISITORS
- 92. Not docked: ASEA
- 94. In the know: HIP
- 95. Eastern royal: RANI
- 96. Way-off: FAR
- 97. Deer season hairdo?: HUNTINGPERM
- 101. End of an act, maybe: SCENEV
- 104. Person at court: BARON
- 106. France ___ (Parisian daily): SOIR
- 107. Library indexing abbr.: ETAL
- 109. Engine capability, slangily: HORSES
- 112. Not stay alert: DROWSE
- 116. Post-accident inquiry: AREYOUOK
- 120. Troupe of suspects from "The Fugitive"?: ONEARMEDBAND
- 122. Tennessee offense and defense?: TITANLINES
- 124. Lead-in to girl: ATTA
- 125. "___ Dream" ("Lohengrin" piece): ELSAS
- 126. Space: Prefix: ASTR
- 127. Chocolate, e.g.: TREAT
- 128. Fed: TMAN
- 129. Fix, as a bow: RETIE
- 130. Sore, with "off": TEED
- 131. Ones picking up things?: SEERS
- 132. Psychiatrist's appt.: SESS
- 133. Detect, in a way: SMELL
down
- 1. Modern workout system: TAEBO
- 2. Bring home?: BATIN
- 3. Make a delivery: ORATE
- 4. Saw: NOTICED
- 5. Tangle up: ENSNARL
- 6. French film director Allégret: MARC
- 7. Unborn, after "in": UTERO
- 8. About to receive: INFOR
- 9. "The Barber of Seville" composer: ROSSINI
- 10. Sock pattern: ARGYLE
- 11. Ending with ballad: EER
- 12. Cooking staple: OLEO
- 13. Certain tides: NEAPS
- 14. Cons: SETUPS
- 15. Airport worker: SCREENER
- 16. Cadger's request: LOAN
- 17. Anthony Mann's "The Fall of the Roman Empire," e.g.: EPIC
- 18. Any King Christian I-X: DANE
- 26. French flag color: BLEU
- 28. Lady Jane and Zane: GREYS
- 29. Blessings: BOONS
- 33. Ballade ending: ENVOI
- 36. Onetime French fleet: SSTS
- 38. Dagger: DIRK
- 40. "Yow!": OUCH
- 41. Word in many a Nancy Drew title: CLUE
- 42. Hops-drying oven: OAST
- 43. Boxer nicknamed "Hands of Stone": DURAN
- 44. Año starter: ENERO
- 45. Good ___: ASNEW
- 46. Admission of defeat: ILOSE
- 47. "A Confederacy of Dunces" author: TOOLE
- 49. "___ come as no surprise …": ITMAY
- 54. Title woman in a Woody Allen film: HANNAH
- 55. River rental: CANOE
- 56. Sequentially: INTURN
- 58. Dict. info: ETYM
- 59. First name in comedy: WHOOPI
- 61. Hammer user: NAILER
- 65. Some German imports: AUDIS
- 67. Relative of -ian: ITE
- 69. Logical start?: IDEO
- 71. Font feature: SERIF
- 72. Where an echograph is used in measuring: OCEAN
- 73. Tricks are played in it: WHIST
- 74. Words with house or move: ONTHE
- 75. Polite refusal: NOSIR
- 76. Soap time, maybe: TWOPM
- 80. Georgia and others, once: Abbr.: SSRS
- 81. Sen. McCarthy ally: HUAC
- 82. "___ of the Thousand Days" (1969 film): ANNE
- 84. Run ___ (owe): ATAB
- 85. Literally, "instruction": TORAH
- 87. Rings of plumerias, e.g.: LEIS
- 90. Napa sight: VINEYARD
- 91. Cut off: SHORN
- 93. + part: ANODE
- 98. Defeats, in a way: UNSEATS
- 99. Beams: GIRDERS
- 100. "No ___!": PROBLEM
- 102. ___ Society (English debating group): ETON
- 103. Jumps: VAULTS
- 105. Hen cages: ROOSTS
- 108. Tours can be found on it: LOIRE
- 110. Wonderland cake message: EATME
- 111. Sp. women: SRTAS
- 113. Devastate: WASTE
- 114. Slowpoke: SNAIL
- 115. Citation of 1958: EDSEL
- 116. Rat follower?: ATAT
- 117. Progress: RISE
- 118. Suffix with major: ETTE
- 119. Orthopedic specialty: KNEE
- 121. Staffs: MANS
- 123. What barotrauma affects: EAR
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