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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 12, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 12, 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
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- 26
- 29
- 35
- 43
- 51
- 61
Down clues & answers
- 30
- 47
- 50
- 57
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
across
- 1. Prefix with red: INFRA
- 6. Denpasar is its capital: BALI
- 10. "Concord Hymn" writer's inits.: RWE
- 13. Green ___: CHEESE
- 19. Green, for instance: COLOR
- 20. Christmas team: REINDEER
- 22. Trunk lines: AORTAS
- 23. Green 55-Down: KNACKFORGROWINGPLANTS
- 26. "Me too": SAMEHERE
- 27. Make messy: SOIL
- 28. Enzyme ending: ASE
- 29. Gremlins and Pacers: AMCS
- 33. Codger: COOT
- 34. Fella: MAC
- 36. Rat follower: ATAT
- 38. A hero might have it: SALAMI
- 40. Box in many homes: TIVO
- 41. Bracelet: BANGLE
- 44. Green 83-Down: SPECIALFORCESSOLDIER
- 49. Like: ALA
- 50. Trademarked chilled drink: SLURPEE
- 51. Neighbor of Lanai: MAUI
- 52. Live: ARE
- 54. Ding: DENT
- 56. Be listless: MOPE
- 57. Lot of money: MINT
- 58. Channel for debates: CSPAN
- 60. Fast runners: HARES
- 63. Some socials: TEAS
- 65. Corroding, with "into": EATING
- 66. Green 58-Down: DOCUMENTFORIMMIGRANTS
- 72. Cry from a balcony: OROMEO
- 73. Neat as ___: APIN
- 74. Legless creatures: APODS
- 75. Quarter of a deck: CLUBS
- 76. Skid row sounds: HICS
- 78. Yves's eve: SOIR
- 80. Natural flavoring: HERB
- 84. His or her, to Henri: SES
- 85. Computer connection: PORT
- 86. Destruction: CARNAGE
- 89. The third of September: PEE
- 90. Green 8-Down: SIGNALTODRIVEYOURCAR
- 95. Cartoon character with a big nose: SNOOPY
- 96. Mideast money: RIAL
- 97. Old TV part: TRIODE
- 98. Map parts: Abbr.: AVES
- 99. Still: YET
- 100. Kathryn of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent": ERBE
- 103. "Put it back in": STET
- 104. The sun: SOL
- 107. Utah city: OREM
- 109. Like turncoats: DISLOYAL
- 112. Green 13-Across: WHATTHEMOONISNTMADEOF
- 119. Tony-winning actress Martin: ANDREA
- 120. Inferior: LOWGRADE
- 121. Server of Norm, Cliff and Frasier, on "Cheers": CARLA
- 122. Not overdone: MODEST
- 123. Stopover: INN
- 124. Those caballeros: ESOS
- 125. Cap sites: KNEES
down
- 1. "Eww!": ICK
- 2. Dijon denial: NON
- 3. Part of Dixie: Abbr.: FLA
- 4. Bird in the "Arabian Nights": ROC
- 5. Sacred chests: ARKS
- 6. Stomach settler: BROMO
- 7. Correo ___ (airmail): AEREO
- 8. Green ___: LIGHT
- 9. About: INRE
- 10. Fix, as a rug: REWEAVE
- 11. Early Chinese dynasty: WEI
- 12. Marine birds: ERNS
- 13. First person indicator: CAPITALI
- 14. Early colonizer of America: HOLLAND
- 15. Great time: ERA
- 16. Mountain whose name in Greek means "I burn": ETNA
- 17. Hurdles for high schoolers, for short: SATS
- 18. Being, to Brutus: ESSE
- 21. Furry-tailed rodents: DORMICE
- 24. Spa treatment: FACIAL
- 25. Tend to: GOABOUT
- 29. Syrian president: ASSAD
- 30. Word before or after sugar: MAPLE
- 31. Scrub: CLEAN
- 32. Egg holder: SAC
- 35. Philosophical study of the universe: COSMISM
- 37. ___ Friday's: TGI
- 39. Bad start?: MIS
- 40. Mountain view: TREETOPS
- 42. Not think things through first: LEAPIN
- 43. Off course: ERRANT
- 45. Measure of light: LUMEN
- 46. Cold coat: FROST
- 47. Enemy: Abbr.: OPP
- 48. Start of many a city name: SAN
- 53. Some M.I.T. grads: Abbr.: ENGS
- 55. Green ___: THUMB
- 57. It's connected to a boom: MAINSAIL
- 58. Green ___: CARD
- 59. Hideaway: STASH
- 61. NASA's ___ Research Center: AMES
- 62. Old truck maker: REO
- 64. Verdi's "___ tu": ERI
- 65. ___ trip: EGO
- 66. Bone setters: DOCS
- 67. End of an estimate: ORLESS
- 68. Close relative: COUSIN
- 69. Place with a moving line: FACTORY
- 70. Ship in 1898 headlines: MAINE
- 71. Start of a supplication: IPRAY
- 76. Papal court: HOLYSEE
- 77. N.Y.C. subway line: IRT
- 79. One of the Wright brothers, for short: ORV
- 81. Center of entertainment: EPCOT
- 82. "The Cloister and the Hearth" author: READE
- 83. Green ___: BERET
- 85. Kindergarten handicraft: PAPERHAT
- 86. Preparing for shipment: CRATING
- 87. "Rah!": GOTEAM
- 88. E.E.C. part: Abbr.: EUR
- 91. Indian tourist destination on the Arabian Sea: GOA
- 92. They're not pro: NOVOTES
- 93. Fade out: DIEDOWN
- 94. Loire laugh: RIS
- 100. Actress Lanchester and others: ELSAS
- 101. Repetitive musical piece: RONDO
- 102. Storage units: BYTES
- 104. Did laps: SWAM
- 105. "Yikes!": OHNO
- 106. Actor Alan: LADD
- 108. Year in the middle of this century: MMLI
- 110. Father: SIRE
- 111. Need: LACK
- 113. One-fifth of quindici: TRE
- 114. Suffix with ball: OON
- 115. Best-selling author Brown: DAN
- 116. "___ Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" (Dunbar poem): ERE
- 117. "Rah!": OLE
- 118. Points on a scale: FAS
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