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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 27, 2007

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, March 27, 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
Mammoth
6
Like some mattresses
10
Doorframe part
14
Inuit home
15
Saint-Saëns song
16
Ike's alma mater: Abbr.
17
First sign of a highway headache
20
Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g.
21
U.K. heads
22
Damage
23
JFK and LAX overseer
25
On the foul line, ironically
26
Second sign of a highway headache
33
Nasser was its pres.
34
Back-to-back awards for Hanks
35
Like some ales
36
Shoulder bag feature
38
Dirt-dishing publication
39
Dame Nellie ___
40
Just managed, with "out"
41
Like petting-zoo animals
43
TV remote abbr.
44
Third sign of a highway headache
47
David Bowie's "___ Dance"
48
Nashville sch.
49
Keynote giver
52
Hammarskjöld of the U.N.
54
___-to-order
58
Final sign of a highway headache
61
Love, personified
62
RC or Jolt
63
"I wanna!"
64
Big Apple ltrs.
65
Swarm
66
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Down clues & answers

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Monday, March 26, 2007

across

1. Cousins of mandolins: LUTES
6. Marx with a manifesto: KARL
10. Not shallow: DEEP
14. "Faust" or "Don Giovanni": OPERA
15. Hodgepodge: OLIO
16. Neutral tone: ECRU
17. Simple pleasure: CREATURECOMFORT
20. Doctors' bags: KITS
21. Often-stained piece of attire: NECKTIE
22. Manipulate: USE
23. Drip from a pipe, e.g.: LEAK
24. Leftover bit: SCRAP
28. Old Iran: PERSIA
30. Preordain: DESTINE
32. Daily allowance: PERDIEM
35. Unruly head of hair: MOP
36. 1978 Rolling Stones hit: BEASTOFBURDEN
40. Caribbean, e.g.: SEA
41. Worker in a stable: HOSTLER
42. Humor that's often lost in an e-mail: SARCASM
45. Proverb: SAYING
49. ___ B. Anthony dollar: SUSAN
50. Two of a kind: PAIR
52. Word with neither: NOR
53. Four-alarm fire: INFERNO
56. Where 6-Down is: ASIA
57. Sex appeal: ANIMALMAGNETISM
61. Aria singer: DIVA
62. ___ quilt (modern memorial): AIDS
63. Kind of pole: TOTEM
64. Plow pullers: OXEN
65. Gait between walk and canter: TROT
66. Tickle: AMUSE

down

1. Put in jail: LOCKUP
2. Revolt: UPRISE
3. Be on the verge of falling: TEETER
4. Periods in history: ERAS
5. Day of the wk. ... or an exam usually taken on that day: SAT
6. Seoul's home: KOREA
7. Smart ___: ALECK
8. Basketball coach Pitino: RICK
9. Stolen money: LOOT
10. Flaw: DEFECT
11. Modern prefix with tourism: ECO
12. Blow it: ERR
13. Postpone, with "off": PUT
18. Digs up: UNEARTHS
19. "Little ___ Sunshine": MISS
23. Untruths: LIES
25. Coating of frost: RIME
26. In the near future: ANON
27. Get-up-and-go: PEP
29. Where you might get into hot water: SPA
30. Credit card bills, e.g.: DEBT
31. Photographic film coating: EMULSION
33. Inevitable destruction: DOOM
34. No ___, ands or buts: IFS
36. Boyfriend: BEAU
37. Distinctive features of Mr. Spock: EARS
38. Backside: REAR
39. Empty, as a well: DRY
40. Radiator sound: SSS
43. Alligatorlike reptile: CAIMAN
44. "The King and I" woman: ANNA
46. Where originally found: INSITU
47. Bump and thump: NOISES
48. British weight: GRAMME
50. Home of many Velázquez paintings: PRADO
51. Uneasy feeling: ANGST
54. Kansaslike: FLAT
55. Arab chieftain: EMIR
56. ___ smasher: ATOM
57. Hurly-burly: ADO
58. Veto: NIX
59. "If ___ told you once ...": IVE
60. When the pilot is due in, for short: ETA

Hints and full breakdown for Mar 26

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