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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 3, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, August 3, 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
- 20
- 22
- 29
- 39
- 56
- 63
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 36
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
across
- 1. Whiz: MAVEN
- 6. Prefix with structure: INFRA
- 11. Kind of instinct: GUT
- 14. Minneapolis suburb: EDINA
- 15. Dimwit: MORON
- 16. 1992 U2 top 10 hit: ONE
- 17. "Shake a leg!": GETTHEPBOUT
- 19. Busy co. on Mother's Day: FTD
- 20. Generally: ASARULE
- 21. Target of some testing: STEROID
- 23. Territory on the Arabian Peninsula: EMIRATE
- 25. Alternative to Le Bourget: ORLY
- 26. Sobriquet for Charles V, with "the": WISE
- 29. Suddenly changes course: ZIGS
- 30. You might get in this at work: RUT
- 31. Start of many Arabic names: IBN
- 32. Car driven by Seinfeld on "Seinfeld": SAAB
- 33. Residue: ASHES
- 36. Go by: LAPSE
- 38. Ayres who played filmdom's Dr. Kildare: LEW
- 40. Get on: SEETO
- 41. Tired-looking: DRAWN
- 42. Unit of punishment at sea: LASH
- 44. Common car decal: AAA
- 45. Basketball champ's souvenir: NET
- 46. Go bonkers: FLIP
- 47. Warthog feature: TUSK
- 48. River through the Steppes of Asia: URAL
- 50. Lose freshness: GOSTALE
- 52. Ones standing around monuments?: PILLARS
- 54. Jeer: SCOFFAT
- 58. Mate: PAL
- 59. Sound out?: CASTFEALIBI
- 61. Summer in Québec: ETE
- 62. Farm letters?: EIEIO
- 63. Picture: MOVIE
- 64. Bit of light: RAY
- 65. More roguish: SLYER
- 66. Visual put-down: SNEER
down
- 1. Prefix with phone: MEGA
- 2. Sweet drinks: ADES
- 3. Lucio's life: VITA
- 4. Dining highlight: ENTREE
- 5. Prophet who predicted the destruction of Nineveh: NAHUM
- 6. Like old Rome: IMPERIAL
- 7. Certain jack, in cribbage: NOB
- 8. Ticks off: FROSTS
- 9. Trail: ROUTE
- 10. Put up: ANTE
- 11. Try to win: GOFORTHEAU
- 12. Before: UNTIL
- 13. Nightwear: TEDDY
- 18. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" woman: ELIZA
- 22. Stir: ROUSE
- 24. Christmas song since the 1950s: AGBELLS
- 26. Uncombed, say: WILD
- 27. Letter-shaped part of a grate: IBAR
- 28. Songwriters' home: SNPANALLEY
- 30. Reckless: RASH
- 32. Launched: SENT
- 34. Some fraternity men: ETAS
- 35. Overcharge and how: SOAK
- 37. Super: SWELL
- 39. Expects: WAITSFOR
- 43. Vacuum: SPACE
- 46. Anthropologist Dian: FOSSEY
- 47. Kitchen coat: TEFLON
- 48. Bunk option: UPPER
- 49. Lasso: RIATA
- 50. Object of a knight's quest: GRAIL
- 51. Farm soils: LOAMS
- 53. Great, in slang: ACES
- 55. V: FIVE
- 56. "___ Baby" ("Hair" song): ABIE
- 57. Stadium part: TIER
- 60. Equal, in a way: TIE
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
- Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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