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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 13, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 13, 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
- 18
- 32
- 37
- 40
- 42
Down clues & answers
- 27
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across
- 1. Illustrious: SHINING
- 8. She wrote "Under the Sign of Saturn": SONTAG
- 14. Body of precepts: ETHIC
- 19. Dow product: CHEMICAL
- 20. Country whose leader has competed in five Winter Olympics: MONACO
- 21. Part of U.R.I.: RHODE
- 22. Tarot reading, crystals, spiritualism, etc.: NEWAGEMOVEMENTS
- 24. Arrive: GETIN
- 25. Jack who played a sawmill worker in "Twin Peaks": NANCE
- 26. Mourn audibly: WEEP
- 27. "___ yellow ribbon ...": TIEA
- 29. U.S.N. noncoms: CPOS
- 30. Wheel on a spur: ROWEL
- 33. Traditional English festival: HARVESTHOME
- 36. Caladryl: itch :: Bengay : ___: ACHE
- 40. Partner of music: WORDS
- 42. Charlotte who played Mrs. Garrett on TV: RAE
- 43. Gaits out of the gate: TROTS
- 44. Little John's weapon in Robin Hood legend: QUARTERSTAFF
- 47. You are: Sp.: ERES
- 48. Does some file transfers: UPLOADS
- 49. Break-even enterprise: WASH
- 51. Basic way up a slope: ROPETOW
- 55. Comparable to a fiddle: ASFIT
- 56. Bootlicker: TOADY
- 59. You might play something by it: EAR
- 61. A current flows into it: ANODE
- 62. ___-deucy (game with dice): ACEY
- 64. Brooke Shields movie, with "The": BLUELAGOON
- 67. Bit of a snicker: TEE
- 68. Alma mater for Carol Burnett and Jim Morrison: Abbr.: UCLA
- 70. Keyboard instruments: MOOGS
- 72. Some contraband: IVORY
- 73. Fish that migrates from seawater to freshwater and back: SHAD
- 74. Playmate of Piglet: ROO
- 75. Its roar is worse than its bite: PAPERTIGER
- 77. It may be waved at the Olympics: EPEE
- 79. Learning level: GRADE
- 81. Language suffix: ESE
- 82. Overdone: BANAL
- 84. One of the Spice Girls and namesakes: EMMAS
- 87. Northernmost borough of London: ENFIELD
- 89. Well-planned: NEAT
- 91. Elongated marine fish: EELPOUT
- 93. Biathlon needs: SKIS
- 94. Dinner bun: CRESCENTROLL
- 97. Exempli gratia, e.g.: LATIN
- 99. Abbr. on Rockies skeds: MST
- 101. "Pride and Prejudice" beau: DARCY
- 102. Root canal, in dentist-speak: ENDO
- 103. Hair removal site: WAXINGSALON
- 106. Composer Franz: LEHAR
- 108. Seed cover: ARIL
- 109. Mrs. Chaplin: OONA
- 110. Egg: OVUM
- 112. "South Pacific" role: EMILE
- 117. Nabisco's ___ wafers: NILLA
- 119. 1987 Kubrick film: FULLMETALJACKET
- 123. Longtime Chicago mayor: DALEY
- 124. Capital of France's Aube department: TROYES
- 125. "Ta-ta": TOODLEOO
- 126. Show awe, in a way: STARE
- 127. Fix firmly: CEMENT
- 128. Like a paradise: ELYSIAN
down
- 1. Attorney William after whom a stadium is named: SHEA
- 2. Given the ax?: HEWN
- 3. Apple on a teacher's desk?: IMAC
- 4. Neighbor of Chad: NIGER
- 5. Sculpting medium: ICE
- 6. Sen. John Kerry served there: NAM
- 7. Sullen looks: GLOWERS
- 8. Bob Hoskins's role in "Hook": SMEE
- 9. Zip: OOMPH
- 10. Salem-to-Portland dir.: NNE
- 11. Spiritual path in Hinduism: TANTRA
- 12. Off the injured list: ACTIVE
- 13. Start of a referral: GOSEE
- 14. Work unit: ERG
- 15. Chaim Potok novel: THECHOSEN
- 16. Family-style Asian dish: HOTPOT
- 17. See red, talk a blue streak, etc.: IDIOMS
- 18. Perfume, in a way: CENSE
- 19. Where Bernard Shaw was an anchor for 21 yrs.: CNN
- 23. African grassland: VELDT
- 28. Space City baseballer: ASTRO
- 31. Had a bill, still: OWED
- 32. Most base: WORST
- 34. Pound sounds: ARFS
- 35. Boring tool: TREPAN
- 36. Greenish-blue: AQUA
- 37. Tarot suit: CUPS
- 38. Proverbial portion: HALFALOAF
- 39. Beethoven's Third: EROICA
- 41. Carpentry byproduct: SAWDUST
- 45. London gallery: TATE
- 46. Alice of "Hollywood Cavalcade": FAYE
- 47. What "[sic]" may signify: ERROR
- 50. Paradise: HEAVEN
- 52. Ralph Kramden catchphrase on old TV ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme: TOTHEMOON
- 53. Ancient theaters: ODEA
- 54. Dandelion or goldenrod, e.g.: WEED
- 57. They're blown in the winds: OBOES
- 58. Nelson ___, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm": ALGREN
- 60. Old Greek market: AGORA
- 63. Singer Sumac: YMA
- 65. Tied surgically: LIGATED
- 66. Santana's "___ Como Va": OYE
- 68. Press: URGE
- 69. Base of some ethanol: CORN
- 71. Opinion pieces: OPEDS
- 73. Always: It.: SEMPRE
- 75. Quickly check (on): PEEKIN
- 76. Certain girder: IBAR
- 78. Trapper's prize: PELT
- 80. Hiram Walker, for one: DISTILLER
- 83. Parasite: LEECH
- 85. "Should ___ acquaintance be forgot ...": AULD
- 86. French town on the Vire: STLO
- 88. Jive, e.g.: LINGO
- 90. Outer: Prefix: ECTO
- 92. Singer with the double-platinum album "The Memory of Trees": ENYA
- 95. French greeting: SALUT
- 96. Burn at the end?: CREMATE
- 97. Dogie catcher: LARIAT
- 98. Underarm: AXILLA
- 99. Garden fertilizer: MANURE
- 100. Zigzag, in a way: SLALOM
- 103. Airport screening equipment: WANDS
- 104. Centaur's head?: SOFTC
- 105. The "Claudius" in Tiberius Claudius Nero: NOMEN
- 107. Page-turners are good ones: READS
- 111. Life ___: VEST
- 113. Mid 12th-century date: MCLI
- 114. Swedish retail giant: IKEA
- 115. Province NW of Madrid: LEON
- 116. W.W. II arena: ETO
- 118. "___, captain!": AYE
- 120. Alkali in cleansers: LYE
- 121. Response to a funny text: LOL
- 122. Procter & Gamble detergent: JOY
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