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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for September 10, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, September 10, 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
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 37
- 48
- 54
- 60
- 62
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Sunday, September 9, 2007
across
- 1. Talk follower: QANDA
- 6. Twinge: SPASM
- 11. Bit of info: DATUM
- 16. Memory unit, for short: MEG
- 19. Horse genus: EQUUS
- 20. Dantean division: CANTO
- 21. About to explode, maybe: IRATE
- 22. Botheration: ADO
- 23. "Marie Antoinette" star, 2006: DUNST
- 24. Put the touch on: HITUP
- 25. *One who gets beaten badly?: SORELOSER
- 27. *Sticks in the medicine cabinet?: ANTIPERSPIRANTS
- 30. Crow's-nest sighting: LAND
- 31. Dodge pickup: RAM
- 32. Some R.S.V.P.'s: YESES
- 33. Hub-to-rim lines: RADII
- 34. Hammett's canine creation: ASTA
- 38. Battle of Britain grp.: RAF
- 40. *Forbidding countenance: HATCHETFACE
- 44. Roe source: SHAD
- 45. Render difficult to find: STASH
- 48. High-quality: DELUXE
- 49. *Lacking compassion: HARDHEARTED
- 52. Recharge one's batteries: REST
- 53. Tire swing supporter: LIMB
- 57. Holmes who married Tom Cruise: KATIE
- 58. Typewriter brand: ROYAL
- 60. Song that Elvis's "It's Now or Never" was based on: OSOLEMIO
- 62. Man in a sombrero: SENOR
- 63. Baseball star Maglie: SAL
- 64. "Sketches by ___," 1836: BOZ
- 66. Losing ground: ERODING
- 67. Lid: HAT
- 68. *"It's true, like it or not": IFTHESHOEFITS
- 72. ___ up (get dressed): TOG
- 73. Former coeds, maybe: ALUMNAE
- 75. Blue expanse: SEA
- 76. Half of a cartoon duo: REN
- 77. Practices for a bout: SPARS
- 79. Inundating: DELUGING
- 81. Belgian painter James, known for bizarre fantasies with masks: ENSOR
- 83. Former N.F.L. QB Rodney: PEETE
- 84. "Holy moly!": EGAD
- 85. Sonogram, e.g.: SCAN
- 87. *British motorist's right?: DRIVERSSIDE
- 90. Serve: WAITON
- 92. "The Princess Bride" character ___ Montoya: INIGO
- 93. Electromagnet component: COIL
- 94. *1999 romantic comedy based on "Pygmalion": SHESALLTHAT
- 99. Doughnut shop qty.: DOZ
- 100. They have guests: INNS
- 101. Moderated, with "down": TONED
- 102. The Big Aristotle, in the N.B.A.: ONEAL
- 105. Key above Caps Lock: TAB
- 107. Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.: INTL
- 108. *It's taken by doctors: HIPPOCRATICOATH
- 115. *Follow-up to a potential insult: NOOFFENSE
- 117. Works magic on: HEXES
- 118. Go further than: ONEUP
- 120. Tooth holder: GUM
- 121. Bug-repelling wood: CEDAR
- 122. Like noble gases: INERT
- 123. Near East hotel: SERAI
- 124. Eyeball: ORB
- 125. Stops flowing: CLOTS
- 126. Brings in: EARNS
- 127. The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain: TWICE
down
- 1. Proof closer: QED
- 2. Greenish-blue: AQUA
- 3. 1970s-'90s senator Sam: NUNN
- 4. Indoor settler: DUST
- 5. In motion: ASTIR
- 6. Underlying patterns: SCHEMATA
- 7. Poker holding: PAIR
- 8. Unable to sit still: ANTSY
- 9. Blockhead: STUPE
- 10. Down in the dumps: MOPISH
- 11. Worst-case scenario: DISASTER
- 12. "East of Eden" twin: ARON
- 13. Like vinaigrette: TART
- 14. Mountain West Conference team: UTES
- 15. Ferrer of "Lili": MEL
- 16. Site fortified by Herod the Great: MASADA
- 17. Paradisiacal: EDENIC
- 18. Howe who was known as Mr. Hockey: GORDIE
- 26. Minnesota's St. ___ College: OLAF
- 28. Minority member in India: PARSEE
- 29. Reference books?: READ
- 33. Way to go: Abbr.: RTE
- 34. Volcanic output: ASH
- 35. "Hurry up!": SHAKEALEG
- 36. Fuzzy crawler: TARANTULA
- 37. Increase: ADDTO
- 39. Jill's portrayer in "Charlie's Angels": FARRAH
- 41. Jazz singer Laine: CLEO
- 42. Late Jordanian king: HUSSEIN
- 43. Acquire by unsavory means: EXTORT
- 46. Items checked at an opera house checkroom: STOLES
- 47. Casual greeting: HEY
- 50. In need of help: HIRING
- 51. Expert, in England: DABHAND
- 53. Stayed in front: LED
- 54. Made of paste: IMITATION
- 55. Studied on the side: MINOREDIN
- 56. Wade at Cooperstown: BOGGS
- 59. Head of England: LOO
- 61. Gamblers' setbacks: LOSSES
- 62. You'll find it under a tree: SHADE
- 63. Letter-writing aid: STENCIL
- 65. Position the cross hairs (on): ZEROIN
- 69. 1960s-'70s Saudi king: FAISAL
- 70. Go steady with: SEE
- 71. Vehement: FERVID
- 74. Disgraced one's name?: MUD
- 78. "Home Alone" actor Joe: PESCI
- 80. Intl. commercial agreement first signed in 1947: GATT
- 82. Overseas title: SRI
- 83. Mood lifter: PROZAC
- 86. People who haven't a chance, in Britspeak: NOHOPERS
- 88. Their priority is number one: EGOTISTS
- 89. Loop circlers: ELS
- 90. Bank roll: WAD
- 91. iPod variety: NANO
- 94. "Sophie's Choice" narrator: STINGO
- 95. Waugh's "Sword of ___" trilogy: HONOUR
- 96. Enter into a plot?: ENTOMB
- 97. "Note to ___ ...": SELF
- 98. Computer whiz: TECHIE
- 103. Game site: ARENA
- 104. Not as stringent: LAXER
- 106. Leg up: BOOST
- 108. Crusty piece of bread: HEEL
- 109. ___-European: INDO
- 110. High school jrs. take it: PSAT
- 111. Gull relative: TERN
- 112. All over again: ANEW
- 113. Hatcher of "Lois & Clark": TERI
- 114. Red Scare grp.: HUAC
- 116. Org. overseeing decency standards: FCC
- 119. Pizza order: PIE
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