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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for September 25, 2007

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, September 25, 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.

78 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Poked
2
Communicates with online
3
"Phooey!"
4
Trig function
5
Tax cheat chaser, informally
6
Alert for a fleeing prisoner, in brief
7
Bullwinkle, e.g.
8
Japanese city whose name means "large hill"
9
Go after
10
Stick out one's tongue, maybe
11
Hold title to
12
Coffee, slangily
13
Corrida cheer
18
One ___ time
22
Afternoon hour
24
Home run hero of '61
25
Icky stuff
26
Home of the Cowboys: Abbr.
27
New Jersey cager
29
Part of r.p.m.
30
Novelist Ferber
32
Mingle (with)
33
Make a choice
34
Crank up
35
Keystone State port
37
Rain delay roll-out
38
Caterer's coffee holder
39
"So it's you!"
40
Boot Hill letters
43
Actor Benicio ___ Toro
45
Party animal?
46
Wish offerers
47
Soccer venues
49
Prop for Groucho Marx
50
See eye to eye
51
Plays parent to
52
72, at Augusta
54
Turned blue, maybe
55
"___ deal!"
56
Kilmer who once played Batman
57
She raised Cain
58
Bridge capacity unit
60
Compete

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Monday, September 24, 2007

across

1. Put out, as a fire: DOUSE
6. Furry TV extraterrestrial: ALF
9. Arouse, as interest: PIQUE
14. "In my opinion ...": IDSAY
15. Place for sheep to graze: LEA
16. Mrs. Bush: LAURA
17. Utensil used with flour: SIEVE
18. Perry Mason's field: LAW
19. Out of kilter: AMISS
20. Old "Tonight Show" intro: HERESJOHNNY
23. Fork over: PAY
24. Word after show or know: HOW
25. Bygone Rambler mfr.: AMC
27. Classic arcade game: PACMAN
31. Set free: RELEASED
36. Pungent-smelling: ACRID
37. Expensive tooth filling material: GOLD
38. Sport with beefy grapplers: SUMO
39. Admonition to a showboating athlete: THERESNOIINTEAM
42. Notes after do: REMI
43. Doll's cry: MAMA
44. Almost any doo-wop tune: OLDIE
45. What a driver's license shows proof of: IDENTITY
47. Makes tough: STEELS
48. Understood: GOT
49. By way of: VIA
50. "Cheers" bartender: SAM
53. Kid's book with a hidden character: WHERESWALDO
60. Atlantic or Pacific: OCEAN
62. Buddhist sect: ZEN
63. Squirrel away: HOARD
64. Suspect's story: ALIBI
65. Stephen of "The Crying Game": REA
66. Out of favor, informally: INBAD
67. Derby prize: PURSE
68. The whole shebang: ALL
69. Activities in 57-Down: TESTS

down

1. Satellite TV receiver: DISH
2. Garfield's pal, in the funnies: ODIE
3. ___-friendly (simple to operate): USER
4. Put money in the bank: SAVE
5. Poker player's headgear: EYESHADE
6. Give the O.K.: ALLOW
7. Wife of Jacob: LEAH
8. Young Bambi: FAWN
9. Benchwarmer's plea: PLAYME
10. The Beatles' "___ the Walrus": IAM
11. Wit's remark: QUIP
12. Celestial bear: URSA
13. "Piece of cake!": EASY
21. Rock's Bon Jovi: JON
22. Nita of silent films: NALDI
26. Windsor, notably: CASTLE
27. Father: Prefix: PATRI
28. Felt sore: ACHED
29. Oreo's filling: CREME
30. Sinking in mud: MIRING
31. Hardly cramped: ROOMY
32. Director Kazan: ELIA
33. Napped leather: SUEDE
34. Cybermessages: EMAIL
35. Stadium toppers: DOMES
37. Pesky swarmer: GNAT
40. Most common U.S. surname: SMITH
41. Zero: NOTAWHIT
46. Local noncollegian, to a collegian: TOWNIE
47. Bro's sibling: SIS
49. Open to bribery: VENAL
50. Suds maker: SOAP
51. Rights org.: ACLU
52. Golda of Israel: MEIR
54. Poet Pound: EZRA
55. Walk drunkenly: REEL
56. Top-rated: AONE
57. Features of science classes: LABS
58. "Dang!": DRAT
59. 5:2, e.g., at a racetrack: ODDS
61. Muscles to crunch: ABS

Hints and full breakdown for Sep 24

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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.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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