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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 5, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, November 5, 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
- 14
- 21
- 52
Down clues & answers
- 18
- 49
- 60
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
across
- 1. Ring regulator: Abbr.: WBA
- 4. State secrets: BLAB
- 8. Argosy: ARMADA
- 14. "The Perfect Fool" composer: HOLST
- 19. Cupcake: HON
- 20. Anise-flavored apéritif popular in Turkey and the Balkans: RAKI
- 21. Tan shades: BEIGES
- 22. Have because of: OWETO
- 23. Best Picture of 1954: ONTHEWATERFRONT
- 26. Four-time Indy winner: UNSER
- 27. Not turned up: ONLOW
- 28. Half-Betazoid on "Star Trek: T.N.G.": TROI
- 29. Olympic troublemaker: ERIS
- 31. Asian honorific: SRI
- 32. Skin: PEEL
- 33. In addition to: OVERANDABOVE
- 37. Boise-to-Billings dir.: ENE
- 38. One whose business is taking off?: STRIPPER
- 40. It's done: DEED
- 41. Burlesques: SATIRES
- 43. Descry: DETECT
- 45. Nursery nappy: DIDY
- 47. Doll in "A Doll's House": NORA
- 48. Biblical name meaning "laughter": ISAAC
- 51. "Hollywood Squares" line: OOO
- 53. Six-pointer, perhaps: STAG
- 55. It's spotted on a ranch: PINTO
- 58. Swampy: MIRY
- 59. High-end version of a product: DELUXEMODEL
- 63. Berenstain of kid-lit's Berenstain Bears: STAN
- 64. L.A. summer setting: PDT
- 65. Took one's first steps: TODDLED
- 66. Ring Lardner title character: ALIBIIKE
- 68. "Sweet ___" (1937 Oscar song): LEILANI
- 70. Worry: ANGST
- 73. "Anne of Green Gables" setting: AVONLEA
- 74. True: ACCURATE
- 76. Looked for: AWAITED
- 78. First name in chillers: LON
- 79. Casual denials: NAHS
- 80. Singer with the 1996 #1 hit "You're Makin' Me High": TONIBRAXTON
- 83. Row between houses?: FEUD
- 84. Lovers' plight: TROTH
- 86. Reign: RULE
- 87. Lose liquidity: GEL
- 88. Topping made with pine nuts: PESTO
- 89. It should be even: KEEL
- 91. Snap: FOTO
- 93. Zigzag: SLALOM
- 96. French mime: PIERROT
- 99. Master of the double take?: NOAH
- 101. Showy climber: CLEMATIS
- 105. Oh of Cologne: ACH
- 106. Role for Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor: OBIWANKENOBI
- 109. Receiver of a brush-off?: LINT
- 110. At birth: NEE
- 111. Transcontinental bridge, e.g.: Abbr.: ISTH
- 112. City near Carson National Forest: TAOS
- 113. Gut feeling: SENSE
- 114. Full speed ahead: AMAIN
- 116. Broadcast with Baba Booey, with "The": HOWARDSTERNSHOW
- 121. Champagne department: MARNE
- 122. French "White House": ELYSEE
- 123. Jerk: YOYO
- 124. Bath suds: ALE
- 125. Starting pay?: ANTES
- 126. One on a quest: SEEKER
- 127. For the second time: ANEW
- 128. Key of cartooning: TED
down
- 1. Cousin of "uh-oh": WHOOPS
- 2. British hood: BONNET
- 3. Buck topper: ANTLER
- 4. Steep: BREW
- 5. Bar code?: LAW
- 6. Sometimes called: AKA
- 7. Arctic: BITTERCOLD
- 8. Out of the country: ABROAD
- 9. Tasteful: REFINED
- 10. Salyut 7's successor: MIR
- 11. What "syne" means: AGO
- 12. With Altair and Vega, it forms the Summer Triangle: DENEB
- 13. Colt .45s, today: ASTROS
- 14. Santa's landing site: HOUSETOP
- 15. To have and to hold: OWN
- 16. Where to find the Windward and Leeward Islands: LESSERANTILLES
- 17. "A Sentimental Journey" author: STERNE
- 18. Disraeli and Churchill: TORIES
- 24. Eve's follower: HOLIDAY
- 25. Go off: ERR
- 30. One of the Brothers Karamazov: IVAN
- 33. Elect: OPT
- 34. Civic center?: VEE
- 35. Voltaire's religious view: DEISM
- 36. Heighten: ADDTO
- 39. Iron pumper's target: PEC
- 42. In film, gradual appearance of an image through an expanding circle: IRISIN
- 44. Bride in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding": TOULA
- 46. When repeated twice, et cetera: YADA
- 48. Fix firmly: IMPLANT
- 49. Brandy + orange liqueur + lemon juice: SIDECAR
- 50. Fancy salad ingredient: ARTICHOKEHEART
- 52. Symbols of strength: OXEN
- 54. Tuscan treat: GELATO
- 56. Sign inside a restaurant: TAKEOUT
- 57. Common baseball count: ONEANDO
- 59. Oscar winner as Mr. Chips: DONAT
- 60. Copy righter?: EDITOR
- 61. Annual literary prize since 1946: EDGAR
- 62. Jazz (up): LIVEN
- 65. Salt: TAR
- 67. Physique, slangily: BOD
- 69. Brilliance: LUSTER
- 71. Boodle: SWAG
- 72. Subject of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution: TAXES
- 75. Ample, to Li'l Abner: ENUF
- 77. "You're gonna pay!": ITLLCOSTYA
- 81. Moviedom's Massey: ILONA
- 82. Back: BETON
- 83. Misses, e.g.: FEMALES
- 85. Batgirl and Wonder Woman: HEROINES
- 88. Brit, to an Aussie: POM
- 90. Soft shots: LOBS
- 92. Symbol of strength: OAKTREE
- 94. Neighbor of Greece: Abbr.: ALB
- 95. Kona keepsake: LEI
- 96. Summer topper: PANAMA
- 97. Block buster?: ICEMAN
- 98. Gives religiously?: TITHES
- 100. Tumble: HEADER
- 102. Doughboy's topper: TINHAT
- 103. Oxford pad: INSOLE
- 104. Stinko: STEWED
- 107. Intact: WHOLE
- 108. Rebuffs: NOS
- 113. Bamboozle: SNOW
- 115. Carol ending?: INE
- 117. Ex follower: WYE
- 118. It's all you have to do sometimes: ASK
- 119. Slice of history: EON
- 120. Deli slice: RYE
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- 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.
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- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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