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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 19, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, November 19, 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
- 19
- 27
- 57
- 71
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 24
- 39
- 49
- 56
- 61
- 63
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
across
- 1. Immature: BABYISH
- 8. "___ at Large," 2003 Fox sitcom: WANDA
- 13. El ___ (Peruvian volcano): MISTI
- 18. Like Kashmir rugs: ORIENTAL
- 20. For all to hear: ALOUD
- 21. One-dimensional: LINEAR
- 22. Nebraska town, named after an Indian tribe, featured in "Lonesome Dove": OGALLALA
- 23. Run away from chewing-tobacco users?: FLEESPITTERS
- 25. Alexander the Great's ambition?: TOSLAYTHEEAST
- 27. Leading the field: ONTOP
- 28. ___ admin (computer techie, for short): SYS
- 29. Revolution-era loyalist: TORY
- 30. Black and tan ingredient: ALE
- 31. Mental acuity: WITS
- 34. Glinting flecks in granite: MICA
- 37. Problem for a sweaty-handed Tarzan?: VINYSLIDING
- 41. Trawler's trailer: NET
- 42. Much of Anaïs Nin's work: EROTICA
- 45. Quite often: ALOT
- 46. One of the five stages of grief: ANGER
- 48. Leaves in hot water: TEA
- 49. ___ de guerre: NOM
- 50. Oil company in a 1999 merger: MOBIL
- 53. Technique involving thickly applied paint: IMPASTO
- 55. Crumb carrier: ANT
- 56. One who's crazy for a sharp-dressed man?: FOPLOVER
- 58. Moved two chessmen in one turn: CASTLED
- 59. Early collaborator with Eastwood: LEONE
- 61. Islamic chieftain: EMIR
- 62. Drug ___: CZAR
- 64. Bring on board: HIRE
- 65. Stole, perhaps: FUR
- 66. Shakespearean prince who's handsome and muscular?: STUDLYHAL
- 68. Membranous structure: SAC
- 69. Sportswear brand: PUMA
- 71. Weekly service: MASS
- 72. Creditor's collection: IOUS
- 73. Some hieroglyphic characters: ANKHS
- 76. At great length: ONANDON
- 78. Fish-worshiping groups?: CODCULTS
- 81. Insect egg: NIT
- 82. Novelist Jamaica ___: KINCAID
- 83. You might hear it going up and down: MUZAK
- 84. Backup singer's syllable: OOH
- 85. Tridactyl bird: EMU
- 86. Scotland's Summer ___: ISLES
- 87. Market pessimist: BEAR
- 89. Beguiles: LEADSON
- 91. Powell's "The Thin Man" co-star: LOY
- 92. What a magician might do with a big saw?: HALVETHEGAL
- 98. Theories: ISMS
- 99. 1978 disco hit: YMCA
- 101. Say what isn't so: LIE
- 102. "Good gracious!": EGAD
- 103. Bass part: FIN
- 105. Mr. Bean: ORSON
- 107. How to avoid getting tipsy on hard liquor?: PACEYOURBELTS
- 113. Designed jeans?: PLOTTEDPANTS
- 116. Barograph reading: PRESSURE
- 117. DVD box set, possibly: SERIES
- 118. "Ready ___ ...": ORNOT
- 119. Flat remover: TIREIRON
- 120. Boxed-off map section: INSET
- 121. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: PEERS
- 122. Producer of the Keystone Cops films: SENNETT
down
- 1. Part of firefighter attire: BOOT
- 2. Ship launched from Iolcus: ARGO
- 3. Favoritism: BIAS
- 4. Dresses down: YELLSAT
- 5. Tabletop decoration: INLAY
- 6. Good news for some prisoners: STAYS
- 7. Parade-ground command: HALT
- 8. Thin and crisp: WAFERY
- 9. Soothes: ALLAYS
- 10. They're not positive: NOES
- 11. Performance that takes a second: DUET
- 12. Some web site banners: ADS
- 13. Paw: MITT
- 14. Following behind: INTOW
- 15. Oil spill?: SEEPINGSLICKNESS
- 16. Sealant: TAR
- 17. Schedule-keeping org.: IRS
- 19. Christine of "Chicago Hope": LAHTI
- 21. Eton collar material: LINEN
- 24. "Man is by nature a ___ animal": Aristotle: POLITICAL
- 26. Long, long time: EON
- 30. Excitement: ADO
- 32. Show signs of falling: TEETER
- 33. Took a big step: STRODE
- 34. Bad stuff to microwave: METAL
- 35. One of the Forsytes in "The Forsyte Saga": IRENE
- 36. Macho beer-drinker's outerwear?: COATOFMANLYCOORS
- 37. Seductress: VAMP
- 38. Place to hole up: LAIR
- 39. Not feeling 100 percent: ILL
- 40. Breaks: GAPS
- 43. Gather: INFER
- 44. Sweet talk: COO
- 47. Lane on Broadway: NATHAN
- 50. Greek god of ridicule: MOMUS
- 51. Contemporary of Virgil: OVID
- 52. See 94-Down: BERLIOZ
- 54. Do damage to: MAR
- 57. "___ Dance" (David Bowie album): LETS
- 60. Perceptive person's detection: NUANCE
- 62. Throw out: CHUCK
- 63. Pitts of silent film: ZASU
- 66. Unable to see much: SANDBLIND
- 67. Little green man: YODA
- 68. Figure skater Cohen: SASHA
- 69. At a slow pace: POKILY
- 70. Popular sleep aid: UNISOM
- 71. "Excusez-___!": MOI
- 74. Words mouthed to a camera: HIMOM
- 75. Leaves gasping: STUNS
- 77. Telegraphy signal: DASH
- 78. Short-spoken: CURT
- 79. Take up the entire sofa: LOLL
- 80. Nail holder: TOE
- 83. Ginnie ___: MAE
- 88. Iconic Anne Baxter role: EVE
- 90. Gets one's food on a tray, say: DINESIN
- 93. Fleshy-leaved shrubs: ALOES
- 94. With 52-Down, "Symphonie Fantastique" composer: HECTOR
- 95. Discharges: EGESTS
- 96. Party to many a civil union: GAY
- 97. Begin using: ADOPT
- 100. Bandleader Shaw: ARTIE
- 103. French business partner, maybe: FRERE
- 104. "Peer Gynt" playwright: IBSEN
- 106. What a line of dots may signify: STET
- 107. Peel: PARE
- 108. Charles Lindbergh's wife: ANNE
- 109. Author of "Trinity": URIS
- 110. Draw in: LURE
- 111. Brisk step: TROT
- 112. Posted: SENT
- 113. ESP, remote viewing, and such: PSI
- 114. Hall-of-Famer Dawson: LEN
- 115. Music genre: POP
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