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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 7, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 7, 2008. 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
- 23
- 28
- 39
- 51
- 61
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 21
- 29
- 40
- 54
- 55
- 56
- 57
- 59
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
across
- 1. Kind of court: PAPAL
- 6. Decorative inlay material: NACRE
- 11. Screening: MESH
- 15. Took off: FLEW
- 19. Shooter's target: AGATE
- 20. Facility: FLAIR
- 21. What pi may be used to find: AREA
- 22. Much family history, e.g.: LORE
- 23. *Feature of some kids' cereals: COCOAFLAVOR
- 25. Shelter supplies: COTS
- 26. Feeling: AURA
- 27. Rita Hayworth title role of 1946: GILDA
- 28. Monarch's bane: NET
- 29. *Regular provider: GASSTATION
- 31. Bollix up: FLUB
- 32. Interior look: DECOR
- 34. Aniselike herbs: FENNELS
- 35. "___ dreaming?": AMI
- 37. *Holder of the world record for the longest ovation on the operatic stage (80 minutes): PLACIDODOMINGO
- 41. W.W. II noncombatants: WACS
- 43. Spirit: ELAN
- 44. Eremites: LONERS
- 45. "The Guns of August" figure: TSAR
- 49. Weekend warrior's woe: ACHE
- 50. Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theater: SID
- 51. Swift gift: SATIRE
- 52. Reagan attorney general: MEESE
- 53. Where you can feel the heat: SAUNA
- 55. Part of a tennis racket: GRIP
- 57. Accusatory words: ETTU
- 59. H look-alike: ETA
- 60. *Let the mind believe what it likes: HUMORONESELF
- 64. Parter of the waters: OAR
- 65. Soyuz destination: MIR
- 66. Governessy: PRIM
- 67. Covers up: SHROUDS
- 70. Behind: LATE
- 72. Room sharer, often: SIB
- 74. Group west of the Atlantic: Abbr.: OAS
- 76. *Bastion of brotherhood: MASONICLODGE
- 80. Uniters with 51-Down: OVA
- 81. Hug and kiss, to a Brit: SNOG
- 83. Cracker topper: EDAM
- 84. Bird baked in a pie: SQUAB
- 85. 1920s anarchist in a celebrated trial: SACCO
- 87. Some cottons: LISLES
- 91. Tennis's Shriver: PAM
- 93. Kierkegaard's "The Sickness ___ Death": UNTO
- 94. "My Way" lyricist: ANKA
- 95. Mexican revolutionary ___ Hidalgo: MIGUEL
- 96. Brush makeup: SAGE
- 97. Earth Day subj.: ECOL
- 98. *Elementary school test package: READINGBATTERY
- 102. Slice of history: ERA
- 103. Approaches aggressively: ACCOSTS
- 106. Portrait photographer Arbus: DIANE
- 107. Ralph ___, 1974 N.L. batting champ: GARR
- 109. *Dress for the return of cool weather: FALLOUTFIT
- 111. Indeed: YEA
- 113. Overdo it, in a way: EMOTE
- 115. Requirement for some degree candidates: ORAL
- 116. ___ avis: RARA
- 117. *Not even close: WORLDSAPART
- 120. Dungeons & Dragons figure: OGRE
- 121. List ender: ETAL
- 122. Ones being shot at: ENEMY
- 123. Heinrich who wrote "Atta Troll": HEINE
- 124. Moneybags in "The Wind in the Willows": TOAD
- 125. Comfy retreats: DENS
- 126. Unpadded: TERSE
- 127. Synthetic fabric: ARNEL
down
- 1. Grp. influential in campaigns: PAC
- 2. Wide-eyed: AGOG
- 3. *Alaskan cruise sighting: PACIFICHUMPBACK
- 4. Midway, e.g.: ATOLL
- 5. Preliminary events: LEADUP
- 6. Cowboys' org.: NFL
- 7. Bean who was the fourth man to walk on the moon: ALAN
- 8. Gave up at last: CAVEDIN
- 9. Ran amok: RIOTED
- 10. Add instead of subtract, e.g.: ERR
- 11. Some tubes: MACARONI
- 12. Lover boy?: EROS
- 13. Lights: SETSFIRETO
- 14. Speeds up: HASTENS
- 15. It's sour: FLATNOTE
- 16. Disney duck: LOUIE
- 17. Documentary filmmaker Morris: ERROL
- 18. Gets off the bottle: WEANS
- 24. Title on a child's bookshelf: FABLES
- 29. Object of a vain wait: GODOT
- 30. Lee who directed "Brokeback Mountain": ANG
- 33. Pay increase to keep up with inflation, in brief: COLA
- 35. Up to one's ears: AWASH
- 36. Former Portuguese colony in China: MACAU
- 38. Put right: ALIGN
- 39. Core groups: CADRES
- 40. Piddling: MERE
- 42. Title with a tilde: SENOR
- 46. *Wasn't clear, as one's future: SEEMEDUNCERTAIN
- 47. Where Monferrato wine comes from: ASTI
- 48. Behind: REAR
- 51. Uniters with 80-Across: SPERM
- 52. Finds at Pompeii: MURALS
- 54. Songlike: ARIOSO
- 56. Suffix with sheep or goat: ISH
- 58. Soapstone, e.g.: TALC
- 61. Mideast's Gulf of ___: OMAN
- 62. Mauna ___: LOA
- 63. Firecracker parts: FUSES
- 68. Cabinet inits. since 1947: DOD
- 69. Show annoyance with: SNAPAT
- 71. Chef's hat: TOQUE
- 72. Sportsman of the Year co-winner of 1998: SOSA
- 73. ___ the Great: IVAN
- 75. Like some electronics: SOLIDSTATE
- 77. Politician's projection: IMAGE
- 78. Seminole's archrival: GATOR
- 79. Virulent virus: EBOLA
- 82. 1945 Colette novel: GIGI
- 86. Spread some holiday joy: CAROLLED
- 88. Quaint garden fixtures: SUNDIALS
- 89. O.K.: LEGIT
- 90. Where Napoleon planned his Hundred Days campaign: ELBA
- 92. Welds: MERGES
- 95. Reached the due date: MATURED
- 96. Helmsman: STEERER
- 99. That: Sp.: ESO
- 100. "Do I have a volunteer?": ANYONE
- 101. Company whose production goes in cycles?: YAMAHA
- 103. Going on: AFOOT
- 104. Load of ships?: CARGO
- 105. Santa ___, Calif.: CLARA
- 108. Rodeo competitor: ROPER
- 110. "The Nanny" actress Drescher: FRAN
- 112. Poor returns?: ALMS
- 114. Island-dotted lake of Northern Ireland: ERNE
- 117. Not fair: WET
- 118. Food additive: DYE
- 119. ___ Aviv: TEL
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