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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 10, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 10, 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
- 40
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 18
- 39
- 51
- 59
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
across
- 1. Upper end of a soprano's range: HIGHC
- 6. Life work?: BIO
- 9. In support of: FOR
- 12. Bishopric: DIOCESE
- 19. Basketballer nicknamed the Diesel: ONEAL
- 20. Attribute (to): ASCRIBE
- 22. Joins up: ENROLLS
- 23. Concave button: INNIE
- 24. "Over my dead body!" / Alert [split]: NOTIFICANHELPIT
- 26. Exchange words? / New beginning [merger]: TRANSLATE
- 28. ___ Maria (coffee liqueur): TIA
- 29. Gift-wrapper's need: TAPE
- 30. Strummed instrument: UKE
- 32. "___ my doubts": IHAVE
- 33. Animated film character voiced by Matthew Broderick: SIMBA
- 35. Fine fellow: SIR
- 36. Undecided, you might say: TIED
- 38. Deal (out): METE
- 39. Annoying obligations / "No need to check" [split]: IMPOSITIONS
- 42. 1980s "NBC News Overnight" anchor / Feared insect [merger]: ELLERBEE
- 44. At full speed: AMAIN
- 45. "Mazel ___!": TOV
- 46. "The History ___" (Tony-winning play): BOYS
- 47. Harsh: STARK
- 48. Return flight destinations?: NESTS
- 52. Off-limits: TABOO
- 55. Get down: BOOGIE
- 56. Plant manager?: HOE
- 58. Figure just above the total: TIP
- 59. Black hole's boundary / Despite the fact that [split]: EVENTHORIZON
- 62. Group migration: DIASPORA
- 64. Like Eton attendees: MALE
- 65. Author of the "Earth's Children" series: AUEL
- 66. Social reformer Lucretia: MOTT
- 67. "Great Scott!": EGAD
- 68. A little cross?: PLUSSIGN
- 70. Double sugar / Travel freely? [merger]: DISACCHARIDE
- 74. Get dressed (up): TOG
- 75. "Feh!": UGH
- 76. Insects found in trunks: BORERS
- 77. Takes off: FLEES
- 78. Bag: SNARE
- 80. In the cooler: ONICE
- 81. Unread messages, usually: SPAM
- 83. Mountain SE of ancient Troy: IDA
- 85. It has many sides: FEAST
- 86. Commuter's source of entertainment / Actor John or David [split]: CARRADIO
- 90. Martini ingredient / Delta site [merger]: DRYVERMOUTH
- 94. Burt's "Stroker Ace" co-star: LONI
- 95. "The Seagull" ingenue: NINA
- 96. Water, to Watteau: EAU
- 97. Fictional blue humanoid: SMURF
- 98. Aggressive patriot: JINGO
- 99. Fishtank accessory: NET
- 100. Prefix with potent: OMNI
- 102. MapQuest suggestion: Abbr.: RTE
- 103. Franz Liszt, e.g. / Didn't go straight, maybe [split]: HUNGARIAN
- 106. "Come back now, y'hear?" / Park employee [merger]: DONTBEASTRANGER
- 110. TV journalist Van Susteren: GRETA
- 113. Commentator: ANALYST
- 114. Using company resources: INHOUSE
- 115. Great white ___: HERON
- 116. Took too long, as a meeting: RANLATE
- 117. Superhero name ender: MAN
- 118. Broke bread: ATE
- 119. Finger-lickin' good: TASTY
down
- 1. ___ polloi: HOI
- 2. Overnight site: INN
- 3. Patrician: GENTEEL
- 4. Della sells hers in "The Gift of the Magi": HAIR
- 5. See 26-Across: CLEA
- 6. Keen producers: BANSHEES
- 7. Quarantine: ISOLATE
- 8. Scale's range: OCTAVE
- 9. Taylor's deputy on TV: FIFE
- 10. Kimono securer: OBI
- 11. ___ room: REC
- 12. Gap filler?: DENIMS
- 13. Occupy: INHABIT
- 14. Blast furnace input: ORE
- 15. Peacemaker maker: COLT
- 16. #1 hit for Marty Robbins: ELPASO
- 17. Add surreptitiously: SLIPIN
- 18. Some phosphates, e.g.: ESTERS
- 21. Observance: RITE
- 25. See 24-Across: ATION
- 27. Modern political acronym: NIMBY
- 30. Navajo enemy: UTE
- 31. See 42-Across: KIL
- 33. Abrupt increase on a graph: SPIKE
- 34. Assuages one's guilt: ATONES
- 37. Prepares, in a way, as chicken: DEBONES
- 39. Adult insect: IMAGO
- 40. California county with Point Reyes National Seashore: MARIN
- 41. See 39-Across: IVE
- 43. Origin: ROOT
- 44. Complete: ATOZ
- 47. It's not needed in hydroponics: SOIL
- 49. It's clipped at both ends: STOGIE
- 50. Philippic: TIRADE
- 51. Game similar to bridge: SPADES
- 52. Really appeals to: TEMPTS
- 53. Earthly paradise of Celtic legend: AVALON
- 54. Caviar source: BELUGA
- 55. W.W. II light machine gun: BREN
- 56. See 70-Across: HITC
- 57. Bleeped word: OATH
- 60. Reagan's first secretary of state: HAIG
- 61. See 59-Across: OUGH
- 62. Pros who practice: DOCS
- 63. Violinist Itzhak: PERLMAN
- 66. Four-legged female: MARE
- 69. Napped fabrics: SUEDES
- 70. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" star: DONAT
- 71. ___ Sea, connected to St. George's Channel: IRISH
- 72. It's split: SECT
- 73. At a distance: AFAR
- 76. ___ bourguignon: BOEUF
- 79. See 90-Across: RIV
- 81. 1953 3-D film starring Fernando Lamas: SANGAREE
- 82. Earlier: PRIOR
- 84. Seat separator: ARMREST
- 85. See 106-Across: FORES
- 86. Stop up: CONGEST
- 87. Some campaign fund-raisers: DINNERS
- 88. See 86-Across: INE
- 89. Cereal grass: OAT
- 90. Himalayan cedar: DEODAR
- 91. ___ Quimby, girl of children's lit: RAMONA
- 92. Chinese province bordering Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar: YUNNAN
- 93. Change genetically: MUTATE
- 94. ___ franca: LINGUA
- 98. 2007 title role for Ellen Page: JUNO
- 101. "___ be O.K.": ITLL
- 103. Chemistry Nobelist Otto: HAHN
- 104. See 103-Across: IGHT
- 105. Precinct: AREA
- 107. ___ landslide: BYA
- 108. Country singer McGraw: TIM
- 109. What retroviruses contain: RNA
- 111. Preschooler: TOT
- 112. To some extent: ANY
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