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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 7, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 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
- 15
- 27
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 18
- 42
- 59
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
across
- 1. Town at the eighth mile of the Boston Marathon: NATICK
- 7. 1971 Tom Jones hit: SHESALADY
- 16. Dict. fill: WDS
- 19. Charlie Chan player J. ___ Naish: CARROL
- 20. Acted briefly: HADACAMEO
- 21. Online activity: CHAT
- 22. V.I.P. in a limo?: WHEELEDAUTHORITY
- 24. Penn Station inits.: LIRR
- 25. Sycophant's reply: YES
- 26. Articles by nonstaffers: OPEDS
- 27. Singer Winehouse: AMY
- 28. Glass-enclosed porches: SOLARIA
- 30. 1999 film with the tagline "Fame. Be careful. It's out there": EDTV
- 32. Way of the East: TAO
- 33. Open: FRANK
- 35. Dirty: SOILED
- 36. Stories about halting horses?: TALESOFWHOA
- 39. Kisses, on paper: XES
- 41. Team building?: ARENA
- 42. 1954 event code-named Castle Bravo: HTEST
- 43. Swedish Chemistry Nobelist Tiselius: ARNE
- 45. Detailed, old-style: ITEMED
- 47. Produce for show: TROTOUT
- 51. Roundabout: ROTARY
- 53. Corduroy feature: RIB
- 56. Certain guy, in personals shorthand: SWM
- 58. Causes of meteorological phenomena?: WEATHERWHYS
- 60. "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are ___!" (hit 1978 album): DEVO
- 61. Eponymous German brewer Eberhard: ANHEUSER
- 63. Says, in teenspeak: GOES
- 64. Stir: THECAN
- 66. They're in control of their faculties: DEANS
- 67. Etc. and ibid., e.g.: ABBRS
- 69. Unequaled: ALONE
- 70. Missile's course: VECTOR
- 72. Trudge (through): PLOD
- 73. Baton wavers: MAESTROS
- 76. Miffs: IRKS
- 77. Iceland?: ISLEOFWHITE
- 81. Fully or partially: Abbr.: ADV
- 82. French-Belgian border river: LYS
- 83. Start of a sign on a gate: BEWARE
- 84. Scatterbrain: AIRHEAD
- 86. National League East player: MARLIN
- 88. Kind of atty.: DIST
- 90. Explorer ___ da Gama: VASCO
- 94. MDX and RDX maker: ACURA
- 96. National League East player: MET
- 98. Barrier Ahab stands behind?: WHALINGWALL
- 102. Literally, "back to back": DOSIDO
- 104. Lure: DECOY
- 106. 60-Across producer: ENO
- 107. Long-distance swimmer Diana: NYAD
- 108. Something little girls may play: DRESSUP
- 110. Fifth pillar of Islam: HAJ
- 111. Body layer: DERMA
- 113. Internet address letters: WWW
- 114. "What are you, some kind of ___?": ANUT
- 115. Cry after writing a particularly fun column?: THEEDITORIALWHEE
- 119. Office note: MEMO
- 120. Settle: DETERMINE
- 121. Arab League V.I.P.'s: AMEERS
- 122. Eur. carrier: SAS
- 123. Small plane, perhaps: ONESEATER
- 124. Common town sign: MAINST
down
- 1. "Treasure Island" illustrator, 1911: NCWYETH
- 2. Showed delight over: AAHEDAT
- 3. River crosser: TRESTLE
- 4. Eng. neighbor: IRE
- 5. U.S.A.F. Academy site: COLO
- 6. One who lifts a lot: KLEPTO
- 7. Little stubble: SHADOW
- 8. Residence on the Rhein: HAUS
- 9. Summer setting in MA and PA: EDT
- 10. Extremely arid: SAHARAN
- 11. In ___ (really out of it): ACOMA
- 12. Pitch maker?: LARYNX
- 13. "___ losing it, or ...?": AMI
- 14. Investigators: Abbr.: DETS
- 15. Goes up and down: YOYOS
- 16. 45, e.g.?: WHIRLEDRECORD
- 17. Connecticut town where "The Stepford Wives" was filmed: DARIEN
- 18. Italian road: STRADA
- 21. Sen. McCaskill of Missouri: CLAIRE
- 23. "Are you ___?!": DEAF
- 29. Like some good soil: LOAMY
- 31. Clergy attire: VESTMENTS
- 33. Out into view: FORTH
- 34. Rock's Richards and Moon: KEITHS
- 37. Orchestra sect.: STR
- 38. High, in the Alps: HAUT
- 40. Legal suspension: STAY
- 44. Overthrowing, e.g.: ERROR
- 46. Lead-in to while: ERST
- 48. Cutting remarks?: OWS
- 49. Slogan holder, often: TEE
- 50. It has a blade: OAR
- 52. Is shy: OWES
- 54. 1887 Chekhov play: IVANOV
- 55. Tomb raider's find: BONES
- 56. Derisive: SNEERY
- 57. Where ax murderers' weapons are on display?: WHACKSMUSEUMS
- 59. Lines on a musical staff: EGBDF
- 60. 1973 Helen Reddy #1 hit: DELTADAWN
- 61. Tylenol rival: ADVIL
- 62. Troupe org.: USO
- 65. Calls one's own: HAS
- 67. Ray, e.g., in brief: ALER
- 68. Like the bad guy: BOOED
- 71. Phnom Penh money: RIEL
- 72. Shaved, in a way: PLANED
- 73. Bygone station: MIR
- 74. Part of N.C.A.A.: Abbr.: ATH
- 75. Indication of big shoes to fill?: EEE
- 78. Dip: SWIM
- 79. Wishy-___: WASHY
- 80. Words with snag or home run: HITA
- 83. Carpenter's supply: BRADS
- 85. Dow Jones fig.: AVG
- 87. Blue blood, informally: ARISTO
- 89. "Flags of Our Fathers" setting: IWOJIMA
- 91. Pourer's comment: SAYWHEN
- 92. Catfight participants: CLAWERS
- 93. Boot Hill setting: OLDWEST
- 94. Title family name on TV: ADDAMS
- 95. Eye part: CORNEA
- 97. Tiny laughs: TEHEES
- 99. One with bad looks?: LEERER
- 100. Letters on a cross: INRI
- 101. Polite turndown: NOMAAM
- 103. Best: OUTDO
- 105. Training staff: CADRE
- 109. Fen-___ (banned diet aid): PHEN
- 111. Exhausted: DONE
- 112. Michigan town or college: ALMA
- 116. Season for les vacances: ETE
- 117. Little bird: TIT
- 118. Third-century Chinese dynasty: WEI
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- 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.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- 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.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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