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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 29, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
By WordFinderZ Puzzle TeamLast updated How we make hints
This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, August 29, 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
- 33
- 37
- 39
Down clues & answers
- 29
- 40
- 45
- 49
- 52
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
across
- 1. Poor dating prospects: CADS
- 5. Central Africa's Lake ___: CHAD
- 9. Place for a motto: CREST
- 14. M.P.'s quarry: AWOL
- 15. Bloody, so to speak: RARE
- 16. Early British automaker Henry: ROYCE
- 17. Hot strip?: GAZA
- 18. Washington has some big ones: EGOS
- 19. Mountaineering equipment: ICEAX
- 20. Historical 1976 miniseries: EYECLAUDIUS
- 23. C7H5N3O6: TNT
- 24. Toy at the beach: KITE
- 25. Close, old-style: ANIGH
- 27. Record holder: SLEEVE
- 30. Refrigerator part: CRISPER
- 32. Big name in Gotham City: WAYNE
- 33. "Mens sana in corpore ___": SANO
- 34. California's ___ Music Festival, since 1947: OJAI
- 36. Goon: APE
- 37. Juliet, e.g., in Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet": SOPRANO
- 40. Chapel Hill sch.: UNC
- 41. Only player to be part of three World Cup-winning teams: PELE
- 43. Poland's second-largest city: LODZ
- 44. Tear: SPREE
- 46. Obeys: LISTENS
- 48. Didn't raise: STAYED
- 49. ___ light: Var.: KLEIG
- 50. Lay person?: POET
- 51. Reverence: AWE
- 53. Punny hint to answering 20-Across, 11-Down and 29-Down: ANEYEFORANI
- 58. Sends: SHIPS
- 60. Object of ridicule: BUTT
- 61. After-lunch bite: OREO
- 62. Black tea: PEKOE
- 63. Stick on a dish: OLEO
- 64. Scraggy: LEAN
- 65. It may be rounded up in a roundup: STEER
- 66. European capital: BERN
- 67. "Do the Right Thing" pizzeria: SALS
down
- 1. Part of a pound: CAGE
- 2. Out: AWAY
- 3. Siesta: DOZE
- 4. Abate: SLACKEN
- 5. Hatch: CREATE
- 6. Global legal venue, with "The": HAGUE
- 7. Yankee nickname starting in 2004: AROD
- 8. 1940s-'50s film/TV star with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: DESIARNAZ
- 9. Cause for using a hot line: CRISIS
- 10. Sinbad's avian attacker: ROC
- 11. Classic 1947 detective novel: EYETHEJURY
- 12. Process, in a way, as documents: SCAN
- 13. Transcript: TEXT
- 21. Biographies: LIVES
- 22. ___ Station: UNION
- 26. Delivery notation: Abbr.: GPO
- 27. Give and take: SWAP
- 28. It's sometimes grabbed: LAPEL
- 29. Bygone political slogan: EYELIKEIKE
- 30. '06 Series winner: CARDS
- 31. Eastern royal: RANEE
- 33. Title TV character in Bikini Bottom: SPONGEBOB
- 35. Put away: ICED
- 38. Liquid fat: OLEIN
- 39. Prefix with sclerosis: OSTEO
- 42. Night school class, for short: ESL
- 45. Soldiers' jobs: PATROLS
- 47. Come-on: TEASER
- 48. Not punishing sufficiently: SOFTON
- 50. One of the "Brady Bunch" kids: PETER
- 51. Cold-blooded killers: ASPS
- 52. Stimulate: WHET
- 54. Holiday season: YULE
- 55. Quarter: AREA
- 56. "Hud" Oscar winner: NEAL
- 57. Ones with charges: IONS
- 59. Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity": POE
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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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