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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 16, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, November 16, 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
- 16
- 88
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 17
- 22
- 34
- 40
- 42
- 85
- 98
- 102
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
across
- 1. Debris around the world?: SPACEJUNK
- 10. Runs through: STABS
- 15. Immunologist's concern: TOLERANCE
- 16. Shape on a potter's wheel: THROW
- 17. Getting there: ONONESWAY
- 18. 100 öre: KRONA
- 19. Heavily monitored areas: Abbr.: ICUS
- 20. Great Plains dweller: PRAIRIEDOG
- 22. Medical emblems: CADUCEI
- 24. Court couple?: NETS
- 25. Breeds: SORTS
- 27. Aegis bearer: ATHENA
- 31. Sorrows experienced in life: VALEOFTEARS
- 35. Bread, at times: SOP
- 36. Flier at the Forum: AVIS
- 37. Hip-hop's Roc-a-___ Records: FELLA
- 38. Game dealt by Doc Holliday: FARO
- 39. Detector of les odeurs: NEZ
- 40. He said "Everything in life is luck": DONALDTRUMP
- 42. Clearing aid: ERASER
- 44. Grown-up garçon: HOMME
- 45. Hindu scripture: VEDA
- 47. Saw the light: WISEDUP
- 51. Option for a long train trip: SLEEPERCAR
- 55. Blight: BANE
- 56. They're taken in for treatment: PILLS
- 57. Romulus and Remus's legendary birthplace: ALBALONGA
- 59. Family name in 16th- and 17th-century music: AMATI
- 60. Leveler: BULLDOZER
- 61. Timepiece that's often knocked off: ROLEX
- 62. Reacts to a strong sock: SEESSTARS
down
- 1. Bullet-biting type: STOIC
- 2. Standing Bear's tribe: PONCA
- 3. Not tacit: ALOUD
- 4. Big counting jobs: CENSUSES
- 5. Fore: ERE
- 6. "The Eyre Affair" novelist, 2001: JASPERFFORDE
- 7. Tacit: UNWRITTEN
- 8. Hall of Champions org.: NCAA
- 9. Record, as data: KEYIN
- 10. Basseterre locale: STKITTS
- 11. What combines do: THRESH
- 12. Youngest player to join the 500-homer club: AROD
- 13. Good for Caesar?: BONO
- 14. Party giveaways, in slang: SWAG
- 21. They're over captains: REARADMIRALS
- 23. Sweet-talk?: COO
- 26. Psalms interjection: SELAH
- 28. Venison preparer in the Bible: ESAU
- 29. Rule: NORM
- 30. Singly: APOP
- 31. It turns on a turbine: VANE
- 32. Confirm: AVER
- 33. Dudley's "Arthur" co-star: LIZA
- 34. O.K.: ALLOWABLE
- 38. Maraud: FREEBOOT
- 40. Can: DEEPSIX
- 41. Corp. identifiers: TMS
- 43. Not at all chubby: SVELTE
- 46. People in burnooses: ARABS
- 48. Spacey's co-star in the 1999 revival of "The Iceman Cometh": DANZA
- 49. Noted TV neatnik: UNGER
- 50. Bottom-heavy edibles: PEARS
- 51. Airplane wing supporter: SPAR
- 52. Brass wheels?: LIMO
- 53. Alternative to Arkia or Israir: ELAL
- 54. Investigation aid: CLUE
- 58. Denom. established in 1830: LDS
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- 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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