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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 6, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, July 6, 2009. 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
- 44
- 52
Down clues & answers
- 27
- 29
- 35
- 36
- 45
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
across
- 1. Wind source: GASBAG
- 7. Escalates: AMPSUP
- 13. Watercolor technique: GOUACHE
- 20. Annual event held at the Kodak Theater, with "the": OSCARS
- 21. Hero known for his nose: CYRANO
- 22. Intertwined: ENLACED
- 23. Give Axl and Pete a break?: SPELLTHEROSES
- 25. Like the Twenties: ROARING
- 26. Language that gave us "pajamas": HINDI
- 27. Saroyan's "My Name Is ___": ARAM
- 28. Elton John/Tim Rice musical: AIDA
- 30. A bit more than never: ONCE
- 31. ___ Palace: CAESARS
- 33. Tripping over a threshold, perhaps?: PORTALDANGER
- 37. Bubbly place?: ASTI
- 38. Carries, e.g.: STAT
- 39. BlackBerry and others, for short: PDAS
- 40. Footwear that's hard to run in: CLOG
- 43. Art school subj.: ANAT
- 45. Pea farmers?: THEPODSQUAD
- 51. Summer apartment with no air-conditioning?: BOILINGPAD
- 54. Home of the Blues: Abbr.: STL
- 55. Powerful engine: TURBO
- 56. Barkin of "Sea of Love": ELLEN
- 57. English author Blyton: ENID
- 59. Co. bigwigs: CEOS
- 62. "___ true?": ISIT
- 63. Solar ___: RAY
- 64. Swindler: FLEECER
- 67. Went long: RANLATE
- 69. Floral Technicolor dreamcoat?: FULLPETALJACKET
- 73. Madrid newspaper: ELMUNDO
- 76. This-and-that preparation: GOULASH
- 77. Island near Naxos: IOS
- 80. Certain grains: RYES
- 81. Sets (on): SICS
- 84. Fourier series function: SINE
- 85. Lively sonata movement: RONDO
- 87. Pauline Kael's "___ It at the Movies": ILOST
- 89. Blow away: AWE
- 91. Strutting bird on an ice floe?: STUDPUFFIN
- 94. Residents at a Manhattan A.S.P.C.A.?: NEWYORKPETS
- 98. Yours, in Giverny: ATOI
- 99. Nemeses: FOES
- 100. Actor Ventimiglia of "Heroes": MILO
- 101. DC Comics superheroine: ISIS
- 103. Genetic molecules: RNAS
- 105. Move a movie camera around a community?: PANABOUTTOWN
- 110. Some casino staff: DEALERS
- 113. Little or Short: APER
- 114. Greenish-blue: TEAL
- 115. Interlaken's river: AARE
- 117. Emmy-winning co-star of "Chicago Hope": LAHTI
- 119. "Symphonie Fantastique" composer: BERLIOZ
- 122. Explanation for an interception?: PASSCONFUSION
- 125. One of the Andrews Sisters: LAVERNE
- 126. Early anesthetics: ETHERS
- 127. Like some Swift writing: IRONIC
- 128. Electra's brother: ORESTES
- 129. Twos: DEUCES
- 130. ___ Falls, N.Y.: SENECA
down
- 1. "Yipe!": GOSH
- 2. Jellied dish: ASPIC
- 3. Extended operatic solo: SCENA
- 4. Quarter back: BALDEAGLE
- 5. Onetime HBO sitcom: ARLISS
- 6. Prime meridian std.: GST
- 7. Deliverers of the unreturnable: ACERS
- 8. Hess who was a dame: MYRA
- 9. Cue: PROMPT
- 10. Airline to Stockholm: SAS
- 11. Digs up: UNEARTHS
- 12. Propose: POSIT
- 13. Mustachioed TV muckraker: GERALDO
- 14. Plastic ___ Band: ONO
- 15. Suffix with form: ULA
- 16. Perennial N.L. leader of old: AARON
- 17. Sharing a memo with: CCING
- 18. For this reason: HENCE
- 19. Lawn gadget: EDGER
- 24. 1980s street artist Keith: HARING
- 29. Spot: DAPPLE
- 32. ___ impasse: ATAN
- 34. Dobbin's nibble: OAT
- 35. "Dear old" guy: DAD
- 36. ___ mgr.: ASST
- 38. Batting coach's concern: STANCE
- 40. One with a handle: CBER
- 41. "Damn Yankees" vamp: LOLA
- 42. Too suave: OILY
- 44. Without ___ (quietly): APEEP
- 46. Series finale?: ETC
- 47. What a bee produces: QUILT
- 48. "Superman II" villainess: URSA
- 49. Some: ABIT
- 50. Favor cloyingly, with "on": DOTE
- 52. Just for laughs: INFUN
- 53. Many a New Year's resolution: DIET
- 58. Pulls: DRAGS
- 60. 1977 thriller co-starring Bo Derek: ORCA
- 61. "The Odd Couple" director: SAKS
- 65. Some legal scholars, for short: LLDS
- 66. "The Time Machine'" race: ELOI
- 68. Co-founder of the Nonaligned Movement: NEHRU
- 69. Fastidious: FUSSY
- 70. Lane in Metropolis: LOIS
- 71. Postrevolutionary councils: JUNTAS
- 72. Language akin to Yupik: ALEUT
- 73. A Walton: ERIN
- 74. Singer Lovett: LYLE
- 75. "What's New Pussycat?" response?: MEOW
- 77. Poop: INFO
- 78. Comics canine: ODIE
- 79. End of some firm names: SONS
- 82. 2005 Hoffman title role: CAPOTE
- 83. Winter Olympics powerhouse: Abbr.: SWE
- 86. Summer at a ski resort, e.g.: OFFSEASON
- 88. Taj Mahal, e.g.: TOMB
- 90. Bleach: ETIOLATE
- 92. One of the original Mouseketeers: DOREEN
- 93. ___ cloth (lingerie fabric): PINA
- 95. 1983 Duran Duran hit: RIO
- 96. China shop personae non gratae: KLUTZES
- 97. Orlando-to-Ft. Myers dir.: SSW
- 102. Shortly: INASEC
- 104. Attraction: ALLURE
- 105. Literature Nobelist Neruda: PABLO
- 106. "... in ___ tree": APEAR
- 107. Audacity: NERVE
- 108. Bizet suite "The Girl From ___": ARLES
- 109. Attached, in a way: TAPED
- 110. Chaff: DROSS
- 111. River straddled by Basel, Switzerland: RHINE
- 112. Impassive: STOIC
- 116. Homeland plot?: ACRE
- 118. Cuzco inhabitant: INCA
- 120. N.Y.C. subway line: IRT
- 121. A wee hour: ONE
- 123. Moo ___ pork: SHU
- 124. Hi-___: FIS
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