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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 9, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
By WordFinderZ Puzzle TeamLast updated How we make hints
This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, January 9, 2011. 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
- 21
- 30
- 43
- 86
- 100
- 101
- 103
- 117
Down clues & answers
- 18
- 30
- 44
- 59
- 107
- 110
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
across
- 1. Balderdash: CRAZYTALK
- 10. 1981 best seller set in Castle Rock, Me.: CUJO
- 14. Midwest city in the middle of the I-70/I-71/I-75 triangle: XENIAOHIO
- 15. Satisfy: ATONE
- 17. "Shoot!": IMALLEARS
- 18. Neuter: DESEX
- 19. Operculum: LID
- 20. Result of some heavy lifting: ACHE
- 22. Dashboard Confessional's genre: EMO
- 23. It lost to "Born Free" for Best Song of 1966: ALFIE
- 26. What a plus sign may indicate: ION
- 27. Grammy-nominated film composer Brion: JON
- 28. Minderbinder of "Catch-22": MILO
- 29. Woodstock artist: SCHULZ
- 32. Red state: IRE
- 33. Israel's foreign minister during the Six-Day War: EBAN
- 34. Prime: CLASSA
- 35. Golfe setting: MER
- 36. See 52-Across: NETS
- 37. "Hamlet" composer: LISZT
- 38. What bugs are often found in: BETA
- 39. Some academicians: Abbr.: DRS
- 40. It's the same old story: REMAKE
- 41. Transfusion amount: UNIT
- 42. Thing to get pinned on: MAT
- 43. Rally figure: ORATOR
- 44. Internet ___: MEME
- 45. "Rockaria!" grp.: ELO
- 46. Jazz piece?: SAX
- 47. Bothered: FAZED
- 48. Site of some '60s tours: NAM
- 49. "Get ___ Up" (John Mellencamp hit): ALEG
- 51. Long way to go?: FAR
- 52. With 36-Across, school gathering equipment: TRAWL
- 54. Swiftly written?: SATIRIZED
- 59. Like spots in which nails are often used: ITCHY
- 60. 1902 Kentucky Derby winner that was named after a fictional character: ALANADALE
- 61. Central Asia's Tien ___ Mountains: SHAN
- 62. RadioShack stock: TAPEDECKS
down
- 1. Second-century year: CXI
- 2. Post-retirement occurrence: REM
- 3. Suffix with railway: ANA
- 4. A ton: ZILLIONS
- 5. Bush or Cheney, once: YALIE
- 6. Square-___ (prim): TOED
- 7. "Of course!": AHA
- 8. Pound of Turkey?: LIRA
- 9. Highest mountain in Australia: KOSCIUSZKO
- 10. Virtuosic improvisation: CADENZA
- 11. Explorer or Navigator, briefly: UTE
- 12. He pitched a no-hitter in 1999: JOSEJIMENEZ
- 13. Over: ONEMORETIME
- 16. No longer charged: EXONERATED
- 21. Place for a hanging piece: HOLSTER
- 23. Its first word is "Congress": AMENDMENTI
- 24. They're not technical: LIBERALARTS
- 25. Result of good middle management?: FLATSTOMACH
- 29. ___ buckle (eye surgery procedure): SCLERAL
- 30. Doesn't get any higher than: CLIMAXESAT
- 31. Tears into: HASAT
- 38. Hitch: BUMARIDE
- 40. Calvin's baby sitter in "Calvin and Hobbes": ROSALYN
- 47. Measure associated with Leyden jars: FARAD
- 50. Many an opening event: GALA
- 51. All right: FINE
- 53. "Huh?": WHA
- 55. Shoe add-on: TAP
- 56. Fashion designer Posen: ZAC
- 57. Buckskin source: ELK
- 58. "Porte ___ Lilas" (Oscar-nominated 1957 film): DES
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- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
- Connections: Sports EditionConnections with a sports-only word poolGuide & tips
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- Midi CrosswordThe mid-size crossword between the Mini and the dailyGuide & tips
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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What is a rebus square?
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