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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 25, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, April 25, 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
- 14
- 35
- 39
- 64
Down clues & answers
- 51
- 65
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
across
- 1. Fix, as a program: DEBUG
- 6. Water skimmers: OARS
- 10. Nickname for Baryshnikov: MISHA
- 15. Gds.: MDSE
- 19. Steve McQueen's ex-wife and co-star in "The Getaway": ALIMACGRAW
- 21. Vogue's Wintour and others: ANNAS
- 22. Kind of torch: TIKI
- 23. Electrical paths in New York City?: BIGAPPLECIRCUITS
- 25. They're always charged: FEES
- 26. Flap: ADO
- 27. Poet's "before": ERE
- 28. D preceder: CSHARP
- 29. Divert: AMUSE
- 31. Deux of these are better than un: TETES
- 33. Spill a Cuban drink?: LOSEONESMOJITO
- 36. Shelter that's often octagonal: GAZEBO
- 39. Housing for the homeless: Abbr.: SRO
- 40. Pit crew's supply: TIRES
- 41. One who says "Beg your pardon" after stepping on your toes?: POLITEDANCER
- 47. Mordant Mort: SAHL
- 49. "Exodus" hero: ARI
- 50. Father of Deimos and Phobos, in myth: ARES
- 51. Seedcase that inspired Velcro: BUR
- 52. Scot's "own": HAE
- 53. Noblewoman: PEERESS
- 55. Dorm heads, for short: RAS
- 56. Mmes., in Iberia: SRAS
- 57. Speak on C-Span, say: ORATE
- 60. Burn cause: LYE
- 61. Gentleman's partner: SCHOLAR
- 63. Preachers' lies?: PULPITFICTION
- 68. Get up?: ELATE
- 69. Subj. of modern mapping: DNA
- 71. Bust planner, in brief: DEA
- 72. Sly sort?: RAMBO
- 73. What a mashed potato serving may have?: CENTEROFGRAVY
- 78. "Sock it to me!" show: LAUGHIN
- 80. Unbar, to the Bard: OPE
- 81. High-end camera: LEICA
- 82. Superior body?: LAKE
- 83. Abbr. unlikely to start of a sentence: ETC
- 84. Revolutionary?: ORBITAL
- 88. Continuing plot in a TV series: ARC
- 89. "___ Did It" (2007 memoir): IFI
- 90. Cookie first baked in Manhattan's Chelsea district: OREO
- 91. "Confiteor ___ omnipotenti" (Latin prayer starter): DEO
- 92. "Understood, man": IDIG
- 94. Hairdresser's first do?: LEARNERSPERM
- 97. Luggage attachment: IDTAG
- 99. Cartoon exclamation: EEK
- 101. One way to serve café: AULAIT
- 102. Author Amy's family squabble?: CLASHOFTHETANS
- 107. Our sun's type: GSTAR
- 111. Baker or Loos: ANITA
- 112. Pizza topping: SALAMI
- 113. FICA fig.: SSN
- 115. Prefix with metric: ISO
- 116. "It won't hurt ___": ABIT
- 117. The Miracles?: SMOKEYANDTHEBAND
- 121. Ball boy?: DESI
- 122. Like a bagel: TORIC
- 123. Homey's rep: STREETCRED
- 124. Mtn. stats: ALTS
- 125. Shakespeare's "spot": SEEST
- 126. Tofu sources: SOYS
- 127. Spine-tingling: SCARY
down
- 1. Blot with gauze, say: DABAT
- 2. Pass over: ELIDE
- 3. One who sees everything in black and white?: BIGOT
- 4. Actress Thurman: UMA
- 5. Regards in wonderment: GAPESAT
- 6. Rubberneck: OGLE
- 7. Art, nowadays: ARE
- 8. Rocky of song: RACCOON
- 9. Tell, e.g.: SWISS
- 10. Asian gambling mecca: MACAO
- 11. Stores after cremation: INURNS
- 12. Long-range shooters: SNIPERS
- 13. Word after high or top: HAT
- 14. Source of Indian tea: ASSAM
- 15. Volcano near Aokigahara forest: MTFUJI
- 16. Mass part: DIESIRAE
- 17. Bitin' things: SKEETERS
- 18. ___ for elephant: EIS
- 20. Red Cross course, briefly: CPR
- 24. Line score inits.: RHE
- 30. Group with the 6x platinum album "Dr. Feelgood": MOTLEYCRUE
- 32. Backing: Var.: EGIS
- 33. Bent beams: LBARS
- 34. Some flakes: SOAP
- 35. Suffix with psych-: OSIS
- 37. Whistle-blower, in slang: ZEBRA
- 38. Facebook co-founder Saverin: EDUARDO
- 41. 3.26 light-years: PARSEC
- 42. Sibyl, for one: ORACLE
- 43. Writer Eda: LESHAN
- 44. Chinese dynasty during the time of Confucius: CHOU
- 45. Marquess's subordinate: EARL
- 46. Sow's counterpart: REAP
- 48. Prefix with port: HELI
- 54. Change the price on: RETAG
- 56. Bedtime comment: SLEEPTIGHT
- 58. Neaten: TIDY
- 59. Season in le soleil?: ETE
- 62. First German emperor of Italy: OTTOI
- 63. Runner: PAGE
- 64. Mideast nosh: FALAFEL
- 65. Announcement upon arriving: IMHERE
- 66. ___ dictum (incidental remark): OBITER
- 67. Sarge, e.g.: NONCOM
- 70. CBS's "The ___ Today": NFL
- 74. Audition (for): READ
- 75. 100 Iranian dinars: RIAL
- 76. Israeli seaport: ACRE
- 77. Cow, in Cádiz: VACA
- 79. Director Kurosawa: AKIRA
- 82. Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life": LINUS
- 84. Keatsian, e.g.: ODIC
- 85. Johnnie Walker variety: REDLABEL
- 86. Plant manager?: BOTANIST
- 87. Willingly: LIEF
- 90. Chooses: OPTS
- 93. Start to boil over?: GETSORE
- 95. Met by chance: RANINTO
- 96. Intaglio seals: SIGNETS
- 98. If nothing changes: ASITIS
- 100. Base wear?: KHAKIS
- 103. They have hops: OASTS
- 104. Choose: ELECT
- 105. Scotland's Firth of ___: TAY
- 106. Rake in: AMASS
- 108. Sash go-with: TIARA
- 109. "Rich Man, Poor Man" Emmy winner: ASNER
- 110. Actor McDowall: RODDY
- 113. Jeanne et Julie, e.g.: Abbr.: STES
- 114. Any boat: SHE
- 116. ___ Lovelace, computer programming pioneer: ADA
- 118. ___ Szyslak of "The Simpsons": MOE
- 119. Dull: DRY
- 120. E-mail add-on: BCC
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