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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 2, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, April 2, 2012. 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
- 13
- 14
- 25
- 28
- 33
- 42
Down clues & answers
- 23
- 31
- 32
- 48
- 53
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
across
- 1. Drop: FALL
- 5. Diagnostic test, of a sort: SCAN
- 9. Crosswise, when 18-Across: ABEAM
- 14. ___ bean: FAVA
- 18. See 9-Across: ASEA
- 19. Augusta National Golf Club, for the Masters: HOME
- 20. Class, abroad: CASTE
- 21. SST component: SONIC
- 22. Golf club repositioning?: CHANGEOFADDRESS
- 25. "I bet I'll know it": TRYME
- 26. Botanical holder: TENDRIL
- 27. Stock price movement: TICK
- 28. Yonder: THERE
- 30. Cloths with repeating patterns: CALICOS
- 32. When to get in, briefly: ETA
- 34. Three-time Best Director in the 1930s: CAPRA
- 37. Jennifer of tennis: CAPRIATI
- 40. Hole in one?: STROKEOFLUCK
- 44. Take out ___ (get some assistance at the bank): ALOAN
- 45. Stance: VIEW
- 47. According to: PER
- 48. Shoot two under: EAGLE
- 49. Comment after hitting a tee shot out of bounds?: BYEBYEBIRDIE
- 53. Insect named for the Virgin Mary: LADYBUG
- 55. Multiuse W.W. II vessel: LST
- 56. Where tumblers can be found: LOCK
- 57. Brightest star in Orion: RIGEL
- 60. "I do": YES
- 61. Ex-Jet Boomer: ESIASON
- 64. Pilfer: SWIPE
- 66. Uniform: Prefix: ISO
- 69. Wedge shot from a worn-out practice range platform?: ACHIPOFFTHEOLDBLOCK
- 75. Equal: ARE
- 76. Continental coins: EUROS
- 77. Disappearance of 7/2/1937: EARHART
- 79. Wait to play: SIT
- 82. 100 kopecks: RUBLE
- 84. Like 20% of Israel: ARAB
- 86. Start of an attention-getting call: YOO
- 87. Put through: PROCESS
- 90. Use one club for all 18 holes?: PUTTERAROUND
- 95. "That's ___!": AWRAP
- 96. Topper: CAP
- 99. Old-time actress Talbot or Naldi: NITA
- 100. Words to the left of the White House flag on a $20 bill: INGOD
- 101. Course not listed in the guidebooks?: MISSINGLINKS
- 104. Ones on a circuit: RACECARS
- 107. Untrue: NOTSO
- 108. Robert Frost's middle name: LEE
- 109. "Now We Are Six" author: AAMILNE
- 111. Like some columns: IONIC
- 113. Spelling aid?: WAND
- 115. Newly districted: REZONED
- 119. Fragment: SHARD
- 122. Woods stowed in the rear of a golf cart?: BACKSEATDRIVERS
- 125. Action Man : U.K. :: ___ : U.S.: GIJOE
- 126. Long Island airport site: ISLIP
- 127. Legislative excess: PORK
- 128. Any of seven Danish kings: ERIC
- 129. Revenuer: TMAN
- 130. Loses: SHEDS
- 131. Sleighful: TOYS
- 132. Reagan and others: RONS
down
- 1. There are 336 dimples on a typical golf ball, for instance: FACT
- 2. 1970s Wimbledon victor over Connors: ASHE
- 3. Meager: LEAN
- 4. Terrestrial decapod: LANDCRAB
- 5. Aussie chick: SHEILA
- 6. "Chill!": COOLIT
- 7. Inits. in bowling lanes: AMF
- 8. Swell: NEATO
- 9. Operating in either of two ways: ACDC
- 10. Carnival worker: BARKER
- 11. Suffix with Milan: ESE
- 12. On the line: ATSTAKE
- 13. Protection from bug bites: MESH
- 14. Duffer's shots?: FOREPLAY
- 15. Whichever: ANY
- 16. Enthusiasm: VIM
- 17. Whiz: ACE
- 21. Attacked from the air: STRAFED
- 23. Not fine: GRAINY
- 24. Knocked: DISSED
- 29. Prefix with management: ECO
- 31. ___ center: CIVIC
- 33. Shirt: TOP
- 35. Sport named for a British boarding school: RUGBY
- 36. "I haven't ___": ACLUE
- 37. TV option: CABLE
- 38. Milano of "Charmed": ALYSSA
- 39. Like works of Kipling and Browning: POETIC
- 41. Light start?: TWI
- 42. Director ___ C. Kenton: ERLE
- 43. They might help produce a blowout: KEGS
- 46. Annoy: IRK
- 50. Secretive couple: ELOPERS
- 51. Pro ___: BONO
- 52. Iroquois foes: ERIES
- 54. Cassim's brother in a classic tale: ALIBABA
- 58. Investors' news, briefly: IPO
- 59. Come together: GEL
- 62. "Caught you!": AHA
- 63. Military title?: SIR
- 64. Pharynx affliction: STREP
- 65. One-word query: WHO
- 67. Certain 35mm camera: SLR
- 68. "Lo-o-ovely!": OOH
- 70. Second of 12: Abbr.: FEB
- 71. Suffix with ear or arm: FUL
- 72. Valued: DEAR
- 73. ___ Lake (one of New York's Finger Lakes): CAYUGA
- 74. Swedish coins: KRONOR
- 78. Lincoln in-laws: TODDS
- 79. Often-filtered material: SPAM
- 80. Shaw who wrote "Rich Man, Poor Man": IRWIN
- 81. Location of many organs: TORSO
- 83. Org. with boats: USCG
- 84. Lawyer: Abbr.: ATT
- 85. Violate a peace treaty, maybe: REARM
- 88. Club thrown in disgust?: CASTIRON
- 89. Installment: EPISODE
- 91. Anonymous: Abbr.: UNK
- 92. Herbal tea: TISANE
- 93. Early Wagner opera: RIENZI
- 94. Quick survey: ONCEOVER
- 97. Like a real-estate deal that doesn't involve a mortgage: ALLCASH
- 98. Crusty one: PIE
- 102. Oui's opposite: NON
- 103. Object of curiosity on the first day of school: NEWKID
- 105. Put on the line: AIRDRY
- 106. Some postal workers: CLERKS
- 110. Novelize, e.g.: ADAPT
- 112. University of Miami mascot: IBIS
- 114. Egyptian menaces: ASPS
- 116. Nephew of Caligula: NERO
- 117. Country in a Thomas Moore poem: ERIN
- 118. Mil. awards: DSCS
- 119. ___ Pepper: SGT
- 120. That guy: HIM
- 121. Hit Steely Dan album: AJA
- 123. The Indians, on sports tickers: CLE
- 124. As well: TOO
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