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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 13, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, July 13, 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
- 25
- 34
- 40
- 42
Down clues & answers
- 4
- 20
- 24
- 43
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
across
- 1. Indianapolis-based sports org.: NCAA
- 5. ___ engine: HEMI
- 9. "Give me ___": ASIGN
- 14. Hamlet: BURG
- 15. Impulse carrier: AXON
- 16. Strand in the water?: ECOLI
- 17. Worship: ADORATION
- 19. Former Baby Bell: NYNEX
- 20. Club: CIRCLE
- 21. Dion who didn't sing with the Belmonts: CELINE
- 22. It has a round bottom: WOK
- 24. With 37-/46-Across, difficult things to be "between": THEDEVILAND
- 26. Its state flower is the camellia: Abbr.: ALA
- 27. Supplied: FED
- 28. Hit Broadway musical set partly in a tomb: AIDA
- 29. Drill sound?: TENHUT
- 31. Symbol of the planet Neptune: PSI
- 32. It's all downhill from here: ACME
- 36. Like some almanac data: TIDAL
- 37. See 24-Across: THE
- 38. "... whole world ___ hands": INHIS
- 39. Traumatize: SCAR
- 40. Flit: GAD
- 41. Morticia or Uncle Fester: ADDAMS
- 42. Apply roughly: DAUB
- 44. Something that's not hard to drink?: ALE
- 45. "Riddle-me-___": REE
- 46. See 24-Across: DEEPBLUESEA
- 50. Not in this direction: YON
- 51. Cap add-on: EARLAP
- 52. It might be used for tracking shots: BARTAB
- 54. Old lab burners: ETNAS
- 55. Champion wannabe: CONTENDER
- 58. Take a coat off: DEICE
- 59. Deal preceder: ANTE
- 60. 28-Across locale: NILE
- 61. Look accompanying the comment "Is that all you got?": SNEER
- 62. Not natural, in a way: DYED
- 63. Grills: ASKS
down
- 1. Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy org.: NBA
- 2. It's a mouthful: CUD
- 3. With 30-Down, difficult things to be "between": AROCKANDA
- 4. Prefix with culture: AGRI
- 5. Kind of job: HATCHET
- 6. Like Napoleon: EXILED
- 7. Called on a farm: MOOED
- 8. Country ___: INN
- 9. Source of the line "Each of us bears his own Hell": AENEID
- 10. With 33-Down, difficult things to be "between": SCYLLAAND
- 11. Ancient land SE of Lesbos: IONIA
- 12. Close in Hollywood: GLENN
- 13. Overruled: NIXED
- 18. Crafty: ARTFUL
- 21. Roman numeral that's an anagram of part of Caesar's boast: CVII
- 22. Part of Los Angeles: WATTS
- 23. Kind of acid: OLEIC
- 25. What Fred Astaire danced with: EASE
- 30. See 3-Down: HARDPLACE
- 31. Ultimate degree?: PHD
- 33. See 10-Down: CHARYBDIS
- 34. Old copier: MIMEO
- 35. City north of Bonn: ESSEN
- 37. "The forbidden fragrance": TABU
- 38. Brainstorm: IDEATE
- 40. [Boy, am I in trouble now!]: GULP
- 41. Given a tip: ALERTED
- 43. Bully, by nature: ABASER
- 44. Four-time Pro Bowler ___ Samuel: ASANTE
- 46. Scouts' work: DEEDS
- 47. Like victuals: EATEN
- 48. Orange TV character: ERNIE
- 49. Black: EBONY
- 53. Tolstoy heroine: ANNA
- 55. Heel: CAD
- 56. Utah state animal: ELK
- 57. Low-___: RES
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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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