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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 5, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, August 5, 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
- 21
- 22
- 37
- 55
- 75
- 98
- 119
- 130
- 131
- 133
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 24
- 32
- 34
- 42
- 71
- 72
- 73
- 74
- 99
- 114
- 116
- 124
- 125
- 127
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Previous The Crossword answer
Saturday, August 4, 2012
across
- 1. Neighboring: ADJACENTTO
- 11. Far from self-effacing: SMUG
- 15. Water-park?: DROPANCHOR
- 16. Rose in a field: PETE
- 17. Singing pair: VOCALCORDS
- 18. Old Broadway production grp.: ANTA
- 19. Classes: ILKS
- 20. Fresno-to-L.A. direction: SSE
- 21. Albuquerque's ___ Racing Museum: UNSER
- 22. Luis who directed "Anaconda," 1997: LLOSA
- 24. Big shot on Al Jazeera: EMIR
- 27. Passé PC piece: CRT
- 28. Botched: MISDONE
- 31. Oxford offering: HMO
- 32. Thing to charge with: CREDITCARD
- 36. Ghost's sound: OOOO
- 37. Crown polisher: DENTALHYGIENIST
- 39. Many hand-helds, for short: PDAS
- 40. Sleeper's option in a sleeper: LOWERBERTH
- 41. Flee: LAM
- 42. Norepinephrine producer: ADRENAL
- 43. Full Sail or Fuller's: ALE
- 44. Put on: WORE
- 45. Recipient of much praise: ALLAH
- 50. TALKS LIKE THIS!: YELLS
- 52. They may sit next to castles: Abbr.: KTS
- 55. Aarnio of furniture: EERO
- 56. Oilman ___ P. Halliburton: ERLE
- 57. Examination by those most qualified: PEERREVIEW
- 60. GPS offerings: Abbr.: RTES
- 61. Old Glory saluter, most likely: USNATIONAL
- 62. They broke up in 1991: Abbr.: SSRS
- 63. They're abandoned in charm school: BADMANNERS
down
- 1. Big name in relief: ADVIL
- 2. Like wags: DROLL
- 3. Informal name for a monkey: JOCKO
- 4. Take ___ (decline): APASS
- 5. Presidential nickname: CAL
- 6. Accompaniers of cover letters: Abbr.: ENCS
- 7. Basic training figs.: NCOS
- 8. Common thing to plan a vacation around: THREEDAYWEEKEND
- 9. Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Mr. ___": TOD
- 10. Sterile environments, for short: ORS
- 11. Decade or century: SPAN
- 12. It's likely to have bass parts: MENSCHOIR
- 13. Farthest: UTTERMOST
- 14. One engaging in clockwork: GEARTOOTH
- 21. Script postscript?: URE
- 23. "What ___ mind reader?": AMIA
- 25. "Guten ___": MORGEN
- 26. One of the Gandhis: INDIRA
- 29. "That works": ITLLDO
- 30. Journalist who wrote "Come to Think of It," 2007: SCHORR
- 32. Contents of some music cabinets: CDPLAYERS
- 33. Indicators of impending danger: REDALERTS
- 34. Brit working with nails, say: ENAMELLER
- 35. Drying-out danger: DTS
- 36. It was retired by the Yankees in 1986: ONE
- 38. Powerful Syrian city in the third millennium B.C.: EBLA
- 42. Sympathetic responses: AWS
- 46. 1972 Elton John hit: LEVON
- 47. Hanover's river: LEINE
- 48. In the back: AREAR
- 49. Hurricane noises: HOWLS
- 51. Off, pricewise: LESS
- 53. It follows a mine line: TRAM
- 54. Miss Spain, say: Abbr.: SRTA
- 57. 43-Across server: PUB
- 58. That Peruvian?: ESA
- 59. German article: EIN
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- Spelling BeeMake words from seven letters around a center letterGuide & tips
- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
- Connections: Sports EditionConnections with a sports-only word poolGuide & tips
- Letter BoxedChain words around a square using all 12 lettersGuide & tips
- 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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Which day is the hardest?
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Can I see past crossword answers?
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