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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 22, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, October 22, 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
- 16
- 33
- 66
- 68
- 72
Down clues & answers
- 25
- 54
- 61
- 62
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
across
- 1. Carne ___ (burrito filling): ASADA
- 6. Times when the French fry?: ETES
- 10. Chess champion Mikhail: TAL
- 13. Highland fling participants: LASSES
- 19. Gave props on Facebook: LIKED
- 20. Big drop: NOSEDIVE
- 22. Inveigle: ENTICE
- 23. Husky relative: AKITA
- 24. Not entirely real, as a photo: DOCTORED
- 25. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" poet: GOETHE
- 26. Footwear preserver: SHOETREE
- 28. Poetic basis for an N.F.L. team name: THERAVEN
- 30. It has a light bark: ASPEN
- 31. Go back over: RETRACE
- 33. Affix, as a patch: SEWON
- 34. Move, in real-estate lingo: RELO
- 35. Soft scent: JASMINE
- 38. Actress Davis of "The Matrix Reloaded": ESSIE
- 39. Warner who played Charlie Chan: OLAND
- 40. Oodles: ALOT
- 41. Bands seen at Japanese weddings: OBIS
- 42. Football figs.: YDS
- 43. Carnivorous plant: FLYTRAP
- 44. Christopher Robin's last name: MILNE
- 45. Ripken with a 17-year consecutive game streak: CAL
- 46. Org. with a wing and a globe in its logo: FAA
- 49. ___ B: PLAN
- 51. BlackBerry features: KEYBOARDS
- 53. Secretary of labor who became a Supreme Court justice: GOLDBERG
- 58. He wrote "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.": ORWELL
- 62. Rom-___ (some film fare): COMS
- 63. Clearheaded: SOBER
- 64. Franklin output: ALMANAC
- 65. One with a reduced term?: PREEMIE
- 68. Skipping syllables: TRALA
- 69. Scheduled: SLOTTED
- 70. ___ Palace: CAESARS
- 71. Caper ... or going around the wrong way, in Britain?: ANTIC
- 72. Owlish: WISE
- 73. Do a line of shots?: STRAFE
- 74. Gabrielle of volleyball and modeling: REECE
- 75. Kind of barometer: ANEROID
- 79. Fossil-rich location: TARPIT
- 81. ___ Pepper: SGT
- 82. Kind of dye: AZO
- 83. Warren site: BRIER
- 86. Jazzman Jones: THAD
- 90. Fan noise: RAH
- 93. Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity establishment: IHOP
- 94. Bodybuilder's count: REPS
- 95. Get ___ on: AMOVE
- 96. Skirt: EVADE
- 99. Presumptuous, say: RUDE
- 100. Elephantlike walker in "The Empire Strikes Back": ATAT
- 101. Former capital of 10+ million: LAGOS
- 102. Historical figure in Isabel Allende's novel "Inés of My Soul": PIZARRO
- 104. Pet food container: TIN
- 105. Digital problem: HANGNAIL
- 107. Like a winning X Games trick, maybe: INSANEST
- 111. "Harrumph!": INEVER
- 113. Inopportune: ILLTIMED
- 115. Island entertainer: DONHO
- 116. Persuasive Dr. Seuss character: SAMIAM
- 117. Pod: SEEDCASE
- 118. Daughter of King Triton: ARIEL
- 119. Retro light sources: LAVALAMPS
- 120. Boasts: HAS
- 121. Predatory insect: ANTLION
- 122. Pirate's moniker: REDBEARD
down
- 1. Sighed line?: ALAS
- 2. Guru's disciple, maybe: SIKH
- 3. Toyota exec ___ Toyoda: AKIO
- 4. Concludes: DETERMINES
- 5. "It's ___!" ("You're on!"): ADATE
- 6. Orson Scott Card's "____ Game": ENDERS
- 7. Not a challenge at all: TOOEASY
- 8. F1 neighbor: ESC
- 9. Sofas: SETTEES
- 10. Gets bored with: TIRESOF
- 11. Diplomat W. ___ Harriman: AVERELL
- 12. What a handcuffed person may be: LEDAWAY
- 13. There's one surrounding Atlantis: LEGEND
- 14. Before long: ANON
- 15. Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr.: STE
- 16. Rest awhile: SITASPELL
- 17. Tier: ECHELON
- 18. Reader's direction: SEENOTE
- 21. "Stupid me!": DOH
- 27. Postal abbr.: RTE
- 29. Musical family name: VONTRAPP
- 32. "Cantar de Mio ___" (Spanish epic): CID
- 34. Runoff, perhaps: RAINWATER
- 35. Crop holder: JOCKEY
- 36. Basic rhyme scheme: ABAB
- 37. Crop holder: SILO
- 44. New World monkey: MARMOSET
- 46. How a rocket launch is usually viewed: FROMAFAR
- 47. Fan: ADMIRER
- 48. Stubborn ones: ASSES
- 50. Lying about: LOLLING
- 52. Scores 100: ACESATEST
- 53. Reward for one who 52-Down?: GOLDSTAR
- 54. Lifted: BORNE
- 55. Cash back from an online purchase: EBATE
- 56. Museum holding: RELIC
- 57. Beginning of many a meal: GRACE
- 59. Tolkien's Treebeard, e.g.: ENT
- 60. Port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight: LAE
- 61. TV type: LCD
- 64. ___ expected (predictably): ASWAS
- 65. Windows users: PCS
- 66. Tattler: RAT
- 67. Always, if the meter requires it: EER
- 76. Waikiki locale: OAHU
- 77. Brand associated with a crocodile logo: IZOD
- 78. Dummy: DOPE
- 80. Fictional Miss Jane: PITTMAN
- 83. Central European capital: BRATISLAVA
- 84. ___ detachment: RETINAL
- 85. Rio de Janeiro neighborhood: IPANEMA
- 87. Gluttonous: HOGGISH
- 88. Setting of "Anne of Green Gables": AVONLEA
- 89. University in Center Valley, Pa.: DESALES
- 90. The statue of David in Florence, e.g.: REPLICA
- 91. Bird: Prefix: AVI
- 92. Least defined: HAZIEST
- 93. Steel mill input: IRONORE
- 95. Some cellphone settings: ALARMS
- 97. Certain salad green: DANDELION
- 98. Triage locales, for short: ERS
- 103. Trooper's tool: RADAR
- 105. Great deal: HEAP
- 106. "___ be a pleasure": ITD
- 108. "Idylls of the King" wife: ENID
- 109. Mama grizzly: SHEBEAR
- 110. Ordered: TOLD
- 112. Pep: VIM
- 114. "Bambi" villain: MAN
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