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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 2, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, November 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
- 28
- 44
- 50
Down clues & answers
- 57
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
across
- 1. With 4- & 9-Across, sports news of 1919: BLA
- 4. See 1-Across: KSOXS
- 9. See 1-Across: ANDAL
- 14. Part of E.N.T.: EAR
- 15. Stand for a sitting: EASEL
- 16. Part of a waste reduction strategy: REUSE
- 17. With 18- & 19-Across, Toys "R" Us department: ELE
- 18. See 17-Across: TRONI
- 19. See 17-Across: GAMES
- 20. Figure in Raphael's "The School of Athens": PLATO
- 22. Painter's aid: LADDER
- 24. Drawer at a doctor's office?: SYRINGE
- 26. Not moved from the original location: INSITU
- 30. Lib ___ (U.K. party member): DEM
- 31. Times or Century: FONT
- 33. Some French?: DES
- 34. With 37- & 39-Across, Fredric March's last film: THEI
- 37. See 34-Across: EMAN
- 39. See 34-Across: OMETH
- 41. ___ Gallimard, protagonist of "M. Butterfly": RENE
- 42. Something to contemplate: NAVEL
- 44. Tributary of the High Rhine: AARE
- 45. With 47- & 48-Across, like some student activities: EXTRA
- 47. See 45-Across: URRI
- 48. See 45-Across: ULAR
- 49. Third of November?: VEE
- 50. Like bright red cardinals: MALE
- 52. Egyptian headdress feature: ASP
- 54. Children of ___ (descendants of Jacob): ISRAEL
- 56. Goldsmith, for one: ARTISAN
- 60. Like "Wedding Crashers" or "Bridesmaids": RRATED
- 63. A current flows into it: ANODE
- 64. With 67- & 69-Across, role that garnered 12 consecutive unsuccessful Emmy nominations, 1985-96: JESSI
- 67. See 64-Across: AFLET
- 69. See 64-Across: HER
- 70. Brother of Moses: AARON
- 71. Beauty pageant judging criterion: POISE
- 72. Iraq war danger, for short: IED
- 73. With 74- & 75-Across, "invisible" part of a distribution list ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme: BLIND
- 74. See 73-Across: ARBON
- 75. See 73-Across: OPY
down
- 1. Urban cacophony: BEEPS
- 2. ___ column (construction piece): LALLY
- 3. Toward the back: AREAR
- 4. Organic compound with a double-bonded oxygen: KETONE
- 5. Isl. south of Corsica: SAR
- 6. "___ mio": OSOLE
- 7. Princess known as the Defender of the Elijans: XENA
- 8. Declined, as stocks: SLID
- 9. Composer Dominick whose name means "silver" in Italian: ARGENTO
- 10. Almost reaches: NEARS
- 11. Musical syllable before and after "da": DUM
- 12. Enzyme suffix: ASE
- 13. "___ Miz": LES
- 21. Comparatively neat: TIDIER
- 23. Racket: DIN
- 25. Feds: GMEN
- 27. Model: IDEAL
- 28. Aquarium fish: TETRA
- 29. Program presenter: USHER
- 31. N.F.L. record-holder for consecutive starts: FAVRE
- 32. Embarassing spelling mistake?: ONER
- 34. Fountain name: TREVI
- 35. Spells: HEXES
- 36. Sign with an arrow: ENTER
- 38. Mangle: MAUL
- 40. "Tales of the City" novelist: MAUPIN
- 43. Make-up person?: LIAR
- 46. Ute or Cree: AMERIND
- 51. What's put before the carte?: ALA
- 53. New York's ___ Island: STATEN
- 55. "Backdraft" crime: ARSON
- 56. Wing it: ADLIB
- 57. Bygone gas brand: SOHIO
- 58. "Take ___ breath": ADEEP
- 59. Uncool: NERDY
- 61. Spanish appetizer: TAPA
- 62. Get an ___ effort: EFOR
- 64. Get one's point across?: JAB
- 65. Suffix with arbor or ether: EAL
- 66. ___ Lanka: SRI
- 68. "___ Beso": ESO
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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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