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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for July 24, 2013

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, July 24, 2013. 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.

74 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Comes across
2
10s, say
3
Rock's Limp ___
4
In a shouting match, perhaps
5
Skater Lipinski
6
Little nothing
7
One who's morally flawed
8
"Pardon the Interruption" network
9
Country that's over 50% desert
10
Max of physics
11
Person who has a way with words?
12
You, generically
13
"Better ___ ..."
21
___-3 fatty acid
22
Nothing
26
Bender?
27
"Holy moly!"
29
Dwindle, with "out"
30
Symbol after "I" on many a bumper sticker
31
"___ to a Kill"
32
Sign on a door
36
Corner office, e.g.
37
Sweet Swan of ___ (epithet for Shakespeare)
38
"Musetta's Waltz" opera
39
Scooter ___, Plame affair figure
41
Poem in which Paris plays a prominent part
44
Handmade
47
Applies
48
A.L. East athlete
49
CBS drama featuring LL Cool J
50
Puts the pedal to the metal
54
Symbol of the National Audubon Society
56
Loud, as a color
57
Plant holder?
58
Literary matchmaker
59
Kings of ___ ("Use Somebody" band)
60
___ the Kid (N.H.L. nickname)
61
Eastern principle

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

across

1. Verizon FiOS and EarthLink, briefly: ISPS
5. Feet, in slang: DOGS
9. Leadership positions: HELMS
14. Face on a coin of A.D. 64: NERO
15. "Git!": SHOO
16. Online outlay: ECASH
17. *Abrupt reversals of opinion: FLIPFLOPS
19. Get stuck (in): LODGE
20. Madagascar mammal: LEMUR
21. Grits, essentially: HOMINY
23. *Uninjured, after "in": ONEPIECE
26. *Hoosegow: COOLER
29. Card game for two: WAR
30. Red and white stoppers?: CORKS
32. Doozy: LULU
33. Singer Julius of early TV: LAROSA
35. Styptic pencil targets: NICKS
36. *Scandal damage control: COVERUP
39. *Across-the-board: BLANKET
41. Les ___-Unis: ETATS
42. Overprivileged 6-year-old of children's lit: ELOISE
44. Ship records: LOGS
45. Virginia Woolf's "___ of One's Own": AROOM
46. Play charades: ACT
49. *Ghostly figures: SHADES
51. *Kind of insurance policy: UMBRELLA
54. Blowouts: BASHES
56. What steam coming out of the ears may signify in a cartoon: ANGER
57. Lineup on a computer screen: ICONS
59. One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe: BEACHGOER
62. Chop to bits: MINCE
63. Sunbathe too long: BURN
64. Language spoken around Loch Ness: ERSE
65. U.P.S. alternative: FEDEX
66. Whirl: SPIN
67. Creepy look: LEER

down

1. Amount received, as of cash: INFLOW
2. Actress Gomez: SELENA
3. First layer of furniture protection: PRIMER
4. Absorb: SOPUP
5. Web access inits.: DSL
6. Jolly exclamation: OHO
7. Tunneling rodents: GOPHERS
8. Garnering a "meh," say: SOSO
9. Prefix with -tropic: HELIO
10. Bygone Ford van: ECONOLINE
11. Figure invoked in casinos: LADYLUCK
12. E-mail or letter: Abbr.: MSG
13. "Ain't ___ Sweet" (song classic): SHE
18. It's "Black" once a year: Abbr.: FRI
22. Ed Sullivan and others, informally: MCS
24. Beige-ish: ECRU
25. Mini ___: COOPER
27. Hollywood's Sommer: ELKE
28. Sign of industrial decay: RUST
31. Explosion sound: KABOOM
33. 1983 David Bowie #1 hit: LETSDANCE
34. Ovid's "___ Amatoria": ARS
35. "Daughters" rapper: NAS
36. Cartoon frames: CELS
37. Texter's "Then again ...": OTOH
38. Wayfarer: VAGABOND
40. Arm or leg: LIMB
43. Make a mess of: LOUSEUP
45. Volcanic spew: ASH
46. Losing side in a 2000 Supreme Court ruling: ALGORE
47. "Monty Python" comic John: CLEESE
48. Roof worker, of a sort: TARRER
50. County NE of London: ESSEX
52. Pep rally cry: RAH
53. NBC newsman Richard: ENGEL
55. Recedes: EBBS
57. Global economic oversight org.: IMF
58. Inc., in France: CIE
60. D-backs, on scoreboards: ARI
61. Home of "The Situation Room": CNN

Hints and full breakdown for Jul 23

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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.
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Can I see past crossword answers?

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