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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 27, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 27, 2014. 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
- 17
- 31
- 59
- 67
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 35
- 46
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
across
- 1. Apply quickly: SLAPON
- 7. Wall ___: STREET
- 13. Gringos' land: ELNORTE
- 20. Place with wheels and deals: CASINO
- 21. Summit planner: SHERPA
- 22. Worse: LOUSIER
- 23. Woodworking tool: RIPSAW
- 24. Untrustworthy sort: WEASEL
- 25. What players do at the start of a game of tag: SCATTER
- 26. Some bling: ICE
- 27. One for the "no" column: NAY
- 29. Most Cypriots, ethnically: GREEKS
- 31. Massages: KNEADS
- 32. Like some eagles and tires: BALD
- 34. Li'l Abner's surname: YOKUM
- 36. Company with the Havoline brand: TEXACO
- 38. Notre dame, e.g.: ELLE
- 39. Valdez of coffee advertising: JUAN
- 40. Period of the Cenozoic Era: NEOGENE
- 42. Language suffix: ESE
- 45. Servings of mashed potatoes, e.g.: GLOBS
- 47. Writer Kipling: RUDYARD
- 48. Let go: AXED
- 49. Cynic Bierce who once defined "alone" as "in bad company": AMBROSE
- 52. Swear off: FORGO
- 53. Potentially dangerous: SKETCHY
- 55. Sapling: TREELET
- 56. Relax: EASEUP
- 58. Goes in: ENTERS
- 59. Stairway post: NEWEL
- 60. Twinkie filler: CREME
- 62. "Back to the Future" villains: LIBYANS
- 64. Amo : I love :: ___ : I hate: ODI
- 65. "The Merry Drinker" painter: HALS
- 66. Pop singer Del Rey: LANA
- 67. In need of a lift: SAD
- 70. "Adoration" subjects in a Leonardo painting: THEMAGI
- 74. Maine college: BATES
- 75. Irish county and seaport: SLIGO
- 77. Have troops in: OCCUPY
- 79. [What a bore]: SNOOZE
- 81. Martin Sheen's real family name: ESTEVEZ
- 83. Tops off?: BEHEADS
- 85. Pam of "Jackie Brown": GRIER
- 86. Takeout choice: CHINESE
- 87. All riled up: IRED
- 88. Part of London where Eliza Doolittle is from: EASTEND
- 90. One side of an 1899-1902 war: BOERS
- 91. Smidgen: TAD
- 92. Source of ivory: WARTHOG
- 93. Uzbekistan's ___ Sea: ARAL
- 94. About a quarter of the population of Sicily lives on its slopes: ETNA
- 98. Title girl in a Chuck Berry hit: NADINE
- 99. Make enforceable: ENACT
- 100. Opportunity: SHOT
- 101. Learn well: ABSORB
- 104. Take blows for: SHIELD
- 107. A line in an A-line?: HEM
- 109. Punk offshoot: EMO
- 110. Be supported by: STANDON
- 112. Movie director who was himself the subject of a 1994 movie: EDWOOD
- 114. Gold-medal gymnast Mary Lou: RETTON
- 116. Powell's successor on the Supreme Court: KENNEDY
- 117. Some starting help: ALEGUP
- 118. "Keep going!": ENCORE
- 119. Love to hate?: ANTONYM
- 120. Canon parts: TENETS
- 121. On the receiving end of a Dear John letter: DUMPED
down
- 1. Writer of old: SCRIBE
- 2. Secular: LAICAL
- 3. See 51-Down: ASPELL
- 4. Gumshoes: PIS
- 5. ___ empty stomach: ONAN
- 6. 73-Down, relatively: NOWAYJOSE
- 7. Denver-to-Albuquerque dir.: SSW
- 8. See 52-Down: THEGUN
- 9. Break a peace treaty, say: REARM
- 10. Gaelic tongue: ERSE
- 11. Lunging sport: EPEE
- 12. 93-Down, relatively: TALKTOYOULATER
- 13. Lines to Wrigley Field: ELS
- 14. See 82-Down: LOCKANDKEY
- 15. Fine point: NUANCE
- 16. Bone: Prefix: OSTEO
- 17. Moreno of "West Side Story": RITA
- 18. Ticked (off): TEED
- 19. Goofs: ERRS
- 28. "Yessiree!": YOUBETCHA
- 30. Dreamcast maker: SEGA
- 33. Résumé datum: DEGREE
- 35. ___ in kangaroo: KAS
- 37. Boomers' kids: XERS
- 40. Sip on: NURSE
- 41. Limit: EDGE
- 42. 95-Down, relatively: EXCESSIVE
- 43. "___ gut": SEHR
- 44. Breyers alternative: EDYS
- 46. Rest in a hammock, say: LOLL
- 47. Wanders: ROAMS
- 48. Abbr. at the start of a memo: ATTN
- 49. He's 2, for one: ATNO
- 50. He "will never speak unless he has something to say," in a song: MRED
- 51. 3-Down, relatively: BEWITCHED
- 52. 8-Down, relatively: FEELINGTHEHEAT
- 54. "Bambi" doe: ENA
- 57. Air freshener scent: PINE
- 61. Cleaner's supply: RAGS
- 63. One who might yell "Go home!": BASECOACH
- 66. Rested in a hammock, say: LAZED
- 68. Gets up there: AGES
- 69. Nap: DOZE
- 71. Taking a certain tone: HUED
- 72. Fuel economy authority, for short: EPA
- 73. See 6-Down: MYDEADBODY
- 74. Cartoon sound: BOING
- 75. Hubbub: STIR
- 76. Macros, e.g.: LENSES
- 77. Words of remembrance, briefly: OBIT
- 78. Michael of "Arrested Development": CERA
- 80. McFlurry flavor: OREO
- 82. 14-Down, relatively: SHELTERED
- 84. Indian wrap: SARI
- 89. Depots: Abbr.: STNS
- 90. Built-in part of a tank top, maybe: BRA
- 92. Block party?: WARDEN
- 93. See 12-Down: ANDOUT
- 95. See 42-Down: THETOP
- 96. "Make it stop!": NOMORE
- 97. Observed Yom Kippur: ATONED
- 98. Italian grandpa: NONNO
- 99. Funeral delivery of old: ELOGE
- 101. "___ stupid question ...": ASKA
- 102. Vitamin a.k.a. para-aminobenzoic acid: BTEN
- 103. Director Gus Van ___: SANT
- 105. In a hammock, maybe: IDLE
- 106. Gershwin biographer David: EWEN
- 108. Many a Yelp link: MENU
- 111. Big Apple N.L. team: NYM
- 113. Fielding feats: Abbr.: DPS
- 115. Cable inits. for a cinephile: TCM
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