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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 24, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 24, 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
- 16
- 23
Down clues & answers
- 12
- 13
- 58
- 59
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
across
- 1. Bush judicial appointee: ROBERTS
- 8. Quarterbacks, often: PASSERS
- 15. Bush judicial appointee: ALITO
- 20. Professional tennis since 1968: OPENERA
- 21. Rank: ECHELON
- 22. Singer with the album "Live at the Polynesian Palace": DONHO
- 23. Time for the best deals, maybe, in a going-out-of-business sale: LASTDAY
- 24. *1939 Judy Garland film: THEWIZARDOFOZ
- 26. There was a great one in Genesis: FLOOD
- 27. One-named designer: ERTE
- 28. Lava comes out of it: FISSURE
- 29. Kind of car or tee: MUSCLE
- 32. Appear suddenly: POPOUT
- 36. Slaughter in the 1946 World Series: ENOS
- 37. *1933 Jean Harlow film: BOMBSHELL
- 40. "Nuts!": DARN
- 41. Gator's tail?: ADE
- 43. D-backs, on scoreboards: ARI
- 44. Daily riser: TIDE
- 45. How things may be brought: TOHEEL
- 47. Pass: ENACT
- 51. Restful places: INNS
- 53. Each: PER
- 54. *1943 Spencer Tracy/Irene Dunne film: AGUYNAMEDJOE
- 56. Is threatening, in a way: LOOMS
- 58. Colorist: DYER
- 60. Self-absorbed sort: SOLIPSIST
- 61. Hit: STRUCK
- 63. Some kitchenware: POTS
- 66. Call from a curb: TAXI
- 67. Sprint competitor, once: GTE
- 68. *1939 Vivien Leigh/Clark Gable film: GONEWITHTHEWIND
- 73. ___ king: ALA
- 76. Sprint: TEAR
- 77. Word of agreement: SURE
- 78. 2000s events in North Korea, for short: NTESTS
- 82. Provider of music on the go?: CARSTEREO
- 85. Court grp.: USTA
- 88. Footnote abbr.: OPCIT
- 89. *1942 Spencer Tracy/Hedy Lamarr film: TORTILLAFLAT
- 92. Odist's preposition: ERE
- 94. When repeated, a Polynesian capital: PAGO
- 95. Publish: ISSUE
- 96. Drinkers' toasts: SKOALS
- 97. Brother of George W. and Jeb: NEIL
- 99. Award for Miss Hawaii, in addition to a tiara: LEI
- 100. Summer hrs.: DST
- 102. Snow queen in Disney's "Frozen": ELSA
- 103. *1948 Ingrid Bergman film: JOANOFARC
- 105. Elegance: LUXE
- 108. eBay user: BIDDER
- 110. Certain newspaper advertisement: INSERT
- 111. Like Christiane Amanpour, by upbringing: IRANIAN
- 113. Pub containers: MUGS
- 115. Perfect, as a home: DREAM
- 119. Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889: VICTORFLEMING
- 123. Torrey Pines Golf Course locale: LAJOLLA
- 125. Suffer humiliation, in slang: EATIT
- 126. Comeback: RIPOSTE
- 127. Brooks Robinson's team: ORIOLES
- 128. Sitcom with a 1974 wedding: RHODA
- 129. Foreign traveler's purchase, maybe: ADAPTOR
- 130. Source of the line "What's past is prologue," with "The": TEMPEST
down
- 1. Massage therapeutically: ROLF
- 2. ___-blue: OPAL
- 3. "I should ___ lucky": BESO
- 4. Put into a sepulcher: ENTOMB
- 5. *1932 Clark Gable/Jean Harlow film: REDDUST
- 6. La-la lead-in: TRA
- 7. Perhaps: SAY
- 8. Migratory seabird: PETREL
- 9. Vier + vier: ACHT
- 10. What Babe wants to be in "Babe": SHEEPDOG
- 11. Finish (up): SEW
- 12. New Haven reuner: ELI
- 13. "Frasier" role: ROZ
- 14. Major glitch: SNAFU
- 15. Puts together: ADDS
- 16. Things that should be tied up by the curtain?: LOOSEENDS
- 17. Playfully: INFUN
- 18. Complete, informally: THORO
- 19. Transudes: OOZES
- 25. Beatles title girl: RITA
- 27. Queen of literature: ELLERY
- 30. Send off: SHIP
- 31. Gave up: CEDED
- 33. Birthplace of 22-Across: OAHU
- 34. Hunts, with "on": PREYS
- 35. Lacking variety: ONENOTE
- 37. Gives up, in slang: BAILS
- 38. "Then again, I could be wrong": ORNOT
- 39. Adult's counterpart: MINOR
- 42. Obsessed with: DEEPINTO
- 45. Fortunetelling aids: TAROTS
- 46. 1980s-'90s series based on the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak: LALAW
- 48. Doing ___ (dancing springily): AJIG
- 49. Basis in accounting: COST
- 50. Head to Paris?: TETE
- 52. Overly confident: SMUG
- 55. Recipe instruction: MIXIN
- 57. Wiry-coated terriers: SCOTTIES
- 59. Lead-in to Pen, commercially: EPI
- 62. Genuflect: KNEEL
- 64. Night that "Friends" aired: Abbr.: THU
- 65. Swashbuckles, say: STRUTS
- 69. Some London lords: EARLS
- 70. Effected, in a bad way: WREAKED
- 71. "___ ba-a-ack!": HES
- 72. "Ed Wood" star: DEPP
- 73. When the story begins, perhaps: ACTI
- 74. 1960s U.S. bombing target: LAOS
- 75. Flight board info: Abbr.: ARRS
- 79. Milan's La ___: SCALA
- 80. Go-getter: TIGER
- 81. Unemotive: STOIC
- 83. Means of access to a cafeteria, maybe: STUDENTID
- 84. In past centuries: OFOLD
- 86. Joint parts: TENONS
- 87. Specialties: AREAS
- 90. Give off coherent light: LASE
- 91. Overreacting sort: ALARMIST
- 93. Essen article: EINE
- 98. *1925 Percy Marmont film: LORDJIM
- 101. One way to the top: TBAR
- 103. Pub measure: JIGGER
- 104. 1960s western sitcom: FTROOP
- 105. Chopped ___: LIVER
- 106. ___ Heep (Dickens character): URIAH
- 107. Blade brand: XACTO
- 109. Red opening?: INFRA
- 112. Bit: IOTA
- 114. "Render ___ Caesar ...": UNTO
- 116. Shelfmate of Vogue: ELLE
- 117. Tavern stock: ALES
- 118. Place for a topgallant: MAST
- 120. Lash holder: LID
- 121. Green monitor, for short?: EPA
- 122. Finish (up): MOP
- 123. Fate: LOT
- 124. "___ we done?": ARE
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