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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 10, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, August 10, 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
- 27
- 30
- 32
- 42
- 70
- 71
- 103
- 113
- 122
- 123
Down clues & answers
- 7
- 14
- 32
- 51
- 75
- 87
- 102
- 109
- 110
- 111
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Saturday, August 9, 2014
across
- 1. Colonel's charge, once: KFC
- 4. Conventioneers: Abbr.: DELS
- 8. Washington, once, so they say: SWAMP
- 13. Creature that moves by jet propulsion: NAUTILUS
- 15. Loses one's shadow, say: SHAVES
- 16. Like John Belushi, ethnically: ALBANIAN
- 17. Spelunking supply: PITONS
- 18. High level: PLATEAU
- 19. Couscous ingredient: PINENUT
- 20. Ones working over the holidays?: SANTAS
- 21. Try to stop: DETER
- 22. Part of Austin Powers's attire: ASCOT
- 23. Big beat?: GINSBERG
- 26. "Mad Men" award: CLIO
- 27. One getting stuck in a horror movie: VOODOODOLL
- 29. Powder holder: KEG
- 30. French locale of prehistoric cave paintings: LASCAUX
- 31. Bellwether sound: BAA
- 32. Image on many an old map: SEASERPENT
- 34. ConocoPhillips competitor: HESS
- 35. Like top-shelf liquor: PRICIEST
- 36. Place to walk to: FIRST
- 37. Tired: STALE
- 38. "The Divine Comedy" has 100 of them: CANTOS
- 39. Ski lodge fixtures: HOTTUBS
- 42. Digression: TANGENT
- 43. Going in circles: AWHIRL
- 44. Lear's youngest: CORDELIA
- 45. British footballer Wayne ___: ROONEY
- 46. Inconvenience: IMPOSEON
- 47. Some modern fads: MEMES
- 48. Reckon: DEEM
- 49. Curtains: END
down
- 1. Contents of some lockers: KNAPSACKS
- 2. Drop off: FALLASLEEP
- 3. Bolívar, Cohiba or Juan López: CUBANCIGAR
- 4. Patronize, in a way: DINEAT
- 5. Mount St. ___ (Alaska/Canada border peak): ELIAS
- 6. Common dance theme: LUAU
- 7. Fig. on some shredded documents: SSN
- 8. Case for a bootblack: SHINEBOX
- 9. Weak, with "down": WATERED
- 10. Drug dealer on "The Wire": AVON
- 11. Many a flier under a door: MENU
- 12. Alternative to an elbow: PSST
- 14. Tomahawk for Andrew Jackson, surprisingly: TATTOO
- 15. Quickly produces in great quantity: SPITSOUT
- 19. One might have a cameo at the end: PENDANT
- 21. Bishop's place: DIOCESE
- 23. Biblical quartet: GOSPELS
- 24. Arlington House is his memorial: ROBERTELEE
- 25. Monocle, in British slang: GLASSONION
- 27. How Mount Etna erupts: VARIABLY
- 28. The Battle of Thermopylae, for the Spartans: LASTSTAND
- 30. Some gatherings in halls: LECTURES
- 33. Raphael's "___ Madonna": SISTINE
- 34. Swinging joints: HINGES
- 36. Group of lovers, collectively: FANDOM
- 38. "___ mañana" (procrastinator's jokey motto): CARPE
- 39. "What's the ___?": HARM
- 40. Shakespearean lament: OWOE
- 41. Fashion designer Browne: THOM
- 42. A-F or G-K, maybe: TOME
- 44. Conqueror of Valencia, with "the": CID
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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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