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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 15, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, March 15, 2015. 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
- 22
- 35
- 44
- 53
- 59
- 64
- 73
- 97
- 106
- 112
- 123
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 38
- 40
- 61
- 69
- 70
- 89
- 93
- 99
- 102
- 118
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Previous The Crossword answer
Saturday, March 14, 2015
across
- 1. Tie one on at dinner: LOBSTERBIB
- 11. Online heads-up: NSFW
- 15. 1990s TV cartoon produced by Steven Spielberg: ANIMANIACS
- 16. Home for the College of Wooster: OHIO
- 17. "Cash is king": MONEYTALKS
- 18. Role for Ferrell on "S.N.L.": RENO
- 19. Dear: ANGEL
- 20. "The ___ Bridge Disaster" (McGonagall poem): TAY
- 21. Runners' spot: SLED
- 22. Diamond ___ Trucks (bygone company): REO
- 23. It's found on the toe of a boot: OMAN
- 25. Goes for the gold?: SMELTS
- 27. Yogi's title: SRI
- 28. Bolivian export: COCA
- 30. Stick in the mouth?: GUM
- 31. Subject of a Hoyle treatise: WHIST
- 33. Portrayer of Hector in "Troy": ERICBANA
- 35. Infomercial product said to hold 12 times its weight in liquid: SHAMWOW
- 37. Band with a 2000 Grammy-winning hit that's on Rolling Stone's list of all-time "most annoying songs": BAHAMEN
- 38. Ones pulling strings?: HARPISTS
- 40. Old-hat: TIRED
- 41. Text-interpreting technology used with PDFs: OCR
- 42. Duke: FIST
- 43. Halfway house?: INN
- 44. Hurdles: VAULTS
- 46. Step: PACE
- 48. Boston landmark, with "the": PRU
- 51. George Knightley's love interest, in literature: EMMA
- 52. Fired (up): HET
- 53. Some messages from messengers: WIRES
- 55. Truncates: LOPS
- 56. Mobbed by mosquitos: EATENALIVE
- 58. Not class-specific: ELHI
- 59. 1999 Crowe/Pacino film nominated for seven Oscars: THEINSIDER
- 60. Newspaper post: DESK
- 61. Things happy people do: CARTWHEELS
down
- 1. Hip-hop's Kendrick ___: LAMAR
- 2. Quick snap time, in football: ONONE
- 3. "Ding ding ding!": BINGO
- 4. Mr. of "Peter Pan": SMEE
- 5. Singer/songwriter whose name anagrams to ART OF SLY WIT: TAYLORSWIFT
- 6. Med. specialist: ENT
- 7. Gaucho gear: RIATA
- 8. Journalistic ideal: BALANCE
- 9. Like glop: ICKY
- 10. Some undergrad degs.: BSS
- 11. Language from which "litmus" comes: NORSE
- 12. Certain subterfuge: SHELLGAME
- 13. Well-calibrated: FINETUNED
- 14. Savior of Little Red Riding Hood: WOODSMAN
- 24. Division of biology: MITOSIS
- 25. Kind of nerve: SCIATIC
- 26. Put through cycles, in a way: MACHINEWASH
- 27. Boob: SIMP
- 29. Mars or Neptune: ORB
- 31. Metaphor for a tedious, futile effort: WHACAMOLE
- 32. Expresses grumpily: HARRUMPHS
- 34. Pottery ___: BARN
- 35. Wolfed (down): SHOVELED
- 36. Newborn stats: Abbr.: WTS
- 39. Figure in many New Yorker cartoons: STPETER
- 45. Kind of surgery: LASIK
- 47. Bit the dust: ATEIT
- 48. What the rainbow flag signifies: PRIDE
- 49. Go wild: REVEL
- 50. Web browsers: USERS
- 52. "That's a funny one": HAHA
- 54. First name in the International Tennis Hall of Fame: ILIE
- 56. "And stuff": ETC
- 57. Fort Myers-to-Tampa dir.: NNW
More daily puzzle hints
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- Spelling BeeMake words from seven letters around a center letterGuide & tips
- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
- Connections: Sports EditionConnections with a sports-only word poolGuide & tips
- Letter BoxedChain words around a square using all 12 lettersGuide & tips
- Midi CrosswordThe mid-size crossword between the Mini and the dailyGuide & tips
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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Which day is the hardest?
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