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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 10, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 10, 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
Down clues & answers
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
across
- 1. Debate, with "out": HASH
- 5. How some TV series are sold: ONDVD
- 10. Use a witching rod: DOWSE
- 15. Travel with Sinbad, say: SAIL
- 19. "Come ___ me, all ye that labor ...": UNTO
- 20. Port of Puerto Rico: PONCE
- 21. Tony-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber musical: EVITA
- 22. Children's TV character who refers to himself in the third person: ELMO
- 23. Need rural real estate investor to ...: BUYTHEFARM
- 25. Need retail marketer to ...: FILLTHEGAP
- 27. Where to begin: STEPONE
- 28. Peaceful: SERENE
- 30. Kind of oil: SESAME
- 31. Projector unit: LUMEN
- 33. Characters in "The Hobbit": RUNES
- 34. Militant grp. in a 1994 peace agreement: IRA
- 35. Chrome alternative: SAFARI
- 38. Newspaper section, for short: OBITS
- 40. See 44-Across: SNOWCAP
- 44. What a 40-Across produces in the summer: MELT
- 45. Need cocktail waitress to ...: CALLTHESHOTS
- 49. Photocopier option: Abbr.: LTR
- 50. Constellation between Perseus and Pisces: ARIES
- 52. Starting or ending point for a commuter: Abbr.: STA
- 53. Luxury rental: LIMO
- 54. Polo of "Meet the Parents": TERI
- 55. Bit of sauce: LIP
- 56. Need bakery assistant to ...: TAKETHECAKE
- 61. Track runner: TRAIN
- 62. "Get lost!": LETMEBE
- 64. Vicious: SAVAGE
- 65. Biblical mount that can be seen from three countries: ARARAT
- 66. Stockpiles: HOARDS
- 68. Be that as it may: YET
- 69. Acting monarch: REGENT
- 71. What a chair might provide: AGENDA
- 73. Sudden twist: WRENCH
- 76. Entered uninvited: CRASHED
- 79. Maguire of "The Great Gatsby": TOBEY
- 80. Need cruise ship band to ...: ROCKTHEBOAT
- 82. Prefix with -graph: EPI
- 83. Take orders, say: WAIT
- 84. Complain, complain, complain: CARP
- 85. ___ Aviv: TEL
- 86. Something rolling in the dough?: YEAST
- 88. Letters of interest: APR
- 89. Need orchestra conductor to ...: FACETHEMUSIC
- 94. ___ gear: RIOT
- 95. Chianti, e.g.: REDWINE
- 97. Stage of the Tour de France: ETAPE
- 98. Onetime "Be all you can be" sloganeer: USARMY
- 100. Onetime: OLD
- 101. Benjamin of "Law & Order": BRATT
- 103. Diamond protectors: TARPS
- 105. Crude house: SHANTY
- 108. Go over again: REREAD
- 110. They can leave scars: TRAUMAS
- 114. Need blackjack dealer to ...: HITTHEDECK
- 116. Need magician to ...: DOTHETRICK
- 118. Member of the 3,000-hit club, informally: AROD
- 119. P. C. Wren's "Beau ___": GESTE
- 120. Classical Greek theater: ODEON
- 121. Like certain educational publishing: ELHI
- 122. Musical pitch?: DEMO
- 123. Board: GETON
- 124. Homage with humor: ROAST
- 125. Flow slowly: SEEP
down
- 1. O'Hare and Dallas/Fort Worth: HUBS
- 2. "What are you, some kind of ___?": ANUT
- 3. Bad eye sight: STYE
- 4. Tabletop cooker: HOTPLATE
- 5. Budding comic's opportunity: OPENMIC
- 6. Free, as a bank account: NOFEE
- 7. Part of a forensic database: DNA
- 8. Obsolescent tape holders: VCRS
- 9. Mark off?: DEMERIT
- 10. One side in football: DEFENSE
- 11. Like ones welcomed to the fold?: OVINE
- 12. Foxiness: WILES
- 13. The Rams, on scoreboards: STL
- 14. Erodes: EATSINTO
- 15. It takes two to do this: SEESAW
- 16. Bit of marine life: ALGA
- 17. Man of Allah: IMAM
- 18. Less than a full run: LOPE
- 24. The "xx" of xx:yy: HOUR
- 26. ___ welcome: HEROS
- 29. First name on the Supreme Court: RUTH
- 32. "Warrior" actor Nick: NOLTE
- 35. Lowercase: SMALL
- 36. Cliffside home: AERIE
- 37. Need stunt pilot to ...: FLIPTHEBIRD
- 39. Calf cries: BLATS
- 40. Body opening?: SOME
- 41. Need control tower operator to ...: CLEARTHEAIR
- 42. Parts of Roman homes: ATRIA
- 43. Part of a forensic database: PRINT
- 46. Pumped: ASKED
- 47. Coal-mining waste: SLAG
- 48. One who walks on the wild side?: HIKER
- 51. "Easy there": STEADY
- 54. Part of L.G.B.T., informally: TRANS
- 57. Magical start?: ABRA
- 58. Actress Salma of "Grown Ups": HAYEK
- 59. Wedding or concert, e.g.: EVENT
- 60. Overhear: CATCH
- 61. Accord: TREATY
- 63. Pioneer in Impressionism: MONET
- 65. Indian tourist mecca: AGRA
- 67. Promised: SWORE
- 70. Source of a gut reaction?: ECOLI
- 71. Like feudal states, often: ATWAR
- 72. Freak out: GOAPE
- 74. Tkt. stub, e.g.: RCPT
- 75. Highly emotional, in dated lingo: HETUP
- 77. ___ salts: EPSOM
- 78. Jingle, e.g.: DITTY
- 80. Campaign: RACE
- 81. Under attack: BESET
- 84. Easter treat: CANDYEGG
- 87. Marks taken off?: ERASURES
- 89. Muck: FILTH
- 90. Listen: HEARKEN
- 91. Suffix with cigar: ETTE
- 92. Bull run target: MATADOR
- 93. It's up in the air: CURRENT
- 96. Is unsatisfactory: WONTDO
- 99. Lovers' row: SPAT
- 101. Port in western France: BREST
- 102. Page opposite verso: RECTO
- 104. D'Artagnan mentor: ATHOS
- 105. Deep-bodied herring: SHAD
- 106. Fill a position: HIRE
- 107. Half of a two-volume encyclopedia, say: ATOM
- 109. Dullard: DODO
- 111. ___ marker: MILE
- 112. Feel pity (for): ACHE
- 113. Leave undone: SKIP
- 115. When doubled, a Ramone: DEE
- 117. Social: TEA
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