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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for October 30, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Friday, October 30, 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
- 58
Down clues & answers
- 39
- 49
- 55
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
across
- 1. Co. that bought out Applebee's in 2007: IHOP
- 5. Rest: EASE
- 9. Some causes of insomnia: DRIPS
- 14. Come down hard: POUR
- 15. Hunk: SLAB
- 16. Dangerous emission: RADON
- 17. Party-going and such: SOCIALIFE
- 19. Skyline feature: SPIRE
- 20. Final answer?: OTHER
- 21. Unnatural, in a way: EERIE
- 23. Number of monosyllabic U.S. state names: ONE
- 24. One whose work is going downhill?: SKINSTRUCTOR
- 27. Rasputin, for one: MYSTIC
- 30. Very quickly: ASAP
- 31. OPEC member: Abbr.: UAE
- 32. Locale for snow leopards: NEPAL
- 36. Backpack part: STRAP
- 39. Sign at the front of some bars: CLEF
- 41. Second chance: DOVER
- 43. Bothered: SORE
- 44. 1881 novel "for children and those who love children": HEIDI
- 46. "Cars" producer: PIXAR
- 48. ___ change: OIL
- 49. Rat: FINK
- 51. Skim: NONFAT
- 53. Campbell's variety: CHICKENOODLE
- 58. Director Besson: LUC
- 59. Like some turns and dates: BLIND
- 60. Where to see Spaceship Earth: EPCOT
- 64. Message from a server: EMAIL
- 66. Almost all ... and a hint to the five circled letters: LIONSHARE
- 68. Pass up: FORGO
- 69. Stuff of legends: LORE
- 70. Like 2016, but not 2015: EVEN
- 71. Pay for: TREAT
- 72. Addie's husband in "As I Lay Dying": ANSE
- 73. Into the sunset: WEST
down
- 1. ___ facto: IPSO
- 2. Call at night: HOOT
- 3. "You got me": OUCH
- 4. Father figure: PRIEST
- 5. Subj. for 6-Downs: ESL
- 6. See 5-Down: ALIEN
- 7. Some hotel conveniences: SAFES
- 8. Friedrich ___, first president of the German Republic: EBERT
- 9. Source of the line "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!": DRSEUSS
- 10. Knock: RAP
- 11. Easy-to-use: IDIOTPROOF
- 12. Film unlikely to have a costume designer?: PORNO
- 13. Mean grin: SNEER
- 18. Hollywood's Alan or Adam: ARKIN
- 22. Org. from which Óglaigh na hÉireann split off: IRA
- 25. Put away: ICED
- 26. Burmese and Himalayans: CATS
- 27. A lot: MUCH
- 28. Big lock maker: YALE
- 29. "Do what you want!": SEEIFICARE
- 33. Father figure: POP
- 34. Bird: Prefix: AVI
- 35. Big Apple thoroughfare, informally: LEX
- 37. Las Vegas casino opened in 2009: ARIA
- 38. Hide: PELT
- 40. Banking inits.: FDIC
- 42. South African money: RAND
- 45. Matter of interpretation: INKBLOT
- 47. Parts: ROLES
- 50. Partner to Kenan in a 1990s Nickelodeon sitcom: KEL
- 52. Dewey, to Donald: NEPHEW
- 53. Chin feature: CLEFT
- 54. "___ me": HUMOR
- 55. Nabisco wafer: NILLA
- 56. Bagel variety: ONION
- 57. Aerosol targets: ODORS
- 61. Give in: CAVE
- 62. Contents of veins: ORES
- 63. Part of a hobo city: TENT
- 65. Supermarket chain: IGA
- 67. Formerly known as: NEE
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- Mini CrosswordA bite-size crossword you can finish over coffeeGuide & tips
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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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What is a rebus square?
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Which day is the hardest?
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