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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for November 29, 2015
Sunday, November 29, 2015
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Sunday, November 29, 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
- 19
- 26
- 59
- 94
- 106
- 122
- 123
- 125
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 16
- 25
- 60
- 71
- 92
- 103
- 104
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
across
- 1. Brand with the old slogan "Just the kiss of the hops": SCHLITZ
- 8. Official cocktail of New Orleans: SAZERAC
- 15. Unblinking gazer in Egyptian mythology: EYEOFRA
- 16. Way in the past: AGESAGO
- 17. Evokes: CALLSUP
- 18. Juicer: TOSSPOT
- 19. Verse starter?: UNI
- 20. Germane: ONPOINT
- 22. Bit of a rebuke: TUT
- 23. Bussing requirement: LIPS
- 25. Clinton's successor: KERRY
- 26. Spinning: Prefix: ROTO
- 27. Agent 86 player: ADAMS
- 29. One of Aaron's 86 in '68: RBI
- 30. Where Alfa Romeo is based: TURIN
- 31. Turns in: REDEEMS
- 33. One of the three on "Three's Company": CHRISSY
- 35. Delta hub, briefly: LGA
- 36. John, abroad: IAN
- 37. Flipper?: SPATULA
- 41. Fourth-largest city on Lake Michigan: KENOSHA
- 45. Name that means "loved": AIMEE
- 46. Porto, par exemple: VIN
- 48. Powerful board member: QUEEN
- 49. Feldshuh's role in "O Jerusalem": MEIR
- 50. Language created in 1959: COBOL
- 52. 10-ish?: SEXY
- 53. Brand with a Honey Graham variety: OHS
- 54. Yak: CHINWAG
- 56. Where 25-Across served in the late '60s: NAM
- 57. Request from a poll worker: VOTERID
- 59. It features the silhouette of hoops legend Jerry West: NBALOGO
- 61. In style: ALAMODE
- 62. Faucet accessory: AERATOR
- 63. Like some sentences and fat: REDUCED
- 64. Neighbor of an Italian: SLOVENE
down
- 1. Like Labor Day, but not Christmas: SECULAR
- 2. Compound in apricot pits: CYANIDE
- 3. Special touchdown point?: HELIPAD
- 4. Palindromic bit of textspeak: LOL
- 5. Hypothetical phrase: IFSO
- 6. Jack holder: TRUNK
- 7. Debuggers?: ZAPPERS
- 8. Like many segments on "The Daily Show": SATIRIC
- 9. Hell: AGONY
- 10. Marmalade ingredient: ZEST
- 11. Part of a skier's run: ESS
- 12. Hawks, e.g.: RAPTORS
- 13. Cousins of capybaras: AGOUTIS
- 14. Soft and delicate: COTTONY
- 21. Bit of regalia: ORB
- 24. Ironman?: SMELTER
- 26. Devastating: RUINOUS
- 28. "Anyhoo," e.g.: SEGUE
- 30. Downer, for short: TRANQ
- 32. Not bien: MAL
- 34. Tear, quaintly: HIE
- 37. Tea server: SAMOVAR
- 38. Big fat mouth: PIEHOLE
- 39. Vessel whose name meant "friendship," ironically: AMISTAD
- 40. Like pariahs: AVOIDED
- 41. Called: KNOWNAS
- 42. Often-bracketed direction: SEENOTE
- 43. Cross-section of a pencil: HEXAGON
- 44. These days: ANYMORE
- 47. Arabic name part: IBN
- 50. 22-Across-22-Across, say: CHIDE
- 51. Clotheshorse's concern: LABEL
- 54. Large snapper: CROC
- 55. 1960s-'80s placekicker Yepremian, who helped the Dolphins win consecutive Super Bowls: GARO
- 58. Source of jumbo eggs: EMU
- 60. John: LAV
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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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What is a rebus square?
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Which day is the hardest?
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