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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for September 26, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, September 26, 2016. 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
- 34
- 45
- 46
Down clues & answers
- 49
- 50
- 63
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Sunday, September 25, 2016
across
- 1. Lament after being backstabbed: ETTU
- 5. Crack up: GOMAD
- 10. Test one's metal?: ASSAY
- 15. Down: SAD
- 18. Classic word game: GHOST
- 20. Dollar competitor: ALAMO
- 21. Contemptible sort: SWINE
- 22. "___ linda!" ("How pretty!," in Spanish): QUE
- 23. One who's dunzo: GONER
- 24. Glossy fabric: SATIN
- 25. Dancer's leader: SANTA
- 26. The Bulldogs of the S.E.C.: UGA
- 27. Line at the side of a photo: CREDIT
- 29. Hoopster observing Ramadan?: FASTINGFORWARD
- 32. Electric ___: EEL
- 33. Shepherd's pie bit: PEA
- 35. River through Seoul: HAN
- 36. Bakery buy: BUN
- 37. Nearly dried-up Asian sea: ARAL
- 38. Country whose name becomes its language when you drop its last letter: LAOS
- 40. Frequent Winter Olympics setting: ALPS
- 43. Sign from a third base coach, say: STEAL
- 45. Van Susteren formerly of Fox News: GRETA
- 46. Gangster Luciano performing a risqué prank?: LUCKYSTREAKING
- 49. Ankle-exposing pants: CAPRIS
- 50. "___ been thinking ...": IVE
- 51. Captains on The Atlantic, briefly?: EDS
- 52. By and large: MOSTLY
- 54. Neighbor of N.Y.: ONT
- 55. Young swan: CYGNET
- 58. Colleens: LASSES
- 60. Uncommon spelling for a common greeting: HALLO
- 62. Whole ___: FOODS
- 63. I.Q. test name: BINET
- 64. 1982 #1 hit with the line "Watch out boy she'll chew you up": MANEATER
- 67. Look lecherously: OGLE
- 68. Hobo at the wheel?: BUMSTEERING
- 71. Cunningness: WILE
- 72. Many web advertisements: SIDEBARS
- 74. Overly indulge in: ABUSE
- 75. Movie Hall: ANNIE
- 76. Bridge words: IPASS
- 77. Evil spirits: DEMONS
- 79. Gently jabbed: NUDGED
- 80. Enliven, with "up": GIN
- 82. Build-it-yourself auto: KITCAR
- 84. Sugar suffix: OSE
- 85. Flatow of NPR's "Science Friday": IRA
- 86. Drops a line: ANGLES
- 88. Where to buy certain Christmas decorations?: STOCKINGMARKET
- 94. Early PC platform: MSDOS
- 95. Link with: TIETO
- 96. Accident-investigating agcy.: NTSB
- 97. Part of STEM, for short: TECH
- 98. Long tale: EPIC
- 99. ___-pah: OOM
- 100. Subzero, maybe: ICY
- 102. One whose life is in order?: NUN
- 104. Lament: RUE
- 105. Mild form of corporal punishment?: LIGHTSWITCHING
- 110. Poor: SUBPAR
- 112. Home of the Pampas: Abbr.: ARG
- 113. "Rumor has it ...": IHEAR
- 114. Partner of live: LEARN
- 116. Actress Swinton: TILDA
- 117. Golfer Michelle: WIE
- 118. "Scooby-Doo" girl: VELMA
- 119. Commercial cow: ELSIE
- 120. Brownstone feature: STOOP
- 121. The Bosporus, e.g.: Abbr.: STR
- 122. Haven: OASIS
- 123. Change with the times: ADAPT
- 124. Moving well: SPRY
down
- 1. Ovum: EGGCELL
- 2. "Walden" writer: THOREAU
- 3. "Wild Thing" rapper: TONELOC
- 4. How many college textbooks are bought: USED
- 5. Lot of fun, informally: GAS
- 6. Saint for whom a Minnesota college is named: OLAF
- 7. ___ Hari: MATA
- 8. Powerless group?: AMISH
- 9. "It's worse than you can imagine": DONTASK
- 10. Org.: ASSN
- 11. Party handouts: SWAGBAGS
- 12. Wicked: SINFUL
- 13. ___ Chigurh, villain in "No Country for Old Men": ANTON
- 14. It takes months to complete: YEAR
- 15. Cheering done in a plaza?: SQUAREROOTING
- 16. Baked with breadcrumbs and cheese: AUGRATIN
- 17. Bringing up the rear: DEADLAST
- 19. Set off, as a security alarm: TRIP
- 28. China display: TEASET
- 30. Under the wire, so to speak: INTIME
- 31. ___ speed: WARP
- 34. Cockpit datum: Abbr.: ALT
- 39. Merely superficial: SKINDEEP
- 41. Olympics events rarely shown in prime time: PRELIMS
- 42. Carried chairs: SEDANS
- 44. Nephew of Cain: ENOS
- 45. King who's a friend of Oprah: GAYLE
- 47. First name in fashion: YVES
- 48. Word after liquid or fixed: ASSET
- 49. Sword fight sound: CLANG
- 53. ___ of Glamis, title in Shakespeare: THANE
- 55. Corp. money pros: CFOS
- 56. One holding many positions: YOGI
- 57. Big fan of the "Lord of the Flies" author?: GOLDINGDIGGER
- 59. Mirror buildup, at times: STEAM
- 61. Dangerous backyard projectile: LAWNDART
- 63. Pop: BURST
- 64. Erroneously hit "reply all" instead of "reply," say: MISSENT
- 65. Late author Wiesel: ELIE
- 66. Thatching material: REED
- 68. Underpinning: BASIS
- 69. Text on an iPad, say: EBOOK
- 70. Collars: RUNSIN
- 73. Really feels the heat: BAKES
- 75. See 79-Down: AURA
- 77. Hoped-for result of swiping right on Tinder: DATE
- 78. Hot: EROTIC
- 79. 75-Down around a saint: NIMBUS
- 80. Wardens enforce them: GAMELAWS
- 81. Emotionally, if not physically: INSPIRIT
- 83. TV spinoff of 2002: CSIMIAMI
- 87. Narrow arm of the sea: LOCH
- 89. Part of the inner ear: COCHLEA
- 90. Channel with "Family Feud" reruns: GSN
- 91. Sound of a pebble hitting water: KERPLOP
- 92. Galápagos Islands' country: ECUADOR
- 93. Setting for many New Yorker cartoons: THERAPY
- 95. They get wetter as they dry: TOWELS
- 99. Actor Milo: OSHEA
- 101. Bottom line: YIELD
- 103. Beer ___: NUTS
- 106. DVR choice: TIVO
- 107. Refrain syllables: TRAS
- 108. Pluto flyby org.: NASA
- 109. Enthrall: GRIP
- 111. They come straight from the horse's mouth: BITS
- 115. Bottom line: NET
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