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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 9, 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 9, 2017. 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
- 31
- 32
- 69
Down clues & answers
- 10
- 12
- 45
- 58
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across
- 1. Loops in, in a way: BCCS
- 5. Goddess with a throne headdress: ISIS
- 9. Tempo: PACE
- 13. Figs. on drivers' licenses: HTS
- 16. When repeated, a Pacific tourist destination: BORA
- 17. Fish whose name is a celebrity's name minus an R: OPAH
- 18. Old bandleader with an Egyptian-inspired name: SUNRA
- 19. Outrigger projections: OARS
- 20. Things smoked by singer Courtney?: CLOVECIGARETTES
- 23. Scandalmaker in 2002 news: ENRON
- 24. Speed demon: RACER
- 25. Headwear the N.B.A. banned in 2005: DORAG
- 26. Game involving sharp projectiles and alcohol: BEERDARTS
- 28. Parrot's cry: AWK
- 29. 1950s prez: IKE
- 31. "Charlie Hustle is my name / I am banned from Hall of Fame," e.g.?: PROSEPOETRY
- 33. Fist bump: DAP
- 34. "Yes, ___!": SIRREE
- 36. Put a coat on: PAINT
- 37. "Eureka!" moments: AHAS
- 40. Press: IRON
- 42. Cloth colorist: DYER
- 43. Feature of Africa: HORN
- 44. ___ oil: CANOLA
- 46. Televangelist Joel: OSTEEN
- 48. Alternative to "News" and "Maps" in a Google search: VIDEOS
- 50. Road restriction: NOUTURN
- 51. Pugnacious Olympian: ARES
- 53. Relative of a ferret: MINK
- 54. Cold and wet: DANK
- 55. F.B.I.'s div.: DOJ
- 56. Hoopster Steph not playing at home?: SCURRYAWAY
- 60. Riffraff: SCUM
- 62. Japanese watchmaker: SEIKO
- 64. Like Granny Smith apples: TART
- 65. Endless chore: SLOG
- 66. Dickens's Uriah: HEEP
- 68. Sega Genesis competitor, in brief: SNES
- 69. Radiant: AGLOW
- 71. Intersect: MEET
- 73. The sport of boxing in the 1960s and '70s, essentially?: MALIEMPIRE
- 75. "Nothing to write home about": MEH
- 76. Groups with co-pays, briefly: HMOS
- 78. Jockey strap: REIN
- 80. "Star Trek: T.N.G." role: TROI
- 81. Installment: EDITION
- 83. Personalized gifts for music lovers: MIXCDS
- 85. Valet in P. G. Wodehouse stories: JEEVES
- 89. Contemporary hybrid music genre: NUJAZZ
- 90. Sots' sounds: HICS
- 91. Nickname for Louise: LULU
- 93. Feast: DINE
- 94. Sail support: SPAR
- 95. In unison: ASONE
- 97. Echo effect: REVERB
- 99. El operator in the Windy City, briefly: CTA
- 100. Hat for pop singer Corey?: CHARTTOPPER
- 103. Anthem contraction: OER
- 104. "Uhh ...": ERM
- 105. Show what you know, say: TAKEATEST
- 107. "In all probability": IDBET
- 109. Regular: USUAL
- 111. Obstinate one, astrologically: ARIES
- 112. Two-time Best Actor winner arriving early?: THANKSINADVANCE
- 115. Four-star rank: Abbr.: GENL
- 116. Monopoly purchase: HOUSE
- 117. Singer/songwriter Laura: NYRO
- 118. Little foxes: KITS
- 119. Slump: SAG
- 120. ___ cosa (something else: Sp.): OTRA
- 121. Wanders (about): GADS
- 122. They begin in juin: ETES
down
- 1. Original airer of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": BBCRADIO
- 2. Pop competition: COLAWARS
- 3. Something smoked by comic Chris?: CROCKPOT
- 4. Hang on to: SAVE
- 5. Org. against doping: IOC
- 6. Spindly-limbed: SPIDERY
- 7. Shakespeare villain: IAGO
- 8. Photo of Canada's former prime minister Stephen?: SHARPERIMAGE
- 9. "Stay ___": PUT
- 10. Aardvarks, by another name: ANTBEARS
- 11. Enter surreptitiously: CREEPIN
- 12. Press lightly, as the brakes: EASEON
- 13. He was buried in 1915 and died in 1926: HARRYHOUDINI
- 14. Dressage gait: TROT
- 15. Invoice figs.: SSNS
- 18. ___ lily: SEGO
- 19. Fulminating: ONARANT
- 21. Dwarf planet more massive than Pluto: ERIS
- 22. Atypical: RARE
- 23. Summer hrs. in Phila.: EDT
- 27. Literary device used to address plot inconsistencies: RETCON
- 30. Nephrologists study them: KIDNEYS
- 32. Spies, informally: SPOOKS
- 35. M.L.K.'s title: Abbr.: REV
- 38. "Today" personality: ALROKER
- 39. Shark's home: SANJOSE
- 41. Close by: NEARTO
- 43. Egg producer: HEN
- 45. Arctic fliers: AUKS
- 47. Blow it: ERR
- 49. Like a handyman's projects, for short: DIY
- 50. "Anything! Anything at all!": NAMEIT
- 52. Shade of pink: SALMON
- 54. Sword fight, e.g.: DUEL
- 56. Filament sites, in botany: STAMENS
- 57. Imprisoned: CAGEDUP
- 58. Underhanded use of someone else's domain name: URLHIJACKING
- 59. Troubles: WOES
- 61. Cherry for talk show host Chelsea?: CHANDLERBING
- 63. Glimpsed: ESPIED
- 67. Forswear: PERJURE
- 70. Genius: WHIZ
- 72. Arm muscle, informally: TRICEP
- 73. ___ drop: MIC
- 74. Miney follower: MOE
- 77. "Idomeneo" composer: MOZART
- 79. "All My ___ Live in Texas": EXS
- 82. U.N.C. student: TARHEEL
- 83. Figure at the center of a maze: MINOTAUR
- 84. Tahoe, for one: SUV
- 86. Entourage of a 1990s white rapper?: VICEUNIT
- 87. Musical intermission: ENTRACTE
- 88. Continuous: SEAMLESS
- 90. Flamboyantly successful sort: HOTSHOT
- 92. Trampolinist's wear: LEOTARD
- 96. Start to -scope: STETHO
- 97. Cincinnati squad: REDS
- 98. Dude, in British lingo: BRUV
- 101. Smallish batteries: AAS
- 102. Long spear: PIKE
- 105. Makes "it": TAGS
- 106. Zone: AREA
- 108. "Dark Sky Island" singer: ENYA
- 110. Drink sometimes served hot: SAKE
- 113. "Snowden" org.: NSA
- 114. ___, cuatro, seis, ocho ...: DOS
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