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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for February 27, 2017
Monday, February 27, 2017
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, February 27, 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
- 15
- 68
Down clues & answers
- 64
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
across
- 1. Word before "Ooh, didn't mean to make you cry" in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody": MAMA
- 5. Maxim: SAW
- 8. Brother with a cross: ABBOT
- 13. Unfaithful sorts: CADS
- 17. Roasting place: OVEN
- 18. Land between hills, poetically: VALE
- 19. ___ Palmer ("Twin Peaks" victim): LAURA
- 20. Jacobin revolutionary who was stabbed in a bathtub: MARAT
- 21. They're pumped to compete in a race: ROADBIKES
- 23. Fashionable enough for a runway model?: STRUTWORTHY
- 25. Assault involving a hatchet?: TINYAXEATTACK
- 27. Broadway's Eugene ___ Theater: ONEILL
- 28. Throw in: ADD
- 29. ___ relief: DEBT
- 30. Post-run feeling: ACHE
- 31. 1982 Dustin Hoffman film: TOOTSIE
- 32. Place for a sponge: REEF
- 34. Annoying sort: NOODGE
- 36. Bro: PAL
- 37. Little bit: TAD
- 38. Coffee brewing style: DRIP
- 40. Some scans, for short: MRIS
- 41. Lifesaving team: MEDICS
- 44. "Stop insisting Ra doesn't exist!"?: CURBYOURSUNATHEISM
- 51. Pill bottle info: DOSAGE
- 54. Really comes down: POURS
- 55. A bit crude: EARTHY
- 56. Andean gold: ORO
- 57. Places: PUTS
- 61. Fast-food sandwich not available in Muslim countries: MCRIB
- 63. Goes up: RISES
- 64. Stories from bankruptcy court?: TALESOFOWE
- 68. Be too broke to take the bus?: HAVENOFARE
- 70. Country singer Black: CLINT
- 71. Grammy category: OPERA
- 73. Beast in rare "sightings": YETI
- 74. Poet/musician ___ Scott-Heron: GIL
- 75. One who can't learn new tricks, they say: OLDDOG
- 77. ___-Lay: FRITO
- 79. Doze: NODOFF
- 82. "The king really wants to be around people right now"?: MYSIRELOVESCOMPANY
- 87. Professor's goal, one day: TENURE
- 88. Marvel role for Chris Hemsworth: THOR
- 89. Yazidis, e.g.: SECT
- 92. Go in (for): SUB
- 95. Actor Curry: TIM
- 96. Go all in: COMMIT
- 98. What many 100-Across do in the spring: SHED
- 100. See 98-Across: ANIMALS
- 103. Certain earring: HOOP
- 105. Trader ___: JOES
- 107. Baseball league for the Salt Lake Bees: AAA
- 108. "Yeah, let's do it!": IMGAME
- 109. Celebration after a coup?: UPRISERSPARTY
- 112. Negative Nancy?: DOWNERWOMAN
- 115. Words before a punch line: WAITFORIT
- 116. Muddies: SOILS
- 117. 2% alternative: WHOLE
- 118. Moving line on a tree trunk: ANTS
- 119. Orange-and-white Pixar title character: NEMO
- 120. Wild revelry: ORGY
- 121. So, so awful, with "the": WORST
- 122. Rapper with the most-viewed YouTube video of all time: PSY
- 123. P.M. after Churchill: EDEN
down
- 1. Weapon usually fired between a 45° and 90° angle: MORTAR
- 2. Ducked: AVOIDED
- 3. Go wherever: MEANDER
- 4. With 41-Down, first tennis player to win two Olympic singles gold medals: ANDY
- 5. Potent sushi bar cocktail: SAKEBOMB
- 6. Dependent on chance: ALEATORY
- 7. Against the jet stream: WEST
- 8. French region around Strasbourg: ALSACE
- 9. Tray of brownies, e.g.: BATCH
- 10. Philosopher who said "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion": BURKE
- 11. Christian school in Okla.: ORU
- 12. Skin art, informally: TAT
- 13. Character resembling a hat: CARET
- 14. Drawer, say: ARTIST
- 15. Flower named for a Swedish botanist: DAHLIA
- 16. All done up, as hair: STYLED
- 18. Den mother: VIXEN
- 20. Like original Buddy Holly and the Crickets recordings: MONO
- 22. Turned: BAD
- 24. Detergent brand with a fabric in its name: WOOLITE
- 26. Gets back on base: TAGSUP
- 31. "And that's it!": TADA
- 33. Abbr. on a pay stub: FICA
- 35. God: It.: DIO
- 36. Thoughtful: PENSIVE
- 39. So-ugly-it's-cute pooch: PUG
- 41. See 4-Down: MURRAY
- 42. One-named singer once married to Xavier Cugat: CHARO
- 43. Letter feature: SERIF
- 45. Take back, in a way: REPO
- 46. CD or DVD follower: ROM
- 47. "___ is life": SUCH
- 48. "We're on!": ITSAGO
- 49. Muslim official: SHERIF
- 50. I, personally: MYSELF
- 51. E-business: DOTCOM
- 52. By voice: ORALLY
- 53. One side in a pool game: SOLIDS
- 58. Subject of a tinfoil hat theory: UFO
- 59. Peak physical condition: TOPFORM
- 60. Veer: SWERVE
- 62. Put up stakes: BET
- 65. Stop seeing each other: ENDIT
- 66. Box on a mall map: STORE
- 67. Former tribe in western New York: ERIE
- 69. Singer Simone: NINA
- 72. @@@: ATS
- 76. Less stormy: GENTLER
- 78. Sea creatures with remarkably high I.Q.s: OCTOPI
- 80. Turn-___ (thrills): ONS
- 81. Congo red and gentian violet: DYES
- 83. San ___, Argentina: LUIS
- 84. Volt/ampere: OHM
- 85. High-waisted, shamelessly unfashionable garment: MOMJEANS
- 86. Chief concern: PRIORITY
- 90. Way overcooked: CHARRED
- 91. 4:00 p.m., maybe: TEATIME
- 92. Made a declaration: SAIDSO
- 93. Set adrift: UNMOOR
- 94. V.I.P.: BIGWIG
- 96. Instrument for Louis Armstrong: CORNET
- 97. Doctors' orders: TESTS
- 99. National Aviation Hall of Fame city: DAYTON
- 101. Macho: MANLY
- 102. NASA's ___ Research Center: AMES
- 103. Comedy: HUMOR
- 104. Crown insets: OPALS
- 106. Letters on some lotion: SPF
- 110. It's a deal: SWAP
- 111. Unbeatable: AONE
- 113. Net letters: WWW
- 114. "Well, look at that!": OHO
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