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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 13, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 13, 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
- 50
- 64
- 65
- 69
Down clues & answers
- 14
- 25
- 27
- 54
- 55
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
across
- 1. Chest protectors: STERNA
- 7. The 2000s, with "the": NAUGHTS
- 14. Camry competitor: ALTIMA
- 20. Fisher of fashion: EILEEN
- 21. Coming up: INSTORE
- 22. 1943 conference site: TEHRAN
- 23. "Put that Southern state on next month's agenda"?: TABLETENNESSEE
- 25. Like some wedding cakes and stadiums: TIERED
- 26. Sulk: BROOD
- 27. Pooh's pal: ROO
- 28. New York : The Big Apple :: ___ : The Big Guava: TAMPA
- 30. Pain in the neck: PEST
- 31. Go off course: YAW
- 32. What a male babysitter may sport?: NANNYGOATEE
- 36. Panama, e.g.: Abbr.: ISTH
- 37. Numbskull: DODO
- 38. Minuscule, informally: EENSY
- 39. Romantic liaison: AFFAIRE
- 42. Shared with, as a story: TOLDTO
- 45. Ending with chick: ADEE
- 46. Spoils, in a way: RAINSON
- 47. Playing a fifth N.F.L. period, say: INOT
- 48. Romanian currency: LEU
- 50. Capital of Yemen: SANAA
- 54. Race pace: TROT
- 55. ___ volente (God willing): DEO
- 56. Like a fired Broadway star?: OFFTHEMARQUEE
- 59. Small handful: IMP
- 62. Comedian Smirnoff: YAKOV
- 64. Auric Goldfinger, to James Bond: FOE
- 65. Leave thunderstruck: STUN
- 66. Color in "America the Beautiful": AMBER
- 68. Do to do: SCALE
- 69. A.A.A. and B.B.B.: ORGS
- 71. Jai ___: ALAI
- 72. One in a crowd at a bookstore?: WALDO
- 73. Total: UTTER
- 74. Billiards feature: RAIL
- 75. South American greeting: ALO
- 76. Eskimo-___ languages: ALEUT
- 77. Winter hrs. in Vail: MST
- 78. Sweaty, irritable rabbit?: HOTCROSSBUNNY
- 83. Suffix with nod-: ULE
- 84. Follow: HEED
- 86. Really bother: EATAT
- 87. Grp. in the Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour": NSA
- 88. Kunis of "Black Swan": MILA
- 89. Stuck: UPATREE
- 92. Bit of bar food: WING
- 94. Real hoot: SCREAM
- 96. Commotions: POTHERS
- 97. Setting for many Stephen King novels: MAINE
- 99. "The Persistence of Memory" artist: DALI
- 100. "Pencils down!": TIME
- 101. What'll feed everyone at a tailgate party?: THEBIGCHILI
- 104. "What else could it be?!": DUH
- 107. Road to the Forum, e.g.: ITER
- 108. "Lovergirl" singer ___ Marie: TEENA
- 109. Christmas song contraction: TIS
- 110. Broadway star Rivera: CHITA
- 112. Supermodel Bündchen: GISELE
- 114. Reformed barbarian?: ATTILATHEHONEY
- 118. Start of a marital spat?: HESAID
- 119. 2000s TV hit set in Baltimore: THEWIRE
- 120. Guinness entry: RECORD
- 121. Vocal quavers: TRILLS
- 122. A cross might be given for it: HEROISM
- 123. Invites across the threshold: ASKSIN
down
- 1. Held in reserve: SETBY
- 2. Queen topper: TIARA
- 3. Jostle: ELBOW
- 4. Move, informally: RELO
- 5. Is unobliged to: NEEDNOT
- 6. Soldier, for one: ANT
- 7. Curtain fabric: NINON
- 8. Ticked off: ANNOYED
- 9. Wear and tear: USE
- 10. Some sporty cars: GTS
- 11. Popular landscaping plants: HOSTAS
- 12. Compact: TREATY
- 13. Dreaded comment on a returned exam: SEEME
- 14. Lead-in to boy or girl: ATTA
- 15. Island chain?: LEI
- 16. 1993 film that garnered Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars: THEPIANO
- 17. Turnaround too tempting to pass up?: IRRESISTIBLEUIE
- 18. Wand wielder: MAESTRO
- 19. "What happened next?": ANDTHEN
- 24. Puzzle inventor Rubik: ERNO
- 29. Brandy fruit: PEAR
- 33. Unpopular baby name: ADOLF
- 34. Formation fliers: GEESE
- 35. Hour in the graveyard shift: ONEAM
- 37. Target of a 1972 ban: DDT
- 40. It's inescapable: FATE
- 41. "Shoot!": FIREAWAY
- 42. Nice piece of change: TIDYSUM
- 43. Plays without a break: ONEACTS
- 44. "Check out the Argentine soccer star!"?: LOOKATTHATMESSI
- 45. 500, e.g.: AUTORACE
- 49. Exercitation: EFFORT
- 51. Grp. that might have a launch party: NASA
- 52. Where kids get creative in school: ARTLAB
- 53. Diving equipment co-invented by Jacques Cousteau: AQUALUNG
- 56. Shout from an arm waver: OVERHERE
- 57. Exodus: HEGIRA
- 58. They may have many chapters: UNIONS
- 60. Part of the brain that controls involuntary functions: MEDULLA
- 61. Reds, Blues or Browns: PROTEAM
- 63. World Cup chant: OLE
- 67. Start to practice?: MAL
- 70. Schedule position: SLOT
- 79. Baltic Sea feeder: ODER
- 80. 2005 horror sequel: SAWII
- 81. Undercover operation: STING
- 82. Stuffy-sounding: NASAL
- 85. Heavenly: ETHEREAL
- 88. Picture of health, in brief?: MRI
- 89. Tense: UPTIGHT
- 90. First African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar: POITIER
- 91. Tivoli's Villa d'___: ESTE
- 93. Attractions for bees: NECTARS
- 95. They're always tired: CLICHES
- 97. French ice cream flavorer: MENTHE
- 98. Lessener: ABATER
- 99. Gossip: DISH
- 102. Moor: HEATH
- 103. "___ where they ain't": HITEM
- 104. Natural history museum exhibits, for short: DINOS
- 105. Centers of early development: UTERI
- 106. Composer who taught Beethoven: HAYDN
- 108. "Bill & ___ Excellent Adventure": TEDS
- 111. Pawn: HOCK
- 113. Short, for short: LIL
- 115. 1945 battle site, informally: IWO
- 116. 2018 Super Bowl number: LII
- 117. Internet ___ (what we live in): ERA
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