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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for April 10, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, April 10, 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
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- 33
- 63
- 70
Down clues & answers
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
across
- 1. Ecclesiastical leader: ABBOT
- 6. "Get out!": SCAT
- 10. Blood enemy: CRIP
- 14. Aussie critters: ROOS
- 18. Diaper option: CLOTH
- 19. Bridge shape: ARCH
- 20. French director Clément: RENE
- 21. Martial art whose name means "sword way": KENDO
- 22. Home for Bilbo Baggins: HOBBITHOLE
- 24. West Wing worker: AIDE
- 25. A lot: OFTEN
- 26. A.L. East team: Abbr.: TOR
- 27. Contemptible sorts: SWINE
- 28. The ladies-only Western-themed bar I own?: MYGALSALOON
- 30. Inspector Clouseau or Borat?: MOVIEBUFFOON
- 33. Peevish: SPLEENY
- 34. Most contemptible: BASEST
- 35. Blowup: Abbr.: ENL
- 36. See 9-Down: LORAX
- 37. Like some quilt blocks: PRECUT
- 39. Decoration in a deli case?: SAUSAGEFESTOON
- 45. Tony who managed two World Series championships for the Cardinals: LARUSSA
- 47. Setting for Cardinals home games, briefly: CDT
- 48. Vivacity: LIFE
- 49. Neutral tone: ECRU
- 50. Parliamentary proceedings, e.g.: ACTA
- 51. Romeo or Juliet: TEEN
- 53. ___ booster: EGO
- 55. Drained of color: ASHEN
- 56. "Indubitably": YES
- 57. Product of a stable of comic strip artists?: HORSEDRAWNCARTOON
- 62. Kentucky college: BEREA
- 63. Communication system pioneered by Thomas Gallaudet, for short: ASL
- 64. Greek city where Perseus was born: ARGOS
- 65. Scaled-down woodwind?: SMALLMOUTHBASSOON
- 70. Ice cream container: TUB
- 73. Calendar model: PINUP
- 74. Suffix with blast-: ULA
- 75. Eight-time Olympic medalist Apolo Anton ___: OHNO
- 76. Condo V.I.P.: SUPE
- 77. Art Deco artist: ERTE
- 78. Belgradian, e.g.: SERB
- 81. Audiophile's collection: LPS
- 83. Elizabeth with the memoir "Saving Graces": EDWARDS
- 85. Audibly upset Belgian francophone?: WAILINGWALLOON
- 89. Words after "Sure!": WHYNOT
- 90. Mournful work: ELEGY
- 91. MSN alternative: AOL
- 92. Musician in the woodwind section: OBOIST
- 94. Runs through: IMPALES
- 97. Satirical depiction of the story of Noah?: FLOODLAMPOON
- 100. Most important mounted cavalryman?: MAINDRAGOON
- 102. Opposite corner in a romantic triangle: RIVAL
- 103. Bush league, for short?: GOP
- 105. Jean who played Aunt Martha in "Arsenic and Old Lace": ADAIR
- 106. Important positions: LOCI
- 107. Alphas: DOMINATORS
- 109. Son of Gloria on "Modern Family": MANNY
- 110. Food thickener: AGAR
- 111. Big name among radio shock jocks: OPIE
- 112. So-called "Butterfly Capital of Alabama": SELMA
- 113. Environmental bane: SMOG
- 114. Hand (out): DOLE
- 115. Study of the heavens: Abbr.: ASTR
- 116. Attacked: HADAT
down
- 1. Drei + fünf: ACHT
- 2. Sign of spring: BLOOM
- 3. 1992 Tim Robbins mockumentary: BOBROBERTS
- 4. Horse picker's hangout, for short: OTB
- 5. Melodramatic NBC hit starting in 2016: THISISUS
- 6. Indian "masters": SAHIBS
- 7. Hybrid bakery treats: CRONUTS
- 8. Roman ___: ACLEF
- 9. With 36-Across, a Dr. Seuss book: THE
- 10. Marker maker: CRAYOLA
- 11. Time on the throne: REIGN
- 12. "___ Club" (#1 hit for 50 Cent): INDA
- 13. Removes, as a sticker: PEELSOFF
- 14. They can provoke knee-jerk reactions: REFLEXTESTS
- 15. Reaching new heights in ballet?: ONTOE
- 16. Ancient theater: ODEON
- 17. Little lad: SONNY
- 21. Aussie critters: KOALAS
- 23. Quick series of social media posts: TWEETSTORM
- 28. Something seen at Frankenstein's birthday party?: MONSTERSBALLOON
- 29. Shopping ___: SPREE
- 31. Empty spaces: VACUA
- 32. Rhubarb with deep roots?: FEUD
- 36. Welcoming necklace: LEI
- 37. DVD remote button: PLAY
- 38. Go a mile a minute: RACE
- 40. Woe for some 51-Acrosses: ACNE
- 41. Shine: GLOW
- 42. Tres + cinco: OCHO
- 43. Two-tone treat: OREO
- 44. Georgia senator who helped establish "don't ask, don't tell": NUNN
- 46. Correo ___ (words on foreign correspondence): AEREO
- 52. Hairy hunter of Genesis: ESAU
- 54. Big do: GALA
- 55. Elvis ___ Presley: ARON
- 57. Pitch in: HELP
- 58. "The BFG" author: DAHL
- 59. Automaker that introduced the Rambler: NASH
- 60. Witch: CRONE
- 61. 2004 Scarlett Johansson film adapted from "Lady Windermere's Fan": AGOODWOMAN
- 62. Apt to go Democratic: BLUELEANING
- 65. Spit out: SPEW
- 66. Actress Sorvino: MIRA
- 67. One opposed: ANTI
- 68. Big brass: TUBA
- 69. Middling: SOSO
- 70. Work out spectacularly: TURNTOGOLD
- 71. Beehive, for one: UPDO
- 72. Overcome: BEST
- 76. Authority: SAYSO
- 78. Villainous visage: SNEER
- 79. Vegetarian sandwich filling: EGGSALAD
- 80. Train syst.: RWY
- 82. Quarters : basketball :: chukkers : ___: POLO
- 84. Abrupt, disconcerting reaction: WHIPLASH
- 86. After-dinner volunteer's words: ILLDRY
- 87. Pays de ___ (Nantes's region): LALOIRE
- 88. Variety of hold 'em: NOLIMIT
- 93. Frances who played TV's Aunt Bee: BAVIER
- 94. Religious leaders: IMAMS
- 95. ___ President: MADAM
- 96. Baldwin offering: PIANO
- 97. Central: FOCAL
- 98. Gets ready to do push-ups, say: DROPS
- 99. Title opera heroine who is a Druidic high priestess: NORMA
- 101. Kind of boots: GOGO
- 104. ETS offering: PSAT
- 107. Going nowhere, metaphorically: DOA
- 108. Women's club event: TEA
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