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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 14, 2017
Monday, August 14, 2017
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, August 14, 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
- 28
- 37
- 62
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 31
- 34
- 48
- 52
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
across
- 1. Bit of a Bollywood soundtrack: RAGA
- 5. Hawaiian giveaway: LEI
- 8. Home of van Gogh's "The Starry Night," informally: MOMA
- 12. Walgreens competitor: RITEAID
- 19. Greek warrior of myth: AJAX
- 20. Person from Calgary or Edmonton: ALBERTAN
- 22. Source of material for a baseball bat: ASHTREE
- 23. Magic trick performed at 78-Down: VANISHINGCOIN
- 25. Company accountant's responsibility: PAYROLL
- 26. Concern for wheat farmers: ERGOT
- 27. Nickname for an Oxford university: OLEMISS
- 29. Puzzle-loving group: MENSA
- 30. Sugar found in beer: MALTOSE
- 34. Mouselike rodents: VOLES
- 36. Sometimes-stinky pair: GYMSHOES
- 39. Adds to: AUGMENTS
- 43. Agcy. that cares what airs: FCC
- 46. Mauna ___: LOA
- 47. Magic trick performed at 119-Across and 104-Down: LINKINGRINGS
- 49. Burden for Jack and Jill: PAIL
- 50. Female org. since the 1850s: YWCA
- 52. Lee of Marvel Comics: STAN
- 53. Pals around (with): HANGS
- 54. Coca-Cola brand: FANTA
- 55. ___ duck (Chinese entree): PEACE
- 57. "Carmina Burana" composer Carl: ORFF
- 59. Grant-making org.: NEA
- 60. Like most doors: HINGED
- 61. Followed closely, as a set of rules: HEWEDTO
- 63. Zest source: RIND
- 65. Feudal vassal: LIEGE
- 67. Magic trick performed at 123- and 124-Across: SAWINGALADYINHALF
- 71. Word repeated before "everywhere": WATER
- 72. Online "Very funny!": LMAO
- 73. Basic gymnastics flips: AERIALS
- 76. Comic Aziz of "Master of None": ANSARI
- 79. "Is that true about me?": AMI
- 81. Movies with big budgets and no audience: DUDS
- 83. At the proper moment: ONCUE
- 84. Simple percussion instrument: GOURD
- 85. Greenish-blue hues: CYANS
- 87. Musical based on Fellini's "8 1/2": NINE
- 89. Ready to take part: GAME
- 90. Escape maker: FORD
- 91. Magic trick performed at 55-Across: CHANGINGCARD
- 94. Blue, on some maps: Abbr.: DEM
- 95. Onetime White House nickname: ABE
- 96. Apt anagram of IS A CHARM: CHARISMA
- 97. Eight-line poems: TRIOLETS
- 99. Hullabaloo: NOISE
- 100. Four-string instrument: UKULELE
- 102. Kind of jar: MASON
- 105. Crisp fabric: TAFFETA
- 109. Tequila source: AGAVE
- 113. "Whenever you want": ANYTIME
- 115. Magic trick performed at 15-, 16- and 17-Down: LEVITATINGMAN
- 119. Skinny sort: STRINGBEAN
- 120. Hydrogen has one: ELECTRON
- 121. Architect Saarinen: EERO
- 122. Swiss and others: CHEESES
- 123. First name in jazz: ELLA
- 124. Bad: Prefix: DYS
- 125. Prohibitionists: DRYS
down
- 1. Go gaga: RAVE
- 2. Not quite closed: AJAR
- 3. Bunch of friends: GANG
- 4. Truisms: AXIOMS
- 5. ___-di-dah: LAH
- 6. QB Manning: ELI
- 7. Arabic for "son of": IBN
- 8. Advertising icon who wears a single earring: MRCLEAN
- 9. Missouri River native: OTOE
- 10. Hurt badly: MAIM
- 11. Latin years: ANNI
- 12. Output of N.W.A or DMX: RAPSONGS
- 13. "This ___ test": ISA
- 14. Herbs related to mints: THYMES
- 15. English lengths: ETRES
- 16. Baseball's Hank: ARON
- 17. Physicist Bohr: IELS
- 18. Crème ___ crème: DELA
- 21. They can be inflated or shattered: EGOS
- 24. Lesley of "60 Minutes": STAHL
- 28. Manipulative type: SVENGALI
- 31. Lane in Metropolis: LOIS
- 32. 12:50: TENTOONE
- 33. Schindler of "Schindler's List": OSKAR
- 35. Officers below capts.: LTS
- 36. Relief carving: GLYPH
- 37. Shout of pain: YOWEE
- 38. Talkative birds: MACAWS
- 40. "Yuk!": UGH
- 41. Relative of pop?: GRANDDAD
- 42. Place from which to withdraw deposits: MINE
- 43. Long tooth: FANG
- 44. Give as an example: CITE
- 45. Wearing, with "in": CLAD
- 48. Prefix with structure: INFRA
- 49. Décor of many dens: PANELING
- 51. Onetime honor for cable TV shows: ACEAWARD
- 54. Mozart title character: FIGARO
- 56. Part of P.E.I.: EDWARD
- 58. Some dental work: FILLINGS
- 60. Titter: HEHE
- 62. South American monkey: TITI
- 64. Old war zone, briefly: NAM
- 66. Tangled up: INASNARL
- 68. Ill-defined situation: GRAYAREA
- 69. Offspring: YOUNG
- 70. Front: FACADE
- 74. Director of 1957's "12 Angry Men": LUMET
- 75. Looks like: SEEMS
- 76. Name on some boxes of film: AGFA
- 77. Neophyte, informally: NOOB
- 78. Provide part of a coverage policy for: SURE
- 80. ___-pedi: MANI
- 82. "Mirabile ___!" ("Wonderful to state!"): DICTU
- 85. Reproves: CHASTENS
- 86. Dweller in a virtual "City": SIM
- 88. Great Lakes city: ERIE
- 91. Greek X: CHI
- 92. J.Crew competitor: NAUTICA
- 93. New York archbishop Timothy: DOLAN
- 96. Furs from rabbits: CONIES
- 98. Got a move on, with "it": LEGGED
- 99. "I would ___ surprised": NOTBE
- 101. Stand-up comic Williams: KATT
- 102. Like the Spanish nouns "gato" (cat) and "perro" (dog): Abbr.: MASC
- 103. Literary collection: Abbr.: ANTH
- 104. Vaccine holder: SYRINGE
- 106. Run away: FLEE
- 107. Tumbled: FELL
- 108. Stuntman Knievel: EVEL
- 110. The New World: Abbr.: AMER
- 111. Be inconsistent: VARY
- 112. Book of Mormon book: ENOS
- 114. Fannie or Ginnie follower: MAE
- 116. Suffix with dull: ARD
- 117. Small dog: TOY
- 118. Entrances: INS
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