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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 13, 2018

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Saturday, January 13, 2018

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, January 13, 2018. 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.

64 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

Down clues & answers

1
Hernando's "happy"
2
A Musketeer
3
Foxes, e.g.
4
Croissan'wich alternative
5
Make more powerful, with "up"
6
Rumpled
7
Bloom that's often white or lavender
8
1940 Fonda role
9
N.H.L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards
10
Camp out in the wilderness, say
11
2/2, in music
12
Pertaining to colored rings
14
Field work
17
Parent, e.g.
20
Does some runs
24
Annual June celebration
26
Strand during a storm, maybe
27
Stuck-up sort
29
Newfoundland or golden retriever
31
Staff additions
32
Spell out
33
Nickname for baseball's Orlando Hernández
34
Shakespearean fencer
35
Leave in a hurry
36
Fast-food icon, with "the"
38
Neighbor of Allemagne
39
Hints
41
___-deux
43
Curry of the N.B.A.
45
A smartphone has lots of them
46
Go smoothly
48
Country music's Mike ___

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Friday, January 12, 2018

across

1. "You might be asking too much": THATSATALLORDER
16. Rhyming educational proverb: EACHONETEACHONE
17. Classic 1959 drama with characters from Chicago's South Side: ARAISININTHESUN
18. Begin all over: MAKEAFRESHSTART
19. Tillis or McDaniel of country music: MEL
20. Meditation utterances: OMS
21. "The Waste Land" poet's inits.: TSE
22. Went back for more, in a way: REUPPED
26. Blew the budget: SPAREDNOEXPENSE
34. Llama, for one: CAMELID
35. Pastries similar to long john doughnuts: ECLAIRS
36. Attending a lecture, say: INCLASS
37. Daily: DIURNAL
38. Big brand of kitchenware: OXO
39. Cough syrup amt.: TSP
40. Big Apple?: IMAC
43. Iridescent material: NACRE
47. Golfer Aoki: ISAO
51. African capital where Berber is spoken: RABAT
53. 15 years before the Battle of Hastings: MLI
54. Coped (with): DEALT
55. Where people may order push-ups: VICTORIASSECRET
58. D.C. thoroughfare with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum: INDEPENDENCEAVE
59. Must: NEEDSTO
60. Freddy Krueger, e.g.: SLASHER

down

1. Squad: TEAM
2. Not halal, in Arab cuisine: HARAM
3. Follower of "pat" in Mother Goose: ACAKE
4. Peter ___, co-founder of PayPal: THIEL
5. One of Sports Illustrated's two Sportsmen of the Year in 1998: SOSA
6. "It's not ___, it's a when": ANIF
7. Length of the final fight in "Rocky Balboa": TENROUNDS
8. On time, in Tijuana: ATIEMPO
9. Stat for a photographer: LENSSPEED
10. Wooden strip: LATH
11. Phil who described himself as a "singing journalist": OCHS
12. "Gone With the Wind" name: RHETT
13. South Indian pancakes: DOSAS
14. Accustom: ENURE
15. Dollars for quarters: RENT
22. "It's not the end of the world": RELAX
23. Motion picture pioneer: EDISON
24. Pump up: EXCITE
25. Bad mark: DPLUS
26. Lab subj.: SCI
27. Attracted to people of all genders, in modern lingo: PAN
28. Rival of Regal Cinemas: AMC
29. Made a move: RELOCATED
30. Some Secret Service wear: EARPIECES
31. Writer who said "Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live": NIN
32. Mrs., abroad: SRA
33. Non-Anglophone's course, for short: ESL
40. N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael: IRVIN
41. New Brunswick neighbor: MAINE
42. Choices on a standard Scantron test: ABCDE
44. ___ acid: AMINO
45. Decked out: CLAD
46. Hillocks: RISES
48. Woman's name meaning "princess": SARAH
49. Motrin alternative: ALEVE
50. Weasel family member: OTTER
52. "... max": TOPS
54. Numerical prefix: DECA
56. Out of the game: Abbr.: RET
57. Show featuring Leslie Jones, for short: SNL

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 12

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