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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 7, 2018

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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Wednesday, March 7, 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.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

across

1. French clerics: ABBES
6. Resource in the Mesabi Range: ORE
9. Lacking any tread: BALD
13. Florida's Key ___: LARGO
14. Fruit center: PIT
15. Official state sport of Wyoming: RODEO
16. Forced walk with arms pinned behind the back: FROGMARCH
18. Relating to element #76: OSMIC
19. Something "lost" in the highest-grossing movie of 1981: ARK
20. Precalculator calculators: ABACI
21. Grace under pressure: POISE
22. "Hogwash!": LIES
24. Hit 2000 animated film set on a farm: CHICKENRUN
26. Specialties: FORTES
28. State with conviction: ASSERT
29. Test, as 6-Across: ASSAY
30. Seriously injure: MAIM
33. ___ Moines, Iowa: DES
34. Core-strengthening exercise performed on all fours: BEARCRAWL
38. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps: ASP
41. Commend: CITE
42. Swine: BOARS
46. Muss, as the hair: TOUSLE
49. Young raptor: EAGLET
50. Old ragtime dance: TURKEYTROT
54. Cockney greeting: ELLO
55. Courtyards: ATRIA
56. Trickled: OOZED
58. Bit of a draft?: SIP
59. Fire department V.I.P.: CHIEF
60. Straight-kneed military movement: GOOSESTEP
62. Any of eight English kings: HENRY
63. "Barbara ___" (Beach Boys hit): ANN
64. Hunger for: CRAVE
65. Physics units: ERGS
66. "Get it?": SEE
67. Propelled a boat: OARED

down

1. Cattle or horse feed: ALFALFA
2. New York's Spanish Harlem and others: BARRIOS
3. Employees at Re/Max and Coldwell Banker: BROKERS
4. Bad thing to have on one's face: EGG
5. "Brave New World" drug: SOMA
6. Who said "I'm black. I don't feel burdened by it .... It's part of who I am. It does not define me": OPRAH
7. Christina who played Wednesday Addams: RICCI
8. Honesty and hard work, e.g.: ETHIC
9. Particles in quantum mechanics: BOSONS
10. Looked up to: ADMIRED
11. Sports & ___ (Trivial Pursuit category): LEISURE
12. Museum guides: DOCENTS
15. Borders of boxing rings: ROPES
17. Some kindergarten instruction: ABCS
23. Attack as Hamlet did Polonius: STAB
25. ___ Sutra: KAMA
27. Hurricane's center: EYE
30. Noninvasive diagnostic procedure, for short: MRI
31. One of two in "Waiting for Godot": ACT
32. Ill temper: IRE
35. ___-deucey (card game): ACEY
36. Org. awarding titles to Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury: WBA
37. Balcony section: LOGE
38. Embassy worker ... or something that worker might carry: ATTACHE
39. Wind that typically brings warmer air: SOUTHER
40. Operating smoothly, as an engine: PURRING
43. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for a record 19 times: ALLSTAR
44. Take over for: RELIEVE
45. Clogged (up): STOPPED
47. Super G competitors: SKIERS
48. Like lettuce, spinach and kale: LEAFY
49. French summers: ETES
51. Coverage of senators in ancient Rome?: TOGAS
52. Onetime news exec Arledge: ROONE
53. O3: OZONE
57. Art ___: DECO
61. Mme., in Madrid: SRA

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Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
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