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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for March 19, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, March 19, 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.
Across clues & answers
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Down clues & answers
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across
- 1. Big name in computer networking: CISCO
- 6. Progressive rival: ESURANCE
- 14. Aries: THERAM
- 20. North Dakota-to-Michigan hwy.: USTEN
- 21. Members of an Oklahoma tribe: SHAWNEES
- 22. Addressee of a waiter in a French restaurant: MADAME
- 23. Exposes: BARES
- 24. Interrogate a founding father?: QUERYWASHINGTON
- 26. Uganda's Amin: IDI
- 27. One getting shooed: PEST
- 29. Bone: Prefix: OSSEO
- 30. Was wide open: GAPED
- 31. Like the first man-made space satellite: SOVIET
- 33. What the earth and many political analysts do: SPIN
- 36. They're added on bus. lines: EXTS
- 38. "Sticks and Bones" playwright David: RABE
- 39. "There are no atheists in foxholes"?: TRENCHQUOTE
- 41. Word aptly found in "controlled" and "marshaled": LED
- 43. Token in the game Life: CAR
- 44. Was a rat: SANG
- 45. Engaged in: UPTO
- 46. Tremors?: BABYQUAKES
- 50. Hershey brand: ROLO
- 53. "From your lips to God's ears": HOPESO
- 55. Frequent subject of paintings by Winslow Homer: SEA
- 56. Largest lake in South America: MARACAIBO
- 60. Charles de Gaulle's birthplace: LILLE
- 62. Animal with a trunk: TAPIR
- 66. Interest's opposite: APATHY
- 67. Kingdom in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings": ROHAN
- 69. Email address ending: ORG
- 71. Suffix in Sussex: ISE
- 72. Comment by a Brit down to his last coin?: HERESLOOKINGATYOUQUID
- 77. "We ___ the Champions": ARE
- 78. Gardner of "Mogambo": AVA
- 79. Joe of "Home Alone": PESCI
- 80. True: TRUSTY
- 81. Instruments played on Mount Olympus: LYRES
- 84. Expert: ADEPT
- 86. Words of resignation: CESTLAVIE
- 88. Greek cross: TAU
- 90. "As you wish, Captain!": AYESIR
- 92. Huck Finn possessive: HISN
- 93. One knocking out an opponent in the first round?: QUICKBOXER
- 97. Russian council: DUMA
- 99. Spanish snack: TAPA
- 103. ___ Indianapolis: USS
- 104. One of 100: Abbr.: SEN
- 105. Monarch who's fine and dandy?: PEACHYQUEEN
- 108. Cries of surprise: AHAS
- 110. Teeming: RIFE
- 113. Veg out: LOLL
- 114. Irish form of "Edmund": EAMONN
- 115. Heinrich ___, "Die Lorelei" poet: HEINE
- 117. N.W.A's "Straight ___ Compton": OUTTA
- 119. More than a millennium: AEON
- 121. Indochinese language: LAO
- 122. Have a little ice cream delivered?: ORDERINTHEQUART
- 126. Like rope: TWINY
- 128. Supermodel Bündchen: GISELE
- 129. Birdie: ONEUNDER
- 130. With celerity: APACE
- 131. Kept others awake, maybe: SNORED
- 132. Tip of a missile: NOSECONE
- 133. More sound: SANER
down
- 1. Picasso and Braque, for two: CUBISTS
- 2. Dancer Duncan: ISADORA
- 3. Gone to great lengths: STRIVEN
- 4. Middling mark: CEE
- 5. Like freelance work, often: ONSPEC
- 6. Attys.' titles: ESQS
- 7. Stops yapping: SHUTSUP
- 8. Sheik's land, for short: UAE
- 9. Presidential inits.: RWR
- 10. "Who's interested?": ANYONE
- 11. Update, say: NEWS
- 12. Terminate: CEASE
- 13. English county: ESSEX
- 14. Response to an oversharer: TMI
- 15. Suspend: HANG
- 16. Catherine's husband in "Wuthering Heights": EDGAR
- 17. Bishop's group, once: RATPACK
- 18. Ones moving with the aid of pseudopods: AMOEBAE
- 19. Seamstresses, at times: MENDERS
- 25. With vehemence: HOTLY
- 28. Ending of the Bible: ETH
- 32. Unappreciative sort: INGRATE
- 34. Metallic S-shaped piece: POTHOOK
- 35. "___, sing America" (start of a Langston Hughes poem): ITOO
- 37. "Look Who's Talking Too" and "2 Fast 2 Furious": Abbr.: SEQS
- 40. Basic French question: QUOI
- 42. Number for two: DUET
- 46. Sentient ones: BEINGS
- 47. Words that can't be heard, for short: ASL
- 48. Western wear: BOLOTIE
- 49. Strong bond?: AAA
- 51. Publisher Arthur ___ Sulzberger: OCHS
- 52. Song woman who's asked "Darlin', won't you ease my worried mind?": LAYLA
- 54. Subject of the mnemonic "Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs": PLANETS
- 56. Taj ___: MAHAL
- 57. Mimic's activity: APERY
- 58. Not so common: RARER
- 59. Medieval weapon: BROADAX
- 61. Suffix with trick: ERY
- 63. Pope who excommunicated Elizabeth I: PIUSV
- 64. Judas's question to the Lord: ISITI
- 65. Change the color of again: REDYE
- 68. More trendy: HIPPER
- 70. TV's "Growing Up ___": GOTTI
- 73. Some gametes: OVA
- 74. Accumulation: ACCRUAL
- 75. Things with colons inside them: URLS
- 76. Kind of leap: QUANTUM
- 82. Abbr. that's sometimes doubled or tripled: ETC
- 83. Nordstrom rival: SAKS
- 85. Term for a hole in Swiss cheese: EYE
- 87. 1979 exile: SHAH
- 89. It'll take you for a ride: UBER
- 91. Prefix with -graphic: IDEO
- 93. Hard-shell clams: QUAHOGS
- 94. Mark the beginning of: USHERIN
- 95. Unsatisfying answer to "Why?": ISAIDSO
- 96. Bagel variety: ONION
- 98. British sports automobile: MCLAREN
- 100. Kind of harp: AEOLIAN
- 101. Atonement: PENANCE
- 102. Nuisance: ANNOYER
- 105. Trophy alternative: PLAQUE
- 106. Navy petty officer: Abbr.: YEO
- 107. The so-called "Flying Kangaroo": QANTAS
- 109. Curl one's lip: SNEER
- 111. Informal sleep option: FUTON
- 112. People: Prefix: ETHNO
- 116. Man's name that comes from an English noble: ERLE
- 118. Some summer wear: TEES
- 120. Ser : Spanish :: ___ : French: ETRE
- 123. Iraq War danger, for short: IED
- 124. A.C.C. powerhouse: UNC
- 125. Rumpus: ADO
- 127. F.D.R. job-creating prog.: WPA
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