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

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Saturday, April 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.

68 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
"The Jungle Book" beast
2
Jermaine ___, six-time N.B.A. All-Star of the early 2000s
3
Real enthusiast
4
Split
5
Fire department ID
6
2001 Israel Prize winner
7
Ding, e.g.
8
Cause trouble
9
Condition caused by abnormal calcium levels
10
Part of a savanna herd
11
Classic diner order
12
Prepares for a drill?
13
Bon ___
14
Suited to serve
21
Early example of reductio ad absurdum
23
Fix a flat for?
25
Piazza dei Miracoli locale
27
Kind of collar
28
Block maker
29
Dangerous currents
30
Where dinars buy dinners
31
They're flipped at diners
33
Come down in buckets
35
Things that can't be loaded
36
Sends in a high arc
38
Janitor's item
41
Go straight
42
End ... or start
44
Scenery features in a Road Runner cartoon
46
"Hundo"
47
Lumberjack at work
48
Bond villain ___ Stavro Blofeld
49
When repeated, a taunt
50
Tie out West
51
Just
54
"Methinks," in texts

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Friday, April 6, 2018

across

1. Someone who cares too much?: HELICOPTERPARENT
17. Serious competition: ARUNFORONESMONEY
18. It sends waves through waves: SONICDEPTHFINDER
19. College Board offering, for short: PSAT
20. Guarded: LEERY
21. Nincompoop: DODO
22. Age: RIPEN
24. Foggy condition: DAZE
27. They go to the dogs: SCRAPS
29. Unrelenting: MERCILESS
34. Stops streaming: CLOTS
35. Part of ISIL: LEVANT
36. Small slice of pizza?: ZEE
37. Party hearty: RAVE
38. X: DELETE
39. Help in a gym: SPOT
40. Poetic preposition: ERE
41. Draconian: SEVERE
42. Ex-Expo Rusty: STAUB
43. Deliveries in the early 1940s: WARBABIES
45. Hardly generous: MEASLY
46. Santa ___: ROSA
47. They have strong teeth: GEARS
48. Salinger title girl: ESME
51. Prey for an eagle or bear: TROUT
54. Monster of TV: ELMO
57. Sophomoric rejoinder: THATSWHATSHESAID
61. 1958 Bobby Freeman hit covered by the Beach Boys and the Ramones: DOYOUWANTTODANCE
62. Be beneficial to: STANDINGOODSTEAD

down

1. Part of a locker: HASP
2. Love symbol that names another love symbol if you move the first letter to the end: EROS
3. Moon buggy: LUNARROVER
4. Kick-start: INITIATE
5. Banned pollutant, for short: CFC
6. A large quantity: OODLES
7. Show vanity, in a way: PREEN
8. Have a large quantity of liquor: TOPE
9. ___'acte: ENTR
10. Drink after a race, say: REHYDRATE
11. Pressure meas.: PSF
12. French toast maker, maybe: AMI
13. 14-line poem with only two rhymes: RONDEL
14. Prefix with sperm: ENDO
15. "No ___": NEED
16. Veteran's opposite: TYRO
23. Certain letter addendum, for short: PPS
25. Result of an oil surplus: ACNE
26. 25-Down unit: ZIT
27. Thread holder: SCREW
28. Santa ___: CLARA
29. Word from the French for "mixed": MELEE
30. Civil rights icon Medgar: EVERS
31. Quick way through a toll plaza: EZPASSLANE
32. Summer Olympics host before Barcelona: SEOUL
33. Save for later: SETBY
35. Giant: LEVIATHAN
38. Eugene in labor history: DEBS
39. Gives a blank look: STARESAT
41. ___ Jorge (one of the Azores): SAO
42. "He who holds the ___ must be master of the empire": Cicero: SEA
44. Native of NW France: BRETON
45. Kind of acting: METHOD
47. Spirit: GUSTO
48. Some sked predictions: ETDS
49. Completely ruined: SHOT
50. Itzamna worshipers: MAYA
52. Requested service: RANG
53. Palindromic man's name: OTTO
55. It's flaky: MICA
56. Had too much, in brief: ODED
58. Dijon-to-Lyon direction: SUD
59. Teens fight, for short: WWI
60. Story assigners, in brief: EDS

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