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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for May 7, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, May 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.
Across clues & answers
- 55
- 60
- 70
Down clues & answers
- 30
- 39
- 64
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
across
- 1. Perpendicular to the ship's middle: ABEAM
- 6. "Let's do this!": ITSTIME
- 13. Larger of Mars's two moons: PHOBOS
- 19. Proof of purchase for some contests: BOXTOP
- 21. Maines of the Dixie Chicks: NATALIE
- 22. Out of date?: LONELY
- 23. Underwater mine?: BATTLESHIPRISK
- 25. Some end-of-season announcements: AWARDS
- 26. ___ Plus (grooming brand): ATRA
- 27. "Insecure" star Issa: RAE
- 28. Comparison middle: ASA
- 29. Peaceful protest: SITIN
- 30. Get a copy of a 1965 #1 Beatles hit?: ACQUIRETICKETTORIDE
- 37. South America's ___ Picchu: MACHU
- 39. Left-winger: LIB
- 40. U.N. worker protection agcy.: ILO
- 41. "___ Music's golden tongue / Flatter'd to tears this aged man ...": Keats: ERE
- 42. Actor Milo: OSHEA
- 43. Minute Maid Park player, informally: STRO
- 45. Formed for a particular purpose: ADHOC
- 47. Sultan Qaboos's land: OMAN
- 48. Something to be defended: THESIS
- 50. Rather poor ambassador's skill?: SORRYDIPLOMACY
- 53. School in development?: ROE
- 54. Hat, informally: LID
- 56. Bomb with the audience: DIE
- 57. Brand with an arrow through its logo: SUNOCO
- 58. Grp. getting a pay cut?: IRS
- 59. "Roll Tide!" school, for short: BAMA
- 62. Rolled ___: OATS
- 65. Prefix with warrior: ECO
- 66. Formerly known as: NEE
- 67. Reason a computer program wouldn't open?: MEMORYTROUBLE
- 70. Some touchdown scorers, for short: RBS
- 73. Zippo: NIL
- 74. "Am ___ sensitive?": ITOO
- 75. Existed: WERE
- 76. Thanksgiving serving: YAM
- 77. Things folded in the kitchen: BLINIS
- 80. "Cinderella" mouse: GUS
- 82. Big-eared animal: ASS
- 84. Past: AGO
- 85. Incredibly hard puzzle?: CRANIUMTWISTER
- 90. One with a confession to make: SINNER
- 92. Consume: HAVE
- 93. Responds wistfully: SIGHS
- 94. First name in fashion: YVES
- 96. Impressive hole: EAGLE
- 97. "___ reconsidered": IVE
- 98. Padre's hermano: TIO
- 99. Prefix with pressure: ACU
- 100. "Eww!": GROSS
- 101. Link a quartet of supermarket employees?: CONNECTFOURCHECKERS
- 109. Aid for a tracking shot: DOLLY
- 110. Jumpy sort, for short?: ROO
- 111. Vehicle that often rolls over, in brief: IRA
- 112. ___ mater: ALMA
- 115. Angry Shakespearean cry: FIEFIE
- 117. Something you're not allowed to do in math?: TABOOOPERATION
- 121. Mistakes: ERRATA
- 122. Bit of nonsense in a #1 Ella Fitzgerald hit: ATASKET
- 123. Not ruling out: OPENTO
- 124. Gadget for lemons: ZESTER
- 125. Goes back and forth (with): BANTERS
- 126. A cylinder has two: EDGES
down
- 1. Band with a symmetrical logo: ABBA
- 2. Bath toy: BOAT
- 3. Pizzeria order: EXTRACHEESE
- 4. Some lawyers' cases: ATTACHES
- 5. Kind of biol.: MOL
- 6. Picks up later in life?: INHERITS
- 7. Red ___ (sushi fish): TAI
- 8. Irish icon, for short: STPAT
- 9. Ankle bones: TARSI
- 10. Relating to the pelvis: ILIAC
- 11. Prefix with communication: MIS
- 12. Hair-raising cry: EEK
- 13. Pigtail, e.g.: PLAIT
- 14. Many a "... For Dummies" book: HOWTO
- 15. Transmitting: ONAIR
- 16. Comic who acted in "Ocean's Eleven": BERNIEMAC
- 17. Smelling of mothballs: OLD
- 18. Part of O.S.: Abbr.: SYS
- 20. Original home of Paddington Bear: PERU
- 24. Moves effortlessly (through): SAILS
- 29. Streetside hangouts: STOOPS
- 31. Draw back in fear: QUAIL
- 32. River that rises in the Cantabrian Mountains: EBRO
- 33. Player/coach Jason of the N.B.A.: KIDD
- 34. K-12: ELHI
- 35. Constellation between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor: DRACO
- 36. Kids' rhyme starter: EENY
- 37. Big name in pain relief: MOTRIN
- 38. Onto land: ASHORE
- 44. Code on a bag to Chicago: ORD
- 45. Annually: AYEAR
- 46. Like a space cadet: CLUELESS
- 47. 1847 novel of the sea: OMOO
- 49. "Finlandia" composer: SIBELIUS
- 51. Rollickingly funny: RIOTOUS
- 52. "Time was ... ": ONCE
- 55. Feature of a millpond: DAM
- 60. "You couldn't possibly mean me!?": MOI
- 61. Oil field?: ART
- 63. Kind of job: TOW
- 64. ___ Bird, 10-time W.N.B.A. All-Star: SUE
- 67. Bite-size, say: MINI
- 68. Teaching positions can be part of their work: YOGIS
- 69. Chest protector: BRA
- 70. "La La Land" actor: RYANGOSLING
- 71. Rolls out of bed in the morning?: BAGELS
- 72. Messy treats: SMORES
- 73. Fluorine's atomic number: NINE
- 77. "Way to go!": BRAVO
- 78. Purple flowers: LAVENDERS
- 79. Longtime Walter Berndt comic strip: SMITTY
- 81. Spot for wallowing: STY
- 83. All-out attack: SIEGE
- 85. Stylish: CHIC
- 86. Cry at a happy hour, maybe: TGIF
- 87. Cry of excitement: WHOO
- 88. "Well, Did You ___?": EVAH
- 89. Gate: RECEIPTS
- 91. Did some documentary work: NARRATED
- 95. Bolivian capital: SUCRE
- 102. 0%, in the dairy aisle: NOFAT
- 103. Highest-level: ELITE
- 104. Nice forecast: CLEAR
- 105. Population classification: URBAN
- 106. Settle down for the night: ROOST
- 107. Sam who sang "Twistin' the Night Away": COOKE
- 108. Corn syrup brand: KARO
- 113. Tiny bit: MOTE
- 114. They always come with mayo: ANOS
- 115. Flat-topped hat: FEZ
- 116. Heat: IRE
- 117. Keyboard key: TAB
- 118. ___ minimum: ATA
- 119. Anthem contraction: OER
- 120. One rampaging in 2018's "Rampage": APE
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