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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for December 3, 2018
Monday, December 3, 2018
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, December 3, 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
- 44
- 45
Down clues & answers
- 25
- 31
- 35
- 49
- 56
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Sunday, December 2, 2018
across
- 1. Tennis judge's cry: FAULT
- 6. Locks in a barn?: MANE
- 10. Icon leading to checkout: CART
- 14. Traveled in trunks?: SWAM
- 18. Large green moths: LUNAS
- 19. Dateless, say: ALONE
- 21. It's frequently in Italian: ARIA
- 22. Greek ally in the "Iliad": HERA
- 23. 13579 AZ: ODDSANDENDS
- 25. Hash houses: BEANERIES
- 27. Country on the Red Sea: ERITREA
- 28. Home sick?: OUT
- 29. Brackish coastal habitat: SALTMARSH
- 30. Citrus drink: ADE
- 31. Egyptian god of the universe: AMENRA
- 33. It often comes before the fall: TRIP
- 34. Summer clock setting: Abbr.: DST
- 36. Large large skip skip: TOOBIGTOIGNORE
- 43. Victoria's Secret item: BRA
- 46. Sandra Denton, in hip-hop's "Whatta Man" trio: PEPA
- 48. A miner concern?: ORE
- 49. Opening in a battlement: CRENEL
- 50. Some transitional movie shots: FADEINS
- 52. Sporting a feathery crest: TUFTED
- 55. First name on the Supreme Court: ELENA
- 56. AT hot dog hot dog RA: FRANKSINATRA
- 58. Tags: IDS
- 60. The Lions or Tigers, on scoreboards: DET
- 61. Many a fête d'anniversaire attendee: AMIE
- 62. Writer Wiesel: ELIE
- 63. Invincibility power-up in Mario games: STAR
- 65. Blow away: AWE
- 66. Wound + dis: ADDINSULTTOINJURY
- 72. "___ Vickers," Sinclair Lewis novel: ANN
- 74. Doesn't keep: ROTS
- 75. Perch for a pie: SILL
- 76. Comment on a blog: POST
- 78. Dad ___: BOD
- 79. After all deductions: NET
- 80. PP UU BB: PARALLELBARS
- 84. Big name in watches: OMEGA
- 86. Creator of a draft: BREWER
- 88. All you can eat: EDIBLES
- 89. Masters: MAVENS
- 91. Six-foot runner?: ANT
- 92. Cut, as a log: SAWN
- 93. Scratch (out): EKE
- 94. Per spire: BREAKINGASWEAT
- 99. Farrokh Bulsara ___ Freddie Mercury: AKA
- 101. ___ Caovilla, Italian shoe designer: RENE
- 102. Part of a buck: ANTLER
- 104. End of the British alphabet: ZED
- 107. Something studied in toponymy: PLACENAME
- 112. Altar avowal: IDO
- 113. Creator of the detective Adam Dalgliesh: PDJAMES
- 116. Fiery peppers: HABANEROS
- 117. Yearn ÷ do: LONGOVERDUE
- 119. Currier's partner: IVES
- 120. Something to take lying down: REST
- 121. Grassy expanse: SWARD
- 122. Certain reunion attendee: NIECE
- 123. It's better than never, they say: LATE
- 124. Spanish title: Abbr.: SRTA
- 125. Pivot around an axis: SLUE
- 126. Less crazy: SANER
down
- 1. White sheet: FLOE
- 2. Broadway's McDonald: AUDRA
- 3. Reversed: UNDID
- 4. Kept on going: LASTED
- 5. Evictor of the Jews in "Fiddler on the Roof": TSAR
- 6. Palindromic title: MADAM
- 7. Pint glass fill: ALE
- 8. "That's all wrong!": NONONO
- 9. Off-road motorcycle race: ENDURO
- 10. Street fleet: CABS
- 11. What a Mercator projection map notably distorts: AREA
- 12. ___ Bridge (Venice landmark): RIALTO
- 13. Like some yoga: TANTRIC
- 14. Explosion fragments: SHRAPNEL
- 15. Small dam: WEIR
- 16. Trojan ally in the "Iliad": ARES
- 17. Moonshine maker's need: MASH
- 20. Cornerstone abbr.: ESTAB
- 24. Puts in order: NEATENS
- 26. Political refugees: EMIGRES
- 32. Announcement over a plane's P.A.: ETA
- 35. Like cleats: SPIKED
- 37. Minute amount: IOTA
- 38. Test for a college sr.: GRE
- 39. "Father ___" (bygone British sitcom): TED
- 40. Store event that people may stand in line for: ONEDAYSALE
- 41. Freshen: RENEW
- 42. Give a major lift: ELATE
- 43. Soul sister, say: BFF
- 44. ___ avis: RARA
- 45. Garden parties?: ADAMANDEVE
- 47. Telepathy term: PSI
- 51. Children's author Blyton: ENID
- 52. Anklebone: TALUS
- 53. Abbr. that rhymes with "bill," appropriately: UTIL
- 54. Woodworking tool: FRETSAW
- 57. Catbird seat?: NEST
- 58. "At Seventeen" singer Janis ___: IAN
- 59. He wore #6 for the Sixers: DRJ
- 63. Like some clean energy: SOLAR
- 64. Ones place: TILL
- 67. Boiling blood: IRE
- 68. "Ask ___ ...": NOT
- 69. Flag: TIRE
- 70. Satellite connection: UPLINK
- 71. Eldest Stark son on "Game of Thrones": ROBB
- 72. Manhattan Project creation: ABOMB
- 73. Baseball's Garciaparra: NOMAR
- 77. Long haul: TREK
- 79. Durable yellow cotton cloth: NANKEEN
- 80. Darlings: PETS
- 81. Grassy expanse: LEA
- 82. Boy king in Shakespeare's "Richard III": EDWARDV
- 83. Atlanta-to-Miami dir.: SSE
- 85. Transmission part: GEARCASE
- 86. Groceries holder: BAG
- 87. Genetic info carrier: RNA
- 90. What all people are, per the Bible: SINNERS
- 92. Cardinal letters: STL
- 95. "___, My God, to Thee" (hymn): NEARER
- 96. Sings the blues: WAILS
- 97. Funds: ENDOWS
- 98. Discordant: ATONAL
- 100. Hank who voices Moe and Chief Wiggum: AZARIA
- 103. Lyric poem: EPODE
- 105. German port in Lower Saxony: EMDEN
- 106. Two in the hand: DEUCE
- 107. Knight who co-founded Nike: PHIL
- 108. What obsidian forms from: LAVA
- 109. Partner of aid: ABET
- 110. Lion's share: MOST
- 111. "Cómo ___ usted?": ESTA
- 114. Norwegian P.M. Stoltenberg: JENS
- 115. Sibyl: SEER
- 118. "Despicable Me" supervillain: GRU
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