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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 3, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 3, 2022. 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
- 67
Down clues & answers
- 11
- 57
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Sunday, January 2, 2022
across
- 1. Game option represented by a flat palm: PAPER
- 6. Singer with the 2016 #1 album "A Seat at the Table": SOLANGE
- 13. Disney queen: ELSA
- 17. Not clash: AGREE
- 18. Front lines?: FOREWORD
- 19. Said without saying: GOTAT
- 21. CERISE + LAVENDER = certain baby animals: REINDEERCALVES
- 23. God sometimes depicted with green skin: OSIRIS
- 25. State in which "Parks & Recreation" is set: Abbr.: IND
- 26. Pull some strings, maybe?: TUNE
- 27. Clinches: ICES
- 29. Chip away at: ERODE
- 30. Employee on an airline or cruise ship: STEWARD
- 32. CORAL + GOLD = pet store purchase: DOGCOLLAR
- 36. Veto: NIX
- 37. ___ stick: POGO
- 38. Quarterback who holds the N.F.L. record for most consecutive games started (297): FAVRE
- 39. "You're on!": ITSABET
- 41. Train set: CARS
- 42. Tailor, maybe: ALTER
- 43. One-named singer with the album "Lovers Rock": SADE
- 45. Lipstick choice: NUDE
- 46. AMBER + GREEN = imported brew: GERMANBEER
- 48. Final Fantasy character who shares his name with a U.S. city: RENO
- 49. Sashay, say: STRUT
- 50. ___ B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting: IDA
- 51. A bunch: LOADS
- 52. PEAR + CRIMSON = fighting group: MARINECORPS
- 54. Bottle flipping in the mid-2010s, e.g.: FAD
- 55. Hospital settings, briefly: ERS
- 56. Poster board?: FORUM
- 57. Max's opposite: MIN
- 58. Bo or bonsai: TREE
- 60. LIME + MAGENTA = visualization: MENTALIMAGE
- 64. ["You're still talking?"]: YAWN
- 68. Subj. of some collegiate bragging: GPA
- 70. Actor Gallagher: AIDAN
- 71. Go astray: ERR
- 73. "Herc could stop a show / Point him at a monster and you're talking ___" (lyric in Disney's "Hercules"): SRO
- 74. RUST + SCARLET = celestial group: STARCLUSTER
- 78. Daughter in the comic strip "FoxTrot": PAIGE
- 80. Cha chaan teng serving: TEA
- 81. Plot problems: HOLES
- 82. Dis-tressed: BALD
- 83. CREAM + PEACH = nonviolent protest: PEACEMARCH
- 85. Plantings lining the Literary Walk in Central Park: ELMS
- 86. Skier's accessory: POLE
- 87. Many an art print, briefly: LITHO
- 88. "No injuries here": IMOK
- 89. 2019 space film: ADASTRA
- 91. B's in math?: BETAS
- 92. Devotee, informally: STAN
- 93. A ways: FAR
- 94. TEAL + OCHER = breakfast option: HOTCEREAL
- 97. Absolves: LETSOFF
- 100. Fisher of 2018's "Eighth Grade": ELSIE
- 102. One towering over the rest of the field?: SILO
- 103. Actress Rooney: MARA
- 104. ___ Giedroyc, co-host of "The Great British Bake Off": MEL
- 105. Nappy : U.K. :: ___ : U.S.: DIAPER
- 107. MAUVE + TANGERINE = restaurant handout: VEGETARIANMENU
- 112. African antelope: ELAND
- 113. Frenzied: INAPANIC
- 114. Goddess who turned Picus into a woodpecker: CIRCE
- 115. Throws in: ADDS
- 116. Unbelievable rumors: CANARDS
- 117. Takes the edge off: EASES
down
- 1. 2024 Olympics host: PARIS
- 2. Deal maker: AGENT
- 3. Christopher Street Day celebration: PRIDEPARADE
- 4. Still, for a poet: EEN
- 5. Outlet store come-on: REDTAGSALE
- 6. Miffed: SORE
- 7. Fantasy creature whose name is an anagram of another fantasy creature: ORC
- 8. Rural setting: LEA
- 9. What's the point of leatherwork?: AWL
- 10. Newcomer: NOVICE
- 11. Artist El ___: GRECO
- 12. "The motor industry's Titanic," per a 1994 book: EDSEL
- 13. Nwodim of "S.N.L.": EGO
- 14. Ne'er-do-wells: LOSERS
- 15. Keep from sticking, say: STIR
- 16. "Wait for It" singer in "Hamilton": AARONBURR
- 18. Stave (off): FEND
- 20. Got ready for guests, in a way: TIDIEDUP
- 22. Prefix with centric or vision: EURO
- 24. Volleyball teams, e.g.: SEXTETS
- 28. Lost traction while driving over: SLIDON
- 31. Sinuous dance that emulates a creature: WORM
- 32. 3/4 and 7/8, e.g.: DATES
- 33. Done: OVER
- 34. Hound sound: GRR
- 35. Homophone of the sum of this clue number's digits: ATE
- 38. Took off: FLED
- 40. Who says "That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true": ANTONY
- 41. Wood in some incense: CEDAR
- 42. Bring down: ABASE
- 43. Truth ___: SERUM
- 44. "Jung at heart" persona?: ANIMA
- 46. Talent: GIFT
- 47. Par for the course: NORMAL
- 48. ___ to go: RARIN
- 49. Chemistry, for one: Abbr.: SCI
- 52. Grinding tooth: MOLAR
- 53. Come out: EMERGE
- 56. High on marijuana, in slang: FADED
- 59. Way to go: EGRESS
- 61. Twangy, as a singer: NASAL
- 62. "Us," "It" or "Her": TITLE
- 63. Progressive alternative: GEICO
- 65. Ones doing stellar work: ASTRONOMERS
- 66. Total: WRECK
- 67. One arranging for flood insurance?: NOAH
- 69. Parts of many gaming rigs: PCS
- 72. Payment sent: REMITTANCE
- 74. In a bundle, as documents: SHEAFED
- 75. Wasn't straight: TOLDALIE
- 76. Culinary phrase after "pollo" or "scaloppine": ALMARSALA
- 77. Vessels hunted by K-ships: UBOATS
- 78. Element in many henna designs: PETAL
- 79. "I'm in heaven!" sounds: AAHS
- 83. Doner kebab bread: PITA
- 84. Latin 101 word: AMAS
- 86. For: PRO
- 87. Film director ___ Isaac Chung: LEE
- 90. "That's it": THEEND
- 91. Heavy footwear choice: BROGAN
- 92. Evening in Italy: SERA
- 95. Car model name made entirely of Roman numerals: CIVIC
- 96. Novelist Ferrante: ELENA
- 97. Of the flock: LAIC
- 98. Cross swords: FENCE
- 99. Sooty channels: FLUES
- 101. Modern checkout device: IPAD
- 103. Diagnostic scans, for short: MRIS
- 106. Map lines: Abbr.: RDS
- 108. Clean energy grp.: EPA
- 109. Stuff in cigarettes, but not e-cigarettes: TAR
- 110. "... is there more?": AND
- 111. Rapper known offstage as Mathangi Arulpragasam: MIA
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