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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for August 30, 2022
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Tuesday, August 30, 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
- 14
- 30
- 60
Down clues & answers
- 13
- 35
- 40
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Monday, August 29, 2022
across
- 1. Gadot of "Wonder Woman": GAL
- 4. Annoying reflections while driving: GLARES
- 10. Nasty cut: GASH
- 14. ___ Max (popular streaming service): HBO
- 15. Root vegetable that's red on the outside and white on the inside: RADISH
- 16. Well-qualified: ABLE
- 17. "Well, look at that!": OHO
- 18. Environment that reinforces one's biases: ECHOCHAMBER
- 20. Seating that might be L-shaped: SOFA
- 22. Young 'un: TOT
- 23. Does some gardening work: WEEDS
- 24. Major thoroughfare: TRAFFICARTERY
- 28. Video camera button: REC
- 29. Bungee jumper's attachment: CORD
- 30. Bread for a pastrami sandwich: RYE
- 33. Skedaddle: SPLIT
- 36. Excessively: TOO
- 37. Joint ailment: GOUT
- 38. With 41-Across, classic love song suggested by the ends to 18-, 24-, 50- and 60-Across: PIECEOF
- 41. See 38-Across: MYHEART
- 43. Utah ski town: ALTA
- 44. Robotic villain in "2001: A Space Odyssey": HAL
- 46. Home to more than 350 million vegetarians: INDIA
- 47. "For sure": YES
- 48. Two-liter bottle contents, often: SODA
- 49. Wrath: IRE
- 50. "Similarly …": INTHESAMEVEIN
- 56. Clarinetist Shaw: ARTIE
- 58. Corp. money overseer: CFO
- 59. Does some mental math: ADDS
- 60. Precautionary device in a pneumatic machine: SAFETYVALVE
- 64. Home project inits.: DIY
- 65. Newspaper covering Congress, with "The": HILL
- 66. Filled French pastry: ECLAIR
- 67. Positive or negative particle: ION
- 68. Big name in ice cream: EDYS
- 69. Inquiry for a lost package: TRACER
- 70. And so on: Abbr.: ETC
down
- 1. Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde, in Pac-Man: GHOST
- 2. Hate, hate, hate: ABHOR
- 3. Scrubber in the tub: LOOFA
- 4. Test for some coll. seniors: GRE
- 5. Obtained from milk: LACTIC
- 6. For a single purpose, as a committee: ADHOC
- 7. It's "read" to an unruly crowd: RIOTACT
- 8. Top-left keyboard key: ESC
- 9. "Quiet!": SHH
- 10. Esports competitor: GAMER
- 11. Beatles album whose cover shows the band using a crosswalk: ABBEYROAD
- 12. Snow day conveyance: SLED
- 13. That woman's: HERS
- 19. Wonderstruck: AWED
- 21. Kilimanjaro is its highest point: AFRICA
- 25. Big party: FETE
- 26. Word after elbow, escape and emergency: ROOM
- 27. Helen of ___: TROY
- 31. ___ Gagarin, first person in space: YURI
- 32. James who sang "Tell Mama": ETTA
- 33. Fix, as a pet: SPAY
- 34. Heap: PILE
- 35. Doesn't hold back one's emotions: LETSITFLY
- 37. Swiss city that's home to the International Red Cross: GENEVA
- 39. "Pick me! Pick me!": OHOH
- 40. Haircut common in the Marine Corps: FADE
- 42. Put on the payroll: HIRE
- 45. Famed Milan opera house: LASCALA
- 48. "Leave in," to a copy editor: STET
- 49. Video editing program from Apple: IMOVIE
- 51. Nobelist Bohr: NIELS
- 52. Company whose name gets quacked in ads: AFLAC
- 53. Oscar winner Redmayne: EDDIE
- 54. Moron: IDIOT
- 55. "Bye Bye Bye" boy band: NSYNC
- 56. ___ Stadium, U.S. Open tennis locale: ASHE
- 57. Apt rhyme for "invade": RAID
- 61. Until now: YET
- 62. Once-popular device in a den, in brief: VCR
- 63. Blunder: ERR
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How the week is built
- Monday and Tuesday: straightforward definitions and familiar answers. These are the best days to learn.
- Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
- Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
- Friday and Saturday: themeless and tough, with sly clues and long open sections.
- Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.
Crossword-solving habits worth building
- Learn the common fill. Short vowel-heavy words such as ERA, OREO, ALOE and ETNA appear constantly because they help constructors connect sections.
- Read clue signals. "?" means wordplay, "Abbr." means an abbreviation, "e.g." means an example of a category, and a foreign word in the clue hints at a foreign answer.
- Find the theme. The longest answers usually share a gimmick; the title (on Sundays) or a "revealer" clue explains it.
- Erase without fear. When crossings don't work, the wrong letter is usually in the answer you were most confident about.
- Use targeted help. Reveal one letter here, or try our crossword solver with a pattern like ?R?S?.
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What is a rebus square?
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Which day is the hardest?
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Can I see past crossword answers?
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