The August 16 2024 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes
You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Locale for car chases in “Goldfinger” and “Quantum of Solace”
- 5a Spiced tea
- 9a Slowly depletes
- 13a Not fully value
- 15a Skedaddle
- 16a “More to come …”
- 17a Hunter on screen
- 18a English cathedral city
- 19a Container for the Ten Commandments
- 20a Libby offerings
- 22a Connects
- 24a More spirited
- 26a Meals that traditionally include four cups of wine
- 27a Round up
- 28a The “code” in Walter Isaacson’s best-selling 2021 book “The Code Breaker”
- 29a Hosts
- 30a Where lines may be drawn in the sand
- 32a Something to do “criss-cross applesauce”
- 33a Expeditions, e.g.
- 34a It’s inspired
- 35a Some facilities
- 37a Low point: Abbr.
- 38a Some 3.5 million quotations were gathered for it, for short
- 39a Italian menu word
- 40a Had a hankering
- 43a One known to disappear during work
- 45a Marked down
- 46a Trust
- 47a Tube travelers?
- 48a Unchanging
- 49a Cheese also known as French Gruyère
- 50a That’s an order!
- 53a Forestall
- 54a Add exaggerated details to
- 55a Coin once known as the “piece of eight”
- 56a “Chain Reaction” singer, 1985
- 57a Mugful on a desk, perhaps
- Down
- 1d Good stuff
- 2d Leave undisturbed
- 3d Was psychologically manipulative
- 4d Arch
- 5d Cranks (out)
- 6d Toot one’s own horn?
- 7d Amount to
- 8d “Can’t say for certain”
- 9d Startle
- 10d “But seriously …”
- 11d Czech brew
- 12d Cluttered quarters
- 14d Things found in a well
- 15d Showrunner Rhimes
- 21d Small towns
- 23d Broken-off branches
- 24d Artist Cindy known for her photographic self-portraits
- 25d Skedaddled
- 30d Film character who asks “Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?”
- 31d Comes down
- 32d [I won’t repeat myself in this note]
- 33d Leaf
- 35d Million ___ March (political event of 2000)
- 36d Clatter
- 37d Most densely populated country in Europe
- 40d Buffs
- 41d Number of sides for a hendecagon
- 42d Puts off
- 44d Wordless part of many songs
- 47d Components of imperial regalia
- 49d Limit
- 51d Text qualifier
- 52d Word with felt or hot