Ubercross Abecedaria A
Across
A1. Football call
A5. General Wingate
A9. Site of the Bocca Nuova crater
A13. Bruvs
A17. Feature of a Norman Rockwell
self-portrait
A21. “___ Muppet, or ___ man?” (The
Muppets)
A25. Buster’s sister or love interest,
depending on the version of Tiny Toons
A29. Tennyson, e.g.
A33. “Snakes, why did it have to be
snakes?” snakes
A37. Binary in a car
A41. Spaghetti, e.g.
A45. Charitable donation
A49. Stops in one’s tracks
A54. Some lap dogs
A58. Winner of the first gift-giving
contest
A62. Rani’s dress?
A66. Columned walkway
A70. Suffix for tap or tip
A74. Psychedelic, say
A78. “It’s beginning to look ___ like
Christmas…”
A82. Rounds for arms
A86. Lasting pain
A90. ___ patriae
A94. Dieting figures, for short
A98. Initialism on a bank door
A102. Not ___: No way!
A103. Weather svc. agcy.
A104. Be a drifter
A105. Casual “bonjour”
A106. Big name in theaters
A107. Cue ball target
A108. Reconciler in Genesis 33
A109. Party with a mosh pit
A110. Intuitive push past logic
A111. ___ santo (plant)
A112. Old telephone keypad abbr.
A113. Old Web “code” that’s sort of slang
A114. In a friendly manner
A115. Swinger
A116. Bluetooth- devices-for-motorcycles
maker
A117. 20 fins
A118. Factory seconds (abbr.)
A119. Stark with a kill list
A120. Name seen in classic film history and Game
of Thrones credits
A121. Zurich-based sports org.
A122. One of the first measurements you
learn in sch.
A123. Cold-weather wear
A124. Hereditary character marker
A125. Neil Diamond’s “___ Said”
A126. Bad news for Florida in 2017
A127. Divorce parties, perhaps
A129. Benefits of teamwork
A131. Love of exotica
A133. Cause of sink stains
A135. It often catches an infection
A137. Legendary Chicagoan
A139. Knuckle-cracking or nail-biting
A140. “It’ll be fine”
A142. Implicit meaning
A144. Trains one’s long-term attention (on)
A146. Smiles and says “hi” to, for a start
A148. With no tags
A150. Amateur’s aspiration, often
A152. With a low frequency?
A153. It means “four”
A154. Ark passenger groupings
A156. Separate, as one to many
A157. Sawtooth Mountains state
A159. Marvell-ous work?
A160. Popular fruit-and-bread breakfast,
often with butter
A162. Wisconsin city where a kids’ clothing
line was founded
A163. Cry of exasperation
A165. Reagan-era missile prog.
A167. First-rate, in British slang
A168. Increases homeowner levies, say
A170. In fine fettle
A171. Japanese training spaces
A173. Mentally exhausted
A174. Inflatable transport
A175. Chilly time in Chihuahua
A176. Least flustered
A177. Animal named for its absence in a
Christmas carol
A179. French cathedral city
A181. Word following pigeon or web
A183. Fender bender, e.g.
A185. Watchmen writer
A188. Like a bootleg play
A189. Cry from the accused
A191. Thinnish middle?
A192. Interstate posts
A197. Battering beam
A198. Evening up, as a score
A200. Available to sire
A201. Locale of a famous hanging
A203. They’ve got the Sun, the Moon, and the Star
A204. Rigatoni’s kin
A205. Currency for some tribes in history
A206. Osteoporosis issue
A207. Junk character in a coded message
A208. Meet ___: have a place in the
marketplace
A210. Common straight-pour order
A213. Born micromanager
A215. Resort area souvenirs
A218. Title of the most reprinted editorial
in the English language
A225. Negotiate to completion
A228. In bits
A230. Shakespeare said there were seven
A232. Proofreader’s target
A233. Price the consumer pays
A235. Mr. Miyagi portrayer
A237. Greek who believed “the best physician
is also a philosopher”
A239. False chameleon (as if chameleons aren’t all about fooling you already)
A240. Practically colorless
A242. Radon, formerly
A243. Full of laughs and thrills
A245. Be convincing
A246. Prove boundaries porous
A247. Provides libations
A248. Bart’s burnt-out teacher until 2013
A249. ml, medically
A250. They’re read in the middle of OT?
A251. “Good one!”
A253. Label for cishet who supports
non-cishets that I’m a little uneasy with, to be honest,
because some people apply it to anyone who’s just a basically decent person
whereas others are considerably stricter
A254. 142-volume chronicler of ancient Rome
A255. Kind of movie, informally
A256. Shield or breastplate which, in The
Iliad, roared like a dragon
A257. Pane servicer’s add-on
A258. Dove or pigeon, auditorily
A259. Sparkling with decorations
A260. Catalog section husbands should note
A262. Own up to one’s sins
A264. Philanthropist
A266. Standing up straight
A268. Pony’s pace
A270. Pats with a hanky
A273. Suffix with home and farm
A275. Nicolas in “Stars We Lost” lists of
2018
A277. It causes degradation
A279. Is, possibly
A280. Losing it makes what’s said sad?
A281. “Ruh-___, Raggy!”
A283. Optometrist’s interest
A285. “Am ___ your way?”
A287. “Like a ___ a string”
A288. Holiday radio fare
A290. Sweethearts
A291. “And ___ it off…” (As if that wasn’t enough…)
A292. Swerved quickly
A294. Moves the camera over
A295. Puts in the post office
A296. Nipponese noodles
A297. Where a novel begins, generally
A298. Used a caret
A300. King or Queen book, e.g.
A302. Language that gives us “kiwi”
A304. Eldest Baldwin brother
A306. City near Pompeii
A308. Father Junipero
A310. Org. that fills bowls?
A312. Well-guarded Israeli port
A314. Shoulder-baring underthing
A317. What someone who looks at Medusa does
A320. Automaton
A321. Whence come some cones
A322. “The ___ get, the ___ want”
A323. Brings one’s lunch
A324. Exuded moisture, in a way
A325. The Sultan of Insult, to Don Rickles
A326. Gp. that developed the earliest
internet
A327. Wireless setups between octets and
smaller groups of computers
A328. “The Brand More Dentists Use
Themselves”
A330. Asian gambling mecca
A332. “If a tree falls in the forest and
___…”
A334. Apply paint crudely
A336. Hilaire who wrote Cautionary Tales
for Children and The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
A338. Garb for Atia
A340. Movies that made it
A342. They’re found on gift tags
A344. Name that’s a distance reversed
A345. “No prob here”
A346. Native of Vientiane, e.g.
A347. Comb crazily?
A348. Cheap shots
A349. Spirited cry
A350. Popular author who wrote in anapestic
tetrameter
A351. Jumped up and down, perhaps
A352. Frequent props for Marlene Dietrich
A353. “No ___!” (emphatic denial)
A354. Documentarian Ken
A355. Houston campus
A356. Occasion for cards from many relatives
A361. Movie with a sextet of fighters and a training
montage involving chopsticks…that is not Kill Bill
A364. Alternative to a tanning salon
A367. Like schemes to RUUUUULE the WORRRRLD
A370. Scorpion product
A372. 2004 Cole Porter biopic
A375. Wizard of Oz sound effect
A378. One-on-one auto sport
A381. Misspelling on Pooh’s pot
A382. Period of altered consciousness
A384. Prosperous
A386. Orator who overcame his stutter by
rehearsing with stones in his mouth
A388. Catchphrase for Clark Kent and Doc
Brown
A393. Wife of Zeus
A394. Officiously intermeddle
A396. Pass twice in a race
A397. “___ to me…” (AFAIK)
A399. Emulate a hot spring
A400. “Relax, I got this”
A402. Little jerkass
A403. Still-life subject
A405. Driverless racer, casually
A407. Plays the wrong suit
A408. ___-locka, Fla.
A409. Be superior to, as in the military
A410. Gala affairs
A411. Knotted neckwear
A412. Romeo’s love
A413. Several works of Michelangelo
A414. Prefix often meaning “self-activating”
A415. Gives an edge to
A416. Martin’s second wife on Frasier
A417. Play groups?
A418. Big book of oil
A419. Rear sections
A421. Actor Rob of 90210
A423. Spinal parts
A425. ___ blank
A427. Equipment for a water sport or a
frozen-water sport
A429. Nonbinding Islamic resolution
A431. Dessert label that signals it’ll make you bigger
A433. Twosome
A435. Military hopeful
A437. Relevant, in court
A438. Pop-up window on Windows, sometimes
A440. A great deal
A441. Young sows
A442. Like hard-to-eat fish
A443. Events that please ski resort owners
A444. One who saves on new clothes with a
needle and thread
A445. Kind of table on a plane
A446. Henchman material
A447. What limnologists study
A448. Ferngully hip-hop artist voiced by Robin
Williams
A449. Subject of a Cubist Microsoft icon
A450. Archaeologists, at times
A452. Graph theorist W.T.
A454. Throat infection, in brief
A456. Opposite of mild
A458. 30 for 30 channel
A460. Most of most scripts
A462. ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives)
A464. Stage bigwig
A466. Lips, in Latin
A468. “New World Coming” singer
A469. “Aw, dat’s a ___ hooey!”
A470. “Moderate air quality”
A471. Hits the spot
A472. “___ tricks?”
A473. Oleta Adams and Annie Lennox, on the
mic
A474. Search for provisions
A475. “Voulez-vous coucher ___ moi?”
A476. Bar used as a pry
A477. Prone to leaking
A478. Ultra-busy sort
A479. With no sense of propriety
A480. The W. in W.H. Auden
A482. First part in a duet
A484. Astronaut’s work environment, for
short
A486. Gimlet orderer’s spec
A488. Aunts, in Acapulco
A490. Anti-allergy drug
A492. Nine, in combinations
A494. Tori who sang “Silent All These Years”
A496. “I don’t know what you’re talking
about, officer, this is a perfectly legitimate business” “business”
A498. Some T sizes
A499. Football squad mems.
A501. Big name in automotive products
A503. Onetime Press Secretary Spicer
A504. Ensure victory, slangily
A505. Comparison, literarily
A506. Fruity alcoholic brand
A507. Election Day freebies from party
workers
A508. Goes from glory to a shadow of its
former self
A509. Things inspiring distaste
A510. Your spouse
A511. Popular type of vinegar
A513. Competing with the goal of victory
A516. Very, very well
A519. Something many claim to have lost in
pandemic-induced isolation
A522. “LEEEROY JENKINS,” e.g.
A524. Some book ends
A525. Meat- or fish-filled pastry
A527. Big-billed sea bird
A528. Fire Island hues
A529. Word balloon
A531. Oceanfront disasters
A533. Swims while keeping one’s eye on
shore, maybe
A535. They hang around carpenters
A537. Polite offer-to-help query
A538. Bit of dirty politics
A540. Dusk, didactically
A541. It often precedes a bass line
A543. Mexican warrior
A544. Fireplace blackener
A546. Like streets of Victorian London
A547. Untouchable Ness
A549. Mammals’ protections
A551. Dinky dump truck maker
A552. Central Texas city
A554. iPhone predecessors
A555. A whole lot
A556. Verb in Exodus
A557. Name for a big wheel
A558. Gimlet options
A559. Revive
A560. Mexican sauces
A561. Renders docile
A562. Helps steer through the waterways
A563. ___ Meets World
A565. Make ecstatic
A567. Coffee brand
A569. Place proximately to
A571. “___ Song” (“La la la la, la la la la,
___ song / He wrote the music, he wrote the words, that’s ___ song”)
A573. Classic hero Quatermain
A575. Sunbathing risk
A577. Savanna beasts
A579. Place to get teased
A581. Nations’ handshake
A583. Last section my wife and I visit on an
IKEA trip
A584. Dust protectors
A585. Financial guru Orman
A586. Name kept when she married Kent
A587. Clicking language of Africa
A588. Kind of mariner
A589. Dandy’s accoutrement
A590. Mnemosyne was one
A591. Signs away, as territory
A592. Finishes a dishwashing cycle
A593. We has one
A594. “I’m the Last of the Red Hot ___”
A595. Like Seattle vis-à-vis Phoenix
A597. Bereaved wife
A599. The Girl Who Played with Fire author Larsson
A601. Messy sound effect
A603. She seeks vengeance in The Last of
Us Part II
A605. Bought the farm
A607. Unprecedented
A609. ___ through (rehearsed)
A611. Kind of roll
A613. Contribute to the Tomatometer
A614. Like music you might rip
A616. “Told you!”
A618. Net profits
A619. Phaedrus products
A620. Prepare to ship, archaically
A621. Daytime
A622. Winning so far
A623. 1929 movie phenom
A624. “Boxcars”
A625. Abhor
A626. Pepsi-Cola and Nike, structurewise
A628. First satellite to “see” the Earth
from space
A630. The ___ (dysfunctional-family comedy based on
Shakespeare)
A632. Records for later
A634. Adams who sang “Get Here”
A636. Word before foot, bones, and faced
A638. Wonder’s output, maybe
A640. Pharma giant that made Accutane
A642. Prepares for a game
A643. Israeli statesman Barak
A644. Former Chinese Communist military
leader Lin
A645. Opposite of dethrone
A646. Gift-getter
A647. Latin quarter
A648. Voice actor Harnell of Animaniacs
A649. Pronoun neglecting enbies and mostly
displaced by “they”
A650. Helps a friend achieve their schemes
A651. “It ___ be you”
A652. Came to a decision
A653. Done, in Verdun
A654. Spot for a garden
A658. “Ver-r-ry ___!”
A661. They’re worth about $8.5K in annual salary
A664. Mission Impossible star
A667. Usually prefixed word meaning “engulf”
A669. Team for mate, e.g. (abbr.)
A670. Shapeless mass
A671. Gp. with balls and strikes
A674. ___ Digest (monthly Pakistani magazine)
A676. Scottish river or loch near Perth
A677. 52 pick-up projectiles
A678. Annoyed moviegoer’s shout
A680. Zoo favorites
A682. Teddy Roosevelt’s regiment
A684. Tub-based, repeated relaxation ritual
A688. Union pledges?
A689. Devil’s buy
A691. America’s Funniest Videos host Bob
A692. What Oprah “gave up panties” for
A694. Aptly named old novelist Charles
A695. “____ wunderschönen guten Morgen”
A697. Nana, on the other side of the family
A698. They have tines and scoops
A700. Forceful proclamation
A702. Texter’s “sweet dreams” abbreviation
A703. Modern Hibernia
A704. Volkswagen sport compact until 2016
A705. End of a children’s song’s second
verse
A706. It’s in grog
A707. Grimy-looking
A708. African fox
A709. Motion carriers
A710. Young’s corporate partner
A711. Eventually become
A712. Legendary Bagger
A713. It’s often cooked in the woods
A714. Spiked hair holders
A715. They may be in black-and-white
A716. They vary based on the fullness of the
glass you tap
A718. Increase dramatically
A720. What’s often paid on a private resale
A722. Chilly day accessory
A724. Furtive lurker
A726. Kin of mauve
A728. Goddess of strife
A730. Less natural-seeming
A732. English king succeeded by William of
Orange
A734. Salukis, e.g.
A735. Mild maledictions
A737. “He spent years developing a giant
crossword puzzle. He is survived by his wife and four cats,” e.g.
A739. Film magazine (var.)
A741. Like many who suffer hypothermia
A742. Honored org. post-9/11
A743. Website whose current homepage
features the line “Mazel tov for finding love”
A744. Expressive
A745. Like crap that just don’t work right
A746. Power to please
A747. Robert who was so retro on civil
rights he made Scalia look like Ginsburg
A748. Phylum or genus
A749. Ness and Lomond
A751. Country Anna visited
A753. Dictator before Caesar
A755. Wurst topping
A757. Jazz vocalist legend Vaughan
A759. Bugs’s nemesis
A761. 1939 Bolger costar
A763. ___ Gray effect: personality’s effect
on physicality
A765. Year Augustus named his heir
A766. Bachelor bachelor Luyendyk Jr.
A767. Lose ___: slow down
A768. Meyer or Merrill of screen
A769. Confine, in a way
A770. Provided capital
A771. Filly at five
A772. Buffalo Bill’s family
A773. Like some linings
A774. Exploits, in a sense
A775. Distinctive walks
A776. Weeding implements
A777. Old-fashioned cup
A778. Brown eyes or red hair, e.g.
A780. Novelty pet
A782. Continue to treat, as a sprain
A784. Material for bicycle shorts
A786. Six trillion mi. increments, roughly
A788. Stud horses
A790. Titanic chanteuse
A792. Blitzes
A794. Coast-to-coast, perhaps (abbr.)
A795. “This Too Shall Pass” singers
A796. Showed disdain
A798. Groundbreaking invention?
A800. Mass booklet
A801. With wings
A802. Safe place for a boat
A803. Ancient Greek city-state
A804. 1960s activist Bobby
A805. Roots of ruin
A806. Literary Doone
A807. Participates in a curtain call
A808. Lubricate a second time
A809. Comic character in whiteface
A811. Luxurious yet undistinguished
residences
A814. Skimpy summer garments
A817. They’re falling below 2.1, which could end
overpopulation
A820. Alternative to AOL or CompuServe, back
in the day
A822. Tours season?
A823. Good, as a companion
A824. Gateway item
A825. ___ Scott Decision praised by Mitch
McConnell
A826. Hoagie, by another name
A827. Sign of pressure?
A828. “Wait, already!”
A830. Weather report stat
A832. Aerial spinning maneuver
A834. Libya’s neighbor
A836. Middle-age-marking birthdays
A838. Intention
A839. Miniscule amounts
A841. “Does your movie ___ big name?”
A842. Moves very slowly (into or out of)
A844. Angel markers
A845. Did the vocals
A847. Sea named for its seaweed
A849. Ice planet of ‘80s sci-fi
A850. Abridgement used to describe a mooning
prank
A851. The germ of an ___
A853. Necromancer
A855. Fantasy-sports variation
A857. Sound of the wind, perhaps
A858. Put it to ___: let the group decide
A859. Droves
A860. Onomatopoeic rhyme for “duds”
A861. Gary of Point Break and Lethal
Weapon
A862. Like greasy food
A863. Wises up
A865. Pizarro’s booty
A866. Dann of TV’s SVU
A868. Cocktail hour assortment
A870. ___-eaters (Odyssey druggies)
A872. Soviet ballistic missiles
A874. Panem’s Mellark
A876. Acknowledge tacitly
A878. Aussie animals
A880. Tarot user, allegedly
A881. What Matthew’s Jesus says is in your
eye
A882. Speak agitatedly
A883. Flycasts delicately
A884. Work as iambic pentameter
A885. Fully gratify
A886. Web-footed creature
A887. Character issues
A888. Seoul site
A889. Old lady you don’t like
A890. Subject of many poems
A891. HS practice exam
A892. Nasal partition
A893. Animated picture with the voice of
will.i.am
A894. Four-star off.
A896. One of 18 on a disc golf course
A898. Tasha’s daughter, on Star Trek
A900. British subject?
A902. Celeb gossip program
A904. Buddies on the range
A906. Oleanna playwright David
A908. Thrills
A910. Modality
A911. Worf portrayer
A912. Golfer Stewart
A913. Role for Jude Law or Michael Caine
A915. PC address book listing
A917. Is overall likely (to)
A918. Two spots on a two-spot
A919. Diamond and Armstrong
A920. “Your beloved life partner--that’s
me--is home!”
A921. Common ancestry
A922. “Apollo flying through the Clouds” and
“The Elephant Fountain,” e.g.
A923. On a grand scale
A924. Fine young things
A925. Pt. of SSS
A926. Headwear for a cockney angel
A928. “Nothing to it!”
A930. Planking target
A932. Hip-hop star who often works with
Trick Daddy
A934. Two-time Best Supporting Actor Michael
A936. Architectural remnants
A938. Octave plus a second
A940. Partner of Gramps
A942. In great shape
A943. Ominous day
A944. Made into strings, in the kitchen
A945. Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas
A946. Director Kazan
A947. “I ___ little silhouetto of a man…”
A948. Sex ed topics
A949. “Didn’t ask”
A950. Subtitle preceder, often
A951. Moves around
A952. 900 and 9000 on the road, once
A953. Greg Norman’s game
A954. Le Petit Prince, e.g.
A955. 18-20 in a series
A957. Iron Age Celt
A960. Gives a scolding
A963. Direct marketer’s shout in old
commercials
A966. Leaving for work?
A969. Hawaii Rainbow Warriors’ conference
A971. Worldwide relief org.
A972. Submarine bane
A973. Apologies, in Apulia
A975. This, in Mexico City
A977. “Unless someone like you cares a whole
awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not” writer
A979. Maintenance, heating, and pest
control, for homes
A981. Ones with low class standards?
A983. Electricity, beef, and orange juice,
economically
A985. Sells virtually
A989. Dog that seems to think she’s a cat
A991. Ricotta ___ (cheese)
A992. Negligible amount
A994. Lingo
A995. Fictional vet who inspired a USO band
A997. Amusing satire, like a Wayans film
A998. 7-10, in bowling
A1000. Start of many Latin American place names
A1001. Amazon Fire alternative
A1002. Idi of horribleness
A1003. Soda, in the Midwest
A1006. Serena Williams’ org.
A1007. Bibliographic abbr. after a name or
names
A1008. Sanctified
A1009. Looks carefully (over)
A1010. Impressive blows?
A1011. Notorious Brexiter
A1012. Lab fluid
A1013. Shawshank Redemption extras
A1014. Adoree and Zellweger
A1015. There’s providence in the fall of one
A1016. 1976 Hall & Oates breakup song
A1018. “Er, well…how can I put this ___?”
A1020. Eminently draftable
A1022. Belted Forum garment
A1024. Unaided efforts
A1026. Gulliver’s creator
A1028. Shark relative
A1030. ___ Domini
A1031. Bow to the ship?
A1032. Congregational closers
A1033. Calpurnia’s watchman?
A1034. Hard fats
A1036. Means’ justifiers?
A1038. Yemeni city known for coffee
production
A1039. Sudden outbursts
A1040. Capitol events
A1041. Lottery collectives
A1042. Drifted, as in a current
A1043. Synth inventor
A1044. Most affectedly dainty, to a Brit
A1045. Dinky drink, to an innkeeper
A1046. Basketball two-handers
A1048. High “houses”
A1050. Olaf’s pal
A1052. Grifted, e.g.
A1054. ___ I (grammar book by Patricia T. O’Conner)
A1056. Where Saul saw a soothsayer
A1058. Monument of ancient Greece
A1060. Thrice, in a prescription
A1061. Big name on runways
A1062. Hagrid’s hound at Hogwarts
A1063. Argo skipper
A1065. Pin ___ on: incriminate
A1066. Despite its name, it used to be
squarish with a hole in it
A1067. Comprehensive set of bks.
A1068. Auto-body shop concerns
A1069. Hatcher and Garr
A1070. Driller’s projects
A1071. Dispatched
A1072. Classic Disneyana
A1073. Claymation dog
A1074. Aviary talk
A1075. Armando who created Veep
A1077. At marked-down prices
A1079. Letters seen on some caps
A1081. Carrie Ann of Dancing with the
Stars
A1083. Medicare’s covers inpatient hospital
care
A1085. Rubbernecked
A1087. 90s, to stereotypical perfectionists
A1089. Liquid’s sluggish flow
A1090. Film director Ephron and funnywoman
Dunn
A1091. Conglomerate
A1092. Prince Caspian writer
A1094. Walkout walk-in
A1096. They make up artificial tissues
A1098. “What do you ___ him, anyway?” “He
makes me laugh”
A1099. Cousteau concern
A1100. Kravitz’s ex and Momoa’s wife
A1101. Destiny’s Child or Foo Fighters
A1102. Orléans department
A1103. Jai alai arenas
A1104. Texas ballplayer, for short
A1105. “Um, uh…uh-oh”
A1108. Hardly any
A1111. Nonscripted program
A1114. Magnetic inductivity units
A1115. Follower of mother or father
A1116. Tough to farm
A1117. Enormous and imposing
A1119. Mexico City kitty
A1120. Pledge drive gift, often
A1121. Jon’s secretly not-biological father,
on Game of Thrones
A1122. Six-time Super Bowl winners (so far)
A1124. Like Hail Mary passes
A1126. Put dreams aside
A1128. Butch’s Our Gang pal
A1130. Suppressed, as feelings
A1132. Bottom of the aquatic food chain, or
close to
A1133. Controlled exclusively
A1135. Raw spot on the skin
A1136. Stock car model
A1138. Ivan or Viktor in the Rocky/Creed franchise
A1139. Tibetan creatures
A1141. Corrosive cleaners
A1142. One might be req. by a promotion
A1143. Abruptly rising hill
A1144. Part of a kid’s colony
A1145. Half of a yr.
A1146. Street cart sandwiches
A1148. Monopoly outlay
A1150. “Lucky Number” singer Lovich
A1151. Asian titles
A1152. Mr. Potter, per Snape
A1153. “The ___ on you!”
A1154. What ballplayers call a “laugher”
A1155. Atlantic Owls’ Florida rivals
A1156. Ladies’ titles
A1157. Currency
A1159. Massage target, at times
A1160. Movie character voiced by Seth
MacFarlane
A1162. Piddle around
A1164. On a tight leash
A1166. Olivia Rodrigo’s “All I ___”
A1168. Furnishings scheme
A1170. Soup-in-an-envelope brand
A1172. Bacchante (var.)
A1174. ___ cheese (cheddar)
A1175. “The End…___ It?”
A1176. Largest, yet shortest continent?
A1177. State with area codes 216, 440, and
614
A1178. Ho (Jeong) of Dr. Ken and Stand
up to Cancer
A1180. Top rating
A1181. Great Lake bordering four states
A1182. Children’s advocate LeShan
A1183. Contraband cans in college
A1184. Delight (in)
A1185. Sounded like Elsie
A1186. Same-sex household?
A1187. Gals who seem a few months away from a twelve-step
program, at best
A1188. Shaped like sycamore leaves
A1189. Cover with graffiti, e.g.
A1190. Nonflying feathered fellow
A1191. Toon deputy
A1193. Moral taboo
A1195. Noted patriarch’s patriarch
A1197. All gung-ho
A1199. Direction from Child
A1201. Otolaryngologist’s concern
A1203. Pocket or pocketbook containers
A1205. Is germane
A1207. Sailing worry
A1208. Common situation near the start of an
inning
A1209. Actor Wolff of The Fault in Our
Stars
A1210. 1/3 profile?
A1211. Actor George with 3.4 million Twitter
followers
A1213. Part of the USMA
A1215. Killer collection?
A1217. Oohed, but with more of an open mouth
A1218. What makes one legendary
A1219. Hand out, as cards
A1220. Cleared, as a winter windshield
A1221. Commoners
A1222. Texter’s nod
A1223. Clairvoyant’s opener
A1224. Usain Bolt or Tiger Woods, e.g.
A1227. Small Florida coll.
A1229. It was destroyed in The Last Battle
A1231. State for the record
A1233. טטט
A1235. Snack brand since 1967
A1237. Vituperate
A1238. Suffix for an illness
A1239. Jack of old TV
A1240. They use black stripes to indicate
intermediate levels
A1245. Impudent tyke
A1246. Hypochondriac of The Amazing World
of Gumball
A1247. Light-skinned and blond, say
A1248. Procyon or Polaris
A1249. Buttery-voiced Jeremy of The Lion
King
A1250. Hit firmly, as a nail
A1251. Trapped under one’s opponent
A1252. Ranch in a Ferber novel
A1253. Mixologist’s tools
A1255. John who dueted with Eminem
A1258. Genetic disorder Queen Victoria had
A1261. Certain veins
A1264. Animated movie with a lot of parallels to The Northman and Hamlet
A1267. Tossed out of the game, informally
A1268. The fourth man
A1269. “___ a stinker?” (Bugs Bunny)
A1270. Ja, across the border
A1271. Chicago’s “What Kind of Man Would ___”
A1272. Drain-cleaning chemical
A1273. Farnham fops
A1275. Puts on clothes
A1277. Benchwarmers
A1278. Stopped protesting
A1280. Lenders’ lures
A1282. Why you shouldn’t juggle chainsaws
A1284. Car partly conceived by Adolf Hitler
(the commercials tend not to mention that)
A1288. Firms’ transformations
A1290. Large wooden face
A1291. Rickman villain in Die Hard
A1293. Began to cry (with “up”)
A1294. Sinbad sailed them
A1296. Spots, old-style
A1297. Powerful figures in the House of
Al-Sabah
A1299. Amer. boat letters
A1300. Catch in the corner of one’s eye
A1301. Part of qq.v. (which see)
A1302. Tea times, for short
A1303. Villain in Man of Steel
A1304. Atoms in electrolytes
A1306. Official order
A1307. Astronomer Jan who discovered a cloud
A1308. Title for John Gielgud
A1309. Debt securities, German style
A1310. Where the blood of conquerors runs
A1311. Pre-reunification capital
A1312. Floating island in The Odyssey
A1313. King of the Bible
A1314. “From this, it follows that…”
A1315. Cherished by
A1316. Chewy candies
A1318. I as in Icarus
A1320. Places for pumps
A1322. Stoppage
A1324. Thoroughly stomp
A1326. Like many TV movies (abbr.)
A1328. Give a smug look
A1330. O. Henry’s “The Gift of the ___”
A1331. Wrestling heavyweights
A1332. Yellow, body-sized PPE
A1335. Canceled missions
A1337. Madam, in Dogpatch
A1339. Maritime tree
A1341. Leg of lamb
A1342. Makes haste, a la Shakespeare
A1343. Pokémon love interest whose name is a one-letter-shorter
homophone of a Poe love interest
A1344. Finds a new home
A1345. Seemingly lacking emotion
A1346. The brainy bunch
A1347. “Fine, tell me”
A1349. Dodge Shadow or Plymouth Sundance
A1351. Sounds from a belfry
A1353. Poem parts
A1355. “Sea” that was more of a lake even at
its best
A1357. Less upfront
A1359. ___ List: fundraising organization
A1360. Net reading
A1361. With “known,” lead-in words to the
title of “How to Save a Life”
A1362. Sunshine St.
A1363. Moot question at a museum (you’re at the museum!)
A1364. Places for scrubs (abbr.)
A1366. Cogitate hard (over)
A1367. Battle of the Falklands casualty
A1368. Without effort
A1369. Pick up the tab for everyone
A1370. Hamburger holders
A1371. Legendary turncoat (var.)
A1372. Desert with Abraham’s Well
A1373. Root beer bottler Edward
A1374. Permit to be issued
A1375. City near Amsterdam with courtyard
gardens
A1377. Act the teamster
A1379. Liquid Plumr alternative
A1381. Magical brew
A1383. Jackson 5 features
A1385. Kicked in for the game
A1387. 29-day summer month
A1388. French in Britain?
A1389. Marlon Brando role in space
A1390. “In days of auld ___ syne”
A1392. “They couldn’t keep him out”
A1393. “___ could give him that parting kiss…”
(Cymbeline)
A1394. City and Lake and tribe
A1396. Takes up
A1398. “The ability to describe others as
they see themselves” (Lincoln)
A1399. Chain with popcorn
A1400. Mild complaint
A1401. Bone decay
A1402. Hindu instrument
A1403. Sorrowful comment
A1404. The Berenstain Bears ___ Allowed
A1405. Oslo Accords org.
A1406. Clay-pigeon game
A1408. Out of port
A1410. “Who ___ what evil lurks…”
A1412. “I’ve just found 10,000 ways that
don’t work” speaker
A1414. “___ a bear poop in the woods?”
A1416. Provide stimulus for
A1418. Lemon or lime drink
A1419. Casserole fish
A1420. Multivitamin element
A1421. They’ve got aspirations, but maybe not
inspiration
A1423. Like the best topsoil
A1426. Audrey Hepburn’s real first name
A1427. Put safely away
A1428. The 33rd US President
A1429. Lawn game using lobbed missiles
A1430. Pageant contestant’s title (or half of
it)
A1431. Flogged a lot at once
A1432. This Is the End star Seth
A1433. Chaucer piece
A1434. Folk dances in Bucharest
A1435. Muppet with a boomerang fish
A1437. Hunk’s asset
A1439. Units of a humane group (abbr.)
A1441. Little amounts
A1443. “Pride ___ before destruction”
(Proverbs)
A1445. Worldly goods
A1447. Set of outlets
A1449. Visual work allegedly in one’s room in
a classic pickup line
A1451. They get paid to play
A1452. Like some New Yawkahs’ speech pattahns
A1453. Get away from it all
A1454. Self-conscious giggle
A1455. Words before golf clubs or silverware
A1457. Forbidden, in a way
A1459. The Urals divide it
A1461. Scoop site
A1462. Paul Simon’s “___ Last”
A1463. Some students, for short
A1464. Anglican headgear
A1465. Dough state
A1466. Had the courage
A1468. Jon of Pod Save America
A1470. “I don’t know” motion
A1472. Dips in liquid
A1474. Get ready for an engagement?
A1476. Gorgon with venomous locks
A1478. Pirates’ pelf
A1480. Deserving of contempt
A1481. Undistracted
A1482. Fitzgerald whose band would tune their
instruments to her perfect-pitch voice
A1483. I, to Kraftwerk
A1484. Noted nightclub of the 1970s and ‘80s
A1487. Evangeline of Lost
A1489. “That ain’t it”
A1491. Sweet opening?
A1492. Observer
A1493. Sherman Act’s targets
A1494. Gunshot sound
A1495. Corleone and Jurgensen
A1496. Neat and tidy in appearance
A1497. “___ in Boots” (classic fairy tale)
A1498. Duke of video games
A1499. Upscale chocolatier
A1500. “Don’t WORRY, be HAPPY! Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo” [gets
punched]
A1502. Dum ___ spero (SC motto)
A1504. What barbs can damage
A1507. Kind of fudge in an ice cream store
A1509. Sixth consort of Henry VIII
A1511. Mex. miss
A1512. Midler who was Johnny Carson’s final
guest
A1513. Name that sounds like a snippet from
the alphabet
A1514. Coarse hominy variant
A1516. Escapes
A1518. “Well, look at you bein’ all sexy!”
A1519. Cat feature, usually
A1520. Wed site?
A1522. “___ ojos” (“Those eyes…”)
A1523. Reserved parking, for one
A1524. Flocks of herons
A1525. Directors’ eye-openers
A1527. Nautical table listing
A1528. Stop wasting energy, say
A1529. Experienced fortune
A1531. When people say it’s likely, they mean it’s unlikely
A1533. Christian in France
A1534. Beef units
A1536. Daughter of King Pelles
A1538. Rudolph or Bambi
A1540. Only word used in the theme song to a
Sheen sitcom
A1541. Two similar oddballs
A1542. Road workers may create one
A1543. Went by dugout
A1545. Often-dry channels
A1546. Mary Magdalene, e.g.
A1548. Grand Hotel at Las Vegas
A1549. First name in exploration
A1550. Grand Central, e.g. (abbr.)
A1551. Xmas for JC, in theory
A1552. Milk-immersed foodstuff
A1553. Plucky
A1554. Cowpoke’s mount
A1555. Supports that often have curved tops
A1556. Delete from a DVR
A1557. What makes a dad sad?
A1561. Fiber for twine
A1563. Musician’s plectra, e.g.
A1565. Attire for Mr. Peanut
A1567. Settle down temporarily
A1569. Kind of band or army
A1571. Whom Khaleesi calls her “sun and
stars”
A1572. Killer ending?
A1573. High-fiber cereal ingredient
A1575. Apply, as salve
A1576. How chefs salt
A1577. Are just awful
A1579. Like some cigarettes
A1581. Proudly villainous song in Popeye
A1583. Stops traffic?
A1584. Goes (one’s way)
A1585. It may precede old age
A1586. Noted dreamer, initially
A1587. Suspect foul play
A1591. Comes down hard, in a way
A1592. Contemptible sort
A1594. Ninth day, in Rome
A1596. Supreme Court case involving agencies’
right to say what their rules mean
A1598. If they’re clear, they’re blue
A1600. They’re getting a targeting lock
A1602. 1960s paint designs
A1603. He played Jones in Barnaby Jones
A1604. Brest brayer
A1605. Utah’s NCAA div.
A1606. Its players bow
A1608. Eatery, casually
A1609. Certain chits
A1610. The ___-King: he kills with a touch
A1612. Samuel’s predecessor
A1613. Cut off, as a final vowel
A1614. Pubic problem
A1615. “Here’s how experts handle this”
A1616. Prefix meaning ancient
A1617. Sports officials, for short
A1618. Circe’s all-vowel island
A1619. Exclamation of amused surprise
A1620. Like Pledge
A1621. “We <Heart> Logistics” co.
A1622. Some photography equipment
A1625. Simple
A1627. Causes of bigheadedness
A1629. Addition column
A1631. Radio reception booster
A1633. Tip jar insert
A1634. Suffix with proto-
A1635. Only D&D roller that’s not a platonic solid
A1636. Lucy’s best pal
A1639. Disney never releases these under its
own brand
A1642. “___ you!” (challenger’s words)
A1644. Speak imperfectly
A1646. The ___ Prayer
A1648. Body spray brand
A1649. ASAP section
A1650. Pullman and Nighy of film
A1651. Guest-conscious woman
A1652. Grain by-products
A1653. Shaped like a sphere
A1655. Greek gp.
A1656. Wagerers’ mecca (abbr.)
A1658. Crew member’s item
A1659. David Lean-Alec Guiness blockbuster
that isn’t The Bridge on the River Kwai or
Ben Hur
A1662. Much-used pencil
A1664. Works with a needle
A1666. Does some pre-workout stretches
A1668. Traditional wisdoms
A1669. Microchips, for short
A1670. Rock levels
A1671. Toys on a string
A1672. Substance splashed at the Nickelodeon
Kids’ Choice Awards
A1673. Party punch?
A1675. Spot that may be on the environment,
briefly
A1676. Horrible’s hound
A1677. Nullifies
A1679. Storefront-filled structures
A1680. Daughter and defender of Ra
A1681. Heart-healthy red-and-green side
A1683. Prince Valiant’s son
A1684. Acid for trips
A1685. Co-founder of Beats Electronics
A1687. Small, in marketing doublespeak
A1689. Number of pawns you get
A1691. Satya Nadella and Jack Dorsey, e.g.
A1693. Skip off to the altar
A1695. Chemical analysis
A1696. They’re calculated by meters
A1697. You love, in Latin
A1698. Doesn’t let on under pressure
A1700. Holds a benefit, say
A1702. Dregs of society
A1704. “I don’t want to hear ___ out of you!”
A1706. 50 mythical sea nymphs
A1707. “You can’t beat me!”
A1708. Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo crossover series, for short
A1709. Lines with balls on each end
A1710. Two, in a proverb
A1712. Wearer of blue
A1713. Walk heavily
A1715. Clean (up)
A1716. Swerve into the other diagonal
A1718. The Home Depot rival
A1720. Plunder
A1722. Kind of evidence
A1724. Stood the test of time
A1725. Cambodian capital
A1726. Nickname of two Spice Girls
A1727. TV producer and personality Edmonds
A1728. Portraitist George
A1730. Trickery to mislead
A1731. Flytrap’s flytraps, e.g.
A1733. Where the Confederate flag was first flown (abbr.)
A1734. Hard-light weapon
A1735. Has being
A1736. Where many recordings are found
A1737. Indecent sorts
A1738. Where goats are milked from
A1739. Letters seen near an 8
A1740. Diviner’s aid
A1741. Traveled far and wide
A1743. Prepared to fire
A1745. Bacardi competitor
A1748. Replacement parts for a cobbler
A1750. Snoop Dogg’s cousin and Kim
Kardashian’s onetime liaison
A1752. Digital art you can text
A1754. General ___ tofu
A1755. Like a certain vein
A1756. One of those gods you’re not supposed to have before God
A1757. Zamboni tracks
A1758. Veer, as a ship in a storm
A1759. A in a deck
A1761. Hand on deck
A1763. Epic musical with revolutionary class
politics that isn’t Les Misérables
A1764. ___ of Orleans
A1766. Yacht stop, perhaps
A1768. Driver’s lic. stats
A1769. Professor Dumbledore, before he was
Professor Dumbledore
A1770. Steak sources
A1771. Breathes heavy
A1772. Gets a toothhold around
A1774. Unremarkable, as a film
A1776. Gadget creator
A1778. Day before a “TGIF!” cry
A1779. Dada “daddy”
A1781. Sometimes medicinal herbs
A1783. Rhythm keeper
A1785. They have runners
A1787. “That’s ___ in excellent!”
A1788. One place to call for added insurance
A1789. USN supplies
A1790. They may battle onstage
A1791. Question usually asked with raised
eyebrows
A1792. It divides into Language and
Literature
A1798. With spoon, toddler’s percussion
instrument
A1800. Having ___ day: not feelin’ it
A1802. Even one
A1803. Latch again
A1804. “OH that’s the spot…”
A1805. Mystery Machine dog, familiarly
A1806. Athletes Ripken and Hubbard
A1807. Blokes
A1808. Resident in a hexagonal home
A1809. “___ but a scratch” (Monty Python
and the Holy Grail)
A1810. Sooner rival
A1811. Calorie-conscious quaffs
A1813. Interpret without hearing
A1816. Was deeply hurtful
A1818. Handel’s ___ and Galatea
A1820. Eaves droppers?
A1822. Houston baseball team, briefly
A1823. Situation after a leadoff single
A1824. Future hawk?
A1825. Tuning indicator
A1826. Uses as a mic
A1827. Large part of some herds
A1829. Grassland
A1830. Onomatopoeic funk album
A1832. Rock garden herb
A1834. Unidentified guy
A1836. Unresponsive condition
A1837. Things you worry about
A1838. Car cleaner, often
A1840. Gets together on a newly countrywide
scale
A1841. Foreshadows
A1843. California ball club, briefly
A1844. Number of cards at Caesar’s palace?
A1846. Princess on She-Ra
A1848. Dept. of Labor investigatory agcy.
A1850. Sign of availability
A1851. Shaq’s sneakers, widthwise
A1852. Creative Artists Agency founder
Michael
A1853. Oil-measuring devices
A1856. To ___: precisely
A1857. Actress Petty of Orange Is the New
Black
A1858. Non-oneness
A1861. Is guilty
A1863. Cannes chum
A1864. Like buhl work
A1865. Reindeer relatives
A1866. Some invaders of Britain
A1867. OH city near Erie, abbreviated
A1868. Caroline Islands group
A1869. Plays the heckler to
A1870. Precious information
A1873. Where Link Hogthrob and Miss Piggy
have adventures
A1876. Respectably unadventurous
A1878. Breezy farewell
A1880. Hawaiian honeycreeper
A1881. Dogpatch’s Hawkins
A1882. Shred of clothing
A1884. Miguel of the Tigers
A1885. Mark placed over short vowels
A1886. McAfee alternative
A1888. Have opportunity to argue
A1889. Capital of Bavaria
A1890. “Blackberry Molasses” band with a name
like “Suh”
A1892. Traditional Hanukkah gift
A1893. Turn tail
A1894. Cat with two faces
A1895. Fungicide base
A1897. Groups with special functions
A1900. Tiny photosynthesizer
A1901. Ralph who wrote The Good Fight
A1902. Some woodworkers
A1904. Neighbor of Lebanon
A1906. Draper portrayer
A1908. Hanoi Hilton “guest”
A1909. Film in which a rage-filled
protagonist and his goodhearted companion struggle to complete a Yuletide
journey; (spoiler) on the verge of success, the protagonist lets go of his
anger and his perspective shifts, leading to a holiday dinner with an unexpected
guest
A1913. See A1909-Across
A1917. Title boy of song whose “fist got
hard” and “wits got keen”
A1918. “Stack banana ‘til the morning come”
song
A1919. What a surly server may get
A1920. Haywire
A1921. 30-ton military brain
A1922. Stargazers’ bear
A1923. It freezes your flippers
A1924. Capital near the port of Callao
A1925. Muumuu go-with
A1926. Actor Sitka of Three Stooges
A1927. Right the heck now
A1928. The Protectors star
A1930. It’s drunk to get drunk
A1931. Camping gear co.
A1932. Season opener?
A1933. Admin. ctrs.
A1934. Crunchy noodle snack
A1935. Sweetiepie
A1936. “A spider!!”
A1937. “[I’ll expand this passage later]”
notes
A1939. “Blastoff will be in…”
A1941. Power of the pull we all feel almost all the time
A1942. Winnie ___ Pu (Latin translation of Milne work)
A1943. Last quarter of the year, briefly
A1944. Iraqi politician Muqtada al-___
A1945. “That sounds like a capital idea”
A1946. Lou’s La Bamba co-star
A1947. Boxes of boxes
A1948. Cutely small
A1950. Corned beef solution
A1951. Peculiar talk in different groups
A1952. White-knucklers after dark
A1957. Obviously angry
A1962. Often-replaced joint
A1963. Unlisted vote-getter
A1970. Roadside bomb, briefly
A1972. They’re quite secure until you leave, when
you can just take any bag you want
A1977. Doesn’t toss or turn
A1981. Tippled
A1983. Eva or Zsa Zsa
A1985. Spying, as at a window
A1988. Old Br. coins
A1990. “Ah, this cursed existence”
A1991. Joyless
A1993. Flour may be made with it
A1994. Labors away
A1995. Starve-them-out battle tactic
A1996. Don’t feed this to your cat, no matter what
the comic strips say
A1997. Was good and mad
A1998. [whispers] “Let’s see if we can make
this go viral”
A2000. Actually thinking
A2003. Prankishly sabotaged (a bed)
A2005. Ship’s support system
A2007. Scotties, e.g.
A2009. Site of a sarcastically named “Hilton”
A2011. Uses a come-on
A2012. Bad boyfriend
A2014. Common career choice (with “the”)
A2016. Like many winter days
A2017. Mine vehicle
A2019. DeGrasse Tyson predecessor
A2020. Creator of Tik-Tok
A2021. “Ya got that right”
A2022. Gets too high, briefly
A2023. Chicken in a Mexican restaurant
A2025. Pooh’s rhyming pal
A2026. “Cherry Bomb” rocker Ford
A2027. Receives unfriendly signals from a
stare
A2028. “___ Shanter” (Burns poem)
A2029. Frequent honor for Garth Brooks
A2030. “Sir, you ___ gentleman” (Scarlett)
A2032. Texter’s version of the “I’m Made of
Rubber” song
A2033. NH July hours
A2034. Year Michelangelo’s David was completed
A2036. Give a rude awakening to
A2038. Without injury
A2041. Cry at recess
A2042. Cancel, as a law
A2045. Internet artifact with a controversial
pronunciation
A2046. They’re known for causing rage…and impotence,
which causes more rage, familiarly
A2047. Touches down
A2048. Daybreak, to Dickinson
A2049. USN leader
A2050. ___-Foy, PQ
A2051. Containerful of tartar sauce
A2052. “I guess the moment has finally
arrived”
A2056. “For ___ jolly…”
A2057. Mississippi quartet
A2058. Word in many font names
A2059. “You failed to convince me”
A2063. Early Japan dynasty
A2065. Alternative to watching live, nowadays
A2067. SAT takers (abbr.)
A2069. Astronauts’ leg-stretching exercises
A2071. Is garbed in
A2073. Bello
A2074. Ajit Pai once chaired it
A2076. Response to a bell
A2080. “If you say so”
A2081. Start performing in, as a mode or gear
A2083. Change of locks?
A2084. “Alakazam!”
A2087. With volume turned down
A2088. Coulomb per second
A2089. Org. founded in 1889
A2090. Ending for invent
A2091. South American monkeys
A2092. Half a Latin drill
A2096. Spinnakers, e.g.
A2098. Film set around 73 B.C.
A2101. Computer-sent chicken-scratch
A2102. Hasbro toy you twist, press, and pull
A2103. “Aren’t ___ pair?”
A2104. Part of ancient Turkey
A2105. He made me do it
A2106. Refinery refuse
A2107. Spencer’s Boom Town co-star
A2108. In this sequel (Part Two), a
thawed-out national icon from an earlier era has his last moments with his love
interest from the previous film before her mind fails; he then foils a
world-domination scheme using a doomsday weapon firing down from above
A2128. See A2108-Across
A2148. Night in Paris
A2149. Buggy, in Bristol
A2151. Turn your focus to
A2153. Electric meter inventor Thomson
A2154. Super cool and amazing
A2156. Trap for an animal
A2157. Part of ITT
A2158. Joined, as at a bar
A2160. Aragorn’s wife (oops, spoilers)
A2161. Alphabet soup bits that double as ens
A2162. “___ moi, le déluge”
A2163. iPhone alternative
A2164. Works with heroic themes
A2165. Get one’s smug on
A2166. 1966 Rolling Stones hit
A2167. “Someone here is a dirty, stinking
liar”
A2168. Aggies’ university
A2169. Death Row Records cofounder
A2171. Angler’s headache
A2173. Religious title starter
A2175. Outer disturbance
A2178. Chung ___-kyun of South Korean
politics
A2179. Bozoian of golf
A2181. ___ Irish Rose
A2182. “Then ___ well it was done quickly” (Macbeth)
A2183. Bar sign
A2184. Waldorf who’s an obsession of the Gossip Girl
A2185. Thinks about it
A2186. Unbroken
A2187. Puts in (between)
A2188. Movie following a teenage Rolling
Stone reporter on tour with a band
A2189. Small stature
A2190. Tile art, say
A2192. Windshield decoration in an
enterprising neighborhood
A2194. Some aperitifs
A2196. Small bookbag?
A2198. Claiming allegiances other than
A2199. Glutinous rice cake
A2201. Commentary
A2203. Brief instant
A2204. NASA nods
A2205. Hindu writings
A2206. Immigrant- education acronym now
preferred to the one with “S” for “second” in it
A2207. The Equality St.
A2208. Steak chef, at times
A2210. Frequent word in ads
A2212. Progenitor’s opposite
A2214. Design of park land requiring minimal
water
A2217. The White Lotus streamer
A2218. Edible cannabis variant
A2219. Director known for simple heroes fighting
corruption
A2221. Small Jewish village
A2222. Course of a sort
A2226. Initials on Boris Mikhailov’s jersey
A2230. Like the sound holes of a cello
A2237. Do some water-witching
A2242. A lot of humid air?
A2247. Odometer division
A2252. Kind of living (abbr.)
A2257. “Have I made myself clear?”
A2264. Antiaircraft projectiles
A2268. “Those Magic Changes” singers
A2272. More disparaging
A2274. Stay out of jail
A2277. Sadness
A2278. Class for a high schooler eyeing a
medical career
A2280. It can predict higher prices, in econ.
A2281. Cacodemon
A2282. Demanding payment, in a way
A2283. Deceitful gambit
A2284. Composers Shostakovich and Kabalevsky
A2285. Brand with pluses and minuses
A2286. Kylo ___
A2287. “Watch out!”
A2288. Word that means the same with a
redundant “re-”
A2289. Dodge with a stargazing-inspired name
A2290. Jointly
A2291. ___ laminado (Latin American laminated
gold)
A2292. Prefix with grade or rocket
A2293. Release, as a tied-up horse
A2294. Do copy desk work
A2295. Sam or Legend preceder in film titles
A2296. Dept. store inventory
A2297. Naps under sombreros
A2299. She played King Kong’s captive
A2300. Sly tricks
A2302. Dragon faced by Bilbo
A2304. “___ needs food, badly” (Gauntlet)
A2305. Apologies that take responsibility
A2308. Overseas parents
A2309. Microsoft MP3 player discontinued in
2012
A2310. Let’s Make a Deal choice
A2311. Big game in January
A2313. L’Egee et le Mediterranee
A2314. Token movement
A2315. Real-time source of hot takes,
accurate and otherwise
A2317. “Aaand when he walked me home…”
doo-wop song
A2319. Fugue finales
A2320. Wagnerian wisdom goddess
A2321. Least flowery
A2324. Waste materials in smelting
A2326. Petition
A2328. Eclipse cycle
A2330. Dissed with a smile
A2333. “…THAT’S right”
A2334. Some Celts
A2335. “Hold that thought!”
A2336. Southwestern saloons
A2337. U.S. maritime info-gathering unit
A2338. Wee hrs.
A2339. Vehicle with a roll bar
A2340. Film in which a brilliant, imprisoned
monster plays psychological games with a relative innocent; he ultimately helps her at a high price before
disappearing (you’re better off ignoring the sequel where they become lovers,
yeccch)
A2342. See A2340-Across
A2345. Italian cathedral town named for
Hadrian
A2347. Ultra ___ Detergent
A2348. Red giant?
A2349. Official state dog of Alaska
A2351. Mammoth in Kentucky, e.g.
A2353. Big name in cameras
A2355. “That ___ I ask”
A2356. Yellowfin
A2359. Walkman and Blu-Ray
A2360. Rupee hundredth
A2361. Mackerel catcher
A2362. Console with a Kinect motion sensor
A2364. Gnats and ants
A2365. FYI Daily and On Assignment broadcaster,
overseas
A2366. “___ boom baa” (per Carson, “the sound
made when a sheep explodes”)
A2367. Frankie Ballard album that all starts
with “It All Started with a Beer”
A2368. Big red buttons on videocameras, for
short
A2369. “More info later”
A2371. County ___
A2372. A
A2373. Though it seemeth strange
A2374. Widely envied frequent cause of back
issues, for short
A2375. Do all right, but not exactly well
A2377. Musical with the song “Schadenfreude”
A2380. Honeysuckles
A2382. Robinson’s Little Caesar
A2384. Large group of people
A2386. “Shoot over your response”
A2390. Hold in check
A2391. Words with Friends maker
A2392. Blue amnesiac of film
A2393. Siren sound
A2394. Crosswordese Dutch city
A2395. Speech with platitudes (abbr.)
A2396. Co. owned by Howard Hughes
A2397. Word after work, play, or rest
A2398. Wartime fear (abbr.)
A2399. Teen Wolf network
A2400. Like most MCU leads, when they get the job
A2401. Catching equipment
A2402. Tappable tree
A2404. Place to find a shovel
A2406. Faucet faults
A2408. Queue after R
A2410. Rows on calendars (abbr.)
A2412. Award-winning tale of a 1970s domestic
worker
A2413. Character actor Lesser on Seinfeld
A2414. Tigers’ col.
A2415. Ones doing intros
A2416. Some turnpike ramps
A2418. “To the last I grapple with thee”
speaker
A2420. Uncle Tom’s creator
A2422. Curator’s workplace
A2423. Second word in Ethiopia’s capital
A2424. Longtime Bat-writer O’Neil
A2425. Circus wagon
A2426. Boisterous
A2427. ___ Ghraib
A2428. Some repair shops
A2430. Harry and Meghan interviewer
A2431. Cyclists’ battery-powered rides
A2433. Inexpensively bejeweled
A2434. NBA team in New Orleans, informally
A2435. Vehicles discussed surprisingly often
in Loki
A2437. Mt. Rushmore’s locale
A2439. More than misgivings
A2441. Seep slowly
A2443. Alley wanderers
A2445. Whence the phrase “Blessed are the
poor in spirit”
A2448. Uncertain utterances
A2450. Immune system fighter
A2452. Mucilaginous pods
A2454. ___ Affair (Civil War incident of
1861)
A2456. Birthplace of Pythagoras
A2457. Letters on Carlos Beltran’s cap
A2458. “Bitch goddess” Kane of All My
Children
A2459. Tumor-detecting tests
A2460. How to overcome a fear of giant
crosswords ;-)
A2461. Sack opening?
A2462. Prov. bordering Quebec
A2463. Athlete who got onto the world stage,
for short
A2464. Charles and Romano
A2465. Old word of contempt (that I used to
think was a term of respect, whoops)
A2466. Don’t disturb
A2467. Its CEO is Kenichiro Yoshida
A2468. Like puppies
A2469. Stereotypical socialite
A2471. Bread and whiskey
A2473. Iconic green poison symbol
A2475. Way to a freeway
A2477. Elementary and dull
A2478. Preparatory to, in poetry
A2479. Ben Nevis cry
A2480. Twelve-point measure
A2482. Precipitates, in a way
A2484. In the ground, in a way
A2486. Star named for appearing to be a
bird’s tail
A2488. Band ___ Iver
A2489. Long, ribbon-shaped swimmer
A2491. Style of cooking scallops
A2492. WWII labor camp
A2493. ‘Boys’ base
A2494. Son of Laius and Jocasta
A2496. Keep score
A2497. Justice Kavanaugh
A2498. Pronunciamenti
A2499. Echolocators in caves
A2500. Ruhr rodent
A2501. It’ll open doors for you
A2503. Use a bayonet on
A2505. Was in agreement (with)
A2507. Iran-Contra colonel, informally
A2508. Palindromic collection of similarly
named people in my life
A2510. Responded to opportunity’s knock
A2513. Deli-scale word
A2515. Exams you might wear scrubs to, but
most people think that’s a little extra
A2517. It’s got ewe covered?
A2519. Practice-pitch place
A2521. Doesn’t recognize
A2522. Welcome comment at lunch
A2524. Martial arts champion-turned-movie
star
A2525. “DADDY” K-pop singer
A2526. Reveal, to a poet
A2527. “You’ve Really Got a Hold ___”
A2528. To the extreme
A2529. Citizen of Toy Town
A2530. “Best buds”
A2531. Cinderella’s goal
A2532. Org. whose nation-destabilizing
tactics are depicted in Black Panther
A2535. Be lost, as a moment
A2537. Our job
A2539. Huguenots’ heads
A2541. Baloney ponies
A2543. Muralist Jose Maria
A2544. Muddy barnyard digs
A2545. What trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
treats, for short
A2546. Incredulous texted word
A2548. It’s like saying “hello, future customers”
with an online bazooka
A2551. All over France?
A2553. Archaeologist’s dredge
A2554. Nursing and sports followers
A2555. Rock carved into a wedgelike shape
A2556. Sew for a moist meal
A2557. Gets down
A2559. Ancient wraps
A2560. River from the same spot as the
Euphrates
A2561. Grouper predator
A2562. Falls back
A2563. “I couldn’t have said it better
myself”
A2564. Swedish-based clothing giant
A2566. Eric of Dirty John
A2568. Sometime Fox News “health” pundit
A2570. Capital that got its first smog tower
in 2020
A2572. Samoan cash
A2573. “Don’t play”
A2575. Stays put
A2578. “Bitter” or “tail” follower
A2580. Tony’s pal and server
A2581. Mischief
A2583. Close to home, in a way
A2585. Twice, Robert Kennedy’s assassin
A2586. Perhaps a closet sadist
A2587. Stage, as a play
A2588. One being trained
A2589. Mandela’s nat.
A2590. Haircut found in a dessert name
A2591. Isle instruments
A2592. Lower-left keyboard key
A2593. Genghis Khan was originally named after one
A2594. Felix and Sylvester
A2595. Lang of Smallville
A2596. Frying medium
A2598. Goes “Waaaaaah!”
A2600. With “the,” it “creeps / And leaps and
glides and slides / Across the floor / Right through the door / And all around
the wall / A splotch, a blotch”
A2602. Plain in the Southwest
A2604. “___ smile be your umbrella…”
A2606. “Take ___ Train” (Duke Ellington
classic)
A2607. Bubble Bath and Big Apple Red are its
most popular colors
A2608. “By the by, here’s the scoop”
A2609. Type of fin
A2611. Date sometimes given for Jesus’ visit
to Herod’s Temple
A2613. Reds, e.g.
A2615. Post-2016 election feeling, for many
A2616. On ___: trying to slim down
A2617. Pics on biceps
A2618. Striper, for short
A2619. Toward the wake
A2620. Subject of many Arab Spring protests
A2622. Mouse hazards
A2623. Space program until 1972
A2624. “Everything’s clear”
A2625. Rowers work them, briefly
A2626. End the hunger of
A2627. Lake Mead construction
A2629. Affairs with crumpets
A2631. Spot for a mail slot
A2633. Jazz legend born on Saturn (or so he
said)
A2635. Athlete’s place
A2636. Transparent sea creature
A2638. Veteran sailor
A2641. Figure of loveliness
A2643. Stop from approaching
A2645. Coleridge’s Kubla
A2647. Central idea
A2648. Game of falling pieces
A2650. Gives as an example
A2651. No ritzy neighborhoods
A2652. One in Paris
A2653. Sickly pale
A2654. Together, in Toulouse
A2655. Handel’s ___, Galatea e Polifemo
(same characters as A1818-Across, different spelling)
A2656. Vocal cords, casually
A2657. Canute, for one
A2658. Greedy mouths
A2659. Strange actor?
A2661. Scalp-care brand
A2663. Entrail-reader, allegedly
A2665. Remain behind
A2667. One whistling at athletes?
A2669. Homecoming hits?
A2670. Plato’s T
A2671. Bk. about building a big, beautiful
wall
A2672. Under discussion
A2674. Had a lame-duck session, say
A2676. As a substitute
A2678. Country music legend Atkins
A2681. Sleep clinic study
A2682. Money expert Suze
A2683. Tell apart from others
A2684. Like a mama’s boy?
A2686. “What’s in ___? That which we call a rose…”
A2687. “Cornflake Girl” singer
A2689. Players in the Tex capital
A2690. Fisherperson’s prize catch
A2691. Don Juans
A2692. Big honkin’ honker
A2694. Mack with a secret world
A2696. Commando’s action
A2698. “Plastic” of teen comedy
A2700. Two OK Corral lawmen
A2702. Surprisingly, no one ever said “Just
the facts, ma’am” on it
A2705. Last Rocky movie before 2023
A2707. Site of the First Labor
A2709. Modicum of energy
A2710. Where you can find hammers and anvils
A2714. Its latest version is Big Sur
A2715. Haberdasher’s item
A2716. Statues vied for on Mad Men
A2717. Poor boy or grinder
A2718. W&M award
A2719. Engineering sch. on the Hudson River
A2720. Trains quickly?
A2721. “Gay apparel” follower
A2724. Noted marriers in 2015
A2725. Split villain and Professor X portrayer
A2726. Clip at a business meeting
A2728. Togo’s chief port
A2730. Jan’s cry in The Brady Bunch Movie
(and one single episode of the TV show)
A2733. “For sure!”
A2734. Flow of the Universe
A2735. ___ Prince Charles
A2736. Only chimpanzee to achieve Earth orbit
A2738. Soulful musical “bag”
A2740. Archery equipment
A2742. Legendary mummy
A2743. Secrets of the Museum and A Teacher channel
A2745. Being from an undiscovered race
A2746. Await judgment
A2747. Transportation for the A-Team
A2748. Like nuts, often
A2750. In the process of happening
A2751. Super Bowl party staple
A2752. Lincoln Center unit
A2753. Take a coat off
A2754. “Er, I’d rather not”
A2755. Infertile, in the Bible
A2756. Hour, in Italy
A2759. Grazes with fire
A2761. Swedish streetcar
A2763. Paneer cheese go-with
A2764. Farm-song end
A2765. Signal to start acting
A2766. Breathing it can get on your nerves?
A2768. eBay commerce
A2771. “You look hungry!”
A2773. Ikea’s nat. of origin
A2775. Sea anemone
A2777. Decayed
A2779. One-fifth of DXV
A2780. Brats’ targets
A2781. Individual numbers
A2782. They whipped it
A2783. Nat. cont.
A2784. Area of S.F., Pacific ___
A2785. Partner of needles
A2786. City’s outskirts
A2788. Kit Carson’s house is here
A2789. Preppy, stonerish jock dudes
A2790. A parking garage may have special
pricing for it
A2791. “You have three options! Pick one!”
A2793. Domineer (over)
A2795. Bit of progress
A2797. “Jabberwocky” opener
A2799. “The Way We Make a Broken Heart”
singer Cash
A2802. Symphonie Espagnole composer
A2803. Mineo of Exodus
A2804. It’ll make you see things
A2805. “Oh, man, did I___!”
A2807. Large yard, or many yards
A2809. Presses through a sieve
A2811. They accompany aahs
A2812. Blue-screen moment?
A2814. Facebook’s official drink
A2816. Music medium invented in 1933
A2818. Trades verbal jabs
A2819. Chin indentations
A2820. Hogg after them Duke boys
A2821. Sedge-filled wetlands
A2822. “Keep in touch,” nowadays
A2823. Having three shapes
A2825. Reveal despite your efforts
A2827. Calls on
A2829. Octagonal sign word
A2831. Seemingly pious bug
A2832. Mil. base until 1994
A2834. Snail without a shell
A2837. Providing bearings
A2840. Tackiness
A2842. Prescription for exhaustion
A2843. Loses solidity
A2844. Inquire
A2845. Forget oneself
A2846. Racehorse, slangily
A2847. Where stevedores toil
A2848. Crewmen
A2849. Earthly burdens
A2850. Drinks can be placed on it
A2851. NBC News anchor canceled (with good
reason) in 2017
A2853. Lego set with Bruce Wayne, Aquaman,
and Ocean Master figures
A2855. Flee responsibility
A2857. Giant ones are seen (and see?) in The Great Gatsby
A2859. Target area?
A2861. Scottish or Irish
A2862. Biblical assent
A2863. Coach Udoka
A2864. Passageways for pedestrians
A2866. Chatterstorm
A2868. Old Roman orator
A2869. Hematological divisions
A2870. Roadside distress signals
A2871. Dominican “duuude!”
A2872. Athlete’s protective gear
A2874. What ___ Glory (1952 James Cagney movie)
A2875. AIDS activist Herb
A2876. Watercraft
A2877. Containers for fireflies
A2878. Eggnog ingredient
A2879. Spanish snaps
A2880. Put on sale, perhaps
A2882. Pepto-____
A2884. Exclamation at the end of a tough week
A2886. Hit the seas
A2888. Diaz’s Sex Tape co-star
A2889. Like many skyscraper sides, to climbers
A2891. Commuter’s choice
A2894. Life energy molecule, for short
A2895. Make sudsy again
A2897. Texter’s “Yikes!”
A2898. Staple of Greek cuisine
A2900. Mushroom likeliest to kill you
A2902. More cunning
A2903. Where many suits are seen for the last time
A2904. Back end of a blog
A2905. City railroads
A2906. Magritte or Russo
A2907. Stengel of the diamond
A2908. Overwhelms, with “down”
A2909. Gazpacho veggie
A2910. John Oliver, e.g.
A2911. Tequila brand from Guy Fieri
A2912. Murdered rapper with many posthumous releases
A2914. Beach debris also known as rockweed
A2916. Goddess involved in Hercules’ labors
A2918. Popular side
A2920. Add once more to the public record
A2922. “Both” prefix
A2923. “Misery Business” genre
A2924. Natl. Muzzleloading Championship
sponsor
A2925. Breads or elder matriarchs (both kinda
var.)
A2927. Procedural starring Chris O’Donnell
A2929. Certain sand painters
A2931. Least strict
A2932. Traitor Benedict
A2933. “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” series
A2934. New worker
A2936. Satyrs, partly
A2937. Tachometer reading meas.
A2938. Hentoff and Hiken
A2939. Like a certain pair of electrons
A2940. “Today you are you! That is truer than
true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you” writer’s true last name
A2941. Trivial, as a complaint
A2942. First-listed RPG stat, often
A2945. Former Delta rival
A2947. Regarding Dharmic teachers
A2949. Singer who sang, “Everyone’s a
superhero, everyone is Captain Kirk”
A2951. [crying-laughing emoji]
A2953. Liqueur base
A2954. Boxer known for his “sucker munch”
A2956. Island sharing a government with
Barbuda
A2959. Nicholas, e.g.
A2961. First clear signs
A2963. Puts (out), often callously
A2964. Provide opportunities
A2966. Toyota’s luxury brand
A2967. “In case the house burns down” policy,
for short
A2968. Ex-Bruin Bobby
A2969. Crass or impolite
A2970. Spots of tea
A2971. Word with “road” or “screen”
A2972. One of a househusband’s roles
A2973. Made fast friends
A2974. Line (up)
A2975. It’s actually shaped more like a U, but
that plumbing name was taken
A2977. Jets quarterback Tim
A2979. Fitzgerald and Williams
A2981. Tolkien tree-men
A2983. Proper name on aluminum cans
A2985. “He died like ___” (Trump quote that
makes you actually glad he was the first president since Polk
without pets)
A2987. “…bring back my Bonnie ___”
A2988. The Steel City, in brief
A2989. Takeoff hour, briefly
A2990. Parker portrayer in the Spider-Man films
A2992. Shipping lanes
A2994. Self-taught writer Martin created by
Jack London
A2997. Vision problem during rapid flight
deceleration
A2998. Tchaikovsky who wrote the “1812
Overture”
A2999. Citrus fruit used in pie filling
A3001. Billiards play
A3002. Water bottle confiscator
A3003. Sex-joke comeback that originated on The
Office
A3006. Prefix for fold or graph
A3007. Gym hiree
A3009. Traveled by plane
A3011. Film that, like the Last of the
Mohicans, seems to have its heart in the right place, but don’t ask Native Americans what they think
of it unless you really want to know
A3015. B.O. warning
A3016. Ernst whose art was featured in the 1928 Olympics
A3018. Eager beaver’s demand
A3021. V-shaped cut in wood
A3023. Tristram Shandy writer
A3024. On a plane, for short
A3028. 10 or 509
A3029. 100-meter race
A3030. John who said, “Reality leaves a lot
to the imagination”
A3031. Sign on many cars
A3032. Not exactly doing cartwheels
A3033. Run ___ the field (prepare to play)
A3034. Six-millimeter projectile
A3036. Ape studier Fossey
A3037. Mexican beer with a name that got
unfortunate in 2020
A3038. Kids’ song vowels
A3039. “Better an egg today than ___
tomorrow”
A3040. Rebuff
A3042. Ill-fated sergeant from Platoon
A3044. Charlie Brown’s cry of defeat
A3045. Wind-protected, in a way
A3046. Benji stand-in
A3049. Type of task-focused list
A3050. The Yoko
A3051. ___Pen®
A3052. Press lightly, as the brakes
A3054. Parody’s cousin
A3056. Enshrouded
A3057. Tool for photographers who like to get
close
A3059. Ballpoint part
A3060. Afraid to ask for a dance, maybe
A3062. “Creation of Man” sculptor
A3063. Stronghold
A3064. Anti-AIDS activist of classic rock
A3065. Intestines’ locale
A3066. Cylinders of straw
A3067. TV component that sounds like a sci-fi
weapon
A3070. Savory dressing
A3072. Composer Cole
A3074. Skewers
A3076. Infant cupid
A3077. “Mississippi Phone Booth” singer John
A3079. Steve of Reservoir Dogs and
Fargo
A3082. RCA Victor mascot
A3084. Get working together despite seeming
conflict
A3086. Super into what they’re into
A3087. Patter’s patterns
A3088. Metamorph’s end?
A3089. WWII command
A3090. Soprano solo
A3091. Concentration amt.
A3092. White Hart, e.g.
A3093. These may be picked
A3094. Bullying seabird
A3095. Hexagonally divided land
A3096. Hungarian city that sounds up for
anything
A3097. End of a shift?
A3098. “Mayor” of fellow students
A3100. Texting
A3102. Twin of
A3104. Salon request
A3106. Orphaned author raised by the Allans
A3107. French friend
A3109. Box-office need
A3110. Focus of Genesis 6-9
A3111. Nuclear age D.C. org.
A3112. Jumps at a bargain for
A3114. Sign of many snipers taking aim
A3115. Some standardized coll. exams for
rule-researchers
A3116. Comes unglued
A3117. The Black Panther, to friends and
family
A3119. Precursor of the cineplex
A3120. Was the agent of
A3122. Plays typically have one to five
A3123. Slang for a certain bill (“Hammy”
never really caught on)
A3124. Type of cigar or sandwich
A3125. An aquarium sometimes has one
A3129. Not yet out of first
A3131. Jewish law book
A3133. “___ mio!”
A3135. Buncha guys you’ve never seen before
A3137. Building plots
A3139. Got giggling
A3142. Likely cover subject for People
A3144. This, in Thüringen
A3145. FNMA and GNMA
A3146. “False face must hide what the false
heart doth ___” (Macbeth)
A3147. Some enlistees
A3148. Unbiased hirer, briefly
A3149. Racket attachment
A3150. Critical comment, of a sort
A3151. Toast words
A3152. Sheriff Taylor’s lad
A3153. Crises on Wall Street
A3154. Showed up for
A3155. Stiffly precise
A3156. Mogadishu residents
A3157. Asian border peak
A3159. Grilled dish
A3161. Hopping desert rodent
A3163. The Days of Our Lives, for one
A3165. Fabrics with wavy patterns
A3167. Batman’s doomed ally Harvey
A3168. “Good” cholesterol
A3169. Like classics for kids, sometimes, for
short
A3170. Honorific used in The Karate Kid
A3171. “Who does that guy think ___?!”
A3173. D.C. baseballers
A3175. Formal affair wear
A3176. Single out for adulation
A3177. You can get one with the inscription,
“It’s awfully dark in here”
A3178. “If a tree falls in the forest, and no
one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”, e.g.
A3180. In ___: having troubles seemingly without end
A3181. Ceramists’ cookers
A3182. Tells a funnier joke than
A3183. Animal populations
A3184. Near-universal condemnation
A3185. “California Dreamin’“ folk rockers
A3189. Zaps, you might say
A3191. Carnival attraction
A3193. Make a trade
A3195. “Old MacDonald” line starter
A3196. Mary Kay competitor Lauder
A3198. Crude surplus
A3201. Not practical?
A3203. Walk with effort
A3205. Coming down in buckets
A3207. Piccolo ___
A3208. Train components
A3209. Fat, to Marat
A3210. Hoosiers’ home (abbr.)
A3211. Gov’t org. since 1930
A3212. Prynne’s monogram
A3213. Ricky Gervais series and lead role
A3214. Gullible folks
A3215. French film festival
A3216. Puts a belt around
A3217. Corporation that ran Toys R Us into
the dirt [I mean, it’s true that the store’s business model was archaic, and
some losses were inevitable, but it could’ve survived in some streamlined form
if its owners had any priorities other than milking it to death]
A3218. Annaeus, in Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A3219. Get around somehow, as an issue
A3220. Noel’s brother in Oasis
A3222. Base in Cuba, in Navy slang
A3224. Jim Bob and Michelle of reality TV
A3226. “My good men…”
A3228. “And I know all the words to every ___
Tucker song!” (“Redneck Woman” lyric)
A3230. “___ what ___ and that’s all that
____” (cartoon catchphrase)
A3231. D.C. economics agcy.
A3232. “Grody to the max!”
A3233. She played Hermione
A3235. Will and Grace’s McCormack
A3237. Kenny G. buy
A3238. Scaly fish known for jumping when
hooked
A3239. ___ milk (var.)
A3240. Palindromic term of address
A3241. Employ at will
A3243. Mike Post wrote its famous theme song
A3244. “Don’t be perfect, just get better
___”
A3245. Partner of ifs and ands
A3246. Search engine devotee
A3247. L, in an elevator
A3248. Tutu wearers
A3250. Secure transport
A3253. Riverdale network
A3255. Provider of contacts, informally
A3257. Socially awkward type
A3259. OR site
A3260. “Yes, OBVIOUSLY”
A3262. Deck out in rubies and emeralds or
such
A3265. Elevated beginning?
A3267. Modern comic-strip hubby
A3269. “Le coeur a ___ raisons…”
A3270. Wall Street events
A3271. Sacrificed sorts
A3272. “Summer Girls” boy band
A3273. ___ Line (railroad serving
Minneapolis)
A3274. Like some proverbial ducklings
A3275. Mickey and Minnie
A3276. Middle iron
A3277. Impreza maker
A3278. Finger-bowl accessory
A3279. Sagan of Cosmos
A3280. Mostly X-ray-vision-proof
A3281. Disability payment, for short
A3284. They measure up
A3285. Canadian revolutionary Louis
A3287. Noted besieger of Moors
A3289. Throbs
A3291. Tinder self-promos
A3293. “Now hold on there!”
A3295. Site of some feluccas
A3296. Paolo’s front?
A3297. Improve like fine wine, hopefully
A3298. They get results
A3300. Novak Djoković, natively
A3302. The Little Mermaid lyricist Howard
A3305. Japanese poem in three parts
A3306. Desktop publisher’s designs
A3308. Devious moves
A3309. Army of Darkness zombie-fighter
A3310. Smallish batteries
A3311. Monty Python, the Kids in the Hall, or
Asperger’s Are Us
A3313. “Increasing store with loss and loss
with store,” e.g.
A3315. Winner of the first two Super Bowl
MVPs
A3317. Sex addiction
A3320. Has an afternoon snooze
A3323. Payroll-dept. IDs
A3325. “___ be my pleasure”
A3326. Hi-tech greeting
A3328. Tiny organism
A3331. A lever-pull away
A3333. Counterintelligencer for the USA
A3337. Damson and bullace
A3338. Summer dress fabrics
A3339. Icon of the early dot-com boom…and
bust
A3340. Daniel ___ Kim of Lost
A3341. Old Norse character
A3342. Aptly named skateboarder Brown (it’s what she skates into)
A3343. Shredded-pork dinners, for short
A3344. Anglican parish priests
A3345. Politico Marco
A3346. Pitcher’s attempted fakeout
A3347. They may be last, for the dying
A3348. Arrests the progress of
A3350. Hardest-to-find items for a collector
A3351. Economic agents?
A3353. Like instruments ready to record
A3354. Herb varieties notably from Thailand
and Italy
A3356. Put into words
A3358. Part of a Battleship coordinate
A3360. Yours, in Tours
A3361. ___ Balls (snack choice)
A3362. Course with many unknowns (abbr.)
A3363. Bathers’ scrubbers
A3365. Search, leaving no stone unturned
A3366. Second and third degree in music?
A3367. Maleska’s predecessor
A3368. Vitamin you’d be anemic without
A3370. Begins divorce proceedings
A3371. Overly dry, perhaps
A3373. Reminders of long, long ago
A3374. Extremities
A3375. Printer inserts
A3377. West Indies instrument
A3379. Beverage you can get at Universal’s
Wizarding World of Harry Potter
A3382. Bird-feeder bits
A3384. Pick, perhaps
A3386. Wedding date?
A3388. Forms Transformers transform into
A3390. Natural, as a performance
A3393. Stood out at stand-up?
A3395. Ambulance gp.
A3396. Groups of pals who shag together
A3398. It’s not quite a sweet potato
A3399. Sneeze and/or wheeze
A3400. They’re worth 1 or 11 in blackjack
A3401. “Take your time”
A3402. Sharapova and Shriver
A3403. Elapsed seemingly quickly
A3404. Burn After Reading star
A3405. Approvals (var.)
A3406. Approaches a red light
A3407. Kafka’s Gregor
A3409. Cape Verde capital
A3410. Actress de Matteo of Sons of Anarchy
A3412. ___ Marner
A3414. Pulsing
A3416. Cream quantity
A3418. The Plot Against America author Philip
A3419. One might be promoted to cpl.
A3420. Mil. figure with chevrons
A3421. Hearing aid of old
A3423. Drink that had a Wild Red variety
A3424. Word for “managers” more often found
in French
A3426. Moon of Jupiter (remember?)
A3427. He’d be Vader someday later
A3428. First ___ (title for Napoleon)
A3429. Maritime republic for seven centuries
A3430. “Every great film should seem new
every time you see it” speaker
A3432. Parts of a smaller bra
A3433. Peace Prize winner Murad
A3435. Designing Women and Young Sheldon star
A3438. Austin’s home
A3440. Got ready for a tongue depressor, say
A3442. Dead cellphones and the like
A3443. Total messes
A3445. New York Times’ critic at large
A3448. “The point is there is no point”
speaker
A3449. Journalist Farrow
A3450. Entertainer famously bitten by a white
tiger in 2003
A3451. Eighties presidential monogram
A3452. Imposing shoebox letters
A3453. “…a law ___ themselves” (Romans 2:14)
A3454. Double daggers, in printing
A3455. Confounded
A3456. Broth spoilers, they say
A3457. “Senora” alternative
A3458. Foreign representatives
A3460. RWR’s predecessor
A3463. Pro-independence writing of early
American history
A3465. Maker of Dri-Tac grips
A3467. Object
A3469. ___ sense (danger-detecting ESP)
A3471. Edges (along)
A3473. Conference USA’s Miners
A3474. Its California variety includes
avocado and basil mayonnaise
A3475. Stephen of FearDotCom
A3476. ___-Hulk
A3477. Hard-drive company, or woman’s name
when parsed differently
A3479. Cafe serving group
A3481. Silly laughs
A3483. Bee-fitting?
A3484. Bed supports
A3485. Blender settings
A3486. Run out of ideas
A3487. She’s hardly a comedian
A3489. Fish pounds
A3490. Film heroine of 1998 and 2020
A3492. Wineglass sections
A3493. Rarely recognized burger flavoring
A3496. The RAF, in a Churchill quote
A3498. Roof worker
A3500. Biggest bill I’ve ever carried
A3501. Bone-to-muscle joiner
A3503. Collaborator with Selena Gomez, Cardi
B, and Ozuna
A3506. “What-- WHY?? I can’t make any SENSE of your actions!”
A3509. Mess with the mind of
A3510. Not overly quick-spreading peanut
butter brand
A3511. First part of a Western whoop
A3512. Snoopy, but not Woodstock
A3513. Moviemaking gp. that lent their name
to a file format
A3514. Suffix meaning “eater”
A3515. Niblick sockets
A3516. “Let us, then, be up and ___”
A3517. “Look ___! I’m on top of the world!”
A3518. Cotton collector
A3519. Crystal-bearing rock
A3520. Emergency signal
A3522. Some footnote symbols
A3524. ___ aves (one-in-a-thousand finds)
A3525. Ineffable glow
A3527. “I gotchu”
A3529. Location of Manhattan and Ottawa
A3531. Needed Ibuprofen, maybe
A3533. French wing…or propeller blade
A3534. Cracker in soup, e.g.
A3535. Compass meas.
A3536. Woolly, young lamb
A3537. Pull (from)
A3538. Like a bright future
A3539. Org. for Titans and Texans
A3540. Gas amount
A3542. Recognizes as
A3543. “Mooing”
A3544. Shots for fellas?
A3545. “What do you mean he don’t ___ meat? Oh, that’s okay, I make lamb” (My Big Fat
Greek Wedding)
A3546. Committee leaders
A3548. John Frank Stevens and his work, in a
famous phrase
A3552. “Free sample? Well, then, sure!”
A3555. Wasn’t any good
A3557. Biblical or North Carolinian mount
A3559. Wine-lover’s lead-in
A3560. Biracial “princess knight” of
animation
A3562. Kristian or Ribiero of television
A3565. “___ am your father” (classic film
line)
A3567. June 6 ships
A3568. Death or destruction
A3569. “Obamacare”
A3570. Insulting follower of smart and dumb
A3571. The Ambracian Gulf, to some
A3572. Maggie and Lisa’s brother
A3573. Fantabulous
A3574. ___ a desert (without any moisture)
A3575. Joyful internet cry
A3576. The Sheriff of Nottingham, e.g.,
notoriously
A3577. Street map
A3578. Measures the depth of
A3579. Continental Airlines Arena team
A3580. Run the bar
A3582. Little miscues
A3583. People in Germany
A3585. Didn’t roll over
A3587. Lung part found in bird bones
A3589. Does research
A3591. “Eyes on the Prize” gp.
A3592. Lon of Cambodia
A3593. Cotton seed remover
A3594. Mah-jongg piece
A3596. Refrain heard in rock
A3600. Working away thanklessly
A3602. Payola or “incentive”
A3603. One known for calling people out
A3604. Ratty town of legend
A3605. She may order an op
A3606. Sancerre and Sylvaner
A3608. ___-tung
A3610. ___ thin air
A3611. Web extension?
A3612. Usher, e.g.
A3614. Giving a splash of color
A3617. Landing area
A3619. Scooby-Doo’s outburst
A3621. Amusing bird for a child, maybe
A3622. Amiens aunt
A3624. One adding things up
A3627. Record of affairs?
A3632. Pimpernel color
A3633. Woos, minstrel-style
A3634. “___ mouse!”
A3635. ___Nova (classic musical style)
A3636. Forest cover
A3637. Make ___ (use to one’s advantage)
A3638. Any day now
A3639. Revenue line
A3640. Lecturers, at times
A3641. Americans, casually, to people outside
the US
A3643. 1.618034
A3646. “Bad mother” of song
A3648. One of the Leeward Islands
A3650. Civet’s kin
A3651. Modern zoo barrier
A3653. Car that represented a
quarter-billion-dollar loss for its company (more than $2.5 billion in today’s
dollars)
A3655. Platonic female partner
A3657. Leaves beverage
A3659. 1998 home run race participant
A3660. Luther’s close friend and portraitist
A3661. Educational mock-cop show with James Earl Jones
A3662. “Oh, finally!”
A3663. “Sequel” quote to “I’ll be back”
A3666. Five-line Japanese poems
A3667. Hick towns
A3668. Pronoun in “to marry ___ they choose”
that honestly seems like a bit much
A3670. Ballyhoos
A3671. Trapper’s collection
A3672. Turing and Rickman
A3674. “Hey Bobby” country singer
A3676. Lot’s location, once
A3678. Unspeakable cruelties
A3681. Some teenagers’ ailments
A3683. Overly agreeable one
A3685. “Sorry, could you repeat that?”
A3689. Statements of belief
A3690. “We can dance ___ want to” (“The
Safety Dance” line)
A3691. Shrink from
A3692. Seesaw complement
A3693. It prints a lot of schedules
A3694. After the sunrise, in Solingen
A3695. Diverti or penti or pronuncia ending
A3696. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” singer
A3697. “FOR SALE BY ___”
A3698. Consider everything that can go wrong
A3699. Cheeses for salads
A3700. Paper alternative
A3702. ___ the run (munch while in motion)
A3704. Daytime Emmy actress Rena
A3706. “Candy is dandy…” writer’s first name
A3707. Brunch, for instance
A3709. Stop in Hawaiian names
A3711. Card carrier
A3713. Polished off
A3714. Where skates glide
A3715. Licorice-flavored liqueur
A3717. Have ___ ear: not know music
A3718. London’s nat.
A3719. Fleecy footwear brand
A3720. Cancun-to-Puerto Vallarta direction
A3723. End to end?
A3724. You often learn about her on the
inside back cover
A3725. Times with the most activity
A3727. Double-check for typos, say
A3729. Out sick, say
A3730. Screen’s Wyatt and Wyman
A3731. The American Petroleum Institute, e.g.
A3733. Hi-tech students’ haunt
A3735. Al ___ (Guerrilla group whose name
means “The Opening”)
A3737. Thsi cleu hsa sveeral
A3739. It has a place in “herstory”
A3742. “When you’re right, you’re right!”
A3744. Middle-Earth marauder
A3746. More subtle
A3750. What’s here, to a stereotypical Midwesterner
A3751. Website help section
A3752. Elevated station
A3754. “Fly Me to the Moon” singer,
affectionately
A3757. Grab with jaws
A3758. Seasons, in Nice
A3759. Store stock (abbr.)
A3760. Alanis Morissette’s question for
English majors?
A3762. Anxiety that leads to some mid-month three-day weekends
A3766. Bringing back to one’s home nation,
verbally and mentally
A3769. Wheels, topographically speaking
A3770. Flat, thick piece
A3772. Certain antenna covering
A3774. “Forget what I just said”
A3778. “I’m only going to say this once”
A3781. Church feature
A3782. Playing partners
A3783. Went to pieces
A3787. Class clown’s comeuppance
A3788. “Apologies, folks!!”
A3789. Follow the relevant instruction laid
out (by)
A3790. Gets blown by a strong wind, perhaps, as a door
A3792. “This doesn’t seem normal, wouldn’t
you say?”
A3793. Turkish founding father who said
“Peace at home, peace in the world”
A3798. Metta World Peace, until 2011 (he
changed again in 2020)
A3799. Words to make sure there are no hard
feelings
A3801. ___’acte (intermission)
A3802. Become more sympathetic
A3803. Highland tops
A3804. No big thing
A3805. Meat-and-veggies meals
A3806. Stuff cleared from one’s browser
history, hopefully
A3807. The ___ in Winter (1968 film)
A3808. Request in an invitation
A3809. Acting and writing
A3810. Modernist Goldfinger (not that
Goldfinger)
A3811. They’re about 1076 square feet each
A3812. Agitated mood
A3813. American-made line of smokers
A3814. Coffee and cookie containers
A3815. The secret to being one is to tell
everything, according to Voltaire
A3816. Permanently damage
A3817. Cousin of lotto
A3818. A blood thinner prevents it
A3819. Palace resident
A3820. Characters with the nicknames Silent
and Sideshow
A3821. Depression fighter
A3822. Senator’s name that sounds like
property
A3823. Like falling off a log
A3824. Infamous emperor
A3825. “Looking at it differently…,” to a
texter
A3826. King in Castile
A3827. Kidnapped author’s inits.
A3828. Son-gun filler
A3829. “No way, forget it!”
A3830. It merged with the AFL
A3831. “Based ___ true story”
A3832. Pessimist’s rejoinder to “Well, we’re
not dead!”
A3833. Pre-album samplers, for short
A3834. “Wizards in Winter” arena-rock greats,
for short
A3835. Cosign and anoint follower
A3836. Nix and Pelini of football
A3837. “___ man sharpeneth the countenance of
his friend” (Proverbs)
A3838. Buckle
A3839. Org. in charge of the Space Force
A3840. One who has a lot of screwdrivers?
A3841. Some UN officers, for short
A3842. -ed, e.g. (abbr.)
A3843. Extra periods, in brief
A3844. Nickname that drops the “son” in a
girl’s name
A3845. TV channel with Style Report and
Beauty Report
A3846. Sick days, vacay, and such
A3847. Weekend TV listing
A3848. Michigan’s biggest city (abbr.)
A3849. Building build-on
Down
A1. Anti-sticking product
A2. They’re bigger than bucks
A3. Some whiskers
A4. Painting of fruit, e.g.
A5. How a pirouette is done
A6. Cleaning bot
A7. Dear one
A8. Book for the beach, maybe
A9. ___ erfreuen, dann belehren (“First delight, then instruct”)
A10. Playful one
A11. Place of a historic edict
A12. What the A stands for, in superhero
comics
A13. Some supermarkets give store credit if you
bring your own
A14. Move like a hummingbird
A15. Escaped when no one was looking
A16. “What’s your rush?”
A17. Informal uploads
A18. Sent some cybernotes
A19. Suzanne Collins’ future nation
A20. Intriguingly foreign
A21. Spider, e.g.
A22. Whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters
A23. Star Trek ___: The Search for Spock
A24. Jai end?
A25. On ___ of (representing)
A26. Doomsday cultist Shoko
A27. Commoners with a few noble trappings
A28. Norte’s opposite
A29. Locale of the Goya Gate
A30. Roy Rogers films
A31. Palindromic female rapper
A32. Dakota ___ (old geog. designation)
A33. What the A stands for, in animation
A34. Spanish sixes
A35. They’re canceled beyond all recovery
A36. Less docile
A37. Lhasa ___: dog breed
A38. The giants of the talking-bird world
A39. News item
A40. Juan Pablo ___, Formula One racer
A41. It might be answered “Muy bien, gracias”
A42. They range from introductory to
penalty
A43. “This person served as a rabbi”
A44. One who can buy low and sell
high
A45. Long-standing kitchenware brand
A46. Rachel’s biblical sister
A47. Montreuil-sur-___ (Les Misérables
setting)
A48. Hellish, in the Greek sense
A49. “I’m so clever!”
A50. Santa ___, California
A51. Popular family pooch
A52. “I really didn’t need to know that” in
textspeak
A53. Go downhill on one’s ass
A54. Like “Son of a Bush” and “Guerilla
Radio”
A55. “Well…I like THAT”
A56. Mixed-breed pooch
A57. Former Giants player Jason
A58. Breathtaking difficulty?
A59. “I’m gonna ___ presidential that you
people will ___ bored”
A60. Form of pyruvic acid
A61. Part of the California/Nevada border
A62. Not too sweet or bland
A63. Interventions: A Life in War and Peace memoirist
A64. Makes even deeper
A65. Chills
A66. Don’t move
A67. Bolshevik leader
A68. Not at all plain
A69. Two things the A can stand for, in non-heteronormativity
(which sometimes go together; see A90-Down)
A70. Clothing retailer Andrew
A71. Roman numeral?
A72. Joy to behold
A73. Extremely quick
A74. The Warner sister
A75. Event that calls for frequently
switching drivers
A76. Not carried, as a burden
A77. Bunsen burner nozzle
A78. B-52s’ HQs
A79. Shovel shit
A80. Misaimed
A81. Sharknado star
A82. Experts
A83. Coal region workplaces
A84. Anti-DUI gp.
A85. Meditator’s chants
A86. Needle-like
A87. Takes and puts away
A88. ___ and Catch Fire (drama series about computer design)
A89. Inflight announcement
A90. Third thing the A can stand for, in
non-heteronormativity (see A69-Down)
A91. Confusing scuffles
A92. Extraordinary fellows
A93. Get a new décor for
A94. Indelicately unwraps
A95. Are afraid to
A96. Ovid opus
A97. Words to a Doberman
A98. “Ladder company” signal
A99. Waltzer’s footwear
A100. “___ a Girl and Got Lost in Her Smile”
(David J)
A101. Sleeper on a train
A128. What the A stands for, in classic
literature
A130. Any member of a classic punk rock band
A132. Trowel user
A134. Planet Kashyyyk natives
A136. Plastic component
A138. Suit sizes for the tall
A141. Beat ___ to: let no obstacles keep one
from
A143. Less conspicuous place to park
A145. Written rules
A147. Gadgets with earbuds
A149. Neutral tans
A151. What the A stands for, in this
section’s six longest entries
A155. Lawn source
A158. Split pulses
A161. How Uncle Ben treated Peter
A164. Figures in mass production?
A166. “Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds,
boy” song
A169. Turning points
A172. Gp. that fought income inequality
A174. It’s the geologist’s fault
A178. Alain or Nathalie of Le Samourai
A180. Thunder and lightning
A182. Objets ___
A184. Most productive way to think of the
future
A186. Places of commerce
A187. “How disgusting!”
A190. Grand Marquis, e.g., briefly
A192. They go below the knee
A193. Anime genre featuring giant robots
A194. Smiley’s smile
A195. Turn the counter back to zero on
A196. Zoloft and Prozac
A199. Buck in Beijing
A201. Kind of walk?
A202. Copycat’s comment
A203. Who song or a short-lived sitcom
A204. Some red wines, informally
A205. Outsider, in Hawaii
A206. “And two if ___…”
A207. Meridian
A209. Episc. or Bapt.
A211. Small organisms that keep a pool
clear, metaphorically
A212. Where Scarlett goes at the end of Gone
with the Wind to solve all her problems, without, it has to be said, any particular evidence that
she can farm it post-emancipation
A214. How homes are often built
A216. ___ worm (catchy song)
A217. Vocalist for “I’m On a Boat”
A219. Air-conditioning outlets
A220. Deeply ingrained
A221. Leakes of reality TV
A222. “___ stands now…”
A223. Make a decision
A224. Staley of Alice in Chains
A226. Arum family plants
A227. They “fill up” at charging stations
A229. Grandchildren of Japanese immigrants
A230. Pocket discovery
A231. People debate about which side to hang
their papers from
A232. Holiday employees, often
A234. One person might both pitch and strike
one
A235. Sprint rival
A236. “Per ardua ad ___” (RAF motto)
A238. Top name in tennis
A241. Tough to intimidate
A244. Antepenultimate section of Crime
and Punishment
A247. Mac-to-Apple TV app
A252. Chipmunk’s cache
A255. Like longship sailors
A257. Lightly touches, as on the shoulder
A259. Animal shelters
A260. Part of a bug’s eye
A261. Like some phone nos.
A263. Stock exchange buys
A265. Crop up anew
A267. Where Paul had a vision
A269. Suckling spot
A271. Poe’s middle name (it’s not “disturbing”)
A272. Describe
A274. Right, in Rouen
A276. Fullback’s desire
A278. Pole or Croat
A280. Nut-seasoned sweets I baked last night
A282. Sitcom world
A284. Mongkut portrayer
A286. It gives ballplayers a say in where
they end up
A289. Lee Miller of Dance Moms, or a
famous “agony aunt”
A290. With “the,” nickname for both Atlanta
and NYC
A291. ___ la journée (all day long)
A292. Speedy car, or speedy cat
A293. “The Song of ___ Campaign” (work of
early Russian literature)
A294. Simon of Hot Fuzz
A295. Works of a Spanish Surrealist
A296. Oddities on display
A297. Type units
A299. It has to move quick on the snap
A301. Like some roads
A303. Took lodging
A305. Somewhat risky spot for a skate trick
A307. Under-the-sink item
A309. “___ are saying…is give peace a
chance”
A311. At the summit of
A313. “The Things We Do for Love” rock group
A315. “I never ___ plate to the point where it
overflows” (Rachel Nichols)
A316. ___ Lot (horror film)
A318. “Whenever”
A319. O’Casey and Connery
A320. Goes into hysterics
A321. Clashing partisans
A322. Transport provider at Disney World
A323. Tot’s tootsie topper
A324. Person in need of detox
A325. Seiko rival
A326. Sandy expanses
A327. Respectful quality
A329. Up
A331. Tangerine- grapefruit-orange hybrids
A333. Portuguese mononym footballer and
namesakes
A335. Hostile reaction
A337. Casablanca director
A339. Get ___ on: find a clue about
A341. Initiated court action against
A343. Western megalopolis, familiarly
A348. Arrests, slangily
A349. Conservative shade
A350. Packs away
A351. Brother-to-be
A352. Urban residents, collectively
A353. Mister of La Mancha
A354. “I’m very ___” (Come-on from Friends’
Phoebe)
A355. Place to stretch one’s legs on a long
straight trip, abbreviated
A356. Observers during batting practice, for
short
A357. No longer wkg.
A358. Slowly disintegrated
A359. Potential scandal
A360. Still snoring
A362. They’re seen in World War Z but not The
Walking Dead
A363. Chinese caregivers
A365. Peak discoverer Zebulon
A366. To zero degree
A368. Museum preservationists
A369. Chimes in with
A371. Bawdyhouse manager
A373. Outdoor relaxing spots
A374. Rids the body of
A375. Ginormundo
A376. Use ___ name: say “dear” or “honey”
A377. Pigs with four tusks
A379. Where to tell scary stories over
s’mores
A380. Shepherds with lamb prices on their
mind
A381. Fielding who wrote Bridget Jones’s
Diary
A382. Confused noises
A383. Satin or rayon
A384. Grand ___ (big ending)
A385. Old Red scare gp.
A386. Lords of “crowned republics”
A387. “I swear on a stack of Bibles”
A388. Notorious antitrust figure turned
philanthropist who warned us about the pandemic
A389. Decentralized denomination
A390. Really ancient
A391. Stadium ticket datum
A392. Blue Jays’ city (abbr.)
A395. Humorist Alexandria
A398. Swings at
A401. Demon slain by Gandalf
A404. With “pro”, distributed as appropriate
A406. Kind of jazz
A410. Adapt, socially
A411. “In a western ___ with dead end
walls…” (“West End Girls”)
A413. Landmines, e.g.
A415. Possible skin test reaction
A417. Wear for Superman, Batman, Thor, and
surprisingly few other superheroes
A420. Monterrey misses (abbr.)
A422. Emulate an angry bee
A424. Stroke on an S
A426. Fresh-baked cookies, e.g.
A428. Excursion
A430. Chop shop wheels
A432. His head is shaped like a football
A434. Condemn to eternal torment
A436. Buddhist land
A438. For Jack Wagner, “just a little more
time to be sure”
A439. Mingle at the wedding reception
A441. The Oscars and the Butterfly Ball
A442. Showy scarves
A443. Wintry road hazard
A444. Sleep-deprived breastfeeder
A445. R for the small screen
A446. Cover with drops
A447. Battery parts
A448. Octets of bits
A449. Gasses up
A451. Entertainer Davis Jr.
A453. Jannings and Kraepelin
A455. Explorer Juan ___ de León
A457. Fountain locale
A459. Reminds ad nauseam
A461. Lady of Kyoto
A463. Argues ineffectively
A465. Fiddler’s spot
A467. Like Hebrew and Arabic
A471. Google’s search algorithm or TikTok’s
sorting system, e.g.
A472. Cooped-up cacklers
A473. Train spanning much of the Northeast
US
A474. London clothing material
A475. COVID-19 of the late 20th century
A476. Pep (up), as to proceedings
A477. Persephone’s husband
A478. Wins, as a championship
A479. My True Crime Story channel
A481. ___ Amsterdam: early settlement
A483. Oklahomans before Oklahomans
A485. It doesn’t feel good to be green around them
A487. Basketmaking fiber
A489. Unkempt sort
A491. 1966 pop song with a flute solo
A493. “Readers are advised to remember that
the Devil is ___” (C.S. Lewis)
A495. Minestrone, for instance
A497. Some salon activities
A498. CT-scanner part
A500. Element found in walnuts
A502. Sobriquet for Giuliani, once
A503. Thoughtful
A504. “Let’s skip my turn”
A505. Spike you get when threatened with a
spike
A506. Fan’s periodical, for short
A507. Rushed toward
A508. Manicured
A509. ___ in on (targeted)
A510. Grilling tool
A511. Chameleonic actor Christian
A512. Snag a taxi
A514. Playground snitches
A515. Leave one’s pecs partially exposed,
say
A517. Horror as far as the eye can see
A518. “___ be surprised!”
A520. Inner layer
A521. Type of panel
A523. Cookout option
A526. Scottish chilly weather
A528. Difference between a comedy and a tragedy,
one might say
A529. Used high beams, perhaps
A530. Songwriter Irving
A531. Point at the table?
A532. First words of the Constitution
A533. Jerks’ offerings
A534. In any weather
A535. In pretty good shape
A536. Kin of Mmes.
A537. Sound from a Siamese
A539. Angle producers
A542. ___ acid: prenatal vitamin ingredient
A545. Chi-Town paper, with “The”
A548. “From the beginning” follower, if
comprehensive
A550. Pibroch player, probably
A552. Hippocampus of myth
A553. February nomination
A555. Tongue-curling
A556. Draws back, as in fear
A558. Moves relentlessly (about)
A560. Complies with, as a deadline
A562. Steers a racing shell
A564. D-day boat (abbr.)
A566. Slimy
A568. Weird Sisters
A570. “Things fall apart” poet
A572. Enjoy, as a fine wine or meal
A574. Kinswoman of a sort
A576. Time of minimal lunar pull, at the
beach
A578. Feature of some swervy roads
A580. Specialist’s specialty
A582. Japanese word meaning “tiger” or, in
context, “blitzkrieg”
A586. Brand-name rhyme for “Cuisine”
A587. Common graph axes
A588. Stored, as hay
A589. Choose for roles
A590. “The most beautiful girl in the
world/___ Garbo” (Rodgers/Hart line)
A591. Like some tricks
A592. Challenger or Charger
A593. Liquid amount in Liverpool
A594. Clothing department designation
A596. Some boom boxes
A598. Operatic king of the gods
A600. Caddies clean them
A602. Ayn Rand novels, e.g.
A604. What PayPal facilitates
A606. Coffee ground stain on a mug
A608. Saved to “Favorite Videos” with older
tech
A610. Jazzy Jeff, in a 1988 Fresh Prince
album name
A612. Not ethereal
A613. “That Old Time ___”
A615. Onetime resident of Mauritius
A617. Brazilian brothers
A618. Cleft between cliffs
A619. Toadied
A620. Refraction producer
A621. A new ___ on life
A622. “Straight Up” singer Paula
A623. Forward
A624. “Spend,” euphemistically
A625. Encoded “I see Sis”
A627. Signs of hit NYC shows
A629. Lily family members
A631. Late-night bite
A633. Bridge parts
A635. Palmer’s nickname
A637. Much-used verbe
A639. Numbing, paralyzing fright
A641. 2017 deportation documentary
A646. Nether lands travel writer
A647. Struck noisily
A648. The “how you doin’?” guy of
sitcoms
A649. Help for those at sea?
A650. “…rock feels no pain, ___ island never
cries” (Paul Simon)
A651. Traffic chorus
A652. They stink
A653. Guthrie genre
A654. Wait to play
A655. Fawned-over star
A656. Pressing warning
A657. Half-quartets
A659. Kickoff sender-backers, in football
A660. Twist into a knotted form
A662. “I made the pact, I’ll honor it”
A663. Exchanges for money
A665. Count’s equal
A666. Vail downhill
A668. Year The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published
A670. He found the relationship between
resistance and voltage
A671. Tormented
A672. Waterside accommodations
A673. Small and orbital
A675. Ready to fight
A677. Gas station advertised at Fenway Park
A678. Even less sensitive
A679. Retired Cubs star Sandberg
A680. Confederate soldiers
A681. Where you wouldn’t want to get a thumbs-up
A682. They may be broken in the military
A683. “What…what… but…HOW?”
A684. The Rolling Stones’ “I’m Yours, I’m
___”
A685. Reserve
A686. Gold-reserves fort
A687. Nine-digit important no.
A690. Not of the rabbinate
A693. Break records?
A696. Desert on Africa’s southwest coast
A699. Submerged nets
A701. Playwright Williams
A707. Party spongers
A708. Semi-firm cheese sometimes added to
mozzarella
A710. Frasier dog
A712. Harlequin, for one
A714. Does a number one
A717. Zhivago player
A719. Ambassador to Japan Emanuel
A721. 2009 Super Bowl number
A723. Dystrophy namesake
A725. Match clinchers
A727. Glass-polishing powder
A729. LaBeouf of the Transformers
movies
A731. They “chant down Babylon”
A733. Rhubarbs
A734. Minnesota neighbors
A735. John Goodman role
A736. Thrifty? Not them
A738. Follow the example shown (from)
A740. Health care coverage providers?
A741. Like someone you’d have a case against
A742. Broad bean variety
A743. Maleficent portrayer
A744. Scent containers
A745. Magic spirits
A746. Put on store shelves
A747. Try for some pins?
A748. Eastern philosophy of balance
A750. Singing knight whose middle name is
Hercules
A752. Silicate used in capacitors
A754. Keep ___ head: don’t get riled
A756. Harness racing speeds
A758. He works with prospective and current
employees
A760. Any Big Bang Theory episode,
now
A762. Gets gangrenous
A764. Parts of mollusk shells
A770. Annual sights in Pasadena
A771. Sea of Serenity locale
A772. Peyton Manning’s old team
A773. Nintendo’s legendary princess
A774. Apatow seen in several Apatow films
A775. Wounds with a tusk
A776. Robin’s favorite adjective, in the
1960s
A777. Policy-shaping document that emerges
once a decade
A779. Lisa Lisa’s “Head ___”
A781. Included with
A783. Bug sci.
A785. “We’re in ___ against time”
A787. Brew, in a teapot
A789. Thurmond of the Senate, once
A791. Almost there
A793. Solidarity; communion
A795. Certain wind insert
A796. Secret keepers?
A797. Detailed in foreground, midground, and
background
A799. Twain and Lincoln biographer Masters
A801. Following Murphy’s Law
A802. Charlie of classic detective stories
A803. Does a farming chore
A804. Art photog and ex-reporter Tabitha
A805. Wachowski siblings’ erotic thriller
A806. Does modern vision correction
A807. Start the horse race
A808. Full of dugouts
A809. Perspiration passage
A810. Filament
A812. Money writer Martin
A813. Chose, as a restaurant table
A815. Shortenings
A816. Harpoon
A818. Did unusually poorly
A819. Kind of goose or leopard
A821. The Maltese Falcon lead
A827. Travel a circuit on schedule
A828. Sends poems and chocolates, perhaps
A829. She played Dora’s mother in 2019
A830. Madonna role
A831. Join a party
A832. Taps a pitch
A833. Narrow inlets
A834. Conical dwellings
A835. Fictional Gold, Tenenbaum, and Ben
Canaan
A836. Certain road hazard
A837. Blood poisoning
A840. Collection of life rules, in Eastern
religion
A843. Kerri who injured her ankle at the
1996 Olympics
A846. “As you were saying?”
A848. Supply with goods
A849. Show likely to feature bare breasts, a
sad male protagonist, movie stars, and almost no humor
A850. Practice sessions
A852. Per custom
A854. Squad-based MMORPG reconstructing
World War II
A856. Ren faire rides
A857. Janitorial equipment
A859. Santa remarks
A861. Not quite the city
A863. Sci-fi and mystery
A864. Ankle-biter
A867. Born in Wichita, say
A869. Position on the roster
A871. “Auspicious One” of Hinduism
A873. Distasteful beverage
A875. Literally, “Go with God”
A877. Revival enclosures
A879. Sailor, informally
A886. They get heavy at the day’s end
A887. Forces (off), as an attacker
A888. Highlander skirts
A889. Hapless vacationer Griswold
A890. Habitable dimension
A891. Date producer
A892. Russian of the 1980s
A895. Result of oversleeping
A897. Flower named in a notorious murder
A899. Mariner, Ranger, and Yankee for 22
years total
A901. “You made me laugh when I wasn’t
expecting to!”
A903. Bad states
A905. Uses one’s scissors on
A907. Pseudo-convertibles
A909. Cut coupons
A911. Covered securely, as a baby’s bottom
A912. Strolling site
A914. Hitchcock appearing in his own movies,
e.g.
A916. In reality, likely just a humanist atheist who enjoys
shocking people
A918. Affliction for some vets
A919. Studio subjects
A920. Fire truck lines
A921. Counterfeit
A922. Comment after a sneeze
A923. Choosy ones, in Jif ads
A924. An auto may require it
A925. Begin to bawl out
A927. Aardvark feature
A929. Christmas card sentiment
A931. Schilling successor
A933. Aberdeen beef
A935. Earn naming rights for
A937. Luxury home supplier for millennials
A939. Brawny types
A941. H-dos-O
A948. Canal from the Med to the Red
A949. Agronomist’s samples
A950. Slaw and Porter
A951. Hose holders
A952. Warning whistle
A953. Musical instrument in a game show name
A954. What John McCain thought would be an
end to pork in bills
A956. Quality recognized by scouts
A957. Nineties’ answer to Facebook Groups
A958. Olympics shouts
A959. “…Oh!”
A961. Camper’s heat source
A962. Palin impersonator Fey
A964. It goes from the Bering Strait to the
Strait of Magellan
A965. Duple-time dance
A967. Quickly disintegrating
A968. Neck tie?
A970. Tore along like a bat out of hell
A971. Where to see urban gorillas
A972. Helper of parable
A974. Worry day by day
A976. Something you might want to settle
A978. Flying Circus performer
A979. Receives visitors
A980. With “The,” Dr. Seuss’s fun-loving
home invader
A981. Indian wild canid
A982. Heart-healthy plan that avoids
processed meat
A983. Lover’s sounds
A984. One who declares
A986. Old ___: historic warship
A987. ___ John Silver
A988. Olympic letters for Ingemar Stenmark
A990. Words on a pair of desk trays
A993. Compromise
A996. Lack of tunemaking skill
A999. Statistical tool for comparing means
A1003. Decides that one will
A1004. “Wonderwall” singers
A1005. Giant kelp, e.g.
A1009. MTV show once hosted by Ashton Kutcher
A1011. Axle-based charges, often
A1013. Respiratory tract infection
A1015. New and attention-getting
A1017. First two words on a classic red
rectangle toy
A1019. Chuck who broke the speed of sound
A1021. “She’s a Lady” writer
A1023. Loam and marl
A1025. Fathered, as a foal
A1027. ___-turvy
A1029. Architect Saarinen whose true first
name was Gottlieb
A1031. They’ll tell
A1032. “But what really matters is…”
A1035. Means of cooking seen in Return of
the Jedi
A1037. Ollie performer, pejoratively
A1039. Category
A1040. HHH and LBJ, once
A1041. Having the taste of smoke, as some Scotches
A1042. Colors lightly
A1043. On the ___ (healing)
A1044. Judges, e.g.
A1045. What a round might consist of
A1047. Scandinavian bard
A1049. “Don’t rush this”
A1051. Vaguely Kardashian-shaped workers
A1053. Petered out
A1055. Lacking adornment
A1057. Do an alteration on
A1059. They tend to eschew any sentences much
longer than this
A1063. Political analyst Tolliver
A1064. “___ the Same” (Camila Cabello song)
A1068. Singer who portrayed Dorothy Gale
A1069. Many Hollister shoppers
A1070. “Let’s give it a ___!”
(fingerprinter’s pun)
A1071. Gave medicine to
A1072. “___ Stop The Feeling!”
A1073. Start admitting both boys and girls
A1074. Shoplifting or arson
A1076. “Can ___ any WORSE??!!”
A1078. On a vast timescale
A1080. “Hey! That hurts!”
A1082. Representative’s immediate circle
A1084. ___ Near Arles (Van Gogh “street” painting)
A1086. One who’s more than attentive
A1088. Atlanta’s div.
A1089. Robinson Crusoe actor Dan
A1090. Fills with disgust
A1093. Not secret long
A1095. Pamper a bit
A1097. Had much too much of
A1098. Debris in a dig
A1099. Like some undercover cops
A1100. Pot seshes
A1101. Brief struggle, as of madness
A1102. Shaped in a shop
A1103. Pitch-lowering symbols
A1104. “The game is never over” sloganeer
A1106. Pledge drive talk, essentially
A1107. Puppeteer comedian Jeff
A1109. Periods in history texts
A1110. Understood without need of mention
A1112. “This puzzle has defeated me”
A1113. What a diner sometimes also is?
A1117. Yogi who popularized transcendental
meditation
A1118. Message-sending convenience
A1122. Teen drama set in SoCal
A1123. “This gives me hope for a new era of
cinematic excellence,” “This movie will change you,” “This director makes
Stephen Spielberg look like Michael Bay,” e.g.
A1124. Grabs and goes
A1125. Fuel that helped us found organic
chemistry
A1126. Symbol of government authority
A1127. Remote need?
A1129. “Who wants candy?” response
A1130. Roid, e.g.
A1131. Pedro’s coin
A1134. Ile-___, Quebec
A1137. Set of nine voices
A1140. You might fix one yourself at a bar
A1142. Apple-holding luau fare
A1143. “Aw, pull the other one!”
A1147. Pope’s jurisdiction
A1149. Elegant eateries
A1151. Headwear, military-style
A1153. Hudson-based fabric store
A1155. Kind of hen or pig
A1157. Tic ___ (mints)
A1158. Part of a European address
A1161. Vietnam’s Ngo ___ Diem
A1163. Bush or Bush
A1165. Preceder of “Peak” and “Cove” in
screen titles
A1167. It helps you avoid seeing spots
A1169. ___ Chris Steak House
A1171. Poet who wrote “The Sonnets to
Orpheus”
A1173. He misspelled “potato” one time, and
everyone had a good laugh at the idea anyone so uncouth could ever dream of
being president
A1177. Moving by reflex
A1179. Caesar’s cry, more contemporarily
A1183. Turnoff a Zoom date doesn’t prepare you for
A1184. Ranks well
A1185. Complaints of a lack of kibble
A1186. Dues, e.g.
A1187. Plant seed
A1188. Landform off the coast of Sweden
A1189. Sink and gum up
A1192. Painter of the desert Southwest
A1194. Politburo no
A1196. ___ Angels (biker group)
A1198. Parts of some drum kits
A1200. They lost a Rose to Philadelphia
A1202. Flat baking pan
A1204. Diets successfully
A1206. They’re used on newly invented medicines
A1207. Acts the fanboy
A1208. High spots in the nineteenth century?
A1212. “Just my luck”
A1214. Ch, sh, and th
A1216. Top Gun star
A1217. Out of play
A1218. All Quiet on the Western ___
A1219. “King of Cool” Martin
A1220. Used an old phone
A1221. Payment for burritos
A1222. Blundering stumblebums
A1223. Ending seen in The Wizard of Oz and
Dallas
A1225. Northern Quebec’s peninsula
A1226. XIX Olympic Winter Games year
A1228. Get set to shine and flex?
A1230. Turn water into soda water
A1232. Mr. Fantastic’s real first name
A1234. Bunches of bunches
A1236. One Piece section
A1240. Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2001
A1241. Moments of agitation
A1242. German craft of WWII
A1243. It’s useful for those who have trouble
getting up
A1244. Chain-of-command factor
A1248. ___ bone (no laughing matter, if you bang it)
A1249. Dostoevsky’s Myshkin, e.g.
A1250. Teen girls often write with
multicolored ones
A1251. Space-exploring robots
A1252. Episc. title
A1253. Bit per second
A1254. More level
A1255. South side?
A1256. First Pope in a baker’s dozen
A1257. Setting firm boundaries with your
kids, say
A1259. Relenting assent
A1260. Prepared to sink a three-pointer in
the wastebasket
A1262. Purchase of an antique, e.g.
A1263. Spanx founder Blakely
A1265. Capri, per esempio
A1266. Smutch
A1268. Kraken, for one
A1269. Florally flavored fluid
A1274. Least responsive
A1276. Marketers who go out among the people
A1278. Patchwork spread
A1279. Painter or chemical process
A1280. Tom Dempsey didn’t have any on his kicking foot
A1281. Installed the values of adulthood in
A1282. “Did ___ tell you about the time…”
A1283. Former Heat star, familiarly
A1285. French yet unpretentious restaurant
A1286. Eric who founded a periodical “field
guide to the emerging culture”
A1287. Turns in a board game
A1289. Song ends?
A1292. Fire starter, perhaps
A1295. Sound heard at a beach
A1298. Indian Ocean islander
A1302. Cooked to whiteness
A1305. Hill, on old TV
A1309. Movies neither blockbuster nor
art-house
A1311. Live Search successor
A1313. Maryland governor Larry
A1315. Quizno’s and Schlotzsky’s
A1317. Wears a deep frown
A1319. Slim battery
A1321. Word on the street?
A1323. Form of discrimination
A1325. Poet of old
A1327. Make more snug, in a way
A1329. Cobbled-together
A1330. Save or Print, often
A1331. Water’s edge
A1333. 1980s US Davis Cup captain
A1334. Cinema villain resembling Fu Manchu
A1336. Iditarod participants
A1338. Place for a nostalgic walk
A1340. Collectively
A1341. Gerwig who directed Lady Bird
A1342. Attila’s guerillas
A1343. Parts of them are descending and
thoracic
A1344. Bounds’ partners, in real estate
A1345. October 30, 1974, e.g.
A1346. Rapper Thee Stallion
A1348. Marshmallow treats
A1350. Sign of inactivity
A1352. Light, big stick at the bar
A1354. One in an order
A1356. Place to weave
A1358. Occupants’ expenditures
A1362. Uncoordinated dance group?
A1365. “Yes, ma’am,” in Madrid
A1369. Spelling and Kelly
A1370. Groundwork
A1371. Reading buddies?
A1372. Work that can mess with your circadian
rhythms
A1373. Clinton the former president, not
Clinton the should-have-been president
A1374. American composer Ned
A1376. Fortnite fight suits
A1378. Where shepherds take their flocks
A1380. Terrell with the good hands
A1382. Rock band flunky
A1384. Approval indication
A1386. Birds that waddle
A1388. Deviously clever plans
A1389. The first first lady with a doctorate
A1391. Shows amazement
A1393. Blunt as The Girl on the Train
A1395. Portuguese isle with volcanic scenery
A1397. Sugary breakfast
A1399. Keeps ticking
A1400. Fender flaw
A1401. Compacted coal
A1402. Excessively sentimental
A1403. Kit’s mitts
A1404. Central facial features
A1405. Children’s-tale bear
A1407. Campers put them under tents
A1409. Spurts of commotion
A1411. Restores, in a way
A1413. Ordered group of numbers in math
A1415. Feed pigs
A1417. One making a living by pushing drugs,
informally
A1421. Denial that sometimes makes a tryst
more irresistibly “forbidden”
A1422. Model Hadid with an on-brand first
name
A1424. Bodybuilder Charles
A1425. Tries to catch shrimp, say
A1429. “Wordplay” vocalist, 2005
A1430. Benedictine, e.g.
A1431. Follows the party line?
A1432. Orlando role
A1433. Serve, in handball
A1434. Boosts in price
A1436. “Look how far ___ come!”
A1437. Co. structure that can shield one from
losses
A1438. Geographical features that can be dire
A1440. Lawyer and accountant types,
disparagingly (to my wife in accounting, I apologize for this clue)
A1442. Broke the limit
A1444. Party wear, for some
A1446. Class of battleship named for a
country
A1448. Laundry quantity
A1450. Legal question
A1451. Influence beforehand
A1452. State of preparedness
A1456. Movie previews
A1458. Rather small
A1460. Unpolished
A1461. The Princess Bride’s Elwes
A1462. Smack a homer, say
A1463. Exhilarates
A1464. Salon styles
A1465. Nastier
A1466. Iditarod sight
A1467. Prolific producer of teen shows
Schneider
A1469. Avails oneself of
A1471. Hit this body part too hard and you
get a sound one letter off from it
A1473. Plant cutting
A1475. Frog feats
A1477. Singer-songwriter Keys
A1479. Drink or PDA
A1483. He didn’t get shafted; they gave his song an Oscar in 1971
A1485. NYC commuter rte.
A1486. Certain evergreen trees
A1487. Worker’s worry
A1488. How ___ the War (cynical 1967 parody)
A1490. Briefly put pen to paper, say
A1494. Hit on the head
A1495. Mocap king Andy
A1496. “Does it spark joy?” speaker
A1497. Cooperate with a photographer
A1498. Acrobatic fighter of kung-fu films
A1499. Not hold back, during poker
A1501. Figure out and classify
A1503. “That’s what they tell me, anyway”
A1505. Journalists’ legal tool
A1506. Leader of the Jabari, in Black
Panther
A1508. Pot protector
A1510. Barr, ___, Ashcroft
A1512. Comics-inspired adult sci-fi that isn’t Heavy Metal
A1515. Sexual sicko
A1517. “It is ___ that a sort of grandeur
creeps into it” (H.L. Mencken, slamming the prose of President Harding)
A1518. Opposite of “yippee!”
A1521. Pothole filling, e.g.
A1523. Droids, e.g.
A1524. Find a chair near
A1525. Gnu growths
A1526. Short jaunts
A1527. Gets points
A1528. Test lasting about 3 hours, 45 minutes
A1530. Good form
A1532. Musician whose last name is
Chryssomallis
A1535. Offend the nose
A1537. “Bam!” chef
A1539. Take back merchandise
A1543. Holders of checked garments
A1544. Guernsey, for one
A1546. Help a vacationing friend, perhaps
A1547. Newfoundland, in Naples and Nogales
A1551. “Meant to Be” lead singer
A1552. Titan who tried to eat his problems
A1553. Cons’ quarters
A1555. Family groups
A1556. My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy
A1557. Tallahassee inst.
A1558. Low-end dog food brand
A1559. Tried out, at a car dealer
A1560. Catch, to Hamlet
A1562. Pull up stakes
A1564. Frat-party supplies
A1566. Locale of the Ile de la Cite
A1568. Elementary
A1570. “Football” team with famed Renaldo
A1571. Cars with gull-wing doors
A1572. Unwelcome shout
A1574. “We’re at capacity”
A1576. Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta’s Lee
A1578. Capturer of stadium smoochers
A1580. Sets right
A1582. Andrews sister who sang “The Boogie
Woogie Bugle Boy”
A1583. Agonizes (over)
A1584. Movie about a repair guy on a
postapocalyptic Earth who meets a beautiful stranger that isn’t Oblivion
A1585. “Give it a ___!”
A1586. Nut kernels
A1587. Heading in cable TV listings not used
as the name of the channel
A1588. Presidential also-ran in 1992 and 1996
A1589. Give ___: okay
A1590. Tuesday god
A1593. Zit’s trouble area
A1595. Slimy slowpoke
A1597. Intro to the mil.
A1599. Circus clown’s lifter
A1601. Midnight assembly of witches (var.)
A1605. Moor, sometimes
A1607. Apply, as paint
A1609. ___ crest: pelvis top
A1611. “Open the door for our guests, will
ya?”
A1615. Puts forward as a fact
A1616. Regimen for the elderly, often
A1617. Rachel’s partner, like it or not
A1618. Private parts, euphemistically
A1619. Masters
A1623. Battle of Britain flying gp.
A1624. Colombo Mr.
A1626. Freezer-to-toaster treats
A1628. Goes a-courting?
A1630. Grocery or hardware retailer
A1632. “Hrmmm…”
A1634. Obvious
A1635. Plentiful and cheap
A1637. Crafts website
A1638. French tale, of old
A1640. “Done What You ___ Me to Do” (old
dialecty song)
A1641. Mozart’s ___ pastore
A1642. Characters and series, legally, for
short
A1643. Loses luster
A1645. “Straight Up” singer who later judged
its cover
A1647. What melts them got more controversial
than it should have in 2001
A1649. Has illusions?
A1650. What your download speed is in
A1651. Beanies and berets
A1652. Frugal sorts tighten theirs
A1653. School of humpbacks
A1654. Jazz man “Kid”
A1657. Was the first woman to reach her spot
on the org chart
A1660. Big name in sleep aids
A1661. “Groovy, man!”
A1663. Feral pig
A1665. Overwhelms inboxes, perhaps
A1667. Make browner
A1670. Trampoline center
A1674. Khomeini’s title
A1678. Output from a folder?
A1679. Nickname for Wrigley Field hero Ernie
Banks
A1680. Collections of muscles
A1681. Ark and barge
A1682. Affectionate bop
A1684. Powerful, often dramatic mutual mixed
feelings
A1686. Abraham Lincoln was the most famous
(and successful) one
A1688. Go-ahead, maybe
A1690. End purpose
A1692. Ga. school where I studied comics
A1694. Bacterial infection
A1696. Complete autonomy
A1697. Almond-flavored Italian biscuits
A1699. Drops behind
A1701. Tour de France sections
A1703. Take intravenously
A1705. Cut down the wait at a hospital,
perhaps
A1707. Where work piles up
A1708. Follows up some hemming?
A1709. One of Kramer’s foils
A1711. Get an ___: ace, as a test
A1712. Word on a birthday card, even though
all you did was not die for a year
A1713. God Help the Child author Morrison
A1714. Alpinists’ aids
A1717. Something you should get in writing
A1719. Order for 1-800-MATTRESS
A1721. Sedgwick in The Closer
A1723. “Your plane’s gonna crash!”
A1727. “Are you sitting down?” follower,
often
A1729. Highlanders, today
A1730. Notorious Philistine collaborator
A1732. Game-prolonging move in pool
A1736. “My rock and my redeemer” preceder
A1737. Pez flavor
A1738. They may be tall
A1739. Once-hippieish artistic activity Gen
Xers did in summer camp
A1741. Prepare for a second baby’s arrival
A1742. Pretty grim
A1743. Pharmacist’s abbr.
A1744. Like lava or magma
A1746. Puckish gp.?
A1747. GI grub
A1749. Some tuxedo fasteners
A1751. Place for vocational training, for
short
A1753. Hit the hay, say
A1755. Like fairly high-quality investments
A1756. “La Isla ___” (Madonna)
A1758. “Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room”
singer
A1760. Abbreviation in physics
A1762. Prairie oyster ingredient
A1765. Two by two
A1767. Pretty obvious observation
A1769. Get an A+
A1770. Zoom video chat need
A1771. Peels, as apples
A1772. Batfleck’s first name
A1773. [their error, not mine]
A1774. Gryffindor who founded Gryffindor
House
A1775. Ctr. of thinking and reacting
A1777. Knavish conduct
A1780. Deely-bobbers
A1782. Leaks nosefluid
A1784. With “The,” horror film easily
confused with The Fog
A1786. Fate of unusable tools
A1790. Order some babysitters have to issue
A1791. Prefix for “brewery”
A1792. Consoles from gaming’s early days
A1793. Dev of Slumdog Millionaire fame
A1794. Student of France?
A1795. Still gestating
A1796. Kind of boss
A1797. Construction lifts
A1799. Ultimatum retort
A1801. Actress Wray or Masterson
A1805. Tie on a board
A1806. Metallurgy fuel
A1807. “Don’t be such a baby!”
A1808. “The Bare Necessities” singer
A1810. He won 1965 Best Actor for playing
twins
A1812. Firmly packed pilchard
A1814. Eye-catching designs in early-2020s
fashion
A1815. Pseudotherapy with “auditors” and
“pre-clears”
A1817. Subjects of moral debate
A1819. He ran, then ran from, Iran
A1821. Hardly long-distance runners
A1822. Ability lacked by landlubbers
A1823. Body parts that twinge when people see
cute kids, or so it’s said
A1825. Mediterranean, e.g.
A1828. Org. looking for life
A1831. Glee star Lea
A1833. Pre-Google guide to website content
A1835. Sam Spade or Philo Vance
A1836. Fish swallowed by Monstro
A1837. “Done lecturing me?”
A1838. Shouting
A1839. She’s often considered most likely to
succeed
A1840. Sponge alternative
A1842. Is rife (with)
A1845. Type of frozen dessert
A1847. Gemini, e.g.
A1849. Throwback’s condition
A1852. Frozen fruit-flavored snack
A1854. Startups’ start-me-up org.
A1855. 1990s Broadway play about Capote
A1859. Participated in an 8K
A1860. Camera wielder’s awards org.
A1862. Like some weekends
A1865. Place of perfect happiness
A1866. Relative of a Fig Newton
A1867. Picturesque scene
A1869. Joe who joined DNCE for some “Cake by the Ocean”
A1870. Like, hello, get with the times,
grandpa
A1871. Für ___ (posthumous Beethoven composition)
A1872. Holder of basketball
A1874. Patron of impossible dreams
A1875. Krakow and Burnett onscreen
A1877. Lane of Man of Steel
A1879. Radarange and FabriCare maker
A1881. Cheerleaders’ finale, often
A1883. Org. with a number of British pounds
A1885. Cinderblock backyard building
projects, for short
A1887. “Some nerve!”
A1889. May, for one
A1891. Coaxes out of the cold
A1893. Man-goat creatures
A1894. Hill of Hollywood?
A1895. Judah’s representative
A1896. Picture of the lunar surface
A1897. “The Global Stage for Innovation”
A1898. Be in Barcelona?
A1899. Chic or jaunty
A1903. Done with a wink, say
A1905. Copier
A1907. Times when it’s the heat and the humidity
A1910. Mrs., in Spain
A1911. Unlikely love-story protagonists
A1912. “Now it makes sense to me”
A1914. Waugh who wrote Brideshead
Revisited
A1915. Climber’s spots
A1916. War-hero prez
A1918. Double helix component
A1919. Ferengi kid in middle-period Star
Trek
A1920. Thousand pounds of force
A1929. Stop feeling it
A1930. Where electrons leave a charged device
A1938. Clerics’ council
A1940. Emphatic confirmation
A1947. Old-timey brothel-mistress
A1948. Oscar-winner Hanks
A1949. “What faults do I have? WHAT faults?”
“___ take criticism a little personally sometimes”
A1950. Crowded, fun gathering
A1951. Observances of new releases
A1953. “Red, Ned, Ted, and Ed in bed” book
A1954. The Way We Live Now and The Warden author
A1955. More easygoing
A1956. CIS members, once
A1957. Dry cleaner’s concern
A1958. Reinhart of Riverdale
A1959. “The Way ___” (Hornsby)
A1960. “Me? Never!”
A1961. Pesky swarmer
A1962. Julia’s Notting Hill co-star
A1963. No. of lbs., e.g.
A1964. End of an architect’s name
A1965. Not hypothetical
A1966. Thompson of Thor movies
A1967. Patented vitamin variant
A1968. “Not every place you fit ___ where you
belong”
A1969. Monique’s nix
A1971. Sandra and Ruby
A1972. Sparkling white from Piedmont
A1973. “If ___ my way…”
A1974. Ballplayer Enrique
A1975. I, for ex.
A1976. Blinken’s title (abbr.)
A1977. ERA or TDs
A1978. Tinseltown event
A1979. Singers Frank and Nancy
A1980. Ones with specialized esteem
A1982. Addiction of fifty-mile hikers
A1984. Libertines
A1986. Doorbell ringers’ response
A1987. Informal rejection
A1989. Steady companion?
A1992. Horrific Chaneys
A1993. Appending, as “esque” to “Eilish”
A1995. Type of financial inst.
A1996. Superman’s birth mom
A1997. Was awarded
A1999. “___ hot to handle”
A2001. Org. of concern to Edward Snowden
A2002. Initials, maybe
A2004. Sony BMG once-rival
A2006. Bloke’s address
A2008. Hindu Destroyer (var.)
A2010. Angler Walton
A2013. Didn’t pay debts
A2015. “___ undersigned” (legal
self-descriptor)
A2017. Romanized number for a bad gateway
error
A2018. That other Pagliacci clown
A2019. Brought safely through the threshold
A2020. Frequent Picard and Janeway foes
A2024. Drops, as prices
A2031. Wickerwork strip
A2035. Seductress
A2037. Brought to court
A2039. Get ___ reading: consult one’s
lifeline?
A2040. XXV x XXVIII
A2042. Roast a bit
A2043. Honor for Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd
Webber
A2044. Crab Nebula origins
A2045. Accra residents
A2047. Hurricane damage controller
A2048. Programs ranked by Forbes
A2049. Snakes who “dance” to battle for
territory
A2050. Atlantic horse mackerels
A2051. Quixotic Quixote
A2053. Tests one’s mettle against
A2054. Urchin
A2055. Genre for James Bond or Austin Powers
A2060. Indication of time passing
A2061. “Meri Kuri” and “Only One” singer
A2062. “___ we meet again…”
A2064. Grizzly guy, in Granada
A2066. Actress Chong of Commando and Quest
for Fire
A2068. Blue toons of film
A2070. 2003 health scare
A2072. “___ a snake, simple…”
A2075. Clue and Clerks
A2077. Ignore an alarm
A2078. “Live was ___ …” (palindrome starter)
A2079. Fashionable cashmere company
A2081. Reluctant to change
A2082. Carry-alls, for short
A2083. Fresh soldier
A2084. Out of the sea breeze
A2085. Rabbit ears, as they used to be called
A2086. A stockpile of it has the message: “What
is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about
danger”
A2093. He taught Daniel-san
A2094. Without any help
A2095. Scuba diver’s burden
A2097. Totally out
A2099. Who piece that’s the B-side of
A203-Down
A2100. What a person may become when kneeling
A2103. Spicy Asian snack morsel
A2105. Horse hockey
A2106. ___ sail (departs)
A2109. Earth’s star
A2110. “Open ___ 9”
A2111. Names names, briefly
A2112. Stones that evolved into money
A2113. Fizzling SFX
A2114. Offensive holiday?
A2115. Bygone Eur. realm
A2116. On, in Bonn
A2117. London, e.g., to a Londoner
A2118. Lad who loves the ladies, e.g.
A2119. Yucatan “yay!”
A2120. Bygone gov’t unit
A2121. Proto-Protestant Jan
A2122. “There’s an ___ for that”
A2123. Remark from Radar
A2124. Audible warning
A2125. Sue Grafton’s ___ for Evidence
A2126. Deer’s daughter
A2127. “Degree” for husband-hunting
collegians
A2129. Style guide for the soft sciences
A2130. Huck, to Tom
A2131. Kaine of the Senate
A2132. “I’ll take that as ___”
A2133. First word of Mr. Rogers’ song
A2134. College hoops event, initially
A2135. Dept. that regulates explosives,
though that’s not in its acronym
A2136. George W.’s degree
A2137. Tree or programming language
A2138. Kryptonian god in Superman comics
A2139. Place for the seriously injured, for
short
A2140. Chu ___ (legendary Confucian sage)
A2141. 911 responder
A2142. “And water is ____” (reply to the
obvious)
A2143. “It is my intent to…”
A2144. Singer Choppa or baseball division
A2145. Cheese it before the cops show
A2146. Variant Method?
A2147. Power brokers
A2150. “___ oui!” (“Certainment!”)
A2152. “O’ course!”
A2155. Top Gun’s top gun
A2158. Kind of noncom (abbr.)
A2159. WWII Treasury offering
A2160. Inspiring veneration
A2161. ___ virus (2016 scare)
A2162. Substitute
A2170. It’s quiet, almost…too quiet
A2172. Capture the interest of
A2174. Trickier to drive on
A2176. Moveon.org benefactor George
A2177. New Zealander avian no longer seen
A2180. Melted tar, e.g.
A2182. Like many name-changers on Facebook
A2183. Folk legends
A2184. Secured
A2185. Eliminate
A2191. Denounce
A2193. 2011 Toby Keith hit about drinking
A2195. Struck down
A2197. Egyptian god of vengeance
A2200. Ledger expert
A2201. French friar
A2202. 1989 World Series winners
A2203. Is exasperating to
A2204. Altar area
A2205. Iranian Peace Prize winner
A2209. Sends out again, as a recording of
one’s show
A2211. Wild West hero
A2213. Twangy, as a voice
A2215. “You don’t say? Me too!”
A2216. Monster or river
A2217. Opposite of heter
A2219. Rolls up, as a sail
A2220. Jemima of canceled syrup (still
lookin’ at you, Bessie of chitterlings)
A2221. Classic hit?
A2222. Surrealist Carrington
A2223. Apostrophe from a balcony
A2224. The latest word
A2225. NBC show for 40 years
A2226. Feels natural
A2227. Big cat often given an emotional
support dog
A2228. Specialized group
A2229. Agronomist’s readings
A2230. Go for the eyes and the groin, e.g.
A2231. “The Dancing Couple” artist
A2232. Gasoline brand
A2233. They have flair
A2234. Anti-Spanish pope of the mid-1500s
A2235. ___ vivants (“those who live”)
A2236. Paula of comfort food and N-word
controversies
A2237. The 180th meridian
A2238. For Better follower
A2239. Video game played on a Balance Board
A2240. Bit of a fight
A2241. Bk. that begins with a 180-day banquet
A2242. Scoundrels, old-style
A2243. Take ___: accept the veracity of
A2244. Ballads, e.g.
A2245. Natural black’s designation
A2246. Voting-map designation
A2247. Series with 3800+ lectures
A2248. Palindromic singer Hale (think about
it)
A2249. Knots or knobs
A2250. Recurring icons in fiction
A2251. Big to-dos
A2252. Elvis’ middle name, sometimes
A2253. Moses of Beakman’s World, My
So-Called Life, and Home Alone
A2254. Meander
A2255. Ambled with clumsiness
A2256. Key part of the Hippocratic oath
A2257. Wind spurt
A2258. ___ go (busy)
A2259. They say bad news comes in them
A2260. Keep from drifting away from
A2261. URL starter
A2262. Pretended to be someone else
A2263. Developing nations, collectively
A2264. Meet a poker bet
A2265. All work and no play
A2266. Spring break lead-in, often
A2267. Red-bus rides in Los Angeles
A2268. Enjoy just a touch of, as whiskey
A2269. Constellation south of the Hunter,
with “the”
A2270. Unprincipled
A2271. Move in war
A2273. Darkman director Sam
A2275. Soapstone, predominantly
A2276. Georges who wrote Life: A User’s
Manual
A2279. Almost alway
A2281. Rapunzel’s love in Tangled
A2282. “L8r g8r”
A2284. “The Flea” poet John
A2298. Spaghetti accompaniment
A2301. Gallic gloamings
A2303. Politician Phil who co-authored the
___-Leach-Billey Act
A2306. She played Bob Dylan
A2307. Star Trek character who speaks Swahili
A2308. Flea-bitten
A2309. Looney Tunes-esque
A2310. Farm that may have wheels
A2311. Duke of Normandy called “the Devil”
A2312. Graffiti artist name-checked in an Avengers
film
A2316. As Poe might
A2318. Risqué or violent in the theater
A2322. Smallville’s aptly named theme song
A2323. Piece of ballet footwear
A2325. Writing in digital format
A2327. Name in sneakers and yoga wear
A2329. Montgomery of the Enterprise
A2331. The Originals’ original vampire-werewolf hybrid
A2332. Adventures in Babysitting star
A2334. About to, informally
A2335. ___ All Going to the World’s Fair
A2336. Discontinue
A2339. Sun Records colleague of Elvis
A2340. Hand drums similar to tambourines
A2341. Whom autograph hounds hound
A2343. Frauds
A2344. Makes big demands
A2346. “This spells disaster for me!”
A2350. Weiss better known as Harry Houdini
A2352. Cavern feedback
A2354. “I’d like to speak privately”
A2356. Khan of Islam
A2357. Stove heaters
A2358. The Tokyo Rose of World War II
A2359. Coordinate, with “up”
A2360. Vital elements in clockwork
A2361. Goliath-killer
A2362. Algebraic variables
A2363. “Another idea would be…”
A2364. Solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s
Basilica
A2370. Speed of connection
A2376. Temptations Tasty Chicken Flavor, e.g.
A2378. Gives weapons, old-style
A2379. Language that gives us “jerky”
A2381. TV fugitives known for building
montages
A2383. Annual Epsom race, with “The”
A2385. Melvin
A2387. Sprite’s flavor
A2388. Unstable lepton
A2389. Followers of els
A2391. German optical instrument designer
A2392. If a Burger King married one, would
they live in a White Castle?
A2393. Orally give zero stars
A2398. Parody singer Yankovic
A2399. “Whatever…” (popularized but not invented
by The Simpsons)
A2400. Veronica’s rival
A2401. “___ sana…”
A2402. Their last series championship was in
1986
A2403. Technology inside Kindles
A2405. End of ___ (the apocalypse, or what
soap opera fans fear?)
A2407. “You know what I want to hear”
A2409. Tour for the troops
A2411. Influential
A2417. Unit of life or pizza
A2419. Bullied
A2421. World-weariness
A2424. Beauty-shop device
A2425. Hit the books
A2426. Dunkirk director
A2427. Director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon
A2428. Loses all reason
A2429. Approach
A2430. Bar garnish
A2432. Actress Dennings
A2433. Designer Geoffrey who believed in comfortable
women’s wear, like some kind of freak
A2434. Crockery, for example
A2435. “The Smoking Alternative”
A2436. Dance’s partner
A2438. Fad that could cause low blood
pressure, kidney stones, constipation, nutrient deficiencies, or heart disease
A2440. Dressed (up)
A2442. P-precedent
A2444. Bounds of a manhunt
A2446. Place to see Il Trovatore
A2447. Alternative scenarios
A2449. “Are you quivering yet?”
A2451. Spitting mount
A2453. Way off base?
A2455. Phone service provider, for short
A2458. Down to Earth host Zac
A2459. G.I. fare
A2460. Scheduled to arrive at
A2461. Little ragdolls
A2465. Airport pizza franchise
A2466. Pulsed-laser sensing system
A2467. Mule and gal of song
A2468. NASCAR threepeater Yarborough
A2470. “Headlight”
A2472. Soft castle-building substance
A2474. Marte of the Diamondbacks
A2476. Pirate, stereotypically
A2481. Style that introduced isorhythm
A2483. Point of departure
A2485. Ham’s pop
A2487. What an eye for an eye makes the
world, per Gandhi
A2490. Reposition, as tires
A2491. 2001 Eminem hit from “The Marshall
Mathers LP”
A2492. Tree-hero of Marvel
A2493. “I know it’s hard, but don’t give in”
A2494. Catholic organization of controversial
purpose
A2495. Enter, as a crowd
A2496. Got in the crosshairs
A2498. Brief incursion
A2499. Tired eyes’ decorations
A2500. With “bear,” protective parent
A2502. Likely young hires for a finance dept.
A2504. Levittown, in relation to NYC
A2506. Wisconsin ___ (scenic area)
A2509. Cage-themed Michael Bolton song
A2511. Old-timey color container
A2512. Symbol of contrasting principles
A2514. Spooky
A2516. Placed
A2518. Future law student’s exam
A2520. Dress designation
A2521. “No one but me can claim credit”
A2522. Things opened by many employees, for short
A2523. Dancers’ dresses
A2524. Bill Clinton’s Attorney General
A2528. Heroine with eidetic memory
A2529. “Sure, but ___ much”
A2530. Tender strokes
A2531. Tom Hardy supervillain
A2532. Makes a statue from a block
A2533. Not obvious
A2534. So-o-o KYOOOT!
A2536. 2010 Ringo Starr album whose title
asks a question
A2538. Yard-sale tag
A2540. Simon Pegg zombie-fighter role
A2542. Lascivious
A2547. “Works for me!”
A2549. Staub specialty
A2550. Difficult journey
A2552. Son of Shem and a region where Aleppo
now stands
A2553. That, to Tomas
A2554. Parimutel and parlay
A2556. Joan Crawford’s rival
A2557. TV personalities Passante, Glanville,
and Redmond
A2558. Variety meats
A2559. See red?
A2561. ___ at (comes on to)
A2562. Like Letterman’s show
A2563. College rating exams for HS srs.
A2564. “Man, I do not even want to go there”
A2565. Halfway through a stage routine
A2567. Be a henchman
A2569. Bronx and Central Park attractions
A2571. Without identification
A2574. He “resembles a furry watermelon with
legs,” per the Minnesota Zoo
A2576. “Ma’am” from fedora-clad tryhards
A2577. Bit of cocoa?
A2579. Maraud
A2582. When repeated, a dolphinfish
A2584. Go brunette, say
A2586. Wing, e.g.
A2587. They can be full of falafel
A2588. High-tech time meas.
A2592. Sonny can’t think straight about them
A2593. Smoker’s toothpaste of old
A2594. Recycled items
A2595. Blue ones matter most on the weekend
A2596. Bedroom eyes, e.g.
A2597. Indian police clubs
A2599. Long tale of adventure
A2601. 1899 combatant
A2603. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon
___, you don’t say ‘What kind’…” (Neil Gaiman)
A2605. Hot water-espresso mixes
A2610. Get the highest score, in golf
A2612. Mal ___ (seasickness)
A2614. Simba’s coif
A2617. Acacia or tulip
A2618. Fruit-named part of Costa Rica
A2619. Contemplative statement in Charlie
Chan movies
A2620. “What say, Jose?”
A2621. Signs of peers’ esteem
A2622. Sandwich order
A2624. Get in one’s sights
A2625. Mauna Loa flow
A2626. Impertinent talk
A2627. Jeep’s modern kin
A2628. Jeff, “Flying Squirrel” of the Mets
A2630. Word after hard or soft
A2632. Big print-up job
A2634. Make ___ of it: “play” an ordinary
task to “win”
A2637. Pronounces “historic” correctly
A2639. German woodcuts “Apocalypse” and
“Rhinoceros”
A2640. Where Sherlock Holmes disappeared
A2642. Unclothed
A2644. Draw new borders for
A2646. Union/mgmt. watchdog
A2649. Dixie Chicks, for one
A2650. “Oho!” and “Aha!”
A2651. What to do with one’s loins? ___ them
A2655. Walking free
A2656. Pickets outside a house?
A2657. Cowgirl Evans
A2658. Spread on my burgers that some people are weird about
A2659. Like a hair shirt
A2660. Mix socially
A2662. Most August birthday boys
A2664. Knives Out director (and crossword fan) Johnson
A2666. Like many an embarrassing flub
A2668. With more of a need to make an
impression
A2673. Top spot in a Koln countdown
A2675. Domingo or Pavarotti
A2677. Frankenstein aide
A2678. Short, stocky horse
A2679. British/Chinese banking giant
A2680. Government levy
A2682. It charges the goal, for short
A2683. Fact-refuser
A2684. Satirical writer P.J.
A2685. Ancient Roman magistrate (var.)
A2686. Agrees to wed
A2688. da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM
A2689. Pathfinder’s planet
A2690. Blackballs
A2691. Cartoonist who created Mr. Natural
A2693. National capital since 1991
A2695. Time for “Silver Bells,” casually
A2697. “Goldarn it!”
A2699. Build a relationship with, with
sinister intent
A2701. Mariner’s top?
A2703. No harder
A2704. Bike pedal attachment
A2706. Hawkeyes, statewise
A2708. Improv a line or two
A2711. With two quarters to go
A2712. Second-guesses, maybe
A2713. Pt. of RSV
A2715. Between, quaintly
A2716. She sang “She’s Got You”
A2717. Common greetings
A2722. Overpraises
A2723. Landlocked Southeast Asian country
A2724. Better eating through organic
chemistry
A2725. Whirlpool alternative
A2727. Levi’s feature
A2729. Gets down with a knife and fork
A2731. Cornfield chorus
A2732. Brain-wrapping membranes
A2737. Pie chart part
A2739. How to travel 1980s New York
A2741. Rushing sound
A2744. Gets blitzed
A2745. “Don’t try to be ___”
A2746. Amyl nitrate
A2747. Plywood layer, perhaps
A2748. Villain in The Ten Commandments
A2749. Finishes given bronze medals
A2750. World leader’s choice for the job
A2754. Containers with taps
A2755. Ron Burgundy’s terrier mix
A2756. Newspaper bios
A2757. Texter’s response to a hilarious joke
A2758. Loud, like a crowd
A2760. Troi portroier
A2762. Where to view Top Gear and MI-5,
with “the”
A2767. Source of Gotterdammerung
A2769. Chevron’s place
A2770. Layered dessert
A2772. You or me to an ET
A2774. Motivated to succeed
A2776. Oscar winner Almodovar
A2778. Utter failure
A2780. Costeau’s gear
A2781. Used frugally
A2782. Takes one’s sweet time
A2786. Disunions
A2787. Signs of agreement online, for short
A2788. It’s legally wrong
A2789. Apiphobe’s worry
A2790. Like outer temperature
A2791. Droid with a holoprojector, informally
A2792. Dressing server
A2794. Graduation-cap attachment
A2796. Mulch material
A2798. Beans high in protein
A2800. Pre-syrup
A2801. Dickens character raised to torment
men
A2806. Something often read when angry?
A2808. “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer
A2810. Fast-tempo jazz composition
A2813. Dotted data patterns
A2814. Uses, with “oneself of”
A2815. Of few words
A2816. Postage to Packers, e.g.
A2817. Cards Against Humanity judge
A2818. Covers with
A2820. Ovine yells
A2821. Links warning
A2822. Made doilies
A2823. Fairly worn
A2824. Started a date
A2826. City with Gateway Pk. near the
Colorado River
A2828. Melancholy sound
A2830. Mendel subjects
A2833. Region roughly synonymous with the Black Belt
A2835. Common sight in 20th-century glove
compartments
A2836. First ruler of the house of Hanover
A2838. Departed restaurant chain that hosted
the “Ultimate Couch Potato Competition”
A2839. Jetties that prevent shoreline
erosion…or cause it, depending on their design
A2841. The Thinker sculptor
A2842. Mythical husband of Sita
A2843. Baby Driver actor Ansel
A2847. Finale cast events
A2848. Followers of many breakdowns
A2849. Achieve consciousness
A2850. Osculated
A2851. Card con
A2852. Knock on, as a door
A2854. Spoke in all caps
A2856. Debt-dependent claim
A2858. Oklahoma fort
A2860. Crucial circulation
A2865. Is disrespectful verbally
A2867. “I ___ the opinion…”
A2868. Cool-edged Coolidge, for short
A2870. Spread, as a forest fire
A2872. Missouri MLBer
A2873. What fans did over a sold-out show’s
wall
A2874. Using long sentences with many twists and an emphasis on memory
A2876. Raised road markers
A2877. “Study says horse dewormer cures
COVID” or “Experts determine global warming is not human-related,” e.g.
A2878. Inventor of the GPU
A2879. Ignes ___ (marsh lights)
A2881. Thief, in Yiddish
A2883. Yellow Teletubby with a curly antenna
A2885. Stopped pedaling downhill
A2887. Satirically imitated
A2890. Shoulder blade muscles
A2892. Naturally grown, as foods
A2893. Half an artist’s surname
A2896. Dress features
A2899. Degs. for unmarried experimenters?
A2901. Cable co., often
A2902. Sings sentimentally
A2903. “The Letter” group
A2907. Major emergencies
A2908. Nautical beam
A2909. Cantankerous old curmudgeon
A2910. One with a lease
A2911. Take care of
A2913. Internet provider
A2915. Snatch, so to speak
A2917. Years of Caesar’s reign
A2919. Trumpet effect
A2921. Starfleet officer played by LeVar
A2926. Apia natives
A2928. In back
A2930. Toronto-Ottawa dir.
A2932. Browser extensions, e.g.
A2933. TV’s Life with Father” star
A2934. What drop-in visitors may claim to
have been in
A2935. Request at the deli
A2936. Pretentiously imposing
A2938. Unlike many a dorm room
A2939. Shylock’s offering
A2940. Turn out badly, like a relationship
A2941. Canines with corded coats
A2942. Nickname for ballplayer Musial and
writer Lee
A2943. First “T” in TNT
A2944. Founder of two automobile companies
A2946. Mo-nay
A2948. Tropical trees with big seedpods
A2950. “Way to go…”
A2952. “Which goes without saying,”
colloquially
A2955. “Going my way?”
A2957. Pelicans group
A2958. “But wait, there’s more!”, e.g.
A2960. Greek wines
A2962. Post office machine
A2965. “Old Man of the Sea” in Homer
A2966. Hub fastener
A2970. Sci-fi subgenre featuring
Victorian-era technology
A2971. In comparison with
A2972. Buttigieg’s predecessor
A2973. Character name in Sex and the City,
Hair, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A2974. Fertile colony member
A2975. Police dist.
A2976. Manhattan’s station
A2978. The Day After subject, for short
A2980. Founder of pointillism
A2982. Herding dog’s name
A2984. Game not ready for prime time
A2986. Try to lose
A2991. Frozen setting
A2993. Not keeping cool
A2994. Bedroom producer’s genre
A2995. Longtime Drew Barrymore buddy Cameron
A2996. Motto shared by New York and Marvel
A2998. Cult stars
A2999. China’s Chiang
A3000. Warren Beatty flop of 1987
A3001. It covers how processing speed
increases
A3003. Disney film starring Jeff Bridges
A3004. Gets to go to Washington
A3005. English farmers
A3006. City northeast of Genoa
A3007. Boris Johnson’s predecessor
A3008. Striped top
A3010. “Love Can Build a Bridge” singer Judd
A3012. Mil. VIP
A3013. “___ it up” (“Finish it”)
A3014. Lowest part of a mine
A3017. Adds to a set of alternates
A3019. Spot not quite good enough to show?
A3020. Cause-effect interval
A3022. All riled up
A3025. Diplomatic deceptions
A3026. Watercolors’ alternatives
A3027. Two before LBJ
A3029. Large geese
A3030. Tin-lead mixes
A3034. BBQ hot dog’s alternative
A3035. Join in a molecule (to)
A3038. Have dinner around
A3039. Gastropub menu items
A3041. London booties
A3043. Sneak (away), as in shame
A3047. Queen who played hockey for Princeton
A3048. Wide open town of yore
A3053. Costner T-man role
A3055. Win love for
A3058. Tussle with grabbily
A3059. “That stinks!”
A3060. Allow renters to own their apartments
A3061. Singer played by Jennifer Lopez
A3062. 1987 Woody All--er--let’s say Seth
Green movie
A3064. Take a deduction
A3065. Big fads
A3066. King of kidlit
A3067. They ain’t team players
A3068. Preserve again
A3069. Short of the mark
A3071. Inter-island passage
A3073. Muzzle loader’s aid
A3075. She’s like a Katniss who dies at the end
A3078. Number of pips on a die
A3080. “23 ___!”
A3081. Cool color?
A3083. Brett’s Court predecessor
A3085. Share top billing
A3087. Primitive cross
A3091. Word before dog or schooner
A3093. Jethro Gibbs show
A3094. TV personality Caitlyn
A3095. Crescent moon horns
A3096. Biblical oasis
A3099. Pilgrim portrayer
A3101. Item of emergency preparedness
A3103. Put firmly under control
A3105. Stock exchange?
A3108. Words accompanying a head slap
A3113. Tiny complaint
A3116. Frequently punned-about herbivores
A3117. Justin Bieber’s genre
A3118. Eventually inspire
A3119. “Abso-freakin’-lutely!”
A3121. Municipal law enforcers (abbr.)
A3122. My phone has 465
A3123. Last of the leptons to be found
A3124. Tea container
A3125. Sets up with flat indentations
A3126. Pillbox quantities
A3127. Alaskan seaport
A3128. New England souvenir
A3130. “___ something I said?”
A3132. Swam like a beginner
A3134. They need to go back and forth to work
A3136. Form of Japanese drama
A3138. Stabilizer for movie shooters
A3140. Gets a promotion
A3141. It started on June 18, 1971, with a
note by Nixon
A3143. Make angry
A3145. Rhyme scheme of “Whose woods these are
I think I know. / His house is in the village
though; / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with
snow…”
A3146. Swisher called “Silicon Valley’s most
powerful tech journalist”
A3151. Rough rendering
A3152. “I’m such a klutz!”
A3153. Like a sauté, but with bigger chunks
A3154. Glasses retailer ___ Parker
A3155. Singer-drummer Collins
A3158. Produced, as cackleberries
A3160. “___ change you want to see in the
world”
A3162. King in Medea and founding
father of Athens
A3164. Like the best kind of bill
A3166. Greets someone with more than a nod
A3172. Short-billed bird
A3174. Snick-or -___
A3175. Get dressed (up)
A3176. Big name in chips
A3177. Early Greek deity who fathered--STOP
THAT LAUGHING
A3178. How to download many images at once
A3179. Remarkable
A3180. Like Henry VIII’s Catherine
A3182. “you broke me first” singer McRae
A3183. Electrical capacitance units
A3184. Most stolen book in the world, despite
what it specifically says
A3185. Difficult tasks
A3186. Haut ___
A3187. Bombeck and Franklin
A3188. Church decorators and bellringers
A3190. Little fish
A3192. “Oh, this clue is going to [VERB]
[PLURAL NOUN]? How [SYNONYM FOR CLEVER]!”, e.g.
A3194. “No ___” (“Sure!”)
A3197. Copiers
A3199. Right-angled irons
A3200. Wayne Gretzky, to many NFL fans
A3202. “All set here, thanks”
A3204. NNE and WSW
A3206. RB’s units
A3208. Tree animal, for short
A3209. They might hear, “Take a picture;
it’ll last longer!”
A3213. Short, short shorts
A3214. Explorer and Pathfinder
A3215. Some steak preparers
A3216. Let oneself be traded
A3217. After-work gathering sites
A3221. One of the Pleiades
A3223. Philosopher known for his “razor”
A3225. Capital of Dominica
A3227. Hindu misters
A3229. Like a dreamcatcher
A3234. Full of sand
A3236. Bass or C
A3239. Where sweaters hang?
A3240. Send (for)
A3241. “Don’t worry, I can handle it”
A3242. Oslo Accords signatory
A3243. Big name in athletic wear
A3245. Sunk cost fallacy, e.g.
A3246. Cashews’ kin
A3247. Sainted “roi”
A3248. Bonnie or Clyde
A3249. Descartes and Magritte
A3251. Tweak margins
A3252. Chemical that keeps film from
developing too quickly or foggily
A3254. Sites with many contributors
A3256. Textron Aviation brand 87 years older
than Textron
A3258. Johann Olav who set three skating
records and won three gold medals
A3261. “Father of History”
A3263. Enlist
A3264. Tribbiani on Friends
A3266. Tiny birds eaten illegally on Billions
A3268. Planetarium display
A3270. Any minute now
A3271. Coupled
A3275. Don’t dawdle
A3276. “How does Google protect my privacy
and keep my information secure?” and “Why is my account associated with a
country?” on Google
A3277. Living in communities
A3278. Elf freed by a sock
A3279. Indianapolis pro
A3281. Sight-impeding irritations
A3282. Hebrew prophet (abbr.)
A3283. Lily and crocus
A3286. Tree outgrowth
A3288. Misleads on the ice
A3290. Three-toed wading birds
A3292. Shot in one’s gallery
A3294. Genetic feature Charlie Sheen claimed
during his meltdown
A3299. Pith helmet
A3301. Bowflex exercise
A3302. Yr.’s 1/3 mark
A3303. Lie on a flat surface and glide
A3304. Beings with bipedal, two-armed forms
A3305. What a skull poster at a theater
advertises
A3306. Sniffle or cough
A3307. Offer counsel
A3308. Cost-to-you indications
A3310. “What ___!” (“Incredible $aving$!”)
A3311. Cell projection
A3312. Movement from Cuba?
A3313. Boat carrier, at times
A3314. Worrisome kind of bed-wetting
A3315. Gets madder and madder
A3316. Got more for the syndication dollar
A3318. Make English again
A3319. Small white gems
A3321. “Try to ___ my way”
A3322. Warm greetings from the real American
west
A3324. Barn neighbor
A3327. One helping with servings
A3329. Chat session
A3330. Duck tape or “You’ve got another think
coming!”
A3332. Provide an adequate living
A3334. On and off
A3335. Mini-golf stroke
A3336. Timeline divs.
A3338. Dust-sucking devices, for short
A3342. Neolithic period
A3343. Congenital
A3344. It separates two boxers
A3346. Ireful mood
A3348. Doesn’t continue
A3349. Tannin source
A3352. Detective-fiction name
A3355. Lines to be memorized
A3357. Frank Herbert bestseller
A3359. Lost all inhibitions
A3364. Tribe of Sonora
A3367. Pugilist’s ploy
A3368. Part of an NFLer’s schedule
A3369. Hottest, for gossipers
A3370. Home mortgage provider, informally
A3372. “I don’t want the world to see me”
song
A3373. Forage areas
A3374. Thin, tall, and awkward
A3375. Collectible containers
A3376. Stores with a blue-and-yellow logo
A3377. Offensive terms
A3378. Windows 95 incorporated it
A3380. Tages lead-in
A3381. Amplifying via social media
A3383. Reed instruments
A3385. Big bear
A3387. Fashions a frock
A3389. Reflecting light most enchantingly
A3391. Chastises verbally
A3392. Latin lover’s declaration
A3394. On automatic
A3397. Citi rival
A3401. Personal designs tapping keyboards?
A3402. Tesla car with a 17-inch touchscreen
A3403. Changes of duties, raises, promotions,
demotions, et cetera
A3404. Soul food side dish
A3406. Do things to impress, say
A3408. Crave customer satisfaction
A3411. “What we’ve never really been good ___
teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work” (Andrew Ng)
A3413. Pago Pago locale
A3415. Unfair flak
A3417. Grew canines
A3422. Catcall? (var.)
A3424. Film about rock groups?
A3425. Flight support?
A3426. Toon series spun off from a movie’s
what-if dream sequence
A3428. Name preceder on an envelope
A3429. “Heaven forbid!”
A3430. A.J. Soprano portrayer
A3431. German port city where Wolfgang
Petersen was born
A3432. Shoe-manufacturing “three stripes
company”
A3434. Slide walkers (var.)?
A3436. (Une) tentative
A3437. Enters stealthily
A3439. Muslim ascetics
A3441. Abdominal anomaly
A3444. Sorceresses
A3446. Maid of Orléans, to Caths.
A3447. Dozing for twenty minutes or so
A3449. Timex alternative
A3454. E-flat soundalike
A3455. Hoffman of The Graduate and
Rain Man
A3456. Eagles and double eagles
A3457. Blue Jackets’ Max
A3459. Big time?
A3460. Betrayer
A3461. Util. a blackout blacks out
A3462. Model pitch?
A3464. Forewarning, of a kind
A3466. ___ Welt (Berliner’s New World)
A3468. Units ready for combat, for short
A3470. Base reply?
A3472. “Aw, shoot, a rerun”
A3478. Sector for the first witch Dorothy
killed
A3479. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
A3480. First four-time Indy winner
A3481. Plant with colorful flower clusters
A3482. College prep course teaching the three
branches
A3483. Posthumous Kafka novel
A3485. Without skill
A3486. Could’ve done worse, could’ve done better
A3487. Local-ish governing bodies
A3488. “Do you find the ___ happening to
you?” (You, too?)
A3490. Extremely, in 1970s slang
A3491. Baja babes
A3494. Director of My Dinner with Andre
A3495. Incentivized alcoholic escape
A3497. “___ New, Pussycat?”
(WHOA-A-WHOA-A-WHOA-OH-OH)
A3499. Do-it-yourself floor covering
A3502. “Hm. THAT was unexpected”
A3504. Stain on an artist’s smock
A3505. Sealed-up fodder
A3507. Morality rooted in self interest
A3508. Screen pass pursuers
A3514. London strollers
A3515. Hiring assistants
A3516. ___ Judgment
A3517. “…and when the cow kicked it over, she
winked her eye and said / It’ll be ___ time in the old town tonight”
A3519. Exams for future tycoons
A3520. Puts on a tilt
A3521. Viola of How to Get Away with
Murder and The Help
A3523. “And ___ that sincerely”
A3526. Unidentified poster
A3528. It takes up to 10 yrs. to mature
A3530. Square-dancing circle
A3532. Underperform
A3539. Check for a poker player?
A3540. Those who try to find “the way”
A3541. Coca-Cola brand
A3542. “Only those who ___ fail greatly…”
(Robert Kennedy)
A3544. Kvetch about
A3545. Math whiz Time called “the
oddball’s oddball”
A3546. They’ll draw out quarters
A3547. Paul or Lloyd of Cooperstown
A3548. Certain century plants
A3549. Dullards
A3550. Printing process, briefly
A3551. Takes a gamble at the table
A3553. Cop ___: negotiate in court
A3554. Bathroom activity
A3556. Nelly or Jessica of golf
A3558. Globetrotters’ home
A3561. Stands in for
A3563. Apt name for a gardener
A3564. Exciting hand in Crazy Eights
A3566. Between the jejunum and the cecum
A3568. Instruction for repeated musical
pattern
A3572. Cover completely
A3573. Certain vessel
A3574. Merchandise traded in piles
A3575. Pronoun phased out of everyday speech
by now
A3577. Shower, for one
A3581. 2010s Secretary of Education who said
in 1997, “My family is the biggest contributor of soft money to the Republican
National Committee. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion
that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right”
A3584. One nautical mile per hour
A3586. 1970s, dance-wise
A3588. Thickets
A3590. State of uneasiness
A3595. What streaming services offer many of the latest theatrical releases for
A3596. Mama bear, in Malaga
A3597. Snapchat rival
A3598. Not all there?
A3599. More muscular
A3600. Search parties?
A3601. Alcatraz, e.g. (abbr.)
A3602. Feel attraction to
A3604. “Just a bloody second…!”
A3605. Aliens on Mars, maybe
A3606. Would-be lovers
A3607. Brusquely encouraged to enter
A3608. Miss with powerful sadness
A3609. They require you to read the fine
print
A3612. What cacklers are in
A3613. Get ___ (exterminate)
A3615. Church custodians
A3616. Good Omens co-creator Neil
A3618. Quill cutter, once
A3620. Widely revered Babylonian king
A3623. Gradually enters
A3625. Matter of retaliation
A3626. Once a neutral zone between West Germany and other nations
A3628. Pacino danced it in Scent of a
Woman
A3629. “To be clear, this is verbatim”
A3630. Inhabitant of the bottom of the org
chart
A3631. Barbarella extras, for short
A3635. Core muscles
A3636. Servers at ‘60s A&W drive-ins
A3637. Object of ogling
A3638. Daphnean
A3640. Flame retardant acid
A3642. The Palins, before the move and
divorce
A3643. Test control
A3644. Makes the line longer, so to speak
A3645. For goods or services only
A3647. Fluttering around
A3649. Till now
A3652. Shorts go-with
A3654. Mementos of the 50th?
A3656. Frequent experiment subjects
A3658. “Oh…OH!”
A3663. State fair contest cry
A3664. Group of PC gurus
A3665. “My lips ___ sealed”
A3666. Invite your guests here to make them
feel like British royals
A3667. Wee animule
A3668. “Who ___ that masked man?”
A3669. Credit as an inspiration
A3670. Pillsbury pizza rolls
A3671. “I use my ____ my weapon, the fight
becomes the story” (Anon.)
A3672. News feed on Peacock
A3673. Teen temping at times
A3675. Noncontending pleas, for short
A3677. Heavenly streakers
A3679. Ointments
A3680. Bore witness to
A3682. It might end with “LIVE FROM NEW
YORK…”
A3684. “I ___ drink”
A3686. ___ -Z: complete
A3687. Give a lecture to
A3688. “Absolutely, positively not!”
A3691. Sword-thrusting one
A3694. Makes soundless
A3695. In a fitting manner
A3696. Facilitate, so to speak
A3698. Pulled out of a streak, homophonically
A3699. Anna of the Scary Movie films
A3700. Cobbler, for example
A3701. Sci. paper
A3703. One who made their fortune in India
A3705. Rae Sremmurd, e.g.
A3708. More than some
A3710. Invalids
A3712. Madcap comedies
A3716. Lifeless expanse
A3720. Kagan appointer
A3721. Shade makers
A3722. Dim ___: traditional Chinese food
A3723. Make more gender-enlightened
A3724. Hope one shall
A3725. Harper Valley org.
A3726. E-mail recipient, e.g.
A3728. Conclude with
A3729. Bête___: bugbear
A3730. The Ambassadors author
A3731. Culp Hobby, first secretary of the
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and first director of
the Women’s Army Corps
A3732. Does some workout tasks
A3734. Rifle steadier
A3736. Was talented
A3738. Jackson and Puente
A3740. Seneca Falls Convention organizer
Lucretia
A3741. “THUD”-like onomatopoeia
A3743. Apply, as a pie to the face
A3745. Press these for hard copies
A3747. “Quit ___ stallin’!”
A3748. Smurf modifier
A3749. Birds with only three toes
A3752. A, in Deutschland
A3753. [How can I get out of answering this
one?]
A3754. Peter Parker’s foe Octavius
A3755. Plant growth
A3756. Unlikely Lhotse sighting
A3757. Indonesian isle
A3758. Wonder Woman’s best friend, in some versions
A3760. AOL and MSN, in the old days
A3761. Interstate abbr.
A3762. Mutant with flame powers who didn’t think too hard about his codename
A3763. Toyoda of Toyota
A3764. “Others,” in scientific papers
A3765. Prefix with “plane” or “space”
A3767. Canterbury can
A3768. Yukon and Sierra
A3771. Supernatural entity Yaga
A3773. Makes a typo, e.g.
A3775. Herbicide’s target
A3776. NRA pt.
A3777. “K bai”
A3779. Pup-tent capacity
A3780. Feature of the Buckingham Palace
grounds
A3781. Division word
A3783. Infoman airer
A3784. Homer’s outcome
A3785. Radioactive
A3786. Prized athlete, for short
A3788. Queen in folklore
A3791. Sparks of old films
A3794. Inuit knife
A3795. Start of a lover’s threesome
A3796. Response to a joke, maybe
A3797. Related, to Jethro
A3800. Frank Ocean song with great vocal
delivery?
Stitches Across
A260-B199. Because she’d be hurt otherwise
A563-B499. Discussion of periods, inequality, and
when to pluck nipple hair, probably
A863-B765. Sarcasses at
A1157-B1084. Display of one’s kind-hearted nature
A1466-B1399. Stunt women
A1655-B1574. Get figured
A1774-B1676. Item nine out of ten prescriptions are
for
A2156-B2005. Part of a musical kit
A2583-B2427. Getting pretty hot and heavy, in slang
A2777-B2616. Feature on my last car when I bought
it from the junkyard (seriously)
A3205-B3027. Times for which some pleasures are reserved
A3506-B3290. “Have I offended?”
A3799-B3602. “Not over our budget, right?”
Stitches Down
A3598-F1. Pessimist's quaff
A3720-F4. Republican who flipped in the big '08
vote
A3724-F8. Won't be happy till you're happy
A3785-F12. Menopause sign
A3669-F16. Rightly deserve
A3730-F20. There's a day dedicated to re-creating
one of his novels
A3647-F30. Ornithopter feature
A3736-F34. Intended harm to
A3708-F38. Capitalist's wish
A3620-F42. "Eye for an eye" source
A3623-F46. Takes on duties one by one
A3716-F50. Homes to cartoon shipwreck victims