Across

1. Multi-movie plot

5. Woman who’ll pour for you in Britain

12. “Go hunt a bird or find milk to drink!”

19. Cronyist shamelessness

26. Day of rest

33. Preserver’s activity

40. Sites of some sales

47. HS class studying nations’ cash and goods

54. Standing on one’s own two feet

61. “(huffhuff) Did it start already (gasp)?”

68. An eligible bachelor

75. Changing rooms

82. Historic Boston jetsam

85. Handled the music at a rave

89. Actress Lathan of Love & Basketball

91. With non-curvy forms, as rhombi and octagons

93. One pitching to a doc

95. Tea party host

97. Clashes common in Italian history

99. Badonkadonks

101. “I’ma kill you now!”

103. Tom Cruise’s recurringest role

105. Certain hospitals

107. Wheels that won’t break you

109. Paperless newspapers

111. Longfin tunas

113. Moby Dick was his antagonist

114. Red to Ramona

115. Chant merrily, as the ancient yuletide carol

116. Solo kids

118. “Oh, that was smart” [points]

120. Quarter-mile-high structure

122. Apathy following trying and failing

124. “Pick up a bargain!”

126. Promotions that can air prior to any shooting of an actual film

128. The Warta’s outlet

129. Maya Angelou poetry collection

131. 1981-88, politically

132. Old covenant-keeper

134. Norwayish kingdom of animation

135. Tony Martin/Louis Armstrong song implying dirty thoughts

137. Most nutritionally unfit

138. Product from tropical trees

140. Got back to one’s office?

141. Mob informant or suing victim

143. Emotionally withdraw

144. Unavoidable

146. Kind of charm

147. Recommendation

148. Cooked on a spit

149. Michaels and Hobby Lobby

150. Most itty-bitty

151. Down during hard days?

152. Kind of constriction found in sunlight

153. Ravi Shankar and similar string musicians

154. Datum for college applications

155. “502 Bad Gateway”, e.g.

156. Cautionary advice

157. Dragged through the mud, so to speak

158. New York City waterway

159. Is comparable with

161. Guggenheim, for one (abbr.)

162. Little Dicky’s “$ave ___ Money”

163. Long of Hollywood

164. “Ooky” TV cousin

165. Grade-school trio

166. Financial adviser Edelman

167. Gout target, often

168. Leave it, editorially

170. Austria-born atomic scientist Isidor I.

174. Birthplace of punk

178. Bad tads

182. Sarcastic reaction to finding that your cozy inn hasn’t got any wi-fi

188. Subj. I usually had before science

192. Often-seen tablets

196. What a good story should grant you

202. Apple Store computer

206. Fruit popular in yogurt

210. Cracking in a long, narrow opening

216. V-shaped flexers

220. “Stupid ___ stupid does” (Forrest Gump)

224. Surfeited condition

230. Now-unlawful bug poison

234. Lost one’s grip

238. “Smack”

241. Green Hornet’s assistant

245. Batgirl, to Bruce and Dick

249. Bollywood legend Kapoor

252. Intro for a URL with a “lock” on it

256. Depressed

257. Neighbor of Pavo in the sky

258. Barnacle’s spot

259. Casino option with a bank

260. Foofaraws

261. Stds. important to the health-conscious

262. “___ PM” (2001 Christina Milian hit)

263. Big Easy acronym

264. 50 Fun Things to Do on ___ Trip

265. Part of AFAIK

266. Pre-stereo format

267. Trading card figure

268. Small, small, small, small part of you

269. Line score in a football shutout

270. Magical introduction?

271. Brown wrapper stuff

272. Like lackluster writing

273. Title car in a 1964 song

274. Cop, in hip-hop

275. Mandlíková of tennis

276. Dark-gray-to-black animal drawn as bright green

278. Had ___ to pick

279. S. American republic (abbr.)

280. Like Willie Winkie

281. Our world

283. Virtual assistant

284. Not familiar with?

286. Roman historian Cassius

287. Assad’s nation

288. Trial basis for a football suit?

290. Dhal and Anthony in showbiz

291. What many people (think they) want to be

294. Port initials

295. Broken ___ (divided)

296. Station wagon feature

298. Hardly portly

299. TV time?

300. Fancy affair as a warm-up for a fancy affair, in high school

302. Chips accompaniers (or dance maneuvers?)

303. Super Bowl XXI champs

305. Amphetamines, in old slang

307. Job for an ob/gyn

308. Rejecting with a throw

310. Scornfully blast

312. Thematic signature

313. Task for a kebab maker

314. Endnote abbr.

315. Musician Marilyn

316. Company with a duck in its ads

317. Reverse-

319. Iran’s official religion

320. End of an adjustable strap

322. 4.0 GPA

323. Lagos native

324. Blood, tissues, or DNA, e.g.

326. With quick wit

327. Smacked at, as the shortstop

328. Legislative surfeit

330. “___, Sam” (actual bit from Casablanca)

331. “Rumour Has It” vocalist

332. Festooning with Charmin, for short

333. No-spark kind of coating on plastics and wax polish

334. Organ or punctuation

335. British cracker brand

336. Ronco Veg-o-___

337. Karaoke bar equipment, for short

338. Bic ___ Stic (pen brand)

339. Attempted, as political office

340. “What ___ Is This?” carol

341. Harvard req. for some

342. Computational schooling option

343. Aeronautical worry

344. School day without risk of anybody copying off anybody

345. Lb., gm., oz., etc.

346. Jason’s ship

347. Roly-___

348. It’ll dull many pains

349. TV transmitter in space

350. Some radio stations

352. Cross to bear

354. Public Citizen, Inc. founder

355. Berlin products

356. John in London

357. Am broadcast by, if I’m a TV comic

358. Scary sequel of 2005

359. Skate kin

360. Cooper cars

361. LGBTQ helper

362. The Lion King lion

363. Old Rolling Stones record label

364. Pictures put into computers

365. Meter money

366. Luminary in New York classical staging and production

367. Cloud in a summer sky?

368. “How to ___ narcissist down” (worthwhile Google)

369. Krazy ___ (klassik komik strip)

370. Dillinger fighter

371. Dramatic song

372. Having ___: complaining

373. “___ Arigato, Mr. Roboto” (Styx song)

374. Shell competitor

375. Nickname for a newshound

376. Double preposition

377. Immigrants often take it (abbr.)

378. Lived up to

379. “You can’t win if you don’t think about how you’ll win”

385. Variable that statistical plans don’t always account for

387. Do silly things to

390. “If I can do it, so can anyone,” e.g.

394. Dismissal as without worth

401. Timeline division

404. Boys’ jackets

407. Veal dish wine

409. Woody’s son and that son’s first album

410. Run out, as a well

411. Braga of film

412. Pakistani bread

413. Personal artwork, for short

414. Common prop in close-up magic

415. Mooring spot

416. Things with charges

417. Factor to multiply 767.3 mph by

418. Atoll base

419. “No,” without closing your mouth

420. Suffix of resemblance

421. It’s taboo

422. Common rhyme scheme

423. ___ out (settled the matter)

424. Carthage neighbor

425. Collection of shops

426. Transmission conduits, of a sort

427. Berlin subway

431. Start of Ethiopia’s capital

433. Battle scene of 1944

434. “Meh” feel

435. On the ___ (going to pot)

436. ___ point: with limitations

437. Back attack

438. Chickadees’ kin

439. Fruity quaffs, informally

440. Covered with a sticky coating

441. Mimic Pac-Man

442. Further details

443. Marmalade containers

444. Kin of a pelican

445. Prepare to chat, maybe

446. Ump’s yell

447. Taj Mahal location

448. Outdoor ovens, for short

449. Participate as a visitor

450. Many a Today show sign

451. What G in PFLAG stands for

452. Cousins of “Spots” in dog collars of old

453. Spanish pianist Jose

454. Children’s doctor who was not a pediatrician

455. “Nowhere Man”‘s first word

456. Hibernation locales

457. Zoo denizen who’s noticeably horn-y?

458. Porches around an agora

459. Common or preferred

460. Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire, for two

461. Pixar imaginary friend Bong

462. Jaguar or snow leopard

463. “Kiwi”‘s origin

464. Plays hooky

466. Takes the wrong way?

467. Air Canada employee

468. Philip of Daughter of Shanghai

469. Pack to the gills

470. Corn remnants

471. ___.D.s (grads going into drug industry jobs)

472. Upscale Swedish exports

473. Pouchlike structures

474. Late-night TBS show

475. Vulture chow

476. Atlas imitators

477. Streamlined

478. ___ cost: gratis

479. Former Russian first lady

480. Ferdinand and others

481. Soccer, for one

482. Crooned a tune

483. Back up, as files

484. “Phooey!”

485. French mustard

486. Arthurian knight who sought Christ’s Holy Grail (I know, doesn’t narrow it down much)

487. Does a bank job

488. Shows to do laundry by?

489. Cords with clasps

490. Communist or Trumpian disinformation

492. Night King’s assassin Stark

493. Canadian clam

494. Things that hold chips and dip at a football party

495. Kim Kardashian’s mom

496. Rick’s TV grandson

497. Bug who’ll find junk food

498. “Count me out this time”

499. Diminutive suffix

500. Viny climbers

502. Middle Eastern dish

503. Publicity activity

504. Lectern setting

505. Things many of us didn’t put on during lockdown

506. Christian’s part in AMC’s horror hit

507. Play too broadly

508. Hollywood insider Barrett

509. Some are prime

510. Sudden stream

511. Word with disk or radiation

512. City in Moravia

513. Sinking ship’s evacuee

514. Katniss-like heroine fighting a caste system

515. Red coats?

516. Reserves

517. Org. certifying albums as gold or platinum

518. Jousting matches

519. Houston paper, informally

520. Far East drama form

521. Robb who was a Marlin and Giant

522. March honoree, familiarly

525. Part of a light bulb that’s inside you right now

528. Fancified

529. Block away, as a thrust

530. Lancastrian or Liverpudlian

531. Fort or town’s anti-invasion ditch

532. Things worth checking out when you visit

533. Was a host to

534. They report to sgts.

535. Takes repose in unconsciousness

536. Far from flashy

537. A button to push when things are bad

538. Snapshot, the way Variety spells it

539. War game, for short

540. Disintegrates

541. Cowgirl’s rope

542. Slapstick falls

543. Barnyard bleats

544. Mini-lakes

545. 552, to Caesar

546. Rookery cacophony

547. Over and done

550. Prone to backtalk

551. Italian family inspiring TV drama

552. Big automotive parts company

553. Shark Tank investor Mark

554. Amount of work (usually a lot)

555. Microsoft rival in game systems

556. Delhi wrap

557. Was ready for the heat, for short

558. Like takeout orders

559. Pol Trent

560. Problem word for Porky

561. Harry Potter’s son

562. Candy in a strawlike container

564. Advice from the club pro

565. Smee, etc.

566. Slow-moving critter

567. Lobbying groups

568. Oscar-night autos

569. Actor John of Pulp Fiction

572. The Confidential Clerk author’s monogram

573. French “to get”

574. Knows is coming

575. Katey of sitcoms

576. Shared with, to get an opinion on

577. Part of history

578. Karenina of Rushlit

579. Roman emperor with a column

580. Bodybuilder’s dirty secret, informally

581. 1/7 of calendar columns (abbr.)

582. Hornless sheep

583. Colgate quarters

584. Gel desserts

585. Unstained by sin

586. Boy king found in 1922

587. Be, for Halloween

588. Gambling at cards and holding nothing back

589. Zen paradoxes

590. Arias, typically

591. Turkish money units

592. Mother of Donald Trump Jr.

593. Naffs off

597. Earthworm eaters

599. Sad and pensive, in music

600. Deep voices

601. Coming-out words

602. Fixin’ to

603. Symbols of voracity

604. Just conclusion?

605. Insect section

606. Start of a saga

607. Warrior god to Romans

608. Gives two thumbs down to

609. Pump, as a Jordan

610. Gastric symptom of angst

611. What follows “You go…!”

612. Most of pewter

613. Board-making aids

614. Troy, to Agamemnon

615. “___ isn’t so!”

616. Herbaceous plants

617. “…without ___ to piss in”

618. ___ dab in the middle

619. A bit sour

620. Taking ___ at: glimpsing

621. Pasta suffix

622. Not fresh, as water

624. Bring to maturity about bathrooms

626. “Friends in Low Places” singer

628. “Don’t worry about how contemptuous the journalists look. How many spotlights on you?”

633. Paragraph format that abuts margins

636. “No way around it”

641. Hardly, and yet…

642. Naskapi and Atikamekw, e.g.

643. Terra-___

646. EPA pollutant concentration meas.

648. Scale constellation

649. Caracalla constructions

650. Jack Paar’s ___ You Not

651. Prepare laundry, maybe

652. Sitting quarters

653. Douses

654. Grogram material

655. Frog, to Linnaeus

656. South Pacific islands

657. The “I” of IM, sportswise

658. ___ in addition

659. Ghost, pharaoh, odorous, and acrobat, among others

660. Sound of a bird

661. Sharp as ___

662. Nautical hails

663. Visit an e-mall

664. Song by Christina Milian

665. Hot mos.

666. Band attractions

667. Ducked out of sight

668. Cougar, to car buffs

669. Announce officially

671. Bonheur and others

672. Little picture

673. “What I meant was…”

676. ___ Novo: Benin’s capital

677. ___ out (go sleepy-bye)

678. Stage in a scale

679. ___ Gong (Chinese religion)

680. Study of the supernatural

682. “Be ___!” (“Help me!”)

683. Cartoon witch’s flaw

684. Taking ___ (catching off guard)

685. Heir to a throne

686. But, in France

687. Crowd through doorways

690. Small Japanese box

691. Pan’s fairy pal, for short

692. Specialized articles?

693. Simmering, as a stew

696. Trade’s word for a film showing

698. Ducklike creatures

699. Availability cascade or declinism

700. Hit-the-ground sound

701. Hope’s Diamond has almost 46 of these

702. Love of fine arts

703. Brother

704. Musical phrase

705. Gold medalist’s position

706. Communications giant from Finland

707. With this as sanction:

709. Sound from a hot dog?

710. Olympian skater Anton Ohno

711. From bottom ___ (upward)

712. As is apropos for sailors

714. [turn to following pg.]

716. Hoops great O’Neal

717. Fabric patch

720. Comedian Martin

721. MacArthur Fellowship, familiarly

723. Clubs for pros

724. Mast attachment

725. “Curses!”

727. Restraints, as on prices

728. San Jose locale

730. Sets as a goal

733. Objectors who won’t carry arms

736. Fighting (for)

738. Fright motivating a portion of rigid Christianity

741. Accommodations in which you’ll sit comfortably

743. Simple dairy nosh

746. Start of a Sleepy refrain?

747. Wishy-washy DC party

748. Kissed quickly

749. Ways to quantify position, mass, and duration still popular in astrophysics

751. Christmas trio

752. Small thing on which to play Moonlight Sonata

753. Blinds unit

754. Clash of heavyweights

755. $$$ spewers

756. Tugboat’s salutation

757. Lamar formerly of the Lakers

758. “That show’s coming ___ 8”

759. US-born Jordanian queen

760. Flat foot’s lack

761. Fiduciary arrangement

762. Sometimes-allowed traffic moves

763. Bulb in a diner

764. Vishnu’s flower

765. “Heads or tails?”

766. Bit of legerdemain

767. Bump on ___: hardly vivacious

768. Act division

770. Taking ___ on: slowly costing

771. Hoodwink out of cash

774. They make wax wane

775. 1-2-3s’ go-withs

776. Youthful plants

777. “Additionally…”

778. “It ___ my opinion” (pompous “IMO”)

779. Music on a carnival ride

780. Elects (to)

781. RFK Stadium team

782. “Ta-ta for now” inits.

783. Warning sounds from Fido

784. Boer city

785. Spots to play b-ball

786. Cartoonist Stephan often drawn being punished for his own puns

787. Placards

788. Hurt with words

789. Use for an avatar

790. Moves like a pendulum

791. Stops drilling

792. TechCrunch or TMZ

793. The Lockhorns cartoonist

794. “The wage of ___ death” (Romans)

795. Lateral opening?

796. Corporate hotshots, slangily

797. Enjoy a Jacuzzi

798. Main villain of Finding Nemo

799. Wrong prefix?

800. Symbol of inflexibility

801. Asimov had laws about it

803. Rtes. with plazas

804. Picture book character lost in a crowd

805. Hindu titles of respect

809. Starving artist or sort of faking it

813. Fries or slaw

817. Fourth alias for Sacha/Bruno/Borat

821. Going from ___ (making small inroads)

825. “I’m not any kind of ‘what,’ I’m ___”

829. Fixes rips

833. 9994 Hampton Rd., e.g.

837. Defendant at law (abbr.)

841. Apply a bit to

846. Longtime game-show host Alex

852. Keurig inserts

857. Antonym for absorb

862. Disunion

868. Sprinkled some more fish food

873. Rhyming in first, third, and fifth bars only

878. Shows tenacity

885. Logo or TV spot originators

886. City of Spain

887. Año parts

888. Blow-it-up sound

889. Didn’t hang around

890. Asian mountain in a range

891. Credit union’s offer

892. TV streaming platform of platforms

893. “Up, up, and ___”

894. Chandon partner

895. ___ The Beatles (1964 album)

896. “The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band,” for short

897. Most populous Hawaiian island

898. ___ Anything (1994 Nick Nolte/Albert Brooks film)

899. Rip over again

900. Ruth’s sister-in-law

901. Kay in Your Honor

902. Take an axe to

903. Deeply disquieting

904. Laid-back one

905. Photoshop lasso

906. Q: Wanna? A: ___?!?!

907. “Have you seen ___?”

908. Tapestry tool

909. Barbadian pop music icon

910. Feller

911. Comic-cons and SCA outings

913. Intersecting

915. “That’s what rumor claims, anyway”

917. Grifts or starts phishing

919. Physically attack

921. “Hurry it up!”

922. Kind of microorganism found in chronically ill individuals

923. Got laid

924. “Cornes”

926. New York’s Cayuga or Seneca

927. Part of la famille

930. Suffix for flirt or visit

932. Ring guys

933. Grey and Goldin whose shared first name makes them sound like grandmas

934. Body part you may trust

935. Everyone in our production

937. Tried to catch slippery fish

939. Aleph, for one

941. “Black” and “Last Kiss” musician Eddie

942. Half a G.I. wolf call

944. Mav from 1985-2001 or, backward, fuzzy to touch

945. Dog film

947. Popular Japanese plate

949. Largest frat in the US

951. Jack or Bowie

953. Anime archetype

954. Texan who almost beat Ted

955. Run rampant

956. Barnyard mother

957. Protective shield (var.)

958. Photograph

959. Prevents

960. The brighter side?

961. Choral part

962. Grad school for Nyong’o

963. Pass again at Daytona

964. Cyclist road-saving org.

965. Gaming tyro

966. Old White House inits.

967. Bob’s Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! costar

970. Hero actress Davis

972. Antidiscrimination grp.

974. Headgear for pageants

976. “I’m making fun of youuuu!”

979. Garbage repositories

981. Painful memories

983. Bach’s refusal

985. Be a retailer of

987. Turns quickly

991. Early producer of color TVs

992. Electrified atom

993. Valuable fur

994. Rap type

996. Gridiron scores

998. Visit made out of obligation

1000. Complete turns, briefly

1001. Job for a CSI

1003. Result of Labor Day, for many

1006. Pianist synchronic with Vladimir

1008. Folder filler

1010. Campus org. for aspiring ensigns

1011. Big name in sports gaming

1013. Swim team events

1015. “___ a customer”: sale sign

1017. She’s sung in ten languages

1019. One stopped at a Koa campground, maybe

1021. Cynics

1024. Cultivators

1025. Figuring (out)

1027. Predatory cat

1028. 20th century artist inspired by mythology

1032. The M in ICBM or SAM

1036. Sedative lab compounds

1037. Hawaiian bird

1038. Top-grossing stop-motion cartoon of all time

1044. 1990s FBI head

1045. Danger in Iraq (abbr.)

1047. Dismissed with prejudice

1049. Kratos’ “boy” in God of War, or king in old myth

1051. Sempai’s pupil

1053. Jack of Glengarry Glen Ross

1055. Ominous chill

1057. Family Man and Spanglish star with a first acting gig in Smith’s Bad Boys

1059. Thing About Pam and Judy star

1062. Capital near the Caspian (var.)

1063. Not in this direction

1064. #16 and #23 in a marathon, say

1066. Woman who’ll pour you a drink

1067. Forwards to one’s followers

1069. Ones unable to swim straight?

1070. Becoming a #hashtag without planning to, probably

1071. Noxious vapor

1072. Tough to catch

1073. Deal with

1074. Lengthy undertaking

1078. ___ Fear (survival video game)

1080. Troubles

1082. Martini & ___

1084. Skier’s accessory

1086. Healthy dignity

1089. “Cal” or “Georgia” follower

1090. Matches, as a wager

1092. Cartoon dinosaur from 1914

1093. Screwy

1095. Directs a hoedown

1098. Profit’s antithesis

1099. Actor who did V.O. for SNL

1100. Baobab or acacia

1101. Like Rome, it’s said

1103. Jeweler’s aid

1104. Model-actress Otis

1105. Like some dramatic periods

1106. A Brady Bunch girl

1107. Rubber cleaner

1109. Flourish for a font

1111. Coatless cat breed

1113. Inward-looking and without compassion

1116. Rented out again

1117. “Quiet, please!”

1119. Mutants’ film of 2000

1121. Diabetic butter-lover Paula

1123. Win by ___ (horse race outcome)

1124. Actor Michael

1125. “Tragedy!”

1126. Backus and Thorpe

1127. Discovers accidentally

1128. Corrupt in libido

1130. “Irish” pets

1132. Minute particles

1134. USMA frosh

1136. Fragment (abbr.)

1137. Axes’ letters

1139. Quartz gray (or animal)

1141. Atkins of Gosford Park

1143. Scottish scion

1144. Amass cash

1146. Dull snapshot finish

1148. Pulitzer composer Ned

1150. Look as if it is

1152. Relatively rawboned

1154. Novelist McMillan

1155. What bouncers ask for

1156. Slips on

1157. Twin of Pollux

1158. Art of printing (abbr.)

1161. Quaint boutique

1163. Goal for a dropout

1164. Archway

1165. Illicit drug initials

1166. How I Met Your Mother narrator

1167. Oceanologist Sylvia

1168. Sick as ___

1170. Usual position

1172. Gay hookup app

1174. Dog-___ books

1176. Alloy for which Damascus was famous

1178. Unspeaking magician

1180. It’s groovy underfoot

1182. Freshen

1184. Some old Ford models

1186. Its stock symbol is CAR

1187. “___ King in Babylon…”

1188. “Famous” company giving out hot dog consumption awards

1190. Many a 1990s start-up

1191. New Look man

1192. Wake-up calls, of sorts

1194. Apiculturist

1196. Approximating

1203. Made noises of disdain

1204. Letters on some racks

1206. -inas alternative

1208. Urgent care dudes

1210. Rat residence

1212. Nation whose anthem is “Bole pravde”

1214. Single-___ organism

1216. Hatch planning in D.C.

1218. ___ favor of human warmth: if you can’t do it with 100% accuracy, do it kindly

1220. Edinburgher, for example

1222. Part of a table?

1227. Small sack, or trig abbr.

1228. Localizes a soundtrack, e.g.

1229. Salt substance

1230. Vowel sound in “boat”

1231. Singular sort

1232. Spire part

1233. Destructive 2017 hurricane

1234. Investigators who sound like their ranks would include Thomas Lipton?

1235. Malia Obama’s younger sister

1236. Ramsay with cookbooks

1237. Some Kosovo folks

1238. “Let me find out”

1241. Shotgun sport

1243. Find, as a frequency

1245. Often rattled blade

1247. Magical individuals making Rich ‘n’ Chips in ads

1250. Your nights call for four, lasting an hour and a half, for a total of six hours

1253. Plays financial politics in a way that sounds good until you ask what programs it’ll cut

1255. Pull into standing

1258. Cookout rocks

1260. ___ rod (biblical staff)

1261. Loud consonant

1262. Old pol. unit

1263. Afterthoughts on letters

1264. Important Arabians

1266. “…___ take up arms against…” (Hamlet)

1268. “No cause for worry”

1269. Seaport that’s got back-story?

1270. “Thanks ___ I go” (Walt Whitman)

1271. Critical opening?

1272. Bad sound for a hot-air balloonist

1274. DeWalt rival

1276. Spit it out!

1278. Not live

1280. Add because of a lack

1281. Marijuana, in old slang

1283. Hide away

1284. Statement in an old Apple ad

1286. Foam-ball brand name

1287. Pull a chair up to

1288. Traditionally military Hindu

1290. Making exact

1291. Hit musical film of 1958

1292. Some appliances (abbr.)

1293. Famous cow’s skull and bloom paintings

1295. Theol. school

1296. Second-sighted woman

1298. Catch thrills from

1302. It means “news” in Russian

1305. Shady character

1307. Tricks in a half-pipe

1309. “Stop that gang, you fools!”

1311. Diplomatic qualities

1313. Threesomes

1315. French-Swiss author Madame de

1317. Undoes, as a deletion

1319. 2005, 2011 World Puzzle Championship host

1321. Folk legend Guthrie

1322. Sculptor’s clay-guard

1323. Virtually

1324. Hack shows?

1328. Angler for congers

1331. Almost 30% of all land

1332. Black-and-white predators

1334. Worker among players

1336. John Wesley follower (abbr.)

1338. “Old Fox” TV show, prior to its translation

1339. Bonus for fans who watch closely

1341. Airwaves, informally

1343. “That’s enough!”

1345. Boost to your maximum

1347. Book place

1349. Deep, broad thing for washing clothes

1351. Some dairy case items

1353. Room in which you might find an Arabian prince or Arabian prints

1355. Sartorially challenged person

1357. “Above all” abbr.

1358. Took ill

1360. Make fit

1361. UCLA athlete

1362. Man-cave visitor

1363. Sixties conflict

1365. Hits back, say

1367. Stencil user, often

1372. NPR icon with spasmodic dysphonia

1374. Aids for the error-prone

1376. Trauma professional, casually

1378. Crop anew

1380. Quiz show feature

1382. Cherubino and Cupid, for opera actresses

1385. Keaton-Garr flick

1387. South African in command during a racial policy shift

1389. Marion Cunningham, for one

1391. 1960 hit, “Tell Laura I Love ___”

1392. Bow and others

1393. Spin unfairly

1394. Roll of fiber twisted slightly for spinning

1395. Inexpensive ASUS PCs

1396. State military volunteers

1398. Job applicant’s offering

1400. Four-stranded DNA structure

1402. Without pausing

1407. So, so much

1409. Gilbert of Roseanne

1411. Winning or losing series

1413. Put that story into publication

1415. Zwei x drei

1416. Houston sports institution

1418. Less cracked?

1420. Divides, as lovers

1424. Star Wars and Pitfall! platform

1427. Serious rifts

1429. At ___ (without profit)

1430. Bait and switch, for two

1431. It parts Cairo from Giza

1432. Any of the Bahamas

1433. Moratorium

1434. Info on a highway billboard

1435. Giving ___: advising

1436. Florida town honoring light bulbs’ author with its road sign

1437. “Fascinating”

1438. Sometime hat plume source

1439. Masters org.

1440. Tchaikovsky of composition

1442. End of school?

1444. Rural worker who makes movements organized

1446. Composer Franz ___ Haydn

1448. ___ profit (end up in the black)

1450. Young fish with a mom who spawns while fighting against flow

1452. Plant circulatory aid (root-to-stalk)

1454. Clown in Twelfth Night

1455. Alabama town or film

1456. Like many country barns

1457. Declines

1458. Thin soup

1459. Third Girl detective

1460. How things that satisfy you totally suit you

1461. Words with limit or trap

1462. Performers Joe and Ron

1463. Ex followers

1464. Voice mails (abbr.)

1465. Cong. period

1466. Actors Romero and Beatty

1467. Auditory effect

1468. Recipients-of-an-action suffix

1469. Nervous twitter

1471. Famed Dodger

1474. Tenochtitlan’s civilization

1476. ___ problem with (predicts trouble)

1478. Code-talking tongue

1480. Like the Palisades

1482. “___ work, why not?”

1484. Place to promenade

1485. Swamp growths

1486. Salamanca snacks

1487. Orders from the court

1488. Reiner of classic TV

1489. Holstein’s utterance

1491. Albanian money unit

1493. “Stop, ___, and roll”

1494. Is goldarn fallacious

1496. Gas bill unit

1498. Involuntary abdication

1501. Women’s sportswear portmanteau

1503. The ___ War (Sun Tzu)

1505. Shipping or handling

1506. POTUS assistant from 2021 on, familiarly

1507. Got out saliva

1508. Sends packing

1509. “Old,” in an old song about old days

1510. Clothing of 1350, say

1511. It keeps “shit” off the air

1514. Mtg. org. some call a lady

1518. 301, In Old Rome

1522. Prefix for graph

1526. Commander in Kabul (var.)

1530. Brian Piccolo player James

1534. ___ shot: try to swish through a hoop

1538. Forum talk was in it

1543. Feel “blech”

1546. What should go past 3 for aspiring high school grads

1551. Wax, in Oaxaca

1553. AT&T and Sprint, for two

1555. What an alarm may end

1557. Word on a bottle of vodka

1558. Put on a new worm

1560. Win it all

1562. Declined

1564. Play ___: rock out with your band

1565. Exclamation-point-in-triangle implication

1567. Municipal ldrs.

1568. Soon-to-be butterfly

1570. Regarding some church matters

1571. Cat on ___ Tin Roof

1572. Stock car competition, for short

1573. MIT’s Chomsky

1574. Scandinavian capital

1575. “What’s Going ___ Your World” (Strait hit)

1576. “___ far, far better thing that I do…” (Dickens)

1577. Namibia, formerly (abbr.)

1578. Birth hood seen as a good omen

1579. Mistress of kung fu

1582. CSI swab spot

1584. Prevailing fashions

1586. ___ and a Lack: imaginary 1940s romcom (sounds good, though, don’t it?)

1588. Of a ruler

1590. Hint of mint

1592. Cylindrical junk food brand

1593. Ganges River dolphins

1595. Captain of a film squad of galactic “Guardians”

1597. Repasts often stuck with toothpicks

1598. Tosses, as seeds

1599. Menzel who won a Tony for Wicked

1600. Bursting in forcibly

1602. Nasal complaint

1604. Idyllic spot

1606. Attacks like rain

1608. 1980 swimming gold medalist Kaciusyte

1609. “Como ___ usted?”

1610. Forbid in court

1612. In-depth show summaries

1615. Long-running sci-fi show, for short

1617. Colorful herbal brew

1619. Anglo-___

1621. Mouthlike openings

1625. Memphis deity

1626. Like satellites

1627. Home of the Baylor Bears

1628. Low-___ (like some diets)

1629. Curving inward

1630. Stop the nonparticipation of

1632. Hollywood commodity (var.)

1633. Austere, as a monk

1634. Features of mountain roads and exciting movies

1636. Witherspoon of Fear

1638. With additional points of comparison

1640. Kind of psychology

1641. Dining area that charges omission

1643. 1980s-1990s swimsuit star now worth half a billion dollars

1646. Sun (prefix)

1648. Soul singer Marie

1649. Amadeus’ kingdom (init.)

1650. With no financial motivation

1651. Chan’s “mmhmm” in film

1652. Go way, way up

1653. Tipping

1654. Planet and then not a planet, famously

1655. Bart and Kenneth

1656. Having grown up from boyhood

1657. Start of a 1969 film…or of a formal communication

1658. Narc suffix

1659. Hex or non suffix

1660. McEvoy of makeup

1661. Certain syllables of lament

1662. Tenth First Family

1664. Type again

1666. “Bald” flier in Alaska

1668. Nativity inn problem

1670. Pull at (but not yank at)

1671. “Stay with that part,” in music

1673. Altered, in a way

1675. Eliot Ness and associates

1676. Disney princess who is Black and sometimes green

1677. “NOOOOO!”

1680. Getting things settled by prioritizing which things go most out of whack

1683. Burton-Taylor film about marital dysfunction

1689. Ancient instruments

1691. Poultry factory worker

1693. Simpsons’ “I got it! I’m quick!”

1695. Mall cop’s transport

1697. Hodge’s other half

1699. Shortened, as sails

1701. Barroom brawl

1702. Randy’s ice partner

1703. Singapore sling alcohol

1704. Street ___

1706. Kimono sashes

1707. Produce, as a show

1708. Sartre’s Les Jeux Sont ___

1709. Unexpected gifts

1710. It pays in kwanzas

1711. Color whose name comes from Urdu

1712. Campus cadet’s org.

1713. Scot with a lot

1714. Homer’s “dread monster”

1715. Dugout or cavity in a hill

1718. ___ possidetis (as you possess, at law)

1720. Tattoo “canvas”

1722. Behemoths of the road

1724. Moves obliquely

1726. Like some ground

1728. Russian-Ukrainian river

1730. Whirled sloppily

1732. Goes back into

1734. Revlon rival, L’___

1737. Kind of cobra

1740. Cross characters

1741. Insignificant disruption

1742. Others, to Andalusians

1743. -

1744. Martina, the first Swiss tennis champion

1745. Choice at KFC

1746. Charge leptons

1747. Dik Browne’s Hi and ___

1748. Uninspired

1749. Defeat in a footrace

1750. Sulking, old-school

1751. Out to pasture, perhaps (abbr.)

1753. Words before “about” in contracts

1755. 1990-92 French Open champion

1757. Dallas patriarch

1759. Nog spice

1761. Denim garments

1763. Physician on TV’s Celebrity Rehab

1765. Left on a map

1766. “It’s a ___” (“I’ve changed”)

1767. Fuel container for a train

1769. Young guys, slangily

1770. Initial

1771. They can be ovarian or pilar

1772. “Magnificent” Carson role

1773. 1980s toy fad

1774. Airline to Rio

1775. Kitty litter = cat ___

1776. Brainless bunch

1777. Mix-ups

1778. Stops on stairs

1779. “Shhh…not ___!”

1781. Contraction lacking just a “v”

1783. Product packaging abbr.

1785. Hula or hoop follower

1787. Mom, pop, sis, and bro, say

1789. Hanoi fashion

1791. One of 11 pharaohs

1793. Tinkle

1794. Meeting of witches

1795. Henry VII and Henry VIII

1796. UK airline, once

1797. Moody Blues song

1798. Does a washday chore

1799. Udall or West

1800. Seconds on ships

1801. Ornithologist’s study

1802. Send forth, as spells or glances

1803. Response to a pun

1804. Persian treat?

1805. Shade on the links?

1806. Did not disturb

1808. Cruised through

1810. Meadow denizens

1812. Drama critic Richard and dramatic talent Linda

1814. Result of missing vitamin B12

1816. Vocal nod to a Gordon Ramsay command

1818. Historical divisions

1820. Shoulder bulges, for short

1824. Busy spots for Christmas shopping

1825. “I am not ___ follow blindly…” (Darwin)

1826. Food bank donations

1827. Classic country musician Young

1828. Lights up?

1829. Michael ___ of Highway to Heaven

1830. All thumbs

1831. Nutrition Facts measures

1832. River-channeling structures

1833. Remains ready

1834. With a result of

1835. Good surname for a golfer?

1836. Roadside warning

1837. The ___ Solution (Holmes/Freud crossover involving more than one kind of concentration)

1840. ___ motion (start)

1842. Examine covetously

1844. Beyond all bounds

1846. “___ known…”

1847. TV episode’s second life

1849. Chic and jaunty

1850. Word pair found in cookbooks

1851. It’s all in the past

1853. John, Paul or George (but not Ringo)

1854. Syria’s ruling party

1855. Straight shooting

1856. Australian red wine

1857. Silly people

1858. Bruise

1859. Ninth-inning turnaround, say

1860. Intense fads

1861. Hip-hop artist on “Big Momma Thang”

1863. Two-___ sloth

1864. Reason for a cram session

1865. “If ___ only knew!”

1866. Look agog

1867. Early Dutch painter Jan

1868. It starts and ends at 2 AM

1869. צ

1870. Bobby of ‘60s rock

1871. Longtime Guy Lombardo label

1874. Peshawar Airport carrier

1876. Bat stuffing, at times

1877. Millions play it; almost nobody wins it

1878. Scatters bits of fiber

1879. God or gastropod

1880. Spots to sit, paradoxically

1881. Relatives of nails

1882. “That’ll Be the Day” singer

1884. Early aviator Alberto Santos-____

1885. Crosses

1886. Polka’s cousin

1890. Condition of vagrancy

1894. Lab animals, jocularly

1895. Heads, in Paris

1896. Puts up a bottom

1899. Santa ___ Valley

1900. FDR’s dog and namesakes

1901. M*A*S*H vehicle

1902. Water-ski rudder

1903. Billion-dollar startup

1905. Course rentals

1906. Inky typefaces

1907. High-end shoes/bags

1908. A big fat goose egg

1909. Darts about

1910. Swarms on

1911. Shipyard relics

1912. Hit the jackpot

1913. Prohibits

1914. Some intro?

1915. Calls forth

1916. Verb with a circumflex

1917. Category, as of music

1918. Small combos

1919. Catholic liturgical cloth

1920. “The 12 Days of Christmas,” e.g.

1922. Free from variation

1923. Gives dinner to

1924. Pride letters

1926. Mil. stop

1927. Flash, to his friends

1928. A little bit, as in “I’m ___ aware”

1929. Fairy tale characters

1930. ___ de Justice, Paris

1931. Frog-pond sounds

1932. Litter cries

1933. With “Jr.,” fast-food chain with laughing star

1934. “What a pity!”

1935. Lyric lyricist with lyre

1936. MRI alternative

1937. Basic teaching techniques

1938. Purplish salad bit

1939. Franco’s farts

1940. Left page in a book

1941. Shield from view

1942. Message on a monitor

1943. Best Buy buy

1945. MTV show hosted by Carson Daly

1946. Body part with a wall

1948. Printer meas.

1949. Humanitarian McCain

1950. Romans-fleuves

1951. House of games of chance

1952. Father-and-daughter singers

1953. Subdivision maps

1954. Many PTA members

1955. Some Army NCOs

1956. Trunks of statues

1957. Fictional Charles

1958. 1980s White House hopeful

1959. Insincere

1960. Rockport buy

1961. TiVo before TiVo

1962. Shore time for a sailor

1963. One may be called in court

1964. Shasta daisy cousin

1965. Dished up

1966. Yu-Gi-Oh competitor

1970. By ___: solo

1971. Masked mammals

1973. Quinn of SNL or actor Hanks

1974. Apart from atypical occasions

1975. Iditarod coats

1976. Sounds like Shrek’s buddy

1977. Jamboree

1978. ___ an elephant: huge

1979. “What’s ___, good lookin’?”

1980. Zeus’s handheld

1981. Shivery utterance

1982. DXXVI x II

1983. Relative of HST

1984. Slight modicum

1985. Forest components

1986. Classic rocker Chuck

1987. Hires a new crew for

1988. Gas stations or Spanish curving supports

1989. Styling iron or 1997 action film

1990. Unbeatable

1991. Fills film roles for

1992. Hoppy pint, for short

1994. Do lead-in

1995. “I’m not four! I’m four AND ___!”

1996. “You are not!” rejoinder

1997. First major land battle for Americans in World War II

1998. Io and Callisto, e.g.

1999. Spot to get off the boat

2000. Cane product

2001. Soak up, as warmth

2002. Two together

2003. Vanquish, as a vampire

2004. Beaten-down horse

2005. Search party?

2007. Sty guys

2008. Gives a thrill to

2009. Tailors, at times

2010. Jazz drummer Hakim and others

2011. Prognosticator

2012. Problem Areas producer-star Wyatt

2013. Marxist revolutionary symbol

2014. Capuchin cousins

2015. What allows you not to run out of words

2019. Bad cardiac signs

2022. Run into one another

2024. Acing amazingly

2030. Prov. follower

2032. Question after a joke doesn’t prompt laughter

2033. Timor-___

2034. Took in the sight of

2035. Work on that novel

2036. Did a circling bit of FX

2037. Cook who should know his coq au vin from his pain au chocolat

2039. “You ___ match for him!” [dramatic music sting]

2040. ___ attention: showed respect

2041. Rejecters

2042. Colossal figure at Gaza

2043. Squeaky rubber bone, say

2044. Sly’s macho guy

2045. Ran a card for (var.)

2046. “Don’t think you know it ___ that point, you start stagnating”

2047. Robin Hood’s “maid”

2048. Blowout victory

2049. Pirates’ accumulations

2050. Closes a car window

2051. French end

2052. Buzz up, say

2053. Squirt the turkey

2054. Bolt, in a way

2055. Cardiovascular and muscular appraisals, e.g.

2057. John Goodman’s post-Katrina HBO show

2058. Divina Commedia, e.g.

2059. Skywalker foe

2060. Acorn-producing California hardwood

2061. Madison Avenue honor

2062. Revealing

2063. Film buff’s dot-com

2064. Just the worst

2067. Things placed during a political campaign

2069. “My will’s been exhausted”

2071. Place with many fans

2074. ___ buco

2075. Rocky edge

2076. Manzanillo milk

2077. Laying down a contract

2079. Wave to, say

2080. Admits, informally

2081. Passes through pores

2082. Ready to use

2083. Org. with TKOs

2084. Like a “daggers” look

2085. Innocent types

2086. Dog food brand

2087. Mark Twain was co-playwright for it

2088. Meshed money

2089. Shape of vapor around a speedy plane

2090. Quarters for layers?

2091. Thing in Sicily

2092. Two-handed snack

2093. Nutrition org.

2094. Ancient Greek colony

2095. “Was that all?”

2096. Skating Katarina who won gold

2097. Anchors’ areas

2099. More like a moray

2100. Winking Kathryn Hahn and Is This Loss, for two

2101. Maria Cristina or such in Spain

2102. Make an adjustment

2103. A golden rule, e.g.

2104. 90210 extra

2105. Dad to Adolf (right, that Adolf)

2108. So…dull…zzzzzzzz

2110. Private part or pet

2111. “Disrupting,” “providing solutions” and such jargon

2112. Circe’s pair?

2113. 1450, in Rome

2114. Noise from the grass

2115. Authors Tan and Harmon

2116. “My God, that hurts!”

2117. Tongue-clicking sounds

2118. Furtive “hey, you!”

2119. Duty-free

2120. “___ About Time” (1960s sitcom)

2121. Air transports found aloft in Montana and Hawaii in 2023

2123. “It’s ___ you” (“Not my decision”)

2124. Part of the present

2125. Metal holder

2126. All About Eve star Davis

2127. Ororo of the X-Men

2128. Heat pipes

2129. Knights’ group

2133. Bird along the coast

2134. Hadean or Archean, e.g.

2135. Worldport airline

2136. Convention lineup

2137. Office computers, collectively, often, abbreviated

2138. Ninny’s threesome?

2139. Word with cap or bone

2140. Up the creek

2141. Like flour, compared to bran

2142. Key goals

2144. What we know for sure

2145. Harris’s Bear, Fox, and Rabbit

2146. Party to a 1993 ME peace accord

2147. Some spots on kids’ skin

2149. Admonishes

2150. Fancy affairs

2151. Pedigreed pooch

2152. Last days of Victorianism (and Victoria)

2156. “Chop-chop”

2160. Queen-for-a-day’s spot

2164. Himalayan goat

2168. Keene of Sex Education

2172. Smoking hot Italian?

2176. Hawk ___ of spit

2180. CIA mind-game initiative

2185. Car that burns no gas at all, for short

2188. Captain Ahab, for one

2192. Aronofsky film about Randy Robinson, who can’t quit pugilism

2194. Consider likely

2195. Worryingly eccentric

2196. Disarranged

2197. Hourlong runs

2198. Fire-alarm noises

2199. Burns or Sexton, e.g.

2200. Take no responsibility for

2202. St. ___ (NY church, informally)

2203. The Prophet author Kahlil

2204. Connery-Andress film

2205. Where the Safid Rud flows

2206. Hot rock

2207. Bob Seger: “___ Got Tonight”

2208. Lake near London

2209. Fits of pique

2210. Old units of ability to conduct

2211. Lowdown

2212. Onions’ cousins

2213. FB pic

2214. Powered a dinghy

2215. Triumphant sounds

2216. Gaming control from 2006

2217. Q as in LGBTQ

2218. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” poet

2219. Gets but good

2220. Small starts

2221. Ominous note from the boss

2222. One in a bundle?

2223. Brief time period

2224. R&R

2225. Rotten bunch

2226. Forested land

2227. Squeals cats love to hear?

2228. Side in football

2230. Chief honcho

2232. Abridges

2234. Impressionism and cubism

2236. Oldest of the Brady Bunch kids

2237. Small bird also known as a tomtit

2238. Length units

2239. Cancels

2240. Boglike

2241. Game officials, slangily

2242. Stockholm citizen

2243. Basis for a moneyless economy

2245. Oscar or Tony

2246. Features of many spam emails

2247. Chinese snack popular in Australia

2248. Harry Potter’s godfather Black

2249. Ambrosial aroma

2251. Milch, Schmidt, or Ludwig

2253. Mark after a remark

2255. Wasted, as time

2257. Wind phenomena from the Pacific

2259. Places to snorkel

2261. Divinity who could spark thought

2262. Juicing discards

2263. Social laws’ foundation

2265. Has followers for washed-up types?

2266. Safe busters

2267. Sources

2268. Mortgage swap-outs

2269. Like mud or slime

2270. Yogi’s sidekick

2271. c/o

2272. Co-creator of the Hulk

2273. No mere months, in Mexico

2274. Turkish high point found in mythology

2275. Prefix with chic

2276. Ship’s tiller

2278. Mythological lyrist

2279. Annual awards for that old information highway

2282. Talents

2283. Op art and pop art

2284. Small groups spoiling to fight for a (usually bad) cause

2285. Try to punch, perhaps

2286. Fix with a footpad

2287. Black-tops

2288. Jupiter’s sister

2289. Cohort that’s used to YouTube

2290. Physicist’s deg.

2293. Board game that inspired Clue

2294. OMG or LOL

2295. Organizing or correcting untruths

2300. What drops down with clouds, in Proverbs

2303. Warbling avian that builds warm-looking accommodations for its eggs

2305. “Original or crispy?” chain

2306. “I’m thinking…”

2310. Least wordy

2311. Profligates

2312. Shindigs, ultimately?

2313. Start of a taunt in cards

2314. Snail’s shelter

2315. Flour sack wt., maybe

2316. Cardiothoracic focus

2317. Showbiz biggie

2318. Witty remarks

2319. Push-up muscles

2320. Prefix with city or drome

2321. Making ___ stand: battling though all is lost

2322. Donald Duck’s signature garb

2324. Chompin’ at th’ bit

2325. Camera angle (abbr.)

2326. ___ City (Las Vegas)

2328. Vital ratings months

2329. Crash site?

2330. Invite at the doorway, say

2331. Sign accompanying a musical note

2333. Degree in calculus?

2334. Worn down by friction

2335. Animal skins

2336. Retail chain name

2337. Mercury alternative

2338. Former Italian coins

2339. Didn’t hold it in, babblingly or disgustingly

2340. Woodenware

2341. Frenchmen with enfants

2342. Amanda of The Ex

2343. Australia : bogan :: Canada : ___

2344. Culprits, in Calabria

2345. Top or bottom of “football” drawn by an orbit

2346. ABCs or 101

2347. What spits out dough

2348. Aliphatic endings

2350. “Born as” word

2352. What starts a meal’s start?

2353. Concerning themself, in law

2354. “Gotta go”

2355. It rolls in

2356. How much is in a British soda

2358. Reflective qualities

2359. Painful paintball indicators

2360. “Speak up!”

2361. Bizet’s brother

2362. What will fix misteaks?

2364. Stuff almost nobody knows

2366. Caribbean meat dish

2368. “Likewise,” more formally

2371. Beavis’ pyromaniac exhortations

2374. Drinks like Garfield

2375. 4X4s, e.g.

2376. Common DVD bonus

2379. Dimwitted Beverly Hillbilly

2381. Slightly bloody, probably

2383. Bad luck, old-style

2384. Poseidon’s place

2385. Rolls of film

2386. Less literal

2387. 5

2388. Pixie (var.)

2389. Like windows and geishas

2390. Pub orders

2391. Caving aids

2392. Not down with anything

2393. Checks again

2394. Indians or Sri Lankans

2396. Transubstantiation believers

2398. Snaky fish

2399. Kia or Miata

2400. Some singing groups

2402. Day prior to the day

2403. The Phils are in it

2404. Heaven, to Juan

2405. Holds court

2407. School bosses

2408. Gift category

2409. Smooth and shiny

2410. The greatest aphrodisiac, some say

2411. Not as quick on the uptake

2412. Worries on guitar?

2413. Costanza’s slightly less sociopathic pal

2414. Spicy quality

2415. Malt beverage brand

2416. Well-thought-out reason

2417. Holes a gimme

2418. Low-down nightclubs

2422. Ukrainian’s coast

2427. Having ___: angry or cooling down

2429. Bit of a bug

2436. “___ the bag!”

2437. Subsistence verb

2438. Fits snugly

2439. Marne moms

2440. They bind to specific antigens

2442. Kind of acid

2443. For .5, it’s 30°

2444. Plow through puddles

2445. Frontchipmunk for a cartoon band from 1958

2446. End of a typical top-10 listicle

2447. Rights advocate in Mexico City, say

2452. Sitting ducks for a con job

2453. Strategic maneuver

2454. Point when light fights night

2455. Tralee’s land

2456. Darlings, slangily

2457. Cylindrical mini-vaults of radiation

2459. Word of parting

2460. Sprout put in yogurt

2461. Osaka affirmation

2462. Caesar’s thing

2463. Arlington’s Robert ___ Memorial

2464. Does hard-hat work

2465. Sounded like a kitty

2466. Prolong paid parking

2468. Muscular power

2469. Monstrous hunger

2470. Salsa brand

2471. Distribute (out)

2472. 1983 taxi film with Mr. T

2473. Discriminatory suffix

2474. Author who created Ponyboy

2475. Cubic stone?

2476. Monkey business

2478. Monthly banking report (abbr.)

2479. Jane the Virgin network

2481. Do some church burning

2482. Predatory parrots

2483. Young-adult mystery author Carolyn (actually an author squad)

2485. Road for the Boss’s band

2487. Tooth, in Tuscany

2488. Meet participant

2489. Drugs from a notorious dystopia

2490. Applied, as flattery

2491. Setting for much pre-CGI acting

2493. Exclamation of impatience

2494. Dunham of Girls

2495. ___-pants: wise guy

2496. Antibody generator

2499. Filling your lorry

2503. Long watch

2504. Disgusted-sounding boot

2505. Coastal plant sharing a family with mustard

2506. A’s as in Abraham?

2508. Oils to a pharmacist

2509. Chocolaty candy on a stick

2511. Easily crumbled cookies

2512. What hash marks signify in football (abbr.)

2513. Oboes, clarinets, and such

2514. Kept control over

2515. Flo’s garb in TV ads

2516. Go beyond the limits of

2517. Plant parenthood?

2518. Slipped a cog

2519. Privacy guards

2521. British coins of old

2522. Chamberlain’s bathrobe size

2523. Collaborators with Lakotas and Dakotas

2524. Aquanaut’s vehicle

2526. Crisis rms.

2527. Slightly phobic about

2529. Word before many words

2531. Former Iranian president Bani-___

2532. Start of millions of addresses

2533. Crashes into, in a way

2537. Passes through pores

2538. Connubial

2539. “Merci…mon ___” <3

2540. Put in a wrong spot

2541. Benefits

2542. McCarthy associate

2543. Angle (off)

2544. Hunks of time

2545. Consecrators

2546. Inventor and munitions maker Howe

2547. Japan-imitating fashionistas

2548. 2250, in old Rome

2549. Bath and Epsom

2553. Singer’s scale

2556. Practiced, as a trade

2557. Mamba’s point

2559. Quick-quick-slow or back-forth-spin

2564. Some CDs

2567. ___-majesty

2568. Eve 6’s “___ to the Night”

2569. Number 2’s

2570. Baby food brand

2571. Debbie Downers’ partners?

2573. Practices prestidigitation

2574. Night Film author Marisha

2575. Amassing $200 in Monopoly

2576. Cabal’s creation

2577. Batters into submission

2578. WWII-era female in uniform

2579. Bust ___ laughing

2580. Ties up to the wharf

2581. Duff or Swank of film

2582. Operation Smile target

2584. Start of Ben Jonson’s epitaph

2586. Lifts while lying

2588. Knit pick?

2590. Pay periods, usually

2591. Show signs of falling

2592. Attack food or a task mirthfully

2593. Moon of Saturn that’s a French girl’s name

2594. Sharp, as a PNG

2595. A Void author

2596. Autobus alternative

2597. Tolkien’s trilogy, for short

2598. Yardstick (abbr.)

2599. Surface for the Canadiens

2602. ___-Ethiopian War

2605. Rowdydows

2607. A crowd in Paris?

2608. Watches

2609. “Missiles” at a wedding

2610. Patronizing conduct

2612. Mimicry you can’t control

2614. Song that goes “So whyyyyyy don’t you use it?”

2619. Finished strong

2621. Kind of fraud

2624. Overplay

2626. “I got my ___ you” (“I’m watching”)

2628. Develop

2630. Status of youths with unworthy moms and dads

2633. Promo for an individual

2637. Choir part

2638. Part of RFK (abbr.)

2639. 1970s missile pact

2640. Starting over, in Latin

2641. Relief effort, for short

2642. African plant for soothing

2643. Second sound?

2644. Husbanded

2645. Nail salon offering, briefly

2646. Hesitant denial

2647. Tablemate of Allure

2648. Many bucks?

2649. L’épée, e.g.

2650. Bully or malign

2651. Ogle from afar

2652. Blazing again

2653. Bobby of 1960s radicalism

2654. An Arizona ___ is more than two cups

2655. Unsatisfactory

2656. “Pardon me,” in Palermo

2657. “Way to botch that one”

2658. Prozac or Zoloft

2659. Waterfront union (abbr.)

2660. Popular razors

2661. Gather or start to hoard

2662. Bar deg.

2663. “Bird thou never ___…”

2664. Conjunctions in logic programs

2665. First name with The News

2666. Aquatic bird

2667. Cal.-to-Fla. highway

2668. Annual Jan. speech, in hashtags

2669. Long-running TV drama started in 2003

2670. Bookies’ offerings

2671. What some train passengers do

2672. More seriously dry

2673. What a dowsing rod or a slingshot has

2674. “I’ve ___ lot” (veteran’s saying)

2675. Lexapro and such

2676. Drop one’s lawsuit, say

2677. Part of LGBTQ

2678. Plague, to Camus

2679. Early locomotive

2680. Overseas thanks

2683. Alaska is the only U.S. spot without any of its shops

2684. Just dreadful

2686. Portuguese title (abbr.)

2687. Roman encyclopedist

2689. Moonstruck

2690. Cars reintroduced to America in 2009

2691. Stadium regulars

2692. As straightforward ___

2697. Phillips who played Livia on I, Claudius

2701. Nevada neighbor

2705. Ctrl-Z, in most apps

2709. Big bunch, or fish, or graphics school

2713. Old-school start?

2717. Desert-ed?

2721. Read a bar code

2725. Country’s Bogguss

2729. ___ home (unable to score)

2734. Pre-GPS reference sheet

2740. United Nations Plaza display

2745. Director of Tom in Sully

2750. “…to find ___ to yield”

2756. Worth ___: kind of not so bad

2761. Churchillian gesture

2766. Waste, to a wee one

2770. Faithful in turbans at Amritsar

2774. Part of a plant or tooth

2775. Pretend like

2779. Muslim faction

2780. Vocal music

2781. Icelandic coins

2782. Chapala composition

2783. Pinta and Santa Maria’s go-with

2784. Saturday morning TV star in, say, 1982

2785. Oriental monk

2786. Arrowhead spur

2787. “KAZINO” K-pop star

2788. “For goodness’ sake!”

2789. Big 2 hrs. and 45 mins. for high school jrs.

2790. City in Texas

2791. Dues payees

2792. Line with many stops

2793. Certain kind of activity

2794. Chemical prefix with “carbon”

2795. Amidala’s world of origin

2796. Prefix meaning “twenty”

2797. Certain exam type

2798. Making ___ of faith: hoping and acting accordingly

2799. Disease of rye

2801. Old Polish lancer

2802. Dance in a winding line

2803. “___ Don’t Preach” (Madonna tune)

2804. “According to polls, Hillary Clinton will win the presidency in a landslide,” e.g.

2805. Mordant

2807. Walk toward or through in objection

2809. “In all in anyways,” “Lads, lads, lads!”, and “Story?”

2811. Unit that turns into another unit if its two words switch positions

2813. Harry Potter’s Cloak of ___

2815. Robinson song also sung by Ronstadt and Kravitz

2817. Colorful fish

2819. So as to discourage

2821. PlayStation-based tourney

2822. Poem part

2823. Airport near Paris

2824. Mexican War White House family

2825. Gets badly tangled, as hair

2826. Guy pals, slangily

2827. French benches

2829. Norway kings (I, II, III, IV, and V)

2830. It’s off Cuba’s coast

2833. Criticizer

2834. Nicholas and Ivan

2836. 2012 song by Flo Rida

2837. ___ B’rith

2838. Woodworking fasteners

2839. Wood holder

2841. Facial features near the bottom

2842. Hasbro audio game

2844. Jackson Braun of cat tales

2845. Andy Taylor and Homer Simpson, for two

2847. Committed, as in “We’re all ___ together”

2848. Betrays awe

2850. Worn to a frazzle

2851. Preserver of order in online comments

2852. Hands on the Santa Maria

2853. Sedans and coupes

2854. Camarades

2855. Pagliacci baritone

2856. Reactions to freshness?

2857. Deep fissures

2858. Muslim belief

2859. Displeased look

2860. See to the safety of

2861. Cleaning a mess?

2862. Know, to Rousseau

2863. Pope’s headdress

2864. Pitching coup

2865. Cranky old fart

2866. Brown with a frying pan

2867. Certain protests

2868. Lab glassware

2869. London film center

2870. Actress Ruby’s husband

2871. Evenings, in Nancy

2872. Ardor for Bush’s successor

2874. Former Wrigley Field star

2875. Ad hoc coalition

2876. Waist-high planks you flip to go through for a drink

2878. Huzzahs

2879. Mani-pedi provider

2880. Individual souls, in Hinduism

2882. Isn’t good to

2883. Old PC monitors

2884. Exclamation at Christmastime

2885. Out to lunch

2886. What “bald” birds lock in courtship

2887. ___ law (physics class topic)

2888. Habitually untruthful

2889. Material for a highway

2890. Some whisky bottles

2891. Grand Canyon view

2895. But, cut?

2896. It touches four Great Lakes (abbr.)

2897. “Let’s help each other out”

2902. “Who profits?” (Cui bono?)

2908. Suffer a highway annoyance

2910. Option for a program that fails to satisfy

2912. Click that may lead to a pairing

2914. Puts out to dry, say

2917. First PM of India

2920. Without angst

2922. NJ’s I-95, e.g.

2923. “Light off ___?”

2924. Hipbone-related

2925. Pour ___ a fire: turn bad into worse

2926. Dawn of Roman civilization?

2927. Tchaikovsky hated his compositions

2928. “Zut ___!”

2929. Erstwhile crackers

2930. Marchetti of football

2931. Big Caribbean exports

2932. Acting roles

2933. Speech sound

2934. Start of a nautical day

2935. Odin’s mate

2936. Using a pan

2937. Move through text

2938. Of the calf of the leg

2939. Minnesota product

2940. Profoundly, archaically

2941. Key of “Rumour Has It”

2942. Physics bits

2943. Asuncion aunts

2944. According to plan

2945. Little brats

2946. Latin word for “fire”

2947. Sci-fi luminary Brian

2948. Like some laundries

2949. Grumble

2950. “Close, but no ___!”

2951. Frosted Flakes mascot

2952. New Delhi dress

2953. Some El Prado hangings

2954. Corn product

2955. Buddy on the range

2956. Spread over, as sunblock

2957. Zeroing (in)

2958. Scientist Francis and artist Francis

2959. “What a piece of work ___” (Shakespeare)

2960. Goes for, in a store

2961. Legal intervention?

2962. Supermarket with a red oval logo

2963. Living Lohan star (Lindsay’s mom)

2964. Obligatory item

2965. Sci-fi author Doctorow

2966. City on the Bight of Benin

2967. Operation Uphold Democracy site

2968. Emphatic assent

2969. “___ grumble” (stoic British expression)

2970. ___ Organum (1620 Francis Bacon work)

2971. Smoker’s aids

2972. Urban-air woe

2973. Louis XIV and Henry IV

2974. Yusuf ___ (Cat Stevens, now)

2975. Gorilla’s fruit in cartoons

2976. Attractant

2977. Head of Hades

2978. Frida actor Alfred

2979. Helps learn

2980. Nosy Parker

2981. Fan gathering, for short

2982. Standings stat

2983. Learning insts.

2984. Brit. pounds

2985. Shania Twain song ironically about sticking to it

2986. Barnyard outbursts

2987. ___ with (turn into an ally)

2988. Paula Cole’s “___ Ordinary”

2989. Formal proposal in court

2990. Division of company’s catalog by what replacing it would cost

2991. Charged, as a barricade

2992. Fuddy-duddies

2993. In a walk

2995. Subjects for searching or saving

2996. ___ eyes

2997. Warning from a boxer, perhaps

2998. View slyly

2999. Job in which you pick your work?

3000. Belonging to this date

3001. Violet, for example

3002. Load-bearing framework

3006. Four-legged charger

3008. Java’ trumpeter

3009. Falls, river, city or state

3010. Bankrolls, informally

3011. Turn into two-by-fours

3012. Call into question

3013. BrandX.com fashion relaunch

3014. Program shortcuts

3015. Smizing Tyra of TV

3016. Tarnishes

3017. Lickety-split

3018. Promotable piece

3019. Old Dodge models

3020. BP rival with a NASCAR link

3021. Sought-after math majors

3022. Black out from excitement

3023. Dangerous beast (metaphorical or otherwise)

3024. Gardener’s obstacle

3025. Luxembourg capital

3026. Fly or mosquito’s cousin

3027. Sch. near Denver

3028. Lentil’s relative

3029. Picks up ____: mulls options for lunch

3031. Adjusts to fit

3034. Romantic-lead-turned-villain in a Disney film

3035. Free-spoken

3036. Most Helsingin Sanomat subscribers

3037. Dynasty following Akkadians’

3038. When many lunch

3039. Showers or drizzles

3040. Titan with lumbar complaints

3041. Lit group?

3042. Bathroom supply company with a Roman Holiday line

3043. Proverbially, a kind of milk

3044. Excitable sorts

3045. Scold harshly

3046. Subatomic thing thought to bind quarks to quarks

3047. Buoyant barks

3048. It’s open for discussion

3049. Move your boots, in a Brooks & Dunn hit

3050. Crane pilots’ seats

3051. Roughen and redden

3052. Quit bothering

3055. Rural structures

3056. Bubbly beverages

3057. Swallows, as a lie

3058. Pulls forcefully

3059. “Shut up and go away”

3060. Cheers check

3061. One of the eight in a V-8

3062. “Mmmmm!”

3063. One of 12 at a trial

3064. Sunny times

3065. Hi-riser

3066. Yampy

3067. Some beers

3068. In such a manner

3069. (The) ocean

3070. 1978 Nobelist Anwar and kin

3071. “What a shame”

3072. Harps of kiri wood

3073. High school subj. with functions, limits, and continuity

3074. A cappella group

3075. Last option in a list, commonly

3076. Online magazine

3077. “All I ___ Dream of You”

3078. Contents of Pandora’s box

3079. Queen’s pooch in 2022

3080. Wrought-up

3081. Impart

3082. Lubricious

3083. “I follow”

3084. Titles for muchachas (abbr.)

3085. “Why ___ We Be Friends?”

3086. Cons’ foes

3087. “Autumnal Cannibalism” and that liquid watch painting, for two

3088. “Deck the Halls” snippet

3089. ___-Dixie

3090. Give ___: phone

3091. Words following “hmmm” as you squint at small print

3092. Gershwin-Weill ballad

3093. Cough up cash at (this or that day)

3094. Very Southern contraction

3095. Po’s playmate

3096. Charlie formerly of Two and a Half Men

3097. Procrastinator’s mantra

3098. 1980s desktop feature

3099. Canaan’s idol

3100. Mardi Gras supply

3101. Call on

3102. Trait of “major trait”

3103. Show that’s been called a Magic School Bus for grownups

3104. Available for a hearing?

3105. Didn’t sit

3106. Word after shopping or black

3107. TT or A8

3108. Fish hook?

3109. Snack-chip brand

3110. Item on a hotel pillow

3111. Traveling in a Winnebago, e.g.

3112. Blood bank stock

3113. Big blood pathways

3114. Distinct flavor

3115. Big ___ (David Ortiz nickname)

3116. Old terms of address

3117. Mannheim misters

3118. Collar of a kimono

3119. Firing people?

3121. She often shared a shot with Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes

3123. “I could die happy like that!”

3125. Ubiquitous law, according to many

3131. Reduces to mush

3132. Composition of small boys, it’s said

3137. “Errare humanum ___”

3138. Word before cloud or cellar

3141. Olympus Mons domain

3144. UHF and VHF

3145. Official agreements

3146. Tongue, to Tacitus

3147. Attach with brads, say

3148. Wordplay follow-up that’s about national financials

3149. Mouth, anatomically

3150. Put a lid on

3151. Soon, to Sophia

3152. Sports, as shorts

3153. Astronauts’ good word

3154. Musician Nick who sang “Who I Am” and was on Camp Rock

3155. Caught star Maria Conchita

3156. Twin Cities sch., informally

3157. Only famous Barack

3158. ___ avis

3159. East Asian trading center

3162. How-to inits.

3164. ___’clock (end of lunch break)

3165. Chinese dynasty or weight

3166. King Koopa’s his antagonist

3167. Singer McLachlan

3168. ___-dink

3169. Does something to a T

3171. Chacón in Avatar or cartoon Proud

3172. Kyushu porcelain

3173. Overquick

3174. “It’s ___!” (bullish stock claim)

3176. Grind, as one’s teeth

3178. Hurly-burly

3180. Best man’s burden

3182. Roommate sitch

3183. Flying antagonist of a 2013 film

3184. Reprimand

3187. Plaza for Plato

3188. ___ town (clean up)

3189. “Oro y ___” (motto of Montana)

3190. Type, in Taxco

3191. Handling things badly

3194. Movie scenario (abbr.)

3195. Gregory I’s death year

3196. ___-Whirl

3197. Director Kusama

3198. 1942 screen deer

3199. Without ability to depart

3200. “What’s doing?” down south

3201. Pub hostess

3202. Taxpaying mos.

3203. “I am ___ of my word”

3204. Hip or wrist

3205. Ski in a zigzag course

3206. Fourth of four, say

3207. Ump’s supply

3208. Possess jointly

3209. Morally flawed

3210. Crossbow-wielding, Walker-slaying Dixon

3211. Hurtful heckling

3212. Big name in aquatic tricks

3213. Milk starter?

3214. Plagiarized

3215. These, in Inveraray

3216. “Hi!” to Jose

3217. Almost pornographic

3219. My favorite Girl Scout cookies--what do you mean, you’re not supposed to eat that many at once?

3222. Flipping out (for)

3224. Drinkers’ stops

3227. Pakistani Yousafzai’s autobiography

3230. Helps decide

3232. “I know what you’re about to say already”

3234. Patch up the attic

3236. Iconic WWII island, informally

3238. Southern California range

3240. Fictional blue humanoid

3242. Detective’s pronoun

3243. Into playing LPs backward, as they say

3245. Window into Washington

3246. Make a hard copy of

3247. Pugilists Muhammad and Laila

3248. Spanish attraction

3249. ___’War (racehorse)

3250. Using to stop a flight

3251. Radial notch’s location

3252. Say the Lord’s Prayer

3253. Alternatives, in Argentina

3254. Autumn arrival

3255. One thing

3256. Part of a Campbell’s Soup jingle

3257. “Go right ahead”

3258. Veronese vigor

3259. “___ Ha’i”

3260. Re:

3261. Goner’s fate

3262. “Eight” prefix

3263. Land west of Vietnam

3264. Fifty-plus foundation

3265. Major windfall

3266. Diamonds in Spanish cards

3267. The ___ Erwin Show of 1950s TV

3268. Upper-level doc?

3269. Land almost circling China’s capital (var.)

3270. A host (of)

3271. Balsas y Lerma

3272. Go ___ outing

3273. “‘Sup, bruh”

3274. Apt. divisions

3275. Trattoria meat sauce

3276. “___ boom bah”

3277. Ex-governor of Virginia

3278. Friday and York (abbr.)

3279. Former map areas, for short

3280. Falls from virtue

3281. k.d. of song

3282. Bus. discussions

3283. China, in combos

3284. Dumb ___ ox

3285. Rapper Def

3286. Descends slowly

3287. Second-in-commands on org charts

3288. Equiv. terms

3289. Final (spinning) image in Inception

3290. Toss (about)

3291. Sound repeated in a childish taunt

3292. Common floor cleaner

3293. Eat chips, e.g.

3295. “Wish there was more we could do”

3297. Fem. address

3299. Union oath?

3301. Name that’s an anagram for Alison’s nickname

3303. @@@@

3304. Ad ___ group

3305. Dodge logo critter

3306. Dating service specification

3311. Sycamore is the American type

3320. John Hancock

3326. Letters on a Cardinals’ cap

3329. Shaking ___: “growling” without sound

3334. Decked with leis

3340. Chip proxy on a Visa

3349. Archaism for “of Ghana, Mali, Tanzania, and surrounding lands”

3352. ___ diem

3355. Meas. of pressure

3358. “Poppycock, I say!”

3363. With all your armor on, say

3369. Using only 0 through 7

3378. One way to run the clock down, in football

3384. Top U.S. Army rank if not at war

3395. As Arabia was prior to 610

3399. He’s gonna get it?

3400. Sets at odds

3401. Sneaks a look at

3403. 11.11%

3404. Geophage

3405. Chestnut’s kin with smooth, gray bark

3407. “What’d I say?”

3409. Unlucky mission of 1967

3410. Top militant

3411. Available positions

3412. Visitor careful with footprints

3413. Lamb’s cry

3414. Apropos quotation from Gadsby

3426. Gov’t dept. of naturalization

3427. Matchmaking URL with a Star of David

3428. Concealments

3429. Conditions of growing hard, to doctors

3430. Mugwort or wormwood, onymous of a famous virgin

3431. It’s a bad thing

3432. Ultrasounds

3433. Film spotlighting 1970s TV star Ron Burgundy

3434. Motorboats, to sailing fans

3435. Object to a prospective juror

3436. Those inherited from

3437. Go 1-2-1-2-1-2

3438. U.S. food supply, by analogy

3439. “___ begins with you” (old ad slogan)

3440. Kings and bishops

3441. Word with work or Web

3442. Julius Erving’s team from 1973-1976

3443. Hair products maker Curtis and others

3444. Cash-register keys

3445. Pastry item

3446. Record protections

3447. “Prob’ly not”

3448. With impatience

3449. “I’m stuck…what do you think?”

3450. Parasitic ocean fish

3451. Pays attention

3452. Mexican assents

3453. “Above all” abbr.

3454. South Korean septet

Down

1. Appraisals (abbr.)

2. What lays out hospital insurance policy

3. Packed like sardines

4. Opt to pool brains at work

5. Old Roman habit

6. USD Coin or Bitcoin

7. Floridian Hastings in Washington

8. Fishing ID

9. Champion opposing Hordak, as a human

10. Mal ___ (sailor’s complaint)

11. Talk shrilly to

12. Like nylon stockings

13. Trained group of scientists

14. Spanish foils and guns

15. “OMG, skip the sordid details!”

16. “Not another word!”

17. Stemmed (from)

18. Land in Paris?

19. Count of jazz

20. Golden Boy playwright

21. Ghostly get-up

22. Perform some millwork

23. Impatient rejoinder to “Wait for the right moment to arrive”

24. Involuntary sign of fright

25. Progress tracker

26. Edge shyly

27. Spanish city with many a Gothic church

28. Lavatory option

29. Club sandwich kin

30. Smart as ___

31. City in South Korea

32. Hiring pro, informally

33. “Along ___ Spider”

34. Without a discount

35. Blaring

36. Hide-hair insert

37. Parts of an inventory

38. Certain Japanese in America

39. Allude to

40. Sarcastic bits

41. Not optional

42. Land-related portfolio items

43. Coca-Cola co. city

44. Famous no-show in a show

45. Roman official

46. Trig table readings

47. “Oof, what a Thanksgiving, I ___ much!”

48. Rock singer Liz

49. Site of fighting in 1914 and 1918

50. War journalist Curry

51. Like a close “amie”

52. Without as much tact

53. Half of O.H.M.S.

54. 1995 cartoon about an Alaskan husky

55. “___ a vacation”

56. ___ deux

57. GRE producers

58. Things to avoid

59. Showing signs of an inner ear problem

60. Corde ___ (acrobatic skill)

61. “I don’t know which I want: flip ___”

62. “The ___ See You”

63. “There are no mistakes ___! Just happy little accidents” (Bob Ross)

64. Texter’s “Too funny!”

65. Nos. on room coolers?

66. Language of 20,000,000 in India

67. IRA establisher

68. Use WD-40 on, sometimes

69. It flows into Adriatic flows

70. Used a stopwatch on

71. Made a repast

72. Arctic tundra or grassland

73. No joiner

74. Zedong’s second-in-command

75. Political rival of Pericles

76. Addis ___

77. Swiss city with a Dutch scholar’s tomb

78. Faboo

79. Civil War victor

80. Threepio’s buddy

81. Of ecological stages

82. 2000s TV series set in California

83. ___ promotion (do well at work)

84. What the Es are, in this section’s E

85. Minimal water

86. Iris in Taxi Driver

87. Pilot’s option

88. Donnie with a vicious rabbit friend

90. Practically

91. What the € stands for

92. Derby competitors, slangily

93. Danny of TV’s SVU

94. What you might mind at a formal occasion

95. Airlifting aid

96. Pitcher Harper

97. They may come from the wings

98. Put within grasp

99. Hawker

100. Yarn that stretches?

101. Garr of film

102. Conceit

103. What the e- stands for, online

104. “Final” start?

105. Anti-child-abuse org.

106. Star in a text

107. What the E stands for, in some grades

108. Gun for a Tommy

109. What the E stands for, in phone signals

110. Body parts in combination improving on the sum of such parts

111. “My rival’s vision for our nation will horrify you,” e.g.

112. DUI-fighting gp.

113. Calgary prov.

117. Author Hentoff

119. ER cases

121. Thrice, in musical notation

123. Manannan’s dad

125. Extremity

127. Magazine edition (abbr.)

130. Form-forming org.

133. Rebecca’s firstborn

136. Long accounts

139. Queue past Q

142. “Hopefully…”

145. Bygone telecom co.

160. “Oops!” and then some

168. Contestants in a war of words?

169. Go from bold to timid, slow-thinking to quick, or radical to nonpartisan, say

170. Alfalfa, e.g.

171. Q: I’m standing upright if I’m not simply grand, but just sit on a stool and I’ll sing in your hands. What am I? A. ___

172. Sudden downpour

173. “Lord, ___?” (Last Supper question)

174. City name with lace or cream

175. Sofia is its capital

176. Brag about

177. Showing affection across the waters

178. Borderline

179. Dent or ding

180. NFL all-star attractions

181. Locale of 1990s fighting

182. Was using as clothing

183. Warrior god to Vikings

184. Court amorously

185. Macavity’s 2019 actor

186. Unsophisticated type

187. Bag checkers at EWR

188. Dives into a project, say

189. Locking up

190. Unmoved

191. Having two good options, say

192. Add drop by drop

193. Equitable offering

194. Rickman and King

195. “That’s a nope from me, ___”

196. Gonzo’s gal (not that I’m judging)

197. Story about storytelling under duress

198. Gin’s partner

199. Lancaster’s “Atlantic City” co-star

200. Will have to face

201. Sends after

202. Somalian supermodel

203. Work wk. start

204. With a bonus 50%

205. Sarcophagi

206. ___ as a box of frogs: FURIOUS

207. Child’s span at a piano, perhaps

208. Track’s managing org.

209. Moralist’s comment

210. Crack in the crust

211. “Wishing won’t make ___”

212. ___ sister

213. I as in Iris?

214. “Spring the trap!”

215. “That’s a swell idea!”

216. Who can talk about “Lupus in fabula” and “Barba non facit philosophum”

217. Thing to start with or go out with

218. Math study

219. “Old pal” of song

220. Hikikomori, nonconformist

221. Just a skosh

222. Charismatic glows

223. Health class subjs.

224. Ending the relationship

225. Most Moroccans

226. ___ avail

227. Cold-weather housing

228. “That said,” on a Discord

229. “That’s a snap”

230. Mount Katahdin, Cold Mountain, Brasstown Bald, and many additional highlands

231. Motorway user

232. Snail or slug

233. Letters after DVD

234. Woodworker’s device, informally

235. B and O, for presidents #43 and #44?

236. Wholly

237. Last Call with Carson ___

238. Fish servings

239. Hair care brand since 1931

240. “I abandon it ___ you” (abdication)

242. Panay population

243. Sports-card company

244. Roundabouts

245. What mortgaging may call for

246. “With ___ luck…”

247. Sox and Twins DH

248. Long-legged wader

249. Creator of Sky Masterson

250. Sculptor or cartoonist

251. Affirmation from a Rudyard Kipling book

253. Fictional pair from Carroll

254. Key partner?

255. Jewish ceremonial

256. “I’unno”

277. Gov’t bookkeepers

282. Fails to share

285. Univ. group

287. Kinda a little bit

289. Hero of an old Scottish ballad

292. Tube knob (abbr.)

293. Church day following candy-giveout night

295. US restaurant chain, familiarly

297. Famous Spinoza

299. What a catcher puts down

301. Overextend, timewise

304. Hamilton antagonist by Act II

305. In your right mind

306. Smartphone ancestors (abbr.)

309. Prophet’s namesakes

311. Vanishing

312. Butch

313. Japanese comics

315. Bug in a family that “prays”?

318. Continent

319. Future Jr.

321. Coolidge with two Grammys

324. Outer layer of grain

325. Suffix with Meso- or Paleo-

329. Rocket’s species (but don’t tell him that)

334. Mob bosses

335. It Happened One Night director

336. Least part

338. Rotators under the hood

339. Do great, slangily

340. Taxpaying identity for an LLC

341. Grant and Reed

342. Area area?

343. Bit of dental work

344. “Yayyyyy.”</sarcasm>

345. Used to live

346. Words for “cow” in “Old MacDonald”

348. Mightily, archaically

349. “Run ___” (Bobby Vee)

350. Trust follower

351. Hosp. test in a large tube

353. Autonomous communicators online

358. Old Sienese currency

359. Many PCs ran on it

360. European capital

361. High bond ratings

362. Party bowlful

363. Snuggling pet

364. “That’s funny…ditto!”

365. Force into service

366. Images, online

367. Habits or armors

368. Not ___ (far from optimal)

369. Down for the count

370. Yul’s Solomon and Sheba costar

371. What’s worn on top of cassocks

372. “That’s my story ___ sticking to it!”

373. Martin and Flintstone

374. Stops squeaking

375. With only Sunday off

380. Advisor for Scorpios and Libras

381. From Girls to Grrrlz author Robbins

382. III?

383. “___ of charity is too small”

384. Biologically, some are trans

385. Word with over and out

386. Type of molding

387. Instrument with a flared bell

388. Reactor-fuel containers

389. Long fights

390. ___ the bill (pays)

391. Worst cars in history

392. Refueling area

393. Libel or slander

394. “Look at this prior to posting” links

395. Healing suffix

396. Sticks Novocain into

397. 1990s gizmos that don’t do Windows

398. Grabs the tab

399. Keels over

400. Left in the dust

402. Gets up

403. The NBA and NCAA

405. STL player, e.g.

406. “Could be better”

407. “___ Fide”

408. “Pit-___” (pulsing sound)

413. Less than small

415. War cry

418. Subvert

422. “Take a Chance on Me” group

428. “Stuck with U” vocalist, familiarly

429. Hulu rival until 2020

430. Jazz chords

431. Took ___ to: got fond of

432. Compound

435. Members of a branch of Islam

436. Plumber’s installation

437. Cold and rigid

438. Pie containers

439. Closes, as a fly

440. Provides companionship for a bit

441. Option for wings

442. Luminous glow

443. Needle-sticks

444. Surfer’s need

445. Purple shade

446. 1803 Union admission

447. “Thanks ___!” /s

448. “Men” lacking maturity

449. The Box Tops’ “She ___ Hole in My Soul”

450. Warmongers

451. Daughter of Chaos

452. Structures for troops

453. Schemer of tragedy

457. ___ an independent

458. Alone, to Caesar

459. Disdain

460. Gallop, trot, or canter

461. Scow or scull

462. Crush, as a skull

463. Impersonate

464. Pen dwellers

465. Grenade tosses

466. Robert ___ Stevenson

467. Metro ending

468. Doubting God (or is that “god”?)

469. Dietary protein unit

470. Football’s Collinsworth

471. Blog write-ups

472. Kind of truth said by its “sayer”

473. Mexicali mothers, often (abbr.)

474. “Common” complaints

475. Objet d’art

477. Serpent vet’s meds

479. Eastern music

480. Word with basin or wave

481. Pound-bound hound, say

482. Word in a Tom Swifty

483. Kookootown bananapants

484. Fee for Fifi

485. Bits of baby talk

486. Philippine knife

488. Little blow-ups

489. Not a raise, but not nothing, either

490. Visually attention-grabbing

491. ___ fixe (table d’hôte)

492. Music and painting

493. Strip once about a blonde teen (she’s now in college)

494. Keeled vessels

495. Korean imports

496. Mythical king with a monstrous son

497. Hindu god who rides a bull named Nandi

499. Of the Moslem faith

501. Signing quickly with a biro

502. Mathy holiday on March 14

503. Long holiday

504. “Oh, foo!”

505. “___ Nox” (Mozart’s “good night” composition)

506. Spanish wines

507. Claimed, in a way

508. D&D, et al.

509. Common rodents

510. Worst part of mailing, to many

511. Native of Israel

512. Not sleek, as a German 1980s car

514. Very best

515. Plot part prior to climax

516. Astonishing sight as Jurassic Park gets going

517. King’s target

518. Looker, in old, probably un-PC slang

519. Haunted castle sound

523. Dig ___ for: try to trap

524. Green man?

525. Common 1600s quatrain

526. “Splash Zone” seats at SeaWorld

527. Unspoilt upland

528. Make cutting remarks about

529. Like “poultry in motion”

530. Run the show

531. It’ll last for weeks

532. Highly competitive sorts, in a metaphor

533. Kind of writing with a singular that is its own plural

534. Build, as a crossword

535. Rather close

536. Low garden grower

537. Flat lead-in?

538. Enter your info to some system

539. Get on the bottom?

540. Small bays

541. Caramel candies

542. Pattern for a kilt

543. British island south of Sicily

544. Polish dumpling

545. Big Dipper neighbor

546. Old sailor of classic lit

548. Name on a bottle of Re-Nutriv

549. White-collar workbenches

552. ___ Carta

553. Dialects or whiny complaints

554. Place to play croquet

555. Surly mood

556. Like basset ears

557. Basketball, slangily

558. “Crucify” musician Amos

559. Kid Rock’s “All Summer ___”

560. Bagel’s shape

561. Musically frantic

562. John known for mobility

563. Sometime cat dish

564. Mayor’s domain

565. ___ 182

566. Oriental legumes (var.)

567. Landlocked land’s lack

568. Deceive like Milli Vanilli did

569. ABC or NBC promos

570. ___ apso (Tibetan dog)

571. Trespassing field

575. Unctuous behavior

576. Certain IRAs

577. Ponied up

578. Kind of arch in circulatory anatomy

579. Jefferson or Edison

580. Chicago-based columnist Mike

581. Sennett of slapstick

582. Big client of Lockheed Martin

583. Use, as one’s savings

584. No Doubt’s “Just ___”

585. “___ Master’s Voice”

587. Brit’s slammer

588. “Alas and ___!”

589. Forest of WWII massacre

590. Toilet kit item

591. Island west of Maui

592. Pupation graduate

594. Poses, perhaps

595. Words before stake or risk

596. Sounds made by hard landings

597. Chips choice

598. HP brand for repro tech

601. Risking a lot, as on black

602. Received high marks

603. Anytown, USA street

604. Pub board

605. Relies on

606. B?

607. Cereal additive

608. Attention getter on an IM

609. Staff assistant

610. Moving part in a gizmo

611. Lyricist Kahn

612. “…___ of thee”

613. Alluvium

614. Friday’s introduction

615. Condescend

616. Whatchamacallit

618. To last

619. Friar friend of Robin Hood

623. Subaquatic hazards far, far down

624. What can be shady and colorful

625. Old musicals and King Kong, apropos of production

626. Incitement

627. Part of Boston patois

628. It passes over the heart

629. Connects with

630. Pulls, as a bell rope

631. Ceramist’s ___ glaze

632. Canine’s neighbor

633. Montego Bay locale

634. Like Scotty’s warp, for short

635. Dresses cheaply

636. “I’m ___ for words”

637. Youngstowners, e.g.

638. Rather pale

639. Land that’s now Iraq

640. Blast of a trumpet

641. Fragrant flower

644. Switchboard connection

645. Corporation tracking shows’ popularity

646. Third afterthought, in a ltr.

647. ___ rock (genre for Yes)

649. Gifts from higher echelons

651. Invalid, or anybody in 2020

653. Partially

658. Is ____: will go along

661. Improved, to Yves

666. Product pitched by Bob Dole

670. Typewriter noise

671. O.J. Simpson was in it

672. Number on a sundial

673. “You’re better ___ am at this”

674. Spicy bowlful

675. Birdsong

676. California clam

677. Get by without much effort

678. Public tumults

679. Lawyers’ employers

680. “That’s rough!”

681. Where distance between particles is large

682. Oil-rich Afr. country

683. Word on a light bulb

684. Into bits

685. “That is ___ of you”

686. Public transport in Atlanta

687. Hindi for “palace”

688. Old war cry

689. With a wink, say

690. Words with “mother” or “brother”

691. God of writing with an ibis’ skull

694. Appliances for baking

695. “Yes, I already know her”

697. South of Spain?

698. Bloods’ rivals

699. Louis Vuitton products

700. Nanki-poo words

702. RSVP part

703. Watershed year for the Baby Boom

704. Stuff in a sack

705. Pay, as a bill

706. Coll. hoops contests

708. Far from grainy

709. Happens, at the hacienda

710. “Look ___!” (Paul Rudd saying)

711. Collette of Wanderlust

712. Guy, gal, or nonbinary pal who bought World of Warcraft two months ago

713. USSR, endonymically

715. Near and far, e.g. (abbr.)

716. Med. nation

717. Holdings of a sort (abbr.)

718. Half a tot’s train?

719. Hazzard Boss who’s a big pig (how apropos)

721. Finish up

722. Changes in gross domestic product

723. B.E.Q., e.g. (abbr.)

724. Kick out

725. Embassy workers

726. NFL pauses

728. Most popular TV show of 2002-2005

729. “That’s ___ quit!”

731. Rabbit run

732. Vitamin ag’cy.

734. Island off the mainland

735. Diploma receivers (abbr.)

737. Tampa Bay NFLer

739. ___ gallop

740. Book before Joel (abbr.)

741. Linguist’s acad. group

742. Pat and Pete, among others

744. Rebuffs

745. Buyer’s need (abbr.)

748. Fencing thrust

750. Punic War city

751. Corp. recruits, often

752. “Thank you for allowing my group through”

768. Tremble from the cold

769. Sports commentator close to Muhammad Ali

771. Freakin’ town

772. “You ___ out?”

773. Celebratory drinks

775. Military thumbs-ups

776. Miss Saigon star Lea

796. Woodworking supply

797. Canned fare since 1937

798. For filming, ___ spot of blush on your highlights

799. Month in Milan

802. Walk-coals link

803. Some men of the familia

804. Outbursts from baby

805. Bluish-gray

806. Bebe who sings “I’m Good” and “F.F.F.”

807. “In my opinion…”

808. Sanitation employee

809. Coiled dos

810. Prior to any point that, in classical plays

811. Was destructive

812. Tom Mix’s first horse

813. One who is nodding

814. iPhone’s “thought process”

815. Healthyish cookies

816. Closes tight

817. Like a bow

818. Prayer figure

819. Half a hit song from Rain Man

820. Admire to excess

821. Rhyming notation in humorous short works

822. Dance move

823. Made of a cereal grass

824. How you must win in badminton

825. Microscopic blobs

826. Fermenting agent

827. “I can’t say too many good things about this guy!”

828. Plains Sioux (but not Kiowa)

829. “y? just…y?”

830. Big foot’s mark in retail

831. “Are ___ product of our environment?”

832. Gibr., for one

833. Land unit

834. Monotonous task

835. City on the Firth of Tay

836. Ask for again, as permission

837. Rock’s Sigur ___

838. Word on a price tag

839. Actor Cassidy

840. Warthog in The Lion King

841. Intended for instruction

842. Yucatan “yo”

843. Road abbr. that also says “I trust you” in textspeak

844. “No, thanks, I’m on ___”

845. Blair and Jo’s gossipy companion

846. Arboreal rodents

847. Where to watch jousts

848. Catch-all term

849. It airs Newsround, casually (with “The”)

850. Off one’s plate, perhaps

851. Former 10-mark coins

852. Legendary diamond

853. ___-Magnon Woman

854. eBay trait

855. It’s under the Host

856. Yiddish author Aleichem

857. TV royalty prior to 2020, who lost that status quickly

858. Quick study in his adulthood

859. “Turn to Stone” rock gp.

860. Camera varieties, for short

861. Clark Kent-like

862. Hatched dastardly plots

863. What’s shaking in music? (Or: happy patrons of a play)

864. “___ rather have a buffalo”

865. “That’s all ___”

866. Hedin et al.

867. Chihuahua’s home

868. Arbiters

869. It’s always in Shakespeare

870. Stone or Flintstone

871. Bring together, in Berlin

872. Order from above

873. Part of NCAA (abbr.)

874. Letters of invitation?

875. Opposite of avant

876. Heart of an analog clock

877. Prove not guilty

878. Sound of a fizzling firecracker

879. Iroquois enemies

880. Takes up again

881. Part of a pie chart

882. Second-time claimant

883. Clothing with a rhino logo

884. Tureen filler

887. Dachshunds and hounds

888. Millions or billions, with “a”

908. Hang around unseen

909. Played the bells

912. On the canvas

914. Theatrical trappings

916. First subway line in NYC

918. Obama Administration’s Duncan

920. Woolly mammal

925. Brand name at picnics

928. Corporations authorizing adaptations, say

929. Those, Mexican-style

930. One way to buy at a discount

931. Biblical “you”

932. Scaly anteaters

933. Babushka

936. Film with full exposure?

938. Nutritional inits.

940. Door hardware

941. Liquid scraps of carrots, onions, and mushrooms, say

943. [Blecch!]

946. Soda ___: fountain worker

948. Beachball balancer at a circus

950. Red Square store

952. Star’s mailbox stuffers

959. Mail room sights

960. Southern specialty

961. Top-grossing film of 1989

965. Slang for agent (though they often take 15, these days)

967. “What’s an ___ fav kind of music?” “Wrap” (groan)

968. Savant’s acquisition

969. Abrupt kicks following taps

971. Biscotti flavoring

973. Post-tune-up rumbles

975. Traitorous bands who don’t do much until activation

977. Unwritten rulebook

978. Bailiwicks

980. Roundup animal

982. Halts or pauses

984. Likely vote from Russia in the UN

986. ZZ Top song

988. Filmmaking Nicolas of Don’t Look Now and Walkabout

989. Oculus Rifts and such

990. Endless, to a poet

993. Lengths of .001 inch

994. Uzis, e.g.

995. Impassivity

997. Like a simple vest

999. Disappearing slang for “phone”

1000. Antipasto ingredient

1002. Eye exam

1004. Conclusion of a saying about bad friends

1005. Spay

1007. Jose of MLB

1009. Japanese rolls

1012. Skip dinner, say

1014. The Crucible setting

1016. TV drama length, usu.

1018. A, as in A-Rod

1020. It flutters in a pit

1022. Stud declaration

1023. Baddie’s look

1024. Important labor that isn’t always treated as such

1026. Mineo namesakes

1027. “I’m not up for that”

1029. Kramden laugh

1030. Small goat

1031. Urban II, originally and palindromically

1032. Portrayer of one of the A-Team (often confused with his character)

1033. Suffix with cloth

1034. Avoid, in a way

1035. Ending with Paul or Jean

1037. Like some mi.

1038. Pollutants now unlawful

1039. “Hollywood Blacklist” org.

1040. Brain-analysis acronym

1041. Famous Swiss physics lab

1042. Spray, oil, and facial product chain

1043. Flocks of pheasants (or statement of agreeing that at first sounds like not agreeing)

1046. Impressionist Edgar

1048. Head wrap (var.)

1050. Rococo, for one

1052. The Balearics, por ejemplo

1054. Where brain surgeons work?

1056. C sharp

1058. Blood of Olympians

1060. Math amts.

1061. Indians

1063. Sort of NDA from MPs to journalists

1065. CD-___ (storage devices)

1066. Spanking spot

1068. Rachmaninoff of composition

1070. Spam-cloud, e.g.

1074. Pelion’s burden?

1075. Kicked out of competition, for short

1076. Belgrade natives, once

1077. “Fiddler” meddler

1079. What bran provides, to Brits

1081. Highly draftable people

1083. “___ all right with you…”

1085. Participant in a lively dance

1087. Like back pay, briefly

1088. Ole, rah, banzai

1091. Sisters star Ward

1094. Cinematic “Sisterhood”

1095. Dean of Lois and Clark

1096. Alan who was born Alphonso D’Abruzzo

1097. The ___ of Pompeii

1099. It was thrown in Olympics of old

1102. Freq. paths

1103. Worry during scuba activity

1108. ___ Crush (“You Know I Can” girl group)

1110. Act romantic (with)

1112. Spanish city famous to vintologists

1114. Rivulet

1115. Less shiny

1118. Ford of autos

1120. Court equipment

1122. “I’m doing FANTASTIC!”

1126. Voight and Bon Jovi

1127. Loathing

1129. Tech school on the Hudson Riv.

1130. Share what’s on your mind

1131. Apr.’s season

1133. Personal conclusion?

1134. Vet’s clients

1135. Cut with light

1138. BoSox rivals

1140. Stop moving ahead in life

1142. Not schooled in

1145. Musket missile

1147. Countesses’ husbands

1149. “Thank you, Yves!”

1151. Caesar’s 1650

1153. Nothings in “football”

1156. Covers lightly

1157. Small DNA units

1158. Slight coloration

1159. Boo-Boo’s buddy

1160. Cons’ partners?

1161. Signs of Rialto success

1162. They’re cooped up?

1164. More than casual

1169. Diamond traders

1171. Specifics, in slang

1173. Artist who sang in Hawaii

1175. Subject to a pantsing

1177. Sulu, e.g. (abbr.)

1179. Kind of turnaround victory

1181. Cosmo article topics

1183. ___ tumor: kids’ blastoma doctors can usually fix

1185. Any day now

1189. Graceful luau dance

1190. Oscar’s beautiful Gray

1191. Column with a simple capital

1193. Discography listings

1194. Scottish broth

1195. Brand New genre

1196. Greek consonants

1197. It may be going or lending

1198. Nature of being

1199. Norse force

1200. Cry of passion

1201. “Bart” for “brat” or “Lisa” for “sail” (abbr.)

1202. Inspiring satisfactory financial trust

1205. Gibbon alias

1207. Pont Royal spans it

1209. Of a stone pillar

1211. Fasten anew

1213. Palestinian president Mahmoud

1215. Resistant sort

1217. “Totes awesome”

1219. Ray Milland’s birthplace in Wales

1221. Affectedly whimsical

1223. Crab genus

1224. “Abolish Capitalism Now” orators, probably

1225. Raful and Kenny of the blues

1226. Way of braking in skating that kicks up “snow”

1229. Yemenis’ neighbors

1230. Access AOL, say

1233. Gossip’s start

1238. “18 Till ___” (Bryan Adams song)

1239. Multitalented Minnelli

1240. Disunify

1242. Day with two-thirds of a month still to go

1244. Distribution curves

1246. Pave over, as a driveway

1248. Light, in Limburg

1249. Corolla alternative

1251. Poetic hymn

1252. Get the word out?

1254. Newton-meter fractions

1256. Feline, en français

1257. Barracks night sound

1258. Shoe with lots of holes

1259. Porcine protest

1260. Fresh scents

1261. Offering repairs

1263. Anne McCaffrey’s dragon land

1264. Vermont destination

1265. Cutting lines

1267. Diner’s breakfast offerings

1273. After-lunch breaks

1275. Cowardly Lion’s actor, 1939

1277. Longest-running network TV show

1279. Legally prohibit

1282. Pitch another horseshoe

1285. Snapshotting command

1289. Prefix with saccharides

1290. Cry before a battle

1291. Appearing emaciated

1292. Prepare (for)

1293. Actor and stand-up comic Patton

1294. MLB scorecard entry

1297. Sealy alternatives

1299. Half of an infamous bowling split

1300. “Otherwise, you’ll be sorry!”

1301. ___ Zakaria GPS

1303. Bordeaux basking times

1304. Sweet 16, e.g.

1306. Foot garb worn by Taylor Swift

1308. Word after “yes” or “no”

1310. Nicki who sings “Tukoh Taka” and “Tusa”

1312. Some plums

1314. Ruth nickname

1316. Ethnomusicologist Alan

1318. Burn hours with socially

1320. Mosey about

1323. Perceives

1324. Rubbish

1325. “I can’t distinguish…it’s all ___”

1326. 2014 Super Bowl performer

1327. Account used for charity?

1328. Astronomical or geological change

1329. Children’s-song refrain

1330. Futurama captain

1331. Bring laughs

1333. Toss about

1335. In favor of, to Jed Clampett

1337. Sets with LCD screens

1340. Wall Street Journal visual

1342. Go gadding about

1344. Esteban’s earth

1346. Setting for Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra

1348. German botanist Leonhard

1350. Prosecutor Geoffrey

1352. Some sets

1354. 2007 Mascot Hall of Fame inductee

1356. Ministrations for lymphoma, for short

1358. Gain an advantage

1359. Jail show starring Taylor Schilling and Uzo Aduba

1360. Activists who want food that’s promoting vigor…for our world

1361. Dries, as with a paper towel

1364. 1040 data points

1366. Appealing to spend the night with

1368. Plow pullers

1369. Burning sticks thrown in old cartoons

1370. It doesn’t have a butt

1371. Jumping jack count

1373. Roth offerings

1375. Eye woe

1377. Renege, slangily, with “out”

1379. Survived

1381. Hungary’s most famous composer

1383. Acted the farrier

1384. Why...you, dear reader of this clue

1386. Liquefies plastic, say

1388. High Road album artist

1390. Not yet paid

1391. Cuban cigars

1392. You know what gets my goat?

1393. Aberdonians and Glaswegians

1394. The good earth

1397. Miss, say

1399. “What is the world coming to?”

1401. It follows ka in the Spanish alphabet

1403. ActionAid or Tzu Chi Foundation

1404. Vin classification

1405. Paradoxically, poetically

1406. Kind of time (abbr.)

1408. “Aah” go-with

1410. “I am ___ man” (Sitting Bull)

1412. Lamented loudly

1414. Arabic signs with “t” pronunciation

1417. Tailor, e.g.

1419. Smells so bad

1421. Ringo with the beat

1422. Banquet figure

1423. Wearing one’s birthday suit

1425. Military detachment in the back

1426. Mental picture

1427. Fast “birds” of old

1428. Hit with your palm, as someone’s back

1429. Dolphins got him to land from a piratical kidnapping

1430. Up from Paris?

1441. Change of scenery, briefly

1443. Drug giant

1445. What Pat Sajak will spot you in final rounds

1447. “Know what I’m sayin’?”

1449. Latin “stars”

1451. Pacific coast for both Russia and Alaska

1453. Speaks in Burmese?

1458. Chicken litter?

1459. They hang out together

1470. Dune author

1472. “___ unto those who pray and…”

1473. Climax of many prison films

1475. “Looziana” resident

1477. Grab ___ of: grip in a hug

1479. Central Asian wild ass

1481. Gets ready, for short

1483. Martial arts schools

1487. Fast round of activity

1488. Cows’ chaws

1490. Glassy volcanic rock

1492. Actor Grammer

1495. Limestone formation

1497. Highway divide

1499. Howard who blows up his own housing project, in an Ayn Rand work

1500. Fire-starting need

1502. Abraham’s father

1504. Had to, or thought so, anyway

1508. Ferret’s cousin

1509. Toni Braxton, vocally

1510. Presidential monogram

1511. City in Michigan

1512. The Pres., to the USAF

1513. Syst. to allow subscription to farming

1514. Hinged sunglass attachments

1515. Loud orange ninja of comics and cartoons

1516. Start of an incantation that ranks a royal’s looks

1517. ___ above the rest

1518. In a rigid trance

1519. U.S. woman with origins in Mexico City, say

1520. Nicaraguan group

1521. She’s all the rage

1522. Pronoun, country style.

1523. “You tell her ___ will”

1524. Bathroom visits and food buys, on a trip

1525. How things are seen

1526. Ferret, e.g.

1527. Boarded a bus

1528. Strands overhead?

1529. Mornings (abbr.)

1530. Supersize statues

1531. No facility for musical pitch

1532. It adorns a church’s main platform

1533. Us, in Ushant

1534. Shrewdly tactful

1535. Tripping

1536. Alcoholic beverages

1537. S ___ (kind of bank)

1538. Today, hashtag for a gym rat; in 1900, assistant in tall buildings

1539. In an instant

1540. Restroom wall, often

1541. Cuba and Aruba (abbr.)

1542. Famous political cartoonist Thomas

1543. Needley green veg

1544. Shouts of victory

1545. Uses as a crash pad

1546. Rights fights org.

1547. Winter purchase

1548. Looking up

1549. It’s often dismissed

1550. Dish offering

1552. Union station?

1554. Strut one’s stuff

1556. Trattoria preparations

1559. British society magazine

1561. Dig Dug dot

1563. Outback call

1566. So, so tiny

1567. Dipsomaniac

1568. Kleptocracy’s defining trait

1569. NC-17 or XXX

1580. Jones of song or ninja-fighting

1581. Big, heavy books

1583. Hand drums

1585. Blank looks

1587. Get it on with, to a yenta

1589. Renter

1591. Automaton of Hebrew lore

1594. Cows and sows, e.g.

1595. Out of shape

1596. Counselor of the Enterprise

1597. Lion-woman child of Ra and Isis

1598. 9-3 auto maker

1601. Pretending to be

1603. Where the lava-lava is worn

1605. Ermines in brown coats

1607. It supports quick-dry in buildings

1611. Toy dogs

1613. Imitate, amusingly

1614. Ad words

1616. “What a disaster!”

1618. Chipped in? (var.)

1620. Pilot’s number

1622. Padawan, in Star Wars, e.g.

1623. Draws nigh

1624. One who gets kicks from kicks?

1627. Justifications

1628. Sorts at an org chart’s bottom

1629. Swordsman in a famous trio

1630. Casino game, informally

1631. Rumor about many a good film

1633. Stupid guys

1635. But, cut?

1637. Isn’t infallible

1639. Short-haired cats (makes sense, since cats think they’re royal)

1642. Revealing, as a dress

1644. Alpine singing

1645. Last warning prior to jail for many

1647. Eyed wolfishly

1651. Voting against

1652. Saucy sort

1653. Rosy oil

1654. Fuel-efficient Toyota

1656. Thinks anxiously

1657. Object, in slang

1659. Branded pumps

1663. Mobutu Sese ___

1665. Salmon Fishing in the ___ (2011 Emily Blunt film)

1667. Daily TV show with gossip about stars

1669. Vineyard

1672. Scandalabra playwright with a famous author husband

1674. Get set to drive

1675. Bargain hunters’ lures

1677. Piratic grunt

1678. Stork relative

1679. The Laws of Our Fathers author Scott

1680. Short breaths

1681. Astringent in red wine

1682. Tasting like scallions

1683. “___ this King of glory?”

1684. Juicer’s kind of rage

1685. “Calvin has ADHD” or “Captain America is gay for Bucky”

1686. Chuckwalla and others

1687. Substandard

1688. The ___ luxury

1690. Pearl of LPGA

1692. Ruffles

1694. Simpsons’ ___-Mart

1696. Saudi neighbor

1698. Diplomats, e.g.

1700. Skin-ny base word

1703. Snapped

1705. Santa ___ (California winds)

1708. Pugilist’s weapons

1711. Islamic group

1716. Like wine country

1717. “___ picnic” (“Having a rough day, actually”)

1718. European boundary

1719. Range dwelling, once

1721. Opposite of perfect pitch

1723. Clockmaker Thomas and football’s Joyner

1725. Sneering

1727. Incapable of blocking or dodging

1729. Capitol Hill staff

1731. Flu-ish symptoms from a virus that wants it hot

1733. Twitter follower, informally

1735. Human rights attorney Clooney

1736. “Why don’t we?!”

1737. ___ fool: opt to look dumb

1738. Beginning course, often

1739. Pasta served with peanuts

1741. Showy wraps

1742. “... but it’s up to you”

1743. New Testament gift

1744. Unfair to, as an evaluator

1745. He hosted 11 Olympics

1746. Old school ladies

1747. Scottish child

1748. Spoils of war

1749. Two words before “note” while segueing

1750. Jaunty “Okay!”

1752. Tool for striking out

1754. Place that might have pools and courts, familiarly

1756. Aspartame, for one

1758. Big birds (and not the alcoholic drinks)

1760. Scrabble or Mah Jongg pieces

1762. It assigns flights to Stockholm

1764. “Look! An airship coming to lift us off this island!”

1768. French novelist

1769. Looking in need of a better diet

1770. ___ for Pyros (Woodstock ‘94 band)

1771. Mackinaws and Prince Alberts

1772. Living units

1773. Cantaloupe and zucchini

1774. Perfume bottles

1775. Guitarist who sang about not driving 55

1776. Without cracking a smile, say

1777. Filling up

1778. Tuning ___

1780. Ground corn flours

1782. Make another effort

1784. Ties to a stake

1786. Pick up the tab for

1788. Adds and stirs

1790. Bundestag pronoun

1792. Cake brand “nobody doesn’t like”

1796. Say “Arf!”

1797. Equine strides

1798. Sports page fodder

1799. Tropical rays

1800. Popular wheat-egg-milk dish

1801. Ernie’s two to Bert’s one

1802. Pick in a trick

1803. Irritates

1804. Dunce-cap-shaped

1805. Guy’s dates, often

1807. Duelists’ tools

1809. It’ll unstrand strands making you you

1811. Jigsaw puzzle component

1813. Extras, as they were called in Old Hollywood

1815. ___-four (low hand)

1817. “I ___ idea”

1819. It lost 25% of its land in 2011

1821. Embankment

1822. Hiding up a trunk

1823. The Capitol ___ (D.C. comedy musicians)

1826. Schmaltz

1827. ___ acid

1828. Granular

1829. ___ rest (interred)

1830. Tan slacks

1831. Some kids

1832. They beget

1833. Doesn’t get charged

1834. Brazilian dances

1835. Apt papal name

1838. Proofreading pros, for short

1839. Logos (abbr.)

1841. Science guy Bill

1843. Anatomical foot

1845. Usually dir. of wind off the US East Coast

1848. Super ___: game console

1852. Snow blower brand

1853. Word of contrition

1854. Sawbucks and Hamiltons

1855. Nook partner

1856. Shamrock Day

1857. Utilizes a spatula

1858. JFK, LAX, or ORD

1859. Basketful at dinner

1860. 1970s Yankee catcher

1861. Reach the beach

1862. Yam topping

1872. Name of five popes

1873. Who throws the first punch

1874. Establishes as most important

1875. Govt. fact-finding mission

1877. Enriches, as a roast

1878. Willy or Biff in a classic play about working-man fantasy

1879. Sign of a truck moving off-road fast

1880. Swirly snack similar to a Ho-Ho

1881. Creamy blobs

1882. Songlist to get the club jumping

1883. Painful reminders

1884. Water detectors

1885. Literary estate

1887. Word around town

1888. Hardwick of Power

1889. Carlo behind Doctor Zhivago

1890. Infamous king of the Bible

1891. Football-like

1892. Crowds without much in common

1893. Suss out that optical illusion

1894. Some Ford autos, briefly

1895. Topsy-___

1896. Black and Carpenter

1897. Casanovas

1898. Overwhelms with laughter

1899. French fashion house, initially

1901. Post-tonsillectomy treat

1904. Senorita’s cloak

1905. Proposal of “A Modest Proposal”

1906. “That’s assuming a lot”

1907. Firing-range weapon

1908. Big Russian lake (it dwarfed the Aral Sea even in the 1960s)

1909. Excoriates

1910. Baby’s first or second word, often

1912. Arrange a time for

1913. Frisco public transport syst.

1914. The Indian Church painter Emily

1917. Says “uncle”

1918. Beloved family

1919. It got extra RAM onto your old-school laptop

1921. Something that may be loaded

1923. It grinds out rich-tasting java

1925. Rom. neighbor to the south

1927. Flora and fauna

1928. Play around as if one has much time

1929. Levy on fuel for a Chevy

1930. Lastingly numbing

1931. “The best laid ___ of…”

1932. Part of an egg

1933. Riot-control weapon

1934. Making out (or more) without committing

1935. Appearance of courage

1936. North by Northwest star

1938. Happy Days actor Scott

1939. Ward off

1940. Cape ___ Islands

1941. Mother of Dionysus

1942. Blots on the landscape

1944. AGT star Clair who sings “Too Young” and “Morning Star”

1945. Shakur with “Baby Don’t Cry” and “Hail Mary”

1946. Not getting by the censors

1947. Had a go at finding, as a virus or drug

1948. Overly harsh

1949. Work as a unit

1950. Really takes off

1951. “Be right there”

1952. Branch of a circuit

1953. Part of many online profiles

1954. Some PCs, oddly

1955. Did touristy stuff

1956. Try to hit with

1957. Noted ark-itect

1958. ___ Canaria, chief city in Las Palmas

1960. They’re hot in Hanoi

1961. Try to increase the skill of

1962. Of a month and a half in spring

1963. Stops being a widow

1964. Get on one’s soapbox

1965. In order that

1966. “No man is an island” author John

1967. Calls for scratching

1968. Plan of action

1969. Talkers chew it

1970. One of Mark Antony’s wives

1972. Starship’s invisiblizer

1973. Lively teas

1974. Yacht lot

1975. Mop-top haircut’s lack

1976. Goofs or small hurts

1977. Words for praising your puppy

1978. “What’s more…”

1979. Vegas fixture

1980. Interrupts

1981. Blessedness

1984. Make keen

1985. “One ___, Two to Win,” painting by C.M. Coolidge

1986. Prod, in old vocabulary

1987. Adjusts, as cuffs

1988. Making ___ (raking in bucks)

1989. El Greco’s Bautismo de ___

1990. Swarms (with)

1993. Hummus bread

1995. Tonally sopranos’ #2s?

1996. Introduction to an opinion

1997. Shot-filled toys

1998. Ones who imitate

1999. Mr. Fantastic’s antagonist

2000. With a sickly, yellowish complexion

2001. Optimistic Obama

2002. Daman and ___

2003. Linguistics topic

2004. Cambodian leader, once

2006. Var. on this grid’s 2506-Across

2007. Characters Dutton and Greene of TV

2008. Sonnet’s finish

2009. Classified

2010. “Coffee ___?”

2011. Tragedy by Voltaire

2012. Went slowly

2016. Home brew

2017. Time of triumph, briefly

2018. Join together

2019. Taxing months?

2020. ___ acid (HIO3)

2021. One third of a pencil game

2022. Dating qualifier

2023. “I fix this conflict,” in Latin

2024. South American rodents

2025. Succeeded in

2026. Medicine Nobelist of 1969

2027. Connectors to umbilici

2028. Old-timey nickname for a redhead

2029. Features of leopards

2030. Gainfully employed

2031. Moves with stealth

2032. Insurance “spokeslizard”

2033. Hispanic

2034. Noted yuppiemobile

2035. Car on tour promoting hot dogs

2036. Staff who might say, “Why don’t you try turning it on and off again?”

2037. Grants acquittal

2038. Barton Fink brothers

2042. Baartman and Paulson

2047. Hand holder?

2052. Big name in sci-fi anthologies

2053. “…To sit on my throne as the Prince of ___”

2054. Funny Wright or punishing Jobs

2055. Pomme ___

2056. Rose impressively

2057. Hooverville abodes

2061. Havana houses

2062. Pressable switch

2063. Band with low numbers, in brief

2065. Outstanding, in old slang

2066. Paris pronoun for “its”

2068. Photo ___ (times for publicity shots)

2070. Spy org. until 1945

2072. Suffix with malti- and cocka-

2073. “kthx___”

2076. “Romantic” skunk Pepe that Warner Brothers is trying to bury

2077. Non-negotiable charge

2078. Key of Mozart’s 40th symphony

2079. Oil company sold to Texaco in 1984

2081. Sunni and Shia, say

2082. Jurors

2085. “Sam’s ___” (1980s political cartoon showing a Washington D.C. priory)

2086. Jab in a small way

2087. Risk-managing firm with HQs in Chicago and LA

2098. Beach features

2099. Celebrates

2101. Takes office space, in a way

2102. Whom the host hosts

2103. Some cosmetic surgery

2104. Wrongdoing nobody finds out about

2106. Sequentially

2107. Backup group, as eyes to edit

2108. “Signs He’s ___ Hurt” (relationship tips)

2109. ___ Angeles, California

2110. Celebration

2111. Fiddler on the Roof concern

2112. Coconut-sprinkled Girl Scout cookies

2122. Take counsel from

2124. Lacking nothing

2125. Cultural practices

2126. 100-year-old fictional cake-mixer

2127. State wrongly

2128. Inferno author

2129. Tart part, perhaps

2130. Spots for stats-crunching journalists

2131. Professeur’s concern

2132. Item of personal power

2135. Legals and medics who aren’t quite

2136. Citing works, authors, and publication points

2137. Sound of Uganda?

2139. Star Trek II villain

2140. ___ of Langerhans (pancreatic parts)

2141. Perceives by touch

2142. Ring-tailed exotic pet

2143. Actor Guy of Memento

2144. Survives without help

2145. Russian food export

2148. Canadian area (abbr.)

2149. Madcap

2150. Propose to pay for

2151. Toyota hybrids, humorously

2152. Last Bauhaus director, familiarly

2153. Do jobs for a captain

2154. Even out

2155. About to grow in population, on a lawn

2156. Hopped-up quaffs?

2157. Frida Kahlo portrayer Hayek

2158. Skin product drawn from oat compounds

2159. ___ dog, famous for his drool

2160. Crush at World of Warcraft

2161. Brought to mind

2162. Puts down a bonus 30%, say

2163. Pillars of old

2164. Pet shop favorite

2165. 2003, 2005, and 2007 AL MVP

2166. Joint at the top of the femur

2167. Black who sang “Friday,” “Saturday,” and “Crumbs”

2168. “Never ___!”

2169. One side in a 1980s war

2170. Diner’s carte

2171. Aoki of the Champions Tour

2172. Nightclub VIPs

2173. It follows Wed.

2174. “How about now?”

2175. Fix’d, as a prop. valuation

2176. Follow, with “to”

2177. Big charity contribution, usually

2178. ___ Book Club (TV personality’s selections)

2179. While doing the horizontal mambo

2180. Bids at a racetrack

2181. Sun. morning talk

2182. By now

2183. Lets through

2184. Wash. setting

2185. Italian for “dancing girl”

2186. They’re 50-50

2187. Out in the open

2188. Jumping sticks

2189. Things to lend

2190. Pleasure, in Paris

2191. Parts of recliners

2192. Crossword solver’s ref.

2193. Approbation

2194. 1990s’ NBA dynasty

2195. Coped (with)

2197. Many ‘N Sync fans, in ‘N Sync’s day

2198. Ocean formations

2199. Source of exasperation

2200. Word showing a kind of low status in A Christmas Carol

2201. “Johnny wants a brain” song critiquing our nation

2202. World War II rallying cry

2203. Chess opening, strategically

2204. “Oh, shoot!”

2215. Yorkie’s yelps

2217. Suppress

2218. Spiked dish?

2219. Put more in, as film in a camera

2220. One in with the out-crowd

2221. Wise old heads

2222. Part of a SoHo address

2223. Black-Aegean connector

2224. A string or a name

2225. Aggregations of local organisms

2226. Brood of Gaia and Uranus

2229. Not around

2231. In ___ win situation: stymied

2233. Like some spoons

2235. Some graveyard flora

2237. Adds moisture to

2238. Repairman

2239. Aunt Dinah’s guest

2240. Work in government

2241. Word in a virus causing chicken pox or rash

2242. Place to buy a Slurpee

2243. Herb and Rob, alternately nicknamed

2244. Dad’s lads

2246. Draw ___ (decide)

2247. “Follow my instructions”

2248. According to firmly narrow analysis, in court

2250. Gap stack

2252. Old diagnosis that now includes an “H”

2254. HBO series, Inside ___

2256. First of four Grand Slam championships

2258. Where Hillary Clinton was sen.

2260. Middle-Earth forest folk

2261. Comparatively cruel

2262. Irritant

2263. What CFOs must watch

2264. Sat (up) with focus

2265. Hay packs

2266. Positive RSVPs

2270. Quick flurries

2271. Gaping and bloody in a body

2275. Carbonated

2277. Highlit on a monitor

2279. Contraction prior to “brillig”

2280. “What ___ God wrought!”

2281. Monk-hyped Italian dry

2282. Pants holder-uppers

2283. Not trans or nonbinary, but not traditionally cis

2284. Dear in Dordogne

2285. Part of PBJ

2287. Secret looks

2288. Roll of candy

2289. ___ Squad: Best Buy tech support

2291. Chilly fall

2292. Foot faults

2295. Social visits without planning

2296. “Ooh-la-la” jeans brand of the 1980s

2297. One to blame

2298. If Walls Could Talk... Station

2299. Certain turkeys

2300. Vandalized in a way the owner can undo if they’re quick

2301. Gain an edge

2302. Vintage stickers?

2304. Attention-getting light

2305. Not a spot to buy a ham sandwich

2306. Leo’s habitat

2307. Bella Swan’s mother-in-law

2308. Flat on that mat, in boxing

2309. Cause to get riled up

2312. Emulates Bunyan

2313. Be economical, in a way

2314. Frank Zappa’s “___ Yerbouti”

2315. Saw starter?

2316. Spa city that was a coronation location from 936 to 1531

2317. Merchant marines

2318. Army cars

2319. Alternative to Java or Python

2320. Sotto ___ (in an undertone)

2323. Polynesian porches

2327. KC Royals manager Yost

2329. Six games of tennis, often

2332. C-rich quaff

2335. Pounding parts

2336. Frustrated cries

2337. Shouts of protest

2338. Saturninity

2339. “You got it” in a drill

2340. Impression makers

2341. Guys in promotion

2342. “Football” star from Brazil

2343. Inconsistent

2346. Helps finish a run

2349. “Temperature difference causes voltage difference” (with “The”)

2351. Button to stop an autoplaying ad

2353. What he had coming to him

2356. First daughter Baines Johnson

2357. Handkerchief ltr.

2359. Turndown to “Do you want to stay for lunch?”

2360. Fuzzy, as a JPG

2361. Make a play, in baseball

2362. “I ___ with my own eyes!”

2363. Beck’s last name

2364. Fashion consciousness

2365. Wolf or coyote, e.g.

2366. Joan of rock

2367. 50% up front?

2369. Nods in Paris

2370. Humble reply to a compliment

2371. ___ ghanoush: tahini dish

2372. Natl. Guard companion

2373. Classic Parker Brothers game

2374. It might have Wi-Fi access

2375. “…say, not ___!”

2377. Email footer abbr.

2378. “And no one’s gettin’ fat ‘cept Mama ___”

2379. “Uptown Girl” singer

2380. Among its 2022 additions: “Cruyff turn” and “final girl”

2382. Photo lab prod.

2385. Adjust, as the alarm

2386. Singer with the 2013 #1 “Royals”

2387. River near Ulm

2388. Backs out, as in cards

2390. School/color?

2392. Like an owl, supposedly

2395. “Thinking…”

2396. Easy plant to care for

2397. Bad things to which to jump

2401. Star Wars catchphrase

2405. Shrivelled

2406. Singer Turner and President Eisenhower

2407. Marks of omission

2408. Porkpies, materially

2409. Basted

2410. Psalm, e.g.

2411. Diss track from an N.W.A. icon against an N.W.A. icon (also “F**k wit ___”)

2412. Splits lickety-split

2413. Draw red from

2414. “Does this story have at least two named women? Do any of them talk to each other? About something besides a man?” (with “the”)

2415. Z as in Zorba

2417. They take two to do

2419. Unaristocratic, to a Brit

2420. Branchling

2421. Little setback

2422. Eastern holidays

2423. Word that rhymes with its opposite

2424. Ranch add-on?

2425. ___ package (dorm delivery)

2426. Point at which you find out if Purgatory is a thing

2428. Artsy L.A. district

2429. Mediator’s asset

2430. Prefix with logic or graph

2431. Designer Cerutti

2432. Past time (abbr.)

2433. Estimator

2434. Showbiz sayonara

2435. Barn door hardware

2438. Food and air, for two

2439. Darns or solders

2441. Funnel-formed

2442. Denial of unpleasant pasts, in modern slang

2443. Spanish gal pals

2444. Drops off

2445. Slim as ___

2446. Spot for Who, What, or I Don’t Know

2447. Damp marshes

2448. “Just watch me”

2449. People person?

2450. Turkic people

2451. Yawning pit

2452. Gets out of control

2453. WWI helmet

2454. Occult symbol

2458. You might be safe with them

2464. Shows vivid joy or pain

2465. Victims in a whodunit

2466. Grounds for discussion?

2467. Sensitivity to detail

2468. Long journeys

2469. Riot ___ (of ‘90s punk rock)

2470. Satisfied serval’s sound

2471. They lap France’s coasts

2473. “This is all my fault!”

2474. Period of non-production

2475. Galvanizes, literally

2477. Gold purity measure

2478. Like a hibernal glaze

2480. Sink’s sink

2483. Last West German chancellor

2484. Symphony in Black artist

2486. They cross the bar

2487. Divers’ domains

2488. Kind of dace (fish)

2489. Park-bench users

2491. Sterilized

2492. First-quarter moon

2493. The other Van Gogh

2494. Provided pro tem

2495. Fat-based bird feed

2497. NYC airport (not JFK)

2498. The, abroad

2499. Young lady in a square dance

2500. “Having got,” in shipping

2501. Do-it-yourself display in a bistro

2502. Water source

2503. NyQuil manufacturer

2506. Stunt-flies

2507. Half of a 1970s TV duo

2510. Atlas’s dad

2513. Limburger feature

2514. Thrifty rival

2515. “Help, Hélène!”

2516. Harsh wind

2517. Is picky?

2519. Musical repeat signs

2520. Requiring heroics

2521. Scottish city

2524. 2102

2525. “Cousin Larry’s” visitor

2527. 100% in favor of

2528. Man-mission connection

2530. City on the Oca

2533. Give ___ to (approve)

2534. Slept with, and then actually slept with

2535. Maximally

2536. Triage criterion

2537. Blinded, as a bird

2538. Rock group with the 1994 song “Buddy Holly”

2539. Building wing

2540. Matador’s cape

2541. Knee protector

2542. Above all the trouble

2543. Some tops

2545. Use as a writing desk

2548. Adjusts into impracticality

2550. Endure through the ages

2551. Cassandra’s sibling of classic drama

2552. High councils

2553. Guard, slangily

2554. Cooking oil fruit

2555. Renault subcompact sold by AMC

2556. Gucci of fashion

2558. NFL Hall of Famer Forrest

2560. As a mate, in Monaco

2561. Showy win

2562. What light bulbs and bootblacks do

2563. “I’m n Luv (wit a Stripper)” singer

2565. Lima’s land, to the French

2566. Hollywood-to-Irvine direction

2569. Divisive Mindy Kaling cartoon

2570. Christmas carol sextet

2571. Walk off to catch forty winks

2572. Reach its destination, as a train

2573. Many Maine trees

2574. “She loves me…” unit

2575. “Smoking ___?”

2576. White House V.I.P.

2577. Mayor who almost saw New York go bankrupt

2580. Circusmaster played by Tony Randall

2581. ___ with one’s own petard

2583. Avoid spontaneity

2585. Oatmeal hue

2587. Foolish or annoying person (var.)

2589. Saarinen of Gateway Arch fame

2590. “Would that it ___”

2591. Certain uphill climber

2592. “Ox-eyed” goddess

2594. Hindu spring festival

2595. Summit objective

2596. “I’m in the wind!”

2597. Part of a fielder’s glove

2598. ___ Mary’s (LA college)

2600. Stop resisting

2601. It flows to the Fulda

2603. Act patronizing to

2604. Nocturnal hunter

2605. Quartet with one out sick

2606. Jabba the Hutt’s court dancer

2607. Goldfinch author Donna

2608. Right-angled supports

2611. Losing gambler’s mark

2613. Thor’s sister, in film

2615. Boggy lowland

2616. Hybrid bus. entity

2617. President Bush was one

2618. Signs like an illiterate

2620. Ares’ domain

2622. Royal honor, briefly

2623. “I’m not a big fan”

2625. ___-maw (grandma, in Alabama)

2627. Drum locale

2629. Diner order?

2631. Leather (abbr.)

2632. Handheld Sony gadget

2634. Elizabethan endings

2635. Bug-tracking org

2636. Fryer named for a cook

2639. A natural location

2640. $600,000 violin

2660. “Didn’t we DO this already?”

2661. Popular appliance maker

2681. R&B musician in Chicago

2682. “Just to hazard a guess…”

2683. Kansas City’s NBA team

2684. Colleague of Rita and Hedy

2685. Links measures

2687. Controlled on a plate

2688. Math practical for calculating sound and liquid pH

2690. Down moods

2691. Dandy dressers

2693. Lawn repair material

2694. Kind of steroid

2695. Fuel first produced by Pasteur

2696. Skull-palpating phony

2697. Cheeky lip

2698. Supermarket with a red oval logo

2699. Mazda moolah

2700. Salon’s small paintings

2701. Harvard, Yale, etc. (abbr.)

2702. Some poker tells

2703. Baptist intro?

2704. Sitcom spans

2705. Maximum amounts

2706. What Paralympian Ibrahim Hamadtou has, surprisingly

2707. Day who sang “It’s Magic” and “Again”

2708. One way to store data

2709. Light for Arctic scouts

2710. Explanations for some photos

2711. Cupids

2712. Walsh and Brody of political thrillers

2713. “Is this ___?” (You joking?)

2714. Roman household god

2715. Sources of inside info?

2716. Run away (with)

2717. Sold ___ of goods: had, as in a con

2718. Coll. near Brown

2719. Original PC producer

2720. Interferes with

2721. “Everything’s fine for now”

2722. What a speaker may strike

2723. Andy’s partner

2724. Media co. symbol on the Big Board

2725. Worst Captain Kirk story to air on NBC

2726. Lay claim to

2727. Comically outlandish

2728. Pay stub inits.

2729. Sampling tool

2730. Bones in the forearm

2731. Rikki-tikki-___ (Kipling critter)

2732. What April and only April has among months

2733. Former Fiesta Bowl sponsor

2734. Deep red

2735. Maria’s advisor

2736. Is hurting

2737. “Surely not ME!?”

2738. Swarming underground labyrinth

2739. Mind trap of sorts

2740. Laughs at gravity

2741. Stands off in the distance

2742. “Cynicism is ___-out” (my fav quotation of all, by Gordon McAlpin)

2743. Tie up the line

2744. Races with gates

2745. Pyramid’s innards

2746. Tech areas

2747. It’s next to Wash.

2748. Biting softly

2749. Corolla and Camry

2750. Popular nasal spray

2751. Arctic Circle location (abbr.)

2752. Ugly highway infraction, for short

2753. Inorganic

2754. Going around the world

2755. Out for a ride

2756. Portico parts

2757. Sock-mender’s oath?

2758. Blood classification

2759. Units of lunch

2760. Optional

2761. Hair styling visionary

2762. So, so many

2763. Poker paper (abbr.)

2764. The Pyramid channel

2765. ___ Treasure film series

2766. Unnerving twists

2767. “SO!! FRUSTRATING!!!”

2768. Colombia’s third-largest city

2769. Floridian coastal area

2771. Stays always vigilant

2772. “___ got a story for you!”

2773. Quickly imagine?

2774. Uses for support

2776. Ex-New York governor Mario

2777. Beat rhythmically, as a heart

2778. Dawn to dusk

2779. Whom nobody plays with

2780. HS ordeals

2781. Get Smart baddies

2800. Cruz and Williams

2802. Sharing a form with a traffic pylon

2803. Trysters, perhaps

2804. Sealing in, “Cask of Amontillado”-style

2806. Obnoxious scamp

2808. Can possibly succeed

2810. “Let’s catch up!”

2812. Bean or car

2814. Grant-___ (subsidy)

2816. Blurbs in playbills

2818. Chicken snack

2820. ___ signo vinces

2824. Garden flower used as an insult

2825. Moonshine mix

2826. Not just any student

2828. Tricks past the threshold of

2831. First lady before Michelle

2832. “It’s on order”

2835. Old Testament bk. I or II

2837. Bursting laugh-sound found in Grammy-winning “Dogs Out” band

2840. Home filter target

2843. Stock holders?

2846. Roald who brought us Oompah-Loompahs and Willy Wonka

2848. New York City

2849. ___ of gray: morally ambiguous

2852. Batters

2853. Male bird

2854. Country star Jackson

2855. Proud shouts

2856. Philanthropist George

2857. Not easy to please

2859. Smile of a sort

2860. Bulldog’s NCAA rival

2861. “Answer yes ___!”

2862. Sushi condiments

2863. Old-timey “babe”

2864. Bit of the “Hey Jude” outro

2865. Honorific for anime girls

2866. Ally (with)

2867. City in Kansas

2868. Mountain climber’s spikes

2869. Plastic put in combat boots in World War II

2873. Throw ___ From the Train, 1987 film

2874. Postage items (abbr.)

2875. Hip-hop stan

2876. Peevish displays

2877. CCCXXVI doubled

2878. Like many Ba’ath Party politicians

2879. Prefix meaning “tin”

2881. A wee hour

2882. Some roars

2883. “Our House” singers, briefly

2884. Computer-TV connector

2885. Word-utilization stat

2886. Fork of a sort

2887. Prayer opening

2888. Cl-, e.g.

2889. Working hard at

2890. Outbursts of disorder

2891. Backflow preventer in a drain

2892. Haughtiness

2893. Pointless to debate

2894. Dunham, Perkins, and Darrow

2898. Bare-bones course, for short?

2899. Once every 12 mos.

2900. Throw for ___: shock a bit

2901. Jersey City’s county

2902. Root of photophobia

2903. Bookworms, e.g.

2904. Physicist who now lends his name to a boson

2905. Stats for planes and power forwards

2906. Of a certain group

2907. Stones album Get Yer ___ Out

2908. Barone portrayer

2909. Presidio

2910. Type of legend or cowboy

2911. Outfitting, as a militia

2912. Hatfield foes

2913. Carcinoma mass

2915. Supernatural creature

2916. Lay out cash

2918. With “the,” what to hit at the start of a conciliatory speech

2919. Alicante article

2920. Men hardly worthy of the name

2921. Working and working

2927. Tea party setting

2933. Tools for an auditory assault

2935. Dorm furnishing

2937. Thai coin

2943. Toro, in sushi bars

2944. Cock-a-doodle-___ (farm wakeup calls)

2945. Toast, in Tours

2946. “Within” and “chagrin,” rhythmically

2947. PC task-switching combo

2948. 2019 Best Director

2949. Hits on the noggin

2950. Mattress layer

2951. Pizza-loving warriors of film, comics, and TV

2952. Put in ground, in a way

2953. Pressurized garment for astronauts

2954. Widespread damages

2955. 3, 4, and 5, but rarely 6

2956. Lustrous fabric

2957. Fit and Civic

2958. Cannabis cultivator’s concern

2959. Sub-plot?

2960. Layer of snow

2964. Cuts blades

2965. Coldwater fish favored by Dwayne Johnson

2966. Suburban stretches

2967. Habitat

2968. Phocaea resident

2969. One rad dude

2970. On-tour baby watcher

2971. Thorny plant in a patch

2972. Cheeky lip

2973. Has the oars

2974. Dusty Springfield hit, “___ Want to Be with You”

2975. Spanish sweetie

2976. What the ass says

2977. Old spy

2978. Central points

2979. Bring in things to aid in production

2980. One-person concerts

2981. Addams Family’s artist Addams

2983. Resembling

2985. Braille markings

2986. ___ best friend

2987. Physicist Wolfgang

2988. Old Greek dialect

2989. Banner headlines

2990. “Kangaroo Route” carrier

2991. Country’s Bonnie

2992. Popular shirts

2993. Versatile one’s garb?

2994. Foreboding

2995. 1990 LA Law Emmy winner

2996. Lose time, as a watch

2997. Numbers on HS transcripts

2998. Took a cut

2999. Mount Kinabalu native

3000. “Eeeww!”

3001. Emulate Perry Como

3002. Station for Squawkbox

3003. Abelard’s thing

3004. He foresaw the Messiah

3005. Toyota sports cars until 2002

3006. Play in puddles

3007. Cut ivories

3008. Major inconveniences

3009. Quaffs invented in Britain, actually

3010. Streets and roads

3011. Garden pests

3012. Anybody too old to think TikTok is normal, basically

3013. Sacs that may cushion attacks

3014. Vt. ski resort

3015. Primary military training

3016. Classic violin

3017. Four-time Indy champ

3019. Choosing (to)

3020. Actor Antonio ___ Jr.

3021. Scottish kinsmen

3022. Fubo rival

3023. Italian title

3024. Related to church taxes (HALT IT anagram)

3025. Tonally consistent no matter who plays it

3026. Annoy enduringly

3030. Narcissistic manipulator

3031. “T.N.T.” rock band

3032. Battering ram target

3033. Got to tarmac

3034. Busy goings-on

3035. Kennel yelps

3036. Cause to blow through the bounds

3037. Saturn, for example

3038. ___ first class (military rank)

3039. Connecting gears have it

3040. Folk music prop with chord bars

3041. His toys bring joys to girls and boys

3042. “It’s not a prob”

3043. Mani-pedi provider

3044. Spread lies (or curated truths) about

3045. Church basin

3046. D and ), in IMs

3047. Jazz improv highlight

3048. Diamond who played Screech

3049. American Head Charge’s “Just ___ Know”

3050. Augustus, Trajan, ___, Claudius

3051. Phrenologist or Ponzi peddler

3053. Molson and Sam Adams

3054. “Murdering Airplane” artist

3057. Tell secrets

3058.