Ubercross Abecedaria F
Across
1. Some
significant others, in IMs
4. Dressed up
8. Trick, in
Scotland
12. Attracted
to, with “of”
16. Ices, so
to speak
20. Many
unedited photos online
24. Ponzi
scheme mastermind Bernard
30. Give a beatin’ to
34. Brookings,
for one (abbr.)
38. Addressee
in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
42. Apply a
stroke
46. Keep ___
on: stay mum about
50. “One ___
land…”
54. Citation
specifier
56. Cardio
workout choice
61. Prepare
for a bodybuilding contest, maybe
63. Marrakesh
morsel
66. Monster’s
hangout, or so it’s said
67. Air
traffic control gp.
70. Rafer of
the NBA and streetball
72. Capital of
Japan, to Commodore Perry
75. Counterpart
of jour
76. Wee, in
Glasgow
79. They’re
worth 100 ore each
81. They have
dreams for their lives
83. Pfizer
drug
85. Through,
on some airline itineraries
88. Had a
little something
91. Like “boob
tube toons”
95. Flows like
Flo Rida
98. Medium-dark
blue
100. Site of
North Africa’s largest medina
103. Infuriated
105. Bon mot
108. Take to
the airport, say
111. Football
team leader
112. Smoker’s
lung cancer or asbestos-related tumor
116. Death Star
or Infinity Gauntlet, e.g.
119. ___’acte (between-acts performance)
120. “Apparently
not” or “Apparently not…”
123. So fast
you may’ve missed it
126. Where you
might see a giant Snoopy
129. 2022’s
cites four eclipses
133. Without
authorities’ approval
135. Dessert/breakfast
baked with overripe fruit
136. Puts
together from pieces
138. Weapons in
The Princess Bride
140. Error-free
performance goal
142. Its patron
is St. Hallvard
143. Samuel
Taylor who wrote, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree”
145. Snail or
slug
146. Barnacles’
class
148. Takes off
some weight
149. In need of
food and sleep, moodwise
151. Passed
responsibility for
152. Lebanon-born,
Oxford-educated Clooney
154. Cars that
aren’t gas guzzlers
155. Blocks
that interlock
156. “Jes’
think….”
157. Like
indigo and no other color of the rainbow
158. Sommer of And Then There Were None
159. How to set
a thermostat in winter
160. Dirty
trick
161. Standard
162. Chocolate
and creme cookies
163. West,
Largo, and such
164. Lack of
any sense
165. Clerics
who confer
166. They
refreshed early football players
167. Brevity
168. Crew
member doubling as an ocean activist
169. Certain
NCOs
170. Weapon
available at the Sharper Image
172. “___ go,
not toward or away” (Fiona Apple song “___ Go”)
173. Upstate NY
engineering sch.
174. Otherworldly
176. Makes
shiny and smooth
178. Bouvier
___ Flandres
179. Pumper’s
pride, perhaps
180. Leibniz’s
differential variables
181. Prove
wrong
183. Fun fight
186. Sunscreen
stats
190. IBM
product of 1983
194. Least
numerically impressive
200. Brand near
the Sanka
204. Opera for
the masses
208. Purple-mohawked
pig-man
213. Pre-work
before the ambulance arrives
217. Nameberry
calls this “a perfect name…for a French poodle”
221. Blossom,
in Barcelona
225. Least
functional
231. Body part
where some hairstyles end
235. Great
Lakes hunting boat
239. Working
well
245. Column-lined
pedestrian way
249. Inexorable
end
253. Clean up a
speech?
255. Contents
of a closet
259. Twelve-hour
263. The
Bulldog of Yale
266. Stalin’s
real first name
267. ___ Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969
film)
268. What it’d
fetch in a fair market
270. Request at
a ticket window
272. Threaded
metal fastener
273. In ___:
doing boring work
274. Orthodox
Church official
276. Make to
order, slangily
277. Line 551
in The Aeneid?
278. TV actress
Mireille of Hanna
279. Skye of The Homeless Billionaire
280. Goal for
many aspiring pickers
281. David who
played Rhoda’s husband Joe on Rhoda
282. He seduces
Tess in Tess of the d’Urbervilles
283. Quote as
an authority
284. Be
boastful
285. Lovey-dovey
murmur
286. Quaker
leader
287. “Take ___
song and make it better” (The Beatles)
288. Like much
argument for Palestine
290. The
younger Gilmore Girl
291. Am obliged
to
292. Mixed
martial-arts co.
293. Former The View co-host O’Donnell
294. We were on
a train ride back to Paris from Istanbul, even though it was hailing, and
frozen weather hitting its tracks is ___. (continued
in F297-Across)
297. (From
F294-Across) My traveling companion was a Frenchwoman, Eleanor Tiber, who
specialized in identifying monarch and swallowtail wings; they called her ____.
(cont. in F300-Across)
300. (From
F297-Across) ___ the other riders with tales of our difficulties cataloguing a
caterpillar colony in old Mesopotamia. (cont. at F303-Across)
303. (From
F300-Across) One of them got a funny look and slurred, “___ must’ve been catamoguing GOD’S caterpimmars!”
(cont. at F304-Across)
304. (From
F303-Across) When we asked him to clarify, he explained his theory that we’d
rediscovered ___ of Eden. (cont. at F307-Across)
307. (From
F304-Across) His drunk tongue was heavy, making her name sound like “___,” so I
thought we’d have a little fun with him. (cont. at F308-Acrpss)
308. (From
F307-Across) “That would explain ____ the entrance,” I joked.”Not
a lot of wooded areas have giant tommy-guns at their thresholds. Perhaps the
angels use them to ward off intruders, but somehow they let us pass.” (cont. at
F311-Across)
311. (From F308-Across)
My companion was not amused. “No matter how respected in the field of
lepidopterology ___, ___ and myth are not things I want spread about me.” (cont. at F312-Across)
312. (From
F311-Across) You might feel differently
when we’re in the ___ of our careers, I thought, but said nothing. Perhaps
it was my imagination, but the hailstones looked to me like fluttering wings in
the gathering dusk.
314. You may
thank God for it (abbr.)
315. Homer
described her as “rosy-fingered”
316. Staked
317. “Blue ___”
(Berlin classic)
318. Californie and Nouveau-Mexique
319. Murder
mystery suspects, often
320. John Wick,
Jack Bauer, and Dirty Harry, e.g.
321. Green
building rating system
322. One under
18, in legalese
323. Reddish-brown
color
324. Took to
one’s heels
326. Italian
tubes
327. Adjust a
telescope
328. How
Matthew Perry once flirted with Julia Roberts
329. Marina del
___, California
330. Noodlehead
331. When the
Capulets and Montagues make peace
332. Everything
falling apart
333. Invite the
internet to tell you why your opinions make you garbage
334. Civil War
reenactor’s hat
336. Got there
337. Fungal
spore sacs
339. Grab a
plate
341. Teaching
German?
342. Sweetie
pies
343. Argentinian
arm
344. Roughly, datewise
345. St. Louis
hockey players
346. About 0.88
trillion mi.
347. You might
use an SSN to fill one out
348. Ermines in
summertime
349. “To
repeat…”
350. ___ dire
(court examination)
351. “___ or it
didn’t happen”
352. ____ invidia: “No offense”
353. Be a
coquette
354. Gizmo used
by truckers
355. Fruits
from Turkey
356. The A-Team weapons
357. Traditional
filling for le hamburger
358. Marriage
announcement
359. NFL ball
carriers
361. Long-term
kind of customer service
363. Mother of
Artemis
364. College
lecturers
367. Praiseful
poem
368. Your Silence Will Not Protect You author
Lorde
369. Curmudgeonly
comment
370. Not
pickled
371. Ovens for
roasting clay pigeons?
372. Hearing
impaired, at the least
373. Police
lead
374. Phishing,
for instance
375. Initial
state
376. Sulu’s
superior
377. Musical
genre featuring slap bass
378. Smidgens
379. Iranian
nomads of old
380. It may
require milk to be pasteurized
381. Roman
goddess
382. Pacific
outrigger
383. Untameable
384. Protestant
denom.
385. Progressive
character?
386. “Bombs
bursting ___…”
387. “Like ___
rag to a bull” (yes, they’re color blind, it’s still an expression)
388. Been
recumbent
389. “A prompt,
generous letter of thanks can ___ commitment which otherwise might disappear
when the going gets rough” (Morton Blackwell)
390. Charles
___, so he’s throwing a million-dollar party at his warren for his wedding into
winter royalty. (cont. at F393-Across)
393. (From
F390-Across) ___ has made a frozen altar for her new son-in-law’s nuptials. He’s
a snowshoe hare, so that suits him fine. (cont. at F395-Across)
395. (Fron
F393-Across) ___, Eira, is ready to settle down after a bit of serial dating in
Heaven and Hell. (cont. at F398-Across)
398. (Fron
F395-Across) The ____ in the audience remember her fondly and promise to put
off their holy war until after the reception. (cont. at F401-Across…and for
more on their conflict resolution, see F1946-Across!)
401. (Fron
F398-Across) ___ they’ll play before then will be charades, and its only stakes
will be fudge from the groom’s manufacturing business. (cont.at F405-Across)
405. (Fron
F401-Across) Even his normally frosty mother-in-law had to admit that ___ were
alike: both were the source of much sweetness.
412. Pou ___:
vantage point
413. High (like
Weeds characters)
414. Quietly
insert
416. Horse
utterance
417. Hardly
noticeable
418. One who
may dress like an anthropomorphic animal
419. You can
barely pass with them
420. Printers’
items
421. Single-colored
textiles
422. Takes
flight
423. Captain
Picard’s confidante
424. Many land
sales?
425. Name in
dental hygiene
426. ___ acid
(used to standardize solutions)
427. Eighty-six
428. ___ iron
429. Prepare to
strike
430. “___ home
is his castle”
431. Military
levels
432. Brown who
now goes by Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
433. Ancient
people of Great Britain
434. Langley,
for one (abbr.)
438. Domiciles
that can be closed with a zip
441. Language
whose name means “normal”
442. King in Macbeth
443. Musial,
Lee, and Getz
444. Swiss misses
(abbr.)
445. Their
number increases every May
446. Solve a
word search
447. Rollins of
wrestling
448. Warmer in
Tijuana
449. Aspirin
units
450. L1k3 t415
t3xt
451. Narcs’
unit
452. “Would you
accept ___ of exchange?”
453. Up and at ‘em
454. Vitamin amt.
455. Brief
second
456. Fencing
sword
457. Two hours
and change that can make a big difference in eleventh grade
458. The Sun
Also___
459. Blitzing
goal
460. Browsing
history entries
461. Keyless?
462. Gluck
opera ___ ed Euridice
463. “…her
kerchief and ___ my cap…”
464. Cut gem
feature
465. Resort
features
466. Renders
unclean
467. Revolution
supporters in ‘76
468. Turn from
ice to water
469. ___ time:
never
470. Maximally
meanspirited
471. Abundant
sources
472. Dramatically
different reinterpretation
474. ___ a kind
(a match)
475. Canape
toppings, often
476. Futbol announcer’s shout
477. ___ Buy Me Love
478. Temple
teacher, briefly
479. Tough
pears
480. Hits high
into the air
481. Lounger’s
perch
482. Opera with
star-crossed lovers from opposing houses
483. Most music
stations
484. Its genus
comes from the Greek words for “beard” and “mane”
485. Judge
Lance
486. Studio
mascot brought to life by the Ink Machine
488. Brings
charges against
489. Large
crowds
490. “Blind
Alley” singers (one of the first all-female rock bands)
491. Retrieves,
as balls
492. Staff, as
a position
493. Made a
case for
494. Annoy with
constant complaining
495. Baseball
practice
496. Farthingale
part
497. “Shit,”
much more politely
498. Bios
unread by their honorees
499. Get closer
with a camera
500. Egg ___:
Chinese omelet
502. Diabetic
Michaels revealed as Banana on The Masked Singer
503. Noted Six Feet Under transitions
504. Haydn
symphony La ___ (The Hen)
505. Severe
prison sentence
506. 3-D shape
important in topology
507. Mexicali
Mrs.
508. Former UN
chief Annan
509. Shoe-tying
aid
511. Utah ski
area
512. Passed an
oral exam?
514. Not std.
515. Yours, to
King James
516. Raised
area on a neck?
517. Russian or
Czech
518. Ancestor
of a foundation garment
519. Song’s
partner
520. Water
conduit
521. It may
follow “ye”
522. Winning by
a small margin
523. Cool head?
524. Slavic
version of “Xander”
525. Disco ___,
Simpsons character
526. Exercised
a legal option
527. 2019 NHL
Rookie of the Year Pettersson
528. Dom
Perignon holder
529. Wild talk
530. Up to this
time
531. Military
hospital org.
532. “___ lost!
Hope is DEAD!”
533. Triple-time
dance in Tijuana
534. Perch from
which to rule
536. Okay, I
need you to keep this story from ___. If any of my Hollywood sources see it on
TMZ, I’ll never live it down. (cont. at F540-Across)
540. (From
F536-Across) They’re making a movie that starts with one of ___ invaders from War of the Worlds. (cont. at
F542-Across)
542. (From F540-Across)
___ soldier is coming home, having survived that “War” by quarantining. (cont.
at F544-Across)
544. (From
F542-Across) They’re calling her ____, because her heat ray burned her enemies
to ash, but the “feminine” suffix makes it sound cute. (cont. at F546-Across)
546. (From
F544-Across) ___ stars twinkle over her head as she brings back her bounty:
several Earth fruit seeds. (cont. at F548-Across)
548. (From
F546-Across) She settles down near the town of ___ (Latin and Greek for “intrinsically
a city”) and begins her garden. (cont. at F550-Across)
550. (From
F548-Across) I forget who ___-up comedian is that they’re getting to play her:
could be Amy Schumer, could be Wanda Sykes. (cont. at F552-Across)
552. (From
F550-Across) Anyway, one of her fruits grows and grows so big it makes her
dwelling look no bigger than ____. (cont. at F554-Across)
554. (From
F552-Across) Cameron is attached to direct. Now remember, mum’s the word. Say
nothing about ____.
558. “…___
quit!” (ultimatum)
559. L
560. Do-nothing
tendency
561. Proclaims,
in the Bible
562. Afrikaner
ancestors
563. “When you
put it like that, makes sense”
564. Like some
cheap jewelry
565. Unnatural,
as a performance
566. Springfield
who released “I Only Want to Be with You”
567. Beck’s
partner
568. Plain of
Jars setting
569. “Just a
means to ___”
570. Bit of
snow
571. Vye who
drives men crazy
573. Cone
holders
574. Concluding
words
575. Michael J.
Fox’s biggest box-office role
576. Pluckiness
577. Exhilarating
578. British
booze-centered comic strip
579. Driving-course
marker
581. Dory tool
582. Pocket
fill, in a children’s rhyme
583. One-horned
beast, for short
584. ___ toilette
585. “___ the
East, and Juliet…”
586. Pasta/rice
brand word
587. Not as
gloomy
588. Certain
print
589. Fuss over,
with “on”
590. Pay, with “over”
591. Make ___
on: make a pass at
592. Knightley
of Anna Karenina
593. “___ take
arms against a sea…” (Hamlet)
594. “I ___
wondering...”
595. Bean
mentioned in The Silence of the Lambs
596. Certain
pious Jew
597. Chain with
a cat/dog logo
598. Revelation
comes after it
599. Does some
pre-laundry work
600. “Life
shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” Nin
601. Has the
privilege of
605. Post-lunch periods,
for short
606. Give ___
(heed)
608. Bud
service
609. Surge
610. How beer
at a cookout might be kept
611. Some, in
Spanish
612. Sunnis or
Shiites, e.g.
613. Weird Al’s
“___ Be Stupid”
614. In
conclusion, in Cannes
615. Spade and
Snead
616. Problems
for lighthouses
617. Greek
peace goddess
618. Like a
no-see-um
619. Line often
spoken in yellowface
620. Bush’s
group
621. Food in a
shell
622. Kid around
with
623. Small weight
624. Caught
with a pot
625. Accusatory
gp. during the McCarthy era
626. Top-priority
recruits
627. Org. of
Eagles
628. One of the
Ewings on Dallas
629. Roald who
wrote The Fantastic Mr. Fox
630. Junctures
631. You’ve
heard how he conquered the known world, but have you heard about ___ he fell
through a wormhole to Stilltime Isle? (cont. at
F640-Across)
640. (From
F631-Across) The “still time” kept him young, but he was trapped alone there
for a century. _____ with nothing to eat but salmon and bluefin! (cont. at
F645-Across)
645. (From
F640-Across) When he finally found another wormhole near enough to the ground
that he could escape, Al bid a fond farewell to the island: “____!” (cont. at
F650-Across)
650. (From F645-Across)
And there was “still time” to get back to conquering new lands. Too simple a
tale? Not enough twists? Well, not every narrative can be a ___ Henry.
652. Corrida
sound
653. Luau
accompaniment, briefly
654. What-___
656. “I am the
Ruler of the Queen’s ___” (Gilbert and Sullivan)
657. Freestanding
curved structures in Spanish countries
658. One-named
soccer star
659. Turf’s
menu partner
660. Canvas
frame
661. Bore that’s
not tiresome
662. Rhinitis-treating
docs
663. Work hard
664. US oil hub
665. Bands
rolled by children
666. Balding
man’s fashion choice
667. Cereal box
stat
668. “___ in
Chuck E. Cheese stands for ‘Entertainment’”
669. Starbucks
order, briefly
670. Abides by
671. Torments
672. Master
film editor Allen (whose name uses two letters and sounds like it uses one)
673. Irishman O’Flaherty
674. Interfering
with
675. Epically
awful
678. Scheduling
commitment
682. Coastal
formation
683. Refrigeration
fluid
684. “Come va?” answer
685. Features
of Boolean logic and Hollywood life
688. “Yo,
buddy, over here”
689. Links gp.
690. Start to a
Cameroonian conclusion
691. “I’ll take
your word ___”
692. Bertolli
alternative
693. Simple
sugars
695. Democratic
Illinois congressman Emanuel
696. Issa and
Addison
697. “___ pray…”
698. Full of
feminine signifiers
699. Some
flatbreads (var.)
700. Form found
more in cartoon magnets than in real ones
703. Most ears
start to hurt at 12 or 13
704. Lean-fleshed
fish
705. Breakfast
bar bit
706. Bulgarian
money
707. Place to
roost
708. Alan who
plays a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story
709. Era that
closes out classical Japanese history
710. Interpret
stretchily and maybe forget for a bit, as rules
711. ___ Field
(New York vaccination hotspot)
712. Hoists
again, as sails
713. Dublin-born
actor Milo
714. Part of a
Shakespearean parting shot
715. Gershon of
P.S. I Love You
716. Archival
medium, for short
717. Like most
of Hamilton
718. Home loan
org.
719. Contemptible
720. You, to
you
721. Analyzes
critically
722. Aqua ___:
corrosive acid
723. Facebook
endorsement mechanism
725. Crimewave director Sam
727. Online TV
giant
728. Illogical
731. Greeting
via the internet
733. Through
word of mouth
736. There’s
been a riot and a bombing at Greyhold, the prison for
criminal colors! Violent Violet is loose, and so are Murky Murder, Blood Red,
and Laser Lemon…in all, there’ve been ____! (cont. at F740-Across)
740. (From
F736-Across) Khaki the Kult Leader has set himself up as some kind of ____, a
supposed savior on an obscure desert hill! (cont. at F742-Across)
742. (From
F740-Across) Gold and Silver, those roots of all evil, have chartered a boat to
their hideout on ____, a skerry of semi-precious stones! (cont. at F745-Across)
745. (From
F742-Across) Such panchromatic perfidy! If each of these hues commits just one
evil act per day, and counting the prison break as
just one, then after forty days and forty nights we’ll reach Color Crime #___!
(cont. at F749-Across)
749. (From
F745-Across) Beware the Off-White Offenders! Few things go together as
naturally as larceny and AlaBASTARD…except for ____,
a poisonous tool from a poisonous soul! (cont. at F753-Across)
753. (From
F749-Across) ___, Villain Veridian! There are so many dark recesses of
depravity your kind won’t fail to enter! (cont. at F756-Across)
756. (From
F753-Across) Only one “character” can stop you, one whose hue will defend what’s
true! A world of coloremetric chaos demands a
representative of alphanumeric order! Evildoers beware…____!
759. Cine
closing
760. They don’t
produce lava, but their steam can still cook you
762. Caravan
campsite
763. Dining
table expander
764. Iris’s
cousin
765. Short
breath
766. “I
sometimes think I was born to live up to my name…I would either have ended up
___ or this” (Madonna)
767. HS math
class
768. Like a
pancake
769. Jimmy
Carter’s middle name
770. Some
frozen treats
771. Cabinet
dept. formed in response to the 1973 oil crisis
772. Unreliable
musical instrument?
773. Went down
the Chattahoochee, parhaps
774. Frequent
classical guitar setting
775. Chute
racers
776. Good ___ (Gaiman-Pratchett collab that’ll produce its seventh
episode…any day now)
777. With no
strings attached
778. Represented
the full range of possibility
779. Start of a
few choice words?
780. Like
products advertised on Saturday Night Live
781. Return of
the Jedi forest moon
782. Colorful
fish
783. Alternative
to Flonase
784. Work out
with barbells
785. Like some
classy restaurants
786. Second and
third characters in WoW-like RPGs
787. Depp role
788. New Ager
with four Grammys
789. “...___
speak”: “I mean, you could put it
that way”
790. Historic
invasion date
791. Full
frontal pair?
792. Admissions
office honcho
793. Lower in
rank
794. Belgian
locale reconstructed after World War I
795. Quaking
poplars
796. Practically
dead, emotionally speaking
797. In and of
itself
798. The -
ends, usually
799. [Eye roll]
“Don’t ___ innocent”
800. Short
shorthand writer?
801. Awards for
RAF pilots
802. Young
Scottish woman
803. Engraved
marker
804. “Just two
names,” for short
805. Seldom’s antithesis
806. Crucial
points
807. Pill or
injection
808. Participate
in a war?
809. Period of veinticuatro horas
810. 1440
812. Pinch of
fluff
813. Living
entity
814. “Time ___
the essence!”
818. Chkng. or svngs.
822. 440 or 10K
826. Model Kate
830. Preceder of E or W
834. Uber
competitor
838. Informal
dining spot
842. “___ among
men”
846. British
dandy
850. Gut
feeling
855. Furniture
wood
861. Freeze-___
866. It
indicates pitches below middle C
871. MDX, ILX,
TLX, and NSX, on the dealer’s lot
877. Schools
for would-be engrs.
882. Speech
balloon for a character who’s trying not to cry
887. Board game
with pegs
893. “I think
we got ___ the wrong foot”
895. Like a
prune
896. Suffix
with Edward
897. Saturday,
to Sartre
898. Disney’s
Dwayne-voiced demigod
899. Way to
charge that changes with the time of year, for short
900. Not home,
as a game
901. How many
sit-___ day do you do? I’ve decided to write “fifty” here in hopes that writing
this clue will motivate me to make it true
902. Its
members have included FDR, DDE, and JFK
903. Sigh of
contentment
904. Clubs
without turkey
905. Apply
blacktop
906. Author of Verite
907. 2010s
health scare
908. Horrid
creature of magick
909. Kidney
related
910. Farmer’s
refrain
911. Where Wood
Buffalo Park is
912. You say
this to untag yourself?
913. Naval
tracker
914. Blaster
with invisible ammunition
915. Brock or
Boudreau
916. C.J. the circusmaster, the modern descendant of P.T. Barnum, ____,
directed his faithful crew. (continued in
F1134-Across)
919. “Advantage:
server”
920. Get in the
way
922. Weapon
deployed in The Incredibles
926. Grant
favor
928. Disqualifying
930. Be after
all’s said and done
931. Designer
von Furstenburg and movie exorcist
932. Separation
of a compound word
933. She’s
ruthless, she’s trouble, and you really need to stop thinking about sleeping
with her
935. Time of
Purim
936. “text u
later”
937. “___ My
Wallet in El Segundo” (A Tribe Called Quest)
940. Go rapidly
942. Menswear
selections
943. They might
go for big bucks
944. Semi-colon?
945. Jotted
down
947. Puts
points on a graph
949. Makes
precious
950. Historic
Atlantic crosser
951. Peers
through a window
952. Giraffe’s
head?
954. Oath
invoked by Pope
955. Chipotle
competitor
957. The Buddha’s
main attendant
959. Kafka’s
conclusion?
961. Lethal Weapon 2 actor
963. Bullring
figure
964. Ozarkian possessive
965. Fix, as a
cue
967. Ludacris
hit song?
969. Mexican
revolutionary Pancho
970. Begrudge,
maybe
971. Where to
find F-16s, for short
972. “I’ve
never heard of her, so she can’t be important,” e.g.
973. Venus and
Mars, for two
974. Thrusts
975. Symbol on
the Argentine flag
976. Stereo
setup
977. Resistant
to light over time
979. Vessel of
WWII
980. Dashboard
choice
983. Soul mate?
985. More
interesting to a collector
987. Holidays
989. Vatsyayana’s
“Teachings on Desire”
992. Take ___
(lose lots of money)
994. Coat with
an alloy of lead and tin
996. “Better
luck ___ time”
998. Battleship
guess that’s a piece in other games
1000. Second
chances, casually
1002. Memphis-to-Nashville
dir.
1003. Join the
cast of
1004. Tao Lin
novel Eeeee ___ Eeee (maybe
I should’ve included this one in its entirety in the E section)
1005. Ziegfeld
and Mrs. Andy Capp
1006. Show of
strength?
1007. “Oh, my!”
exclamation I usually heard on Danger Mouse
1008. TV
attorney Stone prone to hallucinations
1010. Lightened
up on
1012. We thought
it’d be like what COVID became
1013. Some women
have a vocal one
1015. Bad
influences
1018. Badass villain
in Rogue One
1020. Lots of
business?
1022. The West Wing actress
Kelly
1023. In a
position of authority
1025. Cutter’s
next of kin
1027. Churns up
1029. Safety
elevator pioneer
1031. “Here ___,
there ___” (kids’ song refrain)
1033. McQueen or
Versace
1035. Latin
diphthongs
1036. Hero with
a hand out
1038. Glassmaking
material
1039. Drone
regulation grp.
1042. Unsubtle
1046. Finicky
scholar
1047. Proponent
of “mitigated skepticism”
1048. “If you
want something, don’t give up!”
1055. One begins
“Rhapsody in Blue”
1056. Godawful
1059. Ancient
malls
1061. Fake, on
the field
1063. Nevada
base teaching combat aviation
1065. Sweeping
stories
1067. Steps over
a fence
1069. Checking
for accuracy
1072. Pick
another book name
1073. Coughing
or spasming attacks
1075. “___
partner” (clue for EITHER)
1076. Slicing,
dicing, etc.
1077. Explodes
1078. Pond one
feeds in one’s backyard
1080. Short-tailed
field rodent
1081. Rust-fungi
spores
1082. Others, in
Orense
1083. ___-humanité
1084. Carved
slab
1085. Person
making a bid
1088. Enneads
1090. Guard dog
warnings
1092. Watch for
another time
1094. Site of
Syrian strife in the mid-2010s
1096. Envisioning
naughty romantic scenarios
1099. Top, as of
a moth
1100. Cars
introduced in 1904
1102. Tony,
first Black coach to win a Super Bowl title
1103. Golfer
Lauren
1105. Senate
Majority Leader before Reid
1108. Prohibition
and Victorian periods
1109. Tops at
wisecracking
1110. First
principle for Objectivism, or so it’s claimed
1111. Succumb to
microbial action
1113. Threat to
climbers on the Alps
1114. Campaigner
from Illinois
1115. “Clair de
___” (Debussy work)
1116. Master of
getting plastered
1117. Help
out like a good girlfriend
1119. Carry a
___ weight
1121. Thing all
good stories, unfortunately for Game of
Thrones, must have
1123. Be totally
thorough
1126. Hollywood
investor
1128. Scissors
stroke
1130. First
letter in Israel (var.)
1132. Field of
fields? (abbr.)
1133. ICU sounds
1134. (From
F916-Across) “Now remember,” he said, “four clowns will try to get into the
cannon, but three lack the acrobatic training to land safely. So ____.” (cont.
in F1327-Across)
1137. Alter ego
1139. Makes a
fool out of
1141. Student
debtors’ reprieves
1143. Speed,
bird, or singer
1145. What
follows directions?
1146. I have
also (experienced sexual harrassment)
1148. Nothing,
in Napoli
1150. Third note
in a B-major scale
1152. Anti-human-trafficking
lawyer Ashe married to Seth Meyers
1153. “Oh, man,
I wish I could be her”
1154. Sticks
with sticks
1156. Subdivision
in taxonomy
1158. Catch the
wind
1160. Inflatable
armbands
1163. “Thinking
is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason ___ engage in it”
(Henry Ford)
1164. “___
registered to vote” (commonly Googled question)
1165. It may be
single in a knockout
1166. As a joke
1167. Oaxaca
wife’s title (abbr.)
1170. Rake
alternative
1172. Last month
(abbr.)
1173. Death Row
Records cofounder Knight
1174. Smash
letters?
1175. Claustrophobe’s
nightmare, for short
1176. We ___ Heroes (film
title inspired by Bowie lyric)
1177. Grounded
supersonic jets
1179. Funk
singer Marie
1181. Scrapple
(Depression food)
1183. Curved
metal piece in suspended ceilings
1185. Get on the
dais and speak
1187. Visionworks
alternative
1189. Le Carre
left it for Scribner
1191. Protected
Scottish lakes
1193. “But in
the hero ___ forget the man” (Warren)
1195. Shows up
1196. Concerning
sheep
1197. Eateries
that often serve wine
1199. Interrogator
who may be exaggerating her temper
1200. Wished you
could take back
1201. Bug you
may find around your fruit bowl
1203. Puts in
royal colors, e.g.
1205. Like
hormones synthesized from amino acids
1212. Mr.
Rubinstein, whose name was sometimes spelled with an H
1213. 8/
1215. British
guns
1217. Get word
to
1219. Rearmost
1221. “This
is…the dawn of a new ___ transportation” (Shervin Pishevar, Executive Chairman
and Co-founder of Hyperloop One)
1223. “Oh, say
___ so!”
1225. “With a
cool and confident kind ___” (Rodgers & Hammerstein line)
1227. 1990s
Europop’s ___ Base
1229. ___-Land (TV series in the Lost/Prisoner vein)
1231. Put oil on
1232. In favor
of, in Dogpatch
1233. Savannah-based
chef Anthony Bourdain described as “The worst, most dangerous person to
America…she’s proud of the fact that her food is f@#$ing
bad for you”
1234. Piece of
land enclosed by dikes
1235. Yield the
floor
1236. Good, but
not great
1237. Unit of
heat
1238. Most corn
and rice crops, these days
1239. Territory,
metonymically
1240. Start of
many a tribute
1241. ___ time
flat
1242. The Wizard of Oz actor and
family
1243. Theogony poet
1246. Like
plasma TVs
1248. James who
delivered the line, “I cannae change the laws of
physics!”
1250. “___
intended!” (rarely believable statement from a
crossword-maker)
1252. Red-lin’d
1255. It means
no overtime
1258. Rude, and
then some
1260. More
uninhibited
1263. Long ago
1265. Ride and
Brown
1266. Drag
through the mud
1267. Fitting final answer for this puzzle?
1268. Swiss
skyline sight
1269. Touchpad
site
1271. Tell ___:
lie a little
1273. Item
checked by security
1274. “Don’t
open in the office” letters
1275. Eschewed,
as fat or lean
1276. Queen or
her servant
1277. Human
finisher
1279. How The Breakfast Club and Thelma and Louise ended
1282. Chihuahua
bites
1284. Place to
run aground
1285. Chests’
places
1287. Greek city
celebrated by Pindar
1288. Lead
prosecutor on the anti-Mafia “Pizza Connection” case
1290. “Oh, ___
mention…”
1291. Have a
chair by, as a table
1295. Muslim
headdresses
1297. Opposite
of piano
1298. Prefix
meaning “billion”
1299. 2000 Bell
Atlantic acquisition
1300. Of good
cheer
1302. End for
market or auction
1303. Yiddish
insult used for a character name on Sesame Street
1305. ___ about
(date designation)
1307. Fish
appendage
1308. Early
dinosaur period
1311. Helped out
1312. With “down,”
get calm; without “down,” stay mad
1314. Certain
Crimean
1316. Security
measure on a roller coaster
1318. Hardly “little”
four-time NBA All-Star Game MVP Bob
1320. Muppet dog
1322. Bristly
1324. French
thinker?
1326. Counter
action
1327. (From
F1134-Across) “I mean, I always think it’s a huge hassle to write a ____ for
the obits,” he tried to joke. Nobody laughed. (cont. in F1330-Across)
1330. (From
F1327-Across) “Moving on…” he began, but Aerial Annie, the teenage
tightrope-walking ____. (cont. in F1485-Across)
1336. Fiji
neighbor
1339. Pick over
methodically
1340. Outward
1342. Sports
score seen in a cop-show title
1344. Kirsten of
Spider-Man and Interview with the Vampire
1346. Not the
best place to park
1348. Elton John
song about an astronaut
1350. Perpendicular-hockey-boot
trick
1352. Was taken
aback
1354. Ben, in
Hebrew names
1356. They’re
stuck into steaks
1358. Island
group off Taiwan
1360. Revolutionary
War portraitist
1362. “Why, ___
the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis…” (Neil Gaiman,
American Gods)
1364. “Boy!” or “girl!”
preceder
1366. Blowtube
projectile
1367. Compels
1368. Chain
smoker’s buy
1369. Do some
male gazing to
1370. Time for
Halloween
1371. A mere
handful
1373. It’s
hardly A-1 sauce
1375. Put
against one another
1377. John
Legend was the first black man to win one
1379. Records of
beats (abbr.)
1380. Sub-brands
such as Giulia and 4C Spider
1382. Sao ___
(Brazil’s largest city)
1384. Barn owl’s
roost
1386. Illegal
deal where the manufacturer sets the retail price
1390. Letter-marked
insect often called “silver”
1392. Tell the
secret about
1394. Disco hit
of 1978
1396. JFK stat
1397. A Shot in the Dark co-star
1398. Hinges on
humans
1399. Count with
fangs, briefly
1400. “I’m not
___” (diplomatic expression of dislike)
1401. “Frying
bacon? Take off your shirt so you don’t get grease on it,” e.g.
1403. Drops
displaying a well-loved page, as a book
1405. Astaire/Hepburn
musical
1408. Pen, e.g.
1410. Heel’s
opponent
1412. Famed
archer
1414. Virtual
animal
1416. Marie
Osmond’s ___ Belle dolls (pun alert)
1417. Like some
humor
1418. Does an
after-( or before-)dinner chore
1421. Annual
Christmas party group
1423. Does
nothing
1426. Where
critical things come
1428. Authoritative
texts
1429. Agency
with many advances in GUIs
1430. Kind of
investment bond, briefly
1431. Yankee
suspended through 2014
1432. “Neither
___ ll” (multiple-choice answer often placed fourth)
1433. Icy sheet
asea
1434. Publicize
1435. Res ___ Ioquitur
1436. PGA golfer
Aoki
1437. Belgian
composer Guillaume
1438. Everest
and St. Helens (abbr.)
1439. Lone chime
time
1441. Entice
1443. Prison
that took Cash
1445. Powder
taken through the nose
1447. Come to
___ in the road: find the journey getting a bit more challenging
1449. Position
on an issue
1450. They often
hit the ground running
1452. Counselor-___
1453. Have a bug
1454. In an
artful, clever way (var.)
1455. Note in an
F minor scale
1456. Theme, in
art
1457. Stop sign?
1458. Word
following meal, battle, or floor
1459. Mad about
something
1460. Alternatives
to Krogers and Safeways
1461. Relatives
1462. With “the,”
“the holy land of the English”
1463. Bridge
positions (abbr.)
1464. Meat, when
offered along with fish
1465. Printer
part that melts toner onto the paper
1466. Ore.
setting
1467. Stink like
1469. Insulting
term for one who changes their mind
1472. Make
transparent, in a way
1474. Spend time
visiting, as an area
1476. Close to
perfect, as a guess
1478. Mother
Goose character
1480. Craft for
the loaded
1482. Pittance,
colloquially
1484. Mandalorian
Djarin
1485. (From
F1330-Across) “Clowns can move quickly or slowly, and both can be funny,” Annie
said. “Could Joanna B., Jeanie M., and Jenny N. move slowly and awkwardly, and
give Rebecca a clear chance to get ahead?” “You’re right. Crisis averted,” the circusmaster agreed, and tersely commanded the three, “___.”
(cont. in F1488-Across)
1488. (From
1485-Across) “Alternately, I could get the firehose and start spraying Jenny N.
and Joanna B. with it,” Jeanie M. suggested. “No,” said C.J., “Annie’s idea is
better, M. If you only knocked down one of the other two, that would still
leave ___.”
1490. “Queen ___”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley poem)
1492. Rhyme
scheme of Dylan Thomas’ “And you, my father, there on the sad height, / Curse,
bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. / Do not go gentle into that good
night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
1493. Told tales
1495. Streamlets
1497. Condiment
sources mentioned in one of Jesus’ parables
1500. Yes or no
emphasizer
1502. First and
foremost
1504. Cracked
ice
1506. What that
is in Toledo
1507. Microscopic,
informally
1508. Courtney
Love’s group
1509. Life of Pi author Martel
1510. Proximal
prefix
1513. Lady in an
apron
1517. Woman’s
name that acronyms a Thatcher slogan
1521. Priced
(abbr.)
1525. DLII times
II
1529. Goodbye,
to Gaius
1533. Plushbottom’s expletive
1537. Some are
out of it in January
1543. Harp, in
Roma
1547. Words of
warning on the top rung of a ladder
1550. Ari’s home
in Florida
1552. Manx cat
feature
1554. Bag man?
1556. Email back
1557. Laconophile’s love
1559. Electrician’s
unit
1561. Italian
sportswear name
1562. Stumblebums
1563. Frothy
1566. Auto
company known by four linked rings
1567. Shore
regions
1569. Stop
securing to remove, as clasps or buttons
1570. Highly
worked up
1571. Celebrity
1572. Mrs.
Julius Dithers
1573. “When the
frost ___…”
1574. Johnson,
to Juan?
1575. Contort
1576. Collision
1578. Lingerie
items
1581. Advanced
by wriggling (with “into” or “out of”)
1583. Some
upscale chain hotels
1585. Moves, in realtorspeak
1587. Italian
liqueur
1589. Denoting a
loss, as on a balance sheet
1591. Biblical
fight site
1592. Anticipated
an alarm
1594. The dig of
fossilized feces was well underway. They were due to extract what Kallie
crudely but euphemistically called “___.” (cont. in F1598-Across)
1598. (From
F1594-Across) Her assistant, Dave, had failed to rouse her this morning. Kallie
woke earlier than she had the last time this happened, but ____. (cont. in
F1600-Across)
1600. (From
F1598-Across) She chewed him out and ordered him to get his timepieces in
order: “____!” (cont. in F1603-Across)
1603. (From
F1600-Across) Kallie made excuses for her harshness, saying she grew up in a
single-dad household…but so had her assistant, until his dad had married his
newer dad when he was eighteen. Kallie and Dave were both ___. (cont. in
F1606-Across)
1606. (From
F1603-Across) But Kallie would never know this about Dave. As
long as she clung to her hardass self-image,
no one at work would ever be more than a professional ___. She fished her ___
lenses out of their tray and started the day.
1607. Crosswordese term given new life in France as a word for “iPhone
case”
1608. Prefix
with gram or matic
1610. Volunteer
for those in crisis
1613. “That’ll
___ now” (“That’s enough”)
1615. Digits
some people write with an extra slash
1617. Comfy
furniture
1619. Mutually
exclusive opening words?
1623. Spanish
hands
1624. Traditionally
clad Scots
1625. What some
people are called for abandoning a sinking ship…but shouldn’t everyone abandon a sinking ship?
1626. Actress
Chau in The Whale and Downsizing
1627. ___ vinct amor
1628. Reinforcement
for lace
1630. Our
hypothetical swimming ancestor
1631. Unnecessary
worries
1632. Phone key
1633. Second
largest Muslim ethnic group
1634. Stallone
character somehow given a Saturday morning cartoon
1636. Wax-packed
cheese
1638. ___ good
(was in vain)
1639. Earn, as a
large sum of money
1641. Peak
performance
1644. Half a
sawbuck
1646. Early
Norwegian king
1647. Got wind
of, old-style
1648. Price
qualifier
1649. Friends
and neighbors
1650. Part of a
theme-park chorus, maybe
1651. Give ___
berth: avoid
1652. Clubs for
fairways
1653. NBC theme,
verbalized
1654. Piercing,
as a sound
1655. Toulouse-Lautrec
prostitution illustration series
1656. Comic
section, formerly
1657. Comic
Griffin
1659. Prime
minister who quit his job, then regained it one day later
1660. Northumbrian
monk, briefly
1662. Move with
stealth
1664. Blotch
1666. “Hooray!”
1668. Take the
helm
1669. Agitate
1671. Pinchable
hairball
1673. It’ll
cover some ground
1674. What you’ll
do to another horizontal string of fill-in-the-blanks with the next across
entry
1675. Much as I
wanted to linger, I had business across state lines, so it was time to get ___.
(cont. in F1677-Across)
1677. (From
F1675-Across) Fish and guests stink after three days, and too much lingering in
the colder months can make a ____. (cont. in F1679-Across)
1679. (From
F1677-Across) On that day of January 23, 2001. J. ___ fire in the marketplace
with her second album, the early internet bubble hadn’t fully burst, it was a
brisk and clear day, and my love affair with the Good Warlock of the Southwest
came to its official end. (cont. in F1680-Across)
1680. (From
F1679-Across) As I left the dead trees behind and drove down ____ of pines
before the expressway, my fingers traced the marks around my neck. (cont. in
F1682-Across)
1682. (From
F1680-Across) They were ___, nibbles of passion that would promote my health
and prolong my life. (cont. in F1684-Across)
1684. (From
F1682-Across) ___ Gautama, the Buddha, said the root of all suffering was
attachment. He may have been right. But not all suffering is an
evil.
1689. Nice but
unnecessary feature
1691. None too
warm
1693. “Pickin’ up what I’m layin’ down,
here?”
1695. Italian
capital or layered cookie
1697. Results
from, with “to”
1699. Slices
clean (through)
1701. Posted the
address and phone number of
1702. WWII
British flyers
1703. Alien’s
ride
1705. Italian
film director Leone
1707. Cow’s home
1708. All she
wants for Christmas is you!
1709. Wave of
paranoia sweeping through the culture
1710. Brown
so-called superfood
1711. Reinforced,
as a coastline (with “up”)
1712. Spider-Man
portrayer Maguire
1713. Notably
private Truman
1714. Not as
plausible
1715. Pretty
young things
1716. Old Greek
coin
1717. ___ 27001 compliance (information security)
1719. Investment
acronym
1721. “Menage a
___”
1723. Formal
assumption
1725. Mythical
sea god
1727. “The
Metamorphosis” character Gregor
1729. In
longstanding conflict
1731. Leave in
an orderly way
1733. Grovel
1736. Comic-strip
cry
1739. Mooncalf
1740. Remove, as
clothing
1741. Less
wobbly, say
1742. Big name
in Ethiopian history
1743. Rugby
restarts
1744. Agnew and
others
1745. Actor
Burton of Roots
1746. Consumes
1747. “Reading
is the ___ which school success hangs” (Anon.)
1748. Less
enlightened
1749. English
architect Sir John
1750. Pressure
unit
1752. Health
food popularized in the mid-1990s
1754. Dimensions
and tolerances, say
1756. Split,
archaically
1758. 1993
Melissa Etheridge album and song
1760. Abalone
lining
1762. Lighter
1764. Joyful
exuberance
1765. Yorba or
Loma follower
1766. Supervillain
who makes decisions by flipping a coin
1768. Scandalous
information
1769. Superior
sorts
1770. Exal beyond mortality
1771. Pairing
off in the animal kingdom
1772. Love and
think often about
1773. Make
allusions (to)
1774. Ermine and
sable
1775. Return
mail encs.
1776. Singer
Mann and evangelist McPherson
1777. “That time
works for me”
1778. Director
Wright
1780. Wised-up
about
1782. Let out
___: sound like the MGM mascot
1784. Comic
actor Arnold
1786. Hexadecimally
labeled hue
1788. City west
of Boise
1790. “…brought
forth on this continent a new ___…”
1792. “Forget”
to pay
1795. Scandinavian
gods
1796. Same old
episodes
1797. Work as a
model
1798. Lion or
Bear, briefly
1799. Rasta
pronoun
1800. Small rope
for a gaff
1801. Xanax and
Valium, slangily
1802. Give guns
anew
1803. Taxi “tax”
1804. How
popular videos “go”
1805. Baby eels
1806. Some have
black eyes
1807. Hollywood’s
Demi and Julianne
1809. Not solid
1811. Slew, in
slang
1813. Mixed
veggies, fries, and broccoli
1815. Beat at
crew
1817. George
Clooney’s Max and others
1819. Play
prompts
1821. Greeting
with a silent first letter
1822. Country
comedy series, ___ -Haw
1823. Without a
break
1824. Morsel of
dinner
1825. Certain
grinder
1826. “Button-down”
garment
1827. Prefix
with chrome
1828. View at
the Tate Gallery
1829. “Rose-red”
ruins of Jordan
1830. Moist, as
morning lawns
1831. Idol runner-up Clay
1832. Ignorami
1833. Rope to a
pier
1834. Green
lentil stew
1837. Meant for
just one place
1840. Ready to
quit
1842. Whole slew
of
1844. Moved
between apps
1846. “The More
You Know” ads and such
1847. Equal, to
Brigitte
1849. One little
piggy had it
1851. “This is
the chance ___ lifetime!”
1853. One of
Saturn’s moons is taking fire from an unknown enemy, and there’s nothing we can
do about it. We’d rather spend the battle in a bar with Harry, who’s a little
too affectionate with his drinks but who tells charming stories, like the one
about the puppy who shredded and nested himself into a newsmagazine after dark.
So ignore the ___… (cont. in F1856-Across)
1856. (From
F1853-Across) …and watch ___ as he…
(cont. in F1858-Across)
1858. (From
F1856-Across) …describes for us ___.
1865. “The
mind-killer,” per Dune
1866. Ronald
Reagan screen role
1867. “Boys in
blue” by the bay
1868. Key in the
middle of the top row
1869. Character
meant to lampoon anti-Chinese racism, but not always read that way
1870. Suffix
with nectar or elephant
1871. Coordinate
in the game Battleship
1872. “Grow up, ya big baby!”
1873. The five
of trumps
1876. Athens
2004 org.
1878. Donald, to
Dewey
1879. Long-hanging
cloak
1880. Former FBI
director James
1881. Dutch-angled
1882. Second
story jobs
1883. Convulsion
1884. Blows up,
casually
1885. Romanian
folk dances
1886. Some
government securities, for short
1887. Cambridge
figures
1888. Curses, as
of your existence
1889. Bad sign
in Independence Day
1893. A certain
king or queen, e.g.
1894. Fender
___, wheel-arch adornment
1895. Takes
exception to
1898. Rules
(abbr.)
1899. Beer and
ale
1900. Goes
public with
1901. “Half ___
is better than none” (some bread is still some bread)
1902. Vacation
souvenirs
1904. In a ___
pique
1905. Wave over
the threshold, as fumes
1906. Eco-
alternative
1907. Props for
a child’s musical game
1908. Monkeyed
(with)
1909. Big
laughs, slangily
1910. BBs and
bullets
1911. Mother of
Achilles
1912. Flightless
bird of New Zealand
1913. Centipede
feeding
1914. Knows the
plans of
1915. They test
analytical writing, quantitative reasoning, and verbal reasoning
1916. 1960s
symbol
1917. Quarters,
for example
1918. Label for
some of the Antilles
1919. They
generate buzz on Wall Street
1921. DeSantis
and Howard
1922. “Done with
THAT email!”
1923. They can
change from female to male and back, and they often eat their tankmates
1925. Mariner’s
dir.
1926. Singers
Hall and ___
1927. Fourth
trig function introduced in most textbooks
1928. “Ugolino” and “Le Baiser”
1929. Existential
writer
1930. “What did
___ do to you?”
1931. Zhivago’s
mistress
1932. Short
scissors cut
1933. ___ wait
(prepares to ambush)
1934. “___ One
Will Listen” (Kelly Clarkson song)
1935. Awakens
1936. Pats on
the back
1937. Subsides
gradually
1938. Pierre’s
health
1939. Vague
answer to “What’d you do today?”
1940. Go
unnoticed, in older parlance
1941. Rod in
concrete
1942. Planetary
shadows
1944. Cinque e
uno
1945. Midwest
capital, informally
1946. Heaven and
Hell’s agents play a simple game to resolve disputes. They draw one 360-degree
line (Heaven’s creatures can only draw perfect shapes). Then two of them enter
___…and whoever pushes their rival out wins. (cont. at F1948-Across)
1948. (From
F1946-Across) ___ the last match, so the Hellbeasts
were cheering. (cont. at F1950-Across)
1950. (From
F1948-Across) They waved simple flags and posters made of human flesh. One of
the posters showed an ____, as if the loser, Gabriel, was to be immolated.
(cont. at F1952-Across)
1952. (From
F1950-Across) But really, the stakes of the game are never that high. All
Gabriel had to do was eat a ___ at the Tree of Knowledge, and God’s rules
against nudity don’t apply to his winged servants. (cont. at F1954-Across)
1954. (From
F1952-Across) And sure, sometimes they play for souls, but never THAT many
souls. Not a whole city’s or village’s worth. Maybe a
____. (cont. at F1955-Across)
1955. (From
F1954-Across) Such simple tension releases prevent apocalypses that’d really be
in no one’s interest. ___ of God, which can think with the knowledge of all
time, all space, and all realities, has once again proven Its wisdom.
1957. Posted
pieces (abbr.)
1958. OED
entries
1959. They dance
in Disney’s Fantasia
1960. “Uncle Miltie”
1961. Picnic
area sights
1962. Mexican spendables
1963. Plumb
petrified
1964. In poor
condition
1967. Neighbor
of Croatia
1970. Bill
surprise
1971. Quashes
1972. It has
rods and cones
1973. Battlement
feature
1974. Georgette
who wrote romances in the Georgian era
1975. Assists,
in volleyball
1976. Feel a
sharp craving
1977. Go
completely nuts
1978. The Q of
QED
1979. “Bed
Riddance” poet
1980. SFO list
1981. Not quite
straight down, briefly
1982. Devoted,
as friends
1983. Thorne of Shake It Up and Scream
1984. Emotional
engagement
1985. Lengths of
Leicester and Leeds
1986. Defamation
in print
1987. Dragon of
Norse myth
1988. Sea
bordered by Australia and Indonesia
1989. Laid ___:
flop
1990. Take
without permission, or someone you don’t want to see you take without
permission
1991. God in
Guadalajara
1992. Like the
Animaniacs (RIP?)
1993. George
with the 1974 #1 hit “Rock Your Baby”
1994. Iraqi
physicist and diplomat Yasseen
1995. Spending
frenzy
1996. Lao’s
neighbor
1997. Motion
manga
1998. Provide a
home for
1999. A little
soggy
2000. To whom
Alice said, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards”
2002. Joan ___
(French martyr)
2004. One of the
Reagans
2005. Frankfurter
or the Cat
2006. Let out an
air biscuit
2007. Big name
in coffeemakers
2008. Immediately,
in music
2009. Thrown
with oomph
2010. Sometimes-pale
brew
2012. ___
Brewery Co. (Anheuser Busch rival)
2013. Attention-getting
phrase
2016. Caesar’s
cat
2017. Become
disillusioned with
2018. Doing this
is speeding
2019. Card worth
a fortune?
2020. As if
slumming it
2022. Informs
the authorities about
2023. C.S.I.
tasks
2024. Fries.
Morgan, and Tyler
2025. Amelie star Audrey
2029. ___ Burger
(fast-food chain featured in The Big
Lebowski)
2031. For
expensive tastes
2032. Redwood-filled
st.
2033. Ludicrous
comedies
2034. Death-dealing
2035. They look
like front-capes
2036. Fueling
policy for rental cars
2038. Dress
style
2039. Natural
transition zone
2040. Adjust
pillows
2041. First data
sheet
2042. Blu-ray
player error message
2043. Pratt’s
ex, Barrett’s wife, and host of Unqualified
2044. Designed
to avoid wind resistance
2045. Population
center?
2046. Arness-Whitmore
sci-fi classic
2048. List
shortener, for short
2049. Bought
lunch for
2050. Comedic
star Martha
2051. Business
deals
2052. Completely
joyless
2053. Scottish
seacoast feature
2054. Patagonia
locale
2055. World ___
(October event)
2056. Making
empty claims
2058. Life in
the lake and sea
2059. He wrote Kalki in 1978
2060. Pages
(through)
2061. Scar and
Ursula were forced to share accommodations at a Disney characters’ convention,
along with the living armoire from Beauty and the Beast. Things got tense until
the farsighted hotelier, a talking lawnmower, found two additional rooms to
move them into. With this, the hotelier had proved to be ____… (cont. in
F2065-Across)
2065. (From
F2061-Across) …lead ___... (cont. in
F2075-Across)
2072. (From
F2065-Across) …to ___.
2075. Two-screen
cinema
2076. Artistic
objects
2077. 2020 and
2032, in a certain zodiac
2079. Frequent
foe of Wonder Woman (in the comics, not the movies…yet)
2080. Actively
reproducing, as a plant
2081. Brazenly
disobey
2082. Meredith
Grey’s younger interest
2083. CD fig.
2084. Suffix for
manor or baron
2085. Prolific Potterverse director David
2086. Malkovich-hijacks-Cusack
film, as opposed to Being John Malkovich, in which Cusack hijacks Malkovich
2087. ___ wave
(dangerous water)
2088. Clownshoes size
2089. March
event for two of four
2090. Tabby’s
call
2091. Elaborate
do
2092. With “the,”
Dick Clark creation
2093. Fulgencio’s
successor
2094. Otitis-treating
MD
2095. Mosque
priest
2096. Extra
durable, as clay or a brick
2098. Moody
2099. King of
Greek legend
2100. 48 HRS actor Nick
2101. Office
errand runners
2102. Color that’s
“not a color,” to flamboyant designer Carlos Mota
2103. With
assurance
2104. All but
the signal, in radio
2107. Container
Store items
2109. Later than
2110. One of
Edison’s 1,000-plus
2111. Sister of
Eos
2112. “___ è”
(Italian “it is”)
2113. Retrieves
2114. Carry by
putting one’s back into it
2115. Buck and
stink ender
2116. Unkosher
2117. Left the
room
2118. Encompasses
everything
2119. Secure
online protocol
2120. Bad news
on the stock market
2122. Pointed
out, as a perp
2123. Whirlybird
2124. Liquor
bottle size
2125. Noisy
cockatoo with a pink, punky “mohawk”
2126. Stop
climbing and fly steady
2127. Goddesses
of destiny
2128. Casual
look
2129. Your-fortunes-rise-with-the-company’s
plans
2130. Ending of
some websites
2131. Casts off
2132. Apportioning
2133. Co. that makes arrangements
2134. Formerly
to, formerly
2135. Cannabis-loving
insects
2136. 1980 new
wave classic
2137. Piebald
pony
2138. Frequent
activity of reporters on the government beat
2140. Clingy
wrap brand
2141. Lose one’s
grip
2143. Capitol
Hill lawmakers
2145. Food item
often cut into rings
2146. Artificial
turf sites
2147. Strain
felt in the chest
2148. Bosom
pals, in brief
2152. Dog’s
tail?
2156. King Lear’s
interjections
2160. Fashionable
2164. Black Widow, say
2168. JKL;’s
counterpart
2172. Alternative
introducer
2176. 1960s
White House resident, familiarly
2181. Toymaker
Schwarz
2184. Sweated
the details
2188. Language
family including Ancient Egyptian
2190. He might provide assistance after a crash
2191. Hits hard,
classic comics-style
2192. Silent
film star Normand and others
2193. Start of a
phrase meaning “I don’t want to hear any qualifiers”
2194. Polynesian
kingdom
2195. Roasts’
hosts
2196. Where to
find nets with creases
2197. Golf
miscue
2198. Georges-Jacques
who advocated Revolution
2199. Concise,
in Cannes
2200. Petty in A League of Their Own
2201. Kind of
tennis
2202. Visibly no
longer young
2203. ___-mancy: wine magic
2204. MGM Vegas
hotel
2205. Official
plural of a popular Toyota hybrid
2206. He played
Elliot on Mr. Robot
2207. Short-___
owl
2208. Prefix for
“gold” and “hearing”
2209. How to
read bedtime stories
2210. Overwhelm
the audience
2211. Bust
enhancer
2212. Ice masses
2213. Agra
garments
2214. Discipline
including forestry and lichenology
2215. Describing
guards and tackles
2216. Ag club
name
2217. Uriah ___
(rock band or Dickens character)
2218. Start of a
show-off kid’s cry
2221. Cassette
half
2222. Determined
to finish
2223. Compendious
2224. Mideast
land
2225. Panic
attacks
2227. Ply the
waves
2229. Java-preparation
aid
2231. Happen
2233. Brand that
gets rid of something it rhymes with
2234. Kernel
holders
2235. Kin of
savannas
2236. When you
meet a big eel, and its teeth are like steel, that’s a ___
2237. Roman ___
(novel genre)
2238. Famous
race site
2239. Backward backward
2240. Prepare to
fund
2242. That thing
hanging from your palate
2243. Texter’s “That
is so funny!”
2244. Solar system
teaching tool
2245. Bikes
without pedaling
2246. Sequester
for now
2248. E pluribus
unum, like dishes
2250. Somewhat
salty
2252. “Brights”
2254. Quitter’s
declaration
2256. Name in Shameless and Shrek
2258. Type of
steak
2259. Common
cause of tonsillitis
2260. Increasingly
rare in-person stock-exchange workers
2262. Campus
midshipmen’s org.
2263. Person
thought to bring bad luck
2264. Cowlicked
member of Our Gang
2268. ___ out:
didn’t participate
2269. Not esta or esa
2270. Golf champ
Mark
2271. On ___
streak (winning)
2272. Edit menu
choice
2273. Team
finisher
2274. Key of
Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen
2275. Mag mogul
with a mansion
2276. Waxlike
membrane of a bird’s beak
2278. Breathing
through gritted teeth
2279. Disapproves
of, as a comment
2282. Slugger
Sosa
2283. 55 minutes
past the hour
2284. Bloody
horror sequel of 2005
2285. “The ___ a
man’s heart…”
2286. Man from
Mocha
2287. Campus
types
2288. Like
guppies or goldfish
2289. Double ___
(Oreo product)
2290. Twenty
pence sterling
2291. At 120
degrees
2292. ___ are
threaded metal pins fixed together with adhesive sheets to form an alphabet.
PLOT TWIST: they’re what each of these longer narratives is written in! (not continued)
2298. Racing
stripes, et al.
2301. Went on an
African hunting expedition
2303. That
alumna
2304. Cruiser’s
bane
2308. Healthful
food claim
2309. Not yet
better
2310. Attention-getting
bulge area
2311. Charge, British-style
2312. Soda-shop
offerings
2313. ___
cantante
2314. Tubing in
the pool
2315. Naive
sorts
2316. Opry star
Red
2317. Brewer’s
collection
2318. Look down
on the clouds, perhaps
2319. Plays the
bell
2320. Writer of
Oedipus Rex and Antigone
2321. Twelve
months in perfect health, or half a decade as an invalid, maybe
2322. Smart-sounding
clarifiers
2323. Wheel nut
2325. Queens and
kings
2326. Run away abruptly
2327. “To
rephrase that…”
2328. “Middle”
in the front?
2330. “___ a
rip-off!”
2331. Idle
drawings
2332. Side in
the Iraq War?
2334. ___
Atonement (Yom Kippur)
2335. Drying
ovens
2336. A-, to a
tiger mom
2337. Olympian
Johnson
2338. Pillow
constructions
2339. Tootling
instrument
2340. “___ to
You” (Rick Nelson)
2341. Cranial
rec.
2342. “…robins
___ hair”
2343. Returns to
civvies
2345. Like a
Spartan who comes back “on his shield,” for short
2346. Worldly
rather than spiritual
2348. The Broken
Shaker in Miami, e.g.
2350. It may be
kept in a box in the basement
2351. 1995 comet
finder Thomas
2352. Black
superheroine with a short-lived TV series
2353. ___ the
finish (having potential to win)
2354. Word sewn
on a towel
2356. Muffs
2357. Pays, as
the bill
2358. Broadway
setting since 4/11/91
2359. “What
color is the ___ your world?”
2360. Makes more
than gets spent
2362. Sort of
accordion-shaped potato dish
2364. Exhibition
football games
2366. Scary
sound for a balloonist
2369. The whole
thing
2372. :51
2373. With “the,”
low feeling
2374. Focus of
an 1839-42 war
2377. Informal
words of thanks
2379. “Impossible!”
2381. She’s
swapped out for Bonnie
2383. Fair
hirer, in a classified (abbr.)
2384. Request
from one with a white flag
2385. Tissue
type named for Achilles
2386. Protestor’s
chorus
2387. They call
him “Threepio,” but don’t call his companion this
2388. Red
Devils, for short
2389. Diplomatic
skills
2390. We
mortals, according to Puck
2391. Emancipated,
in Bonn
2392. March
around camp, e.g.
2393. Stuck
together, as twins
2395. Fudge in
some song lyrics
2397. Italian
trilogy
2398. ___ soda
2399. Questlove
style
2401. Gift in “The
Gift of the Magi”
2402. Eleventh-century
date
2403. Taken
back, as territory
2404. U.S.
weapons export policy
2406. Hoy dia
2407. Schoolyard
assertion
2408. Revealing
term
2409. Fifty past
2410. Small
formality
2411. Squeezes
good stuff out of
2412. Seductive
methods, or mathematician Andrew who solved Fermat’s last theorem
2413. Site of a
2007 surge
2414. Created a
new waterway through
2416. Imitating
thanks to inheritance
2419. Violas’
big brothers
2420. Plural
name of Yahweh
2424. Halo hero
2429. One of
Rhea Silvia’s twins
2431. Elaborate
invites for seniors?
2438. Actor
Wilson of The Office
2439. $150 gamer
platform of old
2440. Give a ‘ard time to
2441. “Just as”
clause follower
2442. Towers
over
2444. Fascicle
2445. Sharp
stone once thought to be an early tool
2446. Frightened
states
2447. SALT part
2448. 1969
Kingsley Amis novel, with “The”
2449. Driest
Spanish sherry
2450. Thailand
people
2451. Short for
a building
2452. Squelches
2453. Likely to
make you feel like you can’t take it anymore
2454. River that
emerges from the Pyramid
2455. Capper
between a wig and a wiglet
2456. Express
regret over
2458. US Grant’s
foe
2459. Sol who
sings “When I’m in Your Arms”
2460. Body-inspecting
gov’t gp.
2461. Sell like
hotcakes
2464. Grooming
2465. Gardening
Express or Plant World
2467. Saturday Night Fever setting
2468. Simms and
Silvers
2469. Give (up)
information
2470. Chesterfield
or duster
2471. Int’l
governing body of soccer
2472. “Pooh!,” once
2473. ___ of
war… (cont. in F2474-Across)
2474. (From
F2473-Across) ___ into blur, until a few World War II soldiers who’d attacked
Northeast China ended up invading their own borders. (cont. in F2667-Across)
2475. Totally
slammed
2477. Gritty
go-with
2478. Certain
tribute
2480. Less
predictable
2481. Model X or
Model Y
2482. Human
rights advocate Kennedy
2484. Doesn’t
give up on
2485. On top of
things
2486. Polite
looks for a bad joke-teller
2488. Providing
counterpoint to those oohing
2489. Farmer’s
likely offering to God
2491. Ord, for
one
2492. King-sized
sandwich
2493. Unquestionably,
briefly
2494. Michael
Jackson’s song claim
2497. Quick trip
to Starbucks
2501. Libertarian’s
aim, for short
2502. Knox and
Dix (abbr.)
2503. “I’m out
of patience”
2504. Exorcism
targets
2506. Jeanne d’Arc et al.
2507. Prime
seating area at sporting events, maybe
2509. Keen
onscreen
2510. About to
happen
2511. New
Balance rival
2512. Like a
taskmaster
2513. Wide gaps
2514. Japanese
detective of classic film
2515. One of
dated ideology, with “old”
2516. Hotel
offerings
2517. Boringly
predictable, as a movie
2519. Filming
techniques
2523. Starbucks
orders
2524. Best self
2525. Common
counting aid
2527. Prescription
measure
2528. “___ in
corpore sano”
2530. P. Hearst’s
kidnappers
2531. “Look ___ “ (Vince Gill song)
2532. Undoes a
cancellation
2533. “Eternal
___ impalpable out of the land…”: Whitman
2534. “La vie
___” (high cost of living)
2535. Booth or
stand
2536. Australian
girl
2537. Relig. sect
2538. Second-column
listing
2539. Old
Italian bread?
2540. Hint of
fragrance
2541. Stupid one
2542. Gone into
decline
2544. Accusation
in a mirror in chat rooms
2545. Little
salamander
2546. Crossword
doers
2547. Edible
part of a peach
2548. Small and
strangely charming
2552. “___ Song
Go Out of My Heart” (Duke Ellington)
2553. Install
new hardware on
2554. Sang like
a canary, so to speak
2556. Bowler’s
ten
2558. “The fact
that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make ___ value”
(Ezra Taft Benson)
2559. Shout
after using an iron
2560. Abercrombie
& Fitch, for one
2561. Mends hose
2562. Leafy
crown material
2563. Hymn
phrase followed by “Son and Holy Ghost”
2565. Ninesome
2566. Wall
Street and Madison Avenue
2567. Italian-made
auto
2568. “___ were
up to me…”
2569. Blessed by
luck
2571. Mayonnaise
container
2573. Arizona’s
motto, “Ditat ___”
2574. “___
minute…something’s off here…”
2575. Wine
capital of Burgundy
2576. Planned killing
2580. Lacking
hands
2584. Ending for
Brooklyn
2585. Catcher in
the Rhone?
2586. Barley
bags
2587. “In
actuality…”
2588. Seller of
Craftsman tools
2589. Repetition
savers
2590. Manages,
as for oneself
2591. Hotel
capacity
2592. Only
Republican to hold a Senate seat from Hawaii
2593. Farmer’s
buy
2594. Preposition
of source
2595. Ariana
Grande song with the line, “No more playin’ safe, let’s
take it all the way”
2596. Stops in
Hebrew (var.)
2599. It may be
deposited at a bank
2601. Wassailers’
times
2602. Even as we
speak
2603. Figure
skater Harding
2604. Travel
like joining a cruise underway
2606. Tea holder
2607. For a very
long time
2609. Thin
sheets of dough
2610. Frightened
2611. Prize pike
2612. Charles, Fritz,
and Walter of films
2613. Tops in
delicacy
2614. Hardly
worth a second thought
2616. Marvin of
recording fame
2617. Concerned
parents’ org.
2618. Dumb goon
2619. Early 18th
century year
2620. Pixar
robot of 2008
2621. Boys in
the brae
2622. Chickens
and turkeys
2623. Zoologist’s
foot
2624. Brad
played her in The Incredibles
2625. Being good
enough
2629. Most
elegant
2631. City near
Pont du Gard
2632. Schumann’s
___From Childhood
2633. “Reelin’ In the Years” singer Donald
2634. Journals
on YouTube, say
2635. Bring to
increase
2636. Modifier
for the only kind of vegetarian I could realistically be
2637. Time for
celebration
2638. Island
that boasts Greece’s first university
2639. Losing feeling?
2640. Something
real
2641. Negative
conjunctions
2642. Long-lasting
do
2643. Portrait
sitter
2644. No thinner
2645. Back end
for Spotify or Netflix
2646. Sleuth’s
concern
2647. Sea
predators
2649. Manipulate
by fraud
2650. Pearly
mussel
2651. Rye stalk
part
2653. Former
Giant pitcher Robb
2654. Add,
perhaps
2655. Mollifying
influences
2656. Does not
pass
2657. Dishonestly
motivated
2658. Twenty-seven
divided by six
2660. Emma
Watson and JFK Jr., to Brown
2661. Reform
Party candidate Perot
2662. Place on
the Web
2663. One of a
French hen?
2664. Was decked
out in
2665. Cover the
surface of, as with a design
2667. (From
F2474-Across) ____ for captaincy who’d been in that squad found himself demoted
very quickly after that.
2672. City of a
famous leaning tower
2673. Heedless
of economic class, as love should be
2686. Renounce
2687. ___ sine
qua non (requisite)
2688. ___ drugs
(bacterial treatment largely replaced by antibiotics)
2689. “My love”
in Lima
2690. Not get
caught by
2691. 1937
DuPont invention
2692. It may be graven or spitting
2693. French
rhymer
2694. Shoplifting,
euphemistically
2698. Swiss Miss
logo topper
2699. Remove
calcium and magnesium from, at home
2702. Places for
sci. experiments
2703. Like a
sweep’s uniform
2704. It’s
enforced by les gendarmes
2705. ___ by
Olay (Procter & Gamble brand)
2706. “Buzz” or “hiss,”
e.g.
2707. Had a
bill, still
2708. Artist’s
home, perhaps
2709. Bob of
dance
2710. ___ the Worlds
2711. Amuse-bouche
2712. Garlic
bulblet
2713. Waterproofing
for wood
2715. “I’ll do
more of that, if the ___ what you want”
2716. Formless
element
2717. River
flowing through Armenia
2718. Rich, in
slang
2719. Letters
above 0-0-0, before a baseball game begins
2720. Damascus,
e.g.
2721. Sport with
jabs
2722. Electricians
on movie sets
2726. Spark
source
2727. “I guess I
messed up (tee-hee)”
2730. Beginning
of many congregation names
2731. Second
look
2732. Bad spot
2733. Cover more
ground, as a search party
2734. Mint is
one (not everyone knows that)
2736. Botched
2737. Bernie of
the NFL
2738. Of
greatest breadth
2739. Bug
problem
2741. Sows and
boars
2742. Animal
tracker’s clue
2743. Modern
brain-scanning procedure, for short
2744. Redundant
name for an Ubercross format
2746. Trifles:
Fr.
2748. “Get my
___?”
2749. Word form
for “sacred”
2750. Running
away from
2751. Steak
sauce brand
2752. Kind of
quick inheritance
2753. Krazy of comic strips
2754. Most
popular Arabic title
2756. Remained
undecided
2757. State
events
2758. Footlong
product
2759. Work on
hooves
2760. Characteristic
of the brain, heart, and lungs
2762. -trices, alternatively
2763. In His Image subject
2764. Plaice or
dace
2765. Nyan and
Grumpy, e.g.
2766. Ribs-to-rump
beef cut
2767. Not yet
decided, casually
2768. Old jazz
great Kid
2769. P.D.
person
2772. One not
allowed to own a gun
2773. Curing
kiln
2774. Learned
mentors
2775. Fizzled
2776. Enlisted
VIP
2777. Addresses
now RRs
2778. Aqua ___:
clean water
2780. Inferior.
2782. Are
terrible
2783. Turin
relic
2784. The Planets composer
2785. Company
shunner
2786. They’ll
attend your parties, but when the chips are down, they’ll stop returning your
calls
2788. Feudal
lords
2789. Infuriation
2790. They’re
less than one
2793. Stomach
streamliner
2794. 1994
literary autobiography
2796. Fairy-tale
ending?
2798. That guy,
to Guy
2799. Set
burning
2800. It’s not a
long shot
2801. ___ Well That Ends Well
2802. Khans’ kin
2803. Abbrev.
for a noncom E-8
2804. Wasatch
County resident
2806. Boxers and
pugs
2808. “Yew gots ta pay, son”
2810. Sub
tragedy
2811. Turf
controllers
2812. Verbal
fencing
2813. Steep
rugged mountain feature
2814. Barflies
2815. Cooks in
oil
2816. Hoodlike
caps
2817. “Best in
the decade, ___ all time?”
2818. Wellness
centers
2819. Fish
alternative
2820. Films, in Variety headlines
2821. Crooner “King”
Cole
2822. Increase
the value of
2823. John,
Doris Day’s co-star in The Pajama Game
2825. Turn to
the other side
2827. With
F2827-Down, con game
2828. PC screen
variety
2829. Letters
from one who’s shy?
2830. Loafed (if
one letter shorter, this would be “laughed”)
2832. Mythical
troublemaker
2834. Bolted
2835. Actress
Davis with eyes immortalized in a pop hit
2836. Tars who
climb spars
2837. Smithy
ovens
2838. Corleone
who’s told “you’re nothing to me now”
2839. Game
company employee
2840. Sunny
forecast
2841. Painter
Gustav
2842. Old 442
rivals
2843. “Great
minds think alike, but…”
2847. Guides, in
a way
2848. Type,
derogatorily
2849. “Fiction”
is just another word for ____, like the ones told by most alleged purveyors of ‘incredible
facts.’” (cont. in F3028-Across)
2854. “___ Diary”
(Twain short story)
2856. CIO
partner
2857. Big
camping inits.
2859. Displaying
dexterity
2861. Annual NBA
event
2862. Lee or
Spencer
2863. Usain Bolt’s
shoes
2864. Less lax
2865. Cost of
credit card consolidation
2867. Celui qui parle cette
langue
2869. Bridesmaids director Paul
2870. JPEG
alternatives
2871. “Save Your
Love for Me” chanteuse Jones
2872. Air Force
woman
2873. “Neat-o!”
2874. Inits. sometimes added to “U” (for uncertain) to
make “QUILTBAG”
2875. Spheres of
operation
2878. Like jam
2880. Guinness
record, maybe
2881. IRS money
2882. World-conquering
game with Roman-numeral pieces
2883. Project
2886. Exclamations
made by every family member but the baby in a famous sitcom
2888. Op. ___
(footnote)
2889. Loyal
coterie
2891. Sixpence,
slangily
2892. Book by Hartfeld about the USSR
2893. Clean, as
a spill
2894. Jet off
for
2895. Belshazzar
doing
2896. Singer-songwriter
Benjamin
2897. Cow’s kid
2898. Col. group
2899. Tiny paws
that have toe beans but also pointy parts, beware
2901. T
character
2902. Pessimists’
specialties
2903. “___ too
short!”
2904. Get bubbly
2905. Printing
choice
2906. Veep under
GRF
2907. Info for a
driver at an airport
2908. Not giving
up on
2910. Rewrite
the fictional history of
2912. Hourglass
stuff
2913. Lighted
sign at a radio station
2914. Anger, so
to speak
2915. When a
quick snap may occur?
2916.