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Across

M1. Running a little behind schedule?

M7. Netter Votavová

M11. Red-lettered theaters

M15. Actress Powers

M19. Jackie described as the heir of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Bruce Lee

M23. Official in a turban

M27. Youth-focused periodical

M34. D.C.-based loaner

M38. Ending with psych

M42. Meas. of a wide area

M46. Water or blood blister

M50. Rear parts

M54. Disparaging term on the Internet often spelled with zeroes

M58. Jamaican chanteuses who sang with Bob Marley

M59. Congressperson 24-7?

M64. Its captions are often in Impact

M68. Where Zeno taught?

M69. Elaborate shindig

M73. First superstar quarterback Johnny

M76. Gibson/Sawyer show, for short

M79. Sultan’s charge

M81. Noted interborough hwy.

M84. “Listen and attend with the ___ your heart” (Benedict)

M86. “You know the rules” follower in a rickroll

M88. Bad thing to be left on, in modern communication

M89. Middles (abbr.)

M93. “Let me think…huh-uh”

M94. State in which State Fair is set

M98. Insect sounds

M99. “___will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth” (Aesop)

M104. The Empire Strikes Back planet

M105. Extremifying suffix

M108. Clear breach

M109. Ritalin treats it

M113. Keeping the rhythm

M116. More than a hypothesis

M117. 2004 (!) proposal of a worldwide emergency broadcast system

M123. Beethoven honoree

M124. Treaded part of a bike tire

M126. Decepticon with an energon mace

M127. Gregg Allman’s “___ Angel”

M128. “Hors d’oeuvre: ___ sandwich cut into forty pieces” (Jack Benny)

M129. An eligible bachelor, according to June Valli (1959)

M134. Musician whose talents found military applications

M138. The year, in Paris

M139. One-named Latina singer

M141. Consider reliable

M142. The largest in the US was found in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in 1902

M143. Doing a hit on

M145. Plato, or Aristotle for many years

M147. As previously cited

M148. Tussaud’s title, briefly

M149. Venerable def. sources

M150. Not up in Scotland

M151. Old Nigerian capital

M153. Brief in nature

M154. Inconvenient, what with everything going on

M155. The King Yeti Super Burger, e.g., weightwise

M157. Transgress

M158. Where Athena buried Enceladus

M160. Stand firm

M161. Sacred Fr. women

M162. “Show me ___ man and I will cure him for you” (Carl Jung)

M163. Symbols of sovereignty

M164. On the inside of

M165. Abbey Theatre dramatist

M166. Number of legs on un insetto

M167. Koln or Nurnberg

M168. Mars marking

M170. Week components

M171. Brand introduced on Route 66 in 1954

M173. Penalty beyond fines for repeated traffic violations

M175. Finery

M177. One side in some chalk talks

M178. Bring up the rear

M179. Kind of band

M180. Word with facto or jure

M181. Hebrew letters

M182. Pre-___ care

M183. Beachgoer’s aid

M185. Welled (up)

M187. Blast furnace leftover

M191. Unable to decide what to do

M193. Goose at Waikiki, once

M194. “Walk” or “lead” finisher

M195. “Get your ___ worth!”

M197. Schools of thought

M198. Kept a shepherd up

M200. 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tebow

M202. Très chic

M204. Nation east of Sudan with a three-triangle flag

M206. Quick candid

M214. Plasma port type

M218. Jamie Foxx’s rank in Jarhead (abbr.)

M222. Staffers, for short

M227. The meanings of “etui” and “Alou,” to non-crossword people

M233. Fast-rising star

M235. Escargot of the sea

M237. An, hun, and han attachment

M238. UFC fighting style

M241. Straddled watercraft

M243. Notoriously dirty-mouthed actor Joe

M245. Blockade

M250. Follower of a religion, literally and linguistically

M253. Phoebe from Friends, in terms of personal style

M257. Austin music festival, initially

M261. “Who Needs the Kwik-E-___?” (song from The Simpsons)

M264. Her best-known hit was a spelling lesson for some listeners

M270. Fairy tale giant’s fourth syllable

M273. Shiest of the Marches

M276. Jason’s vessel

M277. Developing threat?

M278. Gesture that covers for inaction by saying “I’m too important for the details”

M279. Confides in

M281. Got together (with)

M282. My cat when he sits on my hands to keep my fingers from reaching the keyboard, e.g.

M283. Jessie and Nicki’s co-singer on “Bang Bang”

M284. Indian symbols

M285. Visit a run-down neighborhood

M287. Soccer gold medalist Mia

M288. “Body on Me” singer Rita

M289. Ca++ or Cl-, e.g.

M291. Hercules captured her

M292. Easy to break

M293. Sworn enemy of the Smurfs

M295. “Are you sleeping?” response

M296. Jai ___ (“fastest sport on Earth”)

M297. Total or Life

M298. “Word” prefix with “poeia”

M300. “Old Town Road” won one for “Event of the Year”

M301. Silverstein of kidlit

M303. Toggle to pour or not pour an alcoholic beverage?

M305. Murdering someone while committing adultery with them, say?

M306. Fight with the Rebel alliance?

M310. Title Nehru held

M311. Chums in Chad

M312. Sequence demarkers

M314. Former nickname at the Pentagon

M316. “…dancin here / Wi’ great an’ ___” (Burns)

M317. Time when nothing makes sense and feelings are too exhausting?

M319. Roaring guardian of Hephaestus’ volcano forge?

M321. Coast near an island capital?

M323. 1980s PCs

M325. Sly Stone song with the line “A smile of pleasure, beautiful and kind”

M326. Gets to the bottom of

M327. “Swiper, no swiping!” speaker

M329. “…for there is nothing / either good ___, but thinking makes it so” (Hamlet)

M330. Brazilian actress Braga

M332. Affirmative originating in New York’s black trans/queer communities

M333. Nautical hazard

M334. Per Lifehacker, “the digital equivalent of pulling everyone aside separately at a party to tell them the same thing”

M335. One who’s often pickled

M336. Feeling down

M337. Superstar assembly

M340. Classic dog name, or what a young dog might leave on the carpet

M341. Do a hatchet job?

M342. “Holy” group in 17th-century literature

M343. Black hero with bulletproof skin

M344. Daisy lead-in

M345. Rounded letter

M346. Recording studio sound shields

M348. “…which is saying quite ___”

M349. “___ say it is good to fall” (Whitman, Song of Myself)

M350. “Surely God would not have created such a being ___, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day” (Lincoln)

M352. Ear opener?

M353. East German currency

M357. Clowns around

M359. Mint (condition)

M361. Place for a concert

M363. Rouen-to-Orleans dir.

M364. Beethoven’s “some”

M365. “With that said…”

M368. V Rising or Diablo Immortal, e.g.

M370. “Oy ___!” (facepalm)

M371. So-called “Capital of Latin America”

M372. Time zone sometimes put before “3K”

M373. 1040 entry (abbr.)

M374. Actor Wheaton of Stand by Me

M375. Heavy wts.

M376. Bodybuilder’s belly muscles

M377. When tripled, a 1970 war movie

M378. HDTV meas.

M379. Reasons to resurface

M381. Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great

M382. Aerial maneuver

M384. Athos, to Porthos

M385. Frequent contents of SASEs

M388. Bill spitter

M390. Units to measure antibodies

M392. Deliberate slight

M394. “When ___, do as the…”

M396. Ta-ta’s opposite

M398. Dock workers’ gp.

M400. Its scoring ranks “Marvelous” above “Perfect,” for short

M401. NWA name

M402. Military drill syllable

M403. MacDonald’s jingle?

M404. Kiosk item, for short

M405. Chatlike service discontinued in 2017

M407. She’s Sporty

M409. Legislation that protects medical patients’ information (abbr.)

M411. “Let me tell you a tall tale about ___ eruption in the Philippines…in fact, this story isn’t true at all!” (triple pun) (monovocalic answer) (may the crossword gods forgive me)

M413. “___ Como Va” (Santana hit)

M414. Round geom. shape

M415. Beastie Boys bandmate of Ad-Rock and Mike D

M416. Provides the crew

M417. Janet who returned her Pulitzer in disgrace

M418. Premier who deposed the Gang of Four

M419. Added, it makes “beat it” sound a lot better and “quiet” about the same

M420. 2002 Winter Olympics venue, briefly

M423. Chekhov known for a gun

M425. Metaphor for an introvert’s demeanor

M426. Twelve months with the auditory-organ parents?

M430. Composition of a building that mad-scientist Sanchez built out of his own body and mind?

M433. Arrangements?

M437. ___ Lock (key with an often-unclear function)

M438. Subject of the third pillar of Islam

M439. “This is gooood!”

M441. Aid for reviewing tough calls

M444. Sound from Beaker

M445. Marvin the Paranoid Android’s CPU?

M451. Robot aide to tennis players?

M453. Dancer-actress Rogers rambles like she’s in shock?

M457. Pretext

M458. Admin of the Navy (abbr.)

M459. Guest columnist’s piece

M460. Pineda of Journey

M461. At liberty, in Bonn

M462. Part of Miss America’s ensemble

M464. “Oh, well” response

M465. Good times

M467. Sponsor of the Addy Awards

M468. Toilet, euphemistically

M469. Netflix’s only product, once

M470. Little boxer

M471. Juicing tool

M473. Clooney who did casework for the king of Bahrain

M474. Roman tax form?

M475. Helper in time of trouble

M476. “Oh, what’s the ___?” [gestures helplessly]

M477. Word in a Quaker vow

M478. Heston org.

M479. Rhetorical question to one who’s assessed your limits

M480. Some rechargeables

M481. His iconic catchphrase came from Rocky III

M482. Those in Tijuana

M483. Biggest artery

M484. Mad Men channel, once

M485. Kind of bio

M486. 1960s Opel model sold by Buick dealers

M489. Dennis of The Fighting Seabees

M492. Telecom giant headquartered in Denver

M495. Surfing hazard

M497. “Why ___ this to myself?”

M500. Total quagmire

M502. Serious coin…or old Israeli coin

M504. With one’s backside at rest

M506. Changed extensively

M508. “The way I see it…”

M510. Way out on the briny

M512. “___ sorry”

M513. Commences, as a journey

M516. Not online, for short

M517. Island known for meditation retreats

M518. You may not give one about your reputation

M520. They’re like smaller, stripey squirrels

M523. Greek goddess of the night

M524. He has nothing to say to you

M526. Concentration breakers

M527. Shout from the rooftops

M529. Camera memory chip

M531. Feudal laborer

M533. French female friend

M535. “Ya little shrimp”

M537. Like a soda lake

M540. Casino gratuity

M541. Makeup of la mer

M542. Mexican Manx

M543. Ways of thinking

M545. “I’m so smart and I so know it” energy

M546. Business bigshot

M547. Marshawn Lynch and O.J. Simpson, among others (abbr.)

M548. Abel figure in East of Eden

M549. HST follower

M550. Short promise?

M551. Hawkins of Li’l Abner

M553. Did a yard job

M554. Bane of Isengard

M555. Modern punk

M557. Chemicals still found in some inhalers

M561. Its capital is Riyadh

M562. Fantasy baseball datum

M563. Person cleaning up trees’ legume leavings?

M567. “If you say so” from Sonic?

M570. Stops eating the Thanksgiving leftovers?

M574. Adjust a picture of a movie monster who says, “HELP ME,” adding stenciled letters to say “HELP MEEEEEEE”?

M578. Arcade alternative

M581. A foot has 305 of these (abbr.)

M582. ___ the question (propose marriage)

M584. Wake-up times (abbr.)

M585. TV hosts who crap their pants?

M592. Patron of desert travelers, for short?

M594. Price in 1980s rubles?

M596. Store head (abbr.)

M597. Ballad that starts, “I do believe I’ve failed you”

M599. Bible suffix

M600. Xed

M602. Petty despots

M604. Level in an org.

M605. Shopping place

M606. Magi origin

M608. Bradley Baker of a thousand voices

M609. It agrees with neither, grammatically

M610. Lyon product

M611. Keeps the ship steady

M612. They get specialized lawyers

M615. Seine key

M616. My Boys network

M617. Band known for fusing “Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, and futuristic iconography”

M618. Some Greek typesetter’s letters

M619. Source of a signal

M620. Laura of David Lynch roles

M621. Exotic massage technique

M622. Do agenting (for)

M623. Walter’s attorney on Breaking Bad

M624. Sepulcher

M625. Apothecary’s vessels

M626. Happy Days address

M627. Causing puckers

M629. Cubs, but not Bears, for short

M631. BBQ grill cleaners

M633. ___ day (pill amount)

M636. ___ ___ Architect ___ van der Rohe

M638. Got reassurance after a rip tide

M643. North-of-the-border fliers (abbr.)

M645. Rum ___ Tugger

M646. Cat with no tail

M647. Sopranos character with a crude nickname (this is his real name)

M648. She sang “Smooth Operator”

M650. __ de Jing (var.)

M651. The cheap seats of life

M655. Mars rival

M657. Program that mimics an old game console, e.g.

M659. Hose nozzle setting

M660. Those who persevere

M661. ___ good clip

M662. Canary Islands owner

M664. Thees and ___

M666. Comment after tripping

M668. Charlie ___, country singer

M670. Pro day traders

M672. Cold, in Cadiz

M674. Rootless one

M675. Orchestra VIP

M676. President pro ___

M678. Special kind of someone who’ll never seek “that special someone”

M679. Short tale? (abbr.)

M680. Critical-thinking skills div. in school

M681. Defarge’s title in A Tale of Two Cities, for short

M683. Where Noam Chomsky teaches

M684. Label in seconds

M685. ___-turn: road sign

M686. Unlike the director’s cut, usually (abbr.)

M687. Collections of devotions

M689. River that Javert drowns in in Les Misérables

M690. Digital reading, for short

M691. Level the playing field?

M692. Race event

M693. Violinist Vivaldi or violent Diego

M694. Literary counterspy Rapp

M697. Like high-stakes negotiations to end conflict

M698. Lasses not too young to be married, just on the little side, aye?

M703. Make vowel-based progress on your British-accented rendition of “Oh, I don’t hope so, Mr. 007”?

M707. Bodysuit McGuffin?

M712. Comme un confidant

M714. Comparative ends?

M717. .22s and potatoes

M719. Real banger on the album Dungeons and Dragons: Rap Edition?

M724. Rare instruments with two crossing sets of strings?

M727. Financial analyst who tells accounting jokes she heard on Friends as a teenager?

M730. Without much amity

M731. What nannies push

M732. Make hard and strong

M733. Mouthpieces

M735. Install as king

M736. Hair-care product

M737. Of the west-facing highlands in South America

M738. New Guinea port of World War II

M739. English fashionista Bartley

M740. Croc-filled river

M741. Female friend from Florence

M743. Lady of the old school?

M744. Send (to another doctor)

M745. “The Beggar’s Opera” playwright

M746. Spoke Afghan?

M747. ___ yong, Chinese dish

M748. Back, at sea

M749. Listen, to Luca

M750. Anonymous poster, say

M751. Yellowstone’s ___ Faithful

M752. Punk and rock modifiers

M753. Lather again

M754. Write (down)

M755. Bayonets, say

M757. Movie title whose middle letter is replaced by another form of the title

M758. Guard’s duties

M760. Share legally

M762. Honor for John Legend or Audrey Hepburn

M764. St. Patrick’s Day fare

M766. Likely start of a website manager’s email address

M768. Then in Thermidor

M770. Protracted sound from the undecided

M771. 19th-century violinist/composer Louis

M772. Interview with users on “the front page of the Internet”

M773. Conjugation of esse

M774. Ruralscape photographer Adams

M777. “As you know, the boss thinks of his employees as family” rejoinder

M779. Author of the Shardlake thrillers

M781. Two-time role for Sidney Poitier

M783. It may get filed

M785. Great distresses

M787. Holy recess

M790. TV Science Guy

M791. “Stop. Talking. Stop.”

M794. Half a labor union org.

M797. Director of the funniest Ghostbusters, there, I said it, come at me, haters

M799. ___ double life: have two identities

M801. Writer ___ Hubbard

M802. Pitchers’ awards?

M804. Crossword-beloved bovid

M806. 2r

M807. Site of Israel-PLO Accords

M809. Volga tributary

M810. One of Curly’s brothers

M811. Full of modern gadgetry (var.)

M812. Sizing letters

M813. Follows back and eye

M814. ___ choy

M815. Public-works supervisor in Rome

M816. Attempted precognition

M817. The Bulldogs of the SEC

M819. “___ trap!” (Admiral Ackbar’s declaration)

M820. Pre-noon time, in poems

M821. Necklace choice

M822. Ms. co-founder Gloria

M825. Dissatisfied modifier for substitute or excuse

M826. Seek sophomore athletes’ perspectives?

M829. Preparing to serve a sour-cream pancake?

M833. Jack and Rose’s brief affair on the Titanic?

M837. Comic strip’s funny parts?

M841. Lab specimen

M843. Portuguese enclave in China

M845. Say “And now…he’s eating the pizza with a fork. Yes. Eating New York pizza with a fork. I can’t believe this guy was ever a New Yorker, much less President Trump. Oh, and now here come the cheeseburgers”? into the microphone?

M849. Image of the Messiah with the biggest grin?

M852. “This is where the giggling starts”?

M856. Arizona birthplace of Cesar Chavez

M859. Cleveland sight

M860. Call from the bush

M861. Valhalla boss

M862. Cette femme

M863. It shares its point value and frequency with H, V, W, and Y

M865. Baseball’s Nomo

M866. Tulip chair’s creator Saarinen

M867. Make progress

M869. U.S.

M870. Natalie Cole’s dad

M871. Earth, in Belgium

M872. “This is ___ fine cup of coffee!” (Twin Peaks)

M873. Coin in Tirana

M874. Like some D.C. committees

M875. Plum lookalikes

M876. Turnaround points, in volleyball

M877. ___ buffo

M878. Like England’s Coronation Chair

M879. Bully’s boast

M880. Cheesy town

M881. HMO employees

M882. Capital with a Temple of Augustus

M884. “Let’s ___ there”

M886. Tailors’ unions?

M889. Environment-related regulation

M892. Bara contemporary

M894. Act the vagabond

M896. Keeps changing channels

M898. Teen wearing their best-ever outfit, perhaps

M901. A sibling of Cottontail

M903. “Well, I…that is…”

M904. Big ___ of California

M905. Roller coaster rider’s shout

M906. Competitor of Aquafina

M907. Captain Stubing portrayer Gavin

M910. Co-confessional start

M911. MD’s concerns

M912. Loser to Montgomery at El Alamein

M913. “Breaking ___ Hard to Do”

M914. “Why, ___ delighted!”

M915. TV oldie, Answer Yes ___

M916. Assign by design

M918. Fateful Triangle author Chomsky

M920. Author Brooks or McMillan

M922. “Phooey”

M924. “A nest of robins in her hair” poet

M926. Five-time Socialist Presidential candidate

M927. Inbox item

M929. Gdansk denizen

M930. Take advantage of

M931. Supporter, of sorts

M932. Trap music or electro house

M933. Eleven favorites

M935. Ft. Benning Army inst.

M936. End for super

M937. Buckminster Fuller’s “___ to Be a Verb”

M938. Adorn with beads

M939. Promos

M940. Deplaning gift in Maui

M942. Bygone big bird

M943. Horror and Middle-Earth actress Horvath

M944. Animator’s artwork

M945. Draft status to which Steve Rogers aspired

M946. Hospital gp.

M949. Time Cycle composer Lukas

M950. He played the “King” opposite Deborah’s Anna

M951. Peg pounded into pennies?

M955. End the movie silhouetted on a bucking bronco?

M960. Keep purchasing the sunniest months in a time-share?

M964. Plaintiff who lets the lawyer do all the talking?

M969. “Gateway” to the Cape Cod National Seashore

M971. Plane carrying capacities?

M974. Dark-feathered clones found in Warner Brothers’ Snow White parody?

M976. “This veggie’s extra healthy”?

M980. 1.5?

M983. Capet, e.g.

M984. 100 pfennigs, briefly

M986. Woody Allen film guest-starring Marshall McLuhan

M988. Dnepr feeder

M989. For rent, in London

M990. With the result being

M992. Links beginnings

M993. Conclude at

M995. Wolverine, for one

M996. Platforms

M997. Mixmistresses

M998. 911 response unit, briefly

M999. More than one can count

M1000. ___ point

M1001. Comically imitated

M1002. 2000 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim ___-jung

M1003. Line of Canon cameras

M1004. Short person’s need?

M1005. Did laps, perhaps

M1006. Brahms’s A?

M1007. Texas college founded by church and civic leaders

M1008. Often-banned dye source

M1009. Mets and Nets

M1010. Pre-birth procedure

M1013. Kasparov coups

M1014. It was probed by NASA’s Dawn

M1015. Kilted one, traditionally

M1017. Stationery supplies

M1019. Strauss’ material

M1021. Get weepy

M1023. Twins, e.g.

M1025. Hot ___ a Stick (fast food)

M1027. Rusty on the diamond

M1030. Emulates Congress

M1032. Orchard Field, today

M1034. Drag Race host

M1035. Signature of a noted author

M1037. March or Roach

M1038. Cozy footwear, informally

M1039. Bag vendor with a lot of homophones

M1040. Frosty mug

M1041. “___ the night before Christmas”

M1042. It may be dispensed

M1043. “Here’s the World War I flying ___…” (start of Snoopy’s fantasies, often)

M1044. What German knights might say to invading Englishers?

M1045. “___ by moonlight, proud Titania” (Oberon)

M1046. Constrict, with “in”

M1047. CNN’s HQ

M1048. Dog days’ refreshment

M1049. Feminine end for Marl, Hel, and Sel

M1051. “I know, it’s a lot, the hair, the ___!—when you’re starin’ at a demigod”

M1053. Probably the easiest foreign language for English-speakers to learn

M1055. “___ the loneliest number…”

M1057. They drive others home a lot

M1059. Point-of-honor settler

M1061. Franklin is on it

M1063. Small boilers

M1065. Division of Germany

M1066. Sets up pool balls

M1067. More than brighten

M1068. Reduced to crumbs, perhaps

M1069. Pandemic-friendly fitness investment

M1071. Salmon route

M1073. The Foreigner star

M1074. Health plan prefix

M1075. Talk-show host Howie

M1077. Alive in classical notation

M1078. Actress Harrier or Linney

M1080. Work pants

M1083. Main mail drop (abbr.)

M1085. Movie fade type

M1088. Racetrack figures

M1090. Helped, briefly

M1092. Tierra del ___

M1094. Light punishment, as “on the wrist”

M1096. Ciardi’s ___ a Man

M1097. Factotums

M1099. Wit Bombeck and gospel singer Franklin

M1101. 21st letter in the Greek alphabet

M1102. Prefix with “vaginal”

M1103. Uber alternative?

M1104. Brkyln., e.g.

M1105. Romantic starter

M1106. Clothing chain

M1107. “Righto”

M1108. Raisin accompaniment

M1109. Moses’ oratorical stand-in

M1110. Expose to intense heat

M1111. Cheerless hue

M1112. At sea? Mais oui

M1113. “Man, my knee is killing me!”

M1114. “Yogi and Boo-Boo just have to accept whatever’s in what pic-a-nic baskets they can steal”?

M1118. “Every funeral, they have a trout…kinda weird”?

M1123. One who can’t get enough of Spielberg productions?

M1125. Poetic adverb

M1126. Pinches, teaspoons, and bellyfuls?

M1130. Keep harmonizing, even though I’m starting to think I was really rambling when I wrote these lyrics?

M1134. Gulp from a shot glass?

M1140. Law that required certain restaurants to give calorie counts

M1141. Prefix with cast or play

M1143. Coup d’inspiration

M1144. Goddess repopularized by Augustus

M1145. These, in Spain

M1147. Webpage or Kindle choice, e.g.

M1148. Axiomatic belief

M1149. When things start going wrong for Hamilton

M1150. Stuntman Cruise who doubles as an actor

M1152. Apply haphazardly

M1153. Laura with the album Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

M1155. Move capriciously

M1156. Foretell the future

M1157. Shedlike housing

M1158. 33 1/3 ___ LP

M1159. Muffin topper

M1160. Namesakes of a Chaplin

M1161. Twin telepathy and clairaudience

M1162. Virus’s need

M1163. Time pieces (abbr.)

M1164. “Done,” at the poker table

M1165. Fran Drescher’s TV role, to some

M1168. Reaction to a bad take, say

M1170. Heads toward an increase

M1173. Vitamin stat, briefly

M1174. Nostalgic #

M1177. Night light

M1179. ___ parade (reporters to a military medical officer)

M1180. Burned black

M1182. Dry-plaster painting

M1184. Walton who founded a warehouse club

M1186. Core component of bus. intelligence

M1187. AAA service

M1190. Many a South Slav

M1192. Management consultant Bill

M1193. “Manly, yes, but I like ___”

M1195. Disease of sheep

M1196. The dude’s

M1197. They take pix

M1198. Brother of Cain

M1199. “Get ___” (Fortnite taunt)

M1200. Like rice paddies

M1201. Hop or sing ending

M1203. Have no important disagreements

M1204. “Permission to enter?”

M1205. Alpha male, perhaps?

M1207. Little hideaway

M1209. Exhausting

M1212. Arboretum specimen

M1214. Fine, old-slangily

M1216. Abandon detente

M1218. Cul-de-___

M1220. Overall weakness

M1223. It may be pierced or plugged

M1224. EU article

M1225. “Yet you balanced ___ on the end of your nose…”

M1226. Sportscasting gadget

M1228. 1960s TV’s The Ghost and Mrs. ___

M1229. Not letting things slide, briefly

M1230. Kind of average

M1231. Cry under a pop fly

M1232. Within

M1233. Hist. or sci.

M1234. Element from when the periodic table was a square

M1235. Carlo or Cristo lead-in

M1236. “Comment ___?” (Haitian “How are you?”)

M1237. Posted a cartoon-color-filtered nature video, hashtag #BambiGrandson?

M1243. Capone after the syphilis set in?

M1248. Rule that you just don’t know how good an acting job Jesse will do: will it be a Mark Zuckerberg or a Lex Luthor kind of performance? It’s a mystery…?

M1257. Chasing away anxiety with a sauna trip?

M1260. “QUIET! This is a COVERT military invasion”?

M1262. Country love ballad about key moments in military planning?

M1267. Awful place to get stranded?

M1273. 5.879 billion mi.

M1274. French fire

M1275. “___ chance!”

M1276. Label for Ozzy Osbourne

M1277. Former traffic-watchdog org.

M1278. “The ___ Rules” (Black Sabbath song and album)

M1280. Beethoven heroine

M1281. Marshall’s alter ego

M1282. Obnubilate

M1283. Erases from the bases

M1284. Jet-speed unit

M1285. Kind of gas (abbr.)

M1286. Carpentry tools

M1287. Singer-songwriter Marina on many soundtracks

M1289. Many a bracelet-maker

M1290. Yonder lass

M1291. Not any, to the D.A.

M1292. Essential auto part

M1293. Jersey speak?

M1294. What a greedy person always wants

M1295. They show beaucoup de films

M1296. Biforn synonym in The Canterbury Tales

M1297. Of poor quality, in modern slang

M1298. Small dogs with small minds

M1299. Very, to Villa

M1300. Clock shift first tried in Ger.

M1301. Run ___ the mouth (gab)

M1303. Liquid Death or Brisk Lemon cylinder

M1306. Lunches for most of my life, briefly

M1308. It comes before ar

M1310. Caveman Alley

M1312. “That’s ADORABLE!”

M1313. Apple genius?

M1314. Like hawks and eagles

M1316. Byway

M1318. Not an imit.

M1320. Bris official

M1322. Blood-related (to)

M1323. Shine-tastic, in similar adspeak

M1324. Butchering of language, e.g.

M1326. Post or Sun alternative

M1328. Place to buy wax

M1330. Visayan isle

M1331. They have sister sizes

M1332. Fixing them short-term may call for special tape

M1333. Light palm-touches

M1334. Watches kids

M1335. Spider-Man and Mary Jane, to many fans, for short

M1338. Aparicio of Cooperstown

M1339. Like a chocolate-covered peanut

M1341. Lead-in to fide or scriptura

M1343. Modern tablet

M1346. Bear shelters

M1347. Sixteen-time world champion wrestler

M1349. Letter holders (abbr.)

M1350. Arrow’s title character

M1352. ___ in eye

M1354. The ___ (melancholy)

M1355. “Ooh, that was slick!”

M1356. Rave partner

M1357. Onscreen dancer Miller

M1358. Roman 1,105

M1359. Lacking height or depth, for short

M1360. Side order with tandoori chicken

M1361. Certain metal fastener

M1362. Third-largest paper in the States

M1363. Lit-___ (slangy course name)

M1364. Inquisitive one

M1365. Vocal quality for Tom Waits

M1366. Gamer “grrrr”

M1367. Super Bowl XXI MVP first to say, “I’m going to Disney World!”

M1369. Luke and Yoda’s foil

M1371. Poisoning insects in the 1970s as only I can?

M1373. Baby powder that fears nothing?

M1375. Generic title for a boy-focused hero’s journey?

M1381. Modest baker’s disclaimer?

M1385. Claim from a money expert when it comes to narrow horizontal territories?

M1390. “Skeletons in the…” or “I’m coming out of the…”?

M1393. There are three in your area now who can transform any vegetable you own into a coach and drive you to your destination?

M1395. Huge stone formation with Sylvester Stallone’s and Mr. T’s faces?

M1398. Udon ___, Thai city

M1399. Treats with disdain

M1401. ___ as a well

M1403. Internationally popular state-sponsored broadcaster, with “the”

M1404. Spot for a clamp on a workbench

M1406. Schusser’s need

M1407. Anatomical branches

M1408. NBC weekend sketch show

M1410. Sell the scene

M1411. Reddish wood (abbr.)

M1412. Is a potential ongoing worry

M1414. Bristlelike parts

M1415. Atlas info (abbr.)

M1416. Olympic skier Reinalter

M1417. San ___ on the Riviera

M1419. Spy plane shot down in 1960 or band formed in 1976

M1420. Grey’s Anatomy bit part

M1421. “Neato!”

M1422. ___ de plume (pen names)

M1423. “This image feels like it could be me” initialism

M1424. Jennifer and Angelina’s ex

M1425. Blows up, using traditional means

M1426. Winners of the second World Series

M1427. Flextimer’s workday start, perhaps

M1431. Edged sideways

M1433. Little batteries

M1435. Form or fume prefix

M1436. State until 1991 (abbr.)

M1438. ___ Game of Games (with host DeGeneres)

M1441. Thrill

M1443. Roll of wire

M1446. Irish queen of world music

M1447. “Blind as ___”

M1449. FB players who may or may not have firm butts (okay, most of them do)

M1450. 1978 Peace Nobelist Anwar

M1452. LIII × XVII

M1453. Dealer’s mdse.

M1454. Vehicle for Mr. T and a black van

M1455. Extra attention

M1456. Cap or prom ending?

M1457. Port that’s one train ride from Tokyo

M1458. Small one on a runway, briefly

M1459. Not fair

M1460. Colfer, Macken, or Morgan…all Irishmen of note

M1461. “___ but known…”

M1462. Tough guitar exercise

M1465. Intergenerational reality show

M1469. Hot milk/espresso drink

M1470. Pogo was one

M1472. Money in Riga

M1474. Nosh popular in India

M1476. Sound-minded?

M1478. Start a golf hole, with “off”

M1480. “The Bones” won two

M1482. “___ Sunday afternoon…”

M1484. Worker-protection org.

M1486. Spoiled

M1488. Unappreciated by

M1490. Stuck fast

M1492. Cocky Aesopian rival

M1494. Letter on a sorority house

M1495. Blondie’s hubby

M1496. WWIII WMD

M1497. No longer in use (abbr.)

M1498. “Need You Tonight” rock group

M1499. Canape topping

M1500. Applicability

M1503. Helicopter creator Sikorsky

M1504. “He may be father of a great nation someday, but right now he has NO IDEA where he’s going”?

M1506. Post-menage-a-trois ointment applications?

M1510. Cube resident who was never assimilated?

M1513. “Assuming it’s BoJack Horseman’s frenemy…”?

M1517. Place for Shaggy and Velma to finally learn how to fight?

M1519. Pulp heroes of the frontier fruit grove?

M1522. Headache with comedic timing?

M1527. Unflattering comment on CSI and 3022 actress’s bad hair day?

M1532. Coffee-table adornment

M1533. Pick up on

M1534. Reach from home?

M1535. Some Halloween decor

M1537. Fine china

M1538. On the plane

M1539. “Scout’s honor!”

M1540. Ewe’s sound

M1542. Moore in Indecent Proposal, Striptease, and The Scarlet Letter

M1543. Worked the Delaware Bay, perhaps

M1545. Binchy book-to-film ___ Road

M1546. Noisy rooters?

M1548. Portuguese mathematician Pedro

M1549. Head of the Class actor Howard

M1551. Go for the Oscar

M1552. Wall-cal. pages

M1553. Goodhearted

M1554. Opposite of sml.

M1555. Senor’s six

M1556. Indian rule from 1858 to 1947

M1557. Decent

M1558. Icy deposit on grass

M1559. ___-you-please (not tied down)

M1561. Midrange hotel chain, familiarly

M1564. Virtual people in a video game series

M1566. Don’t bring up anymore

M1568. “___ bono?” (The one with the most to gain should be a prime suspect)

M1569. RBI producers, often

M1572. Pharmacist’s filling, for short

M1574. Ovid’s 705

M1577. Stop on “moe!”

M1579. Tokugawa shogunate seat of power

M1580. Rapper born Mathangi Arulpragasam

M1581. Mumbai Mister

M1582. Follower of Stone or Ice

M1583. Quick app exchanges

M1584. “Imperial” furniture?

M1586. Intuitive ones

M1587. East Berlin’s land, initially

M1589. Billions and billions of years

M1591. Rembrandt’s medium

M1592. Brazilian saints

M1593. LA’s ___ Antonio Winery

M1594. Affirmative that drops the “you”

M1595. Canoeist

M1596. Literary works

M1597. Progressive spokeswoman with a team

M1598. Theatrical VIP (abbr.)

M1601. European apple

M1603. Places with animal enclosures

M1605. Core-building exercises

M1607. Sing. opposite

M1609. Poor result

M1611. Type of wagon

M1613. The only Hoda you know, I’m guessing

M1615. Part of a tree or a book

M1617. NH3

M1620. Gulls’ kin

M1622. Much-mentioned baseball pro

M1623. Wide range

M1624. Late-afternoon meal in Britain

M1626. Occupy space in the real world

M1628. Holds the deed on

M1629. Offend a bit

M1630. Undo a stet

M1631. “___ Es el Amor” (Spanish song hit)

M1632. Embellishes, figuratively

M1633. Inspiration for the Pres. in Dr. Strangelove

M1634. Thanks from Hollande

M1636. One-___ (old ball game)

M1638. The guy in the white hat, stereotypically

M1640. Bird or fruit

M1642. Getting unwelcomely (into)

M1644. “What you just said is what I’d say, too”

M1647. Kylie Minogue’s “I Believe ___”

M1649. Haunted house sound

M1651. Prozac, Lexapro, or Paxil, in brief

M1653. Help-wanted sign?

M1654. Inc., in Australia

M1656. Obedience school word

M1657. More, to Pablo

M1658. Small skirts

M1659. Magnet for visitors

M1660. College up the coast from LA

M1661. Kg over m high squared, basically

M1662. Where the Enterprise keeps captured foes

M1663. Oscar-winning film and song of 1958

M1664. Ending on drag or buff

M1665. In ___ (not moved)

M1666. Often-citrusy refreshments

M1667. Bellis perennis

M1670. “So it’s ___ the other” (“The Girl Is Mine” line)

M1671. “Both sides benefit…know what I mean? [eyebrow waggle]”?

M1675. Taking advantage of his stunned state to complete his transformation into a cake ornament?

M1678. “After it LOOKED like big things were going to happen…pfft!”

M1681. Check the progress of sorrow?

M1684. Actor Harington’s chimp pet…it’s just the two of them?

M1688. Sexual proclivities and exit strategies?

M1693. “That polecat’s nest is made from old junk”?

M1703. FDR’s help for homeowners

M1704. “___Call You Sweetheart”

M1705. Location of John McCain’s ranch

M1706. Thyme, for one

M1707. Capability

M1709. Score with two balls

M1710. “Unstoppable” singer

M1711. Blas and Thorp

M1712. Air balls miss them entirely

M1714. Place or stead

M1715. “How hard could ___?”

M1716. Vacation indication, perhaps

M1717. Woman from the Barbary Coast

M1719. Officer trainees

M1720. French attachment to “ski” or “midi”

M1722. Cruiser coordinators

M1723. Doesn’t enunciate

M1725. WWII agency in the US

M1726. Suffixes for the elite

M1727. “No worries”

M1728. Future JDs

M1729. Punk-hoppers ___ PE

M1730. “Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling” penner

M1731. Capturer’s triumphant words

M1733. Poppycock

M1734. They’re often run by children

M1736. Celine with five Grammys

M1738. “Want to get dinner ___?” (date question in Oxford)

M1740. Pretty pitchers

M1742. Sit in judgment

M1744. Moved with ease

M1746. Keep, as a garden

M1748. Italian diminutive suffix

M1750. Riemann ___ function

M1752. “Suitable for all ages” program rating

M1754. “You got it!”

M1755. More perverse

M1756. Ready to propagate

M1758. A Is for Awesome or Cars and Trucks from A to Z

M1760. Gas brand in Canada

M1762. Kind of guitar or engine

M1764. Cached

M1765. “As ___ woman once told me…”

M1766. Moral transgression

M1767. “___ it from me…”

M1769. Cupids in art

M1770. Piece-of-mine?

M1771. Cowpoke’s tool

M1773. Twenty-one years before this puzzle’s release

M1775. Scientific number-crunching procedure

M1777. Improvises jazzily

M1779. Certain butterflies

M1781. Has her origins in

M1783. Bovine of Barcelona

M1785. Longtime Delaware senator William

M1787. Bar pickup?

M1788. ___ Valley (Reagan library site)

M1790. Computer introduction of 1998

M1791. Erstwhile Olds

M1792. Win in blackjack

M1793. ___-Z (auto)

M1794. Third smallest of batteries

M1795. Smoothly transition

M1797. Yes, in Japanese

M1798. Biologically central

M1800. Short time shortened?

M1801. Start to peter out?

M1802. Took to shore, as a wave or a boat

M1803. GOP foil

M1804. Chang’s companion

M1806. Book about all the afternoon drinks the author had?

M1810. Star that moves earth and moves the Earth?

M1813. Like most commenters on the fact-starved internet?

M1817. Kind of cigarette that can ruin your ears as well as your lungs?

M1821. Spending sundown transformed into a musical instrument?

M1825. One who didn’t plan to be abusive and mean to her peers today, but here we are?

M1828. The perfect surgical knife?

M1831. Excuse when you find the gossip book from M1806-Across liquefied into a pulp-and-ink soup in a mug?

M1836. Fauna sci.

M1838. “I ___ jealous!”

M1839. Season-ending knee tear site, often

M1840. Undersea detection system

M1842. Interview

M1843. Simple organism, in biology

M1845. “No good reason to hold back,” on your phone

M1846. “Positively smashing!”

M1847. Obama adviser Emanuel

M1849. Pig, in Paris

M1850. They might give a hoot

M1851. “___ spiro spero,” South Carolingian motto

M1853. Star Cage, familiarly

M1854. Dot in some digital clocks

M1855. Subsidiary theorems

M1857. Suffix in taxonomy

M1858. Rockers ___ Lobos

M1859. ___ IX, longest-serving Pope

M1860. Egg-shaped things

M1861. “___ bragh”

M1862. Littleneck mollusk

M1863. How people wait on the edge of their seat

M1864. Prefix for bus or science

M1865. Wally’s bro in old programming

M1866. Went gondoliering

M1869. State off.

M1871. Mark of martial arts achievement

M1874. Small screen appearance

M1876. “Mart” for Bart

M1879. It’s worn by Aladdin and Stan of Gravity Falls

M1881. Castle stronghold

M1883. Brzezinski of MSNBC

M1885. Mineral hardness scale inventor

M1888. H&R Block advance

M1890. Investment in a new business

M1895. Spanish or Portuguese

M1897. Three-ball winter project

M1899. Civic boundaries?

M1900. Cover from border to border

M1903. Starting to develop fine motor skills, probably

M1904. Near-rapture

M1905. Makeup of some blocks

M1907. “I’m ___ you!”

M1908. ___ en point (heraldic style)

M1909. Showing little emotion

M1911. “Yes way, Jose!”

M1912. “Pass me ___ of pliers”

M1914. “Bother” or “trouble” ending

M1916. It ran through the streets of Sweden

M1918. SoCal baseballers, on the scoreboard

M1920. Scarce, to Scipio

M1922. 951, to Claudius

M1924. Waves behind a ship

M1926. You might not be able to stand this

M1928. Company that insured Marlene Dietrich’s legs

M1929. Letters after Kirsten Gillibrand

M1930. James Bond’s alter ego

M1931. Former eBay CEO Whitman

M1932. ___.com: site offering “Unlimited Data Plans”

M1933. Not that great

M1934. More than wants

M1935. Like many folk songs (abbr.)

M1936. “Fain” synonym that’s similarly out of modern usage

M1937. Patch applier

M1938. Blackbeard portrayer McShane

M1941. Riddle in Zen Buddhism

M1942. Begin to awake

M1943. Model of The Bastard Executioner star…or deep desire for a director Spike doll?

M1945. Oh Henry!, Clark, Heath, and Mike and Ike?

M1949. Kept quiet despite the church’s wishes?

M1953. Uncomfortably amorous sandpapers?

M1956. Refuge for plastic miniatures of animals?

M1958. A Tale of a Tuber and Sweet Potato High?

M1961. Use periodically updated running gags online?

M1966. Where diplomats talk peace during nice, relaxing dips?

M1970. Clairvoyant tingle you get when someone’s chowing down?

M1972. Tune tech, for short

M1973. Hot dog topper my New York-raised wife loves

M1975. ___ alone (act without help)

M1977. Leave harbor

M1979. “Dude!” alternative I allow in puzzles now and then just to rile up purists

M1980. Old realm (abbr.)

M1981. Kings’ org.

M1982. Insolence

M1984. Pilot’s directive on takeoff

M1985. Dumb question after “I thought I would just die”

M1987. Pickett’s Charge participant

M1988. Canyon vantage points

M1989. Crime scene evidence, often

M1990. Fancy spreads

M1991. “That would be me”

M1992. “___ the bus, Gus” (Paul Simon line)

M1993. Girl’s name that sounds like a fragrant flower

M1995. Clapton hit that won the 1992 Best Rock Song Grammy

M1996. Found among these pages

M1997. “…there ___ truth in him” (John)

M1998. Start of a weekly cry

M2001. Bridle strap

M2004. Replacement for Dionysian year notation

M2005. John Mayer’s “Your Body ___ Wonderland”

M2007. Follower in “followers”

M2009. Help for post-op recovery that carry their own dangers

M2011. Approval on The Little Rascals

M2013. Sort of vote (abbr.)

M2015. “You got THAT right!”

M2017. The year 151

M2018. Like Carrie Fisher in moonlight, strangled by her own bra, according to her self-penned obituary

M2020. Teach sitting and rolling over

M2022. “One Funny Mother” Blizzard

M2023. Miami clock setting in Jul.

M2024. NFLer who used to play in Yankee Stadium

M2025. Taxpayer reps, at times

M2027. Knowing in your head

M2029. Deli worker’s task

M2030. Parsec’s 3.262, roughly (abbr.)

M2031. Breaker in a 1980 film and legend

M2032. Leonard with a yearly movie book

M2034. Spoke in Cat?

M2036. Parts of mos.

M2037. (Low) class

M2038. Warm and well-wrapped

M2041. The first thing to be filled out, likely

M2043. Mover’s P.O. notification

M2044. “I get it at last”

M2046. Noah’s landing pt.

M2049. Speed equaling sound

M2052. Approx.

M2053. Thumb-hooking greetings

M2055. Cuban cigar brand

M2056. UK military fliers

M2057. School yr. parts

M2059. General uneasiness

M2060. “Here ___ nothing!”

M2061. With feeling deadened

M2062. The Tiger’s neighbor

M2063. Radio channel, vis-à-vis a show

M2064. Return to a liquid state

M2065. Sellout problem

M2066. Site read?

M2067. Crumbling stone fragments.

M2069. Fruit considered a metaphor for life

M2071. Desmond who claimed the pictures got small

M2073. Had been let off the leash

M2077. Robitaille of hockey fame

M2078. Peke’s squeak?

M2080. Oscar-nominated role for Beatty

M2081. Revolutionary designer Oxman

M2083. Initials at a full house

M2085. Gainsay

M2086. It’s like thick Worcestershire sauce

M2087. Kind of day (abbr.)

M2088. Make an offer for

M2089. Ollie’s biggest friend

M2090. Certain camera shot

M2091. Which individual

M2092. Abbreviation on silver

M2093. Restrained, after “on”

M2094. “___ borders open?” (common search phrase)

M2095. Vague impression

M2096. Marquee times

M2097. Einstein’s birthplace

M2098. Maternal winged mammal who runs on slender batteries?

M2099. Aluminum fruit sculpture, unpainted and straight from the metalworker?

M2102. Dessert that keeps your motor going?

M2104. Scarecrow that can basically do my job when I’m not around?

M2106. Shred fish for dinner?

M2109. English king deceived into thinking the Americans weren’t really revolting?

M2112. Day-Lewis stretching his neck to play a taller character?

M2116. Anxiety about bachelorette parties?

M2119. Actress Bell triumphant?

M2124. Head-slapping utterances

M2125. Also-evil twin in Despicable Me 3

M2126. “ColdcoldcoldcoldCOLD!”

M2127. Personal appearance, expression, and posture

M2128. Surname of two British prime ministers

M2129. Bethesda letters

M2130. Russia’s ___-Tass agency

M2132. ___ cri

M2134. Yeltsin’s denials

M2136. Ending for about 7,000-8,000 domain names (a number that’s stayed constant for seventeen years)

M2137. Myrtle relative

M2138. Nuclear missile, briefly

M2140. In 2023, it begins in late June

M2141. Stop on a track (abbr.)

M2142. Comic’s asset

M2143. James IV to James I of Scotland

M2144. Drillhole

M2146. Spare, maybe

M2147. Serpentine, on structures

M2148. “People who enjoy meetings should not ___ charge of anything” (Thomas Sowell)

M2149. What companies should use to show their employees are valued

M2150. Type of stew

M2152. The same as above

M2154. Nebraska Sioux

M2156. Adm. Michael M. Gilday, since 2010

M2157. Call out on the carpet

M2161. Find respect for anew

M2164. Didn’t get bought

M2165. Laughing sounds

M2169. Repenter

M2171. Scots’ name for Scotland

M2173. Hunter’s quarry

M2175. Marking one’s territory, crow-style

M2177. Hambletonian strides

M2178. Supporting pillar

M2179. Expected graduates in a certain year

M2180. Girl in a Cohan song

M2181. Cylindrical high-rise

M2182. Brit’s guns

M2183. Whoopi role for which she should have won the Oscar

M2185. Rounded up

M2186. “My mom’s gonna kill me!”

M2190. Floor model, briefly

M2191. Parsons’ homes

M2193. Polar hazard

M2194. ELO love song

M2196. Command to a jester

M2198. Old reciprocal electrical unit

M2200. “German Requiem” composer

M2203. “___ to misbehave” (Serenity quote)

M2205. Flavor of some tortilla chips

M2207. Sommer who starred in Bob Hope films and specials

M2209. “That it?”

M2210. Seed coverings

M2211. “RIP to a ___ one”

M2212. Fear-inducing

M2213. Ms. Lisa of art

M2214. Four-decades-plus first name in the Senate

M2215. “Stop right there!”

M2216. Patron saint of refugees and torture victims

M2217. Cooled off like a corgi

M2218. Wish fervently one could

M2219. No. on the dashboard

M2220. “___, you noblest English!”

M2221. Sculptures that make soup out of “toy” pellets? [Note: this clue refers to a Descendants actor, not anyone with a shorter name]

M2225. Wealthy father, plus father who works in marketing?

M2229. Eight-foot-tall doc

M2230. Dog-show champ?

M2233. Paranoid philosophy without a crazy billionaire to bankroll its promotion?

M2237. Carry out the task, having aged out?

M2240. Start a promo campaign around how everyone knows a floral pattern centered on an oval with a protruding aerial?

M2245. Pretty smart as a group?

M2247. “So you’re saying…the Spanish named you when they colonized you, but you’re not a river and don’t have any gold? Sorry, friend, that sucks”?

M2249. Reason to downshift

M2250. Day of anticipation

M2251. Cowboy tool

M2253. Place between hills

M2254. Mark against

M2256. National capital whose name means “military post”

M2258. Indicative or imperative

M2259. Pleasure centers?

M2261. Be fond of, with “on”

M2262. Finish off

M2263. Allergic reaction treater

M2265. Turnarounds, in slang

M2266. Units in electricity

M2267. Civil but wary

M2268. Mideast theocracy

M2269. Emerald color

M2270. Hayworth and namesakes

M2271. Rolling in the pounds

M2272. Fair place

M2273. “On ___ Road Again”

M2274. Word nerds’ org. with a style guide

M2275. Name of a modern abolitionist movement

M2277. Posterior

M2281. 2012 film about Snow White with Julia Roberts as the evil queen

M2283. Brazilian booter

M2285. Composer who tutored Mozart’s son

M2287. ___ around: snoops

M2289. Message on a candy heart

M2291. Classic Sigourney Weaver thriller

M2293. “All ___!” (court exclamation)

M2295. Bivouac chow, for short

M2297. Egypt neighbor (abbr.)

M2298. New corp. hires, often

M2299. Drug also known as Ecstasy

M2300. Little fellas

M2301. Biblical seed sower

M2302. Gave audience to

M2303. Plain type?

M2304. CD attachments?

M2305. July holiday

M2306. Young Milne character

M2307. “She ___ her own thing”

M2311. Pacific Rim genre

M2314. Adventure story writer Charles

M2315. Curve-ruiners, on tests

M2317. Word before paper or test

M2319. “Lovely ___” (Beatles song)

M2321. Certain classwomen (abbr.)

M2322. Little hellraiser

M2324. Arizona tribe members

M2326. Belief in an indifferent God

M2328. Curt dismissal

M2330. Exam with two unscored sections (abbr.)

M2332. Teens’ test-taking sites

M2334. Most with it

M2337. Wrong, in Reims

M2338. Stopped communicating with

M2339. Medians and modes, at times (abbr.)

M2340. Coarse, woolen cloth

M2341. Cold feet, essentially

M2342. Dads’ counterparts, in many families

M2343. Characters on both Friends and ER, which aired on the same channel at the same night

M2344. Former German money

M2345. “No One ___ Was in the Room Where It Happened” (Hamilton)

M2346. Pin end in the glands?

M2347. Prefix with sac

M2348. Cooing sound

M2350. Female demon (anagram of A MAIL)

M2352. Intoxicant in a famous dystopia

M2354. Tried, as a communal plate

M2357. Not quite B minus

M2359. Sonny and Cher and Simon and Garfunkel

M2361. Some, in Spain

M2363. Sleep activity

M2365. Rapper Miami or Joc

M2367. Handbag for a guy

M2368. “___ polar bear strolls into a bar…”

M2369. Cost surprisingly little

M2370. Half a black and tan

M2371. Weighty reading?

M2372. Verdi aria that means “It was you”

M2373. “___ Back to Me”

M2374. With “out,” no longer reelectable

M2375. Tattletale’s cry

M2376. Assign responsibility

M2377. The Godfather subject

M2379. Hansel and Gretel’s foe

M2382. Reason I need an ambulance after getting too close in the stable?

M2385. Bartender’s query?

M2390. House topper with its measurements labeled and the Pythagorean theorem showing the square of its sides adds up to the square of its underbelly?

M2396. Full citation?

M2401. Evil version of a Charmin-squeezing supermarket manager?

M2404. Snack food marketed to exotic dancers?

M2407. Stream filled with pacifiers?

M2410. “So,” at the Somme

M2411. Chromaticity

M2412. “To ___ few”

M2413. “There ___ to be a law!”

M2415. Unsophisticated sort

M2416. Perform, as a poem

M2417. Geraldo and Diego

M2419. Long board in construction

M2420. Asian desert

M2421. Certain seasonal sandwich

M2423. 1985 Pointer Sisters hit with a “challenging” title

M2424. Zip relative

M2425. Governing instincts

M2426. Mozart title

M2427. Has a plan and thinks one can

M2428. Some folding money

M2429. Make pennies?

M2430. “It was nothing like that, ___ breath!” (classic line from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial that really captures what it was like to be a kid in the Eighties)

M2431. Weak-eyed worm hunter

M2432. Mud-probing bird

M2433. Wood of boating fame

M2434. “¿___ bien?” (“Everything satisfactory?”)

M2435. Clout providers

M2438. Poet’s under

M2440. Job-related moves, for short

M2442. Arab republic

M2445. They make the cut

M2447. Inexperienced ones

M2449. AL or NL honorees

M2451. Transmits, as an e-mail

M2453. Letter attachment

M2455. Actress Rogers who was once married to Tom Cruise

M2456. Letters in many email addresses, then and even now

M2457. “___ you interested in this position?” (Question to which the answer is not “I like money. You have some. Give me the money”)

M2458. Hellen, to Hellenes

M2460. Plant shoot

M2461. Tribe also called Arikara

M2462. Collective bargaining overseers (abbr.)

M2463. Trusty mounts

M2465. Sweat leaker

M2466. Place to watch Secret Lives of the Super Rich

M2467. Video feed problem

M2470. Used WhatsApp, say

M2472. PGA driver

M2473. Child’s punishment, perhaps

M2475. Soup pastas

M2477. Removal of restrictions, casually

M2479. Certain pro football player

M2481. Coast hwy.

M2482. Add instead of subtract, e.g.

M2483. CBS military law show

M2485. Earth’s gases, for short

M2487. Mid-month date

M2489. Fabled wish granter

M2491. Dear heart

M2492. Airer of many old MGM films

M2493. “Victory is mine!”

M2494. Haven’t the nerve

M2496. Have the lead role

M2497. Springtime on the Seine

M2498. Jerry or Tom

M2499. Lincoln ___, creator of the comic strip Big Nate

M2500. Overly demure

M2501. Vessels seen in cubicles

M2502. Stock of food

M2503. Important union members?

M2504. Ample Aussie avifauna

M2505. “It’s ___ point”

M2507. A thunderbird tops it

M2509. “Is everything all right?”

M2511. Strategic deployment of propaganda, for short

M2514. WWII battle city in France

M2516. Temp. addr.

M2518. Big foot

M2520. “Eep!”

M2522. Tesla, e.g.

M2524. Make a steer of a bull

M2526. Italian restaurant

M2529. FedEx Field and Fenway Park

M2531. Industrial chemical that makes polycarbonate

M2533. Part of SPCA

M2534. Neurologist’s focus, initially?

M2535. Overworked clerk in Springfield

M2536. Hoppy brew

M2537. Some tech school grads

M2538. Mother of a zebrula

M2539. Fogarty of Riverdale who (appropriately) runs with the Southside Serpents

M2540. Brooke who came out with her girlfriend to sing “Sunroof”

M2541. Tartan pattern

M2542. Keeps A&W and Dad’s off the premises?

M2545. No-holds-barred conflict over retirement funds?

M2548. Cutting remark about the number of guns in Dallas?

M2551. “My job is to make sure the experiment is repeatable”?

M2554. Heroes getting almost no recognition?

M2560. Broadway show replacing its puppets with animatronics?

M2565. Snappily dressed celestial body?

M2568. Escape from Doha?

M2571. Folk follower

M2572. Culinary general?

M2573. Sean Penn film of 2001, or first line of Green Eggs and Ham

M2574. Stone follower

M2575. Digital information carrier

M2577. Old Plains abode

M2578. Person living in the right part of town?

M2580. Beebee, e.g.

M2581. Mallorca is one

M2582. “And on this farm he had a cow, EIEIO! with ___…”

M2583. “Can’t ___ Ain’t Country” (Florida Georgia Line)

M2584. Palate cleanser in a multicourse meal

M2585. Johnson’s vaudeville partner

M2587. Thanksgiving torpors

M2588. One-eighty, slangily

M2590. NFL linemen

M2591. Wine Country star Gasteyer

M2592. Big wds.’ source

M2593. Total failure

M2594. Hairstylist’s aid

M2595. Deep alternative to the Devil?

M2596. “___ own dependent?” (tax question)

M2597. “Christmas, Schmistmas!”

M2599. Initials on patented items

M2600. Beagle or boxer

M2602. Buddies, in a Li’l Wayne song

M2604. Professors’ prizes

M2606. First blank, often

M2607. They’re good at what they do

M2608. MySQL, Oracle Database, and Microsoft Access

M2611. Chant sounds

M2613. Cookbook author Rombauer

M2615. MLB league

M2617. 1977 memoir that opens with “Registration: Meeting My Enemy”

M2618. Inquisition target

M2620. Lisa Simpson, to Patty and Selma Bouvier

M2621. D.C. jurist ‘til ‘18

M2622. “Let’s make some grub”

M2625. 24-hour race site

M2627. Just destroyed in competition

M2629. Arse, across the pond

M2630. Heavy rock?

M2633. Friend of Francesco

M2636. Shuffle, for short

M2638. Comedian Vidale with a short-lived self-titled sitcom

M2639. “Oh yeah?! ___ who?”

M2640. Daniel, William, and Stephen’s bro

M2642. Bologna bread, once

M2644. Lackadaisical

M2646. Polite affirmative from a ranch hand

M2647. Like Switz. in WWII

M2649. Ghostly delusions

M2652. React fearfully

M2654. Loogey composition

M2655. Takes by force

M2656. “i’m off,” in texts

M2657. Pasta eaten with a spoon

M2658. A dromedary has one

M2659. Muse of meditation

M2660. Mouth of the Mekong meal

M2661. Adjective for TV’s “Squad”

M2662. Worked the soil again

M2663. Vietnamese monetary unit

M2664. Arthur of “primal scream” fame

M2665. “You’re telling me!”

M2668. Rock band accessory, for short

M2670. Abbrs. after corp. names

M2672. ___ Adams, noted signature

M2674. Dermal opening?

M2676. Protected means of moving files, for short

M2678. Qatar’s org.

M2680. Voiceless sound

M2684. Lighthearted word ender

M2686. Condition of TV’s Monk

M2687. Special ___ (military force)

M2689. Like tomato juice

M2690. Starflower that sounds like something Pooh eats

M2691. Red-nosed cartoon chipmunk

M2692. Rx book

M2694. “I’m not standin’ in their way”

M2696. Ice star

M2697. Musical syllables

M2698. Prelude to dad or dah

M2699. Retire (with “up”)

M2701. Let go home

M2702. Opposite of sings.

M2705. Supplements’ ___ acids

M2707. Kind of intersection

M2708. “The tofu base went without”?

M2712. Old gunmakers find better careers?

M2719. Born, in French

M2720. Makes it so that dinner is still mooing, disturbingly?

M2725. Detain Karen Bass in Los Angeles?

M2727. Inclusive employer’s initials

M2728. Discussion of Crayola and Sharpie’s pros and cons?

M2733. Features of a Sunday post-service coffee?

M2737. What makes a prisoner a prisoner

M2738. Supervillain head of state not yet seen in the MCU

M2740. Anchor on an arm, say

M2741. Ulna location

M2742. “She loves,” to Livy

M2744. “___ stupid?” (“I can’t fathom his actions”)

M2745. Harry Styles song beginning “Nine in the morning, the man drops his kids off at school…”

M2746. Monogram on L’Homme products

M2747. Like a famous lionskin

M2748. Playboy’s come-on

M2750. Enjoyed eagerly

M2751. Country walker

M2752. Org. that might go bust?

M2753. Shortish tennis match

M2754. Neurologist’s requests

M2755. Elem. school organizations

M2756. Historical spans

M2757. “Before I forget,” in texts

M2758. Forget to add

M2759. Corrosive chemical, to a chemist

M2760. “Let’s go, amigos!”

M2761. Cobra or black mamba

M2762. Novelist Troyat

M2763. Accent in the pantry?

M2764. Capital building best known for being stormed

M2766. World’s eighth largest bank

M2768. Bark sharply

M2770. Sounds from a cold crowd

M2772. Tree-dwelling tropical monkey

M2775. Open 9 ___ 5

M2777. VA hospital concern

M2778. Abbr. in psychiatry or term in classical psychiatry

M2779. Metrosexual accessory

M2781. Secret blabbers

M2783. Like market dips, to home sellers

M2785. ___ mirabilis: wonderful year

M2786. One of a matching pair?

M2787. Twin killings, in baseball (abbr.)

M2788. “O ___ babbino caro” (“Gianni Schicchi” aria)

M2789. Tourist transport

M2791. Write anew

M2792. Go on tour

M2793. Kept tabs on a tabby

M2794. Yemeni chaw

M2796. Italian meal starter

M2798. UN ambassador in the early 1960s

M2800. “Silence!”

M2803. Rain hard

M2804. Dance specialty

M2806. ___ relative

M2809. Enero or febrero, e.g.

M2810. Rod in Cooperstown

M2812. British gasoline

M2814. Revived Renaissance tongue

M2816. ___ a Letter to My Love (1981 film)

M2817. Pilgrim John

M2818. Unit of purity

M2819. Staves that resemble vaulter’s poles

M2820. Nanny’s offspring

M2821. “___ for ice cream”

M2822. Had deep longings

M2823. Steel-wool scrubber

M2824. Ancient Greek vessel

M2825. Late-stage Rome’s foes

M2826. Golden ___: seniors

M2827. As long as a burpless cucumber

M2831. Chibi avatar

M2832. Memory fragment?

M2834. Strand in the lab

M2836. Spot for a margarita’s salt

M2838. Thigh-rotating muscle, informally

M2840. Campbell of We’re The Campbells and Mary Mary

M2841. Sink, in olden times

M2842. Chop (off), as a branch

M2844. Neutral possessive

M2845. “Steee-rike!” callers

M2846. Altair and Sirius

M2847. Cosmonaut Latysheva or Solovyova

M2848. Disney film based on Chinese folklore

M2851. Flintstones’ “Fido”

M2852. Apple buy

M2853. Country estate

M2854. They follow heths

M2855. Best Week Ever channel

M2856. Congressperson’s coffee-getter

M2857. “It’s the BEATLES!!!”

M2858. First draft of a genealogy?

M2862. Phase in transferring plants to the garden?

M2867. Thick soup offered in compensation?

M2871. Eldest brother Karamazov

M2873. Place for dossiers on Treebeard’s crew?

M2878. “Believe in people, but also record their statements in sonnets so they can’t contradict them later”?

M2882. Practicing

M2883. “We’re better than their sort”?

M2887. Coarse jokes from Dr. Crane, when he’s irritated enough that his refinement slips?

M2893. US 101, e.g. (abbr.)

M2894. Completes, with “out”

M2896. Thousandth of a yen

M2897. College adjunct (abbr.)

M2898. Drinks (abbr.)

M2900. Wide separation

M2901. Sportscaster Dawson

M2902. Universal particle

M2904. Kilmer of The Saint

M2905. Brief brawl

M2906. Electrical pioneer Georg Simon

M2907. File from Romney’s desk, for short

M2908. Order countermanded by “Down, boy!”

M2910. Noted house of fashion

M2911. Ward, America’s first stand-up comic

M2912. Got an ___: scored 95 or so

M2913. Milk meas.

M2914. The bright side?

M2915. Numeral across the clock from IX

M2916. Pooch problem

M2917. Stop, as a leak

M2918. Divisions for the Yanks and Mets

M2919. Help for Holmes

M2920. Cine2Nerdle subject

M2923. Biblical beast of burden

M2924. “It ___ Me, Babe” (Bob Dylan)

M2926. Poky

M2929. 2008 documentary about agribusiness

M2931. Ground bait

M2932. Do word processing

M2934. Cherished

M2935. False charges

M2939. “A signature always reveals a man’s character—and sometimes even his name” writer Evan

M2941. Pandas, panthers, and pachyderms, e.g.

M2945. Suffix with “consumer”

M2946. His, to Henri

M2947. Year in which the first crossword appeared, on December 21

M2951. BET Hip Hop Awards “Rookie of the Year” winner ___ Lo

M2953. Bit of inspiration

M2955. Choose not to disturb

M2956. Informal headwear for men, usually

M2957. Commercial manufacturers?

M2958. Unbelievable jerk, for short

M2959. Beatles’ representation

M2960. Part of a makeover, slangily

M2963. Island of the Cyclades

M2965. Letter carrier’s load

M2967. Managua Mrs.

M2968. Sound editor’s studio, for short

M2970. Toy Story character who never speaks

M2972. Arthur of the US Open

M2974. January honoree (abbr.)

M2975. Fish served rare

M2976. Vaulting Olympian’s landing site

M2977. Michele Pfeiffer’s sister

M2979. 2002 Li’l Bow Wow film about admiring Jordan

M2980. Anatomical bones

M2981. Jeanne d’ Arc, e.g.

M2982. Lifeblood in Lille

M2983. Knight or bishop

M2984. Use of suggestive symbolism

M2986. Ending with folk

M2987. Yarn that sounds mean

M2988. Video need

M2989. Pre-liftoff term

M2990. Flashing one’s pearly whites

M2992. “To ___ reindeer really know…”

M2993. Backed off

M2996. Supermarket inits.

M2997. “___ name it”

M2999. Mass book

M3002. Hurries, old-style

M3004. “Let ___!”

M3006. ___-stick coating

M3007. Actress Sorvino

M3009. Icelandic literature

M3011. Water garnish

M3012. “Everything you ‘know’ is wrong! It was ___ lie!”

M3013. Where to ‘ang one’s ‘at?

M3014. Hurdle for future docs

M3015. IAEA concern

M3016. Hardly happy

M3019. Upside-down u’s

M3020. Lewis lion

M3021. Fictional family in Gone With the Wind

M3022. Type of monster

M3023. Existence, in Essen

M3024. Mad ___ (2008 noir action film)

M3025. President between FDR and DDE

M3026. Thanos, Thor, or especially Freya in Avengers: Endgame?

M3028. “Want to give me a beating for the road”?

M3033. Kind of wax

M3037. They feel real but they’re not

M3039. What x’s sometimes represent

M3041. Instructions to a furniture refinisher?

M3045. Kid A follow-up

M3047. Phobia of public transport?

M3049. Goes down but looks great doing it?

M3051. Muddied city with Porsche and Mercedes-Benz’s headquarters?

M3056. Onetime communications giant

M3057. Poison ivy consequence

M3058. “___ you could make it! :-)”

M3060. Fish-oil component

M3061. Jet for a jetsetter, back in the day

M3062. See, to Spain

M3063. Ending for east, west, north, or south

M3065. Not al fresco

M3066. Make imperfect

M3067. “IOU gratitude”

M3069. Older form of a word

M3071. Doofuses

M3072. Palindrome one could jokingly call “sis,” another palindrome

M3073. Hi-tech med. scan

M3074. Consonantal trio

M3075. Lisper’s S’s

M3076. Curvaceous one of 26

M3077. Brief holders, briefly

M3078. Grave prefix

M3079. Company that launched the Discover card

M3080. The Comets’ leader

M3081. Initials of Ford’s VP

M3082. Fruit-flavored drink

M3084. Bacchic bellow

M3085. Coll. credit courses

M3088. Showing more low cunning

M3090. “By golly, yes, Juan!”

M3092. Reveal more forehead

M3095. Heavily financed Wall St. deals

M3097. “…a boy who never would ___ door”

M3098. Laura Nyro classic, “And When ___”

M3100. Judi Dench preceder

M3101. Attended informally

M3103. Groupies, usually

M3104. Cobalt blue glass

M3106. Feels unease

M3108. Pequod’s “Old Thunder”

M3111. Way to spray from the kitchen sink’

M3113. Urban London abodes?

M3114. “The list goes on and on”

M3116. Words of a retort

M3117. Alice in Wonderland pastries

M3118. Character, to a computer

M3119. Richard Thompson “The Old ___ Bag”

M3120. “Keep on Walkin’” singer Peniston who performed at both Clinton inaugurations

M3121. Gauzy

M3124. Literally, “first generation”

M3126. XI × LV

M3127. Pedigree registry org.

M3130. Crunchy lunches

M3131. Pol follower?

M3133. Sports announcer’s home, perhaps

M3134. Les ___ (musical nickname)

M3135. Villain in Measure for Measure

M3137. Pre-___ major

M3138. HIV med now mixed into Combivir and Trizivir

M3140. Domestic deity

M3141. Plant orifice

M3142. Comic’s Muse

M3144. Sex in the City network

M3145. They’re not Dwayne Johnson or anything

M3146. “___ she blows!”

M3147. Jumps ship

M3148. Ophthalmologist’s cases

M3149. City in Lebanon or Algeria

M3150. Sunburn spray additives

M3151. Parker products

M3152. Big ka-tunas

M3153. Like YA lit consumed by bodies of water?

M3156. Blessing the road?

M3163. Steamrolls

M3165. With The, title of a book chronicling Harry’s relationship with The Daily Mirror?

M3169. Old college stomping grounds

M3171. Painting the bull using identical resources to the ones you use to paint the Virgo?

M3176. Putting surgical stitches all around both wrists?

M3179. Block brand

M3180. Small green veggies

M3181. Doctor in training

M3182. Failed to surf

M3183. Form finish

M3184. “___ nation, under God…”

M3185. Having ___ attack: locked up with anxiety

M3186. Pensioned (abbr.)

M3187. Anticorporate hero Ralph

M3188. Auto-painting franchise whose name reverses three letters of a transmission franchise

M3190. Cleavers

M3191. Eye-teasers that double as brainteasers

M3192. Certain dagger

M3193. Aired I Love Lucy yesterday

M3194. They’re in charge of the bldg.

M3195. L’___ Vogue (Italian magazine)

M3196. Boors, in Banff

M3197. Sam who directed the Spider-Man trilogy

M3198. Letter-shaped hardware items

M3199. Spinning lead into gold

M3200. “___ Central Park” (1945 Broadway hit)

M3201. “I can’t believe I ___ the whole thing!”

M3202. Chanoyu beverage servers

M3204. “Alas! Alack!”

M3205. Monogram of “the sage of Concord”

M3206. Weather research agcy.

M3208. Not so influenced by current events

M3210. Methods

M3215. Workout room

M3217. Leader in the Crimean War

M3218. Barbecue sound

M3219. _ow _olecule _eight or _ow-_aintenance _oman

M3220. Sci-fi movie extras

M3221. Talking-___ (lectures)

M3222. Penn Sta. line

M3223. USMC authorities

M3224. One of its divisions deals with simulation-based medical education

M3225. They average 18.61% for new CCs

M3226. The rest

M3227. West of Spain?

M3228. ___ meat but fish (be pescatarian)

M3229. Doorknob and zipper material

M3230. Of Mice and ___

M3231. Singer Allred with “Never Enough”

M3233. Get just ___on the knuckles

M3235. SPRR depots

M3237. Each and every

M3239. “Avoid watching this at the office,” briefly

M3241. Causes detritus

M3243. “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper

M3244. Tussaud and Bovary

M3247. Mimicker

M3249. Syllable after CD

M3251. Freakshow performer Johnny

M3253. Nicholas Gage memoir

M3255. Ref on the diamond

M3256. Of city govt.

M3257. Where the Snake River snakes (abbr.)

M3259. Speech for a prez

M3263. Obvi strong

M3264. Nebulous masses around comets

M3265. Division of France

M3266. “Song to the Moon” and “O soave fanciulla”

M3267. 16th-century pope who owned a pet elephant

M3268. “Away with y’all!”

M3271. (The) pick (of)

M3274. One who’ll send patients to the ICU

M3275. The special happiness you get from anger, en Franglais?

M3280. Smugly contemptuous about getting injured?

M3284. Trump campaign speech?

M3286. USAF weapon against other fliers

M3287. Toffee bar from Hershey

M3288. Abbr. for those with only one given name

M3289. Studying medicine?

M3292. “Holy cow!”, typed

M3293. Second-most-famous tale of injustice and slavery in Egypt

M3295. Ware lead-in

M3296. Minor demon selling petty goods?

M3300. “Can’t help it if my street smarts are so on point”?

M3305. Deep voice discussing the science of salivating dogs?

M3308. Carriage rider

M3309. Muffin alternative

M3310. “Straight ___ the rocks?”

M3311. Above-sea-level meas.

M3312. “Good buddy”

M3313. Give one’s walking papers

M3314. Chimney dirt

M3315. Source of influence for some punks

M3317. Gosh, British-style

M3318. Suture securer

M3319. Sweet sprinkles

M3321. Verse, in Versailles

M3323. Spurs’ org.

M3324. Most NPR stations

M3325. Keystone state sch.

M3326. When Memorial Day is observed

M3328. “I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you” speaker

M3330. Females in stalls

M3331. Fashion

M3333. Often ___: half the time

M3334. Classic steam locomotives

M3335. Costar of Nicole and Julianne in The Hours

M3336. Indignant reply

M3337. “Peter and the Wolf” name

M3339. Having no screws loose?

M3340. Agree with silently

M3342. Pakistani titles

M3344. Pastureland portion

M3346. Invoice word

M3348. “Modern” museum in London

M3350. “You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but…” finisher

M3353. Largest active volcano in Japan

M3354. Writer Dorothy

M3355. Player’s autobiography

M3356. Heath bar flavor

M3358. Go for ___ in the water

M3359. “Are we done here?,” politely

M3361. Request to some guests

M3362. It’s two over from the right bottom corner in Battleship

M3363. GPS, e.g.

M3364. Saints’ quarterback Drew

M3365. Seventh heaven

M3366. Chicago exchange, briefly

M3367. Flunk

M3368. Film recognizer

M3369. ___ Chiang, West River of China

M3371. Souls, to Caesar

M3372. Portable digs

M3373. Words when taking a relazione to the next level

M3375. Montreal university

M3377. Travis Tritt song “Tell ___ Was Dreaming”

M3378. List ending, briefly

M3379. “Now, isn’t THAT interesting…”

M3381. Sworn enemy

M3383. The Incredible Hulk and Thanos, essentially, despite being played by real actors

M3385. The Story ___ (Pauline Réage novel)

M3386. Itzhak Perlman acquisition of 1986

M3388. Provider of high comedy?

M3389. Missoula home

M3391. Skater who lit the Nagano Olympic cauldron

M3392. Syrup ingredient

M3393. Bastille Day season

M3394. One of three for Freud

M3395. One of the flock

M3396. Strong optimistic belief

M3399. It’s out on a limb

M3400. Deductions in excess of income

M3401. Invented facts

M3402. “Ha! Absolutely not, Denver footballer”?

M3404. Headwear-related hypotheticals (“Maybe it’ll be too tight or clash with my outfit?”)?

M3406. “Time for the basemen to come in”?

M3409. With M3418-Across, small boosts in temperature in the snow?

M3413. It puts a team in the World Series (abbr.)

M3416. Doesn’t really have what one has

M3417. Big high-school event

M3418. Continued from M3409-Across

M3420. Enjoy a meteoric rise

M3422. Yank foes

M3423. LXII × XVII

M3427. Use an alternative to the pained-face emoji?

M3429. Upbeat venue for Brock Lesnar?

M3435. Tell the Jersey Shore star she can’t be here?

M3438. Title in Malay

M3440. Decorative tip on a lace

M3442. Canal, to a Venetian

M3443. Fill in at the office

M3445. Stephen Bochco series

M3446. Frankenfood, in initials

M3447. Post-humpday day (abbr.)

M3448. Hindu Eros

M3450. Prefix with “social” or “phone”

M3451. Latin lover’s line

M3452. “Currently serving” military status

M3453. Rapper’s writings, usually

M3455. Stopping-off point (abbr.)

M3456. White House name, honest

M3457. Response to “You are so”

M3459. Beyond Meat competitor

M3461. Nationality-related suffix

M3462. Characters in Glee, The Sopranos, and Pete and Pete

M3464. There’s probably one on your house

M3465. At the right pitch

M3466. Telegraphic code

M3467. Crossword champion Feyer

M3468. Suffix with spit and ball

M3469. Monkey, pony, or alligator

M3470. How acid-base properties affect the body

M3474. Carcinogenic fireproofing (abbr.)

M3476. Element in a builder’s plan, briefly

M3478. ___ out (poker player’s choice)

M3480. Confess, as one’s sins

M3483. Spyder rival

M3485. Frontline airer

M3486. More theatrical

M3488. Downhearted

M3489. Suffix with morph

M3490. “I quit! I’ve ___ it!”

M3491. Karate uniforms

M3492. Trevi count

M3493. Belinda Carlisle’s “___ About You”

M3495. It bodes ill

M3497. Where navigators work

M3500. USB connection

M3501. Ugly ___

M3502. Vulcan father on Star Trek

M3503. Sooner, e.g.

M3505. Heightened the taste of

M3506. Seasonal safeguard

M3508. Tynamo the electric-type Pokémon, e.g.

M3510. Push abruptly

M3513. Digits often seen on checks (if only in the cents column)

M3515. Despite its name, American activities there began with Egypt and Libya

M3516. Coll. record no.

M3518. Puerto Rican based on Juliet’s nurse

M3520. Lots and lots of

M3521. Colonnade lineup, sometimes

M3522. It makes fools of us all

M3524. Domestic advisor Tanden

M3526. Keys found under QWER

M3527. Minty of The Road Warrior who’s one letter shorter than writer Zola

M3529. Rear-ended, e.g.

M3530. “___ mia”: aria from Aida

M3531. “Uh, duh!”

M3532. Dip ___ in: try tentatively

M3533. Dangerous solvent

M3534. Borgia who inspired Machiavelli

M3535. Power sources for megaphones and flashlights

M3538. Seldon of sci-fi

M3540. Microsoft motion sensor offered to hunter and trapper Daniel?

M3544. “Regular payments…yep!”?

M3548. Widely seen revolutionary’s face sculpted out of kernels?

M3552. Stew meat

M3553. Juno, to the Greeks

M3554. Keep a subscription going

M3555. With M3561-Across, “The problem you cite can only be solved by big guys with hatchets”?

M3556. Kin of culottes

M3558. ___ of laughter

M3560. One of the Wu-Tang Clan members, for short

M3561. Continued from M3555-Across

M3562. Aphorism about seasonal changes happening outdoors?

M3566. Posts GPS info of a jogger’s routine path?

M3569. Sphere starter

M3572. Mexican moola

M3573. Whales’ order

M3574. Authorized, as opposed to fan-work

M3576. Unpopular singer?

M3577. Clinton, once (abbr.)

M3578. It’s on some Scottish locks

M3580. Opening time

M3581. Cleaning product prefix

M3583. They’re loud in a popular vote

M3584. Assume as probable

M3586. Ka follower

M3587. Add one’s own take

M3589. ___ Jam (annual celebration held in Minnesota and Hawaii)

M3591. Aromatic herb used by the ancients

M3594. First name at the Finnish pavilion of the World’s Fair 1900

M3595. Duff server

M3596. Google ___ Viewer

M3597. Org. seeking to end impaired highway performance

M3598. Part of life?

M3599. The whale in Pinocchio

M3600. Suburban status symbols

M3602. German fairy-tale writer

M3603. Minor problem

M3606. Soup alternatives

M3607. Clears the way

M3608. “I knew I could do it!”

M3611. Avoid paying, say

M3614. Insect appendages

M3615. Drink brand with a hyphen

M3616. Wile E. Coyote’s supplier

M3617. Deposits of dead plants

M3618. Gp. with a lot of baggage

M3619. Brief, for short (abbr.)

M3620. Vegas intro?

M3621. Whom Seth begat

M3623. Nylon nuisance

M3625. A ___: first nine letters?

M3626. Wailing waterfowl

M3627. Try to make one flinch

M3629. Take an evening course?

M3630. Meaningless, as a promise

M3632. Job for a detective

M3633. Long-running show?

M3636. Carding at a door

M3637. Through the courtesy of

M3638. Corp. alias abbr.

M3639. Fuego extinguisher

M3641. Turn, as a mast

M3642. Jackson of music

M3644. Dust particle

M3646. Verdi’s “___ tu”

M3647. Biblical escapee

M3649. Rhyming word with will

M3650. Generic headline figure (as mocked in The Onion)

M3652. Get resigned to

M3653. In a damp manner

M3655. And or but preceder

M3657. Grounded planes (abbr.)

M3659. “Just look at my hair!”

M3661. Grain grinders

M3663. “My love ___ a fever, longing still” (Shakespeare)

M3664. Tom, for one

M3665. Pier gp.

M3666. “There ___ old saying…”

M3667. Adjust for changing times

M3669. When doubled, gets specific

M3672. Length of prohibition (as mentioned in M3435-Across)?

M3675. “Master this yo-yo trick in little more than a week”?

M3681. Freshened a fern

M3682. Far from petite

M3683. With The, classic novel with an ascended fan of the title characters

M3688. Sharer’s share, often

M3690. ALF’s home

M3691. While we’re alive, keep doing that “Republicanism” impression?

M3698. Keep smiling over a lifetime?

M3704. It may be pushed or ridden

M3705. Automobile with a chauffeur

M3706. Auel heroine

M3707. Conrad of Casablanca

M3709. Phone part (abbr.)

M3710. Placekicker Joey

M3711. Elephantlike war machine of film

M3712. Affirmative response

M3713. Minuscule amount on a nutritional label

M3715. Inverse ohms

M3716. Get on board

M3717. Not at all ferocious

M3719. Candy from a machine

M3721. You can’t make it without breaking some eggs

M3722. Brought more revenue than

M3723. Intimidate through fear

M3724. Brand made from calcium carbonate and sugar

M3725. Copy room package

M3726. Off-roader’s vehicle, familiarly

M3727. “...___ will turn this car right around”

M3728. ___ to win it

M3729. Not pronounced

M3732. Occupational hazard

M3735. Country rocker John

M3738. Hoppy brews, for short

M3740. Informal attempt

M3742. Vagabond

M3746. Superman portrayer Dean

M3749. Particle more massive than an electron

M3750. More than mar

M3751. Neither more nor as much

M3755. Secondary in importance

M3757. Fraction of a kilo

M3758. GP’s stock in trade

M3762. Long-snouted critter

M3763. Sophie Taeuber-___ of Vertical-Horizontal Composition

M3764. Small pills?

M3765. Dwarves’ representative in the Fellowship of the Ring

M3766. ___-en-scene (stage setting)

M3767. Biological pockets

M3768. Letters often elided when giving an address

M3769. “Is everyone against me?”

M3771. Mama’s boys?

M3772. “Just messin’ around”

M3773. Hawaiian tree or campground company

M3775. Last words of Green Eggs and Ham

M3777. Glockenspiels

M3779. Kids’ hideout

M3781. Acreage

M3783. Quaker’s pronoun

M3784. N ___? (Agatha Christie mystery)

M3785. Trace amount

M3786. Not alt, as an account

M3787. “Is the Pope ___?” (abbr.)

M3788. Sleep in a bag, maybe

M3790. Kid who just comes over whenever to talk with Dagwood Bumstead

M3792. Four on some faces

M3794. Overseer of gov’t office bldgs.

M3795. Constellation close to Telescopium

M3796. Abbreviation cutting off “athlon”

M3797. Correct a clock

M3799. Proto-Clue

M3800. Experiment with

M3801. Dollar hundredth

M3802. Iceberg, for some

M3803. Christmas Carol catchphrases

M3804. Field ration

M3805. Animal version of a running superhero who’s too stubborn to go anywhere?

M3808. Criticize Zadora’s performance?

M3810. “This establishment does not accept ‘dollar bills’ that have replaced George Washington’s face with a buzzing insect’s”?

M3812. Is going to invest, but has no confidence in the market?

M3814. Game hero inspired by Astro Boy

M3816. Where some wedges are used

M3817. Ponderosa heavyweight

M3818. Keys’ state (abbr.)

M3821. British men of title

M3823. Hairstyle often requiring less styling

M3825. Certain West Coast evergreens

M3827. Headgear totally okay to wear when outside of Turkey?

M3831. Be awesome sculptors?

M3834. “The band had a small apartment covered with concert posters and brainstormed their name by looking at performers who used their initials, like B.B. King,” e.g.?

M3836. Newspaper section

M3837. Silent types

M3840. Louise’s movie mate

M3841. The Fault in Our Stars and The Goldfinch actor

M3842. How ballerinas balance

M3843. HRE part

M3844. It has a 7-digit string for each of its characters

M3845. Indicate a preference

M3846. “Honored female guests…”

M3847. Haleakala National Park location

M3848. Austen novel of 1816

M3849. Masters of meditation

M3851. It’s nothing to Noelle

M3853. Figure numbers sometimes revert to

M3855. Leonard, which got brighter until early 2022, e.g.

M3856. Common sugar substitute

M3857. Bungler’s utterance

M3858. One side of the argument

M3859. Part of some school outfits

M3860. “…was ___ old soul”

M3861. Lepidopterist’s tote

M3862. Back door into many computers

M3863. Crossword nut, probably

M3866. 7 up, e.g.

M3867. Shelley’s “___ Skylark”

M3868. Girl’s name ending

M3869. Record player

M3870. Sounds hoarse

M3871. “___ Know” (hip-hop song with many remixes)

M3872. Jewish community orgs.

M3873. Boris Karloff classic

M3875. “The Sweet ___ of Success,” 1957 film

M3877. “Sure I ___ this, that you only have to endure to conquer” (Winston Churchill)

M3878. A little of it, now and then, is probably a good thing in our overstimulated smartphone age

M3880. LQ links

M3882. Marvel hero who manipulates the weather

M3885. Ancient Middle Easterner.

M3886. $1 bill depiction

M3887. You might hold it while underwater

M3888. Low tie

M3889. Offensive strategy also known as the “95”

M3890. Candymaker whose name is seen in stores today

M3891. What we used before Windows

M3893. With “5,” acronym that means “simplify it for me”

M3896. Try to stop

M3898. Stove item

M3899. Perseus’ mother

M3900. Yonder things

M3901. Elaborate tomb

M3903. Cured fare

M3906. “So it would ___”

M3908. Play a guitar

M3910. Snail mail application convenience (abbr.)

M3912. Pennsylvania town with the Crayola Experience

M3915. Performing amazingly well

M3917. Mineral in insulation

M3921. Stabilizes at sea

M3929. They puke to feed their young

M3938. Cluj is its second-most populous city

M3945. Counter money

M3946. Cat’s cries

M3947. “Lady Marmalade” Grammy winner of 2001

M3948. Love The Hate U Give, say

M3949. “Good Night and Thank You” musical

M3950. Calls the Ubercross “The Tiny Easy Bathroom Puzzle,” e.g.

M3954. Text-scanning by PC

M3955. Chatterboxes

M3962. Kind of cord

M3971. Plays down

M3980. “This can’t lose”

M3984. Unicorn fish

M3985. Guard’s hut

M3987. A born patsy

M3988. Chuck Jones said it “is not the illusion of life, it is life”

M3989. What Heather has, according to a landmark children’s book of 1989

M3991. 1978 Stones album

M3993. HTML datum

M3996. Proverbial land of opportunity

M3998. Subject of Nobel experiments

M3999. D&D or FFXV, e.g.

M4001. Like a flu shot

M4003. Luminary

M4004. Really soon

M4005. Eastward in London

M4006. Under legal age

M4008. Radiates innocence

M4012. Prepare to hit a drive

M4014. Strike out

M4016. Indicate by odor

M4018. Posters some people can see 3-D objects in

M4020. Pembroke or Cardigan

M4022. “Don’t rush into commitment”

M4026. Just barely above

M4027. West of Mo. and Ark.

M4028. Haughty sort

M4029. A famous Amos

M4030. Not-safe-for-work communication

M4031. Automotive plural selected in a 2011 promotion

M4032. “That describes me, too”

M4033. Worker I don’t respect

M4034. Citizen Kane director Welles

M4035. “___ begin to tell you…”

M4036. Agcy. collecting swarms of forms

M4037. Treated with calcium compounds

M4038. Artist of great skill

M4039. Take out lines?

M4040. The’s, to Thérèse

M4041. …Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital

M4042. Staph-caused irritation

M4043. Prefix with annual

M4044. ___-craftsy

M4045. Slashdot reader, maybe

M4046. Kind of affirmation

M4047. Use as a replacement

M4048. Second-year man, for short

M4049. In shambles

M4050. All the dirs.

M4051. Ozone’s replacement

M4052. ___-dunk

M4053. ___-culotte

M4054. Secretariat at two

M4055. ___ The Walking Dead

M4056. Software developer’s target

M4057. Awards above Conspicuous Gallantry Crosses, for short

M4058. Pont ___, Seine bridge.

M4059. “It isn’t,” in an alternative shortening

M4060. Cuatro menos uno

M4061. Meeting of Cong.

M4062. Texas senator Cruz

Down

M1. Sauced

M2. Trainer or bodybuilder

M3. Broadway building

M4. Secured like a Civil War-era hull

M5. Yak in the pulpit? (abbr.)

M6. Attention-getting calls

M7. John’s Yoko

M8. Walks like House

M9. Guido’s lowest note

M10. Piercing

M11. K-pop R&B duo who said “Goodbye for Now” in 2017

M12. Fuji’s one (abbr.)

M13. Jerry, Elaine, and George’s buddy, as they don’t call him

M14. Like chess as opposed to football

M15. Thought about

M16. Crumb-carrier

M17. Recline next to

M18. “You’re ___ friend, babe”

M19. One receiving orders

M20. Ketchum of country music

M21. Verdi vocal

M22. Twiggy digs

M23. Cash chaser?

M24. Bargain show, maybe

M25. Certain ABC islander

M26. What the M: stands for, on a business card

M27. Turn-of-the-century corruption name

M28. “The ___ gate is down! Attack!”

M29. Moves gradually

M30. DOD department

M31. Kind of court or pool

M32. “It’s like ___ come true!”

M33. Success, popularity, and confidence

M34. “___ child is loving…”

M35. 2003 film character whose siblings were all killed by a barracuda

M36. What the M stands for, in films with twist endings

M37. One of the names of God

M38. No longer an option

M39. “Where did we go wrong, as a society?”

M40. Cape Breton dir., vis-à-vis the mainland

M41. Reply of concurrence

M42. Clambake setting

M43. Dockyard structures

M44. Three thousand, old-style

M45. Soul singer Hayes

M46. “Can I Get Wit ___” (Notorious B.I.G.)

M47. They have child-sized finger loops

M48. Stretch, in Scotland

M49. ___ Dog Night

M50. Sign of early spring?

M51. 1980s Pontiac

M52. “Emotionally, it’s like the time…”

M53. Howard the Duck prop

M54. Time for vampires

M55. Restrained, as a dog

M56. Verdi’s titular tenor

M57. German YouTuber with a “Beauty Palace”

M59. Jazzman Getz

M60. Cries of dismay

M61. Super Bowl where the Giants upset the Patriots’ perfect season

M62. Overseas seas

M63. Like ___ on hot bricks

M64. Soviet space station launched in 1986

M65. Nat. that gets its name from its location on Earth

M66. What the M stands for, in thermodynamics

M67. Blues-singing James

M69. Tests that POWERPREP software users are studying for

M70. Kerfuffle

M71. Loot in the Boot, once

M72. “___ sure you’re aware, we have an appointment”

M74. First word of the Aeneid

M75. Number of dwarfs with Blanche Neige

M76. Card game or tonic complement

M77. What the M stands for, in computation

M78. “If you treat China like ___, surely she will become one” (Rob Lowe)

M80. Celebrated Bombay-born conductor

M81. What the M stands for, in spy-fi

M82. Thoroughly comfortable

M83. When a plane is expected to land (abbr.)

M85. Impatient, with “up”

M87. More cracked

M89. Self-naming opener in classic literature

M90. “You’re just smashing the fourth wall there, aren’t you?”

M91. Indian cereal grass

M92. One checking his apps as he walks into traffic, e.g.

M94. Words with woe?

M95. Wilson with a funny nose

M96. Didn’t stay

M97. “Wherefore ___ thou…”

M99. He-Man’s secret ID

M100. Cover story introduction?

M101. Part of many airport names (abbr.)

M102. Where most people live

M103. Engine stat

M105. Area known for olive oil, buffalo mozzarella, and being bypassed by Christianity, according to a famous writer

M106. Nearly worthless coin

M107. Nobel winner Morrison

M109. “You’re ___” (Vertical Horizon)

M110. Troops’ sub-gps.

M111. Part of a bray

M112. Unit of sound over background chatter, for short

M114. What the M stands for, in this section

M115. Showing interest in

M118. Some Bible versions (abbr.)

M119. “Where am ___ this picture?”

M120. Discreet, as a dice-rolling venue, for short

M121. Ending with diger-

M122. Fleur-de-___

M125. SASE abbr.

M130. Jean-Claude, Pierre, ou Guillaume

M131. Income or sales

M132. Niger native

M133. Spending one’s IRA, say

M135. Macroeconomic stat.

M136. Line indicating that X misplayed

M137. Stage actress Hagen

M140. “Let’s be happy and enjoy life” exclamations

M144. Caviar, e.g.

M146. Really rankle

M152. Aegean, for instance

M156. Where kids can touch kids?

M159. Oh so creatively

M169. Actresses Jillian and Sothern

M170. Campus feature

M172. Wash clean, as a chimneysweep’s clothes

M174. Surfing need, briefly

M175. Gain anew, as trust

M176. Without compromise

M184. “___ G. Caroll was over a barrel” (Rocky Horror lyric)

M186. Measure of work

M188. Smooth beginning?

M189. “I need ___!” (jet-lagged comment)

M190. Fading into the past

M192. Quick thinker’s strength

M196. Practices frugality

M199. Old tool to identify stars and planets

M201. Like Lon Chaney characters

M203. “Frost-y” feet

M205. Elem.’s proton-count

M206. Gang weapons

M207. Soloist in a 1925 Broadway title song

M208. Loss of one’s nose, so to speak

M209. Sharable doc format

M210. Classifieds classification

M211. Old biddy

M212. Poet of old Rome

M213. A few minutes before

M214. Shout of adoration

M215. Three hundred’s the min. for paper printing

M216. Less, in musical notation

M217. Below beginning?

M218. Hoffs of the Bangles

M219. Spindly and unnerving

M220. Muscle car for Boomers or their parents

M221. What a cargo plane weighs

M222. Often-stinky compound

M223. College group

M224. Popular German beer, informally

M225. The first of two T’s, in a familiar sequence

M226. Lissome for one’s age

M227. Phenomenon seen in a four-fingered hand

M228. Renee’s “Cinderella Man” costar

M229. Flat-screen ancestor (abbr.)

M230. Got vertical

M231. Attendant on Poseidon

M232. Pitbull’s first album and real name

M233. Paris’s Monceau et Bois de Vincennes

M234. Carroll tea-party host

M236. Old Dodge

M237. Director Van Sant

M238. Baby’s call

M239. 1993 Crash Test Dummies hit that was never used for Campbell’s ads

M240. Creator of the modern violin

M242. Bug that tries to fool predators into thinking it has giant eyes

M244. Toy-retrieving device in restaurant games

M246. Pass, as time

M247. Newspaper department

M248. Rida and Milli of hip-hop

M249. Much of Terrebonne Parish

M250. Northern homes (var.)

M251. Made a putt

M252. What a sundial shows

M253. Civilized elephant in a children’s trilogy

M254. The end to the Greeks?

M255. “Out of the everywhere into ___”

M256. Michael Jackson’s co-star in the “Thriller” video ___ Ray

M257. Embarrasses oneself while moon-eyed

M258. Holiday, in brief

M259. Bug better known as a “carpenter”

M260. Mavis Beacon meas.

M261. Drakes and roosters

M262. Live ___: try to be what you’re not

M263. Kanthapura author

M265. Some used cars

M266. Mythical pome tosser

M267. Caddy contents

M268. Is represented in movies?

M269. Greek war cry

M270. They soothe weary soles

M271. Andalusian article

M272. Battle site of Aug. 5, 1864

M273. Aramaic idol

M274. Relatives of et als.

M275. Godzilla’s movie studio

M280. Grants

M285. Full of oneself

M286. Calc. calculation

M287. Gardener’s aid

M290. Big Apple paper’s inits.

M294. Car co. that owns Chevrolet and Buick

M299. Feast, for instance

M300. High-profile intelligence agency…but is that a contradiction in terms? Hmmm

M301. Blizzard aftermath

M302. Show in which the Jetsons sue the present for causing environmental damage to the future

M304. Latched (onto)

M307. ___ in “Idaho”

M308. South American land

M309. It starts “On my honor, I will do my best…”

M311. Drug lord Martinez nicknamed after canned food

M312. Lamentation

M313. Clothing joiner

M315. Sch. near Gulfport

M317. “Can we proceed as planned?”

M318. Grocer Joe

M320. ___ part: pretends

M322. Disheveled coif

M324. Island birthplace of Epicurus

M325. Champ de ___, Paris

M328. Trojan Horse, for example

M331. On another continent, perhaps

M336. It’s got a firm grip in the phrase “hang on like…”

M337. Univ. offerings

M338. One-time discount chain sharing a name with a city

M339. The Fifth Element actress Jovovich

M344. Thurman of films

M347. Like some scotch

M351. Number of “tails” in some whips

M354. Gillette product

M355. Printer’s copy, briefly

M356. Family in John Grisham’s Skipping Christmas (and a less-well-received movie)

M358. Waves to a wahine

M360. Trials and tribulations

M362. Eleventh-century Castilian knight and warlord

M365. LAX posting

M366. “A ___ of robins in her hair” (line from Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”)

M367. Cool shoes?

M369. Artist’s works, collectively

M370. Enchantress

M373. End of a quest for coll. credit

M374. Issues a caveat about

M376. “I’m in favor!”

M378. “Bad Moon Rising” band, initially

M380. Without being asked

M381. Picnic leftovers

M382. Expose (oneself) to some rays

M383. Special room in a Muslim palace

M386. Painting from nature

M387. Coin apertures

M388. All over the place

M389. Small dish

M391. Sponsor of many national swim teams

M393. New Orleans bottling name

M395. Photographer Dora who had a relationship with Picasso

M397. Band with “I Won’t Let You Down”

M399. 1980s TV ET

M401. Destroy the purity of

M404. “Your Honor,” in Yorkshire

M405. Miss ___: fall behind

M406. “It’d be just like me to…”

M408. Military chatter

M410. Involve deeply

M412. More dangerous enemy

M413. Smooth talker

M414. Ethan or Joel of Inside Llewlyn Davis

M415. “Cry ___ river!”

M416. Was a comfort (to)

M417. Wu-Tang ___

M418. Slangy “Please call”

M420. Certain camera, initially

M421. Ending for book or brook

M422. Farm-to-table letters

M423. Buddhist or Hindu scripture

M424. Study of change?

M427. Writing ___ John letter: breaking up by text the old-fashioned way

M428. (Smart)y-pantses

M429. Like emails with still-bolded headings

M431. Buzzing

M432. Prefix with merge

M434. Seriously broken

M435. Lisper’s issue

M436. Pursue, to the prophets

M438. Buzz word starter?

M440. Expressive understatement (or something else in cellular biology)

M442. But, on the Left Bank

M443. Lack of marriage options, to prior generations

M445. Magi’s mounts

M446. With “to,” adopt as a belief

M447. Mr. Robot carrier

M448. Cheech’s sometime partner

M449. Pre-riot state

M450. MTV countdown show, once and again

M451. He said “To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess”

M452. Flimsy, as excuses

M453. Assortment, abbr.

M454. North Yorkshire river that goes into the North Sea

M455. Type of diamond

M456. They’re flanked by steep inclines

M463. Prefix with “philia” or “globin”

M466. Really ancient mariner

M471. Plant disease

M472. Pt. of a tournament

M479. Small head cover

M481. Amidst dozens

M485. Ancient concert halls

M487. $7 million, 30-sec. Super Bowl feature

M488. Subway rider’s need, maybe

M490. ___ a flawn (obese)

M491. Inspiration for love lyrics

M493. Follow-up film (abbr.)

M494. Certain

M496. Sundance showing

M498. Charles, to Cambridge

M499. ___ a time (singly)

M501. Greets a little too smoothly

M503. ___ pendens (coming legal action)

M505. Requiring tact

M507. Covers with down

M508. Grasp, in Scotland

M509. Mission: Impossible director

M511. Young food-fish

M512. Going with the floe

M514. Honour given to comedian Frank Skinner in early 2023

M515. Santa’s first name

M516. Fes founder

M517. Test for specialists

M519. ___ for Alibi (first in the Kinsey Millhone book series)

M520. Swiss Miss product

M521. “Hath ___ sister?” (Shakespeare)

M522. “You-___” (“Y’all” alternative)

M523. M followers

M525. Goes wrong

M528. “Gee willikers!”

M530. Back lot biggies (abbr.)

M532. Not genuine (abbr.)

M534. Kent Cheese Rolling cheese

M536. ___ Corner, Virginia

M538. Like some swamps, in a word that sounds like swamp frogs’ ribbits

M539. Domination

M542. AL or NL VIPs

M544. A note to follow fa

M549. Affectedly modest

M550. Two-word phrase for “relaxed” that misspells a single word meaning “tension”

M552. Breezy, as a house or argument

M553. Kind of tag for a Web designer

M556. Twelfth-century year

M558. Well-spoken

M559. Finlay of Great Expectations and Ben Hur

M560. Electric eye, e.g.

M563. Herb with stinging hairs

M564. Provo person

M565. Light wraps

M566. Like an atoll

M568. Small flap on a garment

M569. Not so common

M571. Causes to say, “Curses, foiled again!”

M572. Make light of

M573. In ___ (Nirvana album)

M575. Wayne’s World zinger

M576. Moved at a fast gait

M577. Still learning to walk, maybe

M579. Oft-avoided bread ingredient

M580. ___ sulfide (stink bomb)

M581. Pancake maker’s shortcut

M583. Letter enders?

M585. Headliner

M586. ___ thieves

M587. Berger cookies’ rival

M588. Nicaragua’s “now”

M589. Old gate crasher

M590. Not needing a doctor’s approval, for short

M591. Potential confession (OJ wrote one)

M592. Fitting closely, as a tight jacket

M593. Marc-Andre ___ Stegen (German goalie for FC Barcelona)

M594. Nonfiction hit subtitled The Origins of Our Discontents

M595. Admirable attributes

M598. Some spots

M601. ___ blank (did poorly at Jeopardy! or got lucky in Scrabble)

M603. 1980s missile shield plan

M607. Yours, in Turin

M612. US state with the biggest coast

M613. The Talented Mr. Ripley setting

M614. Where John McCain fought, for short

M621. “Amo” follower

M623. Part of German WWII salute

M625. Hyneman of MythBusters fame

M628. Clumps of grass

M630. Dog teams’ burdens

M632. Pt. of NASA’s Living With a Star program

M634. Stringed gp.

M635. Scantron options, sometimes

M637. Deliver a ditty

M639. “Whatcha waitin’ for?”

M640. Disinforming

M641. “___ to the West Wind”

M642. “I’m not impressed”

M644. It executes until the test expression is false

M646. Pronoun string that mimics an egoistic meltdown

M649. Coldly transactional

M650. Etiologist’s study

M651. Cadmus’s daughter

M652. Rather suggestive

M653. Molasses candies

M654. Lady Gaga or Robert Downey Jr., astrologically

M656. “POW! BAM” accompanier

M657. Honorably retired

M658. Death, to Mozart

M659. Honey spirits

M660. IRA option

M662. Postal items (abbr.)

M663. Senior, in French names

M665. Bird feeder food

M667. Tool to check differences in elevation

M669. Make balanced

M671. Face-to-face exchange?

M673. Pointed arch

M677. Comic McCarthy

M682. Dynasty diva also seen on The Colbys

M688. Muscular weaknesses

M690. They believe in ruling classes

M692. Pell-___

M693. Start to play?

M695. Medium for cuneiform writing

M696. Ballyhoo

M699. Browses (through)

M700. Like linen

M701. When things were cooler

M702. Wanton destroyers

M704. Clarifying article attachment

M705. Sherlock’s teen sister of cinema

M706. 1972 Olympic Gold Medalist on the balance beam

M708. Type of Arabian?

M709. Org. concerned with sleepy pilots

M710. Artificial tanner

M711. Removing, as from the schedule

M713. “Close, but no banana”

M714. They rise and fall, as Hamilton reminds us

M715. Post Stanley Cup melee, maybe

M716. Conceptual framework

M718. False god of riches and avarice

M719. Distilled Delhi drink

M720. “They’re free, help yourself!”

M721. Suffix with best or bur

M722. Comăneci with medals

M723. Quaintly funny

M725. Boorish sort, in Canadian slang

M726. Liqueur ___ (drink with flecks of gold)

M727. Honorific with “Doubtfire” and “Harris” in film

M728. Choice cuts

M729. “Don’t sweat it, Dominique”

M734. “Der Holle Rache” and “O Mio Babbino Caro,” for two

M737. Make it right

M741. Key with 4 #s and 3 *s

M742. Quarter-fueled entertainments

M747. Zakaria of CNN

M750. Deg. in the boardroom

M753. Kevin Bacon in Footloose

M756. Singer Carly

M759. Item in a niche

M761. "___ is greater than another" (popular doctrine not actually in the Bible)

M763. Eye on naval agcy.

M765. Ones known for wisdom

M767. Word in un dictionnaire

M769. Chocolate-to-be

M773. Scrapbooking staple

M775. Roman goddess of fate

M776. Vans’ Old Skool, for one

M777. Musclebound guy

M778. Brand of putter, nonogram, or award-winning biographer

M779. Investment in education

M780. Coleridge and Keats

M781. Study principally

M782. Engineers’ undergrad degs.

M783. Vikings

M784. Colorful rings

M785. What one with a weakened competitor goes in for?

M786. Dislikes

M787. “Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and ___” (Marc Andreessen)

M788. Convicted candidate Solomon

M789. Hint of the future

M792. Wetness

M793. More than pique

M794. Dominican droppings

M795. 1980s hit “The Heat ___”

M796. “I’ll do it, get off my case!”

M798. Gal in Wonder Woman

M800. Suffix with avail, sustain, and knowledge

M803. Got off the fence

M805. Possessive on some towels

M808. Minimal baseball lead

M815. “Just ___” (without having to change myself)

M816. Eye piece?

M817. G.W. is on its face

M818. Erstwhile name in communications

M820. Entrancing and compelling

M821. Mademoiselle’s hat

M822. Heraldic term

M823. Egyptian symbol of protection identified with the sun

M824. Place for boots

M825. Do for a while?

M827. I Dream of ___

M828. Proteus and Valentine, for two noted examples

M830. One passing bad checks

M831. Get the idea

M832. Most weather-worn and unstable

M833. Roman counterpart of Gaea

M834. “The south,” in the Bible (var.)

M835. The Art of Loving author Erich

M836. 1956 Elvis Presley hit

M837. Small self-governing areas, for short

M838. Mouth of a river

M839. Molten metal leavings

M840. Enjoyed a pre-game boat party

M842. Like the Grand Canyon

M844. Pool bounces

M845. She’ll make things clear

M846. Equipment company with a yellow-and-green stag logo

M847. “Cowboy Man” singer Lyle

M848. Applies heat to damp clothes

M850. “…___! And on this farm he had a cow…”

M851. They, in Thiers

M852. Smithfield output

M853. Spur-carrying flowers

M854. Part of HDTV, briefly

M855. The dictionary says it means “fortifying against attack,” but usage often has it mean “surrounding to attack”

M857. Cruelty of our species, patriarchally

M858. Tori with a background in classical composition

M864. Hi’s helpmate

M868. Male sheep, in Stoke

M875. Noddy Holder’s rock group

M877. Gravy receptacle

M883. Satisfied sound

M885. “Settle down, jurors”

M887. Dillon, lead role on Gunsmoke

M888. Passed, as the test of time

M890. Defensive line?

M891. Turn toward the sunset

M893. “The best ___ to come!”

M895. Improve, as a book

M897. Appears (to be)

M899. “Within ___ a hell” (Shakespeare)

M900. With “the,” color-based inequalities as used to win arguments

M902. To this moment

M904. Eddie Van Halen’s contribution to “Beat It”

M905. At one’s ___ end

M907. Year of Super Bowl XXXIX

M908. The simian world

M909. Brooklyn comedian

M910. Driver’s lic., cr. card, etc.

M912. B-52s’ tune about the joy of travel

M914. Recon target

M917. Brotherhood members

M919. She played Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend

M921. Gave the OK to

M923. Tampa suburb named after a pope

M925. Drying-out place

M928. Surgeon, informally

M934. Sweet pickle

M937. “How Can ___?” (Freddie Mercury song)

M938. Past-tense ending

M939. Greaser’s “listen up” noises

M941. Euclid add-on

M942. Painting degs.

M945. Exude moisture

M946. Raina Telgemeier title about high school theater

M947. Formed another congress

M948. Sixth, in Turin

M951. Sloppy stool

M952. Feeling restless

M953. Working properly

M954. Partnership letters

M956. Running by itself

M957. Playground retort

M958. Old World tropical shrub

M959. Spanish seaport on Strait of Gibraltar

M961. Sesame product

M962. Cheer for patriots

M963. Worth noting

M965. Top-scored

M966. Vaporized and more

M967. Letters you may see in place of the Wi-Fi symbol

M968. Twilled worsted

M970. Sinuous figure

M971. Least honorable

M972. Queen of the underworld

M973. Accusing

M974. How mnemonics start?

M975. Sum of the first six primes

M976. Quatrain container

M977. South African native tongue

M978. Ballerina’s prototype

M979. Live off

M981. Take the L

M982. Steer here

M984. Key of Brahms’s 2^nd

M985. Colleague of Marcos, Lucas, and Juan

M987. Source of the delicacy tomalley

M991. Commotions

M994. Prometheus star Rapace

M1001. Hoover or Norris

M1004. Vermont senator

M1007. Halloween activity

M1011. “Able was ___...”

M1012. Zhivago portrayer

M1016. “That’s a shame, then”

M1018. “Pardon me,” slangily

M1020. ___-Mokwa (“Hiawatha” bear)

M1022. Baseball’s Reese

M1024. Australian soprano

M1026. Intentional mushroom cloud causer

M1028. Incompetent

M1029. Songfest offering

M1031. Keach and Keibler of acting

M1033. Need an ice pack

M1034. Hold on to

M1035. “___ shorts” (Bart Simpson, pre-Disney)

M1036. The Bell of ___ (Longfellow)

M1037. Bold eyeglasses

M1038. Muscle prefix

M1039. It’s relentless

M1040. Lattice or two-by-four

M1041. Cools, as tensions (oxymoronically)

M1042. Anti-NAFTA candidate of the 1990s

M1043. Loping along

M1044. Reporter who went around the world in 72 days

M1045. Kind of box

M1050. Comment made while petting

M1052. Projected birthday

M1054. 1950s bomb trial

M1056. Keeps in the galley

M1058. Disease plaguing African cattle

M1060. They’re not that churchy?

M1062. Collective morality

M1064. Shipyard repair ramp

M1068. ___ de los tantos (pirita)

M1069. The Rockets, on scoreboards

M1070. Some microwaves, brand-wise

M1071. Syria and Egypt, once (abbr.)

M1072. Dialysis type

M1073. Underground meeting place?

M1074. Having great bulk

M1076. Morse bit

M1077. Once in ___ moon

M1078. Gardening aid that comes from letting raked piles be

M1079. Our distant forebears

M1081. Be poor, like a misérable

M1082. Eur. nat. with a gun problem (relatively speaking)

M1084. Big, haggressive mob of ‘umans

M1086. Likely race-spoiler, for short

M1087. Defunct cable co. once purchased by Comcast

M1089. Some misses overseas, briefly

M1091. Triumvirate in Germany

M1093. Terminer’s cohort

M1095. Mission: Impossible lead before Tom Cruise

M1098. ___-Caps (candy)

M1100. Actress Meryl’s family

M1102. Not so pretty

M1103. Coke alternative, in old ads

M1104. Tasty sammich

M1106. Grable trademark

M1108. Stroller or shopping cart

M1109. Worshipful one

M1111. In a TV ad, he told haunting victims, “We’re ready to believe you”

M1114. Have a dead tree edition

M1115. Tea with cathartic effects

M1116. Foyer feature

M1117. Tenth graders, briefly

M1119. Not counting (abbr.)

M1120. Wall Street mdse.

M1121. Shock jock Howard

M1122. Houston campus, for short

M1124. Platonically pre-existing

M1127. Hellbound megachurch owner Joel

M1128. “Being Ahead through Technology” car company

M1129. Tape-speed abbr.

M1130. Longtime Japanese model going back to all-wheel drive

M1131. Brit lout

M1132. Like a neglected garden

M1133. Animals with calves

M1135. “Winking face” on social media, for example

M1136. Knot in a tree

M1137. Roll in the hay

M1138. Verse opening?

M1139. Health products retailer, initially

M1142. ___-dub (heartbeat sound)

M1146. Of certain ecological areas

M1151. Ship’s staff

M1154. Type of history Studs Terkel specializes in

M1155. Slice competitor

M1159. Escalante of Stand and Deliver

M1163. ___ Blanc (Alps peak)

M1166. ___ Kippur (Jewish holiday)

M1167. It’s equiv. to mass

M1168. Sports org. with kicks and punches

M1169. Individual inscription made on a wall

M1171. Purposelessly

M1172. Like an arm, post-blood-donation

M1175. Cork’s cookie jar

M1176. Explosive for short

M1178. Is awesome

M1181. Part of a Flintstone’s yell

M1183. Black-and-white underwater team

M1185. What cowboys call a lady

M1188. Cry said upon a sudden realization

M1189. Be victorious

M1191. News of the now

M1192. Bad time to run human-interest stories

M1193. Definitively and inalterably

M1194. “Hey, that tickles!”

M1195. Game with sets and runs

M1196. Carry in a trailer until arriving at

M1197. Biceps-builders

M1199. Vesture

M1200. Certain track contestant

M1201. “Hmmm…something’s going ___ here”

M1202. Former-attic dwelling

M1203. Gets massive, with “up”

M1204. ___ Piggy

M1206. Like drumheads

M1208. The Searchers’ record label

M1210. Infamous African

M1211. Pinup highlight

M1213. Seizure of power without firing a shot

M1215. Investigates

M1217. Polis prefix

M1219. “Later!” in Livorno

M1221. On Point broadcaster

M1222. Moved heavily for a part

M1225. What you might take in baseball or bar brawls

M1226. Builder van der Rohe

M1227. Crazy Rich Asians director

M1228. At the limit, as a credit card

M1229. Whom element #90 was named for

M1230. Fig. often discounted

M1231. She had someone who had me

M1232. “Great, just…great”

M1233. Gazebo-like shelters for guards

M1234. Objectives

M1238. Move suddenly

M1239. Seaport in Washington

M1240. Marbles

M1241. Dead-end position

M1242. Half of an interrogation team

M1244. “___ cheater, always…” (Judgmental sentiment)

M1245. Battle puncturing

M1246. Fundraiser at a collector’s passing

M1247. Sara ___ is spinning off Coach, PYA/Monarch, and Champion

M1248. Basic snowboard course

M1249. Peter ___ Tchaikovsky

M1250. “Yes ___ Bob”

M1251. Key of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony

M1252. The Colosseum, today

M1253. Pattern one letter short of a famous author on a nightly game show

M1254. Company that makes barcode scanners

M1255. Greenville college

M1256. Christmas, Easter, etc.

M1258. Fidelity competitor

M1259. Became less dense

M1261. Actress Veronica of Hill St. Blues

M1263. “Fine, sure [I’m not really listening]”

M1264. Mandrake’s specialty.

M1265. Sight-to-target distance

M1266. Binge-watch material

M1267. Type of diacritical mark

M1268. Spell of energy

M1269. Controversial subject

M1270. Commodore computer of 1985

M1271. Healthful, in product names

M1272. Oreck competitor

M1279. Anaconda or python

M1288. Velvet Underground vocalist filmed by Andy Warhol

M1291. Always changing

M1293. Tax-free gov’t bond

M1297. Titillating, as gossip

M1301. Skater Zinke

M1302. Fold, as a flag

M1304. Gaze into it, it gazes into you

M1305. Housewarming party locale

M1307. One who is far from tidy

M1309. Michael Regan’s gp.

M1311. Water distributor in a tree

M1315. Justin Timberlake’s former band

M1317. Blackjack phrase

M1319. The Effect of ___ Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

M1321. This one, to Vespasian

M1322. Tonight Show theme composer Paul

M1323. Ex-Packer Favre with most-ever interceptions thrown

M1324. Phone button letters

M1325. Comp ___

M1327. Return number

M1328. Prime Minister in Tokyo until 1972

M1329. Nose nuggets

M1330. WWII combat vehicles

M1331. Actor Wilford of Cocoon

M1332. “Why, yes, I do think that’s sexy”

M1333. Sticker applied at checkout

M1334. Pepper and Snorkel (abbr.)

M1336. Group led by Master Splinter, initially

M1337. Candelabra-shaped letters

M1340. Cleverly craftsmanlike

M1342. Jays’ and Os’ home

M1344. Loc. council member

M1345. First letter in the last third of the Greek alphabet

M1348. Not much, as of skin cream

M1351. Friedman’s subj.

M1353. Lands invisible from the air

M1357. They run hardest in summer

M1360. Immigrants, to Aussies

M1362. Truckers’ devices

M1363. Duplicitous

M1364. Big image-rehab effort

M1365. Glass Onion director Johnson

M1366. Heroic beginning?

M1367. Travel, to Shakespeare (as in Hamlet)

M1368. “Wow, never occurred to me!”

M1370. Playful, web-footed mammal

M1372. Mustard or saffron

M1374. Fatal casualties

M1376. Golfer Ernie

M1377. Ryan in the Baseball Hall of Fame

M1378. Bad mark?

M1379. Very upset (with “off”)

M1380. Five-octave singer Sumac of Peru

M1382. “Have ___!” (“En garde!”)

M1383. Appalachian Trail shelter

M1384. Free of stain

M1385. Beetles, bugs, etc.

M1386. Heads to Nome, say

M1387. Redactors or embellishers

M1388. Takes way more than one should, for short

M1389. One with a trained eye

M1391. NL Central team

M1392. Prevent from progressing

M1393. Sharp turn that echoes the name of a Disney duck

M1394. How game play often proceeds

M1396. Born near the River Shannon

M1397. Shady

M1400. Reverend’s sch.

M1402. Steak and potatoes go-with, archaically

M1405. Pope who wrote On the Dual Nature of Christ and who scholars feel represents the “cusp of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

M1409. Sets of points, in math

M1413. What an anchor reads

M1418. Reed’s home

M1421. Musician’s moneymaker

M1423. Emergency preparedness needs

M1426. Part of a URL, sometimes

M1428. Childish taunt that’s more or less infinitely repeatable

M1429. Dextrous beginning

M1430. Satirical Sahl

M1432. Firm ending online?

M1434. Draining aids

M1437. Allowing money to briefly buy happiness?

M1439. Twizzlers brand

M1440. Reacts to road construction ahead

M1442. Origin

M1444. Worldwide lending org.

M1445. Major Crimes org.

M1448. Household regulators

M1451. Start of a Petrarchan sonnet

M1452. Frozen-treat flavor with crosswordese powder

M1453. Economy yardstick (abbr.)

M1454. Disinherit by getting rid of something you named in your will

M1456. Some bubbly, colorful refreshers

M1457. Wrestling pair

M1458. Hoddy-doddies

M1459. “___ a kind! I win!”

M1460. Plane part

M1461. Religious journey

M1462. Happen to

M1463. Copied gene for gene

M1464. Wizards who’ve been angered, e.g.

M1465. StumbleUpon rival

M1466. 67, for many

M1467. Payback of all monies lost

M1468. It takes figuring

M1471. Easily put in the same sentence as

M1473. Pace ___: Latin for “with your permission”

M1475. Caesar, for one

M1477. Not suffering a common dysfunction (1 in 5 men? Something like that)

M1479. Dr. Watson’s outburst, maybe

M1481. Ooze out

M1483. “Rock-___ baby…”

M1485. “The results ___” (election-night report, one hopes)

M1487. What Oscar Wilde said “ever survived censorship”

M1488. Jeremy who was responsible for “___sanity”

M1489. Certain C sources

M1490. Intrude on the peace of mind of

M1491. Spinning session?

M1493. In the cooking style of

M1494. Start of a simple game

M1498. Perfect paradigm

M1499. It includes the Masters and the US Open

M1500. Solid-state drive used by some gamers

M1501. Meets, in person or otherwise

M1502. Makes do, with “out”

M1505. Cattle lows

M1507. Joined, as in marriage

M1508. The Office home

M1509. Making you go “…huh”

M1511. It’s all about them, to them

M1512. Name on a 1928 antiwar pact

M1514. “4 Da Fam” rapper

M1515. Most congenial

M1516. Gp. behind the Food Quality Protection Act

M1518. Goose, in Grenoble

M1520. Belonging naturally

M1521. Question or proclaim for the last time

M1523. “Behold,” in some hymns

M1524. Juno actor Michael

M1525. “Democracy is the road to socialism” writer

M1526. Little-used contraction

M1528. 11th century Norwegian king

M1529. One of the reputed Dead Sea Scrolls authors

M1530. Euripides play

M1531. Book that tells the story of Samson

M1536. Stoner movie that flops at the box office?

M1539. “Who is Silvia? What ___…” (Shakespeare)

M1541. Repeated, antiaircraft fire

M1544. Minimum flossing schedule (should really be twice, but…)

M1547. Life saver, often

M1550. They are in Spanish class?

M1553. Larry and Alan

M1560. Evening affair

M1562. George Washington’s vice-president

M1563. Son of Jerahmeel

M1565. Porter’s “___ Love”

M1567. Big stories

M1570. Failed to capitalize on the opportunity

M1571. Player, classically

M1573. Comedian Richard

M1575. Garbage collector, informally?

M1576. It helps a woodworker part and separate

M1578. GOLEAN cereal maker

M1582. Soothing irritated skin

M1584. Ripley’s Believe It ___!

M1585. Did some smooching

M1588. Remove unwanted material from

M1590. Not procrastinating

M1591. Tot’s injury

M1592. Sounds of sorrow

M1594. Twiddle one’s thumbs

M1595. Vain one’s mate?

M1598. Use a divining rod

M1599. Worse for driving but better for skating

M1600. Mil. leave

M1602. Sometimes I address my actual sibling like this

M1604. Seemed to whirl

M1606. Unexpected shot

M1608. Canton near the Lake of Lucerne

M1610. Took the mic

M1612. “Put more plainly…”

M1614. “Fame” singer David

M1616. On the ___: not working

M1618. 99 percent

M1619. Chem. stat

M1621. Sweden’s parliament

M1622. China’s youth still look up to him today

M1623. One seeing the sights?

M1625. Handel hero who gets killed by a Cyclops

M1626. A&E filler content?

M1627. Sixteenth of a cup, for short

M1628. Hockey’s Colton and Bobby

M1629. Lost item of nursery rhyme

M1630. Big-wheeled car

M1634. Stop wearing down?

M1635. Year starter in Yucatan

M1637. Some biceps exercises, e.g.

M1639. Binged (on)

M1641. Logical opening

M1643. Annoys, with “at”

M1645. Ers’ kin

M1646. “___ is the life!”

M1648. Not accomplished, as goals

M1650. Fixation

M1652. Not yet bug-free, perhaps

M1655. MacArthur, to his friends

M1657. Web portal with a Bing search field

M1658. Condescending pet name from an older man to a pretty woman

M1659. “Friendos!”

M1660. Makes public, as an indictment

M1662. “You should ___ lucky”

M1663. John and Mark, for two

M1664. Common prayer start

M1665. Final Fantasy III platform, initially

M1668. “Fer ___!” (Janice’s exclamation on The Muppets)

M1669. Vegetables high in vitamin C

M1672. Many a bellybutton

M1673. Far from sanguine

M1674. Ennis who created The Boys

M1676. Roman beginnings?

M1677. Pseudonym on early editions of Wuthering Heights

M1679. Dinesen’s ___ Africa

M1680. Do fair work

M1682. Looney Toons’ prop, often

M1683. Sumerian storm god

M1685. Oriental truth

M1686. Nixon’s Secretary of Defense who was not a Scottish landowner

M1687. Photography pioneer George

M1689. Meal on a stick

M1690. Take risks with stocks

M1691. Booze store known as a “package store” in Pennsylvania

M1692. Former FAO Schwarz parent

M1694. Firemen’s apparatus

M1695. Bonaparte buddy

M1696. Hits the bullseye, say

M1697. Make a big splash

M1698. Circus vehicles

M1699. Inventory taker?

M1700. Raise or elevate

M1701. Decision where there’s not enough evidence of guilt

M1702. With care and awareness

M1708. End of an ump’s declaration

M1713. Be amorous with, in Britain

M1718. “___ Said” / “Done Too Soon” (1971 Neil Diamond single)

M1721. Lens-cleaning brand

M1724. Sonic boom creator?

M1731. Alternative to “zounds”

M1732. Cookie Monster quote

M1735. Stage item accompanying many a stand-up comic

M1737. Indonesian island off the coast of Sumatra

M1739. Sports league, e.g., for short

M1741. Terrible movie, e.g.

M1743. “Lo! in ___ brilliant window-niche…” (Poe)

M1745. She walks the walk

M1747. Tear, for one

M1749. Bart’s bus driver

M1751. Set of exam choices

M1753. Ace ___ Stories (old detective pulp magazine)

M1755. Like thin smoke rings

M1757. ___ Marcus (retailer)

M1758. Between-building passages

M1759. Sunshine

M1761. “I am,” to Iulius?

M1762. Grounds for winning the Victoria Cross

M1763. Dakota dwellings

M1764. Intense dislikes

M1765. “Now for the topic of…”

M1766. Hits booster, in brief

M1767. Brand of crystals

M1768. Felix who founded the Ethical Movement, or Polly who said “a house is not a home”

M1772. Ha’ not one fleabite’s worth o’ truth in it

M1774. Old-style hangover remedy

M1776. Sandwich food

M1778. Precipitation not normally seen on a spring holiday

M1780. Stat on a Banana Boat bottle

M1782. Cry of frustration from Starbuck or Apollo

M1784. NBA star Lamar

M1786. “___ I Gonna Find You Now” (James McMurty)

M1789. Egyptian goddess worshiped as the archetypical wife and mother

M1791. Inevitably appeared, as night

M1792. TV miniseries showing the US after a bloodless Russian coup

M1793. “It ___ laugh!”

M1796. Add-on to absent, respond, and stand

M1797. Wear the right things that go well together

M1799. Cause of extra innings

M1800. Canceled, as a space shot

M1801. Concentration unit, for short

M1802. Words that may precede weeping?

M1805. Administer

M1806. It’s released into the market more carefully than most securities

M1807. Area between forest and prairie, e.g.

M1808. Brass and bronze

M1809. Full of furious energy

M1811. Not lag

M1812. Platoon war zone, in brief

M1814. “I can find no fault in what you say”

M1815. Embarrassment of an assistant

M1816. Twin sister of He-Man

M1818. Dampier or Strickland of the NBA

M1819. Projectile weapon maybe carved from a reed

M1820. “___ House” (Graham Nash song)

M1822. Immune system structure, briefly

M1823. Key Biscayne products

M1824. Ending for mod or nod

M1826. Outer rim of a racetrack, e.g.

M1827. Chaney in old horror films

M1828. ___ a broken heart

M1829. Sorcery session

M1830. Halfway between Arnhem and Utrecht

M1832. Needle point?

M1833. Treble or tenor

M1834. Seven-monarchy org.

M1835. Achilles, for one

M1837. Fictional courage seeker

M1838. Oddworld: ___ Oddysee

M1841. Perfume ingredient

M1844. Since, in Paris

M1848. Food squares?

M1852. Direction finder?

M1856. Rescuees in a 1984 Chuck Norris movie, briefly

M1859. Coin of Mexico

M1867. Birth name of a domestic abuse case turned Disney princess

M1868. Foe of le diable

M1870. Calling on

M1872. Basketball shot near the hoop

M1873. Little freshener

M1875. “Isn’t that beautiful?”

M1877. Cobra ___ (Karate Kid sequel series)

M1878. Per example

M1880. Singer Malik

M1882. Proclaimer of the gospel

M1884. If half of succeeding is just showing up, she’s half-successful

M1886. Talked nonstop on one subject

M1887. Street transporter

M1889. Noted nude rider

M1891. City near Cleveland

M1892. Dirty film group?

M1893. Advice-column abbr.

M1894. Half-brother of William I

M1895. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 ___ Minor (“Unfinished Symphony”)

M1896. According to current probability

M1897. Earth tones

M1898. Initials of one whose TV theme was “Love Is All Around”

M1899. It means “universe”

M1900. Chicken-hearted (word seen less often than its opposite)

M1901. ___ gin fizz

M1902. Door-to-door salesforce for 125 years

M1903. Give ___: call up

M1904. Bhagavad ___

M1905. Lock up

M1906. “…eh, wot?”

M1910. Roughly average mass of caffeine in one cup of coffee

M1913. F-stop, for one

M1915. Call to feed the kitty

M1917. Hull huggers

M1919. Achromatic

M1921. “The quicker picker upper,” e.g.

M1923. Practices teetotalism

M1925. Time to beat at the gate

M1927. It may form a crown

M1929. Twitter feature

M1931. 2007, in movie credits

M1933. Places for pirates

M1934. Given a destiny

M1935. Like interlaced vines

M1936. Diamond and Wayne

M1937. The will to do right

M1938. The ‘gram

M1939. In ___: peevish

M1940. Broadway lights

M1944. Loyal to Loyola

M1946. Dada, to many

M1947. Move far from Earth, for short

M1948. “___-haw!” (cowboy cry)

M1950. Ozzy Osbourne song that begins, “I’m on the menu”

M1951. Expression on many Halloween masks

M1952. School whose grads move up to jr. high

M1954. Symbol of somberness, in poetry

M1955. Naughty boy in Toy Story

M1957. Enticing

M1958. Dark side of Eastern religion

M1959. Stored up

M1960. Home of Waterloo (abbr.)

M1961. Edward, the only person to win gold in both Winter and Summer Olympics

M1962. Mutt’s morsel

M1963. Like close baseball victories

M1964. Plasma cosmologists believe this never happened

M1965. Calls home

M1966. Scarcely detectable amount

M1967. 4K

M1968. Word used to express possibility, in the Bible

M1969. Christmas resins

M1970. Greek sea god

M1971. “Come on ___” (#1 hit of 1983)

M1974. Suffix with flex

M1976. ___ clef

M1978. Sax inventor Sax

M1983. Muscular and lean

M1986. Holliday title

M1988. Proposal elections

M1990. Galactica pursuer

M1994. Denounce unmercifully

M1996. Bear down (on), as a target

M1999. Like their homophones, they can now be “designer”

M2000. Mid-March, e.g.

M2001. JEC’s successor

M2002. Lee Majors’ alma mater

M2003. Has a heavy heart for mysterious reasons

M2006. 2001 extras

M2008. Evening, in Milan

M2010. Visit Amazon.com, say

M2012. Manchurian border river

M2014. “It’s Raining Men,” for one

M2016. Wink, maybe

M2019. Hundred-yard ___

M2021. Bottomless pit (var.)

M2022. ___-Swedish wars (roughly thirty, the most ever fought between two countries)

M2023. Make self-conscious

M2024. Olympics balance beam gold medalist after Olga

M2025. Frosty’s eyes

M2026. Narrow metal cylinder

M2027. Movie whose genre is taking off?

M2028. Rainbow, to some

M2029. Club for an approach shot

M2030. Feudal figures

M2031. Like cartoon “Melodies”

M2032. Flush

M2033. Collectives, abbreviated

M2034. Got back to 100%

M2035. Three-time Assassin’s Creed protagonist

M2037. Lucasfilm’s special effects co.

M2038. Osbourne and Stone

M2039. Least far

M2040. City area, informally

M2042. Comedian who is a tenth cousin of both Stephen King and Dick Cheney

M2045. “The sum is greater than the parts” philosophy

M2047. Thought better of

M2048. ___ torch (party light)

M2050. Op. ___ (kin of “ibid.”)

M2051. Cartoon with a speech impediment known as de-rhotacism

M2054. Started drinking before the party

M2056. Landmark 1973 case

M2058. Refuel one’s body

M2059. Altoids are a “curiously strong” kind

M2060. Jack and Helen’s As Good as It Gets co-star

M2061. Mini successors

M2062. Jennifer Lopez album “J to ___ L-O!”

M2063. Unnatural in the eyes of

M2064. Collect in abundance

M2065. Paper header?

M2068. Warhol film or today’s NC-17 fare

M2069. Vehicle license fee

M2070. Miguel of baseball

M2072. “M ___ metahumor…”

M2074. First Korean-American screen actor Philip

M2075. “Works while you shower” brand

M2076. Washing area for clothes

M2079. Kind of show found in Times Square, once

M2082. “___ Club” (50 Cent piece)

M2084. Tulsa sch. with a Prayer Tower

M2086. Sixteenth-century Indian capital

M2088. Hellmann’s, by another name

M2089. Sawyer’s pal

M2090. Sagacious

M2091. The ___ early hours

M2093. Sosa, Pagan, and Bruno

M2095. Rocker Dee

M2098. Weapon dropped from the Bockscar

M2100. Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth (abbr.)

M2101. “Strangely enough…”

M2102. Believer in not letting food go to waste

M2103. Muscular contraction

M2105. Holder for needles

M2107. “Quality” that keeps a movie from being good and also from being enjoyably bad

M2108. ___ weed (piano player’s smoke)

M2110. Performer’s tour unit

M2111. Longtime 60 Minutes reporter Steven

M2112. Herbed pickle

M2113. Charles Town, WV school

M2114. Math game involving the removal of objects

M2115. Televise again

M2116. Actor and intellectual Stephen

M2117. Rub ___: lubricate

M2118. Obviously disapproving

M2120. Lacking refinement

M2121. State known for its taters

M2122. Snitch, perhaps

M2123. Vigorous vitality

M2125. Abandoned operatic heroine

M2131. They fought, then joined, the Vanir

M2133. Restore to sheriffdom

M2135. Football great Junior

M2139. Go angling in the Arctic

M2142. Wart giver of legend

M2145. Cross between honeydew and cantaloupe

M2148. Shot to the ear?

M2151. Raspberry alternative

M2153. The Water Lilies and The Haystacks

M2155. Lace a bird’s eyes shut

M2157. Cont. the residents of which would like us to stop using outdated tropes to describe them en masse: “We don’t wake up with chalk on our faces. We go to the spa”

M2158. MDCLXII/III

M2159. How Mark Ruffalo becomes the Hulk

M2160. Builds anticipation for

M2162. Woman’s name that rhymes with a “woman” synonym

M2163. 1997 Hanson #1 hit

M2166. Indonesian island group

M2167. Not inconsiderable amount, as of cash

M2168. “___ Funny That Way,” 1928 song

M2170. Picnic leftover

M2172. Attempt to get something, as a lover’s attention

M2174. Saab or Tahari of fashion

M2176. Apprised of

M2177. Bridge opponents

M2178. Cartoon studio souvenirs

M2179. Officially stops possessing

M2180. Show one’s cheeks to

M2181. Put in a pen

M2182. Aimed for

M2183. Musical symbols

M2184. Online venue apparently frequented by Optimus Prime

M2185. Former hangouts

M2186. January 1 head-soother

M2187. Remy’s bigger, older brother in Ratatouille

M2188. “Keep things tidy when they’re not in use”

M2189. Co. that might handle your package

M2192. Bathed

M2195. Actress Ana de of Knives Out and No Time to Die

M2197. First giant star found to harbor a planet

M2199. Texted “Then again…”

M2201. Chart, in Cadiz

M2202. Convertiplanes

M2204. Dial ___ Murder

M2206. It was south of the Dead Sea

M2208. Legionnaire’s headgear

M2210. Break a partner’s trust

M2211. Variety of plum tomato

M2212. Faded to black

M2213. Footwear name

M2214. Young and old followers

M2216. Carbon dioxide’s threesome

M2217. Handled the tea

M2218. Gator follower in the hot sun?

M2222. Mace part of a nutmeg

M2223. “Bitch Better Have My Money” singer, familiarly

M2224. With a sharp tongue

M2226. Rachael Ray catchphrase

M2227. Magician or Alexandria neighborhood

M2228. One-percenter

M2231. Garish

M2232. Toy attachment?

M2234. Expense hard to do without, for short

M2235. Cock or hen

M2236. Bullets aimed at you

M2238. Included group

M2239. Nirvana “Unplugged in New York” song

M2240. Lab burner’s inventor

M2241. Assault verbally

M2242. Prospero’s eyes and ears

M2243. “It’s Wednesday, ___ I like to call it…Thursday”

M2244. Challenge to be expected from the high-handed?

M2245. Bringer of rain

M2246. Was imminent

M2247. Wakes up

M2248. “Hmm, I guess that’s fine”

M2249. Muser’s mumbling

M2252. V8 veggie

M2255. They’re not important

M2257. It can be hot, short, or explosive

M2260. Emergency room item

M2264. Chophouse order

M2267. Kind of map that shows the Earth cut into sections

M2270. Cop’s beat, e.g.

M2272. The really big outdoors

M2275. Old tutorial Web resource

M2276. Blue man group big in 2009?

M2277. Press pistons

M2278. Shape of a pocket

M2279. Bébé watcher

M2280. Spinmeisters

M2282. British tabloid bit

M2284. Flash piece from the Nineties, e.g.

M2286. Las Vegas cry

M2288. Exodus Oscar nominee

M2290. Prefix with “day” or “night”

M2292. Grannies

M2294. Derby title?

M2296. Law & Order show once starring my high school buddy Sean Dugan

M2298. Middle, in law

M2299. Potatoes accompaniment

M2300. Sea World orca

M2301. Bakery need

M2302. City with “Roads” that are actually rivers

M2303. Stirs up liquid

M2304. Nonstop good time at the movies

M2305. Aqua ___ (nitric acid)

M2306. Highway structure

M2307. Jimmy Johns and Jersey Mike’s

M2308. Floodtide of Fate writer Duun

M2309. Title monster-sitter of cartoons (with her best friend Roy)

M2310. Palm reader, maybe

M2312. “Good Morning Starshine” show

M2313. “…Bummer,” from Benvolio

M2316. Africa’s largest nation

M2318. Surrounded and attacked

M2320. Billion-dollar multi-level marketing scam…er, sorry, scum…no no, I mean “scheme”

M2323. More inertial

M2325. More breezily confident

M2327. Ancient kingdom on the Dead Sea

M2329. Postimpressionist

M2331. Stretch for criminals or politicians

M2333. Man of Lisbon (abbr.)

M2335. College area of study with no application required?

M2336. Opening nights

M2337. Take it slow

M2338. “Don’t ___ wrong”

M2339. Sound I get out of bed early to avoid every morning

M2340. Partly reallocate, as a fund

M2341. Stingless bee

M2342. Sound of pain

M2343. Cupid, for example

M2344. Act moody

M2349. Faithful boyfriend

M2351. HomeStore namesake

M2353. Go on ___; cut down

M2355. Scandinavia’s cont.

M2356. Used as a rendezvous

M2358. Amps need a good one to handle pianoforte songs

M2360. Pedicel

M2362. 5, for 150

M2364. Some slip-ons

M2366. HS sheepskin alternative

M2368. Old-fashioned boat in a bottle, e.g.

M2369. Burns’s boys

M2370. Eagle’s nest (var.)

M2371. Easily intimidated

M2372. Summer-spotlighted swordsman

M2373. Creche prop

M2374. Forested

M2375. Each adds $2 to your taxi fare

M2376. ___-à-brac

M2377. Figures in a creche

M2378. San Antonio venue

M2380. Construction paper shapes

M2381. Makes a destination

M2383. Almost until

M2384. Passover fare

M2386. With “All,” a song title

M2387. Mother with a Nobel Prize

M2388. In brief, only place you’ll see Tony Hawk versus Wayne Gretzky or Muhammad Ali vs. Michael Jordan

M2389. March 17, e.g.

M2391. Cigar brand, ___-Tampa

M2392. Unimproved property

M2393. Moppet’s plea

M2394. Admiral’s assistant (var.)

M2395. Portland’s st.

M2397. Clan, casually

M2398. When the “spooky season” happens

M2399. Town near Perth Amboy

M2400. Ares’ lover, or sister, or both (Greek myth, whaddayagonnado)

M2401. Ending for appease or punish

M2402. Biblical verb with “thou”

M2403. Got stuck

M2405. How to begin a do

M2406. Gets under someone’s skin?

M2407. Bar patron who appears in every Cheers episode

M2408. Remain longer than expected

M2409. Retreats, as a coastline

M2414. Donut-shaped

M2418. Champagne adjective

M2422. Tear of self-indulgence

M2426. “Babydoll”

M2428. Real downer, for short?

M2431. Irriguous

M2434. Females in a flock

M2435. “I’ll do it soon!”

M2436. Genteel rejection

M2437. Weather map features

M2439. Active place

M2441. Some Musee d’Orsay holdings

M2443. e to the power of, for short

M2444. Political cartoonist called “our best recruiting sergeant” by Lincoln

M2446. “What’s happening, Sarge?”

M2448. Yosemite’s setting

M2450. So in love as to be a little stupid

M2452. Like Rioja wine

M2454. Middle-Aged spreads?

M2456. Someone using their law degree

M2457. 2012 gaming debut

M2458. Bana of Closed Circuit

M2459. Garden fertilizer now being swapped out

M2462. ___ Strips (bug-killing brand)

M2463. Prefix for esteem or help

M2464. Gets plastered

M2465. During Genesis 1

M2466. Restrain, as an appetite

M2467. Woolly

M2468. One on the debate team

M2469. Res ___ (deeds)

M2471. Native of Fyn

M2474. CNN meteorologist

M2476. Witnessed attending

M2478. Beatnik growths, perhaps

M2480. Nein, on the other side of a World War II border

M2484. [spreads arms, encouraging you to take in the obvious features of the whole scene]

M2486. Green-lights

M2488. Tegan’s musical partner

M2490. Internet broker

M2494. MMA fighter Paul or gold medalist Thompson

M2495. Halima who was first to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant

M2496. “Sweet” like meat

M2497. Shea of Dream Home Makeovr

M2498. Sound of repeated light hitting

M2499. First-aid specialists

M2500. Irritate

M2501. Jousting wear

M2502. Underage drinker’s item

M2506. Make an economic partner

M2508. 1998-2008 CEO of eBay now listed as “CEO of Quibi” on Google, which is, uh, a bit less impressive

M2510. December celebrations

M2512. Team that’s pulling for you?

M2513. Kind of states that existed until 1870

M2515. Letter-shaped beams

M2517. Be unsettled

M2519. Nickname for a Sara Ellen or a Stella Eve

M2521. Times and Copley (abbr.)

M2523. Online calendar pop-up

M2525. “___ a popcorn fart” (comparison)

M2527. No insignificant number

M2528. Colonel’s cmd. often

M2530. Creed co-star Thompson

M2531. A-F interstitial

M2532. Pt. of A&P

M2536. Plywood unit

M2538. TV series with a talking horse

M2539. Requiem composer Gabriel

M2540. Stopover in Exodus

M2543. Melville character

M2544. Ruler in place of a sovereign

M2546. Hassan of 1001 Arabian Nights

M2547. Backwoods idiom

M2549. With only a little sugar added

M2550. “While you’re up, my bottle’s empty”

M2551. “Let yourself in”

M2552. Nantes noggin

M2553. Unsure utterances

M2555. ___ Poke (caramel sucker)

M2556. ___ cloud (distant part of the solar system)

M2557. Japanese pitcher Hideo with two no-hitters

M2558. Pertaining to church taxes, old-style

M2559. Spot-on

M2561. Female red deer

M2562. Lausanne-based gp.

M2563. Mummified

M2564. College study group request

M2566. We once thought it was made of uber-hot neutrons

M2567. Lech, Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1983

M2569. Like steak and cheese, sometimes

M2570. Frodo recuperated in his home

M2576. Pick (abbr.)

M2579. One of Greece’s Seven Wise Men

M2581. “You betcha”

M2586. Flood-control structure

M2589. Internet initialism

M2593. Lecture badly

M2597. Southern California?

M2598. “I’ve got to see ___ about a horse”

M2601. Allow to buy freedom

M2603. Bruno or Borat, really

M2605. “You listen to me”

M2609. Texting format

M2610. Earth inheritors, biblically

M2612. Got a 72, perhaps

M2614. Amorphs sometimes classified with fungi and algae (and sometimes pluralized differently)

M2616. Thinking clearly

M2618. Rigidly fixed

M2619. Joyful

M2620. “He won’t be missed”

M2622. Long hauls

M2623. Shape on a potter’s wheel

M2624. Belonging to me and y’all both

M2626. “Money is ___, so I don’t have to be” (Eddie Mumford)

M2627. Sweet-talked

M2628. Important UFO

M2629. Sailors’ assignment

M2631. ___ E (The History Channel owner)

M2632. Water closets

M2634. Like weapons that, it should be emphasized, don’t care who they kill

M2635. Exhausts

M2636. Chilling Serling

M2637. Clock setting at 0 degrees longitude (abbr.)

M2641. Busy person in March

M2643. Appropriately, its spot-color orange logo looks like something you could do yourself in a few minutes

M2645. “___ got spirit…”

M2648. Accessories for hoofers

M2650. Berliner’s (and sometimes a Britisher’s) “bah!”

M2651. Villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

M2653. Enter quickly, as a pool

M2654. Saturnine

M2655. Sci-fi weapons

M2656. Give irrelevant labels, as a blog post

M2657. Others, in Zihuantanejo

M2659. Hung-jury outcome

M2660. Acid test supply

M2662. Prepared horses’ hooves for shoeing

M2665. Sicily, “per esempio”

M2666. Smokes with a name synonymous with popularity

M2667. Certain Major Leaguer (abbr.)

M2669. Peete’s org.

M2671. Doing a Brazilian dance

M2673. Famous movie year

M2675. One up unwillingly

M2677. Covert call

M2679. Give free, as a ticket

M2681. Like loose shoes

M2682. Rider’s guider

M2683. A consul’s home could cost two million of them

M2685. A clear, unbiased view

M2688. 1995 hip-hop artist noted for choosing not to work blue

M2690. Least curvaceous

M2691. “I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms” speaker

M2692. 18th-century Russian emperor

M2693. Landers opener

M2695. Western consultant Wyatt

M2696. Eight, to Hadrian

M2697. The Police, e.g..

M2700. Kind of heat

M2701. “Bellissima!”

M2702. “Je ___, donc je suis” (Descartes)

M2703. Erstwhile NFL player

M2704. Preacher’s “clobber”

M2705. Patriot, e.g. (abbr.)

M2706. Little biter

M2709. Soviet accords?

M2710. Distill ending

M2711. Ballpark cover

M2713. “Take ___! (And ___!)”

M2714. Domestic terror-addressing org.

M2715. Actor Ken of thirtysomething

M2716. “I wanna fight those guys!”

M2717. Spray holder

M2718. Pair in a loaf

M2721. Extended under or opposite to

M2722. Comics artist Buscema

M2723. Anti-counterfeiting agents

M2724. Knight’s intensifier

M2725. Short-tempered sort

M2726. Do some temporary electrical repair

M2729. Batting stats

M2730. Widely misunderstood Caribbean cult

M2731. Accident treaters

M2732. What “sic” means, literally

M2734. Slip away, as time

M2735. Bondage

M2736. Cutting costs

M2739. Pool visits

M2743. Vibrating effects

M2749. Member of a college for presidents?

M2755. Tonsils’ neighbor

M2760. Diamondback’s defense

M2764. Remark from a ram

M2765. Carol with “Gloria” chorus

M2767. Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force successor, for short

M2769. Lap dog, for short

M2771. Summoned

M2773. Griffin in production

M2774. Pine goo

M2776. Lawyer’s terms

M2780. Their business involves clubs

M2782. Suffix for a skilled one

M2784. Some dance contests

M2785. Aid in 3-D navigation

M2788. Source of endless funds

M2789. Make coins and paper money

M2790. Divided, as Congress?

M2791. Hair coloring

M2792. Determines the sum

M2793. Emblem on Greece’s flag

M2795. Expatriate poet’s initials

M2797. Giant stand-out

M2799. TV monitor (abbr.)

M2801. God of war, the sky, and tacos?

M2802. Potpie piece

M2805. Cabin boy in Moby Dick

M2807. Tunis.’s neighbor

M2808. Is sorry for

M2811. Medieval close-combat weapon that inspired a video-game name

M2813. John of Parliament

M2815. The Cyclones of the NCAA, for short

M2817. Evaluation

M2818. 0.621 miles

M2819. Flutter, as eyelashes

M2820. Cretan who had the Labyrinth built

M2822. Influencer Spiranac or VanZant

M2823. Steven of action movies

M2824. Him, her, or them, Down South

M2825. “No ___, no foul”

M2828. Norse goddess

M2829. Chemical formula for sodium hydroxide

M2830. “Well, wish me luck!”

M2833. 1151, in Rome

M2835. Head off ___ pass

M2837. Chess stratagem

M2839. Receiving Quilted Northern exposure?

M2843. Polite texter’s add-on

M2845. Suitable

M2846. Spiegelman, or his work

M2848. Blinks on a tel. may signify them

M2849. State Donny and Marie hail from

M2850. Words said with fingers in one’s ears

M2851. Group of cub scouts

M2852. Ex-company that I’ll be cluing as a Roman numeral after this, it’s pretty close to forgotten

M2853. Former tenant of the MLB Network’s home

M2854. Battle endings

M2855. Oculus Rift rig

M2858. Even madder, a bit stiltedly

M2859. Hawaii’s Forbidden Isle

M2860. US painter George

M2861. Cornwall’s country

M2863. Buf-___: facial sponge brand

M2864. Makes screwdrivers and rusty nails

M2865. Words before “of emergency”

M2866. [from a great distance] “Hey…HEY!”

M2868. “I’m finally done!”

M2869. A title might be presented in it (abbr.)

M2870. Academically inclined klutz

M2872. Do damage to

M2874. Not yet found

M2875. Jazzman Gillespie, for short

M2876. Footprint subj. (abbr.)

M2877. Tend to a pesky squeak, perhaps

M2879. The 40th state (abbr.)

M2880. Tenant farmer

M2881. Soul singer Franklin who was the first to record “Piece of My Heart”

M2882. Iconic chomper

M2884. Chicken salad ingredient

M2885. “Live in shame!”

M2886. The Five ___ (oldies group)

M2887. Migration route

M2888. Problem up in the sky for Superman

M2889. Bactrian-based fibers

M2890. Early PayPal head Musk

M2891. Helm role onscreen from 1966 to (at least) 2023

M2892. Takes in visually

M2894. Bleacherites, e.g.

M2895. “___ what you mean”

M2899. 1/1/1969, for Verne Troyer

M2903. Eight decades from 2022

M2909. Shows up in time for

M2917. Word with Vallarta or Rico

M2921. Poker declaration

M2922. One, in Weimar

M2925. Lock of hair

M2927. Long-tailed monkey

M2928. Bushwhacked

M2930. Makes fail

M2933. “Of ___ Sing”

M2935. “The bench” to be approached

M2936. “Whoops…”

M2937. Explained away

M2938. “Let’s all hide in a giant wooden horse,” e.g.

M2940. Authenticate, as a document

M2942. Belarus river

M2943. “You don’t need to tell me twice!”

M2944. Vulcan acts of intimacy

M2945. Map listing

M2947. Publisher of Gone with the Wind and David Baldacci

M2948. 2016 political slogan accompanied by an arrow

M2949. “___ Rock”: Simon and Garfunkel hit

M2950. Where the Capitol Bldg. is

M2952. Kind of beach contest that can redefine “revealing clothing”

M2954. Cold War country

M2955. Hangs about

M2956. Word in the MGM logo

M2957. Owns up to

M2958. Jaws setting

M2961. Say, “I’m not with…”

M2962. Absolutely crucial

M2964. Jokey farewell by Artemus Ward

M2966. Indian isle

M2969. Serviceperson at Lackland base

M2971. German philosopher

M2973. Works of novelist Jennifer like Manhattan Beach and The Keep…(this doesn’t really work for AUTHORS, does it? We only call them “Picassos,” we don’t call the plays “Shakespeares”)

M2978. Seller’s inducement

M2980. Alero or Intrigue, for short

M2985. Opposite of prolix

M2986. Legal exams

M2987. It’s dear to Deneuve

M2988. A-to-Z, briefly

M2989. French counts?

M2990. “Let’s put ___ in that…”

M2991. One concerned about keeping out “fake fans”

M2994. Some sheepskin boots

M2995. Surround oneself with and use as a survey group

M2998. Gen. Hooker fought in it

M3000. Car key’s place (abbr.)

M3001. Playful pats

M3003. ___ acid (antibacterial and antifungal material)

M3005. Gossipy senior

M3008. “I can’t deal with that question now”

M3010. Hot-bulb engine

M3012. Solves a kakuro

M3013. Related to certain seeds

M3014. 2000 #1 hit for Santana

M3016. “Yeah, sure!”

M3017. Vegetable soup ingredient, perhaps

M3018. Volcanic discharge

M3020. “You fools! They’re getting away!”

M3021. Unspoken alternative

M3022. They often turn knees green

M3023. Sugary spiral

M3027. Milieu for a masseuse

M3029. Unimpressed remarks

M3030. Meme “___ probably thinking about some other woman”

M3031. Former Piston Thomas

M3032. Many a conservative

M3034. 2008 Patrick Creadon documentary on the national debt

M3035. Likely to strike some as prejudiced

M3036. Victor at Vicksburg

M3038. Whitman or Martin of showbiz

M3040. Word ending many company names

M3042. “We ___ at war”

M3043. Like Boston and New York accents

M3044. Having difficulties

M3046. Org. funded by FICA

M3048. Will be totally decided by

M3050. Job follower

M3051. “It’s Not Easy to ___” (Five for Fighting)

M3052. Late, in Livorno

M3053. “Can I get a volunteer?”

M3054. Like Grand Theft Auto V

M3055. Like Rapunzel

M3057. Sports specialty

M3059. It has a conquistador hood ornament

M3064. “Fewer carcinogens!”

M3068. Alabama and California cities

M3070. “___ is intrinsically criminal” (labeling theory)

M3073. Gustav who wrote nine symphonies

M3077. Indian nurse

M3079. Offer a cordial greeting

M3083. “Oh, you wanna go? Let’s go!”

M3085. ___ as a fiddle

M3086. Traditional voice-chat device

M3087. Line sold by Sleepy’s

M3089. Desires more from Us?

M3091. The Good Place creator Michael

M3093. Outgoing waters

M3094. DuVall of Happiest Season

M3096. Vacation itinerary

M3098. “___ Fire” (Springsteen tune)

M3099. Met VIP

M3100. Maggie Hassan (_-__)

M3102. Home of the flightless kakapo, for short

M3104. Rolling Stones hit

M3105. Fab Four, early on

M3107. World that’s not real

M3109. What leads to good spelling?

M3110. Chief petty officer

M3112. NW school that’s home to the Beavers

M3113. “___ Be a Blobel!” (1964 Philip K. Dick short story)

M3114. Aspirin, to an ache

M3115. Semicircular topper

M3116. Phone intro when you’re confident the one you’re calling knows your voice

M3117. Samey lead-in?

M3118. Tedium, with “the”

M3122. Calais warm-weather times

M3123. Go over again

M3125. Dopey, today

M3128. Lost character Jin-Soo

M3129. Contrapuntal compositions

M3132. Local governing body

M3135. Kind of off

M3136. Streep’s gotten more than anybody

M3139. Some accountants

M3141. Bikini wax site

M3142. About to shoot

M3143. Membership with this org. gets you 15% off at Denny’s

M3146. Reid and Robbins

M3147. Suit, once

M3148. Diamonds is one

M3149. Astounds

M3150. Educational foundation

M3151. Pleasingly zaftig

M3154. Main course

M3155. Place for sweaters

M3157. Highlander’s speech

M3158. Leavens

M3159. Comrade follower

M3160. Pastry in sheets

M3161. Cold coffee quaffs

M3162. Stuffs one’s face with

M3164. Mil. units or M.O.s

M3166. Incipient

M3167. Second chance

M3168. Netflix often drops a bundle of them at once

M3170. A Hardy girl

M3171. Film buff’s channel, in brief

M3172. Colorful almanac feature

M3173. Bloviator’s talk

M3174. White-meat part

M3175. Reggae player, perhaps

M3177. Remove, as from a Facebook photo

M3178. Drug giant ___SmithKline

M3189. Theatrical cry from above the hero named

M3192. Squalid

M3203. Reaches by boat

M3207. Have ___ in the door

M3209. Outdoors store

M3211. Clock sound

M3212. Gilbert who’s meaner in the books

M3213. Blue II and Red Sun, e.g.

M3214. ___ voce: softly

M3216. Brings in sales

M3220. MIT alums, often (abbr.)

M3223. African island country

M3225. Gives goosebumps

M3226. From the same root

M3227. Western Indians (var.)

M3228. Seemingly the one known Native American tribe that Europeans and Americans aren’t to blame for decimating

M3229. Crowd with something in common

M3231. Sale-priced

M3232. Grand grampus

M3234. Let in advance

M3236. Unusual

M3238. Darks or whites

M3240. Question from an amnesiac

M3242. Jason of Forgetting Sarah Marshall

M3244. Commissioned ranks in the USMC

M3245. Hermes’ mom

M3246. The first one was awarded to a ventriloquist

M3248. Getters of letters (abbr.)

M3250. Parrot’s skill

M3252. Big report

M3254. Involve, as in intrigue

M3255. Bears and their lookalikes

M3256. Prince Albert was one

M3258. Negative prefix

M3260. “Oh, my…” in Italy

M3261. Island south of Aus.

M3262. Beekeeper role for Peter

M3263. Wobegon-esque name

M3264. Cooper delivers it

M3265. Anglo-Saxon low-caster

M3266. Rand and…no one else of note, really, and hey, she always wanted to be on top

M3267. Conifer that’s dormant in the winter months

M3268. Think about with an evil laugh

M3269. “The climate is Christmassy”

M3270. Not enough

M3272. Site of the Museum of Islamic Art

M3273. Passengers’ concerns, briefly

M3275. Whale man

M3276. Stein Song college home

M3277. Element used in medicine (var.)

M3278. Inspire to love

M3279. Makes manifest

M3281. Corrections in an updated edition

M3282. “One” on a one

M3283. Military stances

M3285. Rank No. 3 in Stratego

M3287. “Your Highness”

M3290. Picaresque

M3291. Makes current

M3294. Deity associated with Ra

M3296. Call to a battlefield medic

M3297. Brother of Jesus and Felipe

M3298. Before surgery

M3299. “Put ___ the beginning of your sentence, ‘me’ goes toward the end”

M3301. Shop talk

M3302. Make ___ (do something with)

M3303. Sully the name of

M3304. Announcer’s asset

M3305. Head jobs?

M3306. Contend (with or for)

M3307. Home alarm source

M3316. Eastern European capital

M3320. Restroom door word

M3321. Architect I.M. and family

M3322. Indoor rower and bike

M3326. “No one can catch me now!”

M3327. Demented blacksmith in Son of Frankenstein

M3329. 1980s duo with George Michael

M3332. Bloomin’ : Brit : ___ : Yank

M3335. Come together

M3337. You might wish upon it

M3338. Means in the end

M3341. It parallels the fibula

M3343. Broadway show with trash can lids

M3345. Autumn, Brooklyn, de Ravin, or Livingston of show business

M3347. Vaping need

M3349. Berra or Ripken’s number

M3351. 1960s band Procol ___

M3352. Owner of Flix, in brief

M3355. Blink of an eye (abbr.)

M3357. City near San Bernardino

M3358. Specialized somersault

M3360. Certain first-floor apartment

M3363. Took care of business

M3364. Gather moisture

M3365. When repeated, a German getaway

M3366. European capital ENE of Warsaw

M3367. Star wearer (abbr.)

M3370. Belief in better

M3374. “…in the twinkling ___ eye” (1 Cor. 15:52)

M3376. Bond-issuing org.

M3380. 3,000-year-old Kyrgyzstan city

M3382. Pitcher with a lip

M3384. Song that begins “All through the day”

M3387. Color close to palmetto

M3388. Autocratic reign

M3390. Football commentator Hebert

M3392. Counterpart of fraternal

M3395. Norse shapeshifter

M3396. Boot or can

M3397. White House family in 2012

M3398. Wide-angle scene

M3401. 440 yards, at times

M3403. Hieroglyphic stone locale

M3405. Have a fainting spell

M3407. Having lumps

M3408. Facing superior firepower

M3409. Part of a Swiss roll?

M3410. Cover with one’s body

M3411. Cuba’s in D.C. was restored in 2015 by Pres. Obama

M3412. PC runner

M3413. Slangy rejections

M3414. “sksksksksks”

M3415. Begin ceremoniously

M3417. Advanced degs.

M3419. Back-of-book lists

M3421. The Bicycle Thief setting

M3424. Fightin’ words

M3425. Words from a follower

M3426. Retail

M3428. Like much pottery

M3429. Broncos wide receiver Welker

M3430. Chats for public consumption

M3431. Fenway Park shout

M3432. Start or attack

M3433. Paperless letter

M3434. Word before “have mercy!”

M3436. Feeling often wished on the world

M3437. Family Circle rival

M3439. One of Hollywood’s Beattys

M3441. Home of the Horned Frogs (abbr.)

M3444. Chihuahua coin

M3449. Aunt, in Aragon

M3452. Pig’s noise

M3453. Cine addition?

M3454. Terms for a student loan

M3457. “The universe clearly WANTS this to happen!”

M3458. Pack, as pipes

M3460. Jewish “June”

M3463. “___ big fan!”

M3467. About oneself, in philosophy

M3469. Second smallest in the USA

M3471. [For shame!]

M3472. “___ wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener”

M3473. Hogwarts alumnus Weasley

M3475. Lie or betray

M3477. Fountain offering

M3479. Use the towel again

M3481. Charlie’s ride, in song

M3482. Maker of Cajun Shrimp nail polish

M3484. A little aweigh

M3487. Landlocked West African nation

M3488. Some Canons, for short

M3494. Buys the farm

M3496. Gulf or country

M3497. Inn near a highway

M3498. First name of the most decorated American at the Winter Olympics

M3499. Barbecuing site

M3500. Stereotypical hipster beer, for short

M3501. “Let me ___!” [pumps fists threateningly]

M3502. Georgia school with a sequential art program

M3503. Showtime’s serial killer “hero,” nicknamed

M3504. He was declared a public enemy by the Senate

M3505. Weightlessness

M3507. Columbo, for one

M3509. Public access channel, e.g.

M3511. Roughly equal (with)

M3512. Rome’s Via ___

M3514. Residue from an underwater volcano

M3517. Disgraces

M3519. She sings “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”

M3521. Supersized shoe

M3523. Discarded computer parts and such

M3525. Dickens character with a contracted name

M3526. “What ___!” (“Aw, too bad!”

M3528. Track sections

M3531. Forwent reticence

M3532. “Get it done yesterday!”

M3533. Cohen who watches what happens with you

M3534. Year Pius I ascended

M3536. Particles hard to observe until they destroy their counterparts

M3537. High-energy physics hub

M3538. Folk medicine known as phytotherapy

M3539. Turkey slice?

M3541. These French things

M3542. Does some arithmetic problems, maybe

M3543. Singles or doubles

M3544. Acting with unison (var.)

M3545. Sporty Jaguar model of yore

M3546. Old console using Game Paks

M3547. Animal near the end of ABC books

M3549. Cuban singer Cruz

M3550. By chance

M3551. Ludwig and Minty

M3553. “Day Is Dying in the West,” for one

M3554. Hot feeling

M3557. British cans

M3559. Guinier of legal scholarship

M3562. Underground layer

M3563. Scottish particle (var.)

M3564. Area-effect weapons in Overwatch

M3565. Disloyal sort

M3566. Uninhabited spots

M3567. ___ Miss (school in Oxford)

M3568. Sleepless person’s OTC buy

M3570. Keep up with current developments

M3571. They block for the QB

M3572. “Scroll down a screen” key

M3575. “We’re ___ way!”

M3579. “Invading other countries: is there any problem it CAN’T solve?” philosophy

M3581. Façade with nothing beneath

M3582. The ___ Breathe (2007 Gellar-Bacon film)

M3583. The research community

M3584. Archival materials, for short

M3585. Bulldog’s school

M3587. Get less bloody?

M3588. Light chow

M3590. 2008 Meryl Streep film title!

M3592. Hero Parks

M3593. Compact data carrier

M3595. Grilled cheese sandwich variation

M3598. Baby hippo

M3601. ___ City (slum outside of Baghdad)

M3603. Take captive

M3604. Big name in supermarkets

M3605. Ingredient in some health food store capsules

M3609. Kitty chorus

M3610. Newsmaking bug

M3612. Bact. back half?

M3613. Creamy Christmas bowlful

M3616. “Truer words were never spoken”

M3617. He came up with the name of his magical land by looking at the spine of an encyclopedia sideways

M3622. Hartford insurance company symbol

M3624. Actor Garcia Bernal named for a people

M3627. “You are, we car” sloganeer

M3628. Hambletonian gait

M3630. Originated, for short

M3631. Victoria Day month

M3632. Beveled edge

M3633. Stallone namesakes

M3634. “Ho…lee….shit” reaction

M3635. Bold promise

M3640. Device in Tinker, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

M3643. Over-the-counter brand in Liqui-Gels

M3645. Superman’s dog

M3648. Manowar song “The Power of ___ Sword”

M3651. “Geez, these weigh ___!”

M3652. Custard concoction

M3653. Old-fashioned pronoun

M3654. Winged insect with letter marking

M3655. Producer-actor-star Wyatt

M3656. Word literally meaning “desert dweller”

M3658. Give a haymaker

M3660. Ms.’s French relation

M3661. Physics Nobelist Simon van der ___

M3662. Whiplash victim’s option

M3663. States of aggressive agitation

M3664. iPod ___

M3665. “___ Again” (Connie Francis hit)

M3666. “Take ___ a compliment!”

M3667. Amorphs sometimes classified with animals and protozoa (and sometimes pluralized differently)

M3668. Plasters together

M3670. Only artist with ten consecutive #1 albums

M3671. Bouncer’s concerns

M3673. OMG, WTF, or BBQ

M3674. Fill with resentment

M3676. Hall of Fame third baseman Pie

M3677. Erudite

M3678. Slowly dissolve

M3679. Lunar New Year holiday

M3680. Maul or Sidious

M3682. Shielding (abbr.)

M3683. Not in need of a diet

M3684. ___ tree (cornered)

M3685. Bourbon and Easy, briefly

M3686. Picket-line-crossing Kardashian

M3687. Captain Hook’s assistant

M3689. How to find out if you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking?

M3691. Entirety

M3692. Places where an emir sat during travels

M3693. Sticker brand in the classroom?

M3694. 551 in 551

M3695. “Club” that rivals Costco

M3696. Duplicate of a later, more significant event

M3697. Follower that turns “now” to just occasionally

M3698. Patronized a casino

M3699. Under the thumb of

M3700. Ejections

M3701. Men of the cloth

M3702. Decked out

M3703. Answer, as an email

M3708. Winter hangings

M3714. James running DC Films

M3715. Young woman, in older literature

M3718. Belle ___ Bête

M3720. “FREE MONEY” sign, usually

M3723. Full skirt with a tight waistband

M3729. Quasimodo’s beloved?

M3730. Merchandise IDs

M3731. Start of a title for Willie and Julio

M3733. Burn a little

M3734. Flavor aid

M3736. California source of potash

M3737. First family of 1910

M3739. Curt summons

M3741. Gaseous eruption

M3743. Uproarious

M3744. Change appearance as if Claymated

M3745. Played miniature golf

M3746. Marx-following

M3747. Local locale locator

M3748. Words of confidence

M3750. Nail job, briefly

M3751. Rocket-launching letters

M3752. NFL fifth quarters

M3753. ___ in “navy”

M3754. Giant of Norse mythology

M3756. Terrestrial, as radio

M3759. Event held each summer and winter

M3760. Volunteered

M3761. John-117 of video games

M3763. “___ you there?”

M3765. What Galahad found

M3766. Marilyn Horne, voicewise

M3767. Informal assertion of authority

M3768. With “up,” angry, colloquially

M3770. Naval vessel abbr.

M3774. “I’m grateful to have you ___ mom” (Mother’s Day card)

M3776. Swamp goo

M3778. Hog food

M3780. Award for a star athlete

M3782. Gender-neutral “others”

M3785. Naval inits.

M3786. Badly rough up

M3787. Feeling better

M3789. 8:00-11:00 p.m. on TV

M3791. Bank deposits, maybe

M3793. Part of many a firm’s name

M3796. Purveyor of nonstick cookware

M3797. Agents, for short

M3798. Apud se non ___: to be non compos mentis

M3799. Org. that makes Gs?

M3800. Old Russian ruler (var.)

M3801. Drug kingpin

M3802. Korean musician with the hit “Gangnam Style”

M3806. New Deal agcy.

M3807. Star Wars’ rogue one (but not Rogue One)

M3809. ___ -Z: totally

M3811. Negotiator’s goal

M3813. Bro relative

M3815. “Rehab” singer Winehouse

M3816. Attention-courting window sign

M3817. Managed-care orgs.

M3818. Solidify into

M3819. Size abbr.

M3820. Inspiration for a memorial quilt

M3822. Express sympathies without visiting

M3824. Livestock tidbit

M3826. ___ -pah (tuba sound)

M3828. St. alternative

M3829. YouTuber Marie Johnson

M3830. Place where children learn to appreciate wildlife

M3832. Ending for treat or expert

M3833. Spirits possess it (abbr.)

M3835. “Look! It’s…magic!”

M3838. Stilted yet grammatical response to “Who’s there?”

M3839. Ways of carrying oneself

M3847. Longtime teammate of Gretzky

M3848. Second-biggest ratite

M3849. “Bravo, bro!”

M3850. What Oliver wanted

M3852. Drama in Osaka

M3854. “Guess again!”

M3863. Funny pages’ Pappy or Tiny

M3864. Personal slant

M3865. Satellite connections

M3867. Skin-deep art

M3874. “I win,” in chess

M3875. Brogue or wingtip

M3876. Kipling man-child

M3877. Frustrated vowel string

M3878. “I’ll leave that question to others”

M3879. Serve as proxy in a game

M3881. Country singer Tillis

M3883. Freshen the salad

M3884. Brooks or Gibson

M3891. Trigger the association of in

M3892. “Did you catch what just happened there?”

M3894. Mavericks

M3895. Verb endings

M3897. Excited cry in many soccer games

M3898. Tree with edible seeds

M3900. Allure

M3901. Me, ___ & Irene

M3902. Green tract

M3904. Black currant liqueur cocktail

M3905. Doesn’t speak clearly

M3907. Concert souvenirs, slangily

M3909. Getting to Yes co-author William

M3911. ___ the custom: traditionally

M3913. Where quarantiners stay

M3914. Trimmed closely

M3916. Bathing products

M3917. Classic computer game, or its island world

M3918. Fruit tree of the Philippines

M3919. Some are up-front

M3920. “The only constant in the universe is change” or “what is true cannot be false”

M3921. Get everyone talking

M3922. Org. hosting the annual Junior Olympic Games

M3923. Vessels of WWII

M3924. MC ___ (“Keep On, Keepin’ On” rapper)

M3925. MC rival

M3926. Mural painter Josep

M3927. Soak to tan

M3928. Comes to a standstill

M3929. Puppy recipient of 2008

M3930. “…came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…___ all out of bubblegum!”

M3931. Degree div.

M3932. Figs. on checks

M3933. Mobile peep

M3934. Line-___ veto

M3935. Cause dander to rise

M3936. Small specimen

M3937. Quick scissor cuts

M3938. Title for an earl or baron (abbr.)

M3939. Important Olympian Jesse

M3940. Phar-___ (drugstore chain)

M3941. Vital supply in war

M3942. Record-breaking horse

M3943. Shock jock in a cowboy hat

M3944. Should, or so they tell me

M3946. Get on top of

M3947. Year China completed its largest pagoda ever

M3951. You, overseas

M3952. “So long,” for short

M3953. 3-wood, in the old days

M3955. Gator-filled water

M3956. ___ White Season (1989)

M3957. Internal Affairs actor

M3958. More than inquire

M3959. “Unless ___ my guess…”

M3960. “___schönen tag noch”

M3961. Likeable loser

M3962. Increases, as a price

M3963. “Along with” prefix

M3964. Uncle Remus honorific (not “Uncle”)

M3965. “My body’s achin’ and my time ___ hand” (James Taylor lyric)

M3966. Chaney, Jr. and Sr.

M3967. Noted 500

M3968. Exec perk, perhaps

M3969. Employee of SHIELD

M3970. Ostracized one in the Bible

M3971. Doesn’t enjoy

M3972. Banker’s abbr.

M3973. Bread served with gobhi aloo

M3974. “For ___ be Queen o’ the May” (Tennyson)

M3975. “They threw away the ___ when they made HER!”

M3976. “___ Mine” (Beatles song)

M3977. Big name in optics

M3978. Be subsequent

M3979. Certain proofs of purchase

M3980. Henry VI character

M3981. ., in early communications

M3982. “No way, Jose”

M3983. Button that turns a red light on, often

M3986. 1929’s Street Girl was its first official production

M3990. German pronoun

M3991. Animal you might see playing with a beach ball

M3992. Some college workers (abbr.)

M3993. NYC attraction for aesthetes

M3994. Pt. of ER or EMT

M3995. Turned to the right

M3996. Other personalities in MPD

M3997. “Find ___ station near me” (common search)

M4000. Nocturnal monster in video games and Robert Louis Stevenson writings

M4002. Blair, Major, etc.

M4007. Way to serve vegetables

M4009. Swinger’s direction

M4010. www.pgatour.com, for instance

M4011. Teachers’ org.

M4013. Prefix with footprint

M4015. Pelt along

M4017. Southern school where Oscar-winning composer Bill Conti went (abbr.)

M4019. Cousin of equi-

M4021. Atlanta sch.

M4023. Bit of land in a river

M4024. “Maid of Athens, ___ we part…”

M4025. ___ de veau

Across Stitches

M183-N160. Engine’s protection device

M350-N327. Equal in quantity to

M694-N634. Tuesdays with Morrie author

M1010-N921. Fluid type in pregnancy

M1426-N1287. Colossal cephalopods

M1667-N1472. Ditty given a macabre twist in 2001

M1998-N1738. Restaurants where I had several dates

M2311-N2002. Auto artisan

M2630-N2267. Reusable drinking vessel

M2920-N2510. Finger that becomes a Hollywood star?

M2959-N2541. Soundtrack released through Queen's old label?

M3271-N2826. Rainbows sometimes on the street

M3600-N3123. Complaining when behind the eightball, say

M3893-N3398. He has the most career passing yards of any Giants player

Down Stitches

M4007-R5. Where to find lemon wedges, cocktail sauce, and mignonette

M3919-R8. Isn’t free

M3928-R15. With “of,” hits the brakes before

M3937-R21. “Sound” of quick, punchy dialogue

M3946-R29. Highest point in Canada

M3994-R36. Heroes of K.A. Riley’s young-adult novels

M3879-R39. Leave emotional baggage behind

M3905-R42. Doesn’t come right out and say it

M3953-R48. Like an anemic’s fingernails

M3959-R54. “Come back soon”

M3969-R62. It’s often around 10-15%

M4025-R68. Putting on the line

M3914-R75. Snow cone alternative