Ubercross Abecedaria M
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. 
MDirector of the funniest Ghostbusters, there,
I said it, come at me, haters
M
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. Suffix for a native
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