Ubercross Abecedaria S
Across
S1. In vain
S5. American Bandstand and New Year’s host of many years
S10. Big enchilada
S14. There are four in a deck of cards
S18. Turn to mush
S22. ___ pat of butter on
S26. Store-bought neurotransmitters
S31. Carry, as something heavy
S35. Add this to “Bat” to get Batman’s
sidekick’s old profession
S39. Half a handball match
S43. Bonnie Raitt album Luck of the ___
S47. In ___: booooored
S51. Burst (with)
S52. In comparable shape
S57. Six-Day War peninsula
S58. Org. with Danielle Collins, Madison
Keys, Claire Liu, Alycia Parks, Jessica Pegula and Shelby Rogers
S61. “Thank U, Next” singer Grande
S64. Begin step by step
S68. “Hangin’ Around with You” lyricist
S75. Shetland sweater style
S79. Orbital vertices
S81. Slips away
S84. Ancient beverage of fermented honey
S88. Hothouse collection
S90. E-ddress symbols
S93. Sluggish
S94. Video game avatars
S98. You could use it to play scales at La
Scala
S99. Haydn and Biden, e.g.
S102. Green lights
S105. Like some Carvel ice cream
S109. Comedian André
S110. Part 1 of instructions
S114. Instructions, part 2
S115. Instructions, part 3
S116. Instructions, part 4
S117. Instructions, part 5
S119. Instructions, part 6 (continued near
the bottom)
S125. Disowns
S128. First section to get airline
pretzels, usually
S129. Youskevitch of ballet
S130. Poirot’s epithet
S132. Line of Swanson meals
S133. With the most fight in her
S135. Lorgnette’s relative
S137. Oxford final
S139. Clouds the mind of
S141. She likes things pretty
S142. Juice suppliers
S144. Soap writer hatches a plot about an
Iranian coin?
S145. Bothers
S146. Guide to a website
S148. Anakin’s last words as Anakin
S150. TV ally of Hercules
S151. McSorley’s product
S154. Lateen or jib
S155. Napoleon or Holy Roman (abbr.)
S156. Advancement aid
S157. Tried out with
S159. “Can’t hit the broad side of ___!”
S160. Great Barrier Island
S163. Brown shade
S164. 1960s United Nations leader
S166. Goal for many a HS dropout
S167. Perfect
S168. Makes seawater potable
S169. Material in shopping carts, barbed wire, and
nails
S170. “10-4!”
S171. Sweet wines
S172. Word with a meaning about which many
people are puzzled: it means “puzzles”
S173. New Hampshire town on a lake
S174. Film the rehearsals on Dancing
With the Stars
S175. Disreputable, slangily
S177. Cause to go
S179. Sign of an idea?
S181. Blue-green alga
S184. Buckminster Fuller structures
S186. They cross the blind
S188. Bigger pic (abbr.)
S189. Corrida rah
S190. YouTube genre [whispers] heard
like this
S192. Securely fixed in place
S194. Handles OK
S195. Horizon, to a skipper
S196. Reasons for a cap screw? (abbr.)
S197. Give up
S198. Youngest French Open champ
S200. Pensioner’s status (abbr.)
S201. Score a point in wrestling
S202. Selfie, e.g.
S203. Simple signatures
S205. The Great Depression or the Great
Recession
S206. Like a fly-by-night vendor’s wares
S207. Pro who works with Nurse Jackie
S209. Greek goddess with a month named for
her
S211. The street where elles live
S212. Conclude, with up
S214. ___ in years (age)
S216. Address akin to monsieur
S217. Where to see trots and slots
S219. Aren’t any more
S220. “Fire and Desire” singer Marie
S221. Forgets to put in
S226. Going wild for an extended period
S233. Part of iOS (abbr.)
S234. Forehead-nose-chin region
S235. Once-descriptive term for online
hookups; nowadays, most hookups implicitly
S237. Petco brand
S238. In its defense, this insurance co.
did repay the gov’t its bailout money
S239. Form check box option
S240. Sticky bug trap
S244. Goes to a warmer place, perhaps
S246. Say, “Come here, it’s okay, no one’s
gonna hurt you,” e.g.
S248. Assailed aurally
S251. Doberman command
S253. “___ creature was stirring...”
S255. Reason for action
S256. They gave you a nine-digit ID
S257. Schwann cells, e.g.
S261. Bones main character’s real first name
S266. As the light fades
S268. Convenient breakfast fare
S273. Forged licenses, e.g.
S280. Fleet, Wall, etc. (abbr.)
S281. Sweetsop
S283. WWIII-averting program revived in
2019
S284. Atlas stats
S285. Drinks like a kitten
S286. ___ diem (feature of regular full- or part-time
work)
S288. Villainess in The Little Mermaid
S290. Alternate name for a Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan body
of water
S292. “Go on now!”
S294. Cut away
S296. “All in favor, say aye” procedures
S298. Reposting to a million followers, e.g.
S305. At full speed, in poesy
S306. Dept. of Educ. concern
S307. Formal phone call response
S308. “I’ve Just ___ Face” (Beatles song)
S309. Chowderheads
S312. “I’m sorry?” interjections
S315. Synesthetic experience
S317. Tahoe or Sequoia
S318. Ben & Jerry’s receptacle
S319. Spot for system-restoration files
S320. Are recognized
S322. “Shoot to Thrill” singers
S323. Really book it
S326. Superstitions
S328. “PLAY THIS AT FULL VOLUME!!!1!”
S331. Unpracticed pioneer
S332. It has a sweet smell
S334. Answers on Jeopardy?
S336. Former draft gp.
S337. Hazardous sacrament in COVID times
S340. Formal order recipient
S346. Makes some calculations
S349. 2004-2006 CIA director Porter ___
S350. Words with “TV” in an old NBC slogan
S351. ð
S352. Absolute worst, with “the”
S354. De falsis ___: Sermon “On False Gods”
S356. Clutches
S358. Recruit by force
S359. Penguin who shares a name with an
Antarctic coast
S362. Treatment plant input
S363. Have a nostalgic feeling
S365. City in Syria
S366. Got out of the saddle
S367. Where Oscar Wilde was in 1896
S368. Drag-racing org.
S369. Fix with the aid of a time machine,
say
S370. Headliner for over a decade with the
Yankees
S371. “___ didn’t!” (player’s plea to a
ref)
S372. Shoulder decorations
S373. Auto performance brand
S376. Scent or substance
S377. Electrolytic particles
S378. Paper prepped for smoking
S379. Pronounced kind
of distance
S382. Pkg. no.
S384. Promulgates
S385. Create a new home, in a way
S387. Doesn’t flunk
S391. Affects one directly
S394. “Mr. Mojo ___” (repeated words in The
Doors’ “LA Woman”
S395. Notorious nose candy
S396. Land of Brian Boru
S397. TMZ’s stock-in-trade
S399. Light ___ under: motivate
S401. Chest test’s printout, briefly
S403. Rain repeller
S405. Miss ___ (ruin the rhythm)
S406. Best on stage, say
S410. Pulitzer Prize novelist Toni
S412. Get out of the way of, well in advance
S413. Near, poetically
S415. Freshness
S417. It may be warped
S419. Afternoon prayer, in Islam
S420. Playground gear
S422. Preferential plane seating
S425. Move in an almost liquid fashion
S428. 1950s invention featured prominently
in the 1960 film ‘The Apartment’
S429. Like wet cement
S430. ___-war
S431. Some Brit Lit readings
S432. Gather through litigation
S433. Tabulae ___: clean slates
S434. Important point in a financial calendar
S436. Singer Lehmann or Lenya
S437. Bass drum
S441. Agreeable words
S442. Full of innocent wonder
S443. Sagan’s science series
S445. Move nomadically
S447. One concerned with feet and rhythm
S449. Lidocaine brand
S451. Score direction
S453. Ludwig Mies van der ___
S455. Goddess invoked in the war of the
Seven against Thebes
S456. Observing Yom Kippur, say
S457. Autos since 1989
S458. Complete stranger
S459. Alliance’s need
S460. Legislation that makes everyone
breathe easier
S461. ×
S463. Enter quickly
S466. Olympic no-nos
S468. Alien race in Avatar
S469. College admissions exam
S470. “Text u again in a bit!”
S472. Nonprofits’ ads, e.g. (abbr.)
S474. Class that covers Reconstruction and
Prohibition
S477. Emcee’s concluding segue
S479. Huang He tributary
S481. Hammered powerfully
S483. Australian state briefly
S484. “Will this be adequate?”
S490. Protestant pastor
S496. International relations smoothers
S498. In need of paving, maybe
S499. Summer and fall mo.
S500. Cantillates
S503. Show mercy toward
S504. 1980s “Ladies” singer
S505. Busy season worker
S507. Chart toppers
S510. Buffalo-hide domiciles
S511. Salary hike
S513. Muscle shirt, e.g.
S515. Sable maker, for short
S519. Castle Rock Entertainment logo
S523. Body’s bullseyes
S525. Leo Getz portrayer in the Lethal
Weapon sequels
S530. Turn into lumber
S533. Voice disapproval of
S534. Militarily fit
S535. Condescending front
S536. Pesky things
S539. Slumbered noisily
S541. 1917 marked their end
S543. Rama’s wife
S544. Star Trek role, John-___Picard
S545. “Love,” most likely
S546. Ability to pick up songs easily
S548. The Nazis, Henry Ford, and a
depressing number of early 20th-century figures, if you do enough research into
it
S551. Krazy Kartoon Karacter
S554. Chicago columnist Mike
S555. Convenience
S556. Zip, nada, nil
S557. “Yon Cassius has ___ and hungry look”
(Julius Caesar)
S558. Home theater component
S562. 160-char. message
S563. Sports cars seen in Kill Bill and Xbox and
PlayStation games
S565. Moment in time, in astronomy
S566. Some Japanese-Americans
S568. Unfashionable
S573. Belgian seaport
S575. Shows a modest decline
S577. File-renaming command, at times
S579. Musketeer played by Charlie Sheen
S580. Hiding places for tommy-guns, in the Roaring
Twenties
S583. Come up again
S586. Situation right after a leadoff
double
S587. Put some teeth into
S588. German wives
S589. “Took a ___ the worse”
S590. Movers and shakers
S591. Gothic novelist Victoria
S592. Words on a package’s mailing label
S596. Gold-and-ivory Olympian
S598. Vigorous clash, in West Virginia
S599. Place alone
S601. Line judge’s call
S603. Has a nice little meal
S605. Like an optimist’s point of view
S606. Indicate ominously
S608. Ultimate, informally
S609. Sure things
S612. Passed on
S613. “Well, of course I don’t resent
attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but ___ does resent them” (FDR)
S615. Prelim. remarks
S617. Was in contact (with)
S619. Jamaican fare
S622. Big kitchen investments
S629. Traps in a tangle
S630. Bluefin alternative
S631. Chummy couple?
S632. When the kids’ school year ends
S635. Uses as a roost
S637. Fries in a bit of butter, e.g.
S639. City named for a French king
S640. Chicago’s “in the Park” time
S641. Uses for all it’s worth
S645. Mixed martial artist Ronda
S647. 16-season NHLer Fleury
S648. Showy funnel-shaped growths
S649. With heels elevated, in ballet
S650. Copies of legal petitions
S651. Goo-yielding plants
S652. Disadvantaged, or given an advantage
S656. Drink for Shakespeare with not much alcohol
content
S658. “Help ___ hand!”
S659. Member of House Stark
S660. Burj Khalifa’s country (abbr.)
S661. Assn. or org.
S662. Bout of barhopping
S664. Savors the Grand Marnier
S665. Its members are in order
S667. Beyond that
S668. Tableware storage area
S670. Ascend
S671. Get hung up (on)
S672. Letters before an email summary
S673. Talk about without naming
S674. Domingo, notably
S675. Adjective for an antique store
S676. Pricier Redbox format
S678. Something curated by a bard
S682. Ache or pain, e.g.
S684. Self-defense, for one
S685. Some Isle of Man residents
S687. Nonspeaking part in Antony and
Cleopatra
S689. Sends up en masse
S691. Intergalactic bridge worker
S692. SUV part (abbr.)
S693. Loading places
S694. Microbial cleaner
S697. Bakery item from Austria
S700. What some hoods cop
S701. Bandicoots
S702. Hero cop Eliot
S703. Big breakfast?
S704. Saying nothing
S706. Not micromanaging
S710. “True”
S714. Bible-based msg.
S715. Separates out
S716. Rapper Rhymes
S718. Emulates the Titanic
S719. Thinks vile
S721. Mammoth growths
S722. A Prairie Home Companion state
S724. In happy observance
S726. ___ got
S729. Ballroom dances
S735. Creatures
S740. Edinburgh “Uh-uh”
S741. Apostle born in present-day Turkey
S744. Fast Spanish dance
S747. Mary’s husband
S748. Sculpted trunks
S750. Matched precisely
S752. Produce eggs
S753. Badger’s home
S754. Point for Pirates
S755. Drops in the standings, perhaps
S756. One who paddles
S757. Actor Dullea of 2001 films
S759. Make a faulty sight
S760. Cowboy’s gun maker?
S767. Similarly simple
S768. Black man and single biggest sitcom
star of the 1980s [yes, I know, I know, but this fact shouldn’t be
forgotten]
S773. What walls might hide
S778. Popular stuffing recipe
S781. 1980s audiophile’s treasure
S784. Train for a match
S785. Like Szechuan cuisine
S787. Monthly check sender, for many
(abbr.)
S790. Start of a famous soliloquy
S791. Distress calls
S793. Walked showily
S795. In bad shape
S796. Sailors
S798. Modern sort of Noah’s Ark
S800. The Hulk and Thor can lift one
hundred of them, officially (abbr.)
S803. Encourage optimism
S804. Kramden’s namesakes
S805. “The show must go on” attitude
S807. Tan shade
S811. One of the only twelve-letter words
that typists can produce with just the left hand on a standard keyboard
S814. Introduced, as hardware
S817. Mrs., in Mexico
S818. Poor Yorick lead-in
S819. Practicing mixed-sex education
S820. Like ___ of salts: quickly
S822. Court team
S823. “Scots Wha ___” (Burns)
S824. Chats online with, briefly
S825. None too quick on the uptake
S826. Put one’s money where one’s mouth is
S827. 1912 Nobelist Root
S829. Go for ___: get some morning air
S830. Warning to Fred and Velma
S833. Relatives that get a bad rap in fairy tales
S835. Ancient year
S837. Brain part that “sees” and “hears”
S838. Where you might put intended gift recipients
S843. Pushed into one’s mind
S846. Builder of air castles
S848. Armored fish dating back to the
Jurassic
S849. Corp. source for new material
S850. “___ in xylophone”
S851. Half-___: just barely does
S853. Rebooted Ford vehicle released in
1995
S855. A dispersive one is commonly
triangular
S856. Clubs with heavy bass
S859. Tiniest amount
S861. Process
S864. Seven-time NFL Pro Bowler Warren
S865. Marker on a green
S869. Has emerged unscathed
S870. Draft ponies
S871. Share premium
S877. Winding complexity
S879. Influences behind the scenes
S880. Sea yea
S882. Butler in Auntie Mame
S883. Duty for a docent
S884. DeLuise of Blazing Saddles and
The Cannonball Run
S885. British military decorations
S886. March reasons
S887. Painfully shy
S889. Like well-pitched baseball games
S890. The Met, e.g.
S891. Bellowing a growl
S896. Tom Hanks kid-as-adult comedy
S897. US News’ “best US city to live” 2017-2019
S899. Ready to fall over
S905. Singer King Cole
S906. Title planet in a 2001 Kevin Spacey
movie
S907. Illusion seen when flying between
cloud layers
S911. Some shifts
S913. Casual okay
S914. Emotional effervescence
S915. Scale topper, perhaps
S917. Older radios
S919. They, in Calais
S920. Minsk moolah
S922. In place of
S923. Zap, in a way
S924. Overcharge
S927. TV Tarzan portrayer
S928. Digital ___ (high-tech camera,
informally)
S929. Scoreboard trio
S930. Proceeds
S932. Cohort of Fagin
S933. Low draw
S934. Guy’s guy friend
S935. Tax form no.
S936. Ford innovation
S940. Perfect Sleepers, e.g.
S942. Figure (out), in slang
S946. Place with files
S948. “Under Chuck Norris’ beard, there is another ___”
S949. TV series about Oceanic Flight 815
S951. Boxers seek them
S952. Instruction to a woman in labor
S956. Earlier than when we thought Christ
was born
S957. Liver or thyroid
S958. VW hatchback
S959. Fi’s leader?
S960. Audibly astonished
S964. “My previous comment was not for the record”
S967. “___ the weather?”
S971. Uses effectively
S972. ___ at Tib, Tunisian peninsula
S973. Italian direction
S975. More than fills
S976. Youth-oriented Conde Nast publication
S980. Brown photo pigment
S982. Dodger great ___ Wee Reese
S983. “Hey, I’ve got a secret…”
S984. Splash about
S985. “Boss of Me” and “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
S987. “…fairest ___ daughters Eve” (Milton)
S988. Bridge
S989. 2001 nutjob
S990. “And this affects me…how?”
S992. Orange exteriors
S993. Foolishness
S994. Paper that gives out a Book Prize,
for short
S995. Constantine was one
S998. Wind, over time, e.g.
S999. Tulsa resident
S1004. Read Across America sponsor (abbr.)
S1005. Russia’s is the largest in the world
S1007. One in the family
S1010. “Oops!,” from a shooter
S1012. Not even cracked
S1016. Affirm
S1019. Cruise stops, often
S1021. Calgary-to-Moose Jaw dir.
S1022. Assigned tasks
S1023. More than fubsy
S1024. Gyro wrappers
S1025. They look better when they’re on the mink and
seal
S1026. Karen of the House
S1027. Klingons and Vulcans
S1029. Just say no
S1030. Cal. units
S1031. Portuguese wine
S1032. Takes a big loss
S1035. A few (abbr.)
S1036. Cyberstore
S1037. Some contraception choices, for short
S1038. Portraitists’ buys
S1039. Cousin of shouldn’t
S1041. Trouble for seeing
S1044. Negotiate
S1045. Dalai Lama’s traditional gift to
foreign diplomats
S1047. Political party acting more like an apocalyptic
cult at this point
S1048. B, C, or F, but not A, D, or E
S1049. Gift from Prometheus
S1050. Lancelot’s was Sir
S1051. 2001 Robert Rodriguez film
S1054. Baby bouncer?
S1055. Channel for Jeremy Vine
S1056. Captive of the sea nymph Calypso
S1058. “Now, ___ you…”
S1059. One Piece character named for boat propulsion
S1060. Barely make (with “out”)
S1061. Unease
S1063. Swedish soprano Birgit
S1067. Valley flowers
S1068. ___Cruces, New Mexico
S1069. Make clear
S1072. Oriente
S1073. Literature
S1074. Choice marble
S1077. Lighting the Olympic flame, e.g.
S1079. Moll Flanders author
S1080. Springsteen’s birthplace?
S1081. Octopuses’ cousins
S1083. Scribe god
S1086. Sound of Music song named for a flower
S1092. Omega preceders
S1094. “You recognize our voices, right?”
S1096. Squirmy animal
S1097. Bits of fiction
S1098. Big busyness
S1099. Unresolved
S1101. CA time
S1102. “If ___ Would Leave You” (Camelot
song)
S1104. Matched group
S1105. Evening greeting in Grenoble
S1108. Spams’ alternatives
S1111. Like barely broiled meat
S1112. Directing a crew
S1113. English city where Guy Fawkes was
born
S1114. It was 92 in my day
S1116. Robert Langdon’s field in The Da
Vinci Code
S1121. Like Charlie Chan
S1122. Concerns about possible betrayal
S1127. Gore-Tex garments
S1134. Masterful musician
S1138. Business or coach
S1140. Baby carrier brand with an
apt-sounding name
S1142. Premier alternative
S1146. “___ know that!” (self-owning
dis)
S1148. Chemical suffix that’s also a city
S1150. Lightly brand
S1151. Creep out
S1152. Separation of church and church?
S1155. Architectural fronts
S1156. What Dec. 16 is the “Day of,” since
1995, in South Africa
S1162. Shrinks to a point onscreen
S1163. Three-note transcription
S1164. Unholy?
S1165. Practically at once
S1166. Equip with poison
S1167. “I pray you’re right!”
S1172. Air conditioner coolant
S1173. Hippie gatherings
S1175. Mil. Leader
S1177. Court plea, informally
S1179. Portraitist Alice
S1180. Where you might find a toga party?
S1181. Target deity of child sacrifice
S1182. Maintenance job for a plumber
S1183. Reply from Joe Friday
S1184. Famed chin of late-night TV
S1185. Trent Reznor’s band, in shorthand
S1186. Skating legend Henie
S1187. “Do you mind…?”
S1189. Pulls answers from imagination rather than pure
reason and evidence
S1192. Arrived at by boat
S1193. Installed anew, as a carpet
S1194. Cargo weights
S1195. America’s best-known inventor
S1196. Broadcast network originally known as
Pax
S1197. Zeno and Chrysippus, for two
S1198. Member of a 1969 MLB expansion team
S1200. ___ de acuerdo: to agree
S1202. Tkt. office locale
S1203. These guys, in Ibiza
S1204. Gaming critic Sarkeesian who faced
multiple bomb threats
S1205. Poultry shelters
S1209. Farthest toward the sunset
S1212. She “gave her mother forty whacks,” according to
the poem
S1214. Con’s opening
S1216. In a few
S1217. Purity
S1218. Rackstraw’s colleagues
S1219. Part of some costumes
S1221. Orange bow filler?
S1222. Porgs’ predecessors
S1223. Money-making business
S1224. Georgia, e.g.
S1225. Large scale
S1226. Little mouthless breather
S1227. Without change
S1229. Manipulated
S1232. NYC’s first subway
S1233. Expertly done
S1234. Over there, down on the farm
S1235. Mulling sound
S1236. “Let’s get pretending!”
S1237. Start of a marathon
S1238. Hang time
S1240. Order to a four-legged friend
S1241. Noninvasive med. tests
S1242. Evaluate aspects in depth
S1246. Cost-of-living measure
S1247. Hang around in a public place
S1248. Puzzle resembling Tetris
S1249. Suspend
S1250. ___-Globe: paperweight
S1251. Fixed a tax base (abbr.)
S1252. Canadian chowderhead
S1253. Women-only liberal-arts school
affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania
S1255. Particular
S1257. “Haven’t the foggiest”
S1258. First three stops?
S1259. Blood drive quantity
S1261. Old boyfriend?
S1262. Sociopathic d-bag
S1263. Hue used as a base in printing
S1265. Movie format
S1267. Like the day of the winter solstice
S1272. Like some unwanted truths
S1277. Orly evening
S1278. High-level etiquette
S1280. Dead-___ (they love lost causes)
S1281. NHL postscripts
S1282. Made up (of)
S1285. Hula wreath
S1286. It’s been a democracy since 1994, for short
S1288. Gets at it
S1290. Alaskan gold mining city
S1292. ʃ
S1293. Not of the cloth
S1295. Salacious stories
S1298. Easels, e.g.
S1300. Cover with shadows
S1303. Cry from Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre
Dame
S1307. Nonflammable fibrous mineral
S1309. Billings or Golden
S1310. Suckling site
S1312. Some feints
S1314. City in Russia
S1315. Triply misnamed political entity
(abbr.)
S1316. Billycock, e.g.
S1317. Seat, in slang
S1320. MPAA pt.
S1321. Marketing mantra
S1327. “___ Like the Wind” (Patrick Swayze
hit)
S1328. Half of OutKast
S1330. Short runner?
S1331. Approximating words
S1332. Converts to bone
S1333. Dan Rather’s signoff catchphrase
S1334. They were entitled to every “third
penny” from their shires
S1335. “Know That You Are Loved” singer Sol
S1336. She plagues ladies’ lips with
blisters, per Mercutio
S1338. Stays to the end
S1339. Uncloses, in verse
S1340. Mandatory
S1342. ___ Fideles (“O Come, All Ye Faithful”)
S1344. Poker table sight
S1348. “Woo-___!”
S1349. Towel wielder
S1352. Cute yellow character voiced by Ryan
Reynolds (May 2019)
S1354. Tissue abnormality
S1355. Bid first
S1356. What keeps drones steady
S1359. Keurig alternative
S1362. Hot Pontiacs
S1363. Your first hard day on the job,
metaphorically
S1364. Pros’ cams
S1365. Elevator for a Titleist
S1366. In a mood to complain
S1369. Cat named for its native isle
S1370. In a flutter
S1372. Red-and-white outfits rarely in small or medium
S1374. So-media communications we used to
care a lot about
S1375. Indians and Indonesians
S1380. Cromwell’s earldom
S1381. ___ Ranger
S1382. Moves a finger, in a way
S1383. No liability
S1384. Sickle-cell is one type of it
S1385. Bar lineup
S1390. Glass, to Galba
S1391. Silent-cinema organist Baga
S1392. Ancient king of Persia
S1394. Directional abbr.
S1395. Hoops hoops
S1397. Actor Beatty of Charlie Wilson’s
War
S1398. ___ gaw mein (Chinese dish)
S1399. “You’re through here, clean out your
___”
S1400. Charge against an account
S1401. Notoriously tear-jerking director Frank
S1403. Inspiration for stage productions
S1406. It has lots of household items
S1408. Word that’d be its own synonym
without the letter S
S1409. Fad collectibles of the ‘90s
S1410. Supporter
S1411. Arranges by category
S1412. Pull out of bed
S1413. Believers in a clockwork universe set
in motion by the divine
S1414. Bygone NFLer
S1415. Great white ___
S1416. Poetic “over there”
S1417. Carrier with a five-point harness, in Hampshire
S1418. Scores made by WRs and RBs
S1420. Johnny who played Edward Scissorhands
S1423. Grade-school book
S1426. Loud rumble?
S1429. The same amount
S1431. Gun type
S1432. Like a really bad check
S1433. Art in an annual report
S1434. Retweet, essentially
S1437. Kevin Bacon film about psychic links
S1440. Sandman character perpetually murdered by
his brother
S1441. Nose expert
S1443. Sweets
S1445. Santa’s laughter
S1447. Scowling upon
S1448. Taint
S1450. Texters’ “OKs”
S1451. ___ fart
S1452. Groupings
S1454. Birmingham band, briefly
S1455. Wolf down
S1456. She-bears, south of the border
S1457. De ___ (overdone)
S1458. Whence dreams may come
S1463. Mil. weapons
S1464. What a good dancer may cut
S1465. Top-heavy toon villain in a sailor
hat
S1466. Vaudeville performance, e.g.
S1469. Leave the back way, perhaps
S1471. Good ones are 12% for a card and 3.5%
for a house
S1472. Partially mine
S1473. ___ tấm (Vietnamese dish)
S1474. Heroic deeds
S1478. Vowels or whirlwinds
S1480. Penultimate OT book
S1482. Slug relatives
S1483. Descartes’ donkey
S1484. Flood tide
S1486. Marsh pink
S1488. Hawaii, before 1959 (abbr.)
S1489. Boo targets, sometimes
S1490. Food chain
S1491. Giving group
S1492. Late July delivery
S1493. Some sodas, familiarly
S1494. Star Trek II: The ___ of Khan
S1495. One who leaves too many things out
S1496. Rectory figures
S1500. Couch therapy
S1505. Tousle affectionately
S1506. Fishing lines or upholstery trimming
S1508. Elegantly groomed
S1509. Emancipates
S1512. Talkth like thith
S1515. Noted Jessica Simpson wear
S1518. Satisfies, as thirst
S1520. Old-fashioned denial
S1521. Amazed shock
S1522. The US’s is currently about $27 trillion
S1524. Genius Mixes program
S1526. Letters following mus
S1527. Armpit-related
S1528. Bounce playfully
S1530. Ostracizes
S1531. Vatican name that feels like it’s
missing an “o”
S1532. Is unable to tolerate
S1536. Temporary body art available at many body shops
S1537. Suffix with final or fatal
S1538. Motorist’s organization, familiarly
S1540. English teacher’s concern
S1541. Siouan speaker
S1542. Zero, to Manchester United
S1544. Tears off its hinges, maybe
S1546. Virtual person in video games
S1547. One tripping over his own feet
S1549. Building managers
S1551. Charred the surface of
S1553. Dissertation
S1554. Builder of kid’s TV
S1555. Sorts of diadems
S1557. “Yay ___!”
S1558. Valdez and Marichal
S1559. Historical figure portrayed in Quills
S1560. Google or Word file
S1561. They stick out conspicuously
S1565. Arrive feet first
S1566. Oracle hub?
S1568. Choral sixes
S1570. Bacall, to Bogart, at times
S1571. Bar in a brown wrapper
S1577. Fatigue
S1578. Israeli president Weizman
S1580. Tom & ___ (1994 movie)
S1582. Lists of people
S1583. If they could speak, the females
would say to the males, “Nice rack”
S1584. Forward part of the Pinta
S1585. High-tech detectors
S1587. With no emotion but distant contempt, as a stare
S1588. Upholstered item
S1589. “We’ll follow saints and angels
all/And come ___ our King” (Jupiter Hammon)
S1590. Dropped items people pick up and put
back in their mouths
S1591. It can be slipped or flung
S1592. John Malkovich horse movie
S1593. Sign of things to come?
S1596. Law and order gps.
S1597. “Ooh! There!”
S1598. Angel in Vegas
S1599. Friend of Jar Jar
S1603. Ceremonies near the end?
S1604. Ms. enclosures
S1605. Drink with an extended pinkie
S1606. Conference-related
S1609. “Hop ___!” (“get going!”)
S1610. One side of a coin (abbr.)
S1612. Work with lace
S1614. Suffix for a resident of Capri (and
like one or two other places)
S1615. Voy’s meaning
S1616. Specialist teams in academics, for
short
S1618. Its fights take place in The Octagon
S1620. Model seen in National Lampoon’s Vacation
S1622. It may go to blazes
S1623. Like many a Texas ranch
S1624. Sounds at the Amazon deliverywoman’s
approach
S1625. Home to the world’s oldest university
S1626. Ellice island
S1627. ___ of the Navy: US rank so high it’s
only been given once (abbr.)
S1630. Deviltry
S1631. “All, except their sun, ___” (Lord Byron)
S1632. Alternatives to reds and whites
S1633. Requires skill
S1637. No child
S1638. Six hours behind Greenwich Mean, for
short
S1639. Lose crispiness
S1641. Cold War state (abbr.)
S1642. Dream state
S1644. “___ a boy!”
S1645. Way to organize publications
S1647. ___ squared (geometric formula)
S1648. Throw in the direction of
S1650. Comment to one trying on clothes
S1653. Try something
S1655. Elevator cages
S1656. Old geologic period named for flowers
S1657. ___ Deucey: In-between
S1658. Expresses reverence
S1660. Aparacio who stole 506 career bases
S1662. Teaching degree, or did something
that should disqualify one from a teaching degree
S1666. Satire mag of old
S1667. Swillpot
S1668. Bands appearing after split-ups?
S1669. Vindictive Tyler Perry character
S1670. “___ hoppen?!”
S1671. “…grace of God, ___”
S1674. Goes without saying
S1678. Start of some picture books
S1680. Takes care
S1682. “___ Boy” (Tommy song)
S1683. Weapon to waste some dirty rats, see?
S1685. Area within
S1687. Three phases of getting manga ready for
English-speaking audiences, for short
S1688. Jaden role in The Karate Kid
S1689. Letters from the family?
S1691. Nexus 7 rival
S1692. Q-U separator
S1693. Call off
S1694. Torah containers
S1695. Keeping food warm, as an oven
S1696. Word that brings a smile?
S1698. Modern speed-detection system
S1700. Unshackles
S1705. TD figs.
S1706. Abolitionist Tubman
S1707. ___ wrestling (rodeo event)
S1708. Nightfall, poetically
S1709. Environs
S1712. Buccaneer’s plunder (abbr.)
S1713. Sidewalk stand suffix
S1714. Seamstress’s creation
S1715. Evine and QVC rival
S1716. Stilbene-free cleaning products
S1717. Chewing addiction, for some
S1718. Old-time car
S1719. Judicial ruling
S1722. Chemical warfare agent
S1724. Make ___-ditch effort
S1725. Record player nos.
S1726. Cannes coterie
S1727. Orator’s pedestal
S1728. Kurosawa of film
S1729. Simple and carefree
S1732. ER network, once
S1735. Guyliner wearer’s genre
S1736. Compass letters
S1738. Common V.A. malady
S1739. What used to be blamed for a faint
S1740. Rock legend Snider who spoke to
Congress
S1741. Mother of Wynonna and Ashley
S1744. Acted like
S1746. Used to catch food scraps
S1748. Singers on Pandora
S1750. Tyrant who arbitrarily rewrites half
my clues or genius like me saving dumb writers from themselves, depending on
which job I’m doing at the time
S1752. “Don’t you agree?,” in British lingo
S1755. Party crashers, e.g.
S1757. Plant with trumpet-shaped flowers
S1758. Sinise CBS series
S1759. Full of melting snow
S1760. “___ Really Goin’ Out With Him?”
S1762. Stupid or unconscious
S1764. UN agcy. for working people
S1765. Off-roader
S1768. SNL-based movie playing with gender identity in the 1990s
S1771. Milky Way radio
S1773. Talks
S1774. Omaha-to-Miami dir.
S1775. “How many guest [__] __ the party?”
S1776. Dig new furrows
S1778. Postal beats, briefly
S1780. From then
S1781. Jersey’s official flower
S1782. Emulates a scryer
S1786. Big part of the New World
S1788. Minnesota Fats stroke
S1789. Dizzying museum pieces
S1790. Holds, as a Hummer
S1791. “The thing of ___…”
S1792. District 12’s competitor
S1793. Theoretician Planck
S1794. Unknown influence
S1799. Pageant owned by Donald Trump until
2015
S1801. Acquired things?
S1806. XXIX × XIX
S1807. Home of the first UN secretary
general
S1809. Modern channel changer
S1810. More dismal, Britishly
S1811. It’s split
S1812. Neighbors of the sopranos, perhaps
S1813. “Too rich for my blood”
S1814. “Not only that…”
S1815. Nary a bit
S1819. Commanders in chief
S1821. Retort to “You can’t!”
S1822. Shows shock
S1823. “I can also ___ impression of a
toaster” (Google Home joke)
S1824. Meal, in Milan
S1825. Platform for some tablets
S1826. Info sent to inspire coverage of what’s happened
S1830. Unties
S1832. “Quiet, kitty!”
S1833. Hunt of Mad About You
S1835. “60 minuti”
S1837. Palindromic pitcher Robb (whose last
name isn’t “Bor”)
S1838. “Lion Heart” singer, to fans
S1839. Football Night in America co-host Patrick
S1841. Goes steady with
S1843. Richie Cunningham’s love
S1844. Some cheap beers (init.)
S1845. Like ogres, they have layers
S1847. Bartenders often hear them
S1851. “One Hand In My Pocket” singer known
for one-take recordings
S1853. Schools of religio
S1854. Ferrigno and Costello
S1855. Likely to wear a beret
S1856. Weed-whacker alternatives
S1858. Decides one should
S1860. About the height
S1862. Scoreless tie
S1863. What you may do, after I cleverly help you out
S1864. Cheaters
S1868. Mini-albums, informally
S1870. Lenore’s creator
S1872. Hitch in the best-laid plans
S1874. It’s not like he MEANT to do it,
Freud! In fact, he blinded himself once he realized he had
S1876. Some sunbathers
S1877. Karl or Harpo
S1879. Eat “flesh” and drink “blood”
S1884. The privileged
S1885. Clicks one’s disapproval
S1886. Rockette launchers?
S1887. “Your ___ or mine?”
S1888. Seed benefit
S1889. “Disgusting!”
S1890. What chutney may top
S1891. Desktop discontinued in 2021
S1894. Cicero or Cato
S1896. Letter-shaped sink pipes
S1897. Oedipus composer
S1898. EDT equivalent
S1899. James McAvoy portrayed 23 in Split
S1901. “…have multiple personalities”
follower on a T-shirt
S1904. Olive Oyl’s creator
S1905. Seed sites
S1906. Pinkett Smith of The Matrix
Revolutions
S1907. Walking style
S1909. Surrounded and cut off from aid
S1914. Classman (abbr.)
S1915. Recent, in Bonn
S1916. British Royal Navy abbr.
S1917. Does anything for the Trump
administration, probably
S1919. Evans or Hill of song
S1920. Picking up signals
S1922. President who oversaw the issuance of
the first US postage stamp
S1923. Pull with the cool kids
S1924. Foreign bucks
S1927. Backbone components (var.)
S1931. Henry and McHenry (abbr.)
S1932. Toys ___
S1933. Peter Pan’s rival
S1935. Indent better
S1937. Sacra or Dolorosa
S1938. Handy rollouts at sleepovers
S1940. Military attacks
S1942. Sing a paean to
S1943. Beans that anagram one of the
products you get from grinding them
S1944. Newcomer to the Hill
S1949. Car sticker acronym
S1950. Its website includes a guide to
bias-free language
S1951. Heron’s milieu
S1952. Constitution class, for short?
S1953. Bummed smoke
S1954. Scots’ “Why not?”-s
S1955. Chows down on
S1956. Brings before the bench
S1957. Rink-ready
S1960. City Paul (or “Paul”) chastised for
picking and mixing
S1962. DVR attachment
S1964. Mona Lisa look?
S1965. Slovenia adopted it in 2007
S1967. Johnny Cash and John Grisham
S1971. Dojo teacher
S1972. Foot-___ (large hot dog)
S1973. Animal that turned Kristen Bell into a puddle of
joy onscreen
S1974. Augsburg abode
S1975. Diana couldn’t save it from a seventh-century-BC
flood
S1979. Box set item
S1980. Butterfly “nose”
S1982. It moves a kayak
S1983. Belt-piercer
S1984. House Hunters network
S1985. Implants
S1986. Sugarpie
S1987. Treat icy roads again
S1990. Brazilian slums
S1992. Pitched one’s pitch
S1994. Perfect start?
S1995. Sites of plant management?
S1998. Catch-22 hero
S2000. Ship whose destruction helped spark
the Spanish-American War
S2002. Kind of pepper or powder
S2003. Planet of dragonriders, in books by
Anne McCaffrey
S2004. Tourney vets
S2005. Like “sulfgolad n’borate, when josc ploked blawsy”
S2009. Bulletins with first-person reporting
S2012. [gestures at 125x125 sub-grid]
S2013. Meat Puppets song covered by Nirvana
on MTV Unplugged
S2014. Brighton bye-byes
S2015. Ancient natives of Mytilene
S2018. Like the era of the conquistadores
S2020. Puck and Tinkerbell
S2022. Goose, to Gregoire
S2023. “I need space”
S2025. Like some shoes
S2028. Not quite first
S2029. Medium’s messages
S2030. Longest sentence possible
S2031. Sean known for death scenes
S2032. Authority on diamonds?
S2034. Nipponese capital, once
S2035. Judgeable by appearances
S2037. ___ up (disclose the truth)
S2040. Starts a toast
S2043. Some Sp. women
S2044. It might go from 0 to 60 minutes
S2045. Co-star of Eva, Marcia, and Felicity
S2046. Labeling system from Brother
S2049. Skyfall director
S2051. Constructed, as a web
S2052. Red Rum, e.g.
S2054. Do the honors at dinner
S2055. Frozen drinks
S2058. Big brown Muppet
S2060. ___ Neuf: Paris bridge
S2061. Masonry wharf
S2062. 56
S2063. AJ’s singing sister, or Nelson on New
Girl
S2064. End of a Latin boast
S2065. Really appreciate
S2066. Underhanded, duplicitous
S2067. E-tailing specifications
S2070. Responds with consummate smoothness
S2072. Stay-at-home
S2073. “It’s Getting Better” singer Elliot
S2074. What Ahab sold to pay for his quest
S2076. “SO EXCITED!”
S2077. Do some patchwork
S2079. Lilies with bell-shaped flowers
S2082. Six-point completion, informally
S2084. “I didn’t want to know that!”
S2085. Where to get a massage
S2088. Needing some air
S2091. “For Scentimental Reasons” star
S2092. Breakfast area
S2093. Long lunches
S2094. Ocean floor’s composition
S2096. Deli listing
S2097. Mexican-American
S2098. My neighbor’s lifespan (miss you
Ethel…abbr.)
S2099. Dessert sometimes prepped with a “bird”
S2100. Lip’s worth of beverage
S2103. Airport line-jumping program
S2104. They look like penguins and act like
penguins, and yet…
S2105. “Rock and Roll All Nite” Rockers
S2106. Nonstarters?
S2107. Mold or fashion
S2110. More snide
S2113. Gone in 60 Seconds director Dominic
S2114. Chorus sound
S2115. Low and near
S2117. Fail to notice
S2119. In ___ and out the other
S2122. News accounts
S2124. Cheers of a sort
S2125. Airport vehicle
S2126. Rumination readout, for short
S2127. He might ask “What’s your greatest
weakness?”, for short
S2128. Holders of buried treasures
S2129. Pear that keeps its shape in cooking
S2130. Did, wrongly
S2136. They might have battery charges
S2138. Tackle the quarterback
S2139. Use a line, perhaps
S2140. They may create rings
S2142. Razor with MACH3 handle
S2143. Dome ___ Invalides (historic church)
S2145. Fraternity membership
S2146. Glass-half-empty types
S2148. Julie’s costar in Before Sunrise,
Before Sunset, and Before Midnight
S2149. Added to a written exchange
S2152. Leave off
S2155. Flowering vines
S2157. Gaius Julius and Hadrian
S2159. Whittier’s feet
S2160. Alpha, e.g.
S2161. Casino moneymakers
S2163. Spielberg-produced book adaptation
never shown in Mainland China
S2168. Bottom line
S2171. The Middle or CSI
S2173. Dance-A-___ (common fundraiser)
S2174. Entry point for some vans
S2176. Quench fully
S2178. What “brains” do well on
S2181. Tempe sch.
S2182. Dungeons & Dragons co., once
S2183. “Arrivederci, duder!”
S2184. The Old Religion novelist
S2186. Build-your-own-Mexican-food station
S2189. Do a slow fade
S2191. Name on a Slow Churned quart
S2192. Roy or Niger of CORE
S2193. She played Elizabeth in Elizabeth
S2194. “I was not an attractive child. When
I didn’t use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as ___” (Joan
Rivers)
S2195. Pound critters, usually
S2196. Expert on hemispheres
S2201. Metal wedges on wood levers
S2203. Periods of typography
S2204. Pat once second only to Elvis Presley
in music sales
S2205. More deceptive
S2207. Spare parts?
S2209. Tending toward slovenliness
S2210. ___ pareil
S2212. Hubby’s female sibs, say
S2215. Most-seen Ryan Gosling role
S2216. Neighbors of swing sets
S2218. Kind of melon or cat
S2220. FAO Schwarz operator
S2221. “I got ___” (proud moment for a
struggling student)
S2222. Evasive or mendacious
S2223. Mexican mint
S2224. Letter worth slowing down for?
S2225. Hymns to Apollo
S2226. Land that’s not inland
S2227. Kind of bias, yes?
S2231. Post-éclair excitement
S2233. Manic time in a 1986 hit
S2234. Moment in time
S2235. It probably shouldn’t end “I’m taking
the First Lady and moving to Sweden,” for short
S2236. Begin an offensive
S2237. Eyes roguishly
S2239. Blas or Hodges
S2240. Financial supporter
S2244. It’s from the Latin for “fissile
stone”
S2246. Arranges, as a bouffant hairstyle
S2250. Mustache Hat artist
S2251. It may be set
S2252. Bickering, as is their habit
S2254. Fine dirt cemented by calcium carbonate
S2255. Harrison Jr. of Chevalier and Monster
S2256. Structure support
S2257. Hang ___ (Hong Kong stock index)
S2258. Egyptologist’s worry mostly explained by a fungal
mold that thrives in tombs
S2262. Relative whose name sounds like a
city in France
S2263. College address ending
S2264. Change makers?
S2266. Like an eyebrow-raising contract
S2268. Appeal at sea
S2269. Bellies up to
S2270. Ins. choice
S2271. Turns away
S2275. Younger ___ Springtime
S2276. Lead-in to roba or vacantia
S2277. Abscam creator
S2280. Takes too much LSD
S2281. Employment hot topic
S2282. Cookbook amts.
S2284. Down word, perhaps
S2286. Cartoonist Roz who wrote You Can
Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
S2287. Figures in D.C.
S2288. Guinea pig lookalikes
S2289. Achieving, as control or a reputation
S2293. Leaves without an answer
S2295. White-browed ___-warbler
S2296. Unit used in astronomy
S2297. Tech whiz
S2299. Online portal launched on the same
day as Windows 95
S2300. Waiters waiting for an NBA return in 2023
S2302. ___-jongg (Chinese game)
S2303. “I’m posting this well after the fact”
S2304. Like some chocolate chips
S2305. ___ favor (please, in Spanish)
S2306. “Whoever ___ it, dealt it”
S2311. Lion’s share of Google’s revenue
S2313. Actor Daly or Ivey
S2316. Leek cousin
S2317. Namesakes of Adam’s third
S2318. Film that repopularized 3-D movies
S2319. The first US Millionaire host,
to fans
S2320. Taking care of the issue
S2321. Named as legal precedent
S2322. River of eastern Wales
S2323. Kristen and John
S2326. November runner
S2327. Suffix for social or graph
S2328. Always Be My Maybe star Daniel ___ Kim
S2329. Separate with finality
S2330. Drill modifier
S2331. Metro stops (abbr.)
S2332. Dad or Granddad, nicknamed
S2334. Bible study sch.
S2335. Long migration
S2336. Andrea ___ Sarto
S2337. Up to the mark
S2338. Mississippi bank
S2339. Honey or sugar, e.g.
S2340. Israeli or Afghan
S2343. “Frankly, I’m ___ loss”
S2346. Caesar starting Hamlet’s speech?
S2347. Claiborne of Rhode Island
S2348. Parts or pasta
S2350. Speaker in the Hall of Fame
S2351. ___ from the Crypt
S2352. Division for the Orioles
S2353. Ballet turns
S2356. Prevention units?
S2358. Goes after
S2360. Red Guards idol
S2362. Sixth, in Italy
S2364. Superfluously
S2365. Grand piano’s rel.
S2367. Unit of ___iation
S2369. “Can ___ least get ready first?”
S2372. PFC superior
S2373. “It’s ___. Let’s shake on it”
S2374. Title hero for Euripides
S2375. Positive, as an attitude
S2376. Notes on a paper
S2379. Facts, in casual conversation
S2383. Charlotte of Diff’rent Strokes
S2384. ___ generis: unique
S2385. 53rd Street comedy club, informally
S2387. Comparable to a beet
S2388. “Book ‘em, ___!” (misspelled
catchphrase so popular in crosswords I had to include it once…the third letter
should be doubled)
S2389. Ancient critter that tended to be
either humongous or tiny
S2390. Language that gave us “ombudsman”
S2392. Our country, to Italians
S2393. Splinter group, briefly
S2395. Stop-___ (convenience store name)
S2396. “Wondering why I even bother TBH”
S2397. Carson Daly’s old MTV show, for short
S2398. In Aachen, aabsolutely naat
S2401. Problem that causes…um…you know, this
is S2400-Across and “2400” is a weird number in military time, you can swap it
out for 0000 and nobody cares, I guess military minds need a balance between
flexibility and discipline
S2403. Free spirit
S2408. Soaked biscuit, e.g.
S2410. Many Food Network hosts
S2412. Crafts one’s body hair
S2414. Double curve, as in yarn
S2415. One might be a goodie
S2416. Lucy star, in tabloids
S2419. Neg.’s opp.
S2422. Silver screen rivals
S2423. Post-”Slow” sign
S2425. Powerful physical attraction
S2426. ___ away with (eliminates)
S2427. Dict. info
S2428. Sitcom interruption
S2430. DS9 forerunner
S2432. Perfect, sociologically
S2434. Yellow dog
S2436. Gut courses
S2438. Instruction to a violinist
S2440. “___ I known...!”
S2441. ___(2) = 3.62686040785
S2442. Airplane’s suitcase spot
S2444. Heart contractions
S2445. They can secure animals to posts
S2449. Nationalist authoritarian
S2451. Site of a death march
S2452. Make an honest effort
S2457. Some painters
S2458. Guitarist on Draconian Times and Icon
S2459. Sauron/Saruman story
S2460. Member of a Herzegovinian minority
S2461. Spy Mata
S2462. Walk with long steps
S2464. Longtime Guardian cartoonist
Asquith
S2465. Mini calendars
S2466. Leaves at once
S2467. Met up with old friends
S2469. “___ Wiedersehen!”
S2471. Nautical heading (abbr.)
S2472. “Perhaps you’re right…”
S2474. Non-flat TV
S2475. Whiter shade of pale?
S2476. Your score after you get all these
answers correct (you can do it, I believe in you!)
S2479. Poetic form
S2481. USA or UAE, e.g.
S2482. Concern for appearances
S2487. They express ownership
S2489. Double agent
S2490. Lee heroine
S2491. Unity despite individualities
S2493. Mentally healthy
S2494. Lead-in to vivant or voyage
S2495. Variety of M&M’s
S2496. Physical powers of Carrie White and
Jean Grey, for short
S2497. Will, to Jaden
S2499. Televangelist Joel
S2501. ___ Academy (school in ancient
Athens)
S2503. Prelude to reading aloud
S2504. “Yes, we’re OPEN” or “Sorry, we’re CLOSED” scene
S2510. Scuba divers’ lifelines
S2512. Whitney Houston’s label
S2514. Overhead smashers
S2515. Welsh-born I, Claudius actress
Phillips
S2516. Attention-seeking in news
S2520. “That clarifies things”
S2521. Reducing program
S2522. Switchblades, slangily
S2523. It deorbited in 2001, ironically
S2524. Gay icon Arthur of Golden Girls
S2525. Swears (to)
S2527. Kill with jokes
S2528. Athos et Aramis
S2530. ___ sample of (taste)
S2531. The ___ Club (14-season televangelist show)
S2532. Stage dir. meaning “begins to speak”
S2534. Not according to plan
S2535. Prospects read by eds.
S2536. Counterparts of faunae
S2537. Undersized, in Ayr
S2538. “___ mein holder Abendstern,” Wagner
aria
S2539. Gets angry
S2541. Word with two very different meanings
in the stories of Noah and Moses
S2542. Not collectively
S2543. Spoken for and not mine
S2544. Robot graveyards
S2548. Made like many New York tourists
S2550. Boar or boor
S2551. Burkina ___
S2552. Gung-ho, when doubled
S2553. Cowardly
S2554. Just too much
S2555. Like some blue humor
S2556. Where Gauguin painted
S2558. Jackie Onassis’ sister
S2559. Designate
S2561. Much binary code
S2562. Name tag
S2563. Inspiration for Godzilla’s back spines
S2568. Bands for music?
S2571. “What’s it to ___?”
S2573. “You can observe a lot just by watching” and “Deja
vu all over again,” e.g.
S2575. Yielding readily
S2577. Herr’s lady
S2581. Protests for better pay and worker protections
S2585. Wanda of comedy
S2586. Descartes and Hamlet’s preoccupation
S2587. Knuckle rapper
S2588. “Best speed you can manage!”
S2590. Some trunks
S2592. Lip stuff
S2593. Made the first bet
S2594. Town inland of the Ijsselmeer
S2596. WWII battle
S2597. Surname on an eclectic quarterly
S2598. Electronic eavesdropping org.
S2599. Fall in ___: collapse limply
S2600. English river that flows into the
Humber
S2601. Didn’t cook
S2603. Sans deletions
S2607. Evenings, casually
S2608. Completely wrap one’s mind around
S2609. Well-organized
S2610. “Come get your Brunswick stew!”
S2612. Sharia
S2615. “There was a point here somewhere”
S2617. Vocally exposes
S2618. Actress Payton or fashion designer
Rogers
S2619. Press Ctrl-Y
S2622. Part of Ryder Cup victory
celebrations
S2623. Excited and merry, in the 1890s
S2624. Simpers
S2625. Broadcaster in 46 langs.
S2627. Russian political oddity
S2629. Union in D.C., e.g.
S2630. Exceptionally smart people
S2631. USAF E-6’s
S2632. Early U2 hit
S2633. Question mark’s key-mate
S2634. 1930s canine role
S2635. “Jes’ imagine, Jeb…”
S2636. “False as dicers’ ___”
S2638. Retracts, as a statement
S2639. Scott McNealy is its CEO
S2641. Overshoot
S2644. Outstanding, as a hit
S2645. Rush’s song off “Presto” that went
long? (with “The”)
S2646. Rest period?
S2647. “Hang on half ___ there, guv!”
S2648. Lane at the Planet
S2649. Like a gymnast
S2653. Send out
S2654. Sent some love, in a way
S2657. Platform for early Zelda
games, for short
S2658. Poet’s planet
S2659. Like a mature horse
S2661. Goes wild
S2662. “White & ___” (Weird Al Yankovic
song)
S2663. Road reversal, slangily
S2664. Backup instruments in some bands
S2665. Like most churches
S2667. Adulterate
S2669. Brief moment of time (abbr.)
S2670. They help celebs keep public faces
S2673. “Yo!”
S2674. Macs’ MOs
S2675. “Lafayette, ___ here!”
S2677. What tyrants can’t tolerate
S2679. “Avatar” origin
S2680. Man in a big house?
S2681. Parisian’s possessive
S2682. Final Fantasy XIV or RuneScape
S2684. Russian city east of Kiev
S2685. Does something fatherly?
S2688. Army medals
S2690. UPC cousin
S2691. Fist-pumper’s cry
S2692. They have a fan ARMY
S2693. Five after one?
S2694. Like some brats
S2699. More conservative, investment-wise
S2700. Prefix for a trillion
S2701. Devil worship
S2703. Purest form of knowledge
S2705. Cooler pool
S2709. Fruit that doesn’t rhyme
S2710. Springsteen, notably
S2711. Tech grads (abbr.)
S2713. Very descriptive
S2716. Miscue
S2718. Plays the class clown
S2720. Encountered
S2721. Anticipated takeoff hour
S2722. Little Debbie treats
S2727. Autograph (abbr.)
S2728. Audio accessory
S2734. Praise uncontrollably
S2735. Woolly males
S2736. Like a box of chocolates (abbr.)
S2738. Cruel and oppressive (var.)
S2740. Actually, initially
S2741. Olympians’ dreams
S2742. North to Pierre
S2744. Totally amazed
S2745. Cremains, mostly
S2746. Numic dialect speaker
S2747. Have as a logical consequence
S2748. Despite all that
S2750. Doesn’t get hung up on
S2756. Roundup accessory
S2758. Luke’s cinematic sister
S2762. Photo ___ (times to take pics)
S2763. Mobile Justice app source
S2764. There’s two in a sch. year
S2765. Took part in a mob scene
S2766. Org. for Couples and Love
S2767. Rink item
S2768. In need of a massage
S2769. Variables
S2771. Slim bodies (abbr.)
S2773. “Go ahead, I’m listening”
S2776. Brit’s palindromic “See you later!”
S2778. Former linebacker Manti
S2779. Rebecca Black hit the internet loved…and loved to
hate
S2780. Death notice, briefly
S2784. Painfully long?
S2785. Eavesdropper
S2789. Crocodile Dundee, e.g.
S2791. Be an arm-twister
S2792. Run in The Alphabet Song
S2793. A 3 is passing
S2795. OS X runner
S2796. Feelers of insects and lobsters
S2797. Like some leaves
S2798. Sashimi staples
S2800. Spitting sound
S2801. Become one
S2807. They make good coffin material
S2811. Front matter list (abbr.)
S2812. Bald spot content?
S2813. Social climbers’ concerns
S2815. Small French bar
S2817. Wrong-number word
S2818. “May God reward you”
S2820. End- opposite
S2821. Drawn-out YouTube short?
S2822. Wooden-headed hammers
S2823. End, after all is said and done
S2824. Type of grain
S2825. Alluvial deposits
S2826. “___ 99 problems…”
S2827. Some watches
S2828. Rode one’s rump down a rime
S2830. Does poorly in a Congressional
election
S2835. Attendance record demerits
S2836. Form of protest
S2838. Title for archaeologist Flinders
Petrie or Leonard Woolley
S2840. Tailor-made?
S2841. How to buy DVDs for binge-watching
S2842. It goes from Tuscany to the
Tyrrhenian
S2843. Maintenance cost
S2844. Prolific chess analyst and programmer
S2845. Faucet brand
S2847. “Send nudes ___ send nukes” (meme featuring Putin
and Kim Jong Un)
S2848. Uracil-containing macromolecule
S2849. Words said with a shrug
S2850. A Wrinkle in Time co-star
S2851. Hallucinates
S2853. “Shaddup!”
S2854. Like some salamanders
S2855. Popular orange soda
S2856. Life story
S2857. Ford sobriquet
S2859. Tourist attractions in Mumbai, Bali, and Israel
S2864. Passed out
S2867. Cockatoos’ pride
S2868. President Lincoln wore one, now and
then
S2869. Oliver Queen of TV
S2871. Dejected
S2872. Annoying insects
S2874. Stressless condition
S2875. Chew the fat
S2877. Kind of a fit
S2878. “Be careful out there”
S2879. Ways out
S2881. Diamonds and real estate, as opposed to stock
prices and rental agreements
S2884. Commits brigandage
S2887. Restaurant list that includes tuna
rolls and nigiri
S2888. Exams for sophs. and jrs.
S2889. Do ___: circle the track
S2890. Most successful supervillain ever, in terms of
number of crimes accomplished
S2891. The Profit network
S2892. Short task
S2893. Ethno or con follower
S2895. Slang that elides “-picious”
S2898. Hottest stars, according to James
Ulmer
S2900. Stewart on The Daily Show
S2901. Amazing triumph
S2906. Stomach area
S2907. From Eur.’s boot
S2908. As an adult, for short
S2910. Broke down cells
S2912. Home for some fish
S2913. Supports in a dispute
S2915. Passionate cravings
S2916. Drinks loudly
S2919. He’s never gonna give you up, let you
down, run around, or desert you
S2921. Patch roads
S2922. Follows up on
S2926. They tow in Vail
S2927. Further repetitions
S2930. “Heat of the Moment” band
S2932. Resistance found in a 20-kilometer
silicon wire that’s about one centimeter thick
S2935. Figs. on menus (actual costs may vary)
S2936. Like many classic movies
S2937. Affixes in a way
S2939. Gets off the proper path
S2948. Socially challenged
S2949. Garrulous equine
S2953. Loose hood
S2955. Run-D.M.C. would wear Adidas ones
S2960. You, to Johann
S2961. The man
S2962. He just can’t stop with the sarcastic remarks
S2964. Capek who wrote
S2965. Chimney sweep’s coat
S2966. “You ___ just whistling Dixie”
S2967. “The Waste Land” poet’s inits.
S2968. Trade places in the theater
S2970. Game in which the lowliest laborers
can become royalty
S2972. Most tempestuous
S2975. Convinces to buy
S2976. Robin Burt
S2977. Myrmecologist’s expertise
S2978. Like an hour-long stretch for a training
marathoner
S2979. With every meal, medically
S2980. She’ll help you find some merchandise
S2987. Open-flame cooker
S2988. Disgusted remarks
S2989. “In a couple of ___”
S2990. Bathroom cartridge
S2992. Redefines possibility for
S2993. ___ stick: incense
S2994. “It’s ___ to you now, you and your
generation”
S2995. End of Morse code?
S2997. Words that follow Felix or bell
S2998. You, slangily, after a “t” sound
S2999. Works on pumps, maybe
S3002. Equal in quality
S3004. Objectionable
S3005. Tongue-clickings
S3008. Family-tree word
S3009. Halftime deliveries
S3010. Neon Genesis series, to fans
S3011. Southern sounds
S3012. The Silver Chair locale
S3013. Arsenic and ___
S3014. B.C. sound effect
S3015. 1948-1951 US org.
S3016. Dr. Alzheimer
S3017. Aspiration, as of the world
S3021. Nevertheless
S3022. Selene, to Ovid
S3023. Make a fool of
S3024. Allay grief
S3027. Fileted
S3028. Atkins who sang “Mr. Sandman”
S3029. Gallery contents
S3030. Pet name for Alexander, in Russia
S3033. When the redness starts rising over
the Atlantic
S3035. Strong feelings of ill will
S3036. ___ bunt
S3038. 1994 comedy that was Jon Favreau’s
big break
S3040. Billed to be
S3041. “___ help you?”
S3043. Four-dimensional cubes name-checked in A
Wrinkle in Time and The Avengers
S3046. As prompted
S3047. Dialer’s trio
S3048. Pt. of RSVP
S3049. “___ my way!”
S3050. “Time for sleep”
S3051. Having a natural fragrance
S3053. Purges of rodents
S3054. Huawei and Sprint, for short
S3055. Election losers
S3056. Eastern potentates
S3057. Aspiring DA’s exam
S3059. Trek guide
S3062. Not be closed-minded
S3067. Looney Tunes toon, for short
S3069. Young women’s gp.
S3070. Variant found in a mutation
S3071. “Sic semper tyrannis” speaker
S3076. Moves limbs and torso wildly
S3077. Overawe
S3079. Dopamine fasting, for tech bros in
2021
S3080. Visit between whalers
S3081. ___ v. Ferguson (“separate but equal”
case)
S3082. Jam containers
S3083. Forestland spokesfigure Woodsy
S3084. “Right away, madame!”
S3085. Souls, in ancient Egypt
S3086. Certain chess piece (abbr.)
S3087. Vegetarians may argue the “B” stands
for “bread”
S3088. No Man ___ Island
S3089. Dodger Stadium decision
S3091. Biting wit
S3095. Predictable sway
S3097. Star with the Cosmos, once
S3098. Softly, in mus.
S3099. “Oy, vey!” cause
S3100. Soldier’s barked denial
S3103. Hothead’s emotion
S3104. Beach
S3105. Roll of the dice
S3110. Kuwaiti VIP (var.)
S3112. Sydneyites, e.g.
S3114. Caffeine-free drink
S3118. Abbr. in a resort’s name
S3119. Spam-cutting email feature
S3120. Trading post? (abbr.)
S3122. Abe Lincoln’s son
S3124. Fulfill a request
S3128. Movie about trying not to be transformed into a
snake
S3132. Family in the fictional Five Families
War
S3136. Conductor’s workplace
S3138. Piraeus portico
S3140. Thumb drive contents
S3141. “The ___ rim dips…” (Coleridge)
S3142. Chinese unit of weight
S3144. Feeling like a blessing from fate
S3145. Setting set
S3148. Certain 1960s paintings
S3149. Poet’s treasure
S3150. Allows to expire
S3152. Put a fresh layer on, after erosion
S3153. Author Chinua Achebe, by birth
S3154. Bowl game channel
S3155. “Anytime I don’t have to wear [one]
is a good day” (Amanda Seales)
S3156. Soft talk
S3158. Soaps with a Hispanic influence
S3162. Don’t worry, they’re fine, they give
your face character!
S3163. Unpaid positions for Clark, Lois, and Jimmy in My
Adventures with Superman
S3170. Board used in seances
S3172. Some polygamous figures
S3178. Cattle identifier
S3179. Hub spots for snacks
S3180. Allocation
S3182. Threesome in Cincinnati?
S3183. Skein fliers
S3184. Just bask for it
S3185. ___ cit.: footnote abbr.
S3186. Loose-hipped dance
S3187. ___ Park, California (site of
Facebook’s headquarters)
S3189. Take-back
S3190. Bit of gamesmanship
S3191. Floppy feature of a dachshund
S3192. Ironic and critical comedy
S3194. Cassette gadget
S3199. Side-channel, in Canada
S3200. Classic parlor game
S3202. Equipment for a Winter Paralympian
S3207. Don’t get too close, as during COVID
S3208. Nasdaq listing (abbr.)
S3209. Worked out ahead of time
S3212. Avoiding a pothole, perhaps
S3215. Pungent garnish
S3216. Hydrogen-ion activity measurements
S3218. All those against
S3220. Alaska’s ___ Glacier
S3221. Baseballer Bando
S3222. Keeps saying git, maybe
S3223. Peace Nobelist Wiesel
S3225. What Henry Ford said his car buyers
could have, “as long as it’s black”
S3228. Unenlightening
S3233. Male red deer
S3234. Root beer source
S3235. Baking potatoes
S3236. The Battleship Potemkin director
S3238. Not too adept with
S3241. Bitter quarrel
S3243. Put ink to paper via iPad
S3244. Soccer highlights
S3245. Stage help
S3246. ___ bean (var.)
S3247. Hairy word fragment
S3248. Sappho’s home
S3250. Pop out of a jet
S3252. Fill with spackling compound
S3255. Second number in a periodic table’s
square
S3258. Column-to-ceiling juncture
S3260. Somewhat fussy Nine-Nine cop
S3263. Méphistophélès in Faust, vocally
S3264. Shutout element
S3265. Nuge, to Oilers fans
S3266. Polishing
S3271. Gutter adjunct
S3273. Dental thread
S3274. Frenzied routines
S3276. “When I Take My Sugar ___,” 1931 song
S3278. Waterlogged to overflowing
S3279. Five-year-old’s “No, you are
mistaken; the aspect we are discussing is indeed one of my qualities”
S3281. Word on most gift tags
S3284. Assent to a married mujer
S3287. Away from the sail wind
S3290. Mount a soapbox
S3291. South American monkey
S3292. Air quality alert prompter
S3296. Left-handed home keys
S3300. Dreaded person?
S3305. Lets borrow again
S3306. Wearing one’s age on one’s chin
S3308. Bridge groups
S3309. Above, poetically
S3310. December 24 and 31
S3311. Fight off
S3312. 72 for 18, often
S3313. Heavenward
S3314. Become clear
S3315. Japanese massage that uses
acupressure
S3318. Nattily attired folks
S3321. Absorbs, as gravy on a plate
S3323. Wrestler John who has granted more
Make-A-Wish wishes than anyone else
S3324. Featured artist on Flo Rida’s “Low”
S3326. Ghosts and skeletons, e.g.
S3333. Absurdist art movement
S3337. Audience addressed in “Baby Got Back”
S3338. “___’s best friend is his mother” (Psycho)
S3339. Troupe group
S3340. Tea kettle features
S3342. 1994 comedy with an oxymoronic title
S3344. Back to school mo.
S3345. Its top division is called makuuchi
S3347. Modest stream
S3350. Workplace where white is worn
S3351. Talk star O’Donnell
S3352. Winner of four show biz awards
S3355. Norton alternative
S3359. Higher-ranking lawyer
S3361. Actress Vardalos et al.
S3362. Specter who wrote Never Give In:
Battling Cancer in the Senate
S3363. Krupa portrayer on film
S3364. Congenital cleft
S3365. Gardner and DuVernay
S3366. Some road atlas pgs.
S3367. They’ll go out of their way to help
S3370. Absolute rulers
S3373. Certain band instruments
S3374. Of lesser size, disparagingly
S3376. Dresden dwellers
S3378. “Sounds about right”
S3381. College officials (abbr.)
S3382. Donatello’s weapons
S3383. Christie creation
S3387. Joan Collins film, or take a break when flying
from Asia to the Americas
S3389. Like mailed periodicals, once
S3391. Pig’s place, perhaps?
S3392. Troth binder
S3393. Amerada ___ (oil giant)
S3394. Screen siren Thurman
S3396. Mystery show spun off from a comedy
S3397. Consequence
S3399. Popular discount shoe store
S3400. Like carriage horses
S3402. Sediment speck in the bottle
S3404. Period of inactivity
S3405. Have the fun job of
S3406. Add zip to
S3408. Where Khufu was laid to rest
S3412. Not 100% sold
S3413. “Mexican Spitfire” Vélez of films
S3415. With a loner, savage nature
S3416. Floated downstream, in a way
S3418. “We will not host ___-person event
this year due to coronavirus”
S3419. Pokémon once argued to be a version of Uri Geller
S3421. Updike’s Rabbit
S3423. With “Act,” proposed legislation of
2020 that has more to do with internet freedom than wages
S3424. Wear in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Contagion
S3427. Results of food fights
S3428. Actor John of sitcoms
S3430. Morphine derivative, slangily
S3432. Phoebe, to Mnemosyne
S3434. Did better than
S3438. Arabian Peninsula republic
S3439. Lhasa apso, e.g.
S3440. Shallow-water vessel
S3442. Big Ben clock setting (abbr.)
S3445. Uses a battering ram on
S3447. Organs males usually lack
S3448. Immortal, barring any mishaps
S3450. Group of dishes for a new household,
say
S3452. Thrusting weapons
S3453. Pro-prohibition
S3454. Emergency aid team
S3457. Services in the UK
S3459. Manufacture butter
S3461. Nickelodeon’s Kenan & ___
S3463. “Somewhere in the world there’s
probably a woman with this name in a toxic relationship with a guy named Sam”
(internet humor)
S3465. Notre Dame neighbor
S3466. Untold knowledge
S3468. Indian staple
S3470. Ladyfish’s cousins
S3471. Perform as ordered
S3472. Short-straw drawers
S3476. Erato, Clio, and Thalia are three
S3477. Bremen or Hamburg, locally
S3478. Little Leaguers’ field
S3479. They’re taken to become a priest
S3480. On-tap serving
S3481. “Keep an eye out for this kid”
notices
S3484. Triage expert
S3487. Painterly painters who loved their
color
S3488. Patriotic chant
S3491. Word after due or speed
S3492. Hide, in a way
S3496. Keeps freezing up
S3498. The first baseball cards of the
season
S3499. Anaheim team on scoreboards
S3500. Coloring agent
S3501. Local tradition, e.g.
S3505. Cuts further, in shop
S3506. Signers, Variety-style
S3507. Isma’ilist title
S3510. Victory that may be booed
S3511. Certain ruminant
S3512. Discovers
S3514. Higgins or Moriarty
S3517. Russia and some stans, once
S3518. Book of the Cath. Bible
S3520. “Do better!”
S3521. Haute couture designer Rabanne
S3522. Wear for a friend’s wedding
S3525. Motion endorser
S3527. Heart urchin
S3529. Explanations
S3530. Attorney-to-be’s exams
S3535. “…far ___ goes farthest” (Julius
Caesar)
S3540. New Mexico skiing destination
S3544. Sanders or Parker
S3548. Taco Tuesday libation, casually
S3549. “Almost anything is edible with ___
of French mustard on it” (Nigel Slater)
S3551. When you might name names
S3553. Serving no good purpose
S3555. Kind of poke or burn
S3557. Emulated Simon
S3559. Avenue crosser, sometimes
S3561. Polite sounds when passing
S3563. “I scoff at such trivial concerns!”
S3566. Undertakes
S3568. “How can ___ prepare?” (start of a
self-help mantra)
S3569. Jerk who’s succeeding way beyond expectations,
don’t they know their place?
S3570. Silas Marner’s adopted daughter
S3571. Ready to drop off
S3573. Web page basis
S3577. Flashy promotion
S3581. Petty little jerk?
S3582. Sounding off
S3583. Montana, secretly
S3585. Bob Hope and Carrot Top
S3587. Big name in wrestling?
S3589. Capote, on B’way
S3592. Musical work for Mr. Holland
S3594. Old tales
S3596. Rene in pictures
S3597. Places people go to go on base
S3598. Boston cut
S3601. Do the twist, say
S3602. In music, slow
S3603. Slate of names
S3604. [gestures at puzzle section]
S3606. Storytelling saw
S3607. Difficulty
S3608. Overseas agreements?
S3609. Peerage title
S3610. Olympian gymnast Strug
S3611. What some people do “once and for all”
S3613. Quotable denial from Richard Nixon
S3615. Applies to, as a lotion or a hairbrush
S3617. Makes smooth and plump
S3620. They’re sometimes aided by crystal
balls, allegedly
S3622. Like some old basketball hoops
S3624. Déclassé
S3625. Mitt Romney’s denom.
S3626. Section of a tabletop
S3627. Mnemonic for communication that goes “clear,
concise, concrete, correct, coherent, complete, and courteous”
S3631. Contrail creator of old
S3632. Like traditional Catholic Masses
S3634. Dreadful grades
S3636. “All the Things She Said” singing duo
S3638. ___ sci (field in which Obama has a
B.A.)
S3640. Creates a reason to regret solving in
pen
S3641. Romance in verse
S3642. Lazy, regressive post-humans
S3643. Durante song title word
S3644. Drake or ram
S3645. Part of an @ symbol
S3648. “Sure, whatever” sentiment
S3649. Football Friday network
S3652. Pull uncompromisingly out of reach of
S3654. Outwardly look
S3656. Answers before two rings
S3657. Road hazard near the Ruhr
S3660. Cartoon villain Whiplash
S3663. She sent Amtrak Joe a message across
the pond as he was sworn in
S3664. Dance novelty of the 1960s
S3668. Thread in a book
S3669. Where the penis or vagina is
S3673. US Army award since 1918
S3674. Commoner, for short
S3675. Anti-obscenity crusader who
influenced Reagan
S3677. Sorta-signing, quickly
S3680. By, in Latin
S3681. Indochina
S3686. System with a movement-sensing
controller
S3687. Tibetan carrier
S3689. “Vesti la giubba” from Pagliacci
S3691. Title girl of a Stephen Foster song
S3693. Danish toasts
S3694. Actress Carrie-Anne
S3695. Paid bill (abbr.)
S3696. Ruth’s and Outback, for two
S3701. Banker’s Sallie ___
S3702. They may get tied up in knots
S3703. Cosmetics businesswoman Lauder
S3704. With “the,” what Lincoln and Darwin’s birthdays
have
S3707. Hardly a gentleman
S3709. Seagirt spot
S3710. Resumes ownership of
S3712. Some powerful dogs
S3715. Moogs, e.g.
S3717. Sitcom about an interstellar castaway