Ubercross Abecedaria W

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W1. Legal certifiers (abbr.)

W4. Parting words

W8. “So true, huh?”

W14. Smooch, in texts

W18. One cleansed by Jesus

W23. “Does loyalty mean nothing anymore?”

W27. Standing O, say

W31. Much more than fond

W35. HS support groups

W39. “The savage mountain”

W43. Alexander or Vera of fashion

W47. Research into a political foe’s weaknesses, in slang

W51. Listen to one’s gut?

W52. Three-terminal power component

W57. Sofia Vergara’s home nation

W61. Where diameter lines cross

W66. “Stressed was ___ saw desserts”

W68. Often cranky

W72. Cash America establishment

W76. Elliot who released the album Don’t Call Me Mama Anymore

W80. The “E” in ER (abbr.)

W81. “Eri tu,” but not “Eres Tu”

W85. Beachcombing aerial hunters (var.)

W86. Purrers

W90. Elton John/Tim Rice collaboration

W91. Taxperts

W95. All fired up

W97. Stephen of Underworld: Awakening

W100. Tyler, the Creator album about unrequited love

W101. “I am so tragic”

W105. Ho or Ngo, for short

W106. Stumped

W113. Half of hex-

W114. Joe Manchin, Steve Harvey, and Jennifer Garner, in terms of where they grew up

W116. Twinsies

W118. Like yards and gallons

W119. Quasi-Cartesian subjectivity

W123. Just slightly

W124. Less formal “yours” in Les Pyrénées-Orientales

W125. Pots and vases in art class, e.g.

W127. Bead that may come from a cone snail

W129. Call for Geraldine?

W130. One who bails when it hails

W133. Unintentional disaster

W135. Some ways on Waze (abbr.)

W136. Alley’s love

W137. Checks one’s arithmetic

W138. Abundance

W140. Corporeal

W142. Changes in how property is handled

W143. Killer of Adonis, in myth

W145. Food plants for many caterpillars

W148. Having one’s luster dimmed

W150. Bore measures, in Bristol

W152. Somehow even worse

W154. 87 octane

W155. Gentle little nibble

W156. Nurse, as a latte

W157. Talk about heaven, perhaps (abbr.)

W158. African reedbucks

W160. Twitter feeds within websites

W165. Up from sleep

W167. Ultra-wide shoe width

W168. Hack of baseball

W170. Enter data again

W171. Trial figures, for short

W172. Request upon leaving?

W173. Property donor

W174. “Star Wars”

W175. Its last build was El Capitan

W176. Noms de guerre or de plume

W177. Volstead antis

W178. More frilly

W179. Rambling ones

W180. “Why won’t this thing work?!”

W181. Recent

W182. Benevolent Chinese spirits

W185. Rollers in a saw

W187. Thunderace cycles, e.g.

W190. Moonball, e.g.

W192. “Week Without Violence” org.

W195. “Until we meet again!”

W197. Market line?

W198. Flavor in some fried rice

W201. Beethoven’s “Minuet ___”

W203. Grumbler’s tale

W204. Massachusetts college or actress Lena

W205. Poker holdings

W207. Answering an invite

W209. Turn-of-the-century first family of Britain (a royalist blares his disappointment in this clue)*

W210. ___-Bulls Pretzels

W213. Get the anti-perspirant working at the poker table*

W214. “___ deadhead sticker on a Cadillac…”

W219. Woof crosser

W223. Its flag shows the Big Dipper

W225. Long lunch?

W228. The ancient land of Seir

W230. Chafed places

W233. Fieri facias and habeas corpus

W234. Kind of engine

W235. Not permanent, as ink

W243. Like the world’s biggest salt flats

W251. Impress the audience

W253. When bars close in Boston

W255. Gas stations that sound like they offer another kind of fill-up

W257. Scoreboard postings

W258. Daughter of Oceanus

W259. Complained

W260. Ragtime pianist Joe “Fingers” who played with “The Car-Hops”*

W264. It was once yours?

W269. Sounds of wonderment drawn by wizardry, say

W270. Render useless

W271. Former Knuckles the Echidna consoles

W272. In any case

W273. What your right pointer finger is usually in position to type

W275. Like the movies Goosebumps and Pan

W276. Librarian whose spelling system would make him Melvil Dewy*

W278. Online health-info site

W280. Hero chaser?

W281. Org. engaged in pier review?

W282. Option from a list

W283. Great riches

W284. Nero’s friend and enemy

W286. Doc Savage portrayer Ron in 2020 news due to family tragedy

W287. Power cord?

W288. Firth of fame

W289. Discrediting reports

W290. Barrel workers

W291. ___ debt of gratitude

W292. Film parts

W293. Number of leches in a certain cake on a tray*

W294. Fell, in a way

W295. He’s disloyal in his very heart

W298. Daughter of Laban, in the Bible

W300. Has become

W302. Differences in concentric circs.

W304. Often-dystopian conflict

W306. Show hostility to, as a dog might a mail carrier

W308. Sell items that appeal to one’s bravery?

W310. Less-tasty part of a cow

W312. Valhalla man

W313. Alexander and others

W314. Available to drink

W315. Break in the Cold War

W316. Summit under cloud cover?

W318. Stadium ticket word

W320. “Coke is it” v. “The choice of a new generation,” e.g.

W323. More robust

W324. Wattlebird

W325. ABC show similar to Trading Spouses

W329. Home to many Greeks

W331. Petroleum byproduct

W333. Letter from Tel Aviv?

W335. The Hobbit dragon

W336. Like gazpacho

W337. Pennsylvanian, e.g.

W338. Liberates (of)

W340. Irish and others

W341. Cartoonist who would probably use a dodo for Democrats and a rabid wolf for Republicans if alive today

W342. Diaper contents, euphemistically

W344. Square dancer’s glides

W346. Quality that makes a thing itself

W350. Seoul GI

W351. Jerry-built

W352. “Peace” by Depeche Mode, e.g.*

W354. Till the soil again

W355. Twelve-year school, briefly

W356. Designators

W358. “That show comes ___ 8” (pre-streaming talk)

W359. States boldly

W361. Conservative complaint

W363. Of a Frankish people

W364. Prophet with a cheating wife

W366. “Trust ___” (Jungle Book song)

W367. Mr. Cool’s antithesis

W369. What a lead-in leads up to

W370. Anime hero who uses the same name when male or female

W371. Sneaky chuckles

W372. Words of woe

W373. Hot stars

W374. Reminder

W375. One may need your SSN

W377. Crimson Tide HQ

W378. Monotheist’s precept

W380. ___ est percipi (“To be is to be perceived,” George Berkeley)

W381. Was admitted

W382. Ukrainian staple

W383. Use well

W385. Available for viewing

W387. Give a seat

W389. Fry cook’s need

W391. Stable spot

W393. Insert surreptitiously

W395. Rifle range: Fr.

W396. Meals with matzo

W398. Gambling game for the masses

W399. Rhyming-titled film that was Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut

W400. “…but that price is open to negotiation,” for short

W401. Shrill piping notes

W402. Preparations

W403. “I guess that works”

W404. Yucatan Indians

W405. New ___, Connecticut

W406. Nomad

W408. Doff one’s chapeau

W409. Exposed to the public

W410. Rendering crisp audio

W413. Sandwich meat…or is that just a big lie?

W415. Was triumphant in the end

W417. Oinker who’s had a litter or two

W419. Intestine region

W421. Certain dumpster divers

W423. Literary devices

W424. Where the joke may be, if its target is unclear

W425. Has more than a hunch

W426. Fussbudgets

W428. Ill-tempered

W429. ___ citizen

W430. Rachel’s firstborn, in the Bible

W431. Develop like wine, not milk

W433. Its flag has a sword-wielding lion

W437. “The Boy with the Bread” in YA lit

W438. Find an application for

W439. Little crawler sometimes called a roly-poly

W440. “That burned my hands!”

W442. Crime kingpin

W444. Sprinkle

W446. Tak3n star Liam

W448. External drive brand

W450. Muffet-to-tuffet words

W451. Former bank option, for short

W452. Members of Troglodytes troglodytes

W454. Fifth hunk in a firefighter’s calendar

W456. Eight-year Attorney General

W458. Currently

W459. Camp conveyance

W460. Like a nocturnal bird

W461. Brilliantly colored salamanders

W462. In ___ way: immoderately

W464. Morrow and Damone

W467. What this puzzle’s published without

W468. College info session host

W469. Iran money

W472. “You ___!” (Ren’s insult)

W473. Abolitionist author Harriet Beacher

W474. Decorated soldier

W477. Everything

W479. 69, usually

W481. Sports comeback

W483. Spam alternative

W484. Annette Hope Billings’ ___ Full of Hope

W485. Back side of several words for crime*

W486. Trigonometric term

W487. Belgian border river

W488. Posed for a new photo

W489. Site of Mayfair’s most popular board game

W490. Losing rolls

W491. Longtime rival of Japan

W492. Problem of spreading spots?

W495. Amphigoric

W497. Marine route

W498. Henley who drew praise for playing “Red Leader” in two films 39 years apart*

W500. First to be called up

W501. Not showing emotion

W502. Turn stale

W503. Expose in verse?

W504. Norwegian tale

W506. Was (for Halloween)

W509. “On the wagon”

W511. Healthy-looking

W513. “___ May Think” (Paper that predicted the internet)

W514. Frequent USD conversion

W515. Cheapside steed

W516. Hotel’s hot spot

W519. Suffix meaning “lizard”

W521. Letters before Missouri or Arizona

W522. It has kite-shaped faces

W523. Reef made of skeletons

W524. Racetrack markings

W525. Contract winner

W527. Peter Pan predator

W528. Gangsta rap pioneer

W529. Unconfident comment

W531. Harry Potter’s professor of divination Trelawney

W532. “What ___ thinking?”

W533. They protect corp. secrets

W534. R&Bers Tony! ___! Tone!*

W535. Russian playwright

W536. Home improvement tools

W539. Does a desk job

W541. Prove victorious in

W543. Gobsmacked

W545. Results of some end runs, briefly

W546. Coll. in the “Little Apple” Manhattan

W548. Abode of the gods, in Homer

W550. “But…still!”

W552. Tavern overstayer

W553. GoT character who talks like a Pokémon

W554. Recedes

W555. Carvey and Gould of stand-up

W556. Concerning evolution

W558. Mike site

W560. Thin Man dog

W561. No room to swing ___ [my pet is staring at me as I write this one]

W562. The usual amts.

W563. Three Oscar nominations and one win in three consecutive, turn-of-the-century years?

W568. Phishing target (abbr.)

W569. Comic cries

W572. Clog buster

W574. Not standing

W576. Mailed?

W578. With less hair and less noise?

W583. Knocked their socks off

W585. It’s straight from the heart

W586. She saves Frodo

W587. Lennon bandmate

W589. Some Stargate SG-1 characters, in brief

W590. Round Table wimp?

W594. Tetragrammaton consonants

W595. ___ Haw (rustic TV show)

W596. Abbr. in personal ads

W599. Part of our armed forces (abbr.)

W600. Minitrident

W601. Nutty Knotts

W604. Focused (on)

W606. Iota neighbor

W608. Mawkishness

W610. Labor gp. founded in 1900

W611. Signature for #43

W615. Anita Baker’s first hit

W616. Color theory?

W621. Salt-___ (rap trio)

W622. The granddaddy of all curses, euphemistically

W623. Worth no points, say

W624. Look daggers (at)

W625. Incidentally online?

W627. Sch. for Mountaineers

W628. Cease to exist, old-style

W629. Food stamp system, briefly

W632. Former part of Indonesia (abbr.)

W633. Gov’t agents

W634. Soils a diaper

W636. Violinist Laredo

W638. Informal meeting

W641. Invaded someone’s privacy

W643. Vivien or Janet

W645. Sartorial trademark for A$AP Ferg

W648. Inc., e.g., briefly

W649. Must give

W650. Rotate rapidly

W651. Raines and Cinders

W653. Lover of Italian opera?

W654. Go “boohoo”

W655. Musician left out of the new Muppet Babies

W657. Enfolds

W658. Have ___ (argue)

W659. Prettied (up)

W662. Nincompoops

W665. 24/7 business

W667. Main house-to-barn connections

W669. They’re often grad students

W670. It’s named for the promos it’ll add where you wouldn’t normally see them*

W671. Door parts

W672. Was in store

W674. Injun Joe creator

W676. Jam-pack

W679. Says “Bah!” or “Ah!”

W682. France’s ___ Re

W683. They’re one thing Zeus reigns over*

W684. They’re said with a flourish

W686. Explosion from the nostrils

W688. Classic film actor who said, “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with”

W691. Untamed one?

W693. Found oneself afflicted

W694. Show submission

W695. Cash register part

W697. Black-and-white box used in modern scanning

W698. Unscrupulous

W700. Chorus while standing up in the pews

W703. Roads of Rome

W704. Prevented a shutout, say

W705. Stretch out, as metal or time

W707. Pointers

W710. Say “My place is on the third floor” and maybe sway your posture a little

W712. Car wheel securer

W713. Digital repositories on which my first five years or so of professional writing are stored

W714. Request in a Chinese restaurant

W715. 70s pres. monogram

W718. Commercia ___ (arrangements between enemy states)

W720. Picador’s victim

W721. Founds

W722. Join the game as a replacement

W723. “Come on…be good, kids”

W725. Port feature

W726. Not so quick on the uptake

W728. Loopy AI in The Good Place

W729. Kind of role

W731. Word shouted by Ross on Friends while trapped between a couch and a wall

W732. Statistician’s calculation

W733. Football plays

W734. What you might need after falling into a toe ditch*

W737. They’re taken at trials

W739. Not a secret

W741. Class before a class, briefly

W744. Subject to a ribbing

W745. Country where Haagen-Dazs HQ is

W746. Great Plains natives

W747. Showing evidence of gym time

W749. Quires and quires

W751. Stick in a pack

W752. Took down, in Dover

W753. Talks the ear off

W755. Peculiar

W756. Old-school net surfer

W757. It ended at 11:00 on 11/11/18

W759. Many Renoirs

W761. Bossies

W762. Cry in a dogfight

W763. It’ll alleve pain*

W764. Does harm to

W766. Ho Chi of politics

W767. Notorious lad mag until 2015

W770. Virtual human companion

W773. “It’s ___ to the finish”

W775. Make furrows in.

W777. Pixel-density no.

W778. Former site with the former tagline “What are you doing?”

W780. Be of interest to

W782. Outburst after a nefarious plan is hatched

W784. Stats for newborns

W785. One rowing from the front

W786. Prideless

W787. Flipped, to investors

W789. Hemoglobin-filled corpuscle (abbr.)

W792. It makes one sound like a pig

W794. Leader of the flock

W796. Track-and-field events

W797. Previously, up to this point

W798. Realized the truth of

W801. ___ minor (myrtle)

W802. Trips of el sol

W804. England’s first poet laureate

W806. She’s flirtatious and extremely online

W808. Modern alternative to a newspaper strip

W810. Org. that X-rays shoes

W812. “Seeing ___ that all these things shall be dissolved”

W813. Separation of chaff from grain

W815. Little quarrel

W816. Army members, for short

W819. “Give me one example”

W821. Items I stared at compulsively as a young man, but now that I’m married and sophisticated, I can visualize them without…without…anyway, they’re, you know, thingies

W822. He adapted a Wells work to radio*

W823. 1970 Nobel physicist Louis (kneel before him!)*

W824. Ancient Italian language

W826. Lorelei, e.g.

W830. Constricting band

W831. Factor in ad valorem tax, e.g.*

W832. Wraps around

W833. Assembly-line product in classroom examples

W834. Mayo preceder

W836. Obstacle race near lumber yards

W838. Melodramatic

W841. Objects intuited but not seen

W842. More beefcakey

W844. They’re a bit narrower and deeper than soup plates

W846. Overly trusting

W848. Dodgers’ game?

W849. His last “best film of the year” vote went to Argo

W851. Add cash to a card

W852. Stewart’s “Vertigo” co-star

W853. Common flashlight fillers

W855. Disappearing act?

W856. Virtual filer

W857. Martin partner, once

W860. Proven statements

W861. Exhalations of discovery

W862. Game that helps you play pilot, for short

W864. My wife was worried I had this, but I’m just a loud snorer

W866. In want of

W869. It makes a whistling tea kettle whistle

W871. Chemist’s table salt

W872. Product’s ultimate purpose

W873. ___ Doggfather (1990s rap album)

W874. Waiters carry them

W875. “…___ the L I C I O U S” (“Fergalicious” lyric)

W877. Go for first

W878. Tat-tat start

W879. Process coffee beans

W880. Entered like a thief

W882. Cellular system structure

W883. Unflattering follow-up to “pharma” and “tech”

W884. Sushi bar purchases

W886. Impressive part on an elk

W887. “___ over when she laid down on your couch?” (Taylor Swift)

W889. Blueprint notation

W890. What the “w/” stands for

W891. Dance Around the Golden Calf painter Nolde

W892. Little charger?

W893. Ground grippers

W895. Lady of Las Palmas

W897. Close to and well-liked by

W901. “Harsh, girl!”

W902. Are in the future

W904. Native Latvians

W906. Inability to read due to brain trouble

W908. Iced tea garnish

W912. Breakfast cereal magnate

W913. Try to be where danger isn’t*

W914. Chaney and Fuller

W916. What auditioners roll the dice on*

W918. Scum unit

W919. Pork preparer and chain founder Bob

W920. Classic jazz combo

W921. Working title of Dorothy Meets the Blob?

W924. Hotel with a façade and interior design plugging its sponsors?

W925. “Come again?”

W928. Facelift

W930. Daryl of Kill Bill

W931. “Those movies where comedian Tyler wonders why he took a wife are popular: I recommend another sequel”?

W935. Superhero Bruce with some of his punching sound effects?

W938. Hidden from sight

W939. Specter

W940. Hang above, ominously

W942. Tally of reactions to a baby’s cuteness?

W944. Follow-up to “Thailand has embraced democracy; Vietnam hasn’t”?

W947. “When ___ eat?”

W948. “Nothing ___ importance”

W950. Meg and Paul, for two

W951. Some toothbrushes

W952. “Rules are rules”

W954. 1968 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit

W956. Home of Carthage College

W960. Blue flags, e.g.

W961. Singer Lambert

W962. Just painted

W963. Whilom spy gp.

W964. “___ From Muskogee” (1969 Merl Haggard hit)

W965. “This ___: To dwell in the Lord’s house all the days of my life” (Psalm 27)

W966. Behindness on rent

W969. Small slit

W970. Popular blogging platform

W971. Agitated state

W973. Three, in Tours

W974. Immunologist Salk

W975. Blog feed, for short

W976. Biters in Europe and Egypt

W980. Influential figure’s heyday

W981. Farewells from a tyke

W982. “Let’s think through where this leads us”

W984. Big boo-boos

W987. Sign to

W988. “Oh, ___!” (slangy “Uh-oh”)

W989. Furry friend of Chewbacca

W990. “___ Nui”

W991. ALCS and NLCS mos.

W993. Setting of Canyonlands National Park

W995. General ___ chicken (Chinese entree)

W996. Sullenly

W997. Appraising

W999. Dabbling duck with a steep forehead (var.)

W1000. Old sheriff’s badge

W1002. “Almost spilled that!”

W1003. “Easy now, big fella!”

W1006. Ubuntu, e.g. (abbr.)

W1007. Red Hot Chili Peppers love song

W1009. Toboggan, for example

W1010. She’s coming out

W1012. Ring ruling, briefly

W1014. Really just legal opinions by Islamic authorities

W1016. Oscar winner Meryl for The Iron Lady

W1018. Their ammo’s harmless

W1020. Ones behind bars

W1021. State of going with the flow

W1022. High School Confidential Mamie Van

W1024. “Just a ___ like one of us” (Joan Osborne line)

W1026. Flattery-based cons

W1028. Short section of track

W1029. Drums of African origin

W1030. Saison chaude

W1033. Bright bird

W1034. USAF refugee

W1036. Fox of Back to the Future

W1039. National auto body repair chain

W1043. Chopper blade

W1044. Encyclopedically

W1045. Outlet, e.g.

W1047. Campaigns against drugs and poverty, metaphorically

W1049. Ski report highlight

W1052. He heard every word of the grift

W1055. 1930s home run king

W1056. Chilled sounds

W1057. “No! Not ___ the world”

W1058. Family Guy tot who says, “Laugh and cry” in the opening song, not “Effin’ cry,” seriously, Dave, get your ears checked

W1060. Old draft classification

W1062. It has a Union (abbr.)

W1063. Showy kind of patriotism

W1066. Frost or ice, e.g.

W1068. Simple Lionel train layout

W1069. Device amplifying electromagnetic waves

W1072. Love letter abbr.

W1074. Soap actress González

W1075. “___ and answered”

W1080. The Jungle novelist Sinclair

W1081. Meticulous and type A

W1082. Powerfully built dog

W1083. Local resident, to a collegian

W1084. “To recap…”

W1086. Any way you can

W1088. Stagnation or stability

W1089. “Ohhh…sure!”

W1091. Tampax competitor

W1092. Caught visiting

W1094. Old-fashioned virtue.

W1096. R.V. park hookup option

W1097. Angora wool fabrics

W1098. Roost, so to speak

W1099. Openly declared

W1101. Give ___: make an odd statement to hide a reference to*

W1103. Siberian river

W1104. Glass Onion and Antebellum star Janelle

W1105. “I ___ old friend of ours today” (Sheena Easton lyric)

W1106. Sign that might show a “slipping and falling guy” emoji

W1108. Guiding principles

W1109. Shake your butt down to the dance floor

W1111. Small sample, as of alcohol

W1113. Dutch for “untouched”

W1114. Amts. specified by nutritionists

W1115. Automobile, informally

W1116. Plasmas, e.g.

W1119. Tritt of C&W

W1121. Waves at the beach

W1122. Chapeaux locales

W1123. Full of bogs

W1124. Intense

W1125. Subscriber’s action

W1127. Gabber’s gift

W1129. Mil. program for teen would-be soldiers

W1130. Tiny bit

W1131. Deprive Scorsese of benefits?

W1133. Swiss commune

W1135. LA shakes

W1137. Land of the Midnight Sun

W1140. “My cry rings out, betraying my nervous hesitation”?

W1144. Whatever will replace 2021’s most popular programming language? (I wrote this clue in 2021: turns out the answer was JavaScript)

W1146. Pittsburgh players under observation?

W1151. Come into possession of

W1153. Rock singer?

W1154. Interdiction

W1155. Milk cartons in a given aisle?

W1157. In armed conflict

W1158. Tramping in mud

W1159. Right-___ law (Taft-Hartley Act provision)

W1162. Prepared for the anthem, say

W1163. For a price, she’ll set you up with a hawt bod(?)*

W1167. Piglike in behavior

W1171. NBA legend Ming

W1172. Hammer-___ (guitar playing techniques)

W1174. Kind of ball game

W1175. Trademarks

W1176. Capricious notions

W1177. Showed up

W1181. Covers with chimney grime

W1182. Camp David pact signer

W1183. Healing technique that’s Japanese for “universal life energy”

W1184. Florida player trying to buck a bad rep at this writing*

W1185. Intl. treaty subject

W1186. “Oh, I’ll get that”

W1190. Each other’s fave peeps

W1194. Old slangy word of enthusiasm

W1195. Minor alterations

W1199. In a crude manner

W1200. Mo. of a Russian revolution

W1201. “He was not of ___ but for all time!” (Jonson on Shakespeare)

W1202. Age

W1203. Unusual peep show?

W1204. Would welcome an exit strategy

W1206. Sounds like leaves under little cat feet

W1209. Ed’s bud known as “Double D”*

W1210. “___ out?” (dealer’s query)

W1211. Walk, pace, etc.

W1212. Hellman’s alternative

W1214. Dunn, Ephron, and Roberts

W1216. Became a donor

W1217. Reliable Sources channel

W1218. Sugar servings

W1220. Certain photo prints

W1221. “She Bee Stingin’“ boxer Ali

W1223. Comes around

W1225. Football Hall-of-Famer Merlin

W1226. Make like a bunny

W1227. They’re depicted on New Zealand dollars

W1230. Biblical name

W1231. “___ the time!”

W1232. By mail

W1233. Puerto Rico hrs.

W1234. Home to the Woody Guthrie Center

W1236. Thine, in Torino

W1237. Like a flushing toilet’s water

W1240. It may be dragged and dropped

W1241. El Nino feature?

W1242. Saint and mystic of Spain

W1243. Weakened, in gaming slang

W1245. Mos Def collaborator Kweli

W1247. Bulletins and such

W1249. Small skillet

W1252. Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” producer Brian

W1253. Speak, as an opinion

W1254. Linotype machine partners (abbr.)

W1255. Become hardened

W1257. Game’s trail

W1259. Mad state

W1260. Take ___: read some social cues

W1262. Main thrust

W1263. “Just gotta finish this real quick”

W1266. Activation phrase for an iPhone user

W1267. Mother in The Family Circus, or thing you take when accepting defeat

W1269. Art of piano?

W1271. One with a place of honor

W1273. Mon. ___ Fri.

W1274. Seismologist’s concern

W1275. Ball game with roots in Ancient Rome (var.)

W1276. 20 ___ = 1 oz. troy

W1278. Taito and Namco rival

W1280. Bigfoot relatives

W1282. “Great public schools for every student” org.

W1283. “Well, point one…”

W1285. Herbaceous plants that lead to beers

W1286. Owl’s question?

W1287. Relegated to outsider status

W1289. High-end sets of wheels

W1292. Sometime plural of “nix”

W1293. 91, to Nero

W1294. New York’s first luxury hotel

W1295. NBC show that’s 72 years old in 2023

W1296. Chastain-Malkovich rogue-spy thriller

W1298. Folkloric, impish fairy that might get you to drop trou*

W1300. More ticked

W1302. Nonstandard product-tracking no.

W1303. “___ your chance!”

W1304. MBA or MD, e.g.

W1305. Ash receptacles

W1306. Tool used for making baseball bats

W1307. Lords’ lands

W1309. Deer dudes

W1311. Sound from a psi who’s picking up others’ gloom*

W1312. Internal fat remover

W1313. ___ of My Soul (story of the first woman conquistador)

W1314. Futurama character who curses in Cantonese

W1315. Get on the exchange

W1316. Gleason’s “And away ___!”

W1317. Acrobat might be used for it (abbr.)

W1318. Baseball’s Al, AKA the Hebrew Hammer

W1320. Jason of Knocked Up

W1321. Most extreme degree

W1322. SW corner key

W1323. It may be protected by a tiny dam

W1326. Containing carbamide

W1327. Reporter’s word

W1328. Like singles

W1330. Handled without care

W1332. Wishful (that)

W1334. Didn’t, previously, with “to”

W1336. Makes weary from overuse

W1337. Holds onto, despite circumstances

W1339. Scrappy-Doo’s uncle, to Shaggy

W1341. Romeo and Juliet actor Milo

W1343. Four o’clock, to some

W1345. Hooded garments

W1346. Frodo’s home, with “the”

W1347. Japanese salad herbs.

W1349. Produce cross words?

W1351. Spanish shawls

W1355. Decimal fig. for elements

W1357. “Not too much, laddie, just ___ bit o’ Scotch”

W1358. Strong suits

W1359. William ___ + Co. (brokerage)

W1360. Acquire knowledge

W1361. “Pass the Pabst”

W1363. Looks fabulous, in slang

W1365. Less phony

W1366. One out?

W1369. Sprigs

W1370. Like certain nail polish or old TV

W1372. Church calendars

W1374. News anchor Paul

W1378. Pre-req for some HS classes

W1379. Bulgaria’s largest city

W1380. Man behind the counter?

W1381. Pokémon trainer who comes on too strong

W1383. Of Old Norse poems

W1385. Passed on the trail

W1386. River in China

W1387. Farrow of The Purple Rose of Cairo

W1388. One who just lost a parent?

W1390. Soap for cleaning sheep?

W1391. The ___ of San Francisco (early Michael Douglas series)

W1393. Pedometer’s measurement

W1395. Common French verb

W1396. Irish mountain shadowing Irish poet Thomas?

W1398. Totally into the Christmas spirit?

W1400. Grim choice between food and drugs?

W1402. Sometime Flash Wally

W1403. Sioux home

W1404. Graham, Washington, and Stewart

W1405. Was outcompeting hockey legend Bobby?

W1407. Showed disinterest?

W1409. Spike Lee’s alma mater

W1410. Protector of the Enchanted Forest

W1412. A-Rod and J-Lo’s daughter

W1413. Household spirits

W1414. Reading of 0 or 360

W1416. Sites of auto dents

W1418. Rock site?

W1420. Staind song that sounds like it could be about sushi?

W1421. Caitlyn Jenner’s son, or actor Adrien

W1422. Chain that once owned MGM but never recovered from its lows in the early 2000s*

W1423. Some TV spots, briefly

W1424. Opposite of legato, in mus.

W1426. Frenemy to Sherlock

W1427. Payment app that’s owned by PayPal

W1428. “Far” from Scotland?

W1429. Steinbrenner, for one

W1430. Angela of Soul or Joshua of “Lie, Lie, Lie”

W1431. Mensa member, figuratively

W1433. Make even slicker

W1434. Tanqueray and Bombay, to name two

W1435. They move real estate, for short

W1436. Drinks said to be good for what ails ya*

W1437. Eyeball, online

W1439. “___ hell”

W1440. WWW-based market for hotels, flights, and tickets and reservations

W1441. French king or Star Trek character

W1442. GM purchase of ‘89

W1444. Paleontologist’s workplace

W1446. Lifts at the gym

W1447. “Congress shall make ___ respecting…”

W1448. Instructables rival of old

W1449. Pits within pits

W1454. What Horton heard

W1456. Aristotle Onassis, e.g.

W1458. “Ich ___,” phrase on older tuppence

W1459. Mom’s reaction to “Mom, I’m going into professional crossword-making”

W1461. Use soap and water

W1462. Salary plus bonuses, for short

W1463. 1200, in old Rome

W1464. Come down, as an eagle

W1466. Like some reasoning

W1468. Humorist Mort who wrote jokes for Kennedy

W1469. “The Sweetest Taboo” singer

W1470. Master baiters?

W1473. Guthrie and namesakes

W1474. Wilbur work

W1475. Mideast weight

W1477. Hypnotist’s command

W1480. God of poetry not yet seen in the Thor movies

W1481. Dict. equivalents

W1482. It has a crosspiece for a head

W1483. Exhibit lachrymosity

W1484. Tended to dawdle

W1486. Assured, with “up”

W1488. Manfred and Aimee

W1490. Sign on a score

W1492. “___, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown” (Keats)

W1493. Bends with the breeze

W1495. “It’s ___ good cause”

W1496. Gov’t agency headed by Charles Jeffress

W1498. Chemist’s object named for a volcano

W1500. Returns from avatar-death

W1504. Prayer joint

W1505. The Cryptologic Museum holds its artifacts

W1506. More relaxed

W1507. Victimizes, with “upon”

W1508. Get out of Her Majesty’s Service

W1509. Not yet possessed

W1511. France’s ___ Niortaise River

W1513. Number in Nicaragua

W1514. Garden tool you can lean on

W1515. Effrontery

W1516. “___ pronounce…”

W1517. It keeps grass even

W1519. Know, to Shakespeare

W1521. Puts in a warehouse

W1523. Prefix with -prene

W1524. Melted frosts

W1525. Close-call cries

W1526. Relating to the palm of the hand

W1527. ___ count (blood-test measure)

W1529. Acoustic measures

W1531. Unsmiling

W1532. Baste, e.g.

W1533. Econ. stat

W1534. Sports assn. headquartered near Disney World

W1535. Actor Jason of Star Trek: Discovery

W1537. 1973 hit subtitled “Touch the Wind”

W1538. Clamored for Fancy Feast, say

W1540. Combined area?

W1542. Packing abbr.

W1543. Sty residents, to an urban Londoner

W1544. XXW, in shoes

W1545. Market-watching cable channel

W1546. Pixar followed this up with Up

W1547. Barbecue brand

W1549. “___ lay me down…”

W1551. Formula One auto engine

W1552. ___ de joie (“rat-a-tat-tat”)

W1553. Naut. heading

W1554. Montez in Arabian Nights

W1555. Model Kloss

W1556. Words beginning a concession

W1558. Prefix for a hard, glassy mineral

W1561. “___-hoo!” (“You there!”)*

W1562. Easily changeable locks

W1564. “I wish you the best”

W1567. Pitching coach’s source of stress

W1571. Necklace decoration

W1572. Places for organ repairs, briefly

W1574. Contemptuous responses

W1576. Half-French, humorous expression of disappointment

W1578. One enlarging pictures, say

W1580. O’Neill issue

W1581. Don’t expect too much of yourself

W1582. ___ in stone

W1584. Star Wars villains

W1586. Summoning ringer

W1588. Eye-shaped window

W1590. Mighty Mouse foe, ___ Harry

W1591. Garfield’s “owner”

W1592. Having ___ hair day

W1594. Place for people to be themselves

W1598. “Never available before!”

W1601. Department or river in southern France

W1602. Modifier with an old-fashioned attempt at gender neutrality

W1603. Director Fritz

W1604. “Old” conservative sort

W1605. Give strength to

W1607. Esperanto forerunner

W1609. Amtrak stop (abbr.)

W1610. Brief time, in brief

W1611. “Great work(, girl)!”

W1612. Ocean named for an imaginary continent (abbr.)

W1613. Military sleuths (abbr.)

W1614. Stopped before it started

W1615. “Table ___ four…”*

W1617. Pope from 440 to 461

W1619. What to do with a tye*

W1620. Maker of life-and-death decisions, briefly

W1622. Like strategies that involve a change of direction

W1623. Rival composer of Mozart

W1624. Software menu option

W1626. Cartman, by birth

W1628. Where Yankee Doodle stuck a feather

W1629. Treating kindly

W1630. Retailing in

W1631. Pollinator on flowers you can’t drive to?

W1632. Entry points after shedding werewolves invade the subway?

W1635. Go through the first part of a washer’s cycle?

W1637. Book, in Brittany

W1638. Housing survey by Fannie?

W1640. Seasoning that doubles as coloring?

W1643. Crab-cake discards from the Pine Tree State?

W1646. Gin order heard at Homer’s bar?

W1648. Acknowledge guilt of

W1649. Fatigued

W1650. She foresaw Indian flatbread’s popularity?

W1654. Hind in a habit?

W1655. One place for seafood

W1656. Photog. abbr.

W1657. The girl from Ipanema’s mother?

W1659. ___ a rail

W1661. One-time veep Humphrey

W1662. Rival of 1-800-FLOWERS

W1663. Wavy lines are signs of them*

W1665. Agnus ___: prayers preceding Holy Communion

W1666. Christ’s Entry into Brussels painter James

W1667. “An ill wind that no one blows good”

W1669. Donahue on Father Knows Best

W1670. Didn’t need an alarm

W1675. Paradoxically, this word means “de-freeze”

W1676. Gardener’s soil

W1678. ___ de sel

W1679. 1960s White House daughter

W1680. Grammy winner at age 14

W1681. London ___ (big name in raincoats)

W1682. Coolest, in rap slang

W1683. Delicatessen meat

W1685. Starts giving out stocks

W1687. Some offensive linemen (abbr.)

W1688. Studying secondarily

W1691. One without a chance

W1693. Nobody employees in the system

W1694. Minster seat

W1696. At the age of (Lat.)

W1698. Casino game with a bank

W1699. A, to Bismarck

W1700. “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” e.g.

W1701. Cinematographer Nykvist

W1702. Mitterrand’s party (abbr.)

W1703. ___ gratia artis (art for art’s sake)

W1704. One of 24 in un jour

W1705. Jerome Powell’s agcy.

W1706. TV control abbr.

W1708. Buddy, slangily (I don’t usually use the word “slangily”)

W1710. Mural lead-in

W1712. Company that sells stationery and lighters

W1713. Years, in the Yucatan

W1714. Toyota crossover succeeding the Scion

W1715. Article with Alamos

W1716. Some CBS spinoffs of 2004-2016

W1718. Guide feature?

W1720. What comes from the mine

W1723. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus or the Get Up Kids

W1724. What makes some piracy punishable

W1727. Five-syllable cars

W1728. Tank-top-like wear

W1729. “Gangnam Style” genre, for short

W1731. Little break

W1733. Bus. hybrids

W1734. So, so cute

W1735. Envelope material (var.)

W1737. Chocolatier behind Nutella

W1739. Like codeine to morphine

W1742. Large drop of whipped cream

W1744. “___ reminds me…”

W1745. Earth, from wayyy out in space

W1747. Bard of Avon, briefly

W1748. Bits and pieces

W1750. ___ Jon (eveningwear brand)

W1752. Animal science

W1756. Exciting upset

W1757. Units in scoring

W1758. It recommends the author-date method of in-text citation

W1759. ___ cow (blew up)

W1760. Nukes and the like

W1761. “That’s extremely funny!” in e-mails

W1762. Beings in Descartes’ writings

W1764. Risqué, like certain knowledge

W1765. Private Provo school

W1766. Word with trap or storm

W1767. “Ain’t that somethin’!”

W1768. Free samples stipulation

W1769. Tune that translates roughly to “My Sun”

W1771. NYSE deals

W1773. Summer hrs. in Georgia

W1774. Real estate website

W1775. Group of social networking friends, in outdated slang

W1776. Seeing ___ tree: sign you’re in the tropics

W1778. Hyperbolic function in trigonometry

W1780. ___ Pea of Popeye strip

W1781. Youngster in the Hundred Acre Wood

W1782. Gothic church geometries

W1783. Nissen ___

W1786. Big name in news services (abbr.)

W1787. Apt. meas.

W1788. “You must ___ you wouldn’t have come here” (the Mad Hatter)

W1789. Not divine

W1790. “There was no other choice!”

W1792. Nursery rhyme or theme song

W1793. Malayan gibbon

W1794. What “voy” means

W1795. Crying

W1796. Make silly faces

W1797. 2014 World Cup setting, briefly

W1798. Golf course admonishments

W1799. Reel-to-reel speed measure (abbr.)

W1800. Some passages

W1802. Wee Woosnam

W1803. “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-___”

W1804. Rawhide role for Eastwood

W1805. Where some build their castles

W1806. Serial ___: they’re not ready to settle down

W1808. Heroin, informally

W1810. Draft agency

W1811. Large, feathered runner

W1812. Hashtag that celebrates nostalgia

W1814. Jaguar, for one

W1817. Like a bribe

W1819. Spice Girl also known as Sporty Spice

W1820. First of the Plantagenet kings

W1821. Concert souvenirs

W1823. Garbage made one?

W1824. Jazz great Gerry

W1826. Rainbows’ arcs may remind you of these boats*

W1827. Like the Arabic numeral system

W1829. In ordinary language

W1832. Drive back?

W1833. Adults, male

W1836. Discontinued brand of Keebler crackers

W1837. Raises, in a way

W1838. Handled handily, with “through”

W1840. “___ of Wine, a Loaf of Bread…” (Omar Khayyam)

W1842. Became taut

W1844. Maquillage items

W1848. Shout in which startlement meets delight

W1849. “Do the ___”*

W1851. “…___ he drove out of sight…”

W1852. Foundation for folks who are at least 50

W1853. Web service to let you buy/do anything except oppose the government*

W1854. 7 Faces of Dr. ___ (1964 film)

W1856. Not bending the arrow of a wind’s vector too much*

W1857. “…which, ___ see it, is a tragedy…”

W1858. Does an encore broadcast of

W1859. Pearl Jam’s debut album

W1860. Famed femme fatale of espionage

W1861. Answer to “When’s Dae getting back?”*

W1865. “Was ___ hard on them?”

W1867. Half-___ (foolish person)

W1868. From which

W1869. N.Y. subway line

W1870. 1nt3rn3t “5p34k” th4t th15 c1u3 15 typ3d 1n

W1871. Gathered at one spot

W1872. Foundation supports

W1874. The Hunger Games star, familiarly

W1876. ___ Hause: England mountain pass

W1877. G-rated cry from one in pain

W1878. Missouri relative

W1879. “Never seen that before!”

W1881. Shouts disapproval at Rickman’s Snape performance?

W1884. “Expect a weight on a string to pay off my debt”?

W1886. Doctors who bone up on their studies?

W1889. Numerological statement that assigns comedian Davidson an irrational figure?

W1892. Did just as well at painting as Chagall?

W1894. Person handing out chocolate cigars, maybe

W1895. Walking stick for actor Liotta?

W1897. Subplot involving the development of weather forecasting?

W1899. Tendency to deep sleep

W1903. Private vehicle to get director Michael to shooting locations?

W1906. Line to the bathroom?

W1909. Moving jerkily

W1911. Meghan of Sussex or Catherine of Cambridge

W1912. Scavenging insects that make doting moms

W1913. ___ Us

W1914. The Lightning-Struck Tower, for one

W1915. Discontinued brand-name lawn dart, familiarly

W1916. Toil, so to speak

W1917. In their eyes, the motion should pass*

W1918. They make many X-ings

W1919. His in Hyeres

W1920. Dried out, perhaps

W1921. Jaguar, e.g.

W1922. Web metric found in DRAINPIPE

W1923. WARP, in baseball, e.g.

W1924. It comes with proverbial laurels

W1925. Something to weave or spin

W1926. “I’m ___ boy!” (Pinocchio)

W1927. Precipitates in winter

W1929. Common household chore

W1930. Volumes of people

W1931. Point gotten through an error, in the MLB

W1932. Without regard for censor’s sensibilities

W1933. “This will ___ further!”

W1934. Film fighting FX

W1935. Name shared by pitching brothers Chi Chi and Diomedes

W1937. Put an unsightly mark on

W1938. Drug victim, briefly

W1939. Ghost noise

W1940. Pulitzer and Stalin

W1944. Big initials in news

W1947. Some parlor pieces

W1951. Ghosts or goblins

W1955. Red Sox star Big ___

W1957. Put ___ on (limit)

W1959. “Sure, but not ___ bad way”

W1960. Ovum-to-be

W1961. “___ will!”

W1963. Bonn byway*

W1965. Serves, as soup

W1966. Modifier for a desktop or phone prog.

W1967. Make a beeline for, quaintly

W1970. Cop stops, for short

W1973. Serves to reserve

W1974. Slangy negatives

W1975. “Away with thee!”

W1977. He-bear, to Julio

W1979. “Say hello to my little friend!” movie

W1981. Some LSAT takers

W1982. Mammal dogs keep picking fights with

W1983. Bucket used to cool booze and (by Michael Faraday) to test electricity

W1984. “How can ___ this…”

W1985. Roman enemy of yore

W1986. Source of ominous percussion in epic soundtracks

W1987. Norwegian herrings canned as sardines

W1989. Metric meaning “likelihood of this not being worth it” (found in BLITZKRIEG)

W1990. Infirmary

W1992. Noise, noise, noise, NOISE

W1993. Calpurnia’s robe

W1996. Dissent, in Bonn

W1998. Dese don’t make you look like you study good*

W1999. “How revolting!”

W2002. “___ A Good Day” (Ice Cube song)

W2006. Both sides of noon?

W2007. Official papal body

W2009. Portlandia airer

W2010. “Wash away my sorrow, take away my pain” song

W2011. Add more lanes to, as a highway

W2012. Fictional sleuth Nancy

W2013. Aches and pains

W2014. Doing some lifting

W2016. Hgts. go-withs

W2017. “Keep mum or get sued” doc

W2018. Early TV’s Denise

W2019. Western capital (abbr.)

W2022. Garmin guesstimate

W2023. Systemic suffix

W2024. Barbecue sandwich topping in Memphis

W2026. Try again to block

W2028. Ghostbusters and Barbie actress Kate

W2029. Boots from Down Under

W2031. Discharges

W2033. Full of malaise

W2035. “Nature” writer’s initials

W2036. Excessively

W2038. Kuang-___ (Chinese emperor until 1908)

W2039. Guinea pig cousin

W2041. Suspicious and world-weary*

W2042. A lack of compassion

W2044. Pre-internet messages

W2045. Say or think

W2046. Reds pitcher Trevor

W2047. Practiced with cutlasses

W2048. Mega Bloks competitor

W2049. By the same

W2050. Stop understanding a dodgy situation

W2053. Lake in the Colorado River

W2055. Univ. course with macro and micro variants

W2057. Grab greedily, in slang

W2058. Reims rhymer

W2059. “Dang, that’s incredible!”

W2061. Check for the possibility that

W2063. 1872 novel to explore artificial intelligence

W2065. Morning host Kotb

W2066. Dialectical pronoun

W2067. Started working well with

W2069. Like a Channel purse

W2070. Roadrunner foil ___ Coyote

W2071. DeVito and Glover of screen

W2072. “I’d like to buy ___, Pat” (what one contestant said after taking a knee)*

W2073. Conor McGregor’s sport

W2076. Malware using your activities to profile you

W2079. Likely to spot a con or make one

W2080. “He will not ask ___ me” (Shelley)

W2081. Propecia or Viagra

W2083. The Night of the Iguana actress Sue

W2085. Ray of fast-food fame

W2087. ΔΔΔ, colloquially

W2091. “Poor venomous fool / Be angry, and dispatch” addressee

W2093. ___ for Outlaw (Grafton)

W2094. Less likely to be a trendsetter

W2096. Backer for

W2098. Earns as profit

W2099. Omelet ingredient

W2101. Actress Hedren

W2102. Rand of Atlas Shrugged

W2103. Roma’s hill count

W2104. Nast preceder

W2105. The Pequod’s co-owner

W2106. Source of some blog updates

W2108. Pee-processing enzyme found in soy

W2109. Human scale model

W2110. Museum ___

W2111. End of a Puzo trilogy

W2112. German depression?

W2113. Where the eagle has often landed

W2115. Element Rome led the world in producing*

W2117. Name for a cute little fellow

W2118. Preschoolers and such

W2120. Acts like a drone.

W2122. Out of control, maybe

W2124. French : merci :: German : ___

W2125. The Haunting of ___ Manor

W2126. Sartre as a student

W2127. “Softly, As ___ You,” 1960 pop song

W2129. GI Jill

W2131. Artwork featuring a housekeeper

W2133. Fruit in the shape of Oscar-winner Davis?

W2137. Ansari who played Tom Haverford

W2138. Escape, as determined by early probabilist Blaise?

W2140. Audio file concerning Ameslan?

W2142. Greater, in Shakespeare

W2143. Flower organ

W2144. Brought up to have understated humor?

W2146. Punished a route-finding app for violations?

W2148. Notify of peril

W2149. “His hands can squeeze the water out”?

W2153. Comedy icon Oscar

W2155. Soldier’s fare, for short

W2156. Jump in the pool

W2157. Part of t.i.d.

W2158. Where Clinton spent the late ‘60s

W2160. “Secret” singer or That Girl character

W2161. Rather modest skirt

W2162. “I really wish I hadn’t smelled that”

W2163. Answering service queue

W2165. Liquid refreshment

W2166. It gets clicks for flicks

W2167. Pvt., as a phone number

W2168. “Line”

W2169. Ornament that protects against evil, they say

W2171. Lb. or tn.

W2172. Pre-hurricane emergency op

W2173. “This q. was left blank”

W2175. They’re found in both passenger areas and engine

W2178. Onetime boxer Lee

W2179. Jeanne ___

W2181. Holy sprinkler

W2182. Bounty hunter’s payoff

W2184. Structural chart type, informally

W2185. “That was my cue”

W2187. Gem weight measure

W2188. Metallic elements (abbr.)

W2189. Pepsi alternatives

W2190. Runner Torrence

W2191. It may have an equalizer

W2194. ___ once (not how a four-way intersection should go)

W2195. Google WiFi or Orbi alternative

W2196. Balin and Claire

W2197. Connects via cables

W2201. Buenos ___

W2202. “Scots, wha ___…”

W2205. Muse of mime

W2206. Wii player characters

W2210. Nanak follower

W2212. The nanny in The Nanny

W2213. News for the nose

W2214. Whined, as about not being able to get into a walled city*

W2218. Short criminal?

W2220. “Etc.” in texts, or oat topper

W2221. Cattle units, briefly

W2222. Scan, as a credit card

W2223. Barrister Clooney

W2224. Sucked face

W2226. Argo spy gp.

W2227. The “Fat” of “Fat Tuesday”

W2228. Pedestrian bridge

W2229. Future ensign

W2230. Texter’s “didn’t need to know that”

W2231. Palm Smartphone

W2232. Decisive downfall

W2233. Handhelds released in 2004-2005

W2234. Part of TNT

W2236. Cyber-opinion letters

W2237. Small endocrine

W2239. Large goblet

W2241. Org. for movie helmers

W2242. Ask e-mailers from the ‘90s about this lang.

W2243. Graphic material with no gray areas

W2245. Gymnasium adjunct

W2247. Book before Esther, abbreviated

W2249. Affix on with an ice-shell

W2251. Polaroid product

W2252. Obsolete Mideast ruler

W2256. Genes that encode blood type

W2258. School year, for short

W2259. Cause of blanching

W2260. Act the couch potato (with “out”)

W2262. ___ about

W2263. Reasons for madness, in a now-cult 1936 film

W2265. Dug a tunnel in

W2266. Left over, as one out

W2267. Ice in Germany*

W2268. Coming into possession of

W2270. Part of the NCAA (abbr.)

W2271. Inits. on old typewriters

W2272. Composer of The Vagabond King

W2274. Whoopass can opener?

W2276. Precedes in and out

W2277. Cable modem alternative, briefly

W2278. Creates a potion

W2280. Little scrap, as of wit*

W2282. The Lone Ranger star

W2285. Axis/Allies event, briefly

W2288. Previously owned

W2289. Abbr. on a letter to Manhattan

W2291. The Problem with ___ (2017 documentary)

W2292. Physics energy abbr.

W2293. They may be affected by turbulence

W2294. Sudden rush

W2295. Medieval romance tale

W2296. Sch. with a Vancouver campus

W2297. Alaskan city where Sarah Palin was once mayor

W2298. New York paper that published the first crossword

W2299. Shrek’s FX

W2300. Like some scales, for short

W2301. Bimonthly magazine named for its target demographic

W2303. Stimulant, as shortened in a coffee order

W2305. Typewriter signs sometimes used as anarchist A’s

W2307. Etching tools

W2309. Stars and stripes, say

W2311. BYU owner

W2312. Gravelly sound

W2314. Travels in a lane, maybe

W2316. Baddies break them

W2318. Significant other

W2319. Illness sometimes spread by restaurants, in brief

W2320. Hawaiian wild goose

W2321. Remained idle

W2323. Ex-Met pitcher known as “Dr. K”

W2325. Performed in a think tank

W2327. “California, here ___…”

W2328. Downers, for short

W2329. Org. that enforces patent and trademark

W2330. “Caballo” catchers

W2331. 2023 prequel

W2332. Work out in advance

W2333. Great jazz pianist of the mid-20th century

W2335. Strike preludes, often

W2337. Singers Clark and Rogers

W2339. Flat answer?

W2341. Fokkers and Sopwiths

W2342. Low in the lea

W2343. Monopoly duo (abbr.)

W2345. Call to the workers of the world

W2347. Take some wheels

W2349. 1960s R&B brothers

W2351. Movie release

W2354. Old D&D company

W2355. Postwar West German chancellor Ludwig who wrote Prosperity Through Competition

W2356. What you might do with a good book

W2357. Throw for ___: upset

W2358. “The ___ Love” (Ella Fitzgerald golden oldie)

W2359. “I’ll skip it”

W2360. Moved stealthily, slangily

W2361. “The World’s Best Mattress”

W2362. Megan of The Blacklist

W2363. Hawaiian priests

W2364. Captain Morgan’s rival

W2365. Lively comedies

W2367. People of Arabia.

W2369. Complicated undertaking

W2370. Rent to ___: purchasing option

W2371. Dorothy the explorer (Oz-splorer?)

W2373. Editorial feature

W2375. Feeling friendless

W2376. Craving

W2377. Biology class letters

W2378. Tournament player Habib

W2380. Beverage made from fermented milk

W2381. Species name for the Sumatran orangutan, who gets a belly when sexually mature*

W2382. Mollusk with its name over the title?

W2386. What Jack’s beanstalk did

W2388. Looks over TV continuity for confirmation?

W2391. Equipped with underground plumbing

W2392. Letter addenda

W2395. Allow to ooze

W2397. Book about the writing style of the Mongols?

W2400. Heche or Francis of the screen

W2401. Now-forbidden German song like “Die Hitlerleute”?

W2404. Exhaled hook-shaped puffs?

W2405. Els and Johnson of sport

W2406. Brings misery to the world

W2408. Apostrophe-sign that sounds like the pause in “uh-oh”

W2409. Let see one’s proverbial big stick

W2411. Binding exchanges

W2412. Rule with ___ of iron: dominate cruelly

W2413. Hogwarts house

W2415. Aunt Bee concern

W2418. Sandwich choice

W2419. Breakfast or brunch order, often

W2421. Tibetans and Thais

W2422. Exasperated

W2424. Stable sounds

W2425. Civil War battle site

W2426. New England pop

W2427. Contrasted with

W2430. Search targets

W2431. Clement Clarke Moore opener

W2433. Japan Golf Tour Organization chairman Aoki

W2434. Cleaving tools

W2435. Ancient Roman skullcaps

W2436. Signaled incorrectly, as an actor

W2439. “Into the Great ___ Open” (Tom Petty)

W2440. 99 Sugar Bowl champion

W2441. Gusto

W2442. Indo-European native

W2443. Comes out for the first time

W2445. 1982 movie that looks like a rave

W2446. Flamboyant

W2447. Greatest of all, as a court

W2448. Lower jaw’s midpoint

W2449. Movie for which Charlize Theron won an Oscar

W2451. Do a Hamelin job

W2452. Throat tissues

W2454. “No need to introduce us”

W2456. Rime-cold giant of Norse myth

W2458. Legislature at Paris

W2459. Backpack fillers

W2461. Floating algae

W2463. News channel owned by CNN

W2464. Members of a Nebraskan tribe

W2465. Wedge part in a wedge

W2467. Word capitalized from the 1980s into the mid-2010s but now lower case

W2469. Message starter, for short

W2470. Thick Indian pancakes

W2472. Not too sharp, as a sound recording

W2473. Insects who eat insect-eaters

W2475. Sirloin servings

W2476. Food drive collection

W2477. Collages author

W2478. Elec., e.g.

W2479. Rockabilly Marvin

W2481. Artist Guido

W2482. Pt. of the UK

W2483. Home state of the Volunteers (abbr.)

W2485. Presses a suit?

W2486. Marijuana, some say

W2489. Recline, biblically

W2491. U-235, e.g.

W2493. Hum of an electrician?

W2494. Lose your marbles

W2495. Example indicators

W2496. Nobody’s pick

W2498. Baby wear

W2499. “Ain’t ___ to Treat a Lady” (Helen Reddy)

W2500. Indy 500’s 500

W2501. Literary heir to her Uncle John*

W2502. Rubs on an oilstone

W2504. Carpenter’s staple

W2505. Ship’s eventual destination

W2506. Vowels in “ohs”*

W2507. Stocks’ alternatives

W2508. Get further into the day

W2510. Dance-pop or house

W2511. Where Fermi went to college

W2513. It provides coverage

W2515. Prefix with faceted or cultural

W2517. Starting on

W2518. Equipped to eavesdrop

W2520. Docufilmer Morris

W2522. Assenting sounds

W2523. Competitive sprint

W2525. Opposite of sou’

W2526. Warehouse (abbr.)

W2528. Stretched (by)

W2529. Pikachu’s pal

W2531. Wattle and ___

W2532. Not worth the trouble

W2533. Transactions.

W2534. High cards

W2535. Tannish gray

W2536. Bowling ball targets

W2537. Be in store

W2538. Presumptions

W2539. “Othello” villain and “Aladdin” parrot

W2540. Very fast

W2542. Var. derived from weight and how many drinks you’ve knocked back*

W2544. Bullet point in a tech document

W2546. Gazelles of Tibet

W2548. Not many at all

W2550. Voyage for Spock

W2552. ___ wheels (car)

W2554. Flies without the instructor

W2556. Red Cross supplies

W2557. Acquire

W2558. Lends support

W2559. 2000 “Subway Series” losers

W2560. Put together well, as muscles

W2562. “Do you ___ tell the truth…”

W2564. “___ lone cowhand…”

W2565. Handled efficiently

W2566. Small figures

W2567. Comic cries of frustration

W2568. Colin who played Mr. Darcy

W2569. Casino developer Steve (what was the saying? The house will always win?)*

W2570. Venae ___: veins to the heart

W2571. Artist who drew Waterfall and Hand with Reflecting Sphere

W2573. Former USAF gp.

W2576. Try not to antagonize

W2578. Poi sources

W2580. Beer, say

W2582. Actress Mallet of Goldfinger

W2584. Wk. unit

W2586. One who scatters seeds

W2588. Honshu city

W2590. Make gentle fun of

W2591. “Atomic bomb” coiner

W2593. He’ll get the president reports, scheduling updates, hell, watermelon-ade if necessary*

W2594. “What ___ R and SQL?” (programming question)*

W2596. Woodworking tool

W2597. Deracinates

W2599. With a cautious eye

W2601. Beverage originally described as “masala ___”

W2602. “What ___ to be the problem?”

W2603. Burnoose feature

W2604. Captain America carries one

W2605. Like some modern carpets

W2606. Home Internet option from Microsoft, formerly

W2608. He served between two Edwards

W2609. Porkers

W2611. Businesswear

W2613. Lavin or Ronstadt

W2615. House votes

W2617. Famed soprano Melba

W2619. Islanders with a traditional whale hunt

W2621. Card game named for a frustrated cry

W2622. Brock’s specialties (abbr.)

W2623. Boy scouts, in Britain

W2626. Only just

W2627. Ship copies of Out to its proper demographic?

W2629. Small pens for quick lagomorphs?

W2632. Rabbits, if vegetables come to life and seek revenge?

W2634. Sprite, e.g.

W2635. “Naked” burrower

W2637. Emo type

W2639. Prayer book dedicated to contemplating one’s belly button?

W2642. Imprisons an African archipelago?

W2645. Agreement covering door frames?

W2646. Pens that don’t write?

W2647. Tool for awkward cuts

W2650. Making no bones about

W2652. Liverpool forward Mohamed

W2654. Slushy drinks

W2655. Is positive

W2657. That bunch

W2658. They might come by air

W2659. Madre’s man, by title

W2660. Bonny ones

W2661. Repayable on demand

W2662. Like 1984

W2664. “The Wall” writer

W2665. “Niiiice”

W2666. Tintype shade

W2668. Haul back to the garage once more

W2669. They get ground up

W2670. Robot with a name honoring a sci-fi writer

W2672. Rock intro?

W2673. “___, don’t fail me now!” (runs away)

W2674. Significant success

W2675. Murdoch operation founded in 2013

W2677. Potential new job requirement, informally

W2678. Some pickups

W2679. Cousins of Spots

W2680. Contest’s anticlimax

W2681. Political sides

W2682. Tyrion Lannister is one

W2683. Leg, in old, old slang

W2684. “Don’t Blame It ___” (reggae classic by the Congos)

W2685. 1970s Thunderbird options

W2686. Apple varieties

W2687. Five-letter trig abbreviation that doesn’t rhyme with “man”

W2689. Makes attempts

W2690. Designation for Picard’s ship

W2691. Athletic org. founded by Billie Jean King

W2693. Musical genre, in brief

W2695. Insert forcefully

W2697. Language of some N.M. Indians

W2699. Part of a flight of steps

W2701. Per ___ interest

W2702. What agua becomes, ere long*

W2703. “So long!”

W2704. M.D.’s guide to medicines

W2705. Tangible recognition

W2707. Poorly lit

W2708. ___ “King” Cole

W2709. Go for, as the heels

W2710. Sad, mad dad, in drama

W2711. Bobbettes hit

W2712. Pointed

W2713. Flow stoppers

W2714. Many radios

W2715. Her (Ger.)

W2716. Improve, in a way (with “up”)

W2717. Sleep with

W2719. Constitution pt., once it’s ratified

W2720. Attained

W2721. “…and ___ fine seam”

W2723. Subway station entrance (some enter it pirouette-style)*

W2725. Mark down, maybe

W2727. Frequent fast-food flavoring

W2729. Novelist Hammon who revised Tales of Old Inns*

W2731. State north of Calif.

W2732. Portfolio parts, briefly

W2733. 2009 Tobin Bell horror sequel

W2734. Johnny ___ (The fuzz)

W2736. Brawled

W2739. Become inedible

W2741. Lye, chemically

W2743. Franciscus TV drama of the sixties

W2745. Reveal, as a shoe in Shakespeare*

W2746. Stern decks on sailing ships

W2747. Lion-colored

W2748. Small lock of hair

W2749. Where District 9 was filmed, briefly

W2750. Oberlin College in 1833 was the first American school to be this

W2751. ___ tie

W2752. FF opposite, on a DVD player

W2755. “Cut! That’s ___!”

W2757. Virginie, par exemple

W2759. Wii figure who represented me, the player*

W2761. Be brazen

W2763. Be moved

W2765. Hair-raising place

W2767. Subgenre of Japanese romance

W2769. Table d’hôte feature

W2771. Ascertain

W2772. She discovered polonium

W2773. 1999 Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner

W2775. Often-abbreviated outburst

W2777. Starting words

W2779. Made a haunted house sound

W2780. Mottled steed

W2781. Lusty lass

W2782. 2001 DreamWorks hit

W2783. Waist type

W2784. Brief moments?

W2785. Invierno, primavera, verano y otoño

W2786. “___ Would-Be Terrorists” (amazing essay by Naomi Shihab Nye)

W2787. Brutal

W2789. Nearing the hour

W2791. “That’s news to me”

W2792. Parasite director Joon-ho

W2794. Kennedy arrs.

W2796. Sports show whose title references a few extra minutes in a game

W2798. Forerunners of trolleys

W2800. Gordon Lightfoot’s “___ It Again”

W2802. Regular practice

W2803. Like the Navajo language

W2805. Prozac alternative

W2806. The Fast and the Furious two, grammatically?

W2808. Butterfly and others

W2809. Sharp-eared kid’s rejoinder to “Oh, he is not”

W2810. Alison Krauss & James Taylor’s “___ the World Treating You”

W2811. Spirals

W2812. He could make Scarlett see red

W2813. Ecclesiastical capes

W2814. Video-game systems

W2815. Results of a coaches’ poll

W2817. Picture partner

W2819. Feature of DNA that influences aging

W2821. Org. supporting Hispanics in some Armed Forces

W2822. Shoebill’s cousin

W2824. Dictionary’s upside-down “e”

W2826. Natl. Merit Scholarship hurdles

W2828. One form of knowledge

W2830. Fruit recommended for your health

W2831. Barristers

W2832. Cosine reciprocals

W2833. Word before or after pack

W2834. Wedding seats

W2836. Convincing

W2837. Breadth, for short

W2838. Acknowledge applause

W2839. No more of a challenge

W2841. Set of notches that are sometimes crossed

W2842. It’s promoted by the Great Root Bear

W2843. Soothe the olfactory sense*

W2844. Morse whose music foreshadowed rock and roll

W2845. Journal published by future attorneys

W2847. One of this is enough pressure to turn oxygen solid

W2848. March sections

W2850. Attach, as a hair weave

W2852. Irish lullaby start

W2854. They listen to dictators

W2856. First name in Star Wars

W2858. “___ got a point...”

W2859. Junior Miss jewelry

W2860. Three Stooges laugh sound

W2861. Supplement to SS

W2862. ___ hearty meal

W2864. Overall opinion

W2866. “You’ve done enough”

W2868. Lugging of barbells?

W2872. Where sheep keep their planes?

W2874. Everyday routine of a carriage horse?

W2876. Church figure sometimes implicated in the death of Hypatia

W2877. “That ___ accident!”

W2878. Person on a mission

W2880. Repairs, as a chair

W2882. Tension between Gomez and Fester?

W2885. Gambler on the fortunes of cannabis?

W2887. Put a whole gold repository on a bowstring?

W2890. Hangs, in a way

W2891. Department-store section

W2892. ___ of Tarsus

W2893. Manilow or White of berry-sweet music*

W2895. Book on the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet with FDR

W2897. Loopy snare

W2898. Jenna and Barbara, to Jeb

W2899. “While-___” (repair shop sign)

W2901. Spy planes of the ‘60s

W2902. Lustful

W2903. ___ di Bassi, Capuchins’ founder

W2904. Wedding infinitive

W2905. Pleasant cadences

W2906. Cut off utterly

W2908. Famous words with “forget”

W2909. Dorsal part of the midbrain

W2910. Fully apparent

W2912. Brilliant or lucky (probably lucky) entrepreneur

W2913. Old Greek distance unit, related to a word for auditorium

W2915. Send away, in a way

W2916. Con men?

W2917. WWII mil. woman

W2918. True believer’s belief

W2919. Baby or nanny follower

W2921. Type of song

W2923. Weakling in spirit

W2924. Hyundai’s Ioniq or Kona

W2925. West Coast natl. monument since 2012

W2926. Close by, poetically

W2927. Missile containers

W2928. Symbol on Team Rocket uniforms

W2929. Set of “colonies” that founded an appliance-making giant

W2930. Mrs. Chaplin et al.

W2931. Appropriate cost of a piece of fish?

W2934. Tidy up the lawn

W2936. Lace again

W2937. Carried away, as property

W2939. Extending underneath

W2941. Nothing above the waist, so to speak

W2943. Applies the brakes

W2945. Active in the AM

W2946. Proofreader’s marking, perhaps

W2947. Fire’s leavings

W2948. Egg of old Rome

W2949. Clothing soundalike that’s a King Features subsidiary

W2952. Gingerbread house feature

W2954. The racer’s edge, commercially

W2955. New Year overseas

W2956. Lounges

W2957. Pic-sharing site with theme days and green upvote arrows

W2958. Two to midnight?

W2959. Bain Capital, for Toys R Us*

W2960. Airstream offerings

W2961. Uno or Twenty-One, e.g.

W2962. Lost, in a way

W2963. Crossed a ford

W2965. St. Kitts and ___

W2967. Polio-vaccine developer

W2968. Word after Japanese names

W2969. Legal memo’s “concerning”

W2971. Sometimes they battle

W2973. Unimpressed

W2975. Eldredge who sings “Wanna Be That Song”

W2977. South American tuber

W2978. NASDAQ unit, for short

W2979. Feet are divisions of a meter in this

W2980. Stabbed with a stiletto

W2983. Zip-dah interval

W2985. Apportioned out

W2987. “Hubba-hubba!”

W2989. Is on guard

W2992. Drink noisily, as soup

W2993. Pb, Cs, Fe, Xe, U

W2994. Sometime babysitter for her baby sister’s babies

W2995. 503 years ago

W2996. Assigned to peeling, in the army

W2997. Motor City NFLers

W2998. Dating scene returnee, maybe

W3000. Makes homier

W3002. Trumpeter’s try

W3004. Where Sydney is (abbr.)

W3006. Kindergarten equipment

W3008. Professors’ superiors

W3010. “Understood”

W3012. Industrialist Ivar (not to be confused with Freddy Krueger)*

W3015. Giant’s first word

W3016. Get bigger

W3017. Less prepossessing

W3018. Words of commendation

W3020. “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water,” e.g.

W3022. Back-slapping hand-shaking actions

W3023. ___-walsy (friendly)

W3024. Unclouded sky color

W3025. 42^nd Street song

W3026. Don’t just sound like

W3027. Title character Norma

W3028. M-1, for one

W3029. Black and white cartoon character

W3031. ___ Zulu

W3033. Webelos’ org.

W3034. Green beginner?

W3035. Little sea pikes

W3037. Really get het up (over)

W3039. Watch part

W3041. Kind of rice found in pudding

W3043. Promo pro, e.g., Peggy Olson

W3045. “Hey, it’ll all turn out fine!”

W3046. ___ Law: in a mix of nonreacting gasses, total pressure is the sum of all partial pressures

W3048. Country Philip Gourevitch has covered extensively

W3049. Ferdinand, for one

W3050. Palm grease

W3051. Weapons for dist. targets

W3052. Certain centers of development

W3053. Whacked, so to speak

W3054. Posthaste

W3056. Trapped in the branches

W3057. Nobelist in literature,

W3059. “Don’t fret”

W3061. Round Table addresses

W3063. Free-trade org. based in Jakarta

W3065. Parts of the Koran (var.)

W3067. Town subject of John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High”

W3069. Lead-in to “the above” or “your business”

W3070. Like most roads

W3071. Bakery come-on, perhaps

W3072. Gas station air pump meas.

W3075. “There was no choice for us”

W3077. Unsophisticated guy

W3078. Grimes’ middle name

W3079. Set down as rote, e.g.*

W3080. ___ a wet hen

W3081. Big shot

W3082. Good stuff in marijuana strains (uncommonly pluralized)

W3083. Moist towelettes

W3084. Policy experts

W3085. Strauss’s “Blue Danube ___”

W3087. Meal fixin’s

W3089. Gains on a shoestring budget, with “out”

W3091. Others on the Balearic Islands

W3093. Mona Lisa Vito, May portrayer*

W3095. What some Reno visitors do.

W3097. Prepare a movie for TV

W3098. Be there in spirit?

W3099. Sometimes-entitled, always-talkative viewers

W3100. Sound of a punch “right in the kisser”

W3103. Kendrick of Pitch Perfect and Trolls

W3105. Concert menu

W3107. ___-cos conversion (trig exercise)

W3109. Instruction to a frequent cameo star who has only a one-word line about a building material, but has to deliver it as if talking to a baby?

W3112. Throaty dismissals?

W3114. With periods of greater or lesser intensity

W3115. Dull impact sounds

W3116. Makes sure sees the email convo

W3119. Big name in photocopiers

W3121. Serious homebody

W3122. Spot where all the deer pray?

W3125. Subjects of a composition called “First Flight, in Flutes”?

W3128. Hartford competitor

W3129. Kids in funny shorts

W3130. Fuzz-covered fruit

W3131. It covers maritime court cases

W3133. Handshake go-withs, often

W3135. Quick comeback?

W3136. Diminutive plural suffix.

W3137. “___ more time”

W3138. Zen master’s riddle

W3139. Activates

W3141. Fashionista Thom who knows how to use light brown, muted gray, and black*

W3142. Play producer

W3143. Dance like a dervish

W3144. Anthony who advised two administrations on COVID

W3146. Clogs have thick ones

W3148. Tootin’ preceder

W3149. Lowest cervical vertebra

W3150. Jersey Shore star

W3152. The “good turn daily” I was taught as a scout

W3153. Truck wts.

W3154. “___that I live by is with the awl” (Julius Caesar)*

W3155. Well-___ (properly brought up)

W3156. Adjust in advance

W3157. “At the cheapest…”

W3159. “Have a sip!”

W3161. Work shifts or tours of duty

W3163. Landlocked Afr. nat.

W3164. Sleep tight…don’t let it bite

W3166. March tourney

W3168. Fraidy cat

W3169. Site admin’s focus, briefly

W3170. Singing septet sensation

W3171. Group food blog tracking restaurant openings and closings

W3172. According to Dave Barry, you say it “when you are in Great Britain or when you are angry, as in ‘And just ___ do you think is going to clean up after these elk?”

W3173. “Well, I never!”

W3175. Sold on ___-is basis

W3177. “___ the children who are wrong” (Simpsons meme)

W3178. Spike of cob

W3179. Modern wartime hazard, for short

W3181. Cream pie bull’s-eyes

W3183. Assignment

W3186. George Takei catchphrase

W3188. Francis Drake title

W3189. Took the junk out, perhaps

W3190. Egg-in-pork-in-pastry dish

W3191. “Don’t tell me, don’t tell me!”

W3193. One who cries “Uncle”?

W3195. Racing Unsers

W3197. ___ und Verklarung (Richard Strauss opus)

W3198. Old-time corsets

W3199. While undulating

W3200. What’s deserved

W3202. Barley bundler

W3203. Substitute word

W3204. High-level officials

W3206. Hardware that can store up to 4.7GB or 120 minutes

W3209. Akpan who wrote Say You’re One of Them and New York, My Village

W3211. Is foolishly fond

W3213. Gesture of happiness

W3216. Twain preteen

W3218. Text to which one might respond “im gr8”

W3220. Paw’s partner

W3221. Erich ___ Stroheim

W3222. Culls, as a herd

W3223. Getting closer to death or defeat

W3225. Civil rights activist Neas

W3226. Is helpless with laughter

W3228. Verbal test

W3230. Work stoppage

W3232. Expands, as a search

W3233. Vedic dawn goddess

W3234. Wasn’ an’ ‘ll never be

W3235. Amer. WWII ally

W3236. Brood about

W3237. Set in motion

W3238. Word after Protestant work or DIY

W3240. Dash preceder

W3242. Pulitzer-winning playwright Cruz

W3243. Pliant wood

W3244. Taunt in fun

W3246. No more common than

W3248. Like Scheherazade’s husband

W3251. Turned around completely

W3253. “Never stop improving” advertiser that hit some publicity lows in 2011*

W3254. Sonic creators

W3255. “When we are getting there” (abbr.)

W3256. Cheers the team on

W3258. Thaw anew

W3259. Like the clue to answer first, perhaps

W3260. Evidence of popular unrest.

W3262. Button that may be shared with “number lock”

W3263. Long, narrow hole

W3264. #s 18-20

W3265. Wedding cake doll

W3266. Its best place to see whales is Pembrokeshire*

W3267. Gap fillers, of sorts

W3270. Associated with bribery

W3272. “___ Eyes” (Eagles hit)

W3274. New, in Berlin*

W3275. Having ___: peeing

W3277. Blush

W3279. MgSO₄ in seawater or LiCN in ammonia

W3282. FDA-banned herbal supplement

W3283. Dan who tended to quail at serious political challenges*

W3284. Eradicates, as disease

W3285. Golfing trophy, often

W3286. Tanglewood’s ___ Ozawa Hall

W3290. Lacking a downside

W3293. “___ the Light” (gospel song)

W3294. Challenging to climbers

W3295. Screams insults at

W3296. Trumpet sounds, when muted

W3297. Boston boat birds

W3298. Most morose

W3300. Falstaff composer

W3301. What the Fresh Prince sometimes shot

W3303. Just ___ in the ocean: infinitesimal

W3305. Infiltrating

W3307. “___ Bobby McGee” (Janis Joplin song)

W3309. Emulated Mark Spitz

W3311. Spicy punch

W3313. Toon with a hunting hat

W3314. It’s got The Edge

W3315. Purple Heart and Medal of Freedom

W3317. Full-scale victory

W3320. Whereof in Djibouti

W3322. Beauty display

W3325. “Speaking frankly,” in texts

W3327. Popular PDF publisher

W3330. Water, in Wu Han

W3331. 1987-91 Mideast hostage Terry

W3332. Blenders

W3333. States of nothingness

W3334. Coventry cafe

W3336. Cookies that flavor some ice cream

W3338. Hushed

W3340. Death Star 2 site

W3342. Composer for Lord of the Rings

W3344. Abominable

W3347. Elin Nordegren’s nat.

W3349. Sendups

W3351. Aladdin’s genie (more so in the animated version), e.g.

W3352. Winter wish for many kids

W3355. Legal drama that begins with a scandal’s aftermath

W3359. Troupe dancing on the docks?

W3362. Beauties preparing fruit?

W3366. Practically canonize

W3367. Despite our own attempts (to live our lives), as Hamlet had it

W3371. Formula One driver Fernando

W3372. “Sorry, Shakespeare, but this play about wrestling needs more authenticity”?

W3377. Hairbow-wearing icon that’s a Disney-Nintendo crossover?

W3381. Tests one’s elbow strength

W3385. Linux rival

W3388. Demolished, as eight slices of pizza (I miss those days)*

W3389. Tiger’s domain (in the early 2000s more than now)

W3391. Hourglass figure feature

W3392. Like some billing periods

W3393. Try to get the essentials quickly

W3394. Foreshadowers

W3395. Encountered again

W3396. How dewy grass glistens

W3397. Still paying for

W3398. Sahara stop, hopefully

W3399. Abraham nearly sacrificed him

W3401. “Yesss!”

W3402. cummings creations

W3403. In the direction of

W3405. Discover as a group

W3406. Getting liquid from one container to another

W3407. Fish using a big net

W3408. Word before “do?” or “so?”

W3410. Big name in applesauce

W3412. Easy-peasy

W3414. ___ than: equal to

W3415. Inability to name things or people

W3416. Far from serious

W3417. Showed to be a noob

W3418. Exchanges of a sort

W3419. ___ out: declined to participate

W3420. One at an awkward age

W3421. Valley of Hercules’s lion

W3423. ___-Sketch

W3425. Dir. acronym

W3426. Triumphant shout by lucky Powerball players

W3428. “It’s cool between us, right?”

W3430. Bed frames

W3431. Body art

W3432. Mops the deck

W3433. Krone spender

W3434. ___ situation

W3436. How durable things are built

W3439. Leaks slowly

W3443. British WWII weapon

W3444. Came down in a blizzard

W3446. Nate or Nick of MMA

W3447. Not dat

W3450. Cut (down)

W3451. ___ ___, “A View to a Kill” group

W3452. Peek on a test, say

W3453. Rewriters, for short

W3456. Mining nails.

W3458. Kitchen riser

W3460. Hunting boat.

W3462. Oldies group ___ Na Na

W3464. Conceive ___: imagine to be

W3466. “Another thing went wrong!”

W3469. Prefix with body or freeze

W3470. Edgy jewelry item

W3473. It should answer the question, “Why buy?”

W3475. McHenry and Sumter

W3476. Walt Disney or Henry Ford

W3478. Answer to “who here used to be babies?”

W3480. Royal stat.

W3481. Abbr. for someone with just one given name

W3482. Him, in Hamburg

W3483. Portable enplaning bridge

W3484. Radiating light

W3486. Czech city with a Mies van der Rohe villa

W3487. He “floated like a butterfly” and stung like a Lee (Bruce copied his movements to further develop his own style)*

W3488. First name on the rialto.

W3489. “Wine... causeth all men ___ that drink it” (Esdras)

W3490. Sour-tummy

W3492. Ashlar, for one

W3494. More marketed song on the record

W3496. Vb. category

W3497. Early bird victim

W3499. Canadian with the song “Mushaboom”

W3502. Beginner

W3504. Musical Sumac

W3505. Act decisively

W3506. International Talk Like a Pirate Day mo.

W3507. Beads up

W3508. Most fed up with this freakin’ Republican Party, I swear to God

W3509. Mexican wraps

W3511. Solar-farm components

W3513. Double curve

W3515. Buffets or arrays

W3517. Jungle Book word for “tiger”

W3518. Pitch signs?

W3519. Wagner’s could fly

W3521. Places

W3522. Many of their pieces are nearly identical

W3524. Comic book hero from Hell

W3526. Gibberish

W3528. Pilgrim Priscilla

W3530. Comic actor ___ Baron Cohen

W3532. Brit’s buddy

W3534. Blogging site best enjoyed with a tumbler of beer*

W3536. “Thank you” in Oahu

W3537. Inheritor’s headache

W3538. “Beats me,” in texts

W3539. Persian Gulf capital

W3541. Transparent Emmy-winner Jeffrey

W3543. Powers and Wagner, on TV

W3544. Bridal sweeper

W3545. Place to hide

W3549. Important place to presidential hopefuls

W3551. Keeps in continual retreat

W3553. TV headline ticker

W3555. Opening of “Jabberwocky”

W3557. Hazard in old homes

W3560. (500) Days of Summer, Amazing Spider-Man and Snow White director

W3564. Moon named for the mother of a giant

W3565. Poet, painter, and printmaker William

W3566. Get ready to run again

W3567. Cop’s cruiser

W3568. Judge’s room visitors (abbr.)

W3570. “That ___ great shot!”

W3572. Words said to a back scratcher missing the mark

W3574. All-time best-selling Frank Sinatra album (1993)

W3576. Relatives of Mmes.

W3578. Stuck it out

W3579. Gamer’s stick?

W3580. Old-fashioned prescription measure

W3582. Excited at the thought

W3583. Waterloo’s place

W3584. “You go, girl!”

W3586. Harry Potter’s professor

W3587. Useful mooring point in light bondage play

W3589. Sudden outpourings

W3591. El ___: legendary treasure city

W3592. Carroll critter

W3593. Remus’ Bear and Rabbit

W3594. “Office space and workspace solutions” company filing for bankruptcy at this writing

W3595. “OhGEEZthatreallyhurts!”

W3596. Acquire through merit

W3597. Run for it!

W3599. Lynda Carter’s most famous role

W3602. Actor Patrick Harris

W3603. Half of VI

W3604. Crude source

W3606. Knife or fork

W3607. Medical solution

W3608. Trinity

W3609. Drunk busts

W3610. It might be 34B or 34C

W3613. Guy who putts with a broom, say*

W3615. American patriot Deane

W3617. Angora rabbit or sheep, e.g.

W3618. Plane-wing part

W3620. Had as a hobby

W3622. Boulogne business abbr.

W3623. Full of streaks

W3624. Certain ones on the sidelines

W3626. Seriously shifts sails

W3627. Romantic beginning

W3629. Major Eur. oil exporter

W3630. Traps by stealth

W3632. Vietnam’s ___ Dinh Diem

W3633. Communist inspiration in Prague?

W3635. Go skiing and wine tasting with one disembodied collection of thoughts?

W3637. Youngsters in petting zoos

W3638. Riot ___ (‘90s punk rocker)

W3639. Go sky-high

W3640. Midriff

W3642. Be a little above average

W3644. Poker chip

W3646. Substance that’s a subgenre of YouTube videos

W3647. Preserve deep-red veggies in foil?

W3649. Calm finish to a golf game?

W3651. Homeseller’s helper (abbr.)

W3652. “Never done this before, but I can handle it,” e.g.

W3653. Brewery feature

W3654. Contemporary of Zhou

W3655. Like some country music

W3658. Neighbor of the Bowery

W3660. Chew on like a rodent

W3662. Rte. with orange cones, often

W3664. With a preceding slash, this letter is the “sarcasm switch”

W3665. “Put the ball on ___” (Nicklaus advice)

W3666. “I just ___ huge pot!”

W3667. Director Lee, and…um. The Avatar hero, if you shorten his name? No, famous-people-wise, it’s pretty much just director Lee and “namesakes”

W3668. “Dad-sizzle it!”

W3669. Laddies

W3670. Row of stables, in Britain

W3671. Wood shop item

W3673. Deprive of mother’s milk

W3675. Big name in chainsaws

W3677. Man’s name meaning “man”

W3678. Roots or The Lord of the Rings

W3679. Major with the Big Dipper

W3680. Man, to Italians

W3681. Bus. structure option

W3682. “I mean, more or less”

W3683. Drop to the floor, statistically speaking

W3684. Platoon or squadron, e.g.

W3685. Inherited estates, in India

W3688. Give two out of ten, say

W3690. Vitamin additive

W3692. Come to mind (to)

W3693. UK import

W3694. Serious withdrawal condition that crossword clues are sometimes a little too cute about

W3695. Make untidy

W3696. K-5

W3697. Initials of failure

W3698. Vowelless landforms

W3699. One of a skyscraper’s many

W3700. Knawel or spurry

W3701. Word encompassing weird Old-English ideas about fate*

W3702. Attachment for “men” and “cap”

W3704. Winter sight

W3706. Take the wrong way?

W3708. Else, in Scotland

W3710. Was a guide

W3711. Math thing that can be square or cube

W3712. Tours taken?

W3713. Disdainful cry

W3714. Comm. giant (abbr. of what’s already an acronym)

W3715. On ___ (in control)

W3716. “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” singer with jet-black hair*

W3717. “Where the hell did you hear THAT?”

W3718. Maize construction*

W3719. Cote girls

W3721. Farm piece

W3723. Off the table, perhaps

W3725. Political gp. founded in 1848

W3727. Plural that pits car marketers against Latin scholars

W3728. Tot, even more quaintly

W3729. River islands

W3730. Unimpressive sort

W3731. It finds ways to make shoes without using plastic

W3733. Ash or aspen

W3735. Aleppo, once

W3737. Quarterback’s option

W3739. Corp. executives

W3740. Applique with needle and thread

W3741. “Reasonable Doubt” rapper

W3742. Heavily monitored areas, for short

W3743. It’s better than no loaf

W3745. Photoshop folks

W3747. Non-clergyman

W3749. Certain Jewish community center

W3751. Slacken

W3753. Specialized knowledge

W3758. Not sex-dependent, genetically

W3767. Character in Lost, Barack Obama’s Kenyan uncle, and others

W3769. Deeply engrossed

W3770. Latin for “intrinsically”

W3771. Common bait

W3773. Spectral glide, in jazz

W3775. ___ Fein (Irish political party)

W3777. Half of Mork’s sign-off, on Mork & Mindy

W3778. They make an even yard

W3781. My desires

W3790. It takes many person-hours to complete

W3794. One-time comics teen now in Cathy’s demographic

W3795. Soldiers Douglas MacArthur would wax poetic about*

W3796. Currency the BoT uses*

W3797. Track man

W3798. Put in new BX cable

W3800. Have mastered

W3802. Pheasant or capon, e.g.

W3804. Dew holder

W3806. “With God All Things Are Possible” (___ state motto)

W3807. The Lonely Island hit whose lyrics mention climbing buoys

W3808. Part of a superorganism

W3809. These, in Tegucigalpa

W3811. Great talent

W3814. Victory cry

W3816. Dachshunds, casually

W3819. Best Jockey and Best Bowler, e.g.

W3821. RV park chain

W3822. Hoped-for conclusion when picking petals

W3823. “It’s the end of ___”

W3824. Pink drink associated with Sex and the City

W3825. Gloomy darkness

W3826. Guitarist Hendrix

W3827. “Do I ___ eat a peach?” ( T.S. Eliot)

W3828. Where Charlotte FC gets new players

W3830. Cry like a whale*

W3832. All-vowel bird

W3834. The six big questions

W3839. One way to earn an Emmy

W3840. Donald’s first ex

W3841. Really liking

W3842. Submit taxes over the Web

W3843. Beginning of a “grow” kind of business*

W3844. “What Shall We ___?” (Which One’s Pink)

W3845. British band, when doubled

W3846. Has down 100%

W3851. “E pluribus” finisher

W3853. Old calling aid

W3855. Bar equipment

W3857. Wood for whiskey barrels

W3858. Twilight matriarch

W3859. Downyflake alternative

W3860. Lone home buyer’s request*

W3861. Des Moines native

W3862. Ancient axhead material

W3863. Get-up-and-go words from Maya Angelou

W3864. Flower that symbolizes romance

W3865. “___ in ‘56” (old campaign button)

W3866. Ultimate aim, to philosophers

W3867. Theater and movie mogul Marcus

W3868. Melon covers

W3869. “Va Va ___” (Nicki Minaj)

W3870. Emulate Antony

W3871. GHWB’s successor

W3872. Polar vessel

W3873. ___ tube (donut-shaped pool toy)

W3874. Played a pandurina

W3875. “When one door closes, another opens,” e.g.

W3876. Second-floor apartment

W3877. Looney Tunes’ mail-order giant

W3878. Take place?

W3879. Light start?

W3880. Rio ___ Plata

W3881. Cut off one’s ears?

W3882. Vichy and Baden-Baden

W3883. Many babysitters

W3884. Artist de Toulouse-Lautrec

W3885. Shocking weapon

W3886. Dumb conclusion?

W3887. “Turn on, tune in, drop out” drug

W3888. Lapses

W3889. Hockey’s Bobby and family

W3890. Make ___ of

W3891. Two on a line

W3892. Quality affecting taste

W3893. Planet where “Shazbot!” is a curse

W3894. “Standing room only”

W3895. College Board dropped them from the SAT in 2021

W3896. Saw wood, perhaps

W3897. Went off course

W3898. In corpore ___ (in a sound body)

W3899. Johann who wrote the Swiss national anthem

W3900. Stabilizes

Down

W1. Makes after expenses

W2. Remove, as fruit skin

W3. Get out of bed

W4. Coriolanus costumes

W5. Not so different (you and I…)

W6. Copier ink

W7. One closer to you than a mere copain

W8. Linen tape for trimming

W9. Describing a sauna

W10. Weave made for capture

W11. Credit-checking org.

W12. Financial pg. highlight

W13. Score more than

W14. Is resentful about

W15. Backed (out of), as an obligation

W16. “Automatic Drawing” artist

W17. ““This was ___ whom I said…” (John the Baptist, introducing Jesus)

W18. Superlative suffix

W19. Really annoys

W20. Hipster’s canful, for short

W21. Where the Augean stables were

W22. Studio creation

W23. ___ deus in nobis (there is God within us)

W24. Police, metonymically

W25. Santo ___, Philippine university

W26. Second word of a story beginning

W27. Navigates, as a vessel

W28. American sect descended from the Anabaptists

W29. Adventure writer Buntline

W30. ___ crowd: attracted attention

W31. Tools of a trade

W32. Improvisational pianist Tatum

W33. Chews (on)

W34. “And that same activity included me”

W35. Steps off

W36. Mildew-fighting product

W37. They try to give the defense little rest, for short

W38. “Huh, there’s an idea…”

W39. Popular English breakfast food.

W40. They may be charitable

W41. Boat trailers

W42. City near Tokyo

W43. Auto accessory

W44. Mideast potentates

W45. Drink served starting around Thanksgiving

W46. Gorilla, e.g.

W47. Passes above, poetically

W48. Ingrid’s firstborn

W49. Capital of Edom

W50. Choice E on a survey, maybe

W52. “…is worth ___ the bush”

W53. Take another hitch

W54. Atlantic shipment? (abbr.)

W55. Chase devices

W56. MLXX divided by X

W57. Controversial historical approach, for short

W58. Cat statues of Ancient Egypt

W59. Taken together

W60. Low-level sociopath, less politely

W61. Most immediate

W62. “MacDonald” end bit that sounds like a squeal when doing one’s taxes

W63. More -y

W64. Rob Roy’s refusal

W65. Bygone despot (var.)

W67. Like much chitchat

W68. Removes stitches from

W69. Stylized Eastern theater

W70. Arbor lead-in

W71. Ladies of Lille (abbr.)

W72. Painters Rembrandt and Raphaelle (this pun won’t inspire peals of laughter)*

W73. Rumored Pynchon home near Santa Cruz

W74. Riding with the meter running

W75. Hush-hush gp.

W76. Older woman in Blondie

W77. Bronze and Iron, e.g.

W78. Strain, as flour

W79. Boat with a flat bottom

W81. “___ Ask of You” (Phantom of the Opera duet)

W82. Loop-the-loop, e.g.

W83. Book no.

W84. “Here ___, there…” (children’s lyric)

W86. Dieting unit, briefly

W87. What’s in all things if you aim an electron microscope at ‘em*

W88. Kind of traffic zone

W89. TV genre emulated in WandaVision

W91. Shortest-tenured Tonight Show host, to fans

W92. USA leader

W93. Pedigreed pups’ assn.

W94. Encryption protocol on the Internet (abbr.)

W96. Pinky-stretching key

W97. Backslide

W98. Extracts

W99. Lacking melanin

W101. Can reap, as rewards

W102. Trick-or-treaters’ full bags, e.g.

W103. Steelworker’s place

W104. First name of the bestselling author of the twentieth century at the time of his death

W106. ___ girl: “one of the guys” type

W107. Union letters

W108. Pierre’s dollar

W109. Professional headgear that’s stereotypically red

W110. Chaps, hose, etc.

W111. Sharples of Coronation Street

W112. Tooth pro’s designation

W115. AOL or EarthLink, e.g.

W117. Exiled Ugandan Amin

W120. Under 100 mg per deciliter of this is considered optimal

W121. “R.E.M.” singer Grande, familiarly

W122. Feel the results of too much ale*

W126. Sources of collaborative content

W128. Perfect splits

W131. Who, in Berlin

W132. Incubator insert

W134. #1 hit for Eddie Fisher in 1954 “___ You Now”

W139. Double-back move

W141. De-icers

W144. Manual support?

W146. Thread bits

W147. Decision responsible for row upon row of women’s achievements (restore it--no matter how long it takes)

W149. 1977 Stevie Wonder tune

W151. ___ US Pat. Off.

W153. Comparatively ironic, as humor

W159. Home by

W161. Does it look like an angel to a rat?

W162. Shoot-___ (violent movie)

W163. “Gosh darn!”

W164. ___-Pei (dog)

W166. Having clear junction points

W169. Impatient one’s word

W171. Sweet snack with coffee

W176. “An individual who breaks ___ that conscience tells him is unjust…” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

W179. “___ Slidin’ Away” (Paul Simon hit)

W182. Can’t tell what’s real

W183. Pioneering animated feature

W184. George Thorogood song “That’s ___ Quit”

W186. Emaciated deckhands, so to speak

W188. “With not ___ out of place”

W189. Specifies to be, as “7 AM” for Daylight Saving Time

W191. Knife named for a frontiersman

W193. Canadienne or Jersey

W194. “Am I getting through to you?”

W196. “It must be him, ___ shall die…” (Vikki Carr lyric)

W197. Some of the landed gentry

W199. Fulla muscles

W200. Evidence

W202. Verdon’s namesakes

W204. Star of the underrated Marry Me and Loki

W205. What jellybeans are made with

W206. Z Marion-4195 and Flik, e.g.

W207. Restaurant offering

W208. Inclined ground

W209. Brought one’s own lunch

W211. “You can do anything, if you want to badly enough”

W212. Get friendly toward

W214. “This ___” (phone phrase)

W215. Where to find the soul of K-Pop*

W216. Pouring forcefully, quaintly

W217. Hospital alternative

W218. Italy’s most popular wine

W219. Play Washington, say

W220.

Marvel CEO Arad

W221. Improves the bow

W222. Asus tool suite for digital designers, or “in favor of creative expression”

W224. God of hawks, but not those found in aeries*

W226. Trainspotting protagonist

W227. Fragrant or stinky

W229. Some entrees

W231. Fusing metal with atomic particles, in brief

W232. Metal worker

W234. Provides context for

W235. Employee authority

W236. Unfurled

W237. “The woods are lovely, dark ___” (Frost)

W238. One soap bubble?

W239. French fender

W240. Ballplayers of secondary talent

W241. Has nothing to do with

W242. Most main characters in Inside Out

W243. Bullseye-shaped physics model

W244. Public hearing spot

W245. Dog Day Afternoon director

W246. Costar of Gandolfini and Falco

W247. When we take our cat there, she meows more than 300 times in the 10-minute trip

W248. En route, abbreviated

W249. It often benches athletes

W250. Fail to get enough vitamin D, perhaps

W252. Canvas for corporate brainstorming

W254. ___-hat

W255. Smart and clever

W256. SNL alum Gasteyer

W257. Special techniques

W258. “Language” less used in the age of autocorrect

W259. Best-of-the-best initials

W260. Word I loved using to talk about the 2018 eclipse and never wanted to hear again two years later

W261. Expand one’s awareness

W262. Juan Carlos I title

W263. Pre-TV time

W264. Texter’s “bye now”

W265. Work continuously on

W266. Stores with Smaland play areas

W267. Food and shelter are basic ones

W268. Perfumer Lauder

W274. First nonhuman race seen in Star Wars

W277. Exercise centers (this clue has my anagram for them)

W279. ___ boredom

W281. “One that won’t make me crash my car / Or make me feel three feet thick” song

W285. Insular places

W287. Calls for help

W288. Chickens, ducks, and such

W289. Captivate

W290. London bloke

W294. Hide, in Hastings

W296. Let

W297. Pasadena arena

W299. Talk seriously

W301. Cantonese kreplach

W303. Treaty signed by RMN

W305. “___ no importance”

W307. “Cheerleader” singer

W309. Cautious and not, as I thought, resembling a simple canvas stretched over one or a few supports

W311. Grossed-out sounds

W312. Friendly gestures

W313. Big bloomer

W314. “What a girl” lead-in, in an Eddie Cantor hit

W315. Pulp hero who helped inspire Batman

W316. Threatening, as a dog might

W317. Insecticides that share a name with a moonwalker

W319. Wigged out

W321. In top shape

W322. Tim or Tara of Hollywood

W325. Lamb’s product

W326. Words with uncertain terms

W327. Canine on a feline

W328. Legendary Marco

W329. Novelist Fitzgerald

W330. “…to our Creator”

W332. The Ascent of Money historian Ferguson

W334. King Lear errs in naming his*

W336. Skyscraper-shaped storage racks

W339. Lucidity

W341. Likely Mets fans, in papers

W343. Online social session

W344. Detective novelist Robert who wrote Taken

W345. Twin-peaked California volcano

W346. Finish the film

W347. Roof trough

W348. Small diving bird

W349. Not mad

W352. PC scrolling key

W353. River’s Edge actress Skye

W357. “And I’m a broke mack / Type so hard, I’m now typing on a broke ___” (Das Racist)*

W360. Cysts, and when’s getting one of those any fun?*

W362. Like some resold hard drives

W365. “Take ___ and we’ll get this meeting started”

W368. Milwaukee team nickname

W370. Pinkish

W372. “You ___ to yourself…”

W374. “The ___ mightier than the sword” (you can read it with or without the space)

W376. Bar orders

W379. Factory mdse.

W384. “This will be awesome!”

W386. Crib cry

W388. Presumed Innocent writer Scott

W390. Stumbles on Sesame Street?

W392. Jerry of basketball

W394. More than just tri?

W397. Meds that take weeks to work

W399. Wonder Woman, to her many friends

W401. US ballistic missile

W402. Concerned with correction

W403. High cries

W404. Did some greenkeeping

W405. Drain clog cause, perhaps

W407. “That’s someone ___” (not mine)

W410. “Don’t be ___”

W411. Former Mexican president Enrique Pena

W412. Brand of blood-typing kit

W414. Was shy and unsettled

W416. Barbier’s worksite

W418. Attack in a graceless way

W420. “Blame It on the Rain” (___ Vanilli)

W422. Is unused

W427. Take over the throne, say

W428. Muslim Russian

W429. Whacks

W430. 7 of 9 actress Ryan

W432. Thrice XIX

W434. Latter-day beginners

W435. Asian serpent

W436. Institutions for the insane

W440. Holy Roman emperor et al.

W441. To the Lighthouse author

W443. Lady, e.g.

W445. Become smaller

W447. Ancient region on the Nile

W449. 1985 John Malkovich film

W451. Screwball

W453. Bird painter Basil

W455. More, to Elena

W457. Words for a bit more

W459. Glance (off)

W460. Whether by land ___…

W461. His ___ (cribbage one-pointer)

W463. 1991 financial scandal inits.

W465. Sealing compound

W466. Move about stealthily

W470. Like gasoline, at one time

W471. Talks back to.

W473. Bob who sang “Night Moves”

W474. Doo-___ music

W475. Certain mail addrs.

W476. Jazz singer Anita

W478. Popular Ford models of yore

W480. FedExes

W482. Give birth to sheep

W489. Put a program together

W490. “See next page” abbr.

W491. Olympic medalist Michelle

W492. “We are pirates!”*

W493. Notable spans

W494. Writer?

W496. It shows many NCAA games

W498. “The Rock,” to friends

W499. Nichols who hosted ESPN’s The Jump

W502. Bridal shop assortment

W505. Going “OMG, OMG, OMG”

W507. “You ___ seen nothin’ yet!”

W508. Former 48 Hours host Lesley

W510. Illinois congressman-to-be Emanuel

W512. Site of a fictional bridge-building project

W515. Alternatively, in Internet lingo

W516. Delphine name

W517. Berry quantity

W518. Make a dull boy

W520. One who’s into rolling quarters?

W523. After-credits sequence

W524. The Incredibles family name

W525. Closely cut areas

W526. Force felt on Earth, briefly

W527. Jungian Jung

W530. Large fishing net

W535. “Check for yourself”

W537. Pacifist’s dream

W538. Operates a seeder

W540. ___-Ball (game on an incline)

W542. Repulsive person

W544. The ___-King (German goblin)

W547. Aggravating interjection when the rest of us are all so done talking*

W548. Horror icon Michael or comedy icon Mike

W549. Like ___ from the blue

W551. He was, to Hadrian

W553. Like cool cats, in ‘60s-speak

W554. Certain threads

W555. Hit the deck

W556. Small crows

W557. Level worse than living down to bad expectations

W559. Acronym that often has a “+”

W564. They are a sorry lot

W565. Law that made paperless contracts a thing

W566. Sobriety circle, often

W567. Thais have them to other ASEAN countries*

W570. Displayed sorrow

W571. Head Angel Curtis

W573. Suffix for gen or fren

W575. “Kickstart My Heart” crew, familiarly*

W577. The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Gigi, e.g.

W579. Asics rival

W580. “Who Shot J.R.?” J.R.

W581. Training site for developing media informatics

W582. Bargain item, in sales

W584. Bot that systematically browses the Internet

W585. Shoemakers’ tools

W586. Get ___ deal

W587. Cork follower

W588. TV personality Chrisley

W590. Christian bracelet initialism

W591. From that day on

W592. Ear-related

W593. Compassionately understood

W596. His domain is lover’s lane

W597. Sold on, as an idea

W598. Like two, to four

W602. Cut or scrape, to a tot

W603. Skip on, as activities

W605. Raze (with “down”)

W607. Agricultural initiative in one continent sharing the name of a famous town in another

W609. Faceless person

W611. Economic bases

W612. Sports show since 1993

W613. Bunks or cots

W614. Colorado tribe member

W617. Friendly name for an ‘80s TV star we don’t use anymore ‘coz of all the…you know, bad stuff*

W618. “___ She Lovely” (Stevie Wonder)

W619. Move just a bit

W620. Occasion for the Cana miracle

W622. 4x4 alternative

W623. Small flyer

W624. Cause for stage fright

W625. Spot under a curve of trees

W626. “You typed too much,” initially

W629. Ecuadorean province named for a metal

W630. Wet with morning moisture

W631. Slow journeys

W633. One who treats mother and son

W635. Florida attraction

W636. Spirits referenced in 1001 Arabian Nights

W637. Twelvemonths in Tijuana

W638. Claw’s spot

W639. 1942-45 stats disseminator (abbr.)

W640. “___ into a problem” (eBay’s apology)

W642. “Holistic detective” of literature Gently

W644. Pt. of M*A*S*H?

W646. It connects the femur to the tibia

W647. Overabundance

W650. David’s daughter

W652. North Carolina college

W655. Out of the rat race (abbr.)

W656. Chemical endings

W657. Summons, e.g.

W658. Renewable resource

W659. Spoiled (with on)

W660. Actress Aulin of Candy

W661. Letters after Daniel Moynihan’s name

W663. Tae ___ do (karate alternative)

W664. Make assured

W666. Wintry precipitation

W668. Introversion

W669. Spots for Spanish appetizers

W671. Quaint greeting to a lady or gent

W673. Out, in a way

W675. Prefix meaning “nine”

W677. Venus Flytrap’s radio station

W678. Fencing contest

W680. High-end steakhouse fare

W681. As the last resort

W682. Place for an RN

W683. Second-growth crop

W685. Some side dishes

W687. Dress nicely, with “up” or “out”

W689. Hanukkah, e.g.

W690. Frolic on a frozen lake, perhaps

W691. Site of Esther’s story in the Bible

W692. Flanged construction beam

W693. Off-center, directionally

W694. Courage, slangily

W696. Garden stingers

W699. Signs of leaks

W701. “___ Mundo” (quest of some Portuguese explorers)

W702. Hasenpfeffer, for one

W704. Customary behaviors

W706. Fingerprint part

W708. Had on, as war paint*

W709. Event handouts

W711. Icebreaker’s ice breaker?

W714. Keen observer

W715. 1974 economics Nobelist Myrdal

W716. Halls rival

W717. Went quickly

W719. Apple ad line

W722. Kind of analysis for new businesses

W723. Noob, less insultingly*

W724. Does a lube job

W725. Sweet-talked, maybe

W727. Observe again

W729. Allen and Robbins

W730. “___ a man with seven wives…”

W733. Victims

W735. The frequency of sunsets

W736. “The situation seems unfixable”

W738. Shadow, e.g.

W740. JAG spinoff

W742. Leslie of The Gloaming

W743. Children’s programming channel kaput in 2021

W746. “…___ wed” (words heard in church)

W747. Huxtable portrayer

W748. Cream and The Police, for two

W750. Like a tack

W753. Noted dog-lover Wick

W754. Like a happy dog’s tail

W755. “Yay,” in internet slang

W756. The lion who fought the witch beyond the wardrobe

W757. Champion of the League of Nations

W758. Madison state

W760. “Could our movie ___...younger actor?” (Typical Hollywood talk)

W765. E.T. quote when mimicking discomfort

W766. Naval Academy students, informally

W767. Anti-saccharine agcy.

W768. Japanese brazier

W769. Stick-one’s-nose-in-others-business type

W771. Nervous, after “on”

W772. Shoulder muscle

W774. Topic in a Platonic symposium

W776. Culture-wars classic comedy with a George Clinton cameo

W779. “Unh-unh”

W780. A 50% one means spending $1 to earn $2

W781. Phoenix-to-Seattle dir.

W783. Got down without an oven

W785. Jamaica, Barbados, etc.

W786. Taylor’s business partner

W787. Got a new tenant for

W788. Wells’s Weena, e.g.

W789. Holds in awe

W790. Aquarii, for instance

W791. Court recordkeeper (abbr.)

W793. Iron-rich soup veggie

W795. ___ even playing field

W798. Byron poem, “When ___ Parted”

W799. Blame It ___ (Michael Caine film)

W800. One who’s all thumbs

W801. Slim glass vessel

W803. Muscle adjuncts

W805. Baring more

W807. Sequential notes

W809. It means “everything”

W810. Many post-9/11 operations, as Republicans still call it

W811. Objects too small to be specified

W813. “___ to please! You [do so] too, please!” (sign above some toilets)

W814. Gather, bit by bit

W817. Over, with “of”

W818. Cede territory or a ship

W820. Its wrapping is sometimes black to indicate maturity, meaning crumbliness and stronger taste

W821. Nota follower

W822. Like Tom Jones or Catherine Zeta-Jones

W823. 1970s-80s punk genre: its name was a rejection of another well-known genre

W825. N.Y. Met, for example

W827. Islamic teacher (var.)

W828. Naples “You’re welcome”

W829. “He stepped down, trying not to look at ____ if she were the sun” (Anna Karenina)

W833. Brainiac

W835. Best of a bad lot

W837. Certain poker pair

W839. Phnom ___, Cambodia

W840. Baba ___: Russian folklore witch

W843. Donkey-milk drink (var.)

W844. Jinx in reverse

W845. 5th-century pope called “the Great”

W847. Asian population center that’s banned single-use plastic in its every deli*

W849. Mahler’s Das Lied von der ___

W850. Hemispherical capital

W851. Rife with stems

W852. “This is the time to act”

W854. Snail-paced

W858. Handle

W859. Lights on Broadway

W861. “Cornflake Girl” woman

W863. Like characters without lines

W865. Champing ___ bit

W867. “New,” in a Francis Bacon title

W868. Have dinner on the range?

W870. Lamasery member

W873. Change slightly

W876. Obsessive anime fan

W879. Many toothpastes

W880. Proust man

W881. Playing a two-ply prank

W882. Drumbeat speed

W883. Sonic boom, e.g.

W885. Machine with a hole in it

W887. Twins’ response to “Who wants ice cream?”

W888. (We) have(, oui)

W891. The late Mrs. Krabappel-Flanders

W892. One squirt, as of salve

W894. Mantelpiece, e.g.

W896. How a Miss Congeniality contest with online comments would go*

W898. “Get ___!” (defensive coach’s shout)

W899. Ghostbusters customer possessed by Zuul

W900. “I’m as surprised as you are”

W901. “…or is that a dog conducting an orchestra?” lead-in

W902. All dose handbags and accessories, along with dese shoes*

W903. Cars in some secure lots

W904. Secluded road

W905. Hangry outbursts

W907. Makes a pass at

W909. Chaperoned

W910. Patricia in Hud

W911. In fighting trim

W912. The arguably best, and certainly most brutal, Bond

W913. “This ___ ill”

W915. They tend to have low mpg ratings

W917. German cabbage?

W922. Annually

W923. Word before “a soul”

W924. Ran ___ light: drove while distracted, maybe

W926. Middle name of the inspiration for the Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination*

W927. Rouen relations

W929. Nuisance, in France

W932. Evinces boredom

W933. Forces back

W934. Sell on the Net

W935. Nordegren’s ex

W936. Dandy neck adornments

W937. Apportioned the deck

W939. Twisted, as a rung on a soaked rope ladder*

W940. Becomes implanted

W941. Posthumous donation

W943. Self-referential

W945. Rug-making need

W946. Use a ladle

W949. Reaction to a lot of yea votes for one’s proposal*

W951. Town crier’s word

W953. “That’s…um…pretty extreme”

W955. Dietary guideline source

W957. “For all the land which thou ___, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever” (Genesis 13:15)

W958. Jarring to the eye

W959. Org. regulating things you might find at a self-described redneck party

W966. Asst., or pt. of speech

W967. Applies shingles

W968. One hundred kopecks

W969. “I Fall To Pieces” singer Patsy

W970. Cold and stormy

W972. Marbles to shoot

W974. Airline to Kyoto

W977. Item for a suck-up?

W978. Texting device

W979. Began to do

W981. Ride the air currents, as a leaf

W983. Didn’t go unfulfilled

W985. Evita, for one

W986. Like many linings

W989. Question before longitude value

W990. Cracker-barrel

W992. Setting for the Ninja Turtles

W994. “___ I doin’?”

W997. Leigh of A Streetcar Named Desire

W998. Dramatic tennis scores

W999. 1996 best-selling guide for “grammarphobes”

W1001. Seats by the orchestra pit, perhaps

W1003. “What place?”

W1004. Mideast Muslim militants

W1005. Trompe l’___ (optical illusions)

W1007. Bonnie and Clyde did a lot of their work in Texas…did they ever visit this, its smallest village?*

W1008. Kind of canine mixed breed

W1009. It’s built as rainwater insurance

W1011. Queen ___: social powerhouses often flanked by wanna-bes*

W1012. Perch for a bird

W1013. He raised Cain as a newspaperman*

W1015. Cynical

W1017. Bird often walking in the park

W1019. “To her ___, a jolly thriving wooer” (Richard III)

W1020. The white stripes

W1021. Amaze the audience

W1023. Hirschfeld hair words

W1025. Helps business (or steals drinks?)

W1027. Like some wit

W1028. 1979 negotiation

W1029. Lets up

W1031. Soft mineral

W1032. Gallic she

W1033. The Wire antihero

W1035. Lassitudinous

W1037. Guidance

W1038. Preserves holder

W1039. Has potato-peeling duty

W1040. Baseball Hall of Famer Luis or actress Yalitza

W1041. Painfully undecided

W1042. Work in tandem

W1044. “Story checks out”

W1045. Ball below the nine

W1046. Size of a dorm room bed, often

W1048. ___ Ross Univ.

W1050. “Mercy me!”

W1051. Dishonorably push away (from)

W1053. Cornwall’s only city

W1054. “Let’s rewind to before that distraction started up”

W1056. B’rith preceder

W1057. Pests at kennels

W1059. Windows’ ridges

W1061. Together, onstage

W1064. Essentially unopposed

W1065. Vent with frenzy

W1066. 2003 Kia SUV

W1067. They have very big calves

W1068. Have to thank (for)

W1070. You were likely to bathe with its water in older days*

W1071. Took back as a prize

W1073. Soda-flavoring nut

W1076. A bit, informally

W1077. Have a sense of popular opinion

W1078. Sup at a table for one

W1079. Breaks the code

W1082. It wakes you by crying out its name and some nonsense

W1083. County in Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming

W1085. Place in a stamp album

W1087. Try to seduce

W1090. It launched its Rocky Road Collection in 2021

W1091. Sounds when trying to talk through a cough

W1093. Attach, as with string

W1095. “___ Tú” (1973 hit canción)

W1097. “Eat ___ chikin”: Chick-fil-A slogan

W1098. The life that “uh, finds a way” in a Spielberg blockbuster, casually

W1100. Serious-minded bank titan in Mary Poppins

W1102. One thing a pickup picks up

W1107. Data precursor

W1108. Whimsically spelled stews

W1110. Location of muscles a typist has to take care of

W1112. They’re positive

W1115. Jot right down*

W1116. House meeting place

W1117. Meat most often used to make scaloppine

W1118. Old-time movie

W1120. Sort with a sneer

W1123. Teasing or satire

W1124. Deceptive

W1126. Measurers of logical reasoning, for short

W1128. Not to be too preachy, but you need this vitamin, AKA riboflavin*

W1132. Triangular space under an A-frame

W1134. Has gone

W1136. NBC debut of ‘75

W1138. On his own

W1139. “1/1 to this pt.” column

W1140. All that glitters isn’t gold, e.g.

W1141. They’ll receive heads of state and fallen soldiers

W1142. Bygone sports contest

W1143. Rib in hopes of improvement

W1144. Urban honors, for short

W1145. T. ___ Price (investment house)

W1147. Like an alley cat

W1148. “Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme” rapper

W1149. Dark-tressed

W1150. Fretted (over)

W1151. Hideous Tolkien beastie

W1152. Reap rewards

W1153. Jean-___ Picard

W1154. Group that blocks “the liberal agenda,” group that tries to preserve democracy, and group bought by lobbyists*

W1156. Makeup accessories

W1159. Astronaut drink

W1160. “The ___ Love”

W1161. Heated

W1163. Low and rumbly

W1164. Belle ___: work appealing to the senses

W1165. Be a figurative angel or sport some hair extensions

W1166. Birth places

W1167. Elite police squad

W1168. Cleaning equipment used in some bluegrass band instruments

W1169. Discord server predecessor

W1170. Hawaiian dances

W1173. 1950s-60s adventure series starring Lloyd Bridges

W1177. Odyssey figure

W1178. “You ___ am sure, telling the truth”

W1179. Drag-racing org. (abbr.)

W1180. Birthday buys

W1184. Little chickens

W1186. Justice called “Strip-Search Sammy” after an unpopular 2004 dissent

W1187. Gingerly

W1188. “Whatever you say” sayers

W1189. Cities Service competitor

W1190. Like an unrestrained horror film

W1191. Subway and Five Guys fare

W1192. Ray, for one

W1193. Foxier?

W1196. Himalayas-divided area

W1197. The Innocents star Deborah

W1198. Bestselling 16-bit console, briefly

W1202. Sports cheer once written on the Pru

W1203. Classic typewriter

W1205. Ice rink braking method

W1207. Make a case of it

W1208. One of 15 until 1991 (abbr.)

W1211. Living legend

W1212. Voltron and such

W1213. Bog mosses

W1215. Place in Spain?

W1218. Sound systems, for short

W1219. Tree-herder of fantasy

W1220. Some trail mixes

W1222. Hairdos like Disco Stu’s

W1224. Street food with pinched sides

W1228. Fast-ened?

W1229. Fence feature

W1231. Statistician who founded FiveThirtyEight

W1232. Propel a bicycle

W1235. If you see these, you might have synaesthesia

W1238. Achieve total victory

W1239. Working

W1240. “___ sure be a shame if something were to HAPPEN to this place” (lowers gaze meaningfully)

W1241. Liberated

W1242. Spacious shopping bags

W1244. Harry’s hater

W1246. Samsung Q80T QLED, e.g.

W1248. Male or female nickname

W1250. Stiff shrubs found in moist or saline soils

W1251. Rao’s and Prego

W1253. “You can clap now!”

W1256. “___ Have No Bananas”

W1258. Despite the previous

W1260. January-December record

W1261. Outdoing oneself at being terrible

W1264. Abuses

W1265. Site of the Red Dot Design Museum

W1266. Eat heartily (to use a farm-tool metaphor)

W1268. Knelt or lay

W1270. Catlike whimpers

W1272. Word from Old Norse for “wooden stick”

W1274. Fool’s mate piece

W1275. Sign of achievement in some games

W1277. There’s no rest for them (with “the”)

W1279. Freakish lab assistants

W1281. Theater request

W1284. Part of toi that Dieu aime*

W1285. “Holy smokes!”

W1286. Core of many bodybuilding efforts

W1288. Condo documents

W1290. Knock over again

W1291. Simplified family tree in biology

W1295. Old smartphones

W1297. Lana Lang and Martha Kent portrayer

W1299. “If that’s your best, your best won’t do” song

W1301. Range rope

W1306. Hideaways

W1307. Take an ax to

W1308. Medieval blade

W1310. "My actions match those"

W1315. Lackey

W1316. They do their nine-to-five in an office

W1317. Skeleton out of the closet, one might say

W1319. Point of depression

W1322. Impersonated at a costume party

W1323. “What’s to become ___?”

W1324. Play, in a sense

W1325. “…I’ll have ___ and Coca-Cola…” (“Common People”)

W1326. Rip apart, as a dress

W1327. Supposes, old style

W1329. Social-media’d one-on-one

W1331. Wayne who wrote Your Erroneous Zones

W1333. Realm of Otto I (abbr.)

W1335. Fix kitty

W1336. Jersey Shore star born Jenni Farley

W1337. Aussie bounders, for short

W1338. Some old European lands (abbr.)

W1340. Village near a castle

W1342. Night before Rosh Hashanah, e.g.

W1344. Cousin ___ (relative of Uncle Fester, Wednesday, and Pugsley)

W1345. Bear up despite it all

W1346. Westeros titles

W1348. Bairn raisers

W1350. Bright double star in Orion

W1352. Half a chili sauce

W1353. Desire Under the Elms son

W1354. Chaplin son et al.

W1356. Muss, as one’s coif

W1359. Draenor inhabitants, in the Warcraft universe

W1360. Angola coin until 1990

W1362. Word for seasons that has two acute accents

W1364. Earned a citation

W1366. Sex starts it

W1367. Reason for hiring a masseur

W1368. Fowl enclosures

W1369. Ready-___ (pre-cooked)

W1370. Tobacco wad

W1371. Spanish belle

W1373. Egg hunter?

W1375. West Coast cager

W1376. Big name in books and records

W1377. Showing peak performance thanks to the surroundings

W1379. Put out, as a scent*

W1380. Cutlass cut

W1382. Mardi Gras organizers

W1384. “Hallelujah!” singers

W1389. Brand for shavers

W1390. Mozart is on some Austrian ones

W1392. Madrid Mmes.

W1394. Rebuke, in Scotland

W1397. Gangsters’ gal pals

W1398. Tourney that ends in no-limit hold-’em, for short

W1399. Spacecraft maneuvers.

W1401. Prime targets for the draft

W1403. Couple in Dunkirk

W1404. Part of WMD

W1406. Prison disturbances

W1408. Article for Mozart

W1411. Earning a “C” in navigation, at best*

W1414. Tyne and Tim in Hollywood

W1415. Girl who works at McDonald’s?

W1417. Pizza place in Do the Right Thing

W1419. “Farming and…” prefix

W1423. “Man, it’s hot in here!”

W1425. Enjoy taffy

W1429. ___ law, in physics

W1430. Delaware and Massachusetts

W1431. Frame of mind

W1432. They’re not allowed

W1435. Sets as a price

W1438. One of two needed to strike a coin

W1439. Highway closer, perhaps

W1443. Pastrami, e.g.

W1445. With disgusting sweetness

W1447. Hawk or Hornet

W1448. It had a harassment task force

W1449. Source of boards

W1450. Time rival, for short

W1451. WaPo, NYT, et al.

W1452. Clear of snow

W1453. South Africa riot site, 1976

W1455. Wilson of Drillbit Taylor

W1457. Berry Farm founder

W1460. Kids’ TV series with a mouselike hero described as “like someone took a bag of sound effects and bludgeoned you to death with it”

W1461. Psychedelic guitar effect, onomatopoetically

W1465. Freak, so to speak

W1467. Abbr. on a letter to Afghanistan, probably

W1470. State with keys (abbr.)

W1471. Detesting

W1472. “Dream on!”

W1473. Sea somewhat restored in the north

W1474. Made a tinkle

W1476. Places the worst of the worst sink to

W1478. Turpitude

W1479. Fancify oneself

W1481. Grabbable hair

W1482. Pink-purple plant pollinated under pines

W1483. Connecticut Sun league

W1484. “Wally” alternative found in the stage name “___ the Sensei”*

W1485. Online video equipment

W1487. Advocates of the novel.

W1489. Redolence

W1491. Likelihood of swearing

W1493. Apathetic gesture

W1494. “___ always so much better than I” (unusually deep though from James Patterson)

W1495. Unimaginative behavior

W1497. Wahlburgers matriarch

W1499. Ward on CSI: NY

W1501. Poet who wrote “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”

W1502. Back-to-basics sculptural style in Ancient Greece

W1503. Good sign on the Rialto

W1507. Old late-night host Jack

W1508. Gender-subverting costume contest

W1510. Molars and fangs

W1512. Source of Monterrey’s rays

W1515. Ultranarrow iPhone X feature

W1516. So-called but not really

W1517. “Your Mama Don’t Dance” singers, initially

W1518. Place to get clean, for short

W1520. With diagonal, parallel ribs

W1522. Certain gastropod

W1525. Prefix with biology

W1526. Effective

W1528. Freethinkers might take them

W1530. Emphatic Spanish “yes”

W1533. Apache leader who fought against Mexico and Arizona

W1535. “Am ___ only one who thinks it’s too hot in here?”

W1536. Kind of deal

W1537. “Catch a tiger by the toe” beginner

W1539. Endures, in old Inverness

W1541. Portion out

W1545. Fourth Republic president

W1546. Fruit with a name that’s a behavioral adjective followed by a color

W1548. Processed crude

W1550. Sweet spire

W1554. Acknowledgment of the American “melting pot,” e.g.

W1555. Places for firing

W1557. Poi tuber

W1559. Most street-smart

W1560. Aloha Bowl setting

W1563. “Stop living in your fantasy world!”

W1564. Sacks’ guards

W1565. Queens airport, IATA-wise

W1566. Permits entry

W1568. Capital on the sixtieth parallel

W1569. Word from a Brit admiring a bod

W1570. Third-century pope

W1571. One leans on them to perform barres*

W1573. User’s nightmare

W1575. Letter ornament

W1577. Get unexpectedly creative

W1579. “Take it as ___ not at all”

W1580. Will-___- wisp

W1581. Schoenberg trademark

W1583. “There’s hope”

W1585. Lupine call

W1587. “Courage! ___ stout heart!”

W1589. Making offerings for unity

W1590. Worked on a trireme

W1591. Certain promoted lawyer

W1593. Some smorgasbord selections

W1595. Tonguelike organ

W1596. Anti-delinquent meas. in Scotland

W1597. Classic actress Madlyn who never played Roo and I rue putting her in the puzzle this many times*

W1598. I could clue this with an obscure math term, but let’s cheat a bit and say “___ of turkeys is called a rafter”

W1599. Big Island feature

W1600. Goes downhill fast

W1603. When repeated, a Carrey comedy

W1604. Bends the truth

W1606. The L in LEM

W1608. Le, pluralized*

W1609. “Bye (ha-ha)!”

W1611. Crushingly much or many (of)

W1612. “Where it’s ___ got two turntables and a microphone…”

W1616. Deer, in Dortmund

W1618. ___ help: aids

W1621. Cursed burial ground or Chernobyl, e.g.

W1622. Squealed, in hillbilly

W1623. Word form for “body”

W1625. A hundred smackers

W1627. Classic New Yorker cartoonist Addams

W1632. Medical privacy law, for short

W1633. With a second, hopefully better start

W1634. Towers in a harbor?

W1636. Georges who wrote W, or a Memory of Childhood

W1639. Apt name for the NFL Ravens’ mascot

W1641. Spanish hero played by Heston

W1642. Era units (abbr.)

W1644. Wiedersehen lead-in

W1645. Object pettily

W1647. Druggist Lilly

W1649. One who chose and lost family

W1651. Furtive “hey!”

W1652. Q. crowned in 1953

W1653. Hephaestus’s gift to Minos

W1658. Wrap-up

W1660. Is in effect

W1664. “How tragic”

W1668. She may be a queen or worker*

W1670. “As a fallback…”

W1671. Mexican mail word

W1672. Kind of bet or thing

W1673. Fertilizer ingredients

W1674. Roosted on

W1677. This Room Does Not Exist or This House Has People in It

W1680. Fixes the decor of completely

W1684. Shelter sounds

W1686. Beginning for tax or payment

W1689. British honor (abbr.)

W1690. 11th Century biblical commentator

W1692. Where Entourage aired

W1693. Ernest Krause’s rank, abbreviated

W1695. King with a hard-to-rhyme name

W1697. It’s read from a scroll

W1700. Frank Sinatra’s coming-out-of-retirement album

W1701. Grow dizzy with pleasure

W1702. “Sea grapes”

W1707. Paul of American Graffiti

W1709. ___ deal (trivial): slang

W1711. Sunup precisely

W1714. “Made in ___” [common misspelling]

W1715. Building support

W1717. Eastern titles

W1719. Palookaville actor Adam

W1721. “Mirabile ___”

W1722. Car’s performance optimizer

W1724. Hawaii’s second largest island

W1725. One who helps with the harvest (no relation to the restaurant)

W1726. Train paths

W1727. Alpha male among peers

W1728. Opposite of integrity

W1730. Young doctors?

W1732. Government resolution empowering an individual

W1734. Roman attire

W1735. Self-effacing natures

W1736. Algiers co-star Hedy

W1737. Wi’ no ceasing till the night eternal

W1738. “Good comeback!”

W1740. Muppet with two tongues?

W1741. Grayish post-cleaning fluids

W1743. Its tusks can bore into prey*

W1746. Controlled by semiconductors

W1747. Butt, cutely

W1749. Reacts to staying up, perhaps

W1751. Emperor Atahualpa, e.g.

W1753. What tells you when clothes are too tight

W1754. They’ll get you in your house

W1755. “___ never believe it!”

W1760. “(Sigh) The whelp is in charge now, I guess”*

W1761. Hall-of-famer Rousey

W1763. What things go for in the open market

W1766. Does investigative journalist work

W1767. Robert Burns’s “O, ___ on Parnassus Hill”

W1770. Stick one’s___ (meddle)

W1772. Fruits as old as America, named for their whitish flesh

W1775. “You could quadruple your money by betting in favor of…”

W1777. Character associated with five digits

W1779. Prominent pilgrimage

W1784. Disassembler, essentially

W1785. Bustles

W1788. Swiss capital

W1789. Video game creator Sid

W1791. Other, in Tijuana

W1795. Coiner of the term “horsepower”

W1801. Minstrel s strings

W1805. Asiatic weight

W1807. Acts the telemarketer

W1809. Swallow fast

W1812. Marriage vows

W1813. Barked remark

W1814. Partial to, with “of”

W1815. Latin “alas”

W1816. Backless

W1818. Former heavyweight boxing champion

W1819. Author Peter of The Valachi Papers

W1820. Gees’ opposites

W1822. Small attempts at conciliation

W1824. Tony Gwynn, whose nickname evoked his team

W1825. Org. associated with 4/15

W1827. Disappointed-sounding cry from the field

W1828. Local govt. unit

W1830. Honor for a standout MLB pitcher

W1831. ___ G BIV (spectrum mnemonic)

W1834. “Scots ___ hae…”

W1835. Tropical drinks

W1837. Maneuver to gain an advantage

W1839. Sam’s pretty monster-hunting brother

W1841. Rob Roy was one

W1843. Sewers who make things pretty?

W1845. Was caught in the rain

W1846. Outline sharply

W1847. London or Manhattan locale

W1850. Fantastic Mr. Fox director Anderson

W1852. Self-absorbed rule-breaker in The Importance of Being Earnest (whose homophone means “scum”)

W1853. Laddie, in Australia

W1855. With stupidity

W1860. Ship that finished the story of the Bounty

W1862. “Now,” to Nero

W1863. Taser, for short

W1864. Chef’s array

W1866. Brand known for its first and second name

W1871. Cage-match bout

W1873. Dude with a ‘tude

W1875. Prosperity, old style

W1877. Deviate during flight, as a rocket

W1880. Bygone Fox series set in southern California

W1882. Nintendo player’s support?

W1883. Has flu

W1884. Physicist’s particles

W1885. Get schooling, in Dogpatch

W1886. Eye, south of the border

W1887. Topping station at a Mexican restaurant

W1888. “What rotten luck!”

W1890. Runcible-spoon part

W1891. Doesn’t have any problems

W1893. “Wow, that’s a ___ cut, I wonder how many people got that reference”

W1896. ID, for one

W1897. Bites with the cold

W1898. Radio booth sign

W1900. Expert

W1901. Aim for many models

W1902. “Well, it’s a fine job ___ do in that state” (Outlander)

W1904. Glasgow negatives

W1905. McGregor of the Star Wars series

W1907. University area

W1908. Dishonest, as tactics

W1910. “Because ___ so”

W1913. It’s larger than a village

W1928. Wooley of “Purple People Eater” fame

W1933. Manner of going

W1934. Goes pee-pee

W1936. “It’s either him ___” (boyfriend’s ultimatum)

W1938. Town on the Uzbec

W1939. Steinbeck people

W1940. Stylishly uninhibited

W1941. Prefix with -genarian

W1942. It offers sharp views, for short

W1943. Castigate

W1944. Measures of weeness

W1945. Gentle parodies

W1946. Places to hang out with your buds?

W1948. It could be called on account of rain

W1949. Small blue toon who says “life is but a stage”

W1950. Acts of Congress, e.g.

W1951. Vacation treat.

W1952. Jurisprudence based on precedents

W1953. Be in charge

W1954. Slap sound

W1956. “___ think so”

W1958. Common dessert on Pi Day*

W1960. Deal ___ Deal

W1962. Big name in slip-ons

W1964. River in a Christie title

W1967. Disease that can be a “silent killer”

W1968. Paralyzed with worthy indecision

W1969. Place to think your way out of

W1970. Devil’s designer label, in a 2006 movie

W1971. Topic of George Carlin’s best-known bit

W1972. Geisha’s goodbye

W1974. Onetime Concentration host Jack

W1975. Fresh face at a firm

W1976. Henri’s thought

W1978. Birds that give a hoot

W1980. “Pipe down, Pierre!”

W1982. Internal boundaries.

W1988. Having an upper floor raised higher above the hull

W1991. Hot-smoked, moist, orange dish

W1992. Twosomes

W1994. Willingly, to Will Shakespeare

W1995. Hannibal and Face’s squad

W1997. Figure in a bust

W1999. Counter to Jewish teaching

W2000. Option for connecting at Starbucks

W2001. Abounding in shrubs.

W2003. Demographic of “Karens”

W2004. State categorically

W2005. Coral pink light

W2008. Boll whose movies are ewwy*

W2010. Like Call of Duty: Black Ops

W2011. Dorian Gray’s wild life mirrored his own in some respects*

W2012. Alpha Cygni

W2015. Bride, in Bologna

W2016. Made for each other

W2019. ___ Pradesh (Indian state)

W2020. Short of

W2021. Universidad ___ Americas

W2025. International series of performances

W2027. Was inquisitive

W2030. How I’d describe the Solo box office*

W2032. Where Moses received the Law.

W2034. Constrained

W2037. Negative, in Hicktown

W2040. Aang’s palindromic spirit guide

W2043. Some kitchens

W2044. React to a pun

W2045. Isle with a plastic bag ban

W2048. Epithet for Abner

W2049. “Vidi,” to Tweety

W2051. Reason some beer smells fruity

W2052. Gram lead-in

W2054. Lobster boat

W2056. What this clu has

W2060. Phenomenon where tires look rough*

W2062. Peter of Ulee’s Gold

W2064. Affluence

W2066. Ren Faire handle

W2068. Save for binge-watching, say

W2070. “So many troubles beset…”

W2071. Store, for short

W2074. Suffix with schlock or spin

W2075. Woodworker’s aid (var.)

W2076. It’s made with chicken stock, white roux, and heavy cream

W2077. Scabies brought on by mites

W2078. Kind of multiple-choice question

W2079. Incubation station

W2080. Dogpatch conditional

W2081. “Seems like everyone’s getting romantic”

W2082. Source of a trait who may not have it herself

W2084. Writing tip?

W2086. Restaurant

W2088. “The 1960s was an ___ big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt” (P. J. O’Rourke)

W2089. Source of baser thoughts

W2090. The mental burdens of coming of age

W2091. “Disappointed…!”

W2092. Main vessel

W2095. Chip in some security tags, briefly

W2097. Actress Shaw of Harry Potter and Killing Eve

W2100. Choose not to ignore

W2104. Word used to approximate dates

W2105. Abbreviation sometimes seen on a computer keyboard

W2107. One far from her former fame

W2109. Some stay at home

W2110. Rude flirt

W2114. Tina Turner’s husband Bach

W2116. League pts.

W2119. With movement restricted

W2121. NFL center’s responsibility

W2123. Pennywise, for one

W2128. Give to get

W2130. OK setting in July

W2132. Orient Express starting point

W2133. Automotive turnarounds, informally

W2134. One thousandth of peta-

W2135. Biblical cadre

W2136. “Yub Nub” language

W2139. Inappropriate response to e-tragedy

W2141. Chris DeBurgh’s “The Lady ___”

W2145. Staff letters

W2147. Fingertip

W2149. Reacts to, as a hilarious joke

W2150. Lines with handles, say

W2151. Mowed expanse

W2152. Unix search command

W2154. ___ and dined (entertained)

W2155. Wife, with “the”

W2156. Least ripe

W2159. Wearing iron wards these creatures off

W2161. “Kisses!”

W2163. Hat with a sun visor

W2164. Granting

W2165. Get off the bullet

W2168. Spirits from off the African coast

W2170. “How much?”

W2174. Congested, as traffic

W2176. Engages in a sample

W2177. FICA benefit

W2180. Chortle

W2183. It often starts with some jokes (abbr.)

W2186. Door sign that denies admittance

W2190. Assns. and orgs.

W2191. Participate in Disney on Ice

W2192. Car part, in Britain

W2193. Where you get lambs from*

W2196. Singer Petina

W2197. When doubled, an Evergreen State city

W2198. Ad phrase

W2199. Cut aid

W2200. Show approval

W2202. “…___ again, harder, harder!” (football cheer)

W2203. Buzzfeed Video rival

W2204. Crosswordese aria, if “aria” isn’t crosswordese enough already

W2206. Ashcroft, Garland, et al.

W2207. Celtics coach, 1995-1997

W2208. “Likewise!”

W2209. Snakes’ eyes

W2211. Zither’s relative

W2215. Beirut’s home (abbr.)

W2216. Places for plugs on airplanes?

W2217. Woodsy NJ school

W2219. Frederik who won a poll of Nebula Award voters*

W2223. Sites in Mexico and New Mexico

W2225. Whoop or weep

W2226. Astrodome or Vikings’ home

W2227. Drive onward

W2228. Make a squirrellike exit

W2231. Rolodex nos.

W2232. Temporary fix

W2234. Birthmark

W2235. Basic produce-section amt.

W2238. Leslie Knope portrayer

W2240. Paper material

W2244. Mary-Kate and Ashley, e.g.

W2246. Neeson of Rob Roy

W2248. What bet, nun, and shin are part of

W2250. Ten million lifetimes

W2253. Got at least halfway drunk

W2254. Before-meal drinks

W2255. Event lasting from 1337 to 1453

W2256. What Mario might call Peach

W2257. Have questions and reservations

W2258. Where an algo starts

W2259. Line winder

W2261. Sporty coupes

W2264. Color derived from lead and used in underpainting

W2265. Street scam

W2268. Perform below average in class

W2269. Wooden shoes

W2273. Camel kin

W2275. Like tubers

W2277. She drew stares on Buffy the Vampire Slayer*

W2279. Suggestion to a grump

W2281. Like a big bag of flour, perh.

W2283. Manfred Mann frontman

W2284. Famed beneficiary of Sir Edward Montagu

W2285. Ad puff

W2286. Psychedelic stuff from the Evergreen State?

W2287. Hospital conduits

W2290. Where Richard III’s father was duke

W2293. Cases for trivia

W2294. He delights in telling you why you’re awful

W2295. ___ Roses (band that returned with a 2008 album)

W2297. Pass catchers, in football (abbr.)

W2298. So, so awful, with “the”

W2299. Not interested in new ideas

W2300. Gets free of the trap

W2301. Neurobiologist Joshua whose name uses letters from SYNAPSE

W2302. Tidy (up), facetiously

W2304. Irish ai-yi-yi

W2306. They compose at length

W2308. ___, Therefore I Am (Dennis Miller book)

W2310. Tech that lets you reuse a username and password

W2313. Ancillary strategy

W2315. German geographical name suffix

W2317. Brand used in a cosmo, maybe

W2320. Share trading org.

W2321. Affixing with wooden spears

W2322. Helps crack

W2324. Expressed surprise

W2326. Sustained 110% effort

W2327. Troy, to Ajax

W2328. Couric co-host

W2331. Porter’s “Ev’ry Time ___ Goodbye”

W2332. Discipline that aids in mapping the history of plant life

W2334. Phrase with page or corner

W2336. Clubbed or sprayed

W2338. Like bass and pike, in terms of birth patterns

W2340. Provide funds for

W2344. Sound between Skye and Scotland

W2346. Show that swallowed up The Daily 10

W2348. “Death has arrived”

W2350. Baker of This Is Us

W2352. Still dirty

W2353. Shown particular interest

W2357. Sarai’s hubby

W2358. Year of Super Bowl XLI

W2361. Does the work of a spin doctor

W2362. Old-time boxer Max

W2366. Money in Peru

W2368. “You didn’t fool me”

W2372. 1958 release that was the first new American make since 1939

W2374. Actress Lords of A Time to Die

W2378. Most intimate

W2379. South Pacific nation

W2383. “I say it’s DUCK season, and I say FIRE!” speaker

W2384. Actresses Hewitt and Fisher

W2385. Comes down to earth

W2387. Of poorer quality

W2389. Lamb and pork followers

W2390. Mischievous sorts

W2391. Ralph Waldo Emerson

W2392. ___ Grove, New Jersey

W2393. Austin music/film fest

W2394. Bristlesque

W2396. Predicted hour and minute

W2398. “___ goes”

W2399. Words heard often on TV

W2400. Perdita’s owner

W2401. Like old TV

W2402. Cartridges buried in an infamous landfill

W2403. Meredith Grey’s half-sister on Grey’s Anatomy

W2406. Back of a book

W2407. Words used with east or west.

W2410. Loaded back onto a computer

W2412. A lay reader might see these on Cupid and confuse him with an angel*

W2414. We would say “little,” unless we were Scottish*

W2416. Tune type

W2417. Frightening way for insects to travel

W2420. Look after

W2422. Empty spaces.

W2423. Get black stains out of

W2425. Hike kickoff

W2428. Salubrious

W2429. Acronym meaning “we tried to save the patient from her own poor decisions”

W2430. Susan of LA Law and The Partridge Family

W2432. Financial group popular in Africa

W2434. “Learn to Fly” band

W2437. Gender suffix modifying equestrian and comedian

W2438. Poop and promenade

W2441. DOCX alternative for Amazon submission

W2442. Be a bootlicker

W2444. 2012 John C. Reilly animated film

W2445. Bosun’s mates.

W2446. Two-time NBA MVP Curry

W2447. Holy men, in Brazil

W2449. Big house

W2450. Adjust a paragraph setting

W2453. Kiss, to Brits

W2455. Machinist’s groove.

W2457. Time out for music

W2458. Circuit disconnector for use in emergency

W2460. Putt, for instance

W2462. Rock hardness scale

W2465. Amphibious hoppers

W2466. Sounds from a souse

W2468. Major network, once

W2471. Whale or dolphin

W2472. Ronnie who did a lot of interceptions*

W2473. Novelty item with an eyeglasses variety

W2474. They chase exes

W2476. Point the plane

W2479. Seth of Knocked Up

W2480. Identify again

W2484. Inexperienced web user

W2487. Klingon homophone for a word meaning “pier”*

W2488. Needn’t compromise

W2490. Third word of “Silent Night”

W2492. “You can’t just do this however you want”

W2494. Put to severe questioning

W2497. Greek music hall

W2499. Of current interest

W2500. Pretty Baby director

W2503. Quonsets

W2504. Jedi High Councilmember Mace

W2505. Drastic draft

W2507. Salvador’s state

W2509. Narrow shoe

W2512. Dogfighting

W2514. It’s spoken in Shiraz

W2516. Nonstick cookware product

W2519. Wooden carpentry pin

W2521. Naturally derived body scrubber

W2524. Starbucks sizes below grandes

W2527. Swear again

W2530. Showoff’s shout

W2532. Essay divs

W2533. Eves, to Yves

W2534. Genuinely healthful berry falsely marketed as anticarcinogenic and aphrodisiac

W2535. Ticketing data

W2536. Wrangel of the Russian civil war

W2537. They’re real cutups

W2538. “Others feel like this, too”

W2539. Poker pronouncement

W2541. Tulip and H-line dresses, e.g.

W2543. Took care of all details

W2545. Relative court firmness

W2547. Fox in Socks author

W2549. Vintner

W2551. Swiss abstract painter

W2553. Buddy

W2555. First day cover feature

W2557. “Which genius here thought this was going to work?”

W2559. Culture Club’s “___ Blind”

W2561. Barrymore and Sidora

W2563. Scares a bit

W2565. Solomonic types

W2566. Brings in

W2567. “What ___” (“He’s really overemoting”)

W2568. Puts on the nosebag

W2569. Is familiar with, medievally

W2570. I-5 cops

W2572. Small-runway planes

W2573. Current court star

W2574. Able hunter of the Bible*

W2575. Keys that prepare text or image reproduction

W2577. Serb’s neighbor

W2579. “___ and ye shall find”

W2581. Older and ___

W2583. Holmes’ platonic peer in a Doyle story

W2585. Evan who campaigned at Terrace Bay*

W2587. Like the spelling of oyster-abstaining months

W2589. Like an eyeball

W2592. Shoe sizes

W2593. Longtime Idol judge Paula

W2595. Lois Lane portrayer Durance

W2598. Source of attraction to power?

W2600. Just ___ and a holler: within shouting distance

W2601. Work team

W2602. Shoot from afar

W2603. Virginia cape

W2604. Dividers

W2606. Bowled over

W2607. Sony laptops

W2610. Zillions

W2612. Spanish restaurant appetizers

W2614. It can alter a Ms. to a Mrs.*

W2616. The Proclaimers countryman

W2618. Matthew’s question

W2620. It’s not standard equipment

W2622. Date cultivated in Egypt

W2623. Unsorted information

W2624. Spend the chilly months

W2625. Fools but good

W2628. Lower-right YouTube button

W2630. Seafarer’s adverb

W2631. Furniture-design film subtitled The Architect and the Painter

W2632. Full of holes

W2633. Shop-class device

W2634. Best competitor in the States

W2635. Mascot dancing in Queens

W2636. Lieutenant Yar of the Enterprise D

W2638. Cost of eating out

W2640. Assigns

W2641. Like some suits

W2643. Endings with “three” and “four”

W2644. “I am, you are” follower

W2645. One in many a group

W2647. Show clearly

W2648. Logical and prudent, philosophically

W2649. “Intriguing, but what’s the source for that info”)

W2651. Show by charting

W2653. Consistent in structure

W2656. Home to Theo. Roosevelt Natl. Park

W2659. Boys Don’t Cry Oscar winner Hilary

W2662. “___ -daisy!”

W2663. Abbr. on a cereal box

W2667. When you’re on this, you win by losing

W2671. Gene Chandler’s “___ Temptation”

W2673. Artistic carnival worker

W2674. Haul to the mechanic

W2676. Preamble, to a book or speech

W2679. Dan-o’s show, for short

W2680. Dean of fried food for a decade*

W2681. Everglades critters

W2682. Remove moisture from

W2683. Running pants?

W2686. Nile cruise sights

W2688. What removes tissue for one who hopes to cure it*

W2692. Flooded

W2694. Words repeated to signify boring blather

W2696. Kweisi Mfume was its pres.

W2698. “Last name” of a sport taking America by storm in the 2020s! (This clue is a lie)*

W2700. Neural systems

W2703. “___ Theme” (1939 film song)

W2704. Like some opinions on the Mideast

W2706. Paul whose equation predicted the existence of antimatter

W2709. Don’t

W2710. Buddhist sacred city

W2711. Financially avaricious

W2712. Opening segment of a long work

W2713. Withdrawals of support

W2716. Metal die

W2718. Fictional nation in The Hunger Games

W2722. Calculations

W2724. Ready for action, in a way

W2726. Morning refreshers for kids and adults

W2728. Rundgren and Bridges

W2730. Alternative to cloud storage

W2733. Damage seekers

W2735. Seasoning with magnesium-rich clumps

W2737. I swelling?

W2738. Fancify, as hair

W2740. ___ a wild goose chase

W2742. Yellow snack cake we all got a little nostalgic about for a while there

W2744. Light brew from Bud, casually

W2745. “You reap what you ___”

W2746. By itself

W2747. Owned by others

W2748. Film fish

W2749. Ask a fresh set of questions

W2750. “Wanna put money on it?”

W2751. Melodious

W2752. Nonoriginal copy

W2753. Designer for Paris’s Folies-Bergere

W2754. Wave away in this specific case*

W2756. Gondola guy

W2758. Daniel Day-Lewis film about the corrupting pursuit of oil

W2760. They’re near the median

W2762. Reason for many a kid’s sick day

W2764. Not by a long shot

W2766. He’s a bit of a prat in Guardians of the Galaxy*

W2768. “Sweet” girl of songdom

W2770. Really high

W2771. “That just adds to the pain”

W2772. Nothing fancy

W2773. Athletic sort, slangily

W2774. Slangy intensifier suffix

W2776. Abbr. for Congresspeople Steven Horsford and Catherine Cortez Masto

W2778. Water or station follower

W2780. “I love me a good catfight!”

W2781. OK Corral first name

W2782. They reject the first three caliphs

W2783. With languor

W2784. Knitted garments for women (and the longest common word that uses just the left typing hand)

W2786. Hesitant

W2787. Talks like “Your every belch is poetry, my lord”

W2788. What a dhoti covers

W2790. 1993 Economics co-Nobelist Robert

W2793. You’re in it when you’re satisfied you’ve done your best for everyone

W2795. Prepare to reap

W2797. Like——this

W2799. Undoes a delete

W2801. Pregame score

W2804. “Party in the U.S.A.” singer

W2805. His symbol is the thunderbolt

W2807. Hearty drink

W2810. ___ de combat (out of action due to injury)

W2811. Earth’s surface, hypothetically

W2812. Boot camp experience

W2813. Satyrs’ cousins

W2816. “Personally” singer Bonoff

W2817. Wets one’s line

W2818. Number of times an NFL player has scored a one-point safety

W2820. User of a spray

W2823. Arabian Peninsula veil

W2825. “You ___ Love” (Taylor Swift)

W2827. Has a nasal discharge

W2829. Multiple-choice answers

W2832. Make agree briefly

W2835. Repairs garments

W2838. LOMLs, unabbreviated

W2840. Lines of operation?

W2841. Where there are no winners and truth is the first casualty, it’s said

W2842. Elvis’ real middle name (though his parents did err on his birth certificate)*

W2843. Casey of Riverdale

W2845. Bochco project between Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue

W2846. Like many sweaters

W2849. Egyptian goddess, or exam of old

W2851. Microwaves

W2853. New quest for an existing game

W2855. Procter & Gamble brand

W2857. Noted provider of pictorial instructions

W2860. Get closer

W2863. Fuse metal with voltage

W2865. Tax filer’s form

W2867. Consuming hopelessness

W2869. Saucy sandwich option

W2870. “Proud Mary” band, for short

W2871. Yiddish dipwads

W2873. Enjoyed with a “mmmm”

W2874. Course’s 18

W2875. Palm delicacy

W2876. Where mosquitoes breed

W2877. Port and sherry

W2879. Gulf of Aden phrase

W2881. Try to figure this out

W2883. Short bond?

W2884. Went for lampreys

W2886. Word in Mongolian geography

W2887. “Modern” baseball cap brand

W2888. GIs’ duties, sometimes

W2889. To wide disapproval

W2890. Urinated

W2891. Polite address to a lady

W2892. Marine phosphorescence

W2894. Where Bill and Hillary met

W2896. Say hello without saying it

W2900. Serious troubles

W2902. Blackjack player’s cry

W2905. Western actor Greene

W2907. Goes from pillar to post

W2911. Told threatening people how to reach

W2914. Nerd or geek, more or less

W2917. Close-call cry

W2918. Buffy stars in its heyday, e.g.

W2920. Gets in the middle of

W2922. “Wow, surprisingly orderly!”

W2925. Midwestern murder anthology show

W2926. Divert

W2927. Ending that makes a mob a mob?

W2928. Alleys leading to pins

W2930. “___ Night” (Christmas carol)

W2931. Withered

W2932. Teen star who’s rarely idle*

W2933. Handrail post

W2935. Words before may or might

W2938. Words before hint or line

W2940. Applies friction to

W2942. Words before “day” or “doctor”

W2944. Back of the canoe

W2947. Masked critter

W2948. Security feature

W2949. Crow of a crow

W2950. Dedication a poet may feel is owed*

W2951. Tranquilize

W2953. Member of the CSA, once (abbr.)

W2956. Polo promoter Ralph

W2957. “Don’t fret about me”

W2958. Former seniors

W2959. Buzz generators?

W2962. Quick disputes

W2963. Erases, as a computer’s memory

W2964. Charlie or Jack of the screen

W2966. Part of LSU

W2970. Ingredients in some witch’s brews

W2972. Pig’s prominence

W2974. Where you might hear lots of stories

W2976. Danish beer brand

W2979. Hope’s partner

W2980. Singles out as important

W2981. Ere, during, and after*

W2982. Imitate paint

W2984. Having been sworn to truth

W2986. I-80, e.g.

W2988. They make it (ever so slightly) harder to stay rich in France and Spain

W2990. Provide qualifications for

W2991. Response to a seemingly disembodied voice

W2992. Ken Watanabe’s character in Inception

W2993. Kids’ old cookie makers, informally

W2994. Willie of Charles in Charge

W2995. Dissatisfied sorts

W2996. Major now divided into Middle Eastern and Asian specialties

W2997. “___ a Beach” (clean version)

W2998. Vacation twosome, perhaps

W2999. Apply more polish to

W3001. Disney Imagineer Marty

W3003. Totally tolerate

W3005. Make the boss proud, in a way

W3007. Prefix for “chest”

W3009. Home to many sisters

W3011. Put back in the fold

W3013. Malfunctioning wildly, as a computer

W3014. Without stooping

W3015. Kirk Douglas, to Catherine Zeta-Jones

W3016. 5-hour exam, for short

W3017. Jewish month

W3019. Instruction sequence that could crash your system

W3021. Land bordered by the Mekong

W3022. Thai dish ___ krob

W3023. Course of action (abbr.)

W3024. Iron Man movies favor their songs

W3025. Powerhouses

W3028. More ready to be picked

W3029. Shifting letters

W3030. Beguiling tricks

W3032. Spay, say

W3036. Writers Paretsky and Ryan

W3038. Type of excuse

W3040. Inappropriate, perhaps

W3042. Poetic word

W3044. “___ piece of the rock” (Prudential slogan)

W3045. Homeric phrase for “great phrasing”

W3047. Support for the circus?

W3050. “Honey, you’re here, you’re queer, and I’m used to it” speaker van de Kamp

W3051. Longtime National Enquirer chief Calder

W3052.

“___ I miss?”

W3053. Television, theater, et al.

W3055. Deceptive talker

W3056. Series of performances

W3058. Houston pro, briefly

W3060. Ingredient you might bake in a club*

W3062. The better part of a month

W3064. Norse goddesses

W3066. Elm origin

W3068. Slithering creature

W3071. Analyze the syntax of

W3072. “Zuppa” morsels

W3073. Athletic shoes

W3074. Entrapped

W3076. “Hold Me” country Grammy winner, 1988

W3079. The other Will who was New York Times crossword editor

W3080. Wharton rewards (abbr.)

W3081. “Don’t ___, Be Happy”

W3082. In spite of the fact that, for short

W3083. Really enlightened

W3084. Crazy idea

W3086. Emile who wrote J’accuse

W3088. Illogic

W3090. Unspecified no.

W3092. Local buses make them often

W3094. Caesar’s worst time

W3096. Spy movie set in Jamaica

W3099. Gives support to

W3100. Point in Trivial Pursuit

W3101. Confessing

W3102. Runaway leader’s lead

W3104. Deep but not that deep voices

W3106. Thomas Mann’s ___ Kroger

W3108. Gigi’s “Wow!”

W3110. “Formal” part of a clown costume

W3111. Animals that are just breathtaking

W3112. Gets uninjured

W3113. Cheap digs (abbr.)

W3115. Ten C-notes

W3116. They’ll cause you to work faster on your scarecrow*

W3117. Animal that makes a noise like a voiced, stretched version of this word (almost a homophone, but not quite)

W3118. Move swiftly

W3120. Scientologist Satan

W3123. What sees an ile*

W3124. Of the nearest star

W3126. First name in clockdom

W3127. Abraham’s first son

W3128. Liquor famous for 20th-century ads that punned on its name

W3129. Faucet insert

W3130. Outfielder Steven’s family

W3132. Tony Khan’s fighting org.

W3134. Ending for old or young

W3140. Luke’s ship

W3143. Coaster rider’s cry

W3144. President who was christened Leslie King

W3145. “If I Knew You Were Comin’ ___ Baked a Cake” (1950 #1 song)

W3147. They might be reciprocating or circular

W3151. Electric piano brand

W3156. It might be in the neck

W3158. Cheer for Lionel Messi

W3160. Eddic figure

W3162. Bit of Frankenstein’s-monster makeup

W3165. Haul well taut and belay

W3166. Abbr. on many a can

W3167. Has a knack

W3168. Nickname for K.D., maybe (yeah, this one’s stretchy)*

W3169. Munchies, on Madison Avenue

W3172. Rub dry

W3173. Owns in Scotland

W3174. McConaughey bomb that arguably predicted YouTube microcelebrity

W3176. ___ a bill of goods

W3180. “Yo, ___, I heard you liked memes…”

W3182. Beatles tune “I’ve Just ___ Face”

W3184. Meteorologic org.

W3185. Quiz answer choice

W3187. Popular bit of candy

W3189. Piece of clothing used to shoo some wild animals*

W3190. Univ. tests

W3192. Jubilant cry after the game

W3194. Spanish letter between ka and eme

W3196. Week letters on many calendars

W3198. Distress call

W3199. Olympic figure skater Katarina

W3200. Psych ending

W3201. Grew wide

W3202. Struggling to maintain interest?

W3203. Converted housing

W3204. Treatment to banish prurient thoughts

W3205. Two, to Teutons

W3207. First name in the Cheers cast

W3208. They’ll give you views of the clouds on a plane

W3210. Angelou who read at the 1993 inauguration

W3212. The magnet end that points down on a map

W3214. Unequivocal refusal

W3215. Blas and Hodges

W3217. “Ms. New Booty” and “Lose Yourself”

W3219. Comics gasp

W3221. Southwestern cowboy

W3222. MTV hit

W3224. Runs up an account

W3227. Fender guitar (abbr.)

W3229. Record label from 1931-2012

W3230. Period of group activity, slangily

W3231. Handled piecemeal

W3232. It’s badder than bad, for short

W3233. Rte. 66, e.g.

W3236. Let go by

W3237. Nicolas’s Honeymoon in Vegas love interest

W3239. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy novelist John Le ___

W3241. _roduct _nformation _anagement _ystem

W3245. Dries with cloth

W3247. Strip at homecoming?

W3249. Movie whose title refers to an urge to stray from marriage

W3250. They’re kept in a lot

W3252. State whose cap. is Cheyenne (abbr.)

W3253. They’ll get you biting replies

W3257. Sounds of regret

W3260. Poker tournament type

W3261. Dies ___ (Day of Wrath, in Latin)

W3262. He looks like he’s half fawn*

W3263. Worthless talk

W3265. Don of the ‘60s Tigers

W3266. Like the Ferrari Testarossa

W3267. Where the Berlin trains run

W3268. It has more hair than a rabbit when born*

W3269. Sports broadcast feature

W3271. Nobelist Otto

W3273. climate.gov org.

W3276. Words before a sour note?

W3278. Purchase in the Potterverse’s Diagon Alley

W3280. ___ at the Stars (von Braun biopic)

W3281. Craaazy

W3284. Typographic symbol resembling a carrot*

W3287. Short sentence at the altar or the stand

W3288. Cheek’s neighbor

W3289. Thackeray’s birthplace

W3291. “Does this seam ___ weird to you?”*

W3292. Elena of the Supremes

W3295. Mars and Uranus author

W3296. Blender button

W3297. Honey mustard and sesame ginger, e.g.

W3299. Charter

W3300. There’s a lot of money in it

W3301. Have confidence in

W3302. Lindsay of Mean Girls

W3304. Balance evenly

W3306. Lagerlof’s The Wonderful Adventures of ___

W3308. Self-compounding string of defeats

W3310. Video game that preceded Riven

W3312. Fallon’s Tonight predecessor

W3315. When early afternoon becomes mid-afternoon

W3316. What may distract you while the heist goes down*

W3317. Issues (forth)

W3318. Healthy on the loch

W3319. “Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg” and “Ronald McDonald vs. the Burger King” vid series

W3321. “Give all thou ___” (Wordsworth)

W3323. “Let’s not waste time arguing” pleas

W3324. Bell ringer

W3326. Gentleman’s wager

W3328. Aerosmith power ballad

W3329. Dimmesdale grows one on his own flesh to match Hester’s

W3330. Bogus quarter

W3331. “#1” preceder

W3332. Warcross and Skyhunter author

W3333. Vacationing, say

W3334. Comment treated as news far too often

W3335. Biblical patriarch

W3337. Having a dull blue color

W3339. Conflicts with combat

W3341. Seoul statesman until ‘60

W3343. Draw ___: take aim with an arrow

W3345. “The most difficult part of moving ___ accepting the other person already did” (Faraaz Kazi)

W3346. Valley of the Shoshoneans

W3348. “Trap Queen” rapper Fetty ___

W3349. Parodied

W3350. “…sure ___ made black and white, what’s done in the dark will come into the light” (Johnny Cash)

W3351. Joyce short story focused on a bazaar the hero thinks will be exotic

W3352. Chose over nobler ideals

W3353. The three channels of the 1960s and 1970s

W3354. “Lemme just put this out there…”

W3356. Stereotypical pocket protector wearers

W3357. Petulant

W3358. Think tank keeping an eye on geopolitics, for short (AABB pattern)

W3359. “Don’t text and drive” ad, briefly

W3360. “No, it’s on me, dammit!”

W3361. Heat-yielding

W3362. Warden’s workplace, slangily

W3363. Geraint’s wife in Lord Tennyson’s work

W3364. Velvet attachment

W3365. Mercedes-___

W3367. Stop paling

W3368. Iron Man suit, to retailers

W3369. They have no spine

W3370. Ties (up)

W3373. Molecular oxygen

W3374. “…Whoa…” feeling

W3375. ___ rock (some George Harrison music)

W3376. Overwhelm, as flavor

W3378. Place to buy a round

W3379. Key word in Hoosiers and Dial of Destiny

W3380. “___ all good”

W3382. “Typical” band ___math

W3383. Brawl in the sticks?

W3384. Jason of The Event

W3385. Tightens, as nautical ropes

W3386. Split the taxi fare

W3387. Earful for one taking in an eyeful

W3388. Me, whenever I try to remember any clues I wrote more than a couple hours ago

W3390. Dried orchid tuber

W3393. ___ violin: make some music

W3396. 2000s conflict

W3400. Falls like dominoes

W3404. Starting scale notes

W3407. “One down, ___ go”

W3409. Django Unchained and The Magnificent Seven

W3411. “Private Dancer” singer Turner

W3413. Play with feline style

W3416. _ournal _f _ordplay (project that grew out of the Ubercross)

W3417. Christmas scent

W3419. Anthony or Anton

W3420. N.Y.C. landmark

W3422. Take in a child

W3424. “Yours truly performs the same action”

W3427. Scot’s “nays”*

W3429. Grackle

W3432. Put in boiling water

W3433. “Identical twin, your body spun really quickly!” (What anything the W might stand for becomes when exposed to this section’s theme)

W3435. Big Apple enforcers, for short

W3437. Capitol Hill VIP

W3438. Vibration

W3440. Out jogging

W3441. A million jillion

W3442. Secures with firm knots

W3444. Dip below the horizon

W3445. Crash investigator (abbr.)

W3446. Foreboding trouble

W3448. Diamond parts

W3449. Fair to middling

W3450. Failed as a corn farmer?

W3451. Prescriber of chicken soup, slangily

W3452. Heart of Paris

W3453. Ham’s partner

W3454. D in CD or DVD

W3455. Liberia’s flag has one

W3457. Lets the white, wet stuff down on Aberdeen

W3459. Abbr. on a light dumbbell

W3461. Auto mechanic, slangily

W3462. Deckhand’s need

W3463. Ring-shaped cutters attached to drills

W3465. Where the Kwai flows

W3467. Name found in “Scott Scott bo Bott banana fana fo Fott me mi mo Mott…Scott”

W3468. “If it,” in Paris

W3470. Stupid, a bit more diplomatically

W3471. Like a rock star’s lifestyle

W3472. Namesake of many churches

W3473. Spinning wildly

W3474. Devoted author

W3475. What lava does

W3477. Word purr-fect?

W3479. Bodily joints

W3483. Wally and Beaver’s mom

W3484. “Want to risk it?”

W3485. Request from the lost

W3486. Good health, little debt, or general optimism, e.g.

W3488. Anthem start

W3489. Overfamiliar through overuse

W3490. One-time electronics giant

W3491. Where you’ll go after putting anchors aweigh*

W3493. Actors McGregor and Stewart

W3495. Lots (of)

W3498. It started with smelting

W3500. Edible jack fish

W3501. Tries to bean

W3503. Setting for Genesis 2:8-25

W3507. Took to port, perhaps

W3508. Eye ridge

W3510. ___ v. Reno: Landmark gerrymandering case

W3512. “Catch you later!”

W3514. Feasted on

W3516. Most unctuous

W3517. Silverstein who wrote “A Boy Named Sue”

W3518. “Be REASONABLE, geez!”

W3520. Lists of dishes

W3521. Photocopier paper option

W3522. Celebrators of seders

W3523. This for that

W3525. Aspirin or ibuprofen

W3527. Form in the theory of forms

W3529. Jotting spot

W3531. Law with implications for digital TV

W3533. African prince-turned-vampire exploitation film

W3535. Epic poem pts.

W3536. Cat, at times

W3537. What’s listed first in most “advantages vs. disadvantages” prose*

W3540. “I have ___, who is in my heart. A wonderful man…” (Maya Angelou)

W3542. Ray who played Raymond

W3546. Like M&Ms

W3547. Like a not-too-crisp TV picture

W3548. Tall dinosaurs, for short

W3549. Expanse

W3550. What the WWW stands for

W3552. They’re split in debates

W3553. Black in Paris

W3554. Sing the praises of

W3556. Pretty good grade

W3558. Acne and too much oil are signs of it

W3559. Tennis’s Ana Ivanovic, for one

W3561. “How’s it goin’?”

W3562. Film-crew VIP

W3563. Good friend, to gallic Francois

W3566. Type of pitcher

W3567. Lively, like a shampoo?

W3569. Congressional campaign

W3571. “In one,” in Henry V

W3573. Heroic military pilot

W3575. Lost steam

W3577. “Down, Nelly,” or start of a trig pneumonic

W3579. Coaches aren’t too eager to put them in

W3581. High-profile Watson and Stone

W3583. “When ___ a kid…”

W3585. Load cargo

W3588. Somewhat thankless position on the gridiron

W3590. Sibling of un frere

W3592. Surfacing for a golf course

W3593. Explosive shockwaves

W3594. Sam of Sam’s Club

W3595. Sat., to Sun.

W3598. Russo or Descartes

W3600. Controversial-to-say-the-least 2021 Jeopardy! host

W3601. Kind of smell that might accompany you to work

W3605. Muslim scholar

W3606. Alt-mag founder Eric

W3608. Test the fit of

W3609. Old-fashioned woman

W3610. Ring or musicmaker

W3611. Free a dog from fleas, e.g.

W3612. Clippy, e.g. (abbr.)

W3614. Playwright Akins and Tony winner Caldwell

W3616. Speaks like King James?

W3619. Magnum Incendium Romae figure

W3621. San Juan uncles

W3624. Arsenal item

W3625. Steve Winwood lyric “I will ___ for it”

W3626. Sadie Hawkins Day suitors

W3628. Long look

W3631. Browning vessels

W3634. Its rules help sites adapt to mobile

W3636. For old users, it’s associated with a “Keeeeeee errrrr beep ong dee ong waaahhh urrrrrr” startup noise

W3638. See

W3639. “I don’t know what she ___ in her”

W3640. Authority divided between Congress and the President

W3641. Like Keelung residents

W3643. Philosopher of note

W3645. Nickname of basketball’s Allen Iverson

W3648. Classical Can. ensemble

W3650. Use diligently

W3652. Power company problems

W3654. Sales legend Billy

W3655. Global mediator’s expertise, perhaps

W3656. Cartoon character Mike who fails at his original life objective

W3657. Anguished cry

W3659. “___ in America” (“Nowhere else in the world could this happen”)

W3661. HBO show named for a New Orleans neighborhood

W3663. River to the Laptev Sea

W3669. Poking out one’s tongue a bit

W3670. It will expire if not fed

W3671. Song for the masses, but also for Him*

W3672. “Stop, STOP!” (var.)

W3674. Like the origin of the names for some days of the week

W3676. In ___ land

W3682. “But, soft!,” for instance

W3683. Emergency hoopsters

W3684. Often-illegal turns, in slang

W3685. Like a well-written thriller

W3686. Tragic heroine of an epic cable series

W3687. It keeps shoes in shape

W3689. Poor source of caffeine

W3691. Stinky substance farm fundraisers play bingo with

W3698. Cherbourg shout

W3699. Enjoyed a spread

W3700. Smartypants

W3701. Casements

W3703. Avant-garde

W3705. They’re really out there

W3707. Where the next-fastest cars are, normally

W3709. Result from getting one’s head examined

W3716. European crow

W3717. Faction-makers

W3718. Groundhog, e.g.

W3720. Need forgiveness

W3722. “Never heard of ‘em”

W3724. Peabrain

W3726. Shannen Doherty or Mike McReady’s disease

W3727. Dragon killed by Apollo

W3728. Remnants, like shreds of clothes on racks*

W3729. “___ a day goes by…”

W3730. What the W stands for, in oil cans

W3732. Ho Chi Minh City, formerly

W3734. Darrin’s intimidating in-law, in old TV

W3736. What the W. stands for, in politics

W3738. Black teas

W3739. “Leave me alone!”

W3740. Puzzled (out)

W3741. Jam container

W3742. “___ The Walrus” (Beatles song)

W3744. Puts icing on

W3746. Was immoral

W3748. Shrink in fear

W3750. Soldiers sneaking off

W3752. Deep lake out West

W3754. “Rock Wit’___” (Bobby Brown)

W3755. Letter signifying the sound of panting

W3756. “___ tells me!”

W3757. Cinereous

W3758. “Does the prior phrase in any way fail to describe me perfectly?”, casually

W3759. Mother Jones employer (abbr.)

W3760. “That’s the golden mark I seek ___” (Henry VI, Part 2)

W3761. Roman responsibilities

W3762. Silk dresses of Mumbai

W3763. Extremely upscale?

W3764. John Deere product

W3765. Chorus noise in “Immigrant Song”

W3766. Dist. between stars

W3767. Benefactor of the Keating Five

W3768. Agassi on the court

W3770. Everything considered

W3771. Child, legally speaking

W3772. Cellphone group pic, in slang

W3773. Desolate region

W3774. Early king of Judea

W3776. Condition of a sleepless afternoon

W3779. British historian A.L.

W3780. In 2012, her Secret Service name was “Rosebud”

W3781. Hit “music”?

W3782. Crime-solver Ramsey of 1970s TV

W3783. Not-nice term for one with a drinking problem, but sometimes you need to break out the rough language to make people see reality

W3784. Main Street locales

W3785. Russkies

W3786. “If I ___ Rich Man”

W3787. No wetter

W3788. Sea distances (abbr.)

W3789. Some freshwater ducks

W3790. Likely to mistreat

W3791. Read between the lines

W3792. Rock find that’s often split in half

W3793. Frodo’s creator Tolkien

W3794. Apres-ski spot

W3795. What the W stands for, in kids’ cartoons

W3796. Double-twisting double backflip named for an athlete

W3797. Chris Cornell cover “Ave ___”

W3799. Deftness

W3801. What the w stands for, in economic calculations

W3803. Handwritten “Q” feature

W3805. “Cruel to be Kind” singer Nick whose voice isn’t that low*

W3810. Abate, with “off”

W3812. It surrounds a lens

W3813. Part of a bust

W3815. ___-Dixie Stores

W3817. Food, cutesily

W3818. ___ Jail (Monopoly command)

W3820. Amount, as of pickled peppers

W3824. Sticking place?

W3825. Particle created by a cosmic ray

W3826. Copy job delayers

W3827. Deliberate loss

W3829. Self-deprecating Internet abbreviation

W3831. Food franchise initials

W3833. More dependable than AA

W3835. Horror director James

W3836. Botch one

W3837. O preceder

W3838. Stuttgart sunrise direction

W3847. USAF E-7, e.g.

W3848. Mr. Ed’s mouthful

W3849. She’ll have none but God*

W3850. She’d aid a leap in computing beyond pure calculation*

W3852. Straight Outta Compton: The Story of ___

W3854. Extremely hostile, as a glare

W3856. Little child

Across Stitches

W318-X298. Paddle-powered vessels

W698-X664. ___ speed: Spotty signal that may mean it's time to upgrade to 4G or 5G?

W729-X695. Superintelligence in Limitless or near-invulnerability in Unbreakable?

W1075-X1047. Did an informal poll

W1292-X1258. “You duel well!”

W2002-X2002. “I didn’t imagine this”

W2406-X2425. Exhausts the resources of

W3100-X3142. Where MIA soldiers might survive

W3408-X3456. “In what way, wall glue?”

W3743-X3788. Sons of Satan