Ubercross Abecedaria A

Across

A1. Football call

A5. General Wingate

A9. Site of the Bocca Nuova crater

A13. Bruvs

A17. Feature of a Norman Rockwell self-portrait

A21. “___ Muppet, or ___ man?” (The Muppets)

A25. Buster’s sister or love interest, depending on the version of Tiny Toons

A29. Tennyson, e.g.

A33. “Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?” snakes

A37. Binary in a car

A41. Spaghetti, e.g.

A45. Charitable donation

A49. Stops in one’s tracks

A54. Some lap dogs

A58. Winner of the first gift-giving contest

A62. Rani’s dress?

A66. Columned walkway

A70. Suffix for tap or tip

A74. Psychedelic, say

A78. “It’s beginning to look ___ like Christmas…”

A82. Rounds for arms

A86. Lasting pain

A90. ___ patriae

A94. Dieting figures, for short

A98. Initialism on a bank door

A102. Not ___: No way!

A103. Weather svc. agcy.

A104. Be a drifter

A105. Casual “bonjour”

A106. Big name in theaters

A107. Cue ball target

A108. Reconciler in Genesis 33

A109. Party with a mosh pit

A110. Intuitive push past logic

A111. ___ santo (plant)

A112. Old telephone keypad abbr.

A113. Old Web “code” that’s sort of slang

A114. In a friendly manner

A115. Swinger

A116. Bluetooth- devices-for-motorcycles maker

A117. 20 fins

A118. Factory seconds (abbr.)

A119. Stark with a kill list

A120. Name seen in classic film history and Game of Thrones credits

A121. Zurich-based sports org.

A122. One of the first measurements you learn in sch.

A123. Cold-weather wear

A124. Hereditary character marker

A125. Neil Diamond’s “___ Said”

A126. Bad news for Florida in 2017

A127. Divorce parties, perhaps

A129. Benefits of teamwork

A131. Love of exotica

A133. Cause of sink stains

A135. It often catches an infection

A137. Legendary Chicagoan

A139. Knuckle-cracking or nail-biting

A140. “It’ll be fine”

A142. Implicit meaning

A144. Trains one’s long-term attention (on)

A146. Smiles and says “hi” to, for a start

A148. With no tags

A150. Amateur’s aspiration, often

A152. With a low frequency?

A153. It means “four”

A154. Ark passenger groupings

A156. Separate, as one to many

A157. Sawtooth Mountains state

A159. Marvell-ous work?

A160. Popular fruit-and-bread breakfast, often with butter

A162. Wisconsin city where a kids’ clothing line was founded

A163. Cry of exasperation

A165. Reagan-era missile prog.

A167. First-rate, in British slang

A168. Increases homeowner levies, say

A170. In fine fettle

A171. Japanese training spaces

A173. Mentally exhausted

A174. Inflatable transport

A175. Chilly time in Chihuahua

A176. Least flustered

A177. Animal named for its absence in a Christmas carol

A179. French cathedral city

A181. Word following pigeon or web

A183. Fender bender, e.g.

A185. Watchmen writer

A188. Like a bootleg play

A189. Cry from the accused

A191. Thinnish middle?

A192. Interstate posts

A197. Battering beam

A198. Evening up, as a score

A200. Available to sire

A201. Locale of a famous hanging

A203. They’ve got the Sun, the Moon, and the Star

A204. Rigatoni’s kin

A205. Currency for some tribes in history

A206. Osteoporosis issue

A207. Junk character in a coded message

A208. Meet ___: have a place in the marketplace

A210. Common straight-pour order

A213. Born micromanager

A215. Resort area souvenirs

A218. Title of the most reprinted editorial in the English language

A225. Negotiate to completion

A228. In bits

A230. Shakespeare said there were seven

A232. Proofreader’s target

A233. Price the consumer pays

A235. Mr. Miyagi portrayer

A237. Greek who believed “the best physician is also a philosopher”

A239. False chameleon (as if chameleons aren’t all about fooling you already)

A240. Practically colorless

A242. Radon, formerly

A243. Full of laughs and thrills

A245. Be convincing

A246. Prove boundaries porous

A247. Provides libations

A248. Bart’s burnt-out teacher until 2013

A249. ml, medically

A250. They’re read in the middle of OT?

A251. “Good one!”

A253. Label for cishet who supports non-cishets that I’m a little uneasy with, to be honest, because some people apply it to anyone who’s just a basically decent person whereas others are considerably stricter

A254. 142-volume chronicler of ancient Rome

A255. Kind of movie, informally

A256. Shield or breastplate which, in The Iliad, roared like a dragon

A257. Pane servicer’s add-on

A258. Dove or pigeon, auditorily

A259. Sparkling with decorations

A260. Catalog section husbands should note

A262. Own up to one’s sins

A264. Philanthropist

A266. Standing up straight

A268. Pony’s pace

A270. Pats with a hanky

A273. Suffix with home and farm

A275. Nicolas in “Stars We Lost” lists of 2018

A277. It causes degradation

A279. Is, possibly

A280. Losing it makes what’s said sad?

A281. “Ruh-___, Raggy!”

A283. Optometrist’s interest

A285. “Am ___ your way?”

A287. “Like a ___ a string”

A288. Holiday radio fare

A290. Sweethearts

A291. “And ___ it off…” (As if that wasn’t enough…)

A292. Swerved quickly

A294. Moves the camera over

A295. Puts in the post office

A296. Nipponese noodles

A297. Where a novel begins, generally

A298. Used a caret

A300. King or Queen book, e.g.

A302. Language that gives us “kiwi”

A304. Eldest Baldwin brother

A306. City near Pompeii

A308. Father Junipero

A310. Org. that fills bowls?

A312. Well-guarded Israeli port

A314. Shoulder-baring underthing

A317. What someone who looks at Medusa does

A320. Automaton

A321. Whence come some cones

A322. “The ___ get, the ___ want”

A323. Brings one’s lunch

A324. Exuded moisture, in a way

A325. The Sultan of Insult, to Don Rickles

A326. Gp. that developed the earliest internet

A327. Wireless setups between octets and smaller groups of computers

A328. “The Brand More Dentists Use Themselves”

A330. Asian gambling mecca

A332. “If a tree falls in the forest and ___…”

A334. Apply paint crudely

A336. Hilaire who wrote Cautionary Tales for Children and The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts

A338. Garb for Atia

A340. Movies that made it

A342. They’re found on gift tags

A344. Name that’s a distance reversed

A345. “No prob here”

A346. Native of Vientiane, e.g.

A347. Comb crazily?

A348. Cheap shots

A349. Spirited cry

A350. Popular author who wrote in anapestic tetrameter

A351. Jumped up and down, perhaps

A352. Frequent props for Marlene Dietrich

A353. “No ___!” (emphatic denial)

A354. Documentarian Ken

A355. Houston campus

A356. Occasion for cards from many relatives

A361. Movie with a sextet of fighters and a training montage involving chopsticks…that is not Kill Bill

A364. Alternative to a tanning salon

A367. Like schemes to RUUUUULE the WORRRRLD

A370. Scorpion product

A372. 2004 Cole Porter biopic

A375. Wizard of Oz sound effect

A378. One-on-one auto sport

A381. Misspelling on Pooh’s pot

A382. Period of altered consciousness

A384. Prosperous

A386. Orator who overcame his stutter by rehearsing with stones in his mouth

A388. Catchphrase for Clark Kent and Doc Brown

A393. Wife of Zeus

A394. Officiously intermeddle

A396. Pass twice in a race

A397. “___ to me…” (AFAIK)

A399. Emulate a hot spring

A400. “Relax, I got this”

A402. Little jerkass

A403. Still-life subject

A405. Driverless racer, casually

A407. Plays the wrong suit

A408. ___-locka, Fla.

A409. Be superior to, as in the military

A410. Gala affairs

A411. Knotted neckwear

A412. Romeo’s love

A413. Several works of Michelangelo

A414. Prefix often meaning “self-activating”

A415. Gives an edge to

A416. Martin’s second wife on Frasier

A417. Play groups?

A418. Big book of oil

A419. Rear sections

A421. Actor Rob of 90210

A423. Spinal parts

A425. ___ blank

A427. Equipment for a water sport or a frozen-water sport

A429. Nonbinding Islamic resolution

A431. Dessert label that signals it’ll make you bigger

A433. Twosome

A435. Military hopeful

A437. Relevant, in court

A438. Pop-up window on Windows, sometimes

A440. A great deal

A441. Young sows

A442. Like hard-to-eat fish

A443. Events that please ski resort owners

A444. One who saves on new clothes with a needle and thread

A445. Kind of table on a plane

A446. Henchman material

A447. What limnologists study

A448. Ferngully hip-hop artist voiced by Robin Williams

A449. Subject of a Cubist Microsoft icon

A450. Archaeologists, at times

A452. Graph theorist W.T.

A454. Throat infection, in brief

A456. Opposite of mild

A458. 30 for 30 channel

A460. Most of most scripts

A462. ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives)

A464. Stage bigwig

A466. Lips, in Latin

A468. “New World Coming” singer

A469. “Aw, dat’s a ___ hooey!”

A470. “Moderate air quality”

A471. Hits the spot

A472. “___ tricks?”

A473. Oleta Adams and Annie Lennox, on the mic

A474. Search for provisions

A475. “Voulez-vous coucher ___ moi?”

A476. Bar used as a pry

A477. Prone to leaking

A478. Ultra-busy sort

A479. With no sense of propriety

A480. The W. in W.H. Auden

A482. First part in a duet

A484. Astronaut’s work environment, for short

A486. Gimlet orderer’s spec

A488. Aunts, in Acapulco

A490. Anti-allergy drug

A492. Nine, in combinations

A494. Tori who sang “Silent All These Years”

A496. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, officer, this is a perfectly legitimate business” “business”

A498. Some T sizes

A499. Football squad mems.

A501. Big name in automotive products

A503. Onetime Press Secretary Spicer

A504. Ensure victory, slangily

A505. Comparison, literarily

A506. Fruity alcoholic brand

A507. Election Day freebies from party workers

A508. Goes from glory to a shadow of its former self

A509. Things inspiring distaste

A510. Your spouse

A511. Popular type of vinegar

A513. Competing with the goal of victory

A516. Very, very well

A519. Something many claim to have lost in pandemic-induced isolation

A522. “LEEEROY JENKINS,” e.g.

A524. Some book ends

A525. Meat- or fish-filled pastry

A527. Big-billed sea bird

A528. Fire Island hues

A529. Word balloon

A531. Oceanfront disasters

A533. Swims while keeping one’s eye on shore, maybe

A535. They hang around carpenters

A537. Polite offer-to-help query

A538. Bit of dirty politics

A540. Dusk, didactically

A541. It often precedes a bass line

A543. Mexican warrior

A544. Fireplace blackener

A546. Like streets of Victorian London

A547. Untouchable Ness

A549. Mammals’ protections

A551. Dinky dump truck maker

A552. Central Texas city

A554. iPhone predecessors

A555. A whole lot

A556. Verb in Exodus

A557. Name for a big wheel

A558. Gimlet options

A559. Revive

A560. Mexican sauces

A561. Renders docile

A562. Helps steer through the waterways

A563. ___ Meets World

A565. Make ecstatic

A567. Coffee brand

A569. Place proximately to

A571. “___ Song” (“La la la la, la la la la, ___ song / He wrote the music, he wrote the words, that’s ___ song”)

A573. Classic hero Quatermain

A575. Sunbathing risk

A577. Savanna beasts

A579. Place to get teased

A581. Nations’ handshake

A583. Last section my wife and I visit on an IKEA trip

A584. Dust protectors

A585. Financial guru Orman

A586. Name kept when she married Kent

A587. Clicking language of Africa

A588. Kind of mariner

A589. Dandy’s accoutrement

A590. Mnemosyne was one

A591. Signs away, as territory

A592. Finishes a dishwashing cycle

A593. We has one

A594. “I’m the Last of the Red Hot ___”

A595. Like Seattle vis-à-vis Phoenix

A597. Bereaved wife

A599. The Girl Who Played with Fire author Larsson

A601. Messy sound effect

A603. She seeks vengeance in The Last of Us Part II

A605. Bought the farm

A607. Unprecedented

A609. ___ through (rehearsed)

A611. Kind of roll

A613. Contribute to the Tomatometer

A614. Like music you might rip

A616. “Told you!”

A618. Net profits

A619. Phaedrus products

A620. Prepare to ship, archaically

A621. Daytime

A622. Winning so far

A623. 1929 movie phenom

A624. “Boxcars”

A625. Abhor

A626. Pepsi-Cola and Nike, structurewise

A628. First satellite to “see” the Earth from space

A630. The ___ (dysfunctional-family comedy based on Shakespeare)

A632. Records for later

A634. Adams who sang “Get Here”

A636. Word before foot, bones, and faced

A638. Wonder’s output, maybe

A640. Pharma giant that made Accutane

A642. Prepares for a game

A643. Israeli statesman Barak

A644. Former Chinese Communist military leader Lin

A645. Opposite of dethrone

A646. Gift-getter

A647. Latin quarter

A648. Voice actor Harnell of Animaniacs

A649. Pronoun neglecting enbies and mostly displaced by “they”

A650. Helps a friend achieve their schemes

A651. “It ___ be you”

A652. Came to a decision

A653. Done, in Verdun

A654. Spot for a garden

A658. “Ver-r-ry ___!”

A661. They’re worth about $8.5K in annual salary

A664. Mission Impossible star

A667. Usually prefixed word meaning “engulf”

A669. Team for mate, e.g. (abbr.)

A670. Shapeless mass

A671. Gp. with balls and strikes

A674. ___ Digest (monthly Pakistani magazine)

A676. Scottish river or loch near Perth

A677. 52 pick-up projectiles

A678. Annoyed moviegoer’s shout

A680. Zoo favorites

A682. Teddy Roosevelt’s regiment

A684. Tub-based, repeated relaxation ritual

A688. Union pledges?

A689. Devil’s buy

A691. America’s Funniest Videos host Bob

A692. What Oprah “gave up panties” for

A694. Aptly named old novelist Charles

A695. “____ wunderschönen guten Morgen”

A697. Nana, on the other side of the family

A698. They have tines and scoops

A700. Forceful proclamation

A702. Texter’s “sweet dreams” abbreviation

A703. Modern Hibernia

A704. Volkswagen sport compact until 2016

A705. End of a children’s song’s second verse

A706. It’s in grog

A707. Grimy-looking

A708. African fox

A709. Motion carriers

A710. Young’s corporate partner

A711. Eventually become

A712. Legendary Bagger

A713. It’s often cooked in the woods

A714. Spiked hair holders

A715. They may be in black-and-white

A716. They vary based on the fullness of the glass you tap

A718. Increase dramatically

A720. What’s often paid on a private resale

A722. Chilly day accessory

A724. Furtive lurker

A726. Kin of mauve

A728. Goddess of strife

A730. Less natural-seeming

A732. English king succeeded by William of Orange

A734. Salukis, e.g.

A735. Mild maledictions

A737. “He spent years developing a giant crossword puzzle. He is survived by his wife and four cats,” e.g.

A739. Film magazine (var.)

A741. Like many who suffer hypothermia

A742. Honored org. post-9/11

A743. Website whose current homepage features the line “Mazel tov for finding love”

A744. Expressive

A745. Like crap that just don’t work right

A746. Power to please

A747. Robert who was so retro on civil rights he made Scalia look like Ginsburg

A748. Phylum or genus

A749. Ness and Lomond

A751. Country Anna visited

A753. Dictator before Caesar

A755. Wurst topping

A757. Jazz vocalist legend Vaughan

A759. Bugs’s nemesis

A761. 1939 Bolger costar

A763. ___ Gray effect: personality’s effect on physicality

A765. Year Augustus named his heir

A766. Bachelor bachelor Luyendyk Jr.

A767. Lose ___: slow down

A768. Meyer or Merrill of screen

A769. Confine, in a way

A770. Provided capital

A771. Filly at five

A772. Buffalo Bill’s family

A773. Like some linings

A774. Exploits, in a sense

A775. Distinctive walks

A776. Weeding implements

A777. Old-fashioned cup

A778. Brown eyes or red hair, e.g.

A780. Novelty pet

A782. Continue to treat, as a sprain

A784. Material for bicycle shorts

A786. Six trillion mi. increments, roughly

A788. Stud horses

A790. Titanic chanteuse

A792. Blitzes

A794. Coast-to-coast, perhaps (abbr.)

A795. “This Too Shall Pass” singers

A796. Showed disdain

A798. Groundbreaking invention?

A800. Mass booklet

A801. With wings

A802. Safe place for a boat

A803. Ancient Greek city-state

A804. 1960s activist Bobby

A805. Roots of ruin

A806. Literary Doone

A807. Participates in a curtain call

A808. Lubricate a second time

A809. Comic character in whiteface

A811. Luxurious yet undistinguished residences

A814. Skimpy summer garments

A817. They’re falling below 2.1, which could end overpopulation

A820. Alternative to AOL or CompuServe, back in the day

A822. Tours season?

A823. Good, as a companion

A824. Gateway item

A825. ___ Scott Decision praised by Mitch McConnell

A826. Hoagie, by another name

A827. Sign of pressure?

A828. “Wait, already!”

A830. Weather report stat

A832. Aerial spinning maneuver

A834. Libya’s neighbor

A836. Middle-age-marking birthdays

A838. Intention

A839. Miniscule amounts

A841. “Does your movie ___ big name?”

A842. Moves very slowly (into or out of)

A844. Angel markers

A845. Did the vocals

A847. Sea named for its seaweed

A849. Ice planet of ‘80s sci-fi

A850. Abridgement used to describe a mooning prank

A851. The germ of an ___

A853. Necromancer

A855. Fantasy-sports variation

A857. Sound of the wind, perhaps

A858. Put it to ___: let the group decide

A859. Droves

A860. Onomatopoeic rhyme for “duds”

A861. Gary of Point Break and Lethal Weapon

A862. Like greasy food

A863. Wises up

A865. Pizarro’s booty

A866. Dann of TV’s SVU

A868. Cocktail hour assortment

A870. ___-eaters (Odyssey druggies)

A872. Soviet ballistic missiles

A874. Panem’s Mellark

A876. Acknowledge tacitly

A878. Aussie animals

A880. Tarot user, allegedly

A881. What Matthew’s Jesus says is in your eye

A882. Speak agitatedly

A883. Flycasts delicately

A884. Work as iambic pentameter

A885. Fully gratify

A886. Web-footed creature

A887. Character issues

A888. Seoul site

A889. Old lady you don’t like

A890. Subject of many poems

A891. HS practice exam

A892. Nasal partition

A893. Animated picture with the voice of will.i.am

A894. Four-star off.

A896. One of 18 on a disc golf course

A898. Tasha’s daughter, on Star Trek

A900. British subject?

A902. Celeb gossip program

A904. Buddies on the range

A906. Oleanna playwright David

A908. Thrills

A910. Modality

A911. Worf portrayer

A912. Golfer Stewart

A913. Role for Jude Law or Michael Caine

A915. PC address book listing

A917. Is overall likely (to)

A918. Two spots on a two-spot

A919. Diamond and Armstrong

A920. “Your beloved life partner--that’s me--is home!”

A921. Common ancestry

A922. “Apollo flying through the Clouds” and “The Elephant Fountain,” e.g.

A923. On a grand scale

A924. Fine young things

A925. Pt. of SSS

A926. Headwear for a cockney angel

A928. “Nothing to it!”

A930. Planking target

A932. Hip-hop star who often works with Trick Daddy

A934. Two-time Best Supporting Actor Michael

A936. Architectural remnants

A938. Octave plus a second

A940. Partner of Gramps

A942. In great shape

A943. Ominous day

A944. Made into strings, in the kitchen

A945. Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas

A946. Director Kazan

A947. “I ___ little silhouetto of a man…”

A948. Sex ed topics

A949. “Didn’t ask”

A950. Subtitle preceder, often

A951. Moves around

A952. 900 and 9000 on the road, once

A953. Greg Norman’s game

A954. Le Petit Prince, e.g.

A955. 18-20 in a series

A957. Iron Age Celt

A960. Gives a scolding

A963. Direct marketer’s shout in old commercials

A966. Leaving for work?

A969. Hawaii Rainbow Warriors’ conference

A971. Worldwide relief org.

A972. Submarine bane

A973. Apologies, in Apulia

A975. This, in Mexico City

A977. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not” writer

A979. Maintenance, heating, and pest control, for homes

A981. Ones with low class standards?

A983. Electricity, beef, and orange juice, economically

A985. Sells virtually

A989. Dog that seems to think she’s a cat

A991. Ricotta ___ (cheese)

A992. Negligible amount

A994. Lingo

A995. Fictional vet who inspired a USO band

A997. Amusing satire, like a Wayans film

A998. 7-10, in bowling

A1000. Start of many Latin American place names

A1001. Amazon Fire alternative

A1002. Idi of horribleness

A1003. Soda, in the Midwest

A1006. Serena Williams’ org.

A1007. Bibliographic abbr. after a name or names

A1008. Sanctified

A1009. Looks carefully (over)

A1010. Impressive blows?

A1011. Notorious Brexiter

A1012. Lab fluid

A1013. Shawshank Redemption extras

A1014. Adoree and Zellweger

A1015. There’s providence in the fall of one

A1016. 1976 Hall & Oates breakup song

A1018. “Er, well…how can I put this ___?”

A1020. Eminently draftable

A1022. Belted Forum garment

A1024. Unaided efforts

A1026. Gulliver’s creator

A1028. Shark relative

A1030. ___ Domini

A1031. Bow to the ship?

A1032. Congregational closers

A1033. Calpurnia’s watchman?

A1034. Hard fats

A1036. Means’ justifiers?

A1038. Yemeni city known for coffee production

A1039. Sudden outbursts

A1040. Capitol events

A1041. Lottery collectives

A1042. Drifted, as in a current

A1043. Synth inventor

A1044. Most affectedly dainty, to a Brit

A1045. Dinky drink, to an innkeeper

A1046. Basketball two-handers

A1048. High “houses”

A1050. Olaf’s pal

A1052. Grifted, e.g.

A1054. ___ I (grammar book by Patricia T. O’Conner)

A1056. Where Saul saw a soothsayer

A1058. Monument of ancient Greece

A1060. Thrice, in a prescription

A1061. Big name on runways

A1062. Hagrid’s hound at Hogwarts

A1063. Argo skipper

A1065. Pin ___ on: incriminate

A1066. Despite its name, it used to be squarish with a hole in it

A1067. Comprehensive set of bks.

A1068. Auto-body shop concerns

A1069. Hatcher and Garr

A1070. Driller’s projects

A1071. Dispatched

A1072. Classic Disneyana

A1073. Claymation dog

A1074. Aviary talk

A1075. Armando who created Veep

A1077. At marked-down prices

A1079. Letters seen on some caps

A1081. Carrie Ann of Dancing with the Stars

A1083. Medicare’s covers inpatient hospital care

A1085. Rubbernecked

A1087. 90s, to stereotypical perfectionists

A1089. Liquid’s sluggish flow

A1090. Film director Ephron and funnywoman Dunn

A1091. Conglomerate

A1092. Prince Caspian writer

A1094. Walkout walk-in

A1096. They make up artificial tissues

A1098. “What do you ___ him, anyway?” “He makes me laugh”

A1099. Cousteau concern

A1100. Kravitz’s ex and Momoa’s wife

A1101. Destiny’s Child or Foo Fighters

A1102. Orléans department

A1103. Jai alai arenas

A1104. Texas ballplayer, for short

A1105. “Um, uh…uh-oh”

A1108. Hardly any

A1111. Nonscripted program

A1114. Magnetic inductivity units

A1115. Follower of mother or father

A1116. Tough to farm

A1117. Enormous and imposing

A1119. Mexico City kitty

A1120. Pledge drive gift, often

A1121. Jon’s secretly not-biological father, on Game of Thrones

A1122. Six-time Super Bowl winners (so far)

A1124. Like Hail Mary passes

A1126. Put dreams aside

A1128. Butch’s Our Gang pal

A1130. Suppressed, as feelings

A1132. Bottom of the aquatic food chain, or close to

A1133. Controlled exclusively

A1135. Raw spot on the skin

A1136. Stock car model

A1138. Ivan or Viktor in the Rocky/Creed franchise

A1139. Tibetan creatures

A1141. Corrosive cleaners

A1142. One might be req. by a promotion

A1143. Abruptly rising hill

A1144. Part of a kid’s colony

A1145. Half of a yr.

A1146. Street cart sandwiches

A1148. Monopoly outlay

A1150. “Lucky Number” singer Lovich

A1151. Asian titles

A1152. Mr. Potter, per Snape

A1153. “The ___ on you!”

A1154. What ballplayers call a “laugher”

A1155. Atlantic Owls’ Florida rivals

A1156. Ladies’ titles

A1157. Currency

A1159. Massage target, at times

A1160. Movie character voiced by Seth MacFarlane

A1162. Piddle around

A1164. On a tight leash

A1166. Olivia Rodrigo’s “All I ___”

A1168. Furnishings scheme

A1170. Soup-in-an-envelope brand

A1172. Bacchante (var.)

A1174. ___ cheese (cheddar)

A1175. “The End…___ It?”

A1176. Largest, yet shortest continent?

A1177. State with area codes 216, 440, and 614

A1178. Ho (Jeong) of Dr. Ken and Stand up to Cancer

A1180. Top rating

A1181. Great Lake bordering four states

A1182. Children’s advocate LeShan

A1183. Contraband cans in college

A1184. Delight (in)

A1185. Sounded like Elsie

A1186. Same-sex household?

A1187. Gals who seem a few months away from a twelve-step program, at best

A1188. Shaped like sycamore leaves

A1189. Cover with graffiti, e.g.

A1190. Nonflying feathered fellow

A1191. Toon deputy

A1193. Moral taboo

A1195. Noted patriarch’s patriarch

A1197. All gung-ho

A1199. Direction from Child

A1201. Otolaryngologist’s concern

A1203. Pocket or pocketbook containers

A1205. Is germane

A1207. Sailing worry

A1208. Common situation near the start of an inning

A1209. Actor Wolff of The Fault in Our Stars

A1210. 1/3 profile?

A1211. Actor George with 3.4 million Twitter followers

A1213. Part of the USMA

A1215. Killer collection?

A1217. Oohed, but with more of an open mouth

A1218. What makes one legendary

A1219. Hand out, as cards

A1220. Cleared, as a winter windshield

A1221. Commoners

A1222. Texter’s nod

A1223. Clairvoyant’s opener

A1224. Usain Bolt or Tiger Woods, e.g.

A1227. Small Florida coll.

A1229. It was destroyed in The Last Battle

A1231. State for the record

A1233. טטט

A1235. Snack brand since 1967

A1237. Vituperate

A1238. Suffix for an illness

A1239. Jack of old TV

A1240. They use black stripes to indicate intermediate levels

A1245. Impudent tyke

A1246. Hypochondriac of The Amazing World of Gumball

A1247. Light-skinned and blond, say

A1248. Procyon or Polaris

A1249. Buttery-voiced Jeremy of The Lion King

A1250. Hit firmly, as a nail

A1251. Trapped under one’s opponent

A1252. Ranch in a Ferber novel

A1253. Mixologist’s tools

A1255. John who dueted with Eminem

A1258. Genetic disorder Queen Victoria had

A1261. Certain veins

A1264. Animated movie with a lot of parallels to The Northman and Hamlet

A1267. Tossed out of the game, informally

A1268. The fourth man

A1269. “___ a stinker?” (Bugs Bunny)

A1270. Ja, across the border

A1271. Chicago’s “What Kind of Man Would ___”

A1272. Drain-cleaning chemical

A1273. Farnham fops

A1275. Puts on clothes

A1277. Benchwarmers

A1278. Stopped protesting

A1280. Lenders’ lures

A1282. Why you shouldn’t juggle chainsaws

A1284. Car partly conceived by Adolf Hitler (the commercials tend not to mention that)

A1288. Firms’ transformations

A1290. Large wooden face

A1291. Rickman villain in Die Hard

A1293. Began to cry (with “up”)

A1294. Sinbad sailed them

A1296. Spots, old-style

A1297. Powerful figures in the House of Al-Sabah

A1299. Amer. boat letters

A1300. Catch in the corner of one’s eye

A1301. Part of qq.v. (which see)

A1302. Tea times, for short

A1303. Villain in Man of Steel

A1304. Atoms in electrolytes

A1306. Official order

A1307. Astronomer Jan who discovered a cloud

A1308. Title for John Gielgud

A1309. Debt securities, German style

A1310. Where the blood of conquerors runs

A1311. Pre-reunification capital

A1312. Floating island in The Odyssey

A1313. King of the Bible

A1314. “From this, it follows that…”

A1315. Cherished by

A1316. Chewy candies

A1318. I as in Icarus

A1320. Places for pumps

A1322. Stoppage

A1324. Thoroughly stomp

A1326. Like many TV movies (abbr.)

A1328. Give a smug look

A1330. O. Henry’s “The Gift of the ___”

A1331. Wrestling heavyweights

A1332. Yellow, body-sized PPE

A1335. Canceled missions

A1337. Madam, in Dogpatch

A1339. Maritime tree

A1341. Leg of lamb

A1342. Makes haste, a la Shakespeare

A1343. Pokémon love interest whose name is a one-letter-shorter homophone of a Poe love interest

A1344. Finds a new home

A1345. Seemingly lacking emotion

A1346. The brainy bunch

A1347. “Fine, tell me”

A1349. Dodge Shadow or Plymouth Sundance

A1351. Sounds from a belfry

A1353. Poem parts

A1355. “Sea” that was more of a lake even at its best

A1357. Less upfront

A1359. ___ List: fundraising organization

A1360. Net reading

A1361. With “known,” lead-in words to the title of “How to Save a Life”

A1362. Sunshine St.

A1363. Moot question at a museum (you’re at the museum!)

A1364. Places for scrubs (abbr.)

A1366. Cogitate hard (over)

A1367. Battle of the Falklands casualty

A1368. Without effort

A1369. Pick up the tab for everyone

A1370. Hamburger holders

A1371. Legendary turncoat (var.)

A1372. Desert with Abraham’s Well

A1373. Root beer bottler Edward

A1374. Permit to be issued

A1375. City near Amsterdam with courtyard gardens

A1377. Act the teamster

A1379. Liquid Plumr alternative

A1381. Magical brew

A1383. Jackson 5 features

A1385. Kicked in for the game

A1387. 29-day summer month

A1388. French in Britain?

A1389. Marlon Brando role in space

A1390. “In days of auld ___ syne”

A1392. “They couldn’t keep him out”

A1393. “___ could give him that parting kiss…” (Cymbeline)

A1394. City and Lake and tribe

A1396. Takes up

A1398. “The ability to describe others as they see themselves” (Lincoln)

A1399. Chain with popcorn

A1400. Mild complaint

A1401. Bone decay

A1402. Hindu instrument

A1403. Sorrowful comment

A1404. The Berenstain Bears ___ Allowed

A1405. Oslo Accords org.

A1406. Clay-pigeon game

A1408. Out of port

A1410. “Who ___ what evil lurks…”

A1412. “I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work” speaker

A1414. “___ a bear poop in the woods?”

A1416. Provide stimulus for

A1418. Lemon or lime drink

A1419. Casserole fish

A1420. Multivitamin element

A1421. They’ve got aspirations, but maybe not inspiration

A1423. Like the best topsoil

A1426. Audrey Hepburn’s real first name

A1427. Put safely away

A1428. The 33rd US President

A1429. Lawn game using lobbed missiles

A1430. Pageant contestant’s title (or half of it)

A1431. Flogged a lot at once

A1432. This Is the End star Seth

A1433. Chaucer piece

A1434. Folk dances in Bucharest

A1435. Muppet with a boomerang fish

A1437. Hunk’s asset

A1439. Units of a humane group (abbr.)

A1441. Little amounts

A1443. “Pride ___ before destruction” (Proverbs)

A1445. Worldly goods

A1447. Set of outlets

A1449. Visual work allegedly in one’s room in a classic pickup line

A1451. They get paid to play

A1452. Like some New Yawkahs’ speech pattahns

A1453. Get away from it all

A1454. Self-conscious giggle

A1455. Words before golf clubs or silverware

A1457. Forbidden, in a way

A1459. The Urals divide it

A1461. Scoop site

A1462. Paul Simon’s “___ Last”

A1463. Some students, for short

A1464. Anglican headgear

A1465. Dough state

A1466. Had the courage

A1468. Jon of Pod Save America

A1470. “I don’t know” motion

A1472. Dips in liquid

A1474. Get ready for an engagement?

A1476. Gorgon with venomous locks

A1478. Pirates’ pelf

A1480. Deserving of contempt

A1481. Undistracted

A1482. Fitzgerald whose band would tune their instruments to her perfect-pitch voice

A1483. I, to Kraftwerk

A1484. Noted nightclub of the 1970s and ‘80s

A1487. Evangeline of Lost

A1489. “That ain’t it”

A1491. Sweet opening?

A1492. Observer

A1493. Sherman Act’s targets

A1494. Gunshot sound

A1495. Corleone and Jurgensen

A1496. Neat and tidy in appearance

A1497. “___ in Boots” (classic fairy tale)

A1498. Duke of video games

A1499. Upscale chocolatier

A1500. Don’t WORRY, be HAPPY! Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo” [gets punched]

A1502. Dum ___ spero (SC motto)

A1504. What barbs can damage

A1507. Kind of fudge in an ice cream store

A1509. Sixth consort of Henry VIII

A1511. Mex. miss

A1512. Midler who was Johnny Carson’s final guest

A1513. Name that sounds like a snippet from the alphabet

A1514. Coarse hominy variant

A1516. Escapes

A1518. “Well, look at you bein’ all sexy!”

A1519. Cat feature, usually

A1520. Wed site?

A1522. “___ ojos” (“Those eyes…”)

A1523. Reserved parking, for one

A1524. Flocks of herons

A1525. Directors’ eye-openers

A1527. Nautical table listing

A1528. Stop wasting energy, say

A1529. Experienced fortune

A1531. When people say it’s likely, they mean it’s unlikely

A1533. Christian in France

A1534. Beef units

A1536. Daughter of King Pelles

A1538. Rudolph or Bambi

A1540. Only word used in the theme song to a Sheen sitcom

A1541. Two similar oddballs

A1542. Road workers may create one

A1543. Went by dugout

A1545. Often-dry channels

A1546. Mary Magdalene, e.g.

A1548. Grand Hotel at Las Vegas

A1549. First name in exploration

A1550. Grand Central, e.g. (abbr.)

A1551. Xmas for JC, in theory

A1552. Milk-immersed foodstuff

A1553. Plucky

A1554. Cowpoke’s mount

A1555. Supports that often have curved tops

A1556. Delete from a DVR

A1557. What makes a dad sad?

A1561. Fiber for twine

A1563. Musician’s plectra, e.g.

A1565. Attire for Mr. Peanut

A1567. Settle down temporarily

A1569. Kind of band or army

A1571. Whom Khaleesi calls her “sun and stars”

A1572. Killer ending?

A1573. High-fiber cereal ingredient

A1575. Apply, as salve

A1576. How chefs salt

A1577. Are just awful

A1579. Like some cigarettes

A1581. Proudly villainous song in Popeye

A1583. Stops traffic?

A1584. Goes (one’s way)

A1585. It may precede old age

A1586. Noted dreamer, initially

A1587. Suspect foul play

A1591. Comes down hard, in a way

A1592. Contemptible sort

A1594. Ninth day, in Rome

A1596. Supreme Court case involving agencies’ right to say what their rules mean

A1598. If they’re clear, they’re blue

A1600. They’re getting a targeting lock

A1602. 1960s paint designs

A1603. He played Jones in Barnaby Jones

A1604. Brest brayer

A1605. Utah’s NCAA div.

A1606. Its players bow

A1608. Eatery, casually

A1609. Certain chits

A1610. The ___-King: he kills with a touch

A1612. Samuel’s predecessor

A1613. Cut off, as a final vowel

A1614. Pubic problem

A1615. “Here’s how experts handle this”

A1616. Prefix meaning ancient

A1617. Sports officials, for short

A1618. Circe’s all-vowel island

A1619. Exclamation of amused surprise

A1620. Like Pledge

A1621. “We <Heart> Logistics” co.

A1622. Some photography equipment

A1625. Simple

A1627. Causes of bigheadedness

A1629. Addition column

A1631. Radio reception booster

A1633. Tip jar insert

A1634. Suffix with proto-

A1635. Only D&D roller that’s not a platonic solid

A1636. Lucy’s best pal

A1639. Disney never releases these under its own brand

A1642. “___ you!” (challenger’s words)

A1644. Speak imperfectly

A1646. The ___ Prayer

A1648. Body spray brand

A1649. ASAP section

A1650. Pullman and Nighy of film

A1651. Guest-conscious woman

A1652. Grain by-products

A1653. Shaped like a sphere

A1655. Greek gp.

A1656. Wagerers’ mecca (abbr.)

A1658. Crew member’s item

A1659. David Lean-Alec Guiness blockbuster that isn’t The Bridge on the River Kwai or Ben Hur

A1662. Much-used pencil

A1664. Works with a needle

A1666. Does some pre-workout stretches

A1668. Traditional wisdoms

A1669. Microchips, for short

A1670. Rock levels

A1671. Toys on a string

A1672. Substance splashed at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

A1673. Party punch?

A1675. Spot that may be on the environment, briefly

A1676. Horrible’s hound

A1677. Nullifies

A1679. Storefront-filled structures

A1680. Daughter and defender of Ra

A1681. Heart-healthy red-and-green side

A1683. Prince Valiant’s son

A1684. Acid for trips

A1685. Co-founder of Beats Electronics

A1687. Small, in marketing doublespeak

A1689. Number of pawns you get

A1691. Satya Nadella and Jack Dorsey, e.g.

A1693. Skip off to the altar

A1695. Chemical analysis

A1696. They’re calculated by meters

A1697. You love, in Latin

A1698. Doesn’t let on under pressure

A1700. Holds a benefit, say

A1702. Dregs of society

A1704. “I don’t want to hear ___ out of you!”

A1706. 50 mythical sea nymphs

A1707. “You can’t beat me!”

A1708. Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo crossover series, for short

A1709. Lines with balls on each end

A1710. Two, in a proverb

A1712. Wearer of blue

A1713. Walk heavily

A1715. Clean (up)

A1716. Swerve into the other diagonal

A1718. The Home Depot rival

A1720. Plunder

A1722. Kind of evidence

A1724. Stood the test of time

A1725. Cambodian capital

A1726. Nickname of two Spice Girls

A1727. TV producer and personality Edmonds

A1728. Portraitist George

A1730. Trickery to mislead

A1731. Flytrap’s flytraps, e.g.

A1733. Where the Confederate flag was first flown (abbr.)

A1734. Hard-light weapon

A1735. Has being

A1736. Where many recordings are found

A1737. Indecent sorts

A1738. Where goats are milked from

A1739. Letters seen near an 8

A1740. Diviner’s aid

A1741. Traveled far and wide

A1743. Prepared to fire

A1745. Bacardi competitor

A1748. Replacement parts for a cobbler

A1750. Snoop Dogg’s cousin and Kim Kardashian’s onetime liaison

A1752. Digital art you can text

A1754. General ___ tofu

A1755. Like a certain vein

A1756. One of those gods you’re not supposed to have before God

A1757. Zamboni tracks

A1758. Veer, as a ship in a storm

A1759. A in a deck

A1761. Hand on deck

A1763. Epic musical with revolutionary class politics that isn’t Les Misérables

A1764. ___ of Orleans

A1766. Yacht stop, perhaps

A1768. Driver’s lic. stats

A1769. Professor Dumbledore, before he was Professor Dumbledore

A1770. Steak sources

A1771. Breathes heavy

A1772. Gets a toothhold around

A1774. Unremarkable, as a film

A1776. Gadget creator

A1778. Day before a “TGIF!” cry

A1779. Dada “daddy”

A1781. Sometimes medicinal herbs

A1783. Rhythm keeper

A1785. They have runners

A1787. “That’s ___ in excellent!”

A1788. One place to call for added insurance

A1789. USN supplies

A1790. They may battle onstage

A1791. Question usually asked with raised eyebrows

A1792. It divides into Language and Literature

A1798. With spoon, toddler’s percussion instrument

A1800. Having ___ day: not feelin’ it

A1802. Even one

A1803. Latch again

A1804. “OH that’s the spot…”

A1805. Mystery Machine dog, familiarly

A1806. Athletes Ripken and Hubbard

A1807. Blokes

A1808. Resident in a hexagonal home

A1809. “___ but a scratch” (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

A1810. Sooner rival

A1811. Calorie-conscious quaffs

A1813. Interpret without hearing

A1816. Was deeply hurtful

A1818. Handel’s ___ and Galatea

A1820. Eaves droppers?

A1822. Houston baseball team, briefly

A1823. Situation after a leadoff single

A1824. Future hawk?

A1825. Tuning indicator

A1826. Uses as a mic

A1827. Large part of some herds

A1829. Grassland

A1830. Onomatopoeic funk album

A1832. Rock garden herb

A1834. Unidentified guy

A1836. Unresponsive condition

A1837. Things you worry about

A1838. Car cleaner, often

A1840. Gets together on a newly countrywide scale

A1841. Foreshadows

A1843. California ball club, briefly

A1844. Number of cards at Caesar’s palace?

A1846. Princess on She-Ra

A1848. Dept. of Labor investigatory agcy.

A1850. Sign of availability

A1851. Shaq’s sneakers, widthwise

A1852. Creative Artists Agency founder Michael

A1853. Oil-measuring devices

A1856. To ___: precisely

A1857. Actress Petty of Orange Is the New Black

A1858. Non-oneness

A1861. Is guilty

A1863. Cannes chum

A1864. Like buhl work

A1865. Reindeer relatives

A1866. Some invaders of Britain

A1867. OH city near Erie, abbreviated

A1868. Caroline Islands group

A1869. Plays the heckler to

A1870. Precious information

A1873. Where Link Hogthrob and Miss Piggy have adventures

A1876. Respectably unadventurous

A1878. Breezy farewell

A1880. Hawaiian honeycreeper

A1881. Dogpatch’s Hawkins

A1882. Shred of clothing

A1884. Miguel of the Tigers

A1885. Mark placed over short vowels

A1886. McAfee alternative

A1888. Have opportunity to argue

A1889. Capital of Bavaria

A1890. “Blackberry Molasses” band with a name like “Suh”

A1892. Traditional Hanukkah gift

A1893. Turn tail

A1894. Cat with two faces

A1895. Fungicide base

A1897. Groups with special functions

A1900. Tiny photosynthesizer

A1901. Ralph who wrote The Good Fight

A1902. Some woodworkers

A1904. Neighbor of Lebanon

A1906. Draper portrayer

A1908. Hanoi Hilton “guest”

A1909. Film in which a rage-filled protagonist and his goodhearted companion struggle to complete a Yuletide journey; (spoiler) on the verge of success, the protagonist lets go of his anger and his perspective shifts, leading to a holiday dinner with an unexpected guest

A1913. See A1909-Across

A1917. Title boy of song whose “fist got hard” and “wits got keen”

A1918. “Stack banana ‘til the morning come” song

A1919. What a surly server may get

A1920. Haywire

A1921. 30-ton military brain

A1922. Stargazers’ bear

A1923. It freezes your flippers

A1924. Capital near the port of Callao

A1925. Muumuu go-with

A1926. Actor Sitka of Three Stooges

A1927. Right the heck now

A1928. The Protectors star

A1930. It’s drunk to get drunk

A1931. Camping gear co.

A1932. Season opener?

A1933. Admin. ctrs.

A1934. Crunchy noodle snack

A1935. Sweetiepie

A1936. “A spider!!”

A1937. “[I’ll expand this passage later]” notes

A1939. “Blastoff will be in…”

A1941. Power of the pull we all feel almost all the time

A1942. Winnie ___ Pu (Latin translation of Milne work)

A1943. Last quarter of the year, briefly

A1944. Iraqi politician Muqtada al-___

A1945. “That sounds like a capital idea”

A1946. Lou’s La Bamba co-star

A1947. Boxes of boxes

A1948. Cutely small

A1950. Corned beef solution

A1951. Peculiar talk in different groups

A1952. White-knucklers after dark

A1957. Obviously angry

A1962. Often-replaced joint

A1963. Unlisted vote-getter

A1970. Roadside bomb, briefly

A1972. They’re quite secure until you leave, when you can just take any bag you want

A1977. Doesn’t toss or turn

A1981. Tippled

A1983. Eva or Zsa Zsa

A1985. Spying, as at a window

A1988. Old Br. coins

A1990. “Ah, this cursed existence”

A1991. Joyless

A1993. Flour may be made with it

A1994. Labors away

A1995. Starve-them-out battle tactic

A1996. Don’t feed this to your cat, no matter what the comic strips say

A1997. Was good and mad

A1998. [whispers] “Let’s see if we can make this go viral”

A2000. Actually thinking

A2003. Prankishly sabotaged (a bed)

A2005. Ship’s support system

A2007. Scotties, e.g.

A2009. Site of a sarcastically named “Hilton”

A2011. Uses a come-on

A2012. Bad boyfriend

A2014. Common career choice (with “the”)

A2016. Like many winter days

A2017. Mine vehicle

A2019. DeGrasse Tyson predecessor

A2020. Creator of Tik-Tok

A2021. “Ya got that right”

A2022. Gets too high, briefly

A2023. Chicken in a Mexican restaurant

A2025. Pooh’s rhyming pal

A2026. “Cherry Bomb” rocker Ford

A2027. Receives unfriendly signals from a stare

A2028. “___ Shanter” (Burns poem)

A2029. Frequent honor for Garth Brooks

A2030. “Sir, you ___ gentleman” (Scarlett)

A2032. Texter’s version of the “I’m Made of Rubber” song

A2033. NH July hours

A2034. Year Michelangelo’s David was completed

A2036. Give a rude awakening to

A2038. Without injury

A2041. Cry at recess

A2042. Cancel, as a law

A2045. Internet artifact with a controversial pronunciation

A2046. They’re known for causing rage…and impotence, which causes more rage, familiarly

A2047. Touches down

A2048. Daybreak, to Dickinson

A2049. USN leader

A2050. ___-Foy, PQ

A2051. Containerful of tartar sauce

A2052. “I guess the moment has finally arrived”

A2056. “For ___ jolly…”

A2057. Mississippi quartet

A2058. Word in many font names

A2059. “You failed to convince me”

A2063. Early Japan dynasty

A2065. Alternative to watching live, nowadays

A2067. SAT takers (abbr.)

A2069. Astronauts’ leg-stretching exercises

A2071. Is garbed in

A2073. Bello

A2074. Ajit Pai once chaired it

A2076. Response to a bell

A2080. “If you say so”

A2081. Start performing in, as a mode or gear

A2083. Change of locks?

A2084. “Alakazam!”

A2087. With volume turned down

A2088. Coulomb per second

A2089. Org. founded in 1889

A2090. Ending for invent

A2091. South American monkeys

A2092. Half a Latin drill

A2096. Spinnakers, e.g.

A2098. Film set around 73 B.C.

A2101. Computer-sent chicken-scratch

A2102. Hasbro toy you twist, press, and pull

A2103. “Aren’t ___ pair?”

A2104. Part of ancient Turkey

A2105. He made me do it

A2106. Refinery refuse

A2107. Spencer’s Boom Town co-star

A2108. In this sequel (Part Two), a thawed-out national icon from an earlier era has his last moments with his love interest from the previous film before her mind fails; he then foils a world-domination scheme using a doomsday weapon firing down from above

A2128. See A2108-Across

A2148. Night in Paris

A2149. Buggy, in Bristol

A2151. Turn your focus to

A2153. Electric meter inventor Thomson

A2154. Super cool and amazing

A2156. Trap for an animal

A2157. Part of ITT

A2158. Joined, as at a bar

A2160. Aragorn’s wife (oops, spoilers)

A2161. Alphabet soup bits that double as ens

A2162. “___ moi, le déluge”

A2163. iPhone alternative

A2164. Works with heroic themes

A2165. Get one’s smug on

A2166. 1966 Rolling Stones hit

A2167. “Someone here is a dirty, stinking liar”

A2168. Aggies’ university

A2169. Death Row Records cofounder

A2171. Angler’s headache

A2173. Religious title starter

A2175. Outer disturbance

A2178. Chung ___-kyun of South Korean politics

A2179. Bozoian of golf

A2181. ___ Irish Rose

A2182. “Then ___ well it was done quickly” (Macbeth)

A2183. Bar sign

A2184. Waldorf who’s an obsession of the Gossip Girl

A2185. Thinks about it

A2186. Unbroken

A2187. Puts in (between)

A2188. Movie following a teenage Rolling Stone reporter on tour with a band

A2189. Small stature

A2190. Tile art, say

A2192. Windshield decoration in an enterprising neighborhood

A2194. Some aperitifs

A2196. Small bookbag?

A2198. Claiming allegiances other than

A2199. Glutinous rice cake

A2201. Commentary

A2203. Brief instant

A2204. NASA nods

A2205. Hindu writings

A2206. Immigrant- education acronym now preferred to the one with “S” for “second” in it

A2207. The Equality St.

A2208. Steak chef, at times

A2210. Frequent word in ads

A2212. Progenitor’s opposite

A2214. Design of park land requiring minimal water

A2217. The White Lotus streamer

A2218. Edible cannabis variant

A2219. Director known for simple heroes fighting corruption

A2221. Small Jewish village

A2222. Course of a sort

A2226. Initials on Boris Mikhailov’s jersey

A2230. Like the sound holes of a cello

A2237. Do some water-witching

A2242. A lot of humid air?

A2247. Odometer division

A2252. Kind of living (abbr.)

A2257. “Have I made myself clear?”

A2264. Antiaircraft projectiles

A2268. “Those Magic Changes” singers

A2272. More disparaging

A2274. Stay out of jail

A2277. Sadness

A2278. Class for a high schooler eyeing a medical career

A2280. It can predict higher prices, in econ.

A2281. Cacodemon

A2282. Demanding payment, in a way

A2283. Deceitful gambit

A2284. Composers Shostakovich and Kabalevsky

A2285. Brand with pluses and minuses

A2286. Kylo ___

A2287. “Watch out!”

A2288. Word that means the same with a redundant “re-”

A2289. Dodge with a stargazing-inspired name

A2290. Jointly

A2291. ___ laminado (Latin American laminated gold)

A2292. Prefix with grade or rocket

A2293. Release, as a tied-up horse

A2294. Do copy desk work

A2295. Sam or Legend preceder in film titles

A2296. Dept. store inventory

A2297. Naps under sombreros

A2299. She played King Kong’s captive

A2300. Sly tricks

A2302. Dragon faced by Bilbo

A2304. “___ needs food, badly” (Gauntlet)

A2305. Apologies that take responsibility

A2308. Overseas parents

A2309. Microsoft MP3 player discontinued in 2012

A2310. Let’s Make a Deal choice

A2311. Big game in January

A2313. L’Egee et le Mediterranee

A2314. Token movement

A2315. Real-time source of hot takes, accurate and otherwise

A2317. “Aaand when he walked me home…” doo-wop song

A2319. Fugue finales

A2320. Wagnerian wisdom goddess

A2321. Least flowery

A2324. Waste materials in smelting

A2326. Petition

A2328. Eclipse cycle

A2330. Dissed with a smile

A2333. “…THAT’S right”

A2334. Some Celts

A2335. “Hold that thought!”

A2336. Southwestern saloons

A2337. U.S. maritime info-gathering unit

A2338. Wee hrs.

A2339. Vehicle with a roll bar

A2340. Film in which a brilliant, imprisoned monster plays psychological games with a relative innocent; he ultimately helps her at a high price before disappearing (you’re better off ignoring the sequel where they become lovers, yeccch)

A2342. See A2340-Across

A2345. Italian cathedral town named for Hadrian

A2347. Ultra ___ Detergent

A2348. Red giant?

A2349. Official state dog of Alaska

A2351. Mammoth in Kentucky, e.g.

A2353. Big name in cameras

A2355. “That ___ I ask”

A2356. Yellowfin

A2359. Walkman and Blu-Ray

A2360. Rupee hundredth

A2361. Mackerel catcher

A2362. Console with a Kinect motion sensor

A2364. Gnats and ants

A2365. FYI Daily and On Assignment broadcaster, overseas

A2366. “___ boom baa” (per Carson, “the sound made when a sheep explodes”)

A2367. Frankie Ballard album that all starts with “It All Started with a Beer”

A2368. Big red buttons on videocameras, for short

A2369. “More info later”

A2371. County ___

A2372. A

A2373. Though it seemeth strange

A2374. Widely envied frequent cause of back issues, for short

A2375. Do all right, but not exactly well

A2377. Musical with the song “Schadenfreude”

A2380. Honeysuckles

A2382. Robinson’s Little Caesar

A2384. Large group of people

A2386. “Shoot over your response”

A2390. Hold in check

A2391. Words with Friends maker

A2392. Blue amnesiac of film

A2393. Siren sound

A2394. Crosswordese Dutch city

A2395. Speech with platitudes (abbr.)

A2396. Co. owned by Howard Hughes

A2397. Word after work, play, or rest

A2398. Wartime fear (abbr.)

A2399. Teen Wolf network

A2400. Like most MCU leads, when they get the job

A2401. Catching equipment

A2402. Tappable tree

A2404. Place to find a shovel

A2406. Faucet faults

A2408. Queue after R

A2410. Rows on calendars (abbr.)

A2412. Award-winning tale of a 1970s domestic worker

A2413. Character actor Lesser on Seinfeld

A2414. Tigers’ col.

A2415. Ones doing intros

A2416. Some turnpike ramps

A2418. “To the last I grapple with thee” speaker

A2420. Uncle Tom’s creator

A2422. Curator’s workplace

A2423. Second word in Ethiopia’s capital

A2424. Longtime Bat-writer O’Neil

A2425. Circus wagon

A2426. Boisterous

A2427. ___ Ghraib

A2428. Some repair shops

A2430. Harry and Meghan interviewer

A2431. Cyclists’ battery-powered rides

A2433. Inexpensively bejeweled

A2434. NBA team in New Orleans, informally

A2435. Vehicles discussed surprisingly often in Loki

A2437. Mt. Rushmore’s locale

A2439. More than misgivings

A2441. Seep slowly

A2443. Alley wanderers

A2445. Whence the phrase “Blessed are the poor in spirit”

A2448. Uncertain utterances

A2450. Immune system fighter

A2452. Mucilaginous pods

A2454. ___ Affair (Civil War incident of 1861)

A2456. Birthplace of Pythagoras

A2457. Letters on Carlos Beltran’s cap

A2458. “Bitch goddess” Kane of All My Children

A2459. Tumor-detecting tests

A2460. How to overcome a fear of giant crosswords ;-)

A2461. Sack opening?

A2462. Prov. bordering Quebec

A2463. Athlete who got onto the world stage, for short

A2464. Charles and Romano

A2465. Old word of contempt (that I used to think was a term of respect, whoops)

A2466. Don’t disturb

A2467. Its CEO is Kenichiro Yoshida

A2468. Like puppies

A2469. Stereotypical socialite

A2471. Bread and whiskey

A2473. Iconic green poison symbol

A2475. Way to a freeway

A2477. Elementary and dull

A2478. Preparatory to, in poetry

A2479. Ben Nevis cry

A2480. Twelve-point measure

A2482. Precipitates, in a way

A2484. In the ground, in a way

A2486. Star named for appearing to be a bird’s tail

A2488. Band ___ Iver

A2489. Long, ribbon-shaped swimmer

A2491. Style of cooking scallops

A2492. WWII labor camp

A2493. ‘Boys’ base

A2494. Son of Laius and Jocasta

A2496. Keep score

A2497. Justice Kavanaugh

A2498. Pronunciamenti

A2499. Echolocators in caves

A2500. Ruhr rodent

A2501. It’ll open doors for you

A2503. Use a bayonet on

A2505. Was in agreement (with)

A2507. Iran-Contra colonel, informally

A2508. Palindromic collection of similarly named people in my life

A2510. Responded to opportunity’s knock

A2513. Deli-scale word

A2515. Exams you might wear scrubs to, but most people think that’s a little extra

A2517. It’s got ewe covered?

A2519. Practice-pitch place

A2521. Doesn’t recognize

A2522. Welcome comment at lunch

A2524. Martial arts champion-turned-movie star

A2525. “DADDY” K-pop singer

A2526. Reveal, to a poet

A2527. “You’ve Really Got a Hold ___”

A2528. To the extreme

A2529. Citizen of Toy Town

A2530. “Best buds”

A2531. Cinderella’s goal

A2532. Org. whose nation-destabilizing tactics are depicted in Black Panther

A2535. Be lost, as a moment

A2537. Our job

A2539. Huguenots’ heads

A2541. Baloney ponies

A2543. Muralist Jose Maria

A2544. Muddy barnyard digs

A2545. What trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole treats, for short

A2546. Incredulous texted word

A2548. It’s like saying “hello, future customers” with an online bazooka

A2551. All over France?

A2553. Archaeologist’s dredge

A2554. Nursing and sports followers

A2555. Rock carved into a wedgelike shape

A2556. Sew for a moist meal

A2557. Gets down

A2559. Ancient wraps

A2560. River from the same spot as the Euphrates

A2561. Grouper predator

A2562. Falls back

A2563. “I couldn’t have said it better myself”

A2564. Swedish-based clothing giant

A2566. Eric of Dirty John

A2568. Sometime Fox News “health” pundit

A2570. Capital that got its first smog tower in 2020

A2572. Samoan cash

A2573. “Don’t play”

A2575. Stays put

A2578. “Bitter” or “tail” follower

A2580. Tony’s pal and server

A2581. Mischief

A2583. Close to home, in a way

A2585. Twice, Robert Kennedy’s assassin

A2586. Perhaps a closet sadist

A2587. Stage, as a play

A2588. One being trained

A2589. Mandela’s nat.

A2590. Haircut found in a dessert name

A2591. Isle instruments

A2592. Lower-left keyboard key

A2593. Genghis Khan was originally named after one

A2594. Felix and Sylvester

A2595. Lang of Smallville

A2596. Frying medium

A2598. Goes “Waaaaaah!”

A2600. With “the,” it “creeps / And leaps and glides and slides / Across the floor / Right through the door / And all around the wall / A splotch, a blotch”

A2602. Plain in the Southwest

A2604. “___ smile be your umbrella…”

A2606. “Take ___ Train” (Duke Ellington classic)

A2607. Bubble Bath and Big Apple Red are its most popular colors

A2608. “By the by, here’s the scoop”

A2609. Type of fin

A2611. Date sometimes given for Jesus’ visit to Herod’s Temple

A2613. Reds, e.g.

A2615. Post-2016 election feeling, for many

A2616. On ___: trying to slim down

A2617. Pics on biceps

A2618. Striper, for short

A2619. Toward the wake

A2620. Subject of many Arab Spring protests

A2622. Mouse hazards

A2623. Space program until 1972

A2624. “Everything’s clear”

A2625. Rowers work them, briefly

A2626. End the hunger of

A2627. Lake Mead construction

A2629. Affairs with crumpets

A2631. Spot for a mail slot

A2633. Jazz legend born on Saturn (or so he said)

A2635. Athlete’s place

A2636. Transparent sea creature

A2638. Veteran sailor

A2641. Figure of loveliness

A2643. Stop from approaching

A2645. Coleridge’s Kubla

A2647. Central idea

A2648. Game of falling pieces

A2650. Gives as an example

A2651. No ritzy neighborhoods

A2652. One in Paris

A2653. Sickly pale

A2654. Together, in Toulouse

A2655. Handel’s ___, Galatea e Polifemo (same characters as A1818-Across, different spelling)

A2656. Vocal cords, casually

A2657. Canute, for one

A2658. Greedy mouths

A2659. Strange actor?

A2661. Scalp-care brand

A2663. Entrail-reader, allegedly

A2665. Remain behind

A2667. One whistling at athletes?

A2669. Homecoming hits?

A2670. Plato’s T

A2671. Bk. about building a big, beautiful wall

A2672. Under discussion

A2674. Had a lame-duck session, say

A2676. As a substitute

A2678. Country music legend Atkins

A2681. Sleep clinic study

A2682. Money expert Suze

A2683. Tell apart from others

A2684. Like a mama’s boy?

A2686. What’s in ___? That which we call a rose…”

A2687. “Cornflake Girl” singer

A2689. Players in the Tex capital

A2690. Fisherperson’s prize catch

A2691. Don Juans

A2692. Big honkin’ honker

A2694. Mack with a secret world

A2696. Commando’s action

A2698. “Plastic” of teen comedy

A2700. Two OK Corral lawmen

A2702. Surprisingly, no one ever said “Just the facts, ma’am” on it

A2705. Last Rocky movie before 2023

A2707. Site of the First Labor

A2709. Modicum of energy

A2710. Where you can find hammers and anvils

A2714. Its latest version is Big Sur

A2715. Haberdasher’s item

A2716. Statues vied for on Mad Men

A2717. Poor boy or grinder

A2718. W&M award

A2719. Engineering sch. on the Hudson River

A2720. Trains quickly?

A2721. “Gay apparel” follower

A2724. Noted marriers in 2015

A2725. Split villain and Professor X portrayer

A2726. Clip at a business meeting

A2728. Togo’s chief port

A2730. Jan’s cry in The Brady Bunch Movie (and one single episode of the TV show)

A2733. “For sure!”

A2734. Flow of the Universe

A2735. ___ Prince Charles

A2736. Only chimpanzee to achieve Earth orbit

A2738. Soulful musical “bag”

A2740. Archery equipment

A2742. Legendary mummy

A2743. Secrets of the Museum and A Teacher channel

A2745. Being from an undiscovered race

A2746. Await judgment

A2747. Transportation for the A-Team

A2748. Like nuts, often

A2750. In the process of happening

A2751. Super Bowl party staple

A2752. Lincoln Center unit

A2753. Take a coat off

A2754. “Er, I’d rather not”

A2755. Infertile, in the Bible

A2756. Hour, in Italy

A2759. Grazes with fire

A2761. Swedish streetcar

A2763. Paneer cheese go-with

A2764. Farm-song end

A2765. Signal to start acting

A2766. Breathing it can get on your nerves?

A2768. eBay commerce

A2771. “You look hungry!”

A2773. Ikea’s nat. of origin

A2775. Sea anemone

A2777. Decayed

A2779. One-fifth of DXV

A2780. Brats’ targets

A2781. Individual numbers

A2782. They whipped it

A2783. Nat. cont.

A2784. Area of S.F., Pacific ___

A2785. Partner of needles

A2786. City’s outskirts

A2788. Kit Carson’s house is here

A2789. Preppy, stonerish jock dudes

A2790. A parking garage may have special pricing for it

A2791. “You have three options! Pick one!”

A2793. Domineer (over)

A2795. Bit of progress

A2797. “Jabberwocky” opener

A2799. “The Way We Make a Broken Heart” singer Cash

A2802. Symphonie Espagnole composer

A2803. Mineo of Exodus

A2804. It’ll make you see things

A2805. “Oh, man, did I___!”

A2807. Large yard, or many yards

A2809. Presses through a sieve

A2811. They accompany aahs

A2812. Blue-screen moment?

A2814. Facebook’s official drink

A2816. Music medium invented in 1933

A2818. Trades verbal jabs

A2819. Chin indentations

A2820. Hogg after them Duke boys

A2821. Sedge-filled wetlands

A2822. “Keep in touch,” nowadays

A2823. Having three shapes

A2825. Reveal despite your efforts

A2827. Calls on

A2829. Octagonal sign word

A2831. Seemingly pious bug

A2832. Mil. base until 1994

A2834. Snail without a shell

A2837. Providing bearings

A2840. Tackiness

A2842. Prescription for exhaustion

A2843. Loses solidity

A2844. Inquire

A2845. Forget oneself

A2846. Racehorse, slangily

A2847. Where stevedores toil

A2848. Crewmen

A2849. Earthly burdens

A2850. Drinks can be placed on it

A2851. NBC News anchor canceled (with good reason) in 2017

A2853. Lego set with Bruce Wayne, Aquaman, and Ocean Master figures

A2855. Flee responsibility

A2857. Giant ones are seen (and see?) in The Great Gatsby

A2859. Target area?

A2861. Scottish or Irish

A2862. Biblical assent

A2863. Coach Udoka

A2864. Passageways for pedestrians

A2866. Chatterstorm

A2868. Old Roman orator

A2869. Hematological divisions

A2870. Roadside distress signals

A2871. Dominican “duuude!”

A2872. Athlete’s protective gear

A2874. What ___ Glory (1952 James Cagney movie)

A2875. AIDS activist Herb

A2876. Watercraft

A2877. Containers for fireflies

A2878. Eggnog ingredient

A2879. Spanish snaps

A2880. Put on sale, perhaps

A2882. Pepto-____

A2884. Exclamation at the end of a tough week

A2886. Hit the seas

A2888. Diaz’s Sex Tape co-star

A2889. Like many skyscraper sides, to climbers

A2891. Commuter’s choice

A2894. Life energy molecule, for short

A2895. Make sudsy again

A2897. Texter’s “Yikes!”

A2898. Staple of Greek cuisine

A2900. Mushroom likeliest to kill you

A2902. More cunning

A2903. Where many suits are seen for the last time

A2904. Back end of a blog

A2905. City railroads

A2906. Magritte or Russo

A2907. Stengel of the diamond

A2908. Overwhelms, with “down”

A2909. Gazpacho veggie

A2910. John Oliver, e.g.

A2911. Tequila brand from Guy Fieri

A2912. Murdered rapper with many posthumous releases

A2914. Beach debris also known as rockweed

A2916. Goddess involved in Hercules’ labors

A2918. Popular side

A2920. Add once more to the public record

A2922. “Both” prefix

A2923. “Misery Business” genre

A2924. Natl. Muzzleloading Championship sponsor

A2925. Breads or elder matriarchs (both kinda var.)

A2927. Procedural starring Chris O’Donnell

A2929. Certain sand painters

A2931. Least strict

A2932. Traitor Benedict

A2933. “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” series

A2934. New worker

A2936. Satyrs, partly

A2937. Tachometer reading meas.

A2938. Hentoff and Hiken

A2939. Like a certain pair of electrons

A2940. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you” writer’s true last name

A2941. Trivial, as a complaint

A2942. First-listed RPG stat, often

A2945. Former Delta rival

A2947. Regarding Dharmic teachers

A2949. Singer who sang, “Everyone’s a superhero, everyone is Captain Kirk”

A2951. [crying-laughing emoji]

A2953. Liqueur base

A2954. Boxer known for his “sucker munch”

A2956. Island sharing a government with Barbuda

A2959. Nicholas, e.g.

A2961. First clear signs

A2963. Puts (out), often callously

A2964. Provide opportunities

A2966. Toyota’s luxury brand

A2967. “In case the house burns down” policy, for short

A2968. Ex-Bruin Bobby

A2969. Crass or impolite

A2970. Spots of tea

A2971. Word with “road” or “screen”

A2972. One of a househusband’s roles

A2973. Made fast friends

A2974. Line (up)

A2975. It’s actually shaped more like a U, but that plumbing name was taken

A2977. Jets quarterback Tim

A2979. Fitzgerald and Williams

A2981. Tolkien tree-men

A2983. Proper name on aluminum cans

A2985. “He died like ___” (Trump quote that makes you actually glad he was the first president since Polk without pets)

A2987. “…bring back my Bonnie ___”

A2988. The Steel City, in brief

A2989. Takeoff hour, briefly

A2990. Parker portrayer in the Spider-Man films

A2992. Shipping lanes

A2994. Self-taught writer Martin created by Jack London

A2997. Vision problem during rapid flight deceleration

A2998. Tchaikovsky who wrote the “1812 Overture”

A2999. Citrus fruit used in pie filling

A3001. Billiards play

A3002. Water bottle confiscator

A3003. Sex-joke comeback that originated on The Office

A3006. Prefix for fold or graph

A3007. Gym hiree

A3009. Traveled by plane

A3011. Film that, like the Last of the Mohicans, seems to have its heart in the right place, but don’t ask Native Americans what they think of it unless you really want to know

A3015. B.O. warning

A3016. Ernst whose art was featured in the 1928 Olympics

A3018. Eager beaver’s demand

A3021. V-shaped cut in wood

A3023. Tristram Shandy writer

A3024. On a plane, for short

A3028. 10 or 509

A3029. 100-meter race

A3030. John who said, “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination”

A3031. Sign on many cars

A3032. Not exactly doing cartwheels

A3033. Run ___ the field (prepare to play)

A3034. Six-millimeter projectile

A3036. Ape studier Fossey

A3037. Mexican beer with a name that got unfortunate in 2020

A3038. Kids’ song vowels

A3039. “Better an egg today than ___ tomorrow”

A3040. Rebuff

A3042. Ill-fated sergeant from Platoon

A3044. Charlie Brown’s cry of defeat

A3045. Wind-protected, in a way

A3046. Benji stand-in

A3049. Type of task-focused list

A3050. The Yoko

A3051. ___Pen®

A3052. Press lightly, as the brakes

A3054. Parody’s cousin

A3056. Enshrouded

A3057. Tool for photographers who like to get close

A3059. Ballpoint part

A3060. Afraid to ask for a dance, maybe

A3062. “Creation of Man” sculptor

A3063. Stronghold

A3064. Anti-AIDS activist of classic rock

A3065. Intestines’ locale

A3066. Cylinders of straw

A3067. TV component that sounds like a sci-fi weapon

A3070. Savory dressing

A3072. Composer Cole

A3074. Skewers

A3076. Infant cupid

A3077. “Mississippi Phone Booth” singer John

A3079. Steve of Reservoir Dogs and Fargo

A3082. RCA Victor mascot

A3084. Get working together despite seeming conflict

A3086. Super into what they’re into

A3087. Patter’s patterns

A3088. Metamorph’s end?

A3089. WWII command

A3090. Soprano solo

A3091. Concentration amt.

A3092. White Hart, e.g.

A3093. These may be picked

A3094. Bullying seabird

A3095. Hexagonally divided land

A3096. Hungarian city that sounds up for anything

A3097. End of a shift?

A3098. “Mayor” of fellow students

A3100. Texting

A3102. Twin of

A3104. Salon request

A3106. Orphaned author raised by the Allans

A3107. French friend

A3109. Box-office need

A3110. Focus of Genesis 6-9

A3111. Nuclear age D.C. org.

A3112. Jumps at a bargain for

A3114. Sign of many snipers taking aim

A3115. Some standardized coll. exams for rule-researchers

A3116. Comes unglued

A3117. The Black Panther, to friends and family

A3119. Precursor of the cineplex

A3120. Was the agent of

A3122. Plays typically have one to five

A3123. Slang for a certain bill (“Hammy” never really caught on)

A3124. Type of cigar or sandwich

A3125. An aquarium sometimes has one

A3129. Not yet out of first

A3131. Jewish law book

A3133. “___ mio!”

A3135. Buncha guys you’ve never seen before

A3137. Building plots

A3139. Got giggling

A3142. Likely cover subject for People

A3144. This, in Thüringen

A3145. FNMA and GNMA

A3146. “False face must hide what the false heart doth ___” (Macbeth)

A3147. Some enlistees

A3148. Unbiased hirer, briefly

A3149. Racket attachment

A3150. Critical comment, of a sort

A3151. Toast words

A3152. Sheriff Taylor’s lad

A3153. Crises on Wall Street

A3154. Showed up for

A3155. Stiffly precise

A3156. Mogadishu residents

A3157. Asian border peak

A3159. Grilled dish

A3161. Hopping desert rodent

A3163. The Days of Our Lives, for one

A3165. Fabrics with wavy patterns

A3167. Batman’s doomed ally Harvey

A3168. “Good” cholesterol

A3169. Like classics for kids, sometimes, for short

A3170. Honorific used in The Karate Kid

A3171. “Who does that guy think ___?!”

A3173. D.C. baseballers

A3175. Formal affair wear

A3176. Single out for adulation

A3177. You can get one with the inscription, “It’s awfully dark in here”

A3178. “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”, e.g.

A3180. In ___: having troubles seemingly without end

A3181. Ceramists’ cookers

A3182. Tells a funnier joke than

A3183. Animal populations

A3184. Near-universal condemnation

A3185. “California Dreamin’“ folk rockers

A3189. Zaps, you might say

A3191. Carnival attraction

A3193. Make a trade

A3195. “Old MacDonald” line starter

A3196. Mary Kay competitor Lauder

A3198. Crude surplus

A3201. Not practical?

A3203. Walk with effort

A3205. Coming down in buckets

A3207. Piccolo ___

A3208. Train components

A3209. Fat, to Marat

A3210. Hoosiers’ home (abbr.)

A3211. Gov’t org. since 1930

A3212. Prynne’s monogram

A3213. Ricky Gervais series and lead role

A3214. Gullible folks

A3215. French film festival

A3216. Puts a belt around

A3217. Corporation that ran Toys R Us into the dirt [I mean, it’s true that the store’s business model was archaic, and some losses were inevitable, but it could’ve survived in some streamlined form if its owners had any priorities other than milking it to death]

A3218. Annaeus, in Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A3219. Get around somehow, as an issue

A3220. Noel’s brother in Oasis

A3222. Base in Cuba, in Navy slang

A3224. Jim Bob and Michelle of reality TV

A3226. “My good men…”

A3228. “And I know all the words to every ___ Tucker song!” (“Redneck Woman” lyric)

A3230. “___ what ___ and that’s all that ____” (cartoon catchphrase)

A3231. D.C. economics agcy.

A3232. “Grody to the max!”

A3233. She played Hermione

A3235. Will and Grace’s McCormack

A3237. Kenny G. buy

A3238. Scaly fish known for jumping when hooked

A3239. ___ milk (var.)

A3240. Palindromic term of address

A3241. Employ at will

A3243. Mike Post wrote its famous theme song

A3244. “Don’t be perfect, just get better ___”

A3245. Partner of ifs and ands

A3246. Search engine devotee

A3247. L, in an elevator

A3248. Tutu wearers

A3250. Secure transport

A3253. Riverdale network

A3255. Provider of contacts, informally

A3257. Socially awkward type

A3259. OR site

A3260. “Yes, OBVIOUSLY”

A3262. Deck out in rubies and emeralds or such

A3265. Elevated beginning?

A3267. Modern comic-strip hubby

A3269. “Le coeur a ___ raisons…”

A3270. Wall Street events

A3271. Sacrificed sorts

A3272. “Summer Girls” boy band

A3273. ___ Line (railroad serving Minneapolis)

A3274. Like some proverbial ducklings

A3275. Mickey and Minnie

A3276. Middle iron

A3277. Impreza maker

A3278. Finger-bowl accessory

A3279. Sagan of Cosmos

A3280. Mostly X-ray-vision-proof

A3281. Disability payment, for short

A3284. They measure up

A3285. Canadian revolutionary Louis

A3287. Noted besieger of Moors

A3289. Throbs

A3291. Tinder self-promos

A3293. “Now hold on there!”

A3295. Site of some feluccas

A3296. Paolo’s front?

A3297. Improve like fine wine, hopefully

A3298. They get results

A3300. Novak Djoković, natively

A3302. The Little Mermaid lyricist Howard

A3305. Japanese poem in three parts

A3306. Desktop publisher’s designs

A3308. Devious moves

A3309. Army of Darkness zombie-fighter

A3310. Smallish batteries

A3311. Monty Python, the Kids in the Hall, or Asperger’s Are Us

A3313. “Increasing store with loss and loss with store,” e.g.

A3315. Winner of the first two Super Bowl MVPs

A3317. Sex addiction

A3320. Has an afternoon snooze

A3323. Payroll-dept. IDs

A3325. “___ be my pleasure”

A3326. Hi-tech greeting

A3328. Tiny organism

A3331. A lever-pull away

A3333. Counterintelligencer for the USA

A3337. Damson and bullace

A3338. Summer dress fabrics

A3339. Icon of the early dot-com boom…and bust

A3340. Daniel ___ Kim of Lost

A3341. Old Norse character

A3342. Aptly named skateboarder Brown (it’s what she skates into)

A3343. Shredded-pork dinners, for short

A3344. Anglican parish priests

A3345. Politico Marco

A3346. Pitcher’s attempted fakeout

A3347. They may be last, for the dying

A3348. Arrests the progress of

A3350. Hardest-to-find items for a collector

A3351. Economic agents?

A3353. Like instruments ready to record

A3354. Herb varieties notably from Thailand and Italy

A3356. Put into words

A3358. Part of a Battleship coordinate

A3360. Yours, in Tours

A3361. ___ Balls (snack choice)

A3362. Course with many unknowns (abbr.)

A3363. Bathers’ scrubbers

A3365. Search, leaving no stone unturned

A3366. Second and third degree in music?

A3367. Maleska’s predecessor

A3368. Vitamin you’d be anemic without

A3370. Begins divorce proceedings

A3371. Overly dry, perhaps

A3373. Reminders of long, long ago

A3374. Extremities

A3375. Printer inserts

A3377. West Indies instrument

A3379. Beverage you can get at Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter

A3382. Bird-feeder bits

A3384. Pick, perhaps

A3386. Wedding date?

A3388. Forms Transformers transform into

A3390. Natural, as a performance

A3393. Stood out at stand-up?

A3395. Ambulance gp.

A3396. Groups of pals who shag together

A3398. It’s not quite a sweet potato

A3399. Sneeze and/or wheeze

A3400. They’re worth 1 or 11 in blackjack

A3401. “Take your time”

A3402. Sharapova and Shriver

A3403. Elapsed seemingly quickly

A3404. Burn After Reading star

A3405. Approvals (var.)

A3406. Approaches a red light

A3407. Kafka’s Gregor

A3409. Cape Verde capital

A3410. Actress de Matteo of Sons of Anarchy

A3412. ___ Marner

A3414. Pulsing

A3416. Cream quantity

A3418. The Plot Against America author Philip

A3419. One might be promoted to cpl.

A3420. Mil. figure with chevrons

A3421. Hearing aid of old

A3423. Drink that had a Wild Red variety

A3424. Word for “managers” more often found in French

A3426. Moon of Jupiter (remember?)

A3427. He’d be Vader someday later

A3428. First ___ (title for Napoleon)

A3429. Maritime republic for seven centuries

A3430. “Every great film should seem new every time you see it” speaker

A3432. Parts of a smaller bra

A3433. Peace Prize winner Murad

A3435. Designing Women and Young Sheldon star

A3438. Austin’s home

A3440. Got ready for a tongue depressor, say

A3442. Dead cellphones and the like

A3443. Total messes

A3445. New York Times’ critic at large

A3448. “The point is there is no point” speaker

A3449. Journalist Farrow

A3450. Entertainer famously bitten by a white tiger in 2003

A3451. Eighties presidential monogram

A3452. Imposing shoebox letters

A3453. “…a law ___ themselves” (Romans 2:14)

A3454. Double daggers, in printing

A3455. Confounded

A3456. Broth spoilers, they say

A3457. “Senora” alternative

A3458. Foreign representatives

A3460. RWR’s predecessor

A3463. Pro-independence writing of early American history

A3465. Maker of Dri-Tac grips

A3467. Object

A3469. ___ sense (danger-detecting ESP)

A3471. Edges (along)

A3473. Conference USA’s Miners

A3474. Its California variety includes avocado and basil mayonnaise

A3475. Stephen of FearDotCom

A3476. ___-Hulk

A3477. Hard-drive company, or woman’s name when parsed differently

A3479. Cafe serving group

A3481. Silly laughs

A3483. Bee-fitting?

A3484. Bed supports

A3485. Blender settings

A3486. Run out of ideas

A3487. She’s hardly a comedian

A3489. Fish pounds

A3490. Film heroine of 1998 and 2020

A3492. Wineglass sections

A3493. Rarely recognized burger flavoring

A3496. The RAF, in a Churchill quote

A3498. Roof worker

A3500. Biggest bill I’ve ever carried

A3501. Bone-to-muscle joiner

A3503. Collaborator with Selena Gomez, Cardi B, and Ozuna

A3506. “What-- WHY?? I can’t make any SENSE of your actions!”

A3509. Mess with the mind of

A3510. Not overly quick-spreading peanut butter brand

A3511. First part of a Western whoop

A3512. Snoopy, but not Woodstock

A3513. Moviemaking gp. that lent their name to a file format

A3514. Suffix meaning “eater”

A3515. Niblick sockets

A3516. “Let us, then, be up and ___”

A3517. “Look ___! I’m on top of the world!”

A3518. Cotton collector

A3519. Crystal-bearing rock

A3520. Emergency signal

A3522. Some footnote symbols

A3524. ___ aves (one-in-a-thousand finds)

A3525. Ineffable glow

A3527. “I gotchu”

A3529. Location of Manhattan and Ottawa

A3531. Needed Ibuprofen, maybe

A3533. French wing…or propeller blade

A3534. Cracker in soup, e.g.

A3535. Compass meas.

A3536. Woolly, young lamb

A3537. Pull (from)

A3538. Like a bright future

A3539. Org. for Titans and Texans

A3540. Gas amount

A3542. Recognizes as

A3543. “Mooing”

A3544. Shots for fellas?

A3545. “What do you mean he don’t ___ meat? Oh, that’s okay, I make lamb” (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

A3546. Committee leaders

A3548. John Frank Stevens and his work, in a famous phrase

A3552. “Free sample? Well, then, sure!”

A3555. Wasn’t any good

A3557. Biblical or North Carolinian mount

A3559. Wine-lover’s lead-in

A3560. Biracial “princess knight” of animation

A3562. Kristian or Ribiero of television

A3565. “___ am your father” (classic film line)

A3567. June 6 ships

A3568. Death or destruction

A3569. “Obamacare”

A3570. Insulting follower of smart and dumb

A3571. The Ambracian Gulf, to some

A3572. Maggie and Lisa’s brother

A3573. Fantabulous

A3574. ___ a desert (without any moisture)

A3575. Joyful internet cry

A3576. The Sheriff of Nottingham, e.g., notoriously

A3577. Street map

A3578. Measures the depth of

A3579. Continental Airlines Arena team

A3580. Run the bar

A3582. Little miscues

A3583. People in Germany

A3585. Didn’t roll over

A3587. Lung part found in bird bones

A3589. Does research

A3591. “Eyes on the Prize” gp.

A3592. Lon of Cambodia

A3593. Cotton seed remover

A3594. Mah-jongg piece

A3596. Refrain heard in rock

A3600. Working away thanklessly

A3602. Payola or “incentive”

A3603. One known for calling people out

A3604. Ratty town of legend

A3605. She may order an op

A3606. Sancerre and Sylvaner

A3608. ___-tung

A3610. ___ thin air

A3611. Web extension?

A3612. Usher, e.g.

A3614. Giving a splash of color

A3617. Landing area

A3619. Scooby-Doo’s outburst

A3621. Amusing bird for a child, maybe

A3622. Amiens aunt

A3624. One adding things up

A3627. Record of affairs?

A3632. Pimpernel color

A3633. Woos, minstrel-style

A3634. “___ mouse!”

A3635. ___Nova (classic musical style)

A3636. Forest cover

A3637. Make ___ (use to one’s advantage)

A3638. Any day now

A3639. Revenue line

A3640. Lecturers, at times

A3641. Americans, casually, to people outside the US

A3643. 1.618034

A3646. “Bad mother” of song

A3648. One of the Leeward Islands

A3650. Civet’s kin

A3651. Modern zoo barrier

A3653. Car that represented a quarter-billion-dollar loss for its company (more than $2.5 billion in today’s dollars)

A3655. Platonic female partner

A3657. Leaves beverage

A3659. 1998 home run race participant

A3660. Luther’s close friend and portraitist

A3661. Educational mock-cop show with James Earl Jones

A3662. “Oh, finally!”

A3663. “Sequel” quote to “I’ll be back”

A3666. Five-line Japanese poems

A3667. Hick towns

A3668. Pronoun in “to marry ___ they choose” that honestly seems like a bit much

A3670. Ballyhoos

A3671. Trapper’s collection

A3672. Turing and Rickman

A3674. “Hey Bobby” country singer

A3676. Lot’s location, once

A3678. Unspeakable cruelties

A3681. Some teenagers’ ailments

A3683. Overly agreeable one

A3685. “Sorry, could you repeat that?”

A3689. Statements of belief

A3690. “We can dance ___ want to” (“The Safety Dance” line)

A3691. Shrink from

A3692. Seesaw complement

A3693. It prints a lot of schedules

A3694. After the sunrise, in Solingen

A3695. Diverti or penti or pronuncia ending

A3696. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” singer

A3697. “FOR SALE BY ___”

A3698. Consider everything that can go wrong

A3699. Cheeses for salads

A3700. Paper alternative

A3702. ___ the run (munch while in motion)

A3704. Daytime Emmy actress Rena

A3706. “Candy is dandy…” writer’s first name

A3707. Brunch, for instance

A3709. Stop in Hawaiian names

A3711. Card carrier

A3713. Polished off

A3714. Where skates glide

A3715. Licorice-flavored liqueur

A3717. Have ___ ear: not know music

A3718. London’s nat.

A3719. Fleecy footwear brand

A3720. Cancun-to-Puerto Vallarta direction

A3723. End to end?

A3724. You often learn about her on the inside back cover

A3725. Times with the most activity

A3727. Double-check for typos, say

A3729. Out sick, say

A3730. Screen’s Wyatt and Wyman

A3731. The American Petroleum Institute, e.g.

A3733. Hi-tech students’ haunt

A3735. Al ___ (Guerrilla group whose name means “The Opening”)

A3737. Thsi cleu hsa sveeral

A3739. It has a place in “herstory”

A3742. “When you’re right, you’re right!”

A3744. Middle-Earth marauder

A3746. More subtle

A3750. What’s here, to a stereotypical Midwesterner

A3751. Website help section

A3752. Elevated station

A3754. “Fly Me to the Moon” singer, affectionately

A3757. Grab with jaws

A3758. Seasons, in Nice

A3759. Store stock (abbr.)

A3760. Alanis Morissette’s question for English majors?

A3762. Anxiety that leads to some mid-month three-day weekends

A3766. Bringing back to one’s home nation, verbally and mentally

A3769. Wheels, topographically speaking

A3770. Flat, thick piece

A3772. Certain antenna covering

A3774. “Forget what I just said”

A3778. “I’m only going to say this once”

A3781. Church feature

A3782. Playing partners

A3783. Went to pieces

A3787. Class clown’s comeuppance

A3788. “Apologies, folks!!”

A3789. Follow the relevant instruction laid out (by)

A3790. Gets blown by a strong wind, perhaps, as a door

A3792. “This doesn’t seem normal, wouldn’t you say?”

A3793. Turkish founding father who said “Peace at home, peace in the world”

A3798. Metta World Peace, until 2011 (he changed again in 2020)

A3799. Words to make sure there are no hard feelings

A3801. ___’acte (intermission)

A3802. Become more sympathetic

A3803. Highland tops

A3804. No big thing

A3805. Meat-and-veggies meals

A3806. Stuff cleared from one’s browser history, hopefully

A3807. The ___ in Winter (1968 film)

A3808. Request in an invitation

A3809. Acting and writing

A3810. Modernist Goldfinger (not that Goldfinger)

A3811. They’re about 1076 square feet each

A3812. Agitated mood

A3813. American-made line of smokers

A3814. Coffee and cookie containers

A3815. The secret to being one is to tell everything, according to Voltaire

A3816. Permanently damage

A3817. Cousin of lotto

A3818. A blood thinner prevents it

A3819. Palace resident

A3820. Characters with the nicknames Silent and Sideshow

A3821. Depression fighter

A3822. Senator’s name that sounds like property

A3823. Like falling off a log

A3824. Infamous emperor

A3825. “Looking at it differently…,” to a texter

A3826. King in Castile

A3827. Kidnapped author’s inits.

A3828. Son-gun filler

A3829. “No way, forget it!”

A3830. It merged with the AFL

A3831. “Based ___ true story”

A3832. Pessimist’s rejoinder to “Well, we’re not dead!”

A3833. Pre-album samplers, for short

A3834. “Wizards in Winter” arena-rock greats, for short

A3835. Cosign and anoint follower

A3836. Nix and Pelini of football

A3837. “___ man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” (Proverbs)

A3838. Buckle

A3839. Org. in charge of the Space Force

A3840. One who has a lot of screwdrivers?

A3841. Some UN officers, for short

A3842. -ed, e.g. (abbr.)

A3843. Extra periods, in brief

A3844. Nickname that drops the “son” in a girl’s name

A3845. TV channel with Style Report and Beauty Report

A3846. Sick days, vacay, and such

A3847. Weekend TV listing

A3848. Michigan’s biggest city (abbr.)

A3849. Building build-on

 

Down

A1. Anti-sticking product

A2. They’re bigger than bucks

A3. Some whiskers

A4. Painting of fruit, e.g.

A5. How a pirouette is done

A6. Cleaning bot

A7. Dear one

A8. Book for the beach, maybe

A9. ___ erfreuen, dann belehren (“First delight, then instruct”)

A10. Playful one

A11. Place of a historic edict

A12. What the A stands for, in superhero comics

A13. Some supermarkets give store credit if you bring your own

A14. Move like a hummingbird

A15. Escaped when no one was looking

A16. “What’s your rush?”

A17. Informal uploads

A18. Sent some cybernotes

A19. Suzanne Collins’ future nation

A20. Intriguingly foreign

A21. Spider, e.g.

A22. Whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters

A23. Star Trek ___: The Search for Spock

A24. Jai end?

A25. On ___ of (representing)

A26. Doomsday cultist Shoko

A27. Commoners with a few noble trappings

A28. Norte’s opposite

A29. Locale of the Goya Gate

A30. Roy Rogers films

A31. Palindromic female rapper

A32. Dakota ___ (old geog. designation)

A33. What the A stands for, in animation

A34. Spanish sixes

A35. They’re canceled beyond all recovery

A36. Less docile

A37. Lhasa ___: dog breed

A38. The giants of the talking-bird world

A39. News item

A40. Juan Pablo ___, Formula One racer

A41. It might be answered “Muy bien, gracias”

A42. They range from introductory to penalty

A43. “This person served as a rabbi”

A44. One who can buy low and sell high

A45. Long-standing kitchenware brand

A46. Rachel’s biblical sister

A47. Montreuil-sur-___ (Les Misérables setting)

A48. Hellish, in the Greek sense

A49. “I’m so clever!”

A50. Santa ___, California

A51. Popular family pooch

A52. “I really didn’t need to know that” in textspeak

A53. Go downhill on one’s ass

A54. Like “Son of a Bush” and “Guerilla Radio”

A55. “Well…I like THAT”

A56. Mixed-breed pooch

A57. Former Giants player Jason

A58. Breathtaking difficulty?

A59. “I’m gonna ___ presidential that you people will ___ bored”

A60. Form of pyruvic acid

A61. Part of the California/Nevada border

A62. Not too sweet or bland

A63. Interventions: A Life in War and Peace memoirist

A64. Makes even deeper

A65. Chills

A66. Don’t move

A67. Bolshevik leader

A68. Not at all plain

A69. Two things the A can stand for, in non-heteronormativity (which sometimes go together; see A90-Down)

A70. Clothing retailer Andrew

A71. Roman numeral?

A72. Joy to behold

A73. Extremely quick

A74. The Warner sister

A75. Event that calls for frequently switching drivers

A76. Not carried, as a burden

A77. Bunsen burner nozzle

A78. B-52s’ HQs

A79. Shovel shit

A80. Misaimed

A81. Sharknado star

A82. Experts

A83. Coal region workplaces

A84. Anti-DUI gp.

A85. Meditator’s chants

A86. Needle-like

A87. Takes and puts away

A88. ___ and Catch Fire (drama series about computer design)

A89. Inflight announcement

A90. Third thing the A can stand for, in non-heteronormativity (see A69-Down)

A91. Confusing scuffles

A92. Extraordinary fellows

A93. Get a new décor for

A94. Indelicately unwraps

A95. Are afraid to

A96. Ovid opus

A97. Words to a Doberman

A98. “Ladder company” signal

A99. Waltzer’s footwear

A100. “___ a Girl and Got Lost in Her Smile” (David J)

A101. Sleeper on a train

A128. What the A stands for, in classic literature

A130. Any member of a classic punk rock band

A132. Trowel user

A134. Planet Kashyyyk natives

A136. Plastic component

A138. Suit sizes for the tall

A141. Beat ___ to: let no obstacles keep one from

A143. Less conspicuous place to park

A145. Written rules

A147. Gadgets with earbuds

A149. Neutral tans

A151. What the A stands for, in this section’s six longest entries

A155. Lawn source

A158. Split pulses

A161. How Uncle Ben treated Peter

A164. Figures in mass production?

A166. “Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy” song

A169. Turning points

A172. Gp. that fought income inequality

A174. It’s the geologist’s fault

A178. Alain or Nathalie of Le Samourai

A180. Thunder and lightning

A182. Objets ___

A184. Most productive way to think of the future

A186. Places of commerce

A187. “How disgusting!”

A190. Grand Marquis, e.g., briefly

A192. They go below the knee

A193. Anime genre featuring giant robots

A194. Smiley’s smile

A195. Turn the counter back to zero on

A196. Zoloft and Prozac

A199. Buck in Beijing

A201. Kind of walk?

A202. Copycat’s comment

A203. Who song or a short-lived sitcom

A204. Some red wines, informally

A205. Outsider, in Hawaii

A206. “And two if ___…”

A207. Meridian

A209. Episc. or Bapt.

A211. Small organisms that keep a pool clear, metaphorically

A212. Where Scarlett goes at the end of Gone with the Wind to solve all her problems, without, it has to be said, any particular evidence that she can farm it post-emancipation

A214. How homes are often built

A216. ___ worm (catchy song)

A217. Vocalist for “I’m On a Boat”

A219. Air-conditioning outlets

A220. Deeply ingrained

A221. Leakes of reality TV

A222. “___ stands now…”

A223. Make a decision

A224. Staley of Alice in Chains

A226. Arum family plants

A227. They “fill up” at charging stations

A229. Grandchildren of Japanese immigrants

A230. Pocket discovery

A231. People debate about which side to hang their papers from

A232. Holiday employees, often

A234. One person might both pitch and strike one

A235. Sprint rival

A236. “Per ardua ad ___” (RAF motto)

A238. Top name in tennis

A241. Tough to intimidate

A244. Antepenultimate section of Crime and Punishment

A247. Mac-to-Apple TV app

A252. Chipmunk’s cache

A255. Like longship sailors

A257. Lightly touches, as on the shoulder

A259. Animal shelters

A260. Part of a bug’s eye

A261. Like some phone nos.

A263. Stock exchange buys

A265. Crop up anew

A267. Where Paul had a vision

A269. Suckling spot

A271. Poe’s middle name (it’s not “disturbing”)

A272. Describe

A274. Right, in Rouen

A276. Fullback’s desire

A278. Pole or Croat

A280. Nut-seasoned sweets I baked last night

A282. Sitcom world

A284. Mongkut portrayer

A286. It gives ballplayers a say in where they end up

A289. Lee Miller of Dance Moms, or a famous “agony aunt”

A290. With “the,” nickname for both Atlanta and NYC

A291. ___ la journée (all day long)

A292. Speedy car, or speedy cat

A293. “The Song of ___ Campaign” (work of early Russian literature)

A294. Simon of Hot Fuzz

A295. Works of a Spanish Surrealist

A296. Oddities on display

A297. Type units

A299. It has to move quick on the snap

A301. Like some roads

A303. Took lodging

A305. Somewhat risky spot for a skate trick

A307. Under-the-sink item

A309. “___ are saying…is give peace a chance”

A311. At the summit of

A313. “The Things We Do for Love” rock group

A315. “I never ___ plate to the point where it overflows” (Rachel Nichols)

A316. ___ Lot (horror film)

A318. “Whenever”

A319. O’Casey and Connery

A320. Goes into hysterics

A321. Clashing partisans

A322. Transport provider at Disney World

A323. Tot’s tootsie topper

A324. Person in need of detox

A325. Seiko rival

A326. Sandy expanses

A327. Respectful quality

A329. Up

A331. Tangerine- grapefruit-orange hybrids

A333. Portuguese mononym footballer and namesakes

A335. Hostile reaction

A337. Casablanca director

A339. Get ___ on: find a clue about

A341. Initiated court action against

A343. Western megalopolis, familiarly

A348. Arrests, slangily

A349. Conservative shade

A350. Packs away

A351. Brother-to-be

A352. Urban residents, collectively

A353. Mister of La Mancha

A354. “I’m very ___” (Come-on from Friends’ Phoebe)

A355. Place to stretch one’s legs on a long straight trip, abbreviated

A356. Observers during batting practice, for short

A357. No longer wkg.

A358. Slowly disintegrated

A359. Potential scandal

A360. Still snoring

A362. They’re seen in World War Z but not The Walking Dead

A363. Chinese caregivers

A365. Peak discoverer Zebulon

A366. To zero degree

A368. Museum preservationists

A369. Chimes in with

A371. Bawdyhouse manager

A373. Outdoor relaxing spots

A374. Rids the body of

A375. Ginormundo

A376. Use ___ name: say “dear” or “honey”

A377. Pigs with four tusks

A379. Where to tell scary stories over s’mores

A380. Shepherds with lamb prices on their mind

A381. Fielding who wrote Bridget Jones’s Diary

A382. Confused noises

A383. Satin or rayon

A384. Grand ___ (big ending)

A385. Old Red scare gp.

A386. Lords of “crowned republics”

A387. “I swear on a stack of Bibles”

A388. Notorious antitrust figure turned philanthropist who warned us about the pandemic

A389. Decentralized denomination

A390. Really ancient

A391. Stadium ticket datum

A392. Blue Jays’ city (abbr.)

A395. Humorist Alexandria

A398. Swings at

A401. Demon slain by Gandalf

A404. With “pro”, distributed as appropriate

A406. Kind of jazz

A410. Adapt, socially

A411. “In a western ___ with dead end walls…” (“West End Girls”)

A413. Landmines, e.g.

A415. Possible skin test reaction

A417. Wear for Superman, Batman, Thor, and surprisingly few other superheroes

A420. Monterrey misses (abbr.)

A422. Emulate an angry bee

A424. Stroke on an S

A426. Fresh-baked cookies, e.g.

A428. Excursion

A430. Chop shop wheels

A432. His head is shaped like a football

A434. Condemn to eternal torment

A436. Buddhist land

A438. For Jack Wagner, “just a little more time to be sure”

A439. Mingle at the wedding reception

A441. The Oscars and the Butterfly Ball

A442. Showy scarves

A443. Wintry road hazard

A444. Sleep-deprived breastfeeder

A445. R for the small screen

A446. Cover with drops

A447. Battery parts

A448. Octets of bits

A449. Gasses up

A451. Entertainer Davis Jr.

A453. Jannings and Kraepelin

A455. Explorer Juan ___ de León

A457. Fountain locale

A459. Reminds ad nauseam

A461. Lady of Kyoto

A463. Argues ineffectively

A465. Fiddler’s spot

A467. Like Hebrew and Arabic

A471. Google’s search algorithm or TikTok’s sorting system, e.g.

A472. Cooped-up cacklers

A473. Train spanning much of the Northeast US

A474. London clothing material

A475. COVID-19 of the late 20th century

A476. Pep (up), as to proceedings

A477. Persephone’s husband

A478. Wins, as a championship

A479. My True Crime Story channel

A481. ___ Amsterdam: early settlement

A483. Oklahomans before Oklahomans

A485. It doesn’t feel good to be green around them

A487. Basketmaking fiber

A489. Unkempt sort

A491. 1966 pop song with a flute solo

A493. “Readers are advised to remember that the Devil is ___” (C.S. Lewis)

A495. Minestrone, for instance

A497. Some salon activities

A498. CT-scanner part

A500. Element found in walnuts

A502. Sobriquet for Giuliani, once

A503. Thoughtful

A504. “Let’s skip my turn”

A505. Spike you get when threatened with a spike

A506. Fan’s periodical, for short

A507. Rushed toward

A508. Manicured

A509. ___ in on (targeted)

A510. Grilling tool

A511. Chameleonic actor Christian

A512. Snag a taxi

A514. Playground snitches

A515. Leave one’s pecs partially exposed, say

A517. Horror as far as the eye can see

A518. “___ be surprised!”

A520. Inner layer

A521. Type of panel

A523. Cookout option

A526. Scottish chilly weather

A528. Difference between a comedy and a tragedy, one might say

A529. Used high beams, perhaps

A530. Songwriter Irving

A531. Point at the table?

A532. First words of the Constitution

A533. Jerks’ offerings

A534. In any weather

A535. In pretty good shape

A536. Kin of Mmes.

A537. Sound from a Siamese

A539. Angle producers

A542. ___ acid: prenatal vitamin ingredient

A545. Chi-Town paper, with “The”

A548. “From the beginning” follower, if comprehensive

A550. Pibroch player, probably

A552. Hippocampus of myth

A553. February nomination

A555. Tongue-curling

A556. Draws back, as in fear

A558. Moves relentlessly (about)

A560. Complies with, as a deadline

A562. Steers a racing shell

A564. D-day boat (abbr.)

A566. Slimy

A568. Weird Sisters

A570. “Things fall apart” poet

A572. Enjoy, as a fine wine or meal

A574. Kinswoman of a sort

A576. Time of minimal lunar pull, at the beach

A578. Feature of some swervy roads

A580. Specialist’s specialty

A582. Japanese word meaning “tiger” or, in context, “blitzkrieg”

A586. Brand-name rhyme for “Cuisine”

A587. Common graph axes

A588. Stored, as hay

A589. Choose for roles

A590. “The most beautiful girl in the world/___ Garbo” (Rodgers/Hart line)

A591. Like some tricks

A592. Challenger or Charger

A593. Liquid amount in Liverpool

A594. Clothing department designation

A596. Some boom boxes

A598. Operatic king of the gods

A600. Caddies clean them

A602. Ayn Rand novels, e.g.

A604. What PayPal facilitates

A606. Coffee ground stain on a mug

A608. Saved to “Favorite Videos” with older tech

A610. Jazzy Jeff, in a 1988 Fresh Prince album name

A612. Not ethereal

A613. “That Old Time ___”

A615. Onetime resident of Mauritius

A617. Brazilian brothers

A618. Cleft between cliffs

A619. Toadied

A620. Refraction producer

A621. A new ___ on life

A622. “Straight Up” singer Paula

A623. Forward

A624. “Spend,” euphemistically

A625. Encoded “I see Sis”

A627. Signs of hit NYC shows

A629. Lily family members

A631. Late-night bite

A633. Bridge parts

A635. Palmer’s nickname

A637. Much-used verbe

A639. Numbing, paralyzing fright

A641. 2017 deportation documentary

A646. Nether lands travel writer

A647. Struck noisily

A648. The “how you doin’?” guy of sitcoms

A649. Help for those at sea?

A650. “…rock feels no pain, ___ island never cries” (Paul Simon)

A651. Traffic chorus

A652. They stink

A653. Guthrie genre

A654. Wait to play

A655. Fawned-over star

A656. Pressing warning

A657. Half-quartets

A659. Kickoff sender-backers, in football

A660. Twist into a knotted form

A662. “I made the pact, I’ll honor it”

A663. Exchanges for money

A665. Count’s equal

A666. Vail downhill

A668. Year The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published

A670. He found the relationship between resistance and voltage

A671. Tormented

A672. Waterside accommodations

A673. Small and orbital

A675. Ready to fight

A677. Gas station advertised at Fenway Park

A678. Even less sensitive

A679. Retired Cubs star Sandberg

A680. Confederate soldiers

A681. Where you wouldn’t want to get a thumbs-up

A682. They may be broken in the military

A683. “What…what… but…HOW?”

A684. The Rolling Stones’ “I’m Yours, I’m ___”

A685. Reserve

A686. Gold-reserves fort

A687. Nine-digit important no.

A690. Not of the rabbinate

A693. Break records?

A696. Desert on Africa’s southwest coast

A699. Submerged nets

A701. Playwright Williams

A707. Party spongers

A708. Semi-firm cheese sometimes added to mozzarella

A710. Frasier dog

A712. Harlequin, for one

A714. Does a number one

A717. Zhivago player

A719. Ambassador to Japan Emanuel

A721. 2009 Super Bowl number

A723. Dystrophy namesake

A725. Match clinchers

A727. Glass-polishing powder

A729. LaBeouf of the Transformers movies

A731. They “chant down Babylon”

A733. Rhubarbs

A734. Minnesota neighbors

A735. John Goodman role

A736. Thrifty? Not them

A738. Follow the example shown (from)

A740. Health care coverage providers?

A741. Like someone you’d have a case against

A742. Broad bean variety

A743. Maleficent portrayer

A744. Scent containers

A745. Magic spirits

A746. Put on store shelves

A747. Try for some pins?

A748. Eastern philosophy of balance

A750. Singing knight whose middle name is Hercules

A752. Silicate used in capacitors

A754. Keep ___ head: don’t get riled

A756. Harness racing speeds

A758. He works with prospective and current employees

A760. Any Big Bang Theory episode, now

A762. Gets gangrenous

A764. Parts of mollusk shells

A770. Annual sights in Pasadena

A771. Sea of Serenity locale

A772. Peyton Manning’s old team

A773. Nintendo’s legendary princess

A774. Apatow seen in several Apatow films

A775. Wounds with a tusk

A776. Robin’s favorite adjective, in the 1960s

A777. Policy-shaping document that emerges once a decade

A779. Lisa Lisa’s “Head ___”

A781. Included with

A783. Bug sci.

A785. “We’re in ___ against time”

A787. Brew, in a teapot

A789. Thurmond of the Senate, once

A791. Almost there

A793. Solidarity; communion

A795. Certain wind insert

A796. Secret keepers?

A797. Detailed in foreground, midground, and background

A799. Twain and Lincoln biographer Masters

A801. Following Murphy’s Law

A802. Charlie of classic detective stories

A803. Does a farming chore

A804. Art photog and ex-reporter Tabitha

A805. Wachowski siblings’ erotic thriller

A806. Does modern vision correction

A807. Start the horse race

A808. Full of dugouts

A809. Perspiration passage

A810. Filament

A812. Money writer Martin

A813. Chose, as a restaurant table

A815. Shortenings

A816. Harpoon

A818. Did unusually poorly

A819. Kind of goose or leopard

A821. The Maltese Falcon lead

A827. Travel a circuit on schedule

A828. Sends poems and chocolates, perhaps

A829. She played Dora’s mother in 2019

A830. Madonna role

A831. Join a party

A832. Taps a pitch

A833. Narrow inlets

A834. Conical dwellings

A835. Fictional Gold, Tenenbaum, and Ben Canaan

A836. Certain road hazard

A837. Blood poisoning

A840. Collection of life rules, in Eastern religion

A843. Kerri who injured her ankle at the 1996 Olympics

A846. “As you were saying?”

A848. Supply with goods

A849. Show likely to feature bare breasts, a sad male protagonist, movie stars, and almost no humor

A850. Practice sessions

A852. Per custom

A854. Squad-based MMORPG reconstructing World War II

A856. Ren faire rides

A857. Janitorial equipment

A859. Santa remarks

A861. Not quite the city

A863. Sci-fi and mystery

A864. Ankle-biter

A867. Born in Wichita, say

A869. Position on the roster

A871. “Auspicious One” of Hinduism

A873. Distasteful beverage

A875. Literally, “Go with God”

A877. Revival enclosures

A879. Sailor, informally

A886. They get heavy at the day’s end

A887. Forces (off), as an attacker

A888. Highlander skirts

A889. Hapless vacationer Griswold

A890. Habitable dimension

A891. Date producer

A892. Russian of the 1980s

A895. Result of oversleeping

A897. Flower named in a notorious murder

A899. Mariner, Ranger, and Yankee for 22 years total

A901. “You made me laugh when I wasn’t expecting to!”

A903. Bad states

A905. Uses one’s scissors on

A907. Pseudo-convertibles

A909. Cut coupons

A911. Covered securely, as a baby’s bottom

A912. Strolling site

A914. Hitchcock appearing in his own movies, e.g.

A916. In reality, likely just a humanist atheist who enjoys shocking people

A918. Affliction for some vets

A919. Studio subjects

A920. Fire truck lines

A921. Counterfeit

A922. Comment after a sneeze

A923. Choosy ones, in Jif ads

A924. An auto may require it

A925. Begin to bawl out

A927. Aardvark feature

A929. Christmas card sentiment

A931. Schilling successor

A933. Aberdeen beef

A935. Earn naming rights for

A937. Luxury home supplier for millennials

A939. Brawny types

A941. H-dos-O

A948. Canal from the Med to the Red

A949. Agronomist’s samples

A950. Slaw and Porter

A951. Hose holders

A952. Warning whistle

A953. Musical instrument in a game show name

A954. What John McCain thought would be an end to pork in bills

A956. Quality recognized by scouts

A957. Nineties’ answer to Facebook Groups

A958. Olympics shouts

A959. “…Oh!”

A961. Camper’s heat source

A962. Palin impersonator Fey

A964. It goes from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan

A965. Duple-time dance

A967. Quickly disintegrating

A968. Neck tie?

A970. Tore along like a bat out of hell

A971. Where to see urban gorillas

A972. Helper of parable

A974. Worry day by day

A976. Something you might want to settle

A978. Flying Circus performer

A979. Receives visitors

A980. With “The,” Dr. Seuss’s fun-loving home invader

A981. Indian wild canid

A982. Heart-healthy plan that avoids processed meat

A983. Lover’s sounds

A984. One who declares

A986. Old ___: historic warship

A987. ___ John Silver

A988. Olympic letters for Ingemar Stenmark

A990. Words on a pair of desk trays

A993. Compromise

A996. Lack of tunemaking skill

A999. Statistical tool for comparing means

A1003. Decides that one will

A1004. “Wonderwall” singers

A1005. Giant kelp, e.g.

A1009. MTV show once hosted by Ashton Kutcher

A1011. Axle-based charges, often

A1013. Respiratory tract infection

A1015. New and attention-getting

A1017. First two words on a classic red rectangle toy

A1019. Chuck who broke the speed of sound

A1021. “She’s a Lady” writer

A1023. Loam and marl

A1025. Fathered, as a foal

A1027. ___-turvy

A1029. Architect Saarinen whose true first name was Gottlieb

A1031. They’ll tell

A1032. “But what really matters is…”

A1035. Means of cooking seen in Return of the Jedi

A1037. Ollie performer, pejoratively

A1039. Category

A1040. HHH and LBJ, once

A1041. Having the taste of smoke, as some Scotches

A1042. Colors lightly

A1043. On the ___ (healing)

A1044. Judges, e.g.

A1045. What a round might consist of

A1047. Scandinavian bard

A1049. “Don’t rush this”

A1051. Vaguely Kardashian-shaped workers

A1053. Petered out

A1055. Lacking adornment

A1057. Do an alteration on

A1059. They tend to eschew any sentences much longer than this

A1063. Political analyst Tolliver

A1064. “___ the Same” (Camila Cabello song)

A1068. Singer who portrayed Dorothy Gale

A1069. Many Hollister shoppers

A1070. “Let’s give it a ___!” (fingerprinter’s pun)

A1071. Gave medicine to

A1072. “___ Stop The Feeling!”

A1073. Start admitting both boys and girls

A1074. Shoplifting or arson

A1076. “Can ___ any WORSE??!!”

A1078. On a vast timescale

A1080. “Hey! That hurts!”

A1082. Representative’s immediate circle

A1084. ___ Near Arles (Van Gogh “street” painting)

A1086. One who’s more than attentive

A1088. Atlanta’s div.

A1089. Robinson Crusoe actor Dan

A1090. Fills with disgust

A1093. Not secret long

A1095. Pamper a bit

A1097. Had much too much of

A1098. Debris in a dig

A1099. Like some undercover cops

A1100. Pot seshes

A1101. Brief struggle, as of madness

A1102. Shaped in a shop

A1103. Pitch-lowering symbols

A1104. “The game is never over” sloganeer

A1106. Pledge drive talk, essentially

A1107. Puppeteer comedian Jeff

A1109. Periods in history texts

A1110. Understood without need of mention

A1112. “This puzzle has defeated me”

A1113. What a diner sometimes also is?

A1117. Yogi who popularized transcendental meditation

A1118. Message-sending convenience

A1122. Teen drama set in SoCal

A1123. “This gives me hope for a new era of cinematic excellence,” “This movie will change you,” “This director makes Stephen Spielberg look like Michael Bay,” e.g.

A1124. Grabs and goes

A1125. Fuel that helped us found organic chemistry

A1126. Symbol of government authority

A1127. Remote need?

A1129. “Who wants candy?” response

A1130. Roid, e.g.

A1131. Pedro’s coin

A1134. Ile-___, Quebec

A1137. Set of nine voices

A1140. You might fix one yourself at a bar

A1142. Apple-holding luau fare

A1143. “Aw, pull the other one!”

A1147. Pope’s jurisdiction

A1149. Elegant eateries

A1151. Headwear, military-style

A1153. Hudson-based fabric store

A1155. Kind of hen or pig

A1157. Tic ___ (mints)

A1158. Part of a European address

A1161. Vietnam’s Ngo ___ Diem

A1163. Bush or Bush

A1165. Preceder of “Peak” and “Cove” in screen titles

A1167. It helps you avoid seeing spots

A1169. ___ Chris Steak House

A1171. Poet who wrote “The Sonnets to Orpheus”

A1173. He misspelled “potato” one time, and everyone had a good laugh at the idea anyone so uncouth could ever dream of being president

A1177. Moving by reflex

A1179. Caesar’s cry, more contemporarily

A1183. Turnoff a Zoom date doesn’t prepare you for

A1184. Ranks well

A1185. Complaints of a lack of kibble

A1186. Dues, e.g.

A1187. Plant seed

A1188. Landform off the coast of Sweden

A1189. Sink and gum up

A1192. Painter of the desert Southwest

A1194. Politburo no

A1196. ___ Angels (biker group)

A1198. Parts of some drum kits

A1200. They lost a Rose to Philadelphia

A1202. Flat baking pan

A1204. Diets successfully

A1206. They’re used on newly invented medicines

A1207. Acts the fanboy

A1208. High spots in the nineteenth century?

A1212. “Just my luck”

A1214. Ch, sh, and th

A1216. Top Gun star

A1217. Out of play

A1218. All Quiet on the Western ___

A1219. “King of Cool” Martin

A1220. Used an old phone

A1221. Payment for burritos

A1222. Blundering stumblebums

A1223. Ending seen in The Wizard of Oz and Dallas

A1225. Northern Quebec’s peninsula

A1226. XIX Olympic Winter Games year

A1228. Get set to shine and flex?

A1230. Turn water into soda water

A1232. Mr. Fantastic’s real first name

A1234. Bunches of bunches

A1236. One Piece section

A1240. Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2001

A1241. Moments of agitation

A1242. German craft of WWII

A1243. It’s useful for those who have trouble getting up

A1244. Chain-of-command factor

A1248. ___ bone (no laughing matter, if you bang it)

A1249. Dostoevsky’s Myshkin, e.g.

A1250. Teen girls often write with multicolored ones

A1251. Space-exploring robots

A1252. Episc. title

A1253. Bit per second

A1254. More level

A1255. South side?

A1256. First Pope in a baker’s dozen

A1257. Setting firm boundaries with your kids, say

A1259. Relenting assent

A1260. Prepared to sink a three-pointer in the wastebasket

A1262. Purchase of an antique, e.g.

A1263. Spanx founder Blakely

A1265. Capri, per esempio

A1266. Smutch

A1268. Kraken, for one

A1269. Florally flavored fluid

A1274. Least responsive

A1276. Marketers who go out among the people

A1278. Patchwork spread

A1279. Painter or chemical process

A1280. Tom Dempsey didn’t have any on his kicking foot

A1281. Installed the values of adulthood in

A1282. “Did ___ tell you about the time…”

A1283. Former Heat star, familiarly

A1285. French yet unpretentious restaurant

A1286. Eric who founded a periodical “field guide to the emerging culture”

A1287. Turns in a board game

A1289. Song ends?

A1292. Fire starter, perhaps

A1295. Sound heard at a beach

A1298. Indian Ocean islander

A1302. Cooked to whiteness

A1305. Hill, on old TV

A1309. Movies neither blockbuster nor art-house

A1311. Live Search successor

A1313. Maryland governor Larry

A1315. Quizno’s and Schlotzsky’s

A1317. Wears a deep frown

A1319. Slim battery

A1321. Word on the street?

A1323. Form of discrimination

A1325. Poet of old

A1327. Make more snug, in a way

A1329. Cobbled-together

A1330. Save or Print, often

A1331. Water’s edge

A1333. 1980s US Davis Cup captain

A1334. Cinema villain resembling Fu Manchu

A1336. Iditarod participants

A1338. Place for a nostalgic walk

A1340. Collectively

A1341. Gerwig who directed Lady Bird

A1342. Attila’s guerillas

A1343. Parts of them are descending and thoracic

A1344. Bounds’ partners, in real estate

A1345. October 30, 1974, e.g.

A1346. Rapper Thee Stallion

A1348. Marshmallow treats

A1350. Sign of inactivity

A1352. Light, big stick at the bar

A1354. One in an order

A1356. Place to weave

A1358. Occupants’ expenditures

A1362. Uncoordinated dance group?

A1365. “Yes, ma’am,” in Madrid

A1369. Spelling and Kelly

A1370. Groundwork

A1371. Reading buddies?

A1372. Work that can mess with your circadian rhythms

A1373. Clinton the former president, not Clinton the should-have-been president

A1374. American composer Ned

A1376. Fortnite fight suits

A1378. Where shepherds take their flocks

A1380. Terrell with the good hands

A1382. Rock band flunky

A1384. Approval indication

A1386. Birds that waddle

A1388. Deviously clever plans

A1389. The first first lady with a doctorate

A1391. Shows amazement

A1393. Blunt as The Girl on the Train

A1395. Portuguese isle with volcanic scenery

A1397. Sugary breakfast

A1399. Keeps ticking

A1400. Fender flaw

A1401. Compacted coal

A1402. Excessively sentimental

A1403. Kit’s mitts

A1404. Central facial features

A1405. Children’s-tale bear

A1407. Campers put them under tents

A1409. Spurts of commotion

A1411. Restores, in a way

A1413. Ordered group of numbers in math

A1415. Feed pigs

A1417. One making a living by pushing drugs, informally

A1421. Denial that sometimes makes a tryst more irresistibly “forbidden”

A1422. Model Hadid with an on-brand first name

A1424. Bodybuilder Charles

A1425. Tries to catch shrimp, say

A1429. “Wordplay” vocalist, 2005

A1430. Benedictine, e.g.

A1431. Follows the party line?

A1432. Orlando role

A1433. Serve, in handball

A1434. Boosts in price

A1436. “Look how far ___ come!”

A1437. Co. structure that can shield one from losses

A1438. Geographical features that can be dire

A1440. Lawyer and accountant types, disparagingly (to my wife in accounting, I apologize for this clue)

A1442. Broke the limit

A1444. Party wear, for some

A1446. Class of battleship named for a country

A1448. Laundry quantity

A1450. Legal question

A1451. Influence beforehand

A1452. State of preparedness

A1456. Movie previews

A1458. Rather small

A1460. Unpolished

A1461. The Princess Bride’s Elwes

A1462. Smack a homer, say

A1463. Exhilarates

A1464. Salon styles

A1465. Nastier

A1466. Iditarod sight

A1467. Prolific producer of teen shows Schneider

A1469. Avails oneself of

A1471. Hit this body part too hard and you get a sound one letter off from it

A1473. Plant cutting

A1475. Frog feats

A1477. Singer-songwriter Keys

A1479. Drink or PDA

A1483. He didn’t get shafted; they gave his song an Oscar in 1971

A1485. NYC commuter rte.

A1486. Certain evergreen trees

A1487. Worker’s worry

A1488. How ___ the War (cynical 1967 parody)

A1490. Briefly put pen to paper, say

A1494. Hit on the head

A1495. Mocap king Andy

A1496. “Does it spark joy?” speaker

A1497. Cooperate with a photographer

A1498. Acrobatic fighter of kung-fu films

A1499. Not hold back, during poker

A1501. Figure out and classify

A1503. “That’s what they tell me, anyway”

A1505. Journalists’ legal tool

A1506. Leader of the Jabari, in Black Panther

A1508. Pot protector

A1510. Barr, ___, Ashcroft

A1512. Comics-inspired adult sci-fi that isn’t Heavy Metal

A1515. Sexual sicko

A1517. “It is ___ that a sort of grandeur creeps into it” (H.L. Mencken, slamming the prose of President Harding)

A1518. Opposite of “yippee!”

A1521. Pothole filling, e.g.

A1523. Droids, e.g.

A1524. Find a chair near

A1525. Gnu growths

A1526. Short jaunts

A1527. Gets points

A1528. Test lasting about 3 hours, 45 minutes

A1530. Good form

A1532. Musician whose last name is Chryssomallis

A1535. Offend the nose

A1537. “Bam!” chef

A1539. Take back merchandise

A1543. Holders of checked garments

A1544. Guernsey, for one

A1546. Help a vacationing friend, perhaps

A1547. Newfoundland, in Naples and Nogales

A1551. “Meant to Be” lead singer

A1552. Titan who tried to eat his problems

A1553. Cons’ quarters

A1555. Family groups

A1556. My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy

A1557. Tallahassee inst.

A1558. Low-end dog food brand

A1559. Tried out, at a car dealer

A1560. Catch, to Hamlet

A1562. Pull up stakes

A1564. Frat-party supplies

A1566. Locale of the Ile de la Cite

A1568. Elementary

A1570. “Football” team with famed Renaldo

A1571. Cars with gull-wing doors

A1572. Unwelcome shout

A1574. “We’re at capacity”

A1576. Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta’s Lee

A1578. Capturer of stadium smoochers

A1580. Sets right

A1582. Andrews sister who sang “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”

A1583. Agonizes (over)

A1584. Movie about a repair guy on a postapocalyptic Earth who meets a beautiful stranger that isn’t Oblivion

A1585. “Give it a ___!”

A1586. Nut kernels

A1587. Heading in cable TV listings not used as the name of the channel

A1588. Presidential also-ran in 1992 and 1996

A1589. Give ___: okay

A1590. Tuesday god

A1593. Zit’s trouble area

A1595. Slimy slowpoke

A1597. Intro to the mil.

A1599. Circus clown’s lifter

A1601. Midnight assembly of witches (var.)

A1605. Moor, sometimes

A1607. Apply, as paint

A1609. ___ crest: pelvis top

A1611. “Open the door for our guests, will ya?”

A1615. Puts forward as a fact

A1616. Regimen for the elderly, often

A1617. Rachel’s partner, like it or not

A1618. Private parts, euphemistically

A1619. Masters

A1623. Battle of Britain flying gp.

A1624. Colombo Mr.

A1626. Freezer-to-toaster treats

A1628. Goes a-courting?

A1630. Grocery or hardware retailer

A1632. “Hrmmm…”

A1634. Obvious

A1635. Plentiful and cheap

A1637. Crafts website

A1638. French tale, of old

A1640. “Done What You ___ Me to Do” (old dialecty song)

A1641. Mozart’s ___ pastore

A1642. Characters and series, legally, for short

A1643. Loses luster

A1645. “Straight Up” singer who later judged its cover

A1647. What melts them got more controversial than it should have in 2001

A1649. Has illusions?

A1650. What your download speed is in

A1651. Beanies and berets

A1652. Frugal sorts tighten theirs

A1653. School of humpbacks

A1654. Jazz man “Kid”

A1657. Was the first woman to reach her spot on the org chart

A1660. Big name in sleep aids

A1661. “Groovy, man!”

A1663. Feral pig

A1665. Overwhelms inboxes, perhaps

A1667. Make browner

A1670. Trampoline center

A1674. Khomeini’s title

A1678. Output from a folder?

A1679. Nickname for Wrigley Field hero Ernie Banks

A1680. Collections of muscles

A1681. Ark and barge

A1682. Affectionate bop

A1684. Powerful, often dramatic mutual mixed feelings

A1686. Abraham Lincoln was the most famous (and successful) one

A1688. Go-ahead, maybe

A1690. End purpose

A1692. Ga. school where I studied comics

A1694. Bacterial infection

A1696. Complete autonomy

A1697. Almond-flavored Italian biscuits

A1699. Drops behind

A1701. Tour de France sections

A1703. Take intravenously

A1705. Cut down the wait at a hospital, perhaps

A1707. Where work piles up

A1708. Follows up some hemming?

A1709. One of Kramer’s foils

A1711. Get an ___: ace, as a test

A1712. Word on a birthday card, even though all you did was not die for a year

A1713. God Help the Child author Morrison

A1714. Alpinists’ aids

A1717. Something you should get in writing

A1719. Order for 1-800-MATTRESS

A1721. Sedgwick in The Closer

A1723. “Your plane’s gonna crash!”

A1727. “Are you sitting down?” follower, often

A1729. Highlanders, today

A1730. Notorious Philistine collaborator

A1732. Game-prolonging move in pool

A1736. “My rock and my redeemer” preceder

A1737. Pez flavor

A1738. They may be tall

A1739. Once-hippieish artistic activity Gen Xers did in summer camp

A1741. Prepare for a second baby’s arrival

A1742. Pretty grim

A1743. Pharmacist’s abbr.

A1744. Like lava or magma

A1746. Puckish gp.?

A1747. GI grub

A1749. Some tuxedo fasteners

A1751. Place for vocational training, for short

A1753. Hit the hay, say

A1755. Like fairly high-quality investments

A1756. “La Isla ___” (Madonna)

A1758. “Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room” singer

A1760. Abbreviation in physics

A1762. Prairie oyster ingredient

A1765. Two by two

A1767. Pretty obvious observation

A1769. Get an A+

A1770. Zoom video chat need

A1771. Peels, as apples

A1772. Batfleck’s first name

A1773. [their error, not mine]

A1774. Gryffindor who founded Gryffindor House

A1775. Ctr. of thinking and reacting

A1777. Knavish conduct

A1780. Deely-bobbers

A1782. Leaks nosefluid

A1784. With “The,” horror film easily confused with The Fog

A1786. Fate of unusable tools

A1790. Order some babysitters have to issue

A1791. Prefix for “brewery”

A1792. Consoles from gaming’s early days

A1793. Dev of Slumdog Millionaire fame

A1794. Student of France?

A1795. Still gestating

A1796. Kind of boss

A1797. Construction lifts

A1799. Ultimatum retort

A1801. Actress Wray or Masterson

A1805. Tie on a board

A1806. Metallurgy fuel

A1807. “Don’t be such a baby!”

A1808. “The Bare Necessities” singer

A1810. He won 1965 Best Actor for playing twins

A1812. Firmly packed pilchard

A1814. Eye-catching designs in early-2020s fashion

A1815. Pseudotherapy with “auditors” and “pre-clears”

A1817. Subjects of moral debate

A1819. He ran, then ran from, Iran

A1821. Hardly long-distance runners

A1822. Ability lacked by landlubbers

A1823. Body parts that twinge when people see cute kids, or so it’s said

A1825. Mediterranean, e.g.

A1828. Org. looking for life

A1831. Glee star Lea

A1833. Pre-Google guide to website content

A1835. Sam Spade or Philo Vance

A1836. Fish swallowed by Monstro

A1837. “Done lecturing me?”

A1838. Shouting

A1839. She’s often considered most likely to succeed

A1840. Sponge alternative

A1842. Is rife (with)

A1845. Type of frozen dessert

A1847. Gemini, e.g.

A1849. Throwback’s condition

A1852. Frozen fruit-flavored snack

A1854. Startups’ start-me-up org.

A1855. 1990s Broadway play about Capote

A1859. Participated in an 8K

A1860. Camera wielder’s awards org.

A1862. Like some weekends

A1865. Place of perfect happiness

A1866. Relative of a Fig Newton

A1867. Picturesque scene

A1869. Joe who joined DNCE for some “Cake by the Ocean”

A1870. Like, hello, get with the times, grandpa

A1871. Für ___ (posthumous Beethoven composition)

A1872. Holder of basketball

A1874. Patron of impossible dreams

A1875. Krakow and Burnett onscreen

A1877. Lane of Man of Steel

A1879. Radarange and FabriCare maker

A1881. Cheerleaders’ finale, often

A1883. Org. with a number of British pounds

A1885. Cinderblock backyard building projects, for short

A1887. “Some nerve!”

A1889. May, for one

A1891. Coaxes out of the cold

A1893. Man-goat creatures

A1894. Hill of Hollywood?

A1895. Judah’s representative

A1896. Picture of the lunar surface

A1897. “The Global Stage for Innovation”

A1898. Be in Barcelona?

A1899. Chic or jaunty

A1903. Done with a wink, say

A1905. Copier

A1907. Times when it’s the heat and the humidity

A1910. Mrs., in Spain

A1911. Unlikely love-story protagonists

A1912. “Now it makes sense to me”

A1914. Waugh who wrote Brideshead Revisited

A1915. Climber’s spots

A1916. War-hero prez

A1918. Double helix component

A1919. Ferengi kid in middle-period Star Trek

A1920. Thousand pounds of force

A1929. Stop feeling it

A1930. Where electrons leave a charged device

A1938. Clerics’ council

A1940. Emphatic confirmation

A1947. Old-timey brothel-mistress

A1948. Oscar-winner Hanks

A1949. “What faults do I have? WHAT faults?” “___ take criticism a little personally sometimes”

A1950. Crowded, fun gathering

A1951. Observances of new releases

A1953. “Red, Ned, Ted, and Ed in bed” book

A1954. The Way We Live Now and The Warden author

A1955. More easygoing

A1956. CIS members, once

A1957. Dry cleaner’s concern

A1958. Reinhart of Riverdale

A1959. “The Way ___” (Hornsby)

A1960. “Me? Never!”

A1961. Pesky swarmer

A1962. Julia’s Notting Hill co-star

A1963. No. of lbs., e.g.

A1964. End of an architect’s name

A1965. Not hypothetical

A1966. Thompson of Thor movies

A1967. Patented vitamin variant

A1968. “Not every place you fit ___ where you belong”

A1969. Monique’s nix

A1971. Sandra and Ruby

A1972. Sparkling white from Piedmont

A1973. “If ___ my way…”

A1974. Ballplayer Enrique

A1975. I, for ex.

A1976. Blinken’s title (abbr.)

A1977. ERA or TDs

A1978. Tinseltown event

A1979. Singers Frank and Nancy

A1980. Ones with specialized esteem

A1982. Addiction of fifty-mile hikers

A1984. Libertines

A1986. Doorbell ringers’ response

A1987. Informal rejection

A1989. Steady companion?

A1992. Horrific Chaneys

A1993. Appending, as “esque” to “Eilish”

A1995. Type of financial inst.

A1996. Superman’s birth mom

A1997. Was awarded

A1999. “___ hot to handle

A2001. Org. of concern to Edward Snowden

A2002. Initials, maybe

A2004. Sony BMG once-rival

A2006. Bloke’s address

A2008. Hindu Destroyer (var.)

A2010. Angler Walton

A2013. Didn’t pay debts

A2015. “___ undersigned” (legal self-descriptor)

A2017. Romanized number for a bad gateway error

A2018. That other Pagliacci clown

A2019. Brought safely through the threshold

A2020. Frequent Picard and Janeway foes

A2024. Drops, as prices

A2031. Wickerwork strip

A2035. Seductress

A2037. Brought to court

A2039. Get ___ reading: consult one’s lifeline?

A2040. XXV x XXVIII

A2042. Roast a bit

A2043. Honor for Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber

A2044. Crab Nebula origins

A2045. Accra residents

A2047. Hurricane damage controller

A2048. Programs ranked by Forbes

A2049. Snakes who “dance” to battle for territory

A2050. Atlantic horse mackerels

A2051. Quixotic Quixote

A2053. Tests one’s mettle against

A2054. Urchin

A2055. Genre for James Bond or Austin Powers

A2060. Indication of time passing

A2061. “Meri Kuri” and “Only One” singer

A2062. “___ we meet again…”

A2064. Grizzly guy, in Granada

A2066. Actress Chong of Commando and Quest for Fire

A2068. Blue toons of film

A2070. 2003 health scare

A2072. “___ a snake, simple…”

A2075. Clue and Clerks

A2077. Ignore an alarm

A2078. “Live was ___ …” (palindrome starter)

A2079. Fashionable cashmere company

A2081. Reluctant to change

A2082. Carry-alls, for short

A2083. Fresh soldier

A2084. Out of the sea breeze

A2085. Rabbit ears, as they used to be called

A2086. A stockpile of it has the message: “What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger”

A2093. He taught Daniel-san

A2094. Without any help

A2095. Scuba diver’s burden

A2097. Totally out

A2099. Who piece that’s the B-side of A203-Down

A2100. What a person may become when kneeling

A2103. Spicy Asian snack morsel

A2105. Horse hockey

A2106. ___ sail (departs)

A2109. Earth’s star

A2110. “Open ___ 9”

A2111. Names names, briefly

A2112. Stones that evolved into money

A2113. Fizzling SFX

A2114. Offensive holiday?

A2115. Bygone Eur. realm

A2116. On, in Bonn

A2117. London, e.g., to a Londoner

A2118. Lad who loves the ladies, e.g.

A2119. Yucatan “yay!”

A2120. Bygone gov’t unit

A2121. Proto-Protestant Jan

A2122. “There’s an ___ for that”

A2123. Remark from Radar

A2124. Audible warning

A2125. Sue Grafton’s ___ for Evidence

A2126. Deer’s daughter

A2127. “Degree” for husband-hunting collegians

A2129. Style guide for the soft sciences

A2130. Huck, to Tom

A2131. Kaine of the Senate

A2132. “I’ll take that as ___”

A2133. First word of Mr. Rogers’ song

A2134. College hoops event, initially

A2135. Dept. that regulates explosives, though that’s not in its acronym

A2136. George W.’s degree

A2137. Tree or programming language

A2138. Kryptonian god in Superman comics

A2139. Place for the seriously injured, for short

A2140. Chu ___ (legendary Confucian sage)

A2141. 911 responder

A2142. “And water is ____” (reply to the obvious)

A2143. “It is my intent to…”

A2144. Singer Choppa or baseball division

A2145. Cheese it before the cops show

A2146. Variant Method?

A2147. Power brokers

A2150. “___ oui!” (“Certainment!”)

A2152. “O’ course!”

A2155. Top Gun’s top gun

A2158. Kind of noncom (abbr.)

A2159. WWII Treasury offering

A2160. Inspiring veneration

A2161. ___ virus (2016 scare)

A2162. Substitute

A2170. It’s quiet, almost…too quiet

A2172. Capture the interest of

A2174. Trickier to drive on

A2176. Moveon.org benefactor George

A2177. New Zealander avian no longer seen

A2180. Melted tar, e.g.

A2182. Like many name-changers on Facebook

A2183. Folk legends

A2184. Secured

A2185. Eliminate

A2191. Denounce

A2193. 2011 Toby Keith hit about drinking

A2195. Struck down

A2197. Egyptian god of vengeance

A2200. Ledger expert

A2201. French friar

A2202. 1989 World Series winners

A2203. Is exasperating to

A2204. Altar area

A2205. Iranian Peace Prize winner

A2209. Sends out again, as a recording of one’s show

A2211. Wild West hero

A2213. Twangy, as a voice

A2215. “You don’t say? Me too!”

A2216. Monster or river

A2217. Opposite of heter

A2219. Rolls up, as a sail

A2220. Jemima of canceled syrup (still lookin’ at you, Bessie of chitterlings)

A2221. Classic hit?

A2222. Surrealist Carrington

A2223. Apostrophe from a balcony

A2224. The latest word

A2225. NBC show for 40 years

A2226. Feels natural

A2227. Big cat often given an emotional support dog

A2228. Specialized group

A2229. Agronomist’s readings

A2230. Go for the eyes and the groin, e.g.

A2231. “The Dancing Couple” artist

A2232. Gasoline brand

A2233. They have flair

A2234. Anti-Spanish pope of the mid-1500s

A2235. ___ vivants (“those who live”)

A2236. Paula of comfort food and N-word controversies

A2237. The 180th meridian

A2238. For Better follower

A2239. Video game played on a Balance Board

A2240. Bit of a fight

A2241. Bk. that begins with a 180-day banquet

A2242. Scoundrels, old-style

A2243. Take ___: accept the veracity of

A2244. Ballads, e.g.

A2245. Natural black’s designation

A2246. Voting-map designation

A2247. Series with 3800+ lectures

A2248. Palindromic singer Hale (think about it)

A2249. Knots or knobs

A2250. Recurring icons in fiction

A2251. Big to-dos

A2252. Elvis’ middle name, sometimes

A2253. Moses of Beakman’s World, My So-Called Life, and Home Alone

A2254. Meander

A2255. Ambled with clumsiness

A2256. Key part of the Hippocratic oath

A2257. Wind spurt

A2258. ___ go (busy)

A2259. They say bad news comes in them

A2260. Keep from drifting away from

A2261. URL starter

A2262. Pretended to be someone else

A2263. Developing nations, collectively

A2264. Meet a poker bet

A2265. All work and no play

A2266. Spring break lead-in, often

A2267. Red-bus rides in Los Angeles

A2268. Enjoy just a touch of, as whiskey

A2269. Constellation south of the Hunter, with “the”

A2270. Unprincipled

A2271. Move in war

A2273. Darkman director Sam

A2275. Soapstone, predominantly

A2276. Georges who wrote Life: A User’s Manual

A2279. Almost alway

A2281. Rapunzel’s love in Tangled

A2282. “L8r g8r”

A2284. “The Flea” poet John

A2298. Spaghetti accompaniment

A2301. Gallic gloamings

A2303. Politician Phil who co-authored the ___-Leach-Billey Act

A2306. She played Bob Dylan

A2307. Star Trek character who speaks Swahili

A2308. Flea-bitten

A2309. Looney Tunes-esque

A2310. Farm that may have wheels

A2311. Duke of Normandy called “the Devil”

A2312. Graffiti artist name-checked in an Avengers film

A2316. As Poe might

A2318. Risqué or violent in the theater

A2322. Smallville’s aptly named theme song

A2323. Piece of ballet footwear

A2325. Writing in digital format

A2327. Name in sneakers and yoga wear

A2329. Montgomery of the Enterprise

A2331. The Originals’ original vampire-werewolf hybrid

A2332. Adventures in Babysitting star

A2334. About to, informally

A2335. ___ All Going to the World’s Fair

A2336. Discontinue

A2339. Sun Records colleague of Elvis

A2340. Hand drums similar to tambourines

A2341. Whom autograph hounds hound

A2343. Frauds

A2344. Makes big demands

A2346. “This spells disaster for me!”

A2350. Weiss better known as Harry Houdini

A2352. Cavern feedback

A2354. “I’d like to speak privately”

A2356. Khan of Islam

A2357. Stove heaters

A2358. The Tokyo Rose of World War II

A2359. Coordinate, with “up”

A2360. Vital elements in clockwork

A2361. Goliath-killer

A2362. Algebraic variables

A2363. “Another idea would be…”

A2364. Solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica

A2370. Speed of connection

A2376. Temptations Tasty Chicken Flavor, e.g.

A2378. Gives weapons, old-style

A2379. Language that gives us “jerky”

A2381. TV fugitives known for building montages

A2383. Annual Epsom race, with “The”

A2385. Melvin

A2387. Sprite’s flavor

A2388. Unstable lepton

A2389. Followers of els

A2391. German optical instrument designer

A2392. If a Burger King married one, would they live in a White Castle?

A2393. Orally give zero stars

A2398. Parody singer Yankovic

A2399. “Whatever…” (popularized but not invented by The Simpsons)

A2400. Veronica’s rival

A2401. “___ sana…”

A2402. Their last series championship was in 1986

A2403. Technology inside Kindles

A2405. End of ___ (the apocalypse, or what soap opera fans fear?)

A2407. “You know what I want to hear”

A2409. Tour for the troops

A2411. Influential

A2417. Unit of life or pizza

A2419. Bullied

A2421. World-weariness

A2424. Beauty-shop device

A2425. Hit the books

A2426. Dunkirk director

A2427. Director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

A2428. Loses all reason

A2429. Approach

A2430. Bar garnish

A2432. Actress Dennings

A2433. Designer Geoffrey who believed in comfortable women’s wear, like some kind of freak

A2434. Crockery, for example

A2435. “The Smoking Alternative”

A2436. Dance’s partner

A2438. Fad that could cause low blood pressure, kidney stones, constipation, nutrient deficiencies, or heart disease

A2440. Dressed (up)

A2442. P-precedent

A2444. Bounds of a manhunt

A2446. Place to see Il Trovatore

A2447. Alternative scenarios

A2449. “Are you quivering yet?”

A2451. Spitting mount

A2453. Way off base?

A2455. Phone service provider, for short

A2458. Down to Earth host Zac

A2459. G.I. fare

A2460. Scheduled to arrive at

A2461. Little ragdolls

A2465. Airport pizza franchise

A2466. Pulsed-laser sensing system

A2467. Mule and gal of song

A2468. NASCAR threepeater Yarborough

A2470. “Headlight”

A2472. Soft castle-building substance

A2474. Marte of the Diamondbacks

A2476. Pirate, stereotypically

A2481. Style that introduced isorhythm

A2483. Point of departure

A2485. Ham’s pop

A2487. What an eye for an eye makes the world, per Gandhi

A2490. Reposition, as tires

A2491. 2001 Eminem hit from “The Marshall Mathers LP”

A2492. Tree-hero of Marvel

A2493. “I know it’s hard, but don’t give in”

A2494. Catholic organization of controversial purpose

A2495. Enter, as a crowd

A2496. Got in the crosshairs

A2498. Brief incursion

A2499. Tired eyes’ decorations

A2500. With “bear,” protective parent

A2502. Likely young hires for a finance dept.

A2504. Levittown, in relation to NYC

A2506. Wisconsin ___ (scenic area)

A2509. Cage-themed Michael Bolton song

A2511. Old-timey color container

A2512. Symbol of contrasting principles

A2514. Spooky

A2516. Placed

A2518. Future law student’s exam

A2520. Dress designation

A2521. “No one but me can claim credit”

A2522. Things opened by many employees, for short

A2523. Dancers’ dresses

A2524. Bill Clinton’s Attorney General

A2528. Heroine with eidetic memory

A2529. “Sure, but ___ much”

A2530. Tender strokes

A2531. Tom Hardy supervillain

A2532. Makes a statue from a block

A2533. Not obvious

A2534. So-o-o KYOOOT!

A2536. 2010 Ringo Starr album whose title asks a question

A2538. Yard-sale tag

A2540. Simon Pegg zombie-fighter role

A2542. Lascivious

A2547. “Works for me!”

A2549. Staub specialty

A2550. Difficult journey

A2552. Son of Shem and a region where Aleppo now stands

A2553. That, to Tomas

A2554. Parimutel and parlay

A2556. Joan Crawford’s rival

A2557. TV personalities Passante, Glanville, and Redmond

A2558. Variety meats

A2559. See red?

A2561. ___ at (comes on to)

A2562. Like Letterman’s show

A2563. College rating exams for HS srs.

A2564. “Man, I do not even want to go there”

A2565. Halfway through a stage routine

A2567. Be a henchman

A2569. Bronx and Central Park attractions

A2571. Without identification

A2574. He “resembles a furry watermelon with legs,” per the Minnesota Zoo

A2576. “Ma’am” from fedora-clad tryhards

A2577. Bit of cocoa?

A2579. Maraud

A2582. When repeated, a dolphinfish

A2584. Go brunette, say

A2586. Wing, e.g.

A2587. They can be full of falafel

A2588. High-tech time meas.

A2592. Sonny can’t think straight about them

A2593. Smoker’s toothpaste of old

A2594. Recycled items

A2595. Blue ones matter most on the weekend

A2596. Bedroom eyes, e.g.

A2597. Indian police clubs

A2599. Long tale of adventure

A2601. 1899 combatant

A2603. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon ___, you don’t say ‘What kind’…” (Neil Gaiman)

A2605. Hot water-espresso mixes

A2610. Get the highest score, in golf

A2612. Mal ___ (seasickness)

A2614. Simba’s coif

A2617. Acacia or tulip

A2618. Fruit-named part of Costa Rica

A2619. Contemplative statement in Charlie Chan movies

A2620. “What say, Jose?”

A2621. Signs of peers’ esteem

A2622. Sandwich order

A2624. Get in one’s sights

A2625. Mauna Loa flow

A2626. Impertinent talk

A2627. Jeep’s modern kin

A2628. Jeff, “Flying Squirrel” of the Mets

A2630. Word after hard or soft

A2632. Big print-up job

A2634. Make ___ of it: “play” an ordinary task to “win”

A2637. Pronounces “historic” correctly

A2639. German woodcuts “Apocalypse” and “Rhinoceros”

A2640. Where Sherlock Holmes disappeared

A2642. Unclothed

A2644. Draw new borders for

A2646. Union/mgmt. watchdog

A2649. Dixie Chicks, for one

A2650. “Oho!” and “Aha!”

A2651. What to do with one’s loins? ___ them

A2655. Walking free

A2656. Pickets outside a house?

A2657. Cowgirl Evans

A2658. Spread on my burgers that some people are weird about

A2659. Like a hair shirt

A2660. Mix socially

A2662. Most August birthday boys

A2664. Knives Out director (and crossword fan) Johnson

A2666. Like many an embarrassing flub

A2668. With more of a need to make an impression

A2673. Top spot in a Koln countdown

A2675. Domingo or Pavarotti

A2677. Frankenstein aide

A2678. Short, stocky horse

A2679. British/Chinese banking giant

A2680. Government levy

A2682. It charges the goal, for short

A2683. Fact-refuser

A2684. Satirical writer P.J.

A2685. Ancient Roman magistrate (var.)

A2686. Agrees to wed

A2688. da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM

A2689. Pathfinder’s planet

A2690. Blackballs

A2691. Cartoonist who created Mr. Natural

A2693. National capital since 1991

A2695. Time for “Silver Bells,” casually

A2697. “Goldarn it!”

A2699. Build a relationship with, with sinister intent

A2701. Mariner’s top?

A2703. No harder

A2704. Bike pedal attachment

A2706. Hawkeyes, statewise

A2708. Improv a line or two

A2711. With two quarters to go

A2712. Second-guesses, maybe

A2713. Pt. of RSV

A2715. Between, quaintly

A2716. She sang “She’s Got You”

A2717. Common greetings

A2722. Overpraises

A2723. Landlocked Southeast Asian country

A2724. Better eating through organic chemistry

A2725. Whirlpool alternative

A2727. Levi’s feature

A2729. Gets down with a knife and fork

A2731. Cornfield chorus

A2732. Brain-wrapping membranes

A2737. Pie chart part

A2739. How to travel 1980s New York

A2741. Rushing sound

A2744. Gets blitzed

A2745. “Don’t try to be ___”

A2746. Amyl nitrate

A2747. Plywood layer, perhaps

A2748. Villain in The Ten Commandments

A2749. Finishes given bronze medals

A2750. World leader’s choice for the job

A2754. Containers with taps

A2755. Ron Burgundy’s terrier mix

A2756. Newspaper bios

A2757. Texter’s response to a hilarious joke

A2758. Loud, like a crowd

A2760. Troi portroier

A2762. Where to view Top Gear and MI-5, with “the”

A2767. Source of Gotterdammerung

A2769. Chevron’s place

A2770. Layered dessert

A2772. You or me to an ET

A2774. Motivated to succeed

A2776. Oscar winner Almodovar

A2778. Utter failure

A2780. Costeau’s gear

A2781. Used frugally

A2782. Takes one’s sweet time

A2786. Disunions

A2787. Signs of agreement online, for short

A2788. It’s legally wrong

A2789. Apiphobe’s worry

A2790. Like outer temperature

A2791. Droid with a holoprojector, informally

A2792. Dressing server

A2794. Graduation-cap attachment

A2796. Mulch material

A2798. Beans high in protein

A2800. Pre-syrup

A2801. Dickens character raised to torment men

A2806. Something often read when angry?

A2808. “Romanian Rhapsodies” composer

A2810. Fast-tempo jazz composition

A2813. Dotted data patterns

A2814. Uses, with “oneself of”

A2815. Of few words

A2816. Postage to Packers, e.g.

A2817. Cards Against Humanity judge

A2818. Covers with

A2820. Ovine yells

A2821. Links warning

A2822. Made doilies

A2823. Fairly worn

A2824. Started a date

A2826. City with Gateway Pk. near the Colorado River

A2828. Melancholy sound

A2830. Mendel subjects

A2833. Region roughly synonymous with the Black Belt

A2835. Common sight in 20th-century glove compartments

A2836. First ruler of the house of Hanover

A2838. Departed restaurant chain that hosted the “Ultimate Couch Potato Competition”

A2839. Jetties that prevent shoreline erosion…or cause it, depending on their design

A2841. The Thinker sculptor

A2842. Mythical husband of Sita

A2843. Baby Driver actor Ansel

A2847. Finale cast events

A2848. Followers of many breakdowns

A2849. Achieve consciousness

A2850. Osculated

A2851. Card con

A2852. Knock on, as a door

A2854. Spoke in all caps

A2856. Debt-dependent claim

A2858. Oklahoma fort

A2860. Crucial circulation

A2865. Is disrespectful verbally

A2867. “I ___ the opinion…”

A2868. Cool-edged Coolidge, for short

A2870. Spread, as a forest fire

A2872. Missouri MLBer

A2873. What fans did over a sold-out show’s wall

A2874. Using long sentences with many twists and an emphasis on memory

A2876. Raised road markers

A2877. “Study says horse dewormer cures COVID” or “Experts determine global warming is not human-related,” e.g.

A2878. Inventor of the GPU

A2879. Ignes ___ (marsh lights)

A2881. Thief, in Yiddish

A2883. Yellow Teletubby with a curly antenna

A2885. Stopped pedaling downhill

A2887. Satirically imitated

A2890. Shoulder blade muscles

A2892. Naturally grown, as foods

A2893. Half an artist’s surname

A2896. Dress features

A2899. Degs. for unmarried experimenters?

A2901. Cable co., often

A2902. Sings sentimentally

A2903. “The Letter” group

A2907. Major emergencies

A2908. Nautical beam

A2909. Cantankerous old curmudgeon

A2910. One with a lease

A2911. Take care of

A2913. Internet provider

A2915. Snatch, so to speak

A2917. Years of Caesar’s reign

A2919. Trumpet effect

A2921. Starfleet officer played by LeVar

A2926. Apia natives

A2928. In back

A2930. Toronto-Ottawa dir.

A2932. Browser extensions, e.g.

A2933. TV’s Life with Father” star

A2934. What drop-in visitors may claim to have been in

A2935. Request at the deli

A2936. Pretentiously imposing

A2938. Unlike many a dorm room

A2939. Shylock’s offering

A2940. Turn out badly, like a relationship

A2941. Canines with corded coats

A2942. Nickname for ballplayer Musial and writer Lee

A2943. First “T” in TNT

A2944. Founder of two automobile companies

A2946. Mo-nay

A2948. Tropical trees with big seedpods

A2950. “Way to go…”

A2952. “Which goes without saying,” colloquially

A2955. “Going my way?”

A2957. Pelicans group

A2958. “But wait, there’s more!”, e.g.

A2960. Greek wines

A2962. Post office machine

A2965. “Old Man of the Sea” in Homer

A2966. Hub fastener

A2970. Sci-fi subgenre featuring Victorian-era technology

A2971. In comparison with

A2972. Buttigieg’s predecessor

A2973. Character name in Sex and the City, Hair, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A2974. Fertile colony member

A2975. Police dist.

A2976. Manhattan’s station

A2978. The Day After subject, for short

A2980. Founder of pointillism

A2982. Herding dog’s name

A2984. Game not ready for prime time

A2986. Try to lose

A2991. Frozen setting

A2993. Not keeping cool

A2994. Bedroom producer’s genre

A2995. Longtime Drew Barrymore buddy Cameron

A2996. Motto shared by New York and Marvel

A2998. Cult stars

A2999. China’s Chiang

A3000. Warren Beatty flop of 1987

A3001. It covers how processing speed increases

A3003. Disney film starring Jeff Bridges

A3004. Gets to go to Washington

A3005. English farmers

A3006. City northeast of Genoa

A3007. Boris Johnson’s predecessor

A3008. Striped top

A3010. “Love Can Build a Bridge” singer Judd

A3012. Mil. VIP

A3013. “___ it up” (“Finish it”)

A3014. Lowest part of a mine

A3017. Adds to a set of alternates

A3019. Spot not quite good enough to show?

A3020. Cause-effect interval

A3022. All riled up

A3025. Diplomatic deceptions

A3026. Watercolors’ alternatives

A3027. Two before LBJ

A3029. Large geese

A3030. Tin-lead mixes

A3034. BBQ hot dog’s alternative

A3035. Join in a molecule (to)

A3038. Have dinner around

A3039. Gastropub menu items

A3041. London booties

A3043. Sneak (away), as in shame

A3047. Queen who played hockey for Princeton

A3048. Wide open town of yore

A3053. Costner T-man role

A3055. Win love for

A3058. Tussle with grabbily

A3059. “That stinks!”

A3060. Allow renters to own their apartments

A3061. Singer played by Jennifer Lopez

A3062. 1987 Woody All--er--let’s say Seth Green movie

A3064. Take a deduction

A3065. Big fads

A3066. King of kidlit

A3067. They ain’t team players

A3068. Preserve again

A3069. Short of the mark

A3071. Inter-island passage

A3073. Muzzle loader’s aid

A3075. She’s like a Katniss who dies at the end

A3078. Number of pips on a die

A3080. “23 ___!”

A3081. Cool color?

A3083. Brett’s Court predecessor

A3085. Share top billing

A3087. Primitive cross

A3091. Word before dog or schooner

A3093. Jethro Gibbs show

A3094. TV personality Caitlyn

A3095. Crescent moon horns

A3096. Biblical oasis

A3099. Pilgrim portrayer

A3101. Item of emergency preparedness

A3103. Put firmly under control

A3105. Stock exchange?

A3108. Words accompanying a head slap

A3113. Tiny complaint

A3116. Frequently punned-about herbivores

A3117. Justin Bieber’s genre

A3118. Eventually inspire

A3119. “Abso-freakin’-lutely!”

A3121. Municipal law enforcers (abbr.)

A3122. My phone has 465

A3123. Last of the leptons to be found

A3124. Tea container

A3125. Sets up with flat indentations

A3126. Pillbox quantities

A3127. Alaskan seaport

A3128. New England souvenir

A3130. “___ something I said?”

A3132. Swam like a beginner

A3134. They need to go back and forth to work

A3136. Form of Japanese drama

A3138. Stabilizer for movie shooters

A3140. Gets a promotion

A3141. It started on June 18, 1971, with a note by Nixon

A3143. Make angry

A3145. Rhyme scheme of “Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow…”

A3146. Swisher called “Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech journalist”

A3151. Rough rendering

A3152. “I’m such a klutz!”

A3153. Like a sauté, but with bigger chunks

A3154. Glasses retailer ___ Parker

A3155. Singer-drummer Collins

A3158. Produced, as cackleberries

A3160. “___ change you want to see in the world”

A3162. King in Medea and founding father of Athens

A3164. Like the best kind of bill

A3166. Greets someone with more than a nod

A3172. Short-billed bird

A3174. Snick-or -___

A3175. Get dressed (up)

A3176. Big name in chips

A3177. Early Greek deity who fathered--STOP THAT LAUGHING

A3178. How to download many images at once

A3179. Remarkable

A3180. Like Henry VIII’s Catherine

A3182. “you broke me first” singer McRae

A3183. Electrical capacitance units

A3184. Most stolen book in the world, despite what it specifically says

A3185. Difficult tasks

A3186. Haut ___

A3187. Bombeck and Franklin

A3188. Church decorators and bellringers

A3190. Little fish

A3192. “Oh, this clue is going to [VERB] [PLURAL NOUN]? How [SYNONYM FOR CLEVER]!”, e.g.

A3194. “No ___” (“Sure!”)

A3197. Copiers

A3199. Right-angled irons

A3200. Wayne Gretzky, to many NFL fans

A3202. “All set here, thanks”

A3204. NNE and WSW

A3206. RB’s units

A3208. Tree animal, for short

A3209. They might hear, “Take a picture; it’ll last longer!”

A3213. Short, short shorts

A3214. Explorer and Pathfinder

A3215. Some steak preparers

A3216. Let oneself be traded

A3217. After-work gathering sites

A3221. One of the Pleiades

A3223. Philosopher known for his “razor”

A3225. Capital of Dominica

A3227. Hindu misters

A3229. Like a dreamcatcher

A3234. Full of sand

A3236. Bass or C

A3239. Where sweaters hang?

A3240. Send (for)

A3241. “Don’t worry, I can handle it”

A3242. Oslo Accords signatory

A3243. Big name in athletic wear

A3245. Sunk cost fallacy, e.g.

A3246. Cashews’ kin

A3247. Sainted “roi”

A3248. Bonnie or Clyde

A3249. Descartes and Magritte

A3251. Tweak margins

A3252. Chemical that keeps film from developing too quickly or foggily

A3254. Sites with many contributors

A3256. Textron Aviation brand 87 years older than Textron

A3258. Johann Olav who set three skating records and won three gold medals

A3261. “Father of History”

A3263. Enlist

A3264. Tribbiani on Friends

A3266. Tiny birds eaten illegally on Billions

A3268. Planetarium display

A3270. Any minute now

A3271. Coupled

A3275. Don’t dawdle

A3276. “How does Google protect my privacy and keep my information secure?” and “Why is my account associated with a country?” on Google

A3277. Living in communities

A3278. Elf freed by a sock

A3279. Indianapolis pro

A3281. Sight-impeding irritations

A3282. Hebrew prophet (abbr.)

A3283. Lily and crocus

A3286. Tree outgrowth

A3288. Misleads on the ice

A3290. Three-toed wading birds

A3292. Shot in one’s gallery

A3294. Genetic feature Charlie Sheen claimed during his meltdown

A3299. Pith helmet

A3301. Bowflex exercise

A3302. Yr.’s 1/3 mark

A3303. Lie on a flat surface and glide

A3304. Beings with bipedal, two-armed forms

A3305. What a skull poster at a theater advertises

A3306. Sniffle or cough

A3307. Offer counsel

A3308. Cost-to-you indications

A3310. “What ___!” (“Incredible $aving$!”)

A3311. Cell projection

A3312. Movement from Cuba?

A3313. Boat carrier, at times

A3314. Worrisome kind of bed-wetting

A3315. Gets madder and madder

A3316. Got more for the syndication dollar

A3318. Make English again

A3319. Small white gems

A3321. “Try to ___ my way”

A3322. Warm greetings from the real American west

A3324. Barn neighbor

A3327. One helping with servings

A3329. Chat session

A3330. Duck tape or “You’ve got another think coming!”

A3332. Provide an adequate living

A3334. On and off

A3335. Mini-golf stroke

A3336. Timeline divs.

A3338. Dust-sucking devices, for short

A3342. Neolithic period

A3343. Congenital

A3344. It separates two boxers

A3346. Ireful mood

A3348. Doesn’t continue

A3349. Tannin source

A3352. Detective-fiction name

A3355. Lines to be memorized

A3357. Frank Herbert bestseller

A3359. Lost all inhibitions

A3364. Tribe of Sonora

A3367. Pugilist’s ploy

A3368. Part of an NFLer’s schedule

A3369. Hottest, for gossipers

A3370. Home mortgage provider, informally

A3372. “I don’t want the world to see me” song

A3373. Forage areas

A3374. Thin, tall, and awkward

A3375. Collectible containers

A3376. Stores with a blue-and-yellow logo

A3377. Offensive terms

A3378. Windows 95 incorporated it

A3380. Tages lead-in

A3381. Amplifying via social media

A3383. Reed instruments

A3385. Big bear

A3387. Fashions a frock

A3389. Reflecting light most enchantingly

A3391. Chastises verbally

A3392. Latin lover’s declaration

A3394. On automatic

A3397. Citi rival

A3401. Personal designs tapping keyboards?

A3402. Tesla car with a 17-inch touchscreen

A3403. Changes of duties, raises, promotions, demotions, et cetera

A3404. Soul food side dish

A3406. Do things to impress, say

A3408. Crave customer satisfaction

A3411. “What we’ve never really been good ___ teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work” (Andrew Ng)

A3413. Pago Pago locale

A3415. Unfair flak

A3417. Grew canines

A3422. Catcall? (var.)

A3424. Film about rock groups?

A3425. Flight support?

A3426. Toon series spun off from a movie’s what-if dream sequence

A3428. Name preceder on an envelope

A3429. “Heaven forbid!”

A3430. A.J. Soprano portrayer

A3431. German port city where Wolfgang Petersen was born

A3432. Shoe-manufacturing “three stripes company”

A3434. Slide walkers (var.)?

A3436. (Une) tentative

A3437. Enters stealthily

A3439. Muslim ascetics

A3441. Abdominal anomaly

A3444. Sorceresses

A3446. Maid of Orléans, to Caths.

A3447. Dozing for twenty minutes or so

A3449. Timex alternative

A3454. E-flat soundalike

A3455. Hoffman of The Graduate and Rain Man

A3456. Eagles and double eagles

A3457. Blue Jackets’ Max

A3459. Big time?

A3460. Betrayer

A3461. Util. a blackout blacks out

A3462. Model pitch?

A3464. Forewarning, of a kind

A3466. ___ Welt (Berliner’s New World)

A3468. Units ready for combat, for short

A3470. Base reply?

A3472. “Aw, shoot, a rerun”

A3478. Sector for the first witch Dorothy killed

A3479. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

A3480. First four-time Indy winner

A3481. Plant with colorful flower clusters

A3482. College prep course teaching the three branches

A3483. Posthumous Kafka novel

A3485. Without skill

A3486. Could’ve done worse, could’ve done better

A3487. Local-ish governing bodies

A3488. “Do you find the ___ happening to you?” (You, too?)

A3490. Extremely, in 1970s slang

A3491. Baja babes

A3494. Director of My Dinner with Andre

A3495. Incentivized alcoholic escape

A3497. “___ New, Pussycat?” (WHOA-A-WHOA-A-WHOA-OH-OH)

A3499. Do-it-yourself floor covering

A3502. “Hm. THAT was unexpected”

A3504. Stain on an artist’s smock

A3505. Sealed-up fodder

A3507. Morality rooted in self interest

A3508. Screen pass pursuers

A3514. London strollers

A3515. Hiring assistants

A3516. ___ Judgment

A3517. “…and when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said / It’ll be ___ time in the old town tonight”

A3519. Exams for future tycoons

A3520. Puts on a tilt

A3521. Viola of How to Get Away with Murder and The Help

A3523. “And ___ that sincerely”

A3526. Unidentified poster

A3528. It takes up to 10 yrs. to mature

A3530. Square-dancing circle

A3532. Underperform

A3539. Check for a poker player?

A3540. Those who try to find “the way”

A3541. Coca-Cola brand

A3542. “Only those who ___ fail greatly…” (Robert Kennedy)

A3544. Kvetch about

A3545. Math whiz Time called “the oddball’s oddball”

A3546. They’ll draw out quarters

A3547. Paul or Lloyd of Cooperstown

A3548. Certain century plants

A3549. Dullards

A3550. Printing process, briefly

A3551. Takes a gamble at the table

A3553. Cop ___: negotiate in court

A3554. Bathroom activity

A3556. Nelly or Jessica of golf

A3558. Globetrotters’ home

A3561. Stands in for

A3563. Apt name for a gardener

A3564. Exciting hand in Crazy Eights

A3566. Between the jejunum and the cecum

A3568. Instruction for repeated musical pattern

A3572. Cover completely

A3573. Certain vessel

A3574. Merchandise traded in piles

A3575. Pronoun phased out of everyday speech by now

A3577. Shower, for one

A3581. 2010s Secretary of Education who said in 1997, “My family is the biggest contributor of soft money to the Republican National Committee. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right”

A3584. One nautical mile per hour

A3586. 1970s, dance-wise

A3588. Thickets

A3590. State of uneasiness

A3595. What streaming services offer many of the latest theatrical releases for

A3596. Mama bear, in Malaga

A3597. Snapchat rival

A3598. Not all there?

A3599. More muscular

A3600. Search parties?

A3601. Alcatraz, e.g. (abbr.)

A3602. Feel attraction to

A3604. “Just a bloody second…!”

A3605. Aliens on Mars, maybe

A3606. Would-be lovers

A3607. Brusquely encouraged to enter

A3608. Miss with powerful sadness

A3609. They require you to read the fine print

A3612. What cacklers are in

A3613. Get ___ (exterminate)

A3615. Church custodians

A3616. Good Omens co-creator Neil

A3618. Quill cutter, once

A3620. Widely revered Babylonian king

A3623. Gradually enters

A3625. Matter of retaliation

A3626. Once a neutral zone between West Germany and other nations

A3628. Pacino danced it in Scent of a Woman

A3629. “To be clear, this is verbatim”

A3630. Inhabitant of the bottom of the org chart

A3631. Barbarella extras, for short

A3635. Core muscles

A3636. Servers at ‘60s A&W drive-ins

A3637. Object of ogling

A3638. Daphnean

A3640. Flame retardant acid

A3642. The Palins, before the move and divorce

A3643. Test control

A3644. Makes the line longer, so to speak

A3645. For goods or services only

A3647. Fluttering around

A3649. Till now

A3652. Shorts go-with

A3654. Mementos of the 50th?

A3656. Frequent experiment subjects

A3658. “Oh…OH!”

A3663. State fair contest cry

A3664. Group of PC gurus

A3665. “My lips ___ sealed”

A3666. Invite your guests here to make them feel like British royals

A3667. Wee animule

A3668. “Who ___ that masked man?”

A3669. Credit as an inspiration

A3670. Pillsbury pizza rolls

A3671. “I use my ____ my weapon, the fight becomes the story” (Anon.)

A3672. News feed on Peacock

A3673. Teen temping at times

A3675. Noncontending pleas, for short

A3677. Heavenly streakers

A3679. Ointments

A3680. Bore witness to

A3682. It might end with “LIVE FROM NEW YORK…”

A3684. “I ___ drink”

A3686. ___ -Z: complete

A3687. Give a lecture to

A3688. “Absolutely, positively not!”

A3691. Sword-thrusting one

A3694. Makes soundless

A3695. In a fitting manner

A3696. Facilitate, so to speak

A3698. Pulled out of a streak, homophonically

A3699. Anna of the Scary Movie films

A3700. Cobbler, for example

A3701. Sci. paper

A3703. One who made their fortune in India

A3705. Rae Sremmurd, e.g.

A3708. More than some

A3710. Invalids

A3712. Madcap comedies

A3716. Lifeless expanse

A3720. Kagan appointer

A3721. Shade makers

A3722. Dim ___: traditional Chinese food

A3723. Make more gender-enlightened

A3724. Hope one shall

A3725. Harper Valley org.

A3726. E-mail recipient, e.g.

A3728. Conclude with

A3729. Bête___: bugbear

A3730. The Ambassadors author

A3731. Culp Hobby, first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and first director of the Women’s Army Corps

A3732. Does some workout tasks

A3734. Rifle steadier

A3736. Was talented

A3738. Jackson and Puente

A3740. Seneca Falls Convention organizer Lucretia

A3741. “THUD”-like onomatopoeia

A3743. Apply, as a pie to the face

A3745. Press these for hard copies

A3747. “Quit ___ stallin’!”

A3748. Smurf modifier

A3749. Birds with only three toes

A3752. A, in Deutschland

A3753. [How can I get out of answering this one?]

A3754. Peter Parker’s foe Octavius

A3755. Plant growth

A3756. Unlikely Lhotse sighting

A3757. Indonesian isle

A3758. Wonder Woman’s best friend, in some versions

A3760. AOL and MSN, in the old days

A3761. Interstate abbr.

A3762. Mutant with flame powers who didn’t think too hard about his codename

A3763. Toyoda of Toyota

A3764. “Others,” in scientific papers

A3765. Prefix with “plane” or “space”

A3767. Canterbury can

A3768. Yukon and Sierra

A3771. Supernatural entity Yaga

A3773. Makes a typo, e.g.

A3775. Herbicide’s target

A3776. NRA pt.

A3777. “K bai”

A3779. Pup-tent capacity

A3780. Feature of the Buckingham Palace grounds

A3781. Division word

A3783. Infoman airer

A3784. Homer’s outcome

A3785. Radioactive

A3786. Prized athlete, for short

A3788. Queen in folklore

A3791. Sparks of old films

A3794. Inuit knife

A3795. Start of a lover’s threesome

A3796. Response to a joke, maybe

A3797. Related, to Jethro

A3800. Frank Ocean song with great vocal delivery?

 

Stitches Across

A260-B199. Because she’d be hurt otherwise

A563-B499. Discussion of periods, inequality, and when to pluck nipple hair, probably

A863-B765. Sarcasses at

A1157-B1084. Display of one’s kind-hearted nature

A1466-B1399. Stunt women

A1655-B1574. Get figured

A1774-B1676. Item nine out of ten prescriptions are for

A2156-B2005. Part of a musical kit

A2583-B2427. Getting pretty hot and heavy, in slang

A2777-B2616. Feature on my last car when I bought it from the junkyard (seriously)

A3205-B3027. Times for which some pleasures are reserved

A3506-B3290. “Have I offended?”

A3799-B3602. “Not over our budget, right?”

 

Stitches Down

A3598-F1. Pessimist's quaff

A3720-F4. Republican who flipped in the big '08 vote

A3724-F8. Won't be happy till you're happy

A3785-F12. Menopause sign

A3669-F16. Rightly deserve

A3730-F20. There's a day dedicated to re-creating one of his novels

A3647-F30. Ornithopter feature

A3736-F34. Intended harm to

A3708-F38. Capitalist's wish

A3620-F42. "Eye for an eye" source

A3623-F46. Takes on duties one by one

A3716-F50. Homes to cartoon shipwreck victims