Ubercross Abecedaria F

Across

F1. Some significant others, in IMs

F4. Dressed up

F8. Trick, in Scotland

F12. Attracted to, with “of”

F16. Ices, so to speak

F20. Many unedited photos online

F24. Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard

F30. Give a beatin’ to

F34. Brookings, for one (abbr.)

F38. Addressee in “Bohemian Rhapsody”

F42. Apply a stroke

F46. Keep ___ on: stay mum about

F50. “One ___ land…”

F54. Citation specifier

F56. Cardio workout choice

F61. Prepare for a bodybuilding contest, maybe

F63. Marrakesh morsel

F66. Monster’s hangout, or so it’s said

F67. Air traffic control gp.

F70. Rafer of the NBA and streetball

F72. Capital of Japan, to Commodore Perry

F75. Counterpart of jour

F76. Wee, in Glasgow

F79. They’re worth 100 ore each

F81. They have dreams for their lives

F83. Pfizer drug

F85. Through, on some airline itineraries

F88. Had a little something

F91. Like “boob tube toons”

F95. Flows like Flo Rida

F98. Medium-dark blue

F100. Site of North Africa’s largest medina

F103. Infuriated

F105. Bon mot

F108. Take to the airport, say

F111. Football team leader

F112. Smoker’s lung cancer or asbestos-related tumor

F116. Death Star or Infinity Gauntlet, e.g.

F119. ___’acte (between-acts performance)

F120. “Apparently not” or “Apparently not…”

F123. So fast you may’ve missed it

F126. Where you might see a giant Snoopy

F129. 2022’s cites four eclipses

F133. Without authorities’ approval

F135. Dessert/breakfast baked with overripe fruit

F136. Puts together from pieces

F138. Weapons in The Princess Bride

F140. Error-free performance goal

F142. Its patron is St. Hallvard

F143. Samuel Taylor who wrote, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree”

F145. Slug or snail

F146. Barnacles’ class

F148. Takes off some weight

F149. In need of food and sleep, moodwise

F151. Passed responsibility for

F152. Lebanon-born, Oxford-educated Clooney

F154. Cars that aren’t gas guzzlers

F155. Blocks that interlock

F156. “Jes’ think….”

F157. Like indigo and no other color of the rainbow

F158. Sommer of And Then There Were None

F159. How to set a thermostat in winter

F160. Dirty trick

F161. Standard

F162. Chocolate and creme cookies

F163. West, Largo, and such

F164. Lack of any sense

F165. Clerics who confer

F166. They refreshed early football players

F167. Brevity

F168. Crew member doubling as an ocean activist

F169. Certain NCOs

F170. Weapon available at the Sharper Image

F172. “___ go, not toward or away” (Fiona Apple song “___ Go”)

F173. Upstate NY engineering sch.

F174. Otherworldly

F176. Makes shiny and smooth

F178. Bouvier ___ Flandres

F179. Pumper’s pride, perhaps

F180. Leibniz’s differential variables

F181. Prove wrong

F183. Fun fight

F186. Sunscreen stats

F190. IBM product of 1983

F194. Least numerically impressive

F200. Brand near the Sanka

F204. Opera for the masses

F208. Purple-mohawked pig-man

F213. Pre-work before the ambulance arrives

F217. Nameberry calls this “a perfect name…for a French poodle”

F221. Blossom, in Barcelona

F225. Least functional

F231. Body part where some hairstyles end

F235. Great Lakes hunting boat

F239. Working well

F245. Column-lined pedestrian way

F249. Inexorable end

F253. Clean up a speech?

F255. Contents of a closet

F259. Twelve-hour

F263. The Bulldog of Yale

F266. Stalin’s real first name

F267. ___ Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969 film)

F268. What it’d fetch in a fair market

F270. Request at a ticket window

F272. Threaded metal fastener

F273. In ___: doing boring work

F274. Orthodox Church official

F276. Make to order, slangily

F277. Line 551 in The Aeneid?

F278. TV actress Mireille of Hanna

F279. Skye of The Homeless Billionaire

F280. Goal for many aspiring pickers

F281. David who played Rhoda’s husband Joe on Rhoda

F282. He seduces Tess in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

F283. Quote as an authority

F284. Be boastful

F285. Lovey-dovey murmur

F286. Quaker leader

F287. “Take ___ song and make it better” (The Beatles)

F288. Like much argument for Palestine

F290. The younger Gilmore Girl

F291. Am obliged to

F292. Mixed martial-arts co.

F293. Former The View co-host O’Donnell

F294. We were on a train ride back to Paris from Istanbul, even though it was hailing, and frozen weather hitting its tracks is ___. (continued in F297-Across)

F297. (From F294-Across) My traveling companion was a Frenchwoman, Eleanor Tiber, who specialized in identifying monarch and swallowtail wings; they called her ____. (cont. in F300-Across)

F300. (From F297-Across) ___ the other riders with tales of our difficulties cataloguing a caterpillar colony in old Mesopotamia. (cont. at F303-Across)

F303. (From F300-Across) One of them got a funny look and slurred, “___ must’ve been catamoguing GOD’S caterpimmars!” (cont. at F304-Across)

F304. (From F303-Across) When we asked him to clarify, he explained his theory that we’d rediscovered ___ of Eden. (cont. at F307-Across)

F307. (From F304-Across) His drunk tongue was heavy, making her name sound like “___,” so I thought we’d have a little fun with him. (cont. at F308-Acrpss)

F308. (From F307-Across) “That would explain ____ the entrance,” I joked.”Not a lot of wooded areas have giant tommy-guns at their thresholds. Perhaps the angels use them to ward off intruders, but somehow they let us pass.” (cont. at F311-Across)

F311. (From F308-Across) My companion was not amused. “No matter how respected in the field of lepidopterology ___, ___ and myth are not things I want spread about me.” (cont. at F312-Across)

F312. (From F311-Across) You might feel differently when we’re in the ___ of our careers, I thought, but said nothing. Perhaps it was my imagination, but the hailstones looked to me like fluttering wings in the gathering dusk.

F314. You may thank God for it (abbr.)

F315. Homer described her as “rosy-fingered”

F316. Staked

F317. “Blue ___” (Berlin classic)

F318. Californie and Nouveau-Mexique

F319. Murder mystery suspects, often

F320. John Wick, Jack Bauer, and Dirty Harry, e.g.

F321. Green building rating system

F322. One under 18, in legalese

F323. Reddish-brown color

F324. Took to one’s heels

F326. Italian tubes

F327. Adjust a telescope

F328. How Matthew Perry once flirted with Julia Roberts

F329. Marina del ___, California

F330. Noodlehead

F331. When the Capulets and Montagues make peace

F332. Everything falling apart

F333. Invite the internet to tell you why your opinions make you garbage

F334. Civil War reenactor’s hat

F336. Got there

F337. Fungal spore sacs

F339. Grab a plate

F341. Teaching German?

F342. Sweetie pies

F343. Argentinian arm

F344. Roughly, datewise

F345. St. Louis hockey players

F346. About 0.88 trillion mi.

F347. You might use an SSN to fill one out

F348. Ermines in summertime

F349. “To repeat…”

F350. ___ dire (court examination)

F351. “___ or it didn’t happen”

F352. ____ invidia: “No offense”

F353. Be a coquette

F354. Gizmo used by truckers

F355. Fruits from Turkey

F356. The A-Team weapons

F357. Traditional filling for le hamburger

F358. Marriage announcement

F359. NFL ball carriers

F361. Long-term kind of customer service

F363. Mother of Artemis

F364. College lecturers

F367. Praiseful poem

F368. Your Silence Will Not Protect You author Lorde

F369. Curmudgeonly comment

F370. Not pickled

F371. Ovens for roasting clay pigeons?

F372. Hearing impaired, at the least

F373. Police lead

F374. Phishing, for instance

F375. Initial state

F376. Sulu’s superior

F377. Musical genre featuring slap bass

F378. Smidgens

F379. Iranian nomads of old

F380. It may require milk to be pasteurized

F381. Roman goddess

F382. Pacific outrigger

F383. Untameable

F384. Protestant denom.

F385. Progressive character?

F386. “Bombs bursting ___…”

F387. “Like ___ rag to a bull” (yes, they’re color blind, it’s still an expression)

F388. Been recumbent

F389. “A prompt, generous letter of thanks can ___ commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough” (Morton Blackwell)

F390. Charles ___, so he’s throwing a million-dollar party at his warren for his wedding into winter royalty. (cont. at F393-Across)

F393. (From F390-Across) ___ has made a frozen altar for her new son-in-law’s nuptials. He’s a snowshoe hare, so that suits him fine. (cont. at F395-Across)

F395. (Fron F393-Across) ___, Eira, is ready to settle down after a bit of serial dating in Heaven and Hell. (cont. at F398-Across)

F398. (Fron F395-Across) The ____ in the audience remember her fondly and promise to put off their holy war until after the reception. (cont. at F401-Across…and for more on their conflict resolution, see F1946-Across!)

F401. (Fron F398-Across) ___ they’ll play before then will be charades, and its only stakes will be fudge from the groom’s manufacturing business. (cont.at F405-Across)

F405. (Fron F401-Across) Even his normally frosty mother-in-law had to admit that ___ were alike: both were the source of much sweetness.

F412. Pou ___: vantage point

F413. High (like Weeds characters)

F414. Quietly insert

F416. Horse utterance

F417. Hardly noticeable

F418. One who may dress like an anthropomorphic animal

F419. You can barely pass with them

F420. Printers’ items

F421. Single-colored textiles

F422. Takes flight

F423. Captain Picard’s confidante

F424. Many land sales?

F425. Name in dental hygiene

F426. ___ acid (used to standardize solutions)

F427. Eighty-six

F428. ___ iron

F429. Prepare to strike

F430. “___ home is his castle”

F431. Military levels

F432. Brown who now goes by Jamil Abdullah al-Amin

F433. Ancient people of Great Britain

F434. Langley, for one (abbr.)

F438. Domiciles that can be closed with a zip

F441. Language whose name means “normal”

F442. King in Macbeth

F443. Musial, Lee, and Getz

F444. Swiss misses (abbr.)

F445. Their number increases every May

F446. Solve a word search

F447. Rollins of wrestling

F448. Warmer in Tijuana

F449. Aspirin units

F450. L1k3 t415 t3xt

F451. Narcs’ unit

F452. “Would you accept ___ of exchange?”

F453. Up and at ‘em

F454. Vitamin amt.

F455. Brief second

F456. Fencing sword

F457. Two hours and change that can make a big difference in eleventh grade

F458. The Sun Also___

F459. Blitzing goal

F460. Browsing history entries

F461. Keyless?

F462. Gluck opera ___ ed Euridice

F463. “…her kerchief and ___ my cap…”

F464. Cut gem feature

F465. Resort features

F466. Renders unclean

F467. Revolution supporters in ‘76

F468. Turn from ice to water

F469. ___ time: never

F470. Maximally meanspirited

F471. Abundant sources

F472. Dramatically different reinterpretation

F474. ___ a kind (a match)

F475. Canape toppings, often

F476. Futbol announcer’s shout

F477. ___ Buy Me Love

F478. Temple teacher, briefly

F479. Tough pears

F480. Hits high into the air

F481. Lounger’s perch

F482. Opera with star-crossed lovers from opposing houses

F483. Most music stations

F484. Its genus comes from the Greek words for “beard” and “mane”

F485. Judge Lance

F486. Studio mascot brought to life by the Ink Machine

F488. Brings charges against

F489. Large crowds

F490. “Blind Alley” singers (one of the first all-female rock bands)

F491. Retrieves, as balls

F492. Staff, as a position

F493. Made a case for

F494. Annoy with constant complaining

F495. Baseball practice

F496. Farthingale part

F497. “Shit,” much more politely

F498. Bios unread by their honorees

F499. Get closer with a camera

F500. Egg ___: Chinese omelet

F502. Diabetic Michaels revealed as Banana on The Masked Singer

F503. Noted Six Feet Under transitions

F504. Haydn symphony La ___ (The Hen)

F505. Severe prison sentence

F506. 3-D shape important in topology

F507. Mexicali Mrs.

F508. Former UN chief Annan

F509. Shoe-tying aid

F511. Utah ski area

F512. Passed an oral exam?

F514. Not std.

F515. Yours, to King James

F516. Raised area on a neck?

F517. Russian or Czech

F518. Ancestor of a foundation garment

F519. Song’s partner

F520. Water conduit

F521. It may follow “ye”

F522. Winning by a small margin

F523. Cool head?

F524. Slavic version of “Xander”

F525. Disco ___, Simpsons character

F526. Exercised a legal option

F527. 2019 NHL Rookie of the Year Pettersson

F528. Dom Perignon holder

F529. Wild talk

F530. Up to this time

F531. Military hospital org.

F532. “___ lost! Hope is DEAD!”

F533. Triple-time dance in Tijuana

F534. Perch from which to rule

F536. Okay, I need you to keep this story from ___. If any of my Hollywood sources see it on TMZ, I’ll never live it down. (cont. at F540-Across)

F540. (From F536-Across) They’re making a movie that starts with one of ___ invaders from War of the Worlds. (cont. at F542-Across)

F542. (From F540-Across) ___ soldier is coming home, having survived that “War” by quarantining. (cont. at F544-Across)

F544. (From F542-Across) They’re calling her ____, because her heat ray burned her enemies to ash, but the “feminine” suffix makes it sound cute. (cont. at F546-Across)

F546. (From F544-Across) ___ stars twinkle over her head as she brings back her bounty: several Earth fruit seeds. (cont. at F548-Across)

F548. (From F546-Across) She settles down near the town of ___ (Latin and Greek for “intrinsically a city”) and begins her garden. (cont. at F550-Across)

F550. (From F548-Across) I forget who ___-up comedian is that they’re getting to play her: could be Amy Schumer, could be Wanda Sykes. (cont. at F552-Across)

F552. (From F550-Across) Anyway, one of her fruits grows and grows so big it makes her dwelling look no bigger than ____. (cont. at F554-Across)

F554. (From F552-Across) Cameron is attached to direct. Now remember, mum’s the word. Say nothing about ____.

F558. “…___ quit!” (ultimatum)

F559. L

F560. Do-nothing tendency

F561. Proclaims, in the Bible

F562. Afrikaner ancestors

F563. “When you put it like that, makes sense”

F564. Like some cheap jewelry

F565. Unnatural, as a performance

F566. Springfield who released “I Only Want to Be with You”

F567. Beck’s partner

F568. Plain of Jars setting

F569. “Just a means to ___”

F570. Bit of snow

F571. Vye who drives men crazy

F573. Cone holders

F574. Concluding words

F575. Michael J. Fox’s biggest box-office role

F576. Pluckiness

F577. Exhilarating

F578. British booze-centered comic strip

F579. Driving-course marker

F581. Dory tool

F582. Pocket fill, in a children’s rhyme

F583. One-horned beast, for short

F584. ___ toilette

F585. “___ the East, and Juliet…”

F586. Pasta/rice brand word

F587. Not as gloomy

F588. Certain print

F589. Fuss over, with “on”

F590. Pay, with “over”

F591. Make ___ on: make a pass at

F592. Knightley of Anna Karenina

F593. “___ take arms against a sea…” (Hamlet)

F594. “I ___ wondering...”

F595. Bean mentioned in The Silence of the Lambs

F596. Certain pious Jew

F597. Chain with a cat/dog logo

F598. Revelation comes after it

F599. Does some pre-laundry work

F600. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” Nin

F601. Has the privilege of

F605. Post-lunch periods, for short

F606. Give ___ (heed)

F608. Bud service

F609. Surge

F610. How beer at a cookout might be kept

F611. Some, in Spanish

F612. Sunnis or Shiites, e.g.

F613. Weird Al’s “___ Be Stupid”

F614. In conclusion, in Cannes

F615. Spade and Snead

F616. Problems for lighthouses

F617. Greek peace goddess

F618. Like a no-see-um

F619. Line often spoken in yellowface

F620. Bush’s group

F621. Food in a shell

F622. Kid around with

F623. Small weight

F624. Caught with a pot

F625. Accusatory gp. during the McCarthy era

F626. Top-priority recruits

F627. Org. of Eagles

F628. One of the Ewings on Dallas

F629. Roald who wrote The Fantastic Mr. Fox

F630. Junctures

F631. You’ve heard how he conquered the known world, but have you heard about ___ he fell through a wormhole to Stilltime Isle? (cont. at F640-Across)

F640. (From F631-Across) The “still time” kept him young, but he was trapped alone there for a century. _____ with nothing to eat but salmon and bluefin! (cont. at F645-Across)

F645. (From F640-Across) When he finally found another wormhole near enough to the ground that he could escape, Al bid a fond farewell to the island: “____!” (cont. at F650-Across)

F650. (From F645-Across) And there was “still time” to get back to conquering new lands. Too simple a tale? Not enough twists? Well, not every narrative can be a ___ Henry.

F652. Corrida sound

F653. Luau accompaniment, briefly

F654. What-___

F656. “I am the Ruler of the Queen’s ___” (Gilbert and Sullivan)

F657. Freestanding curved structures in Spanish countries

F658. One-named soccer star

F659. Turf’s menu partner

F660. Canvas frame

F661. Bore that’s not tiresome

F662. Rhinitis-treating docs

F663. Work hard

F664. US oil hub

F665. Bands rolled by children

F666. Balding man’s fashion choice

F667. Cereal box stat

F668. “___ in Chuck E. Cheese stands for ‘Entertainment’”

F669. Starbucks order, briefly

F670. Abides by

F671. Torments

F672. Master film editor Allen (whose name uses two letters and sounds like it uses one)

F673. Irishman O’Flaherty

F674. Interfering with

F675. Epically awful

F678. Scheduling commitment

F682. Coastal formation

F683. Refrigeration fluid

F684. “Come va?” answer

F685. Features of Boolean logic and Hollywood life

F688. “Yo, buddy, over here”

F689. Links gp.

F690. Start to a Cameroonian conclusion

F691. “I’ll take your word ___”

F692. Bertolli alternative

F693. Simple sugars

F695. Democratic Illinois congressman Emanuel

F696. Issa and Addison

F697. “___ pray…”

F698. Full of feminine signifiers

F699. Some flatbreads (var.)

F700. Form found more in cartoon magnets than in real ones

F703. Most ears start to hurt at 12 or 13

F704. Lean-fleshed fish

F705. Breakfast bar bit

F706. Bulgarian money

F707. Place to roost

F708. Alan who plays a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story

F709. Era that closes out classical Japanese history

F710. Interpret stretchily and maybe forget for a bit, as rules

F711. ___ Field (New York vaccination hotspot)

F712. Hoists again, as sails

F713. Dublin-born actor Milo

F714. Part of a Shakespearean parting shot

F715. Gershon of P.S. I Love You

F716. Archival medium, for short

F717. Like most of Hamilton

F718. Home loan org.

F719. Contemptible

F720. You, to you

F721. Analyzes critically

F722. Aqua ___: corrosive acid

F723. Facebook endorsement mechanism

F725. Crimewave director Sam

F727. Online TV giant

F728. Illogical

F731. Greeting via the internet

F733. Through word of mouth

F736. There’s been a riot and a bombing at Greyhold, the prison for criminal colors! Violent Violet is loose, and so are Murky Murder, Blood Red, and Laser Lemon…in all, there’ve been ____! (cont. at F740-Across)

F740. (From F736-Across) Khaki the Kult Leader has set himself up as some kind of ____, a supposed savior on an obscure desert hill! (cont. at F742-Across)

F742. (From F740-Across) Gold and Silver, those roots of all evil, have chartered a boat to their hideout on ____, a skerry of semi-precious stones! (cont. at F745-Across)

F745. (From F742-Across) Such panchromatic perfidy! If each of these hues commits just one evil act per day, and counting the prison break as just one, then after forty days and forty nights we’ll reach Color Crime #___! (cont. at F749-Across)

F749. (From F745-Across) Beware the Off-White Offenders! Few things go together as naturally as larceny and AlaBASTARD…except for ____, a poisonous tool from a poisonous soul! (cont. at F753-Across)

F753. (From F749-Across) ___, Villain Veridian! There are so many dark recesses of depravity your kind won’t fail to enter! (cont. at F756-Across)

F756. (From F753-Across) Only one “character” can stop you, one whose hue will defend what’s true! A world of coloremetric chaos demands a representative of alphanumeric order! Evildoers beware…____!

F759. Cine closing

F760. They don’t produce lava, but their steam can still cook you

F762. Caravan campsite

F763. Dining table expander

F764. Iris’s cousin

F765. Short breath

F766. “I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name…I would either have ended up ___ or this” (Madonna)

F767. HS math class

F768. Like a pancake

F769. Jimmy Carter’s middle name

F770. Some frozen treats

F771. Cabinet dept. formed in response to the 1973 oil crisis

F772. Unreliable musical instrument?

F773. Went down the Chattahoochee, parhaps

F774. Frequent classical guitar setting

F775. Chute racers

F776. Good ___ (Gaiman-Pratchett collab that’ll produce its seventh episode…any day now)

F777. With no strings attached

F778. Represented the full range of possibility

F779. Start of a few choice words?

F780. Like products advertised on Saturday Night Live

F781. Return of the Jedi forest moon

F782. Colorful fish

F783. Alternative to Flonase

F784. Work out with barbells

F785. Like some classy restaurants

F786. Second and third characters in WoW-like RPGs

F787. Depp role

F788. New Ager with four Grammys

F789. “...___ speak”: “I mean, you could put it that way”

F790. Historic invasion date

F791. Full frontal pair?

F792. Admissions office honcho

F793. Lower in rank

F794. Belgian locale reconstructed after World War I

F795. Quaking poplars

F796. Practically dead, emotionally speaking

F797. In and of itself

F798. The - ends, usually

F799. [Eye roll] “Don’t ___ innocent”

F800. Short shorthand writer?

F801. Awards for RAF pilots

F802. Young Scottish woman

F803. Engraved marker

F804. “Just two names,” for short

F805. Seldom’s antithesis

F806. Crucial points

F807. Pill or injection

F808. Participate in a war?

F809. Period of veinticuatro horas

F810. 1440

F812. Pinch of fluff

F813. Living entity

F814. “Time ___ the essence!”

F818. Chkng. or svngs.

F822. 440 or 10K

F826. Model Kate

F830. Preceder of E or W

F834. Uber competitor

F838. Informal dining spot

F842. “___ among men”

F846. British dandy

F850. Gut feeling

F855. Furniture wood

F861. Freeze-___

F866. It indicates pitches below middle C

F871. MDX, ILX, TLX, and NSX, on the dealer’s lot

F877. Schools for would-be engrs.

F882. Speech balloon for a character who’s trying not to cry

F887. Board game with pegs

F893. “I think we got ___ the wrong foot”

F895. Like a prune

F896. Suffix with Edward

F897. Saturday, to Sartre

F898. Disney’s Dwayne-voiced demigod

F899. Way to charge that changes with the time of year, for short

F900. Not home, as a game

F901. How many sit-___ day do you do? I’ve decided to write “fifty” here in hopes that writing this clue will motivate me to make it true

F902. Its members have included FDR, DDE, and JFK

F903. Sigh of contentment

F904. Clubs without turkey

F905. Apply blacktop

F906. Author of Verite

F907. 2010s health scare

F908. Horrid creature of magick

F909. Kidney related

F910. Farmer’s refrain

F911. Where Wood Buffalo Park is

F912. You say this to untag yourself?

F913. Naval tracker

F914. Blaster with invisible ammunition

F915. Brock or Boudreau

F916. C.J. the circusmaster, the modern descendant of P.T. Barnum, ____, directed his faithful crew. (continued in F1134-Across)

F919. “Advantage: server”

F920. Get in the way

F922. Weapon deployed in The Incredibles

F926. Grant favor

F928. Disqualifying

F930. Be after all’s said and done

F931. Designer von Furstenburg and movie exorcist

F932. Separation of a compound word

F933. She’s ruthless, she’s trouble, and you really need to stop thinking about sleeping with her

F935. Time of Purim

F936. “text u later”

F937. “___ My Wallet in El Segundo” (A Tribe Called Quest)

F940. Go rapidly

F942. Menswear selections

F943. They might go for big bucks

F944. Semi-colon?

F945. Jotted down

F947. Puts points on a graph

F949. Makes precious

F950. Historic Atlantic crosser

F951. Peers through a window

F952. Giraffe’s head?

F954. Oath invoked by Pope

F955. Chipotle competitor

F957. The Buddha’s main attendant

F959. Kafka’s conclusion?

F961. Lethal Weapon 2 actor

F963. Bullring figure

F964. Ozarkian possessive

F965. Fix, as a cue

F967. Ludacris hit song?

F969. Mexican revolutionary Pancho

F970. Begrudge, maybe

F971. Where to find F-16s, for short

F972. “I’ve never heard of her, so she can’t be important,” e.g.

F973. Venus and Mars, for two

F974. Thrusts

F975. Symbol on the Argentine flag

F976. Stereo setup

F977. Resistant to light over time

F979. Vessel of WWII

F980. Dashboard choice

F983. Soul mate?

F985. More interesting to a collector

F987. Holidays

F989. Vatsyayana’s “Teachings on Desire”

F992. Take ___ (lose lots of money)

F994. Coat with an alloy of lead and tin

F996. “Better luck ___ time”

F998. Battleship guess that’s a piece in other games

F1000. Second chances, casually

F1002. Memphis-to-Nashville dir.

F1003. Join the cast of

F1004. Tao Lin novel Eeeee ___ Eeee (maybe I should’ve included this one in its entirety in the E section)

F1005. Ziegfeld and Mrs. Andy Capp

F1006. Show of strength?

F1007. “Oh, my!” exclamation I usually heard on Danger Mouse

F1008. TV attorney Stone prone to hallucinations

F1010. Lightened up on

F1012. We thought it’d be like what COVID became

F1013. Some women have a vocal one

F1015. Bad influences

F1018. Badass villain in Rogue One

F1020. Lots of business?

F1022. The West Wing actress Kelly

F1023. In a position of authority

F1025. Cutter’s next of kin

F1027. Churns up

F1029. Safety elevator pioneer

F1031. “Here ___, there ___” (kids’ song refrain)

F1033. McQueen or Versace

F1035. Latin diphthongs

F1036. Hero with a hand out

F1038. Glassmaking material

F1039. Drone regulation grp.

F1042. Unsubtle

F1046. Finicky scholar

F1047. Proponent of “mitigated skepticism”

F1048. “If you want something, don’t give up!”

F1055. One begins “Rhapsody in Blue”

F1056. Godawful

F1059. Ancient malls

F1061. Fake, on the field

F1063. Nevada base teaching combat aviation

F1065. Sweeping stories

F1067. Steps over a fence

F1069. Checking for accuracy

F1072. Pick another book name

F1073. Coughing or spasming attacks

F1075. “___ partner” (clue for EITHER)

F1076. Slicing, dicing, etc.

F1077. Explodes

F1078. Pond one feeds in one’s backyard

F1080. Short-tailed field rodent

F1081. Rust-fungi spores

F1082. Others, in Orense

F1083. ___-humanité

F1084. Carved slab

F1085. Person making a bid

F1088. Enneads

F1090. Guard dog warnings

F1092. Watch for another time

F1094. Site of Syrian strife in the mid-2010s

F1096. Envisioning naughty romantic scenarios

F1099. Top, as of a moth

F1100. Cars introduced in 1904

F1102. Tony, first Black coach to win a Super Bowl title

F1103. Golfer Lauren

F1105. Senate Majority Leader before Reid

F1108. Prohibition and Victorian periods

F1109. Tops at wisecracking

F1110. First principle for Objectivism, or so it’s claimed

F1111. Succumb to microbial action

F1113. Threat to climbers on the Alps

F1114. Campaigner from Illinois

F1115. “Clair de ___” (Debussy work)

F1116. Master of getting plastered

F1117. Help out like a good girlfriend

F1119. Carry a ___ weight

F1121. Thing all good stories, unfortunately for Game of Thrones, must have

F1123. Be totally thorough

F1126. Hollywood investor

F1128. Scissors stroke

F1130. First letter in Israel (var.)

F1132. Field of fields? (abbr.)

F1133. ICU sounds

F1134. (From F916-Across) “Now remember,” he said, “four clowns will try to get into the cannon, but three lack the acrobatic training to land safely. So ____.” (cont. in F1327-Across)

F1137. Alter ego

F1139. Makes a fool out of

F1141. Student debtors’ reprieves

F1143. Speed, bird, or singer

F1145. What follows directions?

F1146. I have also (experienced sexual harrassment)

F1148. Nothing, in Napoli

F1150. Third note in a B-major scale

F1152. Anti-human-trafficking lawyer Ashe married to Seth Meyers

F1153. “Oh, man, I wish I could be her”

F1154. Sticks with sticks

F1156. Subdivision in taxonomy

F1158. Catch the wind

F1160. Inflatable armbands

F1163. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason ___ engage in it” (Henry Ford)

F1164. “___ registered to vote” (commonly Googled question)

F1165. It may be single in a knockout

F1166. As a joke

F1167. Oaxaca wife’s title (abbr.)

F1170. Rake alternative

F1172. Last month (abbr.)

F1173. Death Row Records cofounder Knight

F1174. Smash letters?

F1175. Claustrophobe’s nightmare, for short

F1176. We ___ Heroes (film title inspired by Bowie lyric)

F1177. Grounded supersonic jets

F1179. Funk singer Marie

F1181. Scrapple (Depression food)

F1183. Curved metal piece in suspended ceilings

F1185. Get on the dais and speak

F1187. Visionworks alternative

F1189. Le Carre left it for Scribner

F1191. Protected Scottish lakes

F1193. “But in the hero ___ forget the man” (Warren)

F1195. Shows up

F1196. Concerning sheep

F1197. Eateries that often serve wine

F1199. Interrogator who may be exaggerating her temper

F1200. Wished you could take back

F1201. Bug you may find around your fruit bowl

F1203. Puts in royal colors, e.g.

F1205. Like hormones synthesized from amino acids

F1212. Mr. Rubinstein, whose name was sometimes spelled with an H

F1213. 8/

F1215. British guns

F1217. Get word to

F1219. Rearmost

F1221. “This is…the dawn of a new ___ transportation” (Shervin Pishevar, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Hyperloop One)

F1223. “Oh, say ___ so!”

F1225. “With a cool and confident kind ___” (Rodgers & Hammerstein line)

F1227. 1990s Europop’s ___ Base

F1229. ___-Land (TV series in the Lost/Prisoner vein)

F1231. Put oil on

F1232. In favor of, in Dogpatch

F1233. Savannah-based chef Anthony Bourdain described as “The worst, most dangerous person to America…she’s proud of the fact that her food is f@#$ing bad for you”

F1234. Piece of land enclosed by dikes

F1235. Yield the floor

F1236. Good, but not great

F1237. Unit of heat

F1238. Most corn and rice crops, these days

F1239. Territory, metonymically

F1240. Start of many a tribute

F1241. ___ time flat

F1242. The Wizard of Oz actor and family

F1243. Theogony poet

F1246. Like plasma TVs

F1248. James who delivered the line, “I cannae change the laws of physics!”

F1250. “___ intended!” (rarely believable statement from a crossword-maker)

F1252. Red-lin’d

F1255. It means no overtime

F1258. Rude, and then some

F1260. More uninhibited

F1263. Long ago

F1265. Ride and Brown

F1266. Drag through the mud

F1267. Fitting final answer for this puzzle?

F1268. Swiss skyline sight

F1269. Touchpad site

F1271. Tell ___: lie a little

F1273. Item checked by security

F1274. “Don’t open in the office” letters

F1275. Eschewed, as fat or lean

F1276. Queen or her servant

F1277. Human finisher

F1279. How The Breakfast Club and Thelma and Louise ended

F1282. Chihuahua bites

F1284. Place to run aground

F1285. Chests’ places

F1287. Greek city celebrated by Pindar

F1288. Lead prosecutor on the anti-Mafia “Pizza Connection” case

F1290. “Oh, ___ mention…”

F1291. Have a chair by, as a table

F1295. Muslim headdresses

F1297. Opposite of piano

F1298. Prefix meaning “billion”

F1299. 2000 Bell Atlantic acquisition

F1300. Of good cheer

F1302. End for market or auction

F1303. Yiddish insult used for a character name on Sesame Street

F1305. ___ about (date designation)

F1307. Fish appendage

F1308. Early dinosaur period

F1311. Helped out

F1312. With “down,” get calm; without “down,” stay mad

F1314. Certain Crimean

F1316. Security measure on a roller coaster

F1318. Hardly “little” four-time NBA All-Star Game MVP Bob

F1320. Muppet dog

F1322. Bristly

F1324. French thinker?

F1326. Counter action

F1327. (From F1134-Across) “I mean, I always think it’s a huge hassle to write a ____ for the obits,” he tried to joke. Nobody laughed. (cont. in F1330-Across)

F1330. (From F1327-Across) “Moving on…” he began, but Aerial Annie, the teenage tightrope-walking ____. (cont. in F1485-Across)

F1336. Fiji neighbor

F1339. Pick over methodically

F1340. Outward

F1342. Sports score seen in a cop-show title

F1344. Kirsten of Spider-Man and Interview with the Vampire

F1346. Not the best place to park

F1348. Elton John song about an astronaut

F1350. Perpendicular-hockey-boot trick

F1352. Was taken aback

F1354. Ben, in Hebrew names

F1356. They’re stuck into steaks

F1358. Island group off Taiwan

F1360. Revolutionary War portraitist

F1362. “Why, ___ the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis…” (Neil Gaiman, American Gods)

F1364. “Boy!” or “girl!” preceder

F1366. Blowtube projectile

F1367. Compels

F1368. Chain smoker’s buy

F1369. Do some male gazing to

F1370. Time for Halloween

F1371. A mere handful

F1373. It’s hardly A-1 sauce

F1375. Put against one another

F1377. John Legend was the first black man to win one

F1379. Records of beats (abbr.)

F1380. Sub-brands such as Giulia and 4C Spider

F1382. Sao ___ (Brazil’s largest city)

F1384. Barn owl’s roost

F1386. Illegal deal where the manufacturer sets the retail price

F1390. Letter-marked insect often called “silver”

F1392. Tell the secret about

F1394. Disco hit of 1978

F1396. JFK stat

F1397. A Shot in the Dark co-star

F1398. Hinges on humans

F1399. Count with fangs, briefly

F1400. “I’m not ___” (diplomatic expression of dislike)

F1401. “Frying bacon? Take off your shirt so you don’t get grease on it,” e.g.

F1403. Drops displaying a well-loved page, as a book

F1405. Astaire/Hepburn musical

F1408. Pen, e.g.

F1410. Heel’s opponent

F1412. Famed archer

F1414. Virtual animal

F1416. Marie Osmond’s ___ Belle dolls (pun alert)

F1417. Like some humor

F1418. Does an after-( or before-)dinner chore

F1421. Annual Christmas party group

F1423. Does nothing

F1426. Where critical things come

F1428. Authoritative texts

F1429. Agency with many advances in GUIs

F1430. Kind of investment bond, briefly

F1431. Yankee suspended through 2014

F1432. “Neither ___ ll” (multiple-choice answer often placed fourth)

F1433. Icy sheet asea

F1434. Publicize

F1435. Res ___ Ioquitur

F1436. PGA golfer Aoki

F1437. Belgian composer Guillaume

F1438. Everest and St. Helens (abbr.)

F1439. Lone chime time

F1441. Entice

F1443. Prison that took Cash

F1445. Powder taken through the nose

F1447. Come to ___ in the road: find the journey getting a bit more challenging

F1449. Position on an issue

F1450. They often hit the ground running

F1452. Counselor-___

F1453. Have a bug

F1454. In an artful, clever way (var.)

F1455. Note in an F minor scale

F1456. Theme, in art

F1457. Stop sign?

F1458. Word following meal, battle, or floor

F1459. Mad about something

F1460. Alternatives to Krogers and Safeways

F1461. Relatives

F1462. With “the,” “the holy land of the English”

F1463. Bridge positions (abbr.)

F1464. Meat, when offered along with fish

F1465. Printer part that melts toner onto the paper

F1466. Ore. setting

F1467. Stink like

F1469. Insulting term for one who changes their mind

F1472. Make transparent, in a way

F1474. Spend time visiting, as an area

F1476. Close to perfect, as a guess

F1478. Mother Goose character

F1480. Craft for the loaded

F1482. Pittance, colloquially

F1484. Mandalorian Djarin

F1485. (From F1330-Across) “Clowns can move quickly or slowly, and both can be funny,” Annie said. “Could Joanna B., Jeanie M., and Jenny N. move slowly and awkwardly, and give Rebecca a clear chance to get ahead?” “You’re right. Crisis averted,” the circusmaster agreed, and tersely commanded the three, “___.” (cont. in F1488-Across)

F1488. (From 1485-Across) “Alternately, I could get the firehose and start spraying Jenny N. and Joanna B. with it,” Jeanie M. suggested. “No,” said C.J., “Annie’s idea is better, M. If you only knocked down one of the other two, that would still leave ___.”

F1490. “Queen ___” (Percy Bysshe Shelley poem)

F1492. Rhyme scheme of Dylan Thomas’ “And you, my father, there on the sad height, / Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. / Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

F1493. Told tales

F1495. Streamlets

F1497. Condiment sources mentioned in one of Jesus’ parables

F1500. Yes or no emphasizer

F1502. First and foremost

F1504. Cracked ice

F1506. What that is in Toledo

F1507. Microscopic, informally

F1508. Courtney Love’s group

F1509. Life of Pi author Martel

F1510. Proximal prefix

F1513. Lady in an apron

F1517. Woman’s name that acronyms a Thatcher slogan

F1521. Priced (abbr.)

F1525. DLII times II

F1529. Goodbye, to Gaius

F1533. Plushbottom’s expletive

F1537. Some are out of it in January

F1543. Harp, in Roma

F1547. Words of warning on the top rung of a ladder

F1550. Ari’s home in Florida

F1552. Manx cat feature

F1554. Bag man?

F1556. Email back

F1557. Laconophile’s love

F1559. Electrician’s unit

F1561. Italian sportswear name

F1562. Stumblebums

F1563. Frothy

F1566. Auto company known by four linked rings

F1567. Shore regions

F1569. Stop securing to remove, as clasps or buttons

F1570. Highly worked up

F1571. Celebrity

F1572. Mrs. Julius Dithers

F1573. “When the frost ___…”

F1574. Johnson, to Juan?

F1575. Contort

F1576. Collision

F1578. Lingerie items

F1581. Advanced by wriggling (with “into” or “out of”)

F1583. Some upscale chain hotels

F1585. Moves, in realtorspeak

F1587. Italian liqueur

F1589. Denoting a loss, as on a balance sheet

F1591. Biblical fight site

F1592. Anticipated an alarm

F1594. The dig of fossilized feces was well underway. They were due to extract what Kallie crudely but euphemistically called “___.” (cont. in F1598-Across)

F1598. (From F1594-Across) Her assistant, Dave, had failed to rouse her this morning. Kallie woke earlier than she had the last time this happened, but ____. (cont. in F1600-Across)

F1600. (From F1598-Across) She chewed him out and ordered him to get his timepieces in order: “____!” (cont. in F1603-Across)

F1603. (From F1600-Across) Kallie made excuses for her harshness, saying she grew up in a single-dad household…but so had her assistant, until his dad had married his newer dad when he was eighteen. Kallie and Dave were both ___. (cont. in F1606-Across)

F1606. (From F1603-Across) But Kallie would never know this about Dave. As long as she clung to her hardass self-image, no one at work would ever be more than a professional ___. She fished her ___ lenses out of their tray and started the day.

F1607. Crosswordese term given new life in France as a word for “iPhone case”

F1608. Prefix with gram or matic

F1610. Volunteer for those in crisis

F1613. “That’ll ___ now” (“That’s enough”)

F1615. Digits some people write with an extra slash

F1617. Comfy furniture

F1619. Mutually exclusive opening words?

F1623. Spanish hands

F1624. Traditionally clad Scots

F1625. What some people are called for abandoning a sinking ship…but shouldn’t everyone abandon a sinking ship?

F1626. Actress Chau in The Whale and Downsizing

F1627. ___ vinct amor

F1628. Reinforcement for lace

F1630. Our hypothetical swimming ancestor

F1631. Unnecessary worries

F1632. Phone key

F1633. Second largest Muslim ethnic group

F1634. Stallone character somehow given a Saturday morning cartoon

F1636. Wax-packed cheese

F1638. ___ good (was in vain)

F1639. Earn, as a large sum of money

F1641. Peak performance

F1644. Half a sawbuck

F1646. Early Norwegian king

F1647. Got wind of, old-style

F1648. Price qualifier

F1649. Friends and neighbors

F1650. Part of a theme-park chorus, maybe

F1651. Give ___ berth: avoid

F1652. Clubs for fairways

F1653. NBC theme, verbalized

F1654. Piercing, as a sound

F1655. Toulouse-Lautrec prostitution illustration series

F1656. Comic section, formerly

F1657. Comic Griffin

F1659. Prime minister who quit his job, then regained it one day later

F1660. Northumbrian monk, briefly

F1662. Move with stealth

F1664. Blotch

F1666. “Hooray!”

F1668. Take the helm

F1669. Agitate

F1671. Pinchable hairball

F1673. It’ll cover some ground

F1674. What you’ll do to another horizontal string of fill-in-the-blanks with the next across entry

F1675. Much as I wanted to linger, I had business across state lines, so it was time to get ___. (cont. in F1677-Across)

F1677. (From F1675-Across) Fish and guests stink after three days, and too much lingering in the colder months can make a ____. (cont. in F1679-Across)

F1679. (From F1677-Across) On that day of January 23, 2001. J. ___ fire in the marketplace with her second album, the early internet bubble hadn’t fully burst, it was a brisk and clear day, and my love affair with the Good Warlock of the Southwest came to its official end. (cont. in F1680-Across)

F1680. (From F1679-Across) As I left the dead trees behind and drove down ____ of pines before the expressway, my fingers traced the marks around my neck. (cont. in F1682-Across)

F1682. (From F1680-Across) They were ___, nibbles of passion that would promote my health and prolong my life. (cont. in F1684-Across)

F1684. (From F1682-Across) ___ Gautama, the Buddha, said the root of all suffering was attachment. He may have been right. But not all suffering is an evil.

F1689. Nice but unnecessary feature

F1691. None too warm

F1693. “Pickin’ up what I’m layin’ down, here?”

F1695. Italian capital or layered cookie

F1697. Results from, with “to”

F1699. Slices clean (through)

F1701. Posted the address and phone number of

F1702. WWII British flyers

F1703. Alien’s ride

F1705. Italian film director Leone

F1707. Cow’s home

F1708. All she wants for Christmas is you!

F1709. Wave of paranoia sweeping through the culture

F1710. Brown so-called superfood

F1711. Reinforced, as a coastline (with “up”)

F1712. Spider-Man portrayer Maguire

F1713. Notably private Truman

F1714. Not as plausible

F1715. Pretty young things

F1716. Old Greek coin

F1717. ___ 27001 compliance (information security)

F1719. Investment acronym

F1721. “Menage a ___”

F1723. Formal assumption

F1725. Mythical sea god

F1727. “The Metamorphosis” character Gregor

F1729. In longstanding conflict

F1731. Leave in an orderly way

F1733. Grovel

F1736. Comic-strip cry

F1739. Mooncalf

F1740. Remove, as clothing

F1741. Less wobbly, say

F1742. Big name in Ethiopian history

F1743. Rugby restarts

F1744. Agnew and others

F1745. Actor Burton of Roots

F1746. Consumes

F1747. “Reading is the ___ which school success hangs” (Anon.)

F1748. Less enlightened

F1749. English architect Sir John

F1750. Pressure unit

F1752. Health food popularized in the mid-1990s

F1754. Dimensions and tolerances, say

F1756. Split, archaically

F1758. 1993 Melissa Etheridge album and song

F1760. Abalone lining

F1762. Lighter

F1764. Joyful exuberance

F1765. Yorba or Loma follower

F1766. Supervillain who makes decisions by flipping a coin

F1768. Scandalous information

F1769. Superior sorts

F1770. Exal beyond mortality

F1771. Pairing off in the animal kingdom

F1772. Love and think often about

F1773. Make allusions (to)

F1774. Ermine and sable

F1775. Return mail encs.

F1776. Singer Mann and evangelist McPherson

F1777. “That time works for me”

F1778. Director Wright

F1780. Wised-up about

F1782. Let out ___: sound like the MGM mascot

F1784. Comic actor Arnold

F1786. Hexadecimally labeled hue

F1788. City west of Boise

F1790. “…brought forth on this continent a new ___…”

F1792. “Forget” to pay

F1795. Scandinavian gods

F1796. Same old episodes

F1797. Work as a model

F1798. Lion or Bear, briefly

F1799. Rasta pronoun

F1800. Small rope for a gaff

F1801. Xanax and Valium, slangily

F1802. Give guns anew

F1803. Taxi “tax”

F1804. How popular videos “go”

F1805. Baby eels

F1806. Some have black eyes

F1807. Hollywood’s Demi and Julianne

F1809. Not solid

F1811. Slew, in slang

F1813. Mixed veggies, fries, and broccoli

F1815. Beat at crew

F1817. George Clooney’s Max and others

F1819. Play prompts

F1821. Greeting with a silent first letter

F1822. Country comedy series, ___ -Haw

F1823. Without a break

F1824. Morsel of dinner

F1825. Certain grinder

F1826. “Button-down” garment

F1827. Prefix with chrome

F1828. View at the Tate Gallery

F1829. “Rose-red” ruins of Jordan

F1830. Moist, as morning lawns

F1831. Idol runner-up Clay

F1832. Ignorami

F1833. Rope to a pier

F1834. Green lentil stew

F1837. Meant for just one place

F1840. Ready to quit

F1842. Whole slew of

F1844. Moved between apps

F1846. “The More You Know” ads and such

F1847. Equal, to Brigitte

F1849. One little piggy had it

F1851. “This is the chance ___ lifetime!”

F1853. One of Saturn’s moons is taking fire from an unknown enemy, and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’d rather spend the battle in a bar with Harry, who’s a little too affectionate with his drinks but who tells charming stories, like the one about the puppy who shredded and nested himself into a newsmagazine after dark. So ignore the ___… (cont. in F1856-Across)

F1856. (From F1853-Across) …and watch ___ as he… (cont. in F1858-Across)

F1858. (From F1856-Across) …describes for us ___.

F1865. “The mind-killer,” per Dune

F1866. Ronald Reagan screen role

F1867. “Boys in blue” by the bay

F1868. Key in the middle of the top row

F1869. Character meant to lampoon anti-Chinese racism, but not always read that way

F1870. Suffix with nectar or elephant

F1871. Coordinate in the game Battleship

F1872. “Grow up, ya big baby!”

F1873. The five of trumps

F1876. Athens 2004 org.

F1878. Donald, to Dewey

F1879. Long-hanging cloak

F1880. Former FBI director James

F1881. Dutch-angled

F1882. Second story jobs

F1883. Convulsion

F1884. Blows up, casually

F1885. Romanian folk dances

F1886. Some government securities, for short

F1887. Cambridge figures

F1888. Curses, as of your existence

F1889. Bad sign in Independence Day

F1893. A certain king or queen, e.g.

F1894. Fender ___, wheel-arch adornment

F1895. Takes exception to

F1898. Rules (abbr.)

F1899. Beer and ale

F1900. Goes public with

F1901. “Half ___ is better than none” (some bread is still some bread)

F1902. Vacation souvenirs

F1904. In a ___ pique

F1905. Wave over the threshold, as fumes

F1906. Eco- alternative

F1907. Props for a child’s musical game

F1908. Monkeyed (with)

F1909. Big laughs, slangily

F1910. BBs and bullets

F1911. Mother of Achilles

F1912. Flightless bird of New Zealand

F1913. Centipede feeding

F1914. Knows the plans of

F1915. They test analytical writing, quantitative reasoning, and verbal reasoning

F1916. 1960s symbol

F1917. Quarters, for example

F1918. Label for some of the Antilles

F1919. They generate buzz on Wall Street

F1921. DeSantis and Howard

F1922. “Done with THAT email!”

F1923. They can change from female to male and back, and they often eat their tankmates

F1925. Mariner’s dir.

F1926. Singers Hall and ___

F1927. Fourth trig function introduced in most textbooks

F1928. “Ugolino” and “Le Baiser”

F1929. Existential writer

F1930. “What did ___ do to you?”

F1931. Zhivago’s mistress

F1932. Short scissors cut

F1933. ___ wait (prepares to ambush)

F1934. “___ One Will Listen” (Kelly Clarkson song)

F1935. Awakens

F1936. Pats on the back

F1937. Subsides gradually

F1938. Pierre’s health

F1939. Vague answer to “What’d you do today?”

F1940. Go unnoticed, in older parlance

F1941. Rod in concrete

F1942. Planetary shadows

F1944. Cinque e uno

F1945. Midwest capital, informally

F1946. Heaven and Hell’s agents play a simple game to resolve disputes. They draw one 360-degree line (Heaven’s creatures can only draw perfect shapes). Then two of them enter ___…and whoever pushes their rival out wins. (cont. at F1948-Across)

F1948. (From F1946-Across) ___ the last match, so the Hellbeasts were cheering. (cont. at F1950-Across)

F1950. (From F1948-Across) They waved simple flags and posters made of human flesh. One of the posters showed an ____, as if the loser, Gabriel, was to be immolated. (cont. at F1952-Across)

F1952. (From F1950-Across) But really, the stakes of the game are never that high. All Gabriel had to do was eat a ___ at the Tree of Knowledge, and God’s rules against nudity don’t apply to his winged servants. (cont. at F1954-Across)

F1954. (From F1952-Across) And sure, sometimes they play for souls, but never THAT many souls. Not a whole city’s or village’s worth. Maybe a ____. (cont. at F1955-Across)

F1955. (From F1954-Across) Such simple tension releases prevent apocalypses that’d really be in no one’s interest. ___ of God, which can think with the knowledge of all time, all space, and all realities, has once again proven Its wisdom.

F1957. Posted pieces (abbr.)

F1958. OED entries

F1959. They dance in Disney’s Fantasia

F1960. “Uncle Miltie”

F1961. Picnic area sights

F1962. Mexican spendables

F1963. Plumb petrified

F1964. In poor condition

F1967. Neighbor of Croatia

F1970. Bill surprise

F1971. Quashes

F1972. It has rods and cones

F1973. Battlement feature

F1974. Georgette who wrote romances in the Georgian era

F1975. Assists, in volleyball

F1976. Feel a sharp craving

F1977. Go completely nuts

F1978. The Q of QED

F1979. “Bed Riddance” poet

F1980. SFO list

F1981. Not quite straight down, briefly

F1982. Devoted, as friends

F1983. Thorne of Shake It Up and Scream

F1984. Emotional engagement

F1985. Lengths of Leicester and Leeds

F1986. Defamation in print

F1987. Dragon of Norse myth

F1988. Sea bordered by Australia and Indonesia

F1989. Laid ___: flop

F1990. Take without permission, or someone you don’t want to see you take without permission

F1991. God in Guadalajara

F1992. Like the Animaniacs (RIP?)

F1993. George with the 1974 #1 hit “Rock Your Baby”

F1994. Iraqi physicist and diplomat Yasseen

F1995. Spending frenzy

F1996. Lao’s neighbor

F1997. Motion manga

F1998. Provide a home for

F1999. A little soggy

F2000. To whom Alice said, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards”

F2002. Joan ___ (French martyr)

F2004. One of the Reagans

F2005. Frankfurter or the Cat

F2006. Let out an air biscuit

F2007. Big name in coffeemakers

F2008. Immediately, in music

F2009. Thrown with oomph

F2010. Sometimes-pale brew

F2012. ___ Brewery Co. (Anheuser Busch rival)

F2013. Attention-getting phrase

F2016. Caesar’s cat

F2017. Become disillusioned with

F2018. Doing this is speeding

F2019. Card worth a fortune?

F2020. As if slumming it

F2022. Informs the authorities about

F2023. C.S.I. tasks

F2024. Fries. Morgan, and Tyler

F2025. Amelie star Audrey

F2029. ___ Burger (fast-food chain featured in The Big Lebowski)

F2031. For expensive tastes

F2032. Redwood-filled st.

F2033. Ludicrous comedies

F2034. Death-dealing

F2035. They look like front-capes

F2036. Fueling policy for rental cars

F2038. Dress style

F2039. Natural transition zone

F2040. Adjust pillows

F2041. First data sheet

F2042. Blu-ray player error message

F2043. Pratt’s ex, Barrett’s wife, and host of Unqualified

F2044. Designed to avoid wind resistance

F2045. Population center?

F2046. Arness-Whitmore sci-fi classic

F2048. List shortener, for short

F2049. Bought lunch for

F2050. Comedic star Martha

F2051. Business deals

F2052. Completely joyless

F2053. Scottish seacoast feature

F2054. Patagonia locale

F2055. World ___ (October event)

F2056. Making empty claims

F2058. Life in the lake and sea

F2059. He wrote Kalki in 1978

F2060. Pages (through)

F2061. Scar and Ursula were forced to share accommodations at a Disney characters’ convention, along with the living armoire from Beauty and the Beast. Things got tense until the farsighted hotelier, a talking lawnmower, found two additional rooms to move them into. With this, the hotelier had proved to be ____… (cont. in F2065-Across)

F2065. (From F2061-Across) …lead ___... (cont. in F2075-Across)

F2072. (From F2065-Across) …to ___.

F2075. Two-screen cinema

F2076. Artistic objects

F2077. 2020 and 2032, in a certain zodiac

F2079. Frequent foe of Wonder Woman (in the comics, not the movies…yet)

F2080. Actively reproducing, as a plant

F2081. Brazenly disobey

F2082. Meredith Grey’s younger interest

F2083. CD fig.

F2084. Suffix for manor or baron

F2085. Prolific Potterverse director David

F2086. Malkovich-hijacks-Cusack film, as opposed to Being John Malkovich, in which Cusack hijacks Malkovich

F2087. ___ wave (dangerous water)

F2088. Clownshoes size

F2089. March event for two of four

F2090. Tabby’s call

F2091. Elaborate do

F2092. With “the,” Dick Clark creation

F2093. Fulgencio’s successor

F2094. Otitis-treating MD

F2095. Mosque priest

F2096. Extra durable, as clay or a brick

F2098. Moody

F2099. King of Greek legend

F2100. 48 HRS actor Nick

F2101. Office errand runners

F2102. Color that’s “not a color,” to flamboyant designer Carlos Mota

F2103. With assurance

F2104. All but the signal, in radio

F2107. Container Store items

F2109. Later than

F2110. One of Edison’s 1,000-plus

F2111. Sister of Eos

F2112. “___ è” (Italian “it is”)

F2113. Retrieves

F2114. Carry by putting one’s back into it

F2115. Buck and stink ender

F2116. Unkosher

F2117. Left the room

F2118. Encompasses everything

F2119. Secure online protocol

F2120. Bad news on the stock market

F2122. Pointed out, as a perp

F2123. Whirlybird

F2124. Liquor bottle size

F2125. Noisy cockatoo with a pink, punky “mohawk”

F2126. Stop climbing and fly steady

F2127. Goddesses of destiny

F2128. Casual look

F2129. Your-fortunes-rise-with-the-company’s plans

F2130. Ending of some websites

F2131. Casts off

F2132. Apportioning

F2133. Co. that makes arrangements

F2134. Formerly to, formerly

F2135. Cannabis-loving insects

F2136. 1980 new wave classic

F2137. Piebald pony

F2138. Frequent activity of reporters on the government beat

F2140. Clingy wrap brand

F2141. Lose one’s grip

F2143. Capitol Hill lawmakers

F2145. Food item often cut into rings

F2146. Artificial turf sites

F2147. Strain felt in the chest

F2148. Bosom pals, in brief

F2152. Dog’s tail?

F2156. King Lear’s interjections

F2160. Fashionable

F2164. Black Widow, say

F2168. JKL;’s counterpart

F2172. Alternative introducer

F2176. 1960s White House resident, familiarly

F2181. Toymaker Schwarz

F2184. Sweated the details

F2188. Language family including Ancient Egyptian

F2190. He might provide assistance after a crash

F2191. Hits hard, classic comics-style

F2192. Silent film star Normand and others

F2193. Start of a phrase meaning “I don’t want to hear any qualifiers”

F2194. Polynesian kingdom

F2195. Roasts’ hosts

F2196. Where to find nets with creases

F2197. Golf miscue

F2198. Georges-Jacques who advocated Revolution

F2199. Concise, in Cannes

F2200. Petty in A League of Their Own

F2201. Kind of tennis

F2202. Visibly no longer young

F2203. ___-mancy: wine magic

F2204. MGM Vegas hotel

F2205. Official plural of a popular Toyota hybrid

F2206. He played Elliot on Mr. Robot

F2207. Short-___ owl

F2208. Prefix for “gold” and “hearing”

F2209. How to read bedtime stories

F2210. Overwhelm the audience

F2211. Bust enhancer

F2212. Ice masses

F2213. Agra garments

F2214. Discipline including forestry and lichenology

F2215. Describing guards and tackles

F2216. Ag club name

F2217. Uriah ___ (rock band or Dickens character)

F2218. Start of a show-off kid’s cry

F2221. Cassette half

F2222. Determined to finish

F2223. Compendious

F2224. Mideast land

F2225. Panic attacks

F2227. Ply the waves

F2229. Java-preparation aid

F2231. Happen

F2233. Brand that gets rid of something it rhymes with

F2234. Kernel holders

F2235. Kin of savannas

F2236. When you meet a big eel, and its teeth are like steel, that’s a ___

F2237. Roman ___ (novel genre)

F2238. Famous race site

F2239. Backward backward

F2240. Prepare to fund

F2242. That thing hanging from your palate

F2243. Texter’s “That is so funny!”

F2244. Solar system teaching tool

F2245. Bikes without pedaling

F2246. Sequester for now

F2248. E pluribus unum, like dishes

F2250. Somewhat salty

F2252. “Brights”

F2254. Quitter’s declaration

F2256. Name in Shameless and Shrek

F2258. Type of steak

F2259. Common cause of tonsillitis

F2260. Increasingly rare in-person stock-exchange workers

F2262. Campus midshipmen’s org.

F2263. Person thought to bring bad luck

F2264. Cowlicked member of Our Gang

F2268. ___ out: didn’t participate

F2269. Not esta or esa

F2270. Golf champ Mark

F2271. On ___ streak (winning)

F2272. Edit menu choice

F2273. Team finisher

F2274. Key of Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen

F2275. Mag mogul with a mansion

F2276. Waxlike membrane of a bird’s beak

F2278. Breathing through gritted teeth

F2279. Disapproves of, as a comment

F2282. Slugger Sosa

F2283. 55 minutes past the hour

F2284. Bloody horror sequel of 2005

F2285. “The ___ a man’s heart…”

F2286. Man from Mocha

F2287. Campus types

F2288. Like guppies or goldfish

F2289. Double ___ (Oreo product)

F2290. Twenty pence sterling

F2291. At 120 degrees

F2292. ___ are threaded metal pins fixed together with adhesive sheets to form an alphabet. PLOT TWIST: they’re what each of these longer narratives is written in! (not continued)

F2298. Racing stripes, et al.

F2301. Went on an African hunting expedition

F2303. That alumna

F2304. Cruiser’s bane

F2308. Healthful food claim

F2309. Not yet better

F2310. Attention-getting bulge area

F2311. Charge, British-style

F2312. Soda-shop offerings

F2313. ___ cantante

F2314. Tubing in the pool

F2315. Naive sorts

F2316. Opry star Red

F2317. Brewer’s collection

F2318. Look down on the clouds, perhaps

F2319. Plays the bell

F2320. Writer of Oedipus Rex and Antigone

F2321. Twelve months in perfect health, or half a decade as an invalid, maybe

F2322. Smart-sounding clarifiers

F2323. Wheel nut

F2325. Queens and kings

F2326. Run away abruptly

F2327. “To rephrase that…”

F2328. “Middle” in the front?

F2330. “___ a rip-off!”

F2331. Idle drawings

F2332. Side in the Iraq War?

F2334. ___ Atonement (Yom Kippur)

F2335. Drying ovens

F2336. A-, to a tiger mom

F2337. Olympian Johnson

F2338. Pillow constructions

F2339. Tootling instrument

F2340. “___ to You” (Rick Nelson)

F2341. Cranial rec.

F2342. “…robins ___ hair”

F2343. Returns to civvies

F2345. Like a Spartan who comes back “on his shield,” for short

F2346. Worldly rather than spiritual

F2348. The Broken Shaker in Miami, e.g.

F2350. It may be kept in a box in the basement

F2351. 1995 comet finder Thomas

F2352. Black superheroine with a short-lived TV series

F2353. ___ the finish (having potential to win)

F2354. Word sewn on a towel

F2356. Muffs

F2357. Pays, as the bill

F2358. Broadway setting since 4/11/91

F2359. “What color is the ___ your world?”

F2360. Makes more than gets spent

F2362. Sort of accordion-shaped potato dish

F2364. Exhibition football games

F2366. Scary sound for a balloonist

F2369. The whole thing

F2372. :51

F2373. With “the,” low feeling

F2374. Focus of an 1839-42 war

F2377. Informal words of thanks

F2379. “Impossible!”

F2381. She’s swapped out for Bonnie

F2383. Fair hirer, in a classified (abbr.)

F2384. Request from one with a white flag

F2385. Tissue type named for Achilles

F2386. Protestor’s chorus

F2387. They call him “Threepio,” but don’t call his companion this

F2388. Red Devils, for short

F2389. Diplomatic skills

F2390. We mortals, according to Puck

F2391. Emancipated, in Bonn

F2392. March around camp, e.g.

F2393. Stuck together, as twins

F2395. Fudge in some song lyrics

F2397. Italian trilogy

F2398. ___ soda

F2399. Questlove style

F2401. Gift in “The Gift of the Magi”

F2402. Eleventh-century date

F2403. Taken back, as territory

F2404. U.S. weapons export policy

F2406. Hoy dia

F2407. Schoolyard assertion

F2408. Revealing term

F2409. Fifty past

F2410. Small formality

F2411. Squeezes good stuff out of

F2412. Seductive methods, or mathematician Andrew who solved Fermat’s last theorem

F2413. Site of a 2007 surge

F2414. Created a new waterway through

F2416. Imitating thanks to inheritance

F2419. Violas’ big brothers

F2420. Plural name of Yahweh

F2424. Halo hero

F2429. One of Rhea Silvia’s twins

F2431. Elaborate invites for seniors?

F2438. Actor Wilson of The Office

F2439. $150 gamer platform of old

F2440. Give a ‘ard time to

F2441. “Just as” clause follower

F2442. Towers over

F2444. Fascicle

F2445. Sharp stone once thought to be an early tool

F2446. Frightened states

F2447. SALT part

F2448. 1969 Kingsley Amis novel, with “The”

F2449. Driest Spanish sherry

F2450. Thailand people

F2451. Short for a building

F2452. Squelches

F2453. Likely to make you feel like you can’t take it anymore

F2454. River that emerges from the Pyramid

F2455. Capper between a wig and a wiglet

F2456. Express regret over

F2458. US Grant’s foe

F2459. Sol who sings “When I’m in Your Arms”

F2460. Body-inspecting gov’t gp.

F2461. Sell like hotcakes

F2464. Grooming

F2465. Gardening Express or Plant World

F2467. Saturday Night Fever setting

F2468. Simms and Silvers

F2469. Give (up) information

F2470. Chesterfield or duster

F2471. Int’l governing body of soccer

F2472. “Pooh!,” once

F2473. ___ of war… (cont. in F2474-Across)

F2474. (From F2473-Across) ___ into blur, until a few World War II soldiers who’d attacked Northeast China ended up invading their own borders. (cont. in F2667-Across)

F2475. Totally slammed

F2477. Gritty go-with

F2478. Certain tribute

F2480. Less predictable

F2481. Model X or Model Y

F2482. Human rights advocate Kennedy

F2484. Doesn’t give up on

F2485. On top of things

F2486. Polite looks for a bad joke-teller

F2488. Providing counterpoint to those oohing

F2489. Farmer’s likely offering to God

F2491. Ord, for one

F2492. King-sized sandwich

F2493. Unquestionably, briefly

F2494. Michael Jackson’s song claim

F2497. Quick trip to Starbucks

F2501. Libertarian’s aim, for short

F2502. Knox and Dix (abbr.)

F2503. “I’m out of patience”

F2504. Exorcism targets

F2506. Jeanne d’Arc et al.

F2507. Prime seating area at sporting events, maybe

F2509. Keen onscreen

F2510. About to happen

F2511. New Balance rival

F2512. Like a taskmaster

F2513. Wide gaps

F2514. Japanese detective of classic film

F2515. One of dated ideology, with “old”

F2516. Hotel offerings

F2517. Boringly predictable, as a movie

F2519. Filming techniques

F2523. Starbucks orders

F2524. Best self

F2525. Common counting aid

F2527. Prescription measure

F2528. “___ in corpore sano”

F2530. P. Hearst’s kidnappers

F2531. “Look ___ “ (Vince Gill song)

F2532. Undoes a cancellation

F2533. “Eternal ___ impalpable out of the land…”: Whitman

F2534. “La vie ___” (high cost of living)

F2535. Booth or stand

F2536. Australian girl

F2537. Relig. sect

F2538. Second-column listing

F2539. Old Italian bread?

F2540. Hint of fragrance

F2541. Stupid one

F2542. Gone into decline

F2544. Accusation in a mirror in chat rooms

F2545. Little salamander

F2546. Crossword doers

F2547. Edible part of a peach

F2548. Small and strangely charming

F2552. “___ Song Go Out of My Heart” (Duke Ellington)

F2553. Install new hardware on

F2554. Sang like a canary, so to speak

F2556. Bowler’s ten

F2558. “The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make ___ value” (Ezra Taft Benson)

F2559. Shout after using an iron

F2560. Abercrombie & Fitch, for one

F2561. Mends hose

F2562. Leafy crown material

F2563. Hymn phrase followed by “Son and Holy Ghost”

F2565. Ninesome

F2566. Wall Street and Madison Avenue

F2567. Italian-made auto

F2568. “___ were up to me…”

F2569. Blessed by luck

F2571. Mayonnaise container

F2573. Arizona’s motto, “Ditat ___”

F2574. “___ minute…something’s off here…”

F2575. Wine capital of Burgundy

F2576. Planned killing

F2580. Lacking hands

F2584. Ending for Brooklyn

F2585. Catcher in the Rhone?

F2586. Barley bags

F2587. “In actuality…”

F2588. Seller of Craftsman tools

F2589. Repetition savers

F2590. Manages, as for oneself

F2591. Hotel capacity

F2592. Only Republican to hold a Senate seat from Hawaii

F2593. Farmer’s buy

F2594. Preposition of source

F2595. Ariana Grande song with the line, “No more playin’ safe, let’s take it all the way”

F2596. Stops in Hebrew (var.)

F2599. It may be deposited at a bank

F2601. Wassailers’ times

F2602. Even as we speak

F2603. Figure skater Harding

F2604. Travel like joining a cruise underway

F2606. Tea holder

F2607. For a very long time

F2609. Thin sheets of dough

F2610. Frightened

F2611. Prize pike

F2612. Charles, Fritz, and Walter of films

F2613. Tops in delicacy

F2614. Hardly worth a second thought

F2616. Marvin of recording fame

F2617. Concerned parents’ org.

F2618. Dumb goon

F2619. Early 18th century year

F2620. Pixar robot of 2008

F2621. Boys in the brae

F2622. Chickens and turkeys

F2623. Zoologist’s foot

F2624. Brad played her in The Incredibles

F2625. Being good enough

F2629. Most elegant

F2631. City near Pont du Gard

F2632. Schumann’s ___From Childhood

F2633. “Reelin’ In the Years” singer Donald

F2634. Journals on YouTube, say

F2635. Bring to increase

F2636. Modifier for the only kind of vegetarian I could realistically be

F2637. Time for celebration

F2638. Island that boasts Greece’s first university

F2639. Losing feeling?

F2640. Something real

F2641. Negative conjunctions

F2642. Long-lasting do

F2643. Portrait sitter

F2644. No thinner

F2645. Back end for Spotify or Netflix

F2646. Sleuth’s concern

F2647. Sea predators

F2649. Manipulate by fraud

F2650. Pearly mussel

F2651. Rye stalk part

F2653. Former Giant pitcher Robb

F2654. Add, perhaps

F2655. Mollifying influences

F2656. Does not pass

F2657. Dishonestly motivated

F2658. Twenty-seven divided by six

F2660. Emma Watson and JFK Jr., to Brown

F2661. Reform Party candidate Perot

F2662. Place on the Web

F2663. One of a French hen?

F2664. Was decked out in

F2665. Cover the surface of, as with a design

F2667. (From F2474-Across) ____ for captaincy who’d been in that squad found himself demoted very quickly after that.

F2672. City of a famous leaning tower

F2673. Heedless of economic class, as love should be

F2686. Renounce

F2687. ___ sine qua non (requisite)

F2688. ___ drugs (bacterial treatment largely replaced by antibiotics)

F2689. “My love” in Lima

F2690. Not get caught by

F2691. 1937 DuPont invention

F2692. It may be graven or spitting

F2693. French rhymer

F2694. Shoplifting, euphemistically

F2698. Swiss Miss logo topper

F2699. Remove calcium and magnesium from, at home

F2702. Places for sci. experiments

F2703. Like a sweep’s uniform

F2704. It’s enforced by les gendarmes

F2705. ___ by Olay (Procter & Gamble brand)

F2706. “Buzz” or “hiss,” e.g.

F2707. Had a bill, still

F2708. Artist’s home, perhaps

F2709. Bob of dance

F2710. ___ the Worlds

F2711. Amuse-bouche

F2712. Garlic bulblet

F2713. Waterproofing for wood

F2715. “I’ll do more of that, if the ___ what you want”

F2716. Formless element

F2717. River flowing through Armenia

F2718. Rich, in slang

F2719. Letters above 0-0-0, before a baseball game begins

F2720. Damascus, e.g.

F2721. Sport with jabs

F2722. Electricians on movie sets

F2726. Spark source

F2727. “I guess I messed up (tee-hee)”

F2730. Beginning of many congregation names

F2731. Second look

F2732. Bad spot

F2733. Cover more ground, as a search party

F2734. Mint is one (not everyone knows that)

F2736. Botched

F2737. Bernie of the NFL

F2738. Of greatest breadth

F2739. Bug problem

F2741. Sows and boars

F2742. Animal tracker’s clue

F2743. Modern brain-scanning procedure, for short

F2744. Redundant name for an Ubercross format

F2746. Trifles: Fr.

F2748. “Get my ___?”

F2749. Word form for “sacred”

F2750. Running away from

F2751. Steak sauce brand

F2752. Kind of quick inheritance

F2753. Krazy of comic strips

F2754. Most popular Arabic title

F2756. Remained undecided

F2757. State events

F2758. Footlong product

F2759. Work on hooves

F2760. Characteristic of the brain, heart, and lungs

F2762. -trices, alternatively

F2763. In His Image subject

F2764. Plaice or dace

F2765. Nyan and Grumpy, e.g.

F2766. Ribs-to-rump beef cut

F2767. Not yet decided, casually

F2768. Old jazz great Kid

F2769. P.D. person

F2772. One not allowed to own a gun

F2773. Curing kiln

F2774. Learned mentors

F2775. Fizzled

F2776. Enlisted VIP

F2777. Addresses now RRs

F2778. Aqua ___: clean water

F2780. Inferior

F2782. Are terrible

F2783. Turin relic

F2784. The Planets composer

F2785. Company shunner

F2786. They’ll attend your parties, but when the chips are down, they’ll stop returning your calls

F2788. Feudal lords

F2789. Infuriation

F2790. They’re less than one

F2793. Stomach streamliner

F2794. 1994 literary autobiography

F2796. Fairy-tale ending?

F2798. That guy, to Guy

F2799. Set burning

F2800. It’s not a long shot

F2801. ___ Well That Ends Well

F2802. Khans’ kin

F2803. Abbrev. for a noncom E-8

F2804. Wasatch County resident

F2806. Boxers and pugs

F2808. “Yew gots ta pay, son”

F2810. Sub tragedy

F2811. Turf controllers

F2812. Verbal fencing

F2813. Steep rugged mountain feature

F2814. Barflies

F2815. Cooks in oil

F2816. Hoodlike caps

F2817. “Best in the decade, ___ all time?”

F2818. Wellness centers

F2819. Fish alternative

F2820. Films, in Variety headlines

F2821. Crooner “King” Cole

F2822. Increase the value of

F2823. John, Doris Day’s co-star in The Pajama Game

F2825. Turn to the other side

F2827. With F2827-Down, con game

F2828. PC screen variety

F2829. Letters from one who’s shy?

F2830. Loafed (if one letter shorter, this would be “laughed”)

F2832. Mythical troublemaker

F2834. Bolted

F2835. Actress Davis with eyes immortalized in a pop hit

F2836. Tars who climb spars

F2837. Smithy ovens

F2838. Corleone who’s told “you’re nothing to me now”

F2839. Game company employee

F2840. Sunny forecast

F2841. Painter Gustav

F2842. Old 442 rivals

F2843. “Great minds think alike, but…”

F2847. Guides, in a way

F2848. Type, derogatorily

F2849. “Fiction” is just another word for ____, like the ones told by most alleged purveyors of ‘incredible facts.’” (cont. in F3028-Across)

F2854. “___ Diary” (Twain short story)

F2856. CIO partner

F2857. Big camping inits.

F2859. Displaying dexterity

F2861. Annual NBA event

F2862. Lee or Spencer

F2863. Usain Bolt’s shoes

F2864. Less lax

F2865. Cost of credit card consolidation

F2867. Celui qui parle cette langue

F2869. Bridesmaids director Paul

F2870. JPEG alternatives

F2871. “Save Your Love for Me” chanteuse Jones

F2872. Air Force woman

F2873. “Neat-o!”

F2874. Inits. sometimes added to “U” (for uncertain) to make “QUILTBAG”

F2875. Spheres of operation

F2878. Like jam

F2880. Guinness record, maybe

F2881. IRS money

F2882. World-conquering game with Roman-numeral pieces

F2883. Project

F2886. Exclamations made by every family member but the baby in a famous sitcom

F2888. Op. ___ (footnote)

F2889. Loyal coterie

F2891. Sixpence, slangily

F2892. Book by Hartfeld about the USSR

F2893. Clean, as a spill

F2894. Jet off for

F2895. Belshazzar doing

F2896. Singer-songwriter Benjamin

F2897. Cow’s kid

F2898. Col. group

F2899. Tiny paws that have toe beans but also pointy parts, beware

F2901. T character

F2902. Pessimists’ specialties

F2903. “___ too short!”

F2904. Get bubbly

F2905. Printing choice

F2906. Veep under GRF

F2907. Info for a driver at an airport

F2908. Not giving up on

F2910. Rewrite the fictional history of

F2912. Hourglass stuff

F2913. Lighted sign at a radio station

F2914. Anger, so to speak

F2915. When a quick snap may occur?

F2916. Once in a blue moon

F2917. Self-descriptive Vin Diesel role

F2918. “I’m in a minority ___”

F2919. Fiscal strategists for the company, often

F2920. Uncultured person

F2921. Two-masted ship

F2922. Tailor’s concern

F2923. Former Cardinal Marrero

F2924. “Screw you!”

F2926. Most West Pointers

F2927. Sounds made when socked in the gut

F2928. Family ___ (game show with many facepalms)

F2929. Beau Brummell types

F2930. Subj. for a radio astronomer

F2931. ___ Helens (1980 erupter)

F2932. John Gunther book

F2933. Titles for Fox and Bear

F2934. French gateway

F2935. The Parthenon now, for example

F2936. Was a distributor for

F2937. Working undercover, for short

F2938. Gravity director

F2939. Dirty look

F2940. Does poetry work

F2941. Cartoony yell if your butt’s on fire and you’re running in circles

F2942. Surpasses

F2943. Act like a couch potato

F2944. Where you won’t find an atheist, it’s said

F2946. Richards or Crosby of Hollywood

F2947. Catch, as a perp

F2948. The ram

F2950. Progress meas. in games

F2951. 1980s Iranian president Bani-___

F2952. Bunyan’s Blue Ox

F2953. Concert challenges

F2954. Platonic thingness

F2955. Cinnabar, e.g.

F2956. “___ Heavy Metal” (song from Pete Townshend’s The Iron Man)

F2957. Narrow ravine

F2958. Brass, so to speak

F2959. Manga/anime/trading card craze of the early 2000s

F2960. Shawshank Redemption and O Brother, Where Art Thou? goal

F2962. Aptly named novelist Charles

F2963. Keats and Yeats, for two

F2964. Third-class

F2965. Place for a shoe

F2966. No longer there

F2967. Abbreviation paired with cis, sometimes

F2968. Squeeze (by)

F2969. Red root veggie

F2970. Mountain that straddles the Pakistan-China border

F2971. Fair share

F2972. Soft leather shoes, for short

F2973. Nervous mannerisms

F2974. Japanese money

F2975. Barnyard males

F2976. Calls names

F2982. Old Testament realm now shared between Israel and Jordan

F2983. Neck ridges

F2984. “The Fiddler of Dooney” poet

F2985. First things to learn

F2987. Showing some pluck

F2988. Unvarying techniques

F2990. Grandparents’ great-grandchild

F2995. Tofu relative in F2994-Down cuisine

F2996. Photo file extension

F2997. Dwight’s rival at the voting booth

F2999. Give a nod (to)

F3002. Nurse’s intern

F3003. Things to keep tabs on

F3007. Banda ___ (2004 tsunami site)

F3008. More high-calorie, as shortening

F3009. “Are you for real?”

F3010. Depressing direction?

F3011. Pilfer

F3012. Artists’ blades

F3013. Two-time Nobelist Curie

F3014. Rick who led survivors against the Walking Dead

F3015. “Shaddap!”

F3016. Idol worshipper, e.g.

F3017. Smoky passage

F3018. Brand sold at PetSmart

F3019. Social oddball

F3020. Parks’ partner, for short

F3021. Funnyman Brooks

F3022. Palate-cleanser

F3023. Go gaga over

F3027. Manicurist’s concerns

F3028. (From F2849-Across) But not so ___ and the “Believe it or Not” crew that carry on in his name! All their facts are verified, which is why they have so much trouble competing with clickbait these days. (cont. in F3191-Across)

F3031. Hawaiian name in a Disney film title

F3032. Quake aftermath

F3033. “I ___ my wit’s end!”

F3034. It cannot be negotiated

F3036. Facebook Live device

F3037. Point of sharpest vision

F3038. Did a pressing chore

F3039. Gradually disappeared

F3040. Orange-sweeting bugs that look like bees

F3042. Prefix with scope or logical

F3043. ___ accompli

F3044. Tissue, grossly

F3046. Words followed by “commandments” or “plagues”

F3047. George Herbert Walker Bush

F3048. Amusing

F3049. Such and no more

F3050. “Who ___ blame?”

F3051. Arbitrary edicts

F3052. Pt. of two state names

F3053. Ridge on the surface of cloth.

F3054. ___ in echo

F3055. Go after, as buried treasure

F3057. With The, first print publication released on iTunes

F3058. Medically speaking, “events which result in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level”

F3059. Writer Ellison

F3060. Indian-American campaign-finance violator Trump pardoned in 2018, also a far-right conspiracy theorist, and I’m sorry to bring him up, but some things are worth staying mad about

F3062. Logician Kurt

F3063. Keep moist

F3064. Chockablock

F3065. Faulkner’s The Sound and the ___

F3066. Bride’s target

F3067. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles concluded it (abbr.)

F3068. Pertaining to Jupiter’s small neighbors

F3070. Doorway curtains

F3071. Org. whose documents Edward Snowden leaked

F3072. French leader?

F3073. Words after Wizard

F3074. Co-creator of The Flintstones

F3075. Prefix with marketer

F3076. Menu catchphrase

F3077. Right sides (abbr.)

F3078. Warren and Scruggs

F3079. “And so ___” (Pepys’ “Good night”)

F3080. Shift letters

F3081. Hoodoos

F3082. Star Trek officer Chekov

F3083. Traveling actors

F3084. Bacall’s love, onscreen and off

F3085. Carpenter with the pipes?

F3086. One who, according to Oscar Wilde, “can survive everything but a misprint”

F3087. 1958 musical directed by Vincente Minnelli

F3088. EastEnders’ Windsor who starred in her own biopic

F3089. Trust-busting period

F3091. Reacts to a threat

F3092. Prop for Al Roker

F3093. Package abbr.

F3095. Its full title includes “of the Apostles”

F3096. Tilts to one side

F3097. Old school figures

F3098. Space in a rocky relationship?

F3100. Us Parisians?

F3102. Set down

F3103. Sure alternative

F3104. Cloaks

F3105. With a lid on

F3106. Bill that rocked

F3107. Impossible Missions Force leader

F3108. Margin of error

F3110. Egg order, with “up”

F3112. Singer of an 18-minute hit

F3113. Base of a Singapore sling

F3114. Good place to write programs, acronymically

F3115. The Boy Scouts have 138

F3116. Viagra competitor

F3117. Like some cinematic scientists

F3118. Trotsky and Jaworski

F3121. Rainbow, brown, and brook

F3124. Fedora materials

F3125. “Just so you know,” on a memo

F3126. Bible bk. with some unnerving similarities to The Purge

F3127. Transports immortalized by Duke Ellington

F3129. Philosophy 101 subject

F3130. Poet Bysshe Shelley

F3131. French women

F3132. As ___ the eye could see

F3133. British lakes thar are indeed pretty wide

F3134. Deplorable

F3135. Campus rushers, for short

F3136. “___ No Sunshine” (1971 Bill Withers song)

F3137. One you dig the most

F3138. Ride-or-die type

F3141. Getup for the big dance

F3143. Grissom on CSI

F3144. Turn a blind eye to

F3145. Target, on the diamond

F3146. D who sings “Just Like a Queen”

F3147. Game in which players offer a few words

F3151. Graphic top

F3152. Prefix meaning “ribbon-shaped”

F3153. Hardly independent

F3154. ___ loaf

F3155. Got frothy

F3156. “I’m something of an accidental expert on the subject”

F3158. CNN talk-host King

F3159. Gem from an oyster

F3160. Pop of rock?

F3161. Critical

F3162. Better half

F3163. AFB group from the ‘40s

F3164. They get the last wd.

F3165. Brownish-orange

F3166. Worked oneself into?

F3167. Soli- relative

F3169. The truth

F3170. Tool to enhance durumming with one’s feet

F3172. Overdo it

F3173. Long John Silver impression

F3174. Perp pic

F3175. Sci-fi barriers

F3177. German cakes.

F3178. Fizzy bevvies

F3179. Palestinian Yasser named for a sacred mount

F3180. Sommelier’s recommendations

F3181. Quote from first Bugs, then Daffy

F3183. Oscar night devotees

F3185. Don’t waste time

F3187. Pashto speaker of Pakistan or Afghanistan

F3188. Like the wind

F3189. Fully updated

F3190. Obadiah, Tony Stark’s enemy

F3191. (From F3028-Across) But truth is still important to American culture…and has been ever since ____ onto the shores of Plymouth Rock! (Wait, is this one fact or fiction? I’m losing track.)

F3193. Créature

F3194. Bone connected to the triceps

F3195. Distributes, with “out”

F3196. Part of the coast panorama

F3197. Got a cloudy layer over oneself

F3198. Dark-skinned fruit

F3199. Ars longa, vita ___

F3200. Inflates, as ego

F3201. Paris plague

F3202. Key favored by Hans Zimmer, for short

F3203. Disconcert

F3204. Performing or martial follower

F3205. Notation after a verbatim quote, maybe

F3206. Not infrequent, in poems

F3207. Dark brown fur

F3208. Corpuscle conduit

F3209. Transfers via post

F3210. Author Donna who wrote, “There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial”

F3211. Mythical queen of heaven

F3212. Wide shoe markings

F3213. Quaker title?

F3214. Flyswatter, of a sort

F3215. Williams team

F3216. Show approval aloofly

F3217. Little piggies?

F3218. Put on the market

F3219. Inventor Buckminster

F3220. Deeds of derring-do

F3221. Collusion (usually pluralized)

F3222. What air traffic controllers coordinate

F3224. In a short time

F3225. Princeton rival

F3226. Fruit bearer

F3227. Known without experience

F3229. He may swing from the heels

F3230. Cap projections

F3231. Make scampi, say

F3232. Georgia resident

F3233. Full of sibilant letters? (I may be experiencing the Mandela effect with this one)

F3234. Of times past, in times past

F3235. “___ serious?”

F3236. Airport that serves Paris

F3237. Girls’ love, but more graphic

F3238. Sparkle

F3240. Traditional Japanese mattress

F3241. Mexico-United States divide

F3242. Some dams

F3243. Force-carrying particles

F3244. Remote button

F3245. Rapid raid

F3246. You might sit on it too much

F3247. Bridge position

F3248. Learned lot

F3250. The south of France?

F3251. Nathaniel’s literary sinner

F3252. Rice dishes

F3253. Batting maneuvers

F3258. Bouncy youngster in Pooh’s crowd

F3260. Naïfs “in the woods”

F3261. French noble

F3262. Spoiler, of a sort

F3263. Specialties

F3264. Sleepy starter?

F3265. Green ones are usually tough

F3266. Commemorates

F3267. It’s plucked in Pakistan

F3268. Coffee sleeve

F3269. Excessively

F3270. Office note

F3271. Go on and on and on

F3273. Casual shoe

F3274. Look good on, once

F3275. “Haven’t got ___ ¯\_(?)_/¯”

F3276. Criticize as worthless

F3277. 1971 David Bowie song that Pitchfork named “the best song of the 1970s”

F3284. Dearly wishing one could

F3293. Feature of coastal Louisiana

F3296. Yet to be rented

F3297. Pandemic-era romantic meetups

F3298. Afternoon, in Madrid

F3299. Mosaic items

F3300. One whose faith is in evidence?

F3302. “If ___ Had a Brain”

F3303. Spot for a ride?

F3304. Overpower

F3305. Tony winner who played Burr

F3306. ___-watching (making sure your TV critiques are informed ones)

F3307. Unit usually seen with a prefix

F3308. Intro to Asia?

F3309. Nourish

F3310. Arnaz Jr. and Sr.

F3311. Mini-mounds made by many legs

F3314. Continuous, though not chronic, discomfort

F3315. Giving a number?

F3316. Embarrassed by

F3317. Spice that makes Indian food taste Indian

F3319. Be aggravating in a targeted way

F3322. Oasis, in a Superman-inspired metaphor

F3324. Game of Thrones’ game-changers

F3328. Depart triumphant, never to be seen again

F3332. Celery-and-raisin snack

F3334. Gave birth to

F3335. “You can’t make this stuff up, man”

F3338. Candy crooks

F3340. Ortega rival

F3341. Rink ranks

F3343. Exile living in India since 1960

F3344. Get dizzy

F3346. For years and years following

F3347. Like puberty at age 16

F3349. “See what I’m saying?”

F3350. Have a fun night out

F3352. Hill-top arena

F3354. “I Guess ___ Rather Be in Colorado” (John Denver)

F3355. Alaska’s Alaskan Malamute, for one

F3356. Shakespearean stir

F3357. Source of some expansion

F3358. Black Power 1970s cut

F3359. Old Chinese money

F3360. Living qtrs.

F3361. “Received and understood”

F3362. How the deaf speak

F3363. Twofold

F3364. Grate, with “get”

F3365. Champagne toast?

F3366. Chats online, for short

F3367. Who’s responsible, in a military op

F3368. Watcher of the woods org.

F3369. Complete a crossword puzzle

F3370. Texting system, in brief

F3371. Virginia colonist John

F3372. Money in Callao

F3373. Stoop parts

F3374. White stuff, in Scotland

F3375. Rocketman star Egerton

F3376. Main squeeze, today

F3377. Completely consumed

F3378. The limits of modernism?

F3379. Biblical no-nos

F3380. WYSWIG cams

F3381. Leaves in stitches?

F3382. Unwanted remains

F3383. Guinness servers

F3384. Authors of about 45% of all COVID tweets in 2020

F3385. “___ one welcome our new robot overlords”

F3386. Colcord portrayer Roger on Cheers

F3387. It can turn up heads

F3388. Supposed septet (but there’s way more than seven)

F3389. Feel-better med

F3390. They fill stadiums

Down

F1. Toasting need

F2. What the f/ stands for

F3. Gin-like American liqueurs

F4. One opposed

F5. Bodily projections

F6. “All growth is ___ in the dark” (Miller)

F7. Grunt accompanying a shrug

F8. “If you would…”

F9. Traffic-weaving ability

F10. They keep houses cool in summer (abbr.)

F11. “The set of things that exist includes…,” less philosophically

F12. What the F used to stand for, in certain video game play

F13. Bone doctor’s prefix

F14. A-blast from the past

F15. Wall Street index, for short

F16. Word after “be” or “by”

F17. Horseplay

F18. What the F. stood for, in the 1960s White House

F19. Passes in a blur

F20. Creator of Leopold Bloom

F21. Interior designer Stewart

F22. He proved the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity

F23. Western metropolis, for short

F24. PC software of old

F25. Cleverly apropos

F26. Ten, in Turin

F27. Sweater synthetic

F28. Beau, slangily

F29. Ally, to the military

F30. McCartney group

F31. Abominates

F32. Disdainful expression

F33. Bertolli competitor

F34. Soon to receive

F35. Reward for a premium subscriber, often

F36. Cred. report item

F37. The Winchesters airer

F38. Dollars and cents

F39. Singer Paul’s six kids

F40. “Live ___” (Taco Bell slogan that, despite being that, is actually good advice)

F41. Vague dread

F42. Diner side orders

F43. Yells “Fore!” at

F44. One may be hoppy

F45. Some dresses

F46. Play ___: do one’s part

F47. One-___: simple joke

F48. UN workers’ rights agcy.

F49. Trade show presentations

F50. Some vacation spots

F51. Farm trough

F52. Fred Savage’s brother on Boy Meets World

F53. Jedi Council VIP

F54. ___ above (somewhat superior)

F55. Ready, in the kitchen

F56. New Year festival overseas

F57. Dye plant

F58. Bacchante’s “oh boy oh boy oh boy!”

F59. Crooner Crosby

F60. Cookie introduced in 1912

F62. Principal concerns?

F63. Where chads became famous (abbr.)

F64. “___ honored!”

F65. “___ of My Dreams”

F67. What the F*** stands for (we’re allowing ourselves just one, like a PG-13 movie)

F68. Cathartic plant

F69. Venmo alternative

F70. Name followed by Amarth or Tobin in music

F71. Koosh competitor

F72. Omar or Mike of Hollywood

F73. “Quit procrastinating!”

F74. ___ cat

F76. Make out, in York

F77. Way it’s done

F78. Wolfed down, e.g.

F79. Everything Is Illuminated author Jonathan Safran

F80. “Use your eyes!”

F81. Join forces

F82. Paved road

F83. Latin referral word

F84. “…but if you hum ___, I’ll fake it”

F85. Dante’s ___ Nuova

F86. Initials on a cross

F87. Senegalese-American “Smack That” singer

F89. Kind of jaguarundi

F90. The one where Moses dies, for short

F91. Exert a pull

F92. Doll maids in Egyptian tombs

F93. Bag, in Madrid

F94. Bathroom wall material

F95. Basketball court duo

F96. Shiftless egocentric in As I Lay Dying

F97. Key I keep accidentally hitting on this new keyboard

F99. In dire need of water

F100. Mother Goose’s product

F101. Menudo’s “Si Tu No ___”

F102. Word Eminem introduced to the language

F104. “What’s the ___?”

F105. Girls on the ranch

F106. “Evil Woman” singers

F107. Exam for future drs.

F109. What the F stands for, in this puzzle

F110. Crazed

F113. Makes like Uma’s character in Pulp Fiction

F114. Meth ending

F115. “Didn’t I warn you?”

F117. NYSE debut, for short

F118. Motel sign abbr.

F121. Calif. air hub

F122. Expend

F124. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas drug

F125. Unfold, poetically

F127. ___ militaris (Roman soldier or vet)

F128. “The Fall of the House of Usher” writer

F130. “Notorious” Supreme Court inits.

F131. Ozone-layer hazard

F132. Legislation that led to wheelchair ramps, for short

F134. Show with Elisabeth Shue

F137. Yes, its light does go off when you close its door

F139. Some ER staff members

F141. Oxidation indication

F144. Understandings

F147. She retires with Bruce in the last Dark Knight movie

F150. CB-ers?

F153. Would as ___ (would gladly)

F171. Outdoor gear merchant known by its initials

F175. Display again

F177. Towering Frenchman?

F182. Car or sports plane, sizewise

F183. “___, this is a Wendy’s”

F184. Corporate money man

F185. Call out someone breaking the rules

F186. Walled city on the coast of France

F187. Cut back, as hedges

F188. Advancement

F189. Hours-long meal

F190. ___ for the course (normal)

F191. Inducing claustrophobia

F192. Sculptures made from castaways

F193. Keep one’s distance from fame

F194. Opponents

F195. Musician who said “I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice”

F196. Reaction to suddenly becoming flush?

F197. Mel Blanc’s is “That’s all, folks”

F198. Quality of a corrupt politician

F199. 7:50, vis-a-vis 8:00

F201. “This is ___ of organization” (Teddy Roosevelt)

F202. Stress and bother

F203. Probers of urban myth

F204. Former Georgia senator

F205. Takes to the soapbox

F206. Ingolstadt cars

F207. God of Memphis

F208. Booze dispenser

F209. Lil Dicky’s paean to jealousy

F210. Torture-happy, er, hero Jack of 24

F211. Wee dinner droppings

F212. Bank abbr.

F214. Lymph growths

F215. Bad reputation

F216. Expand, as pupils

F217. Alanis Morissette’s “Head Over ___”

F218. Stop in New England

F219. Finds one’s centre

F220. Moby Dick narrator

F221. Assessed, as for a violation

F222. Tolkien trilogy, to fans

F223. It stands for January

F224. Out of Africa star

F225. Entrance area

F226. Worm or fish, e.g.

F227. Country south of Braz.

F228. “…shall see thee, ___ die, look pale with love” (Much Ado About Nothing)

F229. Titanic plea

F230. Euphemism for F67-Down

F231. Overinflated sense of one’s own importance

F232. People shared by America and Russia

F233. Strokes lovingly

F234. Lines coming from the heart, briefly?

F235. The magical version of hidden cameras

F236. What this puzzle isn’t, thanks to that F-word

F237. Dined in

F238. Millennials’ forerunners

F239. Like God

F240. Popular

F241. Full of smoke

F242. Devices that can now tell Roombas what to do

F243. “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” for one

F244. Coat, informally

F245. Charges for key beneficiaries of public projects

F246. Parts of sows and cows

F247. “I’m not a doctor, but I play one ___”

F248. “I did a women’s movie, and I’m not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I’m not gay. I learned as I went along” speaker Lee

F249. Dunderpate

F250. Standard infantry weapon

F251. ___ acid (LSD dose)

F252. “Grand” ice cream brand

F253. Rodney Dangerfield’s “There goes the neighborhood” and H.G. Wells’ “I told you so, you damned fools”

F254. Attracted by

F255. [Yuck…that’s awful!]

F256. Sapien, Hellboy fish-man named for a president

F257. Hockey arenas

F258. _ _ _ _ F

F259. Ancient valuables

F260. Ride a Deere

F261. First, for Felipe

F262. Plastic used in food storage

F263. Folded corner

F264. Considerable span of time

F265. Profited

F269. Author Mehta

F271. Replies to a tweet from

F275. Cry of desperation

F289. Like workers on a pension (abbr.)

F295. ___ Just Not That Into You (2009 rom-com)

F296. French author Georges

F298. Set-tos

F299. Taken back due to nonpayment

F301. “Gimme ___” (start of a Stanford cheer?)

F302. Worth worrying about buyer’s remorse over

F304. Second indicator?

F305. Fairly Oddparent to Timmy Turner

F306. Cooked but not browned

F308. Animal House partywear

F309. Atra or Sensor

F310. From little ones do mighty oaks grow

F313. “Sounds right to me”

F314. Vigorously begins

F320. You wouldn’t want to meet a big guy in a dark one

F322. “Let ___” (bettor’s expression)

F325. Have a crush on, in middle school lingo

F326. Alternatives to chards and cabs

F330. Tiptop

F335. Fix for any woe

F338. Nonneutral particle

F339. Spa town with noted mineral waters

F340. Site of the Hunger Games

F342. Bring in “Bad Lip-Reading” in the sound booth, e.g.

F343. Some penal institutions

F344. Blood Simple brothers

F345. Funerary constructions

F347. Theaters I really did not expect to survive the pandemic

F348. Predetermined dialogue, as in telemarketing

F349. Picnic playwright and family

F350. Veni-vici link

F351. Ups ‘n’ downs herein

F352. “She has ___” (important poker info)

F353. Wrestler Ric known as “The Nature Boy”

F354. tcampbell2@wm.___ (my first email address)

F355. Feel like punching something

F356. Europe-Asia dividing range

F357. Black and red veggies

F358. Let’s scratch each other’s, what do you say?

F359. Opening in some pajamas

F360. Automated task-runner

F362. “Brains are the new ___” (T-shirt slogan)

F365. The Seminoles’ school

F366. With a smooth, glossy finish

F368. Without missing ___ (smoothly)

F369. Popular emojis for friendly conversation

F370. Recoils

F371. Northern Iraqis

F372. Went to the plate but didn’t play defense

F373. Crux ansata

F374. Often-spammy marketing move

F375. Some Harvard newcomers

F376. Tough spots

F377. Commercial snap?

F378. Two and __ Men

F379. ___ Ababa

F380. “Crazy” (but actually clever) animal

F381. Guffaw a la Benny Hill

F382. Collins or Stacey of song

F383. Impressive achievements

F384. Louis-Dreyfus role

F385. Strong criticism

F386. “In that case,…”

F391. Supplementary

F392. Closes off

F393. “___ Ho!”

F394. Marshlands

F395. Pitched home

F396. “…pan, ___ the fire”

F397. Upset with

F398. Going ___ pieces: freaking out

F399. Main enemy in God of War

F400. Tunneling pest

F401. The band fun. and others

F402. On a scale of one ___

F403. River inlet

F404. Special talent

F405. Nun’s headpiece

F406. Apples with many cores

F407. What makes waste?

F408. Rub the wrong way

F409. Nasty whale

F410. Life by the pleasure principle

F411. Wheel tracks

F414. Many email attachments

F415. Where humuhumunukunukuapuaa might be served

F417. Casual affair

F419. Herb in havarti

F422. Run one’s hands through one’s hair

F425. He led Uganda to independence

F429. Old codger

F435. Nation with a machete on its flag

F436. Superman-Spider-Man romance story, e.g.

F437. Like lips after a long swim

F439. Dijon heads

F440. Smudge on Santa’s suit

F443. “It pains me to hear that”

F444. Nickel-copper alloy

F445. Nation with a black star in the center of its flag

F446. Fuzzy fabric

F447. Editor-in-chief of a self-named magazine whose presidential runs may have just been ahead of their time

F448. Gave guff

F449. City of the southern Puerto Rico, named for an explorer

F450. Hubbard of Scientology

F451. Hawaii honoree in National Statuary Hall

F452. Making noises for cute kitties

F453. Duck Dynasty airer

F454. One of four in a chess set

F455. What one might have if they’re a study in contrasts

F456. Name shared by two of Hanna-Barbera’s best-known characters

F457. Foot-related

F458. Way to go?

F459. Unpaved edge of a road

F460. Qur’an chapter

F461. Pediatricians’ gp.

F465. Jeopardy! has four

F466. Bristol’s mom

F467. Vagaries

F468. Demeanor

F469. Fruit spray until 1989

F470. Stove circle

F471. Bay off southeast Canada (that sounds extreme)

F472. Declassification law

F473. Degrees for would-be priests, perhaps

F474. Investment-portfolio item

F475. Analyze, grammatically

F476. Risks being caught off base?

F477. Like a baby with dimples, say

F478. Sentence segment (abbr.)

F479. Leaves standing

F480. Good-fer-nothin’

F481. It makes waves

F482. Very tall

F483. Stale French bread?

F486. Blow chunks

F487. Creatures from 802,701 AD

F489. Audiophiles’ systems

F490. ___-Lay (snack food company)

F491. Pioneering sexologist Hite

F492. Sci-fi swear gone mainstream

F493. Movie theater ending

F494. Leave no alternative

F495. Crush competitor

F496. Faneuil, e.g.

F498. Present your slant

F499. Arctic wear

F500. Move like a moth

F501. Factory-inspecting org.

F502. Hot-dog holders

F503. Subject of a certain weather alert

F504. Bjork song that is not about the Disney dog

F505. Vamooses

F506. Mrs. Lincoln’s family

F507. Revolutionary rebel Daniel of 1786

F508. Prefix for stealing

F509. Millennials spread them on toast, or so I’ve heard

F510. Comedian Janeane of many 1990s movies

F513. “Morph” for “anthropomorphology” and “nic” for “miscommunication,” e.g.

F514. Travelocity printouts

F515. What radicals go off

F516. NetZero competitor

F517. Feng ___

F518. Mineral named for a French physicist

F519. Gets out, in the market

F520. Amie’s title, sometimes

F521. “Um, sure”

F522. Playing favorites

F523. Crier’s cry

F524. Hemingway’s “The Sun ___ Rises”

F526. Gilbert or Downing

F527. Showing tentative gains

F528. With “The,” highest-grossing movie of its franchise and fifth-highest of all moviedom

F529. Rather violent, perhaps

F530. Kidnap, slangily

F531. “___ ever occur to you…”

F532. Are, as far as we can tell

F535. They’re just getting started

F536. Type of suction?

F537. Classy “any minute now”

F538. Pelota propellers

F539. Only English adjective to regularly feature a diaeresis

F540. Have an impact on

F541. Words once associated with the Emergency Broadcasting System

F542. So much, musically

F543. Priced ___: not meant to stay in inventory

F544. God invoked by a dating website

F545. Goes overboard at the buffet table

F546. Prepares to feather?

F547. Former president of Turkey

F548. Roman writer of Naturalis Historia

F549. How most people drink

F550. Old-timey contraction that’s harder to confuse with a possessive than its modern counterpart

F551. Cable service add-on

F552. Firestarting

F553. Opening in the Navy?

F554. Christian prefix

F555. Whip, as cream

F556. Be a grind?

F557. Uses (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to mark the name of

F562. Carrot and cheese, for rabbits and rodents

F564. Dutch actress Nina

F566. Robinson Crusoe writer

F568. Needing a nap

F570. Uses for nourishment

F572. Opener opener?

F574. Bite into, as the Fruit of Knowledge

F576. War of 1991

F580. What an au pair might take (abbr.)

F583. Coty and namesakes

F584. With furthest points touching

F585. Memo line

F586. Refrigerated trailers, in trucker lingo

F587. Bridge bids

F588. Express contempt, as a bull

F589. “Those were the ___”

F590. Young animal

F591. “Give it ___!” (“Enough!”)

F592. Not go bad

F593. Interjections that sound surprised and a bit upset

F595. Last word on the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack

F596. Waikiki dances

F597. Seinfeld boyfriend played by Patrick Warburton

F598. New Girl girl

F599. Carry thanklessly

F600. “Or, as you may know her…”

F602. Tahoe and Yukon

F603. First president to occupy the Oval Office

F604. Classic novel whose title means “rover”

F606. Bomb Rush Cyberpunk’s “Get ___”

F607. 2004 World Golf Hall of Famer Isao

F609. Are inclined to go easy on

F610. Unable to align

F611. Congolese river

F612. Camera shop display, for short

F613. Londoner’s game of checkers

F614. Classic hollandaise

F615. Miss Spain, say (abbr.)

F616. Fed. banking agency

F617. Replacing

F618. Short pants?

F619. Expression of ideas and feelings

F620. “Baby ___ Back” (1992 #1 hit)

F621. Martin Luther King Jr.’s DOB, e.g.

F622. Half a spell?

F623. Single circuit

F624. Holds on despite few resources

F626. “100 Years…100 Cheers” and “100 Years…100 Thrills”

F627. How many you’ll need depends on the cubic footage you’re regulating

F632. 2005 #1 album for Coldplay

F633. Words after play or gray

F634. Keep goal

F635. Eating (and un-eating) disorder

F636. Trustworthy

F637. Pleasant places

F638. Becomes the whole world of

F639. Didn’t charge for

F640. What keeps us going

F641. Dad-blasted

F642. ___ in Albert

F643. Personals abbr.

F644. John Donne poem

F645. Game hunters

F646. Least solid (var.)

F647. Oblivion, to Otho

F648. Loosely supported from above

F649. Antimony is one

F650. “My mistake…What of it?”

F651. Foamed, as a dough ingredient

F654. “I like the cap; And ___ will have...” (The Taming of the Shrew)

F655. Type of English letter?

F664. “When I don’t vocalize properly, I catch myself changing my j sounds ___ sounds”

F669. Pentagon alert rating

F674. Make a stop

F676. Hawks’ homes

F677. They often feature commentary

F679. Deliciously egotistical Twelfth Night character

F680. Timecar of a film trilogy

F681. Aromatic ring-derived compound

F682. The Lighthouse actor Willem

F683. Added oneself, as a river to another river

F684. Wellington or stroganoff

F685. They sometimes accompany ejections

F686. Motor-scooter name that means “wasp” in Italian

F687. Still widely used sans-serif, though it’s on the wane

F688. False beginning?

F689. New York burg

F690. ___ death: made everybody sick of

F691. Decorously

F692. Take a powder

F694. Itsy-bitsy

F695. “So when do you pronounce the ___ a standard British accent?”

F696. Apple ale brand

F697. Moriarty who wrote Big Little Lies

F698. Square one, slangily

F699. More accommodating

F700. Road-test challenge

F701. Pope who dealt with Attila

F702. Laid low, with “up”

F703. Bosnian town that saw a three-year siege

F704. Small settlements

F709. Shows hospitality to

F710. Triumph over

F711. Line givers

F713. Yes ___ (one of two answers)

F714. Slippery

F715. Bit of a biter

F716. ___ song (cheaply)

F717. Fresh quality

F718. Wetland growth

F719. VVVVVVVVVVV

F720. Chris of football’s Giants

F721. Kind of cover

F722. Baba au ___ (cake with kick)

F723. Glittery dress fabric

F724. Tucson sch.

F726. Two-bladed shaver

F727. “Some ___ meat and canna eat” (start of the Selkirk Grace)

F728. Tina Turner, rangewise

F729. Gambling spot near Lake Tahoe

F730. Speakeasy haters, in the Boardwalk Empire era

F731. Outflowing branch of a lake

F732. Brian Mills and Jason Bourne, formerly

F733. Downtown-London abodes

F734. Small newborn

F735. Stoked conflict

F737. They might be split

F738. Game that hops

F739. New mortgage, in brief

F740. Pharmacy employer

F741. Maestro’s gift

F742. Biceps pic, say

F743. Raveled.

F744. Way to answer la telefono

F746. Roll, as of cash

F747. Sunscreen initials

F748. Org. with a campaign called “Degrees Not Debt”

F750. Coll. kids making more time for job interviews

F751. Very unlike the OED

F752. They try to player-proof their campaigns

F753. Plug ending

F754. Short cut

F755. Shtetl sighs

F757. John of Harold and Kumar and Star Trek

F758. Vintner’s barrel

F761. “Next pg.”

F764. Had a religious awakening

F783. In conflict with, with “of”

F784. Weight-loss technique

F785. What a berserker can’t distinguish

F805. Gavel banger’s demand

F806. Five, in Bonn

F807. ___-sec (wine designation)

F808. “___ Crossroads” (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Grammy-winner)

F811. Dancing House architect Frank

F812. Site of D. H. Lawrence’s home in N.M.

F813. Prisoners go behind them

F814. Mohammed’s descendants

F815. Camp David accords signer

F816. Louise de la Ramee’s pen name

F817. “I don’t have time to expect your attitude to improve”

F818. “That’s T ___ Tyrannosaurus Rex…”

F819. Portage transport

F820. Ranch bunches

F821. Source of some syrup

F822. Gave to some lucky donor

F823. Wonder tinged with fear

F824. Yuppie status symbol displaced by mobiles

F825. Cosmetic surgery that can make you look less tired

F826. “Can’t someone else do it?”

F827. Major musical composition

F828. Ukraine, once

F829. Neutral zone, say

F830. Five on a sampler

F831. “Nobody’s made ___”

F832. E-cigarette feature (that doesn’t make them good for you)

F833. Golden in Grenada

F834. My ___, Vietnam

F835. It often comes in a ball

F836. Relative assemblies?

F837. Some crackers

F838. Some car radios

F839. Superman’s boxing coach, in a 1970s comic

F840. Like hyperspace travel, for short

F841. Aspen-to-Pueblo dir.

F842. Byzantine architectural feature

F843. Flying turtle of Japanese monster cinema

F844. Insect’s egg case

F845. Give the brush-off?

F846. Shih ___: Tibetan dog

F847. Bumbler’s admission

F848. Astonish so much as to make them fall over

F849. Popular characters

F850. Completely surrounded

F851. ___ supra (“see above”)

F852. Jalapeno-business

F853. Van ___ & Arpels luxury items

F854. Coatroom accessory

F855. Tech that’s cut down on shoplifting

F856. Doesn’t do family meals

F857. Tierra ___ Fuego

F858. La Salle who directed Chicago P.D. from 2017-2021

F859. Big name in grocery store impulse purchases

F860. Insulation tester’s unit

F861. Even further outside the norm

F862. Animated chihuahua

F863. Waters bordering Thailand

F864. Word before Kea or Loa

F865. City once represented in Congress by Beto O’Rourke

F866. What you’re allowed to do for a special treat at some zoos

F867. Small smoke

F868. Pope who was lionized?

F869. Article in Der Spiegel?

F870. Madagascar’s largest carnivore

F871. Counterpart to budgeted estimates

F872. Obeyed the corner traffic sign

F873. Seurat’s ___ Baignade

F874. Kind of tool

F875. Liver, beef, oily fish, chicken, eggs: high-vitamin-___

F876. Smartass, or worm that attacked Windows XP

F877. Carmaker with G20 and Q45 models

F878. Unusual feature of Gadsby and A Void

F879. Earnings pp. for shareholders, e.g.

F880. Pumba’s pal

F881. Hi-fi part

F882. New Deal org.

F883. Chris of Law & Order: CI

F884. Grant-___ (Federal subsidy)

F885. Fat, convivial, and roguish

F886. Respectful rival, at times

F887. One of Fallon’s forerunners

F888. Support staffer

F889. Not suitable for real young kids

F890. Blues ballad first recorded by Ma Rainey in 1924

F891. Spoiler: it’s people

F892. To such an extreme as seems incompatible with a rational world

F893. 1960s-1970s Twins star Tony

F894. ___ acid: vitamin B9

F896. Julius Caesar setting

F897. Catches a glimpse

F917. Classic barbecue fare

F918. False claim

F921. One of the “Three” at Yalta

F923. Common conjunctions

F924. Insurance plan where the employing corp. assumes the risk

F925. Parked on a bench

F927. Plasmic start?

F929. Where destroyers go

F934. Home of The Masked Singer

F938. Swings quickly out, as a window

F939. Gets darker by daylight?

F940. “And the Lord spake unto Gad, David’s ___” (Chr 21:9)

F941. Genuflected joint

F946. “It was ___ in the face how quickly I was replaced” (“You Oughta Know”)

F948. Right ___ the bat

F951. Possible sign of a sinus infection

F953. Double-bladed ___ II razor

F956. “I hope I’ll ___ help”

F958. Gatorade alternative

F960. Gridiron VIPs

F962. Marked as done

F966. Arranged

F968. Explorer Marquette’s title

F971. Molsen and Labatt make some

F972. Human history, on a geolgical scale

F973. Should be part of the list we’re making

F977. “We Are the World” mission

F978. Extremely loud, on a music sheet

F980. Acct. nos.

F981. Place to trade

F982. Openly clash with

F984. Nairn knolls

F986. Quiet more squeaks

F988. Filament in exogen

F990. She’s not sure how forks work when her father owns a trident

F991. Decorative tips

F993. Sitcom POW

F995. Philippa Soo played her onstage

F997. Level above loge at Yankee Stadium

F999. Black in Montreal

F1001. Predicaments

F1005. Pushed along

F1006. Unspoiled, as snow

F1007. ___ Blanc (white wine grape)

F1009. Out of commission, as a machine

F1011. Tony-winning Tyne who starred as Lacey

F1012. “Oh, well” statement that seems translated out of French

F1014. Place where you and your date may go around in circles

F1016. Indulges some Dunning-Kruger-type thinking

F1017. Big name in Palmetto state politics, once

F1019. Lengthy sentence?

F1021. Play sites

F1024. Most popular music genre since the 1990s

F1026. Shipping, for short

F1028. Broken-arm adornment

F1030. Welcome signs to “angels”

F1032. Fit to serve

F1034. Oral hygiene concern

F1037. “At no ___ to you”

F1038. Dangerous grenade, for short

F1039. Get buff

F1040. Nats. as represented by warplanes

F1041. Where the shoreline is receding

F1042. RISD deg.

F1043. Caesar’s card count?

F1044. Just when

F1045. Perform gig after gig

F1047. Man’s command to his best friend

F1048. Survival requirement

F1049. “Let ___” (Beatles)

F1050. Seven-time Wimbledon winner

F1051. Britain’s Foreign Minister

F1052. Ruler mixed up in arts

F1053. “___ that sweet?”

F1054. Tops without buttons

F1057. Refill an empty flat

F1058. Elaborate trap

F1060. Secretary of state and war Root

F1062. Ducks noted for their shade

F1064. Old name for an Indonesian archipelago

F1066. Bird that delivers?

F1068. Five-time Emmy nominee Georgia

F1070. Electrolysis elements

F1071. Game for some Sunday drivers

F1073. Falsely presents as genuine

F1074. Freeze a shell around

F1076. Like a proper girl in Rhode Island in the evening

F1077. Pursue intently

F1079. Crewmate of Capt. Kirk and Dr. McCoy

F1081. “You’ve got mail!” listeners

F1085. Some Keats poems

F1086. Ones voting yes

F1087. Comics’ Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben

F1089. Athenian lawman

F1091. Gobble down

F1093. Newtlike reptile

F1095. Obligated to tell the truth

F1097. Mariah Carey song where she smacks down an ex

F1098. Deli offering

F1101. Ward of Hollywood

F1104. “___ discussed…” (per the last meeting)

F1105. Dad bod feature

F1106. Do, ___, fa, sol, la, ti, do

F1107. “Finito”

F1108. Discordia

F1109. Armed ___

F1112. Lean, metaphorically

F1113. Puffer fish served in Japanese restaurants that can be deadly if prepared incorrectly

F1118. “A merry heart ___ good like a medicine” (Proverbs 17:22)

F1120. Inaccessible due to water

F1122. Speck of truth?

F1124. Long-distance commuter’s home

F1125. Père ___ by Honoré de Balzac

F1127. Walled city near Pisa, or Chrono Trigger character

F1129. Designer Oudolf or Boon

F1131. Soft answer to “How long?”

F1135. Twitter ruiner Musk

F1136. Holiday drink

F1138. Farmyard denizen

F1139. Apres-ski warmers

F1140. “Mayday! Mayday!”

F1142. Toulouse title (abbr.)

F1143. Quantities like mass and volume

F1144. The ___ Home, 1996 film or 2000s sitcom

F1147. “___ by land…”

F1149. London new wavers The ___ Noise

F1151. Wine option

F1155. Where For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place

F1157. Bookstore unit

F1159. Where Samson fought the Philistines

F1161. Sorenson who ran Marriott

F1162. Former jet to JFK

F1167. Religious mystic

F1168. Subject of my best painting, with seven different fish species

F1169. “There wasn’t ___ eye in the house”

F1170. He knows power moves and freezes

F1171. Word in a Garrison Keillor title

F1173. More than just doting on

F1178. ___ generis

F1180. “Rise Up” singer Day

F1182. Christian fashions?

F1184. Splash and splash and splash against

F1186. Exclamations of scorn

F1188. Self-starting business owner

F1190. Michael Clayton, e.g.

F1192. Goes up, up, and away

F1194. Shred up

F1198. Contact nos.

F1199. Secure with fat screws

F1200. Really humiliate in a race

F1202. Not-very-secure way to upload big documents

F1203. Pre-___ (replace)

F1204. Legal doc letting someone else act on your behalf

F1205. Stage direction for chatter heard but not seen

F1206. Bert and Ernie, e.g.

F1207. North Sea country (abbr.)

F1208. Positions

F1209. Dress up

F1210. Compressed data?

F1211. “Curb your enthusiasm”

F1214. Butt with a low tail

F1216. “Now you ___…”

F1218. Talk incessantly

F1220. Kenobi’s creator

F1222. Measure of a store’s visitors

F1224. One answering questions

F1226. Swab a second time

F1228. Exonerates

F1230. “___ bigger than a breadbox?”

F1234. Living room

F1235. Unearth, as treasure or bodies

F1238. Habilitated

F1243. Hanging trees?

F1244. One signed up

F1245. Twists out of shape

F1247. Obfuscations about monetary policy

F1249. Like the lion of a Herculean task

F1251. Petra’s “___ This World”

F1253. Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff

F1254. Secondhand

F1256. Notably rushed headline

F1257. Legendary Himalayan dwellers

F1259. Old music halls

F1261. “Cute little” suffix used by Freddie Mercury

F1262. Germany’s ___ Valley

F1263. Instrument

F1264. Domino on the keys

F1265. Put into place

F1266. Big computer “bug”

F1268. “I’m ___ Heel” UNC shirts

F1269. Tart quencher

F1270. Does this and that

F1272. Horse restraint

F1278. Faintest, as a glimmer

F1280. Salonikan’s sixth letter

F1281. Not much for promoting one’s own brand

F1283. Capital city with an apostrophe

F1286. Sorority letters

F1289. Marx playing with strings

F1292. Alternative dental cleaner

F1293. “You’re shaking like ___!”

F1294. Patio furniture wood

F1296. GOP org.

F1297. Solid, like terra

F1298. Like a rookie

F1299. “Don’t wait out here”

F1300. Mount Doom’s location

F1301. Dilly-dally

F1304. Five buckaroos

F1306. Organization, casually

F1309. Josephine Esther Mentzer and Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, in fashion

F1310. Simulation giant

F1313. Update a factory

F1315. No-nos for A-Rod, for short

F1317. Josh Hutcherson’s role in four films

F1319. Worst romantic movie with a crossword puzzle-maker as the female lead that isn’t All About Steve

F1321. Dance like in Shazam

F1323. Fibrous sponge

F1325. Are, when following “vous”

F1327. Handles one’s baggage

F1328. Recruit into service (var.)

F1329. Omniphobic

F1330. Egg, perhaps

F1331. It has its advantages

F1332. ___ newt (witches’ ingredient)

F1333. Dreadful

F1334. Get steamed?

F1335. Unhealthily self-indulgent

F1336. It’s stuck in a corner

F1337. Cringe-inducing

F1338. She fought Tamatoa

F1339. “Cuchi-Cuchi” singer

F1341. Beers served at Moe’s

F1343. Bottoms of clocks

F1345. Wired up

F1347. Bygone Renault

F1349. “I won’t take ___ an answer!”

F1351. Common person

F1353. Distribute strategically

F1355. Leaf of a fern

F1357. They have griffin logos

F1359. Set loose

F1361. Cultural spirit

F1363. Very fine

F1365. Brand of ____shave (say it with a Boston accent)

F1368. Roomie

F1372. Concert schedule notations

F1374. Ankles or anklebones

F1376. Night gas

F1378. Eat (at)

F1381. All there, so to speak

F1383. Lemony Snicket baddie who’s a count

F1385. Enclose again

F1387. More resonant with life as lived

F1388. Colgate’s former rival

F1389. Guiding opinions

F1391. Bails out

F1393. Spring blossom

F1395. Complains vociferously

F1397. Common cause of food poisoning

F1398. Sagal of Married…With Children

F1399. “Oh, heck!”

F1402. Sundial notation

F1404. Slow pitch

F1406. “What can Brown do for you?” shipping co.

F1407. The Sun Devils, in short

F1409. Not old, in Berlin

F1411. 75%, usually

F1413. Crane in Psycho

F1415. Worst of the nosebleed seats

F1419. Shareholder-focused bus. entities

F1420. A-line?

F1422. Place for safekeeping

F1424. Is one with the plane?

F1425. Wds. with similar meanings

F1426. Elaborate story

F1427. “Just The Two ___” (Grover Washington Jr. song)

F1428. Vigorously, in music

F1429. Romantic type in romantic manga

F1440. Possessive used with “apple pie”

F1442. Gillespie’s partner in a 1967 cop film

F1444. Wise adviser

F1446. Grant or Irving

F1448. Potion giver

F1451. Name changed in Genesis 17:15

F1456. Having long neck hair

F1457. Low-salt meat import

F1468. June 18, 2023 honorees

F1470. Revolutionary War battle site

F1471. Emulated a wild horse

F1473. Supermodel’s allure

F1475. Transferred data on the Web, in a way

F1477. David of three Davis Cup wins

F1479. Gulls’ cousins

F1481. “How can you ___ real diamond from some fake?”

F1483. Sport-___ (vehicle)

F1486. Has another shot at

F1487. Stadium taunts

F1488. Dwelt patiently

F1489. Vastness of size

F1491. Make a loser in

F1494. Atmospherically illuminated

F1496. Tanning unit?

F1498. “___ a sudden…”

F1499. Martin and Allen

F1501. ___ corn (picnic side)

F1503. Thanatophobia

F1504. Heads for the barkeep

F1505. Player who lost Super Bowl XIV

F1508. Questioning sounds

F1510. Nice to talk about, before reality sinks in

F1511. Insanity used to be one

F1512. Suffix with critic

F1513. Loblolly

F1514. “___ for the little boy who lives down the lane”

F1515. Thoughts, in Toulouse

F1516. Pratfall-prone sports analyst portrayed by Tim Conway

F1517. Decides to go

F1518. “You only said you wanted it after me!”

F1519. Problem at a sold-out show

F1520. To-do list

F1521. ___ cry from: nowhere near

F1522. Miter box insert

F1523. Blockbuster

F1524. Cleanses with powdered soap

F1525. Community star Joel

F1526. Bone snap

F1527. “Dies ___” (day of wrath)

F1528. Ryder vehicle

F1529. In an important way

F1530. Simpson-Ross who sang “L.O.V.E.”

F1531. Good planting soil

F1532. Defer follower

F1533. Literary postscripts

F1534. Cold Italian desserts

F1535. Fable about compassion and gratitude

F1536. What’s just under the surface, medically

F1537. Word that emphasizes the possessive it follows

F1538. He puts the icing on the cake

F1539. Days in a typical work week, e.g.

F1540. “Be that as ___…”

F1541. The Witches of Eastwick actress

F1542. “For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and ___ the past enjoy” (Alexander Pope)

F1543. Rope climber’s aid

F1544. Non-summer times, roughly

F1545. It broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland

F1546. Wire fox terrier of whodunits

F1547. Nutty lead-in?

F1548. Settles on, with “for”

F1549. Hain’t recollected

F1551. Lhasa ___ (small dogs)

F1553. May 1, in Hawaii

F1555. Nepal borderer

F1558. He tells his protégé, “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it,” which is honestly a little dark for a blockbuster sci-fi comedy

F1560. Shock with paddles

F1564. Some blenders

F1565. Didn’t sleep well

F1566. Leading

F1567. Friendless

F1568. Circle dance

F1577. Holbrook of The Firm

F1579. Moral “material”

F1580. Former German plane

F1582. First stage of grief, for many

F1584. Gradually come through the wall

F1586. Long-time Windy City orchestra leader

F1588. Chest pain

F1590. Camp for presidents

F1593. Founded, on cornerstones

F1594. Some WBC outcomes

F1595. Trumpeter Al from New Orleans

F1596. Part of a Hawthorne signature

F1597. Driven obliquely

F1599. Equally uncommon

F1601. Cuppa cupful

F1602. Scottish wanderer

F1604. Plague persistently

F1605. Colonial, now-increasingly-discarded term for Alaska natives

F1609. What Holden Caulfield and Peter Pan resist becoming

F1611. More adoring

F1612. Oddity collector

F1614. Like the pronunciation of Brits and many US Southerners

F1616. Patron of abused wives and heartbroken women

F1618. Play by a different ___ rules

F1620. Island nation in the South Pacific

F1621. “Only 2 grams ___”

F1622. Love nest falling-out

F1627. Mom or pop of a mom-and-pop operation

F1629. Going gaga for

F1631. Birdwoman, for example

F1633. “Gardens to which our wills are gardeners,” per Iago

F1635. Garfield’s canine companion

F1637. Then, in Thiers

F1640. “___ My God to Thee” (hymn)

F1642. Napoleon III’s Waterloo

F1643. Showing exhaustion, or preparing to make a pig homeless

F1645. Emotional health coach Nafousi

F1649. Wrinkle, as one’s brow

F1650. Klingon “sequel” to Chekov

F1651. Barcelonan breezes

F1652. Piano’s birthplace

F1654. Tinker, for one

F1655. Hinder by prohibition

F1658. Egyptian disc-shaped god

F1659. Metropolitan areas

F1661. The desire for the Grail was too much for her in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

F1663. ___ Troopa (Mario foe)

F1665. Common font

F1667. Composer featured on Romanian money

F1670. Comments from co-workers

F1672. Makes like a lumberjack

F1675. Make eyes at

F1676. Kon-Tiki for one

F1677. Thin crisp cake

F1678. Asimov genre, for short

F1679. Hispanic person

F1680. Doesn’t just answer on impulse

F1681. Caesar’s nine

F1682. Team that retired Tom Seaver’s #41

F1683. Source of New Yorkers’ and Montrealers’ culinary pride

F1684. Making obsolete

F1685. They’re tops

F1686. Help on a slippery slope?

F1687. Improve, as acting skills

F1688. Away from wind, nautically

F1690. Crazy, down south

F1692. Its successor was the Solstice

F1694. Hurdles for MBA hopefuls

F1696. Emilie’s emphatic assent

F1698. 1970s hit in which a couple discover they have more in common than they thought, like pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, and cheating on their partners simultaneously

F1700. Zoot ___

F1703. 1995 March Madness champs

F1704. ___ gras

F1706. Legendary birds of prey

F1708. Chair repairer, perhaps

F1710. Dance floor tactics

F1711. Brent of Star Trek: TNG

F1713. Like weaponless hands

F1715. Shows up in the Bible

F1717. News articles

F1718. "Same with me!"

F1720. Button or room for emergencies

F1722. Sneeze (at)

F1724. Useful purpose

F1726. Much of Louisiana’s landscape

F1728. Ready to explode

F1730. Prep for the runway, maybe

F1732. Kitchen aroma

F1734. Falco of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie

F1735. Rawer than pink

F1736. Spaniard’s “other”

F1737. Gospel singer Mac

F1738. Per head

F1740. Deprive of what’d normally be a right

F1741. Gannet-like goose

F1742. One of eight kings

F1743. You might sit for one

F1744. Poet Heaney

F1745. Absorb the 3 R’s

F1746. “Sweet Dreams” duo

F1747. “You Don’t Know ___” (Cole Porter’s ode to a foreign metropolis…and not his first)

F1748. Clods of greensward

F1749. Guided explosive

F1751. Thrills on Antiques Roadshow

F1753. “I expected as much”

F1755. Areas of less interest in election reporting

F1757. Kind of care for the terminal

F1759. Way an organism develops

F1761. IRS wartime levy, for short

F1763. Hard times, metaphorically

F1767. Candid Camera originator Allan

F1768. “Oh, it’s what you ___ me” (“Hey There Delilah” lyric)

F1769. Quacking commercial catchphrase

F1770. Lactose intolerant’s bane

F1771. First quarterback to do more than 5,000 passing yards in a season

F1772. Notable shapes in a flower

F1773. Fix those loose laces

F1774. Are obsequious

F1775. Turbaned believers

F1776. Dresses popularized by Yves Saint-Laurent’s “Trapeze” set

F1777. Architect Pei

F1779. Feels indignation

F1781. Positions of authority

F1783. Possible reaction to a flatterer

F1785. Does unacceptably in school

F1787. Sat on a perch

F1789. Tinder or Twitter

F1791. Picks up around

F1793. Enter as a stream

F1794. Some derivative drawings

F1797. Coney

F1798. “___ I see you first!”

F1799. “Wie geht es ___?” (German greeting)

F1800. Mystery Writers of America honors

F1801. Will Smith role

F1802. Add more turf

F1803. Reason hotels are always more expensive than advertised

F1804. “The 7th Element” singer

F1805. Add, as camera footage

F1806. Mid-’90s fad

F1808. Wolfgang Puck’s Beverly Hills restaurant

F1810. “SCARY!”

F1812. Organist Marcel

F1814. Shows signs of waking

F1816. More ironic, as humor

F1818. Matthew 26 question

F1820. Lots and lots

F1824. Clandestinely duplicates an email

F1825. Rhadamanthys’s twin

F1826. Shaped like a dawning sun

F1827. Quickly flashing

F1828. “Green Book” org., familiarly

F1829. Closer to perfection

F1830. Outlawed pesticides

F1831. Some hair in Good Hair

F1832. Fly ball fielder’s shout

F1833. Subcompact

F1834. Patronizes, as a cafeteria

F1835. Intellectual disability, as Freud might have it

F1836. Classroom activities

F1838. Stalling-for-time syllables

F1839. Activity often performed to the tune of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive”

F1841. W. Coast setting, more often than not

F1843. Tree destroyer built partly from a tree

F1845. Lots and lots of lbs.

F1848. Newly minted USN officer

F1850. Questioning grunts

F1851. Large, colorful fish

F1852. Kuti of Afrobeat

F1854. Spoken verse, for hip-hop

F1855. Learner, in some cases

F1856. Gave an edge

F1857. Document for many a foreign traveler to JFK

F1858. Buddy Holly’s “___ Be the Day”

F1859. Exultant shriek

F1860. Durante trademark

F1861. Extra somethin’ somethin’

F1862. It might go 7-5

F1863. “Last chance…!”

F1864. Use as shelter

F1874. Skimming, as profits

F1875. Bad performances after hours

F1876. ___-bitsy

F1877. City near Frunze

F1880. Parts of barrios

F1882. Like Avatar or Cars 2, in some theaters

F1889. Guitar phrases between strummed chords

F1890. Exams for future esqs.

F1891. Compliment for a charcoal seller?

F1892. “Just comes naturally, I guess…it’s ___”

F1893. Reddish orange dye

F1894. Court infractions

F1895. Exposed the edible part of

F1896. ___ Lives of College Girls (TV series)

F1897. “Encyclopedia Brown” creator Donald J.

F1898. D&D stat important in ogre-wrestling

F1899. “Wow…harsh”

F1900. Facetious or abstemious feature?

F1903. How many modern TV shows are broadcast

F1904. Pitches to

F1905. Nap’s wink count

F1906. Carried by the air

F1907. Lacey’s fellow cop

F1908. Sound of amusement

F1909. Long-haired oxen-like creatures

F1910. “Bonne ___!” (Happy new year!)

F1911. Future date

F1912. “PopoZao” “artist,” familiarly

F1913. Maximally, in a way

F1916. Physics Nobelist Wolfgang

F1917. Cut-and-copy command

F1918. Cuba ___ (rum highballs)

F1920. Some final exam proctors, for short

F1922. Runs its own affairs

F1924. Neighbor of Nev.

F1926. “…fame of friend ___” (Riley)

F1927. Shoe “teeth”

F1928. Made applicable to the past

F1929. Star-bellied Seuss characters

F1930. “The best ___ to come”

F1931. Queen of Hollywood

F1932. Helios’ chariot or Hou Yi’s archery

F1933. Camel’s nemesis

F1934. Their slogan is “Come Hungry. Leave Happy.”

F1935. Mama of music

F1937. Pict. in words

F1938. Like sea air

F1939. Find out whether

F1940. Some coffeehouse orders

F1941. As a blow to authority

F1943. Scott who played Chachi

F1944. Point of view

F1946. Stealthy activity

F1947. Me.-to-Fla. route

F1948. End to hostilities

F1949. Kind of agent

F1950. One handcuffed, perhaps

F1951. Tethered balloon, e.g.

F1952. Lead-in to miss or beer

F1953. Clark’s colleague at The Daily Planet

F1954. Pushed the horn

F1955. Mylanta alternative

F1956. Pinnae locales

F1958. Objet ___

F1959. Command to a canine

F1960. Something to put faith in

F1961. Divine Comedy stanza

F1962. Rice side

F1963. Decently safe investment

F1964. “Who’s the best?” [points two thumbs at self]

F1965. Dishonesty

F1966. Specious argument

F1967. Notable parts of “Walk This Way” and “My Sharona”

F1968. A little obvious

F1969. Arrangement

F1970. Cheap sauce

F1971. $500

F1973. Child’s phrase of request

F1975. Target, then fire upon

F1977. Billionaire Blavatnik

F1978. Libyan leader whose spelling in a crossword became a minor plot point on The West Wing

F1982. Wood flautist

F1983. Sub-Saharan peoples

F1984. Attacked

F1985. Callas and Cardona

F1986. BP unit

F1987. Vengeful beings in Aeschylus’s plays

F1988. “___ Once” (Whitney Houston ballad)

F1990. Tech-review site from the internet’s earliest days

F1992. Posse that’s not y’all or them

F1993. Whack job

F1994. Tinker (with)

F1995. Tahiti attire

F1996. 1960s-’70s Ford muscle car

F1997. Tent-shaped RV

F1998. Fissured

F1999. What immortals don’t do

F2000. “Howdy, folks!”

F2001. Engage in some Ren Faire fun

F2003. Hoped-for announcement about a missing cat

F2004. Medicare prescription drug section

F2005. Snow White, vis-a-vis the Wicked Queen

F2006. Jill’s portrayer in Charlie’s Angels

F2007. Cranberry ___ (Thanksgiving staple)

F2008. Earth, e.g.

F2009. Bach opus

F2011. Actress Purnell in Sweetbitter, Maleficient, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

F2014. Supporter of the universe (and not, as some think, just the Earth)

F2015. A watched pot does do this; you just need more patience

F2016. Derisive smirk

F2017. Thai monetary unit

F2018. Character actor Lloyd

F2019. Word after “mai” or before “chi”

F2020. Shrill bird named for its call

F2021. Is he dead or alive?

F2022. Lesser number

F2024. boutonniere location

F2026. Rihanna song meaning “I love you”

F2027. “Wolves of the sea”

F2028. “Till you ___ up” (Bill Withers)

F2029. Getting close to the lead, maybe

F2030. Raw, unpolished movement in ‘70s film and muisc

F2031. “You’re ___!” (catchphrase I wish to God had not become popular in the early 2000s)

F2032. Mountain lodge

F2033. Supply with

F2034. Not necessarily permanently

F2035. Think over

F2036. Takes the rod to

F2037. It’ll help you record motion

F2040. What we once would’ve called “gay affairs”

F2041. Locum ___: temporary substitute

F2042. Unclad

F2043. Circus performer?

F2044. WWI outfit

F2047. Raise up

F2049. Ending for gab

F2050. Emblem of sin, in literature

F2051. Atlases, for instance (abbr.)

F2053. Unlikelihood of burning

F2054. Boston basketballer

F2055. Untrustworthy-acting

F2056. Threadlike

F2057. Incapacitates

F2058. Non-naturalized immigrant

F2062. Starbucks option

F2063. Vague idea

F2064. It’s found in slicks

F2066. Some tech students

F2067. Is infested with

F2068. Browns, on ESPN

F2069. ___-timer

F2070. Authority on a field

F2071. Revoke the privileges of

F2073. Auntie, to Dad

F2074. Energy co., student-loan-paying org., or loser to DDE

F2076. Broadcast feed

F2077. Big spender, in the Eighties

F2078. Expression preceding a send-up?

F2079. Certain carbonated quaffs

F2081. Brine-cured cheeses

F2082. Rigg in The Avengers and Game of Thrones

F2097. Ardent

F2098. “Just like you said”

F2100. Easy marks

F2101. Good-for-you staples

F2102. Really sick to one’s stomach

F2103. My mom’s old job title (revised from “stewardess”)

F2105. Immaculate

F2106. Body shop figures

F2107. Gum (up), as computer equipment

F2108. Apr. tax collector

F2109. Rhode Island-based insurer

F2110. Catnip mousey, e.g.

F2111. Jam-packs

F2121. Feat of skill

F2123. Forbearing, in a way

F2124. Kind of pudding invoked in a carol

F2125. Split the expenses

F2126. Highly sought-after smokes

F2127. Partner of hope and charity

F2128. Electro, e.g.

F2131. First name of the National Museum of Finland’s designer

F2132. Trespasser’s hazard

F2133. Warship group

F2135. Alan Rickman and Meryl Streep’s degs.

F2136. “When you think about it, it’s pretty crazy when we…”

F2137. Protection from sewer gas

F2138. One with an ax?

F2139. Certain sharia law subject

F2140. First letter of “census,” e.g.

F2141. Offshoot

F2142. Parapsychology letters

F2144. ___ Clear Day You Can See Forever

F2145. Cocktail with sugar, bitters, whiskey or bourbon, and orange and cherry

F2146. Chain with rolls

F2147. Ends of work wks.

F2148. Community of nations, e.g.

F2149. Feeling that might be post-produced?

F2150. The last Holy Roman emperor

F2151. Scandalous

F2152. ETs, using another acronym that got popular a few years after ET

F2153. Paris areas

F2154. Some loungewear

F2155. Red-hot

F2156. Festa de ___ Joao

F2157. Ade alternative

F2158. Torches, with “to”

F2159. Revenue for Hulu, but not Netflix--oops, Netflix started making them after I wrote this clue

F2160. Mathematical subgroup

F2161. Temperature

F2162. Noodle suffix

F2163. “Can you imagine? Well, if you can, stop it. This is TV; we do the imagining for you” host Stephen

F2164. FDR’s Scottie

F2165. ___-Z (Camaro first released in 1982)

F2166. Chain part

F2167. Melchior and Balthasar, e.g.

F2168. HS course with Bunsen burners

F2169. Breaking capacity, briefly

F2170. Derivative

F2171. “Fee-___-fum…”

F2172. Threatening term

F2173. Animal bite worry

F2174. .jpg and .gif files

F2175. Use the enemy’s tactics against them

F2176. Lives the high life

F2177. Significantly

F2178. Isthmus of Thailand

F2179. She-Hulk, to friends

F2180. Streets (abbr.)

F2181. Rational price

F2182. Rings of light

F2183. Son of Clytemnestra

F2184. Werewolf’s weapons

F2185. ___ Bator, coldest capital city (using a spelling that’s going out of style as I write this)

F2186. “___ heard” (“That’s what the rumor mill told me”)

F2187. Comes back up from the depths

F2188. Poem about separating lovers

F2189. Friendly cannonade

F2190. Center of a famous palindrome

F2191. Tale Spin protagonist

F2193. “Aw, fiddle faddle!”

F2194. Before tomorrow

F2197. “What’s the word, soldier?”

F2198. Clears of vermin, as the Pied Piper did (well, maybe not exactly as the Pied Piper did, most people use traps instead of flutes)

F2199. Like a spoiled child

F2210. Jeopardy! production company

F2212. Kodjoe of Station 19

F2213. Prefix for part of the UK

F2214. Not hear

F2215. Winter headwear

F2216. Laugh-provoking

F2217. Baywatch star David’s nickname, with “the”

F2218. London sheens

F2219. Egg producers

F2220. Adventures

F2221. African ethnic and language group

F2222. One who makes it ale

F2223. Plow worker in the sky

F2226. Bothersome business

F2228. Friendly bark

F2230. Liberté follower

F2232. Missed a lot

F2234. Made from

F2235. Scarlett portrayer Leigh

F2236. Letters of the weekday

F2237. Charmed and Who’s the Boss star with a spaceship named for her

F2238. Cranston a.k.a. the Shadow

F2239. Special offer at a diner

F2240. They give us shape

F2241. Respiratory ailments

F2243. Languishes in the lockup

F2244. Western, for one

F2245. Pasta-can man

F2247. “___ do” (expression of acceptance)

F2249. “Such a pity”

F2251. Affording beautiful vistas

F2253. “You’re not making any sense”

F2255. The Hurt Locker hazard, for short

F2257. Used Google Hangouts, perhaps

F2258. Boris or Natasha, to Fearless Leader

F2259. Mousse user

F2260. Does Ramadan right

F2261. Adjusted, as floor tiles

F2262. Familiar name in prizes

F2263. Dis-engages from?

F2265. Not bound in

F2266. Haus wives?

F2267. Org. that gives “Movies for Grownups” awards

F2270. Light purple

F2271. Neck of the handle of the Big Dipper

F2275. “Take as many as you like”

F2277. Like, nostalgically

F2279. There’s just no spark to them

F2280. Henry V’s rallying cry

F2281. Opposite of a rallying cry

F2282. “Uno” + “seis”

F2283. …and whatever happens, happens

F2284. “Just admit what we both know to be true”

F2285. “That ___ easy feat”

F2287. Confining bracelets

F2288. Links cries

F2289. Better ___ than sorry

F2293. Deliberate

F2294. Brand in second-grade art class

F2295. ___-Nomics (1988 reggae album)

F2296. Warcraftians’ gathering

F2297. Brides in Barcelona

F2298. Treat used in spanakopita

F2299. Gather

F2300. Maneuver in information warfare

F2302. Its in France?

F2303. Uplifting message that titles a 1998 Sandra Bullock comedy

F2304. Vast sum

F2305. Child carer in China

F2306. “Great” canonized pope

F2307. Checks the water

F2310. Namesake of the area responsible for speech production

F2311. “Don’t mind ___!”

F2312. Miracle food

F2313. Words before justice or soap

F2314. “Nelson Mandela sat in ___ African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in ___ African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence” (Coretta Scott King)

F2315. Some pool toys

F2316. Stickers

F2317. Eight, to Nero

F2318. Common painting exercise

F2324. Long-nosed swimmer

F2326. Part of a kowtow, often

F2329. Head-in-elbow motion

F2332. With “The,” they hit #1 with the line “Oh, what a night”

F2333. Sending a ___ the moon (1960s goal)

F2334. Two-team wrestling meets

F2335. Making eavesdropping impossible

F2336. Will who played BoJack and Batman

F2337. Garment District sight

F2338. L-shaped wood-splitters

F2339. Radio abbr.

F2340. Olympics skater Kulik

F2343. Meaningful talk (var.)

F2344. The Smartest Guys in the Room subject

F2347. Ruthless people

F2349. Without careful consideration

F2351. Member of the largest age cohort until 2019

F2354. Title for Helmut Kohl

F2355. Zeno’s locale

F2357. First-year student, briefly

F2359. Reverses in a way

F2360. Best time to have a meeting if you want it to be decisive

F2361. Nervous activity

F2362. Journey home after a hookup, though many would describe theirs as proud

F2363. Mom and Dad, with “the”

F2364. Tarkenton of three Super Bowls

F2365. Its IMDB summary says, “A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program”

F2367. HS lab courses

F2368. Sartre screenplay Les Jeux ___ Faits (“The Chips Are Down”)

F2369. Cracked

F2370. Like sound recordings that aren’t sharp, for short

F2371. Word in some diet foods

F2372. Hold for Ozzie?

F2373. Korean capital

F2375. K ration’s successor

F2376. Fall short of success

F2377. What Tony Stark’s suit isn’t really made of

F2378. Skid protection, for short

F2380. Italian for “I love” and also, perhaps fittingly, “fishhook”

F2382. “British bombshell” who later played Lila Quartermaine

F2384. “___ the way the cookie crumbles”

F2385. Kind of page or role

F2386. Prepared, as an apple for pie

F2387. Legal papers

F2389. Slight shading

F2391. Men in an order

F2394. CARE, e.g., for short

F2395. Trawler’s catch

F2396. 1,500 thermometer units?

F2400. Not artificial

F2404. No Clue

F2405. Fund-raising programs

F2406. Signaled interest, caninely

F2407. They’re not just idea people

F2408. Pro parker

F2409. Words between Friends

F2410. Bad news for an article with a clickbait headline

F2411. Rumpled, as a bed

F2412. Postponements

F2413. Full disclosure?

F2414. “See ya later!”

F2415. Morgue abbr.

F2416. With one’s body shape in mind

F2417. Jungian unconscious

F2418. Cookie baker in a tree

F2419. Old cars also called Cutlasses

F2421. “This is ___, this is a when”

F2422. Nephew-haver

F2423. Least common words in “A rose is a rose is a rose”

F2424. Subject of 199 Warhols

F2425. Blood oxygenators

F2426. Faerie Queene author

F2427. “You Are My Sunshine” singer

F2428. Home on the grange

F2430. Anomalous craft

F2431. Invested in the rights of Apians

F2432. Verified again, in light of new information

F2433. Former buyer

F2434. Gets together with

F2435. Prefix with scope or meter

F2436. Was biased, in Britain

F2437. Results of lying too much?

F2440. “Well, THAT’S ___ how-do-you-do”

F2441. Crude abode

F2443. Priestess’s practice, perhaps

F2444. Take something to take the edge off, say

F2445. Unoriginal sort

F2446. Little ___ Everywhere

F2447. Dickens’s Fagin was one

F2448. Start of an idea

F2449. Pry out of the grip of

F2452. Wisp-weight hosiery

F2453. “I can’t TAKE it anymore!”

F2457. Sam and Miltie, in Toledo

F2462. “Dead? You’re asking if ALL the banana monsters died? Oh, yes, I should say so, definitely dead.” [sounds of growling, brief flashes of yellow] “___ they?”

F2463. The ___ Family Robinson

F2464. Colonial loyalists

F2465. Feed holders

F2466. Bad guy in Prince of Egypt

F2467. Try to unearth

F2468. Draws on a pipe

F2469. British singer/songwriter David

F2470. Top off

F2471. Base interest charged for overnight loans

F2473. Hymn of praise

F2474. Group of super-smart people that haven’t explained why their group’s name means “stupid” in Spanish

F2476. Italian race car

F2477. Aladdin’s benefactor

F2479. Romanov VIPs, back in the day

F2482. Uplifts, intellectually

F2483. Seer’s decks

F2486. War of 1812 city on the Niagara R.

F2487. Some investment bonds, for short

F2489. Kelly alternative

F2490. DEA actions

F2491. Ruler’s span?

F2492. Guard’s word for an intruder

F2493. Bughouse

F2495. Org. willing to break the law to defend various beasts

F2496. It lasts almost eight mos.

F2497. These, in Toulon

F2498. US satellite of the ‘60s

F2499. Added homogenously, as in the kitchen

F2500. Abes in wallets

F2501. Eats sparingly

F2504. Reorg data

F2505. Bursts from the nose

F2508. “___ (the fairest one in sight)” (Frost)

F2511. Hung (out) on the clothesline

F2512. Frequent Doordash client, perhaps

F2514. Big Apple rd. named in Rodgers and Hart’s “Manhattan”

F2515. ___ siècle

F2517. United Nations headquarters decoration

F2518. Left eggs

F2519. IRS publication

F2520. Having major difficulty

F2521. Italian nights

F2522. Chinese menu item

F2525. Goes by dirigible

F2526. Roofing option

F2527. Distinction, casually

F2528. Kelly at the center of the first big Trump/Fox News feud

F2529. Leopold, Moro, and Rossi

F2535. Curly-leafed cabbages

F2536. Bagged, as potatoes

F2537. Book subtitled Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire

F2538. Jazz saxophonist Yusef

F2539. Bugle’s sound?

F2540. Longtime sports agent Bob

F2541. Film, in France

F2543. Remote spot

F2547. Loses consciousness naturally

F2549. Tasty charity event

F2550. Part of the plot

F2551. Yanni’s music genre

F2553. Italian Renaissance painter Guido

F2555. Lucy’s guy in black and white

F2557. Bks. featuring changed pasts

F2558. See ___ an omen

F2560. Getting a Grip memoirist Monica

F2561. Georgia eleven, in sports headlines

F2562. Shoe worker

F2563. Numerical starter

F2564. It’ll poke your plans in the eye

F2565. Some foam toys

F2566. Judicial cover-ups?

F2567. A.J. at Indy

F2568. Dangers at the curb

F2570. Engine housings

F2571. Cloaked desert dweller on Tatooine

F2572. Utterance with the heel of one’s hand on one’s forehead

F2574. The “art of letting things happen” in Eastern philosophy

F2575. Transported, as students

F2577. Lightning’s mentor

F2578. Station that people once looked up to

F2579. Pawnee’s cousin

F2581. Swedish first name

F2582. Word before bars and drinks

F2583. Zebrafish, e.g.

F2585. Eighteenth letter

F2586. Half a Yale cheer

F2587. Real Madrid’s game

F2588. “___ bleu!”

F2590. Gift recipient’s question

F2591. Straight bet

F2592. Deal with reality

F2593. “Not even a little bit!”

F2594. Predestined

F2597. Become level

F2598. Beloved heroine

F2599. Poetry-reading competition

F2600. Biggest of the Bears

F2601. Not mine

F2602. Person’s nickname that follows “spinning”

F2605. “And step on it”

F2608. Lee, e.g. (abbr.)

F2609. They mask anxieties

F2610. Rappeler’s hangout?

F2611. Badly injured

F2612. Praise, on a diploma

F2613. Nary a trace

F2614. Acted the superhero

F2615. Jogging gaits

F2616. The take

F2617. Petulant expression

F2618. Ford Motor product, informally

F2619. Szyslak on The Simpsons

F2622. Slips up

F2623. Mekhi Phifer, on ER

F2625. “Whatcha doin’?”

F2626. Nation Putin grew up in

F2627. “Don’t overstay your welcome”

F2628. Best-sudsing

F2630. Birds of a feather

F2632. Bird Man of Alcatraz

F2633. Antihero of opera

F2634. Reason to award a Navy Cross

F2635. Daphne Moon’s boss

F2636. Mona Lisa locale

F2637. Black Lives Matter’s target

F2638. Teacher’s charges

F2640. Popular shift ender

F2641. Photo sources

F2642. Corsage

F2643. Ryan was one (abbr.)

F2646. Visual aid

F2647. “Not too expensive” commercial name starter

F2648. Stored away, as grain

F2652. Like a frustrating situation

F2654. Performed a cadenza, e.g.

F2655. Grounding

F2656. Much ado

F2657. “Prey” preceder

F2658. Drift along

F2659. Compulsory force

F2660. Pierre’s friends

F2661. Like John Singer Sargent’s Male Nudes Wrestling

F2662. “Dear” addressees

F2663. Watchable by

F2664. Hotspot service

F2665. Twelve inches

F2666. Letters on pricey handbags

F2668. “Language” lang. course

F2669. Rock fissure

F2670. Dark films, informally

F2671. Modify, as a semiconductor

F2673. Site in Savannah where rifled cannons made its defenses obsolete

F2674. What a bad lead-off hitter frequently produces?

F2675. Convoy-style races

F2676. Hotel parts (abbr.)

F2677. “May ___ why?”

F2678. Players not on varsity or junior varsity

F2679. Emulated Carson

F2680. Not many tracks are found on them, for short

F2681. Cupid, Mars, or Jupiter

F2682. Read Braille

F2683. Babe’s noises

F2684. Inform on, slangily

F2685. Cowardly dino in the Toy Story films

F2686. Dish for dipping

F2687. Area for ball games

F2688. Pack rat

F2689. One in a pit at a concert

F2690. Lanchester and Bloodstone

F2692. Gather from what clues are available

F2693. He wrote that government “is but a necessary evil”

F2694. Keeps at bay

F2695. Some saving options

F2696. Michael who crossed over between Star Trek series

F2697. Weird Al film about a TV station

F2699. One who did the lord’s work

F2700. TV young un

F2701. Are bursting with optimism and energy

F2708. Went up the river?

F2709. Pat down, as a perp

F2710. Burton’s birthplace

F2711. Swings without hitting

F2712. Winter hassles

F2713. Martin of Route 66 and Adam-12

F2714. Quaint rest spots, quaintly

F2715. Conductor’s calls

F2716. Financial abbr.

F2720. Machiavellian

F2723. War criminal Eichmann (second most famous war criminal with this name)

F2724. Insubstantial

F2725. Punch-ups between gentlemen

F2726. Powerful leg lock

F2727. Picadors’ praise

F2728. Indian empire, circa 1200

F2729. Freudian self-regulators

F2730. Even more crackbrained

F2733. Polecat’s cousin

F2734. Like wooden teeth

F2735. Organs usually found in pairs

F2736. Ice in the spring, e.g.

F2737. African lion

F2738. Dry stream beds

F2740. Not touching the earth

F2741. French singer Edith (“The Little Sparrow”)

F2742. Like Helvetica

F2743. Stay close behind

F2744. American Experience channel

F2745. Hip-hop impresario Gotti

F2747. Irritable mood

F2749. Salma of the screen

F2750. The chosen one, the wise old man, or the car chase the police can’t stop, e.g.

F2755. Some antique radios

F2756. 1954 Judy Holliday film that gets its vowelless title from slang for “broken up”

F2757. Like Obama among presidents

F2759. Forest VIP

F2760. Li’l Yachty’s hair decorations

F2761. Measure again, in a way

F2762. Its first program was a study of thermonuclear weapons’ feasibility

F2764. Return trips

F2765. Santa’s present to a naughty child

F2766. Like blue limericks

F2767. Like Bonds without duty?

F2769. Playwright/painter Wyspianski

F2770. “Gotta ___ Jetta” (ad slogan)

F2771. Very, in Vienne

F2774. ___ Alps (Mont Blanc’s range)

F2775. Honorary deg. for writers

F2779. Calder Cup giver

F2781. ISP of old

F2783. Back problem

F2784. China’s cabinet?

F2785. Hit TV drama of the ‘80s

F2786. Dell dweller

F2787. Spenser’s Ireland

F2789. “There ___ exceptions”

F2790. Purpose

F2791. Hoarsener?

F2792. WSJ announcements

F2793. Animal-roping weapon

F2794. Number on a clock dial

F2795. Sea? “Si”

F2796. “Life’s ___ and then you buy”

F2797. They’re worth about 1.23 cents each

F2800. Takes advantage of a riot

F2801. Made a gentle descent

F2802. Its funding increased 500-fold after Trump’s election

F2805. Bare down south

F2807. Calendar listing, briefly

F2809. Some agents

F2810. Colleague of Byron and Shelley

F2811. Xbox devotee, say

F2812. Third-largest island in the world

F2814. Stranded at the end of the inning

F2815. Half a legendary bluegrass duo

F2816. Hollywood’s Glenn

F2819. First Mandalorian seen onscreen

F2820. E-book alternative

F2822. At ease at soirees

F2823. Jazzy phrasing

F2824. One Direction’s “Tell Me ___”

F2826. Is nosy

F2827. See F2827-Across

F2828. Kind of winger

F2831. Classic romantic heroine Lorna

F2833. “Not under my roof!”

F2835. Woman in white, traditionally

F2836. Dervishes, e.g.

F2837. Figure out how to fund something

F2838. Radical bodies the mainstream disowns

F2839. Put underfoot

F2840. ___ cue (show one’s acting chops)

F2841. Old Tatar rulers

F2842. Haws’ opposites

F2843. Fingernail shortener

F2844. Without accompaniment

F2845. What grapplers grapple on

F2846. Yankovic’s Jackson parody

F2847. Barbarous

F2850. Without charge

F2851. Eyeglass piece

F2852. Computer hookup?

F2853. Celexa and Paxil

F2855. Footwear for an athletic “boarder”

F2858. Fortune-teller

F2860. Contract adverb

F2862. Simone’s aunt

F2863. Shavings-creating tool

F2864. All supporters of a team

F2865. Army unit

F2866. LA Confidential and American Tabloid writer James

F2867. 1960s antiwar slogan

F2868. “Wage slaves”

F2869. Rapper’s rhythm

F2870. Prattles on

F2874. Somewhat past due

F2876. They cease after pulling the cord

F2877. IDs that go on Form 1040

F2878. Lemon or turkey

F2879. Attica event (1971)

F2884. Economic indicator

F2885. Shocks, in a way

F2887. Old engine power

F2889. Places for sows and cows

F2890. Institutions of higher learning (abbr.)

F2891. Shire and Balsam onscreen

F2892. Ancient empire builders

F2894. Bilbo’s heir

F2896. Supported by an even stronger argument

F2897. Hockey showdown, familiarly

F2898. Four groups found in this puzzle

F2899. Year the Christian church proclaimed itself universal

F2900. Spanish “L”

F2901. Less full-figured

F2904. Mulder and Scully, e.g.

F2905. Watch things

F2909. Superficial amount

F2911. Fat computer monitor type

F2912. Mandela’s land

F2914. Canine’s realm

F2915. “Mon ___” (Tati role)

F2916. Cut out for, with “to”

F2917. Extortion

F2918. Like the most expensive California homes, often

F2919. Frequent anti-union types

F2920. Marsupials, informally

F2921. Brown or dark yellow pear

F2922. Bygone company with yellow-roofed kiosks

F2924. Mark as incorrect

F2925. Kind of Wall St. takeover

F2928. Wrinkle removers

F2929. Stopped kidding oneself

F2930. ___ 500

F2931. Pots, pans, utensils, and such

F2934. Word followed by “no contest” or “the fifth”

F2935. Punch back instinctively

F2936. Bronzing of sorts

F2937. Revolutionary who published the Massachusetts Spy

F2938. Disputed Ukrainian/Russian area

F2939. Swamp-odored

F2940. Type of eclipse

F2941. Days of knights

F2942. ___ les deux (both of them)

F2943. Reach the tarmac

F2944. Like “alumna,” for short

F2945. Said “sure” to

F2946. Distressed one

F2948. Give ___: applaud or help, depending

F2949. Tracking device

F2951. Beverage with a burger, often

F2952. Wait faithfully

F2953. Sub builders

F2957. Taco Bell appliance

F2958. Dodge Calibers replaced them

F2959. State flowers of New Mexico

F2960. French interior decorations

F2961. Freddie of Chico and the Man

F2962. What like charges do

F2963. Seattle’s ___ Sound

F2964. ___ XII, 1939-58

F2965. Ecce ___ (“Behold: a man”)

F2966. Left on the Lusitania

F2967. About half an acre

F2969. Rancheros’ ropes

F2970. Certain Scot

F2972. Verb avoided by vegans?

F2973. WWII figure

F2974. Maybe technically, but not really

F2976. The Upside Down and Earth-3, e.g.

F2977. Gulf Coast city

F2978. Gauge on a bicycle pump

F2979. Sound that grew out of rave culture

F2980. ___ Oro

F2981. Pfc. ID

F2982. Comic dictionary compiler Evan

F2983. Sent a document via phone

F2984. “___ Be Back” (villain’s ditty in Hamilton)

F2985. Legendary

F2986. Piercing site, for some

F2988. Unintended pill consequences

F2989. Expert, as in fashion

F2990. Leave in a hurry

F2991. Grant in To Catch a Thief

F2992. O’Donoghue or O’Donnell

F2993. Title object in Thurber’s 1933 story “The Car We Had to Push”

F2994. The Teen Titans’ Beast Boy is one because “Dude, I’ve been most of those animals”

F2995. Seminal naturalistic work

F2996. Singer Brooks and writers Ennis and Nix

F2998. Mallorca, “por ejemplo”

F2999. In my direction

F3000. Cooking Channel figure

F3001. UN humanitarian-crisis response endowment

F3002. Woody Allen-Sharon Stone movie, which sounds weirder every time I say it out loud

F3003. Painter ___ Hals

F3004. Revered figure

F3005. Specialized area

F3006. Wanda with a recurring role in Blackish

F3009. Author Oz

F3010. One or lop follower

F3011. Gelatine devices

F3012. Winner at Thermopylae

F3014. Aggregations

F3015. White Teeth novelist Smith

F3017. Speed limit, often

F3022. Chip maker

F3023. Strong, in phonetics

F3024. Artistic conservative

F3025. Start of the Common Era

F3026. Legal defendant (abbr.)

F3029. Those things, to Pedro Martinez

F3030. Stole sources

F3033. Be ___ in the ointment: mess things up

F3034. Italian model/actor of romance-cover fame

F3035. Macho, but genuine about it

F3036. Desired

F3037. Stay with strong recommendations

F3038. She had a tryst with Tristan

F3039. Like many San Francisco summers

F3040. Submarine-shaped sandwiches

F3041. Claim of a sort

F3042. Very important, casually

F3043. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…

F3044. Personals ad abbr.

F3045. Xhosa and Zulu are among its official langs.

F3046. Native of the Friendly Island.

F3047. Birthed a bay baby, maybe

F3056. Jours ___ (carnival days): Fr.

F3057. 55 x 73

F3059. Most characters on Bullet Train

F3060. His Holiness the 14th ___ Lama

F3061. Had a reverie

F3062. Fail to be replenished

F3063. Recited from memory

F3065. Bona ___ (real)

F3066. Nolan’s Batman

F3067. Most pallid

F3069. “Dirty” and “How High” rapper

F3070. Showy cock’s partner

F3073. Leggy creatures

F3074. Not just the physical’ medical philosophy

F3075. Fit for

F3079. Disgruntled player’s demand

F3080. Film holes, for short

F3081. Blocked, as radio broadcasts

F3082. Reduces the budget

F3084. Scottish accents

F3085. Reliant & Aries models, generically

F3086. Underweight

F3087. Take counsel from

F3088. Larson who produced The Messy Truth VR Experience

F3089. Cookie holder

F3090. TV’s “Kookie” Byrnes

F3092. Dancer Carson

F3093. Expects one will

F3094. Fronton balls

F3095. Billing option

F3096. Unnamed love interest in The Avengers (given a name and more depth in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

F3097. “___ Has Fleas”

F3099. Leia’s faction, later in life

F3101. Annual wish-list recipient

F3103. Benjamin and Guinness

F3104. Springbok’s habitat

F3105. Hood’s roscoe

F3106. Cods’ cousins

F3107. Financial gain

F3108. Smokey’s concern

F3109. ___’s Progress (Hogarth paintings with a moral narrative)

F3110. Info giver on the street

F3111. Dress in India

F3112. Boxer’s outburts

F3113. Philbin’s long-time cohost

F3115. Go to the trouble

F3116. Kitchen utensils for some desserts

F3119. Great kind of loan

F3120. Tendencies to have ice cream for lunch, say

F3121. “Uncertain Smile” band whose name, surprisingly, is not google-proof

F3122. Wealth aplenty

F3123. Not these or those

F3124. Roadside attention getters

F3125. Joey of NSYNC

F3128. ___ for Innocent (Sue Grafton novel)

F3129. Israeli president, 2007-2014

F3130. More sickly looking

F3131. Word often seen preceding a job title

F3132. Curator’s bane

F3133. They look like #2 signs, in semaphore

F3134. E-tailer’s add’l charge

F3136. Literary strife

F3138. Features of the Ghostbusters’ car

F3139. Kern and Hammerstein’s “Can’t Help Lovin’ ___ Man”

F3140. Summer setting in Ft. Wayne

F3141. More qualified

F3142. Lightwave sources

F3143. Fail to catch a ride with the others

F3146. Outdoor trimming tool

F3147. Change like quick-molding clay

F3148. Start of a worried comment

F3149. Errol’s Captain Blood co-star

F3150. Possible “OMG!” follow-up

F3153. Night, in Naples

F3154. Parr aka Elasti-Girl

F3155. La Cage aux ___’

F3156. Hornblower’s output

F3157. Some CFCs

F3158. Feudal-era sovereign

F3159. Bumptious

F3160. Has signed up

F3161. Lose time before starting awake

F3162. Liquid-filled berth

F3165. Sharper in taste

F3167. West Indian island.

F3168. Oklahoma tribal member

F3171. Robert whose old plantation is now Arlington National Cemetery

F3172. Application figs.

F3173. Not in motion

F3175. Fight with Athos

F3176. F ___ Family (dramedy series)

F3177. Piñatas and piña coladas have them

F3178. To Nineties kids, she explained it all

F3180. Ehrich ___ a.k.a. Houdini

F3181. Clean with hydrogen peroxide, maybe

F3182. “As I ___ sound mind…” (will beginning)

F3183. Oast filler

F3184. A very good price?

F3185. Show, in a way

F3186. Film-preserving org. in LA

F3187. James, author of more New York Times bestsellers than anyone else

F3188. Alpha ___ Minoris (Polaris)

F3189. Green used in cooking and folk medicine

F3192. ___-fi

F3195. Film you’ve got to catch

F3197. Higher in the corporate hierarchy

F3198. Megasuccessful show allegedly “about nothing”

F3199. Unseen paint jobs

F3200. Amazingly coincidental

F3201. Deliver from a plane

F3203. Last word in the name of Ouagadougou’s country

F3205. Motivated by others’ misfortune

F3207. Inserts wrong, as fax paper

F3208. Fox architect Roger

F3209. Stained

F3217. Merges again

F3218. Campers’ milieu

F3219. Rummaged

F3220. Of a triangular area near the groin

F3221. Plant disease eaten as huitlacoche

F3222. Very liberal

F3223. Fit for the draft

F3224. Translation aid at an opera

F3225. Lady-in-waiting’s reply

F3226. It flies when you’re doing crosswords

F3227. “We stand ___ crossroads”

F3228. ___ Lady of… (start of some church names)

F3229. The Return of the Native setting

F3230. Pop-in people

F3231. Kansas State campus site

F3239. Tobacco remnant

F3240. Envision

F3241. Fictional Kazakh journalist

F3242. Is all wrong

F3243. Cattle that’s bison on its dad’s side

F3244. Meas. of cash flow

F3246. Make a beeline toward

F3247. Coillike shapes

F3248. “We’d better avoid this…”

F3249. Places where you can hear a pin drop?

F3251. Restaurant seater

F3252. Money in Madrid

F3253. Beautiful, as a Fraulein

F3254. Glass on the radio

F3255. Smoker’s breath-sweetener

F3256. F equivalent, musically

F3257. Lose one’s winter coat

F3259. Automatic during a strike, in video games

F3260. Good, to Galarraga

F3262. Lower in value

F3263. At the center

F3264. Fraternal org. since 1889

F3265. Where you’ll see dissection

F3266. Wry faces

F3267. Name for a tailor

F3268. Sophocles’ snore?

F3269. Like the number of letters in this answer

F3270. Grand house

F3272. Beginning of the Big Bad Wolf’s threat: “I’ll ___...”

F3273. Oompa-___: Wonka worker

F3274. Aggressively besiege

F3275. Far from land

F3277. Shaping machine

F3278. Against a thing, to a judge

F3279. Extended conflicts

F3280. Jose the reliever

F3281. Sidekick (abbr.)

F3282. Bat mitzvahs and marriages, e.g.

F3283. Name in N.Y.C. restaurant lore

F3284. Zooey Deschanel hair

F3285. Monogram for our 18th Pres.

F3286. Titaness who mothered half the Pantheon

F3287. Biblical ointment

F3288. “For ___ be Queen…”

F3289. Bk. of the Bible written by a former cupbearer

F3290. Greeting from down under

F3291. Dialing sounds

F3292. Sweetbreads, e.g.

F3293. They’re not mere opinion

F3294. The “e” of i.e.

F3295. Ingenuous sort

F3298. Elev. sci.

F3299. Tuts’ kin

F3300. Grandma painter

F3301. Collectors of blood, prints, and hair

F3302. Specific

F3303. Franco’s five

F3304. What you end up holding if you deal with a cheat

F3305. Family in Shrek Forever After

F3306. Garden tool that pulls up an Urban Dictionary result when you google it

F3307. Copies, as style or lyrics

F3309. Va. military center

F3310. Abbr. found after Annie Kuster’s name

F3312. Fed. crash site investigator

F3313. Turkish Muslim student.

F3318. Supporting

F3320. Camera type, familiarly

F3321. Tijuana pronoun

F3322. Unit of energy (abbr.)

F3323. “___ Loved You” (Hammerstein and Rogers)

F3324. Lord’s holding

F3325. Bambi doe

F3326. Snow in Milano

F3327. Some sexy sports cars

F3328. Umps’ counterparts

F3329. The Land of ___ (setting of Finn and Jake’s Cartoon Network show)

F3330. They may prevent spikes

F3331. Hagen who wrote A Challenge for the Actor

F3332. V that I spent to get through Latin V

F3333. Hidden valley

F3336. Center in Chicago’s skyline

F3337. Mt. Carmel site (abbr.)

F3339. “You ATE it?!?!”

F3342. Nahasapeemapetilon of The Simpsons

F3345. Hawaiian delicacy

F3348. Opposite of kwik

F3351. Oldest radio station in NYC

F3353. Carry-___ (luggage type)

F152-G139. Cavity filler

F438-G463. They’re punched into campgrounds

F675-G773. To be enjoyed ironically

F967-G1066. Hurriedly applies

F1291-G1364. Enjoy a restful evening, perhaps

F1619-G1658. May be perfectly nice mountains, but did Moses receive his revelation at any of them?

F1849-G1905. They’re not worth all the fuss there’s been over them

F1900-G1970. National borders applied upward

F2010-G2115. Saloon spigot

F2264-G2412. Nutrient-dense food harvested in shoots

F2519-G2726. “Let us ease into viewing the scene”

F2769-G3037. Groundbreaking Beatles album, for short

F3023-G3345. Tend to love folks like you

F3253-G3655. Gives one’s life

F3284-L6. Quickly produces

F3293-L13. Focused collections of data

F2976-L19. Quintillions of yous resulting from different choices or circumstances

F3218-L25. Often rained-out activities

F3300-L31. Rockets’ star center in the ‘70s and ‘80s

F3345-L42. “That clears it up”

F3305-L49. Bridezillas, e.g.

F3307-L55. Punctures with canines

F3251-L61. Treats with five curls of icing each

F3332-L67. The gift for the fifth one is wood, for short

F3353-L73. “Ready for the road ahead” helper