Ubercross Abecedaria O
Across
O1. Arm or leg
O5. “Decorated” as a prank
O9. Flanged girder
O13. “Look what I found!” cries
O17. Southwestern art mecca
O21. Ouster, so to speak
O25. Multisexual
O29. Hostess snack product
O33. Casual conversation starter
O37. Ayn Rand…”hero,” I guess
O41. “A hall of fame is…___ to the
longevity of our accomplishment” (Chuck D)
O45. Hammer-hurling god
O49. Brahe contemporary
O52. Fleet bigwig, for short
O55. Ferraris and Porsches
O57. Region of Western Sahara
O61. Early-TV clown Barnett
O65. At the Drive-in’s “___ Minor”
O66. Name that left the freezer in the last
decade
O71. Often-frosty Frost of the X-Men
O75. It’ll be taken in January 2025
O76. Manitoba neighbor (abbr.)
O80. Scoreless football game, perhaps
O81. Banjo cousins
O85. They have access tokens
O86. Popular Danish shoe brand
O90. Hard to ignore
O95. Greek “guard” found in stereotypical
O96. Minute pasta
O100. NYC area above Houston Street
O101. Basketball’s Lamar
O105. Sticks figure?
O106. Batterylike
O112. Artful speechmaking
O113. Detestable
O115. Hydrating cleanser, e.g.
O116. Name shared by two Iliad fighters
O117. Sarcophagus setting
O118. 20,040,000,463,008
O127. Rovio locale in Northern Europe
O128. Have the look of being
O129. Takeout menu possessive
O130. Wolfe, the sleuth
O131. Venetian arch shape
O132. Opening scale syllables
O133. Host of How to Get Away with Murder
O134. Suspects are found in these
O136. “Ever hear of Google?”
O138. The Price Is Right fixture Osborne
O141. Sisters’ grp.
O142. Furniture woods
O143. Unhoped-for reply to “How are you?”
O144. Words of admission
O145. “Personal opinion…”
O146. Flinched
O147. Hartsfield-Jackson and Heathrow
O149. Arterial investigation
O152. Somewhere in that vicinity
O155. Represented
O157. Mr., in an Orton title
O160. Sleeping quarters with large aquaria
as walls
O163. It’s versus evil
O164. Keats wrote one to autumn
O166. Got off one’s desk
O167. Based on self-interest
O170. [segment]
O171. Do-it-yourself mover’s rental
O172. Chloride, for one
O173. Golden-bodied fish
O175. Bread vis-à-vis gravy
O176. Plane seen at the Museum of Flight
outside Seattle
O177. “What’s the ___?” (“Howzit hangin’?”)
O178. Supergrass
O180. She played Lois in Superman
O181. ___ miss (spotty)
O182. Hold lovingly
O184. Ross Banner, Cooper, and Brant of
comics
O187. Glossy fabrics
O189. Monsters, ___
O190. “Help the ___ wee bit”: those Irish
folks could use some guidance
O191. Cigar tips?
O192. Widely used pronunciation std.
O193. Father of Methuselah
O195. Capital in the Andes
O197. One working in shifts?
O200. Same, in Paris
O202. Sports debacle of 2001 that may
finally get profit in 2024
O203. Hernando’s hair
O204. Sets in the right direction
O206. Diner freebie
O207. Child of Nyx, the spirit of impending
doom (whose name sounds doom-focused too)
O208. Protection for site servers
O209. Aerodynamics tester
O211. Court proceeding
O212. [segment]
O245. Italian gardens?
O246. “The alternative just doesn’t make
SENSE” argument
O252. Cut off
O254. Penalized, monetarily
O255. Alternatives to Kenmores
O256. Caught or escaped
O259. Hubby of Pocahontas
O261. Breezier
O262. Who, in Bonn
O263. ___ m’s (oft-cartooned candy)
O267. Queen ___ of zydeco music fame
O268. General embarrassment DeSantis
O269. President with the same first and last
name as his father
O270. Ivies climb them
O271. Lisa, to Patty and Selma on The
Simpsons
O272. Cause to stir
O273. Must repay
O274. North ___, Nebraska
O279. Lattice Semiconductor’s industry, for
short
O280. Divinely favor
O281. Miyazaki movie
O282. Algerian port
O284. Grandiloquent
O286. “My goal wasn’t to make ___ of money”
(Steve Wozniak)
O288. Vase variety
O289. Musical group
O290. With a death grip on
O292. Waitress on Alice
O293. Give a face lift to
O296. Yuletide purchase, perhaps
O297. Mariner’s aid
O299. John Blake’s real name, revealed at
the end of The Dark Knight Rises
O300. Key of Eroica
O301. They often play mixed sets
O302. Instrument of the church?
O303. Fail to perform
O304. Five-to-two, e.g.
O305. Beseeched
O308. Fewest people workable, in a business
acronym
O309. 1979 Mel Gibson role
O310. “This book is now over”
O311. Seagoing ears
O313. Pharyngitis
O316. Union units
O318. Violent protests
O319. Develop, as a habit
O320. Between B and F
O321. Codemaker’s tool
O323. Cartoon hero generally accepted to be
a stoner
O325. Jamb closings?
O326. Man who loved only numbers in The
Man Who Loved Only Numbers
O328. Extremely unpleasant
O330. Hawaiian non-native
O332. Amidala, with the makeup off
O334. Wrestler Pete or novelist John Gregory
O336. Seeks one partner after another
O338. Cannabis in Cape Town
O341. “Stay fifty feet away” injunction, for
short
O342. It may be pasteurise
O343. How some cars are acquired
O345. Musical composition.
O347. Brief yardstick
O349. Web site, familiarly
O350. Notorious camp in 2000s headlines
O351. Robust
O352. Vane reading (abbr.)
O353. Skatepark fixture
O354. Does better than expected
O357. Fix a leaky joint
O358. Passageways for heat or air
O359. Gets wearisome
O360. Inserts on skirts
O361. Church song
O362. Thanksgiving veggies that rhyme with
Thanksgiving meats
O364. Bilinguismo subject
O367. Truck’s carrying area
O369. “___ doubt that…”
O370. “Long-running” suffix
O372. Chemically analyze
O374. Unwatered
O375. Get behind, cash-wise
O376. UNC-Duke, for one
O378. Serving many customers
O379. Paris-based fashion house
O380. Test some tea
O381. Luggage attachments
O384. “Check,” in poker
O386. Once the world’s fourth largest lake
O387. They may be trimmed in December
O388. Sphagnous
O389. Milk intro
O390. Building usually without a 13th floor
O391. Helvetica and Garamond
O392. Moves like pudding
O393. Anthony’s female counterpart
O394. Designer fragrance
O398. What bathroom mirrors may do
O400. Creative endeavors
O403. Hawaiian food
O404. Laura Petrie’s plaint
O407. They may need massaging
O409. Used cars, say
O411. Makes the onscreen form official
O412. New Directions’ show
O413. Purple-logoed web hub
O415. Polka figure
O416. Green card issuer (abbr.)
O418. Agent in an infectious disease
thriller film
O421. ___-law (certain relative)
O423. Tom Brady’s mates
O424. Edging loop on lace, ribbon, etc.
O425. After those events
O426. Let fly
O427. Kill Bill protagonist
O428. Fed. lending corp.
O429. Ineffably weird, in a TV theme
O430. Chitchat
O431. “Padre”‘s beads
O433. Violin Playing as I Teach It author Leopold
O435. Unproductive pessimism
O438. Member of Bruce’s band
O439. Tries to outwit a seeker
O440. Voulez-___ (1979 ABBA album)
O441. Put to a show of hands
O442. Treatment reserved for the most
serious depression and bipolarity, for short
O443. Fountain drink containing grape juice
and vanilla ice cream
O445. Man in the ‘hood
O446. Work on
O447. Parachute material
O448. Lake of daytime TV
O449. Utah’s state snack food
O450. Presses in the bathroom
O451. Chore wheel
O452. Fruit stand fruit
O454. Tool to repair certain holes by making
them bigger
O455. Cinematic auteur Welles
O456. Struggle with hopelessness?
O458. Through, on airline itineraries
O460. Show stoppers?
O461. Making with difficulty
O465. Wkrs. benefit
O466. Fencing units
O467. Brother in silly shorts
O468. Double-O sort
O470. Set off at ___: moved forth fast
O472. Establishes as law
O473. Roddick’s org.
O474. Square one?
O475. Hyundai headquarters
O476. Roberts who was a “Founding Mother” of
NPR
O477. Words following “one” in a scale or
“five” in an estimated sentence
O478. Picking out of a lineup
O479. Cut ___ ways
O480. Periods of rapid growth
O481. Teacher of a kind
O482. Rookie, variantly (or Cicero’s scribe)
O483. Dips water
O484. What might stop a stream?
O487. Small weasel or its fur
O489. Streamlined quality
O492. Highway measure
O493. Group think?
O494. Sphere opening
O496. Not just noteworthy
O499. Prof’s URL ender
O500. Monique ou Veronique (abbr.)
O501. Hammer type
O502. Car registration datum
O503. Cafe concoction
O504. “Hold it right there!”
O506. “Exactly what he wanted to prevent was
what he ended up CAUSING!”
O508. Mongolia/China desert
O509. Some art studios
O511. Spaces just under a bird’s eyes
O512. Tropical cocktails beloved by
vacationers
O514. Cargoes
O516. Lets loose
O517. “I don’t want that”
O519. You ___ to Be in Pictures (Looney Tunes short)
O521. Like Kodiaks
O523. Surface of a step
O525. Not Meth. or Presby.
O528. Like Mama Bear’s porridge
O530. Near-eighteen-year period
O531. Order members
O532. Sultry Sophia
O533. “___ of joy…” (Psalm 95)
O534. Ring rulings, briefly
O535. Catalyzing enzyme, briefly
O536. Biz bigwigs
O537. Jason who’s the villain in Fast X
O538. Camera concern
O539. Montana and Frazier in sports
O540. Writer H.H.
O542. Take the blame
O544. Of lizards
O545. Defining feature of “My Generation”
O549. “After the Heat” musician
O550. Snape’s specialty, for short
O551. Shave, as Parmesan
O553. Start a Model T again
O555. When to fiddle with film fixes
O556. Rosacea and others
O557. Relative of “yum-yum!”
O558. Volumes
O559. That is, for Romans
O560. Field of scientific study
O561. Lorna mainly known for inspiring
cookies
O562. The Man Who Fell to Earth director
O563. Emulate a copter
O564. Cry accompanying a high-five
O565. Directional sign, of a sort
O566. Petit chanteur
O568. “I’m Being Swallowed by a ___
Constrictor (And I Don’t Like It Very Much)”
O570. South American “superfruit”
O572. Vocalizes World War II-era jazz
O573. Affirmatives, in Arles
O574. Like London weather, often
O577. Trou-de-___ (military trap)
O579. Wrote online, briefly
O580. Food store chain
O581. Cable corp. that didn’t live to see
cord-cutting
O582. Genus of trees
O583. Type of mobile phone plan
O585. Optimist’s words
O586. For ___ see: in plain view
O587. Perth lad
O588. REM member?
O589. 1983 Def Leppard hit whose title is
taken from a traditional Chanukah song
O591. Workplace D&I promoter…or
suppressor
O592. Dust unit
O593. Deep sea killers
O594. DVD error message
O596. Goosebumps author
O599. OT book about returning to Zion
O600. Midwestern tribe
O601. Cartoon figure.
O603. Speedometer reading, briefly
O605. Slatted sleep spot
O607. Milton’s Uganda successor
O608. Traditional girls’ toys
O610. Chopper precursors
O612. Greek legist
O613. Genethliacons, e.g.
O614. Change, sci-fi style
O615. Cavewoman diet
O616. Heckling chorus
O617. Make some mountain music
O618. Sport in which being fat helps
O619. Get ready for a Mr. Universe contest,
say
O620. Some short-lived subatomic particles
O621. The Rookie characters
O622. Bondsman of Sparta
O623. Hybrid tennis attire
O625. Having much at stake
O627. We Jam ___: The Story of the Minutemen
O631. Person without a light?
O634. Pretends to be fine
O638. Ointment package words
O639. State bordering Arizona
O640. PC scrolling key
O641. Winning streaks
O642. Snapshots, humorously
O643. Ski shop with an icy name
O644. Layer on the wall
O645. ___ Brothers (boy band)
O646. Cubs slugger Sammy
O647. They study bubbly
O649. Sarajevo nat.
O650. Up the auction price of
O651. “Do you know what happens to a toad
when it’s struck by lightning?” speaker
O652. Safeway logo
O654. Animal hoarder’s condition
O657. Sound loud enough to drown out all
else
O658. Charlemagne, to most Europeans and
Americans
O660. Beaujolais’s department
O662. “Who’s out there?” acronym
O663. ___-Aztecan (Shoshone)
O664. Capital of Nidwalden
O665. Pitching game
O667. Shortened legal plea
O668. Soda-shop sipper
O669. “But if reason can be considered a
basic belief, then ___, say the reformed epistemologists, can faith in God” (The
New York Times)
O670. Cutlass or 88, in the auto world
O671. Lotharios
O672. “___ My Hand In” (Hello, Dolly!
tune)
O673. Martha and family
O674. Hundred-___ shot (long odds)
O675. Robin Hood sets
O678. The Tin Woodsman’s quest
O679. Hawaii’s state flower
O681. Independent, in a song title
O682. Beauty chain with a salon inside each
store
O683. Responds in any way (often following
“and nobody…”)
O687. Evidence of work earnings
O689. “Oh yeah, I forgot there was another
one”
O691. Coarse, stiff hairs
O692. Short ___ (winded)
O693. Fine and dandy, in old slang
O694. Better call him!
O695. Dark drinks
O696. Nauru’s capital
O697. Ski-___ (snow vehicles)
O698. O’Donnell mentioned in a presidential
debate
O699. Highway features
O701. Verb often used with “thou”
O702. Escaped
O703. They’re short on social capital
O705. Dinner bought with denarii
O706. People who share initials with 45
O707. Takes students from all genders
O709. Nonelectric calculators
O710. Theater ad abbr.
O713. Detroit athlete named for its auto
industry
O715. Georgia in the 1960s (abbr.)
O716. Ways to get ahead in HS
O718. Islam or Christianity (abbr.)
O719. Chug-a-lugs
O720. Capri or prom ending?
O721. Titular Russian professor of a Nabokov
novel
O722. Manufacturer’s sticker
O723. Sutherland superspy
O724. Which, in Latin
O725. Paris’s captive
O726. Appear excited
O727. Wanders about
O728. Petty lawbreaker
O729. Slow as ___
O730. Edvard Munch subject
O732. Job hazard regulator (abbr.)
O734. Before IX
O737. “___ es la idea” (“You’re catching
on”)
O738. Golden State, informally
O739. “My wife kisses the ___ the lips, but
she won’t drink from my glass” (Rodney Dangerfield)
O740. Sucker
O742. Not ___ (pretty bad, understatedly)
O744. Would-be doctor’s test
O746. “Bonjour,” more casually
O748. Lead-in to apocalypse
O750. What FAQs offer
O751. Little Miss Sunshine or Bonnie and Clyde
O753. “Sit up straight”
O755. Broken
O757. Fighting company
O758. Copious source
O759. Spoke sweet nothings
O760. Waterfall or Hand with Reflecting Sphere artist
O762. Sentimental journalist
O765. Something that might build character
over time?
O769. Google file-sharing system
O770. “___ your Halloween candy” (meme)
O771. Absolutely ridiculous
O772. “I’m gonna have to say ___ that”
(important thing to learn to say)
O773. Surmount (redundantly)
O774. Numbers?
O775. “Fat ___ that’ll do ya!”
O777. All “How? Why?…HOW?”
O778. If it ain’t this, don’t fix it
O779. Cartoon dog that’s dumb but sprightly
O780. Diomedes’ domain
O781. Bodies of water
O782. Night noises
O783. Camcorder lenses
O784. Colorado Rockies owner
O785. “I hate it,” from Ignatius
O788. Most trusted news entity in America
(according to a 2022 poll)
O791. Ancient city undone by a large wooden
horse
O792. Russian river
O793. Forensic detection
O794. Gets full to bursting
O795. Park name in Chicago
O797. Sources of prints, for short
O799. World’s tallest building locale,
2004-2009
O801. Dubiously
O802. Online acronym for “It seems to me…”
O803. Unsubscribes, with “out”
O804. For for Fidel
O805. How to measure a galaxy’s age
O806. Poet’s cave
O807. Jostle rudely
O808. Hallowed
O809. Bath accessory (var.)
O810. Winter fabrics
O811. Goes belly-up
O812. Place for some canvassing
O814. Taken star, to fans
O816. Give off, as an odor
O817. Michael who costars with Jack Black in
Year One
O818. “It’d be my pleasure”
O822. Chevy model with a big, low grille
O824. “___ man walks into…”
O825. Farriers
O826. LPGA supporter?
O827. One way to slug it out
O829. “I ___ Dance” (Kern tune)
O830. Tabloid fliers
O831. Brazen sounder
O832. Wrinkly fruit
O833. Sickly chill
O834. Topples
O835. Talks gibberish
O836. Word before “sapiens”
O837. Lottery with the largest jackpot in
history
O838. Can’t stop eating
O841. Omega, to an electrician
O843. With sharp highs and lows
O845. Movie about lycanthropes, or its
old-timey name for them
O847. Prefix with consumer
O849. Sign of boredom
O851. “Highway sign, for short,” says the
clue database, and…no. No one has ever shortened a road sign to say “___.” This
is just an ordinary road sign without its ending “w.” End the lies
O853. “All hat ___ cattle”
O854. Takes one’s turn
O858. Gambling site, briefly
O859. State sch. on the Pacific Coast
O860. Toronto’s province (abbr.)
O861. Nudge (into action)
O862. Gondolier gear
O863. Set of words for a set of people
O864. English statesman William
O865. Prohibited acts
O866. Nut in sticky buns
O867. Earring place
O868. “A miss is a miss, no matter how
close”
O870. Former senator who’s on the board of
directors at GE and Coke
O873. Open ___: start a relationship with a
barkeeper
O874. As a friend, in French
O875. Coke Zero rival
O876. City in Tuscany
O879. Didn’t swing, in baseball
O881. “Ten more minutes, Tybalt”
O883. Dash device
O885. Many-stringed, lutelike instrument
O886. Housing agcy.
O887. Fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet
(or mixed-up topper?)
O888. Programmer’s instruction
O889. Baseball’s Maris, for short
O890. Paisley, for one
O891. The mark “v” in string music
O892. Sex pest
O893. Tiny drum
O894. Like the wing of a bird to the arm of
a man
O896. Meteors seen in early October
O897. Common protozoans
O900. Where to find churches on stilts
O902. Brain diagnostics
O903. Dished out
O907. Relatives of PhDs
O908. Church delivery, for short
O911. Alley Oop woman
O913. North side?
O914. Boston seafood
O915. “___ Distance” (Hercules song)
O916. Trial, for Henri
O917. It stops often
O919. Question before a name is repeated
O920. Town with its own gov’t
O921. E.U. alliance
O922. Oscar awarder
O923. Strives violently
O924. In small ones, it’s said, everyone
knows each other
O925. The coppers, slangily
O926. Series of engagements
O927. Annie and Oliver Twist
O928. Hiccup cure, they say
O931. :56, timewise
O933. Pot for clams
O935. “___ bono?” (“Who profits?”)
O937. Counsel urgently
O940. Game piece
O942. Rider’s props
O943. Cooks in a crockpot
O944. Sporty wheels
O946. Party req.
O947. ___ cube (popular 1960s puzzle)
O948. Every, in Rx’s
O949. Get smart
O950. Early part of the day
O951. Metric weight unit
O952. Stride easily
O953. Open-___
O955. Adds to, as a bar bill
O956. Completely insignificant
O960. Sewing machine attachments
O961. It’s accessed via the Rainbow Bridge
O964. Bad thing to get off on
O966. Active suitor
O967. Donut shape
O969. Ob.-gyn. concern
O970. Like a tough row to hoe, literally
O971. Less, in music
O972. Actress Yeo-Jeong
O973. Fizzy candy made in Italy
O974. “Ugh, that is wrong ___ many levels”
O975. Rowlands of Hope Floats
O976. Not quite, or needed to reach
O977. Swampy sections
O978. “___ ever thus”
O979. HS class whose topics include genetic
variation
O981. Like much Renaissance art
O983. “…camel through the eye of ___…”
O984. ___ Stark, Oona Chaplin’s Game of
Thrones role
O987. Walked when one could’ve driven
O988. Puffy
O990. FDR measure
O991. Took a load off
O993. Lincoln Center benefactor
O995. Gesture-based entertainment, for short
(omitting “mime” at the end)
O996. Airplane compartment
O997. Novelists Patchett and Rule
O998. Bread that sops up curry
O999. Driver’s license, for one
O1001. Erin in the nominative case
O1003. Acronym for a convertiplane
O1005. Drugged
O1007. “That’s ___ word!” (“You said a
swear!”)
O1009. Get out fast
O1010. Uphill climb
O1011. Misnamed marsupial
O1014. Mag. readership
O1016. De Rivoli, de la Paix, etc.
O1017. Use a letter-opener
O1018. Rent alternative
O1019. New Jersey pro
O1020. Zaps with an electroshock weapon
O1021. Neither kid- nor boss-friendly
O1023. Critical moments to gear up for
O1025. “An hour a day, that’s all I ___ you!”
(workaholic’s spouse’s complaint)
O1027. Fertile soils
O1029. Prez who signed Medicare into law
O1031. Subway Series side, on scoreboards
O1032. Italian prime minister
O1033. Hieroglyphic stone discovery site
O1034. “Harvesting the Heart” author Picoult
O1035. Blind taste-test choice
O1036. John Keats’s “___ Melancholy”
O1037. Singer with lowercase initials
O1038. Courtroom abbr.
O1039. Girl in South Pacific
O1040. Avoid, redundantly
O1042. Far less trusting
O1046. ___-dieu (kneeling desk)
O1048. “Catch a tiger by ___”
O1049. “___ Mine” (George Harrison song)
O1050. ___ o Te Kahu (anti-cancer organization
from New Zealand, THE OA anagram)
O1054. Bolivar who liberated six South
American countries
O1056. Astronaut’s gear
O1058. Elec. co., e.g.
O1059. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break star
O1061. Damaging, as a relationship
O1062. Leader who called reactionaries “paper
tigers”…and hey, he’s not normally a role model, but you know what? GREAT
phrasing
O1063. [segment]
O1065. Circus getup
O1067. Climbs up
O1068. Spanish surrender
O1069. Gulf of Finland resident
O1071. Others, to Juan
O1076. What has casts of thousands?
O1078. Notebook marker
O1080. One of a pair of muscles
O1082. Bewitched witch who influenced TV’s Agatha
Harkness
O1084. Rosy ingredient in perfume
O1086. Sold-out signs
O1087. Prefix with -rous or -gram
O1088. Sleazoid
O1089. The Emperor of The Emperor’s New
Groove
O1090. Type of curiosity
O1091. Units of GIs
O1092. Like a katydid’s song
O1093. Makes a decision for
O1094. Grow pessimistic
O1096. Security software company
O1100. Prefix with cardial
O1103. Makes a lot of dough
O1105. :50
O1107. Abandon all self-control
O1109. Disturbance of the peace
O1111. Hang like a Fu Manchu
O1112. Unclose, in verse
O1113. KFC boycotter
O1114. [segment]
O1136. Horizons’ cousins
O1137. Place for boating supplies
O1142. Sasha’s big sister
O1147. Aerosmith’s first hit, expressing deep
feeling
O1149. Swiss river that flows into the Rhine
(var.)
O1151. Dylan “___ Me Babe”
O1152. South Africa’s ___ Paul
O1153. Platelets’ identifiers
O1155. After this, to a logician
O1157. Copy, for short
O1159. Stratford-upon-___
O1161. First taste of real authority in the
Coast Guard
O1162. Lady in Spain
O1164. Rus. royals
O1165. Game cries
O1167. Remove tactfully
O1168. Just as
O1169. Crime bosses
O1171. Eme preceder
O1172. It has a Page Navigation menu option
O1173. Irish accent
O1175. Partner-shopping, perhaps
O1176. Paper with an Economie section
O1178. The Road Runner, for one
O1180. Sellout abbr.
O1181. Sixth of the trig functions one learns
O1182. Wulfenite or cinnabar
O1183. Feel of an old injury
O1185. Latino lover’s sentiment
O1187. “Is it ‘drive down’ ___?”
O1189. Poetic direction
O1191. Heraldic stripe
O1193. Newfoundland hrs.
O1195. Year divisions (abbr.)
O1196. Shed’s purpose
O1197. Sum as
O1198. Textbook year
O1199. What a streamer streams through
O1202. Certain PC storage area
O1203. Silly little mistake, ha ha ha!
O1206. Quarrels
O1208. Flits about
O1210. Prepare for a second set, perhaps
O1212. Rialto sign
O1213. “Paradise City” rocker Rose
O1214. Kimono accessory
O1215. Erotic novel of 1954
O1218. High degrees
O1220. ___ -pros: law
O1222. Construction sign
O1223. Ghana-native soccer star
O1225. Insurance grs.
O1227. First singers
O1228. Abruptly rupture
O1229. Ninth-inning pitcher
O1230. Sharply luminescent
O1233. Ending for glamour or vapour
O1234. Canned soup ingredient
O1237. Fork site
O1238. Preceding
O1240. ___ ball (game played by throwing a
ball at stairs)
O1242. Plowless planting method
O1244. Damien: ___ (1978 sequel)
O1245. QB’s stats
O1246. Main soup ingredient, sometimes
O1247. Frond-bearing fixture
O1249. “I’m ___ deep now; the only way out is
through”
O1250. Mlles., across the Pyrenees
O1252. ___ Married an Ax Murderer
O1253. Store below decks
O1255. Pressure washer’s extension
O1256. Diner entree
O1258. Cleaning the cat box, e.g.
O1259. Angelic attire
O1261. High-quality pearl
O1263. Shoot en masse simultaneously
O1266. Cincy’s state
O1268. Zigzag, e.g.
O1271. Combination punches
O1274. Linguist Chomsky
O1276. Like a pain in the back
O1277. Naughty one
O1278. Romantic introduction?
O1280. Rosy dye
O1282. Catastrophic fate
O1284. Portrait on a 1990s 10 Deutsche Mark
note
O1286. Stranger than strange
O1288. Redbox alternative
O1290. Blacklisting org. of the 1950s
O1293. Wind quintet member
O1294. Presley hit that’s the first word of
another Presley hit
O1295. Treats derisively
O1297. As well
O1299. Loud, sharp, and piping
O1301. Super Bowl XXXV year
O1303. Make magnificent
O1306. Reset, as a timer
O1308. Assent either to a family member or to
someone overprotective
O1311. Everything is Illuminated director Schreiber
O1313. Like grass that’s wet in the morning
O1314. Wallet note
O1315. Lord of the Rings menace
O1316. Driver’s lic. stat
O1318. Minute part of a minute (abbr.)
O1320. Eight-time British Open host town
O1322. “Great job, dumbass!”
O1325. Infantry groups
O1328. Reversing lead-in
O1330. Kung fu star Bruce
O1331. Anxiety sometimes brought on by
Instagram Stories, for short
O1332. First Family of the next decade
O1334. Nicks on a CD
O1336. Critics in the stands
O1338. “Make ___!” (Picard’s order)
O1340. R.’s ex
O1343. Vitamin vegans may need to supplement
O1345. Starts a conference call quickly
O1348. Ebert’s cohort
O1350. Daenerys’s first husband
O1352. Inits. on some dentists’ walls
O1354. Non ___ inventus: sheriff can’t find the defendant in
their county
O1355. English electronic act since 1990
O1358. Winning line
O1360. “Ooh, naughty!”
O1363. Ninth, to Nero
O1364. Pet name for a male pet
O1366. Selene, to the Romans
O1367. Poison sci.
O1368. Definitive boxing wins, briefly
O1369. ACLU, HRC, and PFLAG, e.g.
O1370. Bigger Gap stack
O1371. “Already watched that film before”
O1372. Streaming service that, despite its
name, is now past tense
O1374. Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley
O1376. Mutt’s meow
O1377. What mice often take
O1378. Newscaster Johnson, Kansas city, or
name in the Hardy Boys series
O1380. Make things easier for
O1382. Fungal infection that makes some wood
unsuitable for houses
O1384. Masterful musicians
O1388. Eye of ___ (Macbeth recipe
item)
O1392. Auberjonois on Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine
O1394. Train station hr. and min.
O1395. Atari classic
O1397. Emulate Niobe
O1398. The NHL’s Šimon
O1400. Schizophrenia org.
O1401. Glass or Williams
O1403. Perfect place
O1405. Make out in Manchester
O1406. Proposition, should it please the
court
O1407. Start of a Spanish greeting
O1408. Streisand classic
O1409. “Well, that’s show ___!”
O1411. Had a lupine vision (it’s said this is
a divine reminder to trust your intuition)
O1414. Barely born
O1417. Jesse Jackson, e.g.
O1419. Extravagant style
O1421. Ball-shaped flowers
O1422. “That is not ___!” (white lie to the
kids about the vibrator)
O1423. Part of the British arsenal until the
Nineties
O1424. British teenagers of the ‘60s
O1426. Saint ___, French port
O1428. WWII town
O1430. Ancient violin
O1432. Obsidian
O1434. It is repeated in “it is”
O1435. Dismissive sound
O1436. ___ characters (basic means of writing
Chinese)
O1437. This, to Anais
O1438. Working in a galley
O1439. James of the Lakers
O1440. Do a post-laundry job
O1441. Class work?
O1445. Cereal that looks like tiny cages
O1446. Detroit group, for short
O1448. Schnozzolas
O1451. Sandbagger’s call
O1453. Spot for a town Hanukkah
O1455. Not much (good that’ll do ya),
sarcastically
O1456. Report card entry
O1457. Rendezvous With ___ (Hugo-winning Arthur C. Clarke novel)
O1458. Teen crushes
O1460. With -core, awesome-sounding way to be
ordinary
O1462. Coping devices
O1464. Roman dictator from 82-79 BCE
O1466. “Ooh-la-la,” across the pond
O1468. Model Ginger who shared the last few
months of Elvis’ life
O1469. Antebellum
O1471. Library warning
O1472. Restraining with rope
O1473. Charon may have been the first
O1474. Became less ardent
O1476. Bestow abundantly
O1479. South Korean airline
O1482. “Let ___, I said!”
O1485. Crouched
O1488. Recent (as of 2023) golf investor,
perhaps
O1490. Frowzy folks
O1492. MTV show where fan girls go “squeee!”
over celebs
O1493. Aid for an emcee
O1494. Give ___ steer: misinform
O1495. “How I wish I could be like her!”
O1497. Japanese holiday roughly analogous to
the Day of the Dead
O1499. Like a loan word, originally
O1502. Hammer or wrench
O1504. Old profs
O1505. Years of Spanish class
O1506. Smoky drags
O1507. Placates
O1508. Item loaded by runners?
O1509. Couldn’t stop thinking about
O1513. Second TV Star Trek sequel, for
short
O1514. Dinner or wedding
O1517. Temporarily inactive, in baseball
slang
O1519. News notices
O1521. African currency unit
O1523. Helpful position
O1525. T.N. Page’s “In ___ Virginia”
O1526. Ring bull
O1527. Old caller’s 6
O1528. Old Cretan king
O1530. East-Coast convenience stores
O1531. Exeunt ___ (end of a Shakespeare play)
O1533. Breakfast spot
O1535. Pitch on the diamond
O1537. Natl. economic figure
O1538. Words to a teaser
O1540. I-1s, spelled out (no tricks, this is
a gimme)
O1541. Gobs and scads
O1542. Capital not to be confused with Pago
Pago
O1544. Apply forcefully
O1546. Did so-so at school
O1549. Back biters?
O1551. Performed alone
O1553. Buck-___ “My Town” ska band worth a
lot more than $1.09)
O1555. New car attraction
O1557. Video game abbreviation
O1558. Scoresheet marks
O1561. One who brings a legal action
O1562. Etched computer component
O1566. What this is in: [5 lines]
O1568. Tag, e.g.
O1570. 2016 animated Bill Murray role
O1572. Queen of Norway
O1574. Non-stick spray
O1576. WWI troop group
O1578. Goofus, compared to Gallant
O1579. Top ratings
O1580. Peter and successors
O1581. Gulpable soup
O1582. Heats under the windshield
O1587. Typee sequel
O1589. Alison who portrayed Trudy Campbell on
Mad Men
O1590. Revelatory shout
O1593. Pretty much the only word now modified
by the adjective “fell”
O1595. Store’s stock
O1597. They’re most likely to succeed
O1599. Prefix found in “prefix”
O1600. “Come on, make an effort”
O1601. Miscalculate or misspeak
O1602. Dietary data, in brief
O1604. Garr and Shields
O1606. Facebook’s started to restrict the
display of it
O1608. Preferred option for proceeding
O1610. Kind of court or hall
O1611. Like some eds. of Shakespeare
O1612. ___-hoo (drink brand)
O1613. Cleaning up a mess in a mess, for
short
O1614. Future dr.’s exam
O1615. Lemonlike fruit
O1616. Stop dilly-dallying
O1617. Cocktail type
O1621. Facebook user’s nudge
O1623. PC-to-printer port
O1624. But, to Cato
O1625. Desert the military
O1628. Mexican children
O1630. Show silent approval of
O1632. Fabled predators
O1633. Collection of writings, for short
O1634. Energy-bar piece
O1636. Look angry or sullen (rhymes with a
gl- word that’s its synonym)
O1638. Student’s text
O1641. Discovered
O1643. Punxsutawney Phil’s shadow, walking
under a ladder, et cetera
O1645. Argumentative thinking framework, for
short
O1646. NFL analyst Tony
O1648. Many an ascot wearer
O1650. Deadliest part of a volcanic eruption
O1651. “I think what I’m best ___ creating
sort of new innovative products” (Steve Jobs)
O1652. Open a castle door
O1653. “This victory almost makes me feel
guilty!”
O1656. Tower toppers on Russian Orthodox
churches
O1658. Galahad and Percival’s Grail companion
O1660. Twelfth Hebrew month
O1662. Words in a horror comic just before
the speaker is cut off and killed, so you don’t find out by what
O1664. It’s made with ice cubes
O1666. Ballpark levels
O1668. Prepared an auction
O1671. Alias, for short
O1672. Taunting laugh
O1673. Drink diluter, at times
O1675. Make money, e.g.
O1676. Group studying torts and procedures,
typically
O1678. Ayr native
O1680. Say Anything… actress
O1682. Subway, buses, etc. (abbr.)
O1683. Baking basic
O1685. Others, to Pedro
O1687. Andromeda or fetterbush (or “The ___
where the docks are”)
O1688. One of old Hollywood’s Big Five
O1689. Looks lasciviously
O1692. “Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!” to the beat
O1694. America’s largest supermarket chain
O1697. One may try to find them with the
lights out
O1700. Vowel shortlist
O1702. Logically valid
O1704. Equal, as a Parisienne
O1706. Brother of Rebekah
O1707. Green-lit
O1709. Delhi title
O1710. Vehicle for Antarctic explorers
O1712. Suffix meaning “character”
O1714. Card kinds
O1716. Space to move around
O1718. Feathered farm friend
O1719. Knife handle?
O1721. Upper limb bone
O1722. Treasured collection
O1723. X’s ___: tic-tac-toe
O1724. Resembling a quiche
O1726. Incredible and complex
O1729. Using a blast furnace for
O1731. ___ the other (either)
O1732. Ice cream partner
O1734. Time to get back to work, perhaps
O1736. South Carolina motto’s last word
O1738. “___, I must laugh!” (Shakespeare)
O1740. First name in ragas
O1741. Bring about the loss of
O1743. Photo ___ (PR occasions)
O1744. “The heat is ___ the street” (Glenn
Frey lyric)
O1746. Stuff to burn
O1748. Not just a mythical figure
O1751. “Don’t give up”
O1754. Tom’s recurringest role
O1755. The Kings, on scoreboards
O1756. Concern in Calais
O1757. Molten metal channel
O1758. Passed, as in a parade
O1759. Pastry portmanteau
O1762. Go after a mosquito
O1763. The Daily Show correspondent Chieng
O1764. Letter signoff
O1768. Positioned
O1770. Its letter-marking is sometimes called
“gamma”
O1772. Sharpening belt
O1774. Give the go-ahead to
O1775. Unpleasant type of mail
O1776. Holemaker
O1778. Made a snack of
O1782. Blink-182’s “___ through the master
plan”
O1784. Marvel character who talks like a
Pokémon
O1785. Jazz score
O1787. “Uh, hey…I ___ favor”
O1788. Virtual animal you care for with
e-cash
O1790. Boat builder of Genesis
O1792. Colonels in college sports
O1793. Rocker Richards
O1794. Bright meteor
O1795. “I super appreciate this”
O1798. About as much as one can take
O1800. Pool cover
O1801. Mancinelli’s ___ e Leandro
O1802. Hoops to jump through, figuratively
O1804. Something else
O1806. Sightly?
O1808. Zippy chip dip
O1810. Thicken into a backup
O1811. Three-star system in Perseus that
sounds like something else above
O1812. Use a pouffe
O1813. Cabbage with crinkly, curled leaves
O1815. Julia from San Juan
O1817. Kind of china
O1819. Sheepshank, e.g.
O1821. View to be
O1822. “In theory, I’m repelled, but I’m also
amused”
O1823. Attacked with zeal
O1825. IRS identifier
O1827. Refusal in Inverness
O1828. ___ mitt (chef’s wear)
O1829. Cement a breakup, perhaps
O1832. Comics caveman’s consort
O1833. Part more heightened than heightened
speech
O1834. Historic Alabama march site
O1837. Non-traditional authority
O1839. All-nighter aid
O1841. Madrileno
O1843. Hot clue
O1844. 
Dunderhead
O1845. Disease that sounds like a fruit
O1846. NASA hominid of 1961
O1848. He might take possession
O1850. Lutheran or Methodist (abbr.)
O1852. Difficult workloads
O1854. Athlete of the Year awarder (abbr.)
O1856. Showed preference
O1857. One of classical music’s “Big Five”
O1860. HuffPost and Engadget publisher
O1862. One maintaining a claim
O1864. Mom’s business partner
O1866. High-profile departure of 2016-2021
O1868. Cooper’s cleaving tool
O1870. Revelations
O1872. Gym iterations
O1874. Quick reply?
O1875. Suspects
O1877. That’s flattering!
O1880. Extend, as a lease
O1882. Plodding person
O1885. According to this poster
O1888. Mumble after a fumble
O1889. “___ Name” (1973 Jim Croce hit)
O1891. Famous medical brothers
O1893. Hoyle warned players cheating in this
game was rampant
O1895. Separates the laundry
O1897. Fantasy creature of mixed parentage
O1899. Oldest commercial broadcaster in the
UK
O1900. Selves from your paths not taken
O1902. Jetsons’ dog
O1903. Worshipper of Threepio
O1905. Film cutter Edward?
O1909. Putting back in sets of two (it’s a
lesser-used homonym)
O1911. Wasn’t in the starting lineup
O1912. Gather, as grouse
O1913. Surprised greeting that sounds like a
Southern California resort town
O1915. Blood-type abbr.
O1916. Heeded “Stroke!”
O1918. Spot on a tie, say
O1920. Popular cant
O1921. Space fuel
O1922. Unspoken “uh-oh”
O1923. Jewish legendary monsters
O1925. Cushy
O1927. They thought about inviting this
number to the party, but it was TWO SQUARE! [rim shot]
O1929. Moves, realtor-style
O1931. Set VIP
O1932. “…you think you can ___ you think you
can’t…you’re right” (variation on a quote attributed to Henry Ford)
O1934. Firer or firefighter
O1936. Person with a bodacious bod
O1938. “Get him, Spot!”
O1940. “Double Fantasy” singer
O1941. Conservationist President Teddy
O1944. Chore for a farmer
O1946. Capuchin or weapon
O1948. Muscle for punching down?
O1952. Snappy swimmer?
O1954. Diamond-studded ear parts
O1956. Outer layers
O1958. Feature of a good essay
O1959. Napoleonic law
O1960. Bad Behavior star Stephen
O1961. Costa ___ (Central American nation)
O1963. Waves away
O1965. Instant-replay cameras, for short
O1967. Big-time phone company
O1969. Dot dividing numbers
O1972. Burt Reynolds’ ex-wife
O1973. Pilot’s “Understood”
O1975. Ray Charles classic
O1977. Usage stats
O1979. Redesign specifically for
O1982. Area of barren lava flows, in the
Southwest
O1984. “___ Hear What I Hear?”
O1987. Spartans of the Big Ten Conf.
O1988. Healing sites?
O1990. Name word
O1992. Not coming back
O1995. “I love,” to Livy
O1996. Annual Vancouver event, familiarly
O1997. “___, you’re swell”
O1999. Lose one’s edge
O2003. Cereal eater?
O2005. Sporty auto roof option
O2007. Practicable
O2009. Garbage tower
O2010. Hardly concealed
O2012. Biblical kingdom first ruled by David
O2014. Future, as a husband or successor
O2016. Spirally prefix
O2017. “Look ___” (Polonius, in Hamlet)
O2019. Magic trick
O2022. Tennis start
O2023. Nap hr., perhaps
O2024. MTV’s Remote Control host Ken
O2026. What Ocean’s 8 were that Ocean’s 11-13
were not
O2028. Post office box, e.g.
O2030. TV image’s smallest element
O2031. More careless
O2033. First Reich, for short
O2034. Grandmother, to Germans
O2035. Src. of “Bad Idea Jeans” ads
O2036. They play alone
O2039. Extension extension
O2041. A Bell For ___
O2043. Treacherous ingenue title character of
classic film
O2044. Surface for painters
O2045. Get used to again
O2048. Cranial, more specifically
O2050. Cream for sore muscles
O2053. It makes cakes in winter (var.)
O2056. Scoring preventers, for short
O2058. Have ___: hunger
O2059. Ewok world in Star Wars
O2061. Greek coins
O2063. Hot-dog-eating contest memento
O2065. Women of vision?
O2067. Hun king of myth with a name shortened
from his real-life counterpart
O2068. “I used to be with it, but then they
changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what is it seems weird and
scary to me. It will happen to you” speaker
O2070. Black, sticky stuff
O2071. Neither foil nor sabre
O2073. Jazz pianist/bandleader
O2074. “I’m A ___ Man” (t-shirt seen in
Korea)
O2076. Showdown time in a Cooper film
O2078. Where to find a radius
O2080. “My mama done ___ me” (song lyric)
O2082. Full of difficulties
O2085. “Skin” at a shirts vs. skins game
O2087. Hosp. drama locale, usually
O2088. Li’l frogling
O2089. Pangs of pain
O2091. “YOLO amirite?”
O2092. Child’s taboo
O2093. “That’s ___ time!”
O2095. Missile housing
O2097. Hi’s spouse, in the comics
O2099. Single-masted sailing vessel
O2101. Generous aid
O2104. Punctuation marks
O2106. Are hung over, say
O2107. That is ___ (namely)
O2109. Humana competitor
O2111. Relieve, as for a break
O2113. Vincent van who painted Starry
Night
O2115. Boring
O2116. Camera operators’ assn.
O2119. Pink Panther actor Herbert
O2121. Navy vessel
O2124. They let you walk on the ceiling
O2127. Tampico lunch, perhaps
O2129. Soil layer
O2131. Canine warnings
O2133. Ladies’ first?
O2134. Thus far
O2138. Nurse Jackie portrayer
O2140. They can be taxed like partnerships,
for short
O2142. Amish town in Kansas
O2144. Botanical pore
O2145. Charles Lamb alias
O2146. .
. . .. ..
O2148. Ready for breeding
O2150. Something to tie a story together
O2152. Bucks
O2155. Like Van Leeuwen’s Knives Out-themed
ice cream
O2158. “La fille ___ gardee” (Ashton ballet)
O2159. Bottled model
O2161. Existences in the real world
O2164. Check section
O2165. Like an unofficial parent
O2167. Request after breaking down
O2168. Like everything in Wonka’s chocolate
factory
O2170. Last one to know
O2171. Find out if blondes do have more fun
O2172. Worthless old coin
O2173. Grasp intuitively, in slang
O2175. Like a perfect game
O2177. Charlie for one
O2179. Tend to a spill
O2181. Unpleasant reprimand
O2182. Rig truck
O2183. ___ al-Adha: day of animal sacrifices
O2184. Checked off
O2186. Siberian neighbor
O2188. “Not even half these clues are
written, there’s no ___ sight”
O2189. Blackthorn
O2191. Notorious energy-price-manipulating
company
O2192. Cuisine with pad krapow moo saap
O2194. Run ___: warm up for cross-country
O2196. Signify, however unintentionally
O2199. A Bug’s Life protagonists
O2200. Capt. Jean-___ Picard of the USS Enterprise
O2202. Naples number
O2204. Childbirth aides
O2206. Nobelist Hammarskjold
O2208. Printers’ paper sizes (abbr.)
O2210. Long-gone days
O2212. Didn’t release, as news
O2214. Michael of Star Trek: The Next
Generation
O2216. “The race ___ over!” (Messala’s dying
words to Ben-Hur)
O2218. Having five sharps, perhaps
O2219. Stared at obtrusively
O2220. “___ doubt you are aware…” (“I may not
need to say this, but…”)
O2221. Got away quickly
O2225. Whirlybird’s wing
O2227. Super Bowl XXV MVP Anderson
O2229. Teller’s stack
O2231. Home to Stockholm (abbr.)
O2232. Hits with the whole body
O2233. Away from
O2235. Earsplitting
O2236. Make an endpoint for an air trip
O2238. Give ___: care at least a little
O2240. 1, for one (abbr.)
O2242. Hebrew R
O2243. Is constructive?
O2246. Displeased with
O2248. Cashbox
O2250. Whiskey measure
O2252. Progressives or conservatives
O2254. Red-eye cause
O2256. Medical material that’s stranded
O2257. Proofreader’s term
O2258. Nest egg, initially
O2259. Cancellations
O2261. Currently playing
O2263. Sporty Chevy since 1953
O2265. Upright on a field
O2268. Commercial suffix suggesting pasta
O2270. Playwright Sherwood
O2273. European forest denizen
O2274. Seek to replace current tenants
O2275. “We ___ our ancestors”
O2276. Network that aired Felicity
O2278. Put groceries away
O2280. ___ b’Av (annual Jewish fast day)
O2281. Bonded on the run?
O2283. It’s a minor frustration to get stuck
walking behind her
O2286. Like some driveways
O2288. Frightened cry
O2289. Ford’s Crown ___
O2292. Large quantity
O2293. “Top priority!”
O2295. Actresses Talbot and Naldi
O2297. Any eight
O2299. To a certain extent, colloquially
O2301. Nile queen’s nickname
O2302. Go-___: mini racers
O2303. Two-time British PM who never said
that quote about statistics; get it together, Google
O2306. “Rick-eeee,” on TV
O2307. Jellyfish, in zoology
O2308. Beau ___ (magnanimous action)
O2309. Courtroom VIP
O2310. Hephthalites
O2311. Fire, to paper
O2312. Derisive laugh
O2314. “Trust and ___” (gospel classic)
O2315. Loses enthusiasm
O2317. Stags’ mates
O2319. Shredded excitedly, as Christmas
wrappings
O2322. General delivery stop, for short
O2323. Where ‘Enry ‘Iggins dwelt
O2324. Shouldn’ts
O2326. Hebrew-school text
O2328. Butler’s maiden name
O2330. Parts of houses and mouths
O2332. Attacked despite risk
O2335. Not done remotely
O2337. Spoke haltingly
O2340. Tire-shaped
O2342. Strange (to)
O2343. For .25, it equals 75.52248781°
O2344. It precedes totsy
O2345. Decide that one will
O2347. Harley bike, casually
O2348. Repeated denials
O2352. “Never as Good as the First Time”
singer
O2354. Sphere of work
O2356. “Mens ___ in corpore sano”
O2358. Castro the US comically failed to
assassinate
O2359. Capital attachment?
O2360. Negative
O2362. One way to break out
O2364. Greens mixture
O2366. Soup eater’s sound
O2368. Decorative hairnet
O2370. Beat but good, on the innertubes
O2371. Verbally devastated
O2373. Film animation technique
O2376. Soup, salad, and such
O2378. Element 34 (var. that leaves off the
-ium)
O2379. Finger in Fuenlabrada
O2380. One of the first TV superstations
O2382. Driver’s lic. datum
O2383. Like ___ of hope
O2384. Major language of Nigeria
O2385. Restauranteur Stephen
O2387. Leopold’s 1920s co-defendant
O2389. “Blushing crow” for “crushing blow,”
e.g.
O2392. Zap during a riot, perhaps
O2393. Cut all at once
O2394. Carpooling lane, for short
O2395. Major achievement
O2397. Speedy hedgehog
O2399. “Like I care if they do it or not”
O2401. ___Friday
O2404. Once named
O2405. Caesar, for short
O2408. Part of the rial world?
O2410. Feature of the 1960s Batman series
O2413. Large dict.
O2414. Oktoberfest containers
O2415. “Peace, I ___ your side”
O2416. Totally committed
O2418. Really annoys, for short
O2420. Club started by the Bakkers
O2421. Departer
O2423. Slurpee cousins
O2425. Get ___ (2014 biopic about James Brown)
O2427. Took no cards
O2428. Little ___, fictional tugboat
O2430. Group with enforcers, with “the”
O2431. Gwen Stefani genre, back in the day
O2433. One for the French
O2434. Indication that someone’s home at
night, say
O2438. Like some diet drinks
O2440. Bull rider’s show
O2442. It runs through four Great Lakes
O2444. “From this, we can conclude…”
O2446. Face on a fifty
O2448. Oz-treasured jewels
O2449. Numbers invoked to describe crawling
O2451. Vale of ___, in Greece
O2452. Delegate
O2453. Tea brand bought by Starbucks in 1999
O2454. Law & Order: ___
O2455. Refuse to settle
O2456. Spiral
O2458. Collectible baseball card brand
O2460. Dial, e.g.
O2462. Priggish people
O2464. Place for a pedicure
O2466. Mr. of soda pop
O2468. Stag party attendee
O2469. One who can love people…just not like
that
O2470. Noted brewing surname
O2472. “___ my opinion” (IMO)
O2474. Big apes
O2477. It won’t happen again
O2478. Call to service
O2480. Where to find the Vatican
O2484. Bottles of white wine
O2486. Loving stroke
O2487. Dressed for dreamland, briefly
O2488. Streaming option for Game of
Thrones, once
O2490. Getaway blocker
O2492. Card game with no cards below seven
O2494. Soldier guarding a demilitarized zone
O2496. Org. that disbanded in 1977
O2498. Sudan river
O2500. Doggy Fizzle Televizzle star, familiarly
O2502. Craggy crest
O2503. Designer Johnson
O2504. Decorate a cupcake
O2506. Arguably the real big man (or person)
on campus
O2508. Ahead, score-wise
O2510. Word in the Kansan motto
O2512. “Down” in a diner
O2515. One’s identity
O2517. Selector of Salt Lake City, UT, in
2002
O2519. More than is tolerable
O2524. Sign in some dry cleaners’ windows
O2525. When the countdown reaches its last
positive number
O2526. Baudelaire, par exemple
O2527. ___ flame: soul mate
O2528. 18th-century teenage Russian emperor
O2531. Pluto, to Cleo
O2534. 1728
O2537. Kingdom Hearts hero
O2538. Larry Fine or Moe Howard
O2541. Commoner, commonly
O2542. “So love ___ leave me…” (ABBA lyric)
O2543. Name for yo girlf
O2545. Trolls’ first cousins
O2547. With feathers ruffled
O2549. Understated response to “How’s the
company doing,” say
O2551. “The Owl and the Pussycat” poet Edward
O2553. Go on a date (term can also be used
for an activity after a date)
O2556. Veal dish
O2557. Some demonstrations
O2559. Looks over the books
O2560. Give financing for
O2561. Recognitions, abbreviated
O2562. Food Network fave
O2563. Ammonia derivative that can react as
an acid (I IMED anagram)
O2565. “Do not betray another man’s
confidence, ___ who hears it may shame you” (Proverbs)
O2567. “Seven Whole Grains on a Mission”
cereal
O2568. Part of YTD
O2570. Hoda of Today
O2572. German trousers
O2573. Like something that could go either
way
O2574. Torv of Fringe
O2575. Goodfellas costar Ray
O2578. Acting without thinking
O2580. 1961 British movie monster
O2582. Resistance when resistivity times
length equals cross-sectional area
O2585. Kind of chart
O2587. ___ à manger (ready to eat, in France)
O2589. Belonging to someone else
O2592. Condition once called “combat
fatigue,” for short
O2593. Two-legged camera stands
O2594. (The) willies
O2595. “WOWOWOWOWOW!”
O2596. Bearded critter
O2597. Risky gluteoplasty, for short
O2598. Financial sums
O2600. Spa food
O2602. “I could just ___ embarrassment that I
can’t come up with a better clue”
O2604. Transport (into ecstasy)
O2606. King’s home, on Broadway
O2608. “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)”
singer John
O2609. Comic Gallagher et al.
O2610. Source of “It is more blessed to give
than to receive”
O2611. Phrased
O2613. Low-energy
O2615. Insurance product
O2618. Moped’s cousin
O2621. Pendant pair
O2625. “___ me gusta” (“I like that”)
O2626. “I know! Pick me!”
O2628. Permeable by liquids
O2629. Pass judgment over
O2630. Henchman of Captain Hook
O2631. Do a shoe job
O2633. Fortifies financially in a flood
O2635. Scuttlebutt
O2637. Bit of parsley
O2639. BlackBerry devices, e.g.
O2641. The difference between “rubble” and
“ruble”
O2643. Combat sport, for short
O2644. Gen ___ (baby boomer’s successor)
O2645. Ancient Aryan
O2646. “There’s no third option”
O2648. Part of the neighborhood
O2650. Shale with fuel potential
O2653. Dramatis ___ (list of play characters)
O2656. React to an article on BuzzFeed, maybe
O2657. Hansel and Gretel’s trail
O2660. Entangling quagmire
O2661. World’s largest chemical company
O2662. Public video game
O2663. Reconcile to a severance
O2664. Test with five subjects
O2665. With a view to
O2666. One on the go
O2667. Scottish shout
O2668. Pumps and flats
O2670. How often rent is usually paid
O2673. Mil. aide
O2674. “I’m on board,” on board
O2675. 1950s campaign button name
O2678. Coin of Sofia.
O2680. Yacht-Master, for one
O2682. “The wind’s in our hair and the sea is
glittering in the sun! Let’s ride!”
O2684. Parties or highway disasters
O2687. “We will ___ undersold!”
O2688. Club treasurer’s collection
O2690. River of Belgium
O2691. Turn toward
O2693. Singer Bobby and singer Zanyar
O2694. Red dogs, grown up
O2695. Clerics’ titles
O2696. Fateful letters on a police blotter
O2697. Ming in the Basketball Hall of Fame
O2698. Texas ballplayers
O2700. “They got you with your hands in the
cookie jar!”
O2703. Musical close
O2704. Halifax hold
O2706. Like Advil and Aleve, briefly
O2708. Pipe up
O2710. Floppy successor, for short
O2713. “The first man ___ the earth, earthy”
O2716. Cute M.A.S.K. robot
O2718. ___ woe
O2720. Muddy deposits
O2722. Flakes
O2724. Flying Peter
O2726. Ale houses
O2728. Shown to be a fact
O2730. Ring-shaped cake
O2731. Roused
O2732. Embarrassing thing to say to the
waiter after he thanks you for dining at his establishment
O2734. Cold fall
O2736. “Almighty” item (abbr.)
O2737. “___ the side of inclusion”
O2739. Elias Bureau info
O2741. Fund-raising need
O2743. Hateful chap briefly
O2745. Put ___: sail
O2746. Envelope words
O2748. Ready ___ (1994 Notorious B.I.G. album)
O2750. “Do you MIND??!”
O2752. Recital pieces
O2755. Itinerary start
O2757. Harbor boats
O2759. “Despite what you may expect…”
O2761. Requiring no more effort
O2763. Rockie rival
O2765. Accomplished people
O2767. Try to get or keep public office
O2768. Take ___ view of: frown upon
O2771. How Danger Radio moves?
O2773. “That’s fantastic!”
O2775. Edina, Patsy, and Saffron’s show, for
short
O2777. Good reaction to a spousal work visit
O2779. Had no doubt
O2781. “The Pit and the Pendulum” author
O2784. Some hallucinogens
O2785. *chuckle*
O2786. Celeb rosters
O2788. Devoted to equestrian activities
O2791. Salamander that can regenerate part of
its brain
O2793. Forever, ___ (1996 humor bestseller)
O2795. Gov’t-issued funds
O2796. Sister of Fenrir the wolf
O2798. “Catch my drift?”
O2799. Poet James Whitcomb and singer Jeannie
O2801. “Scrub the mission!”
O2803. Considerably
O2805. Last base
O2806. Brutus’ 551
O2807. A pound and a shilling
O2809. ___ Rosenkavalier
O2810. Qatar home of the Aspire Tower
O2812. Company with the slogan “Taking care
of business”
O2815. Before now
O2816. Twice, a cheerleader’s need
O2817. Sauce put on rice
O2818. Term applied to silents star Clara Bow
O2819. “I didn’t expect to see you here”
O2821. “Not only” follower
O2824. G and R, among others
O2828. McCarthy’s opposite
O2830. Washington-based sporting goods store
O2831. Good for nothing?
O2833. First name in shoes
O2835. 1995 TV mega-event, repeated more
quietly in 2008
O2837. Hector, once
O2838. Defense gp. covering 40% of the
world’s population
O2840. “___ Mistress” (1982 horror film)
O2842. Sci. of getting along
O2844. Coed abode, perhaps
O2846. Guitarist’s aid
O2847. They follow pis
O2848. Champagne bottle title
O2849. Pained cries
O2850. Med. ins. program
O2851. What lines with stars at the end
indicate in comics
O2853. Exceed
O2855. Capable of wisdom
O2857. Earthling, in some sci-fi books
O2858. Fees that turn into shipping costs
O2862. Opp. from SSW
O2865. Reply to a sticky question
O2867. Start, datewise
O2868. “I’m sunk!”
O2869. Diary of ___ Black Woman
O2870. City on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
O2872. Bank book
O2874. Colloquial refusal
O2876. “P ___ procrastination…”
O2878. Ta-ta in Toledo
O2880. Achieve with minimal effort
O2882. Took it on the ___: fled
O2883. Animated clerk
O2884. Gourd
O2887. Brandy designation
O2888. Rolling in money
O2891. Put new turf on
O2892. Openings for horse trainers
O2893. Call to attract attention
O2895. [segment]
O2896. Blimp, e.g.
O2897. More, to Mehta
O2899. ___ prosequi (“proceed no further”
court entry)
O2900. Excessive supply for modest demand
O2902. Hebrew for “red”
O2904. Small shears used by sheet-metal
workers
O2906. Country known as Ceylon when under
British colonial rule
O2907. Gp. that officially recognized the
State of Israel in 1988
O2908. Simple tie?
O2909. Full length film with Mickey Mouse in
a dramatic role
O2911. Vehicles legally limited to 15 or 20
miles per hour
O2913. Seasoning in a yellow-and-blue tin
O2914. Dandelion who sang “Toss a coin to
your Witcher,” e.g.
O2915. Pres. before FDR
O2916. Stellar blueshift, for short
O2919. An Indo-Chinese people
O2921. Lucky roll
O2923. “___ your disposal!”
O2925. Pantsless in pajamas, positionally
O2927. ___ Gay (World War II B-29 bomber)
O2929. Jel ___, maker of Otter Pops
O2932. “Is it ___ so? Then I defy you,
stars!” (Romeo)
O2933. Green of Hawaii (abbr.)
O2934. Siren sound, in the comics
O2936. “We’re ___ that point: every one of us
has cabin fever”
O2937. Dumb and Dumber duo?
O2940. Good luck ornament
O2945. Most treacherous for driving, maybe
O2946. Imitating a pig
O2948. [segment]
O2969. To the max, for short
O2971. Hostel visitor
O2972. Chilled caffeine source
O2973. Cryptocurrency or Detroit center
O2974. Refuse to promote
O2976. Green Day suggested killing him, which
seems unwise
O2978. Cut even shorter, as a green
O2981. Unshorn sheep
O2983. “___ take arms against…”
O2987. Wasikowska role of 2011
O2989. Brisk, to a bassoonist
O2990. “Enjoy the time you have”
O2992. “Like two peas in ___”
O2993. “Mornin’“ in Morocco
O2994. Vacuum-cleaner noise
O2995. Egg-producing gland
O2996. GI requirement
O2997. Ready to start
O2998. Select, as a hyperlink
O3000. Gave ___ of one’s own medicine
O3001. TV knob abbr.
O3002. “Which is better: Verizon ___-Mobile?”
O3003. Bottom deck of a warship
O3005. Altar man?
O3007. Hold up again
O3009. When repeated, a Seinfeld
catchphrase
O3010. Chinese Google
O3012. Bible bk. after Ezra
O3013. Resume starter, often (abbr.)
O3015. Popeye phrase
O3018. Wife of Wang Lung in The Good Earth
O3022. Duck in the pond
O3023. Faith-forsakers
O3024. Is light, in a way
O3025. “In ___ way” (ailing)
O3026. Girl, gay, or they embracing the
feminine look, in modern parlance
O3027. Drink order request
O3028. Coarse fiber of a coconut
O3029. Like a scrubbed space mission
O3030. Shared a bed chastely
O3031. Rainforest unit
O3032. Well-regarded hardwood floor mop
O3033. Wise mentor to Luke or wise mentor to
Peter
O3035. “Let ___ Again” (Frank Sinatra song)
O3037. Loot playwright Joe
O3039. Primitivistic painter Frida
O3041. Eggy drink with spices
O3042. It won’t fix everything, but it’s a
start
O3044. African capital named for an American
president
O3046. ___ hounds (hunt fox)
O3048. Part of an earthworm’s alimentary
canal
O3052. Blew out of proportion
O3054. Pilsner, for one
O3056. Slough off
O3057. Slim to ___ (poor odds)
O3058. “___ of Life”
O3060. Go in search of
O3062. Rampart trench
O3064. “Gangnam Style” genre
O3066. Ox tail?
O3067. Lacking depth, briefly
O3068. Like the king of the jungle reminding
you why he is
O3069. “Great, now there’ll ___ living with
her”
O3070. African, to Shakespeare
O3072. Food package abbr.
O3074. Gambler’s thousand
O3076. Streaming music service bought out by
Beats
O3079. Liquid waste samples
O3080. Dine (at), as a friend’s apartment
O3082. Pair half from each parent
O3085. Different’ starter
O3088. Shark sort
O3089. Post-bath garment
O3090. “How cool!”
O3091. Burgundy black
O3092. Friction, to a physicist
O3093. S. Amer. nation with two capitals
O3094. They have access to the ship’s “goat
locker”
O3095. Tic-tac-toe frustration
O3096. Largish
O3097. Pizzey and Gray
O3099. Aroma, in Exeter
O3100. On the train
O3102. WWE wrestler in the Fast films
O3104. Lean-___ (shelters)
O3105. Legally condemn
O3106. Basic pool exercise
O3107. Disease-causing
O3108. Jester of Shakespeare
O3109. Winter-slope lift
O3111. Currency in Ankara
O3112. Australian peninsula
O3113. Word before shark or forgiveness
O3114. Reached a cost of
O3115. Director/author Ephron
O3116. Com lead-in, in movies
O3117. It’s often seen between here and there
O3118. Venus de Milo, .g.
O3119. Country/folk singer Griffith
O3120. Daffy pal
O3121. Ending for super or inter
O3122. Van Gogh’s lack
O3124. “…he loves ___”
O3125. Le Duc ___ of Hanoi
O3127. Notation between notes
O3130. Quick drink
O3131. “It’s ___ or us”
O3133. Give on condition
O3134. Movie sets
O3136. Humiliation
O3140. What makes one tick
O3143. Young stallions
O3144. Crime figure, briefly
O3145. Small sweaters
O3146. Tech titan Tim
O3147. ___ and tonic
O3148. Sound heard around the clock
O3149. Persian healer
O3150. The Cowboys of the NCAA
O3153. Study of insects (abbr.)
O3154. Digitize, maybe
O3155. Supper in a sty
O3156. Right away, on ER
O3158. “Walk Away, ___” (1966 pop song)
O3161. Back from flying
O3163. Some OKs
O3166. It’s indicated in red
O3167. Detroit cagers
O3168. Plan badly
O3171. Range rovers
O3172. Revamps, in a way
O3173. Katie Couric’s former show
O3174. Lawn tools
O3175. Word preceding clean or unglued
O3176. Daily routine
O3177. Male gobblers
O3178. “Boo-___, poor you”
O3179. ___ Grand Night for Singing
O3180. Mahler’s “___ Lied von der Erde”
O3181. Jazz pieces
O3183. Heroine’s Journey, e.g.
O3185. Chinese diplomat Wellington
O3187. Baseball nickname until 2016
O3189. Goran Ivanisevic’s nat.
O3190. Modernize, in a way
O3191. Victory margins at the track
O3193. One of many acronyms for learning to
“talk American”
O3194. Add-on, like a scene on the DVD that
didn’t make the final cut
O3195. Having options
O3198. Sends flowers, maybe
O3199. Stops flowing
O3200. Thus far
O3201. What the doggo says, in memes
O3202. Words repeated by Lady Macbeth after
“What’s done cannot be undone”
O3203. Near-miss utterance
O3204. Permission slip
O3205. Rowdy shindig
O3206. Demands attention
O3208. Perfect beginning?
O3209. Flippant response to an order
O3211. Antithesis (abbr.)
O3213. “It’s Magic” lead-in for the ELO
O3216. Sheltered from the elements
O3218. It has a creamy filling
O3219. WB sitcom since 2001
O3221. Munch Museum city
O3223. Famous feminist and abolitionist
O3226. Benevolent Chinese spirit
O3228. Messy applications
O3229. Cannabis quaff
O3230. Event in a square ring
O3231. Al Capp character shaped like a plump
bowling pin with legs
O3232. Numbered club
O3233. Bad words
O3234. “There’s ___ in ‘team’“
O3235. Sticky semiliquid
O3236. Latin “lo!”
O3237. “…my soul ___”
O3240. Undo layoffs
O3241. Cautionary conjunction
O3243. Man ___ (Horse of the Century)
O3246. Relative of lat.
O3247. ___ in “car”
O3250. Foot soldiers, for short
O3251. Edible dessert grip
O3253. Completely different
O3257. Manhattan’s 34th and 42nd (abbr.)
O3258. Creates, expressively
O3259. Steelhead, e.g.
O3260. They may be met
O3261. Gurus’ titles
O3262. Barely win an elimination tournament
O3263. Old Greek coin (or a wolf spelled
backwards)
O3264. Keeps hidden as best one can
O3265. Leakes of RHOA
O3266. Lacking a sharp end
O3268. Squirms uncontrollable
O3270. Isle of Wight channel
O3272. Repeated, a gloater’s taunt
O3274. “God Must Have Spent a Little More
Time on You” band
O3276. “That clarifies things”
O3278. “Give My Regards to Broad Street”
McCartney jam
O3280. Viewed remotely?
O3282. In a way that’s just so great
O3283. First epoch of hooved animals
O3285. Singles and jingles
O3286. Dogs with resting scowly face
O3287. Mikhail, familiarly
O3288. “Wanna? Oui?”
O3290. Swamp whose name means “trembling
earth”
O3292. Suffers embarrassment
O3294. Safekeeping of goods (abbr.)
O3295. With “the,” boxing, as Homer described
it
O3296. Like quick weekend getaways
O3297. It’s always getting stepped on
O3298. Surfer, at times
O3299. Outbreak of the early 21st century
O3300. Stamp-collecting, e.g.
O3301. Western alliance (abbr.)
O3302. Play footsie with
O3304. Loud, pretentious fuss
O3306. Zairean autocrat Mobutu ___ Seko
O3307. Made “moonlight requisitions”
O3309. Fail to keep, as a promise
O3313. Song about greatness
O3314. Not as soppy
O3315. Hurdle before the bar?
O3316. Pax Japana
O3317. Divinity who bore kittens
O3318. Sly guys
O3319. Rib ticklers?
O3320. Word for burden, or a couple of words
following “The burden’s…”
O3321. Scanner of bar codes (abbr.)
O3322. Tailored ___ (customized)
O3323. Nutrition label info
O3324. Nickname in the family
O3325. Star Trek and Star Trek: Discovery airer
O3327. Daddies
O3330. Boise hrs.
O3331. Rubber capital of the world
O3332. Quarrelsome
O3336. Some ‘60s hits?
O3338. With “the,” ceremony that comes before
the Grammys
O3340. 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds
O3342. One seen at trackside
O3343. Marc who said, “I’m proud to be part
of a generation where reading is a look”
O3344. Like some canvassing
O3346. Deep pink
O3347. Marquand’s sleuth Mr.
O3348. Mark Van or Dorothy Van of letters
O3349. Infant’s complaint
O3350. Othello, by birth
O3351. Muscle car of the 1960s
O3352. Go ___ for (defend)
O3353. Toon of blue hue
O3355. How something overworked might be done
O3358. Egyptian beetles
O3360. Toast start
O3362. Vermont music festival town
O3364. Louis ___ (early French coin)
O3366. “My guesstimate is…”
O3368. Traverses with a beam of light, as at
the self-checkout
O3369. Some things belonging to a carpenter
O3371. Apply, in a way
O3372. Accesses illegally, in a way
O3373. Brilliant move
O3374. ___ canvas: many paints
O3375. Snug as a bug
O3376. Quarters
O3377. Cole whose debut album was Harbinger
O3378. Passes between peaks
O3379. What the waiter would probably say if
you ordered the face-eating weasels
O3381. ___-bottom (comprehensive)
O3382. Goal of many a start-up, for short
O3383. Where the Vientiane Times is published
O3385. Bernard and Dwyer of sitcoms
O3386. Gloomy expression
O3390. Another, in Avila
O3391. “And ___ word from our sponsor”
O3393. Get some good out of
O3395. Erwin of early TV
O3396. Greeting in Guangzhou
O3397. Semistable subatomic particles
O3399. Indicate assent
O3400. By every metric
O3402. Edsel maker
O3403. Herringlike fish
O3404. “___ left his home in Tucson, Arizona”
(Beatles lyric)
O3405. Pilot producer
O3406. Offbeat, absentminded, maybe a little
mad
O3407. Napoleon Dynamite’s favorite food
O3408. Machine’s warning
O3409. His paintings were seized by the U.S.
Army and are still held by the government
O3410. “You’re ___ talk!”
O3411. Lacking a prominent proboscis
O3414. Handel bars?
O3418. Sheer gall
O3420. “___ I, ___ I, ___ I see you cryin’?
“___ I, ___ I, ___ I see you cry?”
O3422. Dough in a wallet
O3424. Grand ___, Wyoming peak
O3425. Business abbr. followed by a year
O3427. Hogwarts bully
O3428. “Lend an ___ your inner voice and
intuition” (Sunday Adelaja)
O3429. Little finish after the big finish
O3430. Restaurant chain, familiarly
O3431. Cyprus coin
O3432. Scottish bays
O3433. Robes in ancient Rome
O3434. Prominent vein
O3435. Bones in arms
O3436. The same age
O3437. Director of the Hostel films
and Borderlands
O3439. Dashboard Confessional’s genre
O3440. Be a good Samaritan
O3441. Nickname for Rory’s mom on Gilmore
Girls
O3442. Tearjerkers of a kind
O3444. Food-labeling concern
O3445. Ending of many element names
O3447. “What’s going on, Juan?”
O3449. Old man of the Iliad
O3450. ___ Frankenstein (1939 movie)
O3451. ___ far as (to the degree that)
O3452. “No way you’d be able to!” comeback
O3453. Site now called the Wizarding World
O3455. Rock group Los ___
O3456. Like uneventful show
O3457. Gyllenhaal-portrayed high schooler who
might’ve saved the world
O3458. Started jaw-wrestling
O3459. Awe-inspiring disorder
O3461. Name on a Presley birth certificate
O3462. Waiting time
O3463. Shine, in adspeak
O3464. Pre-V formation?
O3466. “I must not fear. Fear is the
mind-killer” source
O3468. “Please answer ___ no”
O3469. Year in Florence
O3470. Adorned
O3473. Hydroxyl-bearing compound
O3474. ___ in economics
O3475. “You speak the truth”
O3477. Covers bald spots, in a way
O3478. Deep spasm
O3479. Petal picker’s word
O3480. First coin Scrooge McDuck ever made
(and oh, will he be happy to tell you about it)
O3481. Kids’ jumping game
O3482. Google Drive forerunner
O3483. Roseanne and William of politics
O3484. Wise ones
O3485. Log splitters’ wedges
O3486. Colorful eel
O3487. Tuck into
O3490. Steve Jobs’s successor at Apple
O3492. 1972 missile pact
O3494. Burmese measure
O3495. Some New Deal initials
O3497. “Get going!”
O3499. Assesses again
O3501. Pro community
O3504. They “all” have a day
O3505. Endings for ball and harp
O3506. Ghostly robe
O3507. Last word in the name of an
Argentinian capital
O3508. Movie that failed on every level
O3509. Rose, leafwise
O3510. All-vowel bird name
O3511. Go without
O3512. Atlantic codfish
O3513. The Flash’s have wings
O3514. Walks in the woods
O3515. Says “nay”
O3516. ___ before: no later than
O3517. Rarely intimidated
O3519. Abutting anatomical parts, as
fingernails to fingertips
O3521. Pogo stick sound effect
O3523. Hold this, I’m about to do something
stupid
O3524. Important rule in a bar
O3526. Fortune-teller’s card
O3528. Bargain-hunters’ meccas
O3531. About 454 grams
O3532. Carboxylic acid derivative, often
O3533. The Time Machine’s Edenic race
O3534. Unnamed individual
O3536. Common effort
O3538. Bragg and McHenry
O3539. Columnist Barrett and author Jaffe
O3540. Like post-wildfire skies
O3541. “I Guess ___ Rather Be in Colorado”
(John Denver song)
O3542. Soviet chess master
O3544. Australian amity
O3546. Abbr. on a certain elevator button
O3547. Actress Lively or musician Hitchcock
O3550. Classic work of mythology that
includes a guide to verse forms
O3554. Painting method to increase opacity
O3556. Sneering stereotyper
O3558. Was a busybody
O3559. “Why ___ Running?” (Garth Brooks)
O3560. Sexual appetite
O3561. Cylindrical container
O3562. Houdini’s real name
O3563. Move, to agents
O3564. Burkina Faso: formerly Upper ___
O3565. Get giddy with desire
O3566. Mandatory items
O3567. Exclamation of anticipation
O3568. Gourmand’s wish
O3569. Particles with pluses or minuses
O3570. Figure-eight-shaped bandages
O3573. Ships for wheeled cargo
O3574. Gold, in Galicia
O3575. Popular Japanese export
O3576. Tie ___ (get soused)
O3577. “There ___ the Neighborhood” (1998
Sheryl Crow song)
O3578. Scholar in an advanced research prog.
O3580. Bryant’s sidekick in LA
O3582. Angkor ___: Cambodian temple
O3583. Orris, for example.
O3584. “Je ___” (words to one’s cherie)
O3585. Nursing is a key component of it
O3588. New York site of a zoo and botanical
garden
O3589. Can’t get out of bed
O3590. In the holiday spirit
O3591. Central Florida metropolis, informally
O3592. Mr. Spock portrayer Leonard
O3593. Beforehand.
O3594. Lead-in to “bitty”
O3595. Popular antidepressant
O3596. Rolled the dice, as while playing
Monopoly
O3598. New York opera house, with “The”
O3600. French philosopher
O3602. Senior socials
O3603. Berry farmer Walter
O3607. “Jewel Song,” e.g., in Faust
O3611. They’re on the map, briefly
O3612. Judge Sandra Day
O3614. Begin existence
O3615. MGM Studios cofounder
O3616. Feel dizzy
O3617. Duck blind, e.g.
O3618. Draw forth, as memories
O3619. Jewish folklore creature
O3620. Blessings on the plains
O3621. Such ___: like us
O3622. Stripper’s supply
O3624. “Blanket sticks,” to hobos
O3625. Denver-to-Omaha dir.
O3626. GRF’s VP
O3627. The ___ Field (Joseph Wambaugh novel)
O3628. Family members, informally
O3629. Exhortation in a print ad
O3630. Batman’s deeds
O3633. Orca food
O3634. Ermine, by any other name
O3635. Quaker kids’ cereal
O3637. Call ___ day
O3638. Army truants
O3639. US goalie with the most career clean
sheets
O3640. Out’s partner
O3641. Motivates roughly
O3643. Religious book
O3644. Jacques, dans une chanson
O3645. ___ Hopkins
O3646. Choices in many a dilemma
O3647. Rebate req., often
O3648. Put a sharper edge on
O3649. Contemporary of Mozart
O3651. H ___ Block
O3652. She, in Germany
O3654. Crusty
O3656. Crystal set part
O3658. Part of banter
O3659. Leaves dumbstruck
O3660. ___ rampage (angry)
O3662. Hard to read, facially
O3664. Carmine, “The Big ___” (Laverne
& Shirley character)
O3666. LAX overseer
O3667. Unsecured security tracking other
securities
O3668. Divine-seeming protections
O3670. Failures, in slang
O3671. Rick’s grandson, on TV
O3672. Get snitty over little things
O3673. “What, me ___?” (Alfred E. Neuman
line)
O3674. They may be super
O3675. One of two in “George”
O3676. Now uncontainable
O3679. Argentine tree
O3680. Michael Jackson hit whose video
featured Michael Jordan
O3682. Pack up and leave
O3684. Breathers for musicians
O3685. To’s counterpart
O3686. Curly’s pal
O3687. Silent agreement?
O3688. Baby bottom dusters
O3690. Sounds when the lights come on
O3693. “Walk ___” (Dionne Warwick song)
O3695. Ed, Fred, Jed, Ned, and Ted, e.g.
O3697. “Blow out the candles and make ___!”
O3698. Norse adventurer
O3703. “Cupid” crooner
O3704. Cheap Western
O3705. Constantly waterlogged land
O3706. Bumpkins
O3707. Confessions of a Mask writer Mishima
O3708. Figurative chains
O3709. Honolulu’s ___ Palace
O3710. Series that’s rendered three elections
as rhyming contests, for short
O3711. Country club fig.
O3713. Singers of “She Bop” and “All I Have
to Do Is Dream”
O3715. Lifted
O3716. Mope, perhaps
O3718. Opposite of avant-garde
O3721. Rigel’s rival for luminosity
O3722. Taps signaler
O3723. The number of Pat Robertson’s club in
Rome?
O3724. Lat. noun case corresponding to “of
___” or “from ___”
O3725. Singer Hendryx who co-founded Labelle
O3726. “That which we call ___…”
O3727. Unlike certain stormtroopers, Finn
found the one he was looking for
O3729. “MacArthur Park” singer Summer
O3731. “It’s ___ to me” (“Hey There Delilah”
line)
O3733. Pepe Le Pew’s objective
O3735. Japanese chess-like game
O3737. Publish again
O3739. Recorder, for short
O3740. Abbreviation on signs in the mountains
O3741. ___ & JoJo (R&B duo)
O3743. Headline sometimes seen in June
O3746. Saw again
O3747. Vibrant
O3748. Ship window
O3750. Choose not to
O3752. Put off the execution
O3753. Sing __-wop song: use simple lyrics
over nonsense background vocals
O3754. Semisolid cover
O3756. ___ the third power: roughly 20
O3757. WWE brawlers Nikki and Brie
O3758. “___ like to live dangerously” (Austin
Powers)
O3759. Fuss over feathers
O3760. Forest in As You Like It
O3761. Home to Huskies
O3762. Superhero movie where (spoiler) the
hero dies
O3763. ___ Creatures Great and Small (James Herriot)
O3764. Symbols next to logos, sometimes
O3765. Intermittent faster’s acronym
O3766. Third pt. of a system-restoring troika
O3769. ___ Bay, 1898 site of Admiral Dewey’s
fleet
O3772. Works like a dog
O3773. Certain battery
O3774. Gone the wrong color, as bananas
O3776. Suffix with pay
O3778. Remains scattered at sea
O3781. Many SNL skits
O3783. She may file claims
O3788. “___ soit qui…”
O3789. [segment]
O3791. Former FIFA world champion Rosenmeier
O3795. Got absorbed
O3799. Org. with a yellow-bordered magazine
O3800. Just a ___ the beat
O3801. Speed reader?
O3803. If ___ be treason, make the most of
it’: Patrick Henry
O3804. Amer.-Eur. waterway
O3805. Spears’ ex who released his last song
in 2016
O3807. Seagoing mil. readiness force
O3808. Attained on a pittance, with “out”
O3809. America, cutesy-style
O3812. Mugger’s instruction in Rome
O3813. Xerox solution
O3817. Heed the coxswain
O3818. Certain teas
O3819. Blonde, poetically
O3821. Huffing and puffing with rage
O3822. Locale-inspired Counting Crows song
O3823. Wife whom Paris deserted for Helen of
Troy
O3824. Helen who sat on pianos
O3826. Goddess of cryptocurrency?
O3828. Help-wanted notice’s “We don’t care
whose help, as long as you can do the job”
O3830. Newscaster Lindstrom
O3832. Bring bad luck to
O3836. Doc seen for head colds
O3837. Roger Whittaker tune “___ Loved You”
O3839. [segment]
O3864. Islands near New Guinea
O3865. Bonn beast
O3867. Royale drink
O3868. “___ rogas” (As you ask, in Latin)
O3870. Sky item?
O3871. Compromise, as savings
O3872. Relaxed, as a comedian after the show
O3873. Producer of Prii
O3874. Shake-ups in corporations
O3876. Bohr’s and Fermi’s discipline
O3881. Juffin, fruggle, and
ptedibetacidarewedonerakedinaycarambaran, e.g.
O3884. Undiluted breakfast drink
O3890. Obvious deceit
O3891. Kubrick film whose poster says, “How
did they ever make a movie of ___?”
O3892. Health issue of 2014
O3893. Like I or II, but not 1 or 2
O3894. Shortest book in the Old Testament
O3896. “Perfect attendance verified, ma’am!”
O3903. Not the toy I would’ve picked to
become a 2010 film franchise
O3905. Keats’ effort
O3906. Impressively stylish
O3908. Gossip, in fairly modern slang
O3909. “I still have ___ up my sleeve”
O3910. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
poet’s monogram
O3911. Brad Pitt film praised by his
character’s real-life descendants
O3927. Makes ___ (doesn’t figure)
O3928. Clangs and clacks
O3929. AquAdvantage salmon and Arctic apples,
e.g.
O3930. From a different perspective, in chat
room shorthand
O3931. Smallest chess piece
O3932. “Based on ___ story”
O3934. Quality of some vowel sounds
O3936. Encourages voting for
O3937. Fit to be used in an operating room
O3938. It has a dozen signs (abbr.)
O3939. “Princess ___ Theme” (John Williams
composition)
O3940. B&O stop (abbr.)
O3941. Seek solitude
O3942. Bygones
O3943. Journey ___ Fear (Eric Ambler novel)
O3944. Shares to without sharing the e-dress
of
O3945. From a loom
O3946. She dances on the sand
O3947. Dust-up
O3948. Oppositionists
O3949. Harry Blackstone Copperfield ___,
Chicago’s first (and only) wizard PI
O3950. Fad diet whose namesake died of a
heart attack
O3951. Some old Chevys
O3952. “Once more ___ the breach” (King
Henry V)
O3953. Subway-token receiver
O3954. Roles in Frankenstein movies
O3955. Certain dance compositions
O3956. Miguel and Joao
O3957. Beckham the receiver
O3958. Egyptian site of a rock-cut temple
O3959. Felix the Cat cartoonist Messmer
O3960. Flower bearer
O3961. Biggest Titanic role
O3962. Start of a Caruso hit
O3963. Allergic flower?
O3964. Eur. title
O3965. Ecto- opposite
O3966. When cleaning, make two piles: keep
and ___
O3967. Hamlet’s big brother?
O3968. Disease associated with jerks (abbr.)
Down
O1. Activated, as a Christmas tree
O2. UN agcy. for workers that won the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize
O3. Cruciverbalist Reagle of Wordplay
O4. Like John F. Kennedy and 1990s Brendan Fraser
O5. Auto appendage
O6. Groan preceder, often
O7. Credit ender on many sci. papers
O8. Be futile
O9. “___ dead, Jim”
O10. Archetypal figure to frighten children
O11. Touch ___ nerve
O12. Caught with a lasso
O13. What the O stands for, in baseball
O14. Perot of politics
O15. Pertaining to diffusion through a
membrane
O16. 1954 Audrey Hepburn film
O17. Plaything
O18. Quick-witted
O19. To hear, in Honduras (or backward,
flower in Belize)
O20. Sardinian six
O21. Zephaniah and Zechariah, e.g.
O22. Steering device, on water
O23. Giants’ 4
O24. “Your” of yore
O25. Skin care brand
O26. Sound after a stomach punch
O27. John in Albert Hall
O28. “___ had one job!”
O29. Like tamales
O30. ___Kosh B’Gosh (brand of kids’
clothing)
O31. “___ Town Too” (1981 hit song)
O32. Suffix in chemistry
O33. Brain case?
O34. Overnight site
O35. Star Wars character who uses strange
syntax
O36. “Whoever you ___ have always depended
on the kindness of strangers” (A Streetcar Named Desire)
O37. Some microwave ovens, briefly
O38. Italian instrument
O39. Scarlike?
O40. “I can’t top that”
O41. Uninvited kitchen guest?
O42. Pathological homesickness
O43. Eager pupil’s exclamation
O44. Medicaments
O45. Walked at a jaunty pace
O46. What the Os stand for, in love letters
O47. Order of the British Empire (abbr.)
O48. Pee Wee or Della
O49. Box six yards from the posts
O50. Trunk fixer
O51. Musical set in St.-Tropez, familiarly
O52. Fashioning
O53. Nerve cell (var.)
O54. It knocks but once
O56. Happy hour seats
O57. Chip in a passport
O58. “Am ___ risk?”
O59. Eye care product prefix
O60. Greyhound’s stop
O61. Cringey romantic disappointment
O62. Eye, in Ensenada
O63. Whale’s bristly food-filtering system
O64. What the O stands for, in carbs
O66. She was implied, at least in film, to
be in a relationship with both Butch and Sundance
O67. Grow, as a grass-roots movement
O68. It rises 32,000 feet above the floor
of the Pacific Ocean
O69. Dry-erase marker filler
O70. Appalachians, e.g. (abbr.)
O71. Top Chef Nick with the Landing Kitchen
O72. Land of 10,000 Lakes (abbr.)
O73. Monkees’ instrument
O74. Not for
O76. Wehrmacht goal
O77. “Furthermore…”
O78. Glided to and fro
O79. Pirate executed in London
O81. “Give ___ update…we’re trying not to
worry here”
O82. Kosarin of The Thundermans
O83. Ryan, at the end of Saving Private
Ryan
O84. Impressive male specimen
O86. Idol modifier?
O87. Interface online
O88. Multinat.
O89. ___-sight (fantastic)
O91. Fallen orbiter
O92. KGB forerunner
O93. “This is bad!”
O94. Channel relative
O95. Maker of the first electric sports car
O96. Jardin zoologico attraction
O97. Accepted by the US Pat. Off., perhaps
O98. What the “o” stands for, when reading
ZIP codes aloud
O99. Acting brother of Cuba Gooding Jr.
O101. Limit ___ visit (coupon phrase)
O102. Org. that busts narcotics rings
O103. Royal power symbol
O104. Cow comments
O106. Role played by Alec Guinness, Anthony
Hopkins, and Taika Waititi
O107. Dieter’s salad dressing specification,
perhaps
O108. Guide for a priest
O109. Absolu-tively
O110. “Nothing planned that day”
O111. What the O stands for, in this section
O114. Private entertainers
O119. Vietnam Memorial designer Maya
O120. Rhode Island Reds, e.g.
O121. Short farewell
O122. Goose, in French
O123. Colorado creek
O124. “___ a wizard, Harry”
O125. Power common among the X-Men
O126. Poivre’s companion
O135. Sports artist’s family
O137. Sent to the mat
O139. Japanese-American native to the
States, unlike their parents
O140. DJ Khaled’s “___ Friends”
O148. Brazilian people
O150. Nighttime demons
O151. Prop preceder
O153. Miscreants
O154. Name shared by a sch. in Hattiesburg
and one in Portland
O156. They have schedules
O157. Urban irritant
O158. Amy Winehouse’s reaction to rehab, in
the song
O159. Ides of March remark
O161. Movie told in reverse order (because
the main character keeps forgetting things)
O162. Sounds from a sound sleeper?
O165. Network to get soldiers moving
O168. Avalon, e.g.
O169. IV dosage meas.
O170. Mideast federation estab. in 1994
O174. Put a little zazz in one’s dive
O177. Keep (from doing)
O179. Where you can find inner peas?
O183. Mandolin feature
O184. Least tractable
O185. Turkish “sir”
O186. “And ___ goes”
O188. Stomping ground
O193. Jurassic, e.g.
O194. Digestive aid, to chemists
O196. From the top
O198. Trim, as a tree
O199. Concerning the country
O201. Grunt of disdain
O203. Aeronaut
O205. Common church namesake
O208. A Room of One’s Own writer
O210. Keaton role in The Founder
O213. Chewy candy
O214. Superfans, e.g.
O215. Comparable to
O216. They may be rolled over
O217. Bldg. directory listings
O218. Like oysters in November, say
O219. August
O220. Old Apple laptop
O221. Bags, as baddies
O222. “___ To Fu” (part of the 2008 Damon
Albarn project Monkey: Journey to the West)
O223. Creator of The Thick of It and
The Death of Stalin
O224. Must pay, as debts
O225. They go with the flow
O226. TV’s tomboyish May Clampett
O227. ___ Handbook (writer’s style guide)
O228. Skeptic’s query
O229. Join the party
O230. Clock parts
O231. “___ Got Tonight” (1983 hit duet)
O232. Hole in one
O233. Doesn’t leave on read
O234. Destroys slowly
O235. Brown dwellings
O236. Rap mogul Knight
O237. She-bear in Paraguay
O238. Baseball’s ___ Line (.200 batting
average)
O239. Metric units
O240. “Not on your freakin’ life!”
O241. Allot, with “out”
O242. Flight abbr.
O243. Great Lakes’ ___ Locks
O244. Battle site through most of World War
I
O247. Impermanent staffer
O248. Senior golfer Aoki
O249. iPhone back end
O250. Private manufacturer
O251. Slipped
O253. He rewarded both Greeks and Trojans
for bravery
O254. Zany laugh riots
O257. Pepper processor
O258. “Va-va-___!”
O259. Churro ingredient?
O260. NJ follows it in the summer
O264. Khaled Hosseini, by nationality
O265. Bruce or Farage
O266. Protesters against “demon rum”
O275. Young fellow
O276. NFLer or NHLer
O277. Uruguay uncle
O278. Do better than
O283. Sumatra’s neighbor
O285. Dear, as une amie
O287. Support for the elderly
O290. Ring above the collar?
O291. Island where Homer is allegedly buried
O293. Dr.’s orders
O294. April letters
O295. Single from Mariah Carey’s 2010
Christmas album
O298. Street crosser, briefly
O306. Attack Hitler was sure would be on
Calais
O307. Name-to-adjective suffix
O312. Ancient Caucasian (as in someone from
Caucasus, not just an old white dude)
O314. Garlic-egg-olive-oil spread
O315. Beach item
O317. Canines that bite
O318. Advance
O319. Someone with a record
O321. Cask feature
O322. Princess in Frank L. Baum books.
O324. Heart centers
O327. Metaphor for idleness
O329. Paris play part
O331. Windless
O333. Uffizi attraction
O335. Tribe that traditionally takes peyote
O336. ASCAP alternative
O337. Miss on Univision
O339. Get some exercise
O340. Some of a model’s portfolio
O343. Fired up?
O344. Golfer’s coup
O346. The Untouchables author
O347. Emphatic answer in español
O348. Ricky Nelson was one
O350. “I suppose…”
O351. Excitation exclamation
O353. Givens on Wheel of Fortune
O355. Help with
O356. Music style associated with George
Clinton, informally
O357. Variety of butter or Krispies
O358. “___ schon”
O359. Floaties sometimes used as Nerf swords
O360. Auctioneer’s next-to-last word
O361. NYC home of Van Gogh’s The Starry
Night
O362. John’s widow
O363. “___ other business?”
O365. Certain sorters
O366. Feathery prefix
O367. Simpson’s boss
O368. Anti-swelling shot, for short
O371. Atwater Alley ___ (California
basketball club)
O373. The Butter Battle Book critters
O376. Fix, as a dress alteration
O377. Highway divs.
O378. “The Big Guy That Hates Popeye”
O379. “Like investing in a retirement
account. You feel the hit right now, but later on you reap the benefits—by
still being alive” (Regina Barrett)
O382. Earth Day mo.
O383. Slack-jawed look
O385. Places of prayer
O388. Mid-length runner
O389. Fantasy writer Troisi
O390. Like the moon and some cheese
O391. Range of the Rockies
O392. Close to defeat
O393. Glad rags
O394. Stationery shade
O395. ___ thing (that which is essential)
O396. Attaché’s bldg.
O397. Support from the stands
O399. English prisons
O401. Dreaded Jamaican?
O402. “Keep Ya Head Up” rapper
O405. Beaucoup de Louises
O406. Fruity Trappist beer
O408. Mucks up
O410. Vulnerable knee area
O412. Golly cousin
O413. It goes with “a bottle of rum”
O414. Pitch ___: set up camp
O416. “Let’s just leave ___ that”
O417. Pulled off the sidelines
O419. Soccer shot resulting from a corner
kick, often
O420. Construction-related hearing loss and
repetitive motion injuries, e.g.
O422. Spongy bones
O423. First thought of
O424. People who just want to watch the
world burn, casually
O425. Punjabis who don’t shave
O426. Revealed one’s true feelings
O427. Deliver in person
O428. Germanic invader
O429. Scout Oath starter
O430. Modern personal assistant
O431. Title role for Peter Weller
O432. Blasts from the past
O434. Quantifications of insulation (how
much can it resist heat flow?)
O436. It’s practiced in America
O437. Benders under the table?
O440. Movement for a change in leadership
O441. Winning move?
O442. Fixated on, perhaps (var.)
O444. Combined, in Cannes
O445. “Is that a rule?”
O446. Broke new ground?
O447. “Don’t sweat it”
O448. The ___ Horror Picture Show
O449. Intense craving
O450. “___ Wanna Cry” (Mariah Carey)
O451. Languishes untended
O452. Loyal Order of ___
O453. Tip-top
O454. Oleo purchases
O457. Authors Fleming and McEwan
O459. Bucky Beaver’s dentifrice
O462. Score around 75 on an exam
O463. “Why not”
O464. Relaxed controls on
O466. Invigorates
O469. F in Greek
O471. Decayed from the inside
O474. River area
O475. Cuisine with kimchi
O476. Pad with a time share, perhaps
O477. Ruth’s retired number
O478. Emphatic retort
O479. Scottish comedian Danny (or
“hoo-hoo-hoo, MAN!”)
O480. Prolific tweeter, often
O481. Amorous look
O485. AT&T’s Telstar, e.g.
O486. Philosopher ___-Tse
O488. Writers O’Brien and Ferber
O490. Lennon or Penn
O491. Extras in Julius Caesar productions,
abbreviated
O495. MDs used to adrenaline rushes
O497. Native American of Mexico
O498. Member of the Kalinago
O501. Pretends to be
O502. Overgrown gulch
O503. Musical equipment popularized in the
1960s
O504. Ability to impress
O505. Of ___ (reliable)
O506. “Start playing” command that’s also
the name of a band
O507. How many things are stir-fried
O508. I did a comic for over ten years about
fandom and I’m still not really clear on what the difference is between a nerd
and this
O509. Magical aphrodisiacs that rarely work
as intended
O510. East End abodes
O511. Its logo resembles a blue house
O512. Attitudinize.
O513. Regardless of how much liquor’s in
them
O515. Vacuum effect
O518. Julia Child worked for it during WWII
O520. One-eighties, in slang
O521. Suffix with effect or text
O522. End of many a dino?
O524. Make nonmagnetic
O526. Pad perfume?
O527. Slopes sliders
O529. One trying to stay between the lines?
O530. Burns with a hot liquid
O531. Petulant expressions
O532. Purls, e.g.
O534. Most lapdogs
O536. Chanel fragrance
O537. Business big shot
O538. Certain pteridophytes
O539. Puts down quickly
O541. “Really, that’s all there is ___”
O543. Comforting numbers?
O545. Beneficial event
O546. Model T, e.g.
O547. Lost castaway John
O548. Gazes rudely
O552. Muslim military commander (var.)
O554. Certain Bluetooth device
O556. Highest orbital point
O557. “That…that’s HORRIBLE!”
O558. Spread or coverlet
O559. “___ Home With Bonnie Jean,” 1947 song
O560. Bandit’s booty
O561. Pops in the nursery
O562. Big name in blenders
O563. Angelic lights
O564. Became an author
O565. Swabbing need
O566. Column support
O567. Much-respected person
O568. Sleeping qtrs.
O569. Already shown
O571. Trampling on public sensibilities
O575. Girl’s name, but the most famous one
is Frobe who played Goldfinger? Curious
O576. Playground occasion which seems to
negate its own existence
O578. Calibrated tube
O584. “___ regret this!”
O585. Shreds
O586. Sorkin of The West Wing and
The Social Network
O587. Rainforest slitherers
O588. Actress-singer-composer Blakley of Nashville
O589. Guards from oxidation
O590. ___ herbes (soup seasoning)
O591. Anagram for “Shan’t!” that could be
said before it
O592. Dances violently
O593. Huge Brit. ref. works (no longer
printed)
O595. ___ cloud (comet zone)
O597. With “Boy,” a fancy chair
O598. Berlin population?
O601. “Y-yeah, I don’t think so”
O602. “Oh, thank God! I was about to
suffocate!”
O604. Heinz rival
O606. Hot springs
O609. (The) road more traveled by
O610. Least sensible
O611. Shabbily dressed
O612. Talked about
O614. Certain lesson
O615. Classic actor known for bringing a
creepy edge to his characters, as in Casablanca
O616. Flesh-sculptures
O617. “Look, I need to know who’s committed,
here”
O618. Kind of cream
O620. Open structure
O621. Boy birds
O622. Hotfoot it, old style
O623. Jab with a knife
O624. Sunflower State sch.
O626. “O, ___ me the lass that…” (Burns)
O628. Company trying to track the worth of
ads (that is 75% this section’s theme letter)
O629. Online statistician Silver
O630. Direction of a buss
O632. Italic language
O633. “…___ combination thereof”
O635. Ancient German
O636. Embarrassing disaster
O637. Exhausted
O639. Theatrical producers
O641. Ring-shaped
O642. Army post in Va.
O643. Needle diameters
O644. Insensitive sort
O645. Artist Albers
O646. Blow one’s top
O647. Desert refuges
O648. He never arrives onstage
O649. Six-lane, e.g.
O650. Increment
O651. Appears that way
O653. Like a simple design of visible skin
surrounded by beard
O655. Suffix for ball or fest
O656. Honey-filled home
O659. Maritime CIA
O661. More specific term
O666. Leg (it)
O667. River nymphs
O668. Awed response while tilting one’s head
back and widening one’s eyes
O669. Use a wok, perhaps
O670. “Wow, you completed the Ironman
Triathlon!”
O671. Hershey caramel candies
O672. Actor-writer Novello or historian
Wilks
O673. Answers an invitation, initially
O675. Frequent van Gogh setting
O676. Sign of a level playing field on
Snagajob
O677. Tricky maneuver
O678. “Hath ___ sister?” (Shakespeare, Measure
for Measure)
O679. Restraint for Asia
O680. Ending with castr-
O683. Campus gp. promoting road safety
O684. Possible exam answer choices
O685. Directional antenna arrays
O686. Million-degree heat index?
O687. Loudness unit
O688. Element found in fiberglass
O690. Rainbow and brook
O694. Treated condescendingly
O695. Play merrily
O696. Americans, to Aussies
O697. Mussolini, with “Il”
O698. Haul in a car again
O699. Pamplona shouts
O700. Quickest way to the heart?
O701. Animal’s obsession
O702. Crude crowd
O703. Made approach
O704. “It’s our turn”
O705. Stylin’
O708. Like Wile E. Coyote
O711. Liquid salute
O712. One who keeps having one too many
O714. Archibald and Thurmond of basketball
O717. Longest-running fantasy TV series in
America
O719. Rama’s spouse
O720. Where Juliet says, “Wherefore art thou
Romeo?”
O721. “Will you marry me?” is one
O722. Access with a password
O723. Desirable circumstances
O724. Retire from
O725. Black and Winterhalter
O726. Sheila’s greeting
O728. Makes chilly
O729. Disposition
O730. Noted foot doctor
O731. French term of endearment
O733. Letters on a world map that might also
include Zaire
O735. Phillips who created Guiding Light
and As the World Turns
O736. _nformation _echnology _aboratory
O737. Peter Quill’s cosmocidal father
O738. Gordon Ramsay project, often
O741. ___ Parnas (Trump associate in the
news)
O742. Jaimie Alexander’s role in the Thor
movies
O743. More than a tee-hee
O745. Trademarked symbols
O747. Hatch in the Senate, e.g.
O749. Makes a quick try at an accomplishment
O750. Flying insect with prominent eyespots
O752. Have many points of comparison with
O753. Dickens novel of 2009
O754. Have too much of
O755. Travel a la Mir
O756. Get one’s goat
O757. Beasts known for washing their food in
rivers
O758. Where the stars might be pointing?
O759. Denver’s st.
O761. Smirnoff alternative
O763. “There you are!”
O764. Osprey’s gripper
O766. Jennings and Bialik’s predecessor
O767. Uncommon, to Cicero
O768. Supreme leader
O775. Discovered by chance
O776. Victorious cries
O778. Muddle, as thinking
O780. Fail to forbid
O782. Instructional book genre
O783. Relating to an area
O784. “If you build it, they will ___”
O785. Club publications
O786. “___ tell you”
O787. “That ticked me off!”
O789. Facebook feature
O790. Showing strong feelings
O794. Historic Danish family
O796. Proof end middle
O798. Eyebrow-raising
O800. Like the swings of a pendulum, roughly
O805. Colorado city central to 2020 police
protests
O806. Olympic apex
O807. They come in buttermilk and vanilla
bliss
O808. Love It or List It channel
O809. Coat sizes
O810. 1993 standoff site
O811. Watch chains
O812. Got energy from
O813. Turns down the lights
O815. Shield boss
O816. Freedom of speech, a lawyer, etc.
(abbr.)
O817. Dot-___ bubble
O819. ___-quoted
O820. Not so aggressively marketed, as a
song
O821. Fish often smoked
O822. Places to develop
O823. “Sack ___” (jazz standard)
O828. Public protest
O829. Cry of delight
O831. Spam content, often
O832. Concentrated, in a way
O833. Puts out there
O834. Poet of Holy Sonnets
O835. Action hero Williams
O836. Word with “witching” or “happy”
O837. Dots-on-the-face acting technique
O838. Seuss villain who repents after the
hero disappears (skip the movie)
O839. ___ Checkpoint (drunk driver catcher)
O840. Part of a bridle
O842. It hangs from the waist
O844. Attach, as a sequin
O845. Vbs. and adjs.
O846. Suffix with “fact”
O848. CNN journalist Chris
O850. Norwegian fjord
O852. How flamingos often stand
O855. “The Gunners” of English soccer
O856. Fliers named for their unwelcoming
calls
O857. One offering lines of credit?
O861. Don King is still one
O862. Actor Freddie’s actor son
O863. Validation
O864. Fantasyland with dragonriders
O865. Movie with an often-reedited Hitler
tantrum
O866. The most recent one was inaugurated in
2005
O867. Gehrig or Groza
O868. Bands (abbr.)
O869. Where Kamehameha Highway runs
O870. Comedian Baron Cohen
O871. With everything, once
O872. Truman biographer Miller
O873. [slaps forehead]
O877. Cuban group dance
O878. “Can I give you ___?” (hitchhiker’s
hope)
O880. In the ___: informed
O882. Like natural gas
O884. Lost soul?
O888. Fred who played TV’s Herman Munster
O890. Abbr. in some house ads
O891. Lizards called fringefoots sharing a
name with a famous actress
O892. Self-contradictory statement
O893. Trans actor Chaz
O894. Brewers’ needs
O895. Zeus or Apollo
O896. Steel-handed film villain
O897. Bathroom items
O898. Stick with
O899. Jo’burg’s country
O900. Stick that’s chalked
O901. Kilowatt-hour fractions
O902. 2020 hurricane with a Greek name
O904. Modigliani who painted stretched faces
O905. Cinema ___
O906. Previously, in old poetry
O909. Writer Santha Rama
O910. Hound calls
O912. No more normal
O915. Setting at 0 degrees long.
O918. Feel one’s ___ (be sprightly)
O920. Artsy types
O921. Words with new or gold
O922. Homer retcon
O923. Earned the crown
O924. Pomeranian, e.g.
O925. Cartoon opossum
O927. Anjou agreement
O928. What moneymaking actors often covet
O929. Penta- ending
O930. Gods’ mouthpiece
O932. British honors (abbr.)
O934. Frequent BP gauge user
O936. Address bar contents, briefly
O938. Military recruit
O939. Head protectors in the cold
O941. Fran Lebowittizism
O944. High muckety-muck
O945. TV mobster
O946. Law enforcers with limited
jurisdictions
O947. Old ___ (conservatives)
O949. “Royals” singing star
O950. Nellie of toast fame
O951. Sorority figure
O952. Useful opener?
O953. Odds for a Kentucky Derby favorite,
perhaps
O954. Sturdy building material
O955. The Notorious ___ (Supreme Court
nickname)
O956. Planet featured in Attack of the
Clones
O957. Oily liquid
O958. First African-American Disney princess
O959. Norfolk, Virginia sch.
O961. Wine once called “Spumante”
O962. Man-Thing and the Creature from the
Black Lagoon, e.g.
O963. “Seek medical advice”
O965. Roughing It author
O968. Preacher star Cooper or tennis star Thiem
O971. Wild and crazy
O973. Tubes on the dinner table
O975. Trail rider’s concoction
O976. Baby barracuda
O977. Beethoven’s birthplace
O978. The whole nine months
O979. ___-In His Lamp (first Bugs Bunny toon to feature
Islam, and not exactly a triumph against stereotyping)
O980. Element of many modern-day Colorado
jokes
O981. Stevedore union (abbr.)
O982. Alpine pond
O985. “Let ___!” (“Go ahead!”)
O986. Notorious British crossword, or
British alphabetic span
O987. ___ yong (Chinese omelet).
O989. Sunsuluss [swap the vowel usage
between clue and answer—or just figure this one out by using the rings]
O990. String that means nothing on its own
but is found in context?
O992. Ath. once seen at Shea
O994. Truly beginning
O998. Skin cream first marketed in 1914
O999. Fashion label founded in Milan
O1000. Wireless, acronymically
O1002. Marker for a debtor
O1004. “Shall I compare thee ___ summer’s
day?”
O1006. Certain ladies’ room
O1008. Doze a bit
O1009. Husky hero voiced by Kevin Bacon
O1010. They’ve been dubbed
O1011. Murderer
O1012. Recess threat
O1013. Locational prepositions
O1015. Rice and coffee
O1022. Vanished as if by magic
O1024. Less likely to be forgiving
O1026. Apple, musician
O1028. Girl in a 1965 number 1 song title
O1030. Audience loudmouth
O1032. It’s got a tight rear end
O1039. Fell back into a bad habit
O1040. Copyist
O1041. Clinton’s running mate
O1043. Separated
O1044. Big name on D-Day
O1045. Like some bonds
O1047. Unconvincing post-pratfall excuse
O1048. Rare-volume dealers org.
O1051. Collected by condensation
O1052. Big calking tool
O1053. “Either that is ___ isn’t”
O1055. Just in time
O1057. River’s vast backflow only beginning
O1060. Former Soviet leader Brezhnev
O1061. What Ali endured in 1980
O1062. Buzz Aldrin’s alma mater
O1064. Sir, in Malaysia
O1066. Work like a horse
O1067. Freed from guilt
O1070. ___ a Stranger, 1955 movie
O1071. Sharon successor
O1072. “Don’t joke about that yet”
O1073. Letter string
O1074. Eye, in Bayonne
O1075. Wearing brogans (var.)
O1077. Mothered, biblically
O1078. Initialism for a weird come-on from
the early internet
O1079. Done deed
O1081. Video game routines
O1083. “We should talk. Sit and let’s have
___”
O1085. Trained horse
O1092. Brutality
O1095. An Essay ___ (Alexander Pope poem originally
published anonymously)
O1097. In best shape
O1098. Articulate
O1099. Prince Harry, e.g.
O1101. Different first-person groups, such as
me and you and me and him? (stretch, stretch)
O1102. From the first note
O1103. Went all the way (with somebody,
doesn’t matter who)
O1104. Part of Saigon’s current name
O1106. Doesn’t wear well
O1108. First profitable internet biz
O1110. The Simpsons and Popeye, e.g.
O1114. Elec. units
O1115. Blog feed format letters
O1116. Ruler with an iron fist
O1117. Prof’s role
O1118. Rte. that parallels I-95
O1119. Piddling
O1120. Adonis’ killer
O1121. Wheel bolt holder
O1122. Hot time, in Lille
O1123. How actors should enter
O1124. Jim Morrison’s group, with “The”
O1125. Stately stand
O1126. Alphab3t that 100ks 11ke th1s
O1127. 90 degrees, in Bonn
O1128. Chinese dish, General ___’s chicken
O1129. Foo yong, for one
O1130. A little crazy with regard to
O1131. Make ___: clench
O1132. “All-___” (informal “We’re goin’ ‘til
sunup!”)
O1133. Depilatory product
O1134. Excited activity
O1135. From overseas?
O1137. Husband, in Amiens
O1138. Confucian’s belief
O1139. Reason for a patchouli cover-up
O1140. Reclaimed autos
O1141. Imitation
O1142. Brit. honor that John Lennon gave back
O1143. Follower of dull and cow
O1144. Clever lawyer’s find
O1145. Columnist Cassini
O1146. Spoken commentary designed for
listening while walking
O1148. Sked promises
O1150. eBay Classifieds, e.g.
O1154. Some have lunch
O1156. ___-Chu school of philosophy
O1158. Titular Irish rebel Rory
O1160. Word of dismay
O1163. Uncertain anxieties
O1166. “I ___ value” (anti-negging mantra)
O1170. New-agey herbal remedy
O1174. North Carolina university since 1899
O1177. “___ the other hand…”
O1179. Buzz’s moonmate
O1184. Postmortem asset management strategy
O1186. Rather a lot
O1188. Model’s assignment
O1190. Chris of Law & Order
O1192. Twisted Sister’s Snider
O1193. Ford financing
O1194. “___ Were the Days” (Hopkin)
O1200. Herbs and vegetables
O1201. ___ in “India”
O1204. “It was SO EMBARRASSING”
O1205. “We must love men ___ to us they will
seem worthy of that love” (Shakespeare)
O1207. Coat stuff, say
O1209. Sheedy of The Breakfast Club and
Short Circuit
O1210. Composer from Ind.
O1211. MTV honors show scheduled for Budapest
in 2021
O1216. Road shows
O1217. Put one’s ___: give an unsolicited
opinion
O1219. Valley north of Los Angeles
O1221. Good-for-nothing
O1223. Age of our oldest firm geological
records
O1224. Tiny bit, as of hair cream
O1226. Gym-floor buffer
O1227. “Goodness gracious!”
O1228. Christmas Story ammo
O1229. One who sets email policy
O1230. Midsommar director Aster
O1231. Title heroine of many Beverly Cleary
books
O1232. Tall, graceful tree
O1234. Ashley who wrote Growing Young
O1235. Presents
O1236. Mocking remark
O1239. Device for speech- and
hearing-impaired people
O1241. No longer outstanding
O1243. Judge’s study
O1248. Minding not just your own business
O1251. Get to treat as prey
O1254. Congo’s Thomas Lubanga, for one
O1257. Untruths
O1258. Dot-___ (internet companies)
O1259. Some dishes that don’t go on the table
O1260. Gives the thumbs-up
O1261. Newspaper item, for short
O1262. Eggs on canapes
O1263. A long chalk
O1264. Tax collection gp.
O1265. Short movie?
O1267. Basic skate trick
O1269. Prefix with corn or angle
O1270. Combustible rock
O1272. Baja bruins
O1273. Mudslinger’s delight
O1275. Griffin of Jeopardy!
O1278. San Francisco’s ___ Valley
O1279. [segment]
O1280. [segment]
O1281. “Are you nervous?” response, a la Don
Knotts
O1283. Cat comment
O1285. Having a 0 percent BAC
O1287. Kid’s rhyme starter
O1289. Mad Money network
O1291. The Life Aquatic inspiration
O1292. Tomorrow, e.g.
O1294. Snoop on “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
O1295. Nation that will fight at Armageddon
O1296. Foretoken
O1297. Mortise’s adjunct
O1298. Sheep’s genus
O1299. Call sent to missing persons
O1300. Kareem in high school
O1302. Making copies in the office
O1304. Org. full of ballers
O1305. Wild cry
O1307. “Lord, it is good for ___ be here”
(words of Peter to Jesus)
O1309. The other side
O1310. Stuff for sale at concerts
O1312. Null’s sidekick
O1317. Bust’s partner
O1319. Actors’ aids
O1321. Specifies one’s cohorts in crime
O1323. Southern soup
O1324. Baby-talk “words”
O1326. This comes before a million
O1327. It’s usually 3, 4, or 5
O1329. Cookware logo that reads the same no
matter how you look at it
O1331. Preps, as cappuccino milk
O1332. Quality of bran muffins
O1333. Comes with
O1334. Sybill Trelawney, in the Harry
Potter books
O1335. Martinelli or Caruso
O1336. Incarceration section of the DOJ
O1337. Exclusively
O1339. Palindromic Paris possessive
O1341. Like emotions just after a tragedy,
comparatively
O1342. Half a 1950s union merger
O1344. Group with an Hour of Recollection and
Dictionary Project
O1346. Fluctuating
O1347. Tornado-riding terrier
O1349. TV event of January 1977
O1351. Imposing Wimbledon presence in the
1980s-1990s
O1352. [segment]
O1353. [segment]
O1356. Ringbearer in The Lord of the Rings
O1357. She’s in the surgery ward, for short
O1359. Grandson of Jacob and Leah
O1361. Treats, as hemp
O1362. Recode, maybe
O1365. Jewish community org.
O1367. Berber tribeswoman
O1368. Korean compact
O1369. Robin Williams drama revolving around
now-outdated technology
O1370. Colorful parrots
O1371. Least obvious
O1372. Ring responses?
O1373. Stayed put
O1374. Ultraviolet Index factor
O1375. Div. for U. of Texas
O1379. London-based insurance giant
O1381. British bigwigs
O1383. Immune response participant
O1385. Before left or right
O1386. Car necessity
O1387. Portuguese saint
O1389. Market online
O1390. Parkinson’s Law (paradoxical
efficiency wisdom)
O1391. Bambino
O1393. Not so outgoing
O1396. ___ and doom
O1399. Instrument for a famous Bach prelude
in G major
O1402. Patronage provider
O1404. “Tight,” in the 1990s
O1405. Dopey people
O1406. Oleo substitute
O1407. Listen open-mindedly
O1408. Pompous official
O1409. ThirdLove has them in 80 sizes
O1410. Wading bird venerated by ancient
Egyptians
O1412. Shout after a thoughtful silence
O1413. Shark’s giveaway
O1414. Sports org. for the Rock
O1415. Isabel Allende’s La Casa de ___
Espiritus
O1416. “___ You” (Bryan Adams)
O1418. Island in French Polynesia
O1420. Western natives
O1423. With “army” or “circus,” they grew up
mobile
O1425. Replay option
O1427. Spherical
O1429. “It hurts!”
O1431. Attain new heights
O1433. Las Vegas illumination
O1435. Fluoride-in-water meas.
O1438. Peter Parker’s nemesis’ real name
O1439. Resounding approval, as of God
O1440. Be all ___ (be in favor)
O1442. Common irregular conjugation
O1443. Horse bettor’s concern
O1444. Nickname of “Celebration” bassist
Robert Bell
O1447. “I ___ Child of God” (hymn)
O1449. Shipload
O1450. Booze brothers?
O1452. Lord of the dead in Chinese myth, or
Spanish for “pipe”
O1454. Drop the ___ (admit one’s feelings)
O1459. Sub sounding
O1461. Like a stereotypically bad professor
O1463. Unexpected delay
O1465. “No probz”
O1467. Hobart hoppers
O1470. Remove, as a silly grin
O1471. Osaka farewell
O1473. All blacks, to Malcolm X
O1474. In Cold Blood author or film about him
O1475. Like most mosques
O1477. Mountain State (abbr.)
O1478. Sci-fi skipper
O1480. Oodles (your first guess is probably
wrong here)
O1481. Mitchell of Hadestown
O1483. Acts like a toady
O1484. Lubricated
O1486. Dish served with rice noodles
O1487. Shockers in the deep
O1489. Metallic ring
O1491. Show contempt
O1496. Parliamentary peers
O1498. Annual award
O1500. McGregor of Trainspotting
O1501. Lionel Ritchie or Adele song
O1503. Edmund Cartwright’s power invention,
1785
O1504. Highly wrought
O1508. Got to work in a green way
O1510. Wildly successful
O1511. Thermoplastic substance
O1512. 49-0 game, e.g.
O1515. Worry or bother
O1516. Salty drink?
O1518. Sainted pope of 682
O1520. Believe oneself superior
O1522. It shines on Mejico
O1524. Police dept. employee
O1529. Kevin who played a TV Hercules
O1532. Phrase of agreement
O1534. Seance sound
O1535. [segment]
O1536. [segment]
O1539. Sex and the City shower?
O1540. 1960s hit that ends, “an island never
cries”
O1541. Committed to the bar?
O1543. Gp. that called out The Passion of
the Christ for theological irresponsibility
O1545. Neophyte gamer
O1547. No-nonsense, in product names
O1548. [segment]
O1549. [segment]
O1550. Mandatory break, at the office, for
short
O1552. One-eyed trouser snakes
O1554. Valiant, detective in Who Framed
Roger Rabbit
O1556. Army rank above maj.
O1559. Cosmetics expert László
O1560. Metaphorical bursting place
O1563. Try Sinatra at karaoke, say
O1564. Sylvie’s brother in Lewis Carroll’s
failed follow-up to the Alice books
O1565. North American minnow
O1567. Serengeti predators
O1569. Wearers of wool coats
O1571. “___ ours”: on our side
O1573. Roo, for instance
O1575. Virile guy
O1577. Make you and me look like idiots
O1581. Got a room at
O1583. Soviet poet Mandelstam
O1584. “Vamoose!”
O1585. High-pitched sounds
O1586. Notorious city
O1588. “I heard you the FIRST four times!”
O1591. McKellen of the X-Men movies
O1592. Apartment off the ground floor,
perhaps
O1594. Some shirts
O1596. Paleontologist’s prefix meaning
“plated”
O1598. Hot blue blob of hydrogen and helium
O1603. Deposed Iranian
O1605. Strasbourg sister
O1607. Architectural trope in mysteries
O1609. Gives a pain in the neck
O1615. Motioning to enter
O1617. Santana’s “___ Como Va”
O1618. Strong points in a web
O1619. Place to cybershop
O1620. Coverage for canines?
O1622. What a red X may indicate
O1626. ___ clock: not wine time, despite the
anagram
O1627. Meat-market merchandise
O1629. Puree of Sales?
O1631. Some college finals
O1634. Gershwin’s “___ Nice”
O1635. Soc. Sec. supporter
O1637. Photocopier company
O1639. “…abridging the freedom of speech, ___
the press…” (Bill of Rights)
O1640. Film set light
O1642. American-born queen of Jordan
O1644. Attach, in a way
O1647. Like evidence gathered in some stings
O1649. Where Samuel Goldwyn was born
O1653. Eight-line poems
O1654. Alehound, slangily (var.)
O1655. Bishopric
O1657. Punic Wars general
O1659. “Why, you little…”
O1661. Musical direction
O1663. Wheel position that improves steering
O1665. ___ Time, 1979 musical
O1667. Slow-moving arboreal critter
O1669. Activity for young swingers?
O1670. Dropping spot?
O1674. Raising ___ Chicken Fingers
O1677. Generals’ pride
O1679. Peter of reggae fame
O1681. Pivoted
O1684. Not with it
O1686. It may be marked with a line
terminating in a five-pointed star
O1687. Glass framer
O1690. Presented again
O1691. Kind of cake
O1693. Fill with passion
O1695. Not local
O1696. TMZ rival
O1698. Source of anxiety for some in April
O1699. Butter toffee bar
O1701. Engaged in mischief
O1703. Loses altitude
O1705. Welterweight Spence Jr.
O1708. Animal from down under
O1711. Father’s Day toast
O1713. Woodland critter
O1715. Splashes
O1717. Incompetent sort, slangily
O1720. Unreciprocal
O1724. Conditional
O1725. “Can ___ frank?”
O1727. Concordant
O1728. General called “Yellowhair”
O1730. The only pieces there are exactly
three of in Scrabble
O1733. Member of the brass
O1735. “Two magic words that galvanized the
world,” per Tarana Burke in 2018
O1737. Weasel-like creature
O1739. Loves and loves (on)
O1742. Asian celebration occasion
O1745. Nine, to Nero
O1747. Toad’s attack
O1749. Combines, as funds
O1750. Brit’s low-class
O1752. “Forget You” and “For You” singer
O1753. Doe, as she is sung
O1756. “I can’t believe it!”
O1757. “No kidding!”
O1759. One of two or three to a dance?
O1760. Popular Nevada resort
O1761. Grassy plain of Asia
O1765. Some natural resources
O1766. Dog domesticated over 5500 years ago
O1767. Legendary creature
O1769. Kid’s “au contraire” about past
actions
O1771. Actor/dancer Gregory
O1773. First big step for would-be collegians
O1777. Nun’s headcloth
O1779. Rock’s ___ Boingo
O1780. Three-legged seat
O1781. Person always on the go
O1783. Kind of board
O1786. Uptown
O1789. Like a scull as opposed to a double
scull
O1791. Shoe company that sued Air Jordans for
using similar tech
O1794. They’ll hold your hands when you’re
ready to fight
O1795. It recommends summer reading for
educators
O1796. Brand of no-fat cooking oil
O1797. Avoiding harmful habits, or Cartesian
skepticism
O1799. Spanish starters
O1803. Beehive State bloomer
O1805. Line on a receipt
O1807. Mission-critical workspace
O1809. Unpopular boy’s name since 1945
O1811. “No prob! Easy as falling off ___”
O1814. They’re used in walking the dog
O1816. Unsliced bread unit
O1818. It’s sometimes confused with a crane
O1820. Object of derision
O1824. Dragging behind?
O1826. Accelerate
O1829. Across the entire United States
O1830. Catalyzing compound CeO2
O1831. Tiny creatures eaten by the largest
creatures
O1835. L-Q connectors
O1836. Oldest, saddest Musketeer
O1838. Therefore, in Tours
O1840. Weightlessness cause, briefly
O1842. Show in syndication, say
O1847. Back in the water?
O1849. Not remotely close to
O1851. Empath on the Enterprise
O1853. Pope who negotiated with Attila
O1855. Movie segment
O1858. Tried hard
O1859. Sheep or sheeple
O1861. Short film that gave Pixar its mascot
O1863. Agendas
O1865. Old-fashioned laundry machine
O1867. Study of bubbles, informally
O1868. Standoffish
O1869. Galley crew’s least favorite Greek
letter
O1871. Shot from cover
O1873. Bremen or Potsdam
O1876. “That is crazy!”
O1878. The Aare surrounds it
O1879. 1940s jazz genre
O1881. Flappers?
O1883. Epithet for the Lama
O1884. Lawn ornament of a sort
O1886. Cow impressionist
O1887. Cause of rust
O1890. Off course
O1892. Bullish comment?
O1894. Kick to the curb
O1896. Singing syllables
O1898. Hairdos that get combed out
O1901. Makes a transition
O1904. New Zealander’s greeting (from the
Maori for “be healthy”)
O1906. Agatha Christie’s N ___?
O1907. Roman 507
O1908. Be persuasive
O1910. Tubular, bro
O1914. Mary, Queen of Scots, to James III
O1917. Parisian martyr depicted sermonizing
post-decapitation
O1919. Zambian city
O1924. Film title that’s a toon’s familiar
nickname
O1926. Meditative sorts
O1928. Campus elective sometimes leading to
the service
O1930. Scoots along
O1933. New Year’s Day or April Fool’s Day
O1935. Censor confidential information
O1937. Japanese prince and statesman
O1939. Beast Boy’s buddy
O1942. Many a feline Facebook posting
O1943. “Couldn’t have said it better,
homeslice”
O1945. Generous
O1947. Early caucus voter
O1949. 13-digit identifier
O1950. Had misgivings
O1951. Fictional teller of tales
O1953. Parker’s place
O1955. Sides in an age-old battle
O1957. Blackens with leavings from burning
O1962. Geico rival
O1964. Distress signals
O1966. “Not much later at all:…”
O1968. Home to Japanese baseball’s Orix
Buffaloes
O1970. New Jack City star who sounds cool
O1971. De ___ (afresh)
O1974. Storm trackers
O1976. Written for four sharps
O1978. Blueblood
O1980. 1/48 cup (abbr.)
O1981. City built around “Texas tea”
O1983. Men of La Mancha
O1985. Blew hot and cold
O1986. In plain view
O1989. Helvetica’s lack
O1991. Steelers coaching legend Chuck who
died in June 2014
O1993. Touchy-___ (emotionally open)
O1994. Pretty poor grade
O1997. Did fairly well in class
O1998. Communicate by PC
O2000. Take out of its container, as a
houseplant
O2001. Like Boston accents, as it were
O2002. “I’ll have ___ this one out”
O2004. Sporty auto roofs
O2006. Originator, as of a musical style
O2008. Dry season’s peak, in Equatorial
Guinea
O2011. Planes, for instance
O2013. Violent sandstorm
O2015. Cabinet dept. with an atom on its seal
O2018. Columbus school founded during the
Civil War
O2020. Cry at a circus
O2021. Florence Nightingale, e.g.
O2025. Place for a solar panel
O2027. Dunkirk director Christopher
O2029. Pocket game?
O2032. Early Brits
O2037. Affirmative contraction
O2038. “I don’t care about your feelings”
O2040. Place for rapping
O2042. RB’s blockers
O2046. Working-class
O2047. Things to discuss
O2049. “Look ___ the way he is, and he only
becomes worse…” (Goethe)
O2051. Shrinking modestly
O2052. Disapproving words
O2054. Boy Scout’s efforts
O2055. Prefix meaning “the sun”
O2057. Company known for talking baby ads
O2060. Ladder level
O2062. One’s performances
O2064. Be inclined
O2066. “Funny you should feel that way…”
follower
O2069. Indirect cause of Anglicanism
O2072. Consume, biblically
O2075. Venezuelan prairie
O2077. “Drs. w/o Borders” and “Amnesty Intl.”
O2079. ___-chief (mag. VIP)
O2081. Freaky Friday actress Lindsay
O2083. FAA’s div.
O2084. Souvenir of a punch-up
O2086. Cup’s border
O2090. Residential locale
O2094. Bill Gates’s son
O2096. “Lemme at ‘im! I’ll splat ‘im!”
speaker
O2098. Wispy and loose, as a cloud
O2100. Soft drink with a “generation”
O2102. Farrell of In Bruges and The
Lobster
O2103. Muscateer?
O2105. Aforementioned
O2108. Alaskan river
O2110. “I ___ old for this!”
O2112. Screen for a bar
O2114. Light art, briefly?
O2117. Modifier used with silver ant,
cheetah, and horned viper (referencing their desert-survival abilities)
O2118. Makes a racket
O2120. Not milady
O2122. “___ use!” (quitter’s comment)
O2123. Like many store-bought olives
O2125. Tool for cutting irregular shapes
O2126. Dark daytimes
O2128. Zeppelin’s title
O2130. Moselle miss (abbr.)
O2132. In the Heat of the Night town
O2135. LA’s environs
O2136. Put into second place
O2137. “Awesome!” in a text
O2139. Exaggerated
O2141. One inclined to look down one’s nose
O2143. Like the yolk of a poached egg
O2147. Time to flip the sign, perhaps
O2149. Williams now hustling for the Nets
O2151. “I ___ for breakfast” (Kamala Harris
on naysayers)
O2153. Winged scavengers
O2154. Bieber’s “Baby,” for one
O2156. In the neighborhood of
O2157. “___ not good, I’ll call you back”
O2160. Regional speech
O2162. Whittle away
O2163. Most likely
O2166. Actors are barely in them
O2169. Stop pouring on the offense
O2174. Mr. Kristofferson
O2176. Crime journalist/novelist Saskia
O2178. The good dinosaur in The Good
Dinosaur
O2180. Put forward, as an idea
O2185. Enjoy that, in the 1960s
O2187. Big name in infomercials
O2190. Fairness-in-hiring org.
O2193. “…romantic?” intro
O2195. “Blue Ribbon” beers
O2197. Song bit in a “12123” pattern
O2198. Org. that had Eleanor Roosevelt,
Ginger Rogers, and Janet Reno as members
O2199. Plant that treats asthma or bronchitis
O2201. Swiss territorial divisions
O2203. They won’t travel on the Sabbath
O2205. Tumble-down home
O2207. Memoirs of a ___
O2209. Syndrome that’s a shortened version of
the name of a famous poet
O2211. Social network that (allegedly) never
has sold nor will sell data
O2213. Polite decline
O2215. Reason for a bouncing
O2217. “Off the ___ my head…”
O2220. Fundament in your pants
O2222. John “Pillow Pyro” Orr’s crime
O2223. They may be brushed with ghee
O2224. Oz dog, “Africa” band, etc.
O2226. Lillian and Philip
O2228. Informally, team with an H-star symbol
O2230. Fries seasoning
O2234. Monstrous beginning?
O2236. Took charge of
O2237. Oldest Indy 500 winner
O2239. Homer Simpson hangout
O2241. They recognize excellence in live
Broadway theater, informally
O2244. They often have staff positions?
O2245. Dance popular in 1960s beach parties
O2247. Adults-to-be
O2249. They’re meant to go over your head
O2251. Tiger’s warnings
O2253. It’s a mystery
O2255. Type of pay or badge
O2260. A Little Princess heroine and others
O2262. Us Southerners
O2264. Turnover collars
O2266. Strongly idealistic, humane sort,
supposedly
O2267. Flimsy, as an excuse
O2269. “Ain’t so!” reply
O2271. Singer Ayala who did time
O2272. A musician might pick it up
O2274. Got, in Paris
O2275. Shakes mark them
O2277. Heartbreaker’s talent
O2279. Photographic systems
O2282. Part of an Indian coming-of-age
ceremony
O2284. Raised mark on the skin
O2285. Bimonthly tides
O2287. Cycle of the seasons
O2290. “Facto” forerunner
O2291. Casino freebie
O2294. Beloved dog
O2296. Makeover place
O2298. Comparatively correct
O2300. In ___ (unable to think)
O2304. “___ see…”
O2305. “All the world is sad and dreary,
everywhere ___”
O2307. “O Sole ___”
O2309. Beatles, nicknamed
O2310. Skylines
O2313. Make a measure of
O2316. Some produce lemons and cherries
O2318. In a ___ (upset)
O2320. The UK version of these cheeses have
added garlic and green wrappers
O2321. Originator of “Necessity is the mother
of invention”
O2325. Starts crying through the nose
O2327. Capital city on the Red River
O2329. Message-carrier of film who speaks no
human language
O2331. Annual Jan. speech
O2333. Mattel man
O2334. Sky Above Clouds painter Georgia
O2336. Muppet who had “Adventures in
Grouchland”
O2338. Kitchen add-on?
O2339. Fashionable Christian
O2341. Big TV maker
O2343. Planets, but smaller
O2346. Narrow at the base, as leaves
O2349. Woodwind member
O2350. Word on Christmas decorations
O2351. Triple-tier sweets
O2353. Owl-lights
O2355. They might be full
O2357. Beginning on
O2360. Robin, to Adam West’s Batman
O2361. Wife of “The Little Tramp”
O2363. “Me ___” (“I liked it a LOT”)
O2365. Truths universally acknowledged
O2367. Napoleon Dynamite’s pal
O2369. Workers in booths, maybe
O2372. He was phobic about grasshoppers but
painted them anyway
O2374. Roger Sterling’s painting on Mad
Men was one
O2375. “I swear this is true”
O2377. Rowdies
O2379. Utmost
O2381. Buying out the store, maybe
O2386. Fix at a new mark
O2388. “Good morning, Giovanni”
O2390. Solar apices
O2391. Law-school exercises
O2396. Dirty fare without redeeming social
value
O2398. Vain queen turned into a Northern
constellation
O2400. Wouldn’t knowingly hurt anyone
O2402. Classifieds’ “...but I could go lower”
O2403. Units to measure the age of a universe
O2406. Board game subtitled “The Fireside
Detective”
O2407. Tom Watson’s org.
O2409. Boy in Spain
O2411. Paradise and Utopia
O2412. NASA’s six-person orbiter
O2414. Straight-A student, e.g.
O2417. Provide with clothes
O2419. 2019 phenomenon in California’s Anza-Borrego
Desert State Park
O2422. Nickname of the singer of 2007’s
“Umbrella”
O2424. Flash of attraction
O2426. Two matching things
O2429. Crown holder
O2432. Earnings after project cancellation
O2435. Where the Shannon flows (abbr.)
O2436. Occupy oneself with
O2437. “Do ___ gentle…” (Thomas)
O2439. Film series with orcs and hobbits, to
fans
O2441. Not snookered by
O2443. Indian of the Great Plains
O2445. “I couldn’t make head or tail ___”
O2447. Yes ___ (kind of question)
O2449. Stop work on
O2450. Make one’s hair stand ___
O2452. Adventurous ones
O2457. Tic-tac-toe choice
O2459. Substitute’s place
O2461. Proceed slowly but surely
O2463. Open Society Institute founder George
O2465. Large group
O2467. ___ breath bouquet
O2471. Jam cacophony
O2473. Pineapple, to a GI
O2475. “-Cha” preceder
O2476. Certain edible starch
O2479. Unable to admit weakness, say
O2481. Place for an aspiring lt.
O2482. Southwestern flattop
O2483. Alma mater for Boris Johnson
O2485. Investments for the idle
O2486. Paper offered in partial exchange for
goods
O2489. Began the business day
O2491. Payola payer
O2493. Weapons-forgers
O2495. Actor Cameron
O2497. Relief spot
O2499. “___ son buenas noticias” (“That’s
good news!”)
O2501. Furniture set site
O2505. “More on p. 2”
O2507. Progress unit
O2509. Bursts of laughter
O2511. Using as a perch
O2513. Bart, to Homer
O2514. Little piggies, to a baby
O2516. Suffix with corset or trick
O2518. Turn sour
O2520. Orchestral winds
O2521. Identifies publicly
O2522. Spanish skating figure
O2523. Word for “enemy” that gets used a lot
in crossword clues for some reason
O2526. One’s own body
O2527. “Tank Engine” of kid-lit
O2529. Pride : lions :: mob : ___
O2530. Word before “at ease”
O2531. Of praiseful poetry
O2532. Hare hunter’s call
O2533. Gets seriously violent
O2535. Adriatic stream
O2536. Family member who is, statistically
speaking, rarely wicked
O2539. Target of a decade-long manhunt,
informally
O2540. Infected
O2542. Salutation to a queen
O2544. Additional matters of concern
O2546. Fatty tissues
O2548. Howly-sounding suffix
O2550. ___ Brown (rapper or mad scientist)
O2552. It’ll get you puffing, but no pain, no
gain
O2554. Drink brand suffix
O2555. Three times, in an Rx
O2558. NYSE intros
O2559. “I love the feeling of the fresh ___
my face and the wind blowing through my hair” (Evel Knievel)
O2563. “And ___ kidding!”
O2564. Chained
O2566. Job’s interlocutor and, some believe,
the Book of Job’s author
O2569. Scope opening
O2571. Firecracker noise
O2576. CI, in shorthand Arabic
O2577. Prefix with “smith” and “stat”
O2579. Malformed way to start?
O2581. Gifted with the gift of gab
O2583. Triple-jump component
O2584. Plumbing fixture manufacturer
O2586. Longoria who played Gabby
O2588. “Tickety ___” (animated Nick Jr. show)
O2590. Corner pieces, in chess
O2591. Do post-office work
O2593. Enter unannounced
O2594. Most-frequently-used US bill
O2596. Lots of fuss
O2599. Like some vino
O2601. Normal speech
O2603. Tree found in people’s houses
O2605. “Holy SMOKE!”
O2607. “Center” starter?
O2612. Dumbbell
O2614. Makes a long-distance call?
O2616. Go mainstream
O2617. Distressed cry
O2619. Believe, to the Bard (or, pitch t’e
ball?)
O2620. Rob who played Kyle McBride on Melrose
Place
O2622. Loc. councilor
O2623. The Scarlet Letter’s Hester
O2624. Guilty-acting
O2627. Vietnamese coin or Chinese weight
O2628. Virtuous
O2629. Abbr. with “value”
O2630. Strewn, in heraldry
O2632. ___ piece (consistent)
O2633. Newspaper execs
O2634. In kicks, say
O2636. Flashy tank swimmer
O2638. “See what I mean?”
O2640. Blitzen, for one
O2642. Some modern viruses and worms
O2647. Union strikers?
O2649. Dear ___: The Autobiography of Vincent
Van Gogh
O2651. Train ties
O2652. Latter-day honor
O2654. Roman tyrant and detective Wolfe
O2655. Those south of the border?
O2658. What a person’s made of
O2659. Member of the priestly caste
O2660. Second column on a calendar, often
O2661. Frontiersman Crockett
O2662. It allows words to stay readable
onscreen without electricity
O2663. Taipan frying pans
O2664. Gather altitude
O2669. Slavic prefix
O2671. “This is ___!” (cry heard during
Prohibition)
O2672. 1991 Dustin Hoffman title role
O2676. Raise your stress levels
O2677. What we call administrations of
important presidents
O2679. Plateau of Belgium and Germany
O2681. Home star of Cthulhu, in fantasy tales
O2683. Mrs. Chaplin, once
O2685. “___F!”
O2686. Ancient board game (anagram of TEENS)
O2689. Suntan lotion inits.
O2691. The IPCRESS File author Deighton
O2692. Address ending
O2693. Uno, ___, tres
O2694. Pittsburgh pro, in headlines
O2695. New England fisherman’s vessel
O2696. Kremlin features
O2697. Chanter, sometimes
O2698. It goes from about 540 to 1700
O2699. Deal-consummating word
O2701. Jerome Kern’s “___ You Like to Spoon
With Me?”
O2702. Flips, as one’s lid?
O2705. “West Coast” singer
O2707. Godfather father
O2709. A physical peak
O2710. Tropicalia musician Veloso
O2711. Bottom of the ionosphere
O2712. Do some adjustments on a door, maybe
O2713. _ndustry _rade _dvisory _ommittee
O2714. Mr. Price of Price Club fame
O2715. Hateful
O2717. Foolish person who might be shown in
or watching a tube
O2719. Quick message
O2721. Comics page units
O2723. It maddens MADD
O2725. WWII fliers
O2727. Enter the competition
O2728. Certain cactus (LYE POT anagram)
O2729. Informal counselors at college
O2730. Hit lightly
O2731. “That’s…[pause to think]…disgusting”
O2732. Edible tuberous root
O2733. Barrel contents
O2735. Troubles and cares
O2738. Continental trade acronym
O2740. Classpeople coming to the halfway
mark, for short
O2742. Will Arnett character who says “I only
work in black and sometimes very, very gray”
O2744. “Awww yeah”
O2746. Ante matter
O2747. “___ the fields we go”
O2749. Ends found in the most popular Bible
edition
O2751. Former German state
O2753. Alley prowler
O2754. “I think it’ll do you ___ of good,
actually”
O2756. “You don’t know me”
O2758. Moray’s trap
O2760. Law follower
O2761. Eczema soothers
O2762. Herb used medicinally
O2763. Tremendous grief
O2764. Rodeo sight, informally
O2765. Flower of innocence
O2766. Pan tail?
O2767. Nightclub of song
O2768. Nat. with three different-sounding A’s
O2769. On purpose
O2770. Violet-blue weed
O2772. Not appropriate
O2774. Oater exclamation
O2776. Dinosaurs of today
O2778. Little spots for breakfast
O2780. Females, in an alternative spelling
O2782. Dorothy’s great-aunt?
O2783. Movement to reverse an 1845 annexation
O2787. Have one’s heart ___ (desire strongly)
O2789. Spend time in, as a hotel
O2790. Uses up minutes
O2792. Car component
O2794. Tourist city once known as
Akbarabād
O2796. Billy
O2797. Impairment
O2799. Where gladiators once fought
O2800. Former Apple rivals
O2801. Without ___: with no backup plan
O2802. Do the nasty
O2803. Gamepiece with a 0 digit
O2804. Ending meaning “place of business”
O2805. Run perfectly
O2808. Director whose name contains a
filmmaking term
O2811. Reading rear
O2813. Site of a fictional mutiny of print
and film
O2814. Dictators of old
O2820. Likely meddler
O2822. Some lo-cal beers
O2823. Kosovo’s here
O2825. Kanthapura novelist Raja
O2826. Run-on sentence’s glue
O2827. Seminary degree.
O2828. Moderator of Tribal Councils on TV
O2829. Under control
O2831. Film with “JUST SAY NO TO PROTEST”
signs
O2832. Profits as % of sales
O2833. Lady of the house, often
O2834. Imitate irritatingly
O2835. Painful cries
O2836. ___ A. Bank (men’s clothier since
1905)
O2837. Part of a peanut dish
O2839. Support as a cause
O2841. Provide with merchandise
O2843. “You were my queen in ___ / I was your
bashful barefoot beau”
O2845. Mythical source of gold
O2852. Where a joule is over six quintillion
O2853. Consummated
O2854. Thundering
O2856. “Mene, mene, ___, upharsin” (the
Bible’s “handwriting on the wall”)
O2859. Plant’s protective dome
O2860. Greek sun god
O2861. Snake that could subtract you…from
life
O2863. Stool pigeon
O2864. Fiery Suicide Squadster
O2866. HRE emperor
O2871. Burton’s role in Roots
O2873. Ringing
O2875. “Think of it as an indulgence”
O2877. “Forget it”
O2879. Ludwig who wrote nine symphonies
O2881. Auditorium balcony, e.g.
O2885. Kind of boot or dancer
O2886. Odysseus’s rescuer, in myth
O2889. Hand tongue?
O2890. Part of a party line
O2894. George Burns film of 1977
O2898. “Ewww!”
O2901. Not the best places for elbows
O2903. Free daily newspaper
O2905. Like polished production
O2910. Scent product that uses aluminum
compounds
O2912. Roman soldier who became a Christian
martyr
O2914. Curricula vitae
O2917. York, for one
O2918. Splits to unite
O2919. Oreo alternative that has only one
flavor
O2920. Used a Jersey expression?
O2922. Chewed a path through
O2924. Orthodontist
O2926. Symbol of deadness
O2928. “Kind of ___” (The Buckinghams)
O2930. Word for “get unwound” or word for
“party” missing its first vowel
O2931. Vulcanologists promise they “monitor
its every breath”
O2935. Relief organization whose logo is a
scarlet letter
O2938. What opera singers hope for (var.)
O2939. Extremely earnest
O2940. Medium-sized motorhome (or word for
“timeless” minus one letter)
O2941. Coolly knowledgeable about
O2942. Sudsing
O2943. Remainder in Rennes
O2944. Dust bugs
O2945. Believer’s suffix
O2946. Call router (abbr.)
O2947. Navigational abbr.
O2949. Bakery string
O2950. Kin of “yikes!”
O2951. Eve, once
O2952. Soames Forsyte’s first love
O2953. Do philanthropic work
O2954. Molding
O2955. Hurt severely
O2956. Crust side of a pizza slice, usually
O2957. Strong hand cleaner
O2958. Crab or snake
O2959. Response to “How are you?”
O2960. “You’re so confident” reply
O2961. Insulin and estrogen
O2962. Rainier’s land.
O2963. Digital communiqué
O2964. Brunch staple
O2965. Genre for White Heat or The
Silver Spoon
O2966. Soft drink since 1905
O2967. No-star fare
O2968. “___ for the Only one I see”
O2970. Tequila-tonic drink
O2975. Where a student may doodle
O2977. General Pershing
O2979. Mileage keeper in a car
O2980. Tea transport
O2982. Fellas
O2983. Legally bound to the truth
O2984. Have as a lessee
O2985. Husky vocal quality
O2986. Umbrella charity for Israelis (abbr.)
O2988. Mask features
O2991. In need of some cheering up
O2992. Overwhelming admiration
O2999. They help hurried people look formal
O3000. On the clock
O3001. The Shadow Man from The Princess
and the Frog, e.g.
O3004. Criminal record
O3006. Vehicle fleet, on the base
O3008. Leopold whose day mirrors The
Odyssey
O3010. Alternative to -ville
O3011. Two-decade Masterpiece Theatre host
O3013. Willow warbler
O3014. Contractions
O3016. In a decisive, multipurpose move
O3017. Short interval of time
O3018. Man ___ Mancha
O3019. Adds to the discussion
O3020. Gauchos’ nat.
O3021. Online game site featuring virtual
animals
O3024. Algae eaten with poke
O3025. “Hunky-dory, Houston”
O3026. Drink that’s basically all carbs
O3032. Per NPR’s Gene Demby, examples of “a
specific kind of fratty masculinity. Baseball cap with the frayed brim
(possibly backward), sky-blue oxford shirt or sports team shirt, cargo shorts,
maybe some mandals or boat shoes. Y’all know who we mean”
O3034. Kind of employment clause for
companies with secrets
O3036. “I don’t need to explain further, do
I?”
O3038. Early gangsta rap collective…
O3040. Additional
O3043. Tell a tall tale
O3044. Ft. or in.
O3045. Prefix with posit
O3047. Scottish island or New York college
O3049. Fertilizer that can come from the sky
O3050. Old hwy. from Detroit to Seattle
O3051. Sch. personnel
O3053. Dauphin, eventually
O3054. Professorial talk (abbr.)
O3055. Site of the original couples cruise?
O3056. Causing wonder
O3057. Norse goddess of fate
O3059. Fifth Avenue retailer
O3061. A, to Katarina Witt
O3063. Scraps for a pooch
O3065. Politically motivated appropriations
O3067. Needing more forthrightness
O3068. Effective heart lines
O3069. ___ Act, providing information to
those approaching Medicare eligibility
O3071. Get a little too inquisitive
O3073. Lead-in for chic
O3075. -an counterpart
O3077. Leg, in slang
O3078. The “R” in AARP, briefly
O3081. BHO affiliation
O3083. Like something from the Jurassic
Period
O3084. ___ polloi (general population)
O3085. Pal from the ‘hood
O3086. ___ rav (the “mixed many” who joined
the Jews in Exodus)
O3087. Sharp point
O3088. Juin’s predecessor
O3089. De Janeiro and Grands
O3090. “Congress shall make ___…” (Bill of
Rights)
O3091. A Line in the Word author Dorthe
O3092. Performed (well or badly)
O3094. Offenses on a record
O3096. Entrusts its business to strangers
O3098. Physics seen in Slinkies and
playground swings
O3101. Info input
O3103. Fragile shell of authority in Lord
of the Flies
O3108. Exasperated interjection
O3109. Pulls from behind
O3110. First RIAA-certified K-Pop group
O3111. Wagons-___ (sleeping cars, in Europe)
O3112. “Wassup, my dude”
O3113. Welsh symbol
O3114. Sarcastic nickname for a would-be
lover
O3115. Scandinavian lang.
O3117. Acts of grade school torture
O3118. Notably addictive wiki of story
analysis
O3123. Uncommon, to de Falla
O3126. “Sound good?”
O3128. Like the first two Brandenburg
Concertos
O3129. Ice cream man?
O3132. Ancient holy scroller?
O3135. Ft. Collins sch.
O3136. Bank no.
O3137. ___ radius (a0)
O3138. Make ___: whiff three times
O3139. Aberdonians, e.g.
O3140. Daydream or dawdle
O3141. Take up, as a strategy
O3142. Boobs, gazongas, bejoober-babbers
O3143. Directs a ship
O3144. Berth place
O3145. N’awlins sub
O3146. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs director name
O3147. Barbarians at the Roman gates
O3148. Going places?
O3151. ET transport
O3152. You, in the Yucatan
O3155. Put a brown crust on, in a way
O3157. Japanese film distro giant
O3159. One billion years
O3160. Suffix in many pasta names
O3162. WSJ headline
O3164. “Stop-___” (UGK hit)
O3165. “Sweet home” of song, for short
O3166. Mo. known for lights
O3167. Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction
O3168. Existential danger
O3169. Line-___: listed individually
O3170. Existentialist Kierkegaard
O3171. Special-interest gps. for thought
leadership
O3173. Overeager promotion seeker, maybe
O3174. Survey units
O3175. Grooming aids
O3176. Trader Joe’s competitor
O3177. “From top ___?” (Hamlet)
O3179. “That doth make sense”
O3182. So great you don’t sound how cheesy
you sound when you say it
O3184. Mythical transformational substance
O3186. Reveals
O3188. Yoga pose with hands and feet on the
floor
O3191. AT&T’s stylized globe, e.g.
O3192. First name in a 2000 Best Picture
nominee
O3194. Leave standing
O3195. Coming after (abbr.)
O3196. Judge, as a case
O3197. Grain fungi
O3198. First part of a record
O3199. Have joint stakes in
O3200. Guide of conduct followed by Barney
Stinson
O3201. Turns from liquid to vapor
O3202. 2001 Peace Nobelist org.
O3203. College lecturer, for short
O3204. What Rudolph used to be called
O3205. Two shakes equivalent
O3207. Shipped out on faith
O3210. Potent bridge pair
O3212. Mind-based military campaign,
informally
O3214. Contributes
O3215. Gazelle relative
O3217. Brewers, e.g., briefly
O3220. Special flairs
O3222. Deceptive appearance
O3223. Transportation in a spiritual
O3224. Debt (abbr.)
O3225. Leading With My Chin author
O3226. Responsibility gladly accepted
O3227. Billboard, say
O3228. [Ugh, not this again!]
O3229. Hipster headpiece
O3230. Dior Sauvage Eau de Toilette rival
O3231. Toaster output
O3232. “Oh, REAL convincing!”
O3233. Like Cognac casks
O3235. Fertilizers
O3237. Deceitful
O3238. Many a heavenly body
O3239. Attire for Groundskeeper Willie
O3242. Possible robot of mythology
O3244. Not dn.
O3245. It’s in an old way?
O3248. Rep., Ind. and Dem., e.g.
O3249. Peasant’s shoe
O3251. Colorer
O3252. Stop completely
O3253. Site for extreme winter sports
O3254. Many a Slate article
O3255. Naysayers’ words
O3256. Maximum extremities?
O3258. Red cans
O3259. Quick, routine scan
O3260. Gritty fiction stories
O3261. Stocks can do it
O3262. Face mist producer
O3263. “All right, let me get this straight…”
O3264. Crew team non-rowers
O3265. Maker of Lumia phones
O3267. The Simpsons minor leaguer
O3269. Take steps toward the door
O3271. He killed Mercutio
O3273. Jazz devotee
O3275. Modernists, slangily
O3277. Cheers barkeep
O3278. Altruistic one
O3279. “___-MITE!” (Good Times
catchphrase)
O3281. Tossed-salad eponym
O3284. “Good lord!”
O3285. Bawl out
O3286. Classic comedian Burnett
O3287. Savvies
O3288. After-dinner letters
O3289. Ciphers
O3290. Like granola
O3291. Talmadge of the silents
O3292. Candy on a stick, informally
O3293. No rocket scientists, they
O3295. “Innocent because we can’t prove she’s
guilty”
O3303. Not evenly divisible by two
O3305. “___ shall live your epitaph to make”
(Shakespearean threat)
O3308. Faeroe whirlwinds
O3310. All Hallows’ Eve mo.
O3311. See right through
O3312. Too much of ___ thing: overdone
O3313. Pilar’s man in a Hemingway classic
O3314. Comic-book villain who influenced
Darth Vader
O3315. Raising a racket
O3317. “World’s Most Famous Clown” in the 20th
century
O3319. Is a sore loser
O3322. Self-promote
O3326. Sock away
O3328. Post-speech TV analysts, e.g.
O3329. Manti of the San Diego Chargers
O3332. “Let’s GO, already!”
O3333. Word appended after “under” or “cut”
O3334. Treasure Island exclamation
O3335. Talked with empty pomposity
O3336. Dim wits
O3337. Grads., not long ago
O3339. Name for river, lake, Toledo area, and
four Navy ships
O3341. Crybaby’s sound
O3342. They work with MDs
O3343. Collision-repair chain rhymed with “uh
oh” in ad campaigns
O3344. Journeyer through hell with Virgil
O3345. She found “the Lost City of Gold”
O3346. Bye words?
O3347. Uncanny luck
O3348. Musical “Ambassador of Aloha”
O3349. Home of many settlers?
O3350. Quarters costing dollars?
O3351. “I’m new at this”
O3352. What you may say to select from a free
sample
O3353. Arrived barefoot, perhaps
O3354. One-piece bridge
O3356. Vocal pessimist
O3357. Sharpened a skill
O3359. Quick cancer-preventing check
O3361. Umberto and kin
O3363. Nickname that omits -ney
O3365. Frontier town
O3367. Mil. distinctions in Argentina and
Vietnam
O3368. Country store
O3369. Gelding’s foot
O3370. Obama’s mother Dunham
O3371. It cleaves genestuff
O3372. Is in pain
O3374. Sarcastic reply to an unwelcome
surprise
O3375. Apple remains
O3376. Succeeds with overwhelming excitement
O3377. Dances to punk rock, perhaps
O3378. Composers’ last notes
O3379. Salami selections
O3380. Nonprofit, often
O3384. Sugar in coffee, e.g.
O3386. One of Hawaii’s Maunas
O3387. What the hyphen in an emoticon often
represents
O3388. “You have a FILTHY mind!”
O3389. Accepted fact among readers
O3392. For two, as a musical composition
O3394. TV installments
O3396. Have-___ (the poor)
O3397. Mighty weapons
O3398. Snappy yet dignified comeback to a
boast
O3400. “…then again, I might be wrong”
O3401. Bellefleur author
O3402. Prominent position
O3403. Sympathy traps, sometimes
O3404. Begin to dive
O3405. Tale that might feature a haunted
house
O3406. Poured attention (on)
O3407. Carries around
O3408. Assaults with sound
O3412. N. African weight
O3413. Ready to take a cut
O3415. Autoedit instruction to check when
you’re confident in your phrasing
O3416. Prefix on “present”
O3417. Cleaning concern of Mrs. Claus
O3419. Medicinal “bear” food
O3421. “99 Luftballoons” singer
O3423. Subglacial drifts, in geology
O3424. Have an easy catch with
O3425. Line members
O3426. Former draft agcy.
O3427. Drew a line in the sand, perhaps
O3429. Rooster’s crest
O3430. ___ the trail
O3431. “I could ___ horse!”
O3432. Like tubas and grand pianos
O3433. Feline mix
O3434. Steals from an abandoned store, e.g.
O3435. “I’m not really following this, but
whatever”
O3437. Salus Populi Suprema Lex ___ (Missouri
motto)
O3438. Made-up drivel
O3443. Cannon in Jenny’s War
O3446. Conquest of conquistadores
O3448. 1942 Preakness champion found in
“hospitals abroad”
O3450. What February might have, depending on
the region
O3451. Charged things
O3452. Beach ridge near mud flats
O3453. Ponder (over)
O3454. Drew’s nemesis on The Drew Carey
Show
O3455. Wrestling holds
O3456. “You should do stand-up,” online
O3457. Pioneer in military robotics
O3458. An earl outranks him
O3459. Hurries
O3460. Musical key of Brahms’s first symphony
O3461. Snoozing
O3465. Temple Square’s state
O3467. She finds Bambi bashful
O3469. The dog really ___ my homework
once…no, really
O3470. Act greedily, perhaps
O3471. Queens area ___ Park
O3472. Audition recordings
O3476. Hometown of the band Hanson
O3477. Purchased by
O3478. First king we know to be buried in the
Valley of Kings
O3479. John Peterson’s kidlit family
O3481. Pope proclaimed a saint in 1954
O3482. Lower Manhattan district
O3483. Spoils
O3484. Boxy Toyota model
O3485. Catching ___ winks
O3488. 1958 Elvis hit
O3489. Head bobs
O3491. The Mirror ___ from Side to Side (Christie)
O3493. One beyond foolish
O3495. Like “mail carrier” or “firefighter”
instead of old-fashioned alternatives
O3496. Gam and Coolidge
O3498. Oscar winner for Milk
O3500. Some bank deposits
O3502. His belt twinkles
O3503. Those in the know
O3504. -er or -est, for short
O3505. Butter substitute invented in France
O3506. Antonio Banderas, to Tippi Hedren
O3507. Easternmost Indo-European language
O3508. With “the,” where some ideas come out
of
O3509. Dispatch
O3510. Screechers in the dark
O3511. Act of lunacy
O3512. American writer
O3513. Feature Dolly Parton loves to joke
about
O3514. Traveling tramps
O3515. Make different
O3518. Basher ___, one of the eleven in Ocean’s
Eleven
O3520. Science Friday carrier
O3521. Box made with love, especially in
Japan
O3522. Keepers keep them
O3525. Hurry-scurries
O3527. As food
O3529. “The ___ Drink” (Blake Shelton)
O3530. Dumb as ___
O3531. Softly, to Serkin
O3532. Gibraltar to Lapland
O3533. It may be heard in the Highlands
O3534. Stubbed-toe cry
O3535. Silence-breaking stop word
O3536. “First of all” follower
O3537. Came out of a trance
O3538. Is hopping mad
O3539. Charging beast
O3540. Table d’___ (set price meal)
O3543. Second smallest Teletubby
O3545. Word with “what” or “where”
O3546. Get closer, to a director
O3548. Reserved or preserved
O3549. Stitch-and-bitch sessions
O3551. 1973 Rolling Stones hit subtitled
“Heartbreaker”
O3552. Lower on the org chart
O3553. Special-interest gps.
O3555. They’re stranded
O3557. Polynesian root
O3559. Jawja’s capital
O3560. Loopy sorts
O3561. Clemson coach Swinney
O3562. His masterpiece was St. Paul’s
O3564. Spoken
O3566. Author whose son was Christopher Robin
O3567. NASA connector
O3568. Typical work week
O3569. One of a related set of atoms, or with
a letter added to the end, a brand of gloves
O3570. Port’s opposite, on a boat (abbr.)
O3571. End of many theoretical trips
O3572. British firearm
O3575. Impressionist Claude
O3579. Barrel buddy
O3581. Big talkers, usually
O3586. Turn the page (abbr.)
O3587. Xmas or St. Patrick’s D.
O3588. Hair adornments
O3589. Paradise Lost guitarist Aaron
O3590. Boston Public and Star Trek: Voyager actress
O3591. Do a repair job
O3592. Nice and easy
O3593. Like the “simple” life
O3594. “Reason’ble, when y’put it like that”
O3595. Ancient country with a famous queen
O3597. $, in exchange-rate tables
O3599. Proverbial multimillionaire
O3600. Way, on the Appian Way
O3601. Cite, as a Yogi Berra witticism
O3602. It has ink inside
O3603. Chaka once in Rufus
O3604. Change at the top?
O3605. L’___ Professionnel with new INOA hair
color
O3606. Talking-___ (scoldings)
O3608. Public way to think
O3609. ___ moment’s notice
O3610. Person of few years
O3613. Black Halloween creature
O3615. ___ Cabin Republicans
O3616. Like 2019’s Aladdin or Dumbo
O3617. Magic show bird
O3618. Mucks things up
O3619. Democracy or tyranny (abbr.)
O3620. Altered loan, briefly
O3621. Be deliberately obtuse
O3622. Louise’s partner in crime
O3623. One of James and Natalie’s Rebel
Without a Cause co-stars
O3626. Times Square brightener
O3629. Knight’s neighbor
O3631. Move as one
O3632. Job that’s been filled by Megan Thee Stallion,
Elon Musk, Steve Martin, and Donald Trump
O3636. Lid irritation
O3639. Kermit’s greeting
O3640. Actor Stark of That ‘70s show and
Green Book
O3641. “Jolly nice!”
O3642. TV planet where “Shazbot” is a
profanity
O3643. One of Leonardo’s weapons on Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles
O3644. E.g.
O3645. Reporter, for shorter
O3646. Getting the oxen ready
O3647. Seeks solace from
O3648. “___ I kidding?”
O3650. Lil ___ (“Bonafide Hustla” rapper)
O3653. “No one’s with me”
O3655. Senate Majority Leader before and
after Daschle
O3657. That special introduction?
O3658. The Prime of Miss Jean ___
O3661. Two or so
O3663. States of anger
O3665. Cheese typically soaked in brine
O3669. Channel showing Tic-Tac-Dough
reruns, for short
O3670. “What ___ thou here, Elijah?”
O3671. Like the sponge cake of a Twinkie,
according to ads
O3672. Stick-thrashed
O3673. Enjoyed the kiddie pool
O3674. Substantives
O3675. Makeouts, as in “Gimme some ___, baby”
O3676. Not available, for short
O3677. Bon Jovi’s Torres
O3678. Three Dog Night hit “___ the World
Ends”
O3681. Part of a stock exchange?
O3683. Stringed Renaissance instruments
O3684. Mars or Neptune
O3685. Like many interstates
O3688. Shortening in recipes?
O3689. Explorer Hernando De ___
O3691. Neo player
O3692. Marianas Trench, e.g.
O3694. Insult aimed at Charlie Brown, despite
his design’s roundness
O3695. Year in which Frederick II died
O3696. Envir. study
O3699. Comic actress Charlotte
O3700. Not over Zoom, say, for short
O3701. Row’s opp.
O3702. Retirement fund org.
O3703. Young, inexperienced person
O3704. The ___ Love (2014 thriller)
O3705. Some spa treatment substances
O3706. Heads of England?
O3707. Mind-body exercise
O3708. Arguably Keanu’s most reality-bending
role
O3712. Suffix with hypn- and osm-
O3714. “I’m ___ gonna sugarcoat it…”
O3715. Don’t stress
O3716. Things lawyers look for
O3717. Family room setup
O3719. Helps society
O3720. Relies upon
O3722. Peter Pan author
O3723. Piece for two
O3724. First geographical entry in my old World
Book Encyclopedia
O3727. Not exactly Mensa material
O3728. Talk, mod style
O3730. Number 4 for the Bruins
O3732. Ned Flanders’ alma mater, for short
O3734. Co. acquired by Verizon in 2006
O3736. This (old Roman)
O3738. Denzel Washington’s Book of ___
O3742. “It’s my turn!”
O3744. Sign before a signature
O3745. School monitor’s request
O3746. Bisect powerfully
O3747. Great Yankee arm
O3749. Company with a monocled mascot
O3751. Really loud, to Liszt
O3754. Pioneering fast food name
O3755. Place to make a scene
O3756. Trauma centers
O3767. “New World Record” rock gp.
O3768. Could be twins with
O3770. Scottish cattle breed
O3771. Rainy day protection
O3773. Insignificant
O3774. Day to pin your hopes on
O3775. Code of behavior
O3777. In-___: local
O3778. Cash cache
O3779. Pet sound?
O3780. Find employment
O3782. Looks like it does
O3784. What a bunch of footballers might do
O3785. Initials in want ads
O3786. Causes strain
O3787. Down more than
O3788. He’s on the beam!
O3790. Subway map dot (abbr.)
O3792. Travolta vehicle
O3793. Biblical region in the Nile delta
O3794. Shorn animal
O3796. Enters without notice
O3797. Abundant flow
O3798. Inclined, a bit archaically
O3800. Rearranged texts
O3801. “Stay behind, please?”
O3802. Some random-ass
O3804. Wooly rabbit
O3806. Used rock salt on
O3810. The Marquise ___
O3811. To be shared
O3814. Largest land drilling fleet in the
world
O3815. Artgum, for example
O3816. Most uncouth
O3820. Scratched from a list
O3821. UN antihunger org.
O3825. ___ de la Frontera, Spain
O3827. Comical stumblers
O3829. Autumn colour
O3831. Movie with the quote, “[They]
outnumber us a hundred to one, and if we ever let them figure that out, there
goes our way of life!”
O3833. Alms receiver
O3834. Where the euphoric walk
O3835. Boxer De la Hoya
O3838. ___ a Letter to My Love (1980 movie)
O3839. Word before noir or grigio
O3840. Name in air conditioning and
saxophoning
O3841. Century starter in the papacy of
Gregory I
O3842. Applebee’s sister chain
O3843. Pre-Ruffalo of Marvel films
O3844. Thanatos’ opposite
O3845. Presidential name
O3846. “Black” and “white” are two (abbr.)
O3847. Letter signifying a programming
language
O3848. Crossword-solving educ. std.
O3849. Growth area?
O3850. TVA concern (abbr.)
O3851. Type of harrow
O3852. Some parlors, for short
O3853. “All opposed” answer
O3854. Dawn moisture
O3855. Riveter’s target
O3856. Seaweed at sushi bars
O3857. MMA fighter Jose
O3858. Maneuverable, as a sloop
O3859. Mohawked actor of The A-Team
O3860. Crash or crash into, in modern slang
O3861. Sung words after “here,” “there,” and
“everywhere”
O3862. Like whooping cranes
O3863. “No ifs, ___, or buts”
O3866. Turner of Homecoming
O3869. “The Woman ___” (country chart-topper)
O3871. Groundbreaking smart speakers
O3875. Indifferently
O3877. Dr. show settings
O3878. Ground
O3879. HS follow-up
O3880. Top corporate leader
O3882. Some Texas A&M grads
O3883. Depression agency
O3884. Clock setting in Tulsa
O3885. ___-Kujū National Park in Japan
O3886. Like a famous Four
O3887. Windsock’s dir.
O3888. Largest US employer of mathematicians
O3889. Quiets a squeak
O3894. Acronym for the last months of the
year
O3895. “___ Club”
O3897. Subdivision unit
O3898. Old filling station name
O3899. Enough and then some
O3900. It’s 8 for O
O3901. Camp cabins’ contents
O3902. ___ historique: opera genre
O3904. “It just makes my blood boil!”
O3907. Brown of jazz
O3912. Not know from ___ B: be ignorant
O3913. Egyptian sun deity
O3914. Salutation word
O3915. Commercial start for Balls or Caps
O3916. ALF, Mork, and Coneheads
O3917. Barista’s brew
O3918. Hyphenate with “faced” or “fisted”
O3919. Book after Danl.
O3920. Ex-President Morales of Bolivia
O3921. Jiminy Cricket image in my old room
O3922. Word on a dollar
O3923. Regulation followers
O3924. Singer Jon ___ Jovi
O3925. Pax Japonica
O3926. Turn green, perhaps
O3933. Cafeteria coffeepot
O3935. Come-___ (advertising gimmicks)
Note: Due to format limitations, any square
that begins an across or down answer defaults to “across and down” numbering,
even when it also begins an answer in one of the rings. Both kinds of numbering
are indicated in the clues below.
Outermost Ring, Clockwise
OA1/O170. Making the hardest possible left
OA2. The Misadventures of Awkward Black
Girl creator and star
OA3. Freya or Isis
OA4. Half Lord of the Fishes or Standing
Tree
OA5. Conceding statement in Crazy Eights
OA6. Boarding building
OA7. Set of colors
OA8. Switch from defense to attack
OA9. “Unbelievable!”
OA10. Smugly dismiss
OA11. Throat, heart, or third eye, e.g.
OA12/O654. Word found in football and skin care
OA13. Automaton of early sci-fi film
OA14. Took one step
OA15/O1096. ᴎ
OA16/O1422. Wartime supply source
OA17. Steven who developed Hill Street
Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and NYPD Blue
OA18. Spanish scratch
OA19/O2104. With “The,” UK armored division that
slowly crawled through North Africa
OA20/O2466. It’s often seen dilating
OA21/O2644. Remove from a list
OA22/O2783. Extreme isolationists’ cause in Dallas
OA23/O2931. It lies between the African and
Eurasian plates
OA24/O3078. Illness sometimes followed by
“pigmentosa”
OA25/O3329. Aristotelian purpose
OA26. Native Israeli
OA27/O3599. Who’s the big dog?
OA28/O3711. Vinegar-cured protein source
OA29/O3791. What you can multiply by 40.4686 by
adding a “c” to it near the middle
OA30/O3814. Like Copts and Assyrians
OA31/O3859. Rooney of Carol
OA32. Poison named for its discovery within
a pigment
OA33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman
OA34/O3851. Fast-evaporating toe-wetter
OA35/O3848. Eliminate past the point of no return
OA36/O3843. Item to straddle in the bathroom
OA37/O3839. Nipple muscle
OA38. Luxor or MGM Grand
OA39. Luchador-like scourge of Gotham
OA40/O3695. Society gone mad
OA41. Meteor visible in summer
OA42. It faces Frisco across the bay
OA43. Child-appropriate
OA44. Informs the police
OA45. CT June hours
OA46. Not as normal
OA47. Pass by moment by moment
OA48. Heidi in fashion spreads and talent
shows
OA49. Eponymous sitcom star who played a
woolly mammoth
OA50. Sips from a shot
OA51. Second set of choices in a program
OA52. Wall Street trader, for short
OA53. Fiction paperback, usually
OA54. Letters from John?
OA55. Winged chatterbox
OA56. Advice from those in the know
OA57. Armed forces policymaker, for short
OA58. what i wrote this clue in
OA59/O190. British soldier boys, to each other
Outermost Ring, Counterclockwise
OB1/O170. Meat marking
OB2/O190. ___ Cayes, Haiti
OB3. 4,840 square yards
OB4/O262. Savagely ate (down)
OB5/O320. Fecal sludgehole
OB6. One without parent or guardian
OB7. Norse frost giant never portrayed in Thor
films (he made the comics and video games, though)
OB8. Site of one of Moses’ miracles
OB9. Rocketry’s Wernher
OB10. Gets onto a transport
OB11/O1279. Challenging sentence to diagram
OB12. For Caesar, love and country reversed?
OB13. Orthodox toppers
OB14. Exoplanet closest to Earth, named for
how it looks in the sky
OB15. Too many, in Tours
OB16. Demagnetize, as a disk
OB17/O2678. Need to guarantee survival
OB18. When it feels like the first time (but
isn’t)
OB19. Illnesses and other troubles
OB20. Auto mechanic’s job
OB21. Where to buy one-of-a-kind bags
OB22. Where srs. are future freshmen
OB23. Willing to comply with
OB24/O3788. Darlin’
OB25. Has gone mainstream
OB26/O3842. “PffffFFFFFFF HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
okay yeah sure”
OB27/O3846. Low-pH chemical
OB28. “Can I go?”
OB29. Collected quickly, as money
OB30/O3857. “Holy moley!” on The Simpsons
OB31/O3862. Was exhausting
OB32/O3767. Big deer
OB33. UTI medicine
OB34/O3680. Plays together and sees what music
gets made
OB35/O3653. Where never to leave your pets
OB36. ___ profondo
OB37/O3386. Allows one’s environment to affect
them, emotionally
OB38/O3160. Tending to repeat oneself
OB39/O2931. Site to click a reservation on since
2000
OB40. “I’M SURROUNDED BY TRAITORS!”
OB41. Primrose variety with a “meaty” name
OB42/O2503. Line-jumper
OB43/O2256. Puts under again
OB44. What’s longer than an age but shorter
than a period
OB45/O1741. G.I. Joe’s faceless foe
OB46/O1244. NHL legend Bobby
OB47/O1151. “That’s it, the diet starts tomorrow”
OB48/O902. Drug important to transitioning
OB49/O681. Jason Bateman Netflix drama
OB50. “Pardon my snot”
OB51/O403. Soup served with banh, often
OB52. Decide you want to take part
OB53/O308. “We’re safe now!”
OB54. Flower-shaped symbol
OB55. Kind of computer that often runs a little
hot to live up to its name
OB56. Tchotchkes from 1901 to around 1920
OB57. Got sardonic with
OB58. Place-saver that angers bibliophiles
OB59. Give to do
OB60. Feeling “fatherly,” as a sheep
Next-Outermost Ring, Clockwise
OC1/O212. Good at bouncing back
OC2/O218. Robin Williams’ home state
OC3/O224. Where to get certain raw materials
OC4/O230. Greatly outclassed
OC5/O236. One of these days
OC6/O243. Non-lactose coffee
OC7/O305. Mean little git
OC8. Community character who sees his life as
television
OC9/O400. Concerning healthy flow
OC10. Library
OC11/O680. Engrossed
OC12. Wood materials
OC13. Summerhouse
OC14. Worrying oneself to death
OC15. Strauss once of Alice Cooper
OC16. Part of the job that involves walking
around
OC17. Poetry slams?
OC18. ___-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts
OC19. Repetitive nickname for “Rachel” found
in Far Cry
OC20. Her TV series was faithful to her
heritage but changed her superpowers
OC21/O3077. “Let’s rumble…”
OC22/O3244. From right to left, or the other way
OC23. Unit of en___y
OC24. Gainesville player
OC25. High schooler
OC26. The New Detectives setting
OC27. Made merry
OC28. Singer, baker, or prophet
OC29. One of the more challenging woodwinds
OC30. Diabetic model with supermodel mom
Kate
OC31. “Shouldn’t’ve trusted me!”
OC32. Musically mourned
OC33. Lead-in now rarely seen without an “s”
OC34. Like the “gear” in a video-game
franchise
OC35. Most religiously diverse country in
the Middle East
OC36. Genre of Disney song
OC37/O3667. Cooking advice for a beet
OC38. “Look out, this ball could go
ANYWHERE!”
OC39/O3449. “With all respect, can’t be done”
OC40/O3304. Paid for delivery
OC41. Likely to bring out associations
OC42/O2611. Dumbcluck
OC43/O2469. “Squeakuel” star
OC44/O2293. Time to tune in
OC45/O2035. Long, cheap smokes
OC46/O1778. Get comfortable
OC47/O1562. Endings to some e-mails
OC48/O1458. “My thoughts were, like…”
OC49/O1280. Clean air org.
OC50/O1181. Plebe, more politely
OC51/O1021. “That’s IMPOSSIBLE!”
OC52/O876. Crooklyn director Spike
OC53. Troll, e.g., as for compliments
OC54/O687. Interest piquer
OC55/O550. Expected immediately
OC56/O468. Pay-free basis
OC57/O416. Posts to a social-media space that hasn’t
gotten a ton of negative publicity yet
OC58. Taedium vitae
OC59/O264. Boolean operator
Next-Outermost Ring, Counterclockwise
OD1/O212. “No capes!” Pixar character
OD2/O293. Takes badly?
OD3. Taco Tuesday libation, informally
OD4/O382. “Hosted by the email server” lead-ins
OD5. “That was well done, girlfriend”
OD6/O469. Rocks in unexpected shapes
OD7/O771. “Sympathies, bro”
OD8/O964. Habituated
OD9/O1153. Without instrumentals (var. from the
original Latin)
OD10/O1424. Typed a typo in The Telegraph, e.g.
OD11/O1710. Martial arts teacher
OD12/O1923. Prepared for immediate action
OD13/O2148. Five-year pope who reorganized papal
finances
OD14/O2434. Enjoyable existence
OD15. Taken care of by insurance
OD16/O3046. Covid-19, informally
OD17/O3166. Small-biz logo on the side of a truck,
often
OD18/O3304. Captive after a battle
OD19. Start of an exchange
OD20. Insurance giant
OD21. Ryder of Stranger Things
OD22/O3757. Lip-syncer Poarch of TikTok fame
OD23/O3789. Play on one’s unfulfilled desires
OD24. Any means of tracking you,
collectively
OD25. Title for Jesus
OD26. Willowy
OD27. Part of a train
OD28. Scientist name-checked in “Bohemian
Rhapsody”
OD29. Where the feels are, it’s said
OD30/OC28. She released three albums named for
her ages at the time of release
OD31. Unathletic kind of fencing
OD32. 3000 of Outkast
OD33. Alumna bio word
OD34/OC25. Jogger’s gait
OD35. She started it!
OD36. River rowboat
OD37. Tech for hovertrains
OD38/O2930. Dodge truck
OD39. Make look bad
OD40. Advanced in karate
OD41. Bill at the bar
OD42. Newspaper district in New York (and
street inspiring a film in London)
OD43. Easily digested after-dinner treats
OD44. Interlude of perfection
OD45/O1209. Technically, any oxygen-breathing
creature
OD46. The last world capital, alphabetically
OD47. Try to optimize one’s own productivity
OD48. Headquarters for Lion-O, Cheetara, and
Panthro in the original 1980s cartoon
OD49. Stockbroker once available on America
Online and CompuServe
OD50/O367. Like Canadian milk
OD51. Lady MacBeth’s criminal role
OD52/O244. Volatile Sam of old cartoons
OD53/O238. Rapper name meaning “absolutely”
OD54/O233. Stiff jeans you shouldn’t wash too
quickly
OD55/O226. What changes a coastline
OD56/O220. Not acceptable to society
OD57/O215. Name once used in front of “soda”
Next-Innermost Ring, Clockwise
OE1/O1063. Onetime Russian First Lady
OE2. Parisian jewel-shopping center that
means “street of peace”
OE3. With no pause to sip
OE4. Cracked in the coconut
OE5. Card combination
OE6. Old-fashioned weed unit
OE7/O1446. Taste whose name means “savoriness” in
Japanese
OE8/O1624. Knuckles the Echidna publisher
OE9/O1764. Uses a “no” symbol to say “yes” to
OE10/O1948. Tiny blob
OE11/O2172. Not most, but a non-trivial percentage
OE12. Jedi infantry
OE13. Icy coating
OE14/O2666. Reason to need a chill pill
OE15. What a drawbridge bridges
OE16/O2896. Redeemed the soul of
OE17/O2963. Jagged, eye-covering bangs, usually
dyed or black
OE18. With ice cream
OE19/O2952. What C3PO is programmed for (which is
why he’s so flustered in times of war)
OE20/O2864. Isolates from land paths
OE21. Unforgiving
OE22. Worry unproductively
OE23. The time of Nick?
OE24. “Grey Lady” of print media (abbr.)
OE25. Noted magizoologist
OE26. Eleanor and Chidi’s pal (and Eleanor’s
ship-tease, but let’s not go there right now)
OE27. Pixel grid
OE28. Sanctuary semicircle
OE29. Canterbury currency
Next-Innermost Ring, Counterclockwise
OF1/O1063. Be empathetic
OF2. Prince Harry memoir
OF3. Alexandra was the last one
OF4/O1535. The “vice of narrow souls,” as Balzac
said
OF5. Where some vets fought
OF6. Indoor temp. regulators
OF7. Number of questions in a titular game
OF8/OE24. Butterfly catcher
OF9. Stick one’s nose in
OF10. Container, liquid or spiritual
OF11. “Location (of publication) unknown”
OF12/O2949. Demolish with an underwater projectile
OF13/O2955. Disease that ravaged King Tut
OF14/O2961. Where to learn sewing, recipes, and
car loans
OF15. Subgroup’s semi-dialect
OF16/O2917. Honorary society for studies in public
health
OF17. Was of good cheer
OF18/O2421. Martini liquor
OF19/OE12. Name the Lone Ranger and Tonto used
for each other
OF20/O2024. Native of the oldest sultanate
OF21/O1834. Second Sunday before Lent
OF22/O1482. Longtime Zimbabwean leader
OF23. Closest to the center
OF24. Take some zero-screentime time
OF25. Motor difficulties
OF26. Got white
OF27. Single continent, per geologists
Innermost Ring, Clockwise
OG1/O1114. TV series influenced by Francis the
Talking Mule
OG2/O1117. Combat readiness, or style of play in
some video games
OG3/O1126. Powerball, for short
OG4/O1130. A ___ Called Otto
OG5/O1133. Sat ___ (GPS)
OG6. Have ambitions
OG7/O1265. “Our world, explained” news site
OG8/O1342. Secure a promise to marry
OG9. Halle who won an Oscar and a Razzie in
the same year
OG10. Thing that needs doing
OG11. Part after the plus and equals sign
OG12. At least that much
OG13. Featuring a diamond pattern
OG14. Strikingly impressive
OG15. It means everything
OG16. Style for Lil Wayne
OG17. My Wife and Kids and Lethal Weapon star
OG18. Give off in liquid form
OG19. They’re slow and tasty
OG20. “Cure ignorance” digital digest
OG21/O2830. Ump’s cousin (conceptually, not
literally)
OG22. Gone with the Wind catchphrase
OG23. Camp vehicle
OG24/O2158. Have permission to leave
OG25/O1972. Output of une legislature
OG26/O1857. Your internal support
OG27/O1719. Online LGBTQ magazine and community
platform
OG28/O1574. Modern anti-HIV med
OG29/O1435. General Israel of the American
Revolution or Hilary of modern philosophy
OG30/O1223. Literally, “to the stars”
Innermost Ring, Counterclockwise
OH1/O1114. Simple selling places
OH2/O1193. “Stand and Deliver” singer, or firm as
one stands and delivers
OH3/O1367. Supported area?
OH4/O1719. Study of organisms we haven’t found or
developed…yet
OH5/O2116. The National Railroad Passenger
Corporation
OH6/O2335. Molding shape
OH7/O2478. Feudal enfeoffment (land-for-service
arrangement)
OH8/O2621. Days of erst
OH9. What multipurpose items have
OH10. Solution measuring device
OH11. Biggest airplane manufacturer of the
Sixties and Seventies
OH12. Missile wobble
OH13. They don’t put down roots
OH14. Firth of The King’s Speech and Kingsman:
The Secret Service
OH15. Popular fungus
OH16. Probable
OH17. Marijuana, or thing to keep off
OH18. He challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a
literal measuring contest
OH19. Man-goat of myth
OH20. Pear-shaped instrument
OH21. One who’s sweet but a little too
trusting
OH22. Document transmission bypassing phone
lines
OH23/O1170. Grassy plain without many trees
OH24/O1130. Witticism
OH25/O1128. Home of El Greco
OH26. Singer who was almost toast?
OH27/O1119. Homicide with forethought
Across Stitches
O179-P154. Motherboard and power supply unit,
e.g.
O345-P308. Problem with volunteer polls
O627-P574. Alternatives to Hyatts
O903-P848. Announced plans to quit
O1178-P1116. A doormat
O1558-P1425. Marks as finished
O1885-P1655. Wondershare Filmora alternative
O2289-P1939. Wins worth celebrating
O2675-P2293. Arguably the most notorious ex in
music history
O2981-P2605. Bony plate in the ear
O3278-P2954. Like Mystery Science Theater 3000
fodder
O3550-P3296. Power forward for the Minnesota
Timberwolves
O3776-P3590. Norway’s patron saint (var.)
Down Stitches
O3907-T5. Sitting’s worth of teaching
O3879-T9. Cut-up art
O3835-T16. Actress with the best of credits
O3912-T23. Righted one’s own wrong
O3913-T30. “Don’t fly off the handle”
O3917-T37. Death, in a 1998 Brad Pitt film
O3922-T44. About-face
O3926-T50. Cutesy name for a breed with a mostly
undeserved bad rep
O3895-T58. How some money is given, post-legal
action
O3898-T64. Roadside filler-upper in England
O3871-T71. Hands-free video device
O3933-T78. Like the graph of an aging population
O3935-T81. Beginnings of syllables