Ubercross Abecedaria Q

Across

Q1. Where to find veejays

Q4. Like a rect.

Q8. Short on pizzazz

Q12. Suffix for top or typ

Q16. “Large” amount?

Q20. Iranian ruler ousted in 1979

Q24. Feldspar and Kryptonite

Q28. “Hurt” singer Johnny

Q32. King of drama?

Q36. Mmes., in Mexicali

Q40. Trawler’s haul

Q44. Nearly cyan

Q48. Word stated before we forget

Q52. “Smoke more weed, Turtle” speaker

Q53. Parisian’s stocking

Q56. Hamburg unit

Q57. Bldg. size unit

Q61. Branagh, in 1995’s Othello

Q62. Steven Wright’s “I intend to live forever. So far, so good,” e.g.

Q66. Pacific sea

Q67. . in :.-(

Q71. Put on a hook

Q72. Horse mackerel

Q76. Front to “space”

Q77. Biker’s bike, informally

Q81. Letting only a little blood back through

Q85. “[shrug]”

Q87. [several poo emoji]

Q91. Bibliophile’s suffix

Q92. “Sorry, Venkman…I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought” speaker

Q96. Beverage store buy

Q97. Le monde ___ vie (the world and life)

Q101. McKellen and Somerhalder

Q102. Modern spelling?

Q107. Make haste for

Q110. Without holding back

Q114. Pea package

Q115. Detached, as from a bulletin board

Q117. Equipped so as to prevent capsizing

Q119. Despite difficulties, to use a topographical figure of speech

Q121. Not currently pieced together

Q123. Tied at the halfway point, in tennis

Q125. 2x4, in Mexico

Q126. Independent genetic material

Q127. Composer who wrote “The Miraculous Mandarin” ballet

Q128. Head lines?

Q130. Luann DeGroot’s love for years

Q132. Without any other choice

Q134. Peace ___ time

Q135. Unsuccessful liquor buyers

Q136. Director’s cry that’s said with a pause

Q137. Toy in a water fight

Q139. Get approval from

Q141. Readiest to go

Q143. A good number

Q145. Not correct

Q147. Flip-flop feature

Q149. Put out fresh light with

Q150. George and George W., e.g.

Q151. Honor thy promises

Q153. It “knows what the morning has never suspected,” per Jonathan Grimwood

Q155. Hails and praise

Q157. Men of war

Q158. Captured an image

Q160. Getaway from the home and office

Q162. Ranch worker

Q163. O’Hare or Newark Liberty

Q164. Objector’s words

Q165. Kid’s pains

Q166. “I’ve got the ___ to die. What I want to know is, do you have the ___ to live?” (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

Q168. Life-guiding ambition

Q169. Speech about half the room usually sits through resentfully, for short

Q172. Antony or Connelly

Q173. Busy hands

Q176. Oasis and Pulp’s genre

Q178. Designer for Nancy Reagan

Q180. Diane Nyugen portrayer (to her regret, as she’s not Vietnamese)

Q182. Wax Ready-Strips brand

Q183. Enzymes’ ends

Q184. Language of Zimbabwe

Q185. Many mail-order beauty products

Q187. Intentional-foul basketball strategy

Q189. Dumas trio

Q191. ID assigned to over 453 million people so far

Q193. “I am an unpopular electric ___ in a pool of catfish” (Edith Stillwell)

Q194. Bean used in perfume making

Q195. Sends via postage

Q197. It’s barely audible

Q199. “Beep boop bop bleep boop” speaker, informally

Q201. Approaching despite motion

Q204. Lip-flapping woman

Q206. Distinct flavors

Q208. Fife with a clear, bright tone

Q210. Latin phrase usually shortened

Q211. One of five, for short

Q212. They wear and file suits (abbr.)

Q213. Sacred introduction?

Q214. Where you might schedule shopping for a new Android phone, for short

Q215. With Los, birthplace of the Bomb

Q217. Cole Porter’s Indiana birthplace

Q218. “I want to see her legs” “news” producer Ailes

Q219. Orders for supplies (abbr.)

Q220. Sandy who sings, “You better shape up”

Q221. Game resembling horseshoes

Q224. Landless

Q226. It shows the principal action of a sentence

Q228. Layer of cake

Q230. Sell down the river

Q232. Paragraph-breakers?

Q234. Festival formed in response to another, monogrammatic festival

Q236. Boggy area

Q237. She controls it all behind the scenes

Q239. Petty soul

Q241. ___ about (approximately)

Q242. Brand immortalized in song by Paul Simon

Q243. Classic Nestle brand

Q244. Ash and friends, as Team Rocket insults them

Q245. Smallest change numbered on most protractors

Q247. Alien “neighbor”

Q249. Slightly slanted

Q250. Stylist’s touchup

Q252. Toy name from the Danish for “play well”

Q253. Comforting letters

Q255. Kardashian ex Lamar

Q257. Pharmaceutical-company div.

Q259. Mystery-crafter Stanley Gardner

Q260. Quiz, e.g.

Q262. Medical man (abbr.)

Q264. Wool source

Q266. Colorful

Q267. Like le mot juste

Q270. Way of the Cosmos (var.)

Q272. Not allowed in church

Q275. “…in days of ___ lang syne”

Q276. Soviet labor camps

Q277. Be bothered by

Q278. Beer, casually

Q279. Partner, in 2021

Q280. Brewer’s dryer

Q281. Emotionally rattled

Q282. Henri or Pierre

Q284. Envelope shape (abbr.)

Q286. Subj. for a future MBA

Q288. Million ___ March (anti-gun group)

Q290. Word after East or West

Q292. Locale of French Indochina?

Q294. Extracts carefully

Q297. Strict sergeants, say

Q299. Emptier in a vessel

Q302. Experian alternative

Q306. Appetizer like the contents of an Italian sub

Q307. “Pffft, doubt it!”

Q308. “Just to start…”

Q309. With bibulous boisterosity

Q311. Be the first to use

Q313. It seems a bit friendlier than the similar signoff that ends in “L”

Q314. Taiwan’s setting

Q315. Rotting

Q318. Do some yard work

Q320. Tackles moguls

Q322. On-screen avatar

Q324. Shipping weight deductions

Q326. Anti-skid systs.

Q328. “Puerto Rico’s best-known rum”

Q329. Evaluating parts of the software before the whole

Q332. Does knee bends

Q335. Cheap thieves

Q337. Like babies’ pinkie nails, informally

Q340. Ad phrase carrying less weight in the streaming era

Q342. Big structural changes

Q343. Pepys or Adams, briefly

Q344. “Just ___, skip and…”

Q345. Public humiliations

Q347. Early German and Austrian coins

Q348. “They ___ my path, they set forward my calamity” (Job 30:1)

Q351. More out of one’s gourd

Q353. Thrown entangler

Q355. Org. for a large party

Q356. Cotton swab

Q358. It’s in your jeans

Q360. Very funny thing

Q362. King of Israel who fell on his sword

Q364. Coats with Crisco, e.g.

Q365. “Respect is what we ___, love, what we give” (Philip James Bailey)

Q368. Train network Estonia and Latvia joined in 2020

Q369. Nobel biochemist Severo

Q370. Upswings

Q374. Toscanini and Iturbi, for two

Q375. Deadly skeeter

Q376. Box letters

Q378. 1953 Pulitzer winner for Picnic

Q379. Letter carriers’ gp.

Q380. Eponymous Grateful Dead breakup song

Q381. Hurry up and reach

Q383. Canadian phone greeting

Q384. Gadget with tunes

Q386. Air-conditioning unit?

Q388. Indian sage

Q390. Hypothetical missile- zapper, for short

Q392. “The College Dropout” West

Q394. Liberty or Victory

Q396. Hotel room door feature

Q398. Reach back across

Q401. Philly team

Q402. “If thou ___ ought amiss, mend it in thyself” (Proverb)

Q403. Human, or usually yellow-green crystal

Q404. Keepers of jewels

Q408. Haloed by nature

Q410. Body part guarded in soccer

Q411. Knuckleballer Wilhelm

Q412. Whiners

Q414. Stereotypical diner name

Q415. “If you liked it then you should’ve put a ring on it” singer, formally

Q417. Ang or Spike

Q418. Variable determining the false discovery rate

Q420. “...a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a ___” (Katie MacAlister)

Q422. Imitatio ___ (Biblical principle)

Q423. “Aw, go cry about it,” in gamer slang (because its letters resemble crying eyes)

Q425. Rainbow flag letters

Q427. Norse saint

Q429. Verne captain and others

Q430. “___” (The Princess Bride)

Q434. Mai ___ (kind of drink)

Q435. “___” (KFC)

Q440. Chucked

Q441. Low proportions

Q443. Grammy-winning bossa nova musician Gilberto

Q444. Figure (out)

Q445. Os longum or metatarsal

Q446. Echoes

Q448. With “back,” starting over

Q451. “Shyeah...right!”

Q453. Classic words of disbelief

Q455. “___” (Among Us)

Q457. Noted god of war

Q459. Releases reviewed by The Source

Q461. Unsettle

Q463. Asked someone to stop talking

Q467. In some systems it means “cancel,” not “copy”

Q469. Liszt’s “Piano Sonata ___ Minor”

Q470. Important move toward keeping the Cold War cold

Q471. Nuances of meaning

Q474. Facial piercing that’s relatively out of the way

Q476. “There’s always room for improvement” Ono (___ Dreams of Sushi)

Q477. Cryptozoologist’s quarry

Q479. Alison who stars as Ruth Wilder in GLOW

Q480. Skippy alternative

Q481. Sts.? No. Blvds.? Try again

Q482. Following consequently

Q483. Wyo. neighbor

Q485. Toddler’s “piggies”

Q487. Cry of discovery

Q488. Carrie Chapman who said, “In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less”

Q490. “A likely story…”

Q493. “___ so!”

Q495. ___ the finish (competitive throughout)

Q496. Acrobat file

Q497. Ring holder

Q498. Famous children’s Dr.

Q499. T-shirt spec

Q500. Avoid detection

Q502. Hyundai or Renault

Q505. Biblical matriarch

Q506. ___ Ono

Q507. Comparatively solid

Q508. Itinerary abbrs.

Q509. Scornfully avoid

Q510. Curvy ones are smart, straight ones are dumb

Q514. Detailed map

Q516. What, to Dumas

Q518. Remains at a steel mill

Q520. Houston MLBer, for short

Q522. Likely singleton

Q524. Recommended safety limit

Q525. Furthest off the wall

Q527. Car of yore

Q528. Rotating blades

Q530. Something to doff

Q531. Tuition add-ons

Q533. Round a corner in Monopoly

Q536. Large studio lamp

Q539. Redundant “furthermore”

Q541. Beach battles

Q543. Kissy sound

Q544. Briefs’ inits.

Q545. Fraternal group

Q546. Lead singer’s backup

Q548. Reality show

Q551. Garnish for a Moscow Mule

Q553. Where Lux. Is

Q554. Frankfurter, slangily

Q557. Seven-Eleven treats

Q559. Go up on the Saffir- Simpson scale

Q561. Have a fancy (for)

Q562. “If ___ is strong, the ocean’s tides do not bother it” (Matshona Dhliwayo)

Q565. *scratches head*

Q568. Five-carbon sugar

Q569. Objectives among gal pals

Q573. Tough alloy

Q574. Farm femme

Q575. Frisbee field, perhaps

Q576. Some say the happiest two days in its owner’s life are the day they buy it and the day they sell it

Q577. Chain offering burritos

Q580. “We’re getting off track,” in texting

Q581. India’s ___ Pradesh

Q583. She’s too good to work for free

Q584. Old Chrysler

Q586. “This day we fight!” franchise, for short

Q588. Lock up, as a jury

Q590. Eye inspired by Shaker barns’ hex symbols to ward off evil spirits

Q592. Himalayan escort

Q596. “Able was ___ I saw Elba”

Q597. Puts on the line?

Q599. Horned critter

Q600. Line former

Q601. Find ___ footing: get one’s balance

Q602. ___ regia

Q603. [gestures proudly at one’s own handiwork]

Q606. Choose the group who’ll evaluate the case

Q609. Group that delivers a verdict

Q610. No Westminster contender

Q611. Big name in the freezer section

Q612. Building blocks

Q613. Emulated Groucho Marx

Q615. Chattering vibrantly

Q618. Knit goods problem

Q620. Enclosed securely

Q621. Spielberg’s passion

Q623. “___ an arrow…”

Q624. Mt. Hood’s state

Q625. Slender and graceful

Q626. Hard one

Q627. Breastbones

Q628. Cherokee ___, Georgia’s flower

Q629. “Business as ___”

Q630. Makes poor use of

Q632. Comic strip featuring “Thirsty” Thurston

Q633. Take out for dinner, say

Q634. Hair extensions?

Q637. Like some early learning, for short

Q638. Crucial hour, informally

Q639. “It’s ___ real, but…”

Q640. [eye roll] “That explains ___”

Q642. Quebecois comrades

Q644. Smelting byproduct

Q645. De-intensifying shades

Q647. It can be neither created nor destroyed (abbr.)

Q648. Harriet Beecher, hubby, and son

Q650. Exodus subj.

Q651. Loathe

Q652. Surfing or curling

Q653. Command posts (abbr.)

Q654. Cyrus the Great defeated them

Q655. River fish

Q656. Rodgers product

Q657. City Hall bigwig

Q660. Saint-___

Q661. Wingdings, for one

Q662. Gravy, on a French menu

Q663. Curator’s deg.

Q664. Data document

Q667. Closes, in days gone by

Q669. Backwards glance on a ship?

Q672. Apartment stat

Q674. EMT hookups

Q675. Exaggerate one’s achievements

Q677. XIV × L

Q679. Logistical mgr. for the Dept. of State

Q680. Up to date

Q681. In the center of

Q683. Sport-___ (multiterrain vehicle)

Q684. 2012 Nintendo debut

Q685. But, in Aachen

Q686. Borage and tansy

Q687. Beatles tune “Things We ___ Today”

Q688. Sex advisor Savage

Q690. La ___ (Italian opera house)

Q693. Overseas mail room still considered US terr.

Q694. Flatten a building

Q695. Hawaiian pair?

Q698. Marmalade component

Q699. Brandy label letters

Q700. Intelligence-seeking plants?

Q702. What Apple names after cats and geography

Q703. Change color, as leaves

Q705. Blood test expense

Q707. Margins of victory, in horse races

Q709. December syllables

Q711. Czech martyr

Q713. Gelatin capsules

Q715. Kabuki costume adornment

Q716. Like some lager

Q721. “There is no ___ a fart…” (Ernest Hemingway)

Q723. “Some website posted this article...”

Q725. French kings

Q726. Some Spanish medals

Q727. Keep ___: continue

Q728. Target coupon type

Q729. Some voices

Q731. Small sound

Q734. Humorous remark.

Q735. Airport shuttle, often

Q736. Vaccine visionary

Q737. Penetrate, with “through”

Q738. Commoner

Q742. City NNE of San Francisco

Q744. Fought

Q747. “Que ___-je?” (“What do I know?”, in France)

Q748. Bring up into the world

Q749. Natural seasoning

Q751. ___ part: pretend

Q753. Wheat used in health food

Q754. First word of a two-word holiday

Q756. Largest lake in Wales

Q757. Convened in

Q758. ___cotta

Q759. Thou, in Tours

Q760. Long, heroic poem

Q761. Words before instant or emergency

Q762. Sources of materials

Q763. Bits of folk wisdom

Q765. Time for some local newscasts

Q766. Overclouded

Q769. Former Atlanta arena

Q770. What hands are made of

Q771. Comics antiheroine known for having (and ultimately leaving) a toxic boyfriend

Q775. Engage, as gearwheel teeth

Q776. Narrative (abbr.)

Q777. Suffix with real

Q778. “___” (Seinfeld)

Q780. “___” (Scooby-Doo)

Q781. “___” (Anchorman)

Q785. Letters after Kelly Ayotte’s name

Q786. “___” (South Park)

Q790. “___” (Game of Thrones)

Q791. “___” (The Terminator)

Q793. Too focused, for short

Q794. 2022 film about a canceled musical wunderkind

Q795. Early internet pioneer

Q796. Superman sports one

Q798. “It’s okay, we won’t fall”

Q799. “Vaya con ___” (“Go with God”)

Q801. Group at a demonstration

Q804. Gunman?

Q805. Carbon black

Q807. Like an emotionally compromised voice

Q809. Ideals to follow

Q810. Deborah of films

Q811. Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan

Q812. It comes in Schokolade, Vanille, und Erdbeere flavors

Q813. Worried

Q816. “Shame on you!” sounds

Q819. Decade divisions (abbr.)

Q820. Mine alternative?

Q821. Pugilist using “the art of eight limbs”

Q823. Number in Nurnberg

Q824. Church-money- gathering-related

Q826. Like “A Musical Joke”

Q830. Consisting of flaky layers

Q831. “Bye-ee!”

Q834. Word with Alamos or Angeles

Q835. One with powers over nature

Q838. It goes from private to sergeant major

Q839. Some city bonds, for short

Q841. Iraq War vet’s condition, for short

Q843. ___ Park, city SE of San Francisco

Q844. Be very agitated

Q846. Dutch landscape painter

Q848. Acronym for website responsivity

Q849. NCO rank (abbr.)

Q850. Pixar villain who says, “I’m a piranha!”

Q851. Shade of color

Q852. Inits. of 1950s politician who said, “Let’s talk sense to the American people. Let’s tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions”

Q853. Dosimeters measure them

Q854. Acronym for Adobe Illustrator layout discipline

Q855. Like some situations

Q856. Pekoe and oolong

Q857. Beer brand

Q859. Penelope’s husband

Q860. Main and spanker, for two

Q861. Sports team

Q862. One who does voice-overs

Q864. -place to buy food

Q866. Putting up embankments

Q867. Without putting any thought into it

Q869. “As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is ___ of necessary” (Ernest Hemingway)

Q871. “I ___ reason not to!”

Q873. Sharpen a second time

Q875. Gp. with some crack staff

Q876. Jungian concern

Q877. AriZona offering

Q878. Become dangerously slippery, in a way

Q879. ___ terrible: she’s a shocker

Q881. “What a roller-coaster ___!”

Q882. Their days are numbered (abbr.)

Q883. Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life),” e.g.

Q884. Intimidates

Q885. Tech company it was once claimed that “nobody ever got fired for buying”

Q886. Will & Grace actress Mullally

Q888. Bench with a back

Q889. 4,840 ___ = 1 A.

Q890. Highly decorated

Q891. He formed MGM in 1924

Q892. Clock, essentially

Q895. Hi-___ image

Q896. ___ up: makes less authentic

Q897. Real-time chat notes

Q899. Boggy areas

Q901. Photos, informally

Q903. Citizen Kane’s best friend

Q905. Artificial eloquence (abbr.)

Q907. Old standard issue army helmet, familiarly

Q910. Subject of a Peter Weiss play

Q913. Uncle with a serious point

Q914. ___-fartsy

Q915. Object on stage

Q916. Denzel Washington action film trilogy

Q920. Diana with a similar image to Marilyn Monroe’s

Q921. Get ___-up: fix any automotive issues

Q922. Oz. and lb.

Q923. Cyberspace address

Q924. Mental trouble

Q926. Spanish for “room”

Q927. Heraldic O

Q930. IRS “customers”

Q931. I Am ___ (Jenner’s reality show on E!)

Q933. Disordered agglomeration

Q935. Curry of the Golden State Warriors

Q937. Founder of Egypt’s 19th dynasty

Q939. Kind of agreement that may involve a conditional admission of guilt

Q941. As we speak

Q942. Refereed a battle with a dragon in a dungeon, e.g.

Q944. Modern expression of excitement

Q945. Final Cut Pro runners

Q946. Leader with a Little Red Book

Q947. ___ Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides)

Q948. Musk maker

Q950. State of temp. inoperability

Q951. Group of atolls also known as Natūpe

Q952. Defends one’s copyright, perhaps

Q953. Kabuki alternative

Q954. “The Mick” of baseball

Q956. Kidney removal

Q958. Style of thinking

Q960. Give new voice to?

Q962. Application blank, for one

Q964. Spooky-sounding tribe?

Q966. Frontman of the Sex Pistols

Q967. Sources of milk

Q968. Poetry movement promoted by Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound

Q974. High court, for short

Q975. Weasel mama

Q976. Provide the gear

Q977. Southwestern home

Q978. Ran wild

Q981. Money in Mexico

Q982. Bear great weight, as a burden

Q984. Once ___…

Q985. Commence

Q988. Finishing in second

Q990. FYI circular

Q991. Aching

Q992. Frequently sarcastic reply

Q993. Aristotle’s Aurora

Q994. Amazon’s whole-home internet- connection system

Q996. Sort of security deposit on the accused

Q998. According to Homer, “a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen”

Q1000. Pelt with additional poultry

Q1001. Danger in Iraq, for short

Q1002. Chemical phenomenon seen when you touch a pencil to a diamond

Q1006. Time Warner subsidiary

Q1007. Cockles of the (male) heart

Q1009. Down stroke

Q1010. Toon dog of the 1990s

Q1011. Minute (abbr.)

Q1012. TV dimension, for short

Q1013. _denosine _ri_hosphate, in biology

Q1015. They help open drawers

Q1016. Device that may have a Smart Cover

Q1017. Plymouth colonists’ ally

Q1018. It may be caught in winter

Q1020. Runaway win

Q1022. Foot, in the Forum

Q1023. St. Francis’s birthplace

Q1025. Denmates

Q1027. Place to play ponies, for short

Q1029. “One time if you a bad bitch (one time) / Two times just for the savage (two time)” song

Q1031. ___ Sportif

Q1033. Online shopping outlay

Q1035. Smackers

Q1038. Medina native

Q1039. One fixing flats?

Q1043. “This idea’s past saving”

Q1044. Nineteenth Hebrew letter

Q1045. Streamlining undergarment

Q1048. Like some Olympic rings

Q1050. “…long ___ are together, I can face anything”

Q1051. Peevish display

Q1052. Forme de zéro

Q1053. Windsor’s home (abbr.)

Q1054. Domed area at the end of a long procession

Q1057. Babysitters related to the babies

Q1059. Fasten with a click, as a vacuum attachment

Q1061. Stop dramatically, as smoking

Q1063. Syllable after “oom”

Q1064. “Can anyone stop this fugitive?” messages

Q1066. “It’s ___-throat business”

Q1068. Lower body protectors since 1968

Q1070. Gilt, perhaps

Q1074. ___-crowd (trendsetters)

Q1075. Knowledge for trivia night

Q1079. She supported Dionysus’s war with India

Q1080. After-dinner faux pas

Q1081. Getaway

Q1082. German “us”

Q1083. ___ Danssen (Heidi Klum’s Parks and Recreation character)

Q1084. Medicine-spoon marking

Q1086. “Didn’t catch that” sounds

Q1087. Dynasty during which much of the Great Wall of China was built

Q1088. Non-pro?

Q1089. God who, ironically, met more success as a lover than as a fighter

Q1090. Microsoft’s leads with “What’s the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows?”

Q1091. Senator Graham

Q1093. De Matteo of The Sopranos

Q1094. Beach burner?

Q1095. Really soak

Q1097. “Mario! Help!” speaker

Q1099. ___ in “quintessence”

Q1101. Seller of many shelves

Q1103. “___ business?”

Q1104. “Doggone it!”

Q1105. “___ train is traveling north at 45 miles per hour and approaches two bikers going south at 10…”

Q1106. “Cuuute!”

Q1108. Interest-piquing promos

Q1110. Lightning of a Pixar trilogy

Q1113. Flap on medieval breeches

Q1116. Responded to “Guilty or not guilty?”

Q1117. Some European ladies (abbr.)

Q1119. Suffix with dot and wiz

Q1121. Fed-up person’s cry

Q1123. Works to get loose

Q1125. Wayne of Wayne Manor

Q1127. Police vehicle

Q1129. Fastball, in baseball slang

Q1130. Biggest land animals that ever lived

Q1136. The Hatfields’ st.

Q1137. Senate and people of Rome (abbr.)

Q1139. Awesome trees

Q1142. Genealogical gp.

Q1144. Where pens or socks might be kept

Q1145. Early MTV hit, for short

Q1146. Command lev.

Q1147. One who recited really long poems

Q1148. Contest between gamers, for short

Q1151. “You’d have to have four arms to do half the stuff they wanted me to do” speaker, about his bandmates

Q1152. Certain three-mo. period

Q1153. NYC’s ___ Bridge

Q1154. Fisherman’s hope

Q1155. Four-time Indy 500 victor

Q1156. Facetious howl

Q1157. James who’s directed a lot of super-misfit movies

Q1158. Name before any of I-XII

Q1159. Anatomical roofs

Q1162. Cartoon villain who sails the Black Barnacle

Q1164. One with a trowel

Q1166. Mystery writer Grafton

Q1167. Jabba’s race

Q1168. Restaurateur Tony who was famous for his ribs

Q1170. Descriptor for Adam Schiff as he left Law & Order

Q1172. 232-yr.-old land

Q1174. Jim Henson creation

Q1175. Annual ball drop locale

Q1177. Law and Order: SUV actor

Q1178. ___ Tzu (Chinese toy breed)

Q1180. Urns for the ashes of saints and the encasement of the Shroud of Turin

Q1183. Hands over

Q1187. “You can stay there with all the boys,” in song

Q1188. Lunch triple-deckers

Q1191. 2000 Home Run Derby winner

Q1192. Golden Arches sandwiches with barbecue sauce

Q1193. Treated one’s cough, e.g.

Q1195. Bindis, usually

Q1196. Narcotic from the Middle East

Q1197. Almost spilling over

Q1199. “...out of a ___ ear”

Q1201. Bird with a potent kick

Q1202. Result of touching poison ivy

Q1204. “___ well” (“Me too”)

Q1205. It’s gotten once all the ballots are in

Q1206. Magic man turned Laker

Q1207. Nos.

Q1209. Macbeth stage direction

Q1211. Edomites’ progenitor

Q1212. Repeated syllables

Q1213. Keen-eyed bird of prey

Q1214. Not any, to Timon of Athens

Q1215. Gross, say (abbr.)

Q1216. Given to long words

Q1219. Shooting hunters of old

Q1221. “There’s no accounting for ___”

Q1222. One who identifies with an animal

Q1224. Census start?

Q1226. “My Heart Will ___”

Q1228. Lasting mark

Q1230. “Crazy” bed cover

Q1232. Quiet time in the 2020s

Q1234. 1994 movie about Easter Island

Q1237. “‘Sup, senor?”

Q1240. “Bye for now!”

Q1243. First lesson, maybe

Q1246. Dopey types

Q1247. Fence-sitter’s phrase

Q1248. Mountebank

Q1250. Like some nouns (abbr.)

Q1251. Describe or draw

Q1252. Spanish “‘Sup?”

Q1253. “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” sound

Q1254. Take-a-number place

Q1256. Four times a day, in prescriptions

Q1257. Newly knotted

Q1259. Sailing vessel with a single mast

Q1261. Old soap ingredients

Q1263. Corny item?

Q1264. Inside partner of the radius

Q1265. Where Western heroes might draw from

Q1266. Suffix with fair, short, or wire

Q1268. Opposite of excitement

Q1270. Hobbit-portraying Wood

Q1273. Designated time to excuse your absence from old English court

Q1275. Give permission

Q1276. Naughts

Q1277. Awesomely tough

Q1278. Plate-armor piece

Q1279. Windsor ___

Q1280. Daughter on Homeland

Q1281. Dwight Howard’s team, on the scoreboard

Q1282. ___’s applesauce

Q1284. Compact RV brand named for a cute critter

Q1287. Nacho dunk

Q1289. “Someone ___ Boy” (Connie Francis)

Q1291. People run for it in Washington

Q1293. Some vintage prints

Q1295. Obtain judicially

Q1296. Drafted

Q1299. Impose (upon)

Q1301. She hit #3 in 1986 with “Two of Hearts”

Q1304. Hungers

Q1306. Gosling role of 2023

Q1307. Ancient toiler

Q1308. Pronunciation not heard in “Sugar, Sugar”

Q1309. “Sooo-eee!” sounds, often

Q1313. Hybrid you’d expect to be striped and stubborn

Q1315. Be intellectually blind to

Q1318. Birthplace of raisin bran and the Reuben sandwich

Q1320. Coronets

Q1321. Pretzel brand

Q1322. ___ For (1995 Nicole Kidman film)

Q1324. Slangy agreements

Q1326. Key of “Hallelujah” in Handel’s Messiah

Q1328. “Sure, I’m up for it”

Q1329. Does well in the market

Q1330. Pinkish silicate

Q1334. Ballet jump

Q1336. Bibliophile’s prize

Q1340. Symbol seen on viola music

Q1342. Begins again

Q1344. It might follow an address

Q1345. Tap lever

Q1347. Gateway Arch city (abbr.)

Q1348. Mag published without paper or ink

Q1349. “Com” alternative in registration

Q1350. Einsteinian exclamation

Q1351. ___ Double Cash Card

Q1353. Eros, to the less colorful Romans

Q1354. They may come with strings attached

Q1356. “Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don’t change, I’m bound to be arrested” TV lawyer

Q1359. Gets out from the past?

Q1361. Int’l student’s test to enter U.S. college

Q1362. Let the invisible hand take over

Q1363. “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” activist Yousafzai

Q1365. Nespresso rival

Q1368. Traditional New Year’s Day procession

Q1372. Of the eye

Q1374. “It’s a deal!”

Q1375. Cats of the Rockies

Q1376. Equips with better materiel

Q1377. “___ to you, New York, New York”

Q1379. What a firefighter is usually certified as

Q1380. Diving position resembling the letter V

Q1381. One’s Nintendo avatar

Q1382. Proteins and fats only (in theory)

Q1386. Cockney residence

Q1387. “I don’t like my options”

Q1390. Roller coaster maneuver

Q1391. Ancient Indian tribe known for carved stone heads

Q1393. “A dead language, as dead as it can be; it killed the ancient Romans, and now is killing me” (classic student’s chant)

Q1394. Hexahedra

Q1395. Dips for chips

Q1396. Flickering

Q1397. 720x90 and 468x60 rectangles reserved in a web layout, e.g.

Q1399. Per Fernando Pessoa, “a man who plays with lives like the chess player with chess pieces”

Q1401. Baseball play

Q1403. ___ Willie Keeler (early baseball star)

Q1404. Mideast currency

Q1405. Reveal to

Q1406. “…angels on the head of ___”

Q1409. Peg of the LPGA?

Q1410. ___ Walkure

Q1411. Australian marsupial, for short

Q1412. Brain waves?

Q1413. Grocery chain since 1926

Q1414. Approach through the underbrush

Q1416. Src. of “You know nothing, Jon Snow”

Q1417. Oft-licked cookies

Q1419. Capital of Greenland

Q1421. 935 Penn Ave. NW in DC

Q1423. _ualified _ntegrator and _eseller (credit card specialist)

Q1424. Al-___, Cairo paper that’s influenced all Arabic writing

Q1425. Coveted medal

Q1426. “Microsoft Files Patent for Technology That Could Resurrect Dead Loved Ones as Chat ___” (real Mental Floss headline that I just read in the real world, what hath God wrought)

Q1427. Most easily sunburned, maybe

Q1428. Clothing behind which, said Mary Tyler Moore, “is a bloody, barbaric story”

Q1429. Relatives of lycées

Q1431. Academic division

Q1433. Smoking weed

Q1435. Washes and dries

Q1437. Building supports

Q1438. Block chain?

Q1439. “Do what you love, and you’ll never work ___ in your life” (Marc Anthony)

Q1441. If it was lost, you couldn’t find Lost

Q1444. Tortilla creation

Q1446. Eat or drink

Q1447. “That hurts!!!”

Q1448. Subject to loud correction

Q1450. Early Chinese dynasty

Q1452. Name shared by MLB’s first all-brother outfield

Q1453. Boundless (abbr.)

Q1454. ___ A (kind of session)

Q1455. Pass without confrontation

Q1456. Pianist Victor Borge, for example

Q1457. Some are clerical

Q1459. ___ the head of the table

Q1461. Startledly

Q1464. Some messages (abbr.)

Q1465. Stuff you can really dig

Q1467. “First, ___ harm”

Q1468. “Y’all know what I’m talkin’ bout…” [points]

Q1469. Whimsical loungewear (my wife’s are sharks)

Q1471. Star-Kist product

Q1472. NPR host Diane

Q1473. Square root of hecto-

Q1476. Dog tag, perhaps (abbr.)

Q1478. Vocalists James and Jones

Q1479. Auth. of “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money”

Q1481. Bouts of madness

Q1483. Red Cross letters

Q1485. World’s largest peninsula

Q1487. Good sound or bad smell?

Q1488. Most old-fashionedly charming

Q1490. Chores for Junior

Q1491. “Baloney!”

Q1493. Sound systems

Q1495. Become mature and

Q1498. Subject of an opera by Handel.

Q1500. “Don’t bet on ___ wouldn’t”

Q1501. Sticks out on the sides

Q1502. Some ointments

Q1503. Apple Books file

Q1504. Mythical mortal who helped raise Dionysus

Q1505. Boxes that beat out Beta

Q1507. Care for, as a garden

Q1509. Get ___ to the Greek

Q1510. Not for soloists

Q1512. Letter closer

Q1514. Chest-compression technique

Q1516. Early chariot race

Q1517. Player deal

Q1518. Frankfurt link

Q1519. Sun and moon

Q1520. No longer useful, but still valuable

Q1521. City lying almost on the equator

Q1522. Samosa legume

Q1524. Rapidly

Q1526. Baywatch actress Gena Lee

Q1527. Somber and stylish, or just really hot

Q1530. Sign represented by two jagged squiggles

Q1532. Happened along (with)

Q1534. USA competitor

Q1536. Joint concern?

Q1538. Ask for the hand in marriage of

Q1540. Invasion of the Body Snatchers vessel

Q1542. Lacking punch

Q1544. Reservations

Q1546. With ill humor

Q1547. Nobles, unflatteringly

Q1549. First pres. with a pres. father, who said, “I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet”

Q1550. Openly gay or trans

Q1551. One that leaves a mark, maybe

Q1552. ER actor La Salle

Q1554. Give a right

Q1556. Nipple

Q1558. “Silent Traveler” Chiang, Chinese poet

Q1559. ___ sea (cruising)

Q1561. One of a kind

Q1562. Certain Sioux

Q1563. Words of adulation

Q1566. Took courses under pressure

Q1567. Signal callers in the wings

Q1568. A fake one might turn you orange

Q1569. “Just a friendly reminder that you still ___ money” (some ecards)

Q1572. Indians say this city “belongs to the daring”

Q1574. ___ wait (conceal oneself)

Q1575. Extremely

Q1576. Put (down)

Q1577. Disagree on particulars

Q1579. Steering system part

Q1580. Concern of the chair

Q1582. Glittery dress features

Q1584. Captivates

Q1586. Like Buffalo wings, eating-wise

Q1587. “¿___ bien?” (“You okay?”)

Q1588. “I found my thrill” singer Fats

Q1589. Spanish side

Q1591. “I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong” speaker

Q1592. Petticoat, e.g. (abbr.)

Q1593. Writer to the Romans

Q1594. Color Me ___ of “I Wanna Sex You Up”

Q1595. One who writes damaging lies about a person

Q1598. He’s led more Indy laps than any other driver

Q1600. Bowling lane feature

Q1601. Like a raccoon’s tail

Q1602. Word with house or fair

Q1603. Make a polygraph go nuts

Q1604. Appraiser, to a Brit

Q1605. MapQuest feature?

Q1607. Undergoes a metamorphosis, as an insect

Q1609. Script makeup

Q1610. Drama queen, e.g.

Q1612. Contributes to

Q1614. Throws paper money all over the air

Q1617. Sketch artist’s modern replacement

Q1618. Ones taking hikes (abbr.)

Q1621. 32-card game

Q1623. Name part in some alumni directories

Q1624. “Uhh…”

Q1625. Prescription for lockjaw

Q1627. Diagonal chess capture

Q1628. Nooks, e.g.

Q1630. Land ___

Q1631. Condescended

Q1633. Took forty winks

Q1634. One who’s often smashed

Q1635. Event for an enumerator

Q1637. Lunch add-on?

Q1638. Bad things to take when suffering senioritis

Q1640. Learners, hopefully

Q1642. $ down under

Q1643. “Uh...___ questions?”

Q1645. Sugar suffix

Q1646. Real-life don Vito

Q1649. Walk casual-like

Q1650. Pre-e’ens

Q1651. Avoid getting fired

Q1652. “The most effective forms of birth control for men...have a similar result, but there’s a ___ deferens” (Stephen Colbert)

Q1654. “No ___ luck!”

Q1656. Massive Japanese caldera

Q1658. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest ___” (Drew Barrymore)

Q1660. Hostess snack

Q1664. Immensely enjoyable

Q1665. Three-eyed “claw” worshipper in Toy Story

Q1666. Having superior amenities

Q1667. Bollixed (up)

Q1668. Muslim woman’s face covering

Q1670. And so forth and so on

Q1672. ACC team with two NCAA men’s basketball championships

Q1675. Friendly, or screenwriter Adam

Q1676. Caused to near

Q1678. Year McKinley was shot

Q1681. Devil’s devotees.

Q1682. Chem. majors’ degrees

Q1683. E, in code

Q1684. Zaire river

Q1685. Conclude the series

Q1689. Some golf school students

Q1692. Most ill-considered

Q1694. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ___

Q1695. Implicates in, as a crime

Q1696. Theater follower

Q1697. Guatemala’s national bird

Q1698. Outcompeted

Q1699. “I ___ Doing All Right”

Q1700. Impediment

Q1702. Lucci and Sarandon

Q1704. Senate vote word

Q1705. Walk-___ (small roles)

Q1707. Work as a vendor

Q1708. “To be or not to be” part

Q1709. Radio and TV host named for a StarKist mascot

Q1712. Lead-in to “di” or “da” in a Beatles song

Q1715. Actor Gulager of TV westerns

Q1717. Supposed Yemeni gravesite of Cain and Abel

Q1718. Rooney Mara-Ben Mendelsohn film

Q1719. Parasite actor Woo-shik

Q1720. Causing a rash reaction?

Q1724. Chryslers name-checked in “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”

Q1726. All ___ time: as a matter of course

Q1727. Boeing personnel (abbr.)

Q1728. Like Norm’s wife on Cheers and Niles’ first wife on Frasier

Q1729. Thin Mints alternative

Q1730. Name on a silver nonalcoholic can

Q1731. “Dies ___” (mass requiem)

Q1733. JFK’s “109”

Q1735. Source of farts, if you’re skilled

Q1737. Canadian jazz artist

Q1739. Renowned mathematician Paul

Q1740. Dis-track rapper or Star Trek symbiont

Q1741. Delivery specialist, for short?

Q1742. Playing marble

Q1745. Face cards?

Q1749. Mont ___ (Alpine pass)

Q1751. Genesis name

Q1753. “MOVING” band

Q1754. Acting kind of…off

Q1756. ___ de mer (seasickness)

Q1758. W. European monarchy

Q1759. A shaved head, say

Q1760. Particles of the lepton family

Q1761. Olympic judges

Q1762. Move with a mouse, perhaps

Q1763. Store that welcomes dogs

Q1764. Pigeon entree

Q1766. Swift style

Q1768. Future fly

Q1770. Judge’s issuance

Q1771. “When you only gotta ___ thing well…” (Janis Joplin)

Q1772. “Assuming that…”

Q1774. Tiny friend of Dumbo

Q1776. Stating one’s views

Q1779. HBO, e.g.

Q1781. Statler Bros. broadcaster

Q1783. “All Just to Get to You” country-rocker Joe

Q1784. Breakfast protein

Q1787. Relative of a Maskegon

Q1788. About, as an old brae

Q1789. Potter’s paste

Q1790. What Pauline endured in silents

Q1791. One of the zones

Q1792. Back-to-school mos.

Q1793. According to Dolly Parton, if she weren’t born female, she’d “be ___ queen”

Q1795. Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, e.g.

Q1797. 1932 classic bloodsucker monster movie

Q1799. Aragon divider

Q1801. “___ the Line” (Johnny Cash hit)

Q1803. That, way down south

Q1804. Bring into play

Q1806. Onetime Pawnee neighbors

Q1807. Trunk artery

Q1808. It’s shed on many a couch

Q1809. Where you might hear “Drivers Wanted” or “Built Ford Tough”

Q1811. Didn’t deflect blame

Q1814. Riding on what’s about to happen

Q1815. Thing in a jailbreak

Q1817. Comedy of errors

Q1818. Finding Nemo eggs

Q1819. Auto identifiers

Q1820. “Come on, that’s unreasonable”

Q1821. Them, essentially

Q1822. “It’ll tickle yore innards” (slogan for ___ Dew)

Q1825. Fashion mag topic

Q1827. Steady states

Q1829. Little Caesar’s onetime slogan

Q1831. The NBA’s Jeremy

Q1832. “End” beginner

Q1833. Last word spoken in the Star Wars saga

Q1837. Powered chute

Q1839. Pop singer Halliwell

Q1841. Bard-based Verdi opera

Q1842. Arm muscle, informally

Q1843. Sluggish, diplomatically

Q1844. Tool to fasten accessories to a workbench

Q1845. Cassette part

Q1846. Town at the N.J. end of the George Washington Bridge

Q1847. One of the Flagstons, in comics

Q1848. Wild party

Q1849. Channel for highbrow fare, across the Atlantic

Q1850. Are appropriate for

Q1851. “It never would have worked. I mean, unless I tried or something” toon teen

Q1853. Work schedule

Q1855. Audiophile’s setup

Q1857. Address properly

Q1858. “To everything there is a season” bk.

Q1860. Repair the links

Q1862. Tablets that may have Neural Engines

Q1863. Main dishes

Q1864. Low-fat, as meat

Q1865. Acts the magpie

Q1866. Troop troupe, briefly

Q1867. Platonic form for all animals

Q1868. It’s wise to do it on the side of caution

Q1869. Classicists performing in MI’s capital

Q1870. “___ Name” (Jim Croce hit)

Q1871. Alliance for Progress gp.

Q1872. “Deal ___” (“I’ll play”)

Q1873. Programmed to, as a thermostat

Q1874. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny or Before Midnight

Q1875. Unlikely to matter

Q1879. Court sport

Q1881. Wonderland dessert

Q1883. Briny bodies of water

Q1885. Camera shop letters

Q1886. Where Scots fish for their salmon

Q1887. TV comic Louis

Q1888. China’s revolutionary Sun ___-sen

Q1889. First responders

Q1890. Theorbo relative

Q1891. Found innocent

Q1895. The D in DJ

Q1897. Defame

Q1899. Canary kin

Q1900. “Would you be so good as to pass some libations my way?”

Q1901. House lily

Q1902. Dismissive term for chronic fatigue syndrome

Q1903. Stylish suits

Q1905. Measure of a circuit’s storage factor

Q1907. Close, as friends

Q1909. Fatty acid, e.g.

Q1912. Org. that seeds

Q1914. Missiles from Moe

Q1916. “It is better to remain silent at the ___ of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it” (Maurice Switzer)

Q1920. Good friends

Q1921. Patricia of Medium, Boyhood, and The Act

Q1927. Often witty or sharp answers

Q1934. They sing, “You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life”

Q1937. A hundred and five minutes to noon

Q1941. Inca calculator

Q1942. “…uh...sure?”

Q1943. Not major

Q1944. Ropey neckties

Q1946. Plus more pp. after the one cited

Q1948. Jack Tar

Q1950. Currency chemically altered to arrest deflation

Q1954. Obligations less assets

Q1961. Professional entertainer

Q1968. Certain state denizen

Q1971. Compound in wine

Q1973. Red-and-blue- lettered toothpaste

Q1974. “Don’t be so dumb!”

Q1975. Drink recipe words

Q1976. Plastic earth

Q1977. 50 from Calif. to Md., e.g.

Q1978. Hard to get one’s napper around

Q1980. Donation

Q1982. Serenaded

Q1983. “Holy moley, mate!”

Q1985. Kia HQ city

Q1987. Nautical steering device

Q1989. Baseball diamond flub

Q1990. Microstate with rulers in France and Spain

Q1991. Available for streaming, maybe

Q1992. Memento, No Country for Old Men, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo genre

Q1993. Elephant charge stopper

Q1994. Sugar, rice, or flour

Q1995. Caspian Sea contents

Q1996. “___” (Walter Cronkite)

Q1999. Haters may bruise them

Q2000. Banquet hosts (abbr.)

Q2001. Mere person?

Q2004. “Elvis ___ left the building”

Q2005. How some docs. are sent

Q2006. Basis of growth

Q2007. Paul Bunyan prop

Q2009. Female in the cult of Dionysus

Q2011. Mensa application data

Q2012. Alone, in Paris

Q2013. “___” (Breaking Bad)

Q2016. “Give me six hours to chop down ___ and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” (Lincoln)

Q2017. Convivial

Q2019. Nation about the history of which Noam Chomsky said, “The two main criminals are France and the United States”

Q2021. Castor bean or sesame

Q2022. Easier to see

Q2024. Its three-striped flag is red, aquamarine, and mustard-colored

Q2028. “Clear sailing,” in space

Q2030. Cosmic distance unit

Q2032. Kind of pad for notation

Q2036. Picture-organizing app from Apple

Q2039. Summer camp bedroom

Q2041. Give the scoop on

Q2045. As good as they are

Q2048. Spanish rice seasoning

Q2051. Nigerian singer with one name

Q2052. She loved Theseus, to her regret

Q2053. Skeptical remark

Q2056. Suffix with exped-

Q2057. Fifth-century conqueror

Q2058. Firm with a spokesduck

Q2059. Legendary New York diner

Q2060. Do nothing

Q2061. Interviewer’s booby trap

Q2064. Company that made Hardbody pickups

Q2066. Some “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” renditions

Q2068. Monopolize

Q2069. Actress Keiko or rocketry stage

Q2070. It may be round or cube

Q2071. Like an exclusive group

Q2074. Another great scat singer

Q2076. West Coast sch. with a strong surfing team

Q2077. Clothesdrawers

Q2078. Don’t go far

Q2079. Bible verb

Q2080. Being, in Bonn

Q2081. JCC’s cousin

Q2083. Hymn name

Q2085. Heaven-sent ones?

Q2086. Any 20th-century song, now

Q2088. Name given to Athena

Q2090. Teddy boys’ goodbyes

Q2092. Immortal line begun in Johns Hopkins in 1951

Q2094. One full of baloney

Q2095. “Aw, heck!”

Q2096. Everything, in Latin

Q2097. Not liquid or gas

Q2098. “Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary” writer Evan

Q2100. Showy flower

Q2102. Ivory Coast group

Q2104. Exodus’ novelist Leon

Q2108. Furry-sounding internet hookup

Q2111. “Protect mine innocence, ___ fall into the trap…” (King Henry VIII)

Q2114. Falls in fall

Q2120. The six for a TD

Q2123. Where the capital sells lime-colored glasses

Q2125. Mails or transmits

Q2127. Giant star?

Q2129. Self-improvement vows

Q2132. Punctuation that can express sarcasm

Q2133. Ring of rope

Q2134. To you, Pierre!

Q2135. “Iglu,” for “igloo,” e.g.

Q2137. Chiquita’s kisses

Q2141. Sony handheld debut of ‘04

Q2144. Head piece

Q2147. Fifty Shades of Grey author

Q2152. Where Che was born (abbr.)

Q2153. “___ possessions are highly valued” (Sicilian proverb)

Q2155. Easter lead-in

Q2156. Flecks

Q2158. Sunbathing locale

Q2159. Check things

Q2162. Take down ___ (humble)

Q2164. Material for some small constructions

Q2166. Bike brand

Q2168. Angry encounter

Q2169. Attorney-___

Q2170. Type of croquet

Q2171. Wearing a permafrown

Q2172. “You ___ mouthful!”

Q2173. Material for some underthings

Q2174. “The way to ___ heart is through his stomach”

Q2176. Refuse

Q2177. Exercise, in Exeter

Q2179. Barfy feelings

Q2180. Lost one’s temper

Q2184. On the tail

Q2185. Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks

Q2186. Unwaveringly supportive of

Q2187. Drug abused by Limbaugh and Love

Q2189. Witchcraft in the West Indies

Q2191. Nigerian yam-eater

Q2192. Unusual armed-forces job, for short

Q2194. Sitter concentrates on solutions

Q2196. Smaller bodies of water

Q2198. Georgia, once (abbr.)

Q2199. “Miss Hepburn ran the whole ___ of emotions—from A to B” (Dorothy Parker)

Q2200. Pix from flicks

Q2201. Told to do

Q2202. “Oh, ___ me a river”

Q2203. What to spend in Shiraz

Q2204. Enters from the bench

Q2205. Early in the story

Q2206. Turn bad, slangily

Q2207. Specifically

Q2208. Newton of Mission: Impossible 2 and Westworld

Q2210. “Man is but ___, the most feeble thing in nature, but…” (Blaise Pascal)

Q2212. Inquisitive sort

Q2213. Engine part (abbr.)

Q2214. Philips who said, “Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps”

Q2215. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men” writer

Q2216. Ocean Spray prefix

Q2218. Peer, to his servant

Q2220. Hum a lullaby for

Q2222. Sights in some bullpens

Q2224. Daughter of Louis XII

Q2225. Players try to hit triples with them

Q2226. Body part below front bumper

Q2227. 3 on the phone

Q2228. Honduran “How come?”

Q2229. Lutheran, for one (abbr.)

Q2230. Documents sent to a publisher

Q2233. Old-timey film channel

Q2234. Center topper

Q2236. “___ I might, it’s hopeless…”

Q2238. Part of a baker’s dozen of people

Q2239. Give up church

Q2242. White House reception area

Q2247. 1990s-2000s skating champ Slutskaya

Q2249. “What ___ state of affairs”

Q2251. Words before “the above”

Q2253. Mexican pastry

Q2255. “Straight up”

Q2257. Major Italian fashion house

Q2258. Photons, say

Q2259. Start of a musical refrain

Q2260. Pro ___ lawyer

Q2261. Welch of Bedazzled

Q2262. Sing ___ (perform)

Q2264. Comics’ Olive

Q2265. Car owner’s document

Q2266. Depression migrants

Q2268. Aretha Franklin said it was “not a fad; it’s the truth”

Q2270. Copspeak for “criminal”

Q2271. Late, in Little Italy

Q2272. Catch on, like tulip bulbs?

Q2273. Nickname for game imitated by StepMania and In the Groove

Q2274. Mild chili pepper in Tex-Mex sauces

Q2275. High-tech appt. book

Q2276. “We was just talking truth. We wasn’t trying to be political. We was just trying to be hip-hop artists” speaker

Q2277. Colonnades

Q2279. Work in installments

Q2281. “I Hope You Dance” singer Womack

Q2283. Prince, under a spell

Q2284. Tennis great Huber

Q2285. Subatomic particles

Q2286. Very many

Q2287. Single-___ (like a certain health care system)

Q2288. Unsparing

Q2289. Paste’s place

Q2291. Survive, amazingly

Q2293. Four on a sundial

Q2295. Puncture opening?

Q2296. Longtime Israeli leader, for short

Q2299. Programmers manage databases with it

Q2300. Plane-boarding staircase

Q2301. Spiraling out of control

Q2304. “20 Hottest Stars In Hollywood RN” articles

Q2306. Palindromic online birth-control tracker

Q2307. “I kissed thee ___ I killed thee” (Othello)

Q2308. Just miss a cup

Q2310. Injure again, as a ligament

Q2312. “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You ___? I thought that no one but myself…” (C.S. Lewis)

Q2313. Felis ___ (lion)

Q2314. Uno, dos, tres, ___…

Q2315. King deposed in the Glorious Revolution

Q2316. In the movie named for this composition, Haydn says, “He’s done something no composer has ever done. He’s placed himself at the center of his work. He gives us a glimpse into his soul. I expect that’s why it is so noisy”

Q2318. Appease totally

Q2319. Keep going

Q2320. Blotter holder

Q2325. Antique autos

Q2326. Dutch graphic artist

Q2328. Small, oil-rich nation

Q2329. Highway maneuver in some movie chase scenes

Q2331. Lois Lane inspiration Nellie

Q2333. Rock properties

Q2337. Proverbial heirs (with “the”)

Q2338. Dodging or feinting, e.g.

Q2339. Claw, lacerate

Q2341. Seediness

Q2344. Commonly removed throat tissue

Q2346. Briar and corncob

Q2348. Puts on TV again

Q2349. Box fillers

Q2350. Musical dirges

Q2352. Rt.-hand men

Q2353. They’re often exploded

Q2355. The painter described his inspiration for it like so: “I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety...”

Q2359. “Give me the honest ___, who strikes me if I trouble him and not before” (Madeline Miller)

Q2360. “It leaves me virtually speechless to contemplate the number of ways your statement is wrong”

Q2362. Nonvenomous constrictor

Q2363. Very, preciously

Q2364. “We get it, you ___”

Q2365. The weather that defeated Napoleon

Q2369. Fed. management gp.

Q2371. VCR setting

Q2372. Island where Brando lived (abbr.)

Q2373. Cosa ___

Q2375. Downtown’s direction in NYC

Q2376. Salvador’s intro

Q2378. Eliminates

Q2380. Palindromic relative

Q2381. The Duchess of Sussex’s original surname

Q2382. Rounded and flat in shape

Q2383. Plural suffix with peace

Q2384. Conservatives of early America

Q2386. “Let’s work together to bring this guy in”

Q2388. Male baseline

Q2390. Texas coll.

Q2392. Series, for short, in which Albert Einstein sings, “I’m as dope as two rappers, you’d better be scared, because that means E equals MC squared!”

Q2394. Radio no.

Q2397. Hilo dish

Q2398. Test section

Q2399. Self-firsters

Q2400. Umber or taupe, for example

Q2405. Jewish greeting (var.)

Q2408. Wriggle

Q2410. Thanksgiving meal

Q2413. Alternative to Holiday Inn

Q2415. Adventure stories

Q2416. Ore. clock setting

Q2417. Forenoons (abbr.)

Q2418. Charged particles

Q2419. Used a backhoe

Q2422. Austin’s famous furred fliers

Q2423. With two clear sides

Q2428. Island chain between Madagascar and Mozambique

Q2429. Done laps, perhaps

Q2430. Protection org.

Q2432. School’s Web suffix

Q2433. Take to task

Q2436. Taking as one’s own

Q2437. 24 star Sutherland

Q2439. Nonnative Hawaiian

Q2441. Icy home

Q2442. Sky-lit

Q2444. “___ wanna take this outside?”

Q2445. Amount past due?

Q2447. Apple or pear relative

Q2448. Stable place

Q2449. Bad-tempered

Q2451. Canoodle, in Canterbury

Q2452. Assist a stalled car, maybe

Q2453. Nathan Hale, e.g.

Q2454. Keystone

Q2455. “We can be lonely together” heiress on Elite

Q2457. Eye site

Q2458. “___ for worm”

Q2459. By the grace of God

Q2461. Cuts across

Q2462. Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates

Q2463. 1/100 of a mark

Q2465. Stereotypical long beard grower

Q2466. Contaminates

Q2467. Press ___ (handout to sportscasters)

Q2468. Disdainful sort

Q2470. Capacity of a large truck.

Q2473. Morales who said, “People are conditioned to seeing Latinos in a certain light including our own people, and that’s a problem”

Q2474. Hooked up, in space

Q2475. Laugh starter

Q2476. Send over a phone line

Q2477. He’s no Shakespeare, but he works fast, at least

Q2478. Trendy pseudocereal

Q2480. Unyoke, as oxen

Q2482. Harem guard of old

Q2485. “I don’t even want to hear it”

Q2487. Extirpate

Q2488. Purification, to Patroclus

Q2489. El L?

Q2490. Coming or going

Q2493. Government building

Q2495. “We could argue over that at length”

Q2498. Sports vehicles, briefly

Q2500. Colony of polyps given body by flecks of embedded limestone

Q2502. Tuesdays with Morrie describes it as “like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax”

Q2503. Appliance brand

Q2504. Hat lining for Buckingham Palace guards

Q2506. Prefix for phone or cycle

Q2507. Blues Traveler’s “___ Anyway”

Q2508. Boondocks

Q2512. One way to remove a branch

Q2514. Bridge term (or election wish for many)

Q2517. ___ Park, historic home near Philadelphia

Q2518. Like hyperspace travel, in brief

Q2519. Lapdog variety, for short

Q2520. Additional people

Q2521. -ors’ counterparts

Q2523. Gadget, e.g. (abbr.)

Q2526. Says, “Begone, thou varlet!”

Q2527. Feeling sub-par

Q2528. It merged with Continental in 2010 (abbr.)

Q2530. ___-dos, kind of sofa

Q2531. On one’s own schedule

Q2534. Christmas buy

Q2535. Orlando Hernández who favored the Eephus pitch

Q2537. Dispute

Q2538. S’more cooker

Q2539. Curling gear

Q2541. His two-octave range centers on middle C

Q2544. Nearly eleven yards

Q2546. Curie said its radiation “has an intensity of the same order as that of uranium”

Q2548. “How to Draw”

Q2549. The Gorgons and Graces

Q2551. ___ a beet

Q2554. “I ___ red door and I want it painted black” (Rolling Stones)

Q2555. “It ___ the end of the world”

Q2556. “Don’t Go to Strangers” singer Jones

Q2557. Warning sign?

Q2559. “___ intended”

Q2561. Fills the whole room with chatter

Q2563. Jamaican export

Q2564. “I think I was five when I had my first real go-___” (racer Michael Schumacher)

Q2566. A Star Is Born and The Hero actor Sam

Q2569. “I work from awkwardness” photographer Diane

Q2570. Fee, Anne, Mame, and Em

Q2571. Label that can be swapped out for a silhouette

Q2572. ___ & Perrins Worcestershire sauce

Q2573. SSA issuances

Q2575. Sound of stress leaving the body

Q2576. Agree with, tacitly

Q2578. In need of a dehumidifier

Q2580. Presario PC brand

Q2582. IRS # now given an extra “I”

Q2583. Get some Mickey D’s, say

Q2585. “Chewy caramels in milk chocolate,” per the wrapper

Q2586. Got used to the situation

Q2589. Honored addressees, in India

Q2590. Built to ___

Q2591. Trap like an ocean

Q2592. Snappable bars?

Q2593. Bogart role

Q2595. Richweed, named for its alleged antivenom properties (it’s actually poisonous itself!)

Q2599. Promoting a new album

Q2601. “It comes in pints?” subject in The Hobbit

Q2602. Hegira

Q2603. Comedian Kreischer on The Machine

Q2604. The Mask’s Cameron

Q2605. Slow-cookers, for short

Q2607. Like the gods Jesus grew up around

Q2610. It’s 8.3 mm in diameter

Q2612. “I only know movie kung fu” speaker Reeves

Q2613. Item in a photog’s file

Q2614. Blimpie rival

Q2616. German marathoner Pippig

Q2617. Needed (abbr.)

Q2620. I ___ Killer (TV series)

Q2621. Truckers’ watchdog (abbr.)

Q2623. [Yawn]

Q2625. Bar Keepers Friend alternative

Q2626. Tat lead-in

Q2627. Brass ctr.

Q2629. Exactitude

Q2631. Artworks not meant to show beauty

Q2634. Gentle quality

Q2636. To a large degree

Q2637. Bit of wit in print

Q2639. Tex-Mex menu choice

Q2641. “I’m not eating that fruitcake!”

Q2643. ___ -confident

Q2644. Poet ___ Jones

Q2646. What Far East Movement and The Cataracs felt so fly like, in song

Q2648. Royal Canadian Henley ___ (St. Catherines event)

Q2650. South of France

Q2651. Urgent-care VIP

Q2653. More than sing.

Q2654. “___ with my little eye…”

Q2655. Initials you could jokily put between any one-word clue and its answer

Q2656. Like Desi Arnaz, Gloria Estefan, or Sammy Davis, Jr.

Q2657. Skiing type

Q2658. “We Will Rock You” rockers

Q2659. Debt reminders

Q2661. “Not ___ the question, but…”

Q2663. Riding waves and wind at once

Q2665. 1968 “I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk” song

Q2666. Self-defense method

Q2667. Inventory tag abbreviations

Q2668. “Help” provides one

Q2669. End of a Hawaiian volcano

Q2670. Empire Strikes Back attack tank

Q2672. Can’t let this part of the interview get dodged

Q2676. Home assistants

Q2677. Baltic-North Sea capital

Q2679. “If you ___ little…to little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much” (Hesiod)

Q2680. Me, to Mitterrand

Q2681. Seaman’s call for assistance

Q2682. Depth measurer

Q2684. Vegas opener?

Q2685. Punched-out eyes in portrait paintings in a Scooby-Doo cartoon, e.g.

Q2688. Seed money

Q2689. Put into the upper class

Q2691. Used, as a counter

Q2693. Homemade shirt coloring stations

Q2695. Not subject to change

Q2697. Actor Scott who was one of like three celebrities to endorse Trump in 2016

Q2698. Business club members

Q2701. Dig up by the roots

Q2703. African tuber

Q2705. NBA standouts

Q2706. Suffix with “dream” or “land”

Q2707. White racist

Q2710. Beer bash convenience

Q2711. Tony who directed Michael Clayton

Q2713. “___ priest says to the rabbi…”

Q2716. Orders to attack

Q2718. Voracious one

Q2719. Successively

Q2721. Lasso out West

Q2722. “I saw the ___ and it opened up my eyes, I saw the ___”

Q2723. Part of a supporting cage

Q2725. “My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure” speaker

Q2729. The yokes are on them

Q2732. Some Toyota models

Q2733. Last remaining Buddhist kingdom

Q2735. WWII intelligence unit.

Q2736. Certain California law gp.

Q2738. Skip across the water’s surface

Q2739. Greyhound rider?

Q2741. Like whom the Persian proverb describes: “As you chase her. she runs away, and as you run away, she chases after you”

Q2744. 1984 Winter Olympics site

Q2746. Ready to start pushing up daisies

Q2748. LSAT, but for docs

Q2749. Chess pieces (abbr.)

Q2750. Not, old-fashionedly

Q2751. “Coolio, man!”

Q2753. “Savage Love” singer Jason

Q2754. They’re close in Clichy

Q2756. Reception measure

Q2757. Erie, e.g.

Q2759. Pretty data storage media from the 1990s

Q2763. Euphemistic oath of old

Q2765. “I want to ___ example that will never be forgotten” (Terry Fox)

Q2766. Heckler in the arena

Q2767. Place you might put bombs into to relax

Q2769. Non-golfer’s “fore!”

Q2771. “Rude Boy” performer’s nickname

Q2773. Lincoln Center theater (abbr.)

Q2775. Red coat

Q2776. It bonds with a +

Q2778. Mother who can be cruel

Q2779. Shipping measure

Q2780. Malik who said, “I am a bit of a bad boy”

Q2782. Light upon

Q2783. Brief gp.

Q2784. Dover fish

Q2785. Legendary Detroit Red Wing player

Q2786. Row of stamps

Q2787. Like Robinson Crusoe

Q2790. Like some plugs

Q2791. The Supremes, e.g.

Q2793. Chris Pratt breakout action role

Q2796. ___ the pot (raise)

Q2798. Exorcise some anger

Q2801. Waterfront structure

Q2803. Folded sandwich

Q2805. Time for vespers

Q2806. Look Who’s Talking Too and 2 Fast 2 Furious (abbr.)

Q2808. Gnawing holes into

Q2811. Take some public transportation

Q2812. Cleopatra’s queendom

Q2815. Clams, oysters, shrimp, etc.

Q2817. Tell, “I just want to know one thing…”

Q2821. ___ in eat

Q2822. Like-the Parthenon

Q2823. Ice-cream holder

Q2824. Geometric fig.

Q2825. Slash through a shield?

Q2827. Posts an intentionally mysterious status update on social media

Q2830. Movie with the quote, “Well, Old Man Johnson could’ve died in any one of five ways. His neck and back were broken, his chest was crushed, his skull was fractured…and here’s one for Sherlock Holmes...there was enough formic acid in him to kill twenty men”

Q2831. Part of a racer’s car

Q2832. Clooney who represented Assange

Q2834. Herman who quoted the theme song for Pokémon: The Movie 2000 in a political debate

Q2836. Final Four org.

Q2838. Diner offering, perhaps

Q2840. Pauses edited out of podcasts

Q2842. Celebration name suffix

Q2843. Alternative to ZzzQuil

Q2845. GPS suggestion

Q2846. ___ in (takes pride).

Q2848. Wild guesses

Q2849. Post-winter river thaw

Q2850. Honey buzzard

Q2851. Best Song Oscar winner for 1939

Q2854. Abbr. after “Mario” and “Warner”

Q2855. Renowned horror actresses

Q2860. Meadows

Q2861. Suitors

Q2864. Wednesday’s roommate on Wednesday

Q2866. Choice between two things

Q2867. Entrepreneur’s deg.

Q2870. Caseworker’s coll. major, perhaps

Q2872. Slap on hastily

Q2874. Destroy creek

Q2876. “Forgot About ___” (Eminem collab)

Q2877. Titles of respect (abbr.)

Q2879. At a low frequency?

Q2881. Like some chardonnay

Q2882. Exchange student org.

Q2883. …

Q2885. Herald, for one

Q2888. The Seven Samurai creator name

Q2889. Pet problem

Q2890. Pistol challenge

Q2891. Road maneuvers, briefly

Q2892. “Rated ___ everyone” (video game words)

Q2893. Policy chief

Q2894. Healer at Valhalla

Q2895. Cologne article

Q2896. ___ pat (got stubborn)

Q2898. Tuition-paying aid

Q2901. The ___ (road music by Sufjan Stevens?)

Q2902. Letters of resolution? (abbr.)

Q2903. Hamlet’s forte

Q2906. Four are hard to beat

Q2908. ___ a turn (cook perfectly)

Q2910. Kind of car

Q2912. At-a-loss utterance

Q2914. With violent vibration

Q2917. Terminal listing

Q2918. Encrusts, as with jewels

Q2920. Land in the lake?

Q2921. Kevorkian sobriquet (or first Batman villain)

Q2923. Riot ___ (member of a movement that, in Sara Marcus’ description, “wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so they could fight back”)

Q2924. Tillis or Brooks

Q2925. Boss Hogg’s deputy

Q2926. Comfy

Q2927. Land near a wharf

Q2930. Representative terms

Q2932. Genteelness

Q2933. Barber’s job

Q2934. ___ room (place to play games)

Q2935. Bridge concern

Q2936. Egg-rolling site

Q2938. Go over proofs

Q2940. Newspaper, derogatorily

Q2941. “[cough]”

Q2943. Music may set it

Q2944. XXI tripled

Q2945. YouTube vid warning

Q2947. Critic

Q2949. Reproduction term

Q2950. Meghan Trainor’s all about it

Q2953. Razzed

Q2954. Sister Act character

Q2955. “Every dog ___ its day”

Q2957. Knight’s publishing partner

Q2959. Record-settingly awful, for short

Q2960. Island group of Norway

Q2961. Some ER admissions

Q2962. “Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” per Benjamin Franklin

Q2963. UV protection figures

Q2966. Unneeded words

Q2968. Source of “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched”

Q2970. Filmmakers and their consummate fans

Q2971. “We gotta rabbit, Bugsy!”

Q2975. Small setback

Q2977. Some House votes

Q2979. “Neither” follower

Q2981. Dinner from a bucket?

Q2983. Holy people for whom holidays are often observed (abbr.)

Q2984. Bandleader Shaw and comedian Lange

Q2986. Shrubs bearing blackish fruit.

Q2987. Source of Download.com

Q2988. “Ctrl + ___ + Delete”

Q2989. Mob summit figures

Q2990. Young man, in Dublin

Q2991. “To me!” in Tours

Q2993. Really stoked

Q2994. Emblem of Hooters

Q2995. Snappiest of dressers

Q2998. Casserole veggies

Q2999. Soft and wet to the boot

Q3002. At this writing

Q3003. TV monitor

Q3004. Take, by force

Q3005. Nagging pain, perhaps

Q3007. Daily shipments (abbr.)

Q3009. Leap, for one

Q3011. Bk. used to justify slavery

Q3012. Hastened off

Q3014. Sign of trouble on the driveway blacktop

Q3016. Unusual part of Hanukkah?

Q3018. Tolkien tongue(s)

Q3020. Lighthouses, e.g.

Q3022. T.S. Eliot poems turned Broadway musical turned most underrated movie of 2019 (yes, I’ve seen the reviews; everyone else is just wrong, okay?)

Q3023. Comics daughter of Nancy and Frank DeGroot

Q3024. Wish one could take back

Q3025. Those Spanish things

Q3027. He made Trigger happy

Q3028. Maker of the Speed Wagon

Q3029. Inactive, as a volcano

Q3030. Roget’s references

Q3031. Use a cred. card

Q3034. Reached an agreement

Q3037. Second afterthought

Q3040. “I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device” speaker

Q3043. Whole heap

Q3045. Make a room over

Q3047. Bullfighter’s lance

Q3049. Little Red Hen’s disclaimer

Q3050. Winded grunt

Q3051. Clerical’s opposite

Q3053. Creations with colorful blocks

Q3056. “Cattle,” according to Hitchcock

Q3057. Garnish in a diner

Q3058. Czar attribute

Q3060. Malfunction indicators, perhaps

Q3062. Sure-handed chef

Q3065. Cry of disgust

Q3066. Easily wrinkled fabric

Q3067. Krazy, for one

Q3068. Greek region in ancient Asia

Q3072. Farmers, essentially

Q3073. Foils’ cousins

Q3076. Tummy turners

Q3077. They can be long or gross

Q3079. Org. concerned with carpal tunnel syndrome

Q3081. Sun, in Mexico

Q3082. “I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire” song

Q3084. Everyone, to Michaelangelo

Q3087. Prominent poverty proponent

Q3090. Fires from hiding

Q3091. Actress thrice directed by Quentin

Q3092. Glazier’s concern

Q3093. Web browser button

Q3094. Without cease

Q3095. Mozart opera ending

Q3096. The Oxford comma precedes it

Q3097. Candy debut of 1927

Q3098. “Love’s Divine” singer

Q3099. Northern terminus of the Reunification Express

Q3100. NASA’s Falcon and Intrepid

Q3101. Medulla oblongata site

Q3104. Regulating the diameter of blood vessels

Q3107. Avoid a collision

Q3108. In line for the coach

Q3111. Tiny and Burton

Q3113. “Let it go, this too shall pass” singers

Q3115. HP offerings

Q3117. Not domesticated

Q3119. One with divine rites?

Q3120. Budding antler

Q3122. Flower parts kept in water

Q3123. With “-5,” current resource for mental diagnoses

Q3124. Words with rings

Q3125. Pierced at Pamplona

Q3126. Pierre’s “very”

Q3128. The earliest possible date

Q3132. Be worried (over)

Q3133. In on, like a cool cat

Q3134. ___ de deux

Q3135. Army storekeeper

Q3139. Respond to stimulus, as interest

Q3141. Water or gas carrier

Q3143. First number in a subtraction problem

Q3145. “I spilled ___ remover on my dog. Now he’s gone” (Steven Wright)

Q3147. Falafel holder, often

Q3149. Soccer mom’s car, perhaps

Q3150. Channel that once had Air Bud do commentary

Q3152. Proportion

Q3154. Dud on Guy Fawkes Night

Q3157. Poncho feature

Q3158. St. Thomas who said, “The things that we love tell us who we are”

Q3160. No purebreds, these

Q3161. “When they call the roll…[they] do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty,’“ per Theodore Roosevelt

Q3163. Sarandon of Stepmom

Q3164. Agcy. that revs up in April

Q3165. Removed for a rules violation, briefly

Q3166. Indy champ Andretti

Q3167. React to a jilting, maybe

Q3168. Calf’s dad

Q3169. Beef stock?

Q3170. Powell of the Bush White House

Q3172. Play with the exchange, “Will they be happier when they can feel pain?” “On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect”

Q3173. Brannock device measure

Q3175. Eye, to bards

Q3177. FCC ex-chairman Ajit

Q3178. Post-drilling tool

Q3181. “___ careful” (“Watch yourself”)

Q3183. Denomination offshoot

Q3185. Month that Peanuts and the Model T debuted (not the same year)

Q3187. Windows applications?

Q3189. Hit with hailstones

Q3190. Least likely to ramble

Q3192. Puffball, for one

Q3193. Undersurfaces

Q3194. So-called “house wine of the South”

Q3196. They’re clean

Q3199. Sandwich go-with

Q3200. “If COVID-19 was ___ after the country where it wreaked the most havoc, it would be called the ‘American Virus’” (Steven Magee)

Q3201. Its early cans were labeled “Today’s Modern Oil Treatment”

Q3202. Schindler’s List star Neeson

Q3203. Fight ender, for short

Q3204. ___ Today (magazine for teachers)

Q3205. Units of fitness

Q3206. What a roughneck works on

Q3207. GI’s furlough

Q3208. Stinkbug’s defense

Q3210. Fill up in advance, as on alcohol

Q3212. Defaced as a prank

Q3214. Remove a cork

Q3216. Paulo predecessor

Q3217. Bucket in a restaurant

Q3219. Signs in Vegas

Q3221. “Look around you and all you will see are people the world would be better off without” anime/manga series

Q3223. Hear legally

Q3226. Does drudge work

Q3227. Not hierarchical

Q3228. Patrick Mahomes, for the KC Chiefs

Q3230. “Constant Craving” singer

Q3231. “How do you like THAT, now?”

Q3232. Prolixity

Q3234. Org. whose logo includes a cocktail and a car key

Q3235. 1006, to Caesar

Q3236. Manhattan addr.

Q3237. Early evening hour

Q3238. Factory sec.

Q3239. With “-1,” Ghostbusters’ vehicle

Q3241. Henri’s brainstorm

Q3243. Postwar foreign-aid agcy.

Q3244. Survivor of the Flood

Q3246. Bread with ham, often

Q3248. “___ what?”

Q3250. Big and hunky

Q3252. “My biggest problem in these ___ debates? I don’t know how to explain to you why you should care about other people” (Lauren Morrill)

Q3254. Chuck ___ (animator’s biopic and memoir)

Q3256. Diva’s delivery

Q3257. Campfire spiritual song

Q3259. Friend of Ishmael

Q3261. “Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s ___...”

Q3262. Middle stat.

Q3263. “Pfui!”

Q3265. “___” (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Q3267. “___” (How I Met Your Mother)

Q3269. “___” (The Late Show/The Shining)

Q3273. Mendes who said, “I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent”

Q3274. “___” (Gone With the Wind)

Q3281. “___” (The Hunger Games)

Q3286. Leaves from the kitchen?

Q3288. Puzzle with pictures

Q3291. California’s San ___ Dam

Q3292. Try to make a quick killing in stocks

Q3295. UAE’s most populous city

Q3297. Put on a detour

Q3298. Painter de Toulouse-Lautrec

Q3299. Line of fashion

Q3300. Spanish ladies, for short

Q3301. “And, without further ___…”

Q3302. Jordan’s only seaport

Q3306. Awl, for one

Q3308. “More love, ___ hate” (Roy Bennett)

Q3309. Neverland bosun

Q3310. Potterverse player Rupert

Q3311. Seine substance

Q3312. Chessboard array (abbr.)

Q3313. “Wrecking Ball” key, for short

Q3315. Queensrÿche “Promised Land” song

Q3316. Bright lipstick shade

Q3317. The Godfather’s Vigoda

Q3318. Foothill

Q3320. Shensi city on the Wei

Q3321. ““What a strange thing! / to be alive / beneath cherry blossoms” poet Kobayashi

Q3322. The “eat” in “she made him eat onions”

Q3323. Deep-rooted dispute

Q3324. Social drinker’s haunt

Q3325. ___ a Wonderful Life

Q3326. Element of doubt?

Q3328. Supreme Court resignee of 2009

Q3329. 8 bits

Q3330. “Goosey goosey gander, whither ___ thou wander?”

Q3331. Metric area meas.

Q3332. Gives the cold shoulder

Q3333. Really, really, REALLY

Q3334. Ring-shaped coral reef

Q3335. Schiaparelli and Pataky

Q3337. Some rails

Q3338. Pub fixture

Q3340. Long-distance smooches

Q3342. Trojan initials

Q3344. Terminus ___: the earliest it could have happened

Q3346. Vague recipe amount

Q3348. Sun. fare

Q3349. “How do I edit a page” and “How do I create a new page” on Wikipedia

Q3351. 2000s Showtime series, with The

Q3353. Life forces

Q3356. Massachusetts cape

Q3357. Nov. followers

Q3358. Pianist known for flamboyance

Q3361. “People may hear your words, but they ___ your attitude” (John Maxwell)

Q3362. Scandinavian carrier

Q3364. Treat with malice

Q3365. Bazoo or burro

Q3366. Canola and peanut

Q3367. Racer Armstrong

Q3368. Two of four, e.g. (abbr.)

Q3369. “And makes us rather bear those ___ we have...” (Hamlet’s “To be..” speech)

Q3370. Victoria in London, e.g.

Q3371. Olympia and Portrait of Emile Zola, for two

Q3374. Winter fishing aid

Q3376. Spacious shape of birdcage

Q3379. Four-digit punctuation?

Q3382. Two- or three-seater in a room

Q3384. Speech stumbles

Q3386. Tournaments where brackets are busted

Q3388. Constrained, correct, compassionate comportment (or “the measure of liberty” to Giannina Braschi)

Q3392. Make little if any difference

Q3394. Akeelah’s venue

Q3395. Much-maligned director Boll

Q3396. Pebbles’ pop

Q3397. Pushes out of bed

Q3400. Dieter-friendly, for short

Q3402. Sunset in LA

Q3403. “Shug like honey. And now, I’s just like a bee” speaker

Q3404. Parts of speech that you could say are “objects”

Q3405. Three-sect. exam

Q3406. Touch base after a fly-out

Q3409. Tactile and kinesthetic

Q3413. Name for a Vietnam maneuver

Q3414. Hindu philosophy

Q3415. Wood sorrels

Q3416. Tyro, briefly

Q3418. ___-de-lampe

Q3419. Like off-season business

Q3421. Particular attitude, for short

Q3422. “Land ___!” (said near the end of a voyage)

Q3424. Drifters

Q3426. Tendon-bone cushions

Q3427. Cousin’s mom

Q3428. Party site, sometimes

Q3431. Round-robin alternative

Q3432. Squirt

Q3435. Broadcast genre

Q3438. They’re analyzed in crime labs

Q3439. Towards the harbor

Q3440. Knocking noise

Q3442. ___ Teen-age Werewolf

Q3443. Particle with a low rate of transition

Q3444. [teeth chattering]

Q3446. Bikini blast, for short

Q3447. Lists the pros and cons of

Q3449. “Here I ___ Worship” (John Tesh)

Q3451. He had a lion’s lines

Q3453. Security feature on a door

Q3455. Campsite crib

Q3457. No longer sharp

Q3459. “You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the ___” (Joe Biden)

Q3460. Frequent foil for Garfield

Q3461. Comment regarding a squashed bug

Q3462. “I choose you!” speaker

Q3463. “Whistle Down the Wind” folk singer Joan

Q3464. So-called (but not really)

Q3467. Hoped (to)

Q3468. Earl ___, 1930 Triple Crown-winning jockey

Q3469. Analog speedometers

Q3470. Make copies with your smartphone

Q3471. Home on an estate

Q3472. Apply (for), as a promotion

Q3473. Chick’s suffix

Q3474. Like we showed a mass audience

Q3476. “Is that crazy?”

Q3477. Like a garden herb

Q3479. Circles or ellipses, in print

Q3481. Monarch, in Marseille

Q3482. Morning radio talker

Q3484. Not risqué at all

Q3485. “There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop ___” (Andy Stanley)

Q3486. Human ending?

Q3487. Basis of the song “It’s Now or Never”

Q3490. “___ all stories, in the end” (Stephen Moffat)

Q3491. Head and shoulders above?

Q3492. Opposite of “extinguished”

Q3493. Many a classical sculpture

Q3495. Diamond-pattern- wearing figures of fun

Q3497. “Don’t wanna see your face, you better disappear” song

Q3498. 1995 Nobelist in literature

Q3499. Put an ___ (terminate)

Q3500. U and I have 92 and 53

Q3502. Rugged-rock runner

Q3504. Lincoln Highway.

Q3506. Power-killers, for short

Q3510. Godfather group

Q3513. Tapioca-ball drink

Q3515. Cleanup hitter’s stat.

Q3517. Counterpart to trans

Q3518. Scheduled to be paid on

Q3519. Check in

Q3521. Wretched hive of scum and villainy

Q3522. Take definite form

Q3523. Drought-resistant staple also known as white vetches

Q3525. Less transparent

Q3528. Penalty box, in hockey slang

Q3529. Cord associated with Achilles

Q3530. Waldorf-Astoria muralist

Q3531. Typical Meet the Press guest, for short

Q3532. Editor, at times

Q3534. River in France

Q3535. Not inclined toward looking back

Q3538. Helps the environment, in a way

Q3542. American Gods actor McShane

Q3543. “___ homo”

Q3545. It’s nothing in soccer

Q3546. Airline for Dundee

Q3548. Their “feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers,” says Ray Bradbury

Q3549. Reacted to holding one’s breath, perhaps

Q3552. Pinball-machine foul

Q3553. From the pie hole

Q3554. P train

Q3555. “…good hanging prevents ___ marriage” (Shakespeare)

Q3556. ___ Penalty (Dick Francis mystery)

Q3559. Ones with a 1.0 GPA

Q3562. Popular brand of tiny home that may not meet your state’s building codes

Q3567. Narrator for TV’s Lights Out

Q3569. Clock numerals

Q3570. Work wk. end

Q3571. Cocktail order?

Q3572. Characters on SpongeBob SquarePants, The Walking Dead, Grease, Tangled and Hey, Arnold

Q3573. Loan type

Q3575. Talmud lang.

Q3577. Studio section

Q3579. Ex ___ (not in its original habitat)

Q3581. Has the ability to

Q3582. They perform mopping-up operations

Q3586. NFL game extensions

Q3587. Enormous mythical bird

Q3588. Skydive

Q3589. Lengthy Amazon user commentary

Q3591. Block (out)

Q3592. Crime boss caught in 2007

Q3595. Strews liquid

Q3598. NBA star ___-Anthony Towns

Q3599. Carpooling car, for short

Q3600. Dean Martin song subject

Q3601. Local residents

Q3603. Entertainments

Q3605. Sounded like a dance club

Q3607. Jean-Claude Killy or Picabo Street, notably

Q3609. Theater features

Q3612. Target numbers

Q3614. Deep thinker with incompleteness theorems

Q3615. O’Neal’s memoir of his NBA rookie year

Q3619. Muslim ascetic

Q3620. Not yet set

Q3621. “That’s IT! From now on, NO MORE CUPCAKES ALLOWED IN MY KINGDOM!,” e.g.

Q3622. Sets of four rhyming lines

Q3624. Isn’t capable of

Q3627. “___” (Frankenstein)

Q3630. Biz insts.

Q3631. “___” (Dr. No/many others)

Q3633. More fitting

Q3635. Titillating

Q3638. More frequently, old-style

Q3640. Egyptian ___ (cat breed)

Q3641. Neon Genesis Evangelion heroine

Q3643. Peeples and Long

Q3644. Soup choice

Q3645. Span of history

Q3646. One who enjoys clean living

Q3647. Pig out

Q3648. State of stresslessness

Q3650. Hillbilly possessive

Q3651. Siouan-speaking tribe

Q3652. Monuments to those interred elsewhere

Q3655. “I don’t like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet” speaker Wanda

Q3656. Venerable surf-gear brand

Q3657. Nepali’s pittance

Q3660. Array of floats, often

Q3663. Explosive trials

Q3664. Can sprays

Q3667. “Around the world, the trip begins with a kiss” song

Q3669. Cereal stuff

Q3671. Wish from the condemned

Q3675. Nature ___ (still life, to Cezanne)

Q3676. “THIS ___” (sign on a crate)

Q3678. Reassuring response to NASA

Q3679. “Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are” (Douglas Coupland)

Q3682. Unit of vol.

Q3683. “Please, ___ of you…”

Q3684. Lumberyard item

Q3686. Swedish-based clothing chain

Q3687. Rural folks

Q3691. In anonymity

Q3693. Singular sensations

Q3694. Birds that make deliveries?

Q3695. Fulfill one’s troth

Q3696. System conveying blog updates

Q3699. Showy light

Q3701. Fluent to a fault

Q3703. Khan of London

Q3705. “Life ___ cabaret…”

Q3706. Kind of blue?

Q3707. Bowmaker’s wood

Q3708. “Et cetera”

Q3710. ___ of gold at the end of the rainbow

Q3711. Crime investigation facility

Q3712. Places for informal talk

Q3714. Beef fat

Q3715. “Excuse me!”

Q3716. Barely big enough to see (var.)

Q3717. Prepares for action

Q3721. ___-ear: tropical abalone

Q3722. Airplane’s shock absorber

Q3724. Adjusts to, as a thermostat

Q3725. World War-enders (for good, we hope, or we may have to strike “War” from that phrase)

Q3729. Interrogative (abbr.)

Q3731. Future atty.’s ordeal

Q3733. Alternative to eating in

Q3735. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important” film

Q3738. 2002 Denzel Washington drama

Q3740. Sometimes confused with demons, they can choose their moral alignment just like humans (var.)

Q3741. Diagonally arranged abdominal muscles

Q3744. “…and ___ nonny no, / That o’er the green cornfield did pass” (Shakespeare)

Q3745. Elongated, heavily armored fish

Q3746. Lesson plans

Q3748. Common airline carry-on

Q3749. Num. follower

Q3750. Tyler Durden and Bruce Banner

Q3753. Proof of parentage

Q3754. Some hotels

Q3756. Gets that sure-thing feeling.

Q3759. Tel Aviv toppers

Q3762. “Hey, that HURTS!”

Q3764. Pent up in a pigpen

Q3766. Like months when oysters are not in season

Q3767. Like unrestrained laughter

Q3769. Neb.-based defense org.

Q3770. Arts and crafts gadgets

Q3771. Old “Give that lady five silver dollars!” quiz show

Q3772. “That’s so like a guy!”

Q3773. NFLer Warrick whose charity builds homes for single parents

Q3774. On the clammy side

Q3775. Addams Family uncle

Q3776. “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” singer

Q3777. Longest-serving English monarch

Q3781. Prefix for certain revivals

Q3782. The Daughter of Time novelist Josephine

Q3783. NYC hub

Q3787. “Twisting strings…that bloomed to a height of fifteen meters” in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Q3790. “It’s ___ Love” (Domino song)

Q3791. Lifeboat implements

Q3793. Completely blah

Q3795. Cork or thumb

Q3797. “And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so ___ beguil’d” (Shakespeare)

Q3798. “Are you a complete idiot?”

Q3799. Uneven

Q3801. Lizard-logo drink

Q3804. It’s been ranked the world’s best low-cost carrier eleven years in a row (Skytrax)

Q3805. Is unwelcome

Q3807. Putting pep in one’s step, say

Q3810. Singer’s liability

Q3811. Encyc. units

Q3812. Signify to come

Q3813. NFL periods

Q3814. Depletes, as profits

Q3818. Beauty in the observer’s eye

Q3823. Oat or corn

Q3825. Taxpayers’ IDs

Q3827. URL intro

Q3829. Voice of the Apple Watch

Q3831. Smashed in the crotch, possibly

Q3833. A National Cartoonists Society award is named for him

Q3835. Well-to-do semirural region

Q3837. Word element meaning “hand”

Q3839. Female bud

Q3840. Upsilon follower

Q3841. Ages upon ages

Q3842. Cattle pen in South Africa

Q3843. Weather-tracking org.

Q3844. Delicious golfer or beverage Palmer

Q3845. Bull’s command

Q3846. Affirmatives in a Rwandan meme

Q3847. Chewable wad

Q3848. Alphabetic run

Q3849. Nereids and naiads

Q3852. Boorish outburst

Q3854. “Purple cow” poet Burgess

Q3855. Nonverbalism on a hip-hop track

Q3857. Saltshakers

Q3860. They provide the blood with oxygen

Q3862. Island and county of Hawaii

Q3864. Professional Dapper Dan

Q3866. Where to find Rigel and Betelgeuse

Q3868. Blizzard sellers, for short

Q3869. Third-person form of “être”

Q3870. Early LGBT-friendly charity puzzle collection

Q3873. Venetian rower

Q3875. Memorable smell

Q3877. Something different

Q3878. “Tea for Two,” for one

Q3879. Unwanted bugs

Q3880. Bird dish on Jul. 4

Q3882. Gradually enter

Q3883. 19^th-century blogger

Q3885. Rachel Wood in Westworld, Thirteen, and Frozen 2

Q3887. Deliver a shocking upset

Q3888. “The great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all” (Wendell Berry)

Q3890. Cliff-base rock pile

Q3892. Comes back, as after a defeat

Q3894. “Red as a ___” (though one kind is yellow)

Q3896. German cars, for short

Q3897. Letter after pee

Q3898. Nocturnal birds

Q3901. Cocktail hour delicacy

Q3902. Bring to closure

Q3903. “___-Pah-Pah” (song from Oliver!)

Q3904. Added, as flavoring

Q3906. Stuff to do stuff with

Q3908. Team in a pro league

Q3910. Rapper da Vinci

Q3911. Held together with screws, bolts, nuts, and/or rivets

Q3913. Italian arrest

Q3917. “You’re a bit off”

Q3920. Web troll’s lack

Q3923. “Keep your pants on!”

Q3925. Jefferson invented it

Q3928. Rum drink named for a Cuban village

Q3931. Cut back again on RR time

Q3933. Curly-tailed, triangular-eared dog

Q3934. Biotin and folic acid, for two

Q3936. He’s asking

Q3938. “No joke!”

Q3940. Rabbit-sized rainforest rodent

Q3942. Roulette bet

Q3943. Not public (abbr.)

Q3944. Edgy paper

Q3945. Kirkuk resident

Q3948. Learning platform named for an intraship “phone system”

Q3950. Do things impressively and uniquely

Q3952. “Look at you, little man! Oh, yesh, oh, yesh!”

Q3954. ETA part

Q3955. Investigated (var.)

Q3956. Close one’s own lids lightly

Q3957. Military search, for short

Q3958. Wine lead-in

Q3959. Very wide size

Q3960. Wallet and purse alternative

Q3961. Clever or Zimmer

Q3962. Reply to “sooey!”

Q3963. 104 of Haydn’s are numbered (abbr.)

Q3964. Doc additive

Q3965. More upright

Q3966. “…more or less”

Q3967. F9 star John

Q3968. Pays a call on

Q3969. Comic relief in Chinese opera, or name sometimes used for a Chinese dynasty

Q3970. Counting intervals, sometimes

Q3971. Supply logistics company that’s a homophone for a spreadsheet program

Q3972. Vital thin blue line

Q3973. Fashion first name

Q3974. Elusive

Q3975. “Never memorize something you can ___ up” (Einstein)

Q3976. Skiing path

Q3977. Nancy Mrs.

Q3978. “___ dificil” (“It’s hard”)

Q3979. Hammer’s end

Q3980. Measures of energy

Q3981. Completely tire out

Q3982. Computer network terminal

Q3983. Victoria ___ (pen name of romance novelist Eleanor Hibbert)

Q3984. Old-school sneakers

Q3985. Uncomplex

Q3986. Colleague of Pooh-Bah

Q3987. Scenter

Q3988. “Slang” type with a name that can be written as numbers

Q3989. Terrain that sounds like a divider of terrain

Q3990. Queensberry’s title (abbr.

Down

Q1. Directions-provider sold by Verizon in 2019

Q2. One who makes extra effort

Q3. Caesar’s second announcement

Q4. A half-score

Q5. Having a childlike charm

Q6. What many saucepans hold

Q7. Possible to figure out

Q8. One in a boxing ring

Q9. Closed-captioning problem

Q10. A Death in the Family author

Q11. Salutation on a June greeting card

Q12. Suffix with bull or bear

Q13. “Bono” preceder among conspiracy theorists

Q14. “No activity (yet)”

Q15. Singer of “The Man With the Golden Gun” theme song

Q16. “This is ___” (Mandalorians)

Q17. Sound of laughter

Q18. First name in gossip

Q19. Tangerine/grapefruit hybrid

Q20. “I have nothing more to ___”

Q21. LeBron, Chris and Dwayne’s team

Q22. “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant” singer

Q23. Shortstop’s turf

Q24. “Your turn,” via radio

Q25. Make like an echo

Q26. Leave disconnected

Q27. “The Kraken stirs. And ten billion ___ dinners cry out for vengeance” (Terry Pratchett)

Q28. When she was to be married, she said, “I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory”

Q29. “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ___” (Thoreau)

Q30. Nestle’s ___-Caps

Q31. Island north of Honshu

Q32. Knightly combat area

Q33. To every one

Q34. “Life is never going to be boring with Christian” speaker

Q35. Got a lead

Q36. Place of learning

Q37. “Dwight was born to be number two, and I don’t think he would know what to do as leader” speaker Wilson

Q38. Source of some inside- joke obscene hand gestures

Q39. Ward, of Once and Again

Q40. Serious misdeed

Q41. Looking exhausted

Q42. Where a collector finds curios

Q43. They’re given for “highly successful command and leadership during active operations”

Q44. Fred of Portlandia and Documentary Now!

Q45. What the Q stands for, in this section

Q46. Admiral’s branch (abbr.)

Q47. Give___: care

Q48. Beyond the baseline, in tennis

Q49. Going concern?

Q50. Soothing sounds.

Q51. Method involving skill

Q53. Cartman’s catchphrase

Q54. Related to a heart condition

Q55. More spirited

Q57. Most in need of ice

Q58. What the Q stands for, in sexual identity, sometimes

Q59. Initialism that can be enthusiastic or frustrated, depending on what it stands for

Q60. Math class subject

Q62. What the Q stands for, in sexual identity, other times

Q63. Advance in the rankings

Q64. List leader

Q65. Acidities

Q67. Club-making company

Q68. Environmentalist’s concern

Q69. Therefore

Q70. Whistling zebra?

Q72. Pun ending?

Q73. “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” speaker

Q74. Carrier that’ll get you to see the world’s greatest graffiti festival in Ono’u

Q75. Kramer in Seinfeld’s apartment or Elmo in Blondie

Q77. “Hoo-oo-EY!”

Q78. High-wire actor

Q79. Largest mammals

Q80. Fail but good

Q82. ___ ends

Q83. “I don’t always agree with what my political ‘tribe’ thinks because I ___ a robot!”

Q84. Besot once again

Q85. ___ ___ Land south and west of the Pyrenees

Q86. Surreal, spatially dispersed, and full of obscure symbols

Q87. Person with a handle

Q88. “We do not wish to copy nature” artist

Q89. Psychiatric syndrome

Q90. Island landing spots

Q92. “Jack Sprat could ___ fat…”

Q93. Mother Earth

Q94. Yossarian’s roommate

Q95. Like some mild cleaning products

Q97. Parks the RV

Q98. AT&T and Verizon

Q99. Plumber’s problems

Q100. #3 hit in 1998

Q102. Willow stems used in thatching and basketmaking

Q103. Bounded, in heraldry

Q104. Wilderness types sometimes compete to see whose is loudest

Q105. Veggies that become pickles

Q106. Ancestor of Syria, in the Bible

Q108. “No foolin’, bro”

Q109. Former Dodger pitcher Claude

Q110. Pale colors

Q111. “Give ___ kiss!”

Q112. ___-Margret of classic cinema

Q113. Indicated “no” in a checkbox

Q116. Likely to be hurt or worse

Q118. Ham ___ (overact)

Q120. Canadian connecting conjunctions

Q122. Doberman’s doc

Q124. Gathering, as a unit

Q129. Thumbs-down reactions

Q131. Champion Djokovic

Q133. “That really wore me out”

Q137. ___ butter (moisturizer)

Q138. Musically slower

Q140. The Utica Comets org.

Q142. Elder in the clan

Q144. Rare remark from Annie Oakley

Q146. Widely watched court clashes

Q148. Fry in a pan

Q152. Strauss’s ___ Heldenleben

Q154. Silver piece

Q156. What the q stands for, in physics

Q159. Hummus or pea soup

Q161. It can boil your blood

Q167. Burn a brand into

Q170. Monstrous

Q171. “We’ll ___ a cup…” (Burns)

Q174. Basic, in coll.

Q175. Close-fitting

Q177. Victorian in spirit

Q179. “Hurray!”

Q181. IoT communication tech

Q182. Now, to Calpurnia

Q184. It’s usually spun first

Q186. Sleep noisily

Q188. “Sick and tired” or “nice and warm”

Q189. Having missed the first bell

Q190. Ralph Waldo Emerson works

Q191. Ottoman sovereign

Q192. Evenings in Paris

Q196. Brit’s dictionary

Q198. Book-sale gps.

Q200. Other, in Oviedo

Q202. Kremlin contradiction

Q203. We, oui?

Q205. Chinese philosophical virtue

Q207. Barracuda-let

Q208. Champagne word

Q209. Russian mountains

Q211. 1980s video game where the player is a diamond-shaped marker

Q212. “Sometimes you feel like ___, sometimes you don’t”

Q213. Age-old flu-fighting drink

Q214. ___ Stream

Q216. “A tree falls in the way it ___” (Dr. Seuss)

Q221. Devious plays run by NFL signal callers

Q222. Diner staple

Q223. Pt. of a whole

Q225. “Say it ___, Joe!”

Q227. SAT section, briefly

Q229. Shortened word preceding -com or -dram

Q231. Step ___: make haste

Q233. Beyond what’s already mentioned

Q235. Lascaux cave

Q238. Ltr. addenda

Q240. NA nation

Q241. All, on a drug

Q242. Casey who once said, “Disco is here to stay”

Q243. French sentry’s cry

Q244. Revolving tank structure

Q245. Barbie or Oppenheimer in their movies, e.g.

Q246. “I’m in trouble now!” noise

Q247. Trounce

Q248. Astronaut’s destination, for short

Q249. Cat-___ -tails

Q251. Short beat, in poetry

Q254. Dupes an email for

Q256. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to bed with a ___” (Dalai Lama)

Q258. Nobelist poet Walcott

Q261. New Mexico city, county or artist colony

Q263. Rah-rah

Q265. Subdue with a stun

Q268. Tributary of the Rio Grande

Q269. Reason to put one’s arms down

Q270. Political expulsions

Q271. Water polo and synchronized swimming

Q273. “Please allow me”

Q274. Instance, in Calais

Q275. Off the proper path

Q276. “I like it!”

Q277. Delivery people?

Q279. Not adoptive, casually

Q281. “We’re in trouble now”

Q283. Ubiquitous suburban kid-carriers

Q285. Eliminated from a boxing match, in a way

Q287. Approv’d

Q289. Kofi Annan’s alma mater

Q291. ___ calculus (kidney stone)

Q293. Earth Friendly Products detergent

Q295. Applaud like a beatnik

Q296. US satellite of 1960

Q298. NFL offensive linemen who often block for RBs

Q299. Phoenician god frowned on in the Old Testament

Q300. “The perception of the comic is ___ of sympathy…” (Emerson)

Q301. Dots on the map, for short

Q303. The oldest of archangels, who’ll signal Judgment Day, according to Islam

Q304. “Poverty is a very complicated issue, but ___ a child isn’t”

Q305. To the limits of possibility

Q307. Prefix with bellum and chamber

Q308. With no charge

Q309. Patron of workers

Q310. Latched, say

Q311. Major US punk club of the 1970s

Q312. Russian olive

Q313. Overturns

Q314. Packing boxes (abbr.)

Q315. Add more to a heap

Q316. Haunting word in The Lorax

Q317. No longer with us

Q319. A month in Tel Aviv

Q321. Wind gust

Q323. Twist the words of

Q325. 2008 FedEx Cup Champion

Q327. Trendy London area

Q330. Abbr. on a business card

Q331. Inventor’s monogram

Q332. Need glasses

Q333. It can be overridden by a supermajority

Q334. Quietly but forcefully told

Q336. “___” (X-Files)

Q337. Wall climbers

Q338. Four-sided dice, for example

Q339. Plant support

Q341. City in Kirghizia

Q342. Reached, as a total

Q343. Sect opposed to ISIS

Q345. “While you’re going there, would you mind…”

Q346. Duct tape has many

Q347. Ad Parnassum painter

Q349. “Suits you to ___”

Q350. Flag-making patriot

Q352. Part played

Q354. “Starbucks represents something beyond ___ of coffee” (Howard Schulz)

Q357. J.S. Bach’s fictional descendant

Q359. 1973 Elvis Presley single

Q361. Up to, poetically

Q363. Certification for eco-friendly buildings, for short

Q365. The Magic Flute and Orfeo and Euridice, e.g.

Q366. Infomercial catchphrase following “But…”

Q367. Pt. of SASE

Q371. Letters from the impressed

Q372. Corner key

Q373. 5th Avenue landmark

Q376. Hitting sound

Q377. “Learn to say ___ your yes has some oomph” (Kristin Armstrong)

Q378. 1991 invader

Q380. First square on a chessboard

Q381. Accords and Odysseys

Q382. “It should have been ME, dammit!”

Q383. Teutonic, one might say

Q385. Singing pairs

Q387. Famously obese president

Q389. Riddle-me-___ (line in a children’s rhyme)

Q391. Stanford-Binet results

Q393. To be located in Paris?

Q395. Fire worshipper

Q397. UK’s Gordon Brown et al.

Q398. Hermione’s love

Q399. Los Angeles region bordering Tarzana

Q400. Producer’s ms.

Q405. Cassius’ cry

Q406. In concert

Q407. Kind of model train with nearly an inch between tracks

Q409. Dryden’s day-end

Q410. Color-changing swimmers

Q412. “Are You Good-Girl Hot or Bad-Girl Hot?” or “Are You A Closet Commitment- Phobe?”

Q413. Rob Gronkowski’s team, briefly

Q414. Take part (in)

Q416. Not irregular

Q418. Dilemmas

Q419. They close dialogue

Q421. What astronaut Edgar Mitchell meant when he said, “We have been visited”

Q424. Functioning as

Q426. Recurring every fourth day

Q428. Goatish gamboler

Q430. Listener’s words

Q431. Series with spinoffs set in Hawaii, Los Angeles, and New Orleans

Q432. Register ring-up

Q433. Change one letter in these predators’ names to get mountains where they hunt

Q436. “___ be better if…”

Q437. Reading the minds of

Q438. Native of Oklahoma (var.)

Q439. Unlikely or pessimistic

Q441. South Park boy

Q442. Novelist Gogol

Q443. They may be jam- packed

Q445. Good buddy

Q446. 2016 Olympics city, casually

Q447. Small amphibian

Q449. Show of hands?

Q450. Waters of Paris

Q452. “Ask me no questions and I’ll ___ you no lies”

Q454. Fractional suffixes

Q456. Some garden groupings

Q458. Cover of night?

Q460. Seeks damages or justice

Q461. Plays a puck ploy

Q462. “Top o’ the mornin’ to ye,” for example

Q464. Unfruitful

Q465. Ill-tempered nestlings

Q466. “___ beginning to believe” (The Matrix)

Q467. Name in rifles or term in music

Q468. Restaurant of a sort

Q472. Polos and jeans, e.g.

Q473. Arctic seabirds

Q475. Mrs., in Madrid

Q477. Location of many a traffic light

Q478. Just ___: ever so slightly

Q479. High-ranking Brahmin priests

Q480. Yves Klein describes this fighting art as “the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space”

Q484. Charming absurdity

Q486. Go through channels?

Q489. Juliet, to Romeo

Q491. Zoological family suffix

Q492. Rev.’s initials

Q493. Offer a respectful gesture (to)

Q494. Realm that lasted roughly one thousand years (abbr.)

Q501. Source of “I have the high ground”

Q503. Word following front or rear

Q504. Leave a game melodramatically

Q506. Matter in the Big Bang theory

Q507. Additive to make oil more filterable

Q509. Far-reaching influence

Q510. Home Shopping Network rival

Q511. Little Miss Peggotty of David Copperfield

Q512. Burglarize, in slang

Q513. Fleet fliers

Q515. Zenith

Q517. “Don’t know why ___ this way…”

Q519. Engineered food, briefly

Q521. Country with a red, white and blue flag (abbr.)

Q523. Preoccupy the thoughts of

Q525. State, as a price

Q526. Prodding

Q529. ^

Q531. They make a gallon

Q532. Utopian areas

Q534. Sociopaths with regular victims

Q535. Areas for dressing

Q537. Chubby

Q538. Venae ___: large blood vessels

Q540. “…for daws to peck ___ am not what…” (Othello)

Q541. Major DC lobby

Q542. Trappers’ wares

Q543. Utopia author

Q544. Sideshow Bob’s nemesis

Q546. Jut

Q547. Used as a dining table

Q549. Seek out fiddlers?

Q550. Rehearsed reply

Q552. Lab fire-producer

Q555. LGA listings

Q556. Asian title that’s an anagram of an English one

Q558. Corp.-partnership hybrid

Q559. Plumbing problem

Q560. Microscopic proof of rabies

Q563. Disinclination to change

Q564. Straw in the wind

Q565. The UN and AOL have theirs in NYC

Q566. Add more staff than

Q567. Less tended, as a garden

Q568. Bibliophile’s treasures

Q569. Fowl entrees

Q570. Muscles strengthened by squats

Q571. Phantom before Claude

Q572. Caesar or Chaplin.

Q576. Former cigarette

Q577. “King ___” (1978 hit by Steve Martin)

Q578. “___ Lugosi’s Dead” (Bauhaus)

Q579. Consultants in composition, for short

Q582. Update, as for an atlas

Q585. Jodi who was Connecticut’s second-ever female governor

Q587. Hindu avatar

Q589. The end of mathematics?

Q590. Thing left in a tray

Q591. Farm-raised

Q593. Bar, to a barrister

Q594. Oxford honoree

Q595. 1990s hardware that was Windows, Apple, and IBM-compatible

Q598. Race-starting word

Q602. Stone made of fire’s residue

Q604. Island sacred to Hephaestus

Q605. Triangulum Australe’s celestial neighbor

Q607. Phillies’ league (abbr.)

Q608. Pesci of GoodFellas

Q609. Fonda or Seymour

Q610. Toss (out)

Q612. Sea now mostly desert

Q614. Negligent in one’s duty

Q616. “Who are ___ argue?”

Q617. Music’s often built on it

Q619. Per Alan Bell, “innocence playing in the mud, beauty standing on its head, and motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”

Q621. Fret and delay

Q622. Bad-tempered people

Q625. Old anti-war gp.

Q629. Online registration creations

Q630. “Every word is like an unnecessary ___ on silence and nothingness” (Samuel Beckett)

Q631. Heartbeats

Q633. On the way out?

Q634. Cart track, e.g.

Q635. “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech” speaker

Q636. Question marks

Q637. Sneak a look at

Q641. Crow over

Q643. Queasy near the quay

Q645. Purse or suitcase

Q646. Abbreviated guesses?

Q649. Dutch ophthalmologist Herman who developed the eye chart

Q654. Some saints

Q658. Eyelike spots

Q659. Fats Domino’s music, for short

Q661. Plantation

Q662. “Help Me” vocalist Mitchell

Q664. Holy artifact

Q665. Partook of

Q666. Motown had four of them?

Q668. Junior who played 268 games for the NFL

Q670. Chastise, with “out”

Q671. Dunkin’ alternatives

Q673. Carpe diem at the ball game: steal ___

Q675. Cantilever and joist

Q676. Highway access

Q678. Scents for men

Q682. Anxious malaise

Q684. Gagster

Q686. Patient optimists

Q687. Keep conforming

Q688. Name on a building, perhaps

Q689. Child-rearing, e.g.

Q691. Be delayed

Q692. In the Middle Ages “a lingua franca every bit as potent as Latin and Greek” (Dan Jones)

Q694. OutKast or Black Star

Q695. Faulty explosive

Q696. The most famous Knievel

Q697. Family guy

Q698. Certain undergarment

Q701. “With great power comes great responsibility” speaker…he may not have said it FIRST, but he’s said it the MOST

Q704. Unfavorable fame

Q706. Bad-tempered display

Q707. Sleuth Archer

Q708. Suffix with dino-

Q710. 1980 erupter

Q712. Ancient Greek coin

Q714. Goggled

Q717. Johnny Carson’s network, once

Q718. Perform incremental action

Q719. Ray J 2008 album

Q720. Wage range

Q721. It’s like podcasts for old people

Q722. 1977 British legislation that protected tenants

Q724. “Fus ro ___” (Skyrim power shout)

Q727. Late reality star Nicole Smith

Q728. Second Catholic President

Q730. Reaper’s path

Q732. Saints linebacker Manti ___

Q733. No diff. in stock price

Q734. Gorbachev policy

Q736. Television actor Jimmy

Q737. Merch to move in a day

Q738. Hartman who played Troy McClure

Q739. Italian lake

Q740. Steadily destructive

Q741. Food name that doubles as its own recipe

Q743. “I was ___-between size” (Jim Brown)

Q745. “Sole Survivor” singers

Q746. Ryan and Bushnell

Q748. Went back to square one

Q750. Disgraceful deception

Q752. Where obedient pets walk

Q755. China’s second-longest river

Q760. Throw off the scent

Q761. How many TV shows are shown nowadays

Q762. Boldness

Q764. Blueprints (alternate plural)

Q766. Disk you perch on while tipsy

Q767. Rodent in a German lab

Q768. Duff Beer server

Q769. Stall phones

Q770. Guiding principle

Q772. Liar’s tell, sometimes

Q773. “Eh, sure…what the hell”

Q774. Stationery item

Q778. Moot point

Q779. Some party snacks

Q782. One or the other

Q783. Trunk lines?

Q784. Only potentially, to the law

Q787. Canines, to a dentist

Q788. Con artist’s cube

Q789. In-flight details, for short

Q790. “Well, hi there!”

Q791. Funds for the future

Q792. Clark Kent’s birth name

Q794. Trivialized and played (wit)

Q796. One way to reach a base

Q797. Customers

Q800. Indian clothing wrap

Q802. “I’ve heard more than enough,” briefly

Q803. Suffix of present participles

Q804. Murdoch of “news”

Q806. General ___ Chicken

Q808. Give freely

Q814. Reunion invitee

Q815. Appetizer served with sherry

Q816. On ___ (secretly)

Q817. When a cock crows

Q818. Fermented-milk drinks

Q822. State capital with an Egyptian Theatre

Q823. Profoundly insightful

Q825. Mr. Spock was one

Q827. Doctors, briefly

Q828. Gets reasonable

Q829. Spanish “huh?”

Q830. ___ attention to (ignore)

Q832. Address to the bench

Q833. Beverly Hills cop played by Eddie

Q836. “What other people think of ___ not my business” (RuPaul)

Q837. Do nothing much, and do it horizontally

Q839. “___” (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Q840. Portions

Q842. Let go from the production

Q845. Spark warm feelings in

Q847. Old school cheer

Q852. “___ to bed” (“Time for sleep” in Jeeves stories)

Q853. “You can’t get ___ of me that easily!”

Q854. Finish of many a URL

Q856. Bills with Jefferson’s portrait

Q857. Eng. honor

Q858. “___” (The Big Bang Theory)

Q860. Football team

Q861. Thornbacks

Q863. New baby

Q865. Reason I got called “pizza face” in seventh grade

Q867. Cell in a battery

Q868. 1950s novelty act ___ Sumac

Q870. Worker’s end-of-week shout

Q872. The Threepenny ___

Q874. Strengthens, hardens

Q880. “Just ___!” (“Be right with you!”)

Q881. Early Dustin part

Q882. Kind of hatter

Q883. Boston pro on ice

Q884. NASCAR div. in Toledo

Q885. Bus. with offerings that really stack up?

Q887. Campbell who didn’t put up with low wages for Scream VI

Q889. Mob and lob end?

Q890. Vitamin with dermatological uses

Q891. Prop from Aladdin

Q893. Kind of tchr.

Q894. Ltr. add-ins

Q896. Premium, briefly

Q898. It’s not the main event

Q900. No fashion plate

Q902. Door-to-door delivery

Q904. Register

Q906. Prefix for poise and valence

Q908. French shooting gallery

Q909. Place for garbage

Q911. Academy Award- winner Malek

Q912. Rebuff an offer

Q913. Ushered, in a way

Q914. What Aeneas navigated

Q915. “Press Your Luck” option

Q916. Rastafari wear

Q917. “___ homme!” (“What a Frenchman!”)

Q918. Vermillion sch.

Q919. Gives another star to, perhaps

Q921. Ballet poses

Q922. Part of QED

Q925. ___ generis: of another kind

Q928. Ideal spots

Q929. Sophia of Two Women

Q930. Persian

Q932. Day three (abbr.)

Q934. Paleozoic and Mesozoic

Q936. German philosopher who dealt with theses and antitheses

Q938. Genesis Mini and Mark III, for example

Q940. “I cook with wine; sometimes I even ___ it to the food” (W.C. Fields)

Q943. Game with three or forty cards

Q944. Acreage fig.

Q945. Sitcom with Hawkeye

Q946. Oodles of

Q949. Gun-___ (like Yosemite Sam)

Q952. Domestic dust-up

Q953. Pont ___ (Paris bridge)

Q955. With full judicial participation

Q957. Medical orgs.

Q959. ___ Martens (casual shoes)

Q961. Timber-hewing tool until the 1900s

Q963. Kunis of That ‘70s Show

Q965. Filmdom’s Vittorio De___

Q969. More often than anything else

Q970. Stymied

Q971. Monster from Zork (“It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a ___”)

Q972. Chemical compounds.

Q973. Green and yellow, protein-packed dish in a pie crust

Q976. Mark Greene and Abby Lockhart on TV

Q977. Dogpatch portrayer Al

Q978. ___ salmon (sockeye)

Q979. Liquidation sale terms

Q980. Setting at St. Andrews

Q981. Five partner

Q983. “Jump!” response

Q984. ___ arms (ready to fight).

Q985. Convenient oil holder

Q986. Eclectic name in readers

Q987. Bambinos

Q989. Irish setter, for example

Q992. Too skinny

Q995. Bella and Edward, to Team Edward

Q997. Actress Mosley with the podcast Scam Goddess

Q999. One-named hyperpop pioneer who died in 2021

Q1002. Oral nods while heads are bowed

Q1003. 1960s turn-on

Q1004. Certain Fr. martyr

Q1005. High-priority item list

Q1008. Part of a dict. entry

Q1009. Cockcrow

Q1010. Rollick or frolic

Q1012. Imparted color

Q1014. USB predecessor

Q1016. Hankie embroidery (abbr.)

Q1017. ALF-watchers’ org.

Q1019. Ancient stargazer

Q1021. Set, as a goal

Q1024. Casablanca old flame

Q1026. Dracula incognito

Q1028. Summer spread, for short

Q1030. Laffs that sound a little hiccupy

Q1032. Mystery ship

Q1034. Insurance option that requires referrals

Q1035. Maul, maybe

Q1036. Feline hybrid

Q1037. Color for Microsoft’s cloud service

Q1040. “As a music critic, he’s like Van Gogh” punchline

Q1041. House’s principale level

Q1042. Subject of a closing

Q1043. Youngster

Q1044. Who’s asking

Q1045. Michael Jackson’s last great album (sorry not sorry)

Q1046. Use a pacifier or straw

Q1047. Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas ___ pipe”

Q1048. Great merriment

Q1049. “Ten gallon” brand

Q1051. Tiny fraction of an acre (abbr.)

Q1052. Albatross, e.g.

Q1054. Scott and Wright- Patterson

Q1055. Decrease gradually, with “down”

Q1056. Exposition setting on a cop show

Q1058. Word after top or trade

Q1060. Anjou and Comice

Q1061. “Highway to Hell” band

Q1062. Glowering

Q1065. Remote control button

Q1067. Superabound

Q1069. Responses to oversharing, perhaps

Q1071. Closes with

Q1072. Rotation-producing force

Q1073. Prelude to the Afternoon of ___: Debussy

Q1076. Dance track, often

Q1077. Gulf war side

Q1078. King who united Denmark, Norway, and England

Q1080. Comic Milton known as “Mr. Television”

Q1081. Tank Girl actress Petty

Q1083. Big name in beauty supplies

Q1085. John Hancock’s pen

Q1088. Water ski alternative

Q1089. Pictures of characters?

Q1091. Dog owner’s purchase

Q1092. “And so on,” when tripled

Q1094. British royal family

Q1096. Reasons for

Q1098. Hello to Hadrian

Q1100. “Unbeatable” Marvel heroine with animal-themed powers and incredible conflict resolution skills

Q1102. Eagle, to old Rome

Q1104. Processes, as ore

Q1105. “___ wait” (“The issue isn’t that urgent”)

Q1107. Color of elephant?

Q1109. Hoses down

Q1111. Part of a yr.

Q1112. OPEC nation

Q1113. PC heart

Q1114. Hubbubs

Q1115. Highest hexadecimal digits

Q1116. Word with draft or tooth

Q1117. Expresses grief

Q1118. “___” (Clueless)

Q1120. Be a superachiever

Q1122. Not yet in the mail

Q1123. “___, senor!”

Q1124. Reagle of Wordplay

Q1126. Crunchy cold food shaped like Mexican fare

Q1128. Lenin Mausoleum site

Q1131. Taaake onnn themmm…(TAKE. ON THEM) taaake themmm onnn (TAKE. ON THEM) theyyy’ll beee gonnne in a day or twooooooooo

Q1132. Fiber knots

Q1133. Others, in Toledo

Q1134. “___” (All in the Family)

Q1135. Los Angeles bane

Q1138. Q tail

Q1140. Show ___ (attend)

Q1141. Harvest deity

Q1142. It might make the grade

Q1143. Lover, in Le Havre

Q1149. Lambrusco and Chianti

Q1150. Captain Ahab’s ship

Q1152. Office chair problem

Q1154. High-profile cars or motorcycles

Q1155. A pet collar repels them

Q1156. Chemical’s ending

Q1158. Facial expression.

Q1160. Minor hit-and-run event?

Q1161. “You—you alone will have the stars ___ one else has them” (The Little Prince)

Q1163. Made a horse go right?

Q1165. Private club’s gratuity policy, often

Q1166. Noisy plaything

Q1169. Base-less accusation?

Q1171. Theoretically private, easily screenshottable communiqués

Q1173. Decides the glove doesn’t fit, as Jackie said

Q1175. Its depth is measured in auto inspections

Q1176. ___-fi/fantasy

Q1177. “If ___ a hammer…”

Q1179. Often unearned praise

Q1181. “Float like a butterfly, sting like ___”

Q1182. Derkins in Calvin and Hobbes comics

Q1184. Informal negatives

Q1185. “___ it to me” (Aretha Franklin chorus)

Q1186. ___ Pinafore (comic opera)

Q1187. Barks snappishly

Q1188. Dog Whisperer Millan

Q1189. “That’s ___-go, sorry”

Q1190. Tour de France racer

Q1191. Fit (in), as to a tight schedule

Q1192. Molly, for short

Q1194. Took a straw

Q1198. Gr. peak that “riseth even to the clear aether, wherefore letters written in the dust on the summit of that mountain have been found unchanged after the lapse of a whole year,” according to Vincent of Beauvais

Q1200. Versatile beans

Q1203. Some Polynesian performances

Q1205. Extremely pleasing, in slang

Q1206. Moved rapidly

Q1208. Calyx components

Q1210. Suffix with “ball” and “bass”

Q1213. Game period

Q1214. Wife of Canio, in Pagliacci

Q1217. Impound

Q1218. Onscreen “paper”

Q1219. Energy for a laser-gun

Q1220. Reno device, briefly

Q1222. Tutti-___

Q1223. “Jesus answered and said unto them, ___ err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God” (Matthew 22:29)

Q1225. Non-palindromic version of a palindromic trig abbreviation

Q1227. Cry for

Q1229. ___ as in “answer”

Q1231. Parts of ft.

Q1232. “___ rebellion before it spreads” (Vespasian)

Q1233. Deep-dish pizzeria chain, familiarly

Q1234. Name in crackers or accommodations

Q1235. ___ You Afraid of the Dark?

Q1236. Beginner below?

Q1237. Gunfighter’s talent

Q1238. Watch the neighbors’ kids

Q1239. Answer to the riddle, “What is a door when it is not a door?”

Q1241. Keatsian, e.g.

Q1242. Stupor prefix

Q1244. Suicide Squad director David

Q1245. Furcula and ilium

Q1246. Knightly titles

Q1247. Football gain

Q1248. Preliminary exam (abbr.)

Q1249. Campus in 1970 news

Q1255. Trojan princess of a Mozart opera

Q1258. ___ double take

Q1260. “A Whole New World” singer Bryson

Q1262. Four Tops’ “It’s the ___ Old Song”

Q1265. Big divisions

Q1266. Offends deeply

Q1267. Entr’___ (intermission)

Q1269. Marlins and Mets’ div.

Q1271. “Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in ___” (E.B. White)

Q1272. Foot-longs

Q1274. Puppies’ cries

Q1276. City served by Indira Gandhi International Airport

Q1277. Bleah

Q1278. Sch. in Fort Worth

Q1280. “I’m too angry to explain”

Q1281. Go slowly

Q1283. Voluptuous, in the 2020s

Q1285. “Bite Size Cookies” maker

Q1286. Ideas to start a writing exercise

Q1287. (A) short, private talk without drama

Q1288. Small mass of medicine to swallow

Q1290. Mantelpiece

Q1292. “Able to leap ___ buildings in a single bound”

Q1294. Cornell football rival

Q1295. “I call ‘em like I ___”

Q1296. “The exact words were…”

Q1297. Dummy letters in cryptography

Q1298. “The phantom of the opera is here, inside my mind” speaker

Q1299. “___, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Q1300. Leather shade

Q1302. Today, tomorrow (abbr.)

Q1303. Hopping arcade character

Q1305. Exchange of blows

Q1307. Exclusive

Q1308. Islamic cadre

Q1309. “___” (Casablanca)

Q1310. “It no longer has to be you ___. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival” (Buckminster Fuller)

Q1311. “It finally happened. I got the ___ lady so confused, she said, “In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions” (Robert Breault)

Q1312. Stuck to a wall, say

Q1314. Anastasia’s love interest

Q1315. Canon alternative

Q1316. Modern pacifier for adults

Q1317. “What that poster said”

Q1319. It produced home versions of its arcade rivals

Q1323. “Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that ‘free speech’ is actually a $8/mo. subscription plan” subject, familiarly

Q1325. Best-selling Adidas shoe model

Q1327. Phoenix who played Beau and Bonaparte

Q1329. Moby’s “Why Does My Heart Feel ___?”

Q1331. The Lord of the Rings heavy

Q1332. Snapper relative

Q1333. Beethoven overture for Goethe

Q1334. With AIOUY and consonants only

Q1335. Actress Lords

Q1337. Pictures of illusion

Q1338. More like Cheerios

Q1339. Party favors were sold here

Q1341. Obsessed one

Q1343. “___ or never!”

Q1344. Actor Anthony

Q1345. Wolfe and Sodaro of Hollywood

Q1346. Altar areas

Q1349. Birth-to-today yarn

Q1352. Inga’s role in Baker Street

Q1354. Go on forever

Q1355. “Not a ___ of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious” (Brendan Gill)

Q1357. “___” (Jerry Maguire)

Q1358. Palestinian activist Khaled

Q1360. Turner page-turner

Q1361. Warder

Q1362. “I’ll remember that”

Q1363. Sick, to Simone

Q1364. Says at risk of controversy

Q1366. Fixtures in stardom

Q1367. Fancy ice creams

Q1369. It’ll make you feel like a dotty old lady?

Q1370. [mean quote]

Q1371. Residents of Tallinn, e.g.

Q1373. Mr. “Scarface”

Q1375. Postquarantine permission to use a port

Q1376. Queens, in France

Q1377. Living

Q1378. Jimmy Carter’s former workplace

Q1380. Irritatingly formal

Q1382. Pasta that is totally tubular

Q1383. Quaint cry of horror

Q1384. Sprinter’s workplace

Q1385. Raise an issue or assume an argument

Q1388. Fisherman in the Sargasso Sea

Q1389. Esther of Maude

Q1392. Bach hymn arrangements

Q1394. Raymond and Bing

Q1395. Genghis Khan’s desert

Q1396. Squirrel’s treat

Q1397. Speaker on the page

Q1398. Moon goddess

Q1400. Lois and Clark actress Hatcher

Q1402. Desiring callers, perhaps

Q1405. Opposite of “bref”

Q1406. Andes climber

Q1407. Makeshift Frisbee

Q1408. “Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially ___” (Rihanna)

Q1412. Vote to make

Q1415. Paris telegram or hunting dog

Q1416. “___” (Dirty Harry)

Q1418. Fat-nosed antelope

Q1420. Auto maker out of South Korea

Q1422. Predicament

Q1424. :45 time

Q1425. Double-dog daring, e.g.

Q1427. Film about teeth?

Q1428. Grasped hard (there’s another definition we won’t talk about)

Q1430. Thermoplastics

Q1432. Tear violently

Q1434. Grand Inquisitor

Q1436. “___ live frog the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day” (Nicolas Chamfort)

Q1437. Pope who handled the Aryans in the early-to- mid-300s

Q1438. Not totally against

Q1440. “___” (The Flintstones)

Q1442. Part of the bicep

Q1443. Makes recommendations to

Q1445. “Home on the Range” range

Q1449. System of conveyance (abbr.)

Q1451. Opening trio

Q1455. They’ll get bullets over borders

Q1456. They come out

Q1457. Old-style monitor

Q1458. Cowbird’s cousin

Q1459. Bouquet bringer, maybe

Q1460. Wrap, as a weak wrist

Q1462. Make a new base for a mast.

Q1463. Coleman of High School Musical

Q1466. Don’t get distracted

Q1469. Women-only clothing

Q1470. Ancient Troy

Q1474. Left a review

Q1475. Apuleius’s The Golden ___

Q1477. Penn. crosser

Q1480. Port near Sorrento

Q1482. All het up

Q1484. N followers

Q1486. Assistant sometimes spelled with a “u”

Q1487. Frugivore

Q1488. Tennis-tournament participants

Q1489. Crushed underfoot

Q1490. Not the friend an addict needs

Q1491. With spiky balls

Q1492. Valiant

Q1494. Used, as a saddle

Q1496. Then : Robert ___ High School :: Now : John R. Lewis High School

Q1497. Short movies

Q1499. Hired consultants for

Q1501. Lures on hooks

Q1505. They don’t get much recognition, except in Oscar speeches

Q1506. Vision Pro and Meta Quest, e.g.

Q1508. Apply cosmetics to

Q1510. Old red giant

Q1511. Signs of dimness

Q1513. The lower sash rests on it

Q1515. Act as an arbiter

Q1517. Right now, Pierre!

Q1520. Breathability measurement, for short

Q1521. Waiting to print

Q1523. Way to suspend a spinning ball in midair

Q1525. Bendability

Q1528. Create a mosaic

Q1529. Old name for 8 Mile Road’s border town

Q1531. Retract a comment

Q1532. Sleeveless garment, for short

Q1533. Cuts down

Q1535. Members of the genus Helix

Q1537. Ticket issuer

Q1538. Brown-baggers’ lunches, briefly

Q1539. Word with wing or life

Q1541. Social event

Q1543. Little shoaling fish

Q1545. “If you have built castles in the ___, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them” (Henry David Thoreau)

Q1546. Where you swing your partner

Q1548. TV lineup, for short

Q1549. Believing in the collective unconscious, e.g.

Q1551. Handled, as a sword

Q1553. Wall Street number-crunchers

Q1555. Resident of the forest of Fangorn

Q1557. Diplomatic finesse

Q1560. Rigger’s rope

Q1562. Prescribed amount

Q1564. ___ tai (rum cocktail)

Q1565. High in the Pyrenees

Q1570. Russian-born Israeli leader

Q1571. Title of Pliny who said, “Fortune favors the brave”

Q1573. “Suicide Blonde” rock band

Q1576. Literary kickoff

Q1577. BuzzFeed fare

Q1578. A pricey one can be preemptive

Q1579. Scottish drinking cups

Q1580. Emirate subjects

Q1581. Championship whose first edition (1996) was won by D.C. United

Q1583. Where a cupholder is placed in some movie theaters

Q1585. “You crack ___!”

Q1588. Source of some debate on Crossword Facebook: “Should you use that answer? Isn’t it kind of unpleasant? Does it make light of alcoholism?” to which I have to reply, “I might not have known about this detoxing danger without seeing it in puzzles first, and even though I never got into drinking much, if my college years had gone another way, knowing about it could’ve saved my life”

Q1589. Meagerly manages (with “out”)

Q1590. Home for wasps

Q1594. In the debt of

Q1596. The Awakening heroine

Q1597. Tampers with

Q1599. Math-themed occasion that last occurred April 4, 2016, and will next occur May 5, 2025

Q1600. Impatient invitation at a threshold

Q1602. Manacles

Q1604. Nunlike figure in Nero’s day

Q1605. Le ___ d’Or (Rimsky- Korsakov opera)

Q1606. Knightly undertakings

Q1608. Palm Springs has a well-known one

Q1611. Explanation of principles

Q1613. Opposite of matin

Q1614. My friend, in France

Q1615. Crispin: Cross of Lead author

Q1616. Mario Bros. console letters

Q1619. Fat digestive

Q1620. British machine carbine.

Q1622. Powder in a medicine cabinet

Q1625. Set of opera glasses

Q1626. Shakespearean verb ender, at times

Q1629. Figures expressible as ratios of whole numbers

Q1631. Some big engines

Q1632. "Regnava ___ silenzio" (Donizetti aria)

Q1633. Like antiques at an auction

Q1634. “She had dumps like a truck truck truck” singer

Q1636. Take a ___ (try)

Q1639. Jury-rigged

Q1641. “One,” “two,” and “twelve” each have one

Q1644. Making no sound

Q1647. Zone cinquante-___ (what the French call Area 51)

Q1648. “I’ll Be Your Mirror” photographer Goldin

Q1651. Almost taking turns

Q1653. Satirist Mort

Q1655. Transportation Secretary Elaine

Q1657. Vial liquids

Q1659. Birmingham-to- Montgomery dir.

Q1661. Liaison between Henry Kissinger and Mao Zedong

Q1662. Derek Jeter, for one

Q1663. Milk carton amts.

Q1665. They’re on Dad’s side

Q1666. Not so big

Q1667. Autobiography

Q1668. They pull in pushers

Q1669. Afghani covering

Q1671. They might be high at the opera

Q1673. Tranquility, on the moon, e.g.

Q1674. Paradoxes

Q1677. Man who mourned a mate

Q1678. 15th-century start date

Q1679. Reddens raw

Q1680. It hides the knee

Q1681. Portions (abbr.)

Q1685. Point between two astrological signs

Q1686. Like O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff

Q1687. Language from which we get “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

Q1688. Area of vulnerability

Q1690. Pelosi’s crowd, basically

Q1691. Hong Kong’s Hang ___ Index

Q1693. Tag for recycled Myspace content

Q1697. Many a pop group

Q1698. Spanish neighborhood

Q1699. Bulb info

Q1701. Modems used to offer no more than 2400 of them

Q1703. Louisiana eleven

Q1706. It cuts off fish’s escape

Q1710. Statute, in Soissons

Q1711. Disorder that can cause abdominal pain, for short

Q1712. “Her gifts were mixed with good and evil both” poem

Q1713. It can take up to 14 hrs. to cook

Q1714. Tibetan Buddhism observer

Q1716. Collective investment packages

Q1721. Make into a nullity

Q1722. More livid

Q1723. Smoky vessel

Q1725. Sound after a dusting, sometimes

Q1727. ___ SHRDLU

Q1729. Illegible signature

Q1730. Not resist even a little

Q1732. Coverage for at-fault incidents?

Q1734. Mutts’ motivators

Q1736. Dallas pro

Q1738. Song words

Q1743. Alert to a teammate

Q1744. “I could sure go for one…”

Q1745. “___ you knockin’…”

Q1746. Garbage disposal’s “comment”

Q1747. Personal approval

Q1748. Pirate, in old slang

Q1750. Like some noisy cats

Q1752. Longfellow’s bell town

Q1755. Bug-killers that threatened too much of the rest of the ecosystem

Q1756. Some fast sharks

Q1757. Acidic opener

Q1759. Accord signed in 1992

Q1761. “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense” speaker Ronald

Q1762. Mister ___ (big name in ice cream trucks)

Q1763. It meant little to Chirac

Q1765. Cajun haunts

Q1767. “…And that’s where you should start reading, not the only page to read”

Q1769. Uncommon blood designation

Q1773. Schroeder’s instrument in Peanuts

Q1774. Hardly garrulous

Q1775. Bakery product

Q1777. Where Cleo barged in?

Q1778. Heavy fabric

Q1780. Containment that prevents spoilage

Q1782. Positive or negative

Q1785. Unconcealed

Q1786. Decree ender

Q1789. Like some Gulf War demonstrations

Q1790. Light gray

Q1791. William ___ Sherman

Q1792. City in Bulgaria

Q1794. Used epoxy

Q1796. Truth drugs

Q1798. Tricked-out custom car that may start with a junker

Q1800. Maker of Thneeds in The Lorax

Q1802. Leader of a musical “gang”

Q1805. Like late-autumn leaves

Q1810. Refrain

Q1812. They resemble partridges

Q1813. NetZero, e.g.

Q1816. Scoring stat for NBAers

Q1819. Trig vis-à-vis calc, usually

Q1820. One recipe for it is brown sugar, ground paprika, smoked paprika, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, ground cumin, cayenne pepper, and salt

Q1821. “Grillz” rapper

Q1822. Apple computer line

Q1823. She gets married in Star Trek: Nemesis

Q1824. When Livy’s accounts end

Q1826. War correspondent Pyle

Q1828. Abalone, found near the Channel Islands

Q1830. “None so blind as those that will ___” (Henry)

Q1834. Sound file suffix

Q1835. Suffix for tampon or block

Q1836. Dancer- choreographer Lubovitch

Q1838. Green parrot

Q1840. Yoke on the veld

Q1846. Market research panels

Q1847. Logician’s error, maybe

Q1849. [honking horn]

Q1850. Belly-toning cream punnily named for a note

Q1851. Home follower in home care

Q1852. “But ___ me, give me liberty or give me death”

Q1854. Most Prestwick Airport patrons

Q1856. Biological opening

Q1859. Get ___ (get some)

Q1861. So-called mules

Q1872. Too minor to matter

Q1873. Prepares, as a sloop

Q1874. Number of sides to un dado

Q1875. Hardwood trees

Q1876. Inflation driver?

Q1877. Emily Brontë, in publication

Q1878. Dialect also called the Ulster accent

Q1880. ___ grudge (wouldn’t forgive)

Q1882. Popular nickname

Q1884. Pet cause, for short

Q1891. Build bit by bit

Q1892. Corpus follower

Q1893. The Movie Critic may be his last film

Q1894. Scottish firth

Q1896. Piglet’s plaints

Q1897. Onetime Beatle Sutcliffe

Q1898. Player on a Queens bench

Q1899. Stand by

Q1900. Public excursion to Vegas, e.g.

Q1901. Cohort of Fidel

Q1904. “My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider” subj.

Q1906. Made it through

Q1908. Nobleman

Q1910. Iliescu who said, “Civilization is characterized, rather, by tolerance and open-mindedness”

Q1911. Performed

Q1913. Desirable on the Love Boat

Q1915. Ask (abbr.)

Q1917. Without verbal embellishment

Q1918. Aesthetic feature?

Q1919. ___ -jerk reaction

Q1922. Western range

Q1923. Relating to early literature of Iceland

Q1924. “___ for tat”

Q1925. Hard row ___

Q1926. Amazon’s business

Q1927. Martini’s collaborator in vermouth

Q1928. ___-mini’s (small snack cakes)

Q1929. Mini-”ha ha”

Q1930. Columnists’ pieces

Q1931. Recruit or deal

Q1932. Corners, say

Q1933. Phonograph needles e.g.,

Q1934. Time for rising action

Q1935. Enucleate

Q1936. Swiss city less than two miles from both France and Germany

Q1938. Freshness sign, perhaps

Q1939. Got redder

Q1940. Large Japanese guys

Q1941. Arabic religious text

Q1942. Boots from power

Q1943. Epidemic parotitis

Q1945. “You look as if you’d ___ ghost”

Q1947. “Charmed” particle

Q1949. Deep Blue Sea director Harlin

Q1951. Family of Slammin’ Sammy

Q1952. Blow on the proboscis

Q1953. “There ___ prizes for guessing”

Q1955. “Though [it] had been designed by men, this gruelling, fiddly job of actually building it was almost exclusively the work of women, who laboured nights and weekends until it was complete. Buried in the project’s payroll records are the names of nearly fifty women and perhaps many more who were only listed by their initials” (Ananyo Bhattacharya)

Q1956. Commercials on the tube

Q1957. Nickel-and-___: flooded with useless detail

Q1958. Setting for RI in May

Q1959. Fall for a con

Q1960. “___ is human…”

Q1961. Smashnova vs. Kournikova on the tennis court

Q1962. Oboe and bassoon

Q1963. Olde ___

Q1964. “I’d hate to be ___ shoes”

Q1965. “And your point is…??”

Q1966. Polynesian symbols

Q1967. Max who said, “Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition”

Q1968. Needing scratching

Q1969. Like Mindy’s in-laws

Q1970. Leave the window open in winter, e.g.

Q1972. Nearly unrelated way to go off

Q1979. Last half of a slam dunk play?

Q1981. ___ in “questionable”

Q1982. Disability support prog.

Q1984. Giant gains, briefly

Q1986. Maris’s home-rvn nvmber

Q1988. ___ Sremmurd (“No Type” duo)

Q1995. Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler at NYU

Q1997. SMH or FTW, slangily

Q1998. “Am ___ a healthy weight?”

Q2002. Tea named for an Indian state

Q2003. Gore who sang “It’s My Party” and “Judy’s Turn to Cry”

Q2008. Coat-of-arms ornaments

Q2010. Computer-to- telephone link

Q2014. Gallic goose

Q2015. Needing no cables, in brief

Q2018. Clerical assistants

Q2019. “Unlikely!”

Q2020. “If [your] friend tell thee ___, always imagine that he telleth thee not the whole” (Thomas Fuller)

Q2023. She said “no,” dude

Q2025. Src. of ““Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle,” “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this,” and “A winner is you”

Q2026. Altar-ed speech?

Q2027. “___ se habla español”

Q2028. Illustrating a moral

Q2029. Serenades Heidi, maybe

Q2031. Pop into for a visit

Q2033. Prefix meaning “outside”

Q2034. Afghanistani bread

Q2035. Weasel’s cousin

Q2037. City on the Arkansas River

Q2038. Eyeball Benders and “Is it a vase or two faces?”

Q2039. “It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry- looking” speaker (a comment Shakespeare adapted)

Q2040. “My mind is ___ with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention” (Hedy LaMarr)

Q2041. Heal hurts one’s inflicted

Q2042. Test-taking needs, often

Q2043. Stipend, say

Q2044. Makes proud

Q2046. Going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

Q2047. “To conclude…”

Q2048. CCCXVII thrice

Q2049. ___ Lay Dying

Q2050. Quarterly report abbr.

Q2051. “Oh, yeah?”

Q2054. Dialogue tag for an established female voice

Q2055. Local law (abbr.)

Q2056. Miranda Cosgrove Nickelodeon show

Q2062. Radius’s counterpart

Q2063. Early hr. to retire

Q2065. Writers Wolf, Novik, and Klein

Q2067. Make into two-by- fours, say

Q2070. #1 hit for Tears for Fears

Q2072. Major thoroughfare through Houston, informally

Q2073. Sue Grafton’s ___ for Quarry

Q2075. Man in Karpov’s corner

Q2082. Military-base areas with larger bedrooms

Q2084. Dessert rebranded with the Edy’s name in 2021

Q2087. Access via subtlety

Q2089. Crackling noise

Q2091. Meeting of the rite people?

Q2093. Pre-Pixar collectibles

Q2094. Engage, as interests

Q2095. 2001: A Space Odyssey star Keir

Q2096. “One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards” writer

Q2099. Catch-22-style

Q2101. Like Jewish studies

Q2103. Chairwoman’s set of action items

Q2105. Treat the ice again

Q2106. One way congruent plane geometry figures are the same

Q2107. Small trait that colors one’s character

Q2108. Volcanic depression

Q2109. Start of a Volume 1 heading

Q2110. North Pole workplace

Q2111. ___ Olay (brand of face cream)

Q2112. Like good stories

Q2113. Woodlouse or pill bug, e.g.

Q2114. Bob Seger’s “Like ___”

Q2115. Quasi-cubic

Q2116. “___” ([1973 dystopian film included in the quote])

Q2117. Notable greenhouse gas

Q2118. Merger agreement?

Q2119. “D-OH” person, e.g.

Q2121. Sporty sunroof

Q2122. Change from solid to gas

Q2124. Black-and-white critters

Q2126. “Almost made it, drat it!”

Q2128. Org. for Senators and Capitals

Q2130. The accused in Berlin?

Q2131. My Cousin Vinny actress

Q2132. Bee output

Q2133. Leader who babbled incoherently to the UN for 96 minutes on 9/23/09

Q2134. George Wallace asked why it needed expensive new bombers…”Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?”

Q2135. Trifling

Q2136. Adams or Elgort

Q2138. Bettor’s faith

Q2139. US maritime spy agcy.

Q2140. Are, in Arles

Q2141. New lab

Q2142. “Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music” (Anne Louise Germaine ___- Holstein)

Q2143. Angry Birds beasts

Q2144. Acid alternative to white vinegar

Q2145. Just like

Q2146. Us Weekly alternative

Q2147. Auto propellers (abbr.)

Q2148. Tzu who said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”

Q2149. “___” (Finding Dory)

Q2150. Crowd-avoidant

Q2151. Owned property, legally (from the Latin for “mine and yours”)

Q2153. Today co-host Lauer

Q2154. ___ Story of a Number (book about Euler’s constant)

Q2157. Painter of The Spanish Singer

Q2160. Kind of danishes, often with almonds

Q2161. Like ClickHole

Q2163. Head for the back of the boat

Q2165. Tulsa residents, e.g.

Q2167. Devil’s advocate, e.g.

Q2171. Feeling no pain (or brain)

Q2172. Butcher’s display

Q2173. When you hear, “Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!”

Q2174. EPA concern that even Scott Pruitt admitted “crosses state lines”

Q2175. Sculptors’ mock-ups

Q2178. Symposium offering (abbr.)

Q2181. Star Trek speed measure

Q2182. “I mean, obviously”

Q2183. Alice who won an Emmy for Bewitched

Q2188. Ramen bit

Q2190. “I swear on a stack of Bibles…”

Q2193. Some univ. classes, vis-à-vis other univ. classes

Q2195. Stickball “court”

Q2197. Alternative to Capris

Q2199. Leapin’ lizard

Q2200. Belle and Bart

Q2201. Closedminded in Clackmannanshire

Q2203. Some zoo sounds

Q2204. Period of self-care

Q2209. Those prone to seizures

Q2211. “___” (House)

Q2217. Tennis star who won the US Open on Sept. 8; her last name is a city in Japan

Q2219. Phrase autocompleted in 2021 with “have COVID,” “need a COVID test,” “have ADHD,” and “have anxiety”

Q2221. Big speech maker

Q2223. Be first with the news

Q2224. Mysterious ancient letters

Q2225. Trois follower

Q2226. Virgin goddess of the hunt

Q2227. “What ___ have in mind?”

Q2228. Great Wall nat.

Q2231. “___” (The Lord of the Rings)

Q2232. Giants or Rams

Q2235. Source of all life, some believe

Q2237. Piece of gear for a bronco rider

Q2240. Mix of oaters

Q2241. Imitates Old Blue Eyes

Q2243. “My ___ Breaky Heart,” by Garth Brooks

Q2244. Bear lead-in

Q2245. High land

Q2246. Bit of Halloween attire

Q2248. Nazi-aligned and guerilla, in the ‘40s

Q2250. Bunch of bloody disappointments after all that fuss

Q2252. Remote

Q2254. Frequent final soccer score

Q2256. Chanel men’s perfume

Q2257. Powerful winds

Q2258. Trembles

Q2259. Drums or drivers’ directors

Q2260. A&W rival

Q2263. “Be excellent to each other” speaker

Q2266. Casino calculations

Q2267. Curtain-raising sound effect

Q2269. “Anyone” singer Justin’s now-rarely-used nickname, with “The”

Q2274. “Scratch a lover, and find ___” (Dorothy Parker)

Q2278. Crush and his gang in Finding Nemo, e.g.

Q2280. Rapper ___ Peep

Q2282. Big tech exchange

Q2285. Friend-ly fellow on thy oatmeal cylinder

Q2286. French locale of prehistoric cave paintings

Q2287. Sneaks a look

Q2289. Shade producer

Q2290. Tennis-court divider

Q2292. Come ___ agreement

Q2294. Originates from

Q2296. “I touched your nose!” sound

Q2297. Point-of-view intro

Q2298. What surcharges are added to

Q2302. Armada (abbr.)

Q2303. Indian nursemaid

Q2305. “Collard Greens” and “Man of the Year” singer

Q2309. Where imams work

Q2311. Highly suggestive

Q2314. Teach’s degree

Q2315. Kin of Thos. and Wm.

Q2317. Sum tot.

Q2321. Movie hero who says, “Guys, I’m eating junk and watching rubbish! You better come out and stop me!”

Q2322. Min. fraction

Q2323. Kind of phobia

Q2324. Small drink portions

Q2327. Custodian

Q2330. Rising the highest?

Q2331. Teacher’s first deg.

Q2332. Tie, in surgery

Q2333. Where “amo, amas, amat” is learned

Q2334. Japanese receptacle

Q2335. Mattress size

Q2336. Comic-strip sound at a bar

Q2340. Music group

Q2342. Kind of connection from a mobile device to a PC

Q2343. German President Johannes

Q2345. May Alcott who wrote, “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”

Q2347. Airline to Karachi

Q2348. Law official

Q2349. Really lame

Q2350. Press, as a doorbell

Q2351. Breaks down in sorrow

Q2354. Builder’s plan

Q2356. What Barbra Streisand or James Earl Jones won, although one of each of their awards was noncompetitive

Q2357. Bubbly candy bars I loved in England (you can still get ‘em at Publix or Wegmans)

Q2358. The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars: The Old Republic

Q2361. Akhenaten’s queen

Q2364. Alma mater of Edna Millay

Q2366. With a planetary perspective

Q2367. Cult film subtitled “The Genetic Opera”

Q2368. Excited about

Q2369. Punk rock’s Graffin or Ginn

Q2370. RPG character stat for close combat

Q2371. Fixed, as a pilot

Q2374. Sched. notes

Q2377. Add this weight to the weight of its first word to get the gross

Q2379. Big finish

Q2381. Micky Dolenz was one

Q2382. High-speed connection

Q2383. Fire alternative

Q2385. “___ God” (2013 Eminem hit)

Q2387. Caledonian slope

Q2389. Capital known for its colonial Italian architecture

Q2391. Louvre, par exemple

Q2393. Cotton Bowl home, nicknamed

Q2395. Deleted

Q2396. “___ nocent, docent”

Q2398. Cameraman’s contraption

Q2401. Throw ___: rant

Q2402. Jeffrey Toobin book profiling the Supreme Court

Q2403. Paddling

Q2404. Note on an Asian food menu

Q2406. ___ Dark Materials (Philip Pullman trilogy that includes The Golden Compass)

Q2407. Extinct aquatic lizard

Q2409. Be a big boy, slangily

Q2411. Word of negation

Q2412. It allows you to finish smoothly

Q2414. Spinoff drama featuring LL Cool J

Q2415. Peyote or saguaro

Q2416. Stone of Soissons

Q2418. “Son of the Sun”

Q2419. Imbiber’s road offense

Q2420. Gp. that may be deployed

Q2421. “I can thrill you more than any ___ could ever dare try” (“Thriller” lyric)

Q2423. Experimental biofuel

Q2424. FaceTime platform

Q2425. Pouty protruder

Q2426. Overly meticulous

Q2427. “Make ___ for the border” (slogan Taco Bell quietly dropped for some reason)

Q2429. Restaurant options not that much healthier than soda

Q2431. Blood’s rival

Q2434. Cap wearer’s grooming woe

Q2435. Fundamentally

Q2437. Afghan’s home

Q2438. R&D schs.

Q2440. Roman predecessor

Q2443. Bowl for water, in India

Q2446. Give an aura to

Q2448. Muslim temple

Q2449. “Grin and ___”

Q2450. Rafter’s aid

Q2451. Extremely wise one

Q2452. Stow, as liner luggage

Q2454. Shark Tank’s Lori Grenier, to her fans

Q2456. Ed.’s charge

Q2459. Scammers who might email Grandpa

Q2460. One with a powerful racket?

Q2461. Match enders for short

Q2463. Expert’s nugget

Q2464. Pretty

Q2465. Song words for Caron

Q2469. Samuel of experimental theater

Q2471. “What are you, ___?”

Q2472. Counter protests?

Q2474. Stuntperson, generally

Q2475. Abounding with shrubs.

Q2477. “I’m ___, she’s mine” (repeated lyric in “Do Wah Diddy Diddy”)

Q2478. Status ___

Q2479. “Not today” speaker Stark

Q2480. Leftover scrap

Q2481. Approval of sorts

Q2483. Glades critter

Q2484. Memorable theatrical impresario

Q2486. Champing at the doggone bit

Q2491. Arctic explorer Fridtjof who said, “The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer”

Q2492. Familiar story device

Q2493. Lover’s question on a long-distance call

Q2494. ___ Sant’Gria (wine brand)

Q2496. “___ to the Limit” (Eagles hit)

Q2497. Club with a lodge

Q2499. Beach grass

Q2501. Album pics

Q2504. Totally screw up

Q2505. Moroccan cultural center

Q2506. Kind of condition

Q2507. Terry Gilliam’s directing masterpiece

Q2509. Toss him about like ___ doll

Q2510. Story sources?

Q2511. Giving ___: going “rah, rah, rah”

Q2513. Cat’s flat

Q2515. She talks with her hands

Q2516. Cocoon critters

Q2522. Guard against running out

Q2524. Lights, sounds, and jolts

Q2525. Frequency ranges for radio stations

Q2527. Iranis and Iraqis

Q2529. Accommodations for travelers

Q2532. Aggressive biter

Q2533. Full of impurities

Q2536. Female impersonator

Q2537. Unobtrusive

Q2538. Phineas calls him “more of a man of action”

Q2539. Gentleman caller

Q2540. Married to the ___

Q2542. Famed Ingres painting.

Q2543. Judge or critic

Q2545. Rural call

Q2547. Cause of fur loss

Q2549. Cancun must

Q2550. “I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself” jazzman

Q2552. Quartet part

Q2553. What hawks and hopes can do

Q2555. “How ‘bout that!”

Q2558. “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow, you’re only a day away” singer

Q2559. ___ liberales (subject at universidades)

Q2560. Take away the defenses of

Q2562. Mormon State flowers

Q2565. Tight topper

Q2567. Zalman Schachter- Salomi called it like the mind because “by itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in”

Q2568. African Great Lakes group

Q2570. Seaweed

Q2571. Protagonist Lee in Turning Red

Q2572. Turn to a free-flow state

Q2574. British dish that has apples and mutton, not bird as advertised

Q2577. Cyclist’s roadside repair kit

Q2579. Full of element 12

Q2581. Medical frauds

Q2584. Mary and Mike

Q2587. Fleece finder

Q2588. Base figures

Q2592. Arabic word meaning “base”

Q2594. Emergency supplies holder

Q2596. “Radio for speaking to God,” according to Raiders of the Lost Ark

Q2597. Japanese carp

Q2598. High-performance engine

Q2600. Roi-crowning city

Q2602. Rolls and secures a piece of fabric neatly

Q2603. Partridge family transportation

Q2604. Gertrude and Ophelia, e.g.

Q2606. Snorkel's rank, in Beetle Bailey, for short

Q2608. Kadiddlehopper in The Red Skelton Show

Q2609. “There is ___ too small, ___ too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions…” (Howard Zinn)

Q2611. Sony absorbed it, then sold its brand

Q2615. Sin city?

Q2617. Speed abbrs.

Q2618. “We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. Without them we grow weak like the ___ in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence” (H.G. Wells)

Q2619. What a huckster chases, with “a”

Q2622. Central African nation sometimes called North African

Q2624. Pixar architect John

Q2625. Coalition

Q2626. Littlest of dog litters

Q2628. On the ___ vive

Q2630. Indicate a price change

Q2632. PDF attachment alternative

Q2633. Paving blocks

Q2635. Quick note?

Q2636. It’s really hot

Q2637. Place with trails

Q2638. Ex-

Q2639. Sleuth kin

Q2640. Fancy clothes, unfancily

Q2642. Thing on a big farm

Q2645. Angry past all self-control

Q2647. People who remember the original Transformers

Q2649. Some pets’ least favorite place to be

Q2650. Tight-fitting jumper

Q2652. Pay to cross town, maybe

Q2654. Instant replay cameras, for short

Q2657. Progenitor in German

Q2658. Brokeback Mountain’s Randy

Q2660. Treat as useless

Q2662. Polka forerunner

Q2664. Batted only

Q2666. First movie based on the Warsaw Uprising

Q2667. ___ out (didn’t participate)

Q2668. Nostradamus, e.g.

Q2671. 1960s world chess champ

Q2673. “Shape ___ ship out!”

Q2674. Spoofing or trying to copy

Q2675. Nolan of pitching fame

Q2678. Amused Twitter term

Q2682. The sheer hatefulness of it, as a motivation

Q2683. “Why, with my brains, and your ___…”

Q2685. More gelatinous

Q2686. ___Fiction

Q2687. Naval petty officer (abbr.)

Q2688. Shot, as a gun

Q2689. Ireland’s alias

Q2690. Cue or clue

Q2692. Short story

Q2694. Writers’ supplies, briefly

Q2696. Blasting mixture

Q2697. Slangy “buddies”

Q2698. Choose one you love, they say, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life

Q2699. Lead-in to Rocky, Ferg, or Yams

Q2700. Flow out forcefully

Q2702. Old Mideastern alliance (abbr.)

Q2704. Suits and such

Q2708. Saracen descendant

Q2709. Student of flora and fauna

Q2711. 10 to the 100th

Q2712. “OMG, you’re LADY GAGA!”

Q2714. Where one may make a permanent decision?

Q2715. Rock finale?

Q2717. Driver’s licenses, e.g.

Q2718. “We’re not in Kansas anymore” speaker

Q2720. Goof in print

Q2721. Keep getting magazines

Q2722. “Everything must go” event

Q2724. Picnic go-withs, normally

Q2726. LG product

Q2727. What Monty Hall made

Q2728. Funeral music

Q2730. Backwoods parent

Q2731. Opposite of dele, to a typesetter

Q2733. Muff (it)

Q2734. Place for enshrining legends, for short

Q2737. Big Little Lies star

Q2740. Pro vote

Q2742. Flier’s monogram

Q2743. “___” (Friends)

Q2745. “NBD, but…”

Q2747. Farewell remarks

Q2750. Apples or oranges

Q2752. Out-of-the-way way

Q2754. Jazz bands

Q2755. “Laude,” on diplomas

Q2756. Obstacles for Chinese apps

Q2757. Where the reaction is

Q2758. In ___ of: substituted for

Q2760. Sit without a chair

Q2761. Gets a song ready to be played

Q2762. Sis, to bro

Q2764. Silly laugher’s pair

Q2766. Milk source

Q2768. Kind of waiter or water

Q2770. Fastener

Q2772. Campers’ campers, for short

Q2774. Window cleaner

Q2777. Special kind of day

Q2779. Bend the truth

Q2781. NL East nine

Q2783. Site of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Q2784. Units of roughly twenty aircraft

Q2785. Human resources transaction

Q2787. Extinct flightless bird

Q2788. New owner, in law

Q2789. “___” ([1994 Best Picture])

Q2790. Ludovico Sforza’s nickname, with “the”

Q2791. O followers

Q2792. Single-piece body garments for babies

Q2794. Poetic New England family.

Q2795. Canadian dollar coin, in slang

Q2797. When Claudius was born

Q2799. Like an inner tube, geometrically

Q2800. Poe’s “The ___ of the Red Death”

Q2802. Org. that beat Napster

Q2804. Settled the tab

Q2807. Txt msg

Q2809. “…once ___ upon a promontory” (Shakespeare)

Q2810. Sticks’ fellow

Q2813. Signaled boatswain style

Q2814. Theresas, casually

Q2816. Muslim ascetic (var.)

Q2818. “To err is human, to ___ is pirate”

Q2819. Cal or Carnegie

Q2820. Completely renovated

Q2822. Debits’ opp.

Q2823. Deprived of reason, undiplomatically

Q2824. Prognosticate with a crystal ball

Q2826. Stop, as an animal from attacking

Q2828. Bass, musician

Q2829. Gomez who sang “Calm Down” with Rema

Q2833. French king known as “the Do-Nothing”

Q2835. Granular bodies in cells

Q2837. Plant used in cosmetics

Q2839. Measure of social distance, metaphorically

Q2841. Ends abruptly

Q2844. It’s likelier to use its bristly legs than webs to catch prey

Q2846. “Go suck an egg!”

Q2847. French century

Q2852. Morse with 1952’s “The Blacksmith Blues”

Q2853. More slippery and slimy

Q2854. [Wrong answer!]

Q2855. Indian of New Mexico

Q2856. “I often quote myself. It ___ spice to my conversation” (George Bernard Shaw)

Q2857. Marsh or Martin

Q2858. ___ obstante (regardless)

Q2859. Pop’s boy

Q2862. Ponselle and others

Q2863. Brazen

Q2865. Big name in bathroom scales

Q2866. To the right, in Paris

Q2867. Tolerated

Q2868. With “the,” music about ill tidings

Q2869. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to ___” (Bruce Lee)

Q2871. Cell fragment?

Q2873. Arthur, Miller

Q2875. Erstwhile Fords

Q2878. Letters of online disapproval

Q2880. Youngest Olympian

Q2884. Walk leisurely

Q2886. Dream of Debussy?

Q2887. “L’___, c’est moi” (Louis XIV)

Q2889. Most Irish pub patrons

Q2890. Evil spy who said, “East, West…just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other”

Q2893. Abundant source of energy

Q2894. 100 cents, in Cork

Q2897. Fate worse than death in the Toy Story films

Q2899. Drugged, or just acting like it

Q2900. Alias writer-producer Andre

Q2903. “It is Jesus who ___ in you the desire to do something great with your lives” (Pope John Paul II)

Q2904. Music disks before CDs

Q2905. East, to Heinrich

Q2907. Girl of a 1928 jazz standard (and a 2023 movie title)

Q2909. Like a scam artist

Q2911. John of Steppenwolf

Q2913. Husbands, in Hootin’ Holler

Q2915. Corded necktie

Q2916. Guy behind Michael Jackson, once

Q2917. Implants deeply

Q2919. Colanders

Q2922. A long time to wait

Q2923. Lombardo and Forget

Q2925. Barely beat

Q2926. Dairy beasts

Q2927. Shi’a center

Q2928. Duet minus one

Q2929. Picks from a police lineup

Q2930. Pearl on a necklace

Q2931. “The peanut is neither ___ nor…” (Mike Myers)

Q2937. “She must have ___ lives”

Q2939. The ___ that bind

Q2942. It’s comprised of atoms (abbr.)

Q2946. With all the weapons one might need

Q2948. Gets a thumbprint scanned

Q2950. Yeast cake

Q2951. The Swamp Thing, to his friends

Q2952. The way it is

Q2954. Sol, la, or ti

Q2956. Versifier of a sort

Q2958. Disincline to follow through

Q2959. Acts like a suitor to

Q2960. Fabric meas.

Q2962. Police assignment

Q2964. Lucky breaks

Q2965. Ejection interjection

Q2967. Bus rte. stop

Q2969. What must go on

Q2970. Semicircular dip in a mountain

Q2971. These freaking prices, e.g.

Q2972. NBA all-star Olajuwon

Q2973. Someone drunk with power might be on one

Q2974. “APPLAUSE” sign locale

Q2976. ___ Alto

Q2978. Credit cards may make them 0%…at first

Q2980. Chides

Q2982. Walk laboriously

Q2984. Bustlings

Q2985. “I could take ___ Connery in a fight” (Harrison Ford)

Q2987. Places of worship

Q2989. Boots’ bestie

Q2990. Straw block

Q2992. Digital promotions

Q2995. The stuff that creams are made of

Q2996. Surgeon who said, “We don’t need sugar to live, and we don’t need it as a society”

Q2997. High-pitched holler

Q2998. Bell ringing

Q2999. Whiskered Li’l Abner creature

Q3000. Liner retired on 11/27/08

Q3001. Assassination organizations

Q3006. “That behavior wasn’t me”

Q3008. Member of the rose family

Q3010. Word with bed or head

Q3013. God, in Roma

Q3015. Oreo morpheme

Q3017. Energize

Q3019. “Apparently”

Q3021. Official bulletin

Q3022. Six-pack composition

Q3023. Gimlet needs

Q3026. “I don’t see any problem there”

Q3027. Handguns, in slang

Q3029. No-win situation

Q3030. Too much, musically

Q3031. Scheming bunch

Q3032. German sir-man

Q3033. Leather for a flask

Q3035. CEO, CFO, etc.

Q3036. Short answer?

Q3037. ___ project

Q3038. Theatrical assistants, old-style

Q3039. MAOI alternative

Q3041. You’ve learned to like them

Q3042. “God loves you” follower

Q3044. Mixer setting

Q3046. Crude stool

Q3048. South African capital

Q3052. Five, in France

Q3054. Debt cancellations

Q3055. Cesar Millan-ism

Q3057. CONTROL’s nemesis on Get Smart

Q3058. Does pre-laundry work

Q3059. Doing things differently

Q3061. Suffixes for followers, natives and minerals

Q3062. African mammal with 58 chromosomes

Q3063. Program executors, for short

Q3064. LBJ’s antipoverty agcy.

Q3065. Homebuyer’s receipt

Q3066. Game of queens, bishops, and time limits

Q3069. Misinform, maybe

Q3070. Concerning, atop a memo

Q3071. An equal number

Q3073. Wood sorrel, growth with (aptly) an intense, lemony flavor

Q3074. Soul of the Somme

Q3075. 10 star who worked often with her husband John

Q3078. Administrative title (abbr.)

Q3080. “___ the grass in the fields…” (Walt Whitman)

Q3083. Pops in the fridge?

Q3085. “Sicus ___ in principio” (As it was in the beginning)

Q3086. Glossy material

Q3088. “As you sow, so shall you ___”

Q3089. Pakistan’s locale

Q3092. Smartphones, e.g.

Q3093. Travelers’ shelter of sorts

Q3096. Kind of eclipse called a “Ring of Fire”

Q3098. “That’s one small ___ for a man, one giant leap for mankind”

Q3099. “Cluck-cluck there” follower, in children’s song

Q3100. Part of a certain college course

Q3102. “I will find you and I will kill you” movie

Q3103. Lamb’s forte

Q3105. Distance weapon without projectiles

Q3106. One might go out on a limb

Q3109. Take to the aircraft

Q3110. Propose

Q3112. “Wait a minute!”

Q3114. Cats character called “the Theatre Cat”

Q3116. “___” (Doctor Who/Community)

Q3118. y = 2x + 1, e.g.

Q3121. Agréable

Q3123. Loony, to a Londoner

Q3124. Occupied

Q3125. Solzhenitsyn’s archipelago

Q3127. “You will be assimilated” TV show

Q3129. Reggae phrase for oneness

Q3130. Carrier’s airplanes

Q3131. Middle verse of the alphabet song

Q3132. Small, hollow, rubber spheres in sports

Q3133. Overplay, as a role

Q3134. Weasel’s sound, in a song

Q3136. Einstein’s hometown

Q3137. Old shields

Q3138. One learning method

Q3139. Two-story

Q3140. Tangle up

Q3142. Grand ___-bah

Q3144. Lajoie of Cooperstown

Q3146. Acknowledgment of a job well done

Q3148. “There’s ___” (“It’s not all good news”)

Q3151. ___-1701 (the starship USS Enterprise)

Q3153. Mexican Indian

Q3155. Many a prayer

Q3156. Injury you can sustain by coughing or golfing

Q3159. Arctic abodes (var.)

Q3160. Pouting grimaces

Q3161. Dallas-based carrier

Q3162. Epilepsy diagnoser

Q3165. USN and USAF div.

Q3166. Ornamental evergreen shrub

Q3167. Bad eye sight?

Q3168. Doesn’t fill with activity, as time

Q3171. “___” (Star Trek)

Q3174. Demo CDs and unsolicited MSs, e.g.

Q3176. Little store

Q3179. French wine region

Q3180. Technowhiz

Q3182. Grades 1 through 12

Q3184. Instance-based, oft-misleading reasoners

Q3186. “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a ___” (Augustine of Hippo)

Q3188. Rudely ignores

Q3191. Tuxedo shirt fastener

Q3193. Nautilus attacker

Q3194. Recap figure

Q3195. “Boiling water,” in prescriptions

Q3197. “___ true for me” (“I agree”)

Q3198. In bulk

Q3199. Straightened up in one’s chair

Q3200. “Our,” in Tours

Q3201. Floral part

Q3202. They used to play at the Big A

Q3203. Presenters in a box

Q3209. Like some signage

Q3211. Prefix with friendly or freak

Q3213. Doublet

Q3215. ___ Strauss

Q3218. Sony’s rival

Q3220. Rower’s craft

Q3222. Uncles, in Toledo

Q3224. Showy Scandinavian rugs

Q3225. “Etc.,” when tripled

Q3227. Daniel Radcliffe post-Potter project

Q3228. Flour source

Q3229. “That’ll do, pig, that’ll do” addressee

Q3231. Carry with the destination of

Q3232. Fuzzy stuff

Q3233. “What should ___?” (dieter’s quandary)

Q3234. Prayers’ requests

Q3235. Most cutting-edge

Q3236. Double the given frequency

Q3240. Build-your-own- breakfast option at some hotels

Q3242. Atlantic Ocean-Great Lakes junction

Q3245. “Do they really live where this cc. says they live?” check

Q3247. “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control” speaker

Q3249. Children only

Q3251. Like Nasdaq trades (abbr.)

Q3253. To be neighborly

Q3255. Manhattan neighborhood with lots of kimchee and karaoke, familiarly

Q3258. Actress Ling

Q3260. Bumper-sticker word

Q3261. Oppose and defy

Q3264. Chinese dynasty after the Qin

Q3266. ___ the open

Q3268. Quick reversals, so to speak

Q3270. Magazine that pioneered “new journalism”

Q3271. Actress Bisset

Q3272. “The World is Yours” emcee

Q3275. Initials in casual hookup ads

Q3276. The calendar point that’s just past

Q3277. Designs

Q3278. It may be progressive

Q3279. Prof. type

Q3280. Clothes some claim are “not about oppression but freedom from evil eyes”

Q3282. “U so funny”

Q3283. Widest shoe sizes

Q3284. Schedule uncertainty (abbr.)

Q3285. Pleistocene or Paleocene

Q3287. Royal house

Q3288. Accountant’s abbreviation.

Q3289. Suffix with stink or switch

Q3290. Gives a gracious goodbye

Q3292. Little cannabis extract

Q3293. Base of many Louisiana dishes

Q3294. “No thanks, I just ___”

Q3295. Kicked the bucket

Q3296. “Why bother?!”

Q3299. Five centesimi

Q3303. College Board offering involving declension

Q3304. Gaelic May Day

Q3305. They queue behind Qs

Q3306. Isn’t in a rush

Q3307. Dan Aykroyd, by birth

Q3314. Rapa ___, people who call their region “the navel of the world”

Q3319. ___ Reform: Antebellum period

Q3323. Display of courage, perhaps

Q3324. 7^th Heaven star Jessica

Q3326. Are apparently

Q3327. Street artist known for graffiti crowns

Q3330. Cash or stock

Q3331. Cubes, spheres, and pyramids

Q3332. Person out of sync with society

Q3336. Red Label spirits

Q3339. Break down in school

Q3341. Plato was his pupil

Q3343. William, for one

Q3345. Killer whale of a 1977 film

Q3347. “All right!”

Q3350. “That’s enough from you!”

Q3352. Strike lightly

Q3354. “AAAGH! Eso es un jalapeño PICANTE! Caliente, CALIENTE!”

Q3355. “King of Latin Pop” who sang, “Would you dance if I asked you to dance?”

Q3357. 2021 film set on Arrakis

Q3358. Princeville greeting gift

Q3359. “Whither thou goest, so go I” source

Q3360. Secular worship

Q3361. Pink Panther creator Freleng

Q3363. “To do all your own ___, you have to be so strong” (Margot Robbie)

Q3366. Yale, informally

Q3367. First name in country singing

Q3372. Cry from Cathy or Bill the Cat

Q3373. Following a rhythm of emphasized syllables (like spoken English and unlike spoken French)

Q3375. Skilled boaters

Q3377. John Hinckley, vis-à-vis James Brady

Q3378. ___-être (maybe): Fr.

Q3380. City of Iran (var. spelling of Q2927-Down)

Q3381. “___ duck walks into a bar…”

Q3383. Where one might keep time?

Q3385. People skills

Q3387. Recyclable worth $.10 in Michigan

Q3389. Gives, as a license

Q3390. Brooklyn MC Kweli

Q3391. Kanye West, nicknamed

Q3393. Exchange, as described in Silence of the Lambs

Q3394. Cry embarrassingly

Q3396. Exit quickly

Q3397. Group with masks and shields

Q3398. Elect, with “for”

Q3399. Et ___. (and what follows)

Q3401. Car travel tracker

Q3402. UK atts.

Q3403. Restrain, as Prometheus

Q3404. Dragonfly larva

Q3405. They fly, folded, in fourth-grade classrooms

Q3407. Soldier entertainment group

Q3408. One just out

Q3409. Beanball, on many diamond scoresheets

Q3410. Where to see sea life

Q3411. Going through a hard time

Q3412. Early Haitian Indian

Q3417. Craven who plays himself in ___ Craven’s New Nightmare

Q3420. “___” (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure/The Matrix, same actor)

Q3423. Lead-in to Kippur or tov

Q3425. Certain trailer trks.

Q3428. “Lesser of ___ evils”

Q3429. It can’t come without pain, according to the saying

Q3430. “You had to pass ___-called literacy test” (John Lewis, on voting rights)

Q3431. Countess’s male counterpart

Q3432. Tabby, e.g.

Q3433. Optimus Prime or Bumblebee

Q3434. Grunt in Mario’s world

Q3436. Meas. on a dash in London

Q3437. Puzzling waterway

Q3440. Dry runs

Q3441. Erstwhile newsroom machine (abbr.)

Q3445. Catches a pass

Q3448. Place to stay the night

Q3450. Part of a stable diet?

Q3452. Requirement of some health insurers

Q3454. Tennis shot that’s best with topspin

Q3456. December birthstone

Q3458. Plaines leader?

Q3460. “The combined effects of the stars and of Jupiter appear to determine the main statistical features of the orbits of comets” writer Jan

Q3461. Roughly computed (abbr.)

Q3463. Sing loudly and proudly

Q3464. Hedges

Q3465. Abbr. on folk music lyrics

Q3466. Case worker’s title? (abbr.)

Q3468. Exec’s closetful

Q3469. Like sardines

Q3475. Lunchtimes

Q3478. Phone button letters next to a 4

Q3480. “___ transit gloria mundi…”

Q3483. Fed. loan agency for mom-and-pops

Q3487. Greek-to-French tragedy of 1750

Q3488. Little knowledge?

Q3489. What Beaker says, repeatedly

Q3490. “Nothing for it”

Q3491. One freshly cooked or one spoiled

Q3494. First failure in an inning (or success, depending on how you look at it)

Q3496. Some NFL All-Stars

Q3497. Siamese fighting fish

Q3501. Most peaceful

Q3503. Occasion to read one one’s rights

Q3505. Quiet end?

Q3506. Keep tabs on

Q3507. 1974 title role for John Wayne

Q3508. “One other thing...”

Q3509. Official timekeeper of the Nagano Winter Olympics

Q3511. Remember when you add this prefix to -onic

Q3512. Loving v. Virginia org., 1967

Q3514. Those central to LGBTQ awareness?

Q3516. Natives that engaged in Mit’a, or mandatory public service

Q3518. Tooth, in combinations

Q3520. Not distracted

Q3522. Hendrix on the guitar

Q3523. More brutally cynical, as a story

Q3524. Verb tense (abbr.)

Q3526. Shakespearean sundowns

Q3527. Pt. of a boxing match

Q3529. Demolition stuff

Q3530. Denounces bitterly

Q3532. ATM prompt

Q3533. Providence coll.

Q3535. Manila coin

Q3536. Tourist sight.

Q3537. Hymn callout

Q3539. Dramatic hosp. room

Q3540. Sauna wood

Q3541. Far from flexible

Q3544. “We’ll hire any qualified applicant,” briefly

Q3547. Unsung heroes of educ.

Q3548. Make a zombie, say

Q3550. It’ll hold you

Q3551. Latin abbr. meaning “this person speaks”

Q3552. Grass patch

Q3553. Golden ide

Q3555. His best role was as a foil for a horse

Q3557. Legal trademark user

Q3558. Nacho go-with

Q3560. Middle of the sixth century

Q3561. Enjoy brunch, for instance

Q3563. Grenoble item

Q3564. Words preceding a fight

Q3565. Short long story?

Q3566. Despite the passage of time

Q3567. City south of Eau Claire

Q3568. “You’ll never ___ anything!”

Q3573. Clownish

Q3574. Snowmen of Tibet

Q3576. “___” (Emeril)

Q3578. Geog. area

Q3580. Cause of purring?

Q3582. Revolutionary assembly.

Q3583. Died from indulging in

Q3584. Airing of old Seinfelds

Q3585. Masher’s rebuff, in classic movies ad comics

Q3588. Noted game critic Jesper

Q3589. Portmanteau words, e.g.

Q3590. Last Chinese dynasty

Q3591. Bedroom community, briefly

Q3592. A-line and Y-line designer

Q3593. Shriveled old man of folklore

Q3594. Giants legend Mel

Q3596. Smits of the NBA

Q3597. Speed skater Gustafson

Q3602. Bridge elements

Q3604. Russian coins (abbr.)

Q3605. First K-Pop group to top the Billboard 200

Q3606. Ferdinand I’s capital

Q3608. Pack in a new way

Q3610. ___ d’Orsay, Paris

Q3611. Beatles song “You Won’t ___ Me”

Q3613. Inked-skin design, in slang

Q3614. Prefix for plunk

Q3615. Hair salon sound

Q3616. ___ sapiens

Q3617. Where Troy was

Q3618. Like a calm meadow under a blue sky with a light breeze

Q3619. Concrete evidence of construction

Q3620. Interview wear, perhaps

Q3622. Everyday

Q3623. “Do you bite your thumb ___, sir?” (Romeo and Juliet)

Q3625. Young unmarrieds

Q3626. Impervious to light

Q3628. PTSD sufferer’s pet, at times

Q3629. Korean smartphones

Q3632. It’s dropped after a bomb is dropped

Q3633. “What ___ rights?” (frequent Google search)

Q3634. “Open the ___ doors, HAL”

Q3636. Part of the works

Q3637. Elided pronoun

Q3639. Repetitions

Q3642. One proof of Mensa eligibility

Q3644. Bass offering

Q3647. Mardi ___

Q3648. Loading or landing place

Q3649. Degs. for mgrs.

Q3650. One in arrears

Q3652. Request of an equestrian

Q3653. ___ bourgeois

Q3654. White stuff, in Dundee

Q3658. Unleash pent-up emotions

Q3659. “When you stop talking, you’ve lost your customer. When you turn your back, you’ve lost her” speaker Lauder

Q3660. “___! Pass it on…”

Q3661. “‘Cause I ___ bag of kitty litter…” (“Sue Ya,” Weird Al Yankovic)

Q3662. Stagnates

Q3664. B-52s’ ctr. of operations

Q3665. Abbreviated claim that can be circumvented if the hiring manager just tosses resumes that have “the wrong sort of name,” like Jamal or Tu-Kwon

Q3666. Resident of Limbo

Q3668. Soybean paste for soups

Q3670. Funny people

Q3672. One of a former French air fleet

Q3673. Mountain goat

Q3674. Non-physical addresses

Q3675. Longtime New York Philharmonic conductor Zubin

Q3677. Cpl. or sgt.

Q3680. High point, in Hawaiian

Q3681. Cries following charges

Q3682. Grouped diagonally by colour

Q3684. Thinking through

Q3685. Kind of song

Q3686. Water polo teams, e.g.

Q3688. London pub offering

Q3689. Achilles’s father

Q3690. Mostly Eurasian flower

Q3692. Tamale ingredient

Q3696. JFK’s debater in 1960

Q3697. Down with the flu, say

Q3698. Diagrammatic drawings

Q3700. Alt-country “Middle Cyclone” singer Case

Q3702. Margaret Wells of Harlots, e.g.

Q3704. Hawthorne hedge

Q3707. Hoo’s opening?

Q3709. Party mixers?

Q3711. Roots around in

Q3712. “No peace, no pussy” film

Q3713. Conducted

Q3714. Joined the chorus

Q3716. Painting prop

Q3718. Fragment of wine?

Q3719. Regularly hangs around

Q3720. Suffered from an allergy, maybe

Q3723. Connoisseur of the grape

Q3725. Web-based 12- stepper’s program

Q3726. Certain high-ranking trio

Q3727. Adding a tail to a capital Q, e.g.

Q3728. Signs of a hit

Q3730. Lloyd Bridges TV show that inspired a board game

Q3732. Rocky formations

Q3734. Natatorial bird

Q3736. “10538 Overture” acronym

Q3737. Bunny man?

Q3738. Anti-infidel struggle

Q3739. Foolishly impractical

Q3742. Satirical theater

Q3743. Pounces (upon)

Q3744. “Lie that makes us realize the truth” (Picasso)

Q3746. Childish coiffure

Q3747. ‘Murica’s northern neighbor

Q3748. “Rare and radiant maiden” of “The Raven”

Q3749. Baby’s toy

Q3751. Put a belt on

Q3752. Scale markings (abbr.)

Q3753. David Ortiz and Edgar Martinez

Q3755. Sgt. Sipowicz’s employer

Q3756. Peg solitaire puzzle brand

Q3757. “Snug as a bug in ___”

Q3758. Peel out into the distance

Q3760. Rumple

Q3761. Caracas lass (abbr.)

Q3763. Caterwaul

Q3765. Regard as

Q3767. Wrinkled

Q3768. Say “shay” for “say,” say

Q3770. Line for Gleason

Q3771. Kiev’s river (with a sometimes-shorter name)

Q3772. “Stupid,” in Spanish(!)

Q3773. Expressionless

Q3775. Delicacy

Q3776. Frolicsome

Q3777. “The philosopher’s treatment of a ___ is like the treatment of an illness” (Wittgenstein)

Q3778. Leave as inheritance

Q3779. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ___”

Q3780. Some two-door Audi models

Q3783. Kangaroos, at times

Q3784. “Yep, unfortunately”

Q3785. Space letters in

Q3786. What it never hurts to do, allegedly

Q3788. Piloted

Q3789. Beyond the ___: far too far

Q3792. Library section (abbr.)

Q3794. Curtly abrupt

Q3796. Erode, with “away”

Q3798. Jack who said, “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”

Q3800. Hot-dish stands

Q3802. Consequence of sin, some say

Q3803. Notorious “National” tabloid, casually

Q3805. “My sources told me…”

Q3806. Building staff

Q3807. Generating heat

Q3808. “I never give up…I never go back on my word…that’s my ninja way!” speaker

Q3809. Really flying

Q3810. Three-in-one

Q3811. Show’s locale

Q3812. Similar but not identical (to)

Q3815. Still buggy, maybe

Q3816. “The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, aching, coughing, stuffy-head, fever, so-you-can-rest medicine”

Q3817. Cableflix?

Q3819. Meal conclusion?

Q3820. Dirtbag

Q3821. One twixt 12 and 20

Q3822. “___ Nacht,” German carol

Q3824. Miss Ullmann of Cries and Whispers

Q3826. The sixth “rock” from the sun

Q3828. Some wedding arrangements

Q3830. Demons that prey upon sleepers

Q3832. Chasing the sun

Q3833. Sudden commotion

Q3834. Soldier under Stonewall

Q3836. Name once held by the Queen of England

Q3838. Friendly introduction?

Q3840. Schticky joke ender

Q3842. ___-Mart (store some 7-Elevens changed to in a noted cross-promo)

Q3844. Roger Ebert called this not a comedy, but “about a man who attempted to live life as comedy despite the lowering gloom which he thoroughly deserved”

Q3845. Glittery attachment

Q3846. Chapter 11 filers

Q3847. “Type of Way” rapper Rich Homie ___

Q3848. “Would you be so kind,” in texts

Q3850. Job offerer

Q3851. “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep ___?” (Vince Lombardi)

Q3852. Provide counterarguments against

Q3853. Like newly made wine

Q3856. Macbeth’s murdered friend

Q3858. Lumps of chewing tobacco

Q3859. A long time, in France.

Q3861. Needing seasoning

Q3863. Trader Joe’s rivals

Q3864. “Somebody That I Used To Know” one-hit wonder

Q3865. A word to the wise

Q3867. Gp. whose members have a high clearance

Q3870. Muslim judge popular in Scrabble

Q3871. Put on a new cover

Q3872. Play-fight

Q3874. ABBA’s “Take a Chance ___”

Q3876. “___ s’est passé?” (“What happened?”)

Q3877. Untouchables agts.

Q3878. Certified Lover Boy singer

Q3879. Epileptic issue

Q3880. Emily of A Quiet Place

Q3881. “If opportunity doesn’t ___, build a door” (Milton Berle)

Q3884. Stone and Stallone

Q3886. “___ didn’t!” (denier’s phrase)

Q3889. Network std. for smartphones

Q3891. Antiknock agent

Q3893. Marriage, e.g.

Q3895. Lucas folk

Q3898. Poetic puffery

Q3899. Showing signs of malnutrition, say

Q3900. Kind of bar lic.

Q3901. Linen in Latin America

Q3903. Concert reed

Q3905. Harriet Beecher Stowe novel

Q3907. Collaborative educ. group

Q3908. Provide (for oneself)

Q3909. Canaan’s father

Q3910. State of 212 degrees Fahrenheit

Q3912. Pulpit talks (abbr.)

Q3913. Le Mans event

Q3914. Olive tree

Q3915. Chain links? (abbr.)

Q3916. “Sometimes science is more art than science” cartoon scientist

Q3918. Broadway buy, briefly

Q3919. Not bumpy

Q3921. Coronation Street and Love Island broadcaster

Q3922. Outdoor lights site

Q3924. Baby beluga

Q3926. Sight, in Sedan

Q3927. Soccer great

Q3929. ___ for Undertow (Grafton novel)

Q3930. NYC’s first subway co.

Q3932. “The Over-Soul” essayist’s monogram

Q3935. “I agree to give you my personal info” spiel, initially

Q3937. WWII zone

Q3939. Mine, in Milan

Q3941. Suffix with Nu- and Agri- in garden product names

Q3946. Spartan P

Q3947. “Roger that”

Q3949. Williams-Sonoma brand

Q3951. Victory symbol

Q3953. Bad tidings

Q3991. Spy-fi weaponeer or sci-fi omnipotent pest

Across Stitches

Q162-R133. Portmanteaux

Q348-R318. Featuring fine flecks of fat

Q664-R588. Turn written words to monologue

Q985-R860. Begin the journey to

Q1315-R1159. Fail to communicate

Q1618-R1447. FB play associated with the spread offense

Q1916-R1705. Unlikely to invest much in stocks

Q2236-R1962. “Tastes are free!”

Q2551-R2252. Trees that sound like the remnants of recent forest fires

Q2885-R2560. 1, 225, or 1024

Q3223-R2870. With “The,” video stars known for testing themselves through a wide range of activities

Q3582-R3201. Where to find disinfectant, cleaning cloths, bowl cleaner and brush, and other items at school

Q3837-R3452. Making of a freeman or freewoman

Q3990-R3641. He outranks a baron

Down Stitches

Q3901-V4. They’re hoppier than light lagers

Q3871-V9. Important smoothing process in three-dimensional modeling

Q3903-V16. Stems in symphony orchestras

Q3905-V23. Scraped the bottom of

Q3777-V30. Source material for randomized student tests

Q3778-V37. Hand down unused

Q3881-V43. Raps on

Q3913-V49. Schedule at the horse track

Q3916-V56. “Never Gonna Give You Up” links

Q3919-V63. Two and no other numbers

Q3891-V70. Most-produced organic compound

Q3924-V77. Soft, fine- grained product we can now make with artificial leather