Ubercross Abecedaria S
Across
S1. In vain
S5. American Bandstand and New Year’s host of many years
S10. Big enchilada
S14. There are four in a deck of cards
S18. Turn to mush
S22. ___ pat of butter on
S26. Store-bought neurotransmitters
S31. Carry, as something heavy
S35. Add this to “Bat” to get Batman’s
sidekick’s old profession
S39. Half a handball match
S43. Bonnie Raitt album Luck of the ___
S47. In ___: booooored
S51. Burst (with)
S52. In comparable shape
S57. Six-Day War peninsula
S58. Org. with Danielle Collins, Madison
Keys, Claire Liu, Alycia Parks, Jessica Pegula and Shelby Rogers
S61. “Thank U, Next” singer Grande
S64. Begin step by step
S68. “Hangin’ Around with You” lyricist
S75. Shetland sweater style
S79. Orbital vertices
S81. Slips away
S84. Ancient beverage of fermented honey
S88. Hothouse collection
S90. E-ddress symbols
S93. Sluggish
S94. Video game avatars
S98. You could use it to play scales at La
Scala
S99. Haydn and Biden, e.g.
S102. Green lights
S105. Like some Carvel ice cream
S109. Comedian André
S110. Part 1 of instructions
S114. Instructions, part 2
S115. Instructions, part 3
S116. Instructions, part 4
S117. Instructions, part 5
S119. Instructions, part 6 (continued near
the bottom)
S125. Disowns
S128. First section to get airline pretzels,
usually
S129. Youskevitch of ballet
S130. Poirot’s epithet
S132. Line of Swanson meals
S133. With the most fight in her
S135. Lorgnette’s relative
S137. Oxford final
S139. Clouds the mind of
S141. She likes things pretty
S142. Juice suppliers
S144. Soap writer hatches a plot about an
Iranian coin?
S145. Bothers
S146. Guide to a website
S148. Anakin’s last words as Anakin
S150. TV ally of Hercules
S151. McSorley’s product
S154. Lateen or jib
S155. Napoleon or Holy Roman (abbr.)
S156. Advancement aid
S157. Tried out with
S159. “Can’t hit the broad side of ___!”
S160. Great Barrier Island
S163. Brown shade
S164. 1960s United Nations leader
S166. Goal for many a HS dropout
S167. Perfect
S168. Makes seawater potable
S169. Material in shopping carts, barbed
wire, and nails
S170. “10-4!”
S171. Sweet wines
S172. Word with a meaning about which many
people are puzzled: it means “puzzles”
S173. New Hampshire town on a lake
S174. Film the rehearsals on Dancing With
the Stars
S175. Disreputable, slangily
S177. Cause to go
S179. Sign of an idea?
S181. Blue-green alga
S184. Buckminster Fuller structures
S186. They cross the blind
S188. Bigger pic (abbr.)
S189. Corrida rah
S190. YouTube genre [whispers] heard like
this
S192. Securely fixed in place
S194. Handles OK
S195. Horizon, to a skipper
S196. Reasons for a cap screw? (abbr.)
S197. Give up
S198. Youngest French Open champ
S200. Pensioner’s status (abbr.)
S201. Score a point in wrestling
S202. Selfie, e.g.
S203. Simple signatures
S205. The Great Depression or the Great
Recession
S206. Like a fly-by-night vendor’s wares
S207. Pro who works with Nurse Jackie
S209. Greek goddess with a month named for
her
S211. The street where elles live
S212. Conclude, with up
S214. ___ in years (age)
S216. Address akin to monsieur
S217. Where to see trots and slots
S219. Aren’t any more
S220. “Fire and Desire” singer Marie
S221. Forgets to put in
S226. Going wild for an extended period
S233. Part of iOS (abbr.)
S234. Forehead-nose-chin region
S235. Once-descriptive term for online
hookups; nowadays, most hookups implicitly
S237. Petco brand
S238. In its defense, this insurance co. did
repay the gov’t its bailout money
S239. Form check box option
S240. Sticky bug trap
S244. Goes to a warmer place, perhaps
S246. Say, “Come here, it’s okay, no one’s
gonna hurt you,” e.g.
S248. Assailed aurally
S251. Doberman command
S253. “___ creature was stirring...”
S255. Reason for action
S256. They gave you a nine-digit ID
S257. Schwann cells, e.g.
S261. Bones main character’s real first name
S266. As the light fades
S268. Convenient breakfast fare
S273. Forged licenses, e.g.
S280. Fleet, Wall, etc. (abbr.)
S281. Sweetsop
S283. WWIII-averting program revived in 2019
S284. Atlas stats
S285. Drinks like a kitten
S286. ___ diem (feature of regular full- or
part-time work)
S288. Villainess in The Little Mermaid
S290. Alternate name for a
Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan body of water
S292. “Go on now!”
S294. Cut away
S296. “All in favor, say aye” procedures
S298. Reposting to a million followers, e.g.
S305. At full speed, in poesy
S306. Dept. of Educ. concern
S307. Formal phone call response
S308. “I’ve Just ___ Face” (Beatles song)
S309. Shitwits
S312. “I’m sorry?” interjections
S315. Synesthetic experience
S317. Tahoe or Sequoia
S318. Ben & Jerry’s receptacle
S319. Spot for system-restoration files
S320. Are recognized
S322. “Shoot to Thrill” singers
S323. Really book it
S326. Superstitions
S328. “PLAY THIS AT FULL VOLUME!!!1!”
S331. Unpracticed pioneer
S332. It has a sweet smell
S334. Answers on Jeopardy?
S336. Former draft gp.
S337. Hazardous sacrament in COVID times
S340. Formal order recipient
S346. Makes some calculations
S349. 2004-2006 CIA director Porter ___
S350. Words with “TV” in an old NBC slogan
S351. ð
S352. Absolute worst, with “the”
S354. De falsis ___: Sermon “On False Gods”
S356. Clutches
S358. Recruit by force
S359. Penguin who shares a name with an
Antarctic coast
S362. Treatment plant input
S363. Have a nostalgic feeling
S365. City in Syria
S366. Got out of the saddle
S367. Where Oscar Wilde was in 1896
S368. Drag-racing org.
S369. Fix with the aid of a time machine,
say
S370. Headliner for over a decade with the
Yankees
S371. “___ didn’t!” (player’s plea to a ref)
S372. Shoulder decorations
S373. Auto performance brand
S376. Scent or substance
S377. Electrolytic particles
S378. Paper prepped for smoking
S379. Pronounced kind
of distance
S382. Pkg. no.
S384. Promulgates
S385. Create a new home, in a way
S387. Doesn’t flunk
S391. Affects one directly
S394. “Mr. Mojo ___” (repeated words in The
Doors’ “LA Woman”
S395. Notorious nose candy
S396. Land of Brian Boru
S397. TMZ’s stock-in-trade
S399. Light ___ under: motivate
S401. Chest test’s printout, briefly
S403. Rain repeller
S405. Miss ___ (ruin the rhythm)
S406. Best on stage, say
S410. Pulitzer Prize novelist Toni
S412. Get out of the way of, well in advance
S413. Near, poetically
S415. Freshness
S417. It may be warped
S419. Afternoon prayer, in Islam
S420. Playground gear
S422. Preferential plane seating
S425. Move in an almost liquid fashion
S428. 1950s invention featured prominently
in the 1960 film ‘The Apartment’
S429. Like wet cement
S430. ___-war
S431. Some Brit Lit readings
S432. Gather through litigation
S433. Tabulae ___: clean slates
S434. Important point in a financial
calendar
S436. Singer Lehmann or Lenya
S437. Bass drum
S441. Agreeable words
S442. Full of innocent wonder
S443. Sagan’s science series
S445. Move nomadically
S447. One concerned with feet and rhythm
S449. Lidocaine brand
S451. Score direction
S453. Ludwig Mies van der ___
S455. Goddess invoked in the war of the
Seven against Thebes
S456. Observing Yom Kippur, say
S457. Autos since 1989
S458. Complete stranger
S459. Alliance’s need
S460. Legislation that makes everyone
breathe easier
S461. ×
S463. Enter quickly
S466. Olympic no-nos
S468. Alien race in Avatar
S469. College admissions exam
S470. “Text u again in a bit!”
S472. Nonprofits’ ads, e.g. (abbr.)
S474. Class that covers Reconstruction and
Prohibition
S477. Emcee’s concluding segue
S479. Huang He tributary
S481. Hammered powerfully
S483. Australian state briefly
S484. “Will this be adequate?”
S490. Protestant pastor
S496. International relations smoothers
S498. In need of paving, maybe
S499. Summer and fall mo.
S500. Cantillates
S503. Show mercy toward
S504. 1980s “Ladies” singer
S505. Busy season worker
S507. Chart toppers
S510. Buffalo-hide domiciles
S511. Salary hike
S513. Muscle shirt, e.g.
S515. Sable maker, for short
S519. Castle Rock Entertainment logo
S523. Body’s bullseyes
S525. Leo Getz portrayer in the Lethal
Weapon sequels
S530. Turn into lumber
S533. Voice disapproval of
S534. Militarily fit
S535. Condescending front
S536. Pesky things
S539. Slumbered noisily
S541. 1917 marked their end
S543. Rama’s wife
S544. Star Trek role, John-___Picard
S545. “Love,” most likely
S546. Ability to pick up songs easily
S548. The Nazis, Henry Ford, and a depressing
number of early 20th-century figures, if you do enough research into it
S551. Krazy Kartoon Karacter
S554. Chicago columnist Mike
S555. Convenience
S556. Zip, nada, nil
S557. “Yon Cassius has ___ and hungry look”
(Julius Caesar)
S558. Home theater component
S562. 160-char. message
S563. Sports cars seen in Kill Bill and
Xbox and PlayStation games
S565. Moment in time, in astronomy
S566. Some Japanese-Americans
S568. Unfashionable
S573. Belgian seaport
S575. Shows a modest decline
S577. File-renaming command, at times
S579. Musketeer played by Charlie Sheen
S580. Hiding places for tommy-guns, in the
Roaring Twenties
S583. Come up again
S586. Situation right after a leadoff double
S587. Put some teeth into
S588. German wives
S589. “Took a ___ the worse”
S590. Movers and shakers
S591. Gothic novelist Victoria
S592. Words on a package’s mailing label
S596. Gold-and-ivory Olympian
S598. Vigorous clash, in West Virginia
S599. Place alone
S601. Line judge’s call
S603. Has a nice little meal
S605. Like an optimist’s point of view
S606. Indicate ominously
S608. Ultimate, informally
S609. Sure things
S612. Passed on
S613. “Well, of course I don’t resent
attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but ___ does resent them” (FDR)
S615. Prelim. remarks
S617. Was in contact (with)
S619. Jamaican fare
S622. Big kitchen investments
S629. Traps in a tangle
S630. Bluefin alternative
S631. Chummy couple?
S632. When the kids’ school year ends
S635. Uses as a roost
S637. Fries in a bit of butter, e.g.
S639. City named for a French king
S640. Chicago’s “in the Park” time
S641. Uses for all it’s worth
S645. Mixed martial artist Ronda
S647. 16-season NHLer Fleury
S648. Showy funnel-shaped growths
S649. With heels elevated, in ballet
S650. Copies of legal petitions
S651. Goo-yielding plants
S652. Disadvantaged, or given an advantage
S656. Drink for Shakespeare with not much
alcohol content
S658. “Help ___ hand!”
S659. Member of House Stark
S660. Burj Khalifa’s country (abbr.)
S661. Assn. or org.
S662. Bout of barhopping
S664. Savors the Grand Marnier
S665. Its members are in order
S667. Beyond that
S668. Tableware storage area
S670. Ascend
S671. Get hung up (on)
S672. Letters before an email summary
S673. Talk about without naming
S674. Domingo, notably
S675. Adjective for an antique store
S676. Pricier Redbox format
S678. Something curated by a bard
S682. Ache or pain, e.g.
S684. Self-defense, for one
S685. Some Isle of Man residents
S687. Nonspeaking part in Antony and
Cleopatra
S689. Sends up en masse
S691. Intergalactic bridge worker
S692. SUV part (abbr.)
S693. Loading places
S694. Microbial cleaner
S697. Bakery item from Austria
S700. What some hoods cop
S701. Bandicoots
S702. Hero cop Eliot
S703. Big breakfast?
S704. Saying nothing
S706. Not micromanaging
S710. “True”
S714. Bible-based msg.
S715. Separates out
S716. Rapper Rhymes
S718. Emulates the Titanic
S719. Thinks vile
S721. Mammoth growths
S722. A Prairie Home Companion state
S724. In happy observance
S726. ___ got
S729. Ballroom dances
S735. Creatures
S740. Edinburgh “Uh-uh”
S741. Apostle born in present-day Turkey
S744. Fast Spanish dance
S747. Mary’s husband
S748. Sculpted trunks
S750. Matched precisely
S752. Produce eggs
S753. Badger’s home
S754. Point for Pirates
S755. Drops in the standings, perhaps
S756. One who paddles
S757. Actor Dullea of 2001 films
S759. Make a faulty sight
S760. Cowboy’s gun maker?
S767. Similarly simple
S768. Black man and single biggest sitcom
star of the 1980s [yes, I know, I know, but this fact shouldn’t be
forgotten]
S773. What walls might hide
S778. Popular stuffing recipe
S781. 1980s audiophile’s treasure
S784. Train for a match
S785. Like Szechuan cuisine
S787. Monthly check sender, for many (abbr.)
S790. Start of a famous soliloquy
S791. Distress calls
S793. Walked showily
S795. In bad shape
S796. Sailors
S798. Modern sort of Noah’s Ark
S800. The Hulk and Thor can lift one hundred
of them, officially (abbr.)
S803. Encourage optimism
S804. Kramden’s namesakes
S805. “The show must go on” attitude
S807. Tan shade
S811. One of the only twelve-letter words
that typists can produce with just the left hand on a standard keyboard
S814. Introduced, as hardware
S817. Mrs., in Mexico
S818. Poor Yorick lead-in
S819. Practicing mixed-sex education
S820. Like ___ of salts: quickly
S822. Court team
S823. “Scots Wha ___” (Burns)
S824. Chats online with, briefly
S825. None too quick on the uptake
S826. Put one’s money where one’s mouth is
S827. 1912 Nobelist Root
S829. Go for ___: get some morning air
S830. Warning to Fred and Velma
S833. Relatives that get a bad rap in fairy
tales
S835. Ancient year
S837. Brain part that “sees” and “hears”
S838. Where you might put intended gift
recipients
S843. Pushed into one’s mind
S846. Builder of air castles
S848. Armored fish dating back to the
Jurassic
S849. Corp. source for new material
S850. “___ in xylophone”
S851. Half-___: just barely does
S853. Rebooted Ford vehicle released in 1995
S855. A dispersive one is commonly
triangular
S856. Clubs with heavy bass
S859. Tiniest amount
S861. Process
S864. Seven-time NFL Pro Bowler Warren
S865. Marker on a green
S869. Has emerged unscathed
S870. Draft ponies
S871. Share premium
S877. Winding complexity
S879. Influences behind the scenes
S880. Sea yea
S882. Butler in Auntie Mame
S883. Duty for a docent
S884. DeLuise of Blazing Saddles and The
Cannonball Run
S885. British military decorations
S886. March reasons
S887. Painfully shy
S889. Like well-pitched baseball games
S890. The Met, e.g.
S891. Bellowing a growl
S896. Tom Hanks kid-as-adult comedy
S897. US News’ “best US city to live” 2017-2019
S899. Ready to fall over
S905. Singer King Cole
S906. Title planet in a 2001 Kevin Spacey
movie
S907. Illusion seen when flying between
cloud layers
S911. Some shifts
S913. Casual okay
S914. Emotional effervescence
S915. Scale topper, perhaps
S917. Older radios
S919. They, in Calais
S920. Minsk moolah
S922. In place of
S923. Zap, in a way
S924. Overcharge
S927. TV Tarzan portrayer
S928. Digital ___ (high-tech camera,
informally)
S929. Scoreboard trio
S930. Proceeds
S932. Cohort of Fagin
S933. Low draw
S934. Guy’s guy friend
S935. Tax form no.
S936. Ford innovation
S940. Perfect Sleepers, e.g.
S942. Figure (out), in slang
S946. Place with files
S948. “Under Chuck Norris’ beard, there is
another ___”
S949. TV series about Oceanic Flight 815
S951. Boxers seek them
S952. Instruction to a woman in labor
S956. Earlier than when we thought Christ
was born
S957. Liver or thyroid
S958. VW hatchback
S959. Fi’s leader?
S960. Audibly astonished
S964. “My previous comment was not for the
record”
S967. “___ the weather?”
S971. Uses effectively
S972. ___ at Tib, Tunisian peninsula
S973. Italian direction
S975. More than fills
S976. Youth-oriented Conde Nast publication
S980. Brown photo pigment
S982. Dodger great ___ Wee Reese
S983. “Hey, I’ve got a secret…”
S984. Splash about
S985. “Boss of Me” and “Where Everybody
Knows Your Name”
S987. “…fairest ___ daughters Eve” (Milton)
S988. Bridge
S989. 2001 nutjob
S990. “And this affects me…how?”
S992. Orange exteriors
S993. Foolishness
S994. Paper that gives out a Book Prize, for
short
S995. Constantine was one
S998. Wind, over time, e.g.
S999. Tulsa resident
S1004. Read Across America sponsor (abbr.)
S1005. Russia’s is the largest in the world
S1007. One in the family
S1010. “Oops!,” from a shooter
S1012. Not even cracked
S1016. Affirm
S1019. Cruise stops, often
S1021. Calgary-to-Moose Jaw dir.
S1022. Assigned tasks
S1023. More than fubsy
S1024. Gyro wrappers
S1025. They look better when they’re on the
mink and seal
S1026. Karen of the House
S1027. Klingons and Vulcans
S1029. Just say no
S1030. Cal. units
S1031. Portuguese wine
S1032. Takes a big loss
S1035. A few (abbr.)
S1036. Cyberstore
S1037. Some contraception choices, for short
S1038. Portraitists’ buys
S1039. Cousin of shouldn’t
S1041. Trouble for seeing
S1044. Negotiate
S1045. Dalai Lama’s traditional gift to
foreign diplomats
S1047. Political party acting more like an
apocalyptic cult at this point
S1048. B, C, or F, but not A, D, or E
S1049. Gift from Prometheus
S1050. Lancelot’s was Sir
S1051. 2001 Robert Rodriguez film
S1054. Baby bouncer?
S1055. Channel for Jeremy Vine
S1056. Captive of the sea nymph Calypso
S1058. “Now, ___ you…”
S1059. One Piece character named for boat propulsion
S1060. Barely make (with “out”)
S1061. Unease
S1063. Swedish soprano Birgit
S1067. Valley flowers
S1068. ___Cruces, New Mexico
S1069. Make clear
S1072. Oriente
S1073. Literature
S1074. Choice marble
S1077. Lighting the Olympic flame, e.g.
S1079. Moll Flanders author
S1080. Springsteen’s birthplace?
S1081. Octopuses’ cousins
S1083. Scribe god
S1086. Sound of Music song named for a flower
S1092. Omega preceders
S1094. “You recognize our voices, right?”
S1096. Squirmy animal
S1097. Bits of fiction
S1098. Big busyness
S1099. Unresolved
S1101. CA time
S1102. “If ___ Would Leave You” (Camelot
song)
S1104. Matched group
S1105. Evening greeting in Grenoble
S1108. Spams’ alternatives
S1111. Like barely broiled meat
S1112. Directing a crew
S1113. English city where Guy Fawkes was born
S1114. It was 92 in my day
S1116. Robert Langdon’s field in The Da
Vinci Code
S1121. Like Charlie Chan
S1122. Concerns about possible betrayal
S1127. Gore-Tex garments
S1134. Masterful musician
S1138. Business or coach
S1140. Baby carrier brand with an
apt-sounding name
S1142. Premier alternative
S1146. “___ know that!” (self-owning
dis)
S1148. Chemical suffix that’s also a city
S1150. Lightly brand
S1151. Creep out
S1152. Separation of church and church?
S1155. Architectural fronts
S1156. What Dec. 16 is the “Day of,” since
1995, in South Africa
S1162. Shrinks to a point onscreen
S1163. Three-note transcription
S1164. Unholy?
S1165. Practically at once
S1166. Equip with poison
S1167. “I pray you’re right!”
S1172. Air conditioner coolant
S1173. Hippie gatherings
S1175. Mil. Leader
S1177. Court plea, informally
S1179. Portraitist Alice
S1180. Where you might find a toga party?
S1181. Target deity of child sacrifice
S1182. Maintenance job for a plumber
S1183. Reply from Joe Friday
S1184. Famed chin of late-night TV
S1185. Trent Reznor’s band, in shorthand
S1186. Skating legend Henie
S1187. “Do you mind…?”
S1189. Pulls answers from imagination rather
than pure reason and evidence
S1192. Arrived at by boat
S1193. Installed anew, as a carpet
S1194. Cargo weights
S1195. America’s best-known inventor
S1196. Broadcast network originally known as
Pax
S1197. Zeno and Chrysippus, for two
S1198. Member of a 1969 MLB expansion team
S1200. ___ de acuerdo: to agree
S1202. Tkt. office locale
S1203. These guys, in Ibiza
S1204. Gaming critic Sarkeesian who faced
multiple bomb threats
S1205. Poultry shelters
S1209. Farthest toward the sunset
S1212. She “gave her mother forty whacks,”
according to the poem
S1214. Con’s opening
S1216. In a few
S1217. Purity
S1218. Rackstraw’s colleagues
S1219. Part of some costumes
S1221. Orange bow filler?
S1222. Porgs’ predecessors
S1223. Money-making business
S1224. Georgia, e.g.
S1225. Large scale
S1226. Little mouthless breather
S1227. Without change
S1229. Manipulated
S1232. NYC’s first subway
S1233. Expertly done
S1234. Over there, down on the farm
S1235. Mulling sound
S1236. “Let’s get pretending!”
S1237. Start of a marathon
S1238. Hang time
S1240. Order to a four-legged friend
S1241. Noninvasive med. tests
S1242. Evaluate aspects in depth
S1246. Cost-of-living measure
S1247. Hang around in a public place
S1248. Puzzle resembling Tetris
S1249. Suspend
S1250. ___-Globe: paperweight
S1251. Fixed a tax base (abbr.)
S1252. Canadian chowderhead
S1253. Women-only liberal-arts school
affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania
S1255. Particular
S1257. “Haven’t the foggiest”
S1258. First three stops?
S1259. Blood drive quantity
S1261. Old boyfriend?
S1262. Sociopathic d-bag
S1263. Hue used as a base in printing
S1265. Movie format
S1267. Like the day of the winter solstice
S1272. Like some unwanted truths
S1277. Orly evening
S1278. High-level etiquette
S1280. Dead-___ (they love lost causes)
S1281. NHL postscripts
S1282. Made up (of)
S1285. Hula wreath
S1286. It’s been a democracy since 1994, for
short
S1288. Gets at it
S1290. Alaskan gold mining city
S1292. ʃ
S1293. Not of the cloth
S1295. Salacious stories
S1298. Easels, e.g.
S1300. Cover with shadows
S1303. Cry from Esmeralda in The Hunchback
of Notre Dame
S1307. Nonflammable fibrous mineral
S1309. Billings or Golden
S1310. Suckling site
S1312. Some feints
S1314. City in Russia
S1315. Triply misnamed political entity
(abbr.)
S1316. Billycock, e.g.
S1317. Seat, in slang
S1320. MPAA pt.
S1321. Marketing mantra
S1327. “___ Like the Wind” (Patrick Swayze
hit)
S1328. Half of OutKast
S1330. Short runner?
S1331. Approximating words
S1332. Converts to bone
S1333. Dan Rather’s signoff catchphrase
S1334. They were entitled to every “third
penny” from their shires
S1335. “Know That You Are Loved” singer Sol
S1336. She plagues ladies’ lips with
blisters, per Mercutio
S1338. Stays to the end
S1339. Uncloses, in verse
S1340. Mandatory
S1342. ___ Fideles (“O Come, All Ye
Faithful”)
S1344. Poker table sight
S1348. “Woo-___!”
S1349. Towel wielder
S1352. Cute yellow character voiced by Ryan
Reynolds (May 2019)
S1354. Tissue abnormality
S1355. Bid first
S1356. What keeps drones steady
S1359. Keurig alternative
S1362. Hot Pontiacs
S1363. Your first hard day on the job,
metaphorically
S1364. Pros’ cams
S1365. Elevator for a Titleist
S1366. In a mood to complain
S1369. Cat named for its native isle
S1370. In a flutter
S1372. Red-and-white outfits rarely in small
or medium
S1374. So-media communications we used to
care a lot about
S1375. Indians and Indonesians
S1380. Cromwell’s earldom
S1381. ___ Ranger
S1382. Moves a finger, in a way
S1383. No liability
S1384. Sickle-cell is one type of it
S1385. Bar lineup
S1390. Glass, to Galba
S1391. Silent-cinema organist Baga
S1392. Ancient king of Persia
S1394. Directional abbr.
S1395. Hoops hoops
S1397. Actor Beatty of Charlie Wilson’s
War
S1398. ___ gaw mein (Chinese dish)
S1399. “You’re through here, clean out your
___”
S1400. Charge against an account
S1401. Notoriously tear-jerking director
Frank
S1403. Inspiration for stage productions
S1406. It has lots of household items
S1408. Word that’d be its own synonym without
the letter S
S1409. Fad collectibles of the ‘90s
S1410. Supporter
S1411. Arranges by category
S1412. Pull out of bed
S1413. Believers in a clockwork universe set
in motion by the divine
S1414. Bygone NFLer
S1415. Great white ___
S1416. Poetic “over there”
S1417. Carrier with a five-point harness, in
Hampshire
S1418. Scores made by WRs and RBs
S1420. Johnny who played Edward Scissorhands
S1423. Grade-school book
S1426. Loud rumble?
S1429. The same amount
S1431. Gun type
S1432. Like a really bad check
S1433. Art in an annual report
S1434. Retweet, essentially
S1437. Kevin Bacon film about psychic links
S1440. Sandman character perpetually murdered by his
brother
S1441. Nose expert
S1443. Sweets
S1445. Santa’s laughter
S1447. Scowling upon
S1448. Taint
S1450. Texters’ “OKs”
S1451. ___ fart
S1452. Groupings
S1454. Birmingham band, briefly
S1455. Wolf down
S1456. She-bears, south of the border
S1457. De ___ (overdone)
S1458. Whence dreams may come
S1463. Mil. weapons
S1464. What a good dancer may cut
S1465. Top-heavy toon villain in a sailor hat
S1466. Vaudeville performance, e.g.
S1469. Leave the back way, perhaps
S1471. Good ones are 12% for a card and 3.5%
for a house
S1472. Partially mine
S1473. ___ tấm (Vietnamese dish)
S1474. Heroic deeds
S1478. Vowels or whirlwinds
S1480. Penultimate OT book
S1482. Slug relatives
S1483. Descartes’ donkey
S1484. Flood tide
S1486. Marsh pink
S1488. Hawaii, before 1959 (abbr.)
S1489. Boo targets, sometimes
S1490. Food chain
S1491. Giving group
S1492. Late July delivery
S1493. Some sodas, familiarly
S1494. Star Trek II: The ___ of Khan
S1495. One who leaves too many things out
S1496. Rectory figures
S1500. Couch therapy
S1505. Tousle affectionately
S1506. Fishing lines or upholstery trimming
S1508. Elegantly groomed
S1509. Emancipates
S1512. Talkth like thith
S1515. Noted Jessica Simpson wear
S1518. Satisfies, as thirst
S1520. Old-fashioned denial
S1521. Amazed shock
S1522. The US’s is currently about $27
trillion
S1524. Genius Mixes program
S1526. Letters following mus
S1527. Armpit-related
S1528. Bounce playfully
S1530. Ostracizes
S1531. Vatican name that feels like it’s
missing an “o”
S1532. Is unable to tolerate
S1536. Temporary body art available at many
body shops
S1537. Suffix with final or fatal
S1538. Motorist’s organization, familiarly
S1540. English teacher’s concern
S1541. Siouan speaker
S1542. Zero, to Manchester United
S1544. Tears off its hinges, maybe
S1546. Virtual person in video games
S1547. One tripping over his own feet
S1549. Building managers
S1551. Charred the surface of
S1553. Dissertation
S1554. Builder of kid’s TV
S1555. Sorts of diadems
S1557. “Yay ___!”
S1558. Valdez and Marichal
S1559. Historical figure portrayed in Quills
S1560. Google or Word file
S1561. They stick out conspicuously
S1565. Arrive feet first
S1566. Oracle hub?
S1568. Choral sixes
S1570. Bacall, to Bogart, at times
S1571. Bar in a brown wrapper
S1577. Fatigue
S1578. Israeli president Weizman
S1580. Tom & ___ (1994 movie)
S1582. Lists of people
S1583. If they could speak, the females would
say to the males, “Nice rack”
S1584. Forward part of the Pinta
S1585. High-tech detectors
S1587. With no emotion but distant contempt,
as a stare
S1588. Upholstered item
S1589. “We’ll follow saints and angels
all/And come ___ our King” (Jupiter Hammon)
S1590. Dropped items people pick up and put
back in their mouths
S1591. It can be slipped or flung
S1592. John Malkovich horse movie
S1593. Sign of things to come?
S1596. Law and order gps.
S1597. “Ooh! There!”
S1598. Angel in Vegas
S1599. Friend of Jar Jar
S1603. Ceremonies near the end?
S1604. Ms. enclosures
S1605. Drink with an extended pinkie
S1606. Conference-related
S1609. “Hop ___!” (“get going!”)
S1610. One side of a coin (abbr.)
S1612. Work with lace
S1614. Suffix for a resident of Capri (and
like one or two other places)
S1615. Voy’s meaning
S1616. Specialist teams in academics, for
short
S1618. Its fights take place in The Octagon
S1620. Model seen in National Lampoon’s
Vacation
S1622. It may go to blazes
S1623. Like many a Texas ranch
S1624. Sounds at the Amazon deliverywoman’s
approach
S1625. Home to the world’s oldest university
S1626. Ellice island
S1627. ___ of the Navy: US rank so high it’s
only been given once (abbr.)
S1630. Deviltry
S1631. “All, except their sun, ___” (Lord
Byron)
S1632. Alternatives to reds and whites
S1633. Requires skill
S1637. No child
S1638. Six hours behind Greenwich Mean, for
short
S1639. Lose crispiness
S1641. Cold War state (abbr.)
S1642. Dream state
S1644. “___ a boy!”
S1645. Way to organize publications
S1647. ___ squared (geometric formula)
S1648. Throw in the direction of
S1650. Comment to one trying on clothes
S1653. Try something
S1655. Elevator cages
S1656. Old geologic period named for flowers
S1657. ___ Deucey: In-between
S1658. Expresses reverence
S1660. Aparacio who stole 506 career bases
S1662. Teaching degree, or did something that
should disqualify one from a teaching degree
S1666. Satire mag of old
S1667. Swillpot
S1668. Bands appearing after split-ups?
S1669. Vindictive Tyler Perry character
S1670. “___ hoppen?!”
S1671. “…grace of God, ___”
S1674. Goes without saying
S1678. Start of some picture books
S1680. Takes care
S1682. “___ Boy” (Tommy song)
S1683. Weapon to waste some dirty rats, see?
S1685. Area within
S1687. Three phases of getting manga ready
for English-speaking audiences, for short
S1688. Jaden role in The Karate Kid
S1689. Letters from the family?
S1691. Nexus 7 rival
S1692. Q-U separator
S1693. Call off
S1694. Torah containers
S1695. Keeping food warm, as an oven
S1696. Word that brings a smile?
S1698. Modern speed-detection system
S1700. Unshackles
S1705. TD figs.
S1706. Abolitionist Tubman
S1707. ___ wrestling (rodeo event)
S1708. Nightfall, poetically
S1709. Environs
S1712. Buccaneer’s plunder (abbr.)
S1713. Sidewalk stand suffix
S1714. Seamstress’s creation
S1715. Evine and QVC rival
S1716. Stilbene-free cleaning products
S1717. Chewing addiction, for some
S1718. Old-time car
S1719. Judicial ruling
S1722. Chemical warfare agent
S1724. Make ___-ditch effort
S1725. Record player nos.
S1726. Cannes coterie
S1727. Orator’s pedestal
S1728. Kurosawa of film
S1729. Simple and carefree
S1732. ER network, once
S1735. Guyliner wearer’s genre
S1736. Compass letters
S1738. Common V.A. malady
S1739. What used to be blamed for a faint
S1740. Rock legend Snider who spoke to
Congress
S1741. Mother of Wynonna and Ashley
S1744. Acted like
S1746. Used to catch food scraps
S1748. Singers on Pandora
S1750. Tyrant who arbitrarily rewrites half
my clues or genius like me saving dumb writers from themselves, depending on
which job I’m doing at the time
S1752. “Don’t you agree?,” in British lingo
S1755. Party crashers, e.g.
S1757. Plant with trumpet-shaped flowers
S1758. Sinise CBS series
S1759. Full of melting snow
S1760. “___ Really Goin’ Out With Him?”
S1762. Stupid or unconscious
S1764. UN agcy. for working people
S1765. Off-roader
S1768. SNL-based movie playing with gender identity in the 1990s
S1771. Milky Way radio
S1773. Talks
S1774. Omaha-to-Miami dir.
S1775. “How many guest [__] __ the party?”
S1776. Dig new furrows
S1778. Postal beats, briefly
S1780. From then
S1781. Jersey’s official flower
S1782. Emulates a scryer
S1786. Big part of the New World
S1788. Minnesota Fats stroke
S1789. Dizzying museum pieces
S1790. Holds, as a Hummer
S1791. “The thing of ___…”
S1792. District 12’s competitor
S1793. Theoretician Planck
S1794. Unknown influence
S1799. Pageant owned by Donald Trump until
2015
S1801. Acquired things?
S1806. XXIX × XIX
S1807. Home of the first UN secretary general
S1809. Modern channel changer
S1810. More dismal, Britishly
S1811. It’s split
S1812. Neighbors of the sopranos, perhaps
S1813. “Too rich for my blood”
S1814. “Not only that…”
S1815. Nary a bit
S1819. Commanders in chief
S1821. Retort to “You can’t!”
S1822. Shows shock
S1823. “I can also ___ impression of a
toaster” (Google Home joke)
S1824. Meal, in Milan
S1825. Platform for some tablets
S1826. Info sent to inspire coverage of
what’s happened
S1830. Unties
S1832. “Quiet, kitty!”
S1833. Hunt of Mad About You
S1835. “60 minuti”
S1837. Palindromic pitcher Robb (whose last
name isn’t “Bor”)
S1838. “Lion Heart” singer, to fans
S1839. Football Night in America co-host Patrick
S1841. Goes steady with
S1843. Richie Cunningham’s love
S1844. Some cheap beers (init.)
S1845. Like ogres, they have layers
S1847. Bartenders often hear them
S1851. “One Hand In My Pocket” singer known
for one-take recordings
S1853. Schools of religio
S1854. Ferrigno and Costello
S1855. Likely to wear a beret
S1856. Weed-whacker alternatives
S1858. Decides one should
S1860. About the height
S1862. Scoreless tie
S1863. What you may do, after I cleverly help
you out
S1864. Cheaters
S1868. Mini-albums, informally
S1870. Lenore’s creator
S1872. Hitch in the best-laid plans
S1874. It’s not like he MEANT to do it,
Freud! In fact, he blinded himself once he realized he had
S1876. Some sunbathers
S1877. Karl or Harpo
S1879. Eat “flesh” and drink “blood”
S1884. The privileged
S1885. Clicks one’s disapproval
S1886. Rockette launchers?
S1887. “Your ___ or mine?”
S1888. Seed benefit
S1889. “Disgusting!”
S1890. What chutney may top
S1891. Desktop discontinued in 2021
S1894. Cicero or Cato
S1896. Letter-shaped sink pipes
S1897. Oedipus composer
S1898. EDT equivalent
S1899. James McAvoy portrayed 23 in Split
S1901. “…have multiple personalities”
follower on a T-shirt
S1904. Olive Oyl’s creator
S1905. Seed sites
S1906. Pinkett Smith of The Matrix
Revolutions
S1907. Walking style
S1909. Surrounded and cut off from aid
S1914. Classman (abbr.)
S1915. Recent, in Bonn
S1916. British Royal Navy abbr.
S1917. Does anything for the Trump
administration, probably
S1919. Evans or Hill of song
S1920. Picking up signals
S1922. President who oversaw the issuance of
the first US postage stamp
S1923. Pull with the cool kids
S1924. Foreign bucks
S1927. Backbone components (var.)
S1931. Henry and McHenry (abbr.)
S1932. Toys ___
S1933. Peter Pan’s rival
S1935. Indent better
S1937. Sacra or Dolorosa
S1938. Handy rollouts at sleepovers
S1940. Military attacks
S1942. Sing a paean to
S1943. Beans that anagram one of the products
you get from grinding them
S1944. Newcomer to the Hill
S1949. Car sticker acronym
S1950. Its website includes a guide to
bias-free language
S1951. Heron’s milieu
S1952. Constitution class, for short?
S1953. Bummed smoke
S1954. Scots’ “Why not?”-s
S1955. Chows down on
S1956. Brings before the bench
S1957. Rink-ready
S1960. City Paul (or “Paul”) chastised for
picking and mixing
S1962. DVR attachment
S1964. Mona Lisa look?
S1965. Slovenia adopted it in 2007
S1967. Johnny Cash and John Grisham
S1971. Dojo teacher
S1972. Foot-___ (large hot dog)
S1973. Animal that turned Kristen Bell into a
puddle of joy onscreen
S1974. Augsburg abode
S1975. Diana couldn’t save it from a
seventh-century-BC flood
S1979. Box set item
S1980. Butterfly “nose”
S1982. It moves a kayak
S1983. Belt-piercer
S1984. House Hunters network
S1985. Implants
S1986. Sugarpie
S1987. Treat icy roads again
S1990. Brazilian slums
S1992. Pitched one’s pitch
S1994. Perfect start?
S1995. Sites of plant management?
S1998. Catch-22 hero
S2000. Ship whose destruction helped spark
the Spanish-American War
S2002. Kind of pepper or powder
S2003. Planet of dragonriders, in books by
Anne McCaffrey
S2004. Tourney vets
S2005. Like “sulfgolad n’borate, when josc
ploked blawsy”
S2009. Bulletins with first-person reporting
S2012. [gestures at 125x125 sub-grid]
S2013. Meat Puppets song covered by Nirvana
on MTV Unplugged
S2014. Brighton bye-byes
S2015. Ancient natives of Mytilene
S2018. Like the era of the conquistadores
S2020. Puck and Tinkerbell
S2022. Goose, to Gregoire
S2023. “I need space”
S2025. Like some shoes
S2028. Not quite first
S2029. Medium’s messages
S2030. Longest sentence possible
S2031. Sean known for death scenes
S2032. Authority on diamonds?
S2034. Nipponese capital, once
S2035. Judgeable by appearances
S2037. ___ up (disclose the truth)
S2040. Starts a toast
S2043. Some Sp. women
S2044. It might go from 0 to 60 minutes
S2045. Co-star of Eva, Marcia, and Felicity
S2046. Labeling system from Brother
S2049. Skyfall director
S2051. Constructed, as a web
S2052. Red Rum, e.g.
S2054. Do the honors at dinner
S2055. Frozen drinks
S2058. Big brown Muppet
S2060. ___ Neuf: Paris bridge
S2061. Masonry wharf
S2062. 56
S2063. AJ’s singing sister, or Nelson on New
Girl
S2064. End of a Latin boast
S2065. Really appreciate
S2066. Underhanded, duplicitous
S2067. E-tailing specifications
S2070. Responds with consummate smoothness
S2072. Stay-at-home
S2073. “It’s Getting Better” singer Elliot
S2074. What Ahab sold to pay for his quest
S2076. “SO EXCITED!”
S2077. Do some patchwork
S2079. Lilies with bell-shaped flowers
S2082. Six-point completion, informally
S2084. “I didn’t want to know that!”
S2085. Where to get a massage
S2088. Needing some air
S2091. “For Scentimental Reasons” star
S2092. Breakfast area
S2093. Long lunches
S2094. Ocean floor’s composition
S2096. Deli listing
S2097. Mexican-American
S2098. My neighbor’s lifespan (miss you
Ethel…abbr.)
S2099. Dessert sometimes prepped with a
“bird”
S2100. Lip’s worth of beverage
S2103. Airport line-jumping program
S2104. They look like penguins and act like
penguins, and yet…
S2105. “Rock and Roll All Nite” Rockers
S2106. Nonstarters?
S2107. Mold or fashion
S2110. More snide
S2113. Gone in 60 Seconds director Dominic
S2114. Chorus sound
S2115. Low and near
S2117. Fail to notice
S2119. In ___ and out the other
S2122. News accounts
S2124. Cheers of a sort
S2125. Airport vehicle
S2126. Rumination readout, for short
S2127. He might ask “What’s your greatest
weakness?”, for short
S2128. Holders of buried treasures
S2129. Pear that keeps its shape in cooking
S2130. Did, wrongly
S2136. They might have battery charges
S2138. Tackle the quarterback
S2139. Use a line, perhaps
S2140. They may create rings
S2142. Razor with MACH3 handle
S2143. Dome ___ Invalides (historic church)
S2145. Fraternity membership
S2146. Glass-half-empty types
S2148. Julie’s costar in Before Sunrise,
Before Sunset, and Before Midnight
S2149. Added to a written exchange
S2152. Leave off
S2155. Flowering vines
S2157. Gaius Julius and Hadrian
S2159. Whittier’s feet
S2160. Alpha, e.g.
S2161. Casino moneymakers
S2163. Spielberg-produced book adaptation
never shown in Mainland China
S2168. Bottom line
S2171. The Middle or CSI
S2173. Dance-A-___ (common fundraiser)
S2174. Entry point for some vans
S2176. Quench fully
S2178. What “brains” do well on
S2181. Tempe sch.
S2182. Dungeons & Dragons co., once
S2183. “Arrivederci, duder!”
S2184. The Old Religion novelist
S2186. Build-your-own-Mexican-food station
S2189. Do a slow fade
S2191. Name on a Slow Churned quart
S2192. Roy or Niger of CORE
S2193. She played Elizabeth in Elizabeth
S2194. “I was not an attractive child. When I
didn’t use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as ___” (Joan Rivers)
S2195. Pound critters, usually
S2196. Expert on hemispheres
S2201. Metal wedges on wood levers
S2203. Periods of typography
S2204. Pat once second only to Elvis Presley
in music sales
S2205. More deceptive
S2207. Spare parts?
S2209. Tending toward slovenliness
S2210. ___ pareil
S2212. Hubby’s female sibs, say
S2215. Most-seen Ryan Gosling role
S2216. Neighbors of swing sets
S2218. Kind of melon or cat
S2220. FAO Schwarz operator
S2221. “I got ___” (proud moment for a
struggling student)
S2222. Evasive or mendacious
S2223. Mexican mint
S2224. Letter worth slowing down for?
S2225. Hymns to Apollo
S2226. Land that’s not inland
S2227. Kind of bias, yes?
S2231. Post-éclair excitement
S2233. Manic time in a 1986 hit
S2234. Moment in time
S2235. It probably shouldn’t end “I’m taking
the First Lady and moving to Sweden,” for short
S2236. Begin an offensive
S2237. Eyes roguishly
S2239. Blas or Hodges
S2240. Financial supporter
S2244. It’s from the Latin for “fissile
stone”
S2246. Arranges, as a bouffant hairstyle
S2250. Mustache Hat artist
S2251. It may be set
S2252. Bickering, as is their habit
S2254. Fine dirt cemented by calcium
carbonate
S2255. Harrison Jr. of Chevalier and Monster
S2256. Structure support
S2257. Hang ___ (Hong Kong stock index)
S2258. Egyptologist’s worry mostly explained
by a fungal mold that thrives in tombs
S2262. Relative whose name sounds like a city
in France
S2263. College address ending
S2264. Change makers?
S2266. Like an eyebrow-raising contract
S2268. Appeal at sea
S2269. Bellies up to
S2270. Ins. choice
S2271. Turns away
S2275. Younger ___ Springtime
S2276. Lead-in to roba or vacantia
S2277. Abscam creator
S2280. Takes too much LSD
S2281. Employment hot topic
S2282. Cookbook amts.
S2284. Down word, perhaps
S2286. Cartoonist Roz who wrote You Can Only
Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
S2287. Figures in D.C.
S2288. Guinea pig lookalikes
S2289. Achieving, as control or a reputation
S2293. Leaves without an answer
S2295. White-browed ___-warbler
S2296. Unit used in astronomy
S2297. Tech whiz
S2299. Online portal launched on the same day
as Windows 95
S2300. Waiters waiting for an NBA return in
2023
S2302. ___-jongg (Chinese game)
S2303. “I’m posting this well after the fact”
S2304. Like some chocolate chips
S2305. ___ favor (please, in Spanish)
S2306. “Whoever ___ it, dealt it”
S2311. Lion’s share of Google’s revenue
S2313. Actor Daly or Ivey
S2316. Leek cousin
S2317. Namesakes of Adam’s third
S2318. Film that repopularized 3-D movies
S2319. The first US Millionaire host, to
fans
S2320. Taking care of the issue
S2321. Named as legal precedent
S2322. River of eastern Wales
S2323. Kristen and John
S2326. November runner
S2327. Suffix for social or graph
S2328. Always Be My Maybe star Daniel ___ Kim
S2329. Separate with finality
S2330. Drill modifier
S2331. Metro stops (abbr.)
S2332. Dad or Granddad, nicknamed
S2334. Bible study sch.
S2335. Long migration
S2336. Andrea ___ Sarto
S2337. Up to the mark
S2338. Mississippi bank
S2339. Honey or sugar, e.g.
S2340. Israeli or Afghan
S2343. “Frankly, I’m ___ loss”
S2346. Caesar starting Hamlet’s speech?
S2347. Claiborne of Rhode Island
S2348. Parts or pasta
S2350. Speaker in the Hall of Fame
S2351. ___ from the Crypt
S2352. Division for the Orioles
S2353. Ballet turns
S2356. Prevention units?
S2358. Goes after
S2360. Red Guards idol
S2362. Sixth, in Italy
S2364. Superfluously
S2365. Grand piano’s rel.
S2367. Unit of ___iation
S2369. “Can ___ least get ready first?”
S2372. PFC superior
S2373. “It’s ___. Let’s shake on it”
S2374. Title hero for Euripides
S2375. Positive, as an attitude
S2376. Notes on a paper
S2379. Facts, in casual conversation
S2383. Charlotte of Diff’rent Strokes
S2384. ___ generis: unique
S2385. 53rd Street comedy club, informally
S2387. Comparable to a beet
S2388. “Book ‘em, ___!” (misspelled
catchphrase so popular in crosswords I had to include it once…the third letter
should be doubled)
S2389. Ancient critter that tended to be
either humongous or tiny
S2390. Language that gave us “ombudsman”
S2392. Our country, to Italians
S2393. Splinter group, briefly
S2395. Stop-___ (convenience store name)
S2396. “Wondering why I even bother TBH”
S2397. Carson Daly’s old MTV show, for short
S2398. In Aachen, aabsolutely naat
S2401. Problem that causes…um…you know, this
is S2400-Across and “2400” is a weird number in military time, you can swap it
out for 0000 and nobody cares, I guess military minds need a balance between
flexibility and discipline
S2403. Free spirit
S2408. Soaked biscuit, e.g.
S2410. Many Food Network hosts
S2412. Crafts one’s body hair
S2414. Double curve, as in yarn
S2415. One might be a goodie
S2416. Lucy star, in tabloids
S2419. Neg.’s opp.
S2422. Silver screen rivals
S2423. Post-”Slow” sign
S2425. Powerful physical attraction
S2426. ___ away with (eliminates)
S2427. Dict. info
S2428. Sitcom interruption
S2430. DS9 forerunner
S2432. Perfect, sociologically
S2434. Yellow dog
S2436. Gut courses
S2438. Instruction to a violinist
S2440. “___ I known...!”
S2441. ___(2) = 3.62686040785
S2442. Airplane’s suitcase spot
S2444. Heart contractions
S2445. They can secure animals to posts
S2449. Nationalist authoritarian
S2451. Site of a death march
S2452. Make an honest effort
S2457. Some painters
S2458. Guitarist on Draconian Times and Icon
S2459. Sauron/Saruman story
S2460. Member of a Herzegovinian minority
S2461. Spy Mata
S2462. Walk with long steps
S2464. Longtime Guardian cartoonist
Asquith
S2465. Mini calendars
S2466. Leaves at once
S2467. Met up with old friends
S2469. “___ Wiedersehen!”
S2471. Nautical heading (abbr.)
S2472. “Perhaps you’re right…”
S2474. Non-flat TV
S2475. Whiter shade of pale?
S2476. Your score after you get all these
answers correct (you can do it, I believe in you!)
S2479. Poetic form
S2481. USA or UAE, e.g.
S2482. Concern for appearances
S2487. They express ownership
S2489. Double agent
S2490. Lee heroine
S2491. Unity despite individualities
S2493. Mentally healthy
S2494. Lead-in to vivant or voyage
S2495. Variety of M&M’s
S2496. Physical powers of Carrie White and
Jean Grey, for short
S2497. Will, to Jaden
S2499. Televangelist Joel
S2501. ___ Academy (school in ancient Athens)
S2503. Prelude to reading aloud
S2504. “Yes, we’re OPEN” or “Sorry, we’re
CLOSED” scene
S2510. Scuba divers’ lifelines
S2512. Whitney Houston’s label
S2514. Overhead smashers
S2515. Welsh-born I, Claudius actress
Phillips
S2516. Attention-seeking in news
S2520. Words from the enlightened
S2521. Reducing program
S2522. Switchblades, slangily
S2523. It deorbited in 2001, ironically
S2524. Gay icon Arthur of Golden Girls
S2525. Swears (to)
S2527. Kill with jokes
S2528. Athos et Aramis
S2530. ___ sample of (taste)
S2531. The ___ Club (14-season televangelist show)
S2532. Stage dir. meaning “begins to speak”
S2534. Not according to plan
S2535. Prospects read by eds.
S2536. Counterparts of faunae
S2537. Undersized, in Ayr
S2538. “___ mein holder Abendstern,” Wagner
aria
S2539. Gets angry
S2541. Word with two very different meanings
in the stories of Noah and Moses
S2542. Not collectively
S2543. Spoken for and not mine
S2544. Robot graveyards
S2548. Made like many New York tourists
S2550. Boar or boor
S2551. Burkina ___
S2552. Gung-ho, when doubled
S2553. Cowardly
S2554. Just too much
S2555. Like some blue humor
S2556. Where Gauguin painted
S2558. Jackie Onassis’ sister
S2559. Designate
S2561. Much binary code
S2562. Name tag
S2563. Inspiration for Godzilla’s back spines
S2568. Bands for music?
S2571. “What’s it to ___?”
S2573. “You can observe a lot just by
watching” and “Deja vu all over again,” e.g.
S2575. Yielding readily
S2577. Herr’s lady
S2581. Protests for better pay and worker
protections
S2585. Wanda of comedy
S2586. Descartes and Hamlet’s preoccupation
S2587. Knuckle rapper
S2588. “Best speed you can manage!”
S2590. Some trunks
S2592. Lip stuff
S2593. Made the first bet
S2594. Town inland of the Ijsselmeer
S2596. WWII battle
S2597. Surname on an eclectic quarterly
S2598. Electronic eavesdropping org.
S2599. Fall in ___: collapse limply
S2600. English river that flows into the
Humber
S2601. Didn’t cook
S2603. Sans deletions
S2607. Evenings, casually
S2608. Completely wrap one’s mind around
S2609. Well-organized
S2610. “Come get your Brunswick stew!”
S2612. Sharia
S2615. “There was a point here somewhere”
S2617. Vocally exposes
S2618. Actress Payton or fashion designer
Rogers
S2619. Press Ctrl-Y
S2622. Part of Ryder Cup victory celebrations
S2623. Excited and merry, in the 1890s
S2624. Simpers
S2625. Broadcaster in 46 langs.
S2627. Russian political oddity
S2629. Union in D.C., e.g.
S2630. Exceptionally smart people
S2631. USAF E-6’s
S2632. Early U2 hit
S2633. Question mark’s key-mate
S2634. 1930s canine role
S2635. “Jes’ imagine, Jeb…”
S2636. “False as dicers’ ___”
S2638. Retracts, as a statement
S2639. Scott McNealy is its CEO
S2641. Overshoot
S2644. Outstanding, as a hit
S2645. Rush’s song off “Presto” that went
long? (with “The”)
S2646. Rest period?
S2647. “Hang on half ___ there, guv!”
S2648. Lane at the Planet
S2649. Like a gymnast
S2653. Send out
S2654. Sent some love, in a way
S2657. Platform for early Zelda games,
for short
S2658. Poet’s planet
S2659. Like a mature horse
S2661. Goes wild
S2662. “White & ___” (Weird Al Yankovic
song)
S2663. Road reversal, slangily
S2664. Backup instruments in some bands
S2665. Like most churches
S2667. Adulterate
S2669. Brief moment of time (abbr.)
S2670. They help celebs keep public faces
S2673. “Yo!”
S2674. Macs’ MOs
S2675. “Lafayette, ___ here!”
S2677. What tyrants can’t tolerate
S2679. “Avatar” origin
S2680. Man in a big house?
S2681. Parisian’s possessive
S2682. Final Fantasy XIV or RuneScape
S2684. Russian city east of Kiev
S2685. Does something fatherly?
S2688. Army medals
S2690. UPC cousin
S2691. Fist-pumper’s cry
S2692. They have a fan ARMY
S2693. Five after one?
S2694. Like some brats
S2699. More conservative, investment-wise
S2700. Prefix for a trillion
S2701. Devil worship
S2703. Purest form of knowledge
S2705. Cooler pool
S2709. Fruit that doesn’t rhyme
S2710. Springsteen, notably
S2711. Tech grads (abbr.)
S2713. Very descriptive
S2716. Miscue
S2718. Plays the class clown
S2720. Encountered
S2721. Anticipated takeoff hour
S2722. Little Debbie treats
S2727. Autograph (abbr.)
S2728. Audio accessory
S2734. Praise uncontrollably
S2735. Woolly males
S2736. Like a box of chocolates (abbr.)
S2738. Cruel and oppressive (var.)
S2740. Actually, initially
S2741. Olympians’ dreams
S2742. North to Pierre
S2744. Totally amazed
S2745. Cremains, mostly
S2746. Numic dialect speaker
S2747. Have as a logical consequence
S2748. Despite all that
S2750. Doesn’t get hung up on
S2756. Roundup accessory
S2758. Luke’s cinematic sister
S2762. Photo ___ (times to take pics)
S2763. Mobile Justice app source
S2764. There’s two in a sch. year
S2765. Took part in a mob scene
S2766. Org. for Couples and Love
S2767. Rink item
S2768. In need of a massage
S2769. Variables
S2771. Slim bodies (abbr.)
S2773. “Go ahead, I’m listening”
S2776. Brit’s palindromic “See you later!”
S2778. Former linebacker Manti
S2779. Rebecca Black hit the internet
loved…and loved to hate
S2780. Death notice, briefly
S2784. Painfully long?
S2785. Eavesdropper
S2789. Crocodile Dundee, e.g.
S2791. Be an arm-twister
S2792. Run in The Alphabet Song
S2793. A 3 is passing
S2795. OS X runner
S2796. Feelers of insects and lobsters
S2797. Like some leaves
S2798. Sashimi staples
S2800. Spitting sound
S2801. Become one
S2807. They make good coffin material
S2811. Front matter list (abbr.)
S2812. Bald spot content?
S2813. Social climbers’ concerns
S2815. Small French bar
S2817. Wrong-number word
S2818. “May God reward you”
S2820. End- opposite
S2821. Drawn-out YouTube short?
S2822. Wooden-headed hammers
S2823. End, after all is said and done
S2824. Type of grain
S2825. Alluvial deposits
S2826. “___ 99 problems…”
S2827. Some watches
S2828. Rode one’s rump down a rime
S2830. Does poorly in a Congressional
election
S2835. Attendance record demerits
S2836. Form of protest
S2838. Title for archaeologist Flinders
Petrie or Leonard Woolley
S2840. Tailor-made?
S2841. How to buy DVDs for binge-watching
S2842. It goes from Tuscany to the Tyrrhenian
S2843. Maintenance cost
S2844. Prolific chess analyst and programmer
S2845. Faucet brand
S2847. “Send nudes ___ send nukes” (meme
featuring Putin and Kim Jong Un)
S2848. Uracil-containing macromolecule
S2849. Words said with a shrug
S2850. A Wrinkle in Time co-star
S2851. Hallucinates
S2853. “Shaddup!”
S2854. Like some salamanders
S2855. Popular orange soda
S2856. Life story
S2857. Ford sobriquet
S2859. Tourist attractions in Mumbai, Bali,
and Israel
S2864. Passed out
S2867. Cockatoos’ pride
S2868. President Lincoln wore one, now and
then
S2869. Oliver Queen of TV
S2871. Dejected
S2872. Annoying insects
S2874. Stressless condition
S2875. Chew the fat
S2877. Kind of a fit
S2878. “Be careful out there”
S2879. Ways out
S2881. Diamonds and real estate, as opposed
to stock prices and rental agreements
S2884. Commits brigandage
S2887. Restaurant list that includes tuna
rolls and nigiri
S2888. Exams for sophs. and jrs.
S2889. Do ___: circle the track
S2890. Most successful supervillain ever, in
terms of number of crimes accomplished
S2891. The Profit network
S2892. Short task
S2893. Ethno or con follower
S2895. Slang that elides “-picious”
S2898. Hottest stars, according to James
Ulmer
S2900. Stewart on The Daily Show
S2901. Amazing triumph
S2906. Stomach area
S2907. From Eur.’s boot
S2908. As an adult, for short
S2910. Broke down cells
S2912. Home for some fish
S2913. Supports in a dispute
S2915. Passionate cravings
S2916. Drinks loudly
S2919. He’s never gonna give you up, let you
down, run around, or desert you
S2921. Patch roads
S2922. Follows up on
S2926. They tow in Vail
S2927. Further repetitions
S2930. “Heat of the Moment” band
S2932. Resistance found in a 20-kilometer
silicon wire that’s about one centimeter thick
S2935. Figs. on menus (actual costs may vary)
S2936. Like many classic movies
S2937. Affixes in a way
S2939. Gets off the proper path
S2948. Socially challenged
S2949. Garrulous equine
S2953. Loose hood
S2955. Run-D.M.C. would wear Adidas ones
S2960. You, to Johann
S2961. The man
S2962. He just can’t stop with the sarcastic
remarks
S2964. Capek who wrote
S2965. Chimney sweep’s coat
S2966. “You ___ just whistling Dixie”
S2967. “The Waste Land” poet’s inits.
S2968. Trade places in the theater
S2970. Game in which the lowliest laborers
can become royalty
S2972. Most tempestuous
S2975. Convinces to buy
S2976. Robin Burt
S2977. Myrmecologist’s expertise
S2978. Like an hour-long stretch for a
training marathoner
S2979. With every meal, medically
S2980. She’ll help you find some merchandise
S2987. Open-flame cooker
S2988. Disgusted remarks
S2989. “In a couple of ___”
S2990. Bathroom cartridge
S2992. Redefines possibility for
S2993. ___ stick: incense
S2994. “It’s ___ to you now, you and your
generation”
S2995. End of Morse code?
S2997. Words that follow Felix or bell
S2998. You, slangily, after a “t” sound
S2999. Works on pumps, maybe
S3002. Equal in quality
S3004. Objectionable
S3005. Tongue-clickings
S3008. Family-tree word
S3009. Halftime deliveries
S3010. Neon Genesis series, to fans
S3011. Southern sounds
S3012. The Silver Chair locale
S3013. Arsenic and ___
S3014. B.C. sound effect
S3015. 1948-1951 US org.
S3016. Dr. Alzheimer
S3017. Aspiration, as of the world
S3021. Nevertheless
S3022. Selene, to Ovid
S3023. Make a fool of
S3024. Allay grief
S3027. Fileted
S3028. Atkins who sang “Mr. Sandman”
S3029. Gallery contents
S3030. Pet name for Alexander, in Russia
S3033. When the redness starts rising over
the Atlantic
S3035. Strong feelings of ill will
S3036. ___ bunt
S3038. 1994 comedy that was Jon Favreau’s big
break
S3040. Billed to be
S3041. “___ help you?”
S3043. Four-dimensional cubes name-checked in
A Wrinkle in Time and The Avengers
S3046. As prompted
S3047. Dialer’s trio
S3048. Pt. of RSVP
S3049. “___ my way!”
S3050. “Time for sleep”
S3051. Having a natural fragrance
S3053. Purges of rodents
S3054. Huawei and Sprint, for short
S3055. Election losers
S3056. Eastern potentates
S3057. Aspiring DA’s exam
S3059. Trek guide
S3062. Not be closed-minded
S3067. Looney Tunes toon, for short
S3069. Young women’s gp.
S3070. Variant found in a mutation
S3071. “Sic semper tyrannis” speaker
S3076. Moves limbs and torso wildly
S3077. Overawe
S3079. Dopamine fasting, for tech bros in
2021
S3080. Visit between whalers
S3081. ___ v. Ferguson (“separate but equal”
case)
S3082. Jam containers
S3083. Forestland spokesfigure Woodsy
S3084. “Right away, madame!”
S3085. Souls, in ancient Egypt
S3086. Certain chess piece (abbr.)
S3087. Vegetarians may argue the “B” stands
for “bread”
S3088. No Man ___ Island
S3089. Dodger Stadium decision
S3091. Biting wit
S3095. Predictable sway
S3097. Star with the Cosmos, once
S3098. Softly, in mus.
S3099. “Oy, vey!” cause
S3100. Soldier’s barked denial
S3103. Hothead’s emotion
S3104. Beach
S3105. Roll of the dice
S3110. Kuwaiti VIP (var.)
S3112. Sydneyites, e.g.
S3114. Caffeine-free drink
S3118. Abbr. in a resort’s name
S3119. Spam-cutting email feature
S3120. Trading post? (abbr.)
S3122. Abe Lincoln’s son
S3124. Fulfill a request
S3128. Movie about trying not to be
transformed into a snake
S3132. Family in the fictional Five Families
War
S3136. Conductor’s workplace
S3138. Piraeus portico
S3140. Thumb drive contents
S3141. “The ___ rim dips…” (Coleridge)
S3142. Chinese unit of weight
S3144. Feeling like a blessing from fate
S3145. Setting set
S3148. Certain 1960s paintings
S3149. Poet’s treasure
S3150. Allows to expire
S3152. Put a fresh layer on, after erosion
S3153. Author Chinua Achebe, by birth
S3154. Bowl game channel
S3155. “Anytime I don’t have to wear [one] is
a good day” (Amanda Seales)
S3156. Soft talk
S3158. Soaps with a Hispanic influence
S3162. Don’t worry, they’re fine, they give
your face character!
S3163. Unpaid positions for Clark, Lois, and
Jimmy in My Adventures with Superman
S3170. Board used in seances
S3172. Some polygamous figures
S3178. Cattle identifier
S3179. Hub spots for snacks
S3180. Allocation
S3182. Threesome in Cincinnati?
S3183. Skein fliers
S3184. Just bask for it
S3185. ___ cit.: footnote abbr.
S3186. Loose-hipped dance
S3187. ___ Park, California (site of
Facebook’s headquarters)
S3189. Take-back
S3190. Bit of gamesmanship
S3191. Floppy feature of a dachshund
S3192. Ironic and critical comedy
S3194. Cassette gadget
S3199. Side-channel, in Canada
S3200. Classic parlor game
S3202. Equipment for a Winter Paralympian
S3207. Don’t get too close, as during COVID
S3208. Nasdaq listing (abbr.)
S3209. Worked out ahead of time
S3212. Avoiding a pothole, perhaps
S3215. Pungent garnish
S3216. Hydrogen-ion activity measurements
S3218. All those against
S3220. Alaska’s ___ Glacier
S3221. Baseballer Bando
S3222. Keeps saying git, maybe
S3223. Peace Nobelist Wiesel
S3225. What Henry Ford said his car buyers
could have, “as long as it’s black”
S3228. Unenlightening
S3233. Male red deer
S3234. Root beer source
S3235. Baking potatoes
S3236. The Battleship Potemkin director
S3238. Not too adept with
S3241. Bitter quarrel
S3243. Put ink to paper via iPad
S3244. Soccer highlights
S3245. Stage help
S3246. ___ bean (var.)
S3247. Hairy word fragment
S3248. Sappho’s home
S3250. Pop out of a jet
S3252. Fill with spackling compound
S3255. Second number in a periodic table’s
square
S3258. Column-to-ceiling juncture
S3260. Somewhat fussy Nine-Nine cop
S3263. Méphistophélès in Faust, vocally
S3264. Shutout element
S3265. Nuge, to Oilers fans
S3266. Polishing
S3271. Gutter adjunct
S3273. Dental thread
S3274. Frenzied routines
S3276. “When I Take My Sugar ___,” 1931 song
S3278. Waterlogged to overflowing
S3279. Five-year-old’s “No, you are mistaken;
the aspect we are discussing is indeed one of my qualities”
S3281. Word on most gift tags
S3284. Assent to a married mujer
S3287. Away from the sail wind
S3290. Mount a soapbox
S3291. Weapon popularized by Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles (which probably got it from Daredevil)
S3292. Air quality alert prompter
S3296. Left-handed home keys
S3300. Dreaded person?
S3305. Lets borrow again
S3306. Wearing one’s age on one’s chin
S3308. Bridge groups
S3309. Above, poetically
S3310. December 24 and 31
S3311. Fight off
S3312. 72 for 18, often
S3313. Heavenward
S3314. Become clear
S3315. Japanese massage that uses acupressure
S3318. Nattily attired folks
S3321. Absorbs, as gravy on a plate
S3323. Wrestler John who has granted more
Make-A-Wish wishes than anyone else
S3324. Featured artist on Flo Rida’s “Low”
S3326. Ghosts and skeletons, e.g.
S3333. Absurdist art movement
S3337. Audience addressed in “Baby Got Back”
S3338. “___’s best friend is his mother” (Psycho)
S3339. Troupe group
S3340. Tea kettle features
S3342. 1994 comedy with an oxymoronic title
S3344. Back to school mo.
S3345. Its top division is called makuuchi
S3347. Modest stream
S3350. Workplace where white is worn
S3351. Talk star O’Donnell
S3352. Winner of four show biz awards
S3355. Norton alternative
S3359. Higher-ranking lawyer
S3361. Actress Vardalos et al.
S3362. Specter who wrote Never Give In:
Battling Cancer in the Senate
S3363. Krupa portrayer on film
S3364. Congenital cleft
S3365. Gardner and DuVernay
S3366. Some road atlas pgs.
S3367. They’ll go out of their way to help
S3370. Absolute rulers
S3373. Certain band instruments
S3374. Of lesser size, disparagingly
S3376. Dresden dwellers
S3378. “Sounds about right”
S3381. College officials (abbr.)
S3382. Donatello’s weapons
S3383. Christie creation
S3387. Joan Collins film, or take a break
when flying from Asia to the Americas
S3389. Like mailed periodicals, once
S3391. Pig’s place, perhaps?
S3392. Troth binder
S3393. Amerada ___ (oil giant)
S3394. Screen siren Thurman
S3396. Mystery show spun off from a comedy
S3397. Consequence
S3399. Popular discount shoe store
S3400. Like carriage horses
S3402. Sediment speck in the bottle
S3404. Period of inactivity
S3405. Have the fun job of
S3406. Add zip to
S3408. Where Khufu was laid to rest
S3412. Not 100% sold
S3413. “Mexican Spitfire” Vélez of films
S3415. With a loner, savage nature
S3416. Floated downstream, in a way
S3418. “We will not host ___-person event
this year due to coronavirus”
S3419. Pokémon once argued to be a version of
Uri Geller
S3421. Updike’s Rabbit
S3423. With “Act,” proposed legislation of
2020 that has more to do with internet freedom than wages
S3424. Wear in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
and Contagion
S3427. Results of food fights
S3428. Actor John of sitcoms
S3430. Morphine derivative, slangily
S3432. Phoebe, to Mnemosyne
S3434. Did better than
S3438. Arabian Peninsula republic
S3439. Lhasa apso, e.g.
S3440. Shallow-water vessel
S3442. Big Ben clock setting (abbr.)
S3445. Uses a battering ram on
S3447. Organs males usually lack
S3448. Immortal, barring any mishaps
S3450. Group of dishes for a new household,
say
S3452. Thrusting weapons
S3453. Pro-prohibition
S3454. Emergency aid team
S3457. Services in the UK
S3459. Manufacture butter
S3461. Nickelodeon’s Kenan & ___
S3463. “Somewhere in the world there’s
probably a woman with this name in a toxic relationship with a guy named Sam”
(internet humor)
S3465. Notre Dame neighbor
S3466. Untold knowledge
S3468. Indian staple
S3470. Ladyfish’s cousins
S3471. Perform as ordered
S3472. Short-straw drawers
S3476. Erato, Clio, and Thalia are three
S3477. Bremen or Hamburg, locally
S3478. Little Leaguers’ field
S3479. They’re taken to become a priest
S3480. On-tap serving
S3481. “Keep an eye out for this kid” notices
S3484. Triage expert
S3487. Painterly painters who loved their
color
S3488. Patriotic chant
S3491. Word after due or speed
S3492. Hide, in a way
S3496. Keeps freezing up
S3498. The first baseball cards of the season
S3499. Anaheim team on scoreboards
S3500. Coloring agent
S3501. Local tradition, e.g.
S3505. Cuts further, in shop
S3506. Signers, Variety-style
S3507. Isma’ilist title
S3510. Victory that may be booed
S3511. Certain ruminant
S3512. Discovers
S3514. Higgins or Moriarty
S3517. Russia and some stans, once
S3518. Book of the Cath. Bible
S3520. “Do better!”
S3521. Haute couture designer Rabanne
S3522. Wear for a friend’s wedding
S3525. Motion endorser
S3527. Heart urchin
S3529. Explanations
S3530. Attorney-to-be’s exams
S3535. “…far ___ goes farthest” (Julius
Caesar)
S3540. New Mexico skiing destination
S3544. Sanders or Parker
S3548. Taco Tuesday libation, casually
S3549. “Almost anything is edible with ___ of
French mustard on it” (Nigel Slater)
S3551. When you might name names
S3553. Serving no good purpose
S3555. Kind of poke or burn
S3557. Emulated Simon
S3559. Avenue crosser, sometimes
S3561. Polite sounds when passing
S3563. “I scoff at such trivial concerns!”
S3566. Undertakes
S3568. “How can ___ prepare?” (start of a
self-help mantra)
S3569. Jerk who’s succeeding way beyond
expectations, don’t they know their place?
S3570. Silas Marner’s adopted daughter
S3571. Ready to drop off
S3573. Web page basis
S3577. Flashy promotion
S3581. Petty little jerk?
S3582. Sounding off
S3583. Montana, secretly
S3585. Bob Hope and Carrot Top
S3587. Big name in wrestling?
S3589. Capote, on B’way
S3592. Musical work for Mr. Holland
S3594. Old tales
S3596. Rene in pictures
S3597. Places people go to go on base
S3598. Boston cut
S3601. Do the twist, say
S3602. In music, slow
S3603. Slate of names
S3604. [gestures at puzzle section]
S3606. Storytelling saw
S3607. Difficulty
S3608. Overseas agreements?
S3609. Peerage title
S3610. Olympian gymnast Strug
S3611. What some people do “once and for all”
S3613. Quotable denial from Richard Nixon
S3615. Applies to, as a lotion or a hairbrush
S3617. Makes smooth and plump
S3620. They’re sometimes aided by crystal
balls, allegedly
S3622. Like some old basketball hoops
S3624. Déclassé
S3625. Mitt Romney’s denom.
S3626. Section of a tabletop
S3627. Mnemonic for communication that goes “clear,
concise, concrete, correct, coherent, complete, and courteous”
S3631. Contrail creator of old
S3632. Like traditional Catholic Masses
S3634. Dreadful grades
S3636. “All the Things She Said” singing duo
S3638. ___ sci (field in which Obama has a
B.A.)
S3640. Creates a reason to regret solving in
pen
S3641. Romance in verse
S3642. Lazy, regressive post-humans
S3643. Durante song title word
S3644. Drake or ram
S3645. Part of an @ symbol
S3648. “Sure, whatever” sentiment
S3649. Football Friday network
S3652. Pull uncompromisingly out of reach of
S3654. Outwardly look
S3656. Answers before two rings
S3657. Road hazard near the Ruhr
S3660. Cartoon villain Whiplash
S3663. She sent Amtrak Joe a message across
the pond as he was sworn in
S3664. Dance novelty of the 1960s
S3668. Thread in a book
S3669. Where the penis or vagina is
S3673. US Army award since 1918
S3674. Commoner, for short
S3675. Anti-obscenity crusader who influenced
Reagan
S3677. Sorta-signing, quickly
S3680. By, in Latin
S3681. Indochina
S3686. System with a movement-sensing
controller
S3687. Tibetan carrier
S3689. “Vesti la giubba” from Pagliacci
S3691. Title girl of a Stephen Foster song
S3693. Danish toasts
S3694. Actress Carrie-Anne
S3695. Paid bill (abbr.)
S3696. Ruth’s and Outback, for two
S3701. Banker’s Sallie ___
S3702. They may get tied up in knots
S3703. Cosmetics businesswoman Lauder
S3704. With “the,” what Lincoln and Darwin’s
birthdays have
S3707. Hardly a gentleman
S3709. Seagirt spot
S3710. Resumes ownership of
S3712. Some powerful dogs
S3715. Moogs, e.g.
S3717. Sitcom about an interstellar castaway
S3719. Least secure
S3722. Like most floss
S3723. “___ Meenie” (Kingston/Bieber song)
S3724. Have the ___ for (get a crush on)
S3725. Rook’s cry
S3726. Mind field (abbr.)
S3728. Spends the night?
S3730. Mun. councilor
S3733. Mosaicist’s tile
S3734. Fix a watch
S3735. War-free zone, in UN terminology
S3736. Biggest stretch of desert in the world
S3738. Month that splits into two in leap
years
S3739. Eldest March sister
S3742. Macbeth and Banquo
S3743. ___ tack
S3745. Italian soccer league that Juventus
has won five years running now
S3747. Derby victory margins
S3749. Snitch, in second grade
S3751. Certain Marine Corps school graduate
S3753. News feed inits.
S3754. Christopher Robin’s bear
S3755. Slow trot
S3756. Extremely popular at the moment
S3757. Philippine hardwood
S3758. Lord and lady’s home
S3759. Faisal was one
S3762. Site of some basketballers’
reconstruction surgery
S3765. First name in cosmetics sales
S3766. Penner of the line “Language is wine
upon the lips”
S3767. Treat like dirt
S3772. “There ___, a faded being, under faded
leaves” (Franz Kafka)
S3773. Common fashion choice for Republicans
S3775. Geometric crescent
S3777. Power source
S3779. ___ good job
S3780. Get an ___: smoke, as a test
S3782. Animal’s outermost anatomy
S3784. New York restaurateur
S3785. “Vote ___ Proposition 1”
S3787. Student diplomacy exercise, for short
S3788. Prefix with cycle or ton
S3789. Hill, to an Arab
S3790. Film with a tiger fight scene
S3791. Identify all locations in, as a genome
S3792. Site of iniquity in antiquity
S3793. Certain NCO, slangily
S3796. Tiny time meas.
S3800. Separate like an apple from a tree
S3807. Eine ___ Nachtmusik
S3813. It causes wasting
S3816. NSFW material, slangily
S3817. You can measure its radius
S3818. Not dis
S3819. Six-time NYPD Blue Emmy nominee
S3821. Got the white, spongy stuff out of
S3823. He did throw Rabbit into that old
briar patch
S3826. Sewed line
S3828. Neeson of Unknown
S3829. Not really original
S3831. Like many a golf hole
S3833. Kiss like an Inuit
S3836. Dispositions
S3838. Plato’s account of Socrates’ death
S3840. 1985 movie To Live and Die ___
S3841. Mephistophelian
S3842. Cylindrical trash at the rifle range
S3849. “Not Your Barbie Girl” singer Max
S3852. Strong impulses
S3853. Palindromic “War on Poverty” agency
S3854. Result of unwise dining
S3856. “Or ___ thought…”
S3857. The slightest bit
S3859. ___ roll!’ (casino cry)
S3861. Tom’s partner
S3863. JFK’s kid brother
S3864. Last words of Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
S3866. At Wit’s End writer Bombeck
S3868. Harsh soap
S3869. Practically all damn day
S3871. “Catch you then!”
S3872. Baking company that “nobody doesn’t
like”
S3873. “This puzzles me”
S3874. Rhyming nickname for a chill president
S3876. Defeated easily in competition
S3877. Won’t permit
S3879. WWII bond designation
S3881. They might cover perspective and
squares, cubes, and cylinders
S3884. Italian “good evening” (which I just
learned is addressed to a “Mrs. Campbell” in an old film and now I have to make
a card out of it for my wife, that’s just basic marriage physics)
S3887. Expel by proclamation
S3889. Most impatient...or quickest
S3892. Instructions, part 7 and last
S3907. Recital halls
S3908. Lusitania’s signal
S3909. Use X-ray vision on
S3910. ___-dieu
S3911. Gets (by) with great effort
S3912. ___-ear (mollusk)
S3913. Dowsing tool
S3914. Alley rentals
S3915. Dickensian disses
S3916. Plug, as a product
S3917. Gets worse
S3918. Metric heavyweights
S3919. Monopoly card phrase
S3920. Most moist
S3921. Having a stronger wood-sap taste, as
wine
S3922. Surprised cry
S3923. Feudal Scottish baron
S3924. Native South Africans
S3925. Range of expertise
S3926. Missiles
S3927. ___ apple (Fameuse)
S3928. Enc. to an editor
S3929. R&D site
S3930. Common type of antidepressant
S3931. Some terriers
S3932. Passing sounds
S3933. Dorm “quiet hours” enforcers (abbr.)
S3934. Cartoonist who created the Tammany
Hall tiger
S3935. Sun. speeches
S3936. “___ daisy!”
S3937. Word to a boxer
Down
S1. Favor add-on
S2. ___ Ring des Nibelungen
S3. Bloomers you wear around your neck
S4. Popular rec centers
S5. Series originally spearheaded by Gil Grissom
S6. Michelob Ultra, for one
S7. Like some touch-me-nots
S8. Common Pride banner
S9. Wenceslas, e.g.
S10. Long rectangular solid
S11. Conjunctions for a plan B
S12. Half a record
S13. Indian colonialists
S14. Prefix with centenary
S15. One constantly gagging?
S16. Count Basie’s “___’Clock Jump”
S17. Moves fast
S18. It might be desperate in desperate
times
S19. Dada art pioneer
S20. Trip producer
S21. Compton rapper once under Dr. Dre’s
tutelage
S22. Stop working
S23. Greets the day
S24. Dark gray-brown in old paintings
S25. Calm with a promise
S26. Undercover agents
S27. Exceptional rating
S28. ___ for Race: A Stock Car Alphabet
S29. Twist ending that turns a first-person
story into a ghost story
S30. Perception faculty
S31. Wealthy people
S32. Go ___ (lose control)
S33. Priority for many papers (abbr.)
S34. Leave to fate
S35. So speedy
S36. Linguistically invented
S37. Washes without soap
S38. Glory or maid preceder
S39. Most pretentious
S40. ___ faire (freedom of action)
S41. Sec. aide
S42. English actor Abercrombie who played
Mr. Pitt on Seinfeld
S43. “M” as in Morse?
S44. The B & O et al.
S45. Dr. Zaius and such
S46. What the Ancient Mariner had yet
needed
S47. “___ lay me down to sleep...”
S48. Does an encore of
S49. ___ river
S50. Broadway houses
S52. Heart of heart
S53. Defeat definitively
S54. Mo. in which we goof up the least
S55. Just chilling
S56. Is overflowing (with)
S58. Motives
S59. Word after “ill” and before “release”
S60. Sick ___
S62. Some French consonants
S63. Trying thy utmost
S64. When some visit Nancy
S65. “I see…that means…wait, what does that
mean?”
S66. What the chest S stands for,
allegedly, in Jack-Jack Attack
S67. 1987 R.E.M. hit, with “The”
S68. “Love ___ irresistible desire to be
irresistibly desired” (Robert Frost)
S69. Chews up further
S70. Road maps, e.g.
S71. Gov’t procurement group
S72. Shock-avoidance request
S73. 288,000 BTUs
S74. Homeowners’ org.
S75. He pretends to be McLovin
S76. Jumper cable hookup
S77. Weight loss surgeries, informally
S78. Expend energy
S79. Confidante
S80. Drill instructors, e.g. (abbr.)
S81. Donkey, in Dortmund
S82. Daugavpils native
S83. Princess of Power in two cartoon shows
decades apart
S84. Progenitorial prefix
S85. Zac of High School Musical
S86. “I think there’s ___ that tends to
carry historians back to the past” (Ron Chernow)
S87. Mo. for Kwanzaa
S89. ___ bar (motorcycle part)
S90. Goes well (with), as weather
S91. Coiled and curly
S92. Some broken glass
S94. King’s land in a Broadway hit
S95. Covers
S96. Having been visibly smacked around
S97. Bargain-bin markers
S99. What the chest S stands for, in Archie
Comics
S100. Lofty verse
S101. Certain red giants
S102. Marvin credited for borrowed tunes in
“Blurred Lines”
S103. “I wrote The Story ___” (2004 article
revealing the history of female-written erotica)
S104. Letter design that resembles an
angular 8
S105. What the S stands for, in this section
S106. Architectural s-curve
S107. The ___, Happy Days motorcycle
rider
S108. Back of an airplane seat’s attachment
S111. What the chest S stands for, on
certain heroes (no matter what they say about “hope”)
S112. His S stood for nothing
S113. Little garden guys
S118. “So there you are!”
S120. Danish cyclist Bjarne who admitted in 2007
to taking performance-enhancing drugs when winning the 1996 Tour de France
S121. Old fruit drink
S122. Muhammad of the poetic trash talk
S123. Prospective doctors’ presentations
S124. Ceux variation
S125. First principles
S126. The Iliad and The Odyssey
S127. Butter unit
S131. Horse-drawn carriage
S134. Typical Woody Allen role
S136. ___ Pieces (m&m’s lookalikes)
S138. Letters before F?
S140. Throw for a loop
S143. Bit of cartoon art
S147. Some Annapurna climbers
S149. Pro-sustainable energy org.
S151. Two-letter prepositions
S152. Wager in Monte Carlo
S153. Suffered patiently
S158. Sinus clearer
S161. Toothstuff
S162. Garden recess
S165. Top 10 song, say
S172. Matchbox Twenty ballad
S173. Total badly?
S174. Outfield-to-home throw
S176. Laos money
S178. Is punctilious
S180. Lively sci.
S182. Willingness to challenge convention
S183. Cassiterite or bauxite
S185. The LA area and environs
S187. Echinate
S191. They’d love to tell you how males are
actually the most discriminated-against group (run away quickly) (abbr.)
S193. “___ holding” (Seemingly infinite
storage in role-playing games)
S199. ___ Altos
S201. Incas’ home
S204. Dramatic Roman numeral in clock tower
pics
S206. Les Grandes Jorasses, par exemple
S208. Nickname for a buddy that's a little
unnerving when shark diving
S210. Sought-after report card string
S213. Carrier of Bellerophon, in myth
S215. Jock’s putdown
S218. Between A-H and T-Z (or Judge and
Junji I guess)
S222. Celebratory service
S223. Firm abbr.
S224. Last role for Chadwick Boseman (in
Marvel’s What If?)
S225. Psychiatrist’s scheduling
S226. Fare for Hansel
S227. Large degree
S228. “At the risk of repeating myself…”
S229. Seashell pink
S230. Puts out of reach of others
S231. Sitzfleisch
S232. Moves, as a portrait
S236. “She checks out Mozart while she does
___ bo…”
S237. ___ dixit: unfounded claim
S239. VH1 rival
S240. Circulation boosters
S241. Characterization
S242. The one with the Ewoks
S243. Relished
S245. Some NHL attempts on goal
S247. Award-winning webcomic about “romance,
sarcasm, math and language”
S249. Patient reply?
S250. Without hope
S252. Kitten’s sound
S254. River islets, to the UK
S258. English room that comes from the
French “guardez l’eau”
S259. Order with 14 legs
S260. Off and on
S261. Shock to subdue
S262. Big bird down under
S263. Type of shop
S264. The Old Guitarist painter
S265. Belligerents
S267. About as long as my wife’s usual
workday, factoring in driving time
S268. Ex-quarterback Boomer trying to cure cystic
fibrosis
S269. ___-Y (today’s forty-fiftysomething
crowd)
S270. Mischievously start in on
S271. “Come ___!”: “Enter”
S272. Beach sculptures, say
S273. ___ Schwarz (toy company)
S274. To the point that
S275. Metonym for Washington lobbyists
S276. ‘03 Toyota model
S277. ___ France, famed liner
S278. Colombian couple?
S279. Benny Goodman is credited with
starting it
S282. Waste, casually
S283. “Wait ‘til y’all ___ before y’all
fire”
S284. Response to a string of technobabble
S285. Surety concern
S287. Off the ___ (continuously)
S289. Tip from ___: offer for illegal
insider trading
S291. Spot without trouble
S293. Little hiss for a disobedient dog
S295. Canadian coins
S297. ___ in “Charlie”
S299. “I’m hurt a bit”
S300. Pilots feel one prior to takeoff
S301. Phoenix-to-Vancouver dir.
S302. Name shared by two women of Genesis
S303. Dungeon restraint
S304. Brest natives, once
S310. Base pay recipient? (abbr.)
S311. Restive
S312. Spring birthstones
S313. Pharrell Williams hit not
representative of his overall oeuvre
S314. Solid slush in Scotland
S316. Calls for quiet
S317. Metric unit
S318. It has the highest per-capita income
in the US
S319. Made a patsy of
S321. LAX listings
S324. Populous area
S325. TV personality Spencer
S327. Ford and Bush, e.g.
S328. Accidental quick-dry in concrete
S329. Something thrown in anger
S330. Charges
S333. Start of some Italian church names
S335. Peak on the Pakistani-Chinese border
S338. “From the land or sky ___” (Paula
Cole, “God Is Watching”)
S339. Succeed in life
S341. Yin-and-yang believers
S342. Mitch who spent Tuesdays with Morrie
S343. Struggle for balance atop
S344. Lafayette’s ally
S345. Literally, “It is! It is!! IT…IS!!!”
S347. 6 letters
S348. ___ in the Dark (Streep film)
S349. Spurs, in a way
S350. Outward images
S353. An unwanted impression
S355. Barterer’s kind of meet
S357. N. Mesopotamia
S359. Eng.-based communication similar to
Japanese
S360. “Oh, heavens!”
S361. Exxon, abroad
S364. Cashier’s call
S366. 1972 USA-USSR treaty subj.
S367. Pres. Wash.
S373. Waterlogged
S374. Repeated twice more, a 1965 hit by the
Byrds
S375. Sch. support org.
S377. “But ___ fire to the rain, watched it
pour as I touched your face...”
S378. Excessive standards of modesty
S380. “Kids” singers with a controversial
video
S381. Pharynx-to-stomach route
S383. ___-de-loup (military pit)
S385. “I Go to ___”
S386. Creature allied with Merry and Pippin
S387. College Board test (abbr.)
S388. You have the right to one (abbr.)
S389. Gives the evil eye to
S390. What malamutes pull
S392. Picnic side-dish
S393. Org. honoring sports greats
S394. Floor decor
S398. T-shaped contraceptive
S400. Normal sch.?
S402. Plagiarize
S404. Two-time presidential hopeful
Stevenson
S407. Gillian and Cooper of TV
S408. Common bikini specs
S409. Tie ___ (cravat holder)
S411. Magazine (abbr.)
S412. A Haunting in Venice detective
S413. Typing a PIN for, e.g.
S414. Have zero significance
S416. Waist scarf
S418. Fits comfortably
S421. “Who’s on First?” left fielder
S422. Cholesterol sources
S423. Winner’s startling admission
S424. The Sony of the Sixties
S426. Negative from Nuruyev
S427. Pasted but good
S435. Using ecology to help society, for
short
S438. Cosmetic chemical-soaked coats
S439. With circuitous motion or path
S440. Looney Toons’ activities
S442. Some bays
S444. “I Could Have Danced All Night”
singer, 1956
S446. It may be junk or registered
S448. Something to show or lead?
S450. Adjacent side over hypotenuse, for
short
S451. Sci-fi doorways bridging space
S452. Uncomfortability scale (abbr.)
S454. Dakota Fanning’s little sister
S460. Alarm toggle
S461. Sheffield streetcar
S462. “Take ___ sign”
S464. Londoner’s Nonsense!
S465. ___ tear (rampaging)
S467. Angular velocity meas.
S469. “What are you looking ___ relax these
days?”
S471. Je ne ___ quoi
S473. Actors Gilliam and Erwin
S475. NASDAQ events
S476. Sunday delivery, for short
S477. Y, Y, Y?...Y!
S478. Anger, to Cato
S480. Sizes for big ol’ clodhoppers
S482. Some RIT attendees
S484. “___ help if…”
S485. Went into reverse
S486. Fax glitch, for short
S487. Bluefin or bonita
S488. Related to kissing
S489. Number of bits used in an encryption
S490. Wavy roofing piece
S491. Turn-on
S492. A place of privacy
S493. Joe Doakes
S494. Swedish ex-Prime Minister Palme
S495. Microscopic machine
S496. “And Penny will see the evil me, not a
joke, not a dork, not a failure…and she may cry, but her tears will dry when I
hand her the keys to a shiny new ___” (would-be world conqueror Dr. Horrible)
S497. Cloak and Dagger org.
S499. Venti and grande, e.g.
S501. “What’s the point of anything?”
feeling
S502. Univ. grouping
S504. City of Ukraine associated with
Russian tyranny even before
S506. Journal entry providers?
S508. Deps.
S509. Close calls
S511. Apple and pear, e.g.
S512. Deuce follower
S513. Unleashes an attack dog
S514. Latin for “strength”
S515. Fra, e.g.
S516. Bit of ocular relief
S517. Studio behind Suspicion and
Notorious
S518. Throw off balance
S519. Like worms
S520. Vetoes, informally
S521. 34 or 95
S522. Mercury vapor lamp inventor
S524. More peaceful
S525. Nickname for Sirius Black, since he
can turn to a dog
S526. Runaway pair
S527. “I can ___ church by daylight”
(Shakespeare)
S528. Peanuts, for one
S529. Seeing use from the cool kids
S530. Stars and planets
S531. Experience ___: have a death in the
family, say
S532. Nut lead-in
S535. Faulkner’s Requiem for ___
S537. Kinds of bends
S538. City famously visited by Martin Luther
King, Jr.
S540. Slotkin, Washuta, or Steamer
S542. Little wise-ass
S546. Cranky character
S547. Jack who played the leader of Bacteria
in The Great Dictator
S549. Nothing, in Spanglish
S550. Bonus card in canasta
S551. It was redefined in 2019 based on the
Planck constant
S552. Begins courting
S553. Protective covering used by Roman
troops
S554. “As long as you’re under my ___...”
S559. “Concerning…”
S560. They’re often empty
S561. Leon Uris’s QB ___
S564. Chewed and swallowed
S565. Koenig who created Neo Yokio and
played with Vampire Weekend
S567. Follower of blood and guts?
S569. Rawls on the radio
S570. Timber used often in furniture
S571. He chose Saul as Israel’s first king
S572. Is a thief
S574. Whisk brooms’ companions
S576. Fischer defeated him in 1972
S578. Parade columnist Marilyn ___ Savant
S579. Pays, and not with money
S581. Extinct German ox
S582. Compact for a geisha’s girdle
S583. Longtime NPR host Diane
S584. Togo language or livestock
S585. Mouflon male
S593. Western PA city
S594. Playful mockery
S595. Jazz saxophonist Coleman
S597. Close bro
S598. Noted tomb, casually
S600. You are, in the Yucatan
S602. Manuel’s uncle
S604. Hearts and clubs
S606. 1055-ish J
S607. Netflix telekinetic
S608. Opposite of whites, laundrywise
S609. Containing the 58th element
S610. Without dissent
S611. Country singer with the #1 hit “I’ll
Always Come Back”
S614. Sailing, say
S616. Org. for Sharks and Penguins
S618. Force of Nazi-bombers
S620. Italian bubbler
S621. Some Anarchist’s Cookbook
“recipes”
S623. Remain free of
S624. Civil rights gp. in support of Israel
S625. Usual tic-tac-toe result
S626. Block passage through
S627. Not score well
S628. Young barracuda
S630. “Sacred river” of Coleridge that
inspired a real one in Antarctica
S632. Kitchen measures (abbr.)
S633. 1776 martyr Nathan
S634. Car parts that respond to deceleration
S636. Neithers’ partners
S638. Pulls a Halloween prank on, for short
S639. Knights’ aides
S640. Subjects of washday mysteries
S641. Furnished with a spar
S642. State within reach
S643. ___’ Mo’, three-time Grammy-winning
bluesman
S644. Abbr. by 0 on a phone
S646. Slanted (abbr.)
S653. S.F. summer hours
S654. Happening
S655. Steak orderer’s specification
S657. $ figure
S658. John Tesh’s “Mother ___ You”
S663. Thrones, so to speak
S665. Supplies with life’s necessities
S666. Aid, to Eliza Doolittle
S667. Amble along
S668. 2nd afterthought
S669. Sneak a peek
S676. “That crazy old Kenobi guy”
S677. “Slay, queen, SLAY!”
S679. Grade A item
S680. Egyptian ___ (breed of cat)
S681. Cut into flat sections
S683. Prefix with “laryngologist”
S685. Actor Halper
S686. Musicians Krauss and Mosshart
S688. Cool farm abode
S690. “If the law thinks that, then the law
is ___!” (Oliver Twist)
S691. Actor Rogen
S693. Mote-filled
S694. Benjamin
S695. Early tie score
S696. “___ olde England”
S697. Entrepreneur-helping gp.
S698. Dodeca-, quartered
S699. One of Ghent’s rivers
S705. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan org.
S707. It’s useless without its mate
S708. Swig of moonshine
S709. Foolish heart?
S711. Possible result of infection
S712. Like vegetation in the desert
S713. “Aw, fiddlesticks!”
S715. Call for a binkie
S716. Detailed resume or dating profile
S717. ___ oneself (share private thoughts)
S719. Warrants
S720. Opposite of nord
S721. Reservation sights
S722. “Whatever-your-name-is”
S723. It might be a blot on your record
S725. How to pronounce “esque”
S726. Owl calls
S727. Shape of soup
S728. Rather high
S729. Certain guns (abbr.)
S730. Weak ___ kitten
S731. Voice legend Blanc
S732. Hit a bit
S733. Etna ejecta
S734. The second “S” of MS-DOS (abbr.)
S735. You might react to it on so-media
S736. Chamber in a combustion engine
S737. Horseshoe-shaped bike protector
S738. Rebel org.
S739. Unreturnable volleys
S742. Not abroad?
S743. With “Atom,” superhero who fights
Ferocious Flea
S745. Boisterous, beer-swilling sis
S746. “Let’s pass this bill”
S749. Mil. training course
S751. Seeks the opinion of
S753. Car brand now used for military vehicles
(or as its website puts it, “making everyone feel safe”)
S755. Fall from grace
S756. Reception
S758. Statistical outlier
S761. Fundament in Fairford
S762. Grappler’s milieu
S763. Illegal trip across the median strip,
perhaps
S764. Mind-reading, e.g.
S765. Moon vehicle
S766. John of the Harold & Kumar
films
S769. Suffix with frond
S770. Two-dash ID
S771. Daniel Newman, Drew Barrymore, and
Bella Thorne, e.g.
S772. ___-hoo! (Hey, you!)
S773. Goodbye abroad
S774. Most monogrammatic state
S775. Comic-book lover’s collectible
S776. Journal attachment?
S777. Hints at, with “of”
S779. Bit of rest
S780. Adj. for some verbs
S782. Thirteenth Spanish letter
S783. Parks of protests
S785. Something to keep a teller busy?
S786. It’s staged
S788. Rebellions
S789. Prepare to mail (someone)
S790. Street-corner summons
S792. Tiresias and Nostradamus, e.g.
S793. State of disorder
S794. Nonpoisonous Sumac?
S795. Metz monarchs
S796. Robber James
S797. 1953 Western hero to whom Joey cried
“Come back!”
S799. “___ I digress”
S800. Palm in one’s palm?
S801. “That’s in character, now that I think
about it”
S802. ___ kebab
S806. Atomic energy org. (abbr.)
S807. Manifest destiny’s guiding ethos
S808. Multiple of CI
S809. Pixar’s Remy is one
S810. Mil. branch with B-52s
S812. Fed. assistance program
S813. Capitol Hill pol.
S815. Molting
S816. “I can tell you’re upset about this,
___”
S819. Site of the Battle of Normandy
S821. “All you can ___” (buffet sign)
S825. ___ Hill (singers of “Beauty” and
“Never Make a Promise”)
S826. Influences to ignore reality
S828. GI relaxation destination
S830. Mil. time off
S831. Original Martha in Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
S832. Vice-Presidential monogram
S834. D&D, e.g.
S836. Convert (with over)
S839. Sources of warm, woolly fiber
S840. Makes others wait
S841. Thought through, with “out”
S842. Piece of hair
S844. Dusseldorf direction
S845. Mario Golf: Super Rush feature
S847. Four’s foursome
S849. 2016 NFL MVP
S852. “That makes sense”
S853. Amazon base
S854. Noun suffix
S855. Trooper or medic start
S856. Ariz. pro
S857. Independent of public utilities
S858. Besmirches
S860. Awards show lately hosted by Ariana
DeBose
S861. Gymnastic feat
S862. Suffix for law
S863. End of a kindergarten line?
S865. F notes
S866. Elle’s mate, often
S867. Post-Jeeves search brand, for a while
S868. Phone service provider
S872. End of churchgoing?
S873. Web language released in 1995
S874. Variety show regular with Moore,
Kirby, and Carson
S875. Prefix meaning taillike
S876. Caesar on 1950s TV
S878. Followers of saw and law
S881. Sir Mix-___
S884. Not the settling-down type
S886. Either director of True Grit
S888. First name in country
S890. Cate Blanchett and Ana de Armas were
among them in 2023
S891. First name in photography
S892. Neo cousin?
S893. Others in the Sierra Madre
S894. Fourth-wall-breaking comment
S895. Moves leaves
S898. Fool’s conclusion?
S899. One who hopes for strikes
S900. Member of an Eastern Christian Church
S901. Held to be
S902. “Just one minute!”
S903. The ultimate
S904. “You Gotta Be” singer
S908. “Quelle horreur!”
S909. Largest bony swimmers in their
biological class
S910. Event likely to draw intl. criticism
S912. ___ Chapelle Winery
S916. Unspecified degrees
S918. Trouble that looks like thrashing
nightmares to an outside observer
S921. The Once-___: Lorax character
S922. Wk. enders
S923. Bootstrap transaction, for short
S925. When loose, they need tying up
S926. Some bank offerings, for short
S931. Chabrier’s “___ malgre lui”
S937. Modest length meas.
S938. Broken up
S939. Long, modern works like The Poet X and
Long Way Down
S941. What phone functions connect through
S943. Percentage of active time, for servers
S944. Calm with a drug
S945. Sonnet ender
S946. Say C-H-E-E-S-E?
S947. “___ walks me through the nicest parts
of hell” (“Sanctified,” Nine Inch Nails)
S948. Goes bananas
S950. Yogi’s utterances
S951. Colorful upholstery fabric
S952. Diameter of a needle
S953. Pointer’s bark?
S954. Will last
S955. If another choice is needed
S958. Von Stroheim epic
S959. Draco Malfoy’s housemates in the Harry
Potter books
S960. Guns & ___ Magazine
S961. Cattle prod, e.g.
S962. Drew, alternatively?
S963. Tools to reply
S965. Suck-ups
S966. How-___ (book genre)
S968. Commencements
S969. Gestational units
S970. “We need help!”
S974. Nintendo avatar
S975. Unwelcome sound to a driver
S977. Try to make clear
S978. Armageddon author
S979. International alternative to UPC
S981. Prefix with “right” that’s not right
at all
S984. Plays the lead
S985. Measure of thermal resistance for
sleepwear
S986. “It’s not TV, it’s...” streaming,
increasingly
S988. Court group
S991. Thousand ___, California
S996. I believe in Latin?
S997. Crossworlds’ Rutger
S1000. Detective’s cry
S1001. Dance Moms star Sioux
S1002. Make a wrong choice
S1003. Stk. privileges
S1006. Language of the Celts
S1008. Gives the name of, for short
S1009. Bio majors’ degs.
S1011. Pandora release
S1012. Old stage direction for an actress
(just one)
S1013. Sept follower
S1014. Unattractive Jamaican fruit
S1015. ___ Island Earth (1955 sci-fi film)
S1017. ___ Maria (liqueur)
S1018. Men in Black concerns, briefly
S1020. “Chances ___…”
S1022. French composer Saint ___
S1024. Little muscle?
S1025. Jaywalker’s punishment
S1026. In two lobes
S1028. Skylight Tony nominee Williams
S1029. “___ really have to keep explaining
this to you?”
S1033. Times out?
S1034. “Ella ___ hija” (“She’s your
daughter”)
S1037. Conforming to
S1040. Roman Polanski film of 1979
S1042. Colour addendum?
S1043. Ultimate sailing destinations, perhaps
S1046. Pou ___ (Aristotle’s vantage point)
S1049. “___ follows function”
S1050. Austin school, informally
S1051. There may be a spat about it
S1052. Makeup master Westmore
S1053. Mountain Standard in Canada
S1054. “This is so funny, I’m speechless”
S1055. Bit of TV commentary on a successful
putt
S1057. Tried to avoid a tag, say
S1062. Worrisome decline
S1064. Prepares pretzels
S1065. Seraglio rooms
S1066. “Is Melissa off duty?” reply
S1070. Accelerates, as an engine
S1071. Cinque minus due
S1075. Shout as one raises one’s glass
S1076. Opposite ENE
S1078. Loretta Switt starred in this TV hit
S1079. Person who’s been given the third
degree?
S1080. One-handed Norse god
S1081. Very poor, as chances
S1082. In the capacity of, as lawyers might
say
S1084. “Aye, brother”
S1085. Gets into the weeds?
S1087. “___ McDonalds at midnight / Became
the best of friends” (“Give Me A Kiss” lyrics)
S1088. Not sideways
S1089. “___ my coffee black”
S1090. “I’m ___ a bee”: Seven-year-old boy
after his first breakup, online
S1091. Performs excellently, in slang
S1093. Particulars, for short
S1094. Against the thing, in legalese
S1095. Photoshop alternative
S1097. Body fuel
S1100. New mintage of 2002
S1101. Cabal constituents
S1103. Old Peruvians
S1106. Slightly salacious 1951 song that got
onto I Love Lucy
S1107. Associates with
S1108. Those, to Robert Burns
S1109. Beggar’s garb
S1110. Obscenity trial subject, perhaps
S1112. Mark of quality
S1114. Extreme Fox News issue, despite its
slogan
S1115. Area drawing
S1117. General ___ (takeout order)
S1118. Prefix with sphere or scope
S1119. Mad Saint Bernard of horror
S1120. Kind of fanatical follower
S1123. Most dramatic part of a hospital
S1124. ___-de-sac
S1125. Org. for dockworkers
S1126. Bit for Trigger
S1128. Stationary when behind the wheel,
maybe
S1129. Carry Nation’s target
S1130. Log-in requirement
S1131. Put in writing
S1132. Lace maker
S1133. Bear trails
S1135. Sites for campers
S1136. East Indian trees
S1137. Part of EU
S1138. Petty change
S1139. Replaces, as an outfield
S1141. Homo, for one
S1142. He was twice shut out by Shut Out
S1143. Mail-in ballot submitter
S1144. It floats soap brand
S1145. Sanders of the World Series and the
Super Bowl
S1147. Finds a true bill
S1148. Dennis Quaid sci-fi film where
survival depends on suspending hostilities
S1149. Rx bottle notation
S1152. Pic often posted as a pregnancy
announcement
S1153. Muse of history
S1154. Show off while doing the job
S1155. Pouched candy similar to Pixy Stix
S1157. ___-Stache (hair remover)
S1158. “Last one there’s a rotten egg!”
S1159. Suffix with “Lum” in Beauty and the
Beast
S1160. “Oh, go __...___ it” (or…eco-friendly
sock brand)
S1161. Interminable
S1167. Nice vowel sound?
S1168. Something folded before a meal
S1169. Those, in Nuevo Laredo
S1170. Tipplers
S1171. Like an x-axis
S1174. SALT focus
S1176. Prefix meaning straight
S1178. Its members include Mex. and Uru.
S1181. Cosmo or GQ, e.g.
S1182. Rainbow-haired Rodman
S1187. “___ know you, you won’t”
S1188. Red lightsaber group
S1189. Significant advancements
S1190. Matched (up)
S1191. Quick rein pull
S1192. Higher education?
S1194. Pantry array
S1198. How Athena was born
S1199. Central vowel run
S1201. Works by a certain French
Impressionist
S1205. Drama about a sour genius with a cane
S1206. Cut, as sheep’s wool
S1207. Make waves (from)
S1208. Risk of handling undried ink
S1209. “Till There ___ You”
S1210. Brand name on Zappos.com
S1211. They’re close to W
S1212. Recycling container
S1213. Birthmarks
S1215. Group concerned with things that are
NSFW?
S1220. They’ll be their organizations’ voices
S1223. Little River Band hit “___ on Your
Mind”
S1224. Class lesson
S1228. Lon Chaney Jr. film, ___ of Dracula
S1230. “American Pie” singer McLean
S1231. Mess-hall dish
S1234. Answer to “You following?”
S1237. What underlies yoga?
S1239. Ranch animal, informally
S1240. Heavy brews
S1241. Web surfer’s need
S1242. 85 was the highest I’ve ever gone,
which is why I’ve never time traveled (abbr.)
S1243. Where Eagles Dare actress Mary
S1244. Extended PTO or UTO
S1245. Inc. rel.
S1249. Make the earth move, in a way
S1250. Jump the gun
S1254. Passenger 57 star
S1256. Sound distraught
S1258. Gizmodo or Gawker
S1260. Kind of concrete with a coarse makeup
S1261. Cals.’ counterparts
S1263. Leading man Grant
S1264. Luggage marking
S1266. City transit system going to two
neighboring states
S1268. Baseball stat
S1269. Holidays where it’s unlucky to eat
duck or shrimp
S1270. No Child Left Behind successor
S1271. Platoon director
S1273. Mixed-color fur (grayish, yellowish,
or brownish)
S1274. Weaponry for the Three Musketeers
S1275. Texan topper
S1276. Umpire’s call
S1277. Cruise-ship amenities
S1279. “One heck ___ catch”
S1282. Removes from a to-do list
S1283. Ed Norton expression
S1284. Neighbor of Liberia
S1285. The NCAA’s Fighting Tigers
S1287. Rose in the music world
S1289. Motorcade units
S1291. Casts out
S1292. Amputate (with off)
S1294. Some knitted pieces, in Britain
S1295. Food-warming fireplace shelves
S1296. Baja bruin
S1297. Medicine label abbr.
S1298. In a way, slangily
S1299. Second part of a kid’s game
S1301. Resemble
S1302. Kirk, e.g. (abbr.)
S1303. Insert found in a cassette or DVD case
S1304. Bone on the pinky side of the arm
S1305. Word before “sells” or “positivity”
S1306. Yankovic hit used as a pandemic
sing-along
S1308. Weight, height, etc.
S1311. In not long at all
S1313. “Cover” cover?
S1314. Two thumbs up?
S1315. Hampers
S1318. Knitting item
S1319. Cute rodent
S1320. “This research just became
publishable!,” said by co-authors
S1322. Craps natural
S1323. Affix your name to with a stylus or
forefinger
S1324. Petrol unit in the UK
S1325. Unlike HDTV screens
S1326. Arrogant ones
S1329. “We Will Rock You” and “Revolution,”
for instance
S1333. Grip firmly (down on)
S1337. Sir, less formally
S1341. Brit. honor
S1343. They actually did part before death
S1344. Duplex feature
S1345. Spills secrets
S1346. Drivetrain component
S1347. Sandy islet
S1348. Sound rarely heard in a Boston accent
S1349. Active hostility
S1350. The same, at the start?
S1351. Nittany Lions sch.
S1352. Cat’s foot-flesh
S1353. Vigilante’s collar
S1356. They don’t make many stops
S1357. Broadcast in regular installments
S1358. Casino activities with dice
S1360. Bks. with alternate apocalypse to
Revelations’
S1361. Ideal Venn overlap
S1364. Online bulletin board mgr.
S1366. Economic alternative to svcs.
S1367. Like stale jokes
S1368. Big name in food delivery
S1369. File people used before YouTube links
S1370. Quarterback Shuler
S1371. Linguine toppers
S1373. Week day (abbr.)
S1376. “Happiness ___ Warm Gun” (Beatles
song)
S1377. Spraying graffiti and running crack
houses, in the UK
S1378. “Spell it B-L-O-N-D”
S1379. Tiny, tinier?
S1382. Got the most votes
S1385. One reason for boots
S1386. ___-Barbera (big name in cartoons)
S1387. Undersea killers
S1388. Ms. Shire of Rocky films
S1389. Nose wrinkler
S1393. Emoji of disapproval
S1396. Rocky III fighter
S1399. Commercial prefix of power
S1401. Mythological herbal specialist
S1402. “Look ___! (We’ve come a long way…)”
S1403. Slams, perhaps
S1404. Jezebel’s husband, or a hunter named
for him
S1405. Bend in the middle
S1407. Logical fallacy
S1408. “You’re going to ___ death of me”
S1411. Needlework items
S1419. “Don’t change this!”
S1421. Ceres, for one
S1422. Pictures of people
S1423. Rudner or Moreno
S1424. Digital journalism
S1425. “Like if you ___”
S1426. Tattletale’s shout
S1427. Spots on the periphery
S1428. Bus driver’s announcement
S1429. Igbo people whose confederacy lasted
two centuries
S1430. Yeahs’ opposites
S1432. Theorist quoted by many an
anticapitalist
S1433. Mackenzie and others
S1435. Fill the pipe again
S1436. Get a check
S1438. Warning cry
S1439. “That’s gonna leave a mark!”
S1441. Sedating substance
S1442. Really moves
S1443. von Neumann and Turing’s field,
casually
S1444. Paper-cutting tool
S1446. “Nay, it is, I know not ‘___’ “
(Hamlet)
S1449. Clueless reply?
S1453. Cuts logs
S1457. Only pronoun labeled Word of the Year
S1459. Start of a poker player’s declaration
S1460. ___ 18, Uris novel
S1461. Name in games, for many years
S1462. Tom Cruise’s birthplace
S1465. Bruce Willis, to pals
S1466. Swing around a pivot
S1467. Campers’ “big brother”
S1468. Art tiles
S1470. Summer spinner
S1471. Go ___ further
S1473. XVII sextupled
S1475. Live mascot of the Bulldogs
S1476. Official lang. of Gibraltar
S1477. Poker call
S1479. Box-score listing
S1481. Puts back
S1483. Singer with his own city and cryptocurrency
(add an “i” between his name’s last two letters)
S1485. Job listing letters
S1487. Lizardy suffix
S1489. Result of low warmth in the air
S1490. Where there’s no quit, according to
Biden
S1491. Young foxes
S1494. “Why’re you yelling at me?”
S1495. Caesar and Vicious, e.g.
S1497. Financial page listing
S1498. Barometric units
S1499. Finding Neverland role
S1501. Relative of an AFB
S1502. It’s W. of W. Afr.
S1503. Composer Francis
S1504. Since Jan. 1, to CPAs
S1505. Kind of dress
S1506. Texas breakfast choice
S1507. Boys’ club issue
S1510. Prelude to “Na Na”
S1511. Lead-in to fetched or sighted
S1513. Pen pals?
S1514. Gets on one’s high horse with
S1515. Rastafarian wear
S1516. Oxford, to its citizens
S1517. Genre that keeps you going, sometimes
S1519. Attractiveness to one’s appetite
S1522. ETS offering
S1523. Specific info
S1525. Period of employment?
S1526. Things to shun
S1529. Green Goblin player
S1530. Wind-protected garden
S1531. White House gofer
S1532. Pain from a sticker?
S1533. Opens hostilities
S1534. Gets snappish
S1535. “Faster!”
S1538. Like a shaving
S1539. Where almost all of Moby Dick takes
place
S1543. Struck (a match)
S1545. Pessimistic seers
S1548. Word sometimes used to announce the
end of the movie
S1550. Fleet fleet members, formerly
S1552. After careful consideration
S1554. Generated, in Genesis
S1555. 1960s Western sitcom F ___
S1556. Dark Matter airer
S1558. Minty drink at Churchill Downs
S1559. The Vatican’s ___ Chapel
S1560. Show no respect for
S1562. Pompey’s 1002
S1563. Holes ten through eighteen (or
nineteen)
S1564. ___ Steamer (old auto)
S1567. Mario A. who wrote The Story of
Language
S1569. Opened for commerce, for short
S1570. Medical patients
S1572. Readies for finals
S1573. Be a ___ heart
S1574. Liszt work
S1575. D.S. Freeman Civil War biography
S1576. Chi Cygni, in terms of spectral class
S1579. Weblog feed format (abbr.)
S1581. Slight difference (abbr.)
S1585. Quits fidgeting
S1586. Quartets doubled
S1590. “Sarah ___?” (The Terminator)
S1591. Feather’s place
S1592. Speaks to a Quaker
S1593. Once more, with feeling
S1594. Void, in Versailles
S1595. Extended conversation
S1600. Pomeranian known online as the
“world’s cutest dog”
S1601. Goes to bat
S1602. Last name for North
S1603. “Amo, amas” class
S1607. “Why are you asking me again?”
S1608. French auto-racing city
S1610. Samurai’s sash
S1611. Democratic, as Gettysburg described it
S1613. Promos lasting a minute or less
S1617. Entries away from the marquee
S1619. Translating device
S1621. Print-quality fig.
S1622. Safe kind of film?
S1623. College whose colors are rose and gray
S1624. First twenty years of cars
S1627. אאאאאא
S1628. Library book words
S1629. Japanese soybean paste
S1633. “___ for real?”
S1634. Annoying e-mail
S1635. Flyer’s prefix
S1636. Maker of many checkout scanners
S1640. Lose one’s cool
S1643. Trapeze-flip spot
S1646. Crypto bro Bankman-Fried
S1649. Hawaiian’s destination, perhaps
S1651. Shakespearean title role
S1652. Michael Jordan’s alma mater, for short
S1654. 2K1, more classically
S1655. Idaho senator Mike who’s heard all the
jokes already
S1656. “Oh, goodness!”
S1657. “Dumbledore’s ___” (Potter and friends)
S1659. Goddess of the morning
S1661. Likeliest to stir bedroom thoughts
S1662. Long, high fly balls, slangily
S1663. Punjab sect members
S1664. Name that sounds like two adjacent
letters in reverse alphabetical order
S1665. ___ es Salaam, Tanzania
S1670. Drizzles
S1671. Goldleaf (abbr.)
S1672. “That’s incredible!”
S1673. Luge track surface
S1675. Powerful photosynthesizer
S1676. Overcome with emotion
S1677. Bratty trait
S1679. Prep for a rough emotional time of it
S1681. Some former libs
S1684. Ten-yr. gov’t IOUs
S1686. Animal backs
S1690. Short solos
S1693. Word before cut or bill
S1694. Arrested development?
S1695. Elimination through negligence
S1697. Can’t avoid
S1699. Dreadlock wearers
S1700. Lincoln notes
S1701. Bike lane locations (abbr.)
S1702. Pirate’s face wear
S1703. Apparel brand named after founder
Leonardo Servadio
S1704. Winter weather descriptive
S1710. Colorado NHLers
S1711. Type of harp
S1717. Measurements of familiarity, as of
brand names and celebrities
S1718. Give compensation
S1719. Part of email addresses
S1720. Subject of the books Power Failure and
Pipe Dreams
S1721. Cleveland-to-Erie, PA, direction
S1723. Channel with Family Feud reruns
S1724. US Open’s ___ Stadium
S1725. Castor bean poison
S1726. Alphabetizes by author, e.g.
S1727. Has a certain bias
S1730. What a colon means in an analogy
S1731. Civil War loser
S1732. I Am Spock autobiographer
S1733. Han’s weapons of choice
S1734. Cougar Town’s Courteney
S1737. Typing test stat.
S1738. Less than three-dimensional
S1742. Puts everything in one disorderly
place
S1743. Where purchases cost 69 cents, 99
cents, or $1.29, in the late 2000s
S1744. “So…frustrating!”
S1745. Each twelvemonth
S1746. “It’s ___” (“We’re done here”)
S1747. Unavoidable annoyances
S1749. Sum 41 tune “___ Deep”
S1751. When one might eat banh chung
S1753. Here, to Jean-Luc
S1754. Mystical Hindu text
S1756. Silver standard (abbr.)
S1757. Lee of silent films
S1758. Hunters’ wear
S1759. Splash, as grease
S1761. Drains energy from
S1763. German numeral
S1765. x, y, and sometimes z, in geometry
S1766. Acronym before “you can’t resist the
beat,” “you live in Mexico,” or “you get affordable insurance”
S1767. Feudal group
S1769. Have a case of the con crud, say
S1770. Chinese general famous for his chicken
S1771. Boots wearer of cartoons
S1772. Is of ___ (helps)
S1777. “Reading the ___” (2008 book subtitled
“One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages”)
S1779. Pitman person
S1781. One way to get backstage
S1782. Irritating “roommates” that buzz
S1783. Pretzels and chips, in adspeak
S1784. Talked to with a mountain accent?
S1785. Winter Olympics powerhouse (abbr.)
S1787. “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-___”
S1788. Chevalier made her famous
S1789. Indian and Arctic
S1790. Bodily fluid containers
S1791. They may pile up for compulsive
gamblers
S1795. Scary story sound
S1796. Concert attendee
S1797. Protectors of QBs
S1798. Puts back in the kiln
S1800. “___ wise guy, eh?”
S1802. What John has and Joan does not
S1803. Egypt’s shortest king?
S1804. “¡___ es!” (“That’s it!”)
S1805. Penny Dreadful airer
S1808. Some bodies (abbr.)
S1814. Junior Mint alternative
S1816. Jeremiah’s preceder
S1817. Una voce molto hush-hush
S1818. Noted terrestrial stage
S1820. Latvia, once (abbr.)
S1821. Tel Aviv’s country (abbr.)
S1822. Misses 3 out of 11 on the pop quiz
S1823. Westminster Kennel Club event
S1824. Chris seen calming raptors
S1825. Arctic fishing tool
S1826. Inexperienced
S1827. “___-tu la musique?”
S1828. South African town
S1829. And so forth
S1831. Croat or Bulgar
S1833. Something tamed with acid
S1834. Newark’s airport code
S1836. US baseball semifinal
S1840. Freed of taboo, in Hawaii
S1842. Sorry sort
S1845. “Peace in ___” (slogan with historical
irony)
S1846. “My armour is like tenfold shields, my
teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my
wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” speaker
S1848. HEW part
S1849. Winning consistently
S1850. Adams and Brickell
S1852. VDT pt.
S1853. Liquid-draining dugouts
S1854. Observes noninterference with
S1855. Secondary appellations
S1856. Word in a def.
S1857. Attention-getting cry
S1859. Popular reception feature
S1861. Letters after 4G
S1864. Place to get some air
S1865. Desuetude
S1866. Go-aheads
S1867. Ophthalmologists call it a hordeolum
S1869. Joan Osborne hit
S1871. Post delivery (abbr.)
S1873. Crooked lackeys
S1875. Supermarket chain initials
S1876. Not lower (than)
S1878. Sum it up
S1880. Coworkers of RNs
S1881. Where to put your butts down
S1882. San ___ (site of Hearst’s castle)
S1883. Skirt things
S1885. Pad prik king cuisine
S1886. Singer Van Dyke
S1887. Italian sandwich
S1888. Ask desperately
S1890. Injunction that also means no YouTube
Kids, little missy
S1892. Slippery moves
S1893. Orson’s planet in 1970s TV
S1895. Monstrous mauler
S1896. Some Toyotas
S1900. King Faisal’s brother
S1902. Day, to Domingo
S1903. Where ___ (the place to be)
S1905. Annoying varmint
S1906. Common check-signer
S1907. Pens for Dickens?
S1908. When Romeo and Juliet meet
S1910. About $10 trillion, for the United
States
S1911. Continuing education subj., often
S1912. Get ready to drive, in golf
S1913. “Don’t stop! Victory’s in sight!”
S1917. Music magnifier
S1918. Loses coverage?
S1919. Instruments under seal, in trial
S1920. Air-raid warnings
S1921. Olive shaped like a stringbean
S1922. Units of butter
S1923. Overclever
S1925. Like a motorboat
S1926. Has the wheel
S1928. Will Ferrell Christmas film
S1929. Her No. 1 album was indeed No.
1
S1930. Invitation request
S1934. Claiming territory one shouldn’t
S1936. Chanson master Jacques
S1939. Turkish gulf
S1941. Chief Babylonian god never depicted in
artwork
S1942. Cambodian leader ousted by the Khmer
Rouge
S1943. Fasteners
S1945. Not at bat
S1946. Jessica who played Miss Daisy
S1947. “…___ take arms against a sea of
troubles”
S1948. Abbr. in some directions
S1949. One who’s four ranks below a warrant
officer (abbr.)
S1953. Primitive boat
S1955. Sites for in-web developers?
S1956. Some bottom lines, in math
S1957. Old western
S1958. They, in Florence
S1959. Letters on some three-pt. vocal music
S1961. Bad insult to aim at a werewolf
S1962. Streamed illegally?
S1963. Some brews
S1966. First-floor flat
S1968. Chant from old Lakers games
S1969. Eighties TV producer’s concern
S1970. Major gesture?
S1972. Ford Field player
S1973. Cloth made famous by infomercials
S1974. Test a weight by lifting
S1976. May, Joyce, and Hendrix onscreen
S1977. The LA Galaxy won it five times
S1978. Late afternoon on a sundial
S1979. Brat, but more so
S1981. McCartney and McKellen, for two
S1982. ___ buco (veal dish)
S1983. Right-hand ppl.
S1984. Warnings from a ticked-off tabby
S1985. Rapper with the album Carte Blanche
S1986. Motel with the review: “1.5 stars.
Would not visit again as owner murdered me in shower. Awkward dinner
conversation. On the plus side, does accept cash”
S1988. Playful puppies, at times
S1989. “___-Home Ideas for Romance in
Quarantine”
S1991. “The ___ true for me!”
S1992. Town a bit to the west of Cambridge
with Iron Age relics
S1993. Highway depressions
S1995. Excuse
S1996. Ventilation provider
S1997. Issue stemming from the Tenth
Amendment
S1999. 1940s theater director James
S2001. World’s largest scientific org.
S2002. Vessel for the Eucharist
S2003. Springsteen song, “___ Cadillac”
S2004. Pod items
S2006. Star of HBO’s Insecure
S2007. Whipper, as of eggs
S2008. Jeans selection
S2010. But, to Sulla
S2011. Passed into nonexistence
S2012. Sinbad’s port
S2013. Revelation relayer
S2014. Common charity event
S2016. Model in statistics
S2017. Result of addition
S2019. Mrs. Ethan Frome
S2021. Herbs of grace
S2024. First MLB mascot to entertain overseas
S2026. NYSE purch.
S2027. Attack word to a canine
S2030. Least tight-fitting
S2031. Cute li’l critters
S2032. ACC sch.
S2033. Lover of company
S2036. Full-house sign (abbr.)
S2037. Zelda’s love
S2038. Like some five-vowel (including Y)
constrained writing
S2039. Out of ___ (not agreeing)
S2041. ABC’s early news show
S2042. “Stiff Upper ___” (Gershwin song)
S2043. Play Peeping Tom
S2044. Spray alternative
S2045. Things to do
S2047. Popovich or Gagarin, e.g.
S2048. Sweet greeting from a spouse?
S2050. Italian half-dozen
S2052. Address starter, these days
S2053. Morales of From Dusk Till Dawn: The
Series
S2056. Crumbled
S2057. Juan or Domingo
S2059. Ones with potato peelers, for short
S2060. Millay and Milton
S2061. Whatever will be
S2062. Diminished
S2063. Taiwan-born director Lee
S2064. Parser’s parts
S2067. It starts about a mile up
S2068. German mathematician Bernhard whose
eponymous hypothesis is one of the great unsolved problems
S2069. “Bad, Bad” and Encyclopedia Brown
S2071. Exfoliant not to be confused with a
food preservative
S2072. Sort of paint
S2073. Ike title
S2074. Messy homes
S2075. Sealing wax that’s Superman’s first
name backward
S2078. Entered an altared reality?
S2080. Length of Rubicon’s run
S2081. Christmas-costumed pub crawls losing
popularity year by year
S2083. CPA’s output
S2085. Evade unnoticed
S2086. Kind of criminal being replaced by
legitimate suppliers
S2087. Lean months or years
S2089. One of two in a Canadian puzzle?
S2090. Throw with a lot of force
S2092. Unless, in court
S2093. Polish populace, e.g.
S2094. Writer Grafton
S2095. He died in LBJ’s service
S2096. Daniel-san’s trainer
S2097. Ton of, slangily
S2100. ___ no. (product ID)
S2101. “Why even try?”
S2102. Seeking alliances with Russia and
China
S2105. Body Heat director
S2106. Thrill in football
S2108. Emits through pores
S2109. Soon, to Spenser
S2111. Green surroundings?
S2112. It might have a tent sale
S2116. Sound from an angry cat
S2118. ___ Vicente, Brazil
S2120. Neat ___
S2121. Prepares potatoes, perhaps
S2123. Get ___ of (junk)
S2124. Like many salad dressings
S2125. Black Halloween animal
S2127. Maneuver on a surfboard
S2129. It can be covalent
S2131. Symbols in some area formulas
S2132. Make ___: complain
S2133. Part of a knave’s loot, in a rhyme
S2134. Trump motive
S2135. Plane maneuver
S2137. Gen. Burnside was its first president
S2138. Doe fancier
S2139. Suddenly stopped working
S2140. Most likely to collapse
S2141. “Let me hear the words”
S2144. Military group
S2147. Beach substitute
S2149. Old base units in length, for short
S2150. Label word after “lo-”
S2151. Abbey Road Studios’ one-time owner
S2153. Computer function
S2154. Abbr. in recipes.
S2156. Wallaby kin, briefly
S2157. Point of change
S2158. Name shared by the only two
non-slaveholding presidents out of the first twelve
S2159. Sapphire relative
S2160. John, Paul, and George
S2161. Notre Dame figs.
S2162. Shot blocker?
S2163. Himalayan high point
S2164. Altar art
S2165. Put the finger on
S2166. Playboy Hugh, familiarly
S2167. Like Pixar films
S2169. Stalling syllables
S2170. Romanian capital?
S2172. Inference
S2173. Simple wind instrument
S2175. Fails to fulfill, as a promise
S2177. Place in a sepulcher, e.g.
S2179. Pale-yellow punch packer
S2180. Investors’ buys, abbr.
S2185. Exams
S2187. Band or hearing follower
S2188. Italian restauranteur Joshua Anthony
whose name is now on pasta sauces
S2190. “A Decade” band ___ Lady Peace
S2192. Tiniest whit
S2193. X as in Xmas
S2194. Not there or (literally) “from
existence”
S2195. Spicy dance
S2197. Peace offerings
S2198. [Grr-r-r]
S2199. Huff and Jaffe
S2200. Comm. device for the deaf
S2202. Assam appellation
S2204. Siri or Cortana, though they prefer
the term “assistant”
S2206. Title for high eccl. officials
S2208. Stay alive
S2211. Angel of the highest order
S2213. Worked out
S2214. Copy editor seated inside a
“horseshoe”
S2217. Private-education costs
S2219. Mont. neighbor
S2221. Fourth word in Star Wars
S2222. GarageBand or Audacity
S2223. Ship’s honcho, for short
S2224. Second-class people?
S2225. Spice shop implement
S2226. Expert climbers
S2228. “Explanation” following “Because”
S2229. Modern solar system, e.g.
S2230. Macadamia or kola
S2232. Would-___ (ambitious types)
S2233. Many wks.
S2238. Ogee feature
S2241. Eastern energy manipulation technique
S2242. Walk-___ (brief roles)
S2243. “Aw, hell ___!”
S2245. Christmas carol starter
S2247. Daytime TV fare
S2248. Treats like too little of a threat
S2249. Does a paperhanger’s job
S2253. Congressional auditor
S2254. Beaching craft
S2255. Pouched mammal
S2256. Deadline, metaphorically
S2257. It comes before siete
S2259. More grating
S2260. Campus tie-ups
S2261. Summer month in Uruguay
S2263. It’ll let you pass, but not by much
S2264. Will, if possible
S2265. “I don’t see any issue with it”
S2267. Part of a dating profile
S2272. “Thanks for coming to my ___ Talk”
S2273. Broad stomper
S2274. Card letters
S2277. Shaped like a pancake
S2278. Lead-in to an online second-person
account
S2279. Add this to “prom” to make oaths
S2283. Fuzzy buzzer
S2285. Vacationer in a camper, informally
S2286. Leading suit?
S2287. Sounds from a coward or cold
S2288. Made stacks of
S2290. Sands of ___ Jima (classic World War II film)
S2291. Sickening
S2292. Became comfortably rich, as it were
S2294. Elsie’s plaint
S2298. Gleason role
S2300. Summer in NYC
S2301. 2017 biopic about skater Harding
S2306. Bad-mouths
S2307. Time for pampering oneself
S2308. Choice in roulette
S2309. Lowest possible
S2310. Verizon, for example, for short
S2312. This section of the puzzle is in the
shape of ___
S2313. Senses of diplomacy
S2314. “___ that!” (Dad’s reproach)
S2315. Mary Quant’s fashion contribution
S2319. Slugger stats
S2320. Start of a cry by Juliet
S2321. Foreplay, for many
S2322. Entry on a wish list
S2324. “Is there a difference between the
averages of these two groups?” checker
S2325. Crabs, e.g.
S2327. “It’s a secret!”
S2328. Spaghetti al ___
S2329. Old game consoles
S2332. Alien body snatchers
S2333. “You got caught with your hands in the
cookie jar!”
S2341. Google ___
S2342. Permissive with the details
S2343. Singer Tori or Lee
S2344. Powders
S2345. Charon-like figure who allows
Gilgamesh passage
S2349. Endearment at Oxford
S2350. Spades, in Spades
S2351. Plague of Africa
S2352. Word after “take it” or before “does
it”
S2354. Early Kierkegaard work about duality
S2355. Art critic Dine
S2357. Cashews and almonds
S2359. Strike caller
S2361. “Lemme think…”
S2363. Loose-fitting
S2364. Bull, for starters
S2366. Elem. or tech.
S2368. Nose guards, e.g.
S2370. Lang. that converts its own name into
65 83 67 73 73
S2371. Some banquet speakers
S2372. It has fractal underpinnings
S2377. They catch busses at stadiums
S2378. Some volleyball players
S2379. Novels’ numerals
S2380. Univ. sports gp.
S2381. Pudgy
S2382. Public speech
S2386. Donated TV spot
S2387. Focal points in older buildings
S2388. Fizzlers
S2389. Be overfond
S2391. Like some schemes
S2394. Southeastern salamander
S2399. What Dom Pérignon said when he first
tried champagne
S2400. Event requiring blue books, maybe
S2402. “Please stay”
S2404. Signers of many LA talents
S2405. Heroic dog of old TV
S2406. Not under any circumstances
S2407. Popular Mexican souvenirs
S2409. Shade featured in The Great Wave
Off Kanagawa
S2410. Mimeo
S2411. What says “Miss America” on Miss
America
S2413. Liquor ingredient (abbr.)
S2414. Snuggling up to your favorite person
in a cashmere sweater while eating dark chocolate, e.g.
S2417. They heat up your food?
S2418. Seedy character of the Bible?
S2419. Slips by intangibly
S2420. Golden Rule referents
S2421. South Park kid and others
S2424. Yes, indeed, in Madrid
S2425. Breathing room
S2426. One isn’t sharp
S2427. Cattle herd
S2429. Clearly infected
S2431. Hibachi part
S2433. No amateurs
S2435. Industrial panic buttons
S2437. Undergrads (abbr.)
S2439. Like Burns’ mouse
S2443. Transcript stats
S2445. “Think I’ll pass”
S2446. Barcelona beast that can hug you to
death
S2447. Too, too
S2448. Far from swank
S2450. 2001 protagonists
S2453. Clattering overhead trains
S2454. Org. formalizing citations
S2455. Pan partner
S2456. Lead-in to light or night
S2458. Makes a clean breast of
S2459. Theatre name
S2460. Sending an additional e-mail to
S2463. Far from parochial (abbr.)
S2465. Exchange membership
S2468. Pec’s neighbor
S2470. Part of Dixie (abbr.)
S2473. Gut reactions?
S2476. Remote cells?
S2477. Lead-in for school or season
S2478. Links position
S2480. Aggravate
S2483. 2, 3, 5, e.g. (abbr.)
S2484. Circumscribes
S2485. Spoilage deterrent
S2486. Concrete floor
S2488. ___ wink
S2489. Excessive contraction of the pupil
S2490. Kickboxing weapons and targets
S2491. ___ up (stops getting played)
S2492. Nearly one-third of Africa
S2494. Flier also called the Northrop Grumman
Spirit
S2495. Word before fours
S2498. Killt
S2500. Christmas, in Montreal
S2502. Sartre’s link to Beauvoir
S2505. Okla. national park
S2506. Ferments
S2507. Like some factory seconds (abbr.)
S2508. Rawboned
S2509. Cranes’ bases?
S2511. One or more ancient Egyptian kings
S2513. Sponsorships
S2515. Slams in celebration, as a football
S2517. One means of corp. financing
S2518. Fez-wearing Freemasons
S2519. Jumble
S2521. Played a position not seen in the
National League before 2020
S2522. [Nothing but net]
S2523. Vinegar-maker’s basics
S2526. Spanish explorer
S2527. Walks heavily
S2529. Toastmasters, briefly
S2530. World War III fear
S2533. Market value of a company’s assets
divided by their replacement cost
S2540. Little tune
S2542. Strike ___: prepare to model
S2543. Pain reliever
S2545. Home of the Braves
S2546. Compliments
S2547. Cooks gently
S2549. Make like Picabo Street
S2550. Imperative for Dick and Jane
S2551. Much ado about nothing
S2554. Astronaut’s dress
S2555. James Joyce book
S2556. Senator Cotton
S2557. Not just for everybody
S2560. Letter header abbr.
S2562. To some extent, old-fashionedly
S2563. Long stories
S2564. Eighth letter in a series
S2565. ___-weensy
S2566. Trot and gallop
S2567. YSL perfume named for a drug
S2569. Pat down
S2570. The Vampire Chronicles character de Romanus
S2572. “But wait, what if…”
S2574. Viking’s realm
S2575. Showbiz signs
S2576. Does a ballonne
S2577. Home of the Seminoles (abbr.)
S2578. Nancy Reagan’s youngest
S2579. Nat. with origins as a penal colony
S2580. Lazy River start
S2582. Kind of clock that resembles Felix
S2583. Sustainable
S2584. Spills carelessly
S2586. Big name in razors
S2587. Patriot great Francis
S2589. Good lead-in to “day”
S2591. River in Switzerland and France
S2592. Verbally contradict
S2595. Raze grass
S2601. Spurts of action
S2602. Type of paint
S2604. Gremlin, e.g.
S2605. Amer. capital
S2606. “___ will be done”
S2608. Garmin gadget, for short
S2611. Pink Floyd member Barrett
S2613. [sigh] “I knew it”
S2614. Quick with the quips
S2616. Baseball bigwigs (abbr.)
S2617. Honey bears
S2618. _ountermeas___
S2619. Hair co-author James
S2620. Realm of an Eastern prince
S2621. RN’s dispensations
S2623. Eye angrily
S2624. Rio seven
S2626. Now We Are Six author
S2628. According to design
S2635. Jazz-band unit, for short
S2637. Start traveling Moana-style
S2639. Trips with a gnu look
S2640. “I’m here at your disposal”
S2642. Kind of shift or wheel
S2643. Tennis great Mandlikova
S2645. Beatles song “___ Love You”
S2646. Coll. admissions concerns
S2648. ___ Mason (global investment
management firm)
S2650. Lifting devices hung from helicopters
S2651. “…___ quit!”
S2652. Good Will Hunting sch.
S2654. Ocean’s 11 star with his own self-titled show
S2655. If you want to get into Yale Law,
yours better be at least 170
S2656. Shimano alternative for bikers
S2660. Waterwork?
S2661. Calculator readout
S2664. Youth-on-younger-youth mentors
S2666. Designation for Sen. Shaheen
S2668. Keep from entering, as a teacher in a
classroom
S2671. Golfer Woo Lee
S2672. IRS info
S2674. Midwest city named for a Menominee
chief
S2675. Raised mark
S2676. Old times, to the poets
S2678. High-hat type
S2679. One in the return address
S2681. Neutrogena shampoo product
S2683. It may be in a sling
S2684. Beaten on American Idol, e.g.
S2686. Exchanges honor for externalities
S2687. Longtime library desk sight
S2688. Forlorn
S2689. Newsman’s dramatic cry
S2691. Startled screech
S2692. “On DVD and ___-Ray”
S2693. Takes Thoreau’s life advice
S2695. Ooola’s Alley
S2696. Law and Order: ___ (NBC series since 1999)
S2697. Treaty of Rome creation
S2698. Susan Kelleher with an Exotic
Animal ER
S2702. Glove for Mike Piazza
S2704. Color of the eight ball
S2705. Mauritanian
S2706. Computer file with all the information
to be crunched
S2707. Bodycam-wearing law enforcers
S2708. Lake not far from Niagara Falls
S2710. Became a member
S2712. Stops being so stubborn already
S2714. The Breeders’ Cup and Kentucky Derby,
e.g.
S2715. Move it along quickly
S2717. “Get a room!” prompter
S2718. Dog food with an eager namesake
terrier on its packaging
S2719. Gym periods
S2723. Holds in the absolute highest regard
S2724. Philippine president Fidel
S2725. One-___: kid’s game
S2726. Advisable co. structure for a startup
S2727. The veep in Veep
S2728. Friday’s, er, friend
S2729. Fine eating experience
S2730. Skyhook dropper, briefly
S2731. “Give them ___ of their own medicine!”
S2732. Alternatives to Casios
S2733. Mini-whirlpools
S2737. They may be thrown for a loss
S2739. Locks horns
S2741. Entering the draft
S2743. Refugees, for short
S2745. Sub-rosa deals
S2749. “Deelish!”
S2751. “___ I was saying…”
S2752. Cogitate, in Paris
S2753. Aeneas’ difficulties
S2754. Dirty layers
S2755. Crow’s nest
S2757. Hagar’s canine companion
S2758. Sonny boys
S2759. Summer Games event
S2760. Honeymoon locale, perhaps
S2761. Gospels sequel
S2764. Malayan palms
S2768. Make an argument
S2770. Moroccan city where zero was
introduced
S2772. Many Nobel Prize winners
S2774. Citi Field forerunner
S2775. Goldie of Laugh-In
S2776. “Que ___?”
S2777. Road that led to Rome
S2779. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” key
S2781. Nineteenth-century writer Harte
S2782. Pisses off
S2783. Printing art (abbr.)
S2784. Sponge up
S2786. Off-the-job hrs.
S2787. Tool using abstract art to study
personality
S2788. The Music Man setting
S2790. Comedian Glazer
S2794. Expletive
S2795. Pop, rocker
S2796. Compassion plus contempt
S2799. “Such a pity!”
S2800. Special Topics in Calamity Physics author Marisha
S2801. Sleeps in a tent, say
S2802. Dagger or division symbols
S2803. Clear ___: unclear
S2804. Italian statesman
S2805. Bagnold and Blyton of letters
S2806. Hoosegow guards
S2807. Educated guesses (abbr.)
S2808. In ___ of (in place of)
S2809. Range components (abbr.)
S2810. Hyperbolic math function
S2813. High-ranking NCO
S2814. Dog ___
S2816. Like the original Planet of the
Apes score
S2817. What you might get by blending
condiment packets
S2819. Finch feeder filler
S2826. Photo-sharing app, for short
S2827. Ampul
S2829. œ
S2831. Central California’s Big ___
S2832. Reach a finale
S2833. Precursor to rocksteady
S2834. Inheritance sharer, informally
S2837. Diamond with records
S2839. Get extra value from, say
S2841. Anthologies
S2843. High-rise locales
S2846. Steno’s staple
S2849. Have ___ for
S2852. “…as it ___ heaven”
S2853. Relaxes while unseated
S2858. Home of GWB’s library
S2860. Web user’s need, for short
S2861. Structural additions
S2862. Glasgow vetoes
S2863. CIA type
S2864. Thatched
S2865. Cabby’s question
S2866. Popish Plot figure
S2867. Source of 4,300 product and software
reviews annually
S2868. Noodle out
S2870. Seize, with a struggle
S2873. “What’s going on?” in San Juan
S2876. Phnom Penh money
S2878. Avian midwives?
S2880. Betting method
S2881. Time of greatest vigor
S2882. Ali stats
S2883. Fixes rents
S2885. Colleague of Paul, John, and George
S2886. What the Dead will do to your face
S2891. Corporate goal-setters
S2894. Rink material
S2895. Like some lower vertebrae
S2896. Church aides
S2897. Shut-eye in Santiago
S2899. Thomas the Tank Engine lover
S2900. Some picture files, in webpages
S2902. Nero’s 955
S2903. “You were so drunk” reply
S2904. Pedestal occupant
S2905. Member of the familia
S2907. “A miss ___ good…”
S2909. Fail to medal
S2911. Week of sorrow
S2914. Could recite from memory
S2916. Lab example
S2917. From the neighborhood
S2918. The brown in “What can brown do for
you?”
S2919. Enzyme’s ending
S2920. Late ruler Mobotu ___ Seko
S2922. 600-homer club member Sammy
S2923. Of a great river
S2924. Wide-headed fasteners
S2925. Extra-hrs. wk. premium
S2928. Not easily categorizable
S2929. EMA’s exam for private schools “from
California to Saudi Arabia”
S2931. “Not funding, just deciding where the
money goes,” in biz
S2933. Goblin forerunner
S2934. Mess in the field
S2935. Niagara Falls condition
S2938. Gold amts.
S2939. Swedish district
S2940. White Monopoly item
S2941. Folktale meanie
S2942. Bites a little
S2943. Praise to the skies
S2944. Inverted n lookalike
S2945. Stalag 17 director
S2946. Water-soluble base
S2947. Project go-aheads
S2949. Helena hrs.
S2950. Risky way to eat pork
S2951. New Guinea’s ___ Beach
S2952. Home office locale, sometimes
S2954. Clean hit
S2956. German city
S2957. Military extraction
S2958. Customary, in Châlons
S2959. Bygone dagger
S2962. Expects a return, maybe
S2963. “Pretty much”
S2964. Bout-ending slug
S2965. My classic TV trio
S2968. Road edges
S2969. Took up the sailor’s life
S2971. Mercedes roadsters
S2973. Goat sound
S2974. Beloved author’s first name
S2975. Japanese diplomat of 1930s.
S2981. Police rank below lt.
S2982. Musicians Evans and Bareilles
S2983. Landfill load
S2984. Dried poblanos in Mexican cuisine that
sound like fish
S2985. Fertilizer and explosive
S2986. Nice cup?
S2988. Modern toll-paying convenience
S2989. Bread bought for a cookout
S2990. Down in the dumps
S2991. A bunch of
S2993. Its symmetrical logo consists of one
shape repeated and halved
S2994. Start it with some stretches
S2995. Schoolyard comeback
S2996. Using medicine
S2997. Tiger Hebert
S3000. Waters between Korea and Japan
S3001. Soothing-sounding port
S3003. J and No
S3005. Shocking, in a way
S3006. Larry or lackey
S3007. Spot for Spot
S3009. Sets oneself up (to)
S3016. Old e-brand now part of Yahoo, Inc.
S3018. Knicks and Nets, in headlines
S3019. 2/3 of a mile, in Moscow
S3020. Tee sign abbr.
S3022. Early-to-mid-20th-century actor Edmund
S3023. “…everything inside of you that you
wish you could ___ say all the right things…”
S3024. Versatile auxiliary wind-catcher
S3025. Bass players’ moments of awesome
S3026. Prove true
S3028. Event hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton
Manning
S3031. “___ ba-a-ack!”
S3032. Intravenous lymphoma drug
S3034. Abbr. on a business letter
S3035. “I do ___ proud man…” (Troilus and
Cressida)
S3037. Notorious drug cartel
S3039. Carefree
S3042. Son of, to Fahd
S3044. Casablanca victim
S3045. Material for tuna and soda containers
S3052. Memorizing process
S3053. Wildly abusive Muggle family
S3056. Genesis twin
S3058. Coin operation
S3060. Watch over
S3061. A lot to live on
S3063. Push over and cause a spill
S3064. Suffix for pay
S3065. Initials in 19th-century literature
S3066. ___ in edge
S3068. Pinnacle
S3072. Agents like Bond
S3073. Buckeye State coll.
S3074. Metal in much window glass
S3075. Timecard stat.
S3077. Word on a wine label
S3078. Places to get off your high camel
S3079. ___ de bois candle
S3080. Have one’s test anxiety justified
S3081. Mean but green auto
S3082. Former Chinese president Zemin
S3084. Bow (out)
S3085. Prepared for a proposal
S3088. “There ___ time like the present”
S3090. Stamp-issuing org.
S3092. It’s this or nothing, sometimes
S3093. Delegation command
S3094. Butterflies or baseballers
S3096. Some foreign misters (or ministers)
S3097. Elands, to lions
S3100. People get steamed there
S3101. “You’ve proven that, all right”
S3102. Reign, in India
S3103. “Lord, is ___ ?” (Matthew 26:22)
S3106. Near-superhero Pitt of Clive Cussler
novels
S3107. Start of 4th qtr.
S3108. Knocked offline while fighting
invaders, say
S3109. December drink
S3111. Atty.’s appendage?
S3113. Plunked down
S3114. Prepares for battle
S3115. “Don’t ___ this button...you already
did, didn’t you”
S3116. One of the Supremes
S3117. Reflex ending
S3118. Gets visibly older
S3121. Post-p-funk
S3123. Room part
S3125. More expensive Roku, but it has better
games
S3126. Slangy ending
S3127. Certain work shift
S3128. Lottery, for short
S3129. “Would you like me to?”
S3130. XM Radio alternative
S3131. Mlle., in Malaga
S3133. Mid-alphabet run
S3134. Forbidden fruit taster
S3135. Words with “Que” in a song
S3137. Spike’s old name (abbr.)
S3139. “…by ___ stretch of the imagination”
S3140. In things?
S3143. Tie for a boxer?
S3144. Musky, fruity wine
S3145. It premiered Star Trek: Voyager
S3146. Like the store brand, say
S3147. Plain of a sort
S3150. Flight like Bonnie and Clyde’s
S3151. Bilingual explorer of TV
S3152. Like a 1-2-3 inning
S3157. Stealing, e.g.
S3159. De ___ of Suez fame
S3160. Checking or savings (abbr.)
S3161. Terra warmer
S3164. Eazy-E and Dr. Dre were in it
S3165. Times and Trafalgar (abbr.)
S3166. Thailand’s ___ Hin District
S3167. Plural suffix
S3168. Add-ons for ltrs.
S3169. Get with a toothpick
S3171. “E ___ existential…”
S3172. Make a sibilant sound
S3173. Toast choice
S3174. White-looking
S3175. Modern addresses (abbr.)
S3176. Brewhouse fixture
S3177. “Love that well which thou must leave
___ long” (Shakespeare)
S3179. Epithet of Juno
S3181. Vendor of solids, clear gels, sprays,
roll-ons, and cream
S3183. Grazing matter
S3184. “It exists”
S3186. Caribbean nation with French as an
official language
S3188. Red-faced, probably
S3190. Druggist’s deg.
S3193. Scandinavian rug
S3195. Most sanguine
S3196. Thinks that maybe one can
S3197. Suffix with ranch or pistol
S3198. Method Man’s music
S3201. ___ Man Answers (1962 film)
S3203. Union agreement
S3204. Coating material
S3205. Mu ___ beef
S3206. Heyerdahl classic, ___-Tiki
S3209. Completely trounce, in l33tspeak
S3210. Straggler
S3211. Browbeating
S3213. Pres., e.g.
S3214. Serpent or alp suffix
S3215. Brewery name on an MLB stadium
S3216. Defer, with off
S3217. Low digits
S3219. Tampico and Vigo
S3222. Term that explains a great deal of the
nonsense on the modern Internet
S3224. Opposite of absorb
S3226. Win in a simple game
S3227. K-O linkup
S3229. NBA TV’s camera and stats system
S3230. James of X-Men
S3231. Oaxaca article
S3232. Mil. gps. in real life and Warhammer
40K
S3237. Longtime home of the Tappet Brothers
S3238. Comes in out of the rain
S3239. 1970s soul singer Collins
S3240. ___ for Outlaw (Sue Grafton novel)
S3242. Phantom of the Opera lead role
S3244. Market conditions of overabundance
S3245. Pet, as a kitty
S3247. Circus harbingers
S3249. Home of the Hottentots (abbr.)
S3251. Joltin’ ___ of baseball
S3253. America East sch.
S3254. Warning label word
S3256. “I could take it or leave it”
S3257. Stylistically imitating
S3259. Goat cheese with a girl’s name
S3260. Valuation
S3261. Where the bodies are buried
S3262. Peke squeak
S3267. Atoll with a completely enclosed
lagoon
S3268. Jutted into an angle
S3269. Having a higher price than one can pay
S3270. Game pie
S3272. Gov’t agcy. headed by Daniel Werfel
S3273. Kind of club that adopts turtles
S3274. Practices recycling
S3275. “___ atque vale”
S3276. Unimaginative
S3277. Give ___: pull gently
S3279. Takes down several pegs
S3280. Dictator Sese Seko
S3282. Those named for Islam’s fourth caliph
S3283. Tuffin mopping
S3285. What sunbathers catch
S3286. Pressure meas.
S3288. 1960s gp. cofounded by Bill Ayers
S3289. Showy spring flower
S3292. Cineplex features
S3293. Sporty Spice, by another name
S3294. Either you or me
S3295. USA Today’s publisher
S3296. It’s like a Visa to get cash
S3297. “Start talking!”
S3298. Actress Delany of China Beach
S3299. Cinco de Mayo celebrations
S3300. Ushers after the interval
S3301. Beggars’ wages?
S3302. Cuts prices like crazy
S3303. Gregory Hines forte
S3304. “Rest ___…”
S3307. Psalm adverb
S3308. Ottoman, e.g.
S3309. Papal capes
S3311. Footloose hero
S3313. Alter ego who told a Harvard class,
“We all comes from the same place: the poonani”
S3314. Given to merriment
S3316. Rose above irrationality
S3317. Inattentive
S3319. Drain, as energy
S3320. The father of ambient music
S3322. Spearlike weapons from the Middle Ages
S3325. Coffee request
S3326. Suddenly Susan star
S3327. A wax candle gives one off, more or
less
S3328. Parseghian of Notre Dame, back in the
day
S3329. Military messes?
S3330. Tarheel college
S3331. Once known as the Sultan, he has a
signature move called the Stink Face
S3332. Used for
S3333. Kind of bread
S3334. Howard Hughes or Charles Lindbergh
S3335. Fits of temper
S3336. Setting in Thor movies
S3337. Axis title, with “Der”
S3339. Dare, hillbilly style
S3340. Transport truck
S3341. Fall attachment?
S3342. Soap opera rendezvous
S3343. Guitarist Mary Ford’s husband Paul
S3344. Popular logic puzzle
S3346. Mayo, por ejemplo
S3348. Welcomes to the club
S3349. Signs off on
S3351. Tree whose wood is used in
guitar-making
S3352. Crafty online retailer?
S3353. Hardly a veteran
S3354. Navy Seals’ raid target of 2011
S3356. Hognose snake’s prey
S3357. Summer MD clock adjustment
S3358. Wine server, to a king
S3360. ___ Rhetorica (Aristotle)
S3362. One on the spectrum, for short
S3367. Some civil rights activists
S3368. The Professor and Mary-___
S3369. “Don’t Bother ___ Can’t Cope”
S3370. “What, you too?”
S3371. Table land
S3372. Name seen in Charmed and Chilling
Adventures of Sabrina
S3373. More dishonorable
S3374. Juice brand made from a many seeded
fruit
S3375. State of economic decline
S3377. “But” in French and sometimes in
English
S3379. Philharmonic sect.
S3380. Frozen treat
S3382. “___ nuit!”
S3384. Spiral-horned African antelope
S3385. Some bargain bin items, for short
S3386. Nickname
S3388. Jalopy among boats
S3390. She played informant Adriana
S3395. Gulf War noshes
S3397. Improved medium for talk radio
S3398. Things users are judged likely to
wonder about, for short
S3399. Bit of Mexican bread
S3400. “I can’t ___ this enough...”
S3401. Millennium Falcon captain
S3403. Lavish soiree
S3407. Word after high or open
S3408. 2004 Olympics host
S3409. Papers, etc.
S3410. They combat fatigue
S3411. It’s 4/4 time every half-second
S3414. Capitol Hill letters
S3417. ___ Gesserit of Dune
S3420. Indian answer to the Dow
S3422. Animated father of octuplets
S3424. Corrosive liquid, for short
S3425. Critic Erich, painter Frank, or coach
Red
S3426. Number line’s midpoint
S3427. Homer creator
S3428. Yukon and Tahoe, for short
S3429. Part of a conference sched.
S3431. Gravely morose
S3433. Malodor
S3435. Conspiracies
S3436. Removes all traces of
S3437. They let you extend your arms
S3439. Alison of Community (she was
Annie)
S3441. Reached
S3442. Drinking too much, e.g.
S3443. Only fair
S3444. Houston sch.
S3446. They have participating MDs
S3449. Get a crop started
S3451. Like lye (abbr.)
S3454. Opposite of FF, maybe
S3455. Suffix derived from a word for
“eatery”
S3456. Echinoderm hunting on the ocean floor
S3458. Cruise control controller, for short
S3459. High school dining area
S3460. City near Danang
S3462. Young unmarried, to Yeats
S3464. Candler and Gray
S3467. Large shot pellets.
S3469. Abbr. in a real estate ad
S3470. “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” or “Because
I Could Not Stop for Death”
S3473. Receiver in the White House
S3474. Like the middle months
S3475. Spreads around
S3481. Back in five minutes
S3482. Harmonious alliance
S3483. “S’ help me Gawd”
S3485. Vitamin abbrs.
S3486. Broadband, briefly
S3487. Subsequent pg.
S3489. Territory in Risk
S3490. Holmes and Watson
S3492. Cave man?
S3493. Financial collections from citizenry
S3494. It’ll take your dep.
S3495. Sweet partner
S3497. Classic Toyota sports cars
S3500. Nolan film that tried to do for
backwards time what The Matrix did for bullet time
S3502. Country north of Mex.
S3503. Sensitive area
S3504. Boomers?
S3507. Kind of thermometer
S3508. First book of the Torah
S3509. Some Nissan sedans
S3510. Regal’s rival
S3512. Bomber pilot’s woe
S3513. George Lucas’ visual effects co.
S3514. Abbreviation on reading matter
S3515. Shampoo bottle word
S3516. Bowline, e.g.
S3519. Grand et Premier
S3522. Game with 1920s-esque animation, for
short
S3523. “It ___ no consequence”
S3524. “Do” followers in Middle English
S3526. “Nab it!” preceder
S3527. Occupies a chair
S3528. Awake and active
S3530. Cash, slangily
S3531. More up to date in dress and manners
S3532. Service mail inits.
S3533. Rod’s co-star in The Birds
S3534. Inspect, as a construction site
S3535. Kicks the ball to the forward, say
S3536. Spot in UT founded by Brigham Young
S3537. “No more for us, thanks”
S3538. Artichoke serving
S3539. Burden
S3540. Feature of club nights for wannabes
S3541. “In brightest day, in ___ night…”
S3542. Jerusalem citizen
S3543. Abbr. for someone with only two names
S3544. Italian “it”
S3545. A pound of Turkey?
S3546. Approached the witching hour
S3547. Plate scrap
S3550. Galactic Empire ground vehicle
S3552. Bride in 1969 news
S3553. Rapper Milli or Rida
S3554. Seaman’s org.
S3556. Gutless pushover
S3558. 1 + 2, in Germany
S3560. Like some oils
S3562. One-time actor Milton
S3564. AA is one, though neither “A” stands
for it
S3565. St. Paul’s architect Christopher
S3567. Airline with a Copenhagen hub
S3569. Kin of hyper-
S3572. Junior-to-Nana affirmative
S3573. Animal whose binomial name is Axis
porcinus
S3574. “Ruby ___” (Rolling Stones’ song)
S3575. Price incorrectly
S3576. Troop carrier (abbr.)
S3577. Achilles’ weakness
S3578. Gerald Ford alma mater
S3579. Like some legal services
S3580. Craig who directed Tucker and Dale
vs. Evil
S3581. ___ row bum (beery sort)
S3584. Play starter, in football
S3586. Suffix in a notorious, outdated word
puzzle
S3587. Members of the family Salamandridae
S3588. Op-ed genre
S3590. More Coke, e.g.
S3591. Former USSR constituent
S3593. Talks about
S3595. Sked guesses
S3598. Edge of a pit
S3599. Tubes in an OR
S3600. Classic doll Wetsy
S3605. Abbreviated runway craft
S3612. Welty product
S3614. Not shut, in verse
S3615. Modest
S3616. Its, in French
S3618. What anarchs argue we can do without
S3619. Word preceding sauce or milk
S3621. 1998 US Women’s Open winner Pak
S3623. Ear-shattering
S3624. Western body
S3626. More, in a maxim
S3628. New Jersey hoopster
S3629. Soprano’s increase
S3630. Not a lot of bread
S3633. Aerial combat projectile, for short
S3635. “That disgusts me, an old woman”
S3637. Huxtable and Lovelace
S3639. ___ majesty (treason)
S3644. Puzzle-within-a-puzzle
S3646. Paris lily
S3647. Math calcs. rarely used outside class
S3649. O’Hare approximation
S3650. AMEX entities
S3651. Participates in SoulCycle
S3652. Pastes in Mideastern cooking
S3653. “Life is a tragedy for those who feel
and a comedy for those who think” comedian
S3655. Outward expression
S3658. When lots of people panic about their
taxes
S3659. Busy time for a bargain hunter
S3661. Boss Hogg’s employee
S3662. Death of the dinosaurs, e.g.
S3663. This AND that
S3664. 151st Pokémon
S3665. West African fruit
S3666. Pronoun for a hind
S3667. Those with aspirations
S3670. “Pioneer Woman” Drummond
S3671. 3-1-1 rule org.
S3672. When doubled, a happy shout
S3674. Austin ___ State University, Tennessee
S3675. Catchall term
S3676. Dry, in Versailles
S3678. Draft pick
S3679. Text read in portions
S3681. Posted, say
S3682. Potato giant
S3683. Throw from the saddle
S3684. Super Mario World console
S3685. “___ over my words a lot”
S3688. Carson not known for his monologues
S3690. “I has ___ :-(“ (depressed
lolcat-speak)
S3692. Sheridan and Meara
S3694. “One giant leap for mankind” site
S3695. Scott Joplin forte
S3697. Where Kazakhstan was, once
S3698. Teetotaler’s opposite
S3699. Saint of the screen?
S3700. Start the to-do list
S3705. Advanced deg.
S3706. Earl Grey or Darjeeling
S3708. Word root meaning “no” with -pia,
“place”
S3711. Streaming appliances
S3712. Road in Essen
S3713. “The force…that blasts ___ of trees”
(Dylan Thomas)
S3714. Where everyone looks at the birdie
S3716. Like some nighties
S3718. Bootlegger’s tracker
S3720. Bad signs in a shipwreck cartoon
S3721. Spanish crowd?
S3724. Big kerfuffles
S3725. Mixes up
S3726. Piece in a ‘90s fad game
S3727. Beginning of
S3729. Turn off utterly
S3730. Words with on Shark Tank
S3731. Ho Chi Minh Trail terminus
S3732. Fizzler
S3737. D.C. stadium initials
S3740. Ballet stars
S3741. Root used as medicine
S3744. Vivacious, to Vivaldi
S3746. “If ___ diameter is 15 inches, how
many rotations will it take to go 4 feet?” (Answer: 1)
S3748. Hill of San Francisco
S3750. Loathsome ones
S3752. Icy winter coating
S3754. Sibilant call
S3755. Peers in a box
S3756. “I’m With ___” (campaign slogan)
S3757. Being tried
S3760. Go in the wrong direction
S3761. Catch-22 situation
S3762. Without sea or land legs, as
transportation or a journey
S3763. Not crazy about
S3764. Bearing visible brands in the store
S3768. Borderline narcissism
S3769. How Bilbo raised Frodo
S3770. Assent showing respeto
S3771. Winter D.C. setting
S3772. Rose relative
S3774. Paint holder?
S3776. Game park with a salt pan visible from
space
S3778. “If You Go” singer Jon
S3781. Boom-box output
S3783. Tomei of the screen
S3786. High-altitude home
S3787. Half a fish?
S3788. Muhammad Ali, for one
S3790. See growth on interest
S3794. Belief in oneself, to a fault
S3795. Bridge-seat occupants
S3796. Attaches, in a way
S3797. Source to check rumors against
S3798. Of greatest age
S3799. Fredericksen who went up in Up
S3800. Groundbreaking Egyptian film of 2011
S3801. Arab socialist party
S3802. Throws below
S3803. Beach town ___ San Lucas
S3804. Spellbound
S3805. Simple fellows?
S3806. Web-based well-wishes
S3808. Tranquilizes
S3809. Contemporary of Raymond and Agatha
S3810. “___ Right to Sing the Blues” (1932
song)
S3811. Something exciting to play with
S3812. Old mystic
S3813. Western search party
S3814. What celebrants kick up
S3815. Corrida cynosure
S3820. Moves furtively
S3822. Boyfriend nickname that honestly just
makes me think, “What is wrong with people”
S3824. Genre for Lil Uzi Vert or Lil Peep
S3825. Alprazolam brand
S3827. Short French mesdames
S3829. “___ be in England”
S3830. Boxcar contents
S3831. Many emailed image files
S3832. “What’s your caffeine delivery system:
soda, coffee ___?”
S3834. Of no ___ (ineffectual)
S3835. Measures
S3836. 1960s hot spot
S3837. Former Brazilian money
S3839. 1936-1938 home run champ
S3842. ___ pants
S3843. Mozartean exclamations
S3844. Like the surface of Mars
S3845. State with a panhandle (abbr.)
S3846. Pinocchio’s polygraph
S3847. Answer offered hesitantly
S3848. Things in inventory
S3849. First solo chanteuse to have three
simultaneous top 10 singles
S3850. Passage papers
S3851. “Be that ___ may…”
S3855. Speaks abrasively?
S3858. Teams of two
S3860. Adventurous airplane of kidlit
S3862. First thing into the pool, often
S3865. Supersonic reading
S3867. ___ their wont: typically of them
S3870. Revival prefix
S3871. Co. that used to own Sheraton
S3872. Demonstrate, in the Bible
S3873. Whom Ingrid played in Casablanca
S3875. Nat. south of Montenegro
S3878. Lizzie Borden prop
S3880. One who doesn’t like parties? (abbr.)
S3882. ___-blo fuse
S3883. Video-game giant
S3885. Where Toronto is (abbr.)
S3886. Computer maker
S3888. “From all of ___ all of you…”
S3890. Miller or Palmer
S3891. Trespassing, for one
S3893. nnnnnnnnn
S3894. Digital tech director
S3895. Service station offering
S3896. “___ can’t stop singing” (“Can’t Stop
Singing” lyric)
S3897. Camera ___ (Cannes award)
S3898. Aye neutralizer
S3899. Pulse checkers, briefly
S3900. Approx. touchdown time
S3901. Some NFL blockers
S3902. Be a chairperson?
S3903. Sterile places (abbr.)
S3904. Pistons’ Saddiq
S3905. Stephen of films
S3906. Night’s successor
Across Stitches
S286-T211. Angry snake, in jokey slang
S599-T578. Using only part of the body
S915-T904. Two hours to midnight, no later
S1229-T1214. Did some informal psy ops
S1549-T1531. Megafamous virtuoso
S1864-T1842. Corey Hart song about being “the guy
in shades”
S2178-T2154. Number that’s not proof you’re smart
S2497-T2424. Unimpressive figures
S2818-T2745. “Gesundheit!”
S3122-T3063. Kermit song with the line, “Lots of
time till you grow to be / A big frog like me”
S3432-T3383. Tegan and Sara or the Braxtons, e.g.
S3751-T3698. Efficient assassin’s weapon
Down Stitches
S3893-X11. Preserves, as grass
S3872-X18. Retort to someone justifying some new
misogynistic legislation with “Well, God judges us all”
S3895-X24. Valuable underground decomposition
sites
S3896-X30. Reply from one unconcerned about his
ignorance
S3842-X37. Sugary drinks we often took out to the
beach
S3810-X46. Self-actualization sung by Sammy Davis
Jr.
S3855-X51. Cries hoarsely
S3902-X56. One giving walkabout tours
S3820-X62. Approaches undetected
S3904-X69. Love you madly