Ubercross Abecedaria X
Across
X1. First-bite-of-cheesecake feeling
X6. Acadia National Park setting
X11. Thin tablet
X18. Flex finisher
X22. Bezzie
X25. She may act aloof, but she loves you,
really…MEOW, FEED HER, HUMAN*
X28. Abbr. on some emails
X31. Siam ender
X34. Number of trailers you can tow in
California*
X37. She was “Rosebud” in the White House
X42. Do pretty well gradewise
X47. Sleep stages
X51. Fruitful
X56. Wash out to sea
X59. Actress Summer of The Cape
X63. Treats dismissively, with “at”
X69. The other team (abbr.)
X73. Mills College stat
X76. A unit of mountains*
X77. Separate roasts from toasts, e.g.*
X79. Break new ground?
X81. Related to the end of the intestine
X82. “The greatest” boxer
X83. The Good Place showrunner Michael (not to be
confused with its Architect Michael…or is he?)
X85. Quiet, classically
X88. Suffix with hetero- or ortho-
X89. ___ cava (path to the heart)
X91. Finishing moves on many holes
X94. Lovecraft’s fishy humanoids
X97. Logging-crew reality show
X98. Inclined to seek God in the heaviest
burden and the juiciest orange*
X101. Alphabet (abbr.)
X105. Model Carangi
X106. German writer
X108. TV presenter Schofield
X109. Bullish
X111. “Now what about that don’t sound like
me?”
X114. Ali slogan
X119. Question in Matthew
X120. Able to do all important things most
people can do
X123. Double ___ (“enter end,” e.g.)*
X124. Request from a cameraperson on a
reality show
X125. (What the) dickens(?!)
X126. Challenger’s announcement at a pickup
game
X127. Organization responsible for
Constitution Week
X133. Failed to “flee from sexual
immorality,” per Corinthians
X134. When we visualize this stage of life,
it’s like someone throws a hollow ball at us*
X135. Pull at the earth’s surface, briefly
(without it, we’d be gone!)*
X136. Campbell who’s so far starred in an
even five franchise movies*
X137. Save only
X140. Grows apace
X141. General Rommel, as his mythologizers
call him
X143. Key numbers in IRS forms
X145. Dallas star Larry
X147. Constellation that may contain the
largest star known
X148. Nonstop self-promotion
X149. Gained control of
X150. Skateboarding, snowboarding, and
street luging, e.g.
X151. Relocation pro
X154. “LMAO u killed me with LOLs”
X155. Sanctions
X156. Gadgets mimicking lung-sac function*
X157. Stallone and others
X158. Rd.
X159. Get a hold of
X161. Retired servicemen’s gp.
X162. Alvin’s desire, in song
X164. Plague
X166. Make unusable
X167. “A never-before-seen reaction, there!
Did I hit ___?”*
X168. Monty Python member
X169. Feathery wrap
X170. Students’ insurance if asked for proof
at a bar*
X171. Capital city near the Pacific
X173. Some NFL highlights
X175. Frog, in Toledo
X176. Hangs together
X177. Endings for prank and Team
X178. So I Married ___ Murderer
X179. Former Americans, say
X182. Movie with Dustin as Dorothy
X184. Adler of the Sherlock stories
X185. ___ of My Soul (Isabel Allende novel)
X187. Jags of the 1960s and ‘70s
X189. Gets a dose of accomplishment
endorphins with*
X190. The Beatles’ “___, There and
Everywhere”
X191. First words of the title of Sue
Grafton’s as-yet-unwritten 24th Kinsey Millhone mystery
X192. Panasonic purchase of 2010
X193. Vintage records
X194. Sight attachment
X195. Ambulances’ hosp. destinations
X196. Lashi, to Lashi
X197. Sourfaced
X198. Cantina offering
X203. “Gotta deal with an IRL distraction”
X206. Film-rating gp.
X210. Crop’s security staff
X216. Melanie Griffith’s actress mom
X220. Medium Emily Dickinson would mope
with*
X223. Rubber-stamped
X225. His clock tended to have a melting
dial*
X228. Environment
X230. Insects’ nests
X231. It acts*
X235. Separate
X238. God of arms*
X240. Like Macs
X245. Sends forth
X253. Sofia, to Spaniards
X258. You may play it or score it
X260. Beauty chain that sells ColourPop
products
X261. “…if we ___ master the opportunities
of the New Frontier” (JFK, starting to orate soon after inauguration)*
X262. Hoppy beer, briefly
X263. Blackbeard’s “Bah!”
X264. Hearkened, old-style
X265. Radio problem
X269. Like the first time
X272. Buenos Aires nat.
X273. “Calm down, Ms. Back-Seat Driver”
X276. Gadget that anagrams “phoenix” and I
just think that’s neat*
X281. Brazilian dances resembling polkas
X285. Stuff in a barrel, maybe
X287. What fans of losing teams must wait
for
X291. Protest ploys
X294. Party of Cool Britannia
X295. From nothing
X296. ___ me: so far as I’m concerned*
X297. Least particles
X298. They may boast of nautical miles
traveled*
X300. Signoff tweet matched to X300-Across
by Anagramatron (a tweet analyzer bot with a human editor)
X305. Cheap intro?
X306. Spending, with “out”
X307. Play a mandolin
X309. Group in feminist writing
X311. [Facepalm]
X312. State of society without one aim*
X313. “Feelin’ Alright?” writer Dave
X314. ___ impulse: just do
X315. “I Try” singer featured in Spider-Man
X316. Stoll of The Strain and House
of Cards
X317. Tweet matched to X255-Down by
Anagramatron; together, they sound a binge-watcher’s lament
X320. Le’s, across the Pyrenees*
X321. Paris’s ___-Chapelle church
X322. Ref. book
X323. Powerful psychedelic
X324. Words often cut before “to”
X325. “___ humanity!”
X326. Go places it shouldn’t, as liquid
(you’ll be glad I didn’t include the anagram for this one)
X328. Hot ‘80s sneaker brand
X329. Asia the continent equals Asia the
continent…not Asia, Tennessee*
X330. “Rudolph, das kleine Rentier mit __
roten Nase dran” (literally, Rudolph the Tiny Reindeer with the Red Nose on
Him”)*
X331. Greek letter with a line at the
middle*
X332. Paolini creation with orange breath*
X334. Source of Siamese supplies
X335. Thermos lunches
X336. Sort of duck
X337. Giant perissodactyls
X339. Jenny the “Swedish Nightingale”
X340. Can’t pay up
X341. It’s shy of a treaty
X342. Conductor Maazel
X343. Part of many a texting request
X344. Calendario unit
X345. Near-synonym to its anagram but
focused on the hiring policy for the position, not that of the whole company
X346. Net difference before a deuce?*
X348. Glasses, in old ads
X349. Piece of aerobics gear
X351. Soldiers’ pits
X354. Like a razor blade
X357. Believer in rule by the informed
public
X359. Returning from seeming death
X361. Drink with vitamin C
X363. Shady crypto ex-operation, but I
repeat myself
X364. My colleagues at Camp Sea Gull, lo
those many years ago, for short
X365. Tony timers
X366. National park in Tanzania
X367. Charge less than is one’s due as the
government
X369. There are more numbers after this, I’m
pretty sure*
X370. Shakespearean actors, at times
X371. Maintains order over
X373. Marc Antony’s love, for short
X374. Certain Monopoly tokens
X376. Far from just one
X377. Research group
X379. Hershey toffee bar
X380. College kids’ meetup spot
X382. “Is it anything I do ___?”
X383. Put down
X385. Wide-angle lens
X386. Submission to a record label, once
X387. Yells “Liars!,” e.g.*
X389. ___ service (long, hard work)
X391. Cruz known as “The Queen of Salsa”
X392. “This is you,” to Thérèse
X393. Vivacities that persist*
X394. It once meant “odd”
X395. Like some gems
X396. Red letters?
X397. One is over thirty quadrillion seconds
long*
X398. Cold war threat
X399. Its secondary, rarely used definition
is “An air, a melody”*
X400. TEN ___ (married couple’s property
co-ownership)*
X401. Deacons’ vestments
X404. CPU attachment, once
X405. “___ pro omnibus, omnes pro uno”
X407. Stuffed grape-leaf dish
X409. Hatcher of TV
X411. Life force
X412. Riddle-ending question
X416. Waved rainbows?
X420. Sound from the bullpen
X421. Signals the end of the day on base
X425. Mazda rival
X428. Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle,
abbreviated
X429. Jay-Z output
X430. Gamgee portrayer (it’s an awesome
performance)*
X431. Measures of baseness?
X432. MTV video show, until 2008
X433. Me and no one else
X436. First word of a Carroll work
X437. Square ___ (Final Fantasy game
company)
X439. Yom ___ (Jewish holiday)
X440. With its anagram at X443-Across, “How
‘bout NOW?”
X443. See X440-Across
X446. He’d often pose a moral*
X450. It sleeps two (or one sleep-thrasher)
X453. School no-brainer
X454. Gamers tend to use it often*
X456. Years are part of one*
X457. Spy, at times
X458. Pelvis parts
X459. Anti-clog device
X463. Deleted, briefly
X466. Palestine Liberation Organization
faction
X467. Livestock lineages
X468. Leave alone
X470. Snowshoe hare chaser
X472. River of France and Belgium
X473. The pizzeria in Do the Right Thing
X474. Bill time (abbr.)
X475. Level of plain sight
X477. “If one of these two, but not both”
X478. 1/2-days
X480. Suffix for puppet or profit
activity
X481. Rat voiced by Patton Oswalt in Ratatouille
X483. Over, as an oeuvre
X484. What an insightful person sees within*
X485. The feeling of not being
dependent on Twitter, e.g.
X486. Acting as one with the leading part*
X488. Draw in with reassurances
X490. UK machine gun
X492. Cite as one’s own awesome
accomplishment
X494. Running, in a way
X495. Couple, in gossip
X496. Modern Maturity publisher (abbr.)
X497. Tighten, perhaps
X498. Kitchen item
X499. “Mariage” (sic) or “Chanson” follower
X500. Transitions slowly
X502. Commercial lead-in to Clean
X503. Brans’ storage, at times*
X505. One on it may be out of it
X506. QB pursuers
X509. Has lunch in the park
X512. “For the ___ time.”
X514. Mideast king
X516. Devon ___ (large-eared cat)
X517. Brand, perhaps
X518. Transaction venerated for its
fairness*
X520. Confusing situations
X522. Set crowd, maybe
X524. Conflict-ending line in Blade
Runner, even though it sounds like it could be a threat
X526. Woodpile covering
X527. Point in the pen bin*
X528. Reason for damage control
X529. Absence of calm or quiet*
X531. Epicurean avocation
X532. Refuses to consider
X533. “___ being Brand” (Cummings poem)
X536. “Lord, is ___?” (Biblical question)
X537. Forms of conduct
X539. Jekyll creator’s initials
X541. English New Wave band led by Andy
Partridge
X542. How Yvette says “Yes”
X544. Polished
X546. “I’ll take Triple Axel Jumps for $400,
___”*
X548. Delights
X550. Londoner from a fashionable district
X551. Like the group after a round of
musical chairs
X553. Makes longer
X554. It’s about 11 days earlier each year
X555. Leaves ashore
X557. Copier brand a choir of people will
tell you is better than Xerox*
X558. Strawberry or cannabis fruit (var.)
X559. Mad Men characters, often
X561. B-F link
X562. Sharansky of Israel
X565. Cat-in-a-box-of-wrapping-paper
activity*
X567. Suffix with photo or phylo
X570. Where a hammer and anvil are*
X571. Kicks one’s seat, def*
X574. What drummers have
X576. Kondo who finds clutter a mire*
X578. Switch or smash ender
X580. Contracted adverb
X581. 1987 Best Actress winner who had hella
Twitter game
X582. Some Zs
X583. Photos, amusingly
X585. Montevideo Mrs.
X586. Kazakh-Uzbek lake area
X587. Make a valiant effort
X588. Bearing a heavy load
X589. Visually impairs
X590. Humbert’s adored
X591. Smallest of fifty
X594. One of the oldest Christian
communities in the Middle East
X595. Cuban base, familiarly
X596. Filches
X598. Modulus equal to its anagram at
X600-Across
X600. Modulus equal to its anagram at
X598-Across
X604. They might get folks down
X608. Patrick Ewing, in college
X611. Avid singer with an ego*
X614. Chains player in “Monster Mash”
X616. Namesakes of Italian star
X618. European neighbor
X621. Heat between rivals*
X623. Hoppy brews, briefly
X627. She collaborated with Parton on
“Seasons”
X630. Ditka and Shanahan
X631. Group including Martin Luther King,
Jr., and John Lewis
X632. F. ___ Fitzgerald
X633. Fvll deck plvs one
X635. So, so many (of)
X636. “…___ thousand times…” (this quote is
bracketed by a repeated word on both sides)
X637. Snare’s kit-mate
X638. Take the whammy off
X639. Spoon through trash, e.g.*
X641. Where men can go, but women usually
can’t
X642. Club selection factor
X643. Targets of plaintiffs’ ire*
X644. Colleague of Ruth and Clarence
X645. Flirty girl
X647. Just short of C
X648. Homework assignment for sch.
X649. Eye that might have eau
X650. Early Sally Field character
X651. Fled
X653. Environmentally sound
X654. Feeling ___ through seven mattresses:
proof of a princess?
X655. Morales who got killed off after a
season of Ozark
X656. Ginza fashion accessories
X657. Checks until checks feel redundant
X659. Words with “disco,” “Dillinger,” and
“a doornail”
X660. Inclined to think things through
X662. Pipes in with
X663. Law to raise pension standards
X664. Tel. standard*
X665. FSU player, to fans
X667. Mugs by the fire
X670. Hardest to handle
X673. Fixes junior’s laces
X676. Genesis shipbuilder
X678. Sierra or Yukon
X679. Run in long strides
X680. Muscle mag cover story, perhaps
X682. Bacchanalian
X684. Make known, as a feeling
X686. Record label that popularized Southern
soul
X687. Fish for bagels
X688. Long periods of relatively little
conflict
X689. Ex-name for “lumberjacks”*
X690. Maples and Gibbs
X691. Safeway rival
X692. Wranglers’ rivals
X693. Abbr. after Pennsylvania
X694. Where to slide some sliders*
X695. World ___
X698. Bug zapper alternative
X702. Had some face time, in a way
X704. Carter’s discovery
X705. “Guilt is a timorous thing ___
preparation” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
X707. Surveyor’s helpers
X709. Candace Parker was its 2008 MVP
X711. Prefix for wig or winkle
X713. Blood bank breakdown
X714. Brief alternative?
X716. Its second ed. contains about 59
million words
X717. Everybody else
X719. “Red ___ for a Blue Lady” (Wayne
Newton)
X720. “Giving You the Best That I Got”
singer Baker
X721. It’s said they get richer, unless we
eat them
X723. Score few duffers achieve
X725. Stimulants that may roam as borne by
the wind*
X728. Prefix with moron
X729. Part of a coach’s chalk-talk diagram
X730. 1976 film with a radical
population-control idea
X732. Olympic discus great
X734. Drink aimed at dieting males
X737. Uber alternative in urban areas
X739. Seven-year-old on many an off-road
adventure*
X741. Wordbooks
X745. Magnifying glass, e.g.
X749. French possessive
X750. Circuit diagrams
X755. Francois’s farewells
X758. A liar’s are on fire, so they say
X759. Rabbit with right-angled ears.
X760. Cry for attention
X761. End of a long act
X762. Believer
X764. Bandman Brown
X766. Head shots, at times (abbr.)
X767. Lieutenant James E. Carter, Jr., ___
X768. It makes money’s growth accelerate
over time (and see X771-Across)
X771. One who considers their own anagram at
X768-Across
X775. New Mexico river
X776. Applies, as perfume
X777. Boog Powell, regarding his old
baseball career
X778. Alternative to Keds
X779. Shade of yellow
X780. Wives, in Germany
X781. ___ exercise (method for combatting
urinary incontinence and reducing premature ejaculation)
X782. Opp. of width
X784. A quarter of dodici
X785. Location of our consciousness
X786. It codes for proteins
X788. Place of business (abbr.)
X789. “___ enacted by the General Assembly…”
X791. Flatbreads with ghee
X792. Hasta ___
X793. Play by Oscar Wilde that’s the title
of several paintings
X795. Line online
X796. Elephant who named his capital after
his queen
X798. Club with a lot of mass?*
X799. Skater Midori and judge Lance
X800. Part of Madonna’s curriculum vitae*
X803. Sub for a kids’ carpool*
X806. Visual (arts)
X808. Particle of cosmic radiation
X809. Gavin Rossdale’s “The Skin ___”
X810. Written in quatrains, e.g.
X811. Elvis Costello’s “My ___ True”
X812. Kitchen clocks
X813. 1980s-’90s “Did I do that?” TV nerd
X815. Right-hand pages
X816. “Eeeewwwww!”
X817. React to an awesome splash page*
X818. “It awes us ___ are, though you and I
may get used to it one day”*
X820. One of the senses
X822. Big-brimmed bonnet
X825. Weather-affecting winds
X828. Ron nicknamed “The Penguin”
X829. Amen-Ra’s wife
X832. Cat scratch sources
X834. Marked by a local body or bodies of
water
X836. Pan handler?
X838. 1950s movie monster destroyed at Mount
Aso
X839. Young rascal
X840. One no longer in the big leagues
X841. Valued, as a colleague
X843. Adjusted to the state of, as volume*
X844. Certain Polynesian
X846. Sum’s bottom line
X847. Org. behind the National Cryptologic
Museum
X848. Driver’s req.
X850. Establish a new foothold
X851. Like Nita Strauss, re: the
establishment*
X852. Forum disclaimer
X853. Stellar-travel set*
X855. Tech billionaire Peter who wrote “I no
longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible,” which seems like a
problematic view from a guy with his influence on Facebook
X857. Least anagrammable Teletubby
X859. Scottish area where many Gaelic tales
are told*
X860. Explore
X862. Kitchen sponge go-with
X864. You’ll get a hospital bed if it works
on you; if it doesn’t, well…*
X866. Adjective in Peruvian history books
X867. Starting Harvard law students
X868. Sward
X869. It’s usually seen via a microscope and
a beam of light (var.)*
X870. More insolent
X871. ___ the Short (Charlemagne’s father)
X872. Buying info
X873. Reverend’s counterpart
X874. Perfect starter?
X876. Put into flame
X878. Christ Stopped at ___ (Primo Levi)
X879. Haunted-house inmate
X880. Opera singer Terfel
X881. Not free on board
X884. When the first break of the day feels
meant to be*
X886. Pig of kiddie TV
X888. Opening for an act
X890. Ways of reasoning
X892. Where Buzz Lightyear is invited at one
point in Toy Story
X894. What a reader may read
X896. Body scanner org.
X897. Easily swindled sort
X899. Water-to-wine site
X901. Src. of more accountability in
accounting*
X902. Trunk without roots*
X903. Lewis featured in every main ad for Billions*
X904. Puffins or Puffed Wheat
X905. Species Bradley Cooper has played
second most often
X907. “Consider this done”
X909. Socks sound
X910. Lead-in to “phase”
X912. A cold can mean tons of it*
X913. League of the links (abbr.)
X915. With its anagram at X921-Across,
lightly edited quote from Antony in Julius Caesar
X921. See X915-Across
X926. Off-putting fish?
X930. Unusual collection
X933. Truck’s body protection
X937. VH-1 alternative
X940. Stunted ear of corn
X941. Spot where a long bone grows
X942. Boooring
X943. Audience members clap, nod for his
“Fanfare”*
X944. How “c’mon” is usually said
X946. Like a transient triumph
X950. It’s for people who don’t do Windows
X951. Ready for sex, in short
X953. Less polished
X954. “___che macchiavi quell’anima…”
X955. Gently enter
X957. Main character of A Different World’s
first season who basically vanished from it by its last
X958. “Baby Beluga” singer
X959. "Got it, fella?"
X961. Concept from your own mind that wasn’t
just AI-ed (could an AI do that anagram? Of course not)*
X962. AOL entertainment offering
X963. Good Christmas gift for many a fan
X964. Zune power sources
X965. Largest city and former capital of
Nigeria
X966. Treasured clay disks
X968. Seasoning for une omelette
X969. Colonial news source
X970. It may follow a dot
X971. Palindromic 1998 Busta Rhymes album
X972. It’s not necessarily the real worth
X973. Stops a stealer
X974. Opposite of mala
X975. Fierce Hawaiian shark
X976. Icy mass
X978. Give muskets and bayonets, say
X980. Fifth-century pope with the epithet
“the Great”
X982. British painter of horses
X985. Treasury secretary through most of the
Twenties
X987. Deep sleeps
X989. Like leaves
X992. Last name in detective fiction
X994. Boston’s are Red
X995. Real waste of space in “___ Had to
Die”*
X996. “Each Dawn ___” (Cagney movie)
X997. Chromosomes of someone with
Klinefelter syndrome
X998. Massachusetts music festival locale
X999. “This is so frustrating!”
X1000. The Parthenon has two, in classical
Greek
X1001. Asked too many questions
X1002. Relying on flow
X1004. Of a gap or interruption
X1005. Halo blight, for a bean*
X1006. Is easing onto the roster with
maturity*
X1008. State of Ukraine broadcaster
X1009. Lone Star cuisine
X1011. Remove
X1013. Jewel-thief’s outlet
X1015. The genderqueer
X1017. Glitzed (up)
X1019. Egg touter of fiction
X1021. “Thou canst not then be false to ___”
(Polonius)
X1023. Susan ___ James
X1025. Places for pedestrians to be alert,
informally
X1027. Entertainment awards acronym
X1031. Sew with an egg
X1034. Relationship complications
X1036. Ecclesiastical laws
X1037. Component of some printers
X1039. Took ___: had an active role
X1040. Like a cheerleader after a big game,
maybe
X1041. High-school physics prop
X1043. Epic, like a fifty-player game*
X1044. Support by proxy (var.)
X1045. Schubert specialties
X1047. Somewhere nearby
X1048. Break ___ (split)
X1050. ___ home: out
X1052. Kind of pass still valid after Brexit
X1054. Tricky; elusive
X1056. Ginzburg on many a fashion site*
X1057. Deemed worthy of a higher premium due
to greater risk
X1059. Works on a bone
X1061. Spielberg film about road rage
X1062. School district higher-up, informally
X1063. Maker of the GROGGY wine opener
X1064. Latin that becomes English when you
add “gard to”
X1065. English assignment, maybe
X1066. Ran past the scheduled time
X1067. Last word in ice cream?
X1068. Cherrylike hues
X1069. Of stone
X1070. Ordered, archaically
X1071. Partner of frankincense
X1072. Stations with unique crossed letters
X1073. Delta Shuttle stop in NYC
X1074. Prison uprising of 1971
X1076. With its anagram at X1079-Across,
“Whatever it was, it freaked us out”
X1079. See X1076-Across
X1083. Sex drive (straightforward anagram of
X1084-Across)
X1084. Sex drive (colorful anagram of
X1083-Across)
X1086. “That so?”‘ reply
X1088. Switz. neighbor
X1089. Revolutionary on a T-shirt
X1090. She was, to Caesar
X1091. Really dry
X1092. “Think big” film sloganeer
X1094. Raises, as stakes
X1095. Atlanta coll.
X1097. "We can settle up later"
X1098. With “up for the director,” act RIGHT
AT HIM*
X1099. Will listing
X1101. Censor-pixels keep this area lo-res*
X1102. Marlowe protag.
X1103. NFL game extenders
X1105. Interplanetary dictator in Scientology
whom we’re not supposed to talk about
X1107. Yellowish brown
X1108. Perceived to be, in a sense*
X1110. Secure to
X1111. Barcelona man’s title
X1113. They work in shafts
X1115. P. Keaton and Dunphy of “Family”
sitcoms
X1117. Legal tag
X1118. Like some autumn lawns
X1120. Overspending safety net, for short
X1121. Used a light beam on, in a way that
leads to surgical improvement*
X1122. Gem sources
X1124. Refraction device
X1125. Give great pleasure
X1127. They might use a cistern as a pee vat*
X1129. First razor with a twin-blade
cartridge
X1130. Joe in Paris, or where to put it in
your face*
X1131. Pick on, in a way
X1134. Franklin’s faith
X1137. 
City network
X1141. Age group
X1143. He dies in Hamlet (sure, that
narrows it down)
X1146. Like niter*
X1148. Peter and Claudius
X1150. Concrete-walled establishment with
free samples and cheap hot dogs
X1152. Coerce for cash
X1154. “OMG, stop with the details already!”
X1156. “Never ___ Up” (Aaliyah song)
X1157. Mom’s X + Dad’s Y
X1158. ___-Loompa (Wonka worker)
X1159. Stirring
X1160. Max of video game fame
X1161. Color-mixing board
X1162. In second, e.g.
X1163. Chips and popcorn, in commercialese
X1164. Like un- and -tion
X1168. Edict of the tsar
X1170. Hiking cue, often
X1171. One of the stonecrops
X1172. Improper way to write 59 in Roman
numerals
X1174. Discourage
X1176. Elysia
X1178. Halle Bailey role
X1180. Rich deposits
X1182. Utterly
X1183. Good nickname for a cook?
X1184. What x is in a + b + c = a * b * c =
x*
X1186. Made a mom-to-be, usually
X1189. Fourth US president to win a Nobel
Peace Prize
X1190. Rook rectangles
X1191. Criminology study, for short
X1192. Will whose characters often natter on
about their self-image*
X1193. Cajolery
X1195. D&D and similar campaign pursuits
X1196. “Hip-hop on a higher level” magazine
X1197. Alternative to Facebook, once
X1198. A person without any taste?
X1199. Attacked with clubs and such
X1200. Certain resident of the Arabian
Peninsula
X1201. Pudgy president
X1203. Toss, as confetti
X1205. Way to organize all your ducks?
X1207. CIX + II*
X1208. Certain property holder
X1210. Understands the point of
X1212. Internet feed
X1214. “I’m broke ___ it’s ___”
X1216. It may be “bon”
X1217. Arguing as usual
X1218. Attention-getting, upon reflection
X1219. Deficit-reducing, e.g.
X1220. Certain fraternity chapter
X1221. Now paying only for buck acts, e.g.*
X1224. Authorizing
X1225. “Heads up, golfers!”
X1226. Inter ___ (among other things)
X1227. Coming-out announcement
X1228. Borneo ape whose “long call” is more
of a groan*
X1229. CDC worry
X1231. Borrowed from, for short
X1233. With its anagram at X1238-Across, was
angrily “apathetic”
X1238. See X1233-Across (author: me!)
X1243. Device that’s led to less risk-taking
by roadsters*
X1245. Donation location
X1247. Falsely accuse to bring the law onto
X1248. Resoundin’ yell
X1250. Photosynthesis site
X1251. Boost in power
X1252. Statement of confident contemplation
X1253. Pass through
X1255. Level of fame everyone else tails
behind*
X1256. Dangerous African insect
X1258. Anagrams are one kind of this
X1262. Arab Spring year
X1264. Old Greek theater
X1265. Norse death goddess
X1266. Least common of the eight compass
pts., in crosswords
X1267. “Star Wars” was meant as a dis for it*
X1269. The present, in Peru
X1270. Immunologists’ preparation
X1271. Three battalions (abbr.)
X1273. Bible translation, e.g. (abbr.)
X1275. Use, as a chaise lounge
X1276. Uses a swizzle stick
X1277. Axle-spin skate trick*
X1278. Violates, as an agreement
X1282. Tip sellers
X1283. Packaged
X1285. Not as iffy
X1286. Tiny unit that’s
.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% the energy released in a
supernova
X1287. Letter-shaped metal bar
X1288. Man, to Brutus
X1291. Straight as ___
X1292. Pottery of the Netherlands
X1297. Like reference books
X1301. Did a doggie trick
X1303. Railroad network (abbr.)
X1305. Helios’ sister
X1307. ___-garde
X1311. Skier’s challenge
X1313. One’s ‘hood, for short
X1314. Whirling waters
X1317. Mark for alcohol
X1318. Disney heroine who seeks to restore
the heart of Te Fiti
X1319. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men author James
X1320. Gets points playing
X1321. Close ___: get that customer
X1322. States of harmony
X1323. “Count to ten, take a breath…”
X1324. Anticipates with confidence
X1328. John Clayton’s other name
X1331. Leave a check for repairs and a note
of apology, say*
X1333. People of what’s now California and
Mexico
X1334. “And a few more”
X1335. Swab go-with
X1336. Classic fistfight sound effect
X1338. Where Kim is a common surname
X1340. Mother ___ (1979 Nobel Peace Prize
recipient)
X1343. Have a feral or uncontained moment, as
tempers*
X1345. Hop kilns
X1347. Bug to step on*
X1349. Chocolate-dipped dried grape
X1351. Ginormous
X1352. Willingness to break out of one’s
style lane*
X1353. Heredity hierarchy that allegedly
keeps its acmes at the top*
X1354. Post-hardcore band with an abrasive
name
X1355. Minuteman’s hat
X1356. Cruise role in Vanilla Sky
X1357. Word with will or wind
X1358. Emotionally gray
X1359. Islamic commanders (var.)
X1360. Swab the deck again
X1361. State équivalents*
X1362. Overcoat with unseamed sleeves
X1363. Extended relation?
X1364. Watched closely
X1366. With its anagram at X1370-Across,
notes on costume design in a Tarantino film
X1370. See X1366-Across
X1373. In English, what you are if you have
its anagram at X1375-Across
X1375. In French, what you have if you are
its anagram at X1373-Across
X1377. Like about 1 in 12 American homes
X1379. Metrosexual, perhaps
X1380. Aids for camp chefs
X1382. Pulls gently (doesn’t go nuts and yank
or anything)*
X1383. Time machine on Doctor Who
X1385. Comic’s reward
X1386. Compete to run across an acre, say*
X1387. Trotwood who took in David Copperfield
X1388. Typographic term for a textual
“equator”
X1389. Mantelpiece pieces
X1390. 144-tile game
X1392. Racing helmsmen
X1394. Echo that action
X1395. Milk-and-yolk drink
X1396. Campaigning against DDE left him at
sea*
X1398. Flora in Road Runner cartoons
X1399. Empire State resident, for short
X1400. Quilter’s gathering
X1401. Tiny opening
X1403. Libations from a barrel
X1405. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation heroine Faust
X1406. It stayed on the rim of Earth’s
gravity*
X1407. Hogarth’s progress maker
X1408. Remove identification from, as a
Facebook photo
X1409. Rhone wine
X1410. Libya’s last king
X1411. Funny papers, slangily
X1412. 1969’s “giant leap for mankind”
X1414. It can be black or green
X1415. Longstocking of literature
X1418. Releases one’s grip on
X1421. Spaniard’s thirst
X1423. Hermaphroditic land animal
X1425. Recording studio work
X1428. Seven bones down low
X1430. Dumbledore’s double agent
X1433. Deliver some notes?
X1435. Oldest UN gp.
X1436. Less fictitious
X1437. Cain’s sin (that led to his other,
showier sin)
X1438. They dog your steps
X1440. Campstove fuel
X1441. Like some gout
X1442. NJ army outpost
X1443. Marlins, on scoreboards
X1444. They’re arguable
X1448. It is let in on all your mass
marketing*
X1450. One hundred points, to a jeweler
X1451. Makes worse
X1455. Website for divorce and breakup
consolation called a “place to go when it’s time to leave”
X1459. “…___ the queen of England!”
X1461. The Irishman star in ironed pajamas*
X1462. Showed extreme disrespect toward
X1464. Growl like a mad dog
X1466. Had dinner at a friend’s
X1468. Lab series?
X1469. Full of protuberances; jagged
X1471. Army rank (abbr.)
X1472. Just more than never
X1473. Left open-mouthed
X1474. Above-the-elbow bands
X1476. Verbalized amazement
X1477. ___ Centauri
X1481. Where pros play
X1484. Comic-strip manchild who dodged Sadie
Hawkins
X1485. Friends, to Flavius
X1486. Hit lightly with a finger
X1487. XXXIX × X
X1488. Dry stalk [worth 14 points in
Scrabble]
X1489. Not much, as of paint
X1491. Kind of community in an intermediate
stage
X1493. More than enough, usually
X1494. A little more lit
X1496. Britney’s “Oops!…___ It Again”
X1498. “To know my deed, ___ best not know
myself” (Macbeth)
X1499. If You Knew ___… (Quatro album)
X1501. Sacred bird of Egyptian hieroglyphics
X1502. Lack of pressure
X1503. English mil. medal
X1504. Cheongsam features
X1505. Like the air she exhales after a
longer smoke*
X1506. “The East ___” (1960s Chinese anthem)
X1507. Longshoreman’s workplace
X1508. “Last name” covering the end of a
spectrum
X1509. Earl Grey alternative
X1510. Bobby who lost to a King
X1511. Kingdoms, to Caesars
X1512. Asian-American basketball sensation
Jeremy
X1513. Like oceanic islands, poetically
X1515. King Arthur’s father Pendragon
X1516. Motor attachment?
X1517. Tree bearing pods
X1519. Root cause of much American strife
(and anagram for X1522-Across)
X1522. Times of American strife (and anagram
for X1519-Across)
X1527. Tasty pre-meal liver dish, say, and
anagram of X1404-Down
X1529. On and on and on and on and on and on
and on and on and on and on and on and on and
X1531. Mesa tribe
X1532. Crafty to the max
X1533. This veggie is hard to chew unsliced*
X1535. Skin rash
X1536. Shakespeare said a quart of it was “a
dish for a king”
X1537. Perfect poker player’s comment?
X1538. Attachment on some mufflers
X1540. Marco Rubio or Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
X1542. ___ de Flandres (stoneware)
X1543. Franken Berry contemporary
X1545. Part of an insect’s body that holds
the legs
X1547. Mr. Silverstein
X1548. “As ___ On TV”
X1549. Rocker’s job
X1551. Walesa of Poland
X1552. Sandwich ingredient for many?
X1553. “The Aba ___ Honeymoon,” 1914 hit song
X1555. Remove the rind from, as a pear*
X1556. Saint Petersburg’s former name
X1558. Places to get screwdrivers
X1560. Best conditions
X1562. Kind of fighting uniform
X1563. Excise on some out-of-state purchases
X1564. Clumps of sugar on a stick
X1566. It helps one battle mental
difficulties, sirs*
X1567. Lesser-known citrus just a bit bigger
than a pea (mew!)*
X1568. First Marvel Cinematic Universe
villain
X1570. Taking it ___ notch
X1571. Macroinvertebrate sampler
X1573. Imam’s religion
X1576. Showing a lot of skin, perhaps
X1578. Paragon
X1581. Like characters in RED (it
stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous)
X1582. “We kid, but seriously…”
X1585. Penn State’s ___ Hall
X1586. Agcy. that lit up farmhouses in an
earlier era*
X1587. Fastening pin
X1588. Sequence of words that’s a letter bank
for “anagram”
X1589. Insolently, proudly uneducated
X1591. Title word of a song from Mozart’s
“Requiem”
X1592. Tear site worth crying over
X1593. Rouse from sleep
X1595. Thrill, as when you exert a Hail Mary*
X1600. Lifelike Oz traveler
X1606. Start for a comp sci career, sometimes
X1610. Like sulfur dioxide or carbon monoxide
X1612. The Bar-Kays’ “Shake Your ___ to the
Funk”
X1614. What the ghost says
X1615. Etymonline alternatives in print form
X1617. He’s neither Harry nor Hermione*
X1618. “You’re lookin’ at your guy”
X1619. Extras (abbr.)
X1620. Kukicha
X1623. “See you,” to the new boy*
X1625. Approving
X1627. Axe-visit papers*
X1631. Arcade bonus
X1637. They release the hounds
X1643. Mar with a head-on collision*
X1644. Pre-Socratic philosopher
X1645. Gibbons and us
X1646. Organes visuels
X1647. George F. Kennan’s pseudonym
X1649. Tank swimmer
X1651. Good way to be in France*
X1653. Like the innermost coat of an organ
X1656. Sweetie pie
X1657. Deep blue
X1658. Burns’s “On the ___ and Far Away”
X1659. Path for a car making a turn*
X1660. Abbr. seen in Dear Mark Twain:
Letters from His Readers
X1662. ___ impasse
X1663. Harvard’s Sissela and Derek, whose
names sound like something you’ll fill in here
X1666. Pre-fax communiques
X1667. Female Leghorn
X1668. Job Corps’ department
X1669. Authorized delays
X1670. What a flamingo usually stands on
X1671. Bosh or tosh
X1672. Letters in a university sport?
X1674. Suckled [read this answer twice,
putting the word break in a different place the second time]
X1675. Half-sink
X1676. Wife of Thor (don’t tell the movies)
X1677. “Oh Yeah” band
X1678. ___ Rivera, suburb of LA
X1680. With his anagram at X1683-Across,
highlight of the documentary Crikey! What an Adventure
X1683. See X1680-Across
X1685. Iago’s ill-fated wife
X1687. Tricolor breed
X1690. Look smugly upon
X1692. Flimsy, like a summer dress
X1693. Unusual, like a roar from a captive
tigre*
X1695. Drain, as blood
X1696. He hit Kane like he was using a cane*
X1697. She offers Aziz a deal in compensation
for her wrongful accusation*
X1698. Where to Cato
X1699. Where to catch Dancing with the
Stars
X1700. Kind of opossum shrimp
X1701. Hinge (upon)
X1702. First name shared by both founders of
Apple
X1704. Mergers and acquisitions
X1706. Fought in the war
X1708. Fallen rock
X1710. Spinnaker
X1711. Airline offering short flights?
X1713. Verbal who was a suspect in The
Usual Suspects
X1714. Erin Burnett Outfront channel
X1715. Hubbard of science fiction
X1716. Jambalaya
X1720. National Mall liners
X1722. Japanese who think it’s cool to act
like Ugly Americans
X1723. #1 Bobby Vinton hit
X1725. We now call them “sexually
transmitted,” for short
X1726. The smallest number divisible by the
numbers 1 to 6
X1727. Dehumanized target of desire
X1729. It’ll give you an out when the cops
come
X1731. Hashtag for Beantown baseballers
X1732. Sounded
X1734. Medicine chest items
X1735. Noted honey lover
X1736. Airline that had a hub at JFK
X1738. Radiance, to the Secret Service
X1741. Being, to Baudelaire
X1743. Hooded menaces for smaller animals
X1745. Rises dramatically, as a price
X1746. “Try this”
X1747. Got to the top of quickly, as a
staircase
X1749. Showed reverence
X1751. Topknot
X1752. Ma’s niece
X1753. Blanc who voiced Bugs
X1754. Victory, to Wagner
X1755. Knew people
X1756. Teller’s call
X1757. Like not all or even most Muslims,
despite what Hollywood would have you believe
X1759. “And miles ___ before I sleep”
X1760. Losing game line
X1763. Chip maker acquired by sailor’s
helper?
X1768. Warm greeting
X1772. From then ‘til now
X1774. Etched (abbr.)
X1776. Move to solid food
X1777. River to the Black Sea sometimes given
a couple more vowels
X1778. States evidence for
X1780. Like evergreen cones
X1783. Tetris Attack console, briefly
X1784. Work incessantly
X1785. Steel giant until 2001
X1786. Jawbone
X1790. Dashboard device
X1795. Elaborate deception
X1797. Small sort of leftovers*
X1798. Remain on the bench
X1799. Its “B” is for “bus”*
X1802. Taking ___ at: attempting
X1806. Subject for Warhol
X1808. Unimpressively small
X1810. Tayback who played Mel on Alice
X1811. Ex-President whom I always hope will
die before I have to finalize this clue
X1812. Chinese leader Deng
X1814. Dictation, once taken (first part
anagrams the second part)
X1817. With its anagram at X1821-Across, “The
pain passed eventually, thank God”
X1820. Ararat and Everest, briefly
X1821. See X1817-Across
X1825. City tied to America’s prejudiced
history, or the TV show about it that hit screens in 2014 (and an anagram of
X1827-Across)
X1827. City tied to America’s prejudiced
history, or the movie about it that hit screens in 2014 (and an anagram of
X1824-Across)
X1829. They feature many different artists
X1830. Appear during one’s broadcast, like a
noir for TMC*
X1831. Word before dog or legs
X1832. Pitches a nearly perfect game
X1834. Puffed cereal brand
X1835. Business garrote
X1837. Fagan who took cash to paint all
Biden’s predecessors*
X1838. Influential sort
X1840. Ring result (abbr.)
X1841. To the British, this county is a
“loud, dumb” pejorative when coupled with “girl” or “man”
X1843. Like a Bengal tiger
X1844. Incorrect version of XXXIX
X1845. Tie or Max of hockey
X1847. Scalpel wielder, briefly
X1848. “But do we know?” feeling*
X1850. Swimmer Louganis et al.
X1851. Short, short time
X1852. Diaper closer
X1853. “What ___ now?”
X1854. High-fiber cereal
X1856. “Come along, mustn’t dawdle, can’t
make her wait” literary technique
X1858. Relative of -tress
X1859. Washington Post competitor (abbr.)
X1860. Fly of the genus Glossina
X1862. Trouble
X1864. They, s’il vous plait*
X1865. Given the kibosh
X1867. Screw pine of Hawaii
X1868. “I ___ say it…”
X1870. “k lol”
X1872. Tilda of Three Thousand Years of
Longing
X1874. Tom Udall or Mark Udall (abbr.)
X1875. People’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2018
X1879. Celebrity news site
X1881. Second word in Asian capital name
X1883. Debate side
X1884. Pudding variety
X1885. Twin Cities shopping Mecca, for short
X1886. Mythical Aegean Sea dweller
X1888. “You ___ I share the same DNA. Is
there anything more lonely than that?” (Charlie Kaufman)*
X1890. Persona ___
X1891. Shaved treats
X1892. It may take two to say goodbye?
X1893. They’re prone to accidental
anagramming
X1896. Hotel phone abbr.
X1898. Tiny axe hitting your stomach*
X1900. You can get this in bars
X1901. Works with singers
X1903. Love potion, e.g.
X1904. Types of towns, for short
X1906. They can be as little as a button or
as much as ten thou, all depends on who’s playing*
X1907. Flanders’ neighborhood, for short?
X1908. Forces (from)
X1909. Oceanward
X1912. Was witness to*
X1914. Activity providing little but
distraction
X1917. Polishes
X1920. Strategy to get a business bought out
or closed down
X1923. Ancient Samaritan
X1927. Celtics coach Jones and namesakes
X1928. Get the jab
X1929. Like most Iranian Muslims
X1931. Conducive to peace
X1932. “Million Dollar ___” (Simpsons ep
about Homer’s dad)
X1934. Ongoing concerns
X1935. Kind of sound
X1936. Not completely dissolved, as a drink
mix
X1937. Show off, as wealth
X1938. “Like two peas ___”
X1940. “…___ iron bars a cage”
X1941. Prefix with skirt
X1942. ___-O-U
X1943. The worst consequences imaginable
X1946. Table, at meetings
X1947. Mythical Egyptian riddler
X1950. Letters of gratitude, in a text
X1952. What a St. Martinican might mean by
“island hours”*
X1953. Intimate email sign-off
X1955. God, in Portuguese
X1956. Pierced
X1959. Viewing instrument
X1960. University in Lubbock
X1962. Henry & June role
X1963. Hours, in Italy
X1965. Due + quattro
X1966. Apt to get an R
X1967. Rapper Yasiin Bey, formerly
X1968. Domination, in slang
X1969. Parallel parks a boat in rough weather
X1971. What lies between the lines
X1974. Company that can trace its lineage to
Alexander Graham Bell
X1977. Heartburn
X1979. Clinton really knows how to blow it
X1980. To fly, in Florence
X1981. She played Hillary in American
Crime Story (about her husband’s impeachment)
X1983. Θ-sound letters
X1985. Blocks
X1988. Letter following sigma
X1990. 1976 greatest hits album with the
track “Evil Woman”
X1992. Sculpts arid earth
X1993. Wonderfully different
X1997. “E FP TOZ” exam
X1999. Student’s resource
X2001. “As soon as I ran down, people were
like, ‘Aziz!’ and lifted me up immediately” speaker*
X2002. Hyphenate with “life” or “world” (more
or less synonymous)
X2003. Hub height
X2004. Guinness Book entries
X2005. Director Browning with Freaks and
Dracula
X2006. French them?
X2007. 1939 Bogart title role
X2008. Words you might find on the wall of a
bar? (Anagram of X1849-Down)
X2010. “Just like I do” (first part anagrams
the second part)
X2012. The situation facing a frustrated
speaker (first part anagrams the second part)
X2013. Suffering from satyriasis
(straightforward anagram of X1926-Down)
X2015. The Autobiography of Malcolm ___ Told
to Alex Haley
X2016. “I just had an idea…”
X2017. Cig-smoking MiB aliens, e.g.*
X2018. Agent Mulder’s show, with “The”
X2019. Start to push?
X2020. Subject to strain
X2021. Reine’s spouse
X2024. #1 hit for Justin Timberlake
X2029. It may accompany ringing (each are
signs of infection)*
X2030. For the Boys star Bette
X2034. Largest of the Virgin Islands
X2038. Jell-O alternatives
X2039. Of or like (suffix)
X2040. Takes a plane at journey’s end
X2042. Island whose capital is Hagatna
X2043. Fixed, for short
X2044. “___ to see you smile” (Old McDonald’s
slogan)
X2045. Word with coat or cap
X2047. Midnight Cowboy was the only one to get Oscar
attention
X2052. Topper container
X2055. They may be out of bounds
X2057. Tailless felines
X2062. Resist authority
X2065. What’s in vogue
X2067. Bump ___
X2068. Type of culture
X2070. To ___: just right
X2071. “Smell Ready” brand
X2072. Haberdashers
X2073. Compass reading
X2074. Russian council (var.)
X2076. Hilarity, in Internet-speak
X2077. Tonight Show’s Eubanks, familiarly
X2078. Pt. of C-in-C
X2080. ___ stirpes (estate law term)
X2082. Motel guest’s woe, perhaps
X2084. ___ Dzhugashvili (Stalin)
X2086. Wrapped one’s legs around
X2087. “How long did it take the air to clear
after #$#@ Chernobyl?” TV agent*
X2088. Little teeny bit
X2089. Sly ___ fox
X2091. With more dudes we don’t have time to
single out
X2092. Evansville campus
X2093. Tientsin’s province
X2094. Added attic, say
X2095. Capital for which you should bring
pairs of walking shoes*
X2097. Ltr. extras
X2099. Per ___ (for each)
X2102. Healing plant found on some sills
X2103. Suffix fit onto some computer img.
files*
X2104. Top part of a trunk, for short
X2105. Courier’s mount
X2108. Give new freshness to
X2111. Without secrecy
X2113. Every stellar object but the sun, on
Earth
X2116. Tesla and Edison, notably, for short
X2117. Instant, in Madison Avenue prefixes
X2118. 2800
X2122. Rayburn of game shows
X2123. Daily newspaper feature, informally
X2125. ___ example
X2126. Adventure tales
X2129. ___ del Tiempo at Walt Disney World
X2130. Large stack of documents
X2131. “Listen to Your Heart” pop duo
X2133. ___-bo (Billy Blanks’ exercise)
X2134. What inanity is*
X2136. Place to go after the exhausting deb
party*
X2137. Where the Hollywood magic happens
X2142. “Well, look ___, little mans!” (Me, to
my cat)
X2143. Driller’s letters
X2146. Given Novocain
X2147. Interceptors on the field
X2148. Newton of the NFL
X2151. Key used to make an exit
X2152. Tiptoed, say
X2154. ___-Gro Hair Oil
X2156. Title for Akihito
X2158. In electrical switches, they’re not
“nos”*
X2159. Getting blue in the lips, maybe
X2161. “…in thy ___ we pray, amen”*
X2162. Lowest commissioned officer rank, for
short
X2163. Serenade, maybe
X2164. A layoff, impolitely
X2166. Slappable commentator Shapiro
X2167. “Hey, you got it”
X2169. o.b. rival
X2171. Reno-to-Boise dir.
X2172. Did some low-tech gene-splicing
X2174. Goes unaccompanied, in slang
X2175. Mining area in Kentucky (or
healthy-looking fruit)
X2178. Office copy, commonly
X2181. Sinaloan bear
X2182. Never, in E. Germany*
X2183. Become honeymooners, in a way
X2185. Dog collar add-on
X2187. Hilton competitor
X2189. Famed old movie palace
X2192. Lo’s Diary author Pera
X2193. Sow bug or gribble
X2195. “You know what I want to hear!”
X2196. ___ Pensacola (Blue Angels’ base)
X2198. Where disk jockeys do air*
X2200. Done, for Donne
X2201. Did a card check on (var.)*
X2202. O’Hare airport code
X2203. It generally doesn’t apply to
donations to charities or political organizations
X2205. More natural version of 7Up
X2207. Bubble bath accessory
X2208. Center of corruption
X2211. Islands in a row, as in the Pacific
(anagram of X2212-Across)
X2212. Coveter of islands in the Pacific
(anagram of X2211-Across)
X2214. With its anagram at X2217-Across,
reason for sleep-meows
X2216. “I ___ God” (song by…Kanye West…of
course)
X2217. See X2214-Across
X2220. “It’s definitely one...” follower
(first part anagrams the second part)
X2223. Healthy bread ingredient that produces
oil
X2226. ___ Larsson, author of the Millennium
novels
X2227. What the in-crowd’s doing
X2228. Literature, music, etc.
X2231. Tenth anniversary gift, traditionally
X2232. Roman 71
X2233. Bordeaux blaze
X2234. “MIC Drop” singing group
X2235. Like many depositions
X2236. Ending for witch or brew
X2237. Allowing players not to have to wait
X2239. “IMHO,” “OTOH,” “thx,” etc.
X2240. Mosconi’s prized tool
X2241. Peace promoters (abbr.)
X2243. Match, informally
X2245. Disagrees
X2246. Forewarn firmly
X2250. US gov’t bond
X2251. Pen for tars
X2253. Far from cheery
X2254. Areas to build on
X2256. Oklahoma athletes
X2257. Stable time
X2259. Program in purl?
X2260. Fantasy series that inspired Game
of Thrones, briefly
X2262. With cover blown
X2264. Has no peer
X2266. Shower with good fortune
X2268. Frankfurter’s one
X2269. Need rest and hydration, maybe
X2270. Cry convulsively
X2271. ___ salad: took a step toward dieting
X2272. Where they may toss rib sandwiches on
the counter*
X2275. Message board?
X2277. Rust producer
X2278. Artist ___ Hals
X2279. Group of six
X2281. Game with its own “Miss Universe”
pageant*
X2283. Where Pinochet ruled, once
X2285. Social attachment
X2286. Norwegian royalty name
X2287. Margarine ingredient
X2290. Army maneuver
X2291. Alternative to .doc
X2292. Average dude
X2295. They begin fast on big cases*
X2300. Mingle in
X2303. “Old MacDonald” fragment
X2304. Leaves the amateur world behind
X2306. More summery
X2309. Biblical name that anagrams a body
part
X2310. Almost vertical
X2311. Palpatine portrayer McDiarmid and
namesakes
X2312. ___ Guofeng
X2313. Give the appetizers on the tray ___*
X2315. Hawaiian carving
X2317. Common beverage
X2319. Winkler of Happy Days
X2323. Still valid, as a visa
X2328. Aloof, tasks heavily*
X2331. Famed Warhol subject
X2332. Meat jelly
X2335. Some military transports
X2336. Prefix with cerebellum, continent, and
pelago
X2337. Article before Gatos or Lobos
X2338. “___ God a death” (Henry IV: Part
2)
X2339. Start of something bigger
X2340. 70, in old Rome
X2341. Penny-ante
X2342. Strength
X2343. Like some lampposts (think lower case)
X2345. Pencil part
X2347. Pakistanis’ neighbors
X2349. With its anagram at 2352-Across,
meeting-hater’s mantra (original author unknown)
X2352. See X2349-Across
X2356. First name in sitting still for
justice?
X2357. Alexander, to Aristotle
X2358. Kansas’ Hornets
X2359. A hundred make a kwanza, Lewis*
X2360. Antidepressant drug
X2362. Dental diagnostics
X2366. Way to snag a naughty lobo
X2367. Customize for
X2368. Rip-snortin’ an’ ready for action
X2370. Eckhart of The Dark Knight
X2371. Use the law against&
X2372. Smash beyond recovery
X2374. T and Vanilla, in music
X2375. Do surgery, in a way
X2376. “The corn ___ high…”
X2378. “How Can ___ Sure” (1967 Young Rascals
hit)
X2379. Divine moods blamed for storms
X2383. 2601
X2384. Rd. pts.
X2385. Hot dyer once of 90210*
X2387. In ___ of: instead of
X2388. Domingo start
X2390. Insulating resin, for short
X2391. Hydrogen compound formed in aqueous
media*
X2392. Procession that, when church is over,
I can walk up and down as I please*
X2394. Some imposing museum displays, briefly
X2396. “Vingt-___” (French translation of a
Hunter Hayes tune*
X2397. James in Las Vegas and The
Godfather
X2398. Shining
X2399. Chuck open the file about*
X2400. Punk rock band named for a toy (see
Stitch Clues)
X2402. Traditional and still valued today
X2405. NaHCO₃, informally
X2407. Swell disturbingly
X2409. Dog in Peter Pan
X2410. Economic European car make
X2411. Kung ___ shrimp
X2412. “I would always rather be happy than
dignified” speaker
X2413. Sigur ___ (band with the 2002 album “(
)”)
X2415. Vocalized a number
X2417. Wounded Knee victims
X2419. Activity on a hotline?
X2421. Releases, as a dog at daybreak
X2422. ___ check (method for detecting
computer errors)
X2424. Angular prefix
X2425. In need of rain
X2426. Not very processed sauteing aid
X2427. Most common Korean surname
X2428. Time God might spend wrinkling His
nose*
X2429. Confession cause
X2430. “Better is ___ than break” (Heywood)
X2432. Toy that tells its owner what to do
X2433. Like the Reader’s Digest vers.
X2435. “___ Were a Rich Man”
X2436. It may involve learning lento and
largo
X2439. Made a typo, e.g.
X2441. Team that plays adjacent to McCovey
Cove, informally
X2445. Bog that can collect rime in winter*
X2447. Tangs of unspecific apprehension*
X2449. E-mail summary letters
X2450. Muscle test, for short
X2451. Bionic dog who appeared in Scoob!
X2453. It can affect food providers’ pay
rate*
X2455. S O S responder (abbr.)
X2459. “New bra ads,” for “What should I show
my girlfriend to cheer her up?”*
X2465. Path followed each day
X2468. Like those who listen*
X2469. 2014 boxing biopic with its first part
anagramming its second
X2470. Make a misstep
X2471. Aguilera whose musical influences
include Irish cant*
X2474. Emphatic Italian “yes”
X2475. Green building certification, for
short
X2476. Pillsbury product
X2478. Heidi Klum’s daughter
X2479. Bennies when the whole country’s laid
up a bit*
X2481. Fourth after three aces, e.g.*
X2483. Plant removers
X2485. Toxic gas from incinerators
X2489. Beat with altitude
X2495. She-sheep
X2498. It follows EAT (expected approach
t***)*
X2499. Title won by the Florida Panthers in
2023
X2501. Adobe house, e.g.*
X2502. ___ Z: the whole nine yards
X2503. Their 10-11 means “You’re talking too
fast”
X2504. Suspend a sitting
X2505. One of Tiger’s 2000 triumphs
X2507. Risky, debt-fueled deals in the mkt.
X2509. Animal I expect to need a specialist
vet*
X2511. Short review of its anagram at
X2381-Down
X2514. Great Romantic composer and anagram of
X2517-Across
X2517. Great Romantic composition and anagram
of X2517-Across
X2522. Nothing in Naples
X2523. His Beats headphones come in red*
X2524. Noon’s follower
X2525. 1993 Grammy winner for Best Rap Solo
Performance
X2529. Roadside threats, for short
X2530. Electronic purchase for a free print
ticket
X2531. Gets in line?
X2532. ___ Fell, English peak
X2533. Exclamations of sharp alarm
X2534. Foam rubber component
X2535. Greek officials
X2536. Faded celebs
X2537. Bug-eyed TV dog
X2538. “Bye bye 4 now”
X2539. Concert halls
X2540. “Fuggedaboutit!”
X2541. Gland-related lead-in
X2543. And ___ Goes (Ellerbee book)
X2544. Beautiful Chinese nosh
X2546. Bordeaux red
X2547. Totally wreck
X2549. Part of a farmland skyline
X2550. Part of an elec. system
X2551. Geometry measures
X2552. Besides their primary use, these drugs
are enlisted to help fibromyalgia symptoms
X2553. Rikki-Tikki-___
X2554. Lodge benefit socy.
X2555. They raise a gasp’s intake*
X2557. Sake, really
X2559. They don’t exist on a 105-mile stretch
of Utah highway*
X2560. Conclusion to the Damien trilogy
X2562. Chesterton’s middle name
X2563. ___ and master
X2564. “Now, is it ‘bride-to-___ or brides-to…”
X2565. Moves quickly
X2567. Abbreviated month one letter off from
an unabbreviated month
X2568. “Been there, done that”
X2571. Closed-minded political acronym
X2574. Timber issue
X2575. A name I wouldn’t recommend for your
vampire character*
X2577. When “Something wicked this way comes”
X2579. English crossword setter Derrick
Macnutt, familiarly
X2581. Erodes one’s energy
X2583. Form of energy (abbr.)
X2584. You may think he’s an SOB, but that
SOB’s in charge, so deal with it*
X2585. Passages to put in quicker time
X2586. Educational robotics company, or to
irritate
X2587. Like me
X2588. One settling a score, in olden days
X2589. Makes into
X2591. Personal prayer target
X2593. Met level
X2594. Related to the hip
X2596. Part of a line (abbr.)
X2597. Bela, in Son of Frankenstein
X2599. Intestinal blockage
X2601. Bil or Jeff of cartooning
X2602. Minnesota’s state tree
X2604. Miss Smith and others
X2606. Put the kibosh on
X2607. It’s neither black nor white
X2608. What you might throw on a lawn
X2609. Columbian guerilla group
X2610. Gag edicts no UK paper normally
defies*
X2614. It has a negative-space arrow in its
logo
X2617. Ruby Dee’s spouse and frequent
collaborator Davis
X2618. Songs to be played at a concert
X2619. Kettle emission
X2620. Cow commentary
X2621. Drummer Weinberg
X2622. First name in Harlem Renaissance
literature
X2623. Periodical
X2625. Ethiopian lake, source of the Blue
Nile
X2627. First-name follower, on some records
X2628. High-gear lifestyle, e.g.*
X2630. Alley conversion
X2632. “Diamonds” cowriter who is a member of
the supergroup LSD
X2633. “Walk This Way” singers Run-___
X2635. Jurassic World ID nos.*
X2637. Knick foe
X2641. He can fix it
X2644. Origin of COVID, apparently
X2646. Smelling like you wouldn’t want to be
fed it*
X2649. Act of keeping watch
X2652. Lead-in to meter
X2653. Sacral neighbors
X2654. Low-humidity environment
X2655. Osprey’s assets
X2656. Glass-paneled entryway
X2658. Oct. 1975 TV debut
X2659. Feature held in common by Se7en,
Brokeback Mountain, and Requiem for a Dream
X2661. Chest feature that often draws stares,
and an anagram for X2663-Across
X2663. Chest feature that often draws stares,
and an anagram for X2661-Across
X2665. Flimsy evidence, and anagram for
X2669-Across
X2669. “Flimsy evidence, Sherlock,” and
anagram for X2665-Across
X2673. Little kid
X2674. ___ Bank (US loan guarantor)
X2675. What proofs begin with
X2679. Pick up by sponging?
X2681. ___ funk: feels down
X2682. Limit-pushing, in adspeak
X2683. More awesome than awesome
X2684. Bill or Hillary, for short
X2685. Soft and crumbly
X2686. Catcher’s work
X2688. “Opportunities for anagrams sometimes
seem limited, as are ___ to include them in sentences” (me)*
X2689. Satellite stations
X2691. Streamline Moderne, e.g.
X2692. Soda choices
X2693. One with a bunch of programming chores
for their nerd rube “friend,” e.g.*
X2695. Necessity for some remotes
X2697. Dolphin sense
X2698. Not spelled out
X2700. Shrivel with heat
X2701. Simmering
X2703. School of meditation
X2704. Look at flirtatiously
X2705. Ovine outcry
X2706. Bring joy to
X2707. Like many ideals
X2708. Enemies, literary style
X2709. Celebrityhood
X2711. Rotini, e.g.
X2712. Heroes that may be full of baloney
X2713. Painted wooden cube
X2714. Accuser taking matters to a higher
court
X2715. Overhead construction
X2716. “A little ___ do ya” (You won’t need
much)
X2717. Thirty
X2720. ___ limit: about to pop
X2722. Amazon Fire and Avermedia Ezrecorder
X2724. Lose-lose
X2726. “You’ve got a ___ nerve!”
X2728. News svc. since 1907
X2729. Sounds from one who has half-expected
current developments*
X2732. Half a Star Wars name
X2734. Serried dwellings for transients*
X2736. “Sounds good to me!”
X2737. Builder of the first mouse
X2738. Confrères keeping the peace*
X2740. Hindu incantations
X2741. Singer D’Amelio
X2742. Java and Kona, for two
X2743. Hayek of “Puss in Boots”
X2744. Letter not fully accepted until the
1700s
X2745. Moesha and Good Burger 2 star Moesha
X2746. Those neither religious nor agnostic
nor atheist
X2747. Gave a thumbs-way-up review
X2749. HPV, for one
X2750. Metal that’s muy valuable
X2751. Battery brand A.C. ___
X2753. Go Fish request
X2755. Alley-___ pass
X2757. Top couple in fiction, according to
fans*
X2759. Decide (for) as a top choice*
X2761. Go back to one’s alma mater
X2763. Byrnes of 77 Sunset Strip and Grease
X2764. Composite statistic of hearing organ
size
X2766. Cartesian coordinate lines
X2770. Coiled shape
X2773. "Don't sweat it," informally
X2774. Like crap
X2775. High-pitched
X2776. Heroic mutants of comic books
X2777. Fired people get it
X2779. Old words of anguish
X2780. Cold relief half-day medication
X2782. The final word, often
X2784. Use of studying the night sky, and
anagram of X2790-Across
X2790. Difficulty with studying the night
sky, and anagram of X2784-Across
X2795. Austen title start
X2799. Moderately sweet, as champagne
X2803. Justice who achieved his ‘72 dream in
‘06
X2805. Has an ___ grind
X2806. Holly genus
X2807. Waxen construction
X2808. Boris Badenov’s friend
X2810. Supped or breakfasted
X2812. “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” band,
for short
X2813. They never change the color of the
space they’re on
X2816. Short loin cut
X2818. It fits in a glove, if you unclench
first*
X2819. Forget to say
X2821. Leg, to Legs Diamond
X2823. Abu Dhabi’s federation (abbr.)
X2824. Mortgage payment components acronym
X2825. Made a real effort
X2826. Smiley emoji’s written equivalent
X2827. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show
up
X2828. Krispy Kreme purchase
X2830. Virginia ___ (dance with two lines)
X2831. Danger, for Pauline
X2832. Morning on the Mame
X2836. “Don’t play,” on a score
X2837. Barrett and a virus
X2838. Moppet
X2839. Tic-tac-toe option
X2840. Precious mineral
X2841. G.I. Joe’s outfit
X2842. Memoir, e.g.
X2843. Linus or Lucy
X2844. Amy mad as Hell in Sharp Objects*
X2845. Improperly named creature with a
domed, hinged shell
X2848. Internet script designed to be
human-readable
X2850. Child of Ra
X2852. Émile who helped establish probability
theory
X2855. Afrin competitor
X2856. Business bigwigs
X2859. Formal opening
X2862. Played for a fool (this may not be an
actual verb)
X2864. Capital of Utah, briefly
X2865. One likely to call toons “all very
well…for children”*
X2866. “…___ I bud again” (Herbert)
X2867. Wipe, as memory
X2868. B sharp’s equivalent
X2870. Apt. feature (some have three)
X2871. Responsibilities, whether suited to
one or not*
X2872. Connections
X2874. Shot in the face?
X2877. Receiving rooms
X2878. Galba’s 1013
X2879. Word in wedding notices, often
X2880. Film expert who nonetheless never wore
a beret*
X2881. [I think I’m in trouble here!]
X2883. Ingenious inventor on Cartoon Network
X2885. Home of the world’s tallest building
X2886. Australian city named for one in
Scotland
X2888. Belgian city destroyed in WWI
X2890. Soothing spread
X2892. Does something naughty
X2894. Gonna
X2896. Valentine’s Day card signoff
X2897. Follower of fresh or foul
X2898. “___ Cannibals” (1982 Toto Coelo song)
X2899. Four and four, say
X2900. Energy surrounding a holy figure, in
paintings
X2901. In a position to steal
X2902. Lab reaction
X2903. Bases loaded
X2904. Unlikely to be surprised later*
X2905. Sudden movement
X2906. Ingredient in soaps and candles
X2908. “Do that aria again!”
X2910. 2002 animated movie featuring a
mammoth voiced by Ray Romano
X2912. Something remembered
X2915. Half of a 45
X2917. Insects’ sensory organs
X2919. The Sixth Sense star Bruce
X2921. Shade darker than chestnut
X2923. Spot for an idle lunch hour*
X2924. Astros, on a scoreboard
X2925. Make a show of
X2928. Romantic request
X2931. Saltier water
X2932. Strong-arms (off)
X2933. Only character in all seven Narnia
books
X2934. Marlins’ and Mets’ div.
X2936. “Fists of Fury” director Lo
X2937. “Look what else it comes with,” in
ad-speak
X2938. Pastry cart item
X2939. Jill’s friend
X2940. Feminizing Spanish suffix
X2941. Baked Hawaiian dish
X2942. “You buy it, you might break it”
caveat
X2944. “Yes!” (anagram of X2946-Across)
X2946. “No!” (anagram of X2944-Across)
X2948. With its anagram at X2952-Across,
theater critic’s cutting remark about Private Lives?
X2952. See X2952-Across
X2955. Completely absorb
X2959. Some nutritious cereals
X2961. A winner at tic-tac-toe
X2962. Veni, anglicized
X2963. Shape of loci with formula r = a +
bθ, e.g.*
X2964. Scheduled
X2966. Cheap way to get media attention
X2968. Clearing house?
X2969. Not to mention
X2972. General or Whole follower
X2974. “Prix” or “idee” follower
X2975. Said shouldn’t be done*
X2976. Mine*
X2978. Austin, TX conference/festival
X2980. After (certain deeds), in Argentina*
X2981. Ankle-leg exercise
X2983. Valencia vessel
X2984. Schrödinger’s cancellation
X2986. Seafloor dwellers
X2987. “At ten, I was able to put up ___”
(Cub Scout’s reminiscing)*
X2989. Bucs and Nats
X2990. Brit’s washroom
X2991. Cro-___ man
X2994. Zigs and zags?
X2995. Inoculate, slangily
X2996. Visible whale
X2997. Ratify anew
X2998. Uses as proof
X2999. Promotion of equality
X3000. "r u 4 real?"
X3001. Stereo gear
X3002. Emily and Charlotte’s younger sister
X3003. “Helpless” grp.
X3004. Competition for Academy Award votes in
the pages of Variety, e.g.*
X3006. Working out
X3008. Royal proclamation opener
X3009. Have second thoughts
X3012. “…___ speak and remove all doubt”
(Lincoln)
X3014. Obi-Wan…oh, you might know him as “Old
Ben”
X3016. British babe
X3018. Put to the sword
X3019. Disgrace, metaphorically
X3023. Tussaud’s title (abbr.)
X3024. “Bro,” in paeans to Italian culture
X3026. Small and sinewy
X3027. Good name for an Irish carpenter?
X3028. Utterance regarding aesthetics
X3030. Some or many
X3031. Env.’s limbo
X3032. Skillful, slangily
X3033. Piles of words*
X3034. Grow, in a way
X3035. Streaming precedent, for short
X3037. Cantos writer Pound
X3039. Ale___dra Galvez, girl charge on Shameless
X3041. Places wires meet
X3043. Spellbound witness
X3045. Ph or ey, e.g.
X3047. “That’s an ___!” (response to a joke)
X3049. Ease off
X3051. Refill, as a partly drunk drink
X3053. Detective story elements
X3055. Now (Latin)
X3056. Early women’s-rights activist Lucretia
X3058. CCCXL tripled, almost
X3059. “How you ___?”
X3060. Aware of the joke
X3061. ___ Toguri, aka “Tokyo Rose”
X3062. Put in a snit
X3063. She often seems to be there to shake
her head at Dad’s eccentricities
X3064. Not safe for walking, in a way
X3065. Grappling hook or battering ram, in
hand-to-hand combat*
X3066. Dune’s spice-mélange sequels, the tale of the War of the Ring, Odysseus’
quest, et al.*
X3067. Roman 2x4?
X3068. Lifts out of one’s own seat via
loop-de-loops*
X3072. Shooting skill
X3075. Killmonger of Wakanda
X3077. Tires, as one’s patience*
X3079. One roped into juicing for
competition*
X3081. Protest loudly from below
X3083. Court sister
X3085. He’ll persuade you to give a damn
about his client’s product*
X3087. Small swimmer?
X3089. Watch stealthily
X3090. Iran-contra org.
X3091. Treatment for any case near breech
birth*
X3093. Makes no issue of the incident
X3095. It bends a load element
X3097. Computer game creator Sid
X3098. Speak irritably toward
X3100. Anakin’s Padawan, once
X3102. Flagpole finial, frequently
X3103. She’ll bring your luggage
X3104. Like insulting a dumb tree-god with
“Poor sap”*
X3105. Where Rajaraja Chola I held court,
literally*
X3107. With its anagram at X3112-Across, bad
market forecast
X3112. See X3107-Across
X3117. Letters before a number on a beach
bottle
X3119. ___ Energy Center (home stadium of the
NHL’s Minnesota Wild)
X3120. Players of Lords of the Fallen and
Starfield
X3121. Some Met works
X3122. Bridge of Sighs city
X3123. ___ Place (‘90s TV drama)
X3124. Bunch of damn enthusiastic consumers*
X3125. Knopfler’s duet partner in 2006’s All
the Roadrunning
X3126. Torn and tattered
X3127. Philanthropist and ex-quarterback
Marino*
X3128. No Mr. Nice Guy
X3129. ___ & Chandon (French bubbly
manufacturer)
X3130. Sky-fighting gps. on the geopolitical
stage
X3132. No longer squeaking
X3133. “Uh-oh, better get ___”
X3134. Boulogne bird
X3136. A lord’s land
X3137. Hermione’s patronus
X3138. Thai snack
X3140. Cheerios alternative with a different
kind of holeyness
X3142. Places a scamp might get sent to learn
self-reliance*
X3143. Income statement, briefly
X3145. 24 channel
X3146. “Whoopee!”
X3148. Game of Thrones patriarch who lost out to a den of
thieves*
X3149. ___ a million
X3150. Etern, or free of time’s cares*
X3151. ___ a fox
X3152. Looking on the bright side
X3156. Origin myth for multilingualism
X3159. Meas. of reel speed
X3161. Clueless and FBI actor Jeremy
X3165. Popular homeowners’ plan
X3169. Supplied, as data
X3171. Ante 1941, e.g.
X3174. Shape of a planet’s orbit
X3177. Searches, with “about”
X3179. Early email program, or Tiana’s mom
X3182. Jason of Dune
X3184. Party planner Al-Jamil played by
Jameela Jamil
X3185. Agua, in the Antilles
X3186. “…___ tête, Alouette” (late part of
refrain)*
X3187. Pirate / pare it / are pit
X3188. Maître d’s outfit
X3189. Doctors (abbr.)
X3191. Local stop, for short
X3192. Takeoff surface
X3193. Apple pocketfuls
X3194. Sugary cylinders
X3195. Name heavy with the aroma of love*
X3196. Below-belt link
X3197. Only a bra and jeans, perhaps
X3198. Leave below, as seeming defeat
X3200. Marked for the index*
X3202. When James I became king
X3203. Roller that isn’t round
X3204. Theol. institute
X3205. Early advisor from Roman myth, or any
female advisor
X3207. Lout’s amorous advance
X3209. Signs on for another term
X3211. “Growth,” in Grenoble
X3212. Study that traces the origins of
meaning, for short
X3213. Singer Orbison or Rogers
X3214. Execute perfectly
X3215. “___ Black Swan” (much-aired Zwan
song)*
X3217. Microscopy supply
X3219. Table of contents page, often
X3220. Best time to check a want ad,
probably*
X3222. LA hardcore punk band with the 1994
album Punk in Drublic
X3223. ___ Valley: Reagan Presidential
Library site
X3224. Voluptuous
X3225. Your aunt would be one, but not your
bro
X3226. Sandwich request
X3227. Cleveland Native American
X3228. “lol, peace”
X3230. LeAnn with the pipes
X3232. Get in the crosshairs
X3234. Turnpike sign
X3237. She covered “Everybody Wants to Rule
the World” for The Hunger Games
X3239. Ontario town with picturesque
limestone
X3241. UK military medals
X3242. Innkeeper
X3244. One side of a feud
X3245. Founder of child psychoanalysis who
held that play and fun are important*
X3247. “Check back later on programming
lists” (abbr.)
X3250. State bordering on Can.
X3251. Spots for which too much is spent, for
short*
X3252. Twilight Zonisher
X3253. River at Arles
X3254. The one in Paris
X3255. Myth: teas aren’t as good at
alleviating drunkenness as this gemstone*
X3257. Ray-gun rays
X3259. Indian princesses
X3261. Pseudonym used in Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets (see X3265-Across)
X3265. Spoiler: X3261-Across rearranges the
letters in his name to make this statement
X3271. Tough mofos in ‘80s rap slang
X3272. Cousin of a goldeneye
X3273. De ___ (Nolte’s Cape Fear
co-star)
X3274. Concluding parts
X3275. Climb like a squirrel
X3277. Second game in Namco’s Galaxian
series
X3279. They’re created equal, self-evidently
X3280. Siliceous rocks
X3281. Those being instructed
X3282. Johnny Rotten’s punk band, with “the”
X3285. Animal with a collar
X3288. Pardon, informally?
X3290. Makes much of
X3292. Throw away, like food you just
discovered has ants crawling on it
X3293. Surest time to breed horses*
X3294. Outmoded concept
X3296. Domestic rosé that’s easy on the
enamel*
X3297. Plato’s “adieu” logs for Socrates*
X3299. Yoko of “Dear Yoko”
X3300. A way through
X3301. Track it online at noaa.gov*
X3302. Smart alecks
X3303. She retired from golf in 2016
X3304. Univ. staff
X3305. ___ Camp, historic Mormon expedition
led by Joseph Smith
X3306. Look around the Internet
X3307. Thunder Bay, ___
X3308. Carl Sagan’s sequel to Cosmos
X3311. Macon-to-Augusta dir.
X3312. “Barney Miller” org.
X3314. Weevil wings
X3316. “Sucks to be you”
X3318. South (Ger.)
X3319. Its flag had an Osage shield (abbr.)
X3321. Future omelet or chicken
X3323. In Victorian superstition, these
flowers mean ones loved and forsaken*
X3324. Rae with three NAACP Image Awards
X3325. Merchandise (abbr.)
X3326. They’re sometimes confused with i.e.s
X3327. Taking-in activity
X3329. Down Under st.
X3330. Take another, terser pause*
X3331. Husband, in Hidalgo
X3333. Resurrected, as a style or form
X3334. Popular 1980s arcade game based on
simple geometry
X3335. Attack verbally, with “out”
X3339. Place of refinement
X3343. Devil’s number
X3344. Odd instrument inspired by Trajan’s
column
X3348. Streamer Booysen who got some heat
from being linked to MrBeast*
X3351. “And lo, a CD did arrive in the mail,
and it permitted me to connect to the internet, and there was much rejoicing”
subject*
X3353. 75
X3355. Small grooves
X3357. Term coined by Percival Lowell for a
hypothetical world beyond Neptune
X3360. Address part, often
X3362. HS group that changed the “Drunk
Driving” part of its name in 1997
X3363. Words from a headstrong young son*
X3364. Japanese politician Tarō
X3366. Butler’s last word?
X3368. Like a baby experiencing her colic*
X3370. Coffee break sweet
X3371. Paths to flee
X3373. Character in Diablo 2
X3374. Quaintly named lodging
X3375. Towering
X3376. “___ que?”
X3378. Lineage
X3379. Tap*
X3380. Word that signifies unconventional
coitus, yet tends to signify extreme conventionality otherwise
X3381. “___ everything?”
X3382. Have-___ (lower classes)
X3384. Revolutionary period?
X3386. Feet, of sorts
X3388. Elle King’s sex song “___ and Oh’s”*
X3389. Certain pay-per-view event organizer,
for short
X3391. De-decorate
X3394. What “you didn’t give” to Jimmy Dean’s
Big Bad John
X3397. Rocker Patty
X3400. Dwarf planet discovered in 1930
X3403. Show near the front
X3404. Jackie Robertson, Babe Ruth, or Fred
Lear, e.g.*
X3405. Nats devotee who even goes to the away
games, e.g.*
X3406. “That’s a fact!”
X3407. Depict as an angel
X3408. Schoolroom with mice
X3409. Add a little ranch to, say
X3410. Chromosome choice
X3411. Nickname joining “Skins” on the
dustheap of football history
X3412. Major global crop (var.)
X3414. Give a reprimand
X3415. Tosspots
X3416. Burnside, e.g. (abbr.)
X3417. Abbr. after Ron Paul’s name
X3418. Linux correspondence client
X3420. Party foods that anagram X3424-Across
X3424. Party foods that anagram X3420-Across
X3428. Faithful dog with a story similar to
Greyfriars Bobby’s
X3429. Like angsty teens*
X3430. Underworld leader?
X3431. Baldies
X3434. “Already taken care of!”
X3436. Toughens up
X3437. Animaux that may beset les innocents
X3438. Unit of illumination
X3439. Lace who hosts First Class Fatherhood*
X3441. Ortiz of Ugly Betty
X3443. The Otoe use this spelling too*
X3444. Jul.-Sep. bridge
X3445. “Where ___ go from here?”
X3447. Di-dah lead-in
X3449. Plus the unnamed Mrs.
X3450. Decided on a location
X3451. Concealed carry regulation, e.g.
X3452. Faux finish?
X3454. Kenan Thompson’s Good Burger
pal Mitchell
X3455. “It’s as plain ___”
X3456. Restoration compound
X3457. Nancy Drew “author” Carolyn
X3458. Roman goddess of night
X3459. Michael B. Jordan sequel that’s eighth
in its franchise
X3460. Hasten
X3461. When Ovid wrote the third of his
“Sorrows”
X3462. Where to get 4x5s in an hour
X3466. Where you fall when you put desire
above all*
X3471. Crouch into bold new pose*
X3474. Tom Jones song featuring Mousse T.
X3478. Feature of many a sad song
X3483. Test with letters
X3487. Whatever his evils, he’s the main
thing you probably know about Uganda*
X3489. Bobby-soxer
X3492. Indian “sir”
X3493. Mischief, in Montreal
X3495. Modern, in Munich
X3496. “It’s ___!” (come-on at sale)*
X3498. Some are underground (abbr.)
X3499. Glee network
X3500. Spicy cuisine
X3503. An exceptional person, slangily
X3504. Type of doll
X3506. Period of wakefulness
X3507. High-interest loan type, for short
X3508. After dark, in ads
X3509. Seven-time Grammy winning pianist
X3510. Not voiced
X3511. Threatens an honor-roll status a
little
X3512. Kitchen surface, perhaps
X3513. Ancient Chinese capital
X3514. Oinking being
X3516. Hard pus pocket
X3518. Algae products
X3520. Facing a triple threat (of), say*
X3523. CPR administrator
X3525. Where haste makes you a place in the
finals*
X3526. Spanish peeper
X3528. Name found in any vid about
Objectivism*
X3529. Maker of Smart Target acne treatment
X3531. The “what” of a Clue accusation
X3532. Look into deeply
X3533. The President scouts its replacements
X3535. Target of an exterminator’s smoke bomb
X3536. Word before Book or will
X3537. Snapshot, informally
X3538. Chuck
X3540. Not part of the church
X3542. “Steel Curtain” coach
X3543. Proven to be a bad seed*
X3545. Pioneering Dada works
X3546. “___ a Spell on You” (classic 1956
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins song)
X3547. What’s “yours” on the Rhine
X3549. Double MI
X3551. Bright halo caused by ice crystals
X3553. Kobe’s cash
X3554. Metric dist.
X3556. Minutely
X3558. Vishnu form
X3560. Do-or-don’t metaphor*
X3562. Name derived from Jesus’ nan*
X3563. ‘Tis a well-known wine brand*
X3564. It cost California $40 billion with
unnecessary rolling blackouts
X3565. Sports event, for short
X3566. A next annexation for the United
States in 1845*
X3567. Health class part
X3568. Mini-tornado with some white
precipitation within
X3570. Comics art assistant
X3571. Pre-1991 world power
X3573. Nimes scream
X3575. Honor in a big way
X3577. It lost its tiara in the game crash of
‘83*
X3578. Scripture to anchor a theological
argument
X3580. Aguilera, to her fans
X3582. Comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan,
categorized by its anagram at X3585-Across
X3585. Loose crossword clue for its anagram
at X3585-Across
X3589. Name in 90 Day Fiancé (oy vey
to this one’s inclusion)*
X3590. Lookin’ good
X3591. Dangerous vapor
X3592. Like some eyes and soup
X3594. GPS output
X3596. Post-hurricane handout, for short
X3597. Brag on behalf of
X3598. Harold whose 500 composed songs
include the Wizard of Oz soundtrack
X3599. German ancestor (GermANcestor? …Nah)*
X3600. “A need I have to sing of arms and the
man” epic*
X3601. K-Cup competitor
X3603. Big pharma name, for short
X3605. Just keeps talking
X3607. Rescuer from harm
X3608. Netflix and Nespresso icons
X3610. Consistently making ___ profit:
keeping one’s books neat*
X3611. Curve creators
X3612. “What ___ mind reader?” (A Dream
Within a Dream anagram)
X3613. Before all is done
X3614. Black flakes on some meals
X3616. Computer mem. units
X3617. She raised the ires of other goddesses
to start the Trojan war*
X3618. “If ___ Love Me” (Nancy Sinatra)
X3619. “How’d I miss that?”
X3620. Not working (abbr.)
X3621. They preordain all heroes’ feats and
failures*
X3622. Sport whose players drop dimes
X3623. Neutrogena alternative
X3627. They look like hashtags on a staff
X3630. Tittering sound
X3631. Man-on-the-street interviews, for
short
X3633. Fortune teller’s deck
X3634. Refrain bits
X3638. Worm used to damage the Iranian
nuclear program
X3642. Possessive often seen near “lo mein”
X3644. Org. that presents the Image Award
X3646. Knowing what’s on eps before they’re
broadcast, e.g.*
X3647. “You don’t know the half ___!”
X3649. Performing pair
X3650. Word to Silver
X3651. Flying “A” competitor
X3652. Where many keep their sked*
X3654. Fairy-tale character who befriends an
enchanted bear
X3656. Dog classification
X3657. Sheet of print
X3658. City SSE of Las Cruces, NM
X3659. Batter to pour over a circle-girded
grid
X3663. Hosannas
X3666. Tailless cat once resembled by the
X-Man called Beast*
X3667. Adam’s apple locale
X3669. Kicked in
X3673. Loss of all status and dignity
X3676. Keyboard compositions
X3678. Yann Martel’s Life ___
X3680. Dark brew
X3682. Degree hurdle
X3685. Longtime CBS drama spinoff
X3688. Lewd, crude, or rude
X3689. P&L report column
X3690. Company that split up in 1995
X3691. Number on a clock.
X3692. Pluperfect starter
X3693. Drab, in poems
X3694. ___ Duke, a.k.a. Hunter S. Thompson
X3695. Popular Asian cuisine
X3696. Chase alt. (this’ll be on the exam)*
X3697. Avoids talking with one’s mouth full,
perhaps
X3698. Showy yellow insect with a prominent
pink and bluish eyespot on each hind wing
X3699. Operating system with a penguin mascot
X3700. Irrigation method?
X3702. Arizona neighbor
X3703. Put out of a job
X3704. Oglala’s kin
X3705. All-___ (four-wheel-drive system on
old Toyotas)
X3707. Bounty hunter Boba
X3709. Brighton backsides
X3711. At a safe distance
X3712. Indemnify
X3714. It may be measured in IUs
X3715. “thats an improvement lol”
X3716. Vacation homes, for short
X3718. Impatient-sounding tweet matched to
X3121-Down by Anagramatron
X3723. A rose is often north of it*
X3724. What an arrow indicates on e-books
X3726. Prefix with “bilious”
X3727. Agenda for tomorrow
X3728. Saturday, in Paris
X3729. Soprano Tebaldi
X3731. “She Loves You” refrain words
X3732. Bone (prefix)
X3733. These parts’ presence explains why the
wheels stay on*
X3735. James and Jones who left music in a
better state*
X3737. “Get over yourself, egomaniac” tweet
matched to X3139-Down by Anagramatron
X3742. Feeling alarm’s hooks in one’s heart*
X3745. What “phage” means
X3748. One who’ll grace the court, slangily*
X3749. Farmer’s storage
X3750. German pistols
X3751. Herman last seen in Big Holiday
X3752. Mammal named for its diet
X3753. Leases, tins, e.g.*
X3755. Sensitive health class subject
X3756. Retired world tennis champ Sánchez
Vicario
X3758. Groups made master of their sports by
selection based on renown*
X3760. Television measurement
X3761. Give off again
X3763. One of the du Ponts
X3764. Rave “it’s true” about*
X3765. First two words of a Faulkner novel
X3766. Sorta futuristically-named ballplayer*
X3767. Canadian pro
X3768. Google Assistant alternative
X3769. Like a stormy winter day
X3770. Year the Beach Boys’ album “Pet
Sounds” came out
X3771. Nail polish producer with a virtual
try-on salon
X3772. 12-time Pro Bowl player Junior
X3773. Group with the 2000 #1 hit “It’s Gonna
Be Me”
X3774. Compass directions
X3775. Russo of Showtime
X3776. What’s within one’s control
X3777. Places for football pads
X3779. Bi
X3780. Ancient portico
X3781. Father figures when you’re “fwee”
X3782. Compliment, typically
X3784. Find your space?
X3785. 1920s star Chaney
X3786. Dutch painter of The Prince’s
Birthday
X3787. Gorge leading way, way, way down
X3788. Inner things that may be suppressed
X3790. Her clan’s burial vault*
X3794. Exams required for some prep schools
X3797. Baseball position
X3799. Mayfield of Stranger Things
X3800. Comes (to)
X3805. Keep separate
X3810. Seaweed used in Japanese cuisine
X3812. [Crossing my fingers!]
X3816. Mary gets back to business running
building trade
X3819. Stew of activity
X3820. Forgoes the lyrics, perhaps
X3823. Brutishly strong
X3829. Activist Anthony
X3835. Double shoulder pad used in medieval
times
X3838. Star of David shape
X3842. Mounts, in oater dialect
X3845. S-Y connector
X3847. Half a ball-game name
X3848. Remove from text
X3849. Academy freshman
X3851. Short winter holidays?
X3855. They’re found in some veins
X3858. Magnetically responsive
X3863. Water nymphs, as said an old Greek
myth*
X3869. “___ Fair” (Dan Cornell song)
X3875. Violent outburst
X3880. Bar story of an ex-pilot*
X3882. PBS funder
X3883. More senseless
X3884. Like a tightly integrated translation
X3885. “By any means necessary” speaker
X3886. “World of Warcraft” warrior
X3887. Wear down over time
X3890. There’s a famous painting with a pearl
one
X3892. Pitcher Stanek
X3893. Five-time Sugar Bowl champs
X3896. “Well, ___ jiggered!”
X3897. Delaware River site
X3898. Dry and hot
X3899. “Western” or “Spanish” dish
X3900. Missing person
X3901. All-comers tournament
X3902. Hawaiian bigeye
X3903. “I’m a wolf”
X3904. Chill to the bone, say
X3908. Unimportant
X3909. Film about a tween Antichrist
X3911. Every individual
X3913. Russian carriage
X3914. Toll plaza feature
X3917. Point where kids are likely to
self-negate their body image and start physically maturing*
X3919. “Are we ready?”
X3921. Papeete’s location
X3923. His, in Le Havre
X3924. The Affair subject
X3928. In the middle of taxis’ peak period*
X3930. Disease last reported in April 2004
X3931. “Be it ___ humble…”
X3932. Pornographic manga with a name meaning
“pervert” in Japanese
X3933. Skip over
X3934. When long, lazy lunches end
X3935. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
X3936. Affix to, as with tape
X3937. Ellison of sci-fi fame
X3938. The movies, in Europe
X3939. Three-time skating gold medalist
X3940. Page sent online
X3941. “Here We Go Again” singer Demi
X3942. There may be many in a family
X3943. A little resistance?
X3944. Was for a group?
X3945. Many words ending in “ing”
X3946. Gorilla studier Dian
X3947. Obsess (on)
X3948. 1952 work about facing mortality on
many “greatest films of all time” lists
X3949. With The, fish-named
alt-newspaper of Canada
X3950. Old photo tints
X3951. Modifier for “braved,” e.g.*
X3952. GPS system, e.g.
X3953. Great White Way lights
X3954. Corcoran of Bachelor Father
X3955. Like some big roads
X3956. Last character seen in Hamlet*
X3957. JFK jet set
X3958. Skin, e.g.
X3959. Letters in fashion
X3960. Devon college town founded by the
Romans
X3961. What a walk in the ballpark will get
you
X3962. Brice and Price
X3963. River through Flanders
X3964. Greek tragedy that proves the
importance of listening to seers*
X3965. Unbury
X3966. It’s named for the shapes of its
pieces
X3967. You can get it from kissing
Down
X1. With a toned bod
X2. Stitch’s pal in the movies
X3. “Pull ___ push out?”
X4. Assume a military posture
X5. As much fullness as one should have, if not more
X6. Goddess for whom a month is named
X7. Solicit an RSVP about
X8. “Thy face, Lord, will ___” (Psalms 27:8)
X9. Wikipedia policy
X10. John Carter of Mars creator’s inits.
X11. Dots in l’ocean
X12. They sport many docks*
X13. “Aw, FLU?! That’s ___”*
X14. Without zip
X15. Taylor-Joy of The Witch and
Chalotra of The Witcher
X16. Impulse centers
X17. Add a layer after a while
X18. Coughy and feverish
X19. “Begin ___” (Zen advice)*
X20. Magic, in former times
X21. Put at levee*
X22. Palindromic British term of endearment
X23. Creature that has “fun in fur,”
according to Sesame Street
X24. Pastures
X25. Very cool, or Princess of Fire
Mountain (that sounds like something a cool person would know, right?)
X26. Wes Anderson or Stanley Kubrick
X27. Go from 1 to 3, e.g.
X28. Current provider
X29. “___ would be a man must be a
nonconformist” (Emerson)
X30. “Can’t answer that”
X31. Tales of Sigurd and Thor
X32. Agronomists’ concerns
X33. Call out
X34. Vegan meat substitute, for short
X35. Shed some tears
X36. DST adjustment
X37. Phoenix’s NBA team
X38. Doing some afternoon drinking, maybe
X39. Like Sam the Eagle, usually
X40. Suggested
X41. To-___ (alternating)
X42. Boomer’s kid, maybe
X43. Epic poetry
X44. Shouts in a movie title, sorta*
X45. Currency that’d make the whole world
blind, per Gandhi
X46. Start of a Reddit anecdote
X47. Prescriptions
X48. Source of skin-softening oil
X49. His mission is fixing transmissions
X50. Devious
X51. So yesterday
X52. Important test
X53. Egg containers
X54. Workday alarm hr., say
X55. Opposite of end-
X56. “How to use this site,” e.g.
X57. Kong, e.g.
X58. Ebenezer’s “ehhh!”
X59. Lubricators
X60. Reveling devils
X61. Eyeball, say
X62. “…___ a midnight dreary”
X63. Cartoon “Princess of Power”
X64. David Cohen’s org.
X65. Dweller in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan
X66. Bender’s evil twin (or is he the good
one? Maybe just slightly better or worse?) on Futurama
X67. Oscar winner Colin
X68. Trinity Church feature
X69. Partners’ word
X70. Gets set
X71. Move on a court or a diamond
X72. Hit pay dirt
X73. Unit of magnetic induction
X74. Tar ___
X75. The oldest fossil of one was found in
a lamina 558 million years deep*
X78. Oompah horn
X79. Gps. that give society taps on the
shoulder for better education*
X80. Hockey site
X81. Rocker Pop
X83. Paradigm of leakiness
X84. Yellow-and-blue locomotive
X86. Certain credit-card accepter
X87. Laugh-track sound
X90. Between two lovers
X91. Hammered
X92. Small woods
X93. Noted battlers
X94. Make an emergency landing
X95. Alike, in Dijon
X96. Balkan county
X97. ___ postscript: write “P.S….”
X98. Guitar guru Hendrix
X99. Pinky’s exclamation
X100. All My ___ (old black-and-white sitcom)
X101. Vice admiral’s Army counterpart
(abbr.)
X102. Complete, for short
X103. Disenfranchised brother of myth
X104. Churchgoers who observe the Sabbath on
Sat.
X107. An ___ effort (fore-valuing
self-improvement)*
X108. Fen-___ (banned diet aid)
X109. Capable of domestic life
X110. Suffixes with oct and alk
X112. Adult Swim programming block
X113. Where the speed of light is constant
X115. Watch readouts, for short
X116. A little kindness
X117. In need of orientation, say
X118. ___ Fables
X121. It once had a ban on dunking*
X122. “It’s ___” (Pet Shop Boys track about
Catholicism)
X128. Stan Lee’s other creepy-crawly
inspiration*
X129. Printing devices (abbr.)
X130. Fed power agcy.
X131. Dollar-to-yen fig.
X132. 8 1/2” × 11” page size (abbr.)
X138. “A Man and a Woman” composer Francis
X139. Tease and torment
X142. ___-___ lamb: African antelope kid*
X144. Where Siri is
X146. Quest for a recreational navigator
X148. Super-powerful stickum
X152. “Life has no meaning, so it falls to
us to make one,” for a start
X153. Call again
X160. Metre auteur
X163. Actress Katherine
X165. McKern and Carroll
X170. Attenuations
X172. May it be what all people live in
together, someday*
X174. Divisions a general aims and reaims at
the enemy*
X179. Digital book extension
X180. Maridueña of Blue Beetle
X181. Mess up everyone’s precious plans and
systems
X183. Field partner
X186. Satirize perfectly
X188. Deadly weapon Raphael mostly used on
AIs*
X191. Ballot box fillers?
X192. Rather tall
X198. Slate of stories*
X199. Don’t exist
X200. Signoff tweet matched to X300-Across
by Anagramatron
X201. What you’d want to be driving to
investigate a vat explosion*
X202. Where crops are planted
X203. No small affairs
X204. Vinyl-record spec
X205. Beach without many waves
X206. Mausoleum’s name, partly
X207. She brings the accusation of a crime
X208. Focus of many later stories Prince
Valiant ran*
X209. Prefix that might relate to an
extraterrestrial ore, a field of red sand, or Olympus Mons*
X210. Fate-spinner
X211. Lion-hearted king
X212. Various as-yet-unmentioned
X213. Former NHL rival
X214. Woolen cloth with a twin weave
X215. Narrowly defeated
X217. Infomercial, usually
X218. Turpentine component
X219. R&B singer James
X220. Artistic potpourri
X221. One who doesn’t work on Shabbat
X222. Bird with a milky white plumage
X224. Golden in Guadalajara
X226. DJs’ spinners
X227. Breakfast-all-day chain
X228. Allies’ opponents
X229. Confusion, ere the advent of Modern
English*
X230. 6 (abbr.)
X232. Skipping down a stair in the morning*
X233. His work is monumental
X234. They make joint pegs
X235. Not becoming, to the Bard
X236. In the vicinity of
X237. 1093
X239. “He was young and too good-natured to
say nay to ___ woman who wooed him” (Samuel Butler)*
X240. Garner name
X241. What the hautbois is called, today
X242. French for no
X243. Bring into a private conversation
X244. Freezing mixtures
X245. Clark’s partner in exploration
X246. Synaptic fiber
X247. Trois minus deux
X248. Japan, in Japan
X249. Small cold
X250. More auditorily snakelike
X251. Olé ___ (compilation album)*
X252. Moisture-weighted
X253. Like an ideal tabula
X254. “Say the, not ‘les’“ course*
X255. Tweet matched to X317-Down by
Anagramatron; together, they sound a binge-watcher’s lament
X256. Without a service charge
X257. Domed tripodal cylinder of film,
informally
X259. What this is a fragment of: <p
id=“xyz” style=“color: green;”>
X266. Fringe-___ lizard
X267. Grammar article (abbr.)
X268. Like comics’ Galactus and the Silver
Surfer*
X269. Keith B. Alexander was the
longest-serving one
X270. Perform a process that includes
word-searching resumes
X271. “Shall ___…?”
X273. Computer debut of 1998
X274. “___ corny as Kansas in August!”
X275. “Fearful symmetry” poem
X277. Accounts of ancient Olympians
X278. Off one’s rocker
X279. Hosts a roast
X280. PSP 4 Pro alternative
X281. Cosmetics
X282. Declare sovereign over others, as a
nation*
X283. Editor’s deletions, say
X284. Ones prone to mischief
X285. “Here, tell me if the soup’s ready”
X286. Major hostilities
X288. Ross and Valenti
X289. Supermarket chain that was the Walmart
of the 1940s
X290. Biannual international golf
competition
X291. Walter and Willard
X292. Native Americans of the Great Plains
X293. Fearsome display at a natural history
museum
X294. Matt of Today (and now of yesterday,
har har)
X299. Possessing “it”
X301. Letters on a returned check
X302. It’s $15, in Monopoly
X303. Fractional endings
X304. Coma exams
X308. To use, to Cato
X310. “I’ve seen better, honestly”
X313. Joan Rivers’ daughter and TV co-host
X317. Mascot of the Riverfront Stadium era
X318. Equine gait
X319. Ice cream, in Innsbruck
X327. Numbers based on five-sided figures
X333. Actor Morrissey in Line of Duty*
X336. Styrene starter?
X338. Clear-cut signs of astrophysics?*
X341. Reassurance to a freelancer (but see
anagram at X970-Down)
X346. Challenging request for confirmation
X347. Cerumen that’ll work its way out on
its own, actually
X348. Peter Pan role
X350. Rodgers & Hart’s “___ Joey”
X352. Source of the quote, “Take wrong
turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people
in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing
how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is
the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures
that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for
tiny, interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the
future as you go.”
X353. ___-Flush (cleaning brand)
X355. Golfer Arnie
X356. Everly Brothers offering
X358. Gov. workplace protector
X360. Gentlemen’s hats
X362. “Street rat” of animation (and, much
later, live-action)
X365. Worth worrying about
X368. Chink
X369. "Me Against the World" and
“Dear Mama” rapper
X370. ∫(f + g) dx = ∫f dx +
∫g dx is one example of it, or of its anagram at X906-Down
X371. Things with rings
X372. Romantic night between young students
(see X762-Down)
X373. 140, to Caesar
X375. Reason for a parental reprimand
X378. Muddied
X381. Evil Asian doctor in Sax Rohmer novels
X384. Fox who sculpted a literal Tar Baby,
as if the Uncle Remus parts weren’t problematic enough
X388. Driller on base (abbr.)
X390. Land across from Gibraltar (abbr.)
X391. One-third of CDLIII
X394. Peninsular Arab land
X395. “I pray you, ___ violence”
(Volpone)
X396. Hydrofluorocarbon or
chlorofluorocarbon, a cause of its anagram at X849-Across
X398. Dada pioneer
X401. Increases the inclination of
X402. Christmas present that needs a lot of
floorspace
X403. Certain, for sure (abbr.)
X406. Prefix with retirement
X408. “Revenge is ___ best served cold”
X410. Nouvelle Caledonie and others
X413. Superior to
X414. They spread on Twitter
X415. “No difference”
X416. Found out about
X417. “In place of a dark lord, you would
have a QUEEN!” speaker
X418. Song that bides its time till you’re
half done with the old record*
X419. Worldly, not spiritual
X421. Metal band whose last album was Reinventing
the Steel
X422. In traditional screenwriting, it’s
twice as long as its neighbors
X423. Some limo sharers
X424. Low-crime zones
X425. Devices to keep insects off horses
X426. 1991 Nicholson Baker book about the
author’s fascination with John Updike
X427. Gave up the ghost
X429. TV host Edwards
X430. Add water to these dried kelps and
smear a few into many items of Asian cuisine*
X431. Mercury or Saturn, e.g.
X432. Gerald ___ Horst (Ford aide)
X433. “I’m ___ far I don’t see a way out…”
X434. Wash. Sq. school
X435. End of a set of extremes?*
X438. Some satellite radios
X441. Weapon discussed in American
Sniper, for short
X442. Do some landscaping work, say
X444. Not late
X445. Men’s org.
X447. Recruit’s sentence ender, perhaps
X448. Done linearly*
X449. Mischief-maker
X450. Need sex? Start by treating awkward
infections with this*
X451. Tweeter, say
X452. First college hurdle to get past*
X455. Reason to take vitamins
X457. Thread count?
X460. Giant told ta-ta in Episode V*
X461. Six-time Best Actress nominee
X462. They feel your pain
X463. Things to solve for, in some equations
X464. Area for things to be said*
X465. Sphere a thief may rob*
X466. Was sustained by
X467. Comparison point in a taste test
X469. Defect
X471. The Joy of Wokking author Martin
X476. The Joy of ___ (Brandreth’s celebration of wordplay)
X479. Tiny terrier?
X482. Conn. institution of learning,
informally
X487. Skinny-jean, tight-tee, belt-stud,
Converse-sneaker style of fashion
X489. You can kick someone’s this to
discourage them, or kick them in it to encourage them
X491. Where Amarillo is (abbr.)
X493. Respondent to a WWII SOS*
X497. With its anagram at X904-Across,
money-minded advice for speed lovers
X499. Unproven statements
X501. Barking animal
X503. Seven-Eleven treat
X504. Consumed (it) at one end, maybe*
X507. Person who corners others
X508. Like Serbs, but not Hungarians
X510. It’s under > on my keyboard
X511. “Awe-SOME!”
X513. Emotion bikers rev for*
X515. “His,” to Bierce
X519. Common typo often mocked online
X521. Gaseous element in our atmosphere
X523. Pancreatic enzyme, briefly
X525. LAT or NYT*
X528. Lets elapse, as the hours
X530. Red Square mausoleum occupant
X531. Salted river-ocean junctions*
X532. Words spoken to a preacher, perhaps
X534. Homer in cricket
X535. What the X stands for, in the club
X538. Match, at the table
X540. Dictators’ assistants
X543. Chat-room qualifier
X545. She gets the bodies moving
X547. PayPal’s Venmo alternative
X549. Be a couch potato, say
X552. Moving picture?
X553. Patriarch’s charges
X556. Inits. of 1933
X557. Immoral sorts
X558. Source of a gel, a jet fuel, and a
fertilizer*
X560. “Camptown Races” syllables
X561. “Hey, it’ll be fine”
X563. Give ___: show respect, as to a Doña*
X564. They specify what you can’t specify
X565. Burned with want…no, need
X566. Dumas’s La Tulipe ___
X568. “___ Mine” (Beatles)
X569. J.D.’s prickly mentor
X572. Seasonal illness
X573. Eat, as pretzels
X575. Monogram of haute couture
X577. Quintessence
X579. “Come ___!” (“The door’s open!”)
X584. Add flavor to
X588. Has warm and fuzzy feelings toward
X589. JPG or PNG
X591. Inlet such as New York Harbor
X592. Meryl Streep and James Franco
X593. Org. issuing the Pierre de Coubertin
medal
X597. Tip-top, hip-hop-style
X599. Ready to deploy*
X600. Links support
X601. ___ up (catches on)
X602. Applied, as paint
X603. “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the
Bough / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness
/ And Wilderness is Paradise___” (Omar Khayyam)
X605. Ticker tape, for short?
X606. One who babysits their crush’s imps
while the crush dates someone else—and, look, it’s great to do this out of
genuine kindness, but the problem is people who cling to the belief that
someday, SOMEDAY, this seeming selflessness will be rewarded with the “payment”
of their crush becoming a romantic partner*
X607. Program I used to organize these clues
X608. DNA shapes
X609. Hugs-and-kiss closing
X610. “Right-a-roonie”
X612. The Italian way?
X613. At last, via this engine, searchers
began to survey the whole internet*
X614. Email management goal, in modern slang
X615. “Breaking Bad” drug kingpin Fring
X616. Comedian Kaplan
X617. Area near Trafalgar Square
X619. Something tourists get shaved in
Hawaii
X620. Psychedelic album of 1969
X621. Depressions, e.g.
X622. Swinger the EPA lists as endangered*
X624. Time abbreviation.
X625. Org. often called from the curb
X626. Four by four?
X627. Something flexible to wear
X628. He’s likely to obey TikTok-established
mores*
X629. 19, sometimes
X630. High points
X631. Nantes native
X632. Comic beginning
X634. More silly
X640. Alternative fallback position
X643. Ways one tries to demonstrate worship*
X646. Sides in tic-tac-toe
X651. “___ Blues” (Townes Van Zandt)
X652. Cousteau’s milieux
X657. Breast removal that could be described
by its anagram at X1221-Down
X658. Banishes
X659. Live from ___ House: Reality show featuring Hall of Hall
and Oates
X661. “___ Blues” (“White Album” song)
X662. “To have,” in Avignon or via
francophone translation*
X666. It opens printing markets up to the
Seiko Group*
X668. Glareful Ludgate of TV
X669. Metal fastener
X671. Actress Velez
X672. What’s now NC-17
X674. AAAAAAAAAACT!
X675. Mnemonic that goes “clear, concise,
concrete, correct, coherent, complete, and courteous” in communication
X677. Cold War concern
X681. Hold someone down while others beat
them up, say*
X682. Cheadle with an Oscar nod*
X683. “And so on” letters
X685. Fruit-bearing tree
X688. He put a little zip on his swindles*
X690. Colleague of Bugsy
X691. “___ got it!”
X693. Spanish structures whose ceilings
curve up and down like jumping orcas*
X696. Mohsin Hamid’s immigration fantasy
novel
X697. Scripts
X698. Blooper-reel segments
X699. Go bonkers, as when that pol lies to
the public ONE MORE TIME*
X700. Aunt ___ Cope Book (it sold reams in 1979)*
X701. TV Drag Race host
X703. Tries to make desert
X706. Harry or Meghan
X708. Violin maker Amati
X710. It’s just as good as Helvetica…said a
liar*
X712. Single sit-up, per my workout plan*
X714. Accompanying
X715. Tarzan’s “mother,” for one
X718. Hero to Luther
X719. “Nick of Time” singer Bonnie whose
best trait is her activism*
X720. Triptik, notably
X722. Noted German idealist philosopher
X723. Corporate grade
X724. Chart template
X725. Coat’s go-with in Merrie Olde*
X726. Salute this people’s hardiness against
the colder climates*
X727. They’re provocative
X731. Gianni’s grandmother
X733. King’s trappings
X735. ESPN.com stat-column heading
X736. Abner’s partner in old radio
X738. Recipe spec
X740. Equally awful
X742. Aviation org.
X743. Shared title for series standouts
X744. Stand up for with hard stares*
X745. Horatio Caine’s TV show
X746. Marketing decision point*
X747. Pre-Annapolis campus org.
X748. Elton John creation who “bears his war
wound like a crown”
X751. Nabe just outside of the city
X752. Documentary by the guy who directed Wordplay
X753. Heparin stops them
X754. Grows old
X755. Your Name is one of these (var. pl.)*
X756. Nickel-and-___ (one mired in
pennywisdom)*
X757. “Just playin’ with ya”
X758. Song of joy
X759. Where superhero stories get started
X761. N.Y.S.E. item
X762. What’s often seen during its anagram
at X372-Down
X763. Long odds
X764. Easy on the eyes?
X765. Quiet spot the day winter Christmas
break begins
X766. Sport in an octagon
X769. Common magnet feature
X770. Mouse or rat
X772. Percy Jackson or Maui
X773. (The) COVID-disenfranchised
X774. “I’m yours!”
X779. Technology used, along with some of
its anagram at X1220-Down, to map human actors onto not-entirely-human
creatures like Gollum and the Hulk
X780. Fancy goldfish
X781. Richard Thompson’s “The Old ___”
X783. “It’s okay, barge on in and take a
sample!”*
X785. Perfume ingredient
X787. Gas abundant in Vegas
X790. Sneaker, perhaps
X794. Part of a royal flush
X797. Not do oneself
X801. Some cover Paul Bunyan’s adventures
X802. It aids an arthritis sufferer (var.)*
X803. Spanish port with a Guggenheim Museum
X804. River of Sweden
X805. Company behind the Falcon 9 launch
vehicle
X806. Enjoyable times (definition I base on
UK usage)*
X807. Creepy sci-fi film revolving around a
Turing test
X810. Sponsor to which Michael Jackson lent
his pipes*
X812. Have a cross ___
X814. Year in Claudius I’s reign
X815. Carmaker’s sales incentive
X819. The suffix with which writing sound___
Shakespearean*
X821. Boy’s voice
X823. It makes the pain leave*
X824. Tropical American animals
X826. “My insecurities could ___ alive”
(Eminem)
X827. Shakespeare’s Avon, for one
X830. Completes a merger
X831. Swiss watches with notches*
X833. GPS technology
X835. Cheerful earful
X837. Eliot the fed
X842. Land of a Gaelic goddess
X843. Some former Yugoslavs
X845. Redding and Spann
X846. Describing some roofs
X847. Chromosome holders
X849. Environmental result of X396-Down
X850. Drag away again
X851. Yeoman’s “yo” (ha!)*
X854. Nurse (a drink)
X856. “___ Theme” (Doctor Zhivago
song)
X858. Sugary-textured rock I leapt over in
construction sites*
X861. Rock genre
X863. Willful ignorance
X865. Get suckered bad (he said, as if it
had never happened to him)*
X871. Part of a bus. address, perhaps
X872. “Keep dreaming!”
X873. Changed from brunette to blonde and
back to brunette
X874. Great potential
X875. Pool user’s unit
X877. Serling with six Emmys
X879. Some shampoos
X881. The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve also known as V
X882. Love letters?
X883. Key placed under Shift on my keyboard,
which is REAL INCONVENIENT, let me tell you
X885. Calendar string
X887. Sensitivity about
X889. First notes, say*
X891. ___ cog
X893. Related by marriage
X895. Second attempts
X898. Pager letters
X900. Rocker Rose with a sly anagram
X902. What not to do to Superman’s cape
X903. Mages, rogues, and rangers’ focus
X904. See X497-Across
X906. ∫(f + g) dx = ∫f dx +
∫g dx is one example of them, or of their anagram at X370-Down
X908. Comics sound effect
X909. Kind of deed (abbr.)
X911. Joined the clickthrough-ad elite*
X912. Muslim religious student
X914. Poor coordination
X916. Theatrical great Hayes
X917. Before this time, before there were no
old-timey folks to speak this way*
X918. Turmoil
X919. Playa ___ Americas (site of many hotel
deals)*
X920. Massage choice
X922. Multiple-formed compound
X923. Highly naturalistic approaches
X924. Ukulelist and singer born Herbert
Khaury
X925. The Karate Kid guy who catches flies with chopsticks
X927. O’Neill and Harris
X928. Religious leader born Giovanni de
Medici
X929. SSN, e.g.
X930. Biblical scholar
X931. Giver’s organizer, for short
X932. Catch-22 pilot who crashes as regularly as
Launchpad McQuack
X934. What the US still provides to many
nations, despite recent transactionalism
X935. Where Bears and Lions clash
X936. Dysfunctional era ten-fifty is lasting
forever
X937. Telecommunicator’s request
X938. Biological classes
X939. Troubadour’s rendition
X940. Study of forces affecting life at the
cellular level, possibly causing its anagram at 1407-Down
X943. Run from source to goal*
X944. Founder of a Russian dynasty
X945. Grandpa’s wife
X946. Title teen in a 1990s sitcom
X947. Real-life stranger and/or internet
commenter*
X948. How some people solve crosswords
X949. They report for TV, from short
X952. Put up, as money
X956. “When there’s trouble, bet on him
to…___ around”*
X960. Witch who helped Dorothy
X965. Luthor who first appeared in Lois
Lane #23*
X967. Winner of eight gold medals in 2008
X969. Patsy Cline hit
X970. What the speaker at anagram X341-Down
does, viewed more cynically
X972. Superhero movie centerpieces
X974. Nightclub employee who’s so happy to
see you, hiiii! Can she get you a drink?
X977. Liquid-in-liquid suspension
X978. Title for Bruce Castor and Jeanine
Pirro
X979. American Kennel Club outcast
X981. Largish ensemble
X983. Carouses
X984. Marine conger
X986. Product label wds.
X988. What a South American adolescent may
wear
X990. Pseudopodic and amorphous
X991. Central Americans
X993. Is a doormat for
X998. Fastened in a certain way
X999. OB/___ (medical specialist)
X1000. Editor Talese with her own Doubleday
imprint
X1001. Drugstore (abbr.)
X1002. Canopy setting
X1003. Paris’s Parc ___ Princes
X1004. Saying “Hang it!” about*
X1005. Important resource at a hospital
X1006. Prefix with “environment” for soil
science
X1007. Fish brand found at Lidl
X1010. Favored lang. among the younger gen.
in India*
X1012. Small caramel morsel that avoids the
left-right “controversy”
X1014. Continuously bother
X1016. Tool with bent handle
X1018. 553, to Flavius
X1020. Liza or Vincente
X1022. Most devoid of cover
X1024. What the neutral middle might be found
between
X1026. Rapa ___ (Esai Morales film)
X1028. Mbatha-Raw of Loki
X1029. Barbecue feature on a clear day
X1030. Jackweiler, e.g.
X1031. SNL short that…somehow…got its own
Funko POP
X1032. He’s seen with his god holding the
ankh at one side of his nose (var.?)*
X1033. Music shop purchase
X1035. Banksy rat, e.g.*
X1036. Jazz composer Chick
X1037. Cotton or wool
X1038. Logan Airport loc.
X1039. “___ of Rock ‘n’ Roll” (1976 Ringo
Starr hit)
X1040. Former Steelers player Bill
X1042. Charades action
X1043. Kate, Rooney, or Wellington
X1044. Lasik-effectiveness tests
X1046. Worker incentive
X1049. Like some voyages
X1051. Got squared up
X1053. Initial form entry, maybe
X1055. Disney princess of Avalor
X1058. Overland hauling
X1060. Pope who started the Vatican Library
X1065. Italian scooter
X1066. Not exactly the frugal type
X1068. Casts envious eyes at
X1070. COVID response coordinator Deborah
X1071. Handy-andy
X1075. He drew out the last “A” in “I’ve got
a ba(aaa)d feeling about this”*
X1077. Dueling tools
X1078. Lewis’s land
X1080. Not one who rode on others’
accomplishments*
X1081. Supplement nutritionally
X1082. Bagel shape
X1085. Prideful zodiac sign
X1087. These make 640 acres each (abbr.)
X1090. Burning-bush bk.
X1091. With its anagram at X1438-Down, awards
news about “Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” in 1991
X1093. “___ Money-Saving Trick Companies
Hate” (not spending)*
X1096. Part of rpm (abbr.)
X1098. “…never thinks straight ‘bout the
shape that ___” (Dylan lyric)
X1100. Predictions heard in an airplane seat*
X1101. Group that included the Tuskegee
Airmen
X1103. Airborne emanation
X1104. ___ penny (very common, to Brits)
X1106. Splice together
X1109. Snatch of the flow of*
X1112. Calf roper’s event
X1114. They have threads and heads
X1116. Yearbook inkers (abbr.)
X1119. Fig. that can be weighted
X1121. Credit-line usage
X1123. Total monetary worths of companies,
for short
X1124. Antiwar goddess
X1126. Boy’s name found at the start of an
Alaskan lake*
X1127. Used earth to clean
X1128. Chicago showgirl Hart
X1130. B soundalike
X1132. Airs now
X1133. Titanic threat?
X1135. Stir-fry pods
X1136. Mercury or cobalt
X1137. “Rattlesnake” plantain
X1138. Ream tool, in a French fight*
X1139. “0ur pr0duct amps ur pen13,” e.g.*
X1140. Trousers, in some ads
X1142. System used for electronic
guide-overs*
X1144. Does a sedate kind of looking for
love*
X1145. Inevitably
X1147. Site of Jim Hogg County
X1149. Cathartic herb
X1151. [Don't really agree, but I'll pretend
so we can change topics]
X1153. Madre’s brother
X1155. Quick AOL chats, once
X1157. Unit in tennis
X1158. Certain news items
X1159. Tongue of a Gaelic seer*
X1160. Sounds of magical disappearances
X1161. Hampshire hind parts*
X1163. Agile though aged
X1164. “___ of Evil”
X1165. English theologian, author of Lay
Thoughts of a Dean and Outspoken Essays
X1166. Stripes up irregularly, as wood or
stone (gaze as it transforms)*
X1167. Makes known
X1168. NAACP locale
X1169. Coauthor with Friedrich Engels of The
Communist Manifesto
X1173. Gridiron org. from Arlington, TX
X1175. Clarinets and such
X1177. Lay down earth
X1179. Yorba ___ (California city whose name
means “Beautiful Yorba”)
X1181. Clockmaker Thomas and Green Mountain
Boys leader Warner
X1185. Classic Jag
X1187. Bluegrass genus
X1188. Box office supply, briefly
X1189. John who wrote Appointment in
Samarra
X1190. Select carefully
X1191. Thing over yonder that Ah don’t
recollect th’name of
X1192. Slow down a beat*
X1194. Mirage sights
X1195. What stadium crowds do, sometimes
X1196. LIX - XVIII*
X1202. Interval between a cause and its
effect
X1204. Do, as vengeance or havoc
X1206. Internet site starter
X1209. Some EPA employees
X1211. Mexican shawl
X1213. Yr. obdt. ___ (old-time letter
finisher)
X1215. With its anagram at X1402-Down, urban
legend since 1977
X1218. Features of some variable-geometry
aircraft (first part anagrams the second part)
X1219. Toward safer voyaging, normally
X1220. What its anagram at X779-Down needs to
make Gollum and the Hulk look sufficiently nonhuman
X1221. More colorful description of X657-Down
X1222. Coxswain’s command
X1223. 1982 Lionel Ritchie song
X1224. Atheist activist Madalyn Murray ___
X1225. Show off, Mr. Universe-style
X1226. First subject to mix letters and
numbers into what seems at first like a garble*
X1230. All-time low
X1232. Sport with grungy wheelies
X1234. Distributor part
X1235. Enabled to endure*
X1236. Not perfect
X1237. Like some swords
X1239. As loud as you can imagine
X1240. Strikes lightly, as a windowpane
X1241. Rutabaga, e.g.
X1242. Accustom anew
X1244. Unit for a modest-sized drink
X1246. Scandal subject, often
X1247. Dive-bar stage?
X1249. Some farm workers
X1250. Herd rope
X1252. Part of the movie before the
high-octane excitement ramps up*
X1254. Deadball and steroid, in baseball
X1255. Internet access acronym or famous
artist
X1257. Very, very tiny
X1258. Warning for the inattentive
X1259. Leontyne Price hit a heavenly high C
in this Aida aria
X1260. Typeface found in old inscriptions
X1261. Rough PhD equiv.
X1263. Corsair’s three-masted ship
X1268. Procedure for preparing eggs in a
dish?
X1272. Anti-___ boots (sci-fi footwear)
X1274. Restore, as a certain type of alcohol.
X1276. Serious or solemn
X1279. Be apathetic
X1280. Reacts like the average Trekker when
meeting Jonathan Frakes*
X1281. Constance d’Arles, e.g.
X1283. Sends to Alcatraz, e.g.
X1284. Cold Mountain’s Kidman
X1285. Final Four openers
X1286. It’s often taken to go
X1288. Spewing out unnaturally
(metaphorically, hopefully)
X1289. By a certain measure
X1290. Percentage of customers who make
multiple purchases
X1293. Your-program’s-auto-update-has-begun
issue
X1294. A slice from it is considered the
overall theme*
X1295. They have bags under their eyes?
X1296. Mister in Portugal
X1297. By its very nature
X1298. Bread with aloo matar
X1299. Online news aggregator (once)
X1300. What’s also called “The Banana Boat
Song”
X1302. Dinero, south of the border
X1304. Abbreviated account?
X1306. NASA spaceplane
X1308. City gov’t official
X1309. Pusher chaser
X1310. Generously provides with
X1312. Early example of the dot-com world’s
“say yes to everything” investment phase*
X1315. Play-off situations
X1316. More than one (abbr.)
X1318. Updated communication channels, e.g.
X1319. Six-sided tesserae in Rome
X1320. Maple dripping
X1321. “You’re in for a treat, I make ___
tuna casserole”
X1322. “Take action now!” (anagram of
X1533-Down)
X1323. What ten is for decimal numbers
X1324. Like some versatile educational
material
X1325. Burst of thunder
X1326. Folded food truck fare
X1327. Path paved from marine remains
X1328. Takes a prayerful pose
X1329. Visa alternatives
X1330. Net-and-trident fighter
X1332. “Evangelist” attachment
X1337. Guat. neighbor
X1339. Anthem rival
X1341. “___ nie endendes verlangen” (“A
neverending desire” in German)*
X1342. “___ the Wind” (great name for
anti-gas meds?)*
X1344. Removing cage pins, e.g.*
X1346. Writers Lidman and Hassel
X1348. Loose-leaf dividers
X1350. Symmetrical organ?
X1351. Koko’s weapons
X1352. Website for some custom-designed dolls
X1353. Rusted out or rotted away
X1354. ___ nous (between us)
X1355. Elephant or walrus
X1356. Dr. Sweat competitor
X1357. will.___ (Ella Mai contemporary)*
X1365. Not those, in Brooklyn
X1367. Sheepskins used for bookbinding
X1368. Stamp that says “Cancelled,” e.g.
X1369. Banishes one’s roommate during a
hookup
X1371. Secures with seat belts
X1372. It doesn’t rain much here*
X1374. Princess in space
X1376. Really appreciates
X1377. Rock group, Pere ___
X1378. Annie Hall’s boyfriend, briefly
X1379. Telephone pole wood
X1381. It’s essentially become eonline.com
X1382. Armor’s “skirt”
X1384. Mixed in
X1385. Piltdown man, for one
X1391. Bad news for an employee and their
would-be replacement
X1393. Congress
X1397. More calm
X1402. See X1215-Down
X1404. Tasty pre-meal liver dish, say, and
anagram for X1527-Across
X1406. Modifier found after “force”
X1407. Genes working together in an organism
in ways unprecedented in its parents, studied these days by a variety of
methods, including their anagram at X940-Down
X1409. Benzell and Sheraton
X1411. Washday brand
X1413. Johnny-come-___
X1416. Ocean cap? (abbr.)*
X1417. “Not me!”
X1418. “And now, ___ tale be told…”
(old-timey lead-in)*
X1419. Overstate
X1420. Fleshy-snouted beast
X1422. “Well, lah-___!”
X1424. Turkish cash
X1426. Oat or piece follower
X1427. Bad material for a purse?
X1429. John in Aberdeen
X1431. “No ___, no gain” (gym saying)
X1432. Contraltos playing a Wagnerian earth
goddess, as if on dares*
X1434. Browns
X1437. She may have plaid miniskirts, striped
long-sleeved shirts, heart stamps under the eyes, and bleached hair
X1438. See X1091-Down
X1439. “Last one ___ rotten egg!”
X1440. Sound heard very close to your ear
X1442. Language in which “fairs” is
نمایشگاه ها*
X1443. Name meaning peaceful
X1445. Creator of Popeye
X1446. What a student might study to help
with telling his own story*
X1447. It may come back to you (abbr.)
X1448. She had a rather successful second
career as an author about aviation*
X1449. Metallic right angle in building
X1452. Exclamation of distaste
X1453. Performance
X1454. Crime scene collections
X1455. Some ring victories, for short
X1456. Norse goddess people see when they
don’t heal*
X1457. Proficiency test with which my boss
might decide to ax me*
X1458. Food staple of Pacific islands
X1460. Sound velocity, in shorthand
X1463. Spanglish actress
X1465. Easter blooms
X1467. Gave a marker to
X1468. It puts The House on display
X1470. With “Books,” it could be a better
bookstore than Amazon*
X1471. Noted educationist Horace
X1473. “You crushed me”
X1475. Mother of gods
X1476. Let out ___ of relief
X1477. First name in geometric art
X1478. Beam of support
X1479. Lovable dog in The Mask
X1480. Cave ___ fenêtre (cellar with window)*
X1481. Bouncy bowing motions in music
X1482. Internal support for a horse or cow
X1483. Natural philosopher Lorenz
X1490. Ring its doorbell, and you may find
it’s not quite the massage parlor advertised*
X1492. “When thou ___ down, thou shalt not be
afraid” (Proverbs 3:24)
X1495. Some are rural (abbr.)
X1497. XX × XXXIII
X1500. Minnesota lake that feeds the
Mississippi
X1502. Orders from on high
X1504. Hedgehog relative
X1505. Art Vandelay, for George Costanza
X1506. “Yeah-hunh!”
X1507. Avoid via anticipation
X1514. Raise in status
X1518. Strikes, as a door in a raid
X1520. Give out
X1521. Nightmarish visions
X1523. Dept. for some nurses
X1524. “Puh-lease!”
X1525. Enthrone again
X1526. Skull protuberances
X1527. Maybe one size too small
X1528. Eye-Ds?
X1529. Fairly uncommon blood type
X1530. Car manufacturer founded in 1945
X1532. Narrow waterways (abbr.)
X1533. Two exclamations conveying “Take
action now!” (anagram of X1322-Down)
X1534. Miner’s walk-in point
X1535. Book with pages or spreads for most
states
X1539. Star Wars ship class
X1541. Pequod hand
X1544. iPod you could almost wear on an
earlobe*
X1546. Gen-___: boomer’s kid, probably
X1550. Amount of toothpaste
X1553. A nomad is without them*
X1554. “A View to ___” (Duran Duran James
Bond song)
X1557. “Tears in Heaven” singer, who, despite
a common anagram, has no trouble sleeping (see X2112-Down)
X1559. Seller of Skin So Soft bath oil and
True Color Lipstick
X1561. Tourneys with big pay gaps from their
female counterparts*
X1562. They cause bad luck
X1563. Geller of psychic claims
X1565. Arm of the Arctic Ocean
X1569. Okinawan city
X1572. Test the moral fiber of
X1574. Weapons seen in hieroglyphics
X1575. Rawhide snaggers
X1577. Norse giant
X1579. “___ will NOT be quiet”
X1580. Chest pulsation
X1582. “LA Woman” singer who anagrams
X2144-Down
X1583. Some kitchen ranges
X1584. Abbr. for late credits*
X1587. Hires to handle the case
X1589. Rams, on a scoreboard
X1590. Handles effectively
X1591. Pig Latin refusal
X1594. “Fat” day (abbr.)
X1595. His woodcuts have a stern aspect*
X1596. Precision knife brand
X1597. Feminine name that reads like the
shortened name of a Russian emperor
X1598. China Jasmine holder
X1599. Tabasco and Yucatan
X1600. 1980s Saturday morning cartoon
characters who lived underwater
X1601. Clown on In Living Color
X1602. Hug, like some mob of kitties*
X1603. Staffer’s address, perhaps
X1604. Hit song that’s an opera backwards
X1605. Image unfit for the office, informally
X1606. Not buying after a breach of trust
X1607. “Stop…look at that”
X1608. East Timor capital
X1609. Nig., Alg., and Sib. Elision
X1611. “Pressed Rat and Warthog” rock group
X1613. Congregation location
X1616. Justinian I’s peak year
X1621. More mocking
X1622. ___ in ecclesiasticism
X1624. Oldest of the Animaniacs
siblings
X1626. Prefix with cortex
X1627. Ophthalm-otorhinolaryngology
X1628. Denizen in the Alps.
X1629. Part with only one character in frame
X1630. Could Asia bear an absence of the
trade routes that go through this body? Let’s not find out*
X1631. They’re large and teal-shelled with
almost as much yolk as white
X1632. Album and winery by Brandi Carlile
X1633. Unit of info that could be represented
as {-1. 0, 1}
X1634. Spinner-turned-spider who can hear you
gripe about her cobwebs*
X1635. Balanced sign
X1636. Embroidered mat
X1637. Incites, as a rebellion
X1638. Ingrown toenail
X1639. Marks, as a box
X1640. Europop hit by Juan Carlos Calderón
X1641. Brand of chocolate-and-toffee cups
X1642. Runner down under?
X1648. Incorrect version of CXL*
X1650. Reebok alternatives
X1652. Their first professional endorser was
Ilie Nastase
X1654. Blood-thinning med
X1655. Suffix with phosphor
X1656. Layers of cackleberries
X1657. Angel of the first order
X1661. ___ Fail (Ireland’s palindromic
coronation stone)
X1663. Spy fliers
X1664. NBA’s Magic, on sports tickers
X1665. Former capital replaced by its anagram
at X1857-Down
X1667. Something bad that may be put on you
X1673. Place you might learn to be a better
YouTuber
X1679. Concluding piece
X1681. Paul of folk-pop
X1682. Take-home figures
X1684. Words declining an invitation
X1686. “I smell ___” (“Thou art a traitor,”
somewhat more contemporarily)*
X1688. Terrible time?
X1689. ___ vincit amor (love conquers all)
X1691. Sen. Judd Gregg’s designation
X1692. Extended pointer finger and thumb,
followed by fist, means “LA” in this*
X1693. Good ones help when playing video
games
X1694. Stat like long. and lat.
X1696. Microscopic movement organs
X1701. Henry ___, modern US sculptor
X1703. At any time, in verse
X1705. “Sweet dreams”
X1707. Insurance company sponsoring
Manchester United
X1709. Transaction at a meet
X1712. Only film in which James Bond sings
X1715. Erstwhile venerable theater chain
X1717. “Have mercy on us sinners” prayers
X1718. Safest investments
X1719. Tech workers?
X1721. Jazzman with “The Arkestra”
X1724. Irritant that may be seeking attention
X1725. News and opinion website since 2014
X1726. Package delivery, maybe?
X1728. “Dawson’s Creek” character
X1730. Fruit products
X1731. See the light about
X1733. Much-discussed immigration law
X1737. Biting on the tongue, in more ways
than one
X1739. U-turn from out of
X1740. Bitter or biting (brace yourself)*
X1742. Abbr. on some business signs
X1744. UK fliers
X1745. Sweater damage
X1748. Banana wrapper?
X1750. Gets as a return
X1752. Rebs’ org.
X1753. T.J. ___ (department store chain)
X1756. Water sprite
X1758. Toddler’s spill guard
X1761. Accessible for
X1762. Surgical bone-scrapers
X1763. Olaf’s nonverbal pal
X1764. “…from Ghent to ___”
X1765. Pulitzer-winning novelist Alison
X1766. 2410
X1767. Bellini’s Norma is one
X1768. Was around somewhere
X1769. With “up” (in America), gets into
strong arguments
X1770. Gamer’s sphere?
X1771. Money-managing assistant from Capital
One*
X1773. Finish by
X1775. Worker salary increases aren’t keeping
pace, yo*
X1777. Soak to the bone
X1778. Its failings helped lead to the
creation of the EPA
X1779. “___ am a cook and a captain bold…”
X1781. Not even partly electric (my local
filling station lags LA in developing charging outlets)*
X1782. It’s free in France
X1784. Big scorer alongside Yao, to fans
X1785. Inarticulate nonverbalisms
X1786. 1002, to Nero
X1787. ICU staff
X1788. Path between pyramids, according to
some spiritualists
X1789. He is extra tough thanks to Gaulish
magic potion*
X1790. Glossy fabric
X1791. Field events
X1792. Increase in vol.
X1793. Scalp-electrodes test
X1794. Uncommon to Cato
X1795. Live peacefully with, as exotics*
X1796. Full of enthusiasm
X1798. Beer purchase
X1800. First day on the job
X1801. Kind of art liable to restore a sense
of order in trauma patients*
X1802. Want so bad you fidget or chafe*
X1803. “Ready to go?”
X1804. Eugene Onegin girl
X1805. How protist populations grow
X1807. “Wrong, wrong, wrong!”
X1809. State that borders Minnesota and
Illinois
X1813. Zero degrees long.
X1815. Biological cell
X1816. Outer faces (abbr.)
X1818. Drop a brick
X1819. Most trifling
X1822. Morally ambiguous, palindromic Wong in
Resident Evil
X1823. Epochal
X1824. Number of uses before failure
X1826. Din or tor end, in Mexico
X1828. ___ for Lawless (Sue Grafton)
X1829. Title with a ring to it
X1833. Most radio stations play this*
X1834. Hyundai Accent competitor
X1836. Simple solution
X1838. Where Mexicans find los Estados Unidos
X1839. Laundry detergent powder banned in the
EU
X1842. It may go up in smoke
X1843. Cartoon character with a lot of
alcoholic references in his early shorts
X1846. Pointer Sisters hit
X1849. Words you might find on the wall of a
bar? (Anagram of X2008-Across)
X1852. Austin’s home (abbr.)
X1853. Fast internet service
X1855. Gp. with 31 nations
X1857. Capital that replaced its anagram at
X1665-Down
X1858. Local official who determines what’s
owed the government
X1861. Guy you decided was beyond
fixer-uppery*
X1863. Where shortstops and basemen play
(abbr.)
X1865. “What’s ___ like?”
X1866. Hard-set belief set
X1867. 1950s skating champ
X1869. Little bell sound
X1871. Hebrew drum
X1873. Some stops in Vermont
X1874. Heading into old age
X1876. Yes, ___! (Davis, Jr. autobiography)
X1877. ___ Men who’ve actually made lots of
music since “Who Let the Dogs Out”
X1878. “Just ___!” (“Get off my case!”*
X1880. ___ Dingbats (pictographic computer
font)
X1882. Medical problem
X1884. Cause controversy
X1885. Got everything from
X1886. Response in a game
X1887. Game for
X1889. Finished vacuuming and corded his
extension cord*
X1892. Hailer’s shout
X1893. Boxcars’ composition
X1894. Derisive or affirmative cries,
depending on region and context
X1895. Phobic lead-in
X1897. Car-jacking aids
X1899. Put out over time*
X1900. One who lives in a pigsty?
X1902. Porn, more keyword-safely*
X1905. Something to express views on
X1907. Processing time
X1910. Horror film featuring the mysterious
message lie*
X1911. Not too soft
X1913. Big name in hoteldom
X1915. Ready one’s surfboard
X1916. Craig, formerly of the Atlanta Hawks
X1918. Abets perjuriously
X1919. Finishing strokes
X1921. Hewn in form
X1922. In (an instant)
X1924. Tool with which a shipbuilder orients
curvature of the hull*
X1925. Pulpitlike
X1926. Suffering from satyriasis (colorful
anagram of X1926-Down)
X1928. High fashion label
X1929. Stick around to see
X1930. No fuddy-duddy
X1933. Miss one’s usual mealtime
X1935. First published drafts
X1939. Guard for waves*
X1941. Thumb piano
X1944. Ain’t I A Woman? author Sojourner
X1945. Dr. Zhivago and others
X1948. Madrid Mlle.
X1949. Worker whose options aren’t open*
X1951. Key plot point about the title
characters in Victor/Victoria
X1954. Places where people may have the
knives out for you, in brief
X1957. “Waitin’ for the Robert ___”
X1958. Samsung mouse-connecting feature
X1959. Inheritors, sometimes
X1960. Saline drops?
X1961. Too many to count
X1964. “I’ve Just ___ Face” (The Beatles)
X1966. Punk rocker Cervenka who sang in the
band X
X1970. Director Jean-___ Godard
X1972. Capital of the Bashkir Republic
X1973. In a set of two, it’s an insect*
X1974. Payment aid near a 7-11 welcome mat
X1975. A ___ (yours, in Toulon)
X1976. Put together my age with how old Dad
was when I was born, e.g.*
X1978. Baseball’s Dwight Gooden or Xander
Cage
X1980. Insta rival
X1982. Shoe size that could be read to sound
like Libya’s capital
X1984. Do some sewing, perhaps
X1986. Unit for heating a tub*
X1987. LA Sports Arena team
X1988. Place name following K or Bean
X1989. Sonic, in a few markets
X1991. Saarinen’s namesakes
X1992. Porn
X1994. Abbr. in “Respect”
X1995. “Can ___ now?”
X1996. 109, one way
X1997. PC application suffix
X1998. Mach topper
X2000. Wood ape conserver*
X2009. “Got any threes?,” e.g.
X2011. Catechize
X2014. Director Francesco
X2022. “To the ___ love” (Feb. 14th words)
X2023. Easily manipulated type
X2024. Parasailers, e.g.
X2025. What would need an additional three to
be a dozen*
X2026. Anxiety drug often advertised in spam
X2027. Primordial substance of the universe
X2028. 2001 sci-fi film
X2029. Crystal-on-crystal growth
X2031. Placed horizontally, as a nail*
X2032. No longer living
X2033. Take back, as territory
X2034. Type of some jazz acts*
X2035. One on the same side
X2036. Perfect test paper marking
X2037. Nevada senator Harry
X2038. With its anagram at X2242-Down,
meditation on learning the alphabet
X2041. Alleged cure for hairline problems*
X2042. Catches some z’s
X2046. Conducive to heat
X2048. Overtime-bound
X2049. Angry reaction
X2050. Bury the ___
X2051. 1509, to Cato
X2052. Weapon some associate with workers’
freedom
X2053. Elbow protection in a mad spar
session*
X2054. Its pods are a poor diet (never do
this)*
X2056. Shipbuilding facilities of yore
X2057. German social philosopher whose
theories began as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution
X2058. Port city with a castle built by
William the Conqueror
X2059. “God’s table”
X2060. Five-headed heavy in Dungeons and
Dragons
X2061. Committee-adjournment words
X2062. Rene of In the Line of Fire
X2063. Jacob found a use for his
shortsightedness*
X2064. Walmart or Barnes and Noble
X2065. My female spouse, colloquially
X2066. Circle of contacts, in a dated
metaphor
X2069. Vehicle to race or crash in Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom
X2073. Characters at the start of a riddle
about math
X2075. Part of Jordan, long ago
X2076. Author May Alcott
X2079. Setting for hardware in a computer
store**
X2081. He sculpted Adam and Eve
X2083. Vacuum tube feature
X2084. Proof of who you are
X2085. Soft-serve selection
X2090. Opposite of fluster
X2095. France’s ___ d’Avignon
X2096. London’s St. Pancras International,
e.g. (abbr.)
X2098. Old-style letter closure
X2099. Criminals often outside a cop’s
jurisdiction*
X2100. “Have ___ flight!”
X2101. Film studio that had 12 of its 13
movies nominated for at least one Oscar
X2104. Footwork?
X2106. “Rack City” rapper
X2107. Publisher Henry and newsman Lester
X2109. Joint Chiefs of Staff mem.
X2110. Driver Fabi
X2112. Apter anagram for X1557-Across meaning
“legendary with a guitar pick”
X2114. This, to a toreador
X2115. Blinds strips
X2119. Like newly issued scrip*
X2120. Part of a country with many a famous
coast*
X2121. X, to Xavier
X2122. Largest number that can be described
with a single word
X2123. ___ syndrome (harmless asymptomatic
chromosomal karyotype, usually)
X2124. An ID we’d follow with “soar” if we
used it in the K section*
X2127. Name shared by Anna Karenina’s husband
and her lover/fellow exile--a confusing wrinkle in a great novel*
X2128. Marathoner’s concern
X2131. Neural pathway activated by a hammer
X2132. Cheese made not to spoil*
X2135. Y to the max?
X2136. 10-to-1 power level comparison
X2137. Hamm whose Athletes for Hope aim to
aid philanthropy*
X2138. They neighbor F1s
X2139. Soothing command to a horse.
X2140. Lionise to li’nise, e.g.*
X2141. Hello, Dolly! received 10
X2144. “LA Woman” chorus that anagrams
X1582-Down
X2145. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and, yes,
Pluto
X2149. It’s std. in a par loan*
X2150. Support part that shifts compressive
stress to the top of the structure
X2153. Work values
X2155. Punched-in-the-gut grunt
X2157. Sword with two accents
X2159. “I ___ dream last night…” (Johnnie
Taylr)
X2160. Worrying responsibilities for a
careless driver*
X2165. With “the” and “for,” hope you might
have a shot of getting into bed with*
X2166. Jazz pianist Laila
X2168. Monarchs’ sch. that had a duo of
losses in its first year*
X2170. Circle on a Disney headband, or a
plant that makes medicine
X2172. Kind of weevil?
X2173. Korean GI
X2174. Baseball stat trio (abbr.)
X2176. BLT dressing
X2177. Result, as hilarity or hijinks
X2179. Hallucinogen since the 1950s
X2180. Ascended again
X2182. Bethesda, MD, org.
X2183. Coats for some Brits taking notes*
X2184. D-Day transports
X2185. Followers of a sort
X2186. Cars that were first to have Ram Air
engines
X2188. Closest thing Hebrew has to the “t”*
X2190. Big sizes
X2191. Heartstopper comics genre
X2194. Hair lightener
X2195. Cabo ___ Lucas, Mexico
X2197. Seat that may spin
X2199. Band with the hits “What You Need” and
“Need You Tonight”
X2203. Gil of CSI
X2204. Like the size of a small farm
X2206. “Kyrie ___”
X2209. Not at all flighty
X2210. Peace in Paris
X2211. Baby bear
X2213. With its anagram at 2690-Down, notable
region in the fuel economy
X2215. Battleship call or Caterpillar tractor
X2216. Friend en francais
X2218. Spidery trickster-god, as in an
innumerable collection of African folktales*
X2219. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
X2221. Cinq + trois
X2222. Tend to again, as an injured joint
X2224. Band with albums Exogalactic and
Invasion of the Tentacube
X2225. Show derision
X2227. Jon who directed Iron Man and
created The Mandalorian
X2229. Star Wars revolutionaries’ tongue
X2230. Reach at a lower level
X2232. Kiddie lit character who’s in charge
of the Brown Bar-ba-loots
X2234. Tref staple
X2235. Pledge of silence
X2238. Madre’s hermana
X2240. Pigeon’s commentary
X2242. See X2038-Across
X2244. Likely crass to*
X2247. Nonessential
X2248. Former Peruvian currency
X2249. Bad news for the S.S. Minnow
X2252. Come down with coughy sneezy fever
X2255. Taj Mahal attractions
X2258. “Just spent your rent on these kicks,
bitch, I am not capping” singer Ella*
X2261. Slow down, in music
X2263. Juice brand whose middle letter is a
heart
X2265. Other than (abbr.)
X2266. “___ we dating or what?”
X2267. She was awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom by Barack
X2270. Trivial Pursuit wedges, e.g.
X2271. Helping v.
X2272. Bors the Younger and Lionel, e.g.*
X2273. Drop the ___ shoe
X2274. What an express often whizzes by
(abbr.)
X2276. “It’s easy ___!”
X2278. Get religion
X2279. Some bottom lines
X2280. Bark place
X2282. Vodka brand
X2284. Howe who gave Target its sewing aisle*
X2288. Letter-shaped building border
X2289. Embellished with salmon
X2292. Rival’s rant
X2293. Tits’ alarm call
X2294. Aspect of the cabaret scenes in Cabaret
X2295. Angel’s dread
X2296. 50% off equivalent
X2297. Myrna s role in The Thin Man
X2298. What a biennial celebrates
X2299. Enterprise detectors
X2300. We value the bad ones over the smart
ones
X2301. Two in Toulouse
X2302. Benjamin, Duncan, Dylan, or Rosie, in We
Bought a Zoo
X2303. Pushes out, as plants from soil
X2304. Bad news for certain trendy drivers
(see X2876-Down)
X2305. Fab opening
X2307. Prefix with tome
X2308. Classified, plainly, anagramming
X2659-Down
X2312. Laurels giver
X2314. Slangy pronoun
X2316. Goddess of the solar disk.
X2318. Parts of these sacs in the bloodstream
can, in rare cases, cause postpartum mania*
X2320. M-Q linkup
X2321. Get back, initially
X2322. Contender in a regatta
X2323. Like a beanball
X2324. Plentiful
X2325. My denom. when I was younger (we baked
pies for the homeless)*
X2326. Reporter on the Pittsburg Pens*
X2327. Dawn counterpart
X2328. Comics writer whose most widely used
character creation is an amoral one*
X2329. Emulate Paul Bunyan
X2330. Expression I get when anybody wants to
talk to me about midlife sex*
X2332. Alphabet vanguard
X2333. Have flights like kites
X2334. Act popish
X2335. Blocks an AFOL might ogle*
X2340. Fruits found in produce and anagrammed
at X2561-Down
X2341. “‘___ my word!”
X2344. Genealogist’s abbr.
X2346. Possibly are
X2348. Spark a smile
X2349. He wrote his first sci-fi stories as a
clerk*
X2350. Charlie Weaver: The wild old man from
Mount ___ (Clifford Arquette persona)
X2351. Filtered
X2353. Blue Jays or Bad News Bears
X2354. 1972 Olympics site
X2355. Style of coat and tone-in-tone
buttons*
X2361. Legendary Buffalo Bills coach Marv
X2363. Invasion site after Pearl Harbor
X2364. Light, round tent
X2365. Lather
X2367. Order-restoring tool
X2369. Over-the-counter antacid
X2372. Parts of a $5 roll
X2373. School in the making?
X2374. Fan club hero
X2375. Slimming option, briefly
X2377. Strikes down, in the Bible
X2380. Trail-mix fruit
X2381. 1992 caveman-in-high-school comedy
(see X2511-Across)
X2382. Mule that’s a “good old pal,” in song
X2386. Hither and ___
X2389. Is obliged (to)
X2393. Wide sizes
X2395. Cato in 149 B.C., e.g.
X2401. Sponsor of the Pirates’ ballpark
X2402. Outdated messager
X2403. Delicious alternatives
X2404. Longtime Israeli ambassador to
Washington Abba
X2405. Shoplift
X2406. What to spend at a Thai bath*
X2408. Composited mug shot
X2411. Prestigious TV award
X2412. Guy who came up with seemingly
everything or at least noised as if he did*
X2414. Letters on some Indy cars
X2416. Grade school subject
X2418. Marks as complete, maybe
X2420. GOP section
X2423. Wrote music in symbols with no time
and date, perhaps
X2426. Rubs out
X2429. Wild and Elmer
X2431. Actor best-known for playing a
detective on Perry Mason, and anagram of X2877-Down
X2432. Osh Kosh ___
X2434. BBC-ITV streaming channel
X2437. Amer. citizen
X2438. Rice of Broadway
X2440. They stem the worst injuries*
X2442. Bauble Meg March imagines owning*
X2443. ___ the finish
X2444. Diagram within a diagram
X2446. Dead Sea sect
X2448. This world, in sci-fi
X2452. She became a Nobel laureate at 17
X2454. Loads of shoes*
X2456. McCartney’s bandmate
X2457. Bad philosophy for putting things up
your butt, per a medic*
X2458. Reaction when Jace Maddox introduces
themself
X2459. Plays with, like a kitten
X2460. Causes of friction
X2461. Nickelodeon character Funnie
X2462. Body ___
X2463. Use photochemical machining tech,
e.g.*
X2464. Cosmic Thing hit
X2465. Notation that may be a sign your
script’s act is running long
X2466. Private ride in many an exurb*
X2467. Alt-country singer Case
X2468. Heated argument
X2469. Number of nights, in shorthand
X2471. Calls con, mends no fences with*
X2472. Comically misspelled espionage comedy
X2473. “Clara, Susan, ___ Ronda…could be
anybody, really”*
X2476. Part of a speaker
X2477. 93
X2480. One who did a toga run for some wool?*
X2482. What the teen did when things just
weren’t working out with his boyfriend*
X2484. Dieter’s no-no
X2486. VII times VII
X2487. Wack, back in the day
X2488. Namesakes of Ruth’s mother-in-law
X2489. God attended by Valkyries
X2490. Lean on
X2491. Playing cards
X2492. Colored letter in a Hawthorne novel
X2493. Fortnite creator
X2494. Chemist Mendeleev
X2495. Focus of a final analysis
X2496. Flowering vines that aren’t
pet-friendly (var.)
X2497. Misjudgment
X2499. Makes a snack without finishing
X2500. Kids’ hangouts
X2504. 1981 blockbuster summarized by its
anagram at X3124-Down
X2505. High spirits
X2506. T, for one
X2508. On-off values
X2510. Gen-___: post-baby boomers
X2512. Antipoverty agcy. created under LBJ
X2513. Where many federal microbiologists
work
X2514. Highly fictionalized TV drama focused
on Mary, Queen of Scots, and her inner circle of power (and anagram of
X2594-Across)
X2515. Code with a deprecated blink tag
X2516. Pusher catcher (making a two-part
series with its var. in this section)
X2518. Like antlers, a toe bone, and floating
ribs, in relation to the breastbone*
X2519. Tuba emissions
X2520. 202, to Tiberius
X2521. Sonora, por ejemplo
X2526. ___ Mujeres, Mexico
X2527. Out of the boat, in a way
X2528. What Brits call “noughts and crosses”
X2534. 63
X2535. Hunting for morays
X2536. Cul ___ (dead end)
X2539. Coastal craft meant to stay near the
shoreline (first part anagrams the second part)
X2541. Like toasters you can try before you
buy*
X2542. Romantic time together made, rated 11
of 10*
X2545. Optic tendons we’ve learned don’t
exist
X2548. Cue for the band to start
X2556. “Lost” en route, perhaps*
X2558. Optic layer containing the iris
X2559. “Why ‘No’ Is Just as Important as
‘Yes,’“ e.g.*
X2560. Is a fringe case
X2561. Fruits found in produce and anagrammed
at X2340-Down
X2562. Wails openly
X2563. Toilet paper in Twickenham
X2565. Title for one for whom you might kneel
and rise*
X2566. Nudibranchs
X2569. They turn a blind eye to others
X2570. Egyptian pyramid’s function
X2572. Sun through a window
X2573. Much-maligned imports of the 1980s
X2576. Sixteen-month Soviet leader
X2578. Modern service for transferring funds
X2580. Leave the thruway
X2582. Disney lion queen
X2587. Safe havens
X2588. Colloquial salutation
X2590. Round one takes for a course*
X2591. Excitement
X2592. Many a rodeo spectator
X2593. Busy one’s list heading
X2595. Org. authorized by the 16th Amendment
X2598. Star Trek pleasure planet that’s Spanish for
“laughter”
X2600. ___ Hall University, in New Jersey
X2603. Distinguished retirees
X2605. Valid, as an argument
X2609. Use popular sites on April 15
X2611. Egyptian sect member
X2612. Chris D’___ of screen, standup, and
sexual misconduct allegations
X2613. Caribbean vacation island
X2614. Stereotypical dog names
X2615. Periodic-table mem.
X2616. Worse than mid, as prospects*
X2617. Hold the floor
X2618. Like the “gayest” body language*
X2620. Choral composition
X2622. Tennessee congressman Wamp
X2623. Clayburgh and St. John
X2624. Tennis hit
X2626. Don’t ask me for a linguistic analysis
of anagrams’ significance. I ___ Noam Chomsky*
X2629. Truckee R. city
X2631. “Behold,” to Bellini
X2634. It’s undefined at multiples of pi
(abbr.)
X2636. Part that clears the eye*
X2638. Closing sequence?
X2639. ___ out (just made)
X2640. WNBA star Montgomery
X2641. Say, “I want more of that,” e.g.
X2642. US military vet
X2643. Stack, as of papers
X2645. UK indie band with “Crystalised”
X2647. Drunkenness
X2648. Cost stats at any hotel I dare stay*
X2649. Retired gov’t agent
X2650. Curve with rising action
X2651. Romano-British
X2654. With this, his anagram, X3190-Down,
becomes true at a kegger
X2656. Born and bred in Echo Park, say
X2657. Hero of “The Purloined Letter”
X2658. Ocean vessel (abbr.)
X2659. Classified matters, colorfully,
anagramming X2308-Down
X2660. Mr. ___ (Romper Room character)
X2662. Vancouver daily
X2664. “Wine” combiner
X2665. Entangle, or disentangle
X2666. Cap extension
X2667. 2005 horror film starring Donnie
Wahlberg
X2668. Battleship score
X2670. Old French gold coin
X2671. FDR home loan org.
X2672. California, e.g.
X2676. Abbr. after a seller’s suggested price
X2677. High guy?
X2678. “The strain seemed doubly dear, / Yet
___ sweet” (Wordsworth)
X2679. South-of-the-border citizen
X2680. Author Steinhauer with the 2009
bestseller The Tourist
X2685. Big, in adspeak
X2687. Tariff-removal treaty acronym
X2688. Heroine of The Notebook
X2690. See X2213-Down
X2691. Muscle of the Guardians of the
Galaxy
X2694. Short-lived NBC Jerry Bruckheimer
drama named for the Pentagon’s outermost section (and anagram of X2514-Down)
X2696. Mixed up
X2699. None ___ soon
X2702. “If Ever I ___ Leave You” (Camelot)
X2710. He’s gon’ give it to ya
X2711. Mr. ___ (soft drink brand)
X2712. Pull up with a pulley
X2713. Like storing bangers and mash in my
bra*
X2714. “Beep beep” transmission servicer
X2715. “Ha! As I live and breathe”-type
statements*
X2716. Knocks back
X2717. Small edge in some craftmaking
X2718. Cato’s sweet age?
X2719. Dangerous when outside its normal
host, as a virus
X2721. Annual presidential address, for short
X2723. Popular digital library site
X2725. ___-foot-oil
X2727. Jared of Subway and then prison
X2730. Kettle quaff I hate to burn my mouth
with*
X2731. Wayside shelter
X2733. Either ___ the other
X2735. Hwys., for instance
X2739. $100 bill, familiarly
X2741. Japanese “hi” or “very much” (it’s
almost as versatile as “Aloha”)
X2742. ___ lounge
X2743. Covers of a sort.
X2744. Second century’s end
X2745. Fall time (abbr.)
X2746. Swedish actress Rapace of the Millennium
series
X2747. Seriously weathered, as old cars
X2748. Reactions to misdone work, sometimes
X2752. Seeing the USA, perhaps
X2754. Unit of bacon
X2756. Agent may snoop around beast
X2758. Org. associated with school
X2760. Rumpus
X2762. Dragging mood
X2765. Sequel of a sort
X2767. TV’s leather-clad princess
X2768. Way to misstate “socialisms” that
actually means “totalitarianisms”*
X2769. “Think I did? Fine! What’re YOU gonna
do about it?”
X2770. Try to strike
X2771. Netanyahu carrier
X2772. Conducted a tour, e.g.
X2773. Starting work at nine every morn,
e.g.*
X2774. Beam makeup
X2775. [Clued by its anagram at 3192-Down]
X2778. School vacay, away from Eton
X2780. Oater cowboy Tom
X2781. Clock symbol
X2783. “Armchair expert” Shepard
X2785. British area with many an impoverished
standee*
X2786. Sleepover aids, sometimes (sidebar:
bring some kind of pump)*
X2787. Actress Skye and correspondent
Molinares
X2788. “They’re rolling ___ their grave…”
X2789. Like a close neighbor
X2791. Four-millennia-old Syrian city
X2792. Creator of detectives SH and JW and
criminal cad JM*
X2793. Stick one’s ___ (pry)
X2794. Got regular updates from
X2796. 1980s video game console, for short
X2797. Conde Nast magazine
X2798. Rider of the war horse Babieca
X2799. ε
X2800. They were born between 1977 and 1983
X2801. Joan Crawford’s last film
X2802. Alice, to Ralph
X2803. Sampled, as the Tree of Knowledge
X2804. Western hero Lash
X2807. With its anagram at X3249-Down,
non-news headline about the news
X2809. “The Spanish would send you off with a
benediction, as do I”*
X2810. Obliquely
X2811. Elementary particles
X2813. Law grad’s hurdle
X2814. Protected waters
X2815. Animal’s trail
X2817. Provoke a bit*
X2818. Hannibal, to a Roman
X2820. Lady Tigers’ sch.
X2822. Roman square?
X2829. Noted kneeling NFLer
X2833. American’s Swiss bank account, e.g.
X2834. “My loss hurts me, but tomorrow may be
better”
X2835. Connecting link
X2839. Marked, as some ballot choices
X2840. Smollett of Lovecraft Country and
The Burial
X2841. Restores access to
X2842. Prepare a gift, perhaps
X2843. Department in SE France
X2844. Wood chippers?
X2845. “Where It’s At” singer
X2846. Hypnology acronym
X2847. Bonaparte wasn’t able to leave it*
X2849. Honolulu handout
X2851. Exhorts in support
X2853. Useth teeth a bit*
X2854. Property owners subject to claims
X2857. Place where irritating things get
stuck
X2858. Old Testament term of unknown meaning
X2860. Hemispherical home
X2861. Bolt again
X2863. Car named for old Romania
X2869. “Black people are always portrayed to
be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward” speaker*
X2870. Recognizance for release
X2871. French musical pairing
X2873. Attracted, but let’s not insult
romance by saying “romantically” attracted*
X2874. A rap star may claim to be a beast
with them*
X2875. Exceeds one’s Rx
X2876. How the news of its anagram,
X2304-Down, describes the vehicles
X2877. Detective popular on the big and small
screen in the heyday of anagram X2431-Down’s career…so close!
X2878. Title associated with poor attempts at
charm
X2879. Comment to one who almost drops
something valuable (the key word being “almost”)
X2882. “Dean of Impressionist painters”
X2884. 91, to some
X2887. In the money: Well-___
X2889. Germinate, as from a vegetative strip*
X2891. Antisepsis pioneer
X2893. Knuckleheads
X2895. Marks a “SEX” box, e.g.*
X2899. Grand ___: auto race
X2900. To ___ (almost too much)
X2902. Plea in a magazine mailing
X2903. Flirt with a fall
X2904. Allot yourself some me time, or your
work will take this*
X2905. “Follow that car!” vehicle in old
movies
X2906. Particle 270 times the size of an
electron
X2907. Depict in painting or words
X2909. Played, as a sax
X2911. Stimpy, to his foil
X2913. Playfully bite, as your owner’s heels
X2914. Quaternities
X2916. Like a notable Boy Scout troop in 2020
X2918. It takes an ID to get mail there
X2920. Bakery buy
X2922. Hardly addle-pated*
X2926. Failed fudge, maybe
X2927. Foreign, in the U.S. (abbr.)
X2928. ___ Cousins (1964 Presley film)
X2929. Mountaineer’s device
X2930. Already cut, like lumber
X2931. Not streamlined
X2933. “Ugh, my sarape is all dirty! Lucky I
have ___”*
X2935. "So what if they do?"
X2936. 
Org. that protects endangered species
X2939. Peanut butter brand that used to have
a kangaroo mascot
X2943. NY to LA heading
X2945. They might spark when you get your
dander up*
X2947. Its door may open into a more relaxed
area*
X2949. Railroad cars go with them*
X2950. Printing abbreviation.
X2951. Insectivorous plant
X2953. Dead, electrically speaking
X2954. “La Vie ___” (Edith Piaf song)
X2956. Traditional source of glutamates
X2957. View from Berezniki
X2958. “Hearts-and-minds” military missions
X2959. PBJ alternatives
X2960. Team-boosting bellow
X2963. With X3328-Down, anagram that PETA
tried to use to promote veganism in 2020 (it…didn’t work)
X2965. Sarge’s superior
X2966. Mex. ruling party from 1929 to 2000
(RIP that unshakeable majority)*
X2967. Like Cal Ripken in 2002
X2970. Site admin’s concern, briefly
X2971. ETO carrier
X2973. How computers get things done, for
short
X2974. Many a single-gear bicycle
X2975. Adm. Horatio Nelson, for one
X2977. Visionary solution?
X2979. Increased
X2982. Gambling game for three to six
X2985. Prefix with ology meaning “folk tales”
X2988. Fleer competitor
X2991. 3190
X2992. Formless life
X2993. Walk it off, e.g.
X2995. Struggles (for)
X2996. Stiff-upper-lip chap
X2998. “You have got to be kidding me!”
X3000. Like some punk hairstyles
X3001. Crop-damaging downpour
X3005. In ___ form
X3007. Allstate competitor
X3010. She makes bards orate*
X3011. Stayed longer than planned
X3013. A Nightmare ___ Street
X3015. Yardbird
X3017. Hazard
X3020. Form of child abuse common among drama
addicts
X3021. Out of sight
X3022. Cicero’s 761
X3025. Annoy extremely
X3026. Voters for the 21st Amendment
X3027. Shown as it happens
X3029. Early English colonizers
X3030. GeForce producer
X3031. Arlington and Alexandria are in it
X3033. What old TV stops the program for*
X3034. Store-bought hair
X3036. “This lit my ignorance up,” for short*
X3038. Big blimp, for short
X3040. Soccer 0
X3042. Cross stroke on a letter
X3044. Zap, perhaps
X3046. Food whose name means “little puree”
X3048. Thread the Nikes
X3050. Decorate flashily, informally
X3052. Famed Trojan
X3054. Money for Monet, e.g.
X3057. SSN or EIN
X3059. Half an hour, on a ship
X3060. “___ romantic?”
X3061. Supernatural reason to worry
X3063. Canon parts
X3064. Well-suited?
X3065. “This is responding to” signs in chats
X3066. Estoy, ___, esta
X3067. Williams and others
X3069. On ___
X3070. Near-synonym to its anagram but
focused on the hiring policy for the whole company
X3071. Hightails it outta there
X3072. Former Durex condom line
X3073. Stock opportunity, in brief
X3074. Certain San Joaquin Valley city
X3076. “I am the dragon's daughter, and I
swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming” speaker
X3078. Proctor-___
X3080. Pit sight
X3082. Point to grab to open a box
X3084. Hit ___: get hung up
X3086. “Like I ___ hole in…”
X3088. Pistons’ home?
X3092. Calls up again
X3093. Shopper at Aldi? IDK, not many people
who have this first name*
X3094. Classified notice, e.g.
X3095. Kink, for short
X3096. Outfield lyric: “I just want to ___
your love tonight”
X3097. They’re found near churches
X3098. Abridge
X3099. Hot-balloon connector
X3101. Handy composer to know*
X3102. Like a decision when the ayes are
unanimous*
X3106. “Please let us know ___ interest”
X3108. Seasonal ritual sometimes featuring
reeds*
X3109. “Hurray for me!”
X3110. Pool entry that involves no rungs or
steps
X3111. Most clues make it a lead-in to “chi”*
X3113. Marked for retail
X3114. Drawers’ area at school
X3115. Was exultant
X3116. Branded by admen, e.g.*
X3118. Large, like a check
X3119. Gene carriers
X3121. Impatient-sounding tweet matched to
X3718-Across by Anagramatron
X3123. Russell Crowe’s Gladiator role,
or formidable horse from Tangled
X3124. Summary of its anagram, X2504-Down
X3127. Lets evil people know where to find
X3131. His most famous play features three
people under arrest (and dead)*
X3135. Convinces to buy more
X3139. “Get over yourself, egomaniac” tweet
matched to X3737-Across by Anagramatron
X3141. Dashboard instruments, briefly
X3144. Not a la classical*
X3145. Predeterminate
X3147. Pol. place
X3150. One might guess a medical case if this
expression is shown*
X3151. Periods of time
X3152. The Dead Milkmen’s “Ringo Buys a ___”
X3153. Phrase repeated after “To everything
there is a season”
X3154. Watch word
X3155. Some Election Day surveys
X3156. “Slowly, we make progress”
X3157. “It’s ___!” (“Don’t miss it!”)
X3158. Proof of cereal purchase
X3160. Symbol used in spherical coordinates
X3162. Like disciplinarians
X3163. “From Me ___” (The Beatles)
X3164. Hotly contested political properties
X3165. Game with a lot of stopping
X3166. Whisky distiller Walker
X3167. Honda’s robot of the 2000s and 2010s
X3168. Incentive to buy
X3170. I Am Not Spock autobiographer
X3172. Quiet addendum to “We give all the
money as alms to the poor!”*
X3173. City districts
X3175. Made more alluring
X3176. Descendant of the Columbia Gramophone
Company and the Gramophone Company
X3178. Shakespearean scrub
X3180. Angered
X3181. “It’s…that thing, a…a…I’m on to it,
give me a sec…” problem*
X3183. There’s nowhere to go from it but down
X3187. Action film?
X3190. Reason to name this statement’s
anagram at X2654-Down
X3191. “Does the name Rina G. ___ bell?”*
X3192. [Clue for its anagram at X2775-Down]
X3193. Solid effigies*
X3194. Inside position for a racer
X3199. Speaking starling
X3201. Ancient Greek city with a mythical
lion
X3206. Confusticates
X3208. Complain
X3210. Sizes up
X3212. Burner you and your lab partner should
keep neat*
X3214. Falling Down license-plate-named protagonist
X3216. Slight market slide
X3217. First word in a Bobby Darin hit
X3218. Took a giant step
X3219. Forfeit again
X3221. “Appreci8d”
X3222. It sends out lots of streams
X3229. Rapper with the 2019 #1 hit “Old Town
Road”
X3231. Detect, as a rat?
X3233. Where declining things go
X3235. Character on Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine
X3236. Morning, noon, and night, in meds
X3238. Olympics category
X3240. Van Gogh’s 1888-89 home
X3243. Former draft deferment status
X3246. Correct lag in (one audio track), say*
X3247. Certain campuses (abbr.)
X3248. Nation with a twelve-mile coast,
informally
X3249. See X2807-Down
X3252. Reloop used tobacco leaves to make
this*
X3254. Surly churl
X3256. Solver’s aid
X3258. Nic Balthazar’s autistic-gamer film
X3260. Porcine scene
X3262. Constant staggering may be a sign of
it
X3263. Red letter, in early books
X3264. Grey’s Anatomy actor Washington and athletes Likely
and Thomas
X3266. Long enough that a lifespan seems like
a nose twitch*
X3267. Mercury or Saturn
X3268. Homer, with none on
X3269. Not just mere superstars
X3270. “…inhumanity ___” (Burns)
X3275. Like one of the marriages depicted on Modern
Family
X3276. Credit info corp.
X3278. “You ___ like a rose, beautiful and
thorny”*
X3279. Inspires dismay, like going to slap Pa
Clampett in the face*
X3280. Backtrack?
X3281. Grooms’ garb
X3283. Vegas tie-in?
X3284. Got to third base, perhaps
X3285. Nature or Frontline
X3286. Draw forth
X3287. Formal wear
X3288. Fix parts that sound tongue-tied*
X3289. Symmetrical blockage
X3291. Women’s shapewear brand
X3295. Wasted gas, maybe
X3298. “Knowledge…makes a ___ me” (Keats)
X3302. Las Vegas performer Vulcano
X3303. Tai chi instructor
X3305. What a Greek napper catches
X3306. Confession subjects
X3309. Big cheese
X3310. Worker seen in older crosswords*
X3313. Zombie-survival game with a macho
mood*
X3315. They made a split decision
X3317. Admits none of one’s true feelings*
X3320. Role on Capt. Kirk’s bridge for
Nichelle Nichols and Zoe Saldana
X3322. Arrives, as a bus or train
X3324. Snappy starter?
X3327. Take off, as a layer
X3328. See X2963-Down
X3330. Warning on video games with lots of
gore
X3332. Like a pangolin
X3333. Like a legal pad
X3334. Canada’s largest prov. in area
X3336. Fight ___-holds-barred battle: really
give it everything
X3337. Man’s title (abbr.)
X3338. Nickelodeon show whose protagonist has
a football-shaped head
X3339. Saturated with
X3340. Traditionally male
X3341. Creature plentiful in Wisconsin
X3342. Short hopper?
X3344. Made like TAs during lectures*
X3345. Article in La Presse
X3346. Oaxacan outlaw
X3347. No longer walled out in the wild
alone*
X3348. Most of a mile, on the track
X3349. Commercially popular
X3350. She might have a wee lamb*
X3352. Kind of alt-aircraft (abbr.)*
X3354. Use an e-cig
X3356. Online cash-back offers
X3358. Source of sax concert tix*
X3359. Time Warner Cable competitor
X3361. Irish county seat
X3364. Place to kneel and contemplate what
separates us from the apes*
X3365. Playful strike between pals*
X3366. Quacker
X3367. Tennis champ with an AIDS foundation
X3368. Indians, on the scoreboard
X3369. Gridiron positions (abbr.)
X3370. Consume, having done in*
X3371. Vacation time in Buenos Aires
X3372. Like some coding systems
X3373. Gated intersections, briefly
X3377. ___ Hope (‘70s-’80s soap)
X3379. Sticks around?
X3383. Tchaikovsky feature?
X3385. “Lovely” Beatles ticket writer
X3387. Uses rest and unconsciousness to heal
X3390. Rank above Pfc.
X3392. Small intestine section
X3393. Big portal
X3395. Entertaining thoughts
X3396. Roper, e.g.
X3398. Alexandra Feodorovna’s husband, for
one
X3399. Attention-getting shouts
X3401. Classifier of living things
X3402. Intaglio gem
X3404. Buying a car maxed mine out*
X3407. Piano practice pieces
X3409. Grayish-brown
X3413. Adverbial phrase that loads an
additional factor into consideration*
X3415. Somewhat less crying
X3419. Airport of the SW US
X3421. Deprived of feeling.
X3422. Assumed truth
X3423. Many or few in “the needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the few”
X3424. SI predecessor
X3425. Literal meaning of “homonym”
X3426. Fight ___ of attrition
X3427. One leg ___ time
X3432. Highest draft status
X3433. Start of the wk.
X3435. Nymph wed to Paris
X3436. Hovel’s “landscaping tool”*
X3437. “Finished? Fools, I haven’t even ___”
X3438. Gave a thumbs-up
X3440. Money of Rumania
X3442. “‘Dubious claims?’ What, you callin’
me ___?”
X3444. Tune associated with Beverly Hills
Cop and Crazy Frog
X3446. “I didn’t expect THAT s**t!”
X3448. ___ legomenon (word that appears just
once in a given corpus—like this one)
X3453. Like open scissors
X3459. Marched into one’s heart*
X3461. Person of great achievement
X3462. Derby distance, maybe
X3463. Object of Androcles’ beneficence
X3464. “___ closely watched flower/blossoms
the wrong color” (Kay Ryan)
X3465. Makes seem small
X3466. Unprotected
X3467. Formal proposal start
X3468. Advanced HS exam
X3469. “Honey do” list items
X3470. Non-authoritarian cop,
sixteen-year-old constructor, cat that lets you rub his belly*
X3471. Beggar’s-ticks pod painful to rub
(var.)*
X3472. Applications
X3473. “I’d never say ‘I do’ to,” in Latin
poetry*
X3475. Name-dropper’s problem
X3476. Enraged
X3477. Term for three millennia ago
X3478. Providing local revenue
X3479. “Mona___” (art fakes)
X3480. Glocca ending
X3481. Vodka brand that, despite its name, is
not Russian
X3482. “That’s what appearances would have
you believe, anyway!”
X3483. Way off the interstate
X3484. Cartoon cry
X3485. Perrier and Evian
X3486. Necessity when playing hardball
X3488. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of ___ (Newbery Medal-winning book of 1972)
X3490. Prime Minister Solberg and
mathematician Schneider Hoover (knowing both of these earns you fifty points)*
X3491. Real estate finder*
X3494. 1989 Madonna album
X3497. Snit’s cousin
X3501. Very small, informally
X3502. Jr. jr. leader at camp
X3503. Con’s confines
X3505. Medleys
X3506. Small bit of video?
X3507. Curse, to King Arthur
X3515. To her ___, a jolly thriving wooer:
"Richard III"
X3517. Bean or certain capital city
X3519. Once, casually
X3521. Federico of the Clinton cabinet
X3522. Survivor in Norse Ragnarök
X3524. “Frankly,” in texts
X3526. “Is that an oar ___ paddle?”*
X3527. Child’s toy with a pop
X3528. Cost to stick a promo in a feed for
TV*
X3529. Rabbit foot
X3530. Chromosome stuff
X3531. Little, to The Proclaimers
X3532. Able to extrude so, so gracefully*
X3534. String quartet part
X3535. Sound mind, in a phrase
X3539. Police actions likely to attract
starers*
X3541. XVII × XVII
X3542. Late ‘60s and early ‘70s, politically
X3544. “You think any lobe of any brain would
believe that?!”*
X3548. Too much
X3550. “Now ___ that just perfect?”
X3552. Nana’s sibling
X3555. Jesuit school founded in 1852
X3557. Shrill sound
X3559. Gp. bound by a purpose
X3561. Patch the lawn
X3565. Piscivorous bird
X3567. Disturbia actor LaBeouf
X3569. Exits a 747 for luggage claim and
sleep*
X3572. One-eighty from NNW
X3574. Jake Paul’s is sub-par*
X3576. Make lace
X3579. Taking top priority
X3581. Nana Quindlen who wrote Life in the
60s*
X3583. Havana coin
X3584. Not one to go solo
X3586. Barley product
X3587. Doc’s passalong
X3588. Thin pretzel rods, on packaging
X3593. “Get it off get it off GET IT OFF!!!”
X3595. Richard Gere flop about a fake Hugh
Hefner memoir
X3598. Talked ___ streak
X3599. Involving fixed-heel bindings, in
winter sports
X3602. Inquiring interjections
X3603. Practice naturism
X3604. First of two baseball games
X3606. Bones of Sleepy Hollow
X3609. It comes in Irish, English, Irish red
and white, and Gordon varieties
X3615. Pullet Surprise, e.g.
X3619. Good and evil works in God’s eyes*
X3620. Disavow again
X3621. How a cute animal online might address
you
X3622. Causes to resound
X3623. Require earplugs, as a baler*
X3624. A Call ___: Group promoting healthy
masculinity
X3625. Facebook post or Nook novel
X3626. A few months after his death, at age
twenty, he won BET’s Best New Hip-Hop Artist award (October 2018)
X3627. Perspiring
X3628. Ice cream brand (with “Dazs”)
X3629. One place it’s more likely “ei” than
“ie”
X3631. N-E-W-S directors?
X3632. Operatic solo
X3635. University founder Stanford
X3636. Astronaut’s hazard
X3637. Did a hairdresser’s job, maybe
X3638. Doesn’t quite go so far as
X3639. Sophie, ___, and Belle (1996 musical)
X3640. 2011 NCAA basketball champs
X3641. Boulangerie item
X3643. Whizzed
X3645. Junk dealer
X3648. Joins a wrestling match
X3650. ORD and ATL, e.g.
X3652. Hockey-puck shapes
X3653. Hunt ’neath his means of support in Mission
Impossible*
X3654. Sugar Loaf site
X3655. Went over a scene or play from start
to finish, in theater lingo
X3656. Kind of cheer that’s not, really
X3657. To perform, en Paris
X3658. Notorious slapdash content farm
X3660. Inspector played by John Thaw
X3661. Adds to a 401(k)
X3662. Intel processor
X3663. More totally tubular
X3664. Hero of an early French ballad
X3665. “Heels are ___ invention designed to
make a woman’s butt look smaller” (She’s the Man)
X3666. Improv some sign language
X3668. Essential company figure
X3670. Crown with gems
X3671. ACH-enabled wage
X3672. Square-dance call
X3673. Just ___ on the map
X3674. Like Rosa Diaz, Captain Jack Harkness,
and Kalinda Sharma
X3675. Drug test?
X3677. Prove enough to fill
X3679. Frequently used scale (in shorthand)
X3681. “Groove Is in the Heart” DJ/producer
Towa
X3683. Come to ___ in the road
X3684. Plot of land?
X3686. “Others might be intimidated, but not
me!”
X3687. Webzine headquartered in San Francisco
X3691. Modest reply to kudos
X3693. LXIX × VIII
X3694. Hwy. that’s seen many a US tire*
X3695. What the X stands for, in cartology
X3699. Guffaws, a la Variety
X3701. On top of everything else
X3706. Lady Gaga as a coarse mole with two
lines, Robert Downey Jr. as a confused tourist who observes the action
wordlessly*
X3708. Beginner
X3710. Crackle’s predecessor
X3713. Votes for passage
X3716. Do lines
X3717. “Farewell, Fabius!”
X3719. Letters by a left-pointing arrow
X3720. Kind of scan
X3721. Annual publications (abbr.)
X3722. Adventurous org.
X3723. Severely criticizes
X3725. Earn $200 in Monopoly, possibly
X3728. Oil can letters
X3730. Offshoot’s angle
X3734. Mitch’s influence-peddling wife
X3736. What the X stands in for, at the
bottom of a contract
X3738. Round letters
X3739. Watt alternative showing total amount
of power in a system, for short
X3740. Toledo that
X3741. Fort Worth clock setting
X3743. Photo ___ (events for shooting)
X3744. Parts of Ali’s rec.
X3746. New actinobacteria formed on the
“skin” of the old
X3747. Almost passed a rival
X3751. Constituent of steel and cast iron
X3754. Lover of Iseult
X3755. Month and a half, roughly
X3757. State of incoherent rage
X3759. Year George V took the throne
X3762. Y-shaped floor lamp
X3772. Taft’s vice president
X3776. Considered best, in slang
X3778. Fish order
X3783. Fraction of a gig
X3787. Shelley poem that could be said on a
gravestone for Keats*
X3789. First word in the name of the Western
Hemisphere’s most populous city
X3790. Serious issue for boxers, footballers,
wrestlers, etc.*
X3791. Times to start new calendarios
X3792. World’s largest volcano: Mauna ___
X3793. Sown hither and yon
X3794. Bagel topper that’s been through a
masher*
X3795. Occult gathering
X3796. Adjective for an adze or tomahawk
X3798. Peaty expanses
X3799. What the X- stands for, in superhero
teams
X3801. Bust officers
X3802. Touched one’s tail to the ground and
stopped flapping*
X3803. Mexico’s ___ Villa
X3804. One expressing relief
X3805. Lifter’s occupational hazard
X3806. Stuff in a tent
X3807. Without help
X3808. Eluded drawn-out lawsuits, in a way*
X3809. Like dams
X3811. Key of mass Bach completed just before
his death
X3813. Leia’s family name
X3814. Pheasant family female
X3815. French secret agent (or, with -age,
secret agent work)
X3816. “Better safe than sorry” and such
X3817. Past tense that anagrams its present
tense
X3818. Like some horse bedding
X3819. Art, in the current era*
X3821. What the × stands for, in arithmetic
X3822. Wooden pail part
X3823. SNL last name
X3824. Nelson Mandela’s native tongue
X3825. Winemaker’s trough
X3826. Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 ___
Minor
X3827. One-named singer with “Tik Tok”
X3828. “I made you a cookie but I ___ it”
(meme)
X3829. Pedro’s lucky number
X3830. Remove viscid material from
X3831. Hindu honorific
X3832. An elevated one can signify an
infection*
X3833. Sodas whose cans shine on M*A*S*H*
X3834. Recurring drug-running villain in The
Fast and the Furious franchise
X3835. Alp-climbing gear with a point*
X3836. They are no small things*
X3837. Ecclesiastical addr.
X3839. Like “park the car,” to a New
Englander?
X3840. All violinmakers aim at this ideal*
X3841. Year the Wright Brothers created the
first military airplane
X3842. Water pipe (var.)
X3843. “…license, learner permit ___-driver
ID”
X3844. Film part
X3845. Mayan ruins of Guatemala
X3846. Graph component
X3850. Dude with more muscle than
coordination
X3852. County of north Ireland
X3853. The first Pa Clampett
X3854. La Rive Gauche view
X3855. “When ___ young warthog!…” (The
Lion King)
X3856. Vice of Sarge from Beetle Bailey*
X3857. Lazy, in archaic language
X3859. “All systems ___” (phrase popularized
60 years ago, re: the space race)
X3860. Off-road racer of a sort
X3861. English liquid measure
X3862. Curse of blah design*
X3863. ___ plume
X3864. Build over time
X3865. Cash attachment
X3866. “Get ___, this leaf I found is not
that interesting”*
X3867. Rehab function
X3868. Druggie’s supply
X3869. Common legal phrase
X3870. See eye ___
X3871. Nantucket, e.g. (abbr.)
X3872. Elevator’s path
X3873. Have ___ to (be unattached)
X3874. Mongst kin?
X3875. Doctor Zhivago producer Carlo
X3876. Passe features in non-church
buildings*
X3877. Big name in Mideast history
X3878. Where shier hobbits remain*
X3879. What the X stands for, in this
secti—wait, “X” isn’t at the start of this word! You’d have to jumble around
the letters to make that happen! There’s been a ___
X3880. Out of the west
X3881. Type of vision Superman has
X3888. One-third of a 1970 Pearl Harbor film
X3889. Mini stream
X3891. Emulate Dennis Miller
X3893. ___ errand
X3894. ___ Trophy: biennial European golf
event
X3895. Medical drama adverb
X3905. Intercept, in Islington
X3906. It might have a Nev. address*
X3907. It’ll blow your mine
X3910. Conductance unit
X3912. Toxic gas, to a chemist
X3915. US reserve fliers
X3916. “I won’t see your texts for a while,”
for short
X3918. Most active tee time, in Tours?*
X3920. Functional but really cheap vessel*
X3922. Commandment possessive
X3925. While most are called black or red,
the pharaoh variety is tan*
X3926. “Gumbo” is its yearbook
X3927. It moves a boat
X3929. B’way-goer’s purchase
Across Stitches
X258-Y212. Plot-driven opera
X533-Y506. “___ Neva B Me” (Lil’ Mo)
X946-Y888. Burst of ignition upon entry of a
bolide
X1288-Y1234. He might say “I drive with God as my
copilot” (in Latin)*
X1835-Y1762. Puts at an even score
X2362-Y2255. Back-of-the-comic-book toy
X2644-Y2534. Celebrations of womanhood
X3019-Y2902. Voldemort’s likely victims if he ever
claimed the world (beyond just Harry and his friends)
X3397-Y3258. Luxury stationery/diary brand
X3742-Y3584. Recovered from fast