Ubercross Abecedaria Z

Across

Z1. ___-text: what you see with a mouseover or broken image link

Z4. Nonbelligerent mil. area

Z7. Meds checker, briefly

Z10. Monaco, for one

Z19. Ending with brain or brawn

Z23. Game for three

Z27. Smoke-filled venue, often

Z35. Press it to fix a spreadsheet with a stylus

Z42. Repressed with difficulty

Z49. Pizzeria’s point person

Z57. Platform bought by Facebook for $19 billion

Z65. Shepherds’ charges, or submissive sorts

Z73. Patterns of experience, in psychology

Z81. “And one more thing”

Z85. Negative correlatives

Z87. Proof of innocence

Z89. Islamic weight

Z91. Stretchy and likely artificial

Z93. Bk. labeled Literature of the World with samples, most likely

Z94. Something to do to a shoulder or the brakes

Z96. Make arrangements for one’s fast break

Z98. Savory starters

Z101. Showing the faintest resemblance to

Z106. Within reach, as a goal

Z108. “Well, consider…”

Z110. Totally, as with “stuffed” or “schnockered”

Z112. Audible offerings

Z114. Kind of guerrilla strategy

Z116. Udder part

Z117. “I’m being real with you here!”

Z118. On the Waterfront quote I keep thinking is from Rocky

Z121. Usefulness per se, as in a pull quote

Z124. MIT Chapel architect

Z125. Essentially done, with results about to be declared

Z127. Process of becoming charged

Z128. Broadway play that criticized Vietnam

Z129. “You got it, Admiral”

Z130. Biscuit

Z132. Writer’s distortion of grammar, say

Z134. When the hike may start?

Z135. Changing it is like making a camera squint

Z137. “Checkmate, loser!”

Z138. Napster peer

Z139. Lead Nazi-hunter in Inglorious Basterds

Z140. Otologists

Z142. “You don’t need to remind me!”

Z144. Sell at a pawnshop

Z145. Making very very angry, or offering perfume to calm anger with

Z146. Like the Clean Air Act

Z148. They need to be good with pistols, épées, and horses

Z150. Visibly unbalanced?

Z152. Whinnies

Z153. Mykonos liqueur

Z154. Descartes’ deed

Z155. Kind of global confusion

Z156. Like most Thor-worshippers

Z157. In that place

Z158. Self-images

Z159. Pearls Before Swine specialty

Z160. 1968 200-meter run gold medalist Tommie

Z161. Less than average tide

Z162. Captain Hook’s sidekick

Z163. Terrier type

Z164. Close off

Z165. Jocks and joggers, for short

Z166. Kendrick Lamar conscious hip-hop album

Z167. Rocks with metal

Z168. The previous meeting, informally

Z169. The EE Football Team, as they were nicknamed when I started making this puzzle

Z170. Get the midnight munchies

Z171. Powerful men in the Middle East

Z172. Oil leakage

Z174. Dist.

Z175. QB targets

Z176. It’s heard at choir practice

Z179. Fish that resembles an alligator

Z180. Ugly beast through and through

Z181. Hail ___…

Z182. Not-so-new workers

Z187. Emulate a jaeger

Z188. Soupy sounds?

Z193. Cloak-wearing Star Wars race

Z197. “What dish o’ poison ___ dressed him!” (Twelfth Night)

Z203. Caliphate commander

Z207. Pixar output, briefly

Z209. The three in an inning?

Z212. Aussie marsupial, for short

Z215. Over-the-hill boxer

Z222. Diva Carey

Z228. Calculator components, for short

Z231. Far from specific

Z236. Radioactivity unit

Z240. Neurotic toon pooch

Z243. Sty : hogs :: ___ : horses

Z249. Can. divisions

Z254. Hawaiian fish, on some menus

Z256. This moment in Madrid

Z261. Koranic chapter (var.)

Z262. (The) Big Lebowski

Z266. Rubik’s puzzle

Z269. Prefix appealing to US buyers

Z270. Slangy starting point

Z271. Backboard for baroques

Z272. Writer of animal stories

Z273. Business’s repository of technical knowledge

Z274. Drew Carey’s TV nemesis

Z275. Word to a baby

Z277. Suffix with pageant or ballad

Z278. Completely burnt up

Z279. Into actuality, to Agrippina

Z280. Report of discovery

Z281. Soothing succulent

Z282. “With the stroke of ___…”

Z283. Silent screen vamp Bara

Z285. “Be serious, now”

Z286. Chow down on

Z287. Gray of Silver Spoons

Z288. Morning break time, perhaps

Z289. “Both Hands” songstress DiFranco

Z290. Transuded

Z291. Pirates’ favorite letters?

Z292. Fraternal org. that became unisex in 1995

Z293. Wakened

Z294. Parable of a motivation gap between canines?

Z300. “I need to ship enough alcohol to stock a fraternity for a whole season”?

Z305. Dance setlist?

Z313. Deer fellows

Z314. Hipster’s exclamation

Z315. Bladder trouble, for short

Z316. Visit on vacation

Z317. Do taxes, take out the trash, eat healthily, e.g.

Z318. Guitar, old style

Z319. Influential cliques

Z320. Lamb-in-a-pita food

Z321. Types of rhododendrons

Z323. Online finance firm

Z324. Exotic honeymoon, perhaps

Z325. Tends to a minor issue?

Z326. 1/6 goal, e.g.

Z327. Karate derivative

Z329. “Here Comes Santa Claus” singer Gene

Z330. “Later,” in Leeds

Z331. Technique common among people who’d call themselves “assigned male at birth”

Z332. Scandinavian king

Z333. Feminine title (abbr.)

Z334. Takes off

Z335. Blondes’ promoter

Z336. Destination proclamation

Z339. You need only scrape the surface to get it

Z342. In a way that’s just embarrassing to think about

Z344. Thou, to Therese

Z345. “Superman (It’s Not ___)”

Z346. Talks with so. Little. Interest.

Z347. Cuts back

Z348. Mobile-to-Cleveland dir.

Z349. Start to charge?

Z350. Days ___ Lives

Z351. Cheese units

Z354. Positive response to “Are you okay?”

Z356. Savings counterpart

Z357. Tax collectors in Anglo-Saxon England

Z358. A college at Oxford

Z359. The last word in fashion

Z360. ___ Bernina (highest peak in the Eastern Alps)

Z361. College subj.

Z362. Immature herring

Z363. Only Baum book printed with colored pages, with The

Z365. Accent sound?

Z366. Phrase of agreement after “Yes, she is…”

Z367. ___ Fell Pike (England’s highest point)

Z368. RR terminal

Z369. Corrosion-resistant alloy of nickel, copper, iron and manganese

Z370. Not previously seen

Z371. Daily double and trifecta

Z372. Movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant

Z373. “Well, what do we have here!”

Z374. False move

Z376. Vertically challenged

Z377. Hawaiian coffee beans

Z378. Sexual drive

Z380. It’s a gas on Broadway

Z381. Couple’s milestone, for short

Z382. Aids an arsonist

Z383. Small-strip aircraft acronym

Z384. Get clobbered

Z386. Give a smack?

Z387. Like a typical day in LA

Z388. Barbarian of old

Z389. Shortening of a sort

Z390. Campaign setting for Moshe Dayan

Z392. Done, quickly?

Z393. Gauzy fabrics

Z396. Secure by impalement again

Z397. ___ The Millers (2013 film)

Z398. Hitler’s course

Z399. There’s no place like it

Z400. Pen with a hexagonal body

Z401. Cinema sound system

Z402. Statue or cup

Z403. Diving gear

Z404. Oscar winner for Michael Clayton

Z405. Utterly ruin

Z406. Salted-bred morsel

Z408. Exclamation Captain Hook, surprisingly, never used

Z409. Brynner of Anastasia

Z410. Mao Zedong confederate Biao

Z411. Lamented, with “for”

Z412. Charles __ the Hunt (classic painting of a royal)

Z413. Reaction source

Z414. Humber feeder

Z415. Hear the case again

Z416. ___ II Men

Z417. ___ faineants

Z418. Copter features

Z419. Gets off the ground

Z420. “Ah…ah…AH…” follower

Z421. Bowl over

Z422. End ___

Z423. Representative Linda or mad scientist Rick

Z425. Quantity of paper

Z426. Field boundaries

Z427. Metric increments

Z428. Smokey ___ (Broadway hit locale)

Z429. Tallow sources

Z430. “And how ___ the wise man? As the fool” (Ecclesiastes 2:16)

Z431. Thinks a lot of

Z433. Flying mammal

Z434. Poetic contraction

Z435. Pop culture collectibles

Z438. Piece of intimate wear

Z439. “Vertigo” lead singer

Z440. Dip ___ in: prepare to swim

Z441. “Dang skippy”

Z442. Then, to Macron

Z443. Staffs a show

Z444. Scorpions song “No Pain No ___”

Z445. Big name in online merchandising

Z446. Selfies, in a few words?

Z447. Cap that originated in Morocco

Z448. Ending for a human or planet?

Z449. Group attaining power via bullets, not ballots

Z450. Makes clogged

Z451. Pin for men

Z452. Company that totally marketing e-cigs to teens and paid for it

Z453. Big balls

Z454. Shipping areas

Z455. Declarations in a popular Mattel card game

Z456. Wire wraps

Z458. African talisman

Z459. Patch up, perhaps

Z460. Jackson 5 tune “simple as do re mi”

Z461. Santa ___ (neighbor of Lompoc, California)

Z462. “Wrestling Observer” Dave

Z465. ___-memes (ourselves, if we are French)

Z466. Curriculum item (abbr.)

Z468. Farewell to Caesar?

Z469. You need to change them smoothly on your way to work

Z470. Radar ping

Z471. Agent of evil

Z472. Brannigan who parodies Captain Kirk

Z473. Achieve artfully

Z475. Maker of “2 in 1” pet products

Z476. Getting mad at the news from 6-7 and relaxing with the family from 7-9, e.g.

Z479. Mannequin section

Z480. Exhibits in abundance, as confidence

Z481. Hill workers

Z482. Large weight

Z483. The Admiral Benbow ___

Z484. Tofu base

Z485. “Sacre bleu!”

Z488. Sheep shouts

Z489. Five fluid ounces

Z490. Rah, in Renteria

Z491. Broadway bigwig (abbr.)

Z492. Gasoline, kerosene, etc.

Z494. Allergists’ discipline

Z495. Spelling in TV production

Z496. Prancing mythical deity

Z497. Satirization

Z498. Voight et al.

Z499. Kingdom Hearts baddie

Z500. “You Know I’m ___” (Ice Cube)

Z501. Iberian ladies

Z502. Closet supply

Z503. “Does ___ any better than this?”

Z504. Janet of Clinton’s Cabinet

Z505. Arguments for theses

Z507. Grunt after impact

Z508. Little pinion

Z510. Wallow in disappointment

Z511. “I think that’s stupid!”

Z512. AT&T or AOL

Z513. Release a crew

Z514. Spices

Z515. Electronic surveillance gp.

Z516. Handsfree arcade game, for short

Z519. Narcotic

Z520. Fictional creator of The Girlie Show on 30 Rock

Z522. Spectrometer feature

Z523. Elton John song about a beloved brother with PTSD

Z524. Yellow in white?

Z525. Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” album

Z527. Women’s group often numbering thirteen

Z528. Long and Lewis

Z529. Spoke effusively

Z531. CXVI × X

Z532. Old methods of conflict resolution

Z533. “Remind me: how does this work, ___?”

Z534. 1996 family movie with a 2021 sequel

Z536. Organ that can hear an organ

Z537. Really little

Z538. Unnerves

Z541. Caribbean and Caspian

Z542. Designer of America’s flag

Z543. Private car?

Z544. “Can you put an address on that?”

Z546. Offered for feedback

Z547. Spoken, like some agreements

Z548. Star of a Wheaties box, when she went by Bruce

Z549. Weighted to immobility

Z550. First of three consecutive Greek letters that rhyme

Z551. Speaks irreverently?

Z552. Some minors have fake ones

Z553. Vinegar dispenser

Z554. Breed of shorthaired cat

Z555. More crude and vulgar

Z557. Well-known hill climber

Z558. Hurdy-___

Z559. Muscle fiber

Z560. ___ off (foists upon)

Z561. What Rosie the Riveter exposed

Z563. Full of words people can’t take back, e.g.

Z564. Avatar or date

Z565. Kool-___ drinkers: fanatical believers

Z566. Pound repeatedly

Z567. Winter warmer

Z570. First two words of some political yard signs

Z571. Army div. officer

Z572. Gilda of the original SNL cast

Z575. Socialism’s founder

Z576. Touchwood

Z577. Not exactly thoroughbreds

Z578. Swerves at least twice

Z580. Oddly whimsical

Z581. Grammy-winning Erykah

Z582. Well maintained

Z584. Bedroom slipper

Z585. Mender of boots

Z586. Broadcast channel, e.g.

Z587. Kind of pipe or pigeon

Z588. Stape (née Brown) on Coronation Street

Z589. Numerical suffixes

Z590. Transfusion amount

Z591. Fall evidence on a snowy slope

Z594. Part of a shoe

Z595. 1970s Ford

Z596. Dangerous cargo, for short

Z600. Ending with transform

Z601. Others, in Orizaba

Z604. “(All systems) optimal”

Z605. Californian wine region

Z606. “Behind Blue Eyes” band, to fans

Z607. Scariest part of a wolf

Z608. (The) entertainment industry, informally

Z609. Light units (abbr.)

Z610. March master John Philip ___

Z611. News summary, for short

Z612. Those who put you in your place?

Z613. Bed with bugs?

Z614. With “a,” what an objectified person feels like

Z616. Mille ___ (part of Quebec with a rhyming name)

Z617. Jeopardy “Pick me!” machines

Z619. Publisher ___-Davis

Z620. Professor’s deg.

Z621. Santa’s little helper

Z622. Zhang in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha

Z623. Place of imprisonment in book and film

Z624. Combat area

Z625. Either of two arm muscles

Z626. George Gershwin’s “Tee-___-Um-Bum-Bo”

Z627. T.J. Hooker actor Adrian

Z628. Sitar expert Shankar

Z629. Chachi’s sitcom cousin

Z630. Moselle’s capital

Z631. Did a decorator’s job

Z633. Settles down

Z634. Mark up, maybe

Z635. Backup oxen for tough jobs, e.g.

Z636. Singer Cohn

Z637. Writer who went through Hell for his masterpiece

Z638. Add a burst of sparkle

Z639. Errr…hero?…of A Clockwork Orange

Z640. Town-level, for short

Z641. “This ___ test”

Z642. Merlin, supposedly

Z643. Home of The Sopranos

Z644. Wall Street optimist

Z646. Apartment off the ground floor

Z647. Blood line?

Z648. First dynasty to unify China

Z649. “How delightful!”

Z651. Vision of sugar plums dancing in one’s head, e.g.

Z652. Like a game where one’s gain is always someone else’s loss

Z654. With Z2877-Across, a self-descriptive statement?

Z672. Vast frozen expanses

Z674. Loudly confronts

Z675. Handyman

Z677. Name that means “sea strength” (and rhymes with “gale”)

Z678. Footlong blood vessels

Z679. Return of the Jedi’s green-skinned dancer

Z680. Doing a Madoff

Z681. Checks one’s age

Z682. Down-times

Z683. Bring back to the team

Z684. Nocturnal flutterers

Z685. Not stale, as chips

Z686. Talk ___ (Pedro Almodovar film)

Z687. Chimpanzee psychologist played by Kim Hunter in Planet of the Apes

Z688. One of Bugs’s antagonizers, familiarly

Z689. “Am ___ job?” (careerist’s question)

Z690. Directional sign

Z691. Puts in the microwave

Z692. “Are You the ___?” (cult MTV show)

Z693. Tony Stark’s car brand (you’d think he’d just build his own)

Z694. “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” poet

Z695. Come to terms

Z696. “NO RIGHT TURN ___”

Z697. Atlanta Braves’ div.

Z698. Intro, in journalese

Z699. Fasten, in a way

Z700. Baja blue

Z701. Guerra opposite

Z702. Land in the Seine

Z703. 1980s’ supermodel’s supermodel Crawford

Z704. Plays a jazz offshoot developed in the 1940s

Z705. Mount St. ___

Z706. Tranquility, for one

Z707. Something a commercial printer might suggest

Z709. ___ fide: real

Z710. Steam room alternative

Z712. ABBA’s “___ the Music Speak”

Z713. Briskness

Z714. Les Mille et ___ Nuits

Z715. The C programming language was developed for it

Z716. Really, really old

Z717. Highly risk-tolerant

Z718. It may involve repeated “deliver me” statements

Z720. De ___: anew

Z723. Publication that’s featured Wonder Woman on its cover four times

Z727. Arrow application

Z728. Dundee lad

Z729. Region that may have a smog problem

Z731. States subject to swings

Z732. Italian lager brewer

Z733. Concupiscence

Z734. Entryway instruction

Z735. Oozing testosterone

Z736. Barq’s competitor

Z737. Hosp. scans

Z738. The “/” in “km/h”

Z739. Last of a sequence

Z740. Lyrical lines

Z741. Novel originally published under the pseudonymous byline Currer Bell

Z744. Suppl.

Z745. Clicker

Z746. Defense tactic developed for the Miami Dolphins in 1971

Z748. 1.5-turn on the rink

Z749. End of été vacation

Z750. Stir-fry pans

Z751. 2013 Best Animated Feature

Z752. TV adman’s award

Z753. [Snore!]

Z754. Place to take notes in biology?

Z755. Dental office simulation

Z756. Performed the action previously discussed

Z757. Absolute authority, old-Russia-style

Z759. Part of the “Gaelic Green Tongue” project

Z760. Like a hoyden

Z761. Ten make a buck

Z762. Pond denizen

Z763. One-hour photo booth, e.g.

Z765. Pretty much all surface, for short

Z766. Revolutionary 1968 month in Paris

Z767. ___-starter

Z768. Refs’ ring decisions

Z769. Her maiden name is Bouvier

Z770. Subatomic particle

Z771. “___ by with a little help from my friends”

Z772. Part of a gym set?

Z774. “True Colors” singer Lauper

Z776. Gin flavoring fruit

Z777. Planetarium reaction

Z778. Gets vertical

Z779. Female college student, if the speaker is, like, seventy-nine

Z780. Eyebrow-raisers

Z782. Indicates (well or ill)

Z783. Theist of India, perhaps

Z784. Sandburg’s metaphorical fog carrier

Z785. Hi on the high seas?

Z786. Swing a thurible

Z787. Circuit components

Z788. It comes before a one

Z789. Ahmed of Rogue One

Z790. Stat-generating fig.

Z791. Switch off, as a light

Z792. Marble flooring material

Z795. Big pipe

Z796. Hispaniola people

Z797. Blowhard

Z799. Ethiopian cash

Z800. Co. purchased by Wizards of the Coast

Z801. Instant message option

Z802. Stats gathered when planning proposals

Z804. Chopin’s lover

Z805. Novelist Oldenbourg

Z806. Apt. coolers

Z807. Some citrus-flavored alcoholic coolers

Z808. Main language of the Holy Roman Empire

Z810. Like shellfish

Z811. Demon movie of 1977 or Michael Douglas spy thriller of 2006

Z813. Big deal

Z814. Paul who bridged Impressionism and Cubism

Z816. Devices that let us hear TV interviews

Z817. “Oh, boy, pumpkin pie!”

Z818. Two-fifths of MCCLV

Z819. Communicate with a deaf person

Z820. Clayburgh and Ireland

Z821. Earl of 1970s agriculture

Z822. Pricey hors d’oeuvres toppers

Z823. Short-vowel mark

Z824. Danish islands in the Atlantic

Z826. What a volt sends through an ohm

Z827. Ceased

Z828. Jutland native, e.g.

Z829. Get arranged into a molecular ring

Z831. David and Venus de Milo

Z832. Call ___ (spark a memory of)

Z833. “Fair” female

Z834. If things don’t change

Z836. Juke box offerings

Z837. About 22 lbs.

Z839. Dorm event planners, briefly

Z840. Limerick neighbor

Z841. Salon option

Z844. Speak ill of

Z845. Uses a beeper

Z846. Vague impressions

Z848. 2002 and 2003 US Open doubles champ Paola

Z849. “I’m Just ___ “ (Schoolhouse Rock classic)

Z850. Whom cops may collar

Z853. Motorola phone that was huge before smartphones were a thing

Z854. Blind burrower

Z855. Passion, informally

Z856. Light, in La Paz

Z857. Clay whose “Measure of a Man” went multiplatinum

Z858. Intersecting vaults’ edge

Z859. Kind of division or tank

Z860. Funnywomen Sedaris, Schumer, and Poehler

Z861. Vatican head from 847-855

Z862. Mlles., across the border

Z863. Instagram greyhound whose name recalls a different social-media platform

Z864. Request you may make when someone else is struggling with a task

Z866. Grease-trap stuff

Z867. Horn for a Muppet named Zoot

Z868. Citrus satisfier

Z869. Soft slip-ons

Z870. Native of a -stan bordered by five other -stans

Z871. Swanky display that’d have two “z’s” if I were composing this grid when I composed these clues

Z872. Did the right thing?

Z873. Outgo

Z874. Nintendo’s The Legend of ___

Z875. Go for

Z876. 1978 horror sequel subtitle

Z879. Sperm or Star Wars music

Z880. Cut to smoothness, as hair

Z882. “Liar!” in a playground

Z883. Alligator and Seckel

Z884. Produce purchase

Z886. Next-to-last Greek letters

Z887. “Werewolves of London” rock singer Warren

Z888. “What ___!” (“We cleaned up!”)

Z889. Brief ending?

Z890. Half a sch. year

Z891. Morning ___ (radio format)

Z892. “Arf!” or “Woof!”

Z893. Get the maximum use from

Z896. Graphic novel subtitled “A Survivor’s Tale” that won a Pulitzer in 1992

Z897. Like Babe Ruth’s audience

Z898. Without stain

Z900. Soviet contraband literature

Z904. Abscond with, archaically

Z905. Get fully ready

Z906. Orange impression

Z907. American Theatre Wing award

Z908. Campaign finance regulation org.

Z909. Caucasian goat

Z910. First editor of the magazine George

Z911. Change course

Z912. Showed a general direction

Z913. “One Night in Bangkok” singer Murray…or kind of singer

Z914. Space aliens’ native soils

Z916. Princess Anne’s daughter

Z917. Gardened to help plants breathe

Z919. With “out,” wallows in some traditional guy things with the fellas

Z920. “Panic Zone” group

Z921. Golfer Gary Player’s homeland (abbr.)

Z922. Heaven-ly music maker

Z923. Biased viewpoint

Z924. Deodar or baobab

Z925. Noteworthy ages

Z926. Saber-toothed Ice Age squirrel

Z927. ___ Z (short-lived NBC sitcom)

Z928. Mathematical proof letters

Z929. Pielets

Z930. Pointed to in a lineup

Z931. Phone opener?

Z932. Runs with a style, such as old-school

Z934. Guts author with a new graphic novel due 2025

Z935. Ornament in many homes come December

Z938. Cry openly

Z939. Giant bat of Japanese sci-fi

Z940. ___ nous (confidentially)

Z941. Fun or deadly things, depending on how one looks at the world

Z942. CIA ally

Z943. Superman II’s and Man of Steel’s villainous general

Z944. Graven image

Z945. Political cartoonist Jeff

Z948. Plants listening devices

Z949. Epigrammatic tale

Z950. Former harasser of enemy shipping

Z952. Lacking stimulation

Z953. McGregor of Moulin Rouge

Z954. Côte d’___ (French Riviera)

Z956. Popular ending?

Z957. Classical beginning

Z958. Hazing spot

Z959. “Mexico City Blues” poet

Z960. Important part of mayo

Z961. Sign on a ticket booth

Z962. Congregational rather than clerical

Z963. “How’s that again?” syllables

Z964. Uncultivated

Z965. Party tray

Z967. Start of a dr.’s day

Z968. Less rational

Z970. Horatio who played cartoonist Jasper Hahn on SNL

Z971. Builder of Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft

Z972. “Another thing…”

Z973. Stagnant water resident

Z974. Those ladies, in Lyons

Z975. Playwright Christopher’s kin

Z976. Attaches firmly

Z977. Apple family

Z978. Ford or Winkler

Z979. Nintendo avatars

Z980. “Well, whoop-___-doo!”

Z981. More eccentric

Z983. Spinnaker’s cousin

Z984. 78 or 33 1/3

Z985. Beat, in what may’ve been an unannounced competition

Z986. Greek Mercury

Z988. The Prime of Miss Jean ___ (1969)

Z990. Gp. with the motto “To serve, not to be served”

Z991. Harvey Danger song “Flagpole ___”

Z992. Plural ending?

Z993. They’re found under the backs of necks

Z995. Street haunted by Freddy Krueger

Z996. Star Trek actress Ryan

Z997. 401(k) cousin (abbr.)

Z998. ___ Saturn (game system)

Z1000. Whimsical suffix with “call” and “jeez”

Z1001. “Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once ___” (Victor Borge)

Z1002. Much (of)

Z1003. Edward who founded an “old tyme” beverage company

Z1004. Prohibition’s beginning?

Z1005. Linguistic phenomenon seen in “Legen--wait for it--dary!”

Z1006. A typical malt liquor bottle holds 40 (abbr.)

Z1007. Ça ___ (here and there)

Z1009. “I swear it’s true, I swear on this dark, quasi-Egyptian icon!”?

Z1015. “You’d think dance parties where everyone could be the DJ would be popular, but no”?

Z1022. What follows a full accounting of the alphabet

Z1030. How some descending lists are sorted

Z1033. Apra or Alberni

Z1034. Forever, poetically

Z1035. Genius 8000 toothbrushes

Z1036. “I am once again asking for your support” politician, familiarly

Z1037. Barista’s preparation

Z1038. 1911-founded co. on the NASDAQ

Z1039. Dispenses

Z1040. Bolt with eight Olympic golds

Z1041. Less wavering

Z1042. Plays demanding jazz

Z1043. Hootie & the Blowfish’s “___ Her Cry”

Z1044. Fast-forward, as through the ads

Z1045. Jug that looks like a dude

Z1046. Mango tango smoothie server

Z1048. HS proficiency exam

Z1049. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be ___ laying eggs” (Coco Chanel)

Z1050. ___ left (fly out, maybe)

Z1051. Fasti poet

Z1052. Kind of frau

Z1053. Mini, Nano, and Shuffle

Z1054. Linguist-activist-author Chomsky

Z1055. ___ Franchise Boyz

Z1058. Topping made in a mortar

Z1059. Provoke

Z1060. Hearing-test components

Z1061. Overwhelming hindrance

Z1062. Winter coatings

Z1063. Boudoir furniture

Z1064. Hallucinatory tab

Z1065. 1999 Cronenberg VR thriller

Z1066. Makes horizontal

Z1068. Enclosures with lids

Z1069. Longspurs and linnets

Z1071. Cries of intellectual victory

Z1072. Start of a nursery-rhyme chant

Z1073. Reportorial question

Z1074. Ark units

Z1075. Musical buzzer

Z1076. Equivalent, in France

Z1077. Jeb Stuart’s men, for short

Z1078. Makeup of a layer with a “hole”

Z1079. Rare grandfather clock numeral

Z1080. Suspect, to a cop

Z1081. Burning desire

Z1082. Trail the pack

Z1084. Apple’s apple and others

Z1085. Words of protest

Z1086. Spaded

Z1087. Mantric syllables

Z1088. No. that Bloomberg’s soda ban would have limited

Z1089. Worst possible, as a review

Z1092. Risotto ingredient

Z1093. Like Legolas

Z1094. Antarctic environmental concern

Z1096. Harriet’s husband

Z1097. Friendlier sound than Merv Griffin shouting “NO!” at you

Z1098. Reach for the stars

Z1099. Shih ___

Z1100. Pouty actress Renee

Z1106. Wrestling style

Z1110. “Savvy?”

Z1115. Tech news website

Z1120. “Yes We Can” leader

Z1125. Going by in the morning?

Z1129. Putting on, as a theatrical production

Z1136. 10-digit book IDs

Z1137. Spanish artist Francisco

Z1138. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actor

Z1140. Averred

Z1141. Big Apple opera lover’s destination, with “the”

Z1142. Word before “bag” or “sick bag” in travel

Z1143. What you might do after you put your hands together

Z1144. Not so staid

Z1145. Scandinavian name

Z1146. Walk with too little stiffness?

Z1147. French writer Madame de

Z1148. Filmic master criminal Keyser

Z1149. Done to death

Z1150. Akkadian mother of gods

Z1153. Ventura (Pet Detective)

Z1154. “Hold the rocks”

Z1155. Mrs. Capp and the Progressive girl

Z1156. “School’s Out” singer Cooper

Z1157. Leatherneck’s yell

Z1158. Le Louvre, for one

Z1159. Keister

Z1160. Spanish clan

Z1161. Famed parade sponsor

Z1162. Band with the 2001 hit “Clint Eastwood”

Z1164. QB or RB successes

Z1165. Lancaster of From Here to Eternity

Z1166. Forest Gump and Pinocchio director Robert

Z1169. Over 24 hours

Z1170. Repeat New York City Marathon winner Grete

Z1171. Potato gun

Z1173. Ragged edges

Z1174. Keep from littering

Z1175. Birds that are rarely black

Z1176. Ma place

Z1177. “Oh, no, this won’t ___ all”

Z1179. Trough fare

Z1180. New UN member of 1992

Z1182. Killing the tissue of

Z1184. Annoying

Z1186. Pipes in church

Z1187. Pay through the mail

Z1188. Scrolled reading material

Z1190. Prefix meaning “one billionth”

Z1191. Rowing machine target, for short

Z1192. UPS rival

Z1193. Like many basements

Z1194. Fall Out Boy bassist Pete

Z1195. Writer/illustrator Silverstein

Z1196. First-rate

Z1197. Elevator background

Z1198. Pizza ingredient?

Z1199. Name in optical instruments

Z1200. Aid in catalysis

Z1201. Intro to red or structure

Z1203. Maria von ___

Z1205. Throw out in every direction, as particles

Z1206. Spiffs up the wingtips

Z1208. Nabakov novel

Z1209. “The way of all ___”

Z1211. “___ out, kitty?”

Z1212. “OMG, I’m cracking up!”

Z1213. Lamon Bay locale

Z1214. Wines and/or dines

Z1215. Like telemarketers’ headsets

Z1216. Blue’s Clues watchers

Z1217. Senator Bob

Z1220. Plays for a sap

Z1221. Crowd reduced to baser impulses

Z1222. Give full-throated support (for a cause)

Z1224. Bloody and Typhoid

Z1225. Teens might try to cover them up

Z1226. Choir choices

Z1227. iPods in landfills

Z1228. Charles Schwab competitor

Z1230. Goofballs, e.g.

Z1232. Hewing tool

Z1234. “I’m fine, you ___ have worried”

Z1236. Some ‘60s sports cars

Z1238. Mystic board

Z1240. They come last (but not in our hearts!)

Z1241. “Change takes courage” politician, as she’s abbreviated

Z1242. Athena’s mother

Z1243. Cuban TV legend Desi

Z1244. Overrun, in a troublesome way

Z1245. Texter’s “alternatively”

Z1246. In-house PC linkup

Z1247. “Until” in German “Until we meet again”

Z1248. Notorious mistress Montez

Z1249. Casts off clothing from

Z1250. Have a hero here

Z1251. How to ___ Square Knot (Boy Scouts lesson)

Z1252. Cookout, briefly

Z1253. Rms. good for quick meals

Z1254. Awful dancer Elaine

Z1255. Springs forth

Z1258. Sincere act, in Hindu

Z1260. “Tale of the tape” statistic

Z1262. Computer magnate Michael

Z1264. He comes to court

Z1266. Like karaoke performances

Z1268. Keep in hiding

Z1270. Seasons, as pasta water

Z1272. Bad news for an Uber driver

Z1273. Gratings

Z1274. To an extent

Z1275. Choice on a transistor

Z1276. “B2H,” “agile,” and “pivot,” in early-2020s businessspeak

Z1279. Strong feeling

Z1280. Nissan competitor

Z1281. Spinoff Nabisco cookies

Z1283. Greek name for a raven-fed prophet

Z1284. Strong-language indicator

Z1285. Affect

Z1286. “No CPR” order

Z1287. Ape-man of fiction

Z1288. Squeeze in an appointment (for)

Z1290. Lifeless

Z1292. UK monarch, for short

Z1294. “Remain on the string,” in musical notation

Z1296. Houston and Walton

Z1298. “Velcro Fly” band

Z1300. First last name tag

Z1301. ___ Amidala, Star Wars queen

Z1302. Kshatriyas, for one

Z1303. Cause of Chilean droughts

Z1304. Shahs’ land

Z1305. Actress Roxana

Z1306. It has a dog breed database

Z1307. Plane mover, briefly

Z1308. Cunning ways

Z1309. “…and pretty maids all in ___”

Z1310. Holy Land

Z1311. Ride a lot

Z1312. Big name in the Harlem Renaissance

Z1313. Sickly Mrs. Frome

Z1314. Best of its kind

Z1316. Gets the family back together

Z1318. Aggravated one’s condition?

Z1319. Reach competitor

Z1321. “Great story…was she ___ person?”

Z1323. Components of many tips

Z1325. She made her son Achilles nigh-invulnerable

Z1327. River in Corsica

Z1329. Post delivery aid

Z1331. White House reception

Z1332. Madoff’s crime

Z1334. Video meant to get you atingle

Z1335. ___ Bay (New England site)

Z1338. ___ plaid

Z1339. A Streetcar ___ Desire

Z1340. Specialized firer

Z1342. Grandma of art

Z1343. Cadaverous

Z1344. “Dad-gum it!”

Z1345. “You busy?”

Z1347. Pyramid builder

Z1348. It may be belted

Z1350. Talk show from 2003 to 2022

Z1352. What the Billboard Hot 100’s #1 featured, after August 27, 2022 (with Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl”) until at least November 27, 2023

Z1354. Bad last name for an ailurophobe

Z1356. You Me at Six and Weezer’s genre

Z1358. Welcoming for a nap

Z1360. Its competitors balance on a floating log

Z1361. Ladyfingers, e.g.

Z1362. Fluid-filled formations

Z1363. Chevy sportsters

Z1364. Cousin of a crocus

Z1365. Yuletide dinner slice

Z1366. Peace-keeping bodies, some argue (abbr.)

Z1367. Dust Bowl dream

Z1368. Semiconscious

Z1369. “Sea” once named for its many islands

Z1370. They’ll keep you well above the neck

Z1371. Went wide-eyed and wide-mouthed

Z1372. Computer or fan-culture junkie

Z1373. Deck crew foremen, for short

Z1374. Demolish in online competition

Z1375. Stadiium decks

Z1377. Bird in The Lion King

Z1378. Olympics-holding nations

Z1380. One-time flight attendant, in slang

Z1382. Members of NSDAP

Z1384. Machine worked by Rumpelstiltskin

Z1386. Toyota Camry ___

Z1388. ___ line (conform)

Z1390. Alternate spelling of a word (abbr.)

Z1391. Fixes beans

Z1392. Lending at high interest

Z1393. Drag strip participant

Z1394. Targets of PIN-stealing cameras

Z1395. Bouts of otalgia

Z1398. Title for Edna Everage

Z1399. Not exactly Einsteins

Z1400. In need of water

Z1402. Line through the origin in spherical coordinates

Z1403. Rules out

Z1404. Shakes hands with, maybe

Z1405. Peanuts shout

Z1407. Winglike

Z1409. Name before Schwab or Paul

Z1410. “The War of the Worlds” broadcast, notably

Z1413. Town’s welcome sign abbr.

Z1415. Not apt to snap

Z1417. “Choose one of two”

Z1419. Church-music publisher

Z1421. Capital south of Vienna

Z1423. Takes care of trays

Z1424. Nastily sarcastic

Z1425. “I wasn’t the only one?!”

Z1426. Black Sabbath’s Osbourne

Z1427. Naval group (abbr.)

Z1428. Line in a tic-tac-toe thwarting

Z1429. Beltway VIPs

Z1430. Day at the movies?

Z1431. Actor Lamar Shepherd

Z1432. Site for a night out

Z1433. Like acid in some disinfectants

Z1434. Gin drink

Z1435. Famed Australian nurse

Z1436. NBC comedy show

Z1437. Balk caller

Z1439. Psi tracker for tires

Z1441. Man cave relative

Z1444. Book with some weight to it

Z1446. Fissure

Z1448. Surfer’s dream island

Z1450. Interested party, from the French

Z1452. Bull prefix

Z1453. Emotional environment

Z1454. ___ Triomphe

Z1455. Pork dish

Z1456. “Awesome, dude! I’m a little freaked out!”

Z1457. Showing affection, as a horse or lover might

Z1460. Courted

Z1461. Connery successor as Bond

Z1462. M director

Z1464. Efflorescence

Z1465. Not at home

Z1466. Loosened up, in a way

Z1467. City occupied by Israel following the Six-Day War

Z1468. Online initialism for weighing options

Z1470. Respectable earning

Z1471. Initials of a former Mideast coalition

Z1472. Where there were once witches for every direction

Z1474. Melatonin-free sleep aid

Z1478. Acknowledge

Z1480. URL opener indicating an additional layer of encryption

Z1481. Sign of happiness

Z1482. “Yes ___!”

Z1483. Get the blade in

Z1484. Dude, in memes

Z1485. “Holy cow!,” in a text

Z1486. Coffee drink, named from Italian for “half-half”

Z1488. Cut of veal

Z1489. Woody prefix

Z1490. Twenty-first-century artist’s tool

Z1493. Delivery class

Z1495. Beach lure

Z1497. Narrow grooves

Z1498. Pinza of South Pacific

Z1500. Pt. of NASCAR

Z1502. Dramatist O’Casey

Z1503. Reminiscent of the Rock of Gibraltar

Z1504. John Haley Sims’ nickname (he wore a snappy suit!)

Z1506. Star that’s a draw

Z1507. Objectionable, as a habit

Z1508. “You’re mistaken”

Z1509. “The ___ power is frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning off a light switch” (Corazon Aquino)

Z1510. Aussie lad

Z1511. Tightens to near-immobility

Z1514. A dozen in a box?

Z1515. Swab’s sobriquet

Z1516. Stain in a way

Z1518. Swarm

Z1519. Oomph; vim; wallop

Z1520. Oily part of the face, to dermatologists

Z1521. Familial sobriquet

Z1522. Russia-ruling Romanov, e.g.

Z1524. Crewman with Kirk

Z1526. Go high

Z1527. Blessed with compelling flair

Z1529. Tenth of a long fun run

Z1531. Bart and Lisa Simpson, e.g.

Z1533. Went all the way

Z1535. Perfect score, in Pamplona?

Z1537. Quarters for Jonah

Z1538. Funk icon Isaac

Z1539. “Don’t worry, I’ll ___ quiet as a mouse”

Z1540. One of the eight vegetables in V-8

Z1542. Teen dance locales

Z1543. “___ alors!”

Z1544. Met in council

Z1545. Prefix with “bit” or “bucks”

Z1546. Cap bill

Z1547. Daughter of Atlas

Z1548. Intestinal neighbors of jejuna and ceca

Z1549. A whale of a name

Z1550. Harker in Dracula

Z1551. Steeple occupants, sometimes

Z1552. Self-descriptor for hyperfeminine person who’s ready to own it

Z1554. Way to decrease?

Z1556. American Indians

Z1558. Gary’s st.

Z1559. Anglaise and brulee

Z1561. Compass point

Z1563. “You just a big ___, yeah” (double-edged lyric in “This Is America”)

Z1565. Grape type

Z1567. Send a smiley, say

Z1569. IOC code for the Olympics host in 2026

Z1570. Post-lecture session, for short

Z1571. Use a pogo stick

Z1572. Mid-twentieth century youth rebel

Z1573. Croc, for one

Z1574. Conscienceless opportunist

Z1577. Padded play surfaces

Z1578. Butthole, more slangily

Z1579. Scales back

Z1581. Rhymes in Nimes (I know those words don’t rhyme, by the way)

Z1582. Paths to self-enlightenment

Z1583. Years of one’s life

Z1584. Rink icemaker

Z1586. Point where a geometric curve crosses itself

Z1588. Austrian painter Gustav

Z1590. Magazine agent’s success

Z1591. Rockefeller ___

Z1593.

Active side of nature

Z1595. Glasses in Grenada

Z1597. Charlie Brown’s creator

Z1599. When doubled, “Hungry Like the Wolf” band

Z1600. Fast-food packet, perhaps

Z1601. Totally truthful person—no, seriously! Why are you looking at me like—Well, maybe you’re the one who’s acting shifty!

Z1602. Monastic symbol

Z1603. 0.0-4.0 ranking

Z1604. Metal that can stand up to adamantium and vibranium

Z1605. Plants with spirally arranged leaves

Z1606. Corral again

Z1607. Knife’s partner

Z1608. Singer Sumendra whose full name anagrams “demure stanza”

Z1609. Fan mags

Z1610. Variation of an online exclamation that supposedly originated with someone missing the SHIFT key

Z1611. Nickelodeon animated heroine

Z1612. ___ in “crossword”

Z1613. Bony food fish

Z1615. Word in the name of Mali and Togo’s neighbor

Z1617. “Can my brain be trusted?”

Z1621. Spoon’s Jim

Z1622. Gif alternative

Z1624. Title teen of the comics

Z1626. Ending with brick or stock

Z1628. Chip that’s dipped

Z1630. Porcelain product

Z1631. Campus centers

Z1632. Eton students, e.g.

Z1633. Be a busy business

Z1634. JFK’s United Nations ambassador

Z1635. Do Wordle while your spouse is talking about their upcoming day, say

Z1636. Beginning of time

Z1639. Girl with the dog Spot

Z1640. Returned, like some pigeons

Z1641. Very very important person

Z1643. Mr. or Mrs. Right?

Z1644. Green Al

Z1645. Sights on the Yangtze

Z1646. Master, as poker

Z1648. Joies de vivre

Z1650. Went down like a cement block

Z1652. Start of a play

Z1653. Cranberry condiment

Z1656. Where “na nu, na nu” means good-bye

Z1658. Small bands

Z1660. Makes a bow

Z1662. Hwange National Park setting

Z1664. Bond villain Goldfinger

Z1665. Curious look

Z1666. Ghostly-looking

Z1667. Laptop feature (abbr.)

Z1668. Back when realtors lost out

Z1669. Circulatory system?

Z1670. .net alternative

Z1671. Deserving of an R rating

Z1672. Fell to persuasion

Z1673. Exuviate

Z1674. Waterless

Z1675. Maryland squad

Z1676. Set of tickets

Z1677. They warred with the Lancasters

Z1678. Scored well under par, in golf lingo

Z1680. Early Englander

Z1682. One-named “Kiss from a Rose” singer

Z1684. Seoul soul

Z1685. Daily Planet worker Jimmy

Z1686. Coral ecosystem

Z1688. God, to many millions

Z1690. Barclays Center hoopsters

Z1692. Wheel alignments also called cambers

Z1693. Certain group

Z1694. “___ and Get Your Love”

Z1695. Postseason sampling?

Z1697. St. with a name that contains contradictory words

Z1698. Fast-food place

Z1701. Foie ___ (liver delicacy)

Z1702. “You’re asking ___!”

Z1703. Pointed headgear often pictured with stars and moons

Z1705. Queen of ___: noted visitor of King Solomon

Z1706. Strike violently

Z1707. I ___ Letter to My Love (Melissa Manchester’s romantic musical)

Z1708. Sneaker introduced in 1992 and still going strong

Z1710. Whopper weavers

Z1712. Execrable

Z1714. “…and that price is negotiable,” in classifieds

Z1716. One of eight in Washington, DC

Z1718. Popular pastel

Z1720. Mothers in the backwoods

Z1722. Utah’s fourth-largest city

Z1723. Dallas clan

Z1724. On fire, often metaphorically

Z1726. Character who inspired the term “Flanderization”

Z1727. “What rotten luck”

Z1728. Chance

Z1729. Damone or Dana of old song

Z1730. ___ music

Z1731. Youngest Marx brother

Z1732. O. Henry rival

Z1733. Sea burrowers who live in pits

Z1734. A star to dance with or watch on TV

Z1735. Canter or gallop, e.g.

Z1736. Flashy quality

Z1737. “___ that all?”

Z1738. Thin, white variety

Z1740. Eisenhower’s doctor, after whom Ike’s disease was named

Z1742. English Beat genre

Z1743. Loc. of Sydney

Z1744. Passes with flying colors

Z1748. Ancient temple

Z1750. Shell shock’s cousin, briefly

Z1751. Amoebas, e.g.

Z1753. Complete

Z1754. Colorado inhabitants, since long ago

Z1755. Daring young man’s place

Z1757. Semester-ending rite of passage

Z1758. Confiscations

Z1761. Not authorized

Z1762. Knuckle-sandwich delivery system

Z1763. Figure found in Action Comics #1 and old supermarket tabloids

Z1765. Buttonholer’s target, perhaps

Z1766. Transport, in a way

Z1767. Outlet unit

Z1768. Drink greedily

Z1770. Sine reciprocals, briefly

Z1772. Signal from the third base coach, maybe

Z1774. Calls off the wedding, say

Z1777. “___ dien,” motto of the Prince of Wales

Z1778. Where some surf

Z1779. Open a suitcase

Z1781. Legendary jazz vocalist Vaughan

Z1783. Go from dawn to dusk

Z1784. Lays flagstones

Z1785. Obeyed the dentist

Z1786. Perignon preceder

Z1787. “Never saw that coming!”

Z1789. Flit about

Z1790. Shell’s game

Z1791. Probing visually

Z1793. Exam since 1948

Z1794. Word before “my goat” and “a bad rap”

Z1795. Biopic, e.g.

Z1798. From A ___

Z1799. The Cowardly Lion’s counterpart in Kansas

Z1801. ___rasa

Z1803. Gave hints

Z1805. Clutch or catch

Z1806. Drafts

Z1809. Damping ratio symbols, in engineering

Z1811. Some come from a fountain

Z1813. Windows systems, once

Z1814. Occupied, as a chair

Z1815. In the 50s or 60s, say

Z1816. Ardent fan

Z1818. Isn’t in the right?

Z1819. Mystify

Z1822. Japanese drink

Z1823. Accumulated remains

Z1824. Throws off to lighten the load

Z1826. Venti and grande, at Starbucks

Z1827. Tucson campus, for short

Z1828. It merged with Sears

Z1829. Happy applicant

Z1831. Asian cryptozoology topic

Z1833. PayPal, e.g.

Z1835. German ladies

Z1837. Firewood preparer

Z1838. Financial terms abbr.

Z1839. Pirate attack

Z1841. Certain Spanish murals

Z1843. Biracial Latin American

Z1845. Pears often used in still lifes

Z1846. On the Case with Paula ___ (Investigation Discovery channel show)

Z1847. Juniper drink

Z1848. Traveling homes, for short

Z1849. What a light bulb might symbolize

Z1850. “Rubbish!”

Z1851. Sequel sequel

Z1852. ___-Marie who sang “2002”

Z1853. Business magnates

Z1854. Half of a Pennsylvania women’s college

Z1855. Southern Georgia county

Z1856. Unclear

Z1857. Giant Robot, e.g.

Z1858. Doesn’t quite canter

Z1859. River of China

Z1861. “Well, THIS is unsatisfying”

Z1863. Tripod topper

Z1865. Frees the hands of, as a prisoner

Z1867. Monogram in the news on November 22, 1963

Z1869. Russian ruler, in a rarely-used spelling variant

Z1871. Lee and Sakai of comics

Z1873. Or thenabouts

Z1874. It may be due

Z1875. “Billy, Don’t Be a ___” (1974 #1 hit)

Z1876. Adjusts, as a cap

Z1878. Brief experts

Z1879. Making noise on the grill

Z1882. Pouring sound

Z1883. “May evil befall…”

Z1884. Set a boundary around

Z1886. Kanye West nickname, for a time

Z1887. El ___, Texas

Z1888. Orangutan doctor in Planet of the Apes

Z1889. Like most people who’d say, “What’s a gender identity?”

Z1890. Belgian beings

Z1892. Collected anecdotes

Z1894. Biblical city and analogous dens of sin

Z1896. “I’ve never hit a ___ before. Feels pretty good!” (line from the 2023 Quantum Leap)

Z1897. Watson, Deep Blue, and others

Z1901. Illusory pictures

Z1903. Feistiness

Z1905. Works the wrinkles out of

Z1907. “Whatever It Is” (___ Brown Band song)

Z1908. Infectious disease

Z1909. Poet, poetically

Z1910. Fertilizing hymenopter

Z1911. British “Z”

Z1912. Hardnose?

Z1913. “And I Love ___” (Beatles hit)

Z1914. Gerund syllable

Z1915. Fare on the range

Z1916. Ex-athlete Brett whose name is two letters shortened from director Jon

Z1917. TechCrunch or Mashable

Z1918. Native of Ger.

Z1919. Name for several treeless mounts

Z1920. Grey who wrote Riders of the Purple Sage

Z1921. Modern smoker

Z1922. “Anaconda” singer Nicki

Z1924. Brownish pigment

Z1926. They may be taken in class

Z1928. Feature of a manx cat

Z1930. Roadwork material

Z1931. Hired heavy

Z1932. Announces the hour

Z1934. Major storm of 1966

Z1936. Term for some morning deejays (and my favorite superhero team, sadly underused today)

Z1938. ___-pamby

Z1939. Spanish farm critter

Z1940. Makes silent

Z1942. Foreign film venue

Z1943. Limits of one’s knowledge or experience

Z1946. ___ letter

Z1947. Evening stroll

Z1948. Keyboard work for two

Z1950. Atlanta and Deadpool 2 actress Beetz

Z1951. Apt name for a programmer

Z1952. Woody Allen movie about an adaptable fellow

Z1953. Fold-a-bed

Z1954. Ayres who starred in All Quiet on the Western Front and nine Dr. Kildare films

Z1956. Crazy Horse’s tribe

Z1958. ___ 18 (Leon Uris novel)

Z1960. Opera house level

Z1962. Defeat, in a way

Z1963. Relax in the afternoon, as many Englanders do

Z1965. Tests for prospective Ph.D. students

Z1967. Where a stray may stay

Z1968. Foolish sorts

Z1969. Cardiothoracic surgeon with five Emmys

Z1971. Astronomically long time

Z1972. “But ___ I saw her face…now I’m a believer”

Z1973. Cause a little explosion of air

Z1974. Chip brand

Z1975. Happy hum

Z1976. Detroit pitcher McLain

Z1977. Hill who created Observe and Report and Eastbound and Down

Z1978. Geeky sort

Z1979. Caffeine tablet brand

Z1980. Cock-a-doodle-___ (rooster sounds)

Z1981. “Li’l” hick hero of early comic strips

Z1982. Dwarfs, in Milan

Z1983. List particular

Z1985. “___ Joe’s”

Z1987. Far from loving

Z1989. Voice with a range between soprano and contralto

Z1990. The Black Widow, to her friends

Z1992. You should know which you are in case you get stabbed and need a pint

Z1993. USN brass

Z1995. Like some bandcamp.com music

Z1997. When doubled, socialite Gabor

Z1998. Doesn’t just glance

Z1999. Apple, in Italy

Z2000. Drug a.k.a. ”purple drank”

Z2002. Ache’s cousin

Z2003. Reduce drastically

Z2006. Resist spoilage

Z2007. Do a double take, perhaps

Z2008. Quick update on world events

Z2010. En ___: on a hot streak, slangily

Z2011. Explain to

Z2012. Defendants enter them

Z2013. American Idol judge Jennifer

Z2014. Shrek! author

Z2016. Stanley of The Hunger Games and The Lovely Bones

Z2018. Coll. computations

Z2020. Snoozes

Z2022. Sound made with a frown

Z2023. Home of the Black Rock Desert (abbr.)

Z2024. Dumbledore who still hasn’t been depicted as gay in canon

Z2026. “Right!…Duh!”

Z2028. Thor’s fam

Z2029. “Beg pardon!”

Z2030. Invader ___ (former Nickelodeon cartoon)

Z2031. Teacher’s lectures, in texting

Z2032. Cry at a counter

Z2033. Baby’s “piggie”

Z2034. One of the most prominent South Asian characters in US TV, for better or worse

Z2035. Small container

Z2036. Chess star Kasparov

Z2037. Do-gooder’s doing

Z2038. Knock down to the ground

Z2039. Former goslings

Z2040. Just alike

Z2041. Creator of the Pooh

Z2042. Flirty glance, with “the”

Z2043. Scientist tied to salivating dogs

Z2045. Small arms of Britain

Z2047. Excited pupil’s shout

Z2049. Middle East plane service

Z2050. Slangy name for a stranger

Z2052. E-tailer for handmade items

Z2054. It’s a ___ Tell a Lie

Z2056. Bride’s follower

Z2057. Feature of many a MIT Mystery Hunt

Z2059. Stop paying attention

Z2061. Return of the ___ (film title)

Z2062. Sideboard for serving a buffet

Z2065. Galvanization stuff

Z2066. Shrub with edible nuts

Z2067. Thin and translucent

Z2069. Tropical jelly type

Z2070. Irish coin

Z2071. Stunned

Z2072. ___-Boy recliner

Z2073. Tear asunder

Z2075. Medic from the later Walking Dead seasons

Z2077. Midair rink stunt

Z2079. Eyeglasses, in ads

Z2081. ___-Z Camaro

Z2083. Academic apparel

Z2086. Keel part (var.)

Z2088. Follies producer

Z2090. Sea polyp

Z2091. Barnes & Noble electronic reader

Z2092. Discipline that used to be about trying to get listed on Yahoo’s directory

Z2093. Decide upon

Z2094. Roman greeting

Z2095. Sound heard on the farm

Z2096. Ms. Wray or her fantastic namesake

Z2097. Mark who said “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough”

Z2099. Teutonic title

Z2100. Lestat’s creator Anne

Z2101. Not what you hoped to win, but it’s something

Z2104. “Love hard when there is love to ___” (Bob Marley)

Z2106. Fragment

Z2108. Prepare the way (to)

Z2110. Serve the soup

Z2112. Shortens a skirt, say

Z2114. “Freak on a Leash” rock band

Z2116. Org. formed to influence government

Z2117. Garage scrap that’s highly flammable

Z2120. Creatives Fitzgerald and Adams

Z2121. Depth-finder descriptor

Z2122. Words after “come”

Z2123. Really into it

Z2125. Dotted-line command

Z2126. Israel supporters

Z2129. Nape growth

Z2130. Diving board places

Z2131. Liquid supply for body art

Z2133. “Stop flappin’ your gums!”

Z2134. Detergent target

Z2135. Bull actress Dushku

Z2136. CNN host Fareed

Z2138. US inventor

Z2140. Yuletide door decoration

Z2142. “___ Family”

Z2144. Glorify

Z2146. Bear created by A.A. Milne

Z2148. Smooth sax player Dave

Z2150. Suffix with Meso-

Z2151. Like real Easter eggs

Z2153. Still life fruit

Z2154. ___ cochere (covered carriage entrance)

Z2155. One who shares a masthead billing

Z2157. Frequently, once

Z2158. Guillermo grips with it

Z2159. King Kong abductee Darrow

Z2160. They’re part of concert equipment

Z2161. “Will you allow me?”

Z2162. Hot rum drinks

Z2163. Big video-game enemy

Z2164. Tea brand with Wild Sweet Orange and Refresh Mint flavors

Z2165. Faust Symphony composer Franz

Z2166. Wished, as a farewell

Z2167. Part of O.S.U. or M.S.U

Z2168. Mr. Wendal, in a song by Arrested Development, e.g.

Z2169. Poem with a pastoral setting

Z2171. Deet alternative

Z2173. Comaneci’s rival

Z2175. Small quantities

Z2177. Prurient material

Z2179. Offspring

Z2181. “How precious!” cries

Z2182. Pullman cars

Z2184. Honey’s victims

Z2185. In shonen anime, it tends to be spiky

Z2186. Doctor of letters?

Z2188. Curly-leafed green

Z2189. Radio wave with video and audio

Z2192. Crunch’s rank

Z2193. Early rival of Atari

Z2194. Occurring at more than one location

Z2196. Plumber in video games

Z2197. Pitch on a pipe

Z2198. Clobber, biblical-style

Z2199. Thick soup

Z2201. National Women’s History Mo.

Z2203. Hang in the balance

Z2205. Tortures, in medieval times

Z2207. Head of costume design

Z2209. Stool, e.g.

Z2211. Veteran soldier, either canine (literally) or human (metaphorically)

Z2212. “Cut my life ___ pieces…”

Z2214. Toll collection system

Z2215. Lego, literally

Z2216. Part of a year-ending/beginning song

Z2217. “Vox populi, vox ___”

Z2218. Abbrev. for “_ _on’t _et” or “_nstant _ry _east”

Z2219. Frisbee, e.g.

Z2220. Dir. from Charleston, WV to Charleston, SC

Z2221. Classic work originally in 10 vols.

Z2222. Foldable furniture

Z2223. Like the background music of A Charlie Brown Christmas

Z2224. Rank that once meant “chieftain”

Z2225. Oft-cloud-shared files

Z2226. Incan capital

Z2227. Turkish drink

Z2228. Distilled drank

Z2229. Sound from the anteater in B.C.

Z2230. Text that means “I swear on a stack of Bibles”

Z2232. Pearly ___

Z2234. Vitamin-bottle stats

Z2236. Hershey’s peanut butter bar

Z2238. “The ___ not the master in its own house” (Freud)

Z2240. What Professor X calls Magneto, when they’re friendly

Z2242. Whosamawhatsis

Z2243. He, in Paris

Z2245. Time Warner station

Z2246. Substitute players

Z2247. Cable home of The News with Shepard Smith

Z2248. Japanese sports car

Z2250. “___ it going?”

Z2251. His coming-out movie premiered at Sundance 2011

Z2254. Idiot, in British slang

Z2255. Beneficiary of generosity

Z2256. Parts of a book that protect its conclusion

Z2258. N.J. city at the west end of the George Washington Bridge

Z2259. Freezing point, on the Celsius scale

Z2260. Paris Zoo beast

Z2261. Low-carb diet

Z2262. Tipping the scales

Z2264. “Just my ___”

Z2266. Girder with wide flanges

Z2268. Tool for boring

Z2270. Body art signifying love

Z2273. Once-trendy avatars

Z2274. They’re expected to deliver?

Z2277. Behind bars

Z2278. Little books?

Z2279. Measure of relative loudness

Z2280. Combo’s engagement

Z2281. Penne relative

Z2282. “The Kids Are Alright” band, with “The”

Z2283. Gemini Man director Lee

Z2284. Critical moment

Z2285. Lab work (abbr.)

Z2286. Amatol and tetrytol components

Z2287. Exam for bus. sch. entry

Z2288. Cambodia’s cash

Z2289. Solar system’s comet-intensive cloud

Z2290. Trey with the album Chapter V

Z2291. Something to do at an eatery

Z2292. Cell junctions

Z2294. The “Y” in YSL

Z2296. Two, in Spain

Z2298. Gave the particulars of

Z2300. “When I ___ a lad…”

Z2301. NYSE power players

Z2303. Lao-___ or Mo-___

Z2304. Scout’s pa

Z2305. Liechtenstein’s capital

Z2306. Mama or Peggy

Z2307. For whom “Jesus wept,” in John 11:35

Z2309. Insignia of rank

Z2310. Gets rusty, e.g.

Z2313. Batted but didn’t field

Z2314. “Man o’ mine”

Z2315. Policy in a healthy relationship (which is why spy work is rough on one)

Z2317. Shrubs with intoxicating leaves

Z2318. Type that looks like it barely made the honor roll

Z2319. Good-looking, sharp-dressing fella

Z2320. Earbud feed

Z2321. Bagel choice

Z2322. Social boycotting over relatively minor offenses (if you consider the offenses more serious, you probably won’t call it this)

Z2326. Nicaraguan port or Hindu god

Z2327. Roman Catholic tribunals

Z2331. Brouhahas

Z2332. So-called “Pinhead” of comics

Z2333. The original “Machine-Gun” Kelly’s home, eventually

Z2335. Top or doll

Z2336. Meal in a shell

Z2337. The Thin Man costar Myrna

Z2338. Procter & Gamble soap

Z2339. The alert are on theirs

Z2340. Safe sanctuaries

Z2341. ___ Brundle (Jeff Goldblum’s role in The Fly)

Z2342. Three French ___

Z2343. Double-impact SFX

Z2344. Warm and not too spacious

Z2345. Less, in La Paz

Z2346. Collapse in frustration, informally

Z2347. Showed on instant replay

Z2348. Quick trip to the store

Z2349. Gets inebreb—inbrebreb—in a brie—GOTS DRURNK

Z2350. Comprehend, in a term taken from sci-fi

Z2351. Missing Marine

Z2352. Big bash

Z2353. Anti-snore docs

Z2354. Dark Side’s Darth

Z2355. Places for rubdowns

Z2356. Got back into position for the painter

Z2358. Lit candle bit

Z2359. Baseballer Marco

Z2362. ___ Show (‘94 film)

Z2363. Blackjack bets

Z2364. “INNT!” meaning on game shows

Z2366. Rome’s Demeter

Z2367. Do some arm-twisting

Z2368. Sunders

Z2369. Always trying to get one’s way

Z2370. In a strange way

Z2371. Gets going

Z2372. By the book

Z2373. Dialogue tag dropped in a TV script

Z2374. Bo Derek and others

Z2375. A dish best served cold

Z2378. Coens’ detective story

Z2380. Shimon of Israel

Z2381. Bob Barker show, for short

Z2382. Payment time inits.

Z2383. Sighs of distress

Z2384. Actor Braff or Galligan

Z2385. December utterance

Z2386. They last 672 to 744 hrs.

Z2387. Heat carrier

Z2388. Runs away

Z2389. Memo abbreviation

Z2390. Brand with a Purrfect Delights product line

Z2391. Went idle

Z2392. Burdensome task

Z2393. Viral GIFs, e.g.

Z2394. Single subatomic energy unit

Z2395. Opposite of lts.

Z2396. Magician whose skills were little use against Skeletor

Z2397. Barely enough to wet one’s whiste

Z2398. Reveals, as a villain

Z2400. Company dining hall

Z2401. Rules about dorm visits

Z2404. Try to track down

Z2405. Tubular entrees

Z2406. Basically

Z2408. Paid honor to

Z2409. Wise kid?

Z2410. Garden’s structure for a vine

Z2411. German pronouns

Z2415. Eyelid projections

Z2420. Direction for a violinist

Z2425. Cooker with a basket

Z2430. Concede

Z2435. Marilyn, in Some Like it Hot

Z2440. Run-down joint

Z2444. Falcon or Eagle

Z2447. They helped turn the tide in WWI

Z2449. Cheerful, relentless, and direct type, they say

Z2452. Troops’ support gp.

Z2453. “What up, bro?”

Z2454. Armed Forces’ #1

Z2455. Bookkeeper’s abbreviation

Z2456. One who’ll “fight, fight, fight for Maryland!”

Z2457. Strange norm

Z2458. Geography book (abbr.)

Z2459. “Don’t look ___!”

Z2460. “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, ___ a summer’s day”

Z2461. “I want time ___ half for this”

Z2462. Snicker-___ (old knife)

Z2463. “He loves me” bit

Z2464. Friend-circles

Z2465. Sure to have

Z2466. Gonorrhea

Z2467. Its members have lame claims to fame

Z2468. “___ remind you?”

Z2469. “___ war” (FDR)

Z2470. UK kids’ mag since 1938

Z2471. Internet missive but not mail

Z2472. Has ___: has one or a few useful contacts

Z2473. Disney kleptomaniac who spends some time as an elephant

Z2474. BP purchase, maybe

Z2476. Inning in which the fiftieth out is recorded

Z2477. Headline in response to a 2000 crime drama that mentions its three biggest stars?

Z2490. Drink brand in colorful bottles

Z2491. Embarrassing (imagined) incident when the Rolling Stones frontman was knighted?

Z2501. Catching forty winks

Z2502. Squirrel’s nuts, maybe

Z2503. Pro tennis since 1968

Z2504. Foxy adjective

Z2505. Bank with headquarters in Canary Wharf, London

Z2506. Ending with soccer and liter for those interested and influential

Z2507. “This can’t BEEE!”

Z2508. A proper one is capitalized

Z2509. Part of a full house

Z2510. Ferrell of White Men Can’t Jump

Z2511. Cold war defense gp.

Z2512. Earth-move closer to the center of the garden

Z2513. Confusion, to Jimi Hendrix

Z2514. St. ___ in the Virgin Islands

Z2515. Show resembling Friday Night Lights

Z2516. Crop up

Z2517. Pays mind to

Z2518. Thurmond or Archibald of the NBA

Z2519. Conceal nothing

Z2520. LA dribbler

Z2521. Very dry, as wine

Z2522. Made a missus

Z2523. They big brains who understand zap-zap, make me feel like cave person

Z2524. Flatters too much

Z2527. Likely escort vessel

Z2529. It’s not his

Z2530. “Plop plop” follower

Z2533. Tailless rabbit cousin of mountainous areas

Z2534. Eccentrically silly

Z2535. Despite what intuition would suggest

Z2537. Keebler brand of saltines

Z2538. Rapper who co-founded Roc-a-Fella Records

Z2539. More than allege

Z2540. Would-be frat member

Z2541. Blues’ org.

Z2542. Professor to Harry Potter

Z2543. High-end Hyundai also known as the Grandeur

Z2544. Ex-Met Throneberry

Z2545. Tom’s temptation

Z2546. Paperhanger’s need

Z2547. Soccer, in British slang

Z2548. Bright bodies in space

Z2549. Narrow channel (abbr.)

Z2550. Punks and metalheads’ natural enemies

Z2551. Bankrupt company rebranded as Tru Kids

Z2552. Beatle cry

Z2553. Monogram for Mr. Hyde’s creator

Z2554. “Not ___ bet!”

Z2555. Number crunchers, briefly

Z2556. Colored flare for railroad signal (var.)

Z2557. PG assigner

Z2558. La ___, California

Z2559. Ships’ prows

Z2560. Russo in Outbreak

Z2561. Forms before getting any evidence

Z2563. Calif., Ore. and Wash. time zones

Z2565. Mixed breeds

Z2566. European cars

Z2567. Epic children’s comic with three chalk-white protagonists in a human world

Z2568. Biblical land

Z2569. Carb-loading dish

Z2570. Word with the cradle or blind

Z2571. Deep-blue glass

Z2572. “___ a New High” (1937 Lily Pons song)

Z2574. Former South Korean president Roh ___ Woo

Z2575. Patriot org.

Z2576. “___ Tok” (Kesha hit)

Z2577. One of three squares

Z2578. Cinematic city with a buffalo for a police chief and a lion for a mayor

Z2581. Peyton’s Places presenter

Z2582. Josephine or Famous Amos

Z2583. Foam noodle or inflatable raft

Z2585. God of beginnings

Z2586. Khyber or Donner

Z2587. ___-It®

Z2588. Grass-eating beast

Z2589. Pope, in Assisi

Z2590. Popeye cartoonist Segar

Z2591. Hardly sensitive

Z2592. Outplay

Z2593. Doonesbury character

Z2594. Viggo of Green Book and The Lord of the Rings

Z2596. Big ___ house

Z2599. Diaper collection

Z2600. Shah ___ Pahlavi

Z2601. One of two landlocked nations surrounded by nations that are also landlocked (the other is Liechtenstein)

Z2604. “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” singers ___ Punk

Z2605. Harvard nabe

Z2606. By way of

Z2607. Science-fiction club members

Z2608. Took down with dynamite, say

Z2609. Biceps, metaphorically

Z2610. Like some show memories

Z2611. Hall of Fame pitcher “Bullet”

Z2612. Royal advisor in The Lion King

Z2613. Gives the goad-ahead?

Z2614. Position filler

Z2615. Better follower

Z2616. Works in a Catalonian museum

Z2617. Revival pamphlet

Z2618. Absorbed

Z2619. German liquid

Z2620. One with loud gripes

Z2621. Pawn in another’s little game

Z2623. Chinese dynasty (traditionally 1122 to 256 BC, var.)

Z2625. “O, here Will ___ up my everlasting rest…” (Shakespeare)

Z2626. Don’t visually register

Z2627. Back for front?

Z2628. Cheeky

Z2629. Turns over

Z2632. Fleet folks

Z2633. Low-tech “drones” for family fun

Z2634. Where many take selfies of themselves trying to match the angle of a tower

Z2636. De Lesseps feat

Z2637. Candy with a sour-powder center

Z2638. Sigurd’s steed

Z2639. Close to one’s heart

Z2640. This may be Belgian

Z2641. Gay place?

Z2642. Product of clay compaction

Z2643. Sheer delights

Z2644. Lame excuse

Z2645. Actor Jeremy of North Country

Z2646. Ex-Tiger pitcher Newhouser

Z2647. Greeting on Telemundo

Z2648. Cats’ are pointy

Z2649. Many modern TVs

Z2650. Be out to pasture

Z2652. Combination item

Z2653. Sounds from someone not good with, you know, word things

Z2654. Posh address

Z2655. One of the heads of France?

Z2656. Short strokes

Z2657. “It Was a Lover and His ___” (song from As You Like It)

Z2658. Fox trailer

Z2659. Restaurant guide

Z2660. Ones holding hands, usually

Z2661. Trips with water, water, everywhere, and plenty of drops to drink

Z2663. Great amounts

Z2664. Shuffleboards on ice

Z2665. Marat/Sade playwright Peter

Z2666. A whole passel

Z2667. Mental enslavement

Z2668. Pacific Fleet admiral of WWII

Z2669. Officially but not really

Z2671. Health stat that’s not so healthy

Z2672. Initial letters in a high-end “Toy Bazaar”

Z2674. Fairly large

Z2677. Chippy to Jimmy Kimmel or Clara for Samantha

Z2678. Style of Chinese cooking

Z2681. Was covered by

Z2682. Likely to stumble

Z2683. Anti-truther

Z2685. Spies may wear them

Z2686. A son of Cronus and Rhea

Z2687. J. Paul

Z2688. Scrolls of the Pentateuch

Z2689. Middle of a New Year’s song title

Z2690. Rocker-congressman Bono

Z2691. Track on the Monkees’ Headquarters album whose title means nothing

Z2692. One in a will

Z2693. “It couldn’t be helped”

Z2694. House band?

Z2695. Julie Andrews film

Z2696. Focus on, with “on”

Z2697. Occam’s implement

Z2700. Source of the DeVos fortune Betsy married into

Z2703. May-December relationship’s issue

Z2704. Vocalized

Z2705. Singer with a ponytail, to stans

Z2706. Ambulance VIP

Z2707. Feudal territory

Z2708. Woman’s name that’s also a French city

Z2709. Randian mantra

Z2710. State VIPs, informally

Z2711. Embarrassing error (or embarrassing something-else)

Z2712. Instruction found near some door handles

Z2713. White Teeth author Smith

Z2714. Mascot briefly replaced by Wally the Bear

Z2715. BFFs, e.g.

Z2716. Knox and Lee

Z2717. Certain apartment number

Z2718. When a park might open

Z2719. Braincases

Z2720. 1960s greetings

Z2721. Reply to some knocks

Z2723. Whiz or whillikers preceder

Z2724. “Every man has ___ spot somewhere” (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Z2725. da Gama’s first name

Z2726. Horse with a certain gait

Z2727. Good, long bath

Z2728. Hardly big names

Z2731. Repair, as a garment

Z2732. Bit part

Z2733. Perfect partner

Z2735. Many a college course, informally

Z2736. Spice opera?

Z2737. Throwing bedroom eyes, say

Z2739. “Pickpocket win!”

Z2741. Monet’s haystacks

Z2742. They shoot down chutes

Z2743. Hors d’oeuvre holder

Z2744. Plug points

Z2745. Like some vows

Z2746. Queen of K-Pop

Z2747. Dropped into dreamland

Z2748. Lowers the luminescence of

Z2749. Pro ___ (temporarily)

Z2750. The Compleat Angler author Walton

Z2751. How MLB games are often broadcast

Z2752. Gotham actress Pinkett Smith

Z2753. It will give you a fare deal

Z2754. Pres. who was also a gen.

Z2755. Comment from a porker

Z2756. Snapz

Z2757. Bake-sale orgs.

Z2758. Fool, in Yiddish

Z2759. Cartoon Kat

Z2760. Take life easy

Z2761. Old Roman naturalist

Z2762. Bank of England architect

Z2763. Sheds shells

Z2764. Movie openings?

Z2765. Paul McCartney band

Z2766. Dine in the style of a vampire

Z2767. Balances’ partners

Z2768. Like the moon at times

Z2769. Not so gray

Z2771. Minnelli and Soberano

Z2772. Don Juan girl

Z2774. Poem made from quotes

Z2775. USIA div.

Z2776. Family title word

Z2777. Life, Time, or People

Z2780. Heavenly Father

Z2781. “Black Magic ___” (1970 Santana hit)

Z2782. Certainly, to Snoop Dogg

Z2784. Full of daring

Z2785. Uncommon in Uganda

Z2786. Thomas who said, “Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is a species of vice”

Z2787. Arctic birds

Z2788. Birds or fruit

Z2789. They may be delivered on wheels

Z2790. Marked with streaks

Z2791. Frozen ___ (hard line drive, in baseball)

Z2792. Taoism founder

Z2793. Itinerant ones

Z2794. Watch brand

Z2795. Emphatic word after yes or no

Z2796. TikTok imitating Bugs, Mickey, or Tezuka

Z2797. Like 3, 7, and 11

Z2798. Building-adjoining “umbrellas”

Z2800. Boot or Kapital preceder

Z2801. Big rd.

Z2802. Lack of mental clarity

Z2803. Mislead with flattering lies

Z2804. Outrigger

Z2805. 100 sen

Z2806. Beckett no-show

Z2807. Radiate, as confidence

Z2808. Paled

Z2810. Muppet named not for “cool” in 2023 slang, but for an X-rated film

Z2811. They use 10-codes

Z2812. Enterprise rival

Z2813. Tobacco holders

Z2814. Roman observances

Z2815. Descendant of Noah

Z2816. Meas. of quantity

Z2817. Arabic letters

Z2818. Let in as an email eavesdropper

Z2819. Inventors’ protections

Z2821. When doubled, makes specific accusations

Z2824. Distinctive theories

Z2825. Optical toy

Z2828. Change now and then

Z2829. Quixote’s squire Sancho

Z2830. Old woman’s term for girls she pities

Z2832. Mess (with)

Z2833. Go past fast

Z2835. Puerto ___, Chile

Z2836. Lamentations

Z2837. Sitcom star Tony whose name is a musical genre

Z2838. Greenspan and Rickman

Z2839. Packs or dips

Z2840. Locks that are hard to manage

Z2841. “Smokey” who managed the Dodgers

Z2842. Mr. T’s wear, once

Z2843. Peters out disappointingly

Z2845. Sans oomph

Z2846. River isles

Z2847. Vette gauge

Z2848. “Earn your shield” Nebraska university

Z2850. Hoops stat

Z2851. John’s “Pulp Fiction” date

Z2852. Count opener

Z2853. First “name” of the author of Freedom in Exile

Z2854. Sergey of Google

Z2855. Barrel-producing gp.

Z2856. Marshy outlet

Z2857. Cookie jar denizen, perhaps

Z2858. Like a lifter’s arms

Z2859. “Only a master of evil, ___”

Z2860. “Pardon?,” in Potsdam

Z2861. “Share and share ___”

Z2862. Raises aloft

Z2863. Snobbish affectedness

Z2864. “Huh? Of course not”

Z2865. Screwing up

Z2866. ___ in Irving

Z2867. Hat, in slang

Z2868. Lead-in to grill or boil

Z2869. Wrestler’s dive

Z2874. Imperfect, somehow, but I can’t put my finger on it

Z2876. Waiting-room reading

Z2877. See Z654-Across

Z2895. Dutch South African

Z2896. Death penalties

Z2897. Like rock formed when magma solidifies

Z2898. Novelist Conroy

Z2899. Scores of these may plague high schoolers

Z2900. “If___be so bold…”

Z2901. Has a lot of nerve

Z2902. Vlad creator

Z2903. Fake Danish name on Baileys

Z2904. Nays or no-ways

Z2905. Resides

Z2906. Irritable and bitter

Z2907. “Every parent at Disney” comedian John

Z2908. Nuts’ accompaniments

Z2909. Plateaus

Z2910. Gaudiness

Z2911. ___ rage (self-abusing bodybuilder’s brutality)

Z2912. Baseball “bird”

Z2913. Old Testament book

Z2914. Pt. of GPA

Z2915. Mid-wk. point

Z2916. Frequent year-ender in retail

Z2917. Not getting along

Z2918. Sport in which two can score at once

Z2919. ___ Bater (classic pun name of a “handy” guy)

Z2920. Of tasteful sensory experience

Z2923. Keys over `s

Z2924. “There she was, ___ life, all eyes on her”

Z2925. Status attained by some workers

Z2927. Quick second

Z2928. Autry and Krupa

Z2929. Hibernated

Z2930. Prince Philip’s spouse, for short

Z2931. Kids’ song ending that’s all vowels

Z2932. Home of Merlin, in Arthurian legend

Z2933. Serious faults

Z2934. Auto rental name

Z2935. Hoarse-sounding

Z2936. Reichenbach’s hypnotic force

Z2937. Haunted house worker’s job

Z2939. Losing proposition

Z2940. Literature’s Anne, Emily, or Charlotte

Z2941. Vingt-___ (blackjack)

Z2943. Like an animated Pea?

Z2944. Turns insensitive

Z2946. Tony winner for Best Musical of 1975, with The

Z2947. Sephora rival

Z2948. Try to slash

Z2949. These, in a brogue

Z2950. They sound like teths, usually

Z2951. Treats roughly

Z2952. Pizza producer

Z2953. Move about in a smug, carefree way

Z2955. Soothing

Z2957. Appropriate allowances

Z2958. Anhydrate with age

Z2959. Common stamp

Z2960. Shout evoking a prison riot

Z2961. Like unrecoverable reputations

Z2962. Bench press muscle, briefly

Z2963. Elocution-class no-nos

Z2964. Back muscles, in gym lingo

Z2965. Removes via immolation

Z2967. End of a saying about following orders, not examples

Z2968. Img. expansion

Z2969. Pre-game starter

Z2972. Agcy. selling securities

Z2973. Maestro Mehta

Z2974. Game commercialized as Call My Bluff

Z2976. “I’m the one who’s tellin’ ya, that’s who!”

Z2977. Homeric meta-generations of humanity

Z2978. “Dog” Chapman the bounty hunter

Z2979. Together, in Toulon

Z2980. Meditation rooms in Eastern monasteries

Z2981. Greet with humility

Z2982. He makes problems go away

Z2983. Word with “lip” or “in”

Z2984. Sheep product

Z2985. Dipwads

Z2986. More full-chested

Z2988. Tender to the touch

Z2989. Centibillionaire funding Blue Origin

Z2990. Org. with aces and chips

Z2991. Simple fellow of rhyme

Z2992. Popular mints

Z2994. Describe in drawing or words

Z2995. Isl. of Australia

Z2996. 2002 Cy Young Award winner

Z2997. Nasty remarks

Z2998. Coat that’s better when fake

Z2999. Kidnapped

Z3000. “Style plus confidence,” as Nicole Kidman sings it

Z3001. It’s 54, periodically speaking

Z3003. Vehicle that saw heavy action throughout World War II

Z3005. Burnt leavings

Z3006. Yiddish prick

Z3007. Knocked for a loop

Z3008. One-named singer of “Royals”

Z3009. Civil War nurse Barton

Z3010. McDonald’s chicken bit

Z3011. Brand pitched by a brown bunny

Z3012. Poe MacGuffin

Z3013. Get kinky

Z3014. True, in Bonn

Z3015. “It’s ___ and meds town” (Schools and medicine are its big economic drivers)

Z3016. Soccer mom’s vehicle

Z3017. Send a digital document

Z3019. Flintstones’ Snorkasaurus

Z3020. Director Frank who championed the common man

Z3021. Lieutenant colonel’s command

Z3023. Forgetful sort

Z3024. Sportswear selections

Z3025. One of several French kings

Z3026. Boxer Oscar___ Hoya

Z3027. “Curiously strong” mint

Z3028. Follower of a Persian religion

Z3031. Like many checking accounts

Z3032. ___ on to (grabs)

Z3033. Collection of texts

Z3034. Linguist’s ability

Z3035. James K. Polk’s alma mater

Z3036. Fronts of boats

Z3037. Divorced from reality

Z3038. ___ : 1 :: miney : 3

Z3039. Very rewarding, as a contract

Z3040. Sign of forgetfulness

Z3043. Indicator of the end of a game

Z3046. Looks sway-backed

Z3047. Mythical monster

Z3048. “___we forget…”

Z3049. Zoroastrian scriptures

Z3050. Saint ___: Caribbean island

Z3051. ___-chef (second banana in a kitchen)

Z3052. Texas hat size?

Z3054. Cold-weather conveyance

Z3055. Part of many Latin American city names

Z3056. Start of a saying about forgiveness

Z3057. Artist Bonheur and others

Z3058. America, for short

Z3059. Comic British character who rarely speaks

Z3060. “Tell me what you know!”

Z3062. Short smokes?

Z3063. Floaty environment, for short

Z3064. K preceders in the second row of the Ubercross Abecedaria

Z3065. Not in the dark about

Z3068. Like velvet, e.g.

Z3069. “…I shall never see ___ as lovely as a tree…” (Joyce Kilmer)

Z3070. Bench presser’s pride

Z3071. ___ cum laude

Z3072. Title often conferred to a prince as he comes of age

Z3074. Charles in Charge star

Z3075. Asian breads

Z3077. Talk foolishly

Z3078. Mo. that’s a Taylor Swift song

Z3079. Puts in transit in anticipation of one’s own arrival

Z3081. “Truth Hurts” singer (and flautist)

Z3082. Government org. with a gull in its logo

Z3083. Intermittent faster or clean eater

Z3085. Tenant’s farm

Z3086. Handled carelessly

Z3087. Brewer Joseph

Z3088. Easter egg coloring kit brand

Z3089. Perfected one’s skills

Z3090. “No reason to wake up, dear”

Z3092. Dalai follower

Z3093. He pioneered the simultaneous particle/wave theory

Z3094. World War II soldiers used this dog’s name as a password

Z3095. Prides of lions?

Z3096. Acad. for the job-focused

Z3097. Blow-ups (abbr.)

Z3098. Baseball headgear

Z3099. ___-nez (type of eyeglasses)

Z3100. Full of anticipation, perhaps

Z3102. Rule expressed by an equation

Z3103. Observe intently

Z3105. Person who knows the drill?

Z3107. Oration location

Z3108. Like non-oyster months, supposedly

Z3109. Jacked up

Z3110. “Phew, I’m all done writing clues…NO! I still have to do the Downs!”

Z3111. Morning dew is her tears, in mythology

Z3112. Coffee decanter types

Z3113. Lake life

Z3114. Game with half-elves, informally

Z3115. Cowboy with a bullwhip

Z3116. Carl’s “It’s Complicated” on The Walking Dead

Z3117. King Alfonso XIII’s bride

Z3118. Big name in energy bars

Z3119. Christmas carols, for example

Z3120. Again as if new

Z3122. Pet that needs only water

Z3123. “…unless I’m wrong”

Z3124. Nimbuses

Z3125. Co. involved with basket making?

Z3126. Install, as software before shipping

Z3127. “Amtrak Joe”

Z3128. Beer ingredient

Z3130. Mandvi of Evil

Z3132. It may cause an uprising?

Z3133. Nine Inch Nails lead singer Trent

Z3134. Protest era in 19^th-century Germany

Z3136. CBS military procedural

Z3137. Life of ___ (carefree existence)

Z3138. Weekdays, for short

Z3139. Some music stations

Z3140. British finishers?

Z3143. GOP fundraising org.

Z3144. Steamy, perhaps

Z3146. Makes advances

Z3147. Op. followers

Z3148. Starts (up)

Z3149. Surprise surge

Z3150. Dundee refusals

Z3151. Like some batteries

Z3153. Give a sign to

Z3154. Cold-___ (winter staple)

Z3155. Uttered inanities

Z3156. “Don’t ___ double negatives” (William Safire, being snarky)

Z3158. Ferrari FF, e.g.

Z3159. Loses one’s enthusiasm for, with “on”

Z3160. Hawk, as on Canal Street

Z3161. Russian orbiter

Z3162. Ones in Mauritania

Z3163. Bathtub ring gunk

Z3164. Hardly forthcoming

Z3165. Literary symbols of daybreak

Z3166. Eur. is one

Z3167. Home of the Don Haskins Ctr.

Z3168. Herr's "his"

Z3170. Pencilling and inking, in comics

Z3171. Word or phrase, in usage terms

Z3172. Like some ships

Z3174. Furnish with a roof

Z3175. Baghdad dangers, for short

Z3176. Leave the NCAA, say

Z3177. Dark area of the moon, in stellar cartography

Z3178. Alternative to Hotmail, back in the day

Z3179. Nose about

Z3180. Sheet or towel

Z3181. As a logical inevitability

Z3183. Compensatory determination, especially in women or children

Z3184. Contradict

Z3185. Bee alternative

Z3187. Really good, in ‘90s slang

Z3188. Tests for rats

Z3189. Equally depressed to

Z3190. Contraction, for one

Z3191. Word with spoon or cup

Z3193. “Lone Star Vet” on the National Geographic Channel

Z3194. Film fest film, often

Z3197. Big name in sailboats

Z3198. Not dilute (abbr.)

Z3199. Relative of ogle

Z3200. “I win! I win!”

Z3201. Home of the Sun, Storm, and Sky

Z3202. Transferee’s activity

Z3204. Like a sandspur

Z3206. Marks as hellbound

Z3207. Enjoy a vacation

Z3208. Their age came to an end in 1917

Z3209. Long after youth

Z3210. Hardcore films, for short

Z3211. Bobby aptly contained in NORRIS TROPHY

Z3212. CPU unit

Z3213. Mlle. of Madrid

Z3214. ___ hers (unisex)

Z3215. At the acme

Z3216. Does the hair just so

Z3217. Showed fully

Z3219. Do like Durer

Z3220. “The thing that puzzles ___ that the butler…”

Z3221. Brief spat

Z3222. Writerly

Z3224. Palace of the Doges setting

Z3225. Like badly applied makeup

Z3226. “…an ___ listen, and a push in the right direction” (John C. Crosby, on mentoring)

Z3227. Kind of strong ale, in Britain

Z3228. “Am I the cause of this problem?”

Z3229. “Ici on ___ francais”

Z3230. “They’re ours!”

Z3231. Certain Mideasterner

Z3232. “That’s ___!” (“Don’t, kid!”)

Z3233. Cigarette additive?

Z3234. Much of Ohio

Z3236. Frozen drink company with a polar bear mascot

Z3237. Baby food maker

Z3238. The ___ Ripper

Z3239. Step toward advanced learning

Z3240. “Well, this ___” (“How unusual!”)

Z3241. Pantses, slangily

Z3242. “The high school sports athlete gained a doctorate in Jeopardy but failed as a big-game hunter”?

Z3246. “I’m ready for lovin’”? [Warning: this one’s risqué!]

Z3252. “It’s 2006, and we Dems’ve had enough of the current US admin!”?

Z3257. NBA and ABA superstar, who once appeared on a fashionable magazine cover?

Z3263. Congo, for a time

Z3264. Cry of pain or laughter

Z3265. Anne of Green Gables setting

Z3266. “It’s Over, ___? ___? ___ Over?” (heart-rending song from Steven Universe)

Z3267. First Black winner of Wimbledon

Z3268. Rapid, in music (but not “rapido”)

Z3269. Kind of waltz

Z3270. Antiseptic, in Arles

Z3271. Fact finder, say

Z3272. Backbone top named for a guy who put a lot of pressure on his

Z3273. “Stupid ___-correct”

Z3274. Beyond Good and ___ (Nietzsche)

Z3275. Botch things

Z3276. Living nativity role

Z3277. Father of Icarus

Z3278. ___ Technologies, massively popular 2009 start-up

Z3279. Chanukah fare

Z3280. “___, the great and powerful”

Z3281. Rootless life?

Z3282. She-bear, in Seville

Z3283. Wagered, in games

Z3284. Be ___ on: slow down

Z3286. Kind of strength related to stress

Z3287. ___-camp

Z3288. Like the SST fleet (abbr.)

Z3289. Happened next

Z3290. More heated

Z3291. Compound parts (abbr.)

Z3292. Farm machines

Z3293. Eyelid maladies

Z3294. Home Depot house paint

Z3295. Show dizziness

Z3296. Trees that coexist well with conifers

Z3297. Lauder of lipsticks and such

Z3298. Place for mariners

Z3299. What you can’t do after laying eyes on something unpleasant

Z3300. With a lot of lip

Z3301. Under the alfluence of incohol

Z3302. Artery implant

Z3303. Initialism in celebratory IMs

Z3304. Knuckle on

Z3305. Milton Berle’s theme song

Z3307. Boomer’s daughter, say

Z3308. Driving req.

Z3309. Ox

Z3310. A pseudonym can come before or after this

Z3312. ___ in eccentric

Z3314. Texans are part of it, in brief

Z3316. Calpurnia was one

Z3318. Abba tune, when quintupled

Z3319. Standard of living econ. indicator

Z3320. Legendary comics artist whose adaptation of the Book of Genesis was released in 2009

Z3324. Blank slate

Z3330. Quick to react

Z3335. Cheerleading lead-in to “girl”

Z3339. Blank, to Brutus

Z3343. Exist as one?

Z3346. Name assigner

Z3350. Big turkey

Z3356. Females in the forest

Z3360. Lead-in to support

Z3362. Bombastic blog post

Z3364. Post-WWII alliance

Z3367. Copycat’s remark

Z3371. Master of None star Ansari

Z3375. Ovine whine

Z3378. Excellent rankings

Z3381. Campus VIPs

Z3386. Opening remark?

Z3392. George the first?

Z3398. Milieus for popcorn

Z3400. Fish trap stuck into underwater terrain

Z3402. Like blimpmaking or Top Gun action scenes

Z3403. Insult for a guy with romantic pretensions

Z3404. Chickpeas

Z3406. 10:15 or so, last time I worked in an office

Z3408. Former pitcher Claude

Z3409. X-Men’s Peters stunt-cast on WandaVision

Z3410. Revolting

Z3411. ___ one else would: uniquely

Z3412. Part of a gross

Z3414. Composer of program music

Z3416. “A ___?! He’s supposed to be dead!” (The Emperor’s New Groove)

Z3417. Sharing a spot of Earl Grey

Z3418. “That pretty much ___ all”

Z3419. Function of some engine valves

Z3420. “As ___ saying…”

Z3421. The works

Z3424. Nest sound?

Z3426. Hannah in Splash

Z3428. Alphabetically earliest acronym in the whole Ubercross Abecedaria, spelled out

Z3432. Farewell followed by “In a while, crocodile”

Z3436. Sock so hard it bends the laws of spacetime

Z3441. Form of child abuse involving faked illness

Z3446. “No ___”: “I gotchu”

Z3447. Comparatively fresh from the oven, as brownies

Z3448. Heat center of old?

Z3449. “…there is ___ but ignorance” (Marlowe)

Z3450. Honeyed potables

Z3451. Grayest and most mineral-like

Z3452. Diddly squat

Z3453. Cola additive

Z3454. Regular rituals

Z3455. Bristliest with stinging hairs

Z3456. Supermodel and TV host called “The Body” by Time in 1989

Z3457. Popular payment app

Z3458. Seraglios

Z3459. Neuropathologist who identified “presenile dementia”

Z3460. Acted the fink

Z3461. Ra replacement

Z3462. Fleming and Guggenheim, e.g.

Z3463. Common strip steak weight (abbr.)

Z3464. Drink for astronauts

Z3465. ___-eyed (naïve)

Z3466. Her, in Honfleur

Z3467. Queens diamond that wasn’t forever

Z3468. Spiny-flowered plant or residue from an ocean burial

Z3469. Rachel on Glee

Z3470. St. between Miss. and Ga.

Z3471. Data transfer services of a sort

Z3472. Graceful animal

Z3473. Astaire and Adkins of musical stage

Z3474. Actor Hakeem ___-Kazim of Hotel Rwanda

Z3475. God in Guatemala

Z3476. Make more subtle

Z3477. Most farfetched

Z3478. Fork over the dough

Z3479. Raton nemesis

Z3480. The cold never bothered her anyway

Z3481. “Enough, mes amis!”

Down

Z1. DreamWorks’ first computer-animated film

Z2. MGM cofounder

Z3. eLearning units

Z4. Andy and Moby

Z5. Industrialist’s deg.

Z6. Bubkes

Z7. Entablature part

Z8. Reputable nineteenth-century gentleman believed to be blackmailed in a classic sci-fi story

Z9. French 101 possessive

Z10. The where

Z11. Streamers playwright

Z12. “Children, Go Where ___ Thee”

Z13. 1940s Bikini blast

Z14. Confectionery stock

Z15. Musician’s stage name and honor musicians can win

Z16. Radioactivity cleanup, for short

Z17. Campus town on the Stillwater River

Z18. Inconsequential

Z19. Swimmer “Thorpedo”

Z20. Continue until

Z21. Curry, first unanimous NBA MVP

Z22. Fabulous empowerment?

Z23. Regional circle?

Z24. On the blink

Z25. Returnable basis, to a Brit

Z26. Wrenched apart

Z27. Gets emotional

Z28. Orthodontists’ org.

Z29. Fix a phonograph stylus

Z30. Jersey sch. filmed in The Incredible Hulk and Friday Night Lights

Z31. Promptly arrested

Z32. Seers see them

Z33. Faroe whirlwinds

Z34. Disguise parts, sometimes

Z35. “Hot to trot,” in an initialism

Z36. Costa or Puerto follower

Z37. “I want to be the reason you look down at your phone and smile…then walk into ___” (Anon.)

Z38. A Fish Called ___(1988)

Z39. Hockey defense maneuver

Z40. Went to a restaurant

Z41. Has a fistfight

Z42. Jodhpurs, e.g.

Z43. “Don’t fret!”

Z44. Visibly upset

Z45. Desensitized from overindulgence

Z46. Jeans brand standing for “every day on the calendar”

Z47. LI, tripled

Z48. “Lola” band, with “The”

Z49. First word in a Beatles song title

Z50. Once-”high-flying” stock ticker

Z51. Ubiquitous expression in the fiftieth state

Z52. Green damage

Z53. Ostrava tongue

Z54. Listens, as to the herald angels

Z55. Ocean motion

Z56. Like a ballerina

Z57. ___ Harry Met Sally

Z58. Words preceding “Fine” and “Shy” in oldie pop titles

Z59. Vibrating quietly

Z60. Odds endings, often

Z61. Makes cozy

Z62. Clarence Darrow or (rrr) William Barr, for short

Z63. Perfume container

Z64. Feather, wing, or fin

Z65. One born up to 19 years after World War II

Z66. They top out around 118, for short

Z67. On ___: ecstatic

Z68. ___ Zeppelin (all-female tribute band)

Z69. Kind kind of love

Z70. Little ones

Z71. Think twice about a confrontation

Z72. Vegas array

Z73. Word from a foreman

Z74. Legendary 1950s marketing failure (but, to be fair, it was also a terrible product)

Z75. Blues singer ___ Monica Parker

Z76. “…I was born ___ it right!” (Hamlet)

Z77. Lower in prestige

Z78. Pascal’s law?

Z79. Frat party outfits, perhaps

Z80. Smidgen

Z81. Brief a thief

Z82. Pinocchio, e.g.

Z83. “Okay, fine, but don’t ___ didn’t warn you”

Z84. Kind of sale

Z86. Heavy-duty boot feature

Z87. Alter for later, e.g. (abbr.)

Z88. Relative of a firth

Z90. Vito Corleone’s enforcer Brasi

Z91. Do a spellcheck, for a start

Z92. Warehouse units (abbr.)

Z95. A clown’s is often fake

Z96. Pastina relative

Z97. Gardener’s bagful

Z98. Its “armor’s too strong for blasters”

Z99. Early biologist of the Bible

Z100. Collecting field

Z101. Leader of 1813’s Creek War

Z102. Indeed.com notation

Z103. Como, familiarly

Z104. Atlantic City offering

Z105. Puzzler’s compound

Z106. You might order it with naan

Z107. Sicily’s peak

Z108. YouTube co-founder Steve or Kickstarter founder Perry

Z109. Friday et al. (abbr.)

Z110. Interweaving

Z111. Scottish variation of snow

Z112. People of the Ethiopian highlands

Z113. Channel joining two rivers

Z114. Janssen of the Taken films

Z115. Cooking personality with Homemade and Home Kitchen

Z119. Bus. designation

Z120. Excited scream

Z122. Sow, e.g.

Z123. Certain gun

Z126. Cable channel that shows old flicks

Z131. Family Circus creator Keane

Z133. Half-inning’s trio

Z136. Grade school basics, familiarly

Z141. Defendants, in a court of law

Z143. Carry on

Z147. Really ready

Z149. Removing, like paper from a spiral notebook

Z151. Marshy places

Z172. Many an Australian wine

Z173. Organize all personal affairs

Z177. Storefront blazer

Z178. Makeup of some jokes

Z181. City-run, for short

Z183. Michael Jackson boast of 1987

Z184. Think Conceal, don’t feel around your crush, say

Z185. Turns into a porn pun, e.g.

Z186. South-of-the-border snoozes

Z188. Prepare for use, as a tent

Z189. Chicago Hope actress Christine

Z190. “___ or lose…!”

Z191. Mil. demand for supplies

Z192. Links wear of yesteryear

Z194. In check

Z195. St. John’s ___ (herbal remedy)

Z196. “This should be ___-brainer, I mean, duh”

Z197. Something to stand on?

Z198. Pointing to the F

Z199. Shoulder wear

Z200. Noontime service

Z201. 1984 Leon Uris bestseller, with The

Z202. Attempt to copy

Z203. Running on fumes, so to speak

Z204. ___ en scene

Z205. Acronym that sometimes has an “H” inserted

Z206. Egyptian flower?

Z207. Baptism garb

Z208. Street edge

Z210. Heat loss, maybe?

Z211. Eclipse lineup

Z212. Start from the beginning

Z213. War on Poverty agcy.

Z214. Hearts, but not spades

Z215. Portuguese measure equivalent to 115 gallons

Z216. Rear entry?

Z217. Not slip-on

Z218. Schindler of Schindler’s List

Z219. Units named for a German

Z220. Basketball court area

Z221. Like recent events never happened

Z222. Go to the limit

Z223. Audi had one with BMW via billboards and blimp

Z224. Steering aid

Z225. Suffix with ideal or real

Z226. Somber Wednesday preceder

Z227. Mag man with a mansion

Z228. Vulcanologists study them

Z229. Cuisinier

Z230. Anti-art movement

Z232. Text you might RSVP to

Z233. Mil. supplies orders

Z234. Shah of the Pandava Quintet

Z235. Priest killed by snakes for warning the Trojans not to accept the horse

Z236. Bayou cuisine

Z237. “___ and Away” (1967 hit)

Z238. Pump abbr. of old

Z239. Slight slices of seconds

Z240. Move shortly?

Z241. DC summer time

Z242. Early home of Jesus

Z243. Cooks, as mushrooms

Z244. Rock a baton

Z245. CIA part

Z246. First word in a Chinese dish

Z247. Novel that introduced Shangri-La

Z248. Must involve

Z249. Sandra Denton, in a hip-hop trio

Z250. Indian in The Big Bang Theory

Z251. Ear infection

Z252. Noisemakers at the 2010 World Cup

Z253. Distinct (abbr.)

Z254. Emulating a kitten

Z255. Give ___: promise to marry

Z256. Coral formations

Z257. Series of six

Z258. Like games at a sports bar

Z259. Zipped file format

Z260. “All of my novels are democracies” Israeli author

Z261. Food at a bar

Z262. “I knew better than that!” nonverbalisms

Z263. Aduba of Orange Is the New Black

Z264. Hold in utter contempt

Z265. O’Brien who won an Oscar for The Barefoot Contessa

Z266. Webchat gizmos

Z267. Suffix with sub

Z268. Edge or Opera

Z270. Leg, old-style

Z272. Climbs impressively

Z276. ___ All That

Z281. Navigational tool around a compass

Z283. A gross

Z284. Montreal skaters, casually

Z290. Court cry

Z295. Software with a store

Z296. Sets aside

Z297. Dishevel

Z298. Precocious Plaza resident of kidlit

Z299. Century parts (abbr.)

Z301. Prayer beginning, perhaps

Z302. Prom add-on?

Z303. In the eastern sky, to astonomers

Z304. Horse of a reddish color

Z306. More than sufficiently

Z307. Space0saving abbr.

Z308. Yarn shop buy

Z309. Pass off

Z310. Room-service prop

Z311. Perform atop

Z312. “Smooth sailing on this end”

Z313. Du-rag

Z322. Added spice to

Z328. St. that sounds like its name comes from “dry area” (but it doesn’t)

Z337. ___-E (key figure in Straight Outta Compton)

Z338. Date 135 years hence

Z340. The Bada Bing on The Sopranos, e.g.

Z341. Sweater letters

Z343. Acher’s lament

Z344. Is apathetic

Z345. Dulles Airport designer Saarinen

Z346. Enigmatic

Z347. Brand of syrup for tummy trouble

Z348. Philosopher Machiavelli

Z350. Tara heroine

Z351. Chime in to agree

Z352. Not fulfilled, as promises

Z353. SATB’s finish

Z355. Big hairdos, for short

Z356. Cruise keepsakes

Z357. Ethnicity disappearing into Russia and Ukraine

Z358. Column with sad news

Z359. Fn neighbor

Z360. Meet the Press guest, briefly

Z362. Takes care of a mess?

Z363. Laboratorio animal

Z364. As an example

Z365. Diary securer

Z366. Pep Boys competitor

Z370. Homes in the sticks

Z371. Perch atop

Z372. Enliven, as a crossword grid with previously dull letters

Z373. Capital of Hainaut

Z374. Calculus calculation (abbr.)

Z375. Frequency meas. associated with infrared

Z376. Non-NATO Eur. country

Z377. Big Twelve school

Z378. Sent out a social networking message

Z379. Indicate

Z380. “Joyeux ___”

Z381. Height multiplied by the two bases’ average width

Z382. “She was a rare thing, fine as ___ wing” (Christy Moore)

Z383. Signs of success, on Broadway?

Z384. More hot-blooded

Z385. Comedian’s subroutine

Z386. Bridges seen in The Mountain Between Us

Z387. “It ___ To Be You”

Z389. Brazilian soccer star David

Z390. Carried away

Z391. Slim, as odds, in shorthand

Z392. Be plucky

Z393. Commit a hoops no-no

Z394. Honolulu’s historic palace

Z395. Eric of Back to the Future

Z396. Resurrected

Z397. First human creation to break the sound barrier

Z398. Sauron’s Nine Riders

Z399. One of a trio at either end of a Quidditch pitch

Z400. Open-air market fundraisers

Z402. Sabrina’s caretakers

Z403. Try to hook

Z404. Vodka drink

Z405. Cartoon with Skeeter and Roger M. Klotz

Z406. Beats-per-minute measure

Z407. Actor’s words

Z408. Commotions of Shakespearean proportions?

Z409. Cowboy’s positive response

Z411. Acronym for those remembering to be kind

Z412. Des Moines home

Z413. Big health supplement chain, familiarly

Z414. Shouts that are “energico”

Z415. Turns over and over

Z419. Kept talking, and talking…

Z420. First farmer

Z421. Did some masculine nurturing of, slangily

Z422. Fastens or hastens

Z423. EMK, e.g.

Z424. Get cracking, quaintly

Z425. What a hafiz has memorized

Z426. Oscar Wilde’s Libertatis Sacra ___

Z428. Title role for Elliot Page

Z429. Orange-red gems

Z431. Sharing our industry, informally

Z432. Wit’s deliveries

Z433. Vereen of stage and screen

Z434. Young ___

Z435. Bit of tennis

Z436. Sweat (and grumble over) the small stuff

Z437. Six to eight-packs

Z438. Kellogg’s sprite

Z439. Machine-gun feature

Z443. Mindset studier Dweck

Z444. Huge market surplus

Z445. More madcap

Z446. Tilt while flying

Z447. Fireworks with whirling tops

Z449. Brad’s bride in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Z450. Bishop of old TV

Z451. Fasten

Z452. Luck repellent?

Z453. Pietistic

Z454. Mamet of Girls and Trolls: Band Together

Z455. Like sexist jokes

Z457. Bank acct. amt.

Z458. Summer time

Z459. Canal of Egypt

Z461. “Oh, baby, this is AMAZING!”

Z462. Accomplish incorrectly

Z463. “Every exit is an entry somewhere ___” (Tom Stoppard)

Z464. Biblical verb with “sow”

Z467. “___ face red!”

Z469. Truman’s birthplace

Z470. Say “What’s wrong, you scared?,” e.g.

Z471. Senator Michael or physician Omalu

Z472. Novelist defender of Dreyfus

Z473. Pinnule

Z474. Unit for modern processors

Z475. Crude shack

Z476. Rice or corn cereal

Z477. “Little woman”

Z478. Billionaire Sam who epically mismanaged Tribune Media

Z479. Emmy-winning talk show ended by its namesake’s stab at political office

Z480. ___ personality

Z481. “I ___ well” (“Me too”)

Z482. Went back to the future, say

Z484. Kissinger and Powell’s Big Apple alma mater

Z485. 1980s Pakistani leader

Z486. Made stuff up?

Z487. Donovan’s WWII gp.

Z488. Uncouth youth

Z489. Travelers alternative

Z492. Permanently

Z493. To a level of great activity

Z495. “Correo ___” (envelope phrase)

Z496. Movie network

Z497. Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood

Z498. Makes hasty notes

Z499. Disco-inspired superhero who turns sound to light

Z501. One assisting a midwife

Z502. Start of the day

Z505. Tomato product

Z506. Bird once endangered by a mania for its plume

Z507. ___ one (barely ahead)

Z508. Kids’ card game for two

Z509. Go on the ___: flee

Z510. Buildup in some mouths

Z511. Get curly (var.)

Z513. Word uttered with a disappointed eyeroll

Z514. Prefix meaning “sextillion”

Z517. Intended to convey

Z518. Restores a temporary shelter

Z521. Thirteens

Z522. Singer-songwriter Bareilles

Z523. Return, just barely, as a tennis ball

Z524. Code cracker, of sorts

Z525. Trade one’s pride for essentials

Z526. Belonging to Mr. Begley

Z527. Spacious vehicle on a car platform

Z528. Tried one’s hand

Z529. Eye in awe

Z530. Ft. Benning, e.g.

Z531. Grain grinder

Z532. Melodious sounds

Z534. With the intent

Z535. With carefree improvisation

Z537. Pre-weekend “whoopee!”

Z538. Clothing ensemble, slangily

Z539. Coffee-cup stand of East

Z540. ___-M-Aid (candy renamed Fun Dip)

Z541. It’s a big truck

Z542. Historic town near Malaga

Z543. Coltrane’s rendition of “My Favorite Things,” e.g.

Z544. Comedian who said “there aren’t enough black people making maps”

Z545. Variety of permitted beliefs

Z548. Takes advantage

Z549. Circular things that arrive in square boxes

Z550. East African island

Z551. Extremely thin

Z553. Grinch leaving

Z554. Bright parrots

Z555. Volcanic depressions

Z556. Pine-tar hydrocarbon

Z557. Syrup for breakfast (just add water)

Z558. Undertaketh a journey

Z559. French lord

Z560. They’ll eat meat and dairy, they’ll just eat a lot more veggies

Z562. Satisfied comments

Z563. Thawed

Z564. ___-Cities (Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs)

Z566. Installment plan alternative

Z567. H _ _ _ _ and “rhymes with dints,” e.g.

Z568. Ornamental light

Z569. Boat-steering aid

Z572. Ironic “win” for films like Blonde, Cats, and Diana: The Musical

Z573. First helmet of its day to protect the whole head

Z574. Bucks, does, and fawns

Z575. Cuban guy, for short

Z576. Harsh-sounding

Z577. NBC pt.

Z578. Archive format

Z579. Risk-embracing

Z580. ___ out (allots)

Z581. White, Grable, and Ford

Z582. Line on a map

Z583. Hillsong song with an extended oenological metaphor

Z584. Follower of “seven potato”

Z585. Offer worship

Z586. Ah

Z587. Introductory symbol on music

Z588. Small, with some Orwellian marketing added

Z590. 180s, casually

Z591. Frighten away

Z592. Diner menu item

Z593. Everybody on the vessel

Z594. Early fiddle

Z595. Hairdos, briefly

Z597. Mineralogy scale

Z598. Baptism’s beginning?

Z599. Condition caused by abnormal calcium levels

Z602. Villainous count in the Lemony Snicket books

Z603. Propagated

Z605. What America’s horse lacked

Z606. Baked beans and marathon center (just don’t combine the two)

Z607. Gov’t entity chastized in 2005

Z608. Imitating a lizard on a rock

Z610. Like many a beach bum

Z611. Changed the organization of debt and equity

Z613. Name for more streamlined typefaces

Z614. Coins in Islamabad

Z615. Any of the Norns, by role

Z616. Requestor of “As Time Goes By”

Z617. “___-bye!”

Z618. Lubbock-to-Abilene dir.

Z619. Time, to Germans

Z620. Peter Pan vehicles

Z622. Second in a German series

Z623. Flashy like an old-school gangster

Z624. Golfer’s concern

Z628. Make like a king

Z629. Bombard

Z630. Place to shop

Z631. “Club” initials of 1970s-1980s TV

Z632. Bad hairpiece

Z633. Electronics attachments

Z634. Scout’s work, briefly

Z635. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” writer

Z636. What an ass may come back as

Z637. Any Olympian

Z639. Taj town

Z640. Doorpost attachment in Judaism

Z642. Venter’s state

Z643. Clued in, once

Z644. “Stand by Me” singer King

Z645. It’s small and strummable

Z646. Independent program for “ideas worth spreading” to local groups

Z647. Plugged in

Z648. Popular ATVs

Z650. Not this way! (abbr.)

Z653. Singer born in Nigeria

Z655. Villas and bungalows

Z656. One-sided game

Z657. Is hot, hot, hot

Z658. Dow cousin

Z659. Home of Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars films

Z660. German city badly razed in World War II

Z661. Poet who famously rhymed “liquor” and “quicker”

Z662. “wait, wut??”

Z663. Gives into the pressure

Z664. A tenth of zehn

Z665. Cleanup helper

Z666. “Let’s Dance” releaser

Z667. Former union members?

Z668. Place brushed by a barber

Z669. “With malice toward ___” (Lincoln)

Z670. Historical excavation site

Z671. Bring discontent to

Z672. Decorated metalware

Z673. 1945 Carousel star

Z676. T-shirt size (abbr.)

Z695. She opened her show by passing out lunches

Z696. Like a tennis match without breaks

Z698. Claims similarities

Z699. Augmented, informally

Z700. It’ll give you a trip

Z701. Razzmatazz

Z703. Rowboat reorienters

Z704. Deposited in layers

Z705. On this page, perhaps

Z706. Unable to take a call, perhaps

Z707. VCR button pushed for a snack break

Z708. Alpaca cousin

Z709. Equine bellow

Z710. Actress famous for “The Rachel” hair style, familiarly

Z711. The Waltons grandpa

Z712. Worldwide singing franchise, to fans

Z713. Socks complement

Z714. Dispenser of joe

Z715. Nippon noodle

Z716. Motown group section

Z717. Fail to field a grounder

Z719. Less solid (var.)

Z721. Charlie McCarthy or Jeff Dunham’s Walter

Z722. It’s said they just fade away

Z723. Madison Avenue concern

Z724. Self-employed business license owner

Z725. Short-lived particle

Z726. Comic-strip sound

Z727. Treasurer?

Z728. Cold-weather coaster

Z729. UTI medication

Z730. (The) Dubya era, mostly

Z731. “___ the sea and wind when both contend” (Hamlet)

Z732. “Let’s put a ___ that theory to explore at a later time”

Z733. More crackers

Z734. Terrain cross-section

Z735. Residence of a clergyman

Z737. Mickey Mouse’s original name

Z738. Conqueror of Cuzco

Z740. Birds with rare binocular vision

Z741. Place for potpourri

Z742. Kind of rug that emulates vintage

Z743. ___-hoo: chocolate drink that sounds great now, actually!

Z744. Like birds of a feather

Z745. Drops a letter

Z746. Best-selling author on salesmanship

Z747. Sweater sizes (abbr.)

Z751. Comic-strip character Ritz whose feature was taken over by her own niece

Z752. Traffic-lane marker

Z753. 1984 US Open winner

Z755. Housewives, e.g.

Z756. Defeated

Z758. Greek measures

Z759. “Don’cha think so?”

Z760. “Must-___” (NBC slogan)

Z761. They are on the beach

Z762. Pushpin

Z763. Address for some ma’ams in the Deep South

Z764. Smartphone network std.

Z765. Sound heard every second

Z766. Office correspondence

Z768. Makes “it,” in a game

Z769. Washington and Leto’s costar in The Little Things

Z770. “What a ___” (“Too bad”)

Z773. Big boss, informally

Z775. Where the Liffey flows

Z778. Pile on, as troubles

Z779. Blackberry stem

Z780. “Give it to me straight, ___, will I be able to play the piano?”

Z781. Much of Saturn’s rings

Z782. Butt soaker

Z783. 1980 Stephen King novella made into a 2007 movie

Z784. Total screw-up

Z785. Any practices requiring skill, really

Z786. “If you don’t draw an orange and send it to five people, you will be visited by a ghost tonight at midnight,” e.g.

Z787. Championship match

Z788. Grandma

Z789. Blew up, perhaps

Z791. Space captain known for his many love affairs

Z792. Gossip show hoaxed on a fake JFK photo

Z793. In unison, musically

Z794. Teen blemish

Z795. Yearn to see again

Z796. Fierce competitor

Z797. “Let’s Play A Game Of ‘Kiss, Marry, Ditch’ With These Shondaland Men” and “If You Can’t Guess 50% Of The Correct Disney Hairstyles, Then I’m Revoking Your Disney+ Subscription”

Z798. Put in a magazine

Z799. Yasmin, Chloe, Jade, and Sasha introduced 2001

Z803. Stretched one’s lower lip over the tip of one’s nose, e.g.

Z804. Frankfurter topping

Z805. Like fertilized eggs

Z807. Movie mogul Adolph who helped found Paramount

Z808. Make a vessel fast

Z809. Characters in The Glass Menagerie, Law and Order SVU, Ugly Betty, Melrose Place, and Saw

Z810. Signoff for somewhat longer than “BRB” but less time than “l8r, g8r”

Z811. Boy scout unit

Z812. Ballet togs

Z813. Chow kin, briefly

Z814. Playing hard to get

Z815. “Uh-uh”

Z816. Vow of silence taker

Z817. It’s longer than a midi

Z819. Attacks, dog-style

Z820. Attack with a pitchfork

Z821. Hold back

Z823. Grab a Greyhound

Z824. Leave flummoxed

Z825. Seth’s brother

Z826. “Six feet” follower in 2020

Z828. In need of some black coffee, perhaps

Z829. Since, informally

Z830. Birth control option, briefly

Z831. Storied assassin

Z832. Eng. version, maybe

Z834. Within a crowd of

Z835. Almost two gallons, in a British pub

Z837. Actress Farrow

Z838. Form of training for natural childbirth involving less breath practice than it used to

Z840. Despicable ones

Z841. Mob hit victim, often

Z842. La ___ (former Hispanic organization)

Z843. Letter string abbreviating a word for “friend”

Z844. Reno in Reading

Z845. Folded Pizza Hut offering

Z846. Treehouses and such

Z847. Decided borders?

Z848. “Ooh, you make me ___!”

Z851. Alternate bread for a few fast-food sandwiches

Z852. Jane Austen title word

Z854. Diamond source

Z855. Jake Browning for the Bengals and Tim Boyle for the Jets, last I checked

Z857. ___ odds: seek nothing

Z858. Jewell of The Facts of Life

Z859. Spinoza, e.g., religiously

Z860. “Urgent,” in a shortened form that sounds more urgent

Z862. ABC newswoman Lynn

Z863. Changes the pitch on a roof, say

Z865. Strauss opus “___ und Verklarung”

Z866. The Ballad of Reading ___ (Oscar Wilde)

Z867. Word Beyonce digitally removed from “Heated”

Z869. Men’s home?

Z870. Asian river and range

Z871. Abbr. after Mark Amodei’s name

Z873. “Signs He ___ About You” (magazine article theme)

Z876. Small planted bulb

Z877. Compensated for

Z878. “Right, but…”

Z879. Feeling of shock

Z880. Seal a wine bottle again

Z881. Dirt-road groove

Z882. Start of a Cher hit

Z883. Satanic attribute

Z884. “Choice” words

Z885. Grabs again

Z886. Weed?

Z887. 12 from an imaginary belt

Z888. Lower-arm

Z889. Is unable to (deal)

Z890. Stop working, as an engine

Z892. Nickname for a person or abbreviation for a South American country

Z893. Part of MYOB

Z894. Talking horse

Z895. A neighbor of Leb.

Z896. Miranda’s nanny on Sex and the City

Z897. Bush appointee whose initials abbreviated his job

Z898. Mitla Pass author Leon

Z899. Wrathful states

Z900. Inspect closely and thoroughly

Z901. Sunrises

Z902. Console-maker named for a move in go

Z903. Awards given out in June

Z907. Place for light repasts

Z908. Tree Hans Christian Andersen wrote of

Z910. Band-Aid maker, briefly

Z911. Like Manhattan clam chowder

Z912. Tex-Mex flavoring

Z913. Accommodating

Z914. Willow groves

Z915. Not contemp.

Z916. Certain reusable flame source

Z917. Whom the A.G. addresses

Z918. High rock

Z919. Handrail

Z920. “That wouldn’t make no sense”

Z922. Venezuelan tyrant until 2013

Z923. Dinner course in Dresden

Z924. Assist (or interfere, depending on who you’re asking)

Z926. “How could you stoop ___?”

Z931. Dangerous dinosaur, for short

Z932. Satay relatives

Z933. One of the Pirates of Penzance

Z934. With “up,” makes prettier and more expensive-looking

Z935. “Brazilian Bombshell” Miranda

Z936. Caps lock neighbor

Z937. Heat-induced illusion

Z938. Like shortstops before Ripken

Z939. Biometric identification technique

Z941. Exchange words (with)

Z942. Architectural bands

Z944. Like Mother Hubbard’s cupboard

Z945. Gunslinger’s command

Z946. Jafar’s macaw in Aladdin

Z947. Erode with teeth

Z948. Semisolid squirt

Z949. Prankster robot on Futurama with a “goatee”

Z950. Aircraft front

Z951. Lawrence aka Mr. T

Z952. Does the horizontal mambo

Z953. Rare shoebox marking

Z954. “I wanna conjugate,” in Latin

Z955. Last creature in Dr. Seuss’s ABC

Z958. Espoo natives

Z959. To ___ Mockingbird

Z960. Be up to the job

Z961. Katniss’s partner

Z964. “Que Sera Sera” or “On Holiday,” in terms of their time code

Z965. Baby’s cloth, in baby talk

Z966. What it all burns down to

Z967. Head and Shell and Rising Up

Z968. Moor fighter of fact and fiction

Z969. Kind, unkindly

Z970. Full of spice

Z971. Paris’s domain

Z973. Dr. Grant of Jurassic Park

Z974. “I faced the robot, ___ optic sensor…”

Z975. Took to the hills

Z977. Le ___ (place to find a French article)

Z978. “Let me ponder this”

Z980. He played Sweeney Todd

Z982. How to address a king

Z983. Hook-shaped ski tow

Z985. River in D-Day news

Z986. Unsellable Houses airer

Z987. Crying cries

Z989. Robert of Licence to Kill and The Goonies

Z990. “If there’s ___ on the mantlepiece in the first act, it should be fired in the next”

Z991. Graceful water bird

Z993. Cooking abbreviation

Z994. Boy Meets World, Malcolm in the Middle, and Gidget, e.g.

Z996. Big Apple name

Z997. Dvorak’s Cello Concerto ___ Minor

Z998. Impair the impartiality of

Z999. Finite point

Z1000. Atlantic assents

Z1001. Stern Pixar critic Ego

Z1002. Seemingly endless

Z1003. AC capacity units

Z1004. Goddess of springs who mothered an Olympian

Z1005. Like Tom Ka Gai

Z1008. When Hamilton was shot

Z1010. Do with a pick

Z1011. Web coding letters

Z1012. =

Z1013. ___ Nippon (Japan)

Z1014. Dirty bomb, e.g.

Z1016. “You can’t park here” sign in Mexico

Z1017. Five-level triage scale (hidden in PRESIDENT)

Z1018. Peloponnesian potables

Z1019. Millennia on end

Z1020. Non-neins

Z1021. King David’s great-grandfather

Z1023. He’s got a hunch

Z1024. Electrical units

Z1025. Sorting device

Z1026. The Firebird prince

Z1027. Section of town, slangily

Z1028. Pamper

Z1029. “When I get around ___”

Z1031. Native of the West

Z1032. “___ an” (early dictionary entry)

Z1047. Fortune profile

Z1055. Outstanding issues

Z1056. Ontario lake

Z1057. BMW stat

Z1058. Spots where care is given

Z1067. First female jockey to win a major race Smith

Z1068. Get cacked

Z1069. “Sounds like a good time!”

Z1070. “Things that Make You Go ___” (C+C Music Factory song)

Z1071. Finished parachuting

Z1072. Commemorate lavishly

Z1073. “Oh, you’re a riot”

Z1074. Shade close to cyan

Z1075. Lummox

Z1076. Alphabet ender in the Highlands

Z1077. City of the Seven Hills

Z1078. Southwest Missouri mountain name

Z1079. Former Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist Stradlin

Z1080. Companion of Falstaff and Hal

Z1083. Metro and Prizm, originally

Z1085. Baddie Badenov

Z1086. Closest to conking out altogether

Z1088. Monte Carlo table

Z1089. Sentient mattress from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series

Z1090. Jaunt on the bight, perhaps

Z1091. “T’aint!” opposite

Z1092. Class in a church basement, maybe

Z1093. Teen crime drama set at a fancy-schmancy private school

Z1094. Egg drop

Z1095. Center’s snap

Z1096. Not esos

Z1097. Gypsy Rose Lee props

Z1098. Blades on the ground

Z1100. Feel Free: Essays writer, 2018

Z1101. Assuming the conditions not covered by prior statements

Z1102. They’re doing yard work in autumn

Z1103. Goldish

Z1104. Megaconglomerate of Mr. Robot

Z1105. Grease monkey’s work

Z1106. Park near Philly’s City Hall, site of the LOVE statue

Z1107. Ending on fib or form

Z1108. Catch a wink

Z1109. Navy Seals’ surgical raid target of 2011

Z1110. Game with three of a kind and full house

Z1111. Bundy and Olinsky

Z1112. Radioed “dots”

Z1113. Mega-investor Carl

Z1114. Lamp occupants

Z1115. It allows two snacks a day

Z1116. Question to follow “Diana has a wonderful singing voice…”

Z1117. Org. that licenses reactors

Z1118. Doc Holiday’s buddy

Z1119. Teenier bikini bottom

Z1120. Forbidding

Z1121. Sawyer of classic adventure strips

Z1122. “Yeah, right!” in Clueless

Z1123. ___ Park, of Edison fame

Z1124. Legend has it he drowned in his namesake sea

Z1125. Team formed in New Orleans in 1974

Z1126. Bit of humor

Z1127. Apertif that pairs well with salads

Z1128. Informal expression of gratitude

Z1129. With force, musically

Z1130. Former m&m hue

Z1131. “Wait, when was my last period?”

Z1132. Fancy gadgets

Z1133. Word with sacro

Z1134. El ___ (Sergio Garcia)

Z1135. React to a stench, maybe

Z1136. Namesakes of a villain

Z1137. Father of Pugsley and Wednesday

Z1138. With “Al,” news entity that means “peninsula,” referring to its home in Qatar

Z1139. Part of a campaign budget

Z1140. Winningest NBA franchise without a championship title

Z1141. Dole (out)

Z1143. Immobilizes

Z1144. The Beatles and the Supremes

Z1145. Graf ___

Z1147. Hostess snack cake that’s not a cupcake

Z1148. Roman goddess of hope

Z1149. Paradigm-shifting news from an ultrasound

Z1150. “___-Spangled Banner”

Z1151. Dog show recognition, for short

Z1152. Come out even

Z1161. Bygone US Postal Service mascot

Z1162. Japanese wooden clogs

Z1163. Planner of Washington, D.C., even though his name sounds like a baby

Z1165. Cat and dog’s least favorite part of the house, usually

Z1166. Jayna’s super-brother

Z1167. Alphabet run

Z1168. What AM radio frequencies are given in

Z1169. Fox’s partner

Z1170. “If I ___ dead phone, where would I be?”

Z1171. Enjoying a steambath, especially a Yiddish one

Z1172. Bird once found on Kauai

Z1173. Commuters’ towns, for short

Z1174. Goes down in the west

Z1175. “Baby batter”

Z1176. It’s a shore thing

Z1178. Fair wind for an east-west passage

Z1181. NBA player-turned-coach Jason

Z1183. Short-billed songbirds

Z1185. Non-”members of the tribe”

Z1186. “I’m ___” (“Later!”)

Z1187. Planned encounters

Z1189. Turner of American history

Z1190. Meal- and exercise-tracking

Z1191. Kay who starred in Breezy

Z1193. Allotment

Z1194. Song lyrics

Z1195. NHL goalie Tommy on the Swedish Olympic team

Z1197. Death of ___ (1793 David painting)

Z1198. Mosquito-borne illness discovered in 1947

Z1199. Company that launched the game FarmVille

Z1200. About 100 lbs.

Z1202. Supplement

Z1204. “Remember the less fortunate,” e.g.

Z1207. Doctor’s prefix with -ologist

Z1210. Type of bath

Z1213. Offer of help

Z1214. Walter Mondale, to pals

Z1215. ___ and needles

Z1216. “Catcha on the flip side!”

Z1217. 1960 Pirate World Series hero, familiarly

Z1218. Undercover drug cop

Z1219. Ineffectual thing

Z1220. Business abbr.

Z1221. Harassed, in a sense

Z1222. Going number one

Z1223. Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, e.g.

Z1224. Water or gas pipes

Z1225. Clear malt beverage from Coors

Z1226. Hunt’s competitor

Z1227. Russia’s landmass

Z1229. Recruit online

Z1231. Cold-shoulder

Z1233. Ad-free Facebook alternative turned artists’ portfolio service

Z1235. Sacred objects, from the Ojibwa

Z1237. Hose ruiner

Z1239. Obviously a morning person, at sunup

Z1242. Statistical midpoints

Z1243. Bath bathers’ bums

Z1244. Requiring aid

Z1245. Epps or Vizquel

Z1246. Gigglez at another’s expenz

Z1248. Animal found after “literary”

Z1249. Made a bundle

Z1250. Physician who got a polyp removed from his colon on a 2010 episode of his TV show

Z1252. Showed signs of choking

Z1253. “___ Time We Say Goodbye” (Ella Fitzgerald)

Z1254. Borscht base

Z1255. ___ a time (individually)

Z1256. Like an endless series of unfulfilled promises (think Greek myth)

Z1257. Buffet buffer

Z1259. Arab Mars explorer

Z1261. “Faster, Falstaff!”

Z1263. Website’s clickable connection

Z1265. Improve, in a way

Z1267. Modern food concerns, for short

Z1269. Make a quick trip

Z1271. Former Motley Crue drummer Tommy

Z1272. Congregation settings

Z1273. Hayes of westerns

Z1274. Statement of shared identity

Z1275. Push-up push-uppers

Z1276. He directed Gatsby, Romeo, and Juliet

Z1277. Bubblegum units

Z1278. Permissions

Z1279. Someone I like, if I am a lolcat

Z1280. Acts without speaking

Z1281. Mouth-focused era

Z1282. Part of a sword

Z1283. Palliates

Z1284. Honky-___

Z1285. They don’t flower

Z1286. Compound Merck started making in ‘43

Z1289. Add-ons

Z1291. Diamond figure

Z1293. Energetic committedness

Z1295. Sandwich bag name

Z1297. Certain bandit’s mouth

Z1299. Where many students click

Z1301. Pop-eyed pooches

Z1302. Informal summons

Z1303. French prison-break film meaning The Hole

Z1304. “Panopticon” post-metal band

Z1305. South African president Jacobb

Z1307. Flex at the barre

Z1308. Is needy

Z1309. Toxin also called B-NINE

Z1311. Subject of debate

Z1312. Saldana and Kravitz

Z1313. The ___ Guy (scantily clad character in a Kraft commercial)

Z1314. Futuristic weapon

Z1315. Turanga who says, “You never outgrow being an eyeball—er, oddball”

Z1317. Passing remark?

Z1320. ___ noire

Z1322. Relaxing time after church, say

Z1324. Porch in Athens

Z1326. Airborne eagle, e.g.

Z1328. Tik-Tok follower?

Z1330. Above, to a bard

Z1331. Subject of a Minnesota state nickname

Z1332. Avoid by stratagem

Z1333. “C’mon, Baby, ___ Good Times Roll”

Z1334. Ground forces

Z1335. Snickers or Mounds

Z1336. Kind of predator

Z1337. GPS displays (abbr.)

Z1338. Pinup’s pins

Z1339. “Cross my heart”

Z1340. Rockets’ rivals

Z1341. Clark of The Daily Planet

Z1342. Making as great as possible

Z1343. Karl of early auto design

Z1344. Ceaselessly

Z1345. J. Edgar Hoover’s alma mater

Z1346. Deadpan Kilborn

Z1349. Renders numb

Z1351. Termitarium

Z1353. Longstocking of kidlit

Z1355. Got a closer look at

Z1357. Coffeemaker switch

Z1359. P.M. period in England

Z1361. Barrio buildings

Z1362. Forty-five’s flip

Z1364. Chichen ___: pyramid site

Z1365. Mountains of central Germany

Z1367. Like lottery results

Z1368. Spanish for “fox”

Z1369. At the drop of ___: immediately

Z1371. Red Notice star Gal

Z1372. Certain dictionaries

Z1373. Jon___ Ramsey

Z1374. Grand Canal sights

Z1376. Houston baseballers, in headlines

Z1379. Shortest-named ABBA single

Z1381. Heading for the last volume in some encyclopedia sets

Z1383. Dumps, as stock

Z1385. 2009 Grammy winner for “Make It Mine”

Z1387. Honeydew-producing insect

Z1389. Goggle-eyed

Z1391. Highly carbonated

Z1392. Suspiciously open

Z1393. Generic cheer

Z1394. Sea linked to the Black Sea

Z1395. Split ___ (“I Got You” band)

Z1396. Viet follower

Z1397. ___ heaven (utter bliss)

Z1398. Repeated dis?

Z1399. “Whew…that was a ___”

Z1400. “The Boys are Back in Town” singers

Z1401. Where to find part of Ft. Campbell

Z1402. Motile organic cell

Z1403. Insecure and quip-addicted (even by sitcom standards) Chandler

Z1404. Altercation

Z1405. WWII soldier memorialized on April 25

Z1406. Some med. insurance cos.

Z1408. Completers of a showbiz kudos quartet

Z1411. Part of a pupu platter

Z1412. TV she-warrior

Z1414. Prohibited spots in combat

Z1416. Symmetrical stabilizer

Z1418. Bee sound

Z1420. Animal lover

Z1422. Parisian street

Z1423. Hits with one’s own head, ironically

Z1424. Indian “sirs”

Z1425. Hamlet’s “fellow of infinite jest”

Z1426. Its state quarter displays the Wright Flyer

Z1427. Pablo ___ Picasso

Z1429. Sports reporter Kolber

Z1430. Bored type, maybe

Z1431. Nursery furnishing

Z1433. Knitters’ union (abbr.)

Z1434. 1970s TV character whose real first name was Arthur, with “the”

Z1435. Pottery furnaces

Z1436. Wealthy Walton

Z1438. Good point

Z1440. Prowess

Z1441. Egyptian waterway

Z1442. Like a live wire?

Z1443. Take care of it

Z1445. Bk. following Lamentations

Z1447. Flower from Holland

Z1449. Company with a crocodile logo

Z1451. Krazy Kat mouse

Z1453. Facing water, water everywhere

Z1454. Quantities (abbr.)

Z1455. Place to refuel, maybe

Z1456. Wherefores

Z1457. “We’re ___!” (fan’s slogan, in shorthand)

Z1458. Uncultured ass

Z1459. Prank puller

Z1460. “Que” double-follower, in song

Z1461. “Same here”

Z1462. “This isn’t the only consideration, but…”

Z1463. Singing daughter of Judy and Vincente

Z1464. Savannah or veldt

Z1465. City near Memphis

Z1466. Coins that pay for passage over the River Styx

Z1467. Weapon prohibited by the Geneva Convention

Z1469. “It’s either them ___”

Z1473. Letter-spelling gesture that can mean “Ha ha, you just got TOLD!”

Z1475. Muslim local leader

Z1476. Cray-cray

Z1477. “Honi ___ qui…”

Z1479. Disney princess of a sort who gave the hero a memorable come-hither look

Z1480. “Father of the String Quartet”

Z1481. Daytime diversion

Z1482. Natural laxatives

Z1483. A vague number

Z1484. Carl who played Donna Reed’s husband

Z1486. Steins, for instance

Z1487. Stonewaller?

Z1488. Stretched out, as in bed

Z1490. Apothecary’s measures

Z1491. Fruity quaffs, for short

Z1492. Loser of the Spanish Civil War

Z1493. Tree surgeon’s concerns

Z1494. Attain by sweat

Z1496. Kind of clashing jacket

Z1499. Princess of literature

Z1501. Oz books illustrator

Z1505. Bitter middle?

Z1507. Some grandkid spoilers

Z1508. Fictional captain known as Prince Dakkar

Z1509. More bug-infested

Z1510. Noon mtg. suggestion

Z1511. Burmese politician/activist Aung San ___ Kyi

Z1512. Famous buyer of pottage

Z1513. Problem encountered in the middle ages?

Z1514. They play at Shea

Z1516. With far too much sentimentality

Z1517. Birthplace of Parmenides

Z1518. Give a big hand

Z1521. Classic actor Alistair

Z1523. House topper

Z1525. West Coast campus

Z1528. Site for getting back at the restaurant where you got food poisoning

Z1530. Reuben sandwich ingredient

Z1532. Swing gently

Z1534. Gemstone in a B-52s song title

Z1536. End of an arrangement you see every day that stars with Q

Z1538. Leader of Colombia?

Z1539. Pays good money for

Z1541. Versailles, e.g.

Z1542. WJC’s predecessor

Z1543. Nissan model starting in 1969

Z1545. ___ believe

Z1546. Took in using a cartridge

Z1547. “Sweet is the breath of ___” (Milton)

Z1549. Decibel measures

Z1550. Hand-waver’s cry, sometimes

Z1551. Freshens (up)

Z1552. Of a dark, volcanic rock

Z1553. Special people

Z1555. Secretive contracts, briefly

Z1557. With The, EA game with a fifth edition code-named “Project Rene”

Z1560. Mexican mister

Z1562. Dadaist poet Tristan

Z1564. Tiny biter

Z1566. Assumed, say

Z1568. Spring events

Z1570. Actor Dennis

Z1571. Ornamental jewelry stone

Z1572. Rel. with Northern and Southern branches

Z1573. Grow displeased

Z1574. Place to get into hot water

Z1575. Emperor who is enemy to Buzz Lightyear

Z1576. Word for a family member I can’t not read in a California accent

Z1577. Diverse

Z1578. “Have ___ before?”

Z1579. Rewards for Rover

Z1580. Suffix with jardin

Z1581. English socialite Middleton

Z1582. Pioneering text adventure game

Z1583. Truck name

Z1584. Remedy for acid reflux

Z1585. Related to the pelvis

Z1587. Those women, in Bolivia

Z1589. One of the Minor Prophets

Z1592. “It’s ___ wind…”

Z1594. Cheshire Cat feature

Z1596. Talks casually to build connections (var.)

Z1598. Helpfulness

Z1599. Headware popular among African-Americans

Z1600. Congratulations for a bar mitzvah boy

Z1601. Western whose star owned a chain of restaurants named for it

Z1602. Philanthropist Priscilla

Z1603. Group born in the mid-90s

Z1605. Bireme implements

Z1606. Angry Birds app company

Z1607. Wispy parts

Z1609. Anthony Quinn persona

Z1610. 1970s kids’ show that introduced Ubbi Dubbi

Z1611. Brando’s Apocalypse Now role

Z1612. Quatre + un

Z1614. Like some industrial waste

Z1616. What the British don’t spell “marvelous” or “canceled” with

Z1618. React to an unreasonable boss, perhaps

Z1619. He keeps on truckin’

Z1620. Not-so-subtle hint to your date’s kid sister, perhaps

Z1621. “___ espero” (“I hope so”)

Z1623. Nurtured to full size

Z1625. Don’t give ___: keep your sass to yourself

Z1627. Didn’t stress

Z1629. Weber opera

Z1631. “Mighty” hero of Mannfred Mann song

Z1632. Symbol for one kind of March weather

Z1633. It may be humbly held in hand

Z1635. Keeps in

Z1636. 1967 AL MVP, in headlines

Z1637. Meso finish

Z1638. Eisenhower’s was 1953-1961

Z1639. Tom, Noah, or Ruthie

Z1640. Angels’ strings

Z1641. Exhibiting ennui

Z1642. Tazo products

Z1643. “I can’t even with this”

Z1644. Feta source

Z1645. Her director

Z1646. Schoolmate of Granger and Potter

Z1647. Hot ___: eager

Z1649. Shoots up

Z1651. Evil org. in Get Smart

Z1654. Tops of corporate ladders

Z1655. Sitting, as a court

Z1657. Ted portrayer

Z1659. Seasons, as French fries

Z1661. Powerhouse celeb

Z1663. All-vowel bay bordering Pearl Harbor

Z1664. Classic solos

Z1665. Small Tibetan antelopes

Z1666. Tearjerkers

Z1667. CST part (abbr.)

Z1668. #3 hit for the B-52s

Z1669. English name prefix meaning “son”

Z1671. Nuclear-explosion hot spot

Z1672. Acknowledge as true, with less guilt than one might suppose

Z1673. “Be Like ___” (ad campaign with basketball’s Jordan)

Z1675. “…sweet land of liberty, of ___ sing”

Z1676. Literally, “lightning strike”

Z1677. Morosely desire

Z1678. Sharp whooshing sound

Z1679. Marie Curie’s birthplace

Z1681. Campus-to-mil. path

Z1683. Body of water that’s the name of a talk-show host

Z1687. Ferdinand who sang “Take Me Out”

Z1689. Is ready for summer indoors

Z1691. Built like a tank

Z1693. Eleven-year-old, e.g.

Z1694. Gadget-review site

Z1695. The Wu-Tang Manual author

Z1696. Gave no real trouble signs

Z1697. Wearing, with “in”

Z1698. Finger-lickin’ luau food

Z1699. ___ Bayou (Samuel L. Jackson 1997 drama)

Z1700. Ray Bradbury’s ___ for Rocket

Z1701. Expanse featuring yurts

Z1702. Some blowouts

Z1703. Stay put until the trouble ends

Z1704. Ball throwers

Z1705. Short fall months?

Z1706. Hindu robe

Z1707. Hardly a populist

Z1708. Chevy pickup

Z1709. French Canada

Z1711. Word with life or paper

Z1713. Beach vacation acquisitions

Z1715. Drama show lgth., often

Z1717. Gets a micronap

Z1719. 1990s magazine insert

Z1721. Song section

Z1723. “The King” of Graceland

Z1724. Sloping type (abbr.)

Z1725. Like Iron Man and the Green Knight

Z1727. Bisecting lines

Z1728. “___ and The Swan” (Yeats poem)

Z1730. Ikea store, to some

Z1731. Raps with barbs

Z1732. Thin plank

Z1734. Daly TV role

Z1735. Grand party

Z1736. Blends batter

Z1737. Crepes ___

Z1739. Divers’ needs

Z1741. Island nation

Z1744. Enlisted soldiers

Z1745. Designer Marc focused on Complex Media these days

Z1746. What the Z stands for, in Dragonball Z

Z1747. Gnawed one’s consciousness

Z1749. Builder’s options

Z1752. Germanic king

Z1753. Emulate Holden Caulfield

Z1754. Situated above

Z1756. Suffix with behavior and text

Z1757. Cornell of Cornell University

Z1758. Long-faced

Z1759. Certain citrus fruit

Z1760. Labor hero of film Norma

Z1761. Word with spit or hot

Z1762. Car with a name meaning “very proud”

Z1763. Artificial grass brand

Z1764. Aptitude

Z1765. “The Boys Are Back in Town” singers Thin ___

Z1766. It may have a chalkboard menu

Z1767. THI et al.

Z1768. Stuff (oneself)

Z1769. Just barely pulled (out)

Z1771. Apply quickly, as brakes

Z1773. “Blue” singer Rimes

Z1775. Likely to sign

Z1776. Quality control process with an alphanumeric symbol

Z1780. First in a series

Z1782. Sinister d’Urberville

Z1784. Wary employers investigate them

Z1785. Manhattan neighborhood next to TriBeCa

Z1786. Inhabitant

Z1788. Divine name of NASA’s transport ship (don’t read too much into it)

Z1789. Stan of the 1958 jazz album “Stan Meets Chet”

Z1791. Tattoo identification, maybe

Z1792. Fireplace piece

Z1793. Smirkily salacious

Z1795. Like soda pop

Z1796. Donut, to a dieter

Z1797. Héloïse et Abélard, par exemple

Z1798. What Sn represents

Z1800. Etc. alternative

Z1802. Tarzan’s community

Z1804. Audi’s two-wheeled division

Z1807. Conductor at Carnegie Hall’s opening night

Z1808. Pizza ordering option

Z1810. HBO rival

Z1812. Bovine bedding

Z1814. Nearly consistently liquid

Z1815. Birthday remembrance

Z1816. Sass in public

Z1817. Some Samsung sales

Z1819. Scaggs’ first album

Z1820. Vitality, informally

Z1821. Make a sharp turn

Z1822. Drop from the invitation list

Z1824. Add more specialized words to

Z1825. Cookbook direction

Z1826. Nappy fabric

Z1829. Mis pronounces “s” and sometimes “z”

Z1830. Jedi Bridger and journalist Klein

Z1832. Privy to

Z1834. President ___ (acting head)

Z1836. Collins who wrote The Hunger Games

Z1840. Salvador from Spain

Z1842. Skulk around

Z1844. 1887-1996 gov’t watchdog

Z1845. They can be in cars and letters

Z1846. Gets closer and closer

Z1847. Old dogs

Z1849. “Of wrath,” in a requiem

Z1850. She sang “FourFive-Seconds” with Kanye and Macca

Z1852. One doing their alma mater proud, hopefully

Z1853. Twelve partridges, say

Z1854. Titan, Triton, or Titania

Z1856. Hernando’s “happy”

Z1857. Marxist?

Z1858. Swinelike animal

Z1859. Counterpart of yang

Z1860. Like when you fill out one of these answers and see or hear the word being used five minutes later

Z1862. Mass of a paper clip

Z1864. Makes one’s jaw drop

Z1866. Pistol, for one

Z1868. “They aren’t like you ___”

Z1870. Sounded loudly

Z1872. Hit the hay

Z1874. Some big athletes

Z1875. Aggrieve

Z1876. Pine Ridge, e.g., briefly

Z1877. Ending for quiz or schnoz

Z1878. Commonwealth founder

Z1879. To be, in Veracruz

Z1880. Austrian city

Z1881. Endings for “shoo” or “run”

Z1882. Dog’s warning sound

Z1883. Word before “meant to be”

Z1884. Building block for the Great Wall of China

Z1885. Deficiency

Z1886. Mississippi city or river

Z1887. Goalie’s protection

Z1888. Jewelry retailer

Z1889. Those who make up a country

Z1891. Weasel that’s an invasive species

Z1893. Grand-scale poem

Z1895. Be very hot

Z1898. Bore listeners with your recipe

Z1899. Passion Pit’s “___ Wings”

Z1900. Creep, often out of sight?

Z1901. Gas-pump rating number

Z1902. Fish-store purchase

Z1904. Gourmet detective Wolfe

Z1906. ___ Me While I Kiss This Guy (book of misheard lyrics)

Z1908. Film series with The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure

Z1909. Like every Rent character (except maybe Benny)

Z1910. Low-maintenance hairstyle

Z1912. “___ sûr!”

Z1913. Shoshonean language

Z1915. Acronymic high-energy nosh

Z1916. Gussied up

Z1917. Offers, as farewell

Z1919. Star or shield

Z1920. Animal sci.

Z1921. ___ cavae (vessels near hearts)

Z1922. Far from broke

Z1923. Smallish VWs

Z1925. Most Rwandans

Z1927. Move through mud

Z1929. “Lapis” follower

Z1933. SeaWorld applauders

Z1935. Philosopher famed for paradoxes

Z1937. Geneticist’s molecule

Z1938. Kind of stroller or carriage with a safety seal

Z1939. Pro ___: stopgaps

Z1940. The Smiths singer, to fans

Z1941. Trim a limb, e.g.

Z1942. Signed note

Z1943. Judge’s adj.

Z1944. Youngest child in It’s a Wonderful Life

Z1945. Suffix for a native

Z1946. Lignite or peat

Z1947. X villain

Z1948. Pound to dust

Z1949. “Groove Is in the Heart” singers ___-Lite

Z1950. Avatar actress

Z1951. Plant of the crucifer family

Z1952. Two equal and opposite angles, in metalwork

Z1953. Madcap adventure

Z1955. Plantation scourge

Z1957. Knife brand used for crafts

Z1959. Food for “real dogs,” in commercials

Z1961. Nonentity in Nottingham

Z1964. Madison Ave., colloquially

Z1966. Roll top?

Z1968. Not squamous, in medicine

Z1969. Wallow in despair

Z1970. “Hold on, let’s suspend this argument for a sec…”

Z1972. Shout for a New York City chase scene

Z1973. Like the Piper of Hamelin

Z1975. Treasured honor given to Narges Mohammadi in 2023

Z1976. Declare as no longer public, for short

Z1977. “UnbeLIEVable! Ugh!”

Z1979. It’s new in Nicaragua

Z1980. Remove the profitability of, as a YouTube channel

Z1981. Park avenue?

Z1982. Drink with Christmas cookies

Z1984. Unwanted garage growth

Z1986. Protective lymphocyte

Z1988. Morse morsels

Z1991. Russian despot of yore

Z1994. Frankie of Malcolm in the Middle

Z1996. Binocular adjusters

Z1998. Threaten one’s honor-roll status

Z1999. Speaker of the House under Jackson and Van Buren

Z2001. Final, briefly

Z2002. Prefix meaning “child” or “foot”

Z2003. Howard with bangs

Z2004. Tangled

Z2005. Craft beer letters

Z2006. Muscle spasm

Z2007. Certain cell phones

Z2008. They can’t help but worry, worry, worry

Z2009. Tool which can help you turn over a new leaf

Z2010. Sumptuous meal

Z2011. Root for poi

Z2012. Popular dinner at the dorm

Z2013. Iguana, for example

Z2015. Stop transmitting, as a radio station

Z2017. Type of mother

Z2019. Yr. before jr.

Z2021. Comical sound effect

Z2025. Least gradual

Z2027. ___ the Science Kid (PBS series)

Z2028. Mountain dwelling

Z2029. Treats with a certain gas

Z2030. Aristotle subject

Z2032. Getting warm, in a way

Z2033. 1982 film inspired by Pong

Z2035. Smoking cigars, e.g.

Z2036. Old Scots

Z2037. Alehouse missile

Z2039. Command to a getaway driver

Z2040. Best bib and tucker

Z2041. Food at the first Thanksgiving dinner

Z2042. Faith with a lotus-shaped temple

Z2044. Couch potato’s collection

Z2046. Where to find the bigger number?

Z2048. Bad guy in a wrestling-type narrative

Z2051. “Bear” in CB lingo

Z2053. Bolt units

Z2055. Lascivious lookers

Z2057. Blanc and Pelat

Z2058. Sci-fi suffix

Z2059. Corn genus

Z2060. Chances, for short

Z2061. Chinese “dime”

Z2062. Murmur to a babe

Z2063. Online transactions, briefly

Z2064. ___ in “Nancy”

Z2065. New Mexican Indian

Z2066. Cable streaming service launched in 2010

Z2067. Has notions

Z2068. Type type

Z2069. Muppet who’s a species unto himself

Z2070. Peut-___ (French weasel word)

Z2071. French French fry

Z2072. Doubly pungent herb?

Z2074. Liu’s blonde Charlie’s Angels co-star

Z2076. Vibrating crystal

Z2078. Exhilarate

Z2080. December holiday, informally

Z2082. Farmer’s moneymaker

Z2084. Cheesy al dente dish

Z2085. Bypass brand names, say

Z2087. “Talking in Your Sleep” country singer

Z2089. “___ Accelerated Drug Approval Process Under Review” (headline as I wrote this clue)

Z2090. Ready for the cobbler

Z2092. Unit of Thanksgiving dinner

Z2094. End of geologic time?

Z2095. It shows some thigh

Z2097. Malik formerly of One Direction

Z2098. ___ Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity pancakes (IHOP offering)

Z2099. Archaic verb form

Z2101. Japanese electronics company

Z2102. ___-mémoire: mnemonic device

Z2103. Piece of tableware

Z2104. Hornswoggled

Z2105. Handy Andy’s inits.

Z2107. Cat pic that looks like :-P

Z2109. JFK carrier

Z2111. Run to seed

Z2113. Some math test answers

Z2115. Swed. butter?

Z2117. Purest enemy of Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Aang

Z2118. “Everything ___” (*NSYNC hit)

Z2119. “I didn’t expect THAT!”

Z2121. “Indeed, that does describe me”

Z2122. Round rock formation

Z2123. ___ rule: place no limits on particular types of data (from _ero _ne _nfinity)

Z2124. The Story ___ (proof that 1954 literature could be as depraved as anything in the Fifty Shades series)

Z2125. Whitish powder

Z2126. Sphalerite or wurtzite, by formula

Z2127. Device you can use with an Apple Pencil

Z2128. ___ Minella (Muppet chimp)

Z2129. Meteorology tools

Z2131. Highway booth occupant

Z2132. Some are rolled

Z2133. Homeric seductress

Z2136. “___ Gali Gali” (traditional Hebrew song)

Z2137. With “maters,” school songs

Z2139. ___ since

Z2141. Having the loudest stomach

Z2143. Vladimir Nabokov or Jerzy Kosinski

Z2145. At 90 degrees

Z2147. Romance novelist Tami

Z2149. Gamete unions

Z2152. Innermost parts

Z2154. Say “Not guilty,” say

Z2155. Derivative course

Z2156. “Can you believe him??”

Z2158. Communion

Z2159. (You) have, in Le Havre

Z2161. Gunsmoke guy

Z2162. Stared at stars

Z2163. Impolite eructation

Z2165. Idles

Z2166. Stupidhead

Z2167. Kellogg’s cereal modeled after the flavor of a chocolaty, marshmallowy treat

Z2168. “A stunning reversal!” (or Japanese “Dance of Darkness”)

Z2170. Foam figures?

Z2172. Like Netflix movies, once upon a time

Z2174. Philosophy component

Z2176. Didn’t change hands?

Z2178. Tasting like sour grapes

Z2180. Like some statistics

Z2183. Skillets

Z2184. Tastee-___ (soft-serve franchise)

Z2185. Major airports

Z2187. Z1232-Across, hewn a little shorter

Z2188. New Zealander

Z2189. Airport uniform abbr.

Z2190. It may bring an act to an end

Z2191. Reeves’ The Matrix role

Z2192. Patiently persuade

Z2193. Jessica of Foxfire

Z2194. Ploy with Rube Goldberg-style machinations

Z2195. A-Z instruction in a Word menu

Z2196. Ponders

Z2197. Civil wrongdoing

Z2198. Like ground after days of rain

Z2199. Snuggled in

Z2200. Ready to commit to the project

Z2202. Alfonso or Fernando, e.g.

Z2204. Spot of butter

Z2206. Races for Bode Miller

Z2208. That bloke’s

Z2210. Oberon’s wife

Z2213. Evicting

Z2215. Network pro, say

Z2216. Wavelength measure

Z2217. Enlarges

Z2219. Features of Roy Lichtenstein’s art

Z2220. Calced

Z2222. Filthy buildup

Z2223. Successful lawyer and amateur golfer Bobby ___

Z2224. ___ en point shield (coat of arms feature)

Z2226. They’re often mostly tenth graders in high school basketball

Z2227. Growler, e.g.

Z2228. Constipates

Z2229. Nadirs opposite

Z2231. Kind and friendly

Z2232. Hair gook

Z2233. Aston Martin DB5, for 007

Z2235. Pitiful group

Z2237. Condiment much used in Italy

Z2239. Like buttons on a shirt

Z2241. The C in AOC

Z2244. Finds exciting

Z2246. High-profile opprobrium

Z2247. House of Aragon?

Z2248. Pince ___: eyeglasses

Z2249. Thinkers whom I fully expect will be setting world’s-largest-crossword records by 2042

Z2250. Teleporter and time traveler from TV’s Heroes

Z2251. ___-town (the Windy City)

Z2252. “Magician” of baseball Javier

Z2253. Switch positions, son

Z2254. Top team exec.

Z2255. Claire of Homeland

Z2256. Hall of Famer

Z2257. Remitted amts.

Z2258. Payroll taxes (usually not pluralized)

Z2259. ___ 101 (Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon sitcom)

Z2260. Tasks on the docket

Z2261. Plaudits

Z2263. Cheery and optimistic

Z2265. Track meet component

Z2267. Machinery part

Z2269. Longtime Shatner associate

Z2271. 50-50 gambling option

Z2272. San Luis ___, California

Z2274. Kettle, Barker, and Perkins

Z2275. Sounds of revulsion

Z2276. Crikey, It’s the Irwins! nat.

Z2277. Sartorial no-no in The Incredibles

Z2278. Apple Store machines

Z2279. Shoulder-launched projectile

Z2281. Baseball’s Wheat

Z2282. Alphabet chunk

Z2284. French preposition

Z2285. Bed occupants

Z2286. Wizard’s exposer

Z2288. Clad to hear cases

Z2289. Eleven, to élèves

Z2290. Does floor work

Z2291. She’s back in town, in a Fats Waller song

Z2293. Handball hammerings

Z2295. Antiquated old times

Z2297. Singer Quatro

Z2299. Drummer Starkey and screenwriter Penn

Z2302. Hell-bent one?

Z2305. Audio’s partner

Z2306. Goodman’s instr.

Z2307. Kitty’s sitting site

Z2308. Part of a nuclear reactor

Z2309. Keyboard duelist J.S.

Z2310. Oven, in Britain

Z2311. Roman calendar period

Z2312. Add, in Aachen

Z2313. Have a good time, if you know what we mean (wink wink, nudge nudge)

Z2314. Loathes

Z2315. Requirement

Z2316. LPs, e.g. (abbr.)

Z2317. Felt strongly

Z2318. Peat environments

Z2319. ESP test-cards eponym

Z2320. Snapchat or Discord

Z2321. Tennis club instructor

Z2323. Colt’s fan club?

Z2324. Network network

Z2325. Hall or room, for short

Z2328. One in a fold

Z2329. DH inside

Z2330. Classic fundraiser

Z2332. Flash Gordon scientist

Z2333. Just great

Z2334. Undo the divorce

Z2336. Odd little habits

Z2337. Actress Singer of Footloose

Z2339. Nip’s partner

Z2340. Basis for a single-letter monogram

Z2341. Gown renters (abbr.)

Z2343. Smartphone’s screen-frame border

Z2344. Part of the only homophonic costar romance in history

Z2345. Honored in death

Z2354. Nash forte

Z2355. Satirical parody

Z2357. Theater rebukes

Z2358. Slender midsection

Z2359. Sound for Tony the Tiger

Z2360. Tall, strong, and definitely female

Z2361. Online snickering

Z2362. Sixty by eighty inches

Z2363. Browniemaker Brown

Z2364. Quite seriously

Z2365. Drive west in hopes of getting home before dark

Z2366. Trading game with “settlers”

Z2367. Etats follower

Z2368. Change the packaging of

Z2376. Amount of energy (per mol) needed for liquid-to-gas conversion

Z2377. Gung-ho to a fault

Z2378. Monetary unit I learned about in high school French

Z2379. Open indoor areas

Z2380. Do some bartending

Z2381. Test whether it works for you

Z2382. Capsulizes

Z2384. Grease nipple

Z2385. Add points to

Z2387. Moore in Ghost

Z2388. Lodges, as a complaint

Z2389. “Ali G ___house” (2002 Bruno forerunner)

Z2391. Divulge, as a secret

Z2392. Words of worry

Z2393. Dahl’s “Fantastic” title critter

Z2397. “What ___ say to the God of Death?” (“Not today”)

Z2398. Quick spin in a car?

Z2399. Grass on the green

Z2400. Former div. of Ford

Z2401. Bud or buster

Z2402. Frozen-waffle brand

Z2403. Blues great Mahal

Z2404. Knock senseless

Z2405. Warsaw money

Z2406. Like the lives of a perfect world’s inhabitants

Z2407. Ferrari’s Ferrari

Z2408. Non-Sunday day, at church

Z2409. GPS navigation app

Z2410. Like common feelings in Scotland and Ireland

Z2411. Luggage necessities

Z2412. Caramel lead-in

Z2413. ___ and seek

Z2414. Letters on Roman coins

Z2415. Kafka and Jágr

Z2416. Of a part of the small intestine

Z2417. Waterfall, in Scotland

Z2418. Final finale in Britain?

Z2419. Undersea setting for DC, Marvel, and Disney

Z2420. Opens, as a fly

Z2421. Kind of British pudding

Z2422. One younger than l’enfant

Z2423. Lit class reading

Z2424. Full of gusto

Z2425. Two make a ten-spot

Z2426. TV heroine

Z2427. Oscillates, as a projectile

Z2428. They come in UFOs

Z2429. Fabric leftover

Z2430. The Conners airer

Z2431. Head fake, e.g.

Z2432. Army man (abbr.)

Z2433. Where picnic items are traditionally carried

Z2434. In a relationship

Z2435. Penetrate drop by drop

Z2436. Diplomat in NYC, maybe

Z2437. Walk through an entrance

Z2438. ! and # neighbors

Z2439. Add a certain coat to, as a wall or ceiling

Z2440. Basker’s pride

Z2441. ___ simple

Z2442. Number between drei and funf

Z2443. In this pkg.

Z2444. African metropolis

Z2445. Common page on a web menu

Z2446. Undersized

Z2448. Lets eat

Z2450. Knocked out, old-school

Z2451. Ships at sea

Z2453. Two thumbs up, to a cowpoke

Z2454. Mortification

Z2456. Features of some notebooks

Z2457. Mug or kisser

Z2459. Green-blue

Z2460. In ___: foggy-minded

Z2461. Sponsor of undergrad regattas

Z2463. Big name in specialty coffees

Z2464. Lose resolution

Z2465. Embryonic, to use the Latin

Z2474. Some are covered with ornaments

Z2475. Language

Z2478. Molecule clusters

Z2479. Cliffhanger studio

Z2480. Pig and Whistle order

Z2481. Blue Book abbr.

Z2482. Kilcher of Alaska: The Last Frontier

Z2483. Flow below the Po

Z2484. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? author Chast

Z2485. “All systems optimal” messages, in brief

Z2486. One of the Greats

Z2487. Diplomatic scandal of the late 1700s

Z2488. “Ooh ___!”

Z2489. Firemen’s equipment

Z2490. Jack’s Chinatown costar

Z2491. Classic Camaro

Z2492. Sharp-witted

Z2493. Softest hardwood

Z2494. Range that includes Kings Peak

Z2495. More than mad

Z2496. Loaf ends

Z2497. “You and ___ Through” (Buddy Holly ditty)

Z2498. Bad choice to bet on

Z2499. A time He lived, and a time to dye

Z2500. Commentator of Off the Bench with Hester and ___

Z2513. Holbein, father or son

Z2514. Moose Factory residents

Z2524. Internal development?

Z2525. Surprise

Z2526. “___ to him that reads but one book” (Herbert)

Z2528. Chunky-bodied bird

Z2529. Track meet preliminary event

Z2530. Progressive insurance spokeswoman

Z2531. Federal record-releasing law (abbr.)

Z2532. Bandleader ___ Ray Hutton

Z2533. Third afterthought in a letter (abbr.)

Z2534. “Put up your ___!”

Z2535. Type helpful in treating sickle-cell disease

Z2536. Used the library

Z2537. Pertaining to a girdle

Z2538. Savior, to Bach

Z2539. Statements about the future

Z2540. Pacts to end hostilities

Z2542. “___ Q” (single off of Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Z2543. Speedily

Z2544. Torquilstone defense

Z2545. Roman Republic official

Z2546. “Vous” preceder, often

Z2547. Helvetica, e.g.

Z2549. When told “I’m sleepy,” she sometimes says, “I hope you’re not driving”

Z2551. Laotian language group

Z2552. Gravitas

Z2553. Languishes

Z2555. Folk-rock initials at Woodstock

Z2556. Daunts

Z2557. ___ Lisa Overdrive (1988 sci-fi novel)

Z2559. Find constant fault with

Z2560. Ride hard

Z2561. Make a call

Z2562. Short-term obsessions

Z2563. “A Whiter Shade of ___”

Z2564. Sunscreen stat

Z2565. Fr. girls

Z2566. Grueling tests

Z2567. Longest-lived First Lady, to her (few) friends

Z2568. Leave the band

Z2569. Third detail

Z2570. Became aware of

Z2573. Skin ink, for short

Z2575. Hershey’s product consisting of toffee covered in milk chocolate

Z2577. She horse

Z2578. Oh, it’s nothing!

Z2579. No longer bothered by

Z2580. Letters on some college buildings

Z2581. Chalet feature

Z2582. Like the Mad Hatter or Joker, ironically

Z2583. 2016 scandal whose failure to end Trump’s candidacy forced many to acknowledge that American politics had entered a more shameless era

Z2584. Enjoy the easy life

Z2585. Big name on the Bush-era Disney Channel

Z2586. New England football team, informally

Z2587. Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler starred in this Aerosmith video

Z2589. Duffers’ dream material

Z2590. Primitive

Z2591. Apple problem

Z2592. Babies often in blue

Z2593. Emiliano whom Brando played

Z2594. They’re all the rage

Z2595. Art of parting a fool from his money

Z2596. Tried to make it right

Z2597. Student loan source, familiarly

Z2598. Nonattendance

Z2602. Committed to tying the knot

Z2603. Tiger’s ball holder

Z2604. Making it all look easy

Z2605. Counterpart of fem.

Z2607. Palm reader’s concern

Z2608. Posh or snazzy

Z2609. Cliffs Notes content

Z2611. Furious one

Z2612. Homes for wild animals

Z2613. Treatment for HIV, hep A, and COVID-19

Z2614. Troy’s last king

Z2615. Put up, as artwork

Z2616. Mild swears

Z2617. Voluptuous, online

Z2618. J.R.R.’s series

Z2619. “According to the rumors being passed around…”

Z2620. Serve as a tickler

Z2622. Head of a wrinkly dog?

Z2623. Lion food, perhaps

Z2624. Organization in a 2023 war

Z2628. Sudden feeling

Z2629. Four-hour 2008 Soderbergh historical drama

Z2630. “___ with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief” (C.S. Lewis)

Z2631. Chard alternative

Z2632. Squishy sports toy material

Z2633. David Spade animated role

Z2634. Renders immobile

Z2635. Japanese pagodas

Z2636. Tyler’s predecessor on Whose Line Is It Anyway

Z2637. Gozer’s minion, in Ghostbusters

Z2638. “I understand”

Z2639. Hits perfectly with the golf club

Z2640. Snookumses, in polyamory

Z2641. Kicks or watercraft

Z2642. Serbian sports great

Z2643. Weld or yoke, e.g.

Z2644. Do Won, Jin Sook, Linda, and Esther of Forever 21

Z2645. Like a mountain chain

Z2646. Birthplace of Frank Sinatra

Z2651. Peak often viewed by plane

Z2652. Submerged

Z2653. Israeli submachine guns

Z2655. ___ the line: conformed

Z2656. Needle sites

Z2657. ___ Marie Presley

Z2659. Piquant

Z2660. Removal mark

Z2661. Suck the moisture out of things

Z2662. One in an infamous gallery

Z2663. It’s rude to do this while another player is putting

Z2664. Apple-pie making discards

Z2665. Sommelier’s charge

Z2666. Personal style, in the 2020s

Z2667. 1998 Alanis Morissette song

Z2668. Quarter-notes (from the French for black)

Z2669. Sudoku fill (abbr.)

Z2670. Relief pitcher Robb

Z2672. Small image in a browser’s address bar

Z2673. In awe of

Z2674. Letter wetter

Z2675. “May ___?” (exit request)

Z2676. Old Testament prophet

Z2677. “Oh, no, I’m FAAAALLLLLIIIING”

Z2678. Madras title

Z2679. On earth

Z2680. Hesitant sounds

Z2681. Instant

Z2682. Hunting portrayer

Z2683. Requiem recordings

Z2684. Skater’s toe jump

Z2685. A little out of it

Z2686. Microsoft media player

Z2687. Attracted more atoms than it lost

Z2689. PC-to-PC linkups

Z2690. Sandal bottoms

Z2691. Tom Wilson’s comic page gnome

Z2692. Pulp writer

Z2693. Flat-bodied cars with halogen fog lights of the 1980s

Z2694. Standard deviation statistic

Z2695. Parts of numbers

Z2698. Developer’s unit

Z2699. Gives new courage to, in old (and slightly sexist) language

Z2701. “Even ___ may look at a king”

Z2702. “The Ballad of John and ___”

Z2704. Covers the earth

Z2705. Jessica of LA’s Finest

Z2707. Keep (off)

Z2708. Israeli politician Sharansky

Z2709.

Bollywood actress Sharma

Z2711. Crater-centered regions

Z2712. The Godfather author Mario

Z2713. Anatomical zigzag

Z2714. BoJack Horseman’s interviewer

Z2715. Orchestra areas

Z2716. Takes a tumble

Z2717. Explorer Vasco ___ de Balboa

Z2718. Risk items

Z2719. El Greco, by birth

Z2720. Pro parkers

Z2721. Charged, in a way

Z2722. ___ la tanto (therefore, in Mexico)

Z2727. Outbreak monitored by the WHO

Z2728. Turn sharply

Z2729. It has a point to it

Z2730. ___ out (strain)

Z2731. Boggy place

Z2732. “You’ve ___ long way!”

Z2733. “You’ll be impressed”

Z2734. Think (over)

Z2735. “___ take arms against a sea of troubles…” (Shakespeare)

Z2736. Respond to pressure, in a way

Z2737. Arrowhead material

Z2738. Law school subjects

Z2739. “Oh, baby!”

Z2740. Spicy hodgepodge

Z2741. Hunting them seems to be a rite of passage for Greek heroes

Z2742. Navel blockades?

Z2743. Seal babies

Z2744. Reacts to air under sunlight

Z2745. Bank offering

Z2746. “___ seriously…”

Z2748. Worrisome

Z2752. Hillbilly musical instruments

Z2753. Broad or pod follower

Z2755. Slime-like

Z2756. Orange teller of bad jokes

Z2757. Benjamin Franklin’s ___ Richard’s Almanack

Z2759. Common sight in the South

Z2760. Not energetic

Z2761. Milieu for revelers

Z2763. Ship’s stern sail support

Z2764. Back to full strength

Z2765. News agency

Z2766. About half of deliveries

Z2767. “Stones” or “Shadow” preceder in song title

Z2768. Grits stuff, sometimes

Z2769. Was extremely hot

Z2770. “Y” pluralized

Z2771. Emulate Odie

Z2772. Stops making, as a point

Z2773. French summer

Z2776. Bar words that make you smile

Z2777. Fannie ___ (federal mortgage agency)

Z2778. Rebel fighter during the Mexican Revolution

Z2779. Suffix for secret

Z2780. Woe for a singer

Z2781. ___ cards (got to take the pot)

Z2782. Straightforward path under the pool water

Z2783. Malleable metal

Z2784. Exceed what’s deemed to be possible

Z2785. Sci-fi concept becoming reality in 2023 and perhaps revolutionizing air shipping

Z2786. Paronomastic

Z2787. Response to “Which bowl o’ grits y’want, Clem?”

Z2788. Burton’s Roots role

Z2789. Winston Duke’s Marvel role

Z2790. Plasma alternative

Z2791. Rambunctious humdingers

Z2792. Start to forget

Z2793. Brings up again

Z2794. Kissing kin, familiarly

Z2795. Trauma consequence

Z2799. Ain’t made right?

Z2800. Weimaraner or Pomeranian

Z2802. Paul of Little Miss Sunshine and Prisoners

Z2803. ___ liver (meat buy)

Z2804. Petits ___: garden peas

Z2806. Fellers

Z2807. Unlatches, in verse

Z2808. Hoity-___

Z2809. Last-place

Z2810. $15/hour and $500/day, e.g.

Z2811. Promoters’ presentations

Z2812. Muslim title of respect

Z2813. Actress ___ Spelling

Z2814. Completely

Z2815. Indication of indifference

Z2816. Cuts off completely, maybe

Z2818. Foal or litter

Z2819. Observant, in a way

Z2820. Krypton’s is 83.80 (abbr.)

Z2822. Pressing the “OK to use cookies?” button, e.g.

Z2823. Small Jewish towns (var.)

Z2825. Sustainability aim (abbr.)

Z2826. Feels regret

Z2827. Every, at a drugstore

Z2828. “Be ___, ___ quiet…I’m hunting wabbits!”

Z2829. Mops’ mates

Z2830. Snead swing

Z2831. Mike of Def Comedy Jam

Z2832. Internet info source

Z2834. Bargain-rack items (abbr.)

Z2835. Like some natural bleeding

Z2837. “That makes two of us”

Z2838. Semaphore letters you’d see in code for “Panama bazaar”

Z2839. Most jabs, in boxing

Z2840. Care or care for

Z2841. Rosario Dawson 2020 role

Z2842. Given a “You’re Old Now!” celebration

Z2843. Flavor of the month

Z2844. She married Richard, Eddie, Nicky, Mike, John, Michael, and Larry

Z2845. Roller coaster rider’s cry

Z2846. With Z, what you need to make this section’s marquee entries

Z2848. Active by day

Z2849. Some rappers, slangily

Z2850. Maze answer

Z2852. LGA announcements

Z2853. Key of Chopin’s Minute Waltz

Z2854. Appropriate mitzvah for non-binaries

Z2856. Bellyaches

Z2858. Vehicle the oldest model of which was in the 1953 film Roman Holiday

Z2859. II to the power of IX

Z2860. Contradict the expectations created by

Z2861. Jack___

Z2862. Singapore’s prime minister Lee ___ Loong

Z2863. “Warts and all,” at auction

Z2864. What Snoopy most often pretends to be, for short

Z2865. Sends returns paperlessly

Z2866. Like the works of Homer

Z2868. Stable youth

Z2869. Introns’ go-withs

Z2870. Caused hysteria

Z2871. Recruits

Z2872. Subscription alternative

Z2873. Evening out between two people who don’t clarify if it’s romantic or platonic

Z2875. Notable plaintiff of 1973

Z2876. Antislip accessory

Z2877. City of southwest Yemen

Z2878. 1 ___ (tallest building in NYC)

Z2879. Place to play b-ball

Z2880. Contact author

Z2881. Lily’s “ringy-dingy” operator

Z2882. Phone user’s line, perhaps

Z2883. Rae Sremmurd’s debut single

Z2884. Avengers get it

Z2885. Dachshund

Z2886. Freesia, e.g.

Z2887. Carolers’ selections

Z2888. Prefix meaning, ironically, “complete”

Z2889. Possible stress result

Z2890. Blank suit, in bridge

Z2891. Napoleon’s “soundtrack”

Z2892. Ultimate villain in the Terminator franchise

Z2893. Sundance winner DuVernay

Z2894. Darkroom image (abbr.)

Z2895. Cuddlepumpkins

Z2896. Short jackets for boys

Z2897. Web chat exchange

Z2898. Secret-spilling intro

Z2899. Mix with a straw

Z2916. Word after test or web

Z2917. Grain that goes with un tamal caliente

Z2920. Datum only necessary if your sleep schedule’s really messed up

Z2921. Jacob’s partner in A Christmas Carol

Z2922. Female sheep

Z2923. Mariners’ patron saint

Z2924. Watson of the PGA

Z2925. Military genius of 19^th-century Africa

Z2926. Partner of ruin

Z2927. Improv-based music

Z2928. “We Got the Beat” singers

Z2929. Neighbor of Mozambique

Z2930. Ovaltine rival

Z2931. Gave the chop

Z2932. “Surprisingly impressive!”

Z2933. Black superheroine who channels the powers of animals

Z2934. History Channel owner

Z2935. Backups’ backups

Z2936. Surpass

Z2937. Means of assessing freakiness, say

Z2938. Bargain clothes bin abbr.

Z2939. Willing to dwell on death and evil

Z2940. Alive with activity

Z2942. Like transatlantic flights

Z2945. Press gp.

Z2947. “Do ___ others,…”

Z2948. Spicy Indian dish

Z2949. Windshield shading

Z2951. Theater levels

Z2953. Jazzman who pioneered Afrofuturism

Z2954. Tony-nominated choreographer White

Z2955. Niccolo Paganini, by birth

Z2956. “That’s enough of that!”

Z2957. “You got a past and I ___” (Drake lyric)

Z2958. Someone super adept

Z2959. Burning heaps

Z2960. No-holds-barred

Z2961. Layer above the floor that’s usually kept out of sight

Z2962. Gross discharge, but not as gross as some

Z2964. Misplacement

Z2965. Having existence or essence

Z2966. What you eat

Z2967. Actor Butterfield of Sex Education

Z2970. ___ -Tass: Moscow news source

Z2971. Dr. Seuss title character

Z2972. Line at a bar?

Z2973. Father of the Mothers of Invention?

Z2974. Singer known for “The Loco-Motion”

Z2975. I ___ It (1943 Skelton musical comedy)

Z2976. Goddess of the Nile

Z2977. Additional conditions

Z2978. It’s usually red or piratey-looking

Z2980. Show teens watch for laughs, in slang

Z2981. Distinctly Gothic director

Z2982. Event with rides and livestock

Z2983. Heretofore

Z2984. Symbols in deep music

Z2985. Made into mush

Z2986. “Symphonie fantastique” composer

Z2987. Handheld amp?

Z2988. Band, miter, and crosscut

Z2989. Big family

Z2992. American Cop author and Republican candidate Loren

Z2993. On-line advertisers

Z2996. Suddenly changes course

Z2997. Shelters for livestock

Z2998. Spanish dough (the literal kind)

Z3000. Soccer legend turned 2010s coach

Z3002. Adjectival ending for nectar

Z3003. Five-in-a-row board game played with stones

Z3004. Great score, or half of one

Z3005. Dark, on Broadway

Z3006. Investment-swindle eponym

Z3007. Striking terror into one’s heart

Z3008. Goes down in defeat

Z3010. More illustrious

Z3011. Roofers, at times

Z3012. Minor players

Z3013. Warnings on fairways

Z3014. “I thought ___ a deal!”

Z3018. Opp. of masculine

Z3019. “Dreamers” legislation

Z3020. Tomato supports

Z3021. Don’t try to fake it

Z3022. Albanian bills

Z3023. Serious traffic arrests, briefly

Z3024. “And all I gotta do ___ naturally” (Buck Owens lyric)

Z3025. Express relief

Z3027. Crouch in church music

Z3028. Meditation done cross-legged

Z3029. Pou ___ (a place to stand on)

Z3030. Grown-up polliwogs

Z3031. “___ you were the last person on Earth!”

Z3032. Character in A Christmas Carol or Hamlet

Z3033. Journal keeper castaway of fiction

Z3034. “Queen of the Epistles” (abbr.)

Z3036. Tachypsychia or the Zeigarnik effect

Z3037. Pop singer Kravitz

Z3038. Lines on a treble staff

Z3041. Like a half-moon

Z3042. “Que ___?” (How old are you?)

Z3043. Younglings “in arms”

Z3044. ___’s sleeve

Z3045. You Don’t Mess with the ___ (2008 Adam Sandler comedy)

Z3046. Ending for him or her

Z3047. Hovers

Z3048. Not sound, in Seville

Z3050. The highest world capital

Z3052. It’s bypassed by a bill of attainder

Z3053. Old acronym for those who sexually experiment in college sororities

Z3054. Ready for sleep

Z3055. Glazed, as plaster

Z3057. Show again

Z3058. Mat attachment?

Z3059. Chiefly

Z3060. Dirt or grime for a wipe

Z3061. Football linemen (abbr.)

Z3062. Gives the boot

Z3063. Actress Deschanel

Z3064. Typefaces

Z3065. Station playing Sean Hannity in NYC

Z3066. Car company that used to make the Trooper

Z3067. Postal Creed word

Z3070. Container

Z3071. Button-shaped chocolate

Z3072. Doesn’t stop on red

Z3073. Strands of you

Z3074. Gets one’s blood up

Z3076. Years old, in Oaxaca

Z3077. With “The” classic detective story about hiding in plain sight

Z3079. That girl

Z3080. Grig’s digs

Z3081. Carrying cargo

Z3082. High times?

Z3084. “In my view…”

Z3085. Novelist Mary Higgins

Z3086. Zoom-zoomers in ads

Z3087. Fem. campus group

Z3088. Shrub used for hedges

Z3089. Plot flaws

Z3090. Stares awkwardly

Z3091. Savors in samples

Z3094. Needing to get keyed up?

Z3095. Singer Janelle with “Tightrope”

Z3096. “I Love Rock’n’Roll” singer Joan

Z3098. Where Los Jaivas is from

Z3099. Brand of designer bags

Z3100. Womenswear brand that sounds like a figure from Solo or another figure from Death Note

Z3101. Resident’s tail

Z3102. Third {numero}

Z3103. Helps out with the Indiegogo

Z3104. Former lover, in conversation

Z3106. Makes a mockery of

Z3108. Pull back together

Z3109. Fenway souvenir

Z3110. Famous musical trio?

Z3112. Curved like a horseshoe

Z3113. Animal drawn in Napoleon Dynamite

Z3114. Open-mesh style of shoe

Z3118. Discovery in the board game Pandemic

Z3119. Infection that may require medical attention

Z3120. Nightclub of the 1970s

Z3121. Turn off-course

Z3122. Reached the peak

Z3123. In single file

Z3124. Near enough

Z3126. Bly’s globetrotting sponsor

Z3127. Long sign with a message

Z3129. What the Z stands for, generationally

Z3131. They’re similar (and similarly vulnerable) to Achilles’ tendons

Z3132. “…Huh. I have no idea”

Z3133. Crossword blogger Amy

Z3134. Namely, for short

Z3135. “Buy ___-gift card” (Cyber Monday deal)

Z3136. Subj. of some Madness every March

Z3137. Quick mind with an eye for humor

Z3138. Certain mother-focused paintings

Z3139. Fashioned from

Z3141. NBA team named for a local industry

Z3142. Absorb quickly, in a way

Z3145. Hiver, printemps, été et automne

Z3146. Acronymic equivalent of the rainbow flag

Z3147. Note added automatically in Final Draft

Z3149. “Mi Gente” singer

Z3151. ___ voce (very softly)

Z3152. Tigers of football?

Z3153. Bailey Rae, Massiah, Fox, or Olympios

Z3155. Like some specs

Z3156. Zairian stream

Z3157. Swindler

Z3158. Family matriarchs

Z3159. Body-shaping brand

Z3160. Ex ___ (on one side only)

Z3161. What the Z stands for when it’s also called “Skittles,” a kind of ___

Z3163. Fiddler on the Roof setting, et al.

Z3164. Manchester by the Sea actor Affleck

Z3165. Material for a tight-fitting glove

Z3166. Songbird sound

Z3169. Unnamed degrees

Z3171. Punishment with a grounding

Z3172. Olympic swimming star Ryan

Z3173. Combed back, as bangs

Z3174. “Is this in your range?”

Z3175. Printing process

Z3176. Baby food name

Z3178. Defying reason

Z3179. Get things ready for the chef

Z3180. Grubs, e.g.

Z3181. Highly interconnected

Z3182. Deep ___ ocean

Z3183. They mind your business

Z3184. Boycott of a kind

Z3185. Pinned-up Betty

Z3186. What early starters jump

Z3187. Some stock (abbr.)

Z3188. Minnie’s co-star, often

Z3189. Doc’s brother

Z3190. Three-legged piece of furniture

Z3192. Amped up

Z3194. Unripened

Z3195. Cheek or backbone

Z3196. Chicken add-on

Z3197. Ancient Greek “geishas”

Z3198. God with a bow

Z3200. TALKS LIKE THIS!

Z3201. Means of access

Z3202. Tree-climbing civet

Z3203. Score symbols

Z3205. Some oil barons

Z3206. Garfield frequency

Z3207. Water-absorbing plant part

Z3209. Just for grins

Z3210. Resentful feeling

Z3211. Revision from “is” when describing someone who’s just died

Z3213. Hit a three-pointer

Z3214. Unedjumucated types

Z3215. Ricelike pastas

Z3216. Promo expert

Z3217. Silly supervillain who defends his square world against beauty and perfection

Z3218. Yoga pose

Z3219. Wore away at

Z3221. Worrisome adverb with “thin”

Z3222. Teotihuacán tourist trap

Z3223. Bulldoze a Bath house

Z3224. Spider-Man’s sometime girlfriend Stacy

Z3225. CCCII multiplied by three

Z3226. Just makes, as a living (with “out”)

Z3228. Family name suffix in taxonomy

Z3229. Tiger’s tap-in

Z3230. Plaster

Z3231. “___ From Muskogee” (1970 hit)

Z3232. Pew view

Z3233. E-5 in the USAF

Z3234. Key label on some laptops

Z3235. Carriers (abbr.)

Z3236. Words from one following you

Z3237. Tire trappers

Z3238. Photoshop’s free alternative

Z3239. Job for a political wannabe

Z3241. “Pop That ___” (Isley Brothers song)

Z3243. Thrice LIII

Z3244. “Brown Skin” singer

Z3245. First matriarch

Z3247. Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer’s employer

Z3248. Most given to sentiment

Z3249. Relative of a Wichita

Z3250. ___ in “question”

Z3251. “Wig,” translated into boomerspeak

Z3253. Artist Laris Cohen whose name sounds like the first woman’s name

Z3254. Cleopatra’s mode of suicide

Z3255. Some mil. hospitals

Z3256. “Tee ___”

Z3258. Snap takers, for short

Z3259. Half a Teletubby?

Z3260. Yes, in Yokohoma

Z3261. Tony Blair’s fave lunch

Z3262. Pics taken at some dental exams

Z3285. Move in a circle

Z3299. Humerus’s neighbor

Z3306. Disgrace to Aussiedom

Z3311. Short for another

Z3313. With no delay

Z3315. Casually sociable

Z3317. Common check amount enders

Z3321. “Wait, I didn’t mean to do that” command

Z3322. ___ Juliet

Z3323. Common database structure

Z3325. Stuff in a muffin

Z3326. L’___ Vogue, Italian fashion magazine

Z3327. Callsign user, for short

Z3328. Chang and Eng’s homeland

Z3329. Stridex targets

Z3330. In for ___ awakening

Z3331. Tons o’

Z3332. Brooding rock

Z3333. Stages of sleep

Z3334. Factory things

Z3335. Heebie-jeebies

Z3336. Shire of the Rocky movies

Z3337. The original carbon capturers

Z3338. Destroy the poise of

Z3339. Important OR group

Z3340. Remotely guided bomb

Z3341. LA’s area

Z3342. Not in the middle of things

Z3343. Play on Broadway

Z3344. She was Victoria in The Red Shoes

Z3345. Run ___ of (clash with)

Z3347. ___ anchor (stay put, nautically)

Z3348. Freshwater terrapin

Z3349. Put more lubricant on

Z3350. Elephant ___ (large book size)

Z3351. Golfer Aoki and others

Z3352. Env. name lead-in

Z3353. Matches the bet of

Z3354. Kind of statement involving analytical skills

Z3355. Judah’s son

Z3356. Triangular letter

Z3357. Former Disney Company president Michael

Z3358. Soaring US symbol

Z3359. Symbol of sluggishness

Z3360. Not quite exact

Z3361. Wound

Z3362. Stepped on it

Z3363. “___ anything!”

Z3364. “Faaancy”

Z3365. Pay to play

Z3366. Very, to Werner

Z3367. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom star Momoa

Z3368. Salon, e.g.

Z3369. ___ Talks (online lecture provider)

Z3370. How videos were released after the tape era

Z3371. Passed up at meals

Z3372. Lens types

Z3373. Data, informally

Z3374. Insight by meditation

Z3375. Warehouse worker

Z3376. Company offering “Medicare solutions”

Z3377. Clashing irreconcilably

Z3379. British actress Thompson

Z3380. First king of Israel

Z3381. Khrushchev’s country house

Z3382. Broadway legend Merman

Z3383. “…little red man with horns and ___” (traditional view of the Devil, American Horror Story)

Z3384. Gregorian chant note

Z3385. They’re enclosed for returns (abbr.)

Z3386. ID sought by phishers (abbr.)

Z3387. Right, on the map

Z3388. On-line community manager

Z3389. Refugees’ hoped-for destinations

Z3390. Mork’s mate

Z3391. When to take off

Z3392. Unique life in the Galapagos, e.g.

Z3393. Like frustrated needs

Z3394. Dictator’s helper?

Z3395. Bk. before Zephaniah

Z3396. Ring with a face attached?

Z3397. Drive off

Z3398. Name shared by border counties in New York and Pennsylvania

Z3399. Video game release of December 1993

Z3401. Part of precalc, usually

Z3405. Martinique time, for short

Z3407. Low-cost home loan corp.

Z3413. “From the ___ of” (memo heading)

Z3415. Dispenser sweet

Z3422. Pit instrument

Z3423. What the Z stands for in “oh man I’m finally done writing clues, let me just rest my eyes a minute”

Z3424. Slaughter’s rank, briefly, in G.I. Joe

Z3425. Regulators of roof and gate colors, sometimes, for short

Z3427. Fishtail

Z3429. “Ohhh yeah!”

Z3430. Other half

Z3431. Motorists’ gp.

Z3433. It’s 5 hrs. ahead of D.C.

Z3434. Bar stool part

Z3435. Old-school contact info (abbr.)

Z3437. Motor or schnozz ender

Z3438. Decorates in a prankish way

Z3439. Garland often made of plumerias

Z3440. 67.5°

Z3442. ___-48: drug that makes Limitless characters limitless (for a while)

Z3443. Menopause treatment

Z3444. Grease monkey’s pocket item

Z3445. Some gridders

Z3446. Gp. with skeletons in the closet, in a Jeannie Riley song