Ubercross Abecedaria B

Across

B1. Military muckamucks

B6. Trump crony

B10. MTV’s ___ My Ride

B14. Europe’s largest isl.

B18. Places for a soak

B22. Synthetic fuel (abbr.)

B26. Spring-ish Jewish holidays

B32. “___ Tea-Party” (Alice in Wonderland, Chapter 7)

B36. Aussie’s “earbud”

B40. Seattle art museum

B44. Lion’s feet

B48. Cast aside

B52. Sounds of merriment

B56. Pass over again

B57. Funko Pop alternative

B63. Present as

B69. Coup de grace

B74. Birthplace of the ice cream cone

B79. Wheel that’s better for hauling

B83. Really detest

B86. Irish moonshine whiskeys

B90. Cria’s mother

B92. Defeated in a humiliating way on the web

B96. Robot “servants” who occasionally leak your bathroom photos online, apparently

B100. Diamond heist?

B106. Their patterns can be orb, sheet, funnel, irregular, single line, and horizontal dome

B112. “Just couldn’t control myself”

B116. “Singing Cowboy” Gene

B117. Excruciating

B118. This may decide a Seles match

B119. Parenthetically

B120. It may be on a roll

B121. Totally expected

B122. It’s often felt on Halloween

B123. Daughter of Tethys

B124. Of a torso part

B125. “It’ll take more than this to bring me down”

B127. Sitting duck

B128. Somatic receptor

B129. Canal-side trail

B130. $100 mark

B131. Words spoken in a huff, perhaps

B132. Hydrated magnesium sulfate

B134. Virtue of the proverbial beaver

B136. School of thought

B138. Cottonwood relatives

B140. Sign of burnout?

B141. Truncation indications (abbr.)

B142. Forcible impact (abbr.)

B143. Achievements that sometimes get rested on

B144. Be ___-hard: believe with all one’s heart

B145. Some are unwelcome

B147. Taking a noon break

B149. Elocutionist’s concern

B151. Put into visuals

B153. Sch. in Manhattan

B154. Right fielder Mel

B155. Ladder components

B157. Tina Fey’s style

B159. Character-building unit?

B160. Things worth forgetting

B161. McCarran airport, briefly

B162. Pres. Carter gave the longest in 1981

B163. Overturn

B164. Dairy-aisle date type

B165. Bellies

B167. Christmas star, e.g.

B169. Free-floating

B172. Variety-show and Mulan star Osmond

B173. Big name in outdoor art

B174. Merry party

B175. Emulates Master P

B176. “___ Bully” (‘65 hit)

B178. Aggressive remarks

B179. Sci. with maps

B180. Move over

B182. Left-hand pages

B183. ___ Friday’s (Applebee’s rival)

B185. Now, in the ICU

B186. Where Barney the dinosaur roams

B188. Nonprofit gp. that works with the Defense Department

B189. Dynamic intro?

B190. Kid’s game

B191. Watershed week in Israeli military history

B193. “Baby, baby, baby!”

B194. King Arthur’s successor

B195. Turner of Peyton Place

B196. Arouses testiness

B197. Memento director

B198. Obtains in exchange for services

B199. Japanese alcoholic beverage

B200. Colonial legislators

B202. They’re found in most cars’ window seats

B210. Campaign rewards

B215. Cowboys, e.g.

B218. Leafy and shady

B224. Brad, to Angelina

B230. ___-les-Moulineaux (Paris suburb)

B234. Brand mascot with an earring

B238. Photoshop interface, once

B241. Long, long, long ago

B245. Packs up

B247. Subscriber’s gift

B248. Alberta ski town

B249. Favorite sandwich filler in The Importance of Being Earnest, for short

B250. Young Sheldon network

B251. Stamp collector’s abbr.

B253. Future D.A.’s exam

B254. Use as a name

B255. RSVPer

B256. Old skills venue now Upwork(.com)

B257. ___ facias (judicial writ)

B258. Places for emergency printing and mailing

B260. Disney princess and Tempest character resembling a genie

B261. Site of Alexander’s first battle

B263. Other in Spanish

B264. South Korean leader Tae Woo

B265. Prickly-stemmed plant

B269. Neighbors of brakes

B270. Utilize, as one’s strengths

B272. First weapon in 2001

B273. Kathy in Titanic, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Dolores Claiborne

B274. Made cookies

B275. Mention, when others would rather not

B278. Out of business

B280. Robotic vacuum cleaner

B285. Guy walks into a bar and orders six whiskeys. He lines them up, then pours the two on either side of the line into the trash. When the bartender asks why, he says…

B293. Skeleton walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have…

B298. Deion’s younger son

B299. “The monster’s right behind us, gang!”

B300. Madonna’s record label

B301. Most decorated American gymnast

B302. Diamond points

B303. Small set of ivories

B304. Pong producer

B306. Prufrock’s creator

B307. Palindromic billionaire

B308. Role for Shirley or Marie

B309. They’re used in cider and desserts

B310. “Pore Jud Is ___” (song from Oklahoma!)

B311. Some are raw

B312. They feel sorry

B313. Eponymous sitcom whose heroine got advice from ALF, Mr. T, and Hugh Hefner

B314. They wear bow ties, shirt cuffs, collars, and nothing else up top

B319. Act cautious, as of dog

B321. Stocking stuffer for solvers

B323. Foreshadowed

B324. Witchery venue of 1692, some said

B325. Big name in television

B326. Sit-ups develop them

B327. Hang (around) as friends

B328. One of 165 for Manny Ramirez in 1999

B330. Like rain forests

B331. Tell a bigger fib than?

B333. Fareed Zakaria’s station

B334. Lady of Spain (abbr.)

B335. Baggage tags for many flights into the UK

B336. Pipe that sees use in inclement weather

B338. The Terminator in The Terminator, e.g.

B339. Broom-count

B340. Suffix with manor or director

B341. Long vehicle with many seats

B342. Durango dwellings

B343. Philbin, familiarly

B344. Computer peripheral

B348. Superpower with which Clark Kent shaves himself

B350. Sorcerers

B351. Like Yes songs

B352. Certain Asian holidays

B353. Tech review website

B354. Osso ___ (veal entree)

B356. Fertility clinic inventory

B358. Between great and terrible

B359. Part of AMPAS

B362. Workout unit

B363. They’re removed by pumps

B365. Actress Bell now heard as Poison Ivy

B366. SE part of New England

B367. “Sorry I broke your priceless Ming vase”

B368. Start of a count to start up the band

B369. Bindings on some injuries

B370. They come in Cool Ranch and Poppin’ Jalapeño

B372. They showed off their endurance in a 1924 fad

B374. Where you might invite an afternoon date so they feel fancy and vaguely British

B375. Digital version, perhaps

B378. “Everyone knows”

B380. Noted 1976 Olympics name

B381. Rogues’ gallery members

B382. Douche, e.g.

B383. Food lines?

B386. OED offering

B387. Sometime foe of Bugs

B388. Modestly sized batteries

B389. French good?

B390. Network rival

B391. Hackman of Runaway Jury

B392. Was a tattler

B393. Results of printing mishaps, say

B395. Liqueurs often served with lamb

B396. Actor Sizemore

B397. Approves

B398. Jeune Amie or Marie

B399. Measure of the atomic age?

B400. They’re attached at the spine

B401. Late Commerce Secretary Brown

B402. Prefab shelters first used in World War I

B406. Like Krackel and Mr. Goodbar

B407. Sculptor Auguste

B408. Non-kosher sammies

B409. ___ lo tanto (therefore, in Spain)

B410. Eye, to a poet

B412. Here and there, to Pierre

B415. “…a man ___ mouse?”

B417. “___ with a little help from my friends”

B419. Word cried before “on it” or “lost”

B420. Former believer

B422. Response to a good explanation

B424. Absolutely annihilates, in gamerspeak

B425. Free, as cows

B426. “How could you even ASK that?”

B428. Hubert’s wife, in the funnies

B429. Senate President pro tempore in 2022

B431. 1 kg⁻¹⋅m⁻²⋅s⁴⋅A², in Standard International units

B432. They show off abs of stone

B434. Eavesdropper’s organ

B435. San ___: Texas city, slangily

B438. Payback

B440. Mil. mail areas

B441. Lugosi seen In Ed Wood

B442. Sch. with a Brooklyn campus

B443. Tackles

B444. Beyond unacceptable

B448. Goosebump-raising

B449. Intel-gathering gp.

B450. Common bake-sale sponsor

B451. Donuts in math class

B452. Iago’s forte

B453. Army crawlers?

B454. ___ currency

B455. Do a bakery job

B456. Romano source, usually

B457. Christmas contraction

B458. “If only it were possible!”

B459. Invitation Alice accepted

B460. Hank with 755 homers

B461. .035 of an ounce, in standard gravity

B462. Usage stat for linguists

B465. Battle space shaping is part of it

B468. Apple tablet download

B469. Feature of a bad air day

B470. Year the original Linus was born

B471. Christian ___ (old gold coin)

B472. Words with whirl or word

B473. Rounded

B475. Moccasins

B476. A pair of jumper cables walk into a bar. Bartender says, “I’ll serve you…

B481. Kangaroo walks into a bar, orders a beer, and pays $10. Bartender thinks, I bet kangaroos don’t know how much beer costs, and gives her $1 in change. Trying to make conversation, he says, “We don’t get many kangaroos in here.” She replies…

B486. Gal walks into a bar and sees a musician tickling the ivories. The musician plays remarkably well considering he’s only one foot tall. Gal turns to the bartender and says, “What’s that guy’s story?” The bartender, he sighs and says, “It’s a long one, but it starts with this magic lamp.” Gal’s seen a movie or two, so she rubs the lamp and what do you know, out pops a genie. Genie says, “You have one wish, use it or lose it.” Thinking quickly, gal goes, “I wish for a million bucks.” Genie vanishes. Gal has just enough time to say, “What about my wish?” before she hears an odd fluttering at the door, followed by a quack. A mallard enters the bar, followed by a second, then a third. The quacking from outside is quickly growing louder. Before it drowns her out, our gal says, “I didn’t wish for a million ducks!” Bartender, he replies, “Do you really think I wished for a…

B489. Horse walks into a bar. Bartender says “Hey.” Horse replies…

B492. Cat walks into a bar and the bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind here.” Cat says that’s discrimination. Bartender says, “I don’t disagree, but my staff insists. One of my waiters is a bird and the other is a dog.” Cat says, “Well, can I at least get something to go from your kitchen?” Bartender gestures wordlessly to the kitchen, where dozens of rodents are hard at work, and the cat frowns and says…

B495. Something worn by each of the Blues Brothers

B497. “___ dinner?”

B498. Monica Seles, by birth

B499. Cheap commodity?

B501. Teacher’s deg.

B502. Ghana’s capital

B503. Multi-octave Sumac

B505. Pigsty dweller

B506. Cause of a price increase

B507. Remedy for a shortage

B509. Sitar kin

B510. Olympic superpower, for short

B511. Check out in the afternoon

B512. Fros and mohawks

B513. Underwater hazard

B514. Highest mountains outside Asia

B515. One-point Scrabble piece

B516. Link between two names

B517. Unrestrained outburst

B518. Role that reignited Anthony Hopkins’ interest in acting

B519. Communicated from camp, perhaps

B522. Reaction to a tragedy

B523. Remain for the nonce

B524. Dumping crates

B525. Faulty follicle

B527. “@#$!” from Deputy Dawg

B529. Mangle

B531. Port in the Punic Wars

B533. Strong right hand

B534. Cupbearer of the gods

B535. Copy of a bond, in law

B536. “Dancing Queen” singers

B537. Bold command?

B538. Employee’s security pass

B540. “I couldn’t sleep ___”

B541. Corn granaries

B542. ___ down (drops pounds)

B543. Beat the tar out of

B544. Sean of Stranger Things

B545. High-priced furs

B547. When “et tu” was uttered

B548. Outmoded genetic abbreviation

B551. Zoo keeper?

B553. Work or energy unit

B554. Military Arnold

B556. Thimbleful

B557. Gets too high

B558. Arab lady’s headpiece

B560. Uses a smoking area?

B562. “Hey, that’s okay ___” (I agree)

B563. Some handhelds (abbr.)

B564. Insect-resistant corn and potatoes, e.g.

B565. Premier Johnson

B566. Phys. degree

B567. “You can’t park here,” in Mexican signage

B568. Colleague of Siskel and Roeper

B569. Prone to using words as metaphorical claws

B570. A contemporary of The Bard

B571. Bullyboy

B572. Actors James and Scott

B573. Scrabble has twelve

B574. “___ it!” (child’s cry of accomplishment)

B575. Site for performative reading, sometimes

B578. Virtual dog or cat, perhaps

B579. Weather-changing currents

B583. Ready for growth

B586. Manhattan shopping district

B588. Axiomatically

B590. Cut performed by a mohel

B591. Kind of the opposite of a lunar eclipse

B593. Ale or coffee

B594. Unexpected extra

B595. Decepticon’s enemy

B597. They can break your buns

B599. Like some raises

B600. What it takes, in a saying about the mutuality of relationships

B602. Pitfalls

B603. Classes that’ll make a soldier out of you

B604. Feudal land

B605. Power indicators

B607. Makes a face

B609. Sea-

B610. Menservants

B612. Pot portions that go to the casino

B615. Strong

B616. “Identical to itself” principle

B617. Gorillaz song or Transformers: The Movie song (that is the first title word of another Transformers: The Movie song)

B618. Sweetums

B619. Lunchtime, usually

B620. Practice eutierria: ___ with the Earth

B621. Hiemal sound in comics

B622. US indoor football gp.

B623. Have ___ one’s words: Are clearly wrongity-wrong-wrong

B624. Like some outdoor canopies

B625. Cure again, as leather

B626. What I like to fill my cup to

B627. Mark from Madrid

B628. Clay pigments

B629. Pack leaders

B631. Bits of pastry with fruit

B633. How people dress for an ugly sweater party

B635. Actor Cariou

B636. Intellectually stimulating

B638. Prosaic cargoes for Latin

B639. Potsdam pronoun

B640. Low score, casually

B641. July’s stone

B642. Drooling devotees

B644. Hibachi glowers

B645. It belongs in the barn

B647. “Divine” moniker for entertainer Bette

B648. Kathie Lee’s co-host, once

B649. Potentially offensive, informally

B650. Not genuine, as Swiss meringue

B651. Monument marker

B652. Some in the Balkans

B653. “Personal” prefix

B654. Video gaming giant

B655. Take out of play

B656. Dangerous grenade, to a GI

B658. Courvoisier and Hennessy

B659. Data point “holder” for region queries

B660. “Ah, okay, okay”

B662. Cape Town’s nation (abbr.)

B663. Ferrante’s partner

B665. Stabilizing part

B666. Like some cheeks or futures

B667. Word in many French family mottoes

B668. “___thing every day that scares you” (Eleanor Roosevelt)

B669. It disclosed that “run” eclipsed “set” as the most-defined word in 2022, for short

B670. Post-ER area

B671. Fathered-eth

B672. Calyx component

B673. Rallying cry against Cobra, perhaps

B674. Paris picnic site

B675. Musketeer named for a mountain

B676. Spiny cactus part

B677. Uses an exit visa, perhaps

B679. Senator William who opposed the League of Nations

B680. Povich of TV

B681. Common molecule, to a chemist

B682. Skin art, slangily

B683. Year in the reign of the emperor Augustus

B685. Gadhafi ruled it, once

B688. Scaled-down calendar

B690. A piece of toast and hard-boiled egg walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve…

B693. A piece of tarmac with bike treads on it walks into a bar. Bartender’s friend said, “Don’t give that guy any sass, or he’ll get violent. He’s a freakin’ ___”

B695. Panda walks into a bar, orders some bamboo, scarfs it down, takes out a gun, fires a round out the window, and walks out the door. The bartender’s like, “What the HELL?”, and as the panda reaches the threshold, it says, “I’m a panda. Look it up!” So the bartender does, and under the description of “panda,” they see the phrase…

B699. Two guys are at a bar. One says to the other, “That’s a New York accent, isn’t it? You’re from New York?” Second one says, “I am.” First one says, “So am I! Where in New York’re ya from?” Second one says “Queens.” First one says, “Me too! Where in Queens?” First one says “Oh, 70th Street, just off 495.” “Whoa! Small world, so did I! So what school’d y’go to?” The other guy answers, “Oh, Maspeth, of course.” The first guy gets really excited, and says, “And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate?” The other guy answers, “Well, I graduated in 1984.” The first guy exclaims, “Mind blown. What a coincidence this is. Can you believe it? I graduated from Maspeth in 1984, myself.” Bartender turns to one of their patrons and says, “It’s going to be a long night…

B704. Mama Bear walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have some…” Seconds pass. After half a minute or so, she adds, “Mead.” Bartender says, “No problem, ma’am, but, uh…why the big pause?” Bear replies…

B706. A man in a suit walks into a bar. He orders a Yuengling lager, and the bartender serves it and leaves him alone. Even so, the man hears a little voice saying, “Excellent choice!” He looks around and doesn’t see anybody, so he goes back to his drink, munching a nut or two to go with it. Little voice pipes up again, “That’s a nice suit.” Man looks all around the room, even peeks behind the bar, doesn’t see anybody. Little voice goes, “Oh, I’m sure you’ll figure this out in a second. You look too smart not to!” Man finally asks the bartender where the little voice is coming from, and the bartender says “It’s the peanuts. They’re…

B709. It often involves a p-value

B711. Touched

B712. Early tie

B714. Part of the Volkswagen Group

B715. Last word in the title of an Irish lullaby

B716. Stitch’s adopter, in a Disney film

B717. String tie

B718. Suspended tracks

B720. Turns red, perhaps

B721. Marge Simpson, ___ Bouvier

B722. “Skyfall” singer

B723. To be, to Binoche

B724. Cruz of “Dynamite”

B725. Sunburn soother

B726. CeraVe competitor

B727. Band acts

B728. Unusually tilted

B729. Lard on a hog

B730. Word fragment meaning “bull”

B731. Cups’ contents

B732. Naked lead-in

B733. ___-tze

B734. Bumbling sort

B735. Casting director?

B736. Rescue squad mem.

B737. Nicotine partner

B739. Rank for CWO J. (Jeff) Johnston, CD, in the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada

B743. With very few words

B745. Tlingit feature of Seattle’s Pioneer Square

B747. You don’t want too many of these, unless you’re the Hulk

B748. Some Spanish titles (abbr.)

B749. Intense attraction, with ‘the’

B750. Garnish a garden

B751. Former stock-regulating org.

B752. “So now you’re on the kill-Caesar bandwagon? Guess it’s a trend”

B753. Appropriate acronym for the Star Wars film about decay and collapse

B754. Manner of walking

B756. Metal strip

B757. Giving teeth, in a way

B759. One-sided tilts

B760. Coddled items

B761. Unborn offspring

B763. “Unbelievable” rock band

B764. George Eliot said it was “like fire” because it made “even light rubbish deadly”

B765. On the side of

B767. Rowdy bunch

B769. One of Chopin’s twenty-seven

B770. Some American Indian homes

B771. Slugger Ruth

B772. Thank-you-___

B773. Animations since 1987

B774. Bridge out?

B775. Hack writer’s output

B776. Disney animated release of 1959

B778. Fortitude

B779. Jamboree enclosure

B780. Story book Penny

B781. D.C. old-timers

B782. Like Silas Marner

B783. The “so few” to whom “so much” was owed (abbr.)

B784. Getting ___ belly (spending too much time at the bar)

B785. Tide variety

B787. Places to crash, in promos

B789. Law gp. that doesn’t know where Carmen is, either

B790. “___ not the time!”

B791. Auto loan default result

B792. “Or…and come to think of it, I like this even more…”

B794. “Is that ___?”

B795. Guy at the grocery is asking around about venues in town to find that special someone or at least have some fun, if you know what we mean. He gets handed a pastrylike cookie. He should’ve picked his words more carefully instead of asking about a…

B799. Like a glove

B803. Bakeware brand

B807. Westminster, for one

B814. Starter stand-in

B822. Businesses with lots and lots of branches

B823. Able to plan well in advance

B825. Petaled pan

B826. Skeletal

B827. News comedienne Samantha

B828. The, in Austria

B829. ___ Perpetua (Idaho’s motto)

B831. Native minerals

B832. Hole-punchers in a tool kit

B835. Blondie’s hubby, informally

B836. Booker T. & the ___

B837. Muttonchops

B839. Makes leather

B840. Stable elevator?

B842. Punishment, metaphorically

B843. Namesakes of a judge that delivered Israel from the Moabites

B844. The U.S., to much of Central and South America

B845. “Sunday Puzzle” airer

B846. Common Market area (abbr.)

B847. Holster location

B848. Pep rally cry

B849. Traffic jam sound

B853. “Versos Libres” poet

B854. Brief concern that turns out to be nothing

B855. Skating area

B856. Protestors’ deprivations

B857. Prots. who insist on immersion

B858. Japanese lunch

B860. One of twenty pack items, informally

B862. Of a musical key

B864. Thai measure

B865. ___ Veneta handbags

B867. Word before “second,” “hour” or “mile”

B868. ___ up (come clean)

B869. Place where people weigh in

B870. In the zone

B871. Without reserve

B872. Architect’s add-ons

B873. Botanical balm

B874. Subj. of early Amendments

B875. ___ arms (outraged)

B876. Madonna’s “Sooner or ___”

B877. Siren inciter

B878. Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant film

B882. Dune-surfing

B885. Quinoa and oranges, surprisingly

B886. Word following candy and sugar

B887. Aesthetically pleasing

B888. Acid in many puzzles

B890. Courtroom cry

B894. Field of mascot design and slogan composition, for short

B896. It may be charged for books?

B897. What pasties conceal

B899. Features of some courses

B901. Over-full

B902. Possible follow-up to “OMG!”

B903. Guy walks into a ___ bar, and the pointy chocolate hurts his foot before it breaks.

B904. Guy walks into a ___ bar, and yells when he stubs his toe, but hell, he can afford a doctor, he’s rich now.

B905. Guy walks into an ___ bar, sees people paying to breathe, and wonders just where we went wrong as a society.

B906. Guy walks into a ___ bar , a n d . . . h e y ! G e t y o u r f o o t o f f m y k e y b o a r d !

B909. Guy walks into a bar to celebrate becoming a lawyer, and confuses everyone by saying “I ___ the bar!” They’re all like, “Then how are you here?”

B911. Guy walks into a bar, so the party host ___ it back up for the next game of limbo.

B914. Horse collarer?

B915. Makes angry

B916. Lion king

B917. Sanskrit “song”

B918. Fabio’s farewell

B919. Place for kids’ drawings

B920. Secluded retreat

B921. Army chow

B922. Price of updating plate stickers

B924. Uber app display

B925. Killer of Albus Dumbledore

B927. “You’ve got to be kidding”

B929. Tic-tac-toe line of victory

B930. Can’t pay

B933. Eternally, in poems

B934. Lose water

B938. “Shea Butter Baby” singer Lennox

B939. Hits the sauce

B940. “Present,” to a cockney

B941. What you used to be?

B942. Chew on persistently

B944. Kind of hybrid flowers

B946. Senior citizen’s tub

B948. Alleyway yowlers, often

B949. Registered owners

B950. ___ Economic Union, established 2014

B952. JFK hub

B953. School days initials

B955. “By all ___!”

B959. Hebrew deliverer

B960. Not get a single laugh onstage

B961. Wassily’s contemporary

B962. Lasso’s loop

B963. Reprehensible

B967. Obviously embarrassed

B971. Prolonged campaign

B972. Take a ride?

B975. Title characters in a two-letter show and a show with three variations of one name

B976. Having a high concentration of

B977. Small fraction of a joule

B978. Distant beginning?

B979. 1960s TV sign-off, straight from the horse’s mouth

B980. “Honest”

B981. “___ nice” (“Ease up on the sarcasm”)

B982. Trombonists’ troupes

B984. Celtic oral historians

B985. Completely unthinking

B988. Boring one

B989. Surface ___

B990. Miss the opportunity for

B992. Common error-message options

B994. Skiers’ patron

B996. Get an ___: pass with flying colors

B997. Mother’s brother, e.g.

B998. Blog and Instagram posts

B1000. Vietnamese celebrations

B1002. Neither oui nor non

B1006. Sounds from a Siamese

B1007. Seoul’s location

B1008. Quans.

B1009. Hearts, for example

B1010. “Slogan” donor tongue

B1011. Shampoo with coal tar extract as the active ingredient

B1015. Santa Claus-tracking org.

B1018. Name for a streaming device Apple eventually decided not to use

B1020. Subdues stallion qualities

B1021. Badminton blasts

B1023. Zsa Zsa’s sister

B1024. Unschooled, as an artist

B1026. Difference between white and wheat bread

B1027. Emphatic ending with yes or no

B1028. Minds someone else’s business

B1029. Old auto inits.

B1030. In subjugation

B1032. Don’t take seriously

B1033. Flare gun

B1038. Phantasmal image

B1040. Witcher village that means “Earth”

B1041. Job applicant’s concern

B1042. Caustic fluids

B1043. Piece of sugar

B1044. Watch spot

B1045. Like hard-to-find tracks

B1046. Check-cashing necessity (abbr.)

B1047. Three-syllable fruit (you may be saying it wrong)

B1048. ___ 60 (acceleration standard)

B1049. Baker’s mixture

B1052. Overseer of a sort

B1055. Collectible discs popular in the 1990s

B1056. Outing announcement

B1057. Stoppers

B1058. Dark, to D’artagnan

B1059. Basketballer Thurmond

B1062. Objective

B1065. New Wall St. listing

B1067. Tobacco kiln

B1069. Balkan War participant, informally

B1071. Do a plus operation

B1072. Gun-shy

B1073. Online feed letters

B1074. Villain to “avoid” in 1980s Domino’s Pizza ads, with “the”

B1075. Tool shaper

B1076. Incrimination

B1077. Wail like a banshee

B1078. Boyfs, e.g.

B1079. Get absolutely right

B1080. Hits with, as a pickup line

B1082. SARS monitor, for short

B1083. Shoe type

B1084. Untouchables chief

B1086. Candy named for a sports strategy

B1087. Flow measurer

B1089. Warm dry wind

B1090. Brand with highlights in highlighters

B1091. Not clergy

B1092. Wrist motion

B1093. What secures your credit card online

B1097. Bold and impulsive

B1098. Far from shore

B1099. Badger

B1102. Liszt’s “Transcendental” twelve

B1105. They eat carbon-minimal diets

B1108. Dems’ opposite

B1109. Wheelchair-friendly part of a curb

B1110. “We’re better off without them, really”

B1111. Refreshing caffeine-free beverage

B1113. Note in the E major scale not found in A major

B1115. “___ chicken walks into a bar…”

B1116. Thomas and Parker

B1117. Lome’s land

B1118. Was victorious in

B1119. Chuy’s “___ Yo’ Face” Burrito

B1120. Complain, in a way

B1123. Street near Maple, often

B1124. Sow’s counterpart

B1125. Schemer at Crab Key fortress

B1126. Delivery center of a sort

B1129. “Heh…shucks”

B1131. Landon Donovan’s org.

B1133. Giving rise to

B1134. One a baby may cry out to

B1135. Sporty neckwear

B1136. What you get when a bat walks into a bar?

B1137. Take to heart

B1138. Indian dress

B1139. Exceeded the speed limit?

B1141. Vigor go-with

B1142. Fedora-like hats with slightly smaller brims

B1143. Set ___: begin an accomplishment

B1145. Hardware store items that should be between S-hooks and U-bolts?

B1149. Morales of My Family

B1150. Pet food brand with a paw print in its logo

B1151. Less lavish

B1152. Add to, then stir

B1153. Anvil or stirrup

B1154. Some Nazis walk into some BARs and die instantly, because the BARs are…

B1164. Fantastic fighter pilot

B1165. Left with more assets, on balance

B1167. Kind of mustard Fox used as scandal fodder against Obama

B1168. Overnight party garb, for short

B1169. “___ Got Tonight” (Seger tune)

B1170. Hall of Fame NFL owner Wellington

B1171. Commission recipient

B1174. Double or triple, possibly

B1175. Czar Ivan’s sobriquet

B1177. MTA fleet

B1178. Clinton’s nickname

B1179. Use a napkin on

B1180. Edge of a cup

B1181. Make eye contact with?

B1185. Army service call used by Al Pacino in all his movies (not just Scent of a Woman)

B1186. Internet-freedom org.

B1188. Wife of Charlie Chaplin

B1189. Hard-to-please type

B1190. Warning next to an internet link

B1193. Doctors Without Borders, for ex.

B1194. Crate digger’s discoveries, e.g.

B1196. Cinnamon breakfast

B1198. Erstwhile BlackBerry rival

B1199. Moneyed Brits

B1200. Only Presidential pet with a statue

B1201. Sch. measures

B1203. Toile or cambric

B1204. Britney Spears’ bad-boy ode

B1208. Word form for wing

B1209. English breakfast, for example

B1211. Work like a dog

B1212. Mourns audibly

B1213. ___ Lunn (tea cake)

B1214. Word before souci

B1215. Wine town near Turin

B1216. ___ Man (1992 film with Brendan Fraser as a Neanderthal)

B1217. Frau’s “forget it”

B1218. Coy one

B1220. Brief way?

B1221. Louis XIV, e.g.

B1223. Beakerism heard on The Muppet Show

B1224. Last item in an indefinitely long sequence

B1225. Writer Henrik

B1228. Smelly smoke

B1229. Home prov. of Paul Shaffer

B1230. Parisian pea

B1231. Dollar doler-outers

B1232. “Remembrance” or “the week” preceder

B1233. Symmetrical-in-lower-case word for “try”

B1234. Los : Spanish :: ___ : Italian

B1235. First name in old horror films

B1236. Nero’s 202

B1237. “Why so sad ___?” (John Keats)

B1239. Noted gold certifier

B1240. Show up to

B1243. Fixed

B1245. Block, as a nominee

B1246. Webpage quality check

B1247. Old nutrient no.

B1248. Buzz Aldrin, on his birth certificate

B1250. The slammer

B1251. “The world’s best music blog,” since 2002

B1254. It clashes with stripes

B1255. Arterial and fast-moving

B1256. Like a regular pentagon’s angles

B1258. Oooh, it’s ripped

B1259. Futon frame part

B1260. Liver juice

B1261. Source of moos or baas

B1262. “Monsieur Verdoux” actress

B1264. Least attentive

B1268. Period when the Clean Power Plan went into effect

B1270. Key of Beethoven’s Fifth

B1272. Words before “friends” or “careful out there”

B1276. Airport gates’ rates

B1277. Somber toll

B1278. Indefinite article in Ingelfingen

B1279. Remains after shucking husks

B1280. Word that appears twice in the name of Johnny Rzeznik’s band

B1281. Mapping-tech co. that offers ArcGIS

B1282. Heartfelt desires

B1284. Normans’ enemies

B1286. Official at Ohio State, say

B1287. Sport for Ronda Rousey, for short

B1288. ___ Tin Tin (TV dog of old)

B1289. Milquetoast

B1291. Locale of Akbar the Great’s tomb

B1292. What McIlroy breaks

B1294. Eliminated

B1296. Bloodcurdlingly bloody

B1297. Extreme lethargy

B1298. You might see it before long?

B1299. Show that begins with “We Won’t Get Fooled Again”

B1300. Gain access to

B1301. Coll. senior’s test

B1303. Positive response to “How ya doin’?”

B1305. Divided into districts

B1306. Arabian gulf or sultanate

B1307. Doomed tower

B1308. “Counting down the hits” guy Casey

B1309. Family heads?

B1310. Mr. ___ (classic candy)

B1314. Soap star Linda

B1317. Alternative to .com, .net, or .edu

B1318. She sang the opening line “Hast Du etwas Zeit fuer mich?”

B1320. Very attentive

B1323. Depth-of-field setting

B1324. Lift Every Voice author Guinier

B1325. Good time to get the goods

B1326. Cable option

B1328. Engineers of the soul, some say

B1330. Poet in “Il Postino”

B1331. Really close friends, but like, not in a gay way or anything, jeah?

B1332. Can of beer, in Australian slang

B1333. Fig. in many Hitchcock works

B1335. Fast-growing plant used for making floats

B1336. “Absolutely not!”

B1338. O.J.’s alma mater

B1339. Gamer hero of an Orson Scott Card series

B1341. Portnoy’s creator Philip

B1342. Odd News distributor

B1343. Google Docs default font

B1344. Feminists’ goal

B1346. Fight starter

B1347. Eyeball-searing

B1349. Alborg native

B1350. 16th century painter Veronese

B1351. Navigation instrument on a submarine

B1355. Field that has many sources

B1358. State-of-mind missions, in military slang

B1359. Where Homer usually finds “the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems”

B1360. Add, as an extra

B1361. Tokyo stage shows

B1362. Nobelist couple of 1903

B1363. Workshop

B1364. Diary of a Crossword Fiend or Boing Boing

B1366. Dwell and dally

B1367. Certain code tones

B1369. Curved blade

B1371. Ex-NBAer Unseld

B1372. Superboy’s girlfriend

B1374. Hazardous events for the elderly

B1375. Reaction to a revelation

B1376. She’s clumsy but immune to vampires’ mental powers

B1377. Architectural niche

B1378. Good eggs?

B1379. Awkward goodbye

B1381. Whopper base

B1382. Style of music running through Garden State

B1383. Suffix with fiend or fifty

B1386. Personal guide

B1388. They’re anywhere Cockneys ‘ang their ‘ats

B1389. Good writers make them thicken

B1390. 14.69595 psi (abbr.)

B1391. 1,000 or 1,000,000

B1392. Man Ray’s style

B1393. Hockey feint

B1395. Place to hear a klezmer, once

B1396. Banks of daytime TV

B1397. Town SE of Sacramento

B1398. Inventor of a vertical-use steam engine

B1399. Crusader’s targets

B1401. He married Daphne, on Frasier

B1403. Admaker’s concern

B1404. Susan whose “I Dreamed a Dream” was once the most-seen YouTube video

B1405. Dictator’s opening

B1406. Showing ill humor

B1407. Voided smash

B1408. Some tiny robots walk into bar ____ and have to stop walking until they’re freed.

B1411. Person walks into a ___ bar, making them sad and their foot cold and sticky.

B1414. Some people walk into a ___ and leave with grilled food sticking to their ribs.

B1415. A group of distracted people walk into ___ bars, making a gymnast fall over.

B1416. A person walks and walks until there are no ___ bars left, which makes calling for a ride impossible, so they’ll have a long walk home…but at least they’ll get a break from their Facebook notifications and enjoy some goddamn peace and quiet.

B1417. Geometric calculations

B1418. Like sides of pyramids

B1420. Ft. parts

B1421. Chuckling sound

B1422. From the other side

B1423. Trailer-park parkers, for short

B1424. Apple aimed at the student market

B1425. Thousand-square-foot calculating machine

B1427. Kelly Services assignment

B1431. Subject for a town board

B1433. Most sacred building in Islam

B1434. Sees in sleep

B1436. Program that stays in RAM

B1437. Gallbladder contents

B1439. Morsel in a stable

B1441. Mic-making Samsung subsidiary

B1442. He did a Moor good, then harm

B1443. Long rectangle with implied “click here”

B1447. Bone by the brachialis

B1449. Soften, as a distinction

B1450. ___ Pie: frozen food after a 2020 name change

B1451. Say yes

B1452. Big, hairy man, to some

B1453. Scanty top, briefly

B1454. Eclipse sight

B1456. Suck-up

B1457. French sociologist

B1458. Pres. who launched the space race

B1459. Thread on the Thames

B1460. Mark of a rifle’s laser sight

B1462. Major car manufacturer

B1463. Star Wars casualty who knew Luke when

B1464. None too clearly

B1465. Worms, at times

B1466. Sound of hard knocks

B1467. “Big ___” (“Who cares?”)

B1469. Divinely inspired

B1470. Peron of Argentina

B1471. Little ___ (Marjorie Henderson Buell cartoon)

B1472. Dishonest quantity?

B1473. Cab cash

B1474. Terra cotta product

B1475. Wind-driven

B1477. “Born From Jets” automaker

B1478. Stat for a reliever

B1479. Pres. before RBH

B1480. The Kid’s real surname

B1481. Some Japanese-Americans (var.)

B1482. Purse that can go for nearly three thousand bucks

B1484. Welsh emblem

B1486. Loren’s spouse

B1487. Dark Angel’s Jessica

B1488. Where Dorothy Gale and Clark Kent grew up

B1489. Says “never” to

B1490. Part of a Mary Johnston title

B1491. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. TV series

B1492. Potential for diffusion

B1493. Bad place to (be) hit

B1494. Trend in a specific direction

B1497. Blue birds that aren’t bluebirds

B1498. Carbon copy, for short

B1499. Forceful blow

B1501. “Make-your-momma-sad type, make-your-girlfriend-mad-tight, might-seduce-your-dad type” of song

B1502. Famous Jada’s middle name

B1503. Panel’s production

B1507. July ‘44 battle site

B1510. DC ballplayer

B1512. Made a sound like the end of a gerund (I know, this one’s a bit of a stretch)

B1513. 1920 sci-fi play

B1514. Retire from the RAF

B1515. Little moistenings

B1516. Show sound judgment

B1517. “Chandelier” singer

B1518. Knights of ___ (Star Wars villains)

B1519. Early McDonald’s rival

B1522. Babe Ruth’s got lighter over the course of his career

B1523. Kentucky-based zero-tuition college

B1524. Jacuzzi entry sound

B1525. Indigent

B1526. Coins for Cato

B1527. Dept. of drinks, smokes, and smokemakers

B1528. Distance, as from reality

B1529. Idiot, in Britspeak

B1530. Shortly after

B1532. Carell’s Despicable Me role

B1533. Shooting game popular in the ‘80s

B1536. They’re nothing of consequence

B1539. Truckers, perhaps

B1544. Black feature in many racial discussions

B1552. Stage direction meaning “slight pause”

B1557. Color a bit

B1563. Freestyle competitions

B1564. Coatrack items

B1565. Only tennis player to win the “Golden Slam” (four Grand Slam singles titles and Olympic Gold in the same calendar year)

B1566. Writing collabs

B1568. “What’s happening?”

B1569. Apt rhyme for “four” implying the singer has lost count

B1570. Upper (prefix)

B1571. Hit like a Stooge, say

B1573. Baseball summary inits.

B1574. Track tipster

B1575. Kissing ___

B1577. Also-___ (runners-up)

B1578. Facial feature for Mao or Madonna

B1579. Some divers’ booty

B1580. Ralph’s Avengers costar

B1581. Boomer on the road?

B1582. Show off one’s tight five

B1583. She might do a life-saving head-to-toe assessment

B1584. General Motors CEO Mary

B1585. Postgraduates

B1586. Peacocklike

B1587. Runs out of juice

B1588. Blizzard consequence

B1589. Working just fine

B1590. Combat zone

B1591. Kilderkin

B1592. Poet’s pitch?

B1593. Blue ___ food delivery

B1594. Hip-hop’s Salt-___

B1596. Goes underground

B1598. “I don’t want to be just another piece in their game” speaker in The Hunger Games

B1602. Costello’s straight man

B1605. Technique that measures brain activity (abbr.)

B1606. I love, to Luis

B1607. Death Cab for Cutie of the Plain White T’s

B1609. “Yew betcher sweet patootie!”

B1611. How Rome actually was built

B1613. Him, in Heidelberg

B1614. Salsa choice

B1615. Pilot and spade, for a drill

B1616. Madonna 1989 hit

B1617. Service break?

B1619. Come back to consciousness

B1620. Comedian Cook

B1621. ID represented by a barcode

B1622. An impossible declaration

B1623. 1961 hit, “___ and Turnin’”

B1624. Keg attachments

B1625. Word after can or letter

B1626. Cook in a certain way

B1627. Grammy-nominated Macy Gray song of 2000

B1628. Once-divided Eur. nation

B1629. Paint and clay class

B1632. Drumstick at dinner

B1633. John McCain’s sch.

B1634. “___ Johnny!”

B1635. Sound of a clock

B1636. Partiality

B1638. Printer handle

B1639. Spherical bodies

B1641. Moon of Saturn with thousand-foot-high ice walls

B1643. Twenty-first-century film collection

B1644. Song that swells with “big like an ocean or important like a mountain or tall like a tree”

B1646. Contrived

B1647. Shark attack!

B1648. Animated lead singer of the Pussycats

B1649. Attack time

B1650. “Perfect Circle” band

B1651. “I Was There” contributor on pgatour.com

B1652. Precursor to a memorable Boston party

B1653. Kills, as a female character to support someone else’s story

B1654. Keeps going

B1655. Org. that exposed waterboarding to the public

B1656. Last period where Earth was united, geologically speaking

B1658. Femmes ___

B1660. Provide pages for notes

B1662. Open, as an envelope

B1663. Style of T that’s not U

B1664. Steven Bochco TV series

B1665. Month roughly corresponding to March

B1666. Ranch pals

B1667. Vivacity, to Mozart

B1668. Small endings

B1669. Setting of Jane Smiley’s Pulitzer-winning novel A Thousand Acres

B1670. Second look of a sort

B1671. “Wanna ___?!”

B1672. Quartet x 2

B1673. Gas that naturally glows red

B1674. Lacking expressiveness

B1676. Follower of wonder or miracle

B1677. (The) tendency of cops to stick together, for good or ill

B1678. “The cow is of the bovine ___” (Nash)

B1679. Astonish

B1681. Not-quite-gulf

B1682. Where Eliot Spitzer was gov.

B1683. Tree-trunk protuberance

B1684. Concentration in chem class

B1685. Singular stain

B1686. March 14, to mathematicians

B1687. First appearance

B1688. Wind science

B1690. Anger or fervor

B1691. Writing technique you wouldn’t expect

B1692. Securing rope

B1693. Hooper’s concern

B1694. ___ Zedong

B1695. Levy on booze, butts, etc.

B1697. Folk’s Baez

B1698. The Tempest wizard

B1699. Pacific island half?

B1701. Baby formula element, in its less common non-”ium” spelling

B1702. Like a move to a similar job

B1704. Permed with peroxide

B1707. Makes out to be near-perfect

B1709. Most golfers’ goals

B1710. Bird in a covey

B1711. They once ruled the Earth, for short

B1712. Bumbler

B1713. Its flag has a large red dragon

B1714. Cartoon quitting-time shout

B1717. Old Mazda pickup line

B1719. Real bargain for a winery?

B1721. Grafters’ needs

B1722. LSU awards

B1723. Airline code for many an Ariz. trip

B1724. Metric for first-person shooter games

B1728. Soft & ___ Deodorant

B1729. Word heard before and after “say”

B1730. Profess without proof

B1731. Bar abbr.

B1732. IQ recordholder Marilyn ___ Savant

B1733. Kind of Semite

B1734. Gp. that got off the ground in the ‘60s

B1735. Acknowledges the empress

B1736. Overdone in the oven

B1737. Black ___

B1738. Clustering effect or “bike-shedding”

B1739. Nostalgically named stops

B1740. Aromatic plant

B1741. It precedes hertz and bucks

B1742. Helping with lines

B1744. Koteas of Crash

B1745. Votes Senate aides saved on 1/6

B1746. Connect them to see the big picture

B1747. I Am ___ (2001 film)

B1748. “Snow Bunny” singer Collins

B1751. Feature of the Kansas scenes of The Wizard of Oz

B1752. Berlusconi’s bone

B1753. Gave a flirtatious look up and down, as to one’s boyfriend (it’s all about context)

B1754. Biscuit brand launched in 1898

B1755. Having round protuberances

B1757. Lavish wear for a chilly theater

B1759. Capable of atrocities

B1761. Kitten kind

B1762. Lovers in Lourdes

B1763. Squirt and cap, for two

B1764. Enjoying quarters on wheels

B1765. James Bond cars, sometimes

B1766. The ones in Yellowstone have lived there since prehistory

B1767. “Thx” alternative

B1768. Yarn suppliers?

B1771. “That’s a joke, ___!”

B1772. Goes across

B1774. Variant of John

B1775. Gallery market’s go-between

B1777. Famed fountain of Rome

B1778. Neighborhood to get kimchi and bibimbap, informally

B1780. Didn’t recover from a trip?

B1781. Sense and Sensibility director Lee

B1782. Faiths, to Fidel

B1783. Ability to hit pitches?

B1784. ___ ride

B1785. Simplifies regrettably, with "down"

B1786. Word with “chin” or “head”

B1787. Acting as if one expected no different

B1788. The Von ___ Family Singers

B1789. Cheney portrayer

B1790. Maguire of Spider-Man

B1791. Nice little windfall

B1792. Now, 2000 years ago

B1793. “It finally all makes sense”

B1795. Mover’s essentials

B1796. Ian McKellen/Michael Fassbender role

B1799. Internettism for the place where internettisms are never said

B1800. “Saul reigned in the eleventh century ___”

B1801. Childish assertion

B1802. ___ sanctum (secluded place)

B1803. Steered clear of

B1807. Test for a sr.

B1808. Metric prefix for “thousandth”

B1810. Swings and a slide

B1812. Sipped

B1814. Grass unit

B1815. Cuban rhythm

B1816. Give up, as a right

B1817. Tommy Lee Jones baseball biopic

B1818. Skewered dish

B1819. Aura of majesty

B1820. Icelanders’ ancestors

B1821. Rock star Nugent

B1822. Getting a move on

B1823. Committee sched. listing

B1824. Crazy drinking party

B1829. Without context

B1831. Sculptor Polasek with a museum in Florida

B1832. It may have 100 lashes

B1833. Reaction to une belle femme

B1834. Debugger on one’s way outdoors?

B1836. Betty Boop and Olive Oyl voicer Questel

B1837. Song by Kesha, or very different song from The SpongeBob Musical

B1838. Actress Ryan of Boston Public

B1839. Bar stock

B1842. Termite walks in, bellies up to the counter, and asks…

B1846. Woman walks into a bar, eyeing the bartender appreciatively, looking over the curve of his bicep, his facial hair, and the little piece of his chest visible over his V-neck collar. Becoming aware of this attention, the bartender asked, “What’ll it be, ma’am?” With a smile that she hoped communicated her intentions for the evening, she replied, “I’ll have a double entendre…”

B1849. Susana Martinez was its gov.

B1851. Feel like grinning

B1852. Place for slanted columns

B1853. Covers up the gray

B1854. Rep’s opponent, maybe

B1855. Jumping-off point

B1858. Winged insect

B1860. “Assuming Murphy’s Law takes a holiday…”

B1863. Love, Actually actor

B1866. Melville’s Shakespearean tragic hero

B1868. Neighbor of Pisces and Taurus

B1869. In ___: steamed

B1870. Film villain who’s one letter different from the lead actor’s last name

B1871. Spotting on adolescent faces

B1872. Unnecessary fuss

B1873. Hunting call.

B1874. ___ Racist, singers of “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell Remix”

B1875. One making one’s way upstream

B1876. Teacher in a temple

B1881. A Promised Land and The Vanishing Half, e.g.

B1885. ___ Chinmoy (noted meditation teacher)

B1886. Becomes one

B1889. Form a gully

B1891. Mellow woodwinds

B1892. International firms?

B1893. Crew’s control?

B1894. “___ Man” (‘60s hit)

B1895. Piddling point to pick

B1896. Nicknamed state capital or letter capital

B1897. ___ sea: lost

B1898. Campfire treat

B1899. Give a darn

B1900. First of three procedural spinoffs

B1901. LSU rival

B1902. Three-time Snipes role

B1903. Minute, informally

B1904. Business abbreviation

B1905. Largest USA steel producer

B1907. It’s stocked in an adult shop

B1908. Cartridge holder

B1910. Harsh bosses

B1912. Steve Martin’s “King ___”

B1914. Shatner sci-fi drug

B1915. Reddish, in Spain

B1916. Broadway hit of yore, with “The”

B1918. Sanitization target

B1922. Main event preceder, briefly

B1925. Extra that presents itself while you’re folding

B1927. Believe in

B1929. Warhead, briefly

B1930. Big name in burritos

B1932. Baldwin and Lightwood

B1933. Fens, e.g.

B1934. Obama failed to close it, for short

B1935. ACL’s place, legwise

B1936. Goddess who supported an existential threat to all gods

B1937. Spore-collecting Ghostbuster

B1938. Repressed, as rage

B1939. He blunders around like he just created his character yesterday

B1941. Miami Beach’s Eden ___ resort

B1944. Borders on

B1946. Cosmo or GQ

B1948. Say “au revoir” to

B1950. What most people believe

B1952. Weigh station wts.

B1953. USSR founder

B1954. It’s before kue

B1955. Maupassant’s ___ Vie

B1956. Exam for future MDs

B1957. “Curiouser and curiouser!” speaker

B1958. Experts on forms

B1959. Real smooth

B1960. Intensely interested

B1961. Huggy family?

B1962. Units of distance

B1963. Beneficiary of a will

B1964. Fig. for exchanging money when returning to the States

B1965. You can visit its Education Center without anybody saying “Now we’ve told you, so we have to kill you”

B1967. Sonic summer job

B1968. David Cassidy’s “How Can I Be ___”

B1969. Psychoactive and antiemetic agents in weed

B1974. 100 satang (and what ฿ stands for)

B1976. With everything as it should be

B1978. Apocryphal bk. in two parts

B1979. “Are we alone?” prog.

B1980. Zero Dark Thirty target

B1982. They may be audiovisual

B1983. Lie, in court

B1985. It’s supportive

B1987. Carbon particles

B1988. “Take it one day at ___”

B1989. Andes creature

B1990. Ill-mannered fellow

B1991. One who might roll a 12-sided die

B1992. What Women ___ (Mel Gibson movie)

B1993. Comic Johnson of Laugh-in

B1994. Uncles, etc. (abbr.)

B1995. Excellent

B1996. Chicago/LA rock band famous for viral videos

B1997. iPod with a 0.5-inch Multi-Touch color screen

B1998. Stockpiles

B2001. Dusting needs

B2003. Become heavy

B2005. Percuss musically

B2009. Topped

B2011. Miss.-to-Mich. dir.

B2012. We’re in the Phanerozoic one

B2013. Total potential salary, for short

B2014. PGA’s Isao

B2015. Send by stages

B2016. Benedictine titles

B2017. Extraterrestrial

B2018. “Blackstar” singer whose music charms our cats

B2019. “I didn’t do it” kid

B2020. Vehicle seen in the first few seconds of each Batman: The Animated Series episode

B2021. The “M” of MSG

B2022. Pass (off) as genuine

B2023. Work on, as a creaky hinge

B2025. More rigid

B2026. 1950s TV’s ___ Is Your Life

B2027. ___ eBay buyer: refuse bids forever

B2028. Chamomile and green for me, rose petals and black for my wife

B2030. Morning TV cohost

B2032. Shower head?

B2036. First name in clowning for burgers

B2039. Throttle

B2040. Just like [snaps fingers] that

B2044. “I’ve ___ Everywhere” (Johnny Cash)

B2045. “That’s…never gonna happen”

B2046. Legally binding decision

B2047. #3 nation in natural gas reserves

B2048. Crew foreman

B2049. Victim in The Undoing

B2050. Raised cattle

B2051. Tehrani bulletin source

B2052. Phineas or Ferb

B2053. “It’s one blade better” razor

B2054. Spillway settings

B2055. Personal ones can be milestones

B2056. Cartoon series about a cave boy

B2057. Thole thing

B2058. Part of the head that may be congested

B2060. Retired auto racer Teo

B2062. The Enterprise, e.g.

B2063. Feature of good observational comedy

B2065. Straight Time director Grosbard

B2066. Rabbits

B2067. Pranked with rolls, for short

B2068. St. ___ (London site)

B2070. Prepares for dragging

B2071. Precipice

B2072. Appealing to squirrels, probably

B2073. Neocon, e.g.

B2074. Subtle show of emotion in the eyes

B2075. HS senior’s exam, once

B2076. Pacific mackerel

B2077. English poet Tate

B2079. Its flag features a snarling dragon

B2080. Enfeebles

B2081. Syntax-challenged sidekick

B2082. It keeps people grounded

B2084. Mastery

B2086. Accident-probing org. featured in Sully

B2088. Fed. financial assistance

B2089. GRF’s party

B2090. Win over by persistence

B2092. Earthy clay

B2096. They’re dumb as the tomb and found in “dumb as the tomb”

B2099. They’re often used in suspension-based play…for kids

B2101. Fisher-Price products

B2102. Wedding VIP

B2104. Begins bugging

B2107. So-called “smoking alternative”

B2109. Show indifference

B2111. God who sounds like an unrelated constellation

B2112. Van ___’s Land (Tasmania, once)

B2113. Roadside bombs, for short

B2114. Bright and cheering, on the brae

B2115. Tween adventurer Shah

B2116. Juin, juillet, et août

B2117. Democrat-favoring

B2118. Logical leader?

B2119. Marks, as some ballots

B2121. Red suit

B2123. Hardly energetic

B2124. “Apparently.”

B2126. Liking them young, e.g.

B2127. Philosopher Descartes

B2128. Blake and Wordsworth

B2129. Pledgets

B2130. Pipe type

B2131. Mother of Donald Jr. and Eric

B2132. Small antelope

B2133. Poison ___ frog

B2134. ___ account: not under any circumstances

B2135. Pratt and Day roles, for shot

B2137. Reporter who uses shoe leather

B2138. They’re supposed to be supportive

B2139. “The ___ Pokey”

B2140. Peanut butter and jelly, e.g.

B2142. “___ too much” (glutton’s admission)

B2143. Unnoticed by the palate

B2145. Spell a tired player with

B2147. I-95 predecessor

B2148. Wds. like “chaussette” and “tristesse” in French

B2150. Old theaters once owned by Howard Hughes

B2151. Make the cut?

B2152. Between intermissions, say

B2153. Hippopotamus, literally

B2155. Death can come by a thousand of them

B2156. Some toy trucks

B2157. Foolish person

B2158. Betty or Nightingale

B2159. Totally

B2160. Sales-goosing acronym

B2161. Slate or Salon, for short

B2162. Stylist

B2164. Lesage’s picaresque hero

B2165. People from Copenhagen

B2166. Rose, e.g.

B2167. Spartan statesman

B2169. Name on a property deed, maybe

B2170. Violator of common-sense pinballing

B2172. Kind of lights used with firearms, for short

B2173. Phrase used to advertise some mixers

B2175. “We can ___ great things, only small things with great love” (controversies aside, Mother Teresa knew how to turn a phrase)

B2176. Seven rivers in England

B2177. The Statue actress Virna

B2178. The Secret History writer Donna

B2179. Makes an arrest of

B2180. Ice-T’s Rap School airer

B2181. Campaign from town to town

B2182. Greek Cupid

B2183. Offer to buy

B2184. Adventurer accompanied by Panza

B2186. Row at Shea

B2187. Sacrament

B2188. Fool’s errands

B2190. Soaks to soften

B2191. Flies, maybe

B2192. Divide dramatically

B2193. Crowdfunds on a certain site

B2195. Multiple-choice equivalent to a true-false question

B2196. Places you can submerge yourself standing

B2199. R&B singer known for his use of Auto-Tune

B2204. The White Lotus or Doom Patrol

B2211. Crescent or new moon

B2216. How Shakespearean sonnets generally begin

B2220. Old quarter of Algiers

B2226. Like many of Spider-Man’s fights

B2228. Penalties for illegal parking

B2229. Quiet place (abbr.)

B2230. Comedian Schumer

B2231. Hillside in the Highlands

B2232. The top tier

B2233. Three times a day, to an MD

B2235. Neck swelling

B2236. Selena’s musical genre

B2239. Congresswoman Blackburn

B2240. Marinated

B2242. Lilylike plants

B2243. They’re free if you find them on the links

B2245. Wagon wheel track

B2246. Shortz of Wordplay

B2247. Eagle’s nest

B2248. Total heat of a system

B2249. Actress Arcieri of A Perfect Fit

B2250. Employed some subterfuge

B2255. Unamusing

B2256. Draws the line

B2257. Booby-trapped ride

B2259. Transferred to a different job

B2261. Median strip adjoiner

B2262. Southwest institution (abbr.)

B2263. Contract negotiator for an actor or house buyer

B2267. Beginning of a response to “Eh?”

B2268. “His ___” (Michael Jordan nickname)

B2269. Thick pile on the floor you pay to be there

B2273. Where Frodo and Sam journey first

B2274. Cocoon creator

B2275. Plumber’s concern

B2276. “These all continued with ___ accord in prayer” (Acts 1:14)

B2277. Certain media constraints

B2278. Star used to symbolize the number of tribes, disciples, and Olympians

B2279. “Girlfriend” singer Lavigne

B2280. 1985 Reagan appointee

B2284. A wad of dough

B2286. Sphygmomanometric stats

B2287. Shift-2’s

B2288. Cause for an “Excuse me!”

B2289. Draft raisers

B2290. Honduran aborigine

B2291. ___ Island (storied site of buried treasure)

B2292. Edible bulbs

B2293. Some Audi models

B2294. Sizzler servings

B2296. Reach-ruling clan in Game of Thrones

B2297. Brown’s group

B2298. San ___ Obispo

B2299. Gretzky’s record, if Ovechkin keeps going the way he has

B2301. A guy walks into ___ Eden and says, “Can you grant me a wish?” She replies, “Um, that was just a TV show.”

B2302. A woman walks into a ____ bar. Everyone starts yelling and there’s lettuce and croutons everywhere.

B2304. A genderqueer person walks into a ___ bar, squishing the milk chocolate so that it leaks out of the brown wrapper.

B2307. A woman walks into a bar ____ and IIIIII III II II.

B2308. A guy walks up to a ___ bar, pays a couple of quarters, and keeps going. “You know,” the cashier says, “you don’t really have to pay if you’re not in a car.”

B2309. A woman walks onto a ___ bar, which helps save her from drowning.

B2310. A woman walks into a ____, which is bad news, because walking means she absentmindedly left her skis at the lodge.

B2313. Attain, as great heights

B2314. Alcohol accounts

B2316. Bug that bugs you

B2317. Like some rugs

B2318. Photographer

B2320. Bethesda, MD, complex

B2322. Sailors’ cries for help

B2324. Fire sign

B2326. Alquimistas’ quest

B2327. Busy bother

B2330. What follows Power?

B2331. Loungers’ wear

B2333. One getting the message?

B2334. Beast with hollow fangs

B2335. Kind of muscle

B2336. Fixed, as a squeak

B2339. Likable candidate, according to buttons

B2341. Ending with hard or soft

B2343. ___ through (persisted)

B2346. Pastoral cry

B2348. Aunts and others

B2351. Doubtful interjections

B2352. Westerns actress Joanne

B2355. Playwright Wilson

B2357. Liveliness

B2359. Forearm fundament

B2360. Masseuse’s stuff

B2361. Shreveport sch.

B2362. Sit still for

B2363. $1,000 machines, circa 1988

B2364. Eroded road hazard

B2365. Breaking a tie, for short

B2367. Balkan bigwig

B2368. Wintertime sentiment

B2370. Hotel founder Cesar

B2371. Sp. homemakers

B2373. Expensive accessories

B2374. Column tops

B2375. The ____ (Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher)

B2376. Spun records at a party, say

B2377. “___ know you?”

B2378. ___-Note (Name That Tune contest)

B2380. Put limits on

B2381. AT&T Stadium team, on scoreboards

B2382. Ground defense (abbr.)

B2383. One of The Two Coreys

B2384. No longer burdened by

B2386. One who knows where all the tissues are?

B2389. Torpedo tip, slangily

B2390. Hot mushroom preparer?

B2393. Sounds like a mistake, but they’re really an exposer of other people’s mistakes

B2394. Umpires’ wear

B2395. Uncouth

B2397. Feed, for short

B2398. Government bureaus

B2399. Knock their socks off, colloquially

B2400. Dairy farm grazers

B2402. Gives zero stars to

B2403. Potty opening?

B2404. Russian citadels

B2408. Majorca or Mallorca

B2409. “Love, all alike, no season knows ___ clime” (John Donne)

B2410. Collective, abbreviated

B2411. Holmes garb

B2412. Pacific landing handout

B2413. Big name in cinematic universes

B2414. Dessert often baked in a ramekin

B2415. Apple bits

B2416. Carry awkwardly

B2417. Takeoff guess

B2419. Amy Schumer specialty

B2421. He had “great expectations”

B2422. She’s worshipped in Black Panther

B2423. Acts morose

B2424. Tips the waiters of

B2425. Close enough for modern tech

B2427. Private headquarters?

B2428. Ricky’s nightclub

B2430. Piper of Covert Affairs

B2431. Appetizer spread

B2432. (The) “Gay Nineties”

B2434. Sank into the sofa

B2435. Having immense implications

B2437. Carpe ___

B2439. Reopen, as a wound

B2442. Unaware

B2446. He’s unlikely to be typecast

B2449. “Butcher of Uganda”

B2450. Repeated, a small antelope

B2451. They’re hailed on city streets

B2452. Big bags

B2453. Berlin number

B2454. Trigraphic fly

B2458. Currently, General Keith B. Alexander

B2461. Stick in a box

B2463. Oft-rescued comics heroine

B2464. Philippine people

B2466. “Buy high, sell low” type…wait, no, other way around, hopefully

B2467. Goddess whose story loosely inspires Sleeping Beauty

B2468. Like some toads

B2469. Taste besides sweet, sour, bitter and salty

B2470. Man’s genus

B2471. Got lung cancer the old-fashioned way

B2475. Sweetie, especially when you’re worried about him

B2476. Locale of the talus

B2478. Midshipwoman, e.g.

B2479. Got into the starship

B2481. Prime Cuts brand

B2482. Palindromic bike-sharing company that didn’t survive the pandemic

B2484. “My goof!”

B2486. Dole and Woodward of Washington

B2487. Where campers spend the night?

B2488. Clifford, von Neumann, and topological, e.g.

B2490. Giant in a 2000 merger

B2491. Young rooster

B2492. Birthplace of Zeno

B2493. Cream color

B2494. “I didn’t mean that” key

B2497. Emulated stylist

B2500. Steals, in British slang

B2501. Bk. and LOL, e.g.

B2502. Sounder in one’s body

B2503. Educational TV spots, perhaps

B2505. Knitting material

B2506. Campaigner’s concern

B2509. Halt legally

B2510. Talking horse or Dionysian poet of ancient Greece

B2511. Name of an upper body agility test

B2514. Get outta Dodge

B2516. Web-based finance company

B2517. Star Trek character who finally got a command in the sixth movie

B2518. Makes a lot of?

B2519. Small scope

B2520. Sound effects on a cold day

B2521. Where big bags go on some airplanes

B2522. 1944 Nobel physicist

B2523. Ocean-going vessel

B2525. Leave them rolling in the aisles

B2526. Valium drug company

B2527. Weed ‘em and ___: A Weed Eater Reader (2006 Roger Welsch book)

B2528. Banquet supplies

B2529. PC acronym

B2530. Streaming-service row

B2531. Former Delaware senator William

B2533. Rihanna song featuring Drake

B2535. Manifest end?

B2536. Fortuitous, the way people usually mean “fortuitous”

B2537. Maker of the fragrance Opium

B2539. Rapa ___ (1994 Easter Island film)

B2540. Authority

B2541. “Shady ___” (Pavement single)

B2545. Coil in a shed

B2546. Basic watercraft

B2547. Movie where a guy walks away from a bar

B2549. Huge gulp

B2550. Peroxide, to would-be blondes

B2551. Monument Valley sight

B2552. “What are you looking ___ what goal are you straining?” (Seneca)

B2554. Two-fingered eye poker of comedy

B2555. British PM during the Suez crisis

B2556. Goldilocks’ victims

B2557. Quite a while

B2558. Traveler’s option (abbr.)

B2559. Result of a coder’s mistake

B2561. Prep for exams

B2562. A guy walks into a bar…and he was just fine, because although ___ sounds like a lot of pressure, it’s barely more than one standard atmosphere.

B2572. Archie Bunker’s late wife

B2574. Elegant elephant king

B2575. Baaer’s relief

B2577. Mexican fiber

B2578. Noted composers who could’ve been a theme of this section

B2580. Tried to get that apple

B2583. First Jackson song with “mass choreography”

B2584. ___-mo

B2585. “Who ___ that?!”

B2586. Feminizing suffixes

B2587. Muslim princely title

B2588. Many-episode plot line

B2592. The Evil One

B2595. Fleet St. product

B2597. Ways to tell if you’re making a difference to the public

B2599. Greasy spoon order

B2601. Sightseeing services in D.C. and Portland

B2604. Told all about

B2606. “Ya think so too?”

B2609. Top tier

B2610. Secret identity

B2611. Marriage or graduation, e.g.

B2612. Loiterer of a sort

B2615. Old textile factory employee

B2616. Michelin rival

B2617. Gordian tangle

B2618. In the ___ (likely to happen)

B2620. Foaming at the mouth

B2621. Went, “Also…”

B2622. Shepherd’s concern

B2623. “…love but only ___!” (Byron)

B2624. Saxophonist Moore

B2625. Broadway flier

B2626. You can wear the snake version too, if it’s tame

B2627. Bottom of a 1040’s p. 1

B2629. Fund-raiser’s verb

B2631. Frozen dew

B2632. House in Germany

B2633. Beatle drummer before Ringo

B2634. Like fish

B2636. Passionate devotee

B2637. Looking sharply

B2638. Determinations of fighter class

B2640. Ankle-length teen wear in the ‘40s

B2641. Psychic’s talent

B2642. Syrian simoleons

B2646. Emulates John R. Neill

B2648. Turn of the last century

B2650. Prized instrument, for short

B2651. Cornfield stem

B2652. Brain part

B2653. Plenty, in poetry

B2655. Piteous

B2656. Library vol. ID

B2657. DIY law book publisher

B2658. Apt rhyme for “Hurray!”

B2660. Lauder of skin

B2661. “___ idea!”

B2663. Cyan’s cousin

B2666. Musician who’s a relative of Herman Melville

B2668. ___ de coeur

B2669. Babysitter

B2670. Scientific discovery nominated for Time’s 2012 person of the year

B2672. It uncovered info about the V-2

B2673. Four mean a walk

B2674. Studio class

B2675. Those in Madrid

B2677. Sanitaryware brand

B2678. Bitter plums

B2679. “Sure, whatever!”

B2680. Photo ___ (White House events)

B2683. France’s second-largest city

B2684. He knows what you did last summer, but no one else has to, if you’re willing to make an arrangement

B2686. Back-of-the-book copy

B2687. Get upset

B2688. Cry softly

B2690. ___ card (mobile phone device)

B2691. Aspects of color we have the most language for

B2693. Suspect in Clue

B2697. “Raindrops” composer

B2699. Did part of writing a crossword

B2700. Nation whose largest island is Babelthuap

B2701. Projectile banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission

B2703. Cover in its own juice

B2704. Reveals the orientation of

B2705. Composer Weill

B2706. Lead-in to Vista or mortgage

B2707. Wood-splitting karate move

B2708. They fell out of currency during the French Revolution

B2709. Sound of frog removal?

B2710. “Rhymes” in DNA strands

B2711. End before the beginning

B2712. Of the intestines

B2713. Sedative, slangily

B2714. Word form for what’s different

B2715. Odin’s wife

B2716. White-and-tinged

B2717. Fates, to the Vikings

B2718. Org. for former Brownies

B2719. Military area in the 1940s

B2720. Late for the team meeting

B2723. Jungle vines

B2724. Investigator Wendy portrayed on Mindhunter

B2726. Lexicographer Flexner, to friends

B2727. Back to the Future bully

B2728. Something to blow

B2729. What a Katze catches

B2731. Hurricane-response acronym

B2732. Quo ___ (1951 film)

B2733. Open, in a way

B2734. Arrange in advance

B2736. Gaseous mix

B2737. The Moskva is one of its tributaries

B2738. It borders the Black Sea (abbr.)

B2739. Pictographic letter

B2740. Cry of alarm or city in Alaska

B2741. Surgical aid

B2742. Curls up

B2743. Audio products manufacturer founded by Dr. Dre

B2744. Knotty problem

B2745. Lowe’s products whose name got harder to sell after 2020

B2747. Sound output

B2748. Don’t seem quite right

B2750. Bar to open a door?

B2751. “Ain’t ___ Genius” (Jimmy Buffett song)

B2752. “Doesn’t that strike you ___?”

B2753. End of Waiting for Godot

B2754. Kind of request to count “That’s classified”

B2755. Sala holder

B2756. Move briskly

B2758. Fixes the grout, maybe

B2760. Shrouds

B2761. Marketers’ trade journal

B2762. Prattles pettily

B2764. Three’s Company couple

B2766. Promotions may require them, for short

B2767. Runner’s start and finish?

B2768. A la ___: piecemeal

B2769. Onetime New York mayor Abe

B2770. Hotel maids leave them behind

B2771. Moravian capital

B2772. Mobile Electronics giant

B2775. Something to settle

B2776. Almost unremarkably

B2777. Much-covered Marley tune

B2780. Browning piece

B2782. Propaganda, in CIA-speak

B2784. One on drugs

B2787. Religious image (var.)

B2788. Spitefully sourest

B2790. “The ___ of Venice”

B2792. “Yo!” follower, often

B2793. Bowlegged

B2794. 2000 Radiohead album

B2795. Spinal support

B2798. Spaniard’s nine

B2799. Theme binding a puzzle with marquee answers trade discount, half-serious, brazen it out, and Lake Manitou

B2800. Nellie who went around the world in 72 days

B2801. They start by learning customer needs

B2803. Ballroom dance

B2804. Shakes a leg

B2805. Lwaxana of multiple Star Trek series

B2806. A Jewish boy walks into a bar ____. A man walks out.

B2809. A guy walks out of a bar and into a car, drives into another bar…and soon ends up ___ bars

B2810. A guy clicks onto a ___ bar and orders beer online from home, because coronavirus

B2812. A guy walks through a set of bar ___until he ends up taking a fatal plunge off a skyscraper labeled “87%.”

B2813. A guy walks into the ___ Bars, and completely ignores it because, y’know, it’s not like it’s THAT “Confederate flag”

B2816. Sister Mary walked into the bar and everyone cheered. Of all its patrons, she was the most popular…bar ___.

B2817. Hibernation station

B2818. English weight

B2819. Roman 2010

B2820. A Fantasia 2000 format

B2822. The Bachelor scenes

B2823. Poem with a punch line

B2827. Some are radioactive

B2828. Make a counterattack

B2830. Charcoal chunk

B2832. From tip ___

B2833. Bubbles, as with rage

B2834. Avon calling?

B2835. Salivate

B2836. Armistice

B2839. Steiger’s Jesus of Nazareth role

B2842. “Joanne” singer who went on a “Dive Bar Tour”

B2844. Make big bucks

B2845. Analogy bit

B2848. Ovine’s overseer

B2849. Aperitif made with creme de cassis and white wine

B2850. Recreation center posting

B2851. Donald Duck’s declamation of delight

B2853. Jaegers in Pacific Rim, e.g.

B2854. “We gotta make it happen, y’all”

B2855. Site of a 1797 Napoleon victory

B2856. Cravensworth of What We Do in the Shadows

B2857. Lead-in for whiz or whillikers

B2858. Radiuses’ counterparts

B2859. Last place you walk to alone, one might say

B2860. They can change fast due to poor diet

B2861. Libidinous

B2862. Lead-in to some bar hookups

B2863. Post ___ (annual puzzle competition run by the Washington Post)

B2864. Clinton legal appointee

B2865. Request for seconds

B2866. Storm wind

B2867. “The one who will bring balance to the Force”

B2868. US communication system

B2869. Queen’s “Who ___ You?”

B2870. Shoot an air ball, say

B2871. Runs around the track

B2873. Some former race horses

B2874. “Come in and ___ spell”

B2875. Rocket repeller (abbr.)

B2876. Single performances

B2877. Dock boxes

B2878. Fictional opening?

B2879. Cats monogram

B2880. Here I thought this was a suffix with “ant,” considering what’s on their heads, but that etymology’s totally wrong, so call this an Italian city with the Rock of Ceres

B2883. Robert Louis Stevenson, e.g.

B2886. Fill-in, for short

B2887. “You go…”

B2888. Mireille of The Lie, The Catch, and The Killing

B2889. People movers

B2890. Mardi Gras souvenir

B2891. Hugo huge in fashion

B2892. Land in a musical

B2893. The newspaper columnists, rather than going into the main pub, prefer the…

B2895. “Juicy” and “Hypnotize” singer

B2896. Skipped nothing

B2897. Drink in

B2900. Some creepy-crawlies

B2901. USN top dog

B2902. Skid row denizen, stereotypically

B2904. “And has thou ___ the Jabberwock?”

B2905. Airs petty complaints

B2906. Plum throwaway

B2907. Pious frauds

B2909. Rent-___ (purchasing option)

B2911. Serious pipe problem

B2913. Sight from space

B2915. Niche religions

B2916. Carries awkwardly

B2917. Rarely seen swing

B2918. Biblical people

B2919. They feed on their home organisms

B2923. Secretly sent

B2924. Lionel Messi, to many fans

B2926. Pitches incredibly well against

B2928. Dragged on Facebook

B2929. Enjoy some inactivity

B2930. Tightens, perhaps

B2931. II x CCLVII

B2933. Monetary unit of Honduras

B2935. Consequence for failing a breathalyzer

B2936. Fertile Crescent locale

B2937. Guardian spirits of ancient Rome

B2938. Mean, lowdown sorts

B2939. Skedaddles

B2940. Lab animal

B2942. Popular snacks

B2947. Oscar Madison, for one

B2951. “Can you beat that?!”

B2956. What “V” means to a string player

B2961. Quite a tale

B2962. Yamahas or Kawasakis

B2963. Colatura’s big number

B2964. Ray who sold 1 billion burgers by 1963

B2966. “Top of the ___”

B2967. Martin Luther King’s seminary

B2968. “Cum grano ___”

B2969. Fictional defendant Boo

B2971. ___ kwon do (Korean karate)

B2972. “There you ___!”

B2973. ___ That Tune

B2975. Swedish port

B2979. Northwestern French department

B2980. Periphery

B2981. Point of land

B2982. Estee contemporary

B2983. Camilo José who wrote The Hive

B2984. “One ___ time, please”

B2985. 1991 Nicholson Baker book about his fascination with John Updike

B2986. Missy Elliot praised her and Salt

B2987. “___-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral”

B2988. City southeast of Bombay

B2989. “Sure, go ahead!”

B2990. “Ain’t that the berries!”

B2991. Place to sit and feel the highway wind in your hair

B2993. Large lunch sandwiches

B2995. Noah, Noah Jr., and Wallace of classic film

B2996. G.O.P. birthplace

B2997. Eyelid trouble

B2998. Lambing

B3000. Longest river in Pakistan

B3002. Take unfair advantage of

B3004. Views (usually as a suffix)

B3007. Put an end to

B3008. Setback

B3009. Other side

B3010. Flinch into a cringe

B3011. Group under a col.

B3012. Ornamental dress panel

B3013. “And more than we have space to cite”

B3014. New wave band Jules & the ___ Bears

B3015. My brother in his devout adolescence, for one

B3017. Stories passed on through the ages

B3018. Athlete’s entourage

B3019. Mon Oncle star Jacques

B3020. Sink like Prospero’s boat?

B3021. Portable boat

B3022. Little-bitty (var.)

B3023. Plane’s “odometer”

B3024. Dark purplish brown

B3026. Take-___ (accompaniers)

B3027. Boxes on a calendar

B3028. ___ out: gives up the ship

B3029. Akkadian god of kings

B3030. Two chemists walk into a bar. One says, “Give me an H2O” and gets water. The other accidentally gets poisoned because they said…

B3033. A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar, and the bartender says…

B3038. An interior designer, a gardener, an activist, a writer, a flight attendant, a party planner, and my mother walk into a bar…

B3042. A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says…

B3045. See B3038-Across. Then the horse says…

B3051. Powdered soap good for greasy hands

B3053. “And the…” to Alois

B3054. Fratty fella

B3056. Certain tighty-whities

B3057. Vegetable rich in calcium and vitamin K

B3058. Oyster hues

B3059. Zeus turned her into stone

B3061. Minion of Attila

B3062. Removed the rind

B3063. Some intro-level educators at a univ.

B3064. Debtors’ slips

B3065. ___ by (barely defeated)

B3066. Sharp pang

B3067. Secure with ropes

B3068. It’s often found near ancient “art”

B3069. Jerome Powell’s concern (abbr.)

B3070. Cooling system item, for short

B3072. Luau staple

B3073. Gal’s date, often

B3074. Takes on

B3075. Airer of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk

B3076. Biblical valley

B3077. Out for coffee, say

B3079. Roth or Rice

B3080. Time-capsule ceremonies

B3081. Shmoopsy-poo

B3082. 7th-cent. political powerhouse

B3083. 1957 hit by The Bobbettes

B3084. Trollope’s Phineas

B3085. Finds a purpose for

B3087. Make less intense, or something that may make you less intense

B3088. Kind of pride?

B3089. Sure to vote down

B3090. Early 10th-century year

B3091. Floats for fallen Vikings

B3092. Brawn without much brain

B3093. Spector in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and state prison)

B3094. Fix up, as a paper

B3095. Hindu priestess of opera

B3096. Cleaned, in a way

B3099. Jumble behind a computer desk

B3100. Actresses Rapp and Olstead

B3101. Did housework

B3102. Warmth rating for sleepwear

B3103. Seek patterns in numbers

B3105. Catholicism, cutely

B3106. Horse that’s seen better days

B3109. Visited tourist places

B3111. A melon grows on one

B3112. J.Lo’s ex-fiancé

B3113. Toga party hosts

B3114. Searches everywhere in, with no regard for cleanliness

B3116. Desert Storm dinners, for short

B3117. Western scenery

B3118. McEnroe rival

B3119. Elegy, e.g.

B3120. What was really to blame for Jack’s death in Titanic

B3121. “Lady” of 1932 song and 1945 film

B3122. Where the Lumieres invented their movie camera

B3123. Prankster

B3124. Hotties (male, female, or other)

B3125. Directory name

B3126. Went “ting”

B3127. The Millionairess star

B3129. HBO’s Game of ___

B3130. “Lord, give me ___”

B3131. ___ Locks (Great Lakes canals)

B3132. Words before shoestring or diet

B3133. Candy bar filling

B3134. Trilled, e.g.

B3135. Protest violently en masse

B3136. Alternative to purchase

B3137. Team Namath once led

B3138. Kind of Sep. sale

B3139. The Big Sleep genre

B3140. “Same speaker as before” script note

B3141. Joji Fukunaga who directed No Time to Die

B3142. “Shirt Front and Fork” and “Enak’s Tears (Terrestrial Forms)”

B3143. Weighted cord

B3144. Mud cyclist

B3145. Prepare to hit the road, perhaps

B3147. Straightened, as bookshelves

B3148. About 1.8 meters

B3149. More matter-of-fact

B3150. Make percussive mouth sounds

B3152. Sgt. Alternative

B3153. “The father of modern linguistics”

B3156. Niblet

B3157. February 21, 2021 or February 22, 2022

B3158. Young bucks

B3159. Hodgepodge

B3160. Krusty inspiration

B3161. Coke or booze

B3162. Fashion faux pas addressed by Spanx

B3164. Ask for proof of age

B3165. “___ like to live dangerously” (meme phrase)

B3166. Tries to take home

B3167. Puts one’s stamp on something

B3168. Purchase power

B3169. Migrated upstream, as salmon

B3170. Use a lever, in London

B3171. Musical matchmaker

B3172. Practically, or maybe actually, hissing

B3174. Pit-stop place

B3175. Does some closeups

B3177. Dismissive exclamation

B3180. Be happy with, like a hippie

B3182. Andric, 1961 Nobelist in Literature

B3183. High school subject

B3185. Hot ones can cause trouble

B3186. World Cup body

B3187. Inverted V

B3188. Day for a ser.

B3189. Third ___ (power source)

B3191. Spanish “Miss” (abbr.)

B3192. Counts (on)

B3193. Sometimes-mean word lovingly portmanteau’d with “adorable”

B3194. Coast Guardspeople at E-7

B3195. Some businesses; abbr.

B3196. 1955 Oscar-winning film

B3197. Allocate

B3198. “___ who?”

B3199. Moneyball protagonist

B3200. Frobe of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

B3201. Frequency ranges staked out in the 1920s

B3203. ___ World

B3206. They’re hard to sit for

B3208. iPods that record video

B3210. Grass bristle

B3211. Strong brews

B3213. “…than for ___ man to enter into the kingdom of God”

B3214. Bowling apparatus

B3215. Soap containing ground pumice

B3216. Family jewels, in juvenile slang

B3217. One small step

B3218. Gymnastics school supply

B3219. Land on the Ho Chi Minh Trail

B3220. Casts shadows of the future

B3221. Tuna sandwich type

B3222. False show

B3223. Mates to Macron

B3224. Erie and Huron, for example

B3225. Scouring pad brand

B3226. Cheers co-star’s first name

B3228. Forrest Gump’s boat…or girlfriend

B3229. Letters indicating a sellout

B3230. Whitman’s poem about the oversoul of all life

B3232. Old-timey travel guides

B3235. Plane flights and car rides

B3237. Office document

B3238. Translate, in a way

B3240. Preakness-winning jockey Nelson

B3241. Character who underwent a “metamorphosis”

B3242. Cannes tender

B3243. “___ you lost your mind?”

B3244. Not completely white anymore

B3245. Harbor boat

B3246. “Father of English History,” or Porky Pig stutter sound

B3247. Pair of pants?

B3248. Highchair features

B3249. Good source of protein

B3250. Wide-eyed

B3251. Atkinson onscreen

B3252. Rage Comics, Troll Face, and the like

B3253. Pompous, dull, and erudite

B3255. Wallet contents

B3256. Not mass-produced

B3258. Cinderella’s stepsisters, e.g.

B3260. The Almighty, in Acapulco

B3262. Word after Vanilla or Chocolate, at Dunkin’ Donuts

B3264. One drawn by Hayao Miyazaki

B3265. Valentine’s text, perhaps

B3266. Least besmirched

B3268. A guy walks into a bar, and immediately loses…

B3270. The past, present, and future walk into a bar…

B3272. A neutron walks into a bar and orders a drink. Bartender serves the neutron and it asks, “How much?” Bartender says, “For you…

B3274. Bartender looks over at Descartes and asks, “You want a drink?” Descartes says, “I think not” and…

B3276. Cowboy lion walks into a saloon and drawls, “I’m lookin’ for the man who…

B3278. Two vampires walk into a bar, and each orders a pint of plasma. Bartender says, “So that’s two…

B3280. Two guys are in a bar on top of a skyscraper. One says, “You know, there’s such an updraft here that I could jump off the balcony and it’d carry me back to the top.” Second guy says, “Aw, shut up, you’re drunk.” So the first guy goes out and jumps. He falls for a bit, then falls slower, then sort of hovers, then rises until he’s up to the top. Soon as he gets there, the second guy says, “I’ve GOT to try this,” and jumps too. He falls straight down to his death. Bartender looks up to the first guy and says, “You’re really nasty when you’re drunk, …

B3281. A rough-looking piece of string walks into a bar. Bartender offers him a drink, but he says…

B3283. Silver lining

B3286. “Don’t move a muzzle!”

B3288. Mary Stuart’s realm

B3290. “Against All Odds (Take a Look ___ Now)” (Phil Collins)

B3291. Comedian Chase

B3292. Pee problem, more seriously

B3293. RPG directors

B3294. Fast fliers

B3295. Mexican-American character actor Danny

B3296. Eliminates a debt

B3297. Doughboys’ successors

B3298. Margins on minis

B3299. Like the fur seal

B3300. Source of some carbs

B3301. Where some owls stay

B3302. Actor Scott of Hawaii Five-0

B3303. Really primitive building material

B3304. “So quiet…haven’t heard ___”

B3306. Freebaser’s high

B3307. Former GM line

B3308. Free to do stuff

B3309. Time trials winner at Indy

B3311. Is the lead in a movie

B3313. ___-sided (tall and slender)

B3315. Makes strong

B3316. Unsupported, in a way

B3318. L’s four followers

B3319. Westminster, e.g.

B3322. Take ___: spring back from an impact

B3323. Italian fashion label

B3324. Anjou’s kin

B3325. Heavy cup

B3326. Honorific in a pizza chain name (not “Caesar”)

B3327. Perfume root

B3328. Spectra 70 computers

B3329. Young animals of various species

B3330. ___ as (for example)

B3331. Shelter fan

B3333. Where Shelley was educated

B3335. Made taunting remarks

B3337. Online pop-up tailored to individual tastes

B3340. Rainwater pipe

B3342. Some fight outcomes

B3344. John McCain, for one

B3345. Commands from governing authorities

B3346. Chilean export to Britain

B3347. Spanish parlor

B3348. Campus VIP

B3349. Ex-___ (has-stars) (waaaiiit…other way around)

B3350. Kind of service that isn’t good for much

B3351. A real hip dance

B3353. In ___

B3354. Campfire fun

B3355. Wide shoes

B3356. Singer Elliot

B3357. Sworn promise

B3358. Oval Office honcho, acronymically

B3359. First baby picture, perhaps

B3361. Ran like a bat out of hell

B3362. Symbol of longevity

B3366. EA creations who looked horrifyingly uncanny-valley in their fourth appearance

B3368. Does some cobbling

B3370. Wash or short follower

B3372. Succumb to fatigue

B3373. Cold-weather jacket

B3374. Table part

B3375. WWE Hall of Famer Hart

B3376. Kill, as a bill

B3377. Spanish hearts

B3378. Sue Grafton’s ___ for Alibi

B3379. Cardamom or caraway, e.g.

B3380. Use untrue attack ads or bring a gun to a knife fight

B3382. Instruction book item

B3383. “Don’t worry, this time will ___ different”

B3384. “All I ___ Of You” (song from The Phantom of the Opera)

B3385. Comics’ version of the Oscar

B3387. “Most likely to succeed” yearbook subject, often

B3388. When needed

B3390. Purveyors

B3393. Telepath’s lengthier suffix

B3395. Hammock rests

B3397. Bulworth star

B3399. Inkatha supporter

B3401. Prefix for meter or tribe

B3402. Jain soul

B3403. Poll worker’s request

B3404. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender says, “You folks all want a drink?” and…

B3415. With B3413-Across…Caesar walks into a bar, says “martini,” and shows the bartender two fingers. The bartender gives him two martinis, and he says, “I ordered…

B3417. Continued from B3411-Across

B3418. High-risk moneymaking venture?

B3421. Where le president presides

B3423. Rhys who wrote

B3425. It’ll tell you where to go

B3427. Epigone

B3429. The Last Dance producer

B3430. Explorer Verrazzano

B3431. Spidey’s tentacled sparring partner

B3432. He addressed his sitcom audience as “America”

B3433. Litter littlest

B3434. The Pawnbroker director

B3435. “All She Wants to ___ Dance”

B3436. Most disproportionate

B3437. Just a bit

B3438. Tuscany rental

B3439. Head of cabbage?

B3440. Parts of the hip

B3441. “Hey, over here!” interjections

B3442. Cuban crop

B3445. Above or below preceder

B3447. Big Apple-boosting bags

B3449. Like Nash’s llama vis-a-vis lama

B3451. Thick novels

B3453. Wienerschnitzel staple

B3454. “Me me me me me” type

B3456. Rowlands of The Notebook and Gloria

B3457. Olsen or Judd

B3458. Exclamation of surprise

B3459. Mil. decorations

B3460. Unlisted on Wall St.

B3461. Ardent supporter

B3462. Stubborn ___ mule

B3463. Wine name with six exclamation points

B3464. Breakout role for George Clooney on ER

B3465. “___ In” (McCartney tune)

B3466. Go ashore

B3467. General of takeout

B3468. Like a projectile

B3471. Celebs often share a hot one

B3473. Site of a miracle in Exodus

B3475. Ex-froshes

B3477. Shut the eyes of

B3479. Seller of chew toys

B3481. Mark of infamy

B3485. Garland’s daughter

B3488. Film noir headwear

B3490. Bluegrass State sch.

B3491. “My ___ Best Friend” (Machine Gun Kelly)

B3493. Spanish queen and Disney deer

B3495. ___ Tamid (ever-burning synagogue lamp)

B3497. President between Harry and Jack

B3499. French ocean

B3500. 1914 or 1939 headline

B3501. USN officers

B3504. Local voice in national gov

B3506. Iowa State University home

B3508. Brawl in the sticks

B3510. Born to be wild?

B3512. “Stop,” for one

B3514. Flyers with forked tails

B3516. Yield to kleptomania

B3517. Latin deep down?

B3518. “I really didn’t need to hear that!”

B3520. Superhero actor whose later films make fun of his earlier ones

B3527. Chokes

B3535. 7, for Alice

B3536. Pranks

B3542. “Great show!” in headlines

B3548. Without a gentle or sweet tone

B3552. Téa Leoni political drama

B3560. Vintage lounger

B3561. Film cause celebre Willy, for one

B3565. Scandinavian royal

B3567. Agree to less than you really want

B3569. Fodder storage units

B3571. “Take ___, you deserve it after that show!”

B3573. Cowardly politician who went from opposing Trump’s presidential run to licking his boots—right, not specific enough. His first name is Marco

B3575. Seashore fliers (var.)

B3576. “Who is ___? Why is he getting my money?” (Rachel Green, disappointed in her first paycheck)

B3577. In synergy with one another

B3580. Kicks lightly

B3581. Folding words

B3582. Mineral that filters impurities

B3583. Pediatrician?

B3585. Scores high on an assignment

B3586. Assistants in scrubs

B3587. Lubricating membrane

B3588. Misbehavior

B3590. Up till

B3593. Invisible but omnipresent

B3595. Brazilian

B3598. Tentative agreement pending further data

B3601. Class with phyla

B3602. Reply to “Why would you make such a crazy romantic gesture?” that leads into a proposal

B3605. Touches on some sore subject

B3607. “Now. Now!”

B3610. “Parsley/Is gharsley” poet

B3612. Gene-spliced porker

B3614. Pulls even

B3616. Truth teller’s protestation

B3618. Dish-drying cloths

B3620. “The Joke” singer Carlile

B3622. Crocus, for one

B3623. Rose count, perhaps

B3625. Seemingly everywhere

B3627. First fill-in on some IRS forms

B3629. Cognition

B3630. Slyly suggests

B3631. “Live Free or Die,” e.g.

B3632. Rejects

B3633. Snoop Dogg role in animated “family” film

B3634. Sauerbraten, essentially

B3635. Undulation

B3636. British baking pans

B3637. Pilgrims leave them

B3638. Silverstone of Clueless

B3639. Would-be successor app to Vine

B3640. Company announcement

B3641. About to give up

B3642. Incenses

B3643. Brief bad mood

B3644. “…___ a man who wasn’t there…”

B3645. It was also technically a coronavirus

B3646. Opposed to (abbr.)

B3647. Nation with a common enemy, in wartime

B3648. “Is your,” in Iberia

B3649. Utopia, literally

B3650. Baby’s poo-poo package

B3651. Dust devil, e.g.

B3652. No walk in the park

B3653. Frodo’s franchise, for short

B3654. Big workday for Saint Nick

B3655. Swampland

Down

B1. Midback band

B2. Absorption of a secreted substance by the cell that originally produced and secreted it

B3. Soprano partner

B4. Existentialist of note

B5. Valerie Plame, e.g.

B6. Tricolor mountain dog

B7. “Caught ya with your hands in the cookie jar!”

B8. Violin precursors

B9. Green Nader

B10. First section of a tome

B11. “Ev’ry night before ___ my head / see those dollar bills…” (Patti Smith lyric)

B12. 1959 Kingston Trio tune

B13. Elbowed, perhaps

B14. Through the Looking-___, and What Alice Found There

B15. Network of the Braves

B16. Sounds like sonar

B17. Clown employer

B18. Fields of Hollywood

B19. Not settled, as battles

B20. Homeward follower

B21. Wall St. term

B22. Lith. and Lat., once

B23. Judge in The People vs. O.J. Simpson

B24. ___ World (animated series)

B25. ___ for the mill

B26. Glider setting

B27. Boston campus, for short

B28. Gradually diminishing, in mus.

B29. Far from adroit

B30. Controversial TV host Bill

B31. Unwavering look

B32. While indicating one’s regrets

B33. Film technique used extensively for Gollum

B34. Was an enthusiastic audience for

B35. The Wreck of the Mary ___ (1959 Cooper-Heston film)

B36. Half-bottles

B37. Greet wordlessly

B38. Largest grocery chain after Kroger, acronymed

B39. What the B stands for, in hip-hop

B40. DuPont brand

B41. Cox of Deliverance

B42. Excited expressions

B43. Label Panic! At The Disco rejects

B44. Like many a penthouse

B45. Gymnast Raisman

B46. Some basement features

B47. Lip-curling faces

B48. Computer graphics-file format

B49. Strand at a ski resort

B50. Mormon, briefly

B51. Started a hole

B52. Underworld figures

B53. Moisturizer additives

B54. “___ that happen?”

B55. Snake used in merciful executions

B57. What the B stood for, briefly, in 2018 restaurants

B58. Valet-parking tips

B59. Ammo for a weapon not considered a firearm unless you use it in a crime

B60. Khaki and coffee

B61. Beers that lumberjacks like the sound of?

B62. First name in comedy and conga lines

B63. Busy device at a con

B64. Stamen’s counterpart

B65. Fruit with a core

B66. Ancient city in present-day Syria

B67. Investment bank casualty of the 2008 financial crisis

B68. Why rye may die

B69. Mailing payment

B70. “Power suit” designer Taylor

B71. Former capital in China

B72. Handle on a Roman vase

B73. “Bird thou never ___” (Shelley)

B74. “Father of” in Arabic names

B75. Alison with 27 Grammys

B76. Vocal woe

B77. Pathways to the WWW

B78. County in Nebraska named for a well-known tribe

B79. Far-ranging chats

B80. Where Jack lives

B81. Like a room with no ceiling

B82. “I was not” and “He is, yes,” e.g.

B83. “…and a partridge in ___ tree”

B84. What the ₿ stands for

B85. “That sorta thing”

B87. Pt. of the theory of special relativity’s equation

B88. Zilch in some scores

B89. Alma mater for Gregory Peck and Raquel Welch

B90. Clear ___: move out of the way

B91. Jaedon of basketball

B92. Clothes colorer that sometimes works better with vinegar

B93. Polastri who tracks the killer Villanelle in Killing ___

B94. Japanese answer to paddleball

B95. Bad weather, in TV forecast shorthand

B97. Feather-legged fowls with divine names

B98. Out-of-body

B99. Name of three sultans

B100. Text message status

B101. Food pitched by a Chihuahua

B102. Tar, in Tijuana

B103. Khan IV who called pluralism “vital to our existence”

B104. Inalterable interest

B105. C₂H₆

B106. Precious personal info

B107. Muddies

B108. 1933 scream queen

B109. Unhatched platypus

B110. What the B stands for, in this section

B111. Poked along

B113. Care or risk follower

B114. “I’ll see you in the parking lot!”

B115. Hooligans

B126. Article for Nietzsche

B130. Campers’ items

B131. Slight, say

B133. Fall time

B135. That senorita

B137. Five-star

B139. Perfect introduction?

B146. Group with a common cause

B148. Home to most NHL teams

B150. Sam Adams brew

B152. Degrees of some CEOs

B156. City area

B158. Dramatic boxing results, briefly

B166. ___ school

B168. Mythical man of brass

B170. D. counterparts

B171. Handed back across the border to jail

B173. Island with colorful wooden churches

B174. Ball attire

B176. South African reds, say

B177. Rubs out, in mob slang

B179. Chevron or BP

B181. “Okay, listen up” and “Let’s bring it down a notch,” e.g.

B182. Killed, in a way

B184. Wings and nachos, stereotypically

B187. Minimal meal

B192. Toppiece

B193. Dental-floss brand

B194. “This performance displeases me!”

B195. Word for a TV Ranger

B196. Beat, in a way

B197. Cena video-game-to-film role announced at this writing

B198. Abba of Israeli diplomacy

B201. Long-snouted fish

B202. Pvts.’ bosses

B203. Sugary snack, or laugh from a famous sugary snack-lover

B204. Agency exec.

B205. Puts away, in a way

B206. Vacation in a Winnebago, say

B207. Environment some life’s adapted for

B208. Mountain whose name in Greek means “I burn”

B209. Director/NYU professor

B211. Feature of lasagna and hair

B212. Very quick, in brand names

B213. Prefix in stop sign shapes

B214. Certain aircraft

B215. Bonus round letters read by Sajak

B216. Summer refreshers

B217. Rap-battle attack

B218. Starts getting oneself tipsy

B219. Unpaired

B220. Deck-swabbers

B221. Stove attachment

B222. Scarlett’s third

B223. Mickey Rooney’s original surname

B225. Non-native Hawaiian, to Hawaiians

B226. Coffee-shop containers

B227. You, to Kraftwerk

B228. Make a difference in

B229. Charms

B231. Asian deer that could’ve been a theme entry in this section, but we decided it wasn’t “A” material

B232. Stable dads

B233. Fluxus artist Ono

B234. Hubby’s partner (with “the”)

B235. Soccer’s Sergio

B236. Probably metropolitan bishopric

B237. Some Finnish cell phones

B238. Barely functional, as a product

B239. First sci-fi author to break into the mainstream magazines

B240. Charity recipients

B242. Payout to stakeholders, for short

B243. “___ Lady,” T. N. Page short story

B244. Opposite of “amo”

B245. Patriotic men’s org.

B246. Next to worthless

B247. Debating two options, say

B248. Rollable hay

B249. Kasem of radio and voice of Shaggy

B250. Early mainframe maker

B252. Russian sable is the most expensive kind

B256. “Yuk! Blech!” cries

B258. Equip’d

B259. Forbes alternative

B261. Agreements on a brae

B262. Sappho’s birthplace

B265. Acts the blowhard

B266. Auscultative sound

B267. Brahms’s “Scherzo ___ Flat Minor”

B268. “When you’re number two, you try harder,” e.g.

B270. ___ mater (membrane)

B271. Onetime school subj.

B272. “Of course!,” in Côte d’Ivoire

B273. Freshening-up area, for some

B274. Quite light wood

B275. Disturbances of the peace

B276. Not obligated (to)

B277. Rump lumps

B279. Noble title

B281. Huzzahs for toreros

B282. A king of Crete

B283. Likely to give orders

B284. Used as a kitchen table

B286. Terre Haute coll.

B287. Festivities at work, often

B288. Wagon-wheel part

B289. Singer Saint or dwarf II Ironfoot

B290. Fireside yarn

B291. Altar in the sky

B292. Kind of pulse or band

B294. António Macedo Lopes ComM and Citadin Martins of international soccer

B295. Male lions have them

B296. Desirable to the army

B297. Narc’s find, for short

B299. Tiktoker Addison

B300. Track of a cat

B301. Mythical serial killer

B302. Washing-up pot

B303. Beer drinkers’ protuberances

B304. “Crooks at large!”

B305. 19th letter, to some

B306. TV watcher’s convenience

B315. It’s shaped like a trident

B316. Popup presenting a problem

B317. Place for a shite

B318. Elder (abbr.)

B320. Impatient person’s question

B322. The president’s mil. title

B323. Do a pub crawl

B324. “Married lady” in a “Funny Girl” song

B325. Takes a glance at

B329. Veggie burger brand

B332. Ice holder

B333. Worms’ tin

B336. Milk Dud rival

B337. ___ fun

B339. Coming-of-age comedy in which Matthew McConaughey says “Alright, alright, alright”

B340. Showy yellow insects

B342. Lacking compassion

B345. Late prime-time time

B346. Bulldog

B347. Stitch over

B349. Cap part

B350. Start of the 14th century

B351. Sore loser

B352. First graders, e.g.

B353. “Drivers Wanted” banner, e.g.

B355. Figure one may as well

B357. Clay building material

B359. “If you’re asking someone for money, wear ___” (Anon.)

B360. Biker’s slang term for a car

B361. Baku citizen

B363. Fetched

B364. Blood groups

B365. Everly Brothers tune

B366. Disadvantages

B368. 1965 Andy Williams hit with some passive-aggressive lyrics

B369. Rapper who died in 1996 and is “bigger in death than life,” per Reuters

B370. Worthless thing, in slang

B371. Incapacitation of a sort, for short

B372. He excommunicated Elizabeth

B373. Knight of the road

B374. It’s like if your horoscope were also a card trick

B376. Korra’s girlfriend

B377. Title for Criston Cole

B379. Pilothouse abbr.

B380. College tennis tourney champ, e.g.

B381. Punish by whipping

B382. Balls in Barcelona

B384. Piece of garlic

B385. Arch ending

B388. Helps out at a murder scene?

B389. Gets out of Dodge

B391. Hoosier city

B392. Back when things made sense, you know?

B393. Narrow land strip (abbr.)

B394. “Suppose they gave ___ and nobody came?”

B395. “___ so near…” ((Job 41:16)

B396. Rock guitarist born David Evans

B398. Bit of fancy finish?

B400. Analyze grammatically

B401. Much more than a snicker

B403. Predatory females of myth

B404. Robs of courage, in an old and slightly chauvinistic term

B405. Texting ta-ta

B407. Vans’ opposites

B408. Somewhat Mason-like gp.

B409. Mint product

B411. Outlying zones, for short

B412. “What ___ good for?”

B413. Comic Wyatt once of The Daily Show

B414. Home of espresso

B416. Source of heart-tugging ads showing loving big-eyed furballs

B418. English war god with a day named after him

B419. Card table call

B420. Serenity now

B421. Strengthen, as muscles

B422. Sound from a piggery

B423. Foreword (abbr.)

B425. Stop following, for short

B426. Be encumbered

B427. Needing assembly, for short

B428. Pinch in the nose

B429. What many people tie every day

B430. Suffixes found in Middle English

B431. Blows it

B432. ___ blue

B433. Short-tailed lemurs

B436. Wide-scale narrow escape

B437. Called back?

B439. Handholding, e.g., briefly

B440. “Where’s the lie?”

B441. Request for a Super Bowl host

B444. Casey’s turn

B445. Apple with a Force Touch trackpad

B446. Acidic

B447. Challenges for future counsel, in brief

B449. Bovine shelter

B450. Polite direction to readers (abbr.)

B452. Case for a vet

B454. Salonika cheese

B455. Some things between you and the sea

B456. “Lengua neolatina”

B458. “Go ahead, don’t mind me”

B459. Finish up at (a certain hour)

B460. What used to be called “Japanimation”

B461. It’s a mixed bag for hikers

B463. FBI guys, e.g.

B464. Tuna sandwich choice

B465. Gets turned around?

B466. Small bits

B467. “Uh-uh, lassie!”

B469. Selling points?

B470. “Whatever Gets You ___ the Night” (Lennon song)

B474. Induct into a Facebook group

B477. Scoobert’s surname

B478. More ragged

B479. Little folks

B480. Menswear houses

B481. Traditionally, children make and sell them

B482. They thrive on getting orders

B483. Evans or Hemsworth of onscreen Avenging

B484. Snatch up

B485. “For never was a story of more ___”

B486. I Don’t Know’s base

B487. Quick signatures, quickly

B488. Like a curious bird’s head

B489. Supportive shout

B490. Feature of many NYC addresses

B491. Bunch with titles

B493. Violent pangs

B494. Words with “a gun” or “Flubber”

B496. Bird with a song

B497. “Don’t go…back in a minute”

B498. Retweeter or plugger

B500. Buddha’s caste

B502. TV series showing the Rebellion’s beginnings

B503. Certain centers for youths.

B504. Williams of GoT

B508. Tom Clancy character

B513. Drudgery

B516. “___ up, Wesley!”

B519. River measure

B520. ___ Avenue: New Yorkese term

B521. Drum site

B523. Trunk attachments

B524. Cheese with Chablis

B526. Condiment once kept in the cellar

B528. Element 7, 8, or 10

B530. Color in four-color printing

B532. Metric ___

B534. Extravagant publicity

B536. “In Thy name we pray”

B537. Aaron’s alternative

B538. Novel add-on

B539. On the ___ (at the exact time)

B540. At right angles to a ship

B541. Hibernation zones

B542. Glacier pinnacle

B543. Pronoun after a preposition

B544. Storage Wars station

B545. Basic role-playing guides

B546. Gusts in Grenada

B549. In a quest for the truth

B550. Popular invasion target, in sci-fi

B552. “Pretty as ___”

B553. Become a vesicle

B555. First-year cadet

B559. New York Magazine and some academic journals

B561. “…___ I’m told”

B562. Immerse, as your head in your hands

B563. Sci. leader

B564. Big in Bordeaux

B565. They’re signified by ∧, ∨, and ¬

B566. Noted “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” singer

B568. Top 10 Mocedades hit

B569. Intranational conflict

B570. Bugbear

B571. Candy packaged in pairs

B572. Stops by

B573. Cartoon as innocent, say

B574. Worth prioritizing

B575. Prefix with byte

B576. St. that replaced the New Sweden settlement

B577. Gwen of “The Voice”

B580. 4chan feline, once

B581. Odds of rolling a perfect square on a standard die

B582. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay, notably

B583. Stumptown airer

B584. Repentance

B585. Wasn’t right

B587. “Bali ___”

B589. Checks out

B591. Neiman Marcus purchase

B592. Eclectic techno musician

B593. Incentive to buy the album reissue

B594. Nuthin’

B595. Suffix with abolition and absolution

B596. Principal Joe Clark’s accessory

B597. Big or full follower

B598. Quietly torment

B599. It’s fully lit on the eighth night of Hanukkah

B600. Commercial conveyance

B601. Secure, as a line

B602. Fred and Daphne’s pal

B603. Harming, as cities or crops

B604. Bug bombs’ output

B606. Showy walk

B608. Form 1040 figure

B611. Capital facing a water crisis

B613. Shell alternative

B614. Long Jacuzzi sesh

B616. Flying without ___

B617. What starts things going wrong in Romeo and Juliet

B619. Highland refusals

B620. Buskins or hessians

B621. Lack of musical taste

B623. Princeton supporters

B625. Like red Spanish wine

B626. To a person

B628. “Is it esto ___?” (Spanish 101 query)

B629. Level-ish entrance to a mine

B630. Spencer who raps, “There Was Plenty Time Before Us”

B631. UMD athletes

B632. Wonderbra’s parent company

B634. “Props!”

B637. Odyssey fruit

B640. “It’s ___ Quiet” (Bjork hit)

B641. A written one can help a job search

B642. African weight

B643. What a tough puzzle can give you

B644. Migratory marsh birds

B645. Loki’s sister, in the movies

B646. 3M kitchen brand

B647. Conductor Zubin

B648. Strike thrice

B649. “Kissers” for Inuit and other cultures

B650. Beast rosters of different eras

B651. Florida’s is moonstone

B652. Out-of-the-way place

B653. Doing, so to speak

B655. Spheres with string fuses, in the cartoons

B657. Elvis did this

B661. Doorstop shape

B664. Young yak

B665. Rote of football fame

B666. Hurlyburly author David

B668. Clothe oneself in for the purpose of

B669. Golden Treasury pieces

B671. Bingo number or old monoplane

B672. Article of clothing fastened below the instep

B673. “JDI”

B674. Pantene rival

B675. Time to start taking steps?

B676. Sits up for

B677. Porcelain piece

B678. “I need ___!” (emotionally vulnerable admission)

B679. J. Lo-Pitbull body-positive tune

B680. Cholesterol or constipation controllers, compactly

B684. Robert, longest-serving senator in history

B685. Marcus of film theaters

B686. Being considered

B687. Improved

B689. Docking ropes wrap around them

B690. Georgia governor Kemp

B691. No indication of a systematic problem

B692. Mechanical toil

B693. Lamb’s pen

B694. Leaf shapes used decoratively

B695. Actor George of MacGyver

B696. Gets really angry

B697. End of some e-mail addresses

B698. Sugary fruit drink

B700. GPS path

B701. Human rights gp.

B702. Top 40 personality Rick

B703. On the move

B704. The Nine or Ten Guys Who Secretly Run Everything, e.g.

B705. Children’s rooms

B706. Info on a baseball scoreboard

B707. Emulates Red Skelton

B708. Final line in most Epic Rap Battles of History videos, after “Who won? Who’s next?”

B710. World’s highest-paid actress in 2017

B711. Top-on-a-string pastime

B713. Flight from the law

B717. Anime/manga hero with weaponized hair…a little obscure, but come on, how could I not include his name here?

B719. Spread on the wind, as a scent

B728. No-frills

B731. Connery and Craig

B735. Org. with bathroom requirements

B738. Senator from Virginia

B740. Dyed brown, as a football

B741. Perfumed paper in a magazine, e.g.

B742. Hoover who hoovered up secrets

B744. Box score column

B745. Reel-to-reel ___

B746. Affectionate gestures

B748. In and out of la-la land

B749. Beanie or baseball cap

B755. Mixed vaccine, briefly

B756. Venerable retailer

B757. Radiohead’s “No ___”

B758. Nearly 25% of a marathon

B759. Isn’t buying it?

B760. Basically forever

B761. Vexation

B762. Small hand pump for laving

B766. Pigtail, e.g.

B768. Line item of corruption

B771. Foundations of earth

B773. Ibsen hero

B774. Music to a bluffer’s ears

B775. Tremor condition

B777. My writing deg., e.g.

B778. Green Earth goddess

B780. Professional farmers

B781. Whom the Swiss Guard guards

B782. Millennials, for short

B786. Make a straw mat

B788. Charge the gates of

B791. Reject pettiness, even when treated pettily

B792. Poison frontman Michaels

B793. Healthy breakfast

B794. “Deutschland über ___,” Haydn composition from when his nation wasn’t unified

B795. “Dude! You’re gettin’ a ___!”

B796. Thrown wraparound weapon

B797. Its Flash was a fixture of the early internet

B798. Fishing rod spool

B799. “I let the first two slide, but this is too much”

B800. Violating convention

B801. Moisture-deflecting

B802. Slap-slap-kiss kind of story (or character)

B803. Hogan alternative

B804. Follower of the captain’s orders

B805. Elicits eye-rolls from

B806. Sit like a lounge lizard

B807. Pitt of Babel

B808. Hall of Fame QB Graham

B809. Add to again, as a lead in points

B810. Way to order ham

B811. In a difficult situation

B812. Famous Roosevelt

B813. Back problem, often

B814. Succumb to pressure?

B815. Coach Parseghian

B816. Collectible with seeds

B817. Make fun of

B818. Awakened state

B819. Good thing to buy if you live near a superhero headquarters

B820. Their country is a peninsula

B821. Controversial additive

B823. They’re often discounted

B824. No. 1 in Bonn

B825. Shane or Sia (both are models and animal rights activists)

B826. Hulk and Troy star

B827. “What could ___ blame?”

B830. “___ the Other” (Paula Abdul song)

B833. Komodo dragon, e.g.

B834. Boiling indication

B837. Line of pants

B838. ___-daisy

B840. “Roasted” ice-cream flavor

B841. Some CTA trains

B849. Carol’s introductory lyric

B850. Kind of musical wonder

B851. City near Salt Lake City

B852. Tissue descriptor

B854. Stateside channel for many David Attenborough documentaries

B856. Janssen of Goldeneye

B857. Shower alternative

B858. Modest tavern

B859. Did crew work

B861. “Anything ___” (Cole Porter musical)

B863. Potterverse Alcatraz

B866. Put on record

B867. Celebrity chef Lakshmi

B868. Ziegfeld and Capp

B870. Came to rest on a branch

B871. Notorious bargainer of literature

B879. “Fine by me!”

B880. Study covering Southern accents and place names

B881. Entrance exam taken by Scott Turow

B883. Cooked (up)

B884. Scott in 1857 headlines

B885. Protozoa propellers

B886. Officer’s verb

B887. Ambitions

B889. Word from Old French for “servant”

B891. Norse god of frost

B892. Destroy from stem to roots

B893. Periods of great mental clarity

B894. Collected slowly

B895. Result of a computer crash

B898. Sequel of 2007

B899. “You’ll be the death ___!”

B900. Te-Ping who wrote Flying Machine

B901. [Bo-o-oring!]

B902. Some stereos

B907. Meddles

B908. Homophone for seed

B910. Shi’ites, e.g.

B912. Bighorn breeder

B913. C. G. Norris novel

B916. Income source in the retail business

B917. Talks a lot

B918. Cat’s fur

B919. Makes tiny adjustments to

B923. Splinter

B926. Miss out on a prize

B928. Farm call

B929. They’re monstrous

B931. Switch from suckling

B932. Right upstairs

B935. Styled with style

B936. Bulk paper purchase

B937. Many years ___

B943. Doughnut-shaped

B945. “Either they ___ must lower lie” (Henry IV Part 1)

B946. Honey bunch?

B947. Autoposters, e.g.

B948. Exciting experience, in slang

B949. Aberdeen maiden

B951. Ballad of the ___ Café

B954. Contests

B956. “Stop” in a skyline

B957. Skin care giant

B958. Set off

B961. School org. units

B963. 1986 rock autobiography

B964. Tommy Lee Jones’ predecessor on The Fugitive

B965. (In) place (of)

B966. Dixie school

B968. Worked on a sentence?

B969. Types that can affect susceptibility to diseases

B970. Pull in

B972. Action movie plot device

B973. Doorframe’s vertical part

B974. Erstwhile maker of small planes

B980. ___ Rae, Field film

B982. Sponges, as a cigarette

B983. Soap-infused steel wool in many a sink

B985. Ortho’s “Weed” follower

B986. Pres. advisory gp.

B987. What chargers run up

B990. Person waiting in ambush

B991. Exhort

B992. “Cool…cool cool cool”

B993. Namesakes on South Park and That 70s Show

B995. Blocky jungle creature

B999. Dental exam feature

B1001. Org. of sisters

B1003. Rose Bowl pts.

B1004. Long time between dates?

B1005. Word following open or rear

B1007. “To Autumn” poet

B1008. All in favor

B1009. Goes a-courtin’?

B1012. Keeper of a flame?

B1013. Like waves on a shore

B1014. Photographers, old-style

B1015. Nuremberg negative

B1016. Less even?

B1017. Counteraccusations

B1019. Traveler’s need, sometimes

B1022. Clunky clog

B1025. “I just don’t know why they’re shooting ___” (Hawkeye, M*A*S*H)

B1027. Stain or smudge

B1030. Without inhibition

B1031. “Prepared. For life” group unprepared for its 2020 bankruptcy

B1033. Like some olive oil

B1034. Hanger-on?

B1035. Law enforcement orgs.

B1036. Martinique et Guadeloupe

B1037. Local news time, maybe

B1039. Outspoken to a fault

B1041. Money-making requirement

B1042. With kid gloves

B1043. Force that was the first to hire a female officer

B1044. Making a farewell gesture?

B1047. Human side to World of Warcraft?

B1050. Hairstyles for Dr. J and the Jackson 5

B1051. UN employee

B1052. RCA product

B1053. Angel player Della

B1054. Extract viscous material from

B1055. Prizefighters

B1056. Say Anything actress Skye et al.

B1057. ___ via (king’s highway)

B1058. Part of a roast

B1060. The whole crew

B1061. Unbleached

B1063. Spoiler-averting contract

B1064. Going JAX or LAX concern

B1066. Halle Berry Marvel role

B1068. Had the semblance of

B1070. Post-shift status quo

B1073. Took to the pen

B1076. Greg Brady, Steve Holt, and Zack Morris on TV

B1077. Pitching ace-turned-sportscaster Jim

B1078. Wendy’s is square

B1079. Emperor tutored by Seneca

B1081. Lawn in rolls

B1083. Make up

B1085. Petroleum distillate

B1088. Many a saga

B1089. Predictable, as a stretch of the future

B1090. Samsung’s Siri

B1091. Play the temptress

B1094. It may say “Kiss the cook”

B1095. Harry’s romantic interest for a hot minute, but c’mon, it was always gonna be Hermione or Ginny

B1096. Dinghy propellent

B1100. Type of batteries, bonds, or baseball teams

B1101. 1939 epic, for short

B1102. Minute Maid Park, formerly ___ Field

B1103. Casual day letters

B1104. Showing some cheek

B1106. “___ remember what happened in September”

B1107. “___ the Unknown” (Panic! At The Disco/Elsa ballad)

B1108. Frequent targets of fan heckling

B1109. Rubio’s Coastal Grill rival

B1112. Sound of fire?

B1114. 35-44, e.g.

B1118. ___ That a Time? (Weavers album)

B1119. Showrunner’s reference

B1120. Almanac illustrations

B1121. Rod and rad

B1122. Send in payment

B1127. “Love ___ to Stay” (Fitzgerald song)

B1128. Urban apartment

B1130. Star of the show, in their own mind

B1132. Played the siren

B1137. Gear cutting tools

B1138. Rural repository

B1140. Dance workers

B1144. Act the lech

B1146. Outlandish director Boll

B1147. Salon bed acquisition

B1148. Pt. of PST

B1150. Term paper abbr.

B1151. One-time Harley rival

B1152. Considers

B1153. “We make surfaces smarter” company

B1155. Toward the brig, matey

B1156. Branded shower heads that sound like shower sounds

B1157. Army post near Mt. Holly, NJ

B1158. “Surely we can negotiate?”

B1159. Great sorrow

B1160. Construction activity

B1161. Like a good debater’s arguments

B1162. Fully equip

B1163. Perimeter neateners

B1165. Welshwoman, e.g., for short

B1166. Where many Vespas buzz

B1167. Starts getting tipsy before five

B1169. Popular exergame Nintendo phased out in 2018

B1171. Compact, easily stored item

B1172. Redundancy in the hotel lobby

B1173. Beach plaything

B1176. Particles in a redox reaction

B1177. Omnipresent everything

B1178. Attractive type

B1179. Aggressive conflicts

B1182. Term used for Aries or Reliant model

B1183. “Farm” follower

B1184. Locked lips

B1185. Sergeant York was one

B1187. Call for a bellboy

B1191. Hindu wealth goddess

B1192. Looks perfect on

B1195. Negatives

B1196. He’ll get you if you misbehave, but sources vary on what’ll happen next

B1197. “Underwear that’s fun to wear”

B1198. Tailless amphibian

B1200. Game with a banker

B1202. Dessert or dinner, depending on its contents

B1203. Alpaca relatives

B1204. Obstruct

B1205. Wapner’s wrap

B1206. Pantomimed instrument

B1207. Bar game played for drinks and involving deception

B1210. “We Shall Overcome” singer Joan

B1212. Bend down

B1213. More balanced

B1214. Sounds unhappy

B1215. Feuding

B1219. Web portal from Windows

B1222. Host who had a “Favorite Things” segment on her show

B1226. Thai money

B1227. Cabbagy side

B1228. Boarding location

B1230. “Nolo,” for instance

B1231. What Mr. Darcy put on

B1232. Subject to outside variables

B1234. Dr. Seuss’s real name

B1238. Busy fast-food drive-thru hours

B1240. ___ of (at cross purposes with)

B1241. “Buccaneers” Bay

B1242. AAA support?

B1243. Remove from a sack

B1244. Gets more baked, say

B1245. Where to see Poppelsdorf Palace

B1246. Reagan speechwriter Peggy

B1249. What a Latino immigrant might learn

B1252. Designation for the nonbrowning Arctic Granny apple, briefly

B1253. Shortened baseball official

B1257. Some kitchen scrubbers

B1258. “Bueller? Buuuellerrr?” actor

B1259. Condoms lower the risk of them

B1260. “Welcome, visitors!” in the arena

B1261. Freight car hopper

B1263. Leading 20th-century sculptor

B1264. 2006 Nintendo release

B1265. Morning commute reading

B1266. Most messy, as makeup

B1267. Haberdashery rectangle

B1269. Champion of Hollywood

B1271. 1956 title monster

B1273. Word in a lot of December songs

B1274. Gallic Goofus

B1275. Signs for “th” sounds

B1277. NieR character or Senator Tim

B1279. Harvard Square fixture

B1280. Robert in Beetlejuice

B1283. Beginning of a conclusion

B1285. Likely substitute

B1290. Full of oomph

B1293. Forelegs

B1295. Takes courses?

B1296. Time-consuming environmental procedures

B1297. Chocolate overdose consequence

B1299. Go headlong at top speed

B1302. Giant feet, in the store

B1303. Angering Miss Manners

B1304. Card type from a bank

B1307. Apple cider brand or military “fort”

B1308. To ___ Clown (1972 Alan Alda film)

B1309. Kill piñata-style

B1310. The Lord of the Rings ring bearer

B1311. Chili dishes

B1312. Residents in your gastrointestinal tract

B1313. Cost of living, for many

B1315. Nannies

B1316. Evenings (abbr.)

B1318. Stooge syllable

B1319. Name shared by three separate New Testament figures, one who healed Paul, one who had him beaten, and one, struck dead by God, who never even met him

B1320. Inactive, in a way (abbr.)

B1321. Do a monkey-see, monkey-do

B1322. Sport featuring improvisational movement through an obstacle course

B1323. Balderdash

B1326. Install needed equipment

B1327. Quince, e.g.

B1329. Right on un mapa

B1331. Pearl milk tea

B1332. Words of accomplishment sung with upturned palms

B1334. ___ Valley (San Francisco neighborhood next to The Castro)

B1335. “Still, why be gloomy? After all…”

B1337. Word that gets “dropped”

B1340. Like an old apartment

B1343. Moore and Greenspan

B1344. Put aside

B1345. Reid of the Sharknado films

B1346. Photo session interruption

B1347. Plant mentioned in one of the theme clues

B1348. Commandment complement

B1351. Throw off track

B1352. Diplomats’ hdqrs.

B1353. Poet of Baltimore

B1354. Involuntary wink

B1356. Get new tenants

B1357. Foreign-policy note from Dubya

B1358. Bash, affectedly

B1359. Scottish naturalist John

B1360. Gets sassy

B1362. Liz, one of like three Washington Republicans with the spine to stand up to Trump

B1364. Gotham heroines, collectively

B1365. Jim who orbited the moon

B1368. Lost one’s footing

B1370. Swab the decks again

B1373. Computer with then-revolutionary graphics

B1374. Newborn horses

B1376. The Archies and the Monkees

B1380. Mid-Jan. honoree

B1384. Twilled fabric

B1385. O’clock, to Jacques

B1387. Touch, as with a paintbrush

B1391. Tamatoa from Moana, e.g.

B1392. Shore sight

B1394. Lang. of T.S. Eliot

B1395. As good as finished

B1396. Like the Godhead

B1400. Pitiful bunch

B1402. Watch slyly

B1404. Pebbles Flintstone’s boyfriend, eventually

B1405. Camera feature

B1406. Savory pastry

B1409. One of many genres that could be accurately applied to the music of David Bowie.

B1410. Ankle bones

B1412. In French?

B1413. Inuit abode (var.)

B1415. Snob’s victim

B1417. “Isn’t it ___?” (“Sad, eh?”)

B1418. Donovan song best after dinner?

B1419. Cared, angrily

B1421. ___ one’s gloves (retire)

B1422. Online market once known as RunMyErrand

B1424. Black ball in a pool hall

B1426. Army div concerned with military construction and civil works

B1428. Mah-___ (Chinese tile game)

B1429. “See how the ___ half lives” (ad for Virginia Aquarium)

B1430. Major international AI developer

B1431. Zigzagged pieces

B1432. Get ready for a Mr. Universe competition, say

B1433. Company for which Rudolf Nureyev once danced

B1434. Dojo skill markers

B1435. Madras masters

B1436. Most common word

B1438. Foucault’s Pendulum and Number Zero author Umberto

B1440. Tie accessory

B1441. “Crumpled Papers” artist

B1443. Nightcap for Capp

B1444. Phyte starter

B1445. Sydney is its capital (abbr.)

B1446. Buyable index-tracker

B1448. ___ in the Family

B1451. Spicy meat-and-veggie stews

B1452. Future lakes, perhaps

B1455. Ending meaning “sort of”

B1456. Hay and such for farm animals

B1457. Emmy winner Fey

B1458. 1984-esque

B1459. Happened

B1461. Lacking a sound basis

B1464. Really denounces

B1465. Barb alternative?

B1467. Ahab’s activity

B1468. ___ money (allowance)

B1475. Scored a hole in one, most likely

B1476. Shaped like a ball

B1477. HS test

B1478. See sites online

B1480. Youngest Trump son

B1481. Number of tails for a mythical fox

B1483. German-Swiss territory

B1485. Destroyed

B1488. Move designed to deceive

B1489. Unadorned

B1490. That screaming feeling

B1491. Make a bow in

B1494. A practice of David

B1495. Secures

B1496. Diminutive

B1497. Upscale British cars, for short

B1498. Heedless

B1500. /ɑː/ sounds

B1501. Lightly knocked, as off the table

B1502. Exec’s car, say

B1504. Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt

B1505. Wants so, so much

B1506. 1993 film that garnered Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars

B1507. “I’m about to give it away”

B1508. Canadian V.I.P.

B1509. Reason for a safe call

B1511. Lean- ___ (shacks)

B1514. Falling out of fashion

B1515. Wrap maker

B1516. Chorus in the training montage from the animated Mulan, AKA Disney’s best musical sequence of all time (fight me)

B1517. Farm buildings

B1519. Eighteenth-century composing giant

B1520. Unfilled calendar squares

B1521. About 31 gal. for beer, 42 for oil

B1522. They’re won with words you’ve rarely heard of

B1523. “Them’s fighting words”

B1525. Bruise from a kiss

B1526. Medicine measure

B1527. Despoiler of Revelation

B1531. Least suited to beachwear

B1534. Smilers of the Nile

B1535. Found fish in a cartoon

B1536. “Are you calling ___ liar?!”

B1537. “Ti ___” <3

B1538. Preceded

B1539. Practiced liars

B1540. An orange one was discovered in 2021 in Guinea mine shafts

B1541. Lover of beauty

B1542. Puts before a new jury

B1543. Suffer a certain deprivation

B1544. Aides at camp?

B1545. German beef?

B1546. Some brick buildings

B1547. Highly enthused, informally

B1548. Drunk, in modern slang

B1549. Cut ___: dance up a storm

B1550. The last operational one floats in Evansville, IN

B1551. To blame

B1552. Monastery management

B1553. Israeli leader Ehud

B1554. Roberts with over 600 acting credits

B1555. )

B1556. “Credit is due to you”

B1557. Serenades in canine fashion

B1558. The radius extends from it

B1559. Rural “Rats!”

B1560. Canadian boyfriend

B1561. Having no zip

B1562. Form of hot yoga

B1563. Results from what you put in

B1564. Some produce centers?

B1565. Broad beam

B1567. Bass ending

B1568. Action star Steven

B1569. Giraffe feature

B1572. Capsule you can use to escape from a spacecraft

B1574. “___ be greaaat” (Office Space)

B1575. Believer that Christ was human and divine all at once

B1576. Cleopatra’s ___

B1579. “___ the thought!”

B1582. Eat like a gentleman

B1587. Roman mythical figure who probably should’ve gotten a prenup

B1588. She wears eponymous cutoffs

B1590. Low-lying tracts of land

B1591. Persian or Siamese

B1592. County on the Thames

B1594. “Phone battery at 5%” anxiety

B1595. Boleyn of church history

B1597. Anatomical case

B1599. Gold-plates

B1600. Group recently past 12

B1601. Hall of Coming 2 America

B1602. Month-named Bikirk of Sol Bianca (or just a month, if you’re not a ‘90s kid)

B1603. French-style eatery with a bread oven

B1604. Cashier customer representatives

B1605. Unit slightly larger than a joule (abbr.)

B1606. “___, anyone?” (bridge player’s call)

B1607. Have a hot dog

B1608. DDE’s challenger

B1609. Telescope user

B1610. Part of a golf course

B1612. 89, to many

B1615. Thiamine and niacin, e.g.

B1616. Simulated, as a crime

B1618. Nay offsetter

B1619. In this moment

B1620. Dah’s opposite, in Morse code

B1621. Micro-bits

B1622. “I Get ___,” 1951 song

B1623. Piece of green

B1625. Tulsa sch. named for an evangelist

B1627. Prophet or puritan ending

B1628. Flip (over)

B1630. Nonstick cookware name

B1631. Postpone

B1633. Motto word

B1637. “Clapping” aquatic animal

B1640. You might be willing to risk salmonella to lick its chocolatey goodness out of the cooking bowl and stirring spoon

B1642. Bargain bin finds (abbr.)

B1643. Lacking pizzazz

B1644. With “The,” classic movie amorph

B1645. Brooklyn Dodgers great Campanella

B1646. In a specific order

B1647. Have invested in (a winner)

B1648. RR crossings

B1650. Quintana ___ (state of Mexico)

B1653. Shows off, as wealth

B1655. Carcinogenic pesticide

B1656. At bay in a bay

B1657. Almost not, but…

B1659. Caustic solution

B1660. Precariously positioned

B1661. Judy’s kid

B1662. Cams common in the Carter era

B1663. Article of food

B1664. Big name in fine china

B1665. To us, in Spanish

B1666. Moby Dick captain

B1667. Neuwirth who played Lilith on Cheers and Frasier

B1668. City folk

B1670. Impatient (to go)

B1671. Benches for judges

B1672. “A ___ lama is a priest…”

B1673. Bids at Christie’s

B1674. Wifey (with “the”)

B1675. Pertaining to a manuscript

B1677. Shields of modeling

B1679. Durst of Limp Bizkit

B1680. World’s largest fashion magazine

B1681. Slow-cooked cow, for short

B1683. Mexico’s largest digital bank

B1685. Make noise like a hungry baby

B1686. Kind of soup

B1687. Got looking sharp

B1688. “How could this have gone so wrong?”

B1689. One of the Pep Boys

B1690. Cauldron stirrers

B1691. Roderigo’s killer in Othello

B1693. Have one’s tribe

B1694. Author of “Meeting at Potsdam,” 1975

B1695. Time for new growth (abbr.)

B1696. Rosemary’s Baby author Levin

B1697. Projects, with “out”

B1698. Grocery brand that’s also a girl’s name

B1699. Quickly, mailwise

B1700. Supreme Ct. convening mo.

B1703. Knievel on a motorcycle

B1705. Mil. decorations in Singapore

B1706. Buddy of Wynken and Blynken

B1707. Partner of meet

B1708. Former Austrian Chancellor

B1709. One known for fancy foot work

B1710. Fatalistic sentiment

B1711. Changing needs

B1712. Cannes festival focus

B1714. Hint to an unexciting speaker

B1715. Storm en masse

B1716. Grafton’s ___ for Outlaw

B1718. Duelist’s aide

B1719. Polite wd.

B1720. Opposite of hither

B1721. “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” lead singer

B1722. Permanently exclude

B1724. Loyalist to a popular, never-nominated Dem

B1725. Create an opportunity

B1726. Staged knockout

B1727. Highly developed region

B1730. Brokeback Mountain director

B1733. The size of ___: itty-bitty

B1735. Gets attention on the dance floor

B1736. Accolade for a soprano

B1737. Work at a loom

B1738. Flower-to-be

B1739. It holds the solution for many hospital patients?

B1740. Without a hitch

B1743. Journalist Horace

B1745. You might leave them in stitches, for short

B1746. Computer fodder

B1747. Like many bar snacks

B1748. Short, like time with mon cher

B1749. Mutualism

B1750. “Most certainly!”

B1751. ___ the Night (1982 Meryl Streep film)

B1752. 1970 hit “___ Bell to Answer”

B1753. Gift ___: chattiness

B1754. ___ otherwise specified

B1755. Mauna ___ Observatories

B1756. Bar for young women?

B1757. Under normal circumstances

B1758. “May I ___?”

B1759. Vineyard, to Voltaire

B1760. Bank job?

B1761. Has loose lips

B1762. She may trail a train

B1763. He said “Gee, Mr. Lincoln”

B1764. Boxers’ arena garb

B1765. Lightning unit

B1766. Tarzan’s creator

B1769. “___begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth appear like falsehood” (William Shenstone)

B1770. Brand of boot that Tom Brady modeled for

B1772. TV show since 10/11/75

B1773. Charlottetown’s prov.

B1774. Metal named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow

B1775. Oft-torn knee part, briefly

B1776. Poetic form used by Chaucer

B1779. “Here lies One ___ Name was writ in Water” (words on Keats’s tombstone)

B1781. Military aviators, as a unit

B1782. Banquo’s son

B1784. Produce produce

B1787. Phlebotomize

B1788. Having a little kick

B1789. Yawn-inducer

B1790. Snicker sound

B1791. Jimmy of Vampire Weekend

B1792. Lois Lane player of early TV whose name is even more alliterative

B1794. One way to catch crabs

B1795. Circus

B1796. Played the goat?

B1797. Private agenda

B1798. Isle of Man men, once

B1799. Like a dead weight

B1800. Harassed on all fronts

B1804. Wave’s airborne counterpart

B1805. Home addition

B1806. Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s ___?”

B1808. Obama opponent of 2008

B1809. Some robberies

B1810. Turn a camera

B1811. UAL’s westernmost hub

B1812. Where new brides often sit

B1813. Do a content check

B1814. Bygone sovereign

B1815. Beijing locale

B1816. Accustoms gradually

B1817. “Superman” in the ring

B1818. “Tidying Up” star

B1819. Lamarr of pre-Bluetooth research

B1820. Ice sport org.

B1822. Warm, as leftovers

B1824. “Happy little accidents” painter Ross

B1825. George of the Jungle’s pal

B1826. Vegas tech trade show

B1827. May hrs. in Minneapolis

B1828. Some PCs or printers

B1829. April 15th letters

B1830. Make a mend, say

B1835. Vodka orders, for short

B1836. Carefully controlled way of speaking

B1838. Merry dances

B1840. Sonneteer’s feet

B1841. Footwear’s McAn

B1843. Choctaws, e.g.

B1844. In a ___

B1845. They don’t act well

B1846. They really are too good to be true

B1847. Say “aye” or “nay”

B1848. In a real estate crunch

B1850. Blemish the finish of

B1851. Sign you bought the product

B1856. Polite chap

B1857. Letts’ neighbors

B1858. Travel in the direction of

B1859. Not stopped

B1861. USAF unit

B1862. Former Indiana Pacer Smits

B1863. Trash tossers

B1864. Appoint democratically

B1865. Czech river

B1867. “Shut your pie hole”

B1871. Make other

B1875. Judah saved by Jesus

B1876. By the numbers

B1877. Suffix in the world of collectibles

B1878. Bellini and Rossini’s style

B1879. Cuckoo crazypants

B1880. Transfer

B1882. Green keepers? (abbr.)

B1883. Do some freebooting

B1884. Ticket’s end

B1887. We owe, we owe, so off to work we go

B1888. Warming athletic gear

B1889. Roger Clemens’ stat

B1890. Snakes’ intakes

B1896. It goes on, according to Sonny and Cher

B1898. Geddouddahere, as an unruly feline

B1900. Wordsworth’s weather

B1901. Male hog

B1902. Gun at the proverbial gun show

B1903. X on the dotted line

B1904. The world over

B1906. Chicken, on some menus

B1907. UFC heavyweight Pavlovich

B1908. Mower name

B1909. Sun.-Tue. Go-between

B1911. Top-billed one

B1913. WNBA’s McWilliams-Franklin

B1917. Author who inspired a Baltimore team’s nickname

B1919. Highest Phil. peak

B1920. Ignored, as needs

B1921. ص

B1922. Alternative course

B1923. Juana I, for one

B1924. Nipped in the bud

B1925. “___ my Castle silence reigned” (Shelley)

B1926. It contains four quarters

B1927. More parsimonious

B1928. Empire State city

B1929. New NASDAQ issuances

B1931. “You FINE!”

B1932. Get ___ shake

B1933. Italian shape

B1934. What comes after beta

B1935. Casino game with a huge house edge

B1936. St. Pete clock setting

B1938. Smoothly nears, in cinematography

B1939. Pulls (on)

B1940. Streisand with an effect

B1941. Surface irregularity

B1942. Far from versatile

B1943. She killed Marat

B1945. ___-pei

B1947. Kahn of Broadway

B1949. A, in a way

B1951. “Tsk, tsk…I could’ve made you happy”

B1954. Quill points

B1956. Bonito shark

B1958. Perry with a Christmas album

B1959. Inserts

B1960. Like a manic class clown, seemingly

B1961. Brought into existence

B1962. Car restorer’s task

B1963. Standing O, for instance

B1964. Crowded locale

B1966. Short-term hippie commune

B1967. Porter musical

B1968. They may be involved in a spill

B1970. Foci of affection

B1971. 2011 Best New Artist Grammy winner Bon

B1972. Ash Carter’s org.

B1973. Doesn’t play

B1975. Happy hour cry

B1977. Churchman’s deg.

B1981. Evergreen tree

B1983. Threaten, in a way

B1984. Acting coach Hagen

B1985. Graceful losers, e.g.

B1986. Scottish dances

B1987. Ben’s three, on Bonanza

B1988. Skirt style

B1989. City south of Waco

B1990. Takes (in), as a sauna or attention

B1991. Valley

B1992. “Life sucks!”

B1993. Very long time

B1995. Lacking spark

B1996. Measure of resistance?

B1997. Tough to solve

B1999. Roi’s mate

B2000. Old card game

B2002. Bodysuit brand

B2004. More macabre

B2005. Speak slowly

B2006. Demarcate, as a VIP section

B2007. Hardly looking forward to

B2008. Plea made on bended knee

B2010. Cologne quaff

B2012. African-American vernacular

B2014. What you may be busy as

B2016. License issuers

B2017. Nike rival

B2018. Giveaway at some old ballfields

B2019. Shape of the internet

B2020. Folded fruit or cheese container at breakfast

B2021. Costar of The A-Team

B2022. Soft serve alternative

B2024. Ending for gas

B2025. Potsdam Conference attendee

B2026. Tune also known as “Butterfield’s Lullaby”

B2027. Dora’s blundering bull buddy

B2029. “Sounds like fun!”

B2031. Comparisons between two webpage versions

B2033. Exasperated words

B2034. Living or once-living things

B2035. Mike of The Upshaws

B2037. Flat-panel TV

B2038. The Smothers Brothers and Abercrombie and Fitch

B2041. Wrap you wear after giving blood

B2042. Some appliances, shortly

B2043. Is relevant (to)

B2045. 180-degree turns, casually

B2046. Singer-actress-reality star Jayne

B2047. Actor Aidan

B2048. Ranch fence points

B2049. ___ de Hidalgo, Mexico

B2050. Jungle Book bear

B2051. ___ trouble (really up the creek)

B2053. ___ Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)

B2054. Some PTA members

B2055. Vertebrate’s key feature

B2056. SPCA member?

B2059. Declaration from one who won’t be outdone

B2061. Making richer with

B2064. Testified about

B2069. Get skin in the game

B2070. Things present at a fishing hole

B2071. Common injuries in contact sports

B2072. Bangalore bread

B2073. It may be worn down

B2074. Small buzzer

B2075. Caroled

B2076. Senora’s “other”

B2078. Thunderous

B2079. Song title meaning “gun” covered by Johnny Cash

B2080. Dolphin habitats

B2081. One-time subway fare

B2082. Sound from a boxer

B2083. “Don’t go in there!”

B2084. Basset horn (abbr.)

B2085. Nickname for Texas

B2087. Book-hoarding

B2091. Some sneaks

B2093. Legendary lover of Abelard

B2094. Times for oysters

B2095. Senores’ other halves, often

B2096. One of the Visayan Islands

B2097. “Stop, already!”

B2098. Gave false hopes to

B2099. Considering again in light of new information

B2100. Common medicinal herbs

B2101. Needle work of a sort

B2102. ___ Maman advent calendars and jams

B2103. 11th-century date

B2105. ___ Calling (Eliza Dushku show)

B2106. She’s sweet as apple cider in a song

B2108. Card game invented by Merle Robbins in 1971

B2110. “___ the Walrus” (The Beatles)

B2112. Interior design

B2113. Keogh plan counterparts

B2114. “I Got You, Babe” singers

B2115. Big tests graded 1-5

B2117. Drinkable cereal?

B2120. Hairsplitter’s activity

B2122. “Hey, you” letters on an envelope

B2125. Perch for a puma

B2127. Chance taken

B2129. Catchphrase in Rick and Morty that may have been a cry for help

B2130. Big earrings

B2136. “Start with Trust” agcy.

B2137. Diet product word

B2138. The EU or NATO, e.g.

B2139. Erebus neighbor

B2140. ___ juris (in one’s own right)

B2141. “Correct, cap’n”

B2142. Obsessions, Gallic style

B2143. Man in the afternoon, according to the riddle

B2144. Too trivial for the courtroom

B2146. Bygone Nair competitor

B2149. Eastern inn

B2153. Iona’s basketball coach

B2154. “Good” start

B2155. “Snapper” who was a semi-member of the Justice League in the very earliest comics—and has never joined them onscreen

B2156. Movie most likely to start wars among Star Wars fans

B2163. Gp. with X-ray machines

B2164. Make more visible, as your beautiful eyes

B2165. Light tennis shots that fall just over the net

B2166. Treat shredded to make Big League Chew

B2168. Island west of Sumatra

B2169. Road parts

B2171. American ostriches

B2174. Curves of road

B2175. Fixes a toe, perhaps

B2177. One not to trust

B2179. Repute

B2180. Aqua ___

B2182. iPod protectors, in France

B2183. Silvers’ sergeant

B2184. Iranian city once destroyed by a quake

B2185. Watchdog position in government (abbr.)

B2187. In deep doody

B2189. Primal impulses

B2191. “Good duck artist” Carl who inspired DuckTales

B2193. Furry folivores

B2194. Puts forth effort

B2195. Lays off

B2196. DoD R&D wing

B2197. Blocks for tots

B2198. Handle the wheel

B2199. Issue of mutual orbit, in astrophysics

B2200. “If you like ___ coladas…”

B2201. Tiger or Oriole

B2202. Schwarzenegger catchphrase

B2203. Water nymph of myth

B2204. Semitic language (abbr.)

B2205. Write a puzzle with 117,000+ clues, e.g. (I hope this is still true by the time I publish)

B2206. Many works at the Met

B2207. Harrison Ford’s Fugitive co-star

B2208. Do like Rasputin

B2209. Hymn inspired by II Timothy 2:3

B2210. Scale stats

B2211. Some grad students’ goals

B2212. Vietnamese money unit

B2213. Brand-name-averse supermarket chain

B2214. They’re featured in 12 Strong and G.I. Jane

B2215. Dutch artist Jan van

B2216. Wings in Rome?

B2217. Do a trick for a treat

B2218. Gets on the radio

B2219. Retail schedule’s peak

B2220. Clothing sometimes supplemented by face paint

B2221. ___-in-a-Costume (Disney knockoff Halloween garb)

B2222. Closer’s stat

B2223. Botticelli classic probably commissioned by the Medicis, with “The”

B2224. Pancho’s parting line

B2225. Carnegie, for one

B2227. Mil. landing site

B2228. Legal deeds

B2229. Final leg of a swimming race

B2231. Reality-TV host Kreischer of The Cabin

B2232. Fluish episodes

B2234. Get off at the pier

B2236. Contests for bragging rights

B2237. Liquidation of a life’s belongings

B2238. Blossom-scented beverage

B2239. Cat’s cry

B2241. Citizenship Schools org.

B2243. Lake on Michigan’s state quarter

B2244. Tom Arnold’s in-laws, once

B2251. K- ___ (music compilation producer)

B2252. Map routes (abbr.)

B2253. Popular online Q&A

B2254. Paper partner

B2256. Reddish brown

B2257. It’s a lifesaver

B2258. Tie followers, briefly

B2259. Tricky tactic

B2260. More under the weather

B2261. Expanse of solid ground

B2264. Four-award artist, initially

B2265. “Aw, heck naw!”

B2266. Chancre causers

B2268. Air-freshener holder

B2269. Hole away

B2270. Prefix with lysis and ponics

B2271. Remarkably cruel and/or untruthful

B2272. Rogers’ partner of TV, or Rogers’ portrayer of film

B2273. “Of course, you know, this means war” speaker

B2275. Kind of fiscal statement, for short

B2281. Name of a castle in the Japanese Imperial Palace

B2282. Barfly’s perch

B2283. Drop slowly

B2285. South Pacific show tune

B2286. PlayPlace staple, once

B2288. What many would say Jordan or Gretzky are

B2290. Bell-pianos

B2295. Pore treatment?

B2298. Swim-meet units

B2299. Kind, at the Sorbonne

B2300. “___, feel me, touch me, heal me”

B2303. Pass out on game night?

B2305. Disney lion

B2306. For Love of the Game director

B2311. Run ___: frolic

B2312. Carpe that diem

B2314. No. your financial inst. uses to get your money to you

B2315. Middle prayer in the Muslim day

B2316. Fence vertical

B2317. Urban oases

B2318. Item in an eyelet

B2319. Hugely popular home gaming console

B2321. Heavy motorcycle, in slang

B2323. Sammy with 609 homers

B2324. Loose weight

B2325. Truncation abbr.

B2327. Maker of audio equipment

B2328. Tank gun first produced by the Soviets in WWII

B2329. Heroine with a magical land (retroactively) named for her

B2332. Chattery airheads

B2333. What you might hear the rain beat against

B2334. Like treacherous roads

B2337. Its 16th edition brought personalized lock screens

B2338. “___ Marlene” (1941 tune)

B2339. Musical with the song “The Honeymoon is Over”

B2340. Med. recording

B2342. Looked like

B2343. Flounder

B2344. “Go ___ Juliet. Go and trim her up”

B2345. Incomparable

B2346. Snail follower?

B2347. Doctors’ org.

B2349. Male nickname

B2350. Word that helps explain some name changes

B2351. Ray-finned fish

B2352. Good works, in Hinduism

B2353. It’s between lather and repeat

B2354. Enforcer of the Fed. Meat Inspection Act

B2355. Tall and poised

B2356. Upshot of bad service, maybe

B2358. Bismarck of realpolitik

B2360. Wilder’s ___ Town

B2362. Head-’em-off site

B2363. Fish dish

B2364. Jessie J-Ari-Minaj track

B2366. What a king may win

B2369. Jedi foes

B2370. 1001 Arabian Nights fliers

B2372. Le Havre-to-Paris dir.

B2374. Abyssinians and Singapuras

B2375. Fights with hooks

B2376. Less than an ounce

B2379. Colts’ state (abbr.)

B2385. Treatment for dog bites, in a way

B2387. “I’m not listening!”

B2388. Good-looking, to Ricky Martin

B2390. “Oh, he’s making excuses, but she’s having ___ it”

B2391. Apartment-ad space-saver abbr.

B2392. Rats’ milieux, often

B2393. Traffic jam units

B2394. Small distinction

B2396. Start of a James Bond movie?

B2399. Switch predecessor

B2401. Big news on the sports page

B2402. Ace-high beater

B2403. Sitcom with multiple guest appearances by its heroine’s crush, Joe Biden

B2404. Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant

B2405. Sicilia e Sardegna

B2406. Mentioned

B2407. Package of agreed-upon lies

B2418. Get to the very edge of sleep

B2420. Ukrainian dress brand

B2423. Food fish, in scientific names

B2424. “King of Hooks” Nate

B2426. CIA’s flight fleet

B2429. Meat order

B2431. Kind of quietly snooty school

B2432. Harsh-voiced flapper in a cage

B2433. Make mired

B2436. Evenings

B2438. Easy undertaking

B2440. End of a belief

B2441. Body of writings

B2443. Smoke shop purchase for an e-cig user

B2444. “___ the fields we go…”

B2445. Certain Monopoly sq.

B2447. Type of extension

B2448. Dairy sight

B2450. ___-___: eaty time

B2451. Concession-stand purchase

B2452. 1990s hybrid in the living room

B2453. Mischievous expressions

B2455. Condiment with fish sandwiches

B2456. Separate and arrange

B2457. Alternatively

B2458. Org. involved with ESPN

B2459. Tendons, skin, and such

B2460. Match behavior to one’s role

B2462. Show centered on Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken

B2464. Razors promoted as “the best a man can get”

B2465. Cavemen

B2467. Itinerary info

B2468. Shows a sign of dehydration

B2470. Moons Over My ___ (punny Denny’s breakfast combo)

B2472. Rustic pipe

B2473. “Oh, no, that’s what that stink is!”

B2474. Federal doc. producer

B2477. Small jewelry pieces

B2478. Const. st.

B2479. Setting of A Small Town in Germany

B2480. Craft store letters

B2483. ___ the bill

B2485. Aquatic mattress

B2486. Most recent repeated name in the White House

B2487. Went for

B2488. One whose workplace is abuzz?

B2489. Letters after Q

B2493. Follower of clear or cross

B2494. Bring happiness to

B2495. Indira Gandhi’s wardrobe

B2496. Vesicles

B2498. Brit. med. syst.

B2499. ___ off (began)

B2500. Like some checking accounts

B2501. No better

B2502. White-haired with age

B2504. “Stuff it!”

B2507. Base addr.

B2508. Classics IV lead singer Dennis

B2512. French department

B2513. Candy stored in plastic grenades

B2514. Indifferent

B2515. Like campus misfits

B2517. Make happy

B2518. Brand with the tagline “Established in Milwaukee 1844”

B2519. Its cap. is Stockholm

B2520. Nelson “Ha-ha” Muntz, for one

B2524. Virtuosic

B2525. Rock strata

B2528. Make impure

B2529. Made kittenish sounds

B2530. Barely speak

B2532. Small shoe size

B2534. Hold ‘em holding

B2536. “This is worse than I thought”

B2538. Be glaring

B2542. “You ___ Beautiful” (Joe Cocker)

B2543. Barber’s bellow

B2544. Roman or Ottoman (abbr.)

B2547. Chaplin’s ___ Lights

B2548. Burrows, e.g.

B2549. Type of hairdo

B2551. Fall planting

B2553. Old-time sea monster

B2556. Bring into existence

B2558. Strip of leather

B2559. Carroll creature

B2560. Interactive feature on weather.com

B2561. It’ll make text heavier

B2563. Service with a TrueMesh connection

B2564. Rapid-fire weapons

B2565. Declines slowly

B2566. Reno loc.

B2567. Those, to Juanita

B2568. “It’s not a race!”

B2569. Ulysses star

B2570. The sixth sense

B2571. One who frequently communes with spirits?

B2573. Firm for fashions and fragrances

B2575. Words for beauty

B2576. “___ no big deal!”

B2577. Pool-hall fixture

B2579. Slippery sort

B2580. Handheld to make you heard

B2581. Standing guard

B2582. Tech spec outline

B2583. Is utterly unfair

B2585. Sean Connery and Roger Moore

B2586. Like French bulldogs’ ears

B2588. Not at all glamorized

B2589. “Oh. give me ___ / where the buffalo roam”

B2590. Concrete add-in

B2591. “The show must go on” or “Carpe diem”

B2593. In a humble manner

B2594. Slandering

B2596. Maniac’s start

B2598. Boston subway system mocked in a Kingston Trio hit

B2600. It can get overprocessed or nappy

B2601. “Partner up; no one goes alone”

B2602. Org. of fleets

B2603. Group of four

B2605. Philanthropist and, er, slave-trader Yale

B2606. “100 Years…100 Movies,” e.g.

B2607. Spurious, as sentiment

B2608. Like some articles (abbr.)

B2609. Aquatic plant-ish organism

B2610. Futuristic MTV cartoon/film

B2612. Sheds skin

B2613. Where people’s blood speeds up

B2614. “Language” in which Gen 1:3 is “& God sed ‘lt ther b lite’ & ther wz lite”

B2615. Has a quick look

B2616. Brake part

B2617. Founder of India’s Mughal empire

B2619. Some CPU adjuncts

B2620. Where there are no mistakes, some say

B2621. Book MapQuest made obsolete

B2622. Bewilders

B2628. Misfortunes

B2629. A very large number

B2630. Conger fisherman

B2634. Setting of the Druze Mts.

B2635. For .5, it’s 26.565051°

B2637. Was totally sick, brah

B2638. Storm heading (abbr.)

B2639. Romanian round dance

B2640. Need-to-know ___

B2643. Outcome of all too many New Year’s resolutions

B2644. Poet and flower arranger

B2645. German river basin

B2647. Bar in B2546-Across

B2648. Detective who aids his police inspector father

B2649. “I thought they’d never leave!”

B2650. Ploy at Troy

B2651. Louver parts

B2652. Court replays

B2654. Fragrant oil

B2656. Merle Haggard’s “___ Beautiful Time”

B2659. Two pages

B2662. Maria Louise Ramé

B2664. Chem-class convectors

B2665. Ancient calculators

B2666. Turn-of-the-century year in King John’s reign

B2667. Disgorging

B2669. Ed who wrote the 87th Precinct novels

B2670. ___ made (prospers)

B2671. Old brewing equipment

B2673. Disadvantageously

B2676. Wouldn’t be shaken from

B2680. “That’s so sweet!”

B2681. ___ up (livens)

B2682. “WTF NOT COOL”

B2685. Old grads

B2686. Fashion-conscious teens in 2000s TV, film, and toy stores

B2687. “Why You Gotta ___ Rude?”

B2689. Proceed on, as one’s way

B2690. Enclosure for an ed.

B2692. Rallying cry of the oppressed

B2693. Do a little Elvis

B2694. Seneca dialect

B2695. Genoese gent

B2696. Inventive monogram

B2697. Fists’ strikes

B2698. Top arrangement?

B2700. Kind of strings

B2702. Times to take PJs off, normally

B2703. Loses hair

B2704. Start of a well-known hymn

B2708. “…of…OF COURSE!”

B2709. “Nothing wrong here”

B2711. Up ___: trapped

B2713. Revival gear

B2714. They make eggs

B2715. Square One on

B2717. Genesis 7 VIP

B2721. Chewing the fat

B2722. Aptly named speedster of the Incredibles

B2725. Device for streaming Netflix

B2728. US military planes

B2730. Incapable of catching feels

B2732. They show which way the wind is blowing

B2733. Raw milk containers

B2735. Tickets to freedom

B2739. Company with a spokeslizard

B2741. Seasonings in shakers

B2742. Man of la casa

B2743. Green wallet paper

B2744. Equine quipster

B2746. Woodshop tool (var.)

B2747. Court org. or old court org.

B2749. Notable socialist film of 1969

B2755. Certain radio operator

B2756. Math curves

B2757. Tube trophy

B2759. “Do as ___!”

B2760. “The ___ of glory…” (Gray

B2761. Actress Lou Wood and her Sex Education character Gibbs

B2763. Had longings

B2765. The Tethered in Us, e.g.

B2766. Desperately

B2767. Baba who stumbles onto a den of thieves

B2768. Great misfortune

B2769. Game testers’ games, often

B2770. Contrary Mary’s lasses

B2771. Rhea or moa

B2772. ___ Curtain

B2773. “The helpers,” as Mr. Rogers called them

B2774. Spots for roughnecks

B2778. Of the palm or sole

B2779. Ruler whose friends are Naomi, Mateo, Skylar, and Gabe

B2780. Without frill

B2781. Canada’s official tree

B2783. First name in Chicago politics

B2785. Easily scammed sorts

B2786. December 31, to a year

B2789. Golf-course features

B2791. Odd line in tic-tac-toe (like, why would you do THAT when they already did THAT? Maybe the center part was put in last?)

B2793. Gift in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

B2794. Equipped, in England

B2795. My dad made one for Mom that said, “Happy 23^rd ___!” Inside, it added (“Leave this lying around. You don’t have to tell anyone it’s the 23^rd ____ I’ve made for you since we met”)

B2796. “To reiterate”

B2797. Insidiously

B2799. Lawyer, congresswoman, and women’s movement leader Bella depicted in Mrs. America

B2800. Time out for coffee

B2801. Lady of La Mancha

B2802. “I’m clueless!”

B2803. Boogie-Woogie man Mitch

B2804. Certain vocal sounds

B2805. Request to a barber

B2807. It can be on a roll

B2808. Subject follower

B2809. WordPress creation

B2811. Get on the phone

B2812. Itty-bitty biter

B2814. The one where Cartman goes through dog training

B2815. Outdoor gear chain

B2817. “New phone, who ___?”

B2819. Crack, with “bon”

B2821. Mother, when you’re young

B2822. Lunchtime destinations

B2823. Jumper

B2824. Charging, in a way

B2825. Large pieces of cabbage?

B2826. Doll introduced in 1961

B2829. Alpine road

B2830. “Interferon” follower

B2831. Inner arm bones

B2833. Canoe and cutter

B2834. Brits’ longest-reigning monarch

B2835. “Fiddlesticks!”

B2837. It may be done the wrong way?

B2838. Lincoln or Rockefeller (abbr.)

B2839. ___ Cobb Freed & Partners (architectural firm)

B2840. “What ___ supposed to think?”

B2841. Object of podiatric study

B2842. Diamond or pearl

B2843. Do-si-doer

B2846. Surroundings for an archipelago

B2847. Norfolk sch.

B2849. Putin’s former org.

B2850. Divine Liturgy and baptism

B2851. Life story, for short

B2852. Solo who loved Leia

B2853. Watery fences?

B2854. Tammy who won a Tony as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”

B2857. Former Sprint competitor

B2859. Come up

B2860. Wild beaning aftermath

B2861. Captains’ journals

B2862. Some traps

B2871. Hot dog eating champ Chestnut

B2872. Hospital areas (abbr.)

B2873. Command to attack

B2874. Gets past quietly

B2876. Makes a (possibly revealing) mistake

B2877. Book by Richard Lederer

B2881. Prince William, since 2022

B2882. Quadrennial sports competition

B2883. Breastbones: Anat.

B2884. Laurel and Hardy and Cheech and Chong

B2885. Alley of the funnies

B2887. Pseudonym

B2889. Line crossing two others

B2890. Flourishing beyond expectation

B2891. Cannonball Run actor Reynolds

B2892. Weighty struggle?

B2894. They’re not the people they used to be

B2897. Behind, at sea

B2898. Becomes food and disappears

B2899. Houston pitcher, familiarly

B2900. Composer-poet Rod

B2901. Smart-looking

B2903. Judge who presided over 1995’s most celebrated trial

B2904. Silently urged to stop

B2905. Cuban-American singer Estefan

B2906. Punch-drunk type

B2907. Disquiet

B2908. “___ bad moon rising” (1969 song lyric): 3 wds.

B2910. Org. promoting hunter safety (and child endangerment)

B2912. Extra-large athletes

B2914. “___cow, there a cow…”

B2915. Pixar spy-fi caper

B2916. Video game character with a green hat

B2917. Shield behind a stove

B2918. Best Actor winner Rami

B2919. Cubes, pyramids, and such

B2920. Richard Allen’s church

B2921. Dole out anew

B2922. Part of ASAP

B2923. Sophomores or juniors in some sororities

B2924. Aligning

B2925. Florida’s largest lake

B2927. Actress Winfrey

B2928. Sistine Chapel painting

B2929. Arctic Circle region

B2932. Side dishes (abbr.)

B2933. ___ up (out of commission)

B2934. With a guileless smile

B2937. Laban’s daughter and Remini of show business

B2938. H&R Block thinker

B2939. Math points

B2940. Chopped down

B2941. Dirty traitors

B2942. “Absolument, Monsieur!”

B2943. Admiral and corporal

B2944. Start of Massachusetts’s slogan

B2945. Pindar opus

B2946. Winter Paralympians’ equipment

B2947. First word spoken by Lightning McQueen

B2948. Jared of Joker infamy

B2949. Vasarely and Bridget Riley, for two

B2950. Jean-Luc Picard look

B2951. Cybersecurity specialists

B2952. Like some translations

B2953. Falana or Montez

B2954. Ray in science fiction

B2955. To put one on someone else is the most socially acceptable form of stabbing

B2956. ___ about (stirring)

B2957. Tyler’s successor

B2958. Web spider, e.g.

B2959. Just for kicks

B2960. Creator of the 1966 underground film Chelsea Girls

B2961. “X” may mark one

B2962. Over the waves

B2963. Intro to drawing

B2965. Tries to tag

B2967. Perfumes

B2968. Blasted music from a car

B2970. Garry Trudeau’s alma mater

B2974. Islamic bigwigs

B2976. Search everywhere, and I mean everywhere

B2977. Moon, in Munich

B2978. “Mercy ___!”

B2980. Event locale

B2981. One pretending social importance

B2982. “Let It Snow” lyricist

B2983. Dinosaur-killer (if it wasn’t an asteroid)

B2990. European game a little like horseshoes

B2991. Language that gave us the word “tattoo”

B2992. “Auf Wiedersehen!”

B2994. Emoticons’ :

B2995. Any “Stayin’ Alive” singer

B2996. Ethylene gas, agriculturally

B2997. TV toon with buck teeth

B2999. Locale of a Robin Hood nemesis

B3001. Seizing without authority

B3003. Arafat’s assn.

B3004. Punjab monotheists

B3005. Artie Shaw, for one

B3006. Like Animal Farm

B3007. Hall-of-Famer Rod

B3008. Not long

B3009. Heat units, for short

B3010. They’re close to calluses

B3016. The Cougars’ college

B3018. She who said, “So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause”

B3019. Vette option

B3021. About 13 million Turks

B3022. Worthy

B3023. Trembling

B3025. Permit for a leave of absence

B3028. “Child” of hollandaise sauce

B3031. Dazzling success

B3032. Fork sticker

B3034. Rid oneself of

B3035. Cooking term

B3036. Parliamentary faction

B3037. Writes quickly

B3039. Bad spelling?

B3040. Throws wild, for example

B3041. Cuttlefish ejection

B3043. Vice charged on a USB port

B3044. You might see him on a bed of nails

B3046. Agoraphobe’s anathema

B3047. Destroy by fire

B3048. Gave a showing

B3049. Sought out urgently

B3050. ___ -weenie

B3051. Retired libertarian voice Neal

B3052. Power moves in Deepwoken

B3055. Ice Age sabretooth

B3056. Good, sometimes

B3060. Lithuania began spending them in 2015

B3065. Nail-file alternative

B3068. Definite articles

B3071. College course, for short

B3078. Carpenter of music

B3080. ___-free plastic

B3081. June the sixteenth

B3083. Things at the heart of a 2008 financial crisis (abbr.)

B3084. “Okay with me!”

B3086. One likely to go “hic!”

B3087. Poinsettia petal

B3088. Big name in sports drinks

B3089. When Lady Macbeth says “Out, damned spot!”

B3090. Reviews, collectively

B3091. Seinfeld’s ex

B3092. Title concerning rings or flies in classic literature

B3093. Cops, in street slang

B3094. Unagi and anago, in Japanese cuisine

B3095. With insufficient strictness

B3097. Chinese chef’s pan

B3098. “Wow!” to a texter

B3099. Produce

B3100. Hud director

B3101. Aneurysm causes

B3102. “I’m losin’ ___ bird!” (The Hunchback of Notre Dame bit)

B3104. Lamebrain

B3106. Reaction to a fireworks burst

B3107. Symbols of life

B3108. Motown superstar

B3110. Premonition

B3111. Containers for fermentation

B3112. “The story / Of a love that flourished / In a time of hate,” in one version

B3113. Fraternity parties they’re not

B3114. Native American land, casually

B3115. The second born

B3116. Name in a da Vinci masterpiece

B3117. Monastery residents

B3118. Wooden “skin”

B3119. Arguments in favor of

B3120. Attractive figures that, if you use this word, you’re probably objectifying

B3121. Broadcasts

B3122. Light battle?

B3124. (The) sea, colloquially

B3125. Light source in old-timey train stations

B3126. Acceptability, for short

B3127. Did a bank job?

B3128. Flemish painter Adam van ___ (teacher of Rubens)

B3131. Like a game at its start

B3134. Biological “bags”

B3135. Affectionate name for a #1 tennis player

B3136. “My stars!”

B3137. Bon Jovi’s Bon Jovi

B3139. “Damn Yankees” team

B3140. French movie houses

B3141. Golf rental

B3142. Molecular unit

B3143. Afta alternatives

B3144. Makes public

B3145. Good way to get something down?

B3146. Australian directing wunderkind Luhrmann

B3147. Hands off

B3148. Not agin

B3149. Neighbor of N.J.

B3150. Mattress alternative?

B3151. Treasure map feature

B3154. Key figure in the stadium, for short

B3155. The Fall of the Roman Empire star James

B3156. Word in a Culture Club title

B3157. Giant lizard, to kids

B3158. Did a real-time broadcast

B3159. Mississippi floater

B3160. Objection opener

B3161. Arm-curl muscles, for short

B3162. State of getting better

B3163. ___ -slipper (orchid)

B3164. Birthplace of Wendy’s

B3165. Jobs rollout of 2010

B3166. Results of fix-ups

B3167. Succeeds despite the odds

B3168. His performance repopularized the Joker

B3170. Lavalieres, e.g.

B3171. Start of many a shoppe sign

B3173. ___ Tome (island in the Gulf of Guinea)

B3174. Old-school hand cleaners

B3176. Tends the stock

B3178. Diet soda claim

B3179. Clothing store department

B3180. Inhabited

B3181. Some successful runners

B3184. Barnyard sound

B3185. “Head of a Catalan Peasant” painter

B3186. Falafel bean

B3187. Little kid’s “You underestimate my power!”

B3188. World-weary bit

B3190. Snacked on

B3191. Homeric tale

B3193. Like jugglers

B3194. Enjoy some Wrigley’s

B3195. [crying while laughing emoji]

B3196. Broadway role.

B3197. Airplane ___ (phone setting)

B3198. Sixtieth of a min.

B3199. Flamboyant style of shorts

B3200. “Humoresker” composer Edvard

B3202. Change in a video game, briefly

B3203. Rockies manager Walt

B3204. Those with 10,000 hours of practice

B3205. Eastern “holies”

B3207. Glasses, or size and lens magnification of glasses

B3209. Was persuasive

B3210. Sarah McLachlan ballad

B3211. End of a coll. address

B3212. Figs. on mountains

B3214. Taunton taverns

B3215. They’re sometimes broken

B3216. Old Japanese mercenary

B3217. Pirates’ nickname

B3218. Computer drive capacity, in slang

B3219. What a haggler seeks to pay

B3220. Caledonian hillsides

B3221. Kind of lighting

B3222. Cob, e.g.

B3223. This is so long!

B3224. Cast off inhibitions

B3225. People who are not heavy drinkers?

B3227. Hebrew liquid measure

B3228. World’s fastest sport

B3229. Request by someone with a tongue depressor

B3231. Letters with a view?

B3232. Island kingdom that followed Mohammed in his lifetime

B3233. Amazon drone

B3234. They’re often lit

B3236. Clunked upside the head, biblically

B3239. Uses elevator shoes and talks too loud, e.g.

B3241. Working for money

B3242. Coveted statuette

B3243. Letters in many modern addresses

B3244. Action performed with intent

B3245. First organizer for many kids

B3246. Where you stay in Coast Guard custody

B3247. Capital south of Ecuador

B3248. Actress Polo and others

B3249. Accordingly

B3250. Ham radio channel

B3251. Disinterested

B3252. Gives a hoot

B3253. Having a projected date of

B3254. “Really? REALLY?!”

B3255. Kitchen utensil

B3256. Yard sale needs

B3257. Initialed a request

B3258. Cheese lovers

B3259. “Great heavens!”

B3261. Shake it out

B3263. Kindle material

B3266. Arrogance

B3267. General Schwarzkopf

B3269. Thought product

B3270. Belongs to

B3271. Well-remembered Firebirds

B3272. Rapper who made the 2012 album “Life Is Good”

B3273. Hydrophobe’s miedo

B3274. Prosecutor-to-be, perhaps

B3275. It rocks as it rolls

B3276. Hot and Warm Springs

B3277. Chats snappishly

B3278. Lived like a singleton again

B3279. Rolls-Royces and Bentleys

B3280. Prefix for an antitoxin

B3281. Gianni Schicchi role

B3282. Virusoid’s makeup

B3283. Cried like a calf

B3284. Considers again

B3285. Part of a cavalry regiment

B3287. Is a chatterbox

B3289. “Peace stone” with a lot of lithium

B3291. Not using

B3294. Pass quickly

B3296. Palindromic music genre

B3298. Branch of yoga

B3300. Victoria Regina’s royal rod

B3302. Film-set call

B3305. Puts (in) conditionally

B3307. German physicist

B3309. “Before,” when placed before

B3310. Stares at unsubtly

B3312. First Roman to seize power through force

B3314. Ruth’s husband, eventually

B3317. Sets in order, as flowers

B3318. Reimbursed expense for a commuter, maybe

B3319. “Law & Order” no. 2

B3320. Weird turn from drama to comedy

B3321. Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton

B3322. Severus teaches defense against the dark ones

B3323. Old “Hits the Spot” marketer

B3324. Cozy little restaurant

B3325. Finishing pitcher pro, for short

B3326. Where you’ll hear oinks

B3327. Southern side dishes

B3328. Handle a manuscript again

B3329. Show signs of exertion or emotion

B3330. Pen name of H.H. Munro

B3331. Notorious Harding

B3332. Psych. reference tome

B3334. Oldest Best Actress Oscar winner

B3335. Undertaking for an intern

B3336. Dreyer’s partner

B3337. Deflected

B3338. Brown-noser

B3339. What the Baroques called the “key of glory”

B3341. Sign of joy, maybe

B3343. Urban underbelly

B3345. de Chagny’s love of theater

B3346. Child’s punishment

B3348. Chipper

B3349. He’s pleasant and approachable

B3350. Word shouted after most “facts” in Fibbage

B3352. Mary of Sons and Lovers

B3353. East, West or in follower

B3354. Monkey

B3355. Lab vessels

B3356. Fragment of a leone

B3357. Worker protection agcy.

B3358. Biblical song

B3360. Earth goddess

B3361. Female turkey

B3362. Car sticker letters

B3363. Where David met Goliath

B3364. Italian river

B3365. Trial judge, e.g.

B3367. Little barracuda (or mixed-up animal friends)

B3369. Fastening in a hospital

B3371. Death Valley’s is the lowest in North Amer.

B3374. Crotchety sort

B3376. Anti-gambling or prostitution forces

B3377. “Seize,” to Caesar

B3378. Abecedaria

B3379. “It logically follows that…”

B3380. Gov’t-chartered mortgage investor

B3381. Honors first given by order of Q. Victoria

B3382. Lockbox

B3383. Compendia of animals, usually with moral lessons

B3384. LA Law chars.

B3386. Archipelago unit

B3387. Spun a web of lies

B3389. Not trans

B3390. Fed. loan group

B3391. Mountain chain in Utah

B3392. Lung problem

B3394. ___ worms

B3396. They may be pulled in two directions

B3398. Vince Gill’s “Tryin’ ___ Over You”

B3400. Sport vehicles, for short

B3403. Matter of hospital policy

B3405. Like Joan Baez songs

B3406. Humpback’s kin

B3407. African root

B3408. Simple home

B3409. Word with cold or loud

B3410. Sinusitis treater, for short

B3411. “___ got the whole world…”

B3412. Sunup personified

B3413. Campground user

B3414. Gloaming

B3416. Transgresses

B3418. Hamster alternative

B3419. “Horatio, ___ do forget myself” (Hamlet)

B3420. Loop in invisibly

B3422. It’s measured in points

B3424. Deal breakers

B3426. Site of Napoleon’s defeat

B3428. Some sow wild ones

B3430. Scott-Heron of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

B3442. Kind of 35mm camera

B3443. Slangy reversal

B3444. Topic at the Kinsey Institute

B3446. Something to feather

B3448. Fraternal order member

B3450. Princess whose brother is not a prince

B3452. Prepare for surgery

B3455. Arena cheer

B3461. Most indistinct

B3463. He’s known for tapering lines and simplified ornament

B3464. Received, in Rouen

B3465. “Conquest of Space” writer Willy

B3466. Wise and Buddhist

B3468. Sound of impact

B3469. Wore down

B3470. Mitigate

B3472. Waist accessory

B3474. Cartographer’s abbr.

B3476. Salty, as water

B3478. Its “B” is for “bisexual”

B3480. ___ percentage (official batting statistic since 1984)

B3482. Infant food company

B3483. Pokémon and pet rocks, e.g.

B3484. Moreover

B3485. Tee off

B3486. Back of the skull

B3487. Deathly prefix

B3488. Mesh with a group

B3489. The Portland Sea Dogs or the Akron RubberDucks

B3492. Work periods

B3494. Pelosi and Reagan

B3496. Number in a Verne title

B3498. Something you may do for kicks?

B3499. Los Angeles FC win in 2022

B3500. Isn’t any more

B3502. Hex- halved

B3503. Elec. keyboard

B3504. Muppet street?

B3505. Sipped, say

B3507. Master, in Madras

B3509. Frank Cox, the first Black math PhD

B3511. Word with Mass or Countries

B3513. Shutout feature

B3515. Kind of kin

B3519. When doubled, fish often grilled

B3521. Compass heading in Cadiz

B3522. Cover a wall with stone

B3523. Skip by

B3524. Mesa’s cousin

B3525. Four-handed piano piece

B3526. Pig pens

B3528. Hair metal band with Out of the Cellar and Infestation

B3529. Emperor for only three months

B3530. Big or little digit

B3531. Capone’s capturers, briefly

B3532. Astronaut Nowak in 2007 news

B3533. Its menu has a “Craft Supplies” section

B3534. ___ ghost (is spooked)

B3536. American whiskies

B3537. A language of India

B3538. Boat chains

B3539. Defunct sci-fi magazine

B3540. Norse goddess married to Balder

B3541. Sluggish type

B3543. Joke’s conclusion?

B3544. Come ___ surprise: meet expectations

B3545. ___ Nagila

B3546. Pasta suffixes

B3547. Like green apples

B3548. Roundup gear

B3549. Sauron’s soldiers

B3550. Bolt who bolts

B3551. ___ store by (distrust)

B3552. “What feelings sound like,” per Georgia Cates

B3553. Painfully obvious

B3554. Stupefied

B3555. Mushroom in Asian cuisine

B3556. Applied the hickory stick

B3557. Like a bad road

B3558. Ella accompanier

B3559. Hammett’s The ___ Man

B3562. Faulkner’s Rivers

B3563. ___ Jr.: burger franchise basically equivalent to Hardee’s

B3564. Shout from the Ancient Mariner

B3566. Often-overused intensifier

B3568. Goose down

B3570. David succeeded him, in the Bible

B3572. Bridesmaid and Ghostbuster Kristen

B3574. ___ oregano

B3577. Helper prof.

B3578. Independence Day baddies

B3579. “Unaccustomed ___ am to public speaking…”

B3584. The Outsiders faction

B3587. New Mexico landmark

B3589. Kind of HR investigator

B3591. High-level law deg.

B3592. “You bet your ___!”

B3593. “Copacetic, man”

B3594. River island

B3596. ___-i-noor: 106 carat diamond

B3597. ___ 360

B3599. Subj. of an ESPN profile

B3600. ___ by ___

B3603. QVC sister station

B3604. Clock numeral on the right

B3606. Rapa ___ (Easter Island)

B3608. Diminutive, in Glasgow

B3609. Won’t let one be

B3611. The Rams, on sports tickers

B3613. UK honor

B3615. Jan. 1 or Jul. 4

B3617. Father of mine

B3619. Once-used

B3621. Sgt. or corp.

B3623. Saw-whet, e.g.

B3624. New, from the start?

B3626. Belief, briefly

B3628. Starter like in-

Stitches Across

B198-C185. Is an asset

B498-C401. Source of vampire and cravat

B764-C597. Misandry

B1083-C855. Chemical composition of a Utah salt pan?

B1111-C878. Trumpeter Alpert with high wings, in Latin?

B1398-C1110. Site of a New York prison

B1674-C1406. Poor orator’s feature

B1801-C1565. “My health’s done a 180!!”

B1915-C1703. “Seven Year Ache” singer Cash

B2121-C1938. Shock to one’s core

B2425-C2226. They only needed seven digits, once

B2736-C2472. Pulmonary alveolus

B3026-C2718. Unlikely but maybe worth a try

B3288-C2906. The London fuzz

B3601-C3142. ____ immortal: unaging

Stitches Down

B3239-G4. Tries too hard to correct

B3522-G11. Checked once more for suitability

B3492-G17. Gear lever

B3461-G23. Half-alibi

B3496-G29. Nine by nine

B3498-G35. Movie featuring six fighting styles modeled after their namesake animals

B3553-G39. Intersection pointier than a square’s corner

B3617-G43. Average-guy look

B3505-G49. Condiments first domesticated in India 5500 years ago

B3563-G54. City with nationally known caverns

B3623-G61. Little hooters

B3597-G67. It has dual vibration motors and two analog triggers

B3574-G73. Ponds competitor, once

B3628-G74. Clean talk