Ubercross Abecedaria K

Across

K1. Book category (abbr.)

K5. Make like, for a while

K9. Crowdsourced navigation app

K13. Bardic caste

K17. Daily routines, boringly

K21. Problems for sitters

K25. Swaps between accts.

K29. Douay prophet

K33. Sports cars advertised with the slogan “Domesticated. Not declawed.”

K37. “Down to Gehenna ___ to the Throne, he travels the fastest who travels alone” (Kipling)

K41. Some exposed-beam homes

K47. “Say it ___ so!”

K51. Recurring themes

K57. Style of architecture

K58. Clark’s wife

K62. Prefix meaning “image”

K64. Repressed

K69. Starting to have an effect

K74. Ology kin

K77. Game, to Guglielmo

K79. Down-ballot incumbent

K83. 1983 IBM offering

K87. Beet benefits

K92. Limited intake

K94. Investment for a baseball fan

K100. Holding dear

K104. Fill chock full

K107. Still-technically-Duchess Meghan

K113. Gunther’s second continental survey

K114. Newscaster who’s gone from CNN to Fox to MSNBC to Newsmax, hosting three separate shows with The Record in their names

K117. “You COULD put it that way”

K119. Blue point in Perseus, with “the”

K121. It listens for what’s said between the lines

K122. Drove like crazy

K123. Having life

K124. “You better BELIEVE the answer’s yes!”

K126. Stirring up painful issues

K128. Swivel like an apartment door

K129. Rabin and Remini

K130. Politico who wrote The Truth (With Jokes)

K132. Trailing interest on your credit card

K133. Esau’s mom

K134. Spanish filler word or album title

K135. This bestselling song’s English version is about the Mexican Revolution

K137. Post-Ford years

K139. Sign at a B’way hit

K140. “Put yourself in someone ___ shoes!”

K142. 1 followed by 27 zeros

K144. Dating or decking

K145. Sushi bar mushroom

K146. Teletubbies’ head decorations

K147. “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry” speaker

K148. Folic acid

K150. Kitchen’s end?

K151. Region east of Alaska

K152. Arthur of tennis

K153. Altair or Atlas

K154. Multigenerational Indy surname

K155. Headed for a hangover

K156. Disappears gradually

K159. Get grime out, as with detergent

K161. Clumsy fools

K162. Minimal poker draw

K164. 1970s Savalas role

K166. 2001 author who said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

K167. Tie-___ (promos)

K168. “Be silent,” in musical scores

K169. Sports jersey material

K170. Prefix with “phone” or “byte”

K171. Pentagon VIPs (abbr.)

K172. Sea mist

K173. Hunting firearms

K175. “You’re invited to ___ party”

K176. Cut ___ (dance well)

K178. Indian tourist haven

K180. Is blessed with, as talent

K182. Low-cost home loan org.

K184. Cat’s plaint

K185. 2003 Nick Lachey hit “___ Swear”

K187. Insurance agreements for no-fault auto accidents

K190. Revealed completely

K192. What the dog says

K194. ___-punk (hybrid musical genre)

K196. One celebrated in June

K197. Muchachas (abbr.)

K198. Users can give them hearts or hugs, for short

K204. Not yet pinpointed

K212. One way to present your present

K217. Commuter’s expense

K221. Samuel Gompers org.

K224. Discolors by cooking, as salmon

K228. VPs answer to them

K230. Actress Ekberg

K232. 1950s hot spot

K233. “Hi Diddly-Dee, A Sailor’s Life For Me” or “Whiskey Johnny”

K235. Deals (out)

K237. Ending of just three common English words

K238. D, for one

K245. Make big changes to

K251. “All’s well” messages

K254. Triple Crown stat

K258. Mearth’s dad

K262. Walk-up feature

K265. ___ Island (site of a New York prison)

K266. Prefix with secretory that you see in crosswords far less often than the similar-looking cookie

K269. Getting dragged along

K270. Amundsen’s quest

K271. Henry, in Hermosillo

K272. Once-popular Don

K273. Dripping more

K275. Question asked 12 times in Matthew

K277. Indian “sirs,” loosely

K279. Breakfast cereal with a propeller-headed alien on the front of the box

K281. Marathon warm-up races

K283. People who outline

K285. Dr. Shepherd portrayer, on Grey’s Anatomy

K287. Learn some by example

K288. Hostility

K289. Word before hand or boot

K290. Home to Ho

K291. Outfielder Tommie of the Miracle Mets

K292. “___ Dimittis” (canticle in the Book of Luke)

K293. Lifter’s rippler

K294. When doubled, “Wat U Mean” singer

K295. (The) worst

K296. Orator with online courses or products to promote

K298. Versants

K299. First of two words meaning “artistically experimental”

K300. Weasley and Potter’s ally

K301. Least cantankerous

K303. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening artist

K305. Conferred about

K307. Stands in line, maybe

K309. Eskimo boots

K311. One practicing self-help, informally

K312. Extravagant way to live

K313. Acting like strangers

K315. Lake Superior native

K316. Israeli martial art

K318. City known as the “capital of Iraqi culture”

K320. Long board

K321. Medieval circuit court or Bronte heroine

K322. “Go ahead!”

K323. Radiolab producer, with a call sign that speaks to Manhattanites

K324. Toby Keith’s “___ in Mexico”

K325. Inactive

K327. The Time Machine creatures

K328. Popular Honda engine for more than twenty years

K330. Heavy odor

K332. Vegetable dish

K334. Altogether

K336. Resting (on)

K338. Baseball’s Red ___

K339. Cause of harm

K340. “Are You Normal?” (___ Atomic Dustbin)

K341. What an ellipse’s major axis passes through

K342. Animal also called a Nittany lion

K343. Office holder?

K345. Long fish

K346. Surgery spots, briefly

K347. Prior to this point

K350. “Kitchen tools and gadgets” brand

K352. Road to nowhere?

K353. Sotto ___ (spoken softly)

K354. Roy Rogers’s birthplace

K355. Sailor’s apprentice

K356. Sexual obsessive (more than most of us, that is)

K358. Italian white wines or evaporating tools

K360. San Jose, Costa ___

K362. Femoral muscle or less-well-known brachial muscle

K364. Helped with the dishes

K366. Weighty and intrinsic

K368. Big name in sneaks

K369. Ewes are there

K370. “Uh, dude?”, skeptically

K371. Jon of Chicago P.D. and La Brea

K372. Visibly closer to sunset

K373. What’s filled up in a fill-up

K375. “___ I quote…”

K376. High-tech map subject

K377. Torch type

K378. Protagonist of The Fountainhead

K380. Of a Pindar work

K381. Container for stir-fried vegetables?

K382. Thumb drive predecessor

K383. “No guts, no glory” types

K387. Abstract Expressionist who said, “any style of painting—to be painting at all, in fact—is a way of living, a style of living”

K391. 1979 Fleetwood Mac album/song

K393. Disregard, with “off”

K395. Chrysler models

K397. Extreme but apparently necessary

K398. Shook out of dreamland

K399. Get through work

K400. “I worked in ___ store and people asked how big I would get” (Rodney Dangerfield)

K401. ___ death (over-expose)

K402. Its logo is a goateed man in an apron

K403. On high, in poesy

K404. Where WWI began

K405. Hi-pH

K406. Ernie Banks nickname

K408. Potato holders

K409. Pi ___, Life of Pi hero

K410. Ominous peals

K412. The New ___ in Cincinnati

K413. Last word on magazine content, often

K415. Screen innovation of the 1920s

K416. Demon as Pirate painter

K417. Obama’s community building gp.

K418. Grown-up who’s not quite grown up

K420. Fen fuel

K422. Sci-fi home planet

K424. Coffee maker maker

K426. Narrow ridge of gravel

K427. Toy that relies on aerodynamic forces

K428. What may help you hang in there?

K430. Narrow light

K431. 2010 film about an amateur superhero

K433. Anecdotal tragedy

K435. Melancholia star Dunst

K437. Trick-taking game with thirty-two cards

K438. Some biog. sketches

K439. St. ___-Roosevelt (New York City hospital)

K440. Special Olympics qualifiers

K442. Movie theater chain

K443. Oscar-winning Aladdin composer Alan

K444. A Whisker Away or Dragonball

K445. Get some shut-eye

K447. “Hurts ___” (Mellencamp hit)

K449. Answer to the riddle: What do many people take in the office that can never be returned?

K451. Mall outlet

K453. Network that plays High Tops

K455. Main antagonist in Toy Story

K456. Ten, in combinations

K457. Diving, small-winged birds

K458. President Syngman of Korea

K459. Big name in soy sauce

K461. I, in Frankfurt

K462. Flyer to Seoul, for short

K463. Three before L

K464. Big shark

K465. “Kobe!” is for accuracy, “___!” is for distance

K467. Hebrew Bible reading (var.)

K468. Certain Asian soldier

K469. Coffeemakers

K470. Crazy, in a Ricky Martin song

K471. Enthusiastic flamenco cry

K472. To make Parisian?

K473. Rang out the hour

K474. Drooping eyelid, medically

K475. Scholarship

K477. Sort of gabfest

K479. Wee pest

K481. Some sharks

K483. Stove-top vessel

K485. What underlined text may signify

K487. Create suds

K488. In danger of extinction, perhaps

K489. It’s got a great view and a famous butt in it

K491. Puzzles named for the Japanese word for “cleverness”

K493. Mr. T hairstyle

K495. Bond between Dalton and Craig

K497. Tough-guy Duke of video games

K500. UK mil. award

K501. Report card disclosure

K502. Michigan cheer

K503. One with no prospects

K505. Nile swimmer, for short

K506. Itty-bitty (var.)

K508. “I’m quoting here…”

K510. Peter Jackson, by birth, for example

K512. Mole, for one

K514. “The ___ a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal” (Rumi)

K515. Modern reading medium

K516. Hepburn, familiarly

K517. Flier with a super annoying call

K519. Word after “open,” in store signs

K520. Pet name that can be affectionate and/or slightly annoyed

K521. Path or route

K522. Cinch-___ (Hefty product)

K523. What Men Want star Erykah

K524. AMEX, for one

K526. Approximately

K527. ___ the hat

K528. Beatles’ advice to Jojo

K530. Sesame ___

K531. Holder of emergency supplies

K532. Many, many

K533. Movie Kevin Smith made to reward his friend for staying clean

K537. Not so rarely

K539. Easygoing reply to “Nice out”

K541. Shaving cut

K543. Slender traces

K545. Big time movie studio of old

K546. Pinnacle of success

K547. “I conquered,” from Caesar

K548. Stalin’s empire

K549. Keiko, for one

K550. Many a Klingon speaker

K552. Of Immanuel’s manuals?

K554. Winnebagos’ windpipes

K557. Frère du père

K560. Big natural resource in Malaysia

K561. Stage when an animal is in heat

K562. Bridge between buildings

K563. To the ___ born

K564. The Aran Islands essayist

K565. Strong ___

K567. Word spoken during pouring

K568. Gallerist designation

K569. Spin, in a way

K571. Written

K573. Bright and colorful

K575. Spiritual centers, in yoga

K577. Gets under the skin of

K578. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy advice

K580. Merle Haggard, self-descriptively

K581. “Tippecanoe and Tyler ___”

K582. Clean the floor

K583. GE and GM, e.g.

K584. Pursuit of beauty, some say

K585. ___ jacket

K586. Go

K587. Abbreviation found on Canadian highway signs

K589. Programmer’s chart, in brief

K590. Unbridled anger

K591. “___ for igloo”

K592. Send from abroad

K593. Sushi, tofu, and tempura, e.g.

K595. Dweeb’s kin

K596. “Friends ___ all things” (Pythagoras)

K597. Wayne’s World words

K599. Victory, to Viktor

K601. The Chattanooga Lookouts or the Biloxi Shuckers

K603. Messy person

K605. Crocuses

K606. Legislation government reporters often invoke

K607. Grab, as ice cubes

K608. Big, flat-bottomed boats

K609. Lunatic notion

K612. Knowing neither friend nor foe

K614. Answers skillfully

K616. Students with personal guides

K619. Chewer

K620. “Climb ___ Mountain”

K621. ___ point: not once

K623. Couturière Coco

K624. Murderer in Oliver Twist

K625. Role players

K626. South Park kid in a poof-ball hat

K627. Doomed Tom hanging down his head

K628. Basra resident (var.)

K630. Not up to speed

K632. Dr. Seuss creation

K634. Guinness who did a lot of movies, actually, do we have to talk about…okay, fine, “Use the force, Luke,” he’s that guy

K636. Military drudges, for short

K637. Renaissance instrument of limited range

K639. Morales of Bad Boys

K640. “Aren’t you just ___ of sunshine?”

K641. Seance communication

K642. Bela of Hungary

K643. Wing requiring a sharp turn

K644. Contacts online, for short

K645. Three-course military supplies

K647. Aim an angry tirade toward

K648. She-bear, in Barcelona

K649. Largest carmaker in Italy

K650. Krivoi ___, Ukraine (also “Rih”)

K651. Secluded places

K652. Soothed

K654. Military muddles

K655. Moore contraction

K656. Alley in Hollywood

K657. Far from indulgent

K659. Lollygag

K661. Strikes from the record

K663. Where pants go in the potty

K665. Poking sticks

K666. Abounding in certain trees

K667. Not wearing a stitch

K669. The cost of being a female consumer

K671. Andy Griffith show

K673. Michelle of figure skating

K674. ___ Kilpatrick, ex-Detroit mayor who served time on several federal felony charges

K676. One-down four-up card game

K678. Celebrate salaciously

K681. Franklin tender

K682. Evening prayer

K683. UPC substitutes

K684. Shot of liquor

K685. Doorstep rendition

K687. Forward part of a boat

K689. Skin-related

K691. Acceptable

K692. “Funny meeting you here!”

K693. Use a certain fork

K694. “She’s ___ Ever Had” (Ricky Martin)

K695. Tenfold lead-in

K696. Named periods of time (abbr.)

K697. What “y” often becomes when pluralized

K698. On fire, as a party

K699. Parrot’s punctuation

K700. Variant of “tut tut” or “tsk tsk” that I personally like much better, but the crossword market has spoken

K702. Bohr the Nobelist

K704. Newport News-to-Hampton dir.

K705. Like a former gen., likely

K706. ___ port

K709. Tyrion’s house

K710. Giggly noises

K711. Herman of movies and TV

K712. Annual puzzle event that begins this year on 1/15/10

K717. Reason to avoid the stairs

K721. Ready for an operation

K723. Remote Russians

K725. Esquire in Henry VI, Part 2

K726. Thinks up something

K728. They’re separated out by centrifuges

K729. Animal’s hiking gear?

K731. Tracts reclaimed by dams or dikes

K733. NYC subdivision

K734. Emblem on government documents, often

K736. Endures the rigors of time

K738. Site of Cretan ruins

K740. First-ever celebrity-endorsed shoes

K742. Director Stanley and children

K743. Hanukkah treats

K744. Some Apples

K745. Nasal openings

K746. The Mahābhārata, e.g.

K747. 2011 animated film about a macaw named Blu

K748. Sound of Wolverine’s claws popping out, in the comics

K750. Wine press residue

K752. Vegged out

K753. Collectible Camaro

K754. The so-called “Wicked Wasp of Twickenham”

K755. Revisable (up to a point) circular file-storage format

K756. “My parents are gonna kill me…”

K758. Species

K759. The Jazz Singer and every recent movie

K760. Religious subdiv.

K762. Kindle-friendly format

K764. Big nonprofit that operates the Department of Defense Safe Helpline

K766. A .08% reading may lead to it

K767. Garden varieties?

K768. Spanish street

K769. Short with jokes

K770. Peanut-loving President

K771. Green word on street corners

K772. Of harmonic sounds

K773. Bullfrog comment

K774. Part of NEA

K776. “___ me?” (“Whadja say?”)

K778. Secluded spot

K780. Poet’s feet

K781. Intimidating absence of detail

K783. Liver near the Louvre

K784. Go-round

K785. “Uh…heh heh…oops”

K787. Missing the mark

K788. Snoop’s occasional collaborator

K789. Netherlandish Jan who painted the Arnolfini Portrait

K791. Arctic seabird

K793. Rapper Dogg

K795. Moved stealthily, with “up”

K799. Oft-reflected image

K800. Kathryn of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

K801. Historical Scottish county that sounds like linked computers and Noah’s boat

K802. Really exhausted

K804. Like the Missouri River’s waters

K805. Places to start fights

K806. Sitar accompaniment

K808. Site of some bracelets

K810. DoD downsizing

K812. Capital of Colombia?

K813. Lord & Taylor rival, informally

K814. “Just the Way You Are” Grammy winner Bruno

K815. Something to adjust on the undercarriage

K817. Tongue or tail motion

K818. Mil. aviation base

K819. Had to retire from sports, e.g.

K821. Specialty chef

K823. Bk. before Daniel

K825. Did averagely, grade-wise

K827. DOL agcy.

K828. Short bout causes

K830. “I hate” that starts off a well-known Latin poem

K831. Last recipe in some bakers’ cookbooks

K833. Temple image

K834. Ghazi Stadium’s city

K835. Spill the beans

K836. Playroom piece

K838. Order likely to get stuck in the kitchen

K840. Christmas with the ___ (2004, called “the worst Yuletide film ever made”)

K842. VFW part

K843. Salsa singer Anthony

K844. Tree of life location

K845. Feels crappy

K846. Mombasa masses

K848. Tall song collection

K849. Syrup for pecan pie, perhaps

K850. Extracts with a solvent

K852. Actresses Perry and Winters

K854. Marx and Malden

K856. Criticize, with “down”

K857. Gov. branch

K858. 1980s cartoon, with The

K860. Gets called into play

K861. Genes’ constituents

K862. Eponymous jinx

K863. Sanctions target

K867. Satirical spelling signaling a dystopian view of the U.S., like “the Untied States”

K870. Given a sedative, e.g.

K872. Singers Grant and Winehouse

K873. Dry white wine

K874. It has maple leaves on its tails

K876. Nevadan city on the Humboldt

K877. Titleist position

K878. Suffix indicating bribery

K879. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, e.g.

K880. Fonzie’s interjections

K881. Stops in to see

K883. Begins in a committed manner

K885. Opposite of far

K887. Is loyal to

K889. Prepare in a pan

K890. What most clothes should come in

K892. HOG (Harley ___ Group)

K893. Inappropriately inquisitive

K894. Spot to anchor a line through

K896. Singer Bayes

K897. Pouty pose

K899. Becomes threadbare

K901. Use of a corporate jet, say

K902. QB Michael suspended for participating in dogfighting

K903. Young trout

K904. Duran Duran 007 theme

K907. Pop group?

K909. A “Giddy-Up, Daddy” plaque is dedicated to this cartoonist

K911. Div. for the Mets

K913. Kind of plane

K915. Hungarian philosopher Lakatos

K916. Top of the head

K917. Mc___ (that’s what they’re actually called; Vincent Vega was wrong)

K918. Fixate fanatically (on)

K919. Best-known parallelogram (abbr.)

K920. Sighed in satisfaction

K921. Like the tide in Blondie’s song

K922. Not so bitey

K923. XXIII × XXV × II

K924. Knot working?

K926. Salisbury and Swiss

K927. Dylan Dreyer and Craig Melvin, on Weekend Today

K929. Cubist pioneer

K930. “I give it ___!” (judge’s ringing endorsement)

K931. Street cleaning day event

K932. Van___: mutual fund tracking stocks hyped online

K933. Place to get hired

K934. Boat-bottom part

K935. Helmet-sporting comics hound

K937. Finger-shaped pastry

K939. Members of the family

K941. She’s only as old as she feels

K945. The king, in Italian

K946. The original Olympics, e.g.

K947. ___ Drive (street where Harry Potter grew up)

K948. Where one might pass the puck

K950. Kellogg’s toaster waffle

K951. Like the equation x = 2y

K952. “Not serious!”

K954. Bergen woodenhead

K956. Rhythm of a run

K957. Jonathan Davis’s group

K958. Sumptuousness

K959. Kind of urban plots

K961. Break ___: win all the money

K963. Caesar’s but

K964. Whiz ___

K965. Larger-than-life figures

K967. Estranged dad of sci-fi

K969. App with a widely discussed possible ban in 2023

K971. Penal code entries

K973. Finnish monetary unit

K974. Farmer’s Almanac adjective

K975. Displeased looks

K976. Competed at Henley

K977. Nutcase

K978. Procedural-drama binge-watch channel

K979. “About the Author” sections

K980. Nonsense, to Biden (variant spelling)

K981. Scouting mission, briefly

K983. Soy and corn, usually

K985. Go-___

K986. Bath & Body Works purchase

K987. Whatever she wants, she gets

K988. Word after cream or crumb

K989. Of Mice and Men wife

K990. Cool, in an Eighties skate park

K991. Sounds the hour

K993. Course finish

K995. Australian animal

K997. Seal, as in a crate

K999. Polio fighter

K1001. English professor’s deg.

K1002. Like this ans.

K1003. 1 or 66 (abbr.)

K1004. Hayes or Harding

K1005. Watermelon alternative

K1006. Nose held high, perhaps

K1007. Game with numbered cards

K1008. Reality show with the appropriate theme song “Sugar, Sugar”

K1009. NYC mayor who, after his retirement, came out as heterosexual

K1011. Bill and Hillary, once

K1012. “Put down your pencils”

K1013. Apres-ski drinks

K1015. Erotica author Leigh or erotica manufacturer DiCarlo

K1016. “So tell me…”

K1018. The “only g-g-g-girl that I adore,” according to a WWI-era song

K1019. Schoolroom sight

K1020. Tosca’s feeling

K1022. Eponym of a London insurer

K1024. 2010s dance craze

K1026. Elmy campus of note

K1028. Get all mushy

K1029. Interconnected operations (abbr.)

K1032. “Turn that A/C down”

K1033. Bike, ballplayer, or biter

K1035. Atlanta basketballers

K1036. Source of a remote ticket

K1038. Brown genre

K1040. Tammany Hall detractor

K1041. Western tribe

K1042. Sitz or mikvah

K1043. Great, in hip-hop slang

K1044. Surname in a Tolstoy title

K1046. Casual rejection

K1047. Like HGTV projects

K1048. Blesses

K1049. Pass on foot

K1051. “Toot That” and “Trip Out” singer Banks

K1053. Courtroom combatants

K1055. “Forget it, that’s impossible”

K1057. Capital mentioned in a Top 40 song about chess

K1059. Soccer star Guillermo

K1060. Forgivable fibs

K1062. Russian mining center

K1063. Jolt and Surge

K1064. Careless assemblage

K1065. Star of The King and I and The Ten Commandments

K1069. “Or” after a given name

K1072. Ascetic who lives on a pillar

K1074. City’s periphery

K1076. Baja bathroom?

K1077. Dawn, poetically

K1078. More stylish

K1080. All the time? (abbr.)

K1082. “Give me a break already!”

K1084. School of Paris

K1086. Kind of tandem drumming that’s big in Japan

K1088. Beach headwear

K1090. When repeated, a Stooge’s laugh

K1091. Like most taste tests

K1092. Cartoon inspired by the premise, “What if Lex Luthor defeated Superman?”

K1093. Mother of Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Rob

K1094. Cutely slow

K1095. Fashion designer Vera

K1096. Electronic control mechanisms, briefly

K1097. Super-duper

K1098. Not quite tight

K1100. Fat introduction?

K1101. Feeling I got when Game of Thrones, a show I’d always meant to binge-watch, turned into absolute crap before I got around to it, in short

K1102. God parentally abused in The Iliad

K1103. Brewski

K1105. Mowgli’s python

K1106. Billy’s mate

K1107. Hide in most men’s shoes

K1108. Truman-founded org.

K1109. Impatiently, urgently wanna

K1111. Critter that sleeps upside down

K1113. Rule over a kingdom

K1115. Kinsey star

K1117. Labor ___ vincit (Oklahoma motto)

K1120. Last part of a Greek lyric poem

K1122. Thinks likewise

K1123. Scarce blood type

K1124. Assesses one’s options carefully

K1126. Condition of balance

K1127. It’s worth 100 sawbucks

K1128. Panna ___ (Italian dessert)

K1130. “Minuet ___”

K1131. Solemn vigil

K1132. Princess in L. Frank Baum books

K1133. Brazilian stone fruit

K1134. Hebrew letter after zayin

K1135. Sycophants, slangily

K1137. Blouse or shirt

K1138. Constellation near Scorpius

K1139. Long-term tendencies

K1141. Hockey player, for one

K1143. Itty-bitty bits

K1145. German architect who spent 19 years in Spandau Prison

K1147. Trailer makeup

K1149. ___ souci

K1150. Crockpot part

K1152. “Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings” writer Evan

K1153. “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies,” e.g.

K1154. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest creator Ken

K1155. Wistful lament

K1156. Disturbing director Aronofsky

K1157. Celestial

K1158. Drop a reference (to)

K1160. Like some furnace fuel

K1161. Bit of cattle-tax (in Scotland) or thievery (in the US)

K1163. The Art of Fugue writer

K1164. Kind of mill

K1165. “But wasn’t ___ most peculiar man?” (Simon & Garfunkel line)

K1166. “Well, this is uncomfortable”

K1168. Southeast Europe

K1170. Data on TV

K1172. Board game with stones

K1174. Flying flycatcher (it’s as small as it sounds)

K1176. 2004 biopic starring Liam Neeson

K1178. There are 2.54 in an in.

K1179. City along the old Oregon Trail

K1182. Tried for office

K1183. Important testimony provider

K1185. Ignore contemptuously

K1186. Football squad known for red outfits, for short

K1187. Understands, Biblically

K1188. “Gunga Din” studio, 1939

K1189. Nissan bumpers?

K1190. Sandal or moccasin

K1191. Yoga class cushions

K1192. Dec. 31 follower

K1193. Curb it

K1194. Trying time

K1196. Phone letters above 4

K1197. Some tag players

K1198. Make off-limits

K1199. Break the limit

K1201. Virtual Post-Its

K1203. Whole alternative, in Nottingham

K1206. Tied together, in a way

K1208. “Consider the alternative possibility that…”

K1209. Letters online?

K1211. Food served in its own shell

K1212. Irritate, with on

K1213. “Dad” or “odd” follower

K1214. Electronics-ad adjective

K1215. “Fee, ___, fo…”

K1216. Gram opening

K1217. Tumbleweeds cartoonist

K1219. Innovation introduced on April 3, 2010

K1220. Philippine rice cake

K1221. Poetic genealogist

K1222. Any stand-up comic needs a strategy to deal with them

K1224. Something to keep you safe from children

K1225. Toasted

K1227. Drug-yielding shrubs

K1229. Fourth-generation Falkirkian

K1231. Intuitive knowledge

K1233. Fancy hairnet

K1234. Initial month in Ibiza

K1236. Hydrate

K1237. Simba’s mate

K1238. Michele of The Mayor

K1239. Relentless studier

K1240. “___ person needs it…” (start of riddle about “nothing”)

K1241. They play ball together

K1242. Badly underweight

K1245. Fill ___: be of use

K1246. Way to get rid of flakes?

K1247. Cast selection

K1248. Cold, as agua

K1249. Icky stuff

K1250. Idea or sense

K1252. It crosses rds.

K1253. The ___-i-noor Diamond

K1254. Wasn’t altogether faithful to the text

K1257. Epoch when modern mammals arose

K1259. Neighborhood where kimchi might be found, informally

K1261. Is acquainted with

K1263. Banished from the body

K1267. Roofing material

K1268. Catalyst for genetic degradation, in older textbooks

K1270. Morale-crushing

K1271. Triple Crown record-holder in all three races

K1273. Latin admonitions to the reader (abbr.)

K1274. Gossip’s gift

K1275. Hair extension?

K1276. It can be balanced

K1278. Dental doings

K1280. Pug’s three min.

K1281. USA language

K1282. Event where many people see things

K1284. Word with “bore” or “wave”

K1285. Joe, vis-a-vis the military

K1286. Without a winner

K1288. On the Road newsman

K1290. Name in nuclear-strike history

K1292. Climactic Texas Hold ’em bet

K1294. Name shouted near the end of The Graduate

K1295. Found another chair for

K1296. Irredeemable evildoers

K1297. Queenly or kingly

K1298. Collide (into)

K1299. Silvery white

K1300. Sculptor

K1305. Excitebike platform

K1306. London cleaning woman

K1307. Sail a zigzag course

K1308. Heart of Earth, e.g. (abbr.)

K1309. Pandemic-endangered theaters (when I first wrote this cue)

K1310. Live-streaming app named after a desert animal

K1312. Yourself, in Ypres

K1313. Letter spelled differently in England

K1314. No dang good, as a rap or steer

K1315. Delighted

K1318. Chobani alternative

K1320. Differences between observed and actual values

K1322. Town whose palindromic bakery was replaced by the Yrella Gallery

K1324. Served as an usher

K1326. Iditarod vehicles

K1327. Sch. in Terre Haute, Ames, or Pocatello

K1328. Some printer hues

K1329. Used for a tryst

K1330. Canvasback or mallard

K1331. Like clocks with a circle of numbers

K1332. Sml., med., ___

K1333. Frequently overoptimistic ORD guess

K1334. Small swellings

K1336. Sharp as a tack

K1337. Degree of quality

K1338. Globe Theatre accusation

K1339. Unit of power consumption util. cos. will charge for

K1340. Horror movie about a day at the beach

K1341. “ANOTHER cockroach!?!”

K1342. “Universal grammar” proponent Noam

K1344. Gallic “grazie”

K1346. Old, slow ship

K1347. Punch-in-the-stomach exclamation

K1349. Sagan’s “pale blue dot”

K1351. Mountainous, more specifically

K1353. Krispy ___

K1355. “Mene, mene, ___…”

K1357. Russian VIP of old

K1358. Cartoonist’s accomplishment

K1361. Into the night

K1362. Town in some Stephen King novels

K1364. Push through the borders of, in large numbers

K1365. Devastating name in 2005 news

K1367. Kind of catfish named for catfish’s ability to “walk”

K1368. Often-striped candy

K1369. Michigan city

K1371. Trash-bag closers

K1372. Underwater defense reserves?

K1374. Colorful pond fish

K1375. “The Marry Month of ___” (O. Henry story)

K1376. Relations

K1378. Comics artist who created the Phantom

K1381. Admission of perjury

K1383. Coastal vegetation also known as bladder wrack or red fucus

K1385. Stitching lines

K1387. Knocked ‘em dead

K1389. Murder in the Cathedral monogram

K1390. Insect-resistant plant, e.g., briefly

K1391. Lengthen, old-style (yes, once upon a time, this word meant something without “out” added to it)

K1392. Kim Kardashian’s younger sis

K1393. Open-air marketplace

K1394. Multifaceted Stewart

K1395. Hotel desk handout

K1396. British medical syst.

K1397. Geometric or math problems shared at shrines

K1398. Comedian Carvey

K1399. 840 yards of cotton yarn

K1400. What Eliza called her prof

K1401. TV spots

K1402. Pre-AD

K1403. Water-___

K1404. Proverbial source of security

K1406. ___ in “kangaroo”

K1407. Scenes for women without accompaniment (like “Let It Go” and “The Next Right Thing”)

K1409. Moisture on a petal

K1410. Ref. unlikely to have another print edition (“Who would have thought free, instant technology would have killed a 130-pound, $1,165 set of reference books? Oh, right, everyone” --Megan Friedman, Time)

K1412. Charming children

K1414. They hang around the rain forest

K1416. Ludwig who designed the Seagram Building and Barcelona chairs

K1419. Indie singer Case

K1420. Merit badge since 1911

K1422. Cerumen remover

K1423. What your first-grade teacher is to you now

K1424. Diamond group, often

K1426. Club ___ Bing (The Sopranos night spot)

K1427. Microchip found in cameras, briefly

K1429. Metaphysics of Morals author

K1430. Captain Planet character voiced by Whoopi Goldberg

K1431. Coal processing waste

K1432. Freddie the Freeloader’s portrayer Red

K1434. Chiang ___-shek

K1435. Plunk lead-in

K1436. Farmer opposed to Soviet collectivization

K1438. κ

K1440. Sushi fish

K1443. Git one’s Jawja accent goin’

K1445. Surprised with, with “on”

K1447. Kind of horoscope

K1448. “___-dokey!”

K1449. Gritty crime films

K1451. “Mowgli belongs to my pack, Shere Khan” speaker

K1452. Rapper Millions

K1453. High-frequency colorant

K1454. Lima tender

K1455. Disintegrate over time

K1456. Mulling over the verdict

K1459. Nave furnishings

K1460. __ Yankees

K1461. The egg came first because they evolved from dinosaurs

K1463. Muesli tidbit

K1464. Close ones

K1466. Mocked

K1468. A Confederacy of Dunces author

K1470. Hoopster Smits

K1471. Borrower’s letters

K1473. It pays on a semiannual basis

K1475. “She just WON’T. STOP. TALKING”

K1477. Rambling, as a play

K1479. One who loves pain (yours)

K1483. Good sign on a highway

K1486. Michelle who’s the greatest action heroine of all time, per Rotten Tomatoes

K1487. Precisely when

K1491. Keys in music

K1492. High-school omega wolf

K1493. Cold, violent wind

K1494. With Online, MMORPG with mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and combat

K1495. Hidalgo hi

K1496. Bubble wrap sound

K1497. Year-end consultant

K1498. Alligator ___ (underwater menace)

K1499. Gray wolf

K1500. Apply, as plaster

K1502. (The) entirety

K1507. Halves of some measurements

K1509. Units for the copier

K1511. Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s mom

K1512. Developer’s site

K1513. Concert connoisseurs

K1515. Kids’ cereal

K1516. Item for a vase

K1517. Eurasian mountain range

K1518. Part of a Boy Scout’s uniform

K1521. Unidentified dead

K1523. Where cabernet is kept

K1525. Takes advantage of

K1527. No small favor

K1529. Don’t really read

K1531. Hands-on alternative medicine

K1532. Planet Mork hailed from

K1533. Pres. Zelenskyy’s nation

K1534. ___ visit to (saw)

K1536. Show to the door

K1538. Recent fad doll

K1540. Abadan cash

K1541. Have ___: fume

K1543. Slower, in music (abbr.)

K1544. Japanese deer

K1545. They’re complete

K1546. Musical exposure

K1548. ___ in arms (too young to walk unaided)

K1549. Fills a suitcase

K1550. How we walk

K1551. Southwest Arizona town

K1552. Like a PFC

K1553. Lear or Cole

K1554. Computer memory units (abbr.)

K1555. Ironically, it may be civil

K1556. Waiting time at the DMV, seemingly

K1557. Earn a lot of lettuce

K1559. Clowns’ shoe widths

K1561. Meat on a kabob

K1563. Fixed, as a model airplane

K1566. Ray ___, mayor of New Orleans during Katrina

K1568. Unearth

K1570. Statistical measure invented to study beer

K1572. About .62 mile (abbr.)

K1573. It needs good run-and-pass technique

K1574. Endorsed

K1575. X-ray doses

K1576. State cop

K1577. Skill for an EMT

K1578. Propel

K1579. Lords of film

K1580. Cads’ opposite

K1581. Different places

K1582. Source of film trivia

K1583. “Nyet!” sayers

K1585. Keeps in the e-loop

K1586. They sometimes create a scene

K1588. Cows, archaically

K1589. Enjoy a playground fixture

K1591. Gaiman who wrote American Gods and Coraline

K1593. Deprive of one’s courage

K1595. Hwy. or tpk. relative

K1596. “np”

K1598. Jason of How I Met Your Mother

K1600. “[I might’ve said no if I had more time to think about it]”

K1602. Listens up, quaintly

K1604. Honor cards

K1605. Period of the Cenozoic Era

K1607. Princesses of Wales and Themyscira

K1608. Tough bosses

K1610. Oft-shaken rear

K1611. Types of rice

K1612. 100 ore in Sweden

K1613. Captain Marvel Larson

K1614. Sign of poor housekeeping

K1615. Sent to Dreamland

K1616. First company to broadcast from the Empire State Building

K1617. What’s in a team, they say

K1618. Her sky-horses were Lampus and Phaëton

K1619. Destructive whelk

K1621. “And he made him ___ of many colors”

K1623. Dandling spot

K1625. Gal of Red Notice

K1627. Sai-wielding assassin of Marvel

K1630. Insult for the easily led

K1632. Repeat-and-fade song segments, informally

K1634. Onetime TV music vendor

K1635. Center for Cryptologic History org.

K1636. Arrow groove

K1637. Department store founder James Cash

K1638. Olympic runner Keino

K1639. ___ in “Isaac”

K1640. Trig’s mom

K1641. Response to an unrevealing revelation

K1642. Nonconformist

K1643. Duffel

K1644. The Zoom and Slack of the 1990s

K1645. Jumpers Down Under

K1647. Kitschy stuffed toys

K1650. Angry Birds or Tetris, e.g.

K1652. Coffee containers for single-serve brewing

K1654. TV host Hoda

K1656. A to G

K1658. Prior to, to a poet

K1659. Condensed, as a pocket dict.

K1661. “Deux” follower

K1663. Gran ___

K1665. Mountain top?

K1669. Burgundy river

K1672. Road kink requiring two swerves

K1674. 24/7 chain with a “Grand Slamwich”

K1675. Working harmoniously (with)

K1677. It’s useful in sailing and rock climbing

K1680. Dove’s domicile

K1681. Ortho doc’s worry

K1682. Fein leader in Eire

K1683. Subtly malign

K1684. Border guards check them

K1685. President of Zaire

K1686. Informal “See what I mean?”

K1688. Artist/musician Voormann

K1690. Mercantile event

K1692. Improper

K1694. Standing ovation cheers (var.)

K1697. Cookie box abbr.

K1699. Motion-sensitive Xbox accessory

K1701. Grass denizen

K1702. 700+-episode CBS franchise

K1703. Do some high-tech surgery on

K1704. One of the media (var.)

K1705. Like Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 109

K1706. Bellwether from Zootopia, e.g.

K1707. Sudden stabs, as of hunger or guilt

K1708. Miami Heat star who left Florida to protect his daughter

K1709. Start of the “flying down” song

K1710. Numbingly monotonous

K1711. “The Pearl of the Indian Ocean”

K1713. Actor Luckinbill

K1714. Guileful

K1716. “Would you be ___?” (“Please?”)

K1718. He disproved Fermat’s conjecture

K1720. Asia-to-Africa link

K1722. Be lousy

K1724. Beaming

K1726. Controversial 1980s plan (abbr.), recently revived

K1727. DNA’s natural couples

K1731. Rink wear

K1733. Beefy Laker?

K1734. Interjections from the elderly or Canadians, stereotypically

K1735. Old NYC subway division

K1736. Harmonic speed in atomic emissions

K1740. Has-___

K1741. Gull-like birds

K1742. Sixteen-time Gold Glove-winning pitcher Jim

K1743. Spoke with a forked tongue

K1744. Staple of slapstick humor

K1745. Noted sonneteer, as abbreviated in some crossword clues

K1746. Half a seafood order?

K1747. Popular citrus drink

K1748. Controllable appearance

K1750. “Me too,” sometimes more grammatically

K1752. Popped in the microwave

K1754. Classic theaters

K1756. Façade’s load-bearing statue

K1758. Patron saint of difficult marriages

K1760. Suzanne Vega song about abuse

K1762. Simple drawing

K1764. Criminal flight

K1765. Often-kicked comics canine

K1766. High-end designer

K1768. Zero longitude hr.

K1769. Instance, in France

K1770. Loosen, as laces

K1771. With lots of lather

K1772. Manages (for oneself)

K1773. Cropped photos?

K1774. First note of a tuba solo?

K1775. First four letters Aretha spells out

K1777. Like many stadia

K1779. “___ not clear?”

K1780. Play on the gridiron

K1782. Spring (for)

K1784. Man celebrated on Mar. 17

K1786. Turning point

K1788. Work that may have a number

K1790. Certain fabrics, or performance while hanging from fabric

K1792. Ringo’s drummer son

K1793. Once more (in textspeak)

K1794. Sardonic looks

K1796. Some pranksters, aptly enough

K1798. Nawlins B-ballers

K1799. Puts a border around

K1800. “No worries here!”

K1802. Afflicted

K1803. de Leon who sought the Fountain of Youth

K1804. Kind of transfers between financial institutions

K1805. Instrument for Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood” and Kenny G’s “Forever in Love”

K1808. Youngest president

K1810. It’s often above the \

K1813. Piece for a quilt

K1815. Tarot users

K1817. Battlestar Galactica “Blast!”

K1819. Boxing-match conclusions, often

K1821. Wu-Tang Clan or A Tribe Called Quest

K1824. Attended to the end of

K1826. Public bathroom array

K1827. Grammatical starter?

K1828. Proven false

K1829. NYC subway initials

K1830. Terrier’s “BE TERRIFIED! FOR IT IS I!”

K1831. More contemptible

K1832. Nudist layabout who wore a jacket and hat as a pilot

K1833. Wyatt of Night Train

K1834. “That can’t be good!”

K1835. Avoided serious injury

K1836. Baseball playoffs mo.

K1837. Landmark affirmative-action case

K1838. “I did good!”

K1839. Actor David in The Pink Panther and A Matter of Life and Death

K1840. Setting of the sun

K1841. Indian intern in Dilbert

K1843. Future Valhallans

K1845. Driving around in a Winnebago, e.g.

K1847. Shorthand similar to “IMO”

K1849. Some Greenland dwellers

K1851. Legatee

K1853. Result of bad service

K1855. Speaker’s concern

K1859. Talk froggily

K1861. Keeps the car on the road

K1862. “___ tell a lie”

K1864. Fire-walking mystic

K1865. It’s a piece of work

K1866. Really tidy type

K1868. This minute

K1869. Very distant

K1870. Culinary artist

K1872. Having little trouble

K1873. De bene ___ (conditionally)

K1874. “Mr. November” for Derek Jeter, e.g.

K1876. Discontinued Swedish auto

K1878. It’s the write stuff?

K1880. Star once called Arided, “the follower”

K1882. ThinkPad alternative

K1884. Person who crosses the line

K1886. Triage performer, for short

K1888. Falstaff

K1890. News finish, perhaps

K1892. Tough to comb

K1893. Class for which you might buy your first charcoal

K1894. However, briefly

K1895. Home of the Huskers, for short

K1896. Toe woe

K1897. “A” as in Israel (var.)

K1898. Noted pyramid builders

K1899. What the knave stole from the Queen of Hearts

K1900. Fast, in store names

K1902. Track lap

K1903. Brandy barrel material

K1904. Noah’s backyard project

K1905. Where Rockefeller was gov.

K1906. Hallucinate

K1908. Concerning

K1910. Brave div.

K1911. “All You ___ Is Love” (Beatles)

K1913. Ill-fated admiral in World War I

K1914. More salacious

K1916. Stringy frank condiment

K1918. High-tech transmission

K1920. Yogic states of devotion

K1922. Randy or Jason of Cheap Seats

K1924. Take ___: talk to your crush, e.g.

K1925. Mass medium?

K1926. Spice rack staple

K1928. Candidate’s TV purchase

K1930. “If ___…” (“Will you allow me to interrupt?”)

K1931. Moody rock

K1932. Key West-to-Fort Kent hwy.

K1933. Undercover agent without a fake name, for short

K1934. Addictive Pepperidge Farm cookies

K1936. Laugh (it up)

K1937. Bookbinder’s abbr. for gold edges

K1938. www.harvard.___

K1939. UAL western hub

K1940. Footmen

K1942. Much-missed Supreme Court justice, initially

K1943. Knucklehead

K1944. Indian title of respect (var.)

K1945. Chris Colfer’s role on Glee

K1946. Rumor propagator

K1947. Sign up for

K1948. According to

K1949. AK Steel’s crash-barrier manufacturer

K1950. One who has reached nirvana

K1952. Sparks denizens

K1955. Cyborg prefix, in movies

K1956. Broken Politics singer Cherry

K1959. Balanced hand opening in bridge

K1961. “I heard you! I heard you!”

K1963. Some ollld TV sets

K1964. Corrida calls

K1966. Your ancestor and mine

K1967. “Well-l-l-l…”

K1968. Residential builder

K1974. Clear bargain

K1975. Norse mischief-maker

K1976. Friendly name for an ice cream sandwich brand

K1977. Very funny situation

K1978. Sudden, swift descents

K1979. Tans hard

K1981. Passionate states

K1982. Capital on the Java Sea

K1985. Some cigarettes (named back when smoking was considered avant-garde)

K1986. Year in Edward VI’s reign

K1988. What the good do young, they say

K1989. Needlewoman’s need

K1992. Composer Rimsky-Korsakov

K1993. Truffle-hunting aid

K1995. How-to presentation

K1996. Summer break, to an Oxfordian

K1998. Delhi dish

K2000. “Don’t ___ didn’t warn you”

K2002. Erwin with a classic self-named show

K2004. Colorful seashell

K2006. Milky gem

K2007. Latin men

K2009. Viking-cartooner Browne

K2010. Dracula, really

K2012. Small nocturnal lizard

K2013. “___ really” (demurral)

K2014. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” film

K2015. Pleasurably amusing, in old slang

K2017. Goddess of Hades

K2018. Substantial pieces

K2020. Antagonizes, especially online

K2021. Andrew of politics

K2023. Peter Pan journeys, e.g.

K2025. Suffix for when “com” isn’t available

K2026. Like mice and men (abbr.)

K2028. Completely (McGotes)

K2030. Largest Mayan city

K2032. It keeps an eye in place

K2033. Timothée Chalamet romantic role

K2035. Nothing, to Juan Gonzalez

K2037. HSers’ exams

K2039. Lake Victoria discoverer Captain John Hanning

K2040. Kweli of hip-hop (“Get By”)

K2042. Become established

K2043. The LPGA’s Se-ri

K2044. Particolored

K2045. Depressions

K2046. Caused to limp

K2047. Expression of disgust

K2048. Pleasantly muscular

K2049. Borat and Gulliver’s Travels

K2050. Bygone file-sharing site

K2051. End a hug

K2052. Prefix for foam

K2054. Variety of works in a single publication

K2056. Hazardous arctic passage for a boat

K2059. “Die Young” and “Take It Off” singer

K2061. Honorary head of the Hungarian Engineering Academy

K2063. “All or Nothing” and “Liquid Dreams” band

K2065. Vertebrates’ features

K2069. Stilettos

K2072. Skipped the saddle

K2075. “Yarrr,” “matey,” and “yo-ho-ho” from wannabe pirates, “to the izzle,” “wack” and “yo yo yo” from wannabe hip-hop stars, etc.

K2076. Last Days actor Haas

K2077. Quan-car

K2078. Rush-hour cacophony

K2079. Porky or Babe

K2080. Hosp. figures

K2081. Cougars or Bobcats, slangily

K2082. Sewing kit feature

K2083. Never Let ___

K2085. Galapagos denizens

K2087. Season starters

K2089. Sports footwear brand

K2091. French painter of cafe scenes

K2093. Do some click-and-mortar buying

K2095. Glitch

K2096. Planet only seen from space before it explodes

K2098. Saws wood

K2099. Rock guitarist Ford with “Close My Eyes Forever”

K2101. Creativity and time management, in the office

K2102. Punishes for lateness, maybe

K2103. Carpenter who sang “I Won’t Last a Day Without You”

K2104. Lot of pot

K2105. Lousy writers

K2106. Floater from Federer

K2107. Degree for a CEO, often

K2108. Sidekick of film and TV

K2109. Calliope relative

K2113. Guy’s guy

K2116. Pole between the main and the mizzen

K2118. Paced for a warmup on the track

K2121. Kissed the pavement

K2123. Latin singer Mercedes and kin

K2125. St. Philip ___ (patron saint of humor!)

K2127. Wd. division

K2128. DuVall of But I’m a Cheerleader

K2130. College applicants’ assets

K2131. Current events

K2133. Cries from the Dane

K2134. “Tiny” kid of literature

K2135. Rich supplies

K2136. Embarrassingly misled in public

K2137. Peter, eldest of the Monkees

K2138. Drug agents (var.)

K2139. Toys that use reflection and refraction to make patterns

K2142. Big name in toy trains

K2143. Possession indicator

K2144. Crosswordese tree now known as tamarisk

K2145. Fargo’s state (abbr.)

K2147. Ancient prayer that introduced the line “Heaven and earth are full of your glory”

K2148. Tending to a snail’s pace

K2150. The Apostle Paul’s sidekick

K2152. Film composer Morricone

K2154. Knighted conductor Georg

K2156. Gladly, old-style

K2158. Meme that showed Reeves caring for animals before John Wick

K2161. IPO offering, abbr.

K2163. Disgustingly dirty

K2165. Tackle, as an opponent

K2167. Prefers

K2168. Metallic fabrics

K2169. Pans for making pot stickers

K2170. They tell which way the wind blows

K2171. Briefly, with “in”

K2172. Charles le Fou, e.g.

K2173. Followed a trail

K2174. Words to down a drink by

K2175. Common canine

K2176. Hang-out buddy

K2177. Luther actor Elba

K2179. Do the package over again

K2181. TV fare

K2183. She’s wooed by startups

K2187. Its ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

K2189. Spiders’ work

K2190. 1956 campaign nickname

K2192. Like a certain complex that makes Mother’s Day a bit fraught

K2194. Court suffix

K2196. “Love ___ leave…”

K2197. Justice League or Jughead

K2198. Subaru spot, say

K2199. Sean’s mom

K2200. What it takes all of to make a world

K2201. Incredulous one

K2203. Parts of pedigrees

K2204. Gold measurement units

K2205. Roger who played Bond

K2206. Onion and garlic

K2207. The “M” in “YMCA”

K2209. Put down shingles

K2211. “Mighty ___ a Rose” (old song)

K2212. Brian of ambient music

K2214. Leave hastily

K2215. Racoons, when they annoy you

K2217. Backside of a switch?

K2219. Deep Throat’s identity

K2222. Have high hopes

K2225. “I Think I’m a Clone Now” singer

K2227. Court officer

K2228. One might get unclogged by exfoliation

K2229. Tinseltown setting

K2230. Abstract expressionist Krasner

K2231. ___-Locka (city near Miami)

K2232. Each of them used to come with a Mighty Mouse

K2233. Many are spotted around Valentine’s Day

K2234. Andy who portrayed King Kong and Captain Haddock

K2235. Aid to others’ purposes

K2236. Like a rogue

K2239. Key of Beethoven’s Appassionata

K2241. Campaign handouts

K2244. Musical shift

K2246. Wings, in entomology

K2247. Super excited

K2249. Spiral-horned antelope

K2251. Stephen of the screen

K2252. Like a lecher

K2254. Malay isthmus

K2255. ___ Dead Yet

K2256. Colloquial assent

K2258. Gross

K2259. “___ they all, all honourable men” (Julius Caesar)

K2260. Poorly socialized Type A personality, usually

K2261. “Maybe I am, but so are you”

K2265. Counterirritant cream

K2266. Bigelow beverages

K2267. ___ date (makes plans)

K2270. Annoy persistently

K2271. Springe, or thing sprung

K2273. Whole mess

K2275. Justice Garland who got no justice

K2277. Leaf under a bloom

K2279. Salutation in some old letters

K2281. Villainous expressions

K2283. Second publication (abbr.)

K2285. Model for a cuckoo clock weight

K2288. Product identifier similar to UPC

K2290. Feeble argument

K2293. Nursery group

K2294. Feet in a meter

K2295. Read without posting

K2296. Like some keys

K2297. Go for the heart of

K2298. Freight weight

K2299. Catches, as a fish

K2300. Whiskey that’s risky

K2301. Remark of refutation

K2305. Birthplace of Karl Marx

K2306. Kind of odds, oddly

K2308. Furniture retailer since 1943

K2310. The number of El Diablo

K2312. ___ Sabha (Indian legislature)

K2313. Its subscriber base peaked in 2002

K2315. Razor accessory

K2317. Asleep on one’s feet

K2319. It’s SW of Buffalo

K2321. Singer Christine who believed in the “Angel of Music”

K2323. Wear in the Highlands

K2324. Chicago clock setting

K2326. Contraction for hypotheticals

K2328. Game played by stepping on arrows to the beat, for short

K2329. Put a stop to

K2331. Gets creased

K2333. Least of a litter

K2334. Athletes in a “Crying Baby Festival” said to protect children from evil spirits (they’re comforted as soon as they start crying, in case you were worried)

K2335. Sea snails

K2337. Like eggs and noses shouldn’t be (but sometimes are)

K2338. Name of many an adult contemporary station

K2339. Sounds of hard knocks

K2340. His first collection of poems was credited only to “a Bostonian”

K2341. Some improvisation

K2342. Walks through shallow water

K2344. What pronouns refer to

K2347. Gaze (at)

K2350. In ___ (yet to be born)

K2352. Reproductive cell

K2354. Metal in semiconductors

K2356. Cards often discarded

K2359. Starr with a 1998 report

K2362. Commits to, as an interest rate

K2365. Beat handily

K2366. Police detective

K2367. Money holder

K2368. Three-day celebration in late January or early February

K2369. Gaelic “gold”

K2370. ___ odds (disagreed)

K2371. Forester automaker

K2372. Showstopping, once

K2373. Hawaiian coffee variety

K2374. M and N, in D.C.

K2375. Cry of worry

K2377. Familiar Midwest sight

K2378. Deep appreciation of wine

K2380. Anxiety may be a symptom of it

K2382. Intermission

K2384. Like much folk music (abbr.)

K2386. Linebacker Junior

K2387. London entertainment district

K2389. Wooden peg

K2390. “I ___ Her Standing There”

K2392. Many ‘90s music sales

K2393. Retaining the gender assigned at birth

K2395. Put in stitches?

K2396. Defeater of scissors

K2397. Get-rich-quick schemer Ernest G.

K2398. Words preceding “due respect” and “things considered”

K2400. Forty to get per night?

K2401. Leonardo’s weapon of choice

K2402. Hello in Honolulu

K2403. Bike messenger’s need

K2404. Country south of Florida

K2405. Predator-prey chains, collectively

K2407. Place for Lara Croft

K2409. Aramaic language

K2410. Celtic battle, say

K2412. “A” as in “coda”

K2414. Indy Jones phobia

K2417. Game of Thrones character once called “Underfoot”

K2419. Barks up the wrong tree

K2421. Delineates

K2424. A-Rod in 2007

K2426. Bit of summer wear

K2429. First Japanese emperor to abdicate in 200 years

K2431. Tightly twisted

K2432. Private sleeping spot?

K2433. The Spanish Tragedy dramatist Thomas

K2434. Gershwin musical that sounds like a reluctant approval

K2435. How penthouses may be decorated

K2436. “Happy Anywhere” singer Shelton

K2437. Track shoes

K2438. Automaker with the slogan “Wir leben Autos”

K2439. Carpenter, at times

K2441. With everything arranged just so

K2443. “Calendar Girl” singer Neil

K2445. Female felines

K2447. Sharpens

K2449. It’s shelled for stew

K2451. Webcomic with a name chosen because it can’t be pronounced

K2453. Sign of age that may make one look distinguished

K2457. Dogfall, in wrestling

K2458. News-service co.

K2460. Two ___: fast-break advantage

K2461. Type in again, as data

K2462. Guess someone’s password, say

K2464. Aviator’s garb

K2465. Went against

K2466. Crevice

K2467. The Far ___ (classic comic panel)

K2468. Even multiplier

K2469. Org. that makes loans to companies likely in need

K2471. Mandarin hello

K2473. Criminal’s alter egos, briefly

K2475. Pass on, in a way

K2477. “Don’t make me laugh!”

K2478. Formula for acid that pickles steel and demineralizes water

K2480. Fisherfolk

K2482. Coolness factor

K2484. Summers on the Somme

K2486. Insignificance director

K2487. Field makeup

K2488. “Latest kind of…” lead-in

K2489. “So that’s what you’re up to!”

K2491. Fresh storage area

K2494. Nickname aboard Apollo 1

K2495. Cashed, as a forged check

K2496. 1928 and 1929 PGA Championship winner Diegel

K2497. Head-bobbing acknowledgment

K2498. Completes filming

K2499. Weaver’s willow

K2500. Basketball predictor

K2505. Places to build

K2506. Jodie Foster title role

K2508. Stage a walkout

K2511. Fontainebleau fox

K2513. It may be rugged

K2516. Floor of the ocean

K2518. Tip seller

K2520. “Are you declining?”

K2523. Most of the 101 Dalmatians

K2526. Schlemiel

K2529. EST or CST part (abbr.)

K2530. Crow sound, if it were spelled “krow”

K2532. Filled differently, as a cartoon

K2534. Publishing growth market for adults in the 2010s

K2537. Ate like a bird

K2538. Leg-pull

K2539. Winners of the Battle of Endor

K2540. “___-La-La” (1974 Al Green hit)

K2541. That feminine one

K2542. Further off the beaten path

K2544. Goblet shape

K2545. “The Swedish Nightingale” Jenny

K2547. Vietnamese-American poker star Scotty

K2549. Chinese abacus that can handle cube roots

K2551. Off the cruise ship for a while

K2553. Electronica group behind that “I’ve got the power!” music sample

K2555. Famous killer cursed to reenact his crime in Sandman

K2556. Sea swallow

K2558. 3, 4 and 5, on golf courses

K2560. Pad ___ mao (drunkard noodles)

K2561. “Let me think…”

K2563. Jungle gym, for one

K2566. Be overindulgent with

K2567. Popular car of 1906

K2568. Bike-chain maker

K2569. Female precursor to vampires

K2570. Rapper who took his stage name from South American revolutionary Tupac Amaru

K2571. Angels and Devils, e.g.

K2572. “How unfortunate!”

K2573. Rural area, in Variety shorthand

K2574. Tartuffe has cinq

K2577. House party?

K2579. Gospels’ source material

K2581. Chromatic vatfuls

K2583. Splash carelessly

K2585. Bygone days, in bygone days

K2586. Chemical used by riot squads

K2588. Some journo grads

K2590. Gunn’s co-host

K2592. Cylindrical containers

K2594. Suffix for a large-scale event

K2596. Watchdog’s alarm?

K2598. Is no longer under the weather

K2601. Sound from a small dog

K2602. “Pertaining to” suffix

K2604. Responses on your timeline

K2605. The Web often asks you to accept them

K2607. Mosque book

K2608. Strokes of luck

K2609. Orange-red quartzes

K2610. TV spinoff of 2004

K2611. Hoist ___: have fun at the pub

K2612. With The, Paul Bowles novel that introduced Camus-style depressed existentialism to American fiction

K2615. Shellfish

K2617. Sets off with emphasis

K2620. Trattoria specialty

K2622. Together, to Toscanini

K2624. Blades stuck into slanted blocks

K2627. Summarize in one easily swallowed unit

K2630. Hand-woven rug

K2631. Famous, palindromic Dakota resident…until this year

K2633. Caught one’s breath

K2636. Old teen drama with a theme song titled “California”

K2638. Torah place marker

K2639. Tywin Lannister’s brother

K2640. Furnace room worker

K2641. Kind of white

K2642. Clinton’s VP choice

K2643. “You don’t think that’s me?”

K2644. Abusive girlfriend

K2645. Valentine letters?

K2647. Girl from the pool, in Mad Men

K2649. Doody

K2650. Common team-building exercises that take good reflexes

K2652. Come therefore

K2656. Tunnel worker

K2658. Rondo and Forte, e.g.

K2659. Part of a casa

K2661. Ending of many lizard names

K2662. Antonio Banderas animated role

K2664. 2011 model sporting “Big car thinking, now inside a smaller car”

K2667. Former California military base

K2668. NGL

K2670. All tangled up

K2672. Rami who played No Time to Die’s main villain

K2673. Suffix with what, who, etc.

K2674. Brewer known for hybrids

K2675. Joltin’ Joe, for short

K2676. Activity whose author should remain secret

K2677. Secretly unfair

K2679. Snoozefest

K2681. States despite everyone shouting otherwise

K2683. Pwned

K2685. Violent weather, informally

K2686. Redundant “You bet” follower

K2688. The digital-native cohort

K2689. Cyber communications link

K2691. Gloating words

K2693. It’s furrowed in a frown

K2695. Saw ___-off: lost a healthy chunk of population

K2697. Bar game

K2699. Japanese tie

K2701. Fish that becomes a financial term if you remove its last vowel or add a new one to its end

K2704. Miley Cyrus’s “When I Look ___”

K2705. Highlanders’ garments

K2706. Cause anguish to

K2707. ___-Davis (Pfizer subsidiary)

K2708. Nation at civil war in 2023

K2709. Oddity

K2710. Typeface description

K2713. The Adventures of Augie March author

K2716. Pew, for one

K2718. Gale-formed

K2720. How some cook spaghetti

K2722. Nigerian tribesman

K2723. Mark, as a survey box

K2725. Greenland’s capital

K2727. Snow gliders

K2729. Scotland Yd. title

K2731. Heb. judge

K2732. Mexican town near the border

K2735. Feminine force

K2736. Cry at fireworks

K2738. “___ got a feeling...”

K2739. Comedian Kirstie

K2740. An Enemy of the People playwright Ibsen

K2741. In 2020, it coincided with Taco Tuesday

K2743. Utter blockheads

K2747. Normandy site

K2748. The Choice and The Gift author Edith

K2750. Prefix meaning “peculiar”

K2751. “For he that hath, ___ shall be given” (Mark)

K2753. Cartoon villain Dastardly

K2755. Glams (up)

K2757. Clumsily tries to grab

K2758. Became popular

K2761. Show featuring Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello, briefly

K2763. Item gifted with a fountain pen

K2766. Almost two decades ago, as of this puzzle’s 2023 release

K2768. Craggy height

K2769. Meas. of “apparent power”

K2771. Tetanus symptom

K2774. Bygone school-desk fixture

K2776. Olympic heptathlete Jackie Joyner-___

K2777. Japanese candy sticks

K2778. Like une cathédrale or un prêtre

K2779. Pleasure trip

K2780. Second half of a cocktail name

K2781. Haarlem painter Frans

K2782. Confusing messes

K2785. Crash course? (abbr.)

K2787. Do some investigating

K2790. Start from the top

K2792. Lose due to nervousness

K2793. Kinte from Roots

K2794. Get mired (down)

K2796. Cowboy costume part

K2798. Native of Novi Sad

K2799. Waimea wiggle

K2801. Wink and ___: “Y’all get what I’m sayin’, right?” gestures

K2803. Slalom accessory

K2806. Org. for the sweet science

K2807. Newton filler

K2809. Org. formed in response to Sputnik

K2810. Grabbed, as a title

K2811. Caledonian churches

K2812. Comment made during an outing

K2813. Congress that’s very popular with young people

K2814. It’s prologue, to Shakespeare

K2815. Stub ___: sustain a minor injury

K2816. More out of control

K2818. Star Trek role for Montalban and Cumberbatch

K2820. ___-Whirl (centrifugal ride)

K2821. Gang leader in music?

K2823. Sharpshooter in a tree

K2825. They’re mined, I tell ya!

K2826. Noodle tests?

K2827. Symbol of espionage

K2829. Godzilla studio in 1954

K2831. Cardiologist who had a daily talk show

K2833. Drafty dress feature

K2836. Hall of Fame pool player Mataya Laurance

K2837. Relative of a foot-pound (abbr.)

K2839. Direct the flow of

K2842. It may have a wordy welcome

K2843. Start of a Spanish count

K2844. Sidesteps

K2845. Futurity entrants

K2846. Modern freshness seal

K2847. Electrician’s concern

K2848. Melon throwaway

K2849. Phrase generator

K2851. Yucatan Yogis?

K2853. “Led like ___ to the slaughter”

K2855. Tasty reddish-purple root

K2857. Kind of life-or-death condition

K2859. ___ Cool (Green Day drummer)

K2860. Administered

K2862. Thick-tailed animals

K2865. Eram, eras, ___

K2866. Bois ___, Missouri

K2868. Local body of water not to be confused with San Francisco

K2871. Helmet, in cyclist’s slang

K2873. Young Anakin Skywalker, for one

K2875. Somewhat long daggers

K2876. Show pain

K2877. Bends outward

K2878. Eric Clapton’s “___ Waiting”

K2879. Special ___ (missions for SEALs)

K2880. Dinner check

K2881. Company that makes hoverboards

K2882. Surprised exclamations

K2884. P&G dental brand

K2886. Isaac’s mother’s maiden name

K2888. One who helps

K2889. April, etc., in France

K2890. Our opponents

K2892. Frist’s successor as majority leader

K2893. Lego buys

K2895. Bit of fisticuffs

K2897. Crockett’s headwear

K2899. “They said ‘You can’t’…___ did”

K2901. One learning the ropes

K2902. What Belgium, Belize, Benin, Brunei, Burundi, Chile, Comoros, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Fiji, Greece, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Niger, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Seychelles, Sweden, Togo, Turkey, and Yemen have (unlike most other nations)

K2904. Rudely sarcastic

K2905. Publicly affectionate

K2906. Mideast ruler

K2907. Burdened

K2908. Chewy candy piece

K2911. It has dog and cat mascots

K2914. Showy flower of the iris family

K2916. Beer gut and half-flabby extremities

K2918. Sun oneself

K2920. Admired group

K2922. Lime or brick follower

K2923. 1970s faddist

K2927. Native of Mogadishu

K2930. Birthplace of Erykah Badu, Vanilla Ice, and Piper Perabo

K2932. Griffith whose theme you might be able to whistle

K2934. Short 3-D film starring Michael Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

K2937. Part of UPI

K2938. Comic’s thing

K2941. Second chances for students

K2944. Weave ___ of lies

K2945. Cute little hottie

K2946. Mattel’s Princess of Power

K2947. Roll for an emperor?

K2948. LP flaw

K2949. Anonymous Wade opponent

K2950. Big thinker of 1946?

K2951. Vietnamese org.

K2953. Hotter than hot

K2955. Dew or lemon follower

K2957. Less than 90 degrees

K2959. IMAX alternative

K2961. Jones or Johnson

K2962. Initial course of action

K2963. Feast of Lights

K2965. Direction toward the port

K2967. Gibson or Georgie follower

K2968. OK Corral enforcer

K2970. Branch of Islam predominant in Iran

K2972. Image viewer

K2973. Issues of a media-focused mag

K2975. Miscellaneous collection

K2977. Saudi followers?

K2979. Constantly complaining

K2980. Convicted fraudster Jim selling a “Silver Solution” to COVID-19 in 2020

K2981. “The Wanderer” singer

K2982. Elementary particle named for a Greek letter

K2983. Edit film anew

K2984. It was found growing in the Americas in 1525

K2987. Until the end of a pregnancy

K2989. Weapons in Despicable Me and Minecraft

K2992. Comment after a spectacular faceplant

K2994. One that’s attracted to refrigerators?

K2995. Contrary current

K2996. Skiwear

K2997. “Never Have I ___” (party game)

K2999. If-then-___ statement

K3001. “___ the lights!” (Time to start the show!)

K3003. It’s susceptible to sunburn

K3006. Allocate respectively

K3009. Surfing aid

K3010. Hebrew for “good”

K3012. Like rationing candidates

K3013. The biggest part of a large belt

K3014. ___ corpus (legal principle)

K3015. Sound of a happy engine

K3016. Fleetwood Mac surname

K3017. Tabula ___ (clean slate)

K3018. Fragrance with sandalwood oil as its main note

K3020. “Of course, that’s obvious”

K3022. Churchgoer

K3023. Respite from work

K3025. The New York Observer, now

K3027. Crow’s quarters

K3028. “It’s-___, Mario!”

K3029. Acadia and Denali

K3030. Didn’t drive well

K3032. Mount Everest, notably

K3035. [Get off my lawn]

K3036. Mayan and Mundane, e.g.

K3038. Anna of fashion

K3039. Schnauzer sound

K3041. No longer have, thankfully

K3044. Spock and McCoy’s partner

K3045. McKinley’s birthplace in Ohio

K3046. Frying need

K3047. Desert bounded by the Altai Mountains

K3048. Homespun

K3049. Spy novelist Deighton

K3050. Salad extras

K3052. Flammable mixture

K3054. Carriage

K3056. “That’s an affirmative, ten-four”

K3059. Tale long and colorful in the telling

K3060. Things to remember when seeking Google traffic

K3062. Tenth-grade in-crowd

K3064. Exclamation of disdain

K3065. By ___ of (because of)

K3067. Narrow foot size

K3069. Rapping well

K3073. Birds in an Aquarium artist

K3075. Rhetorical question

K3077. Sweet snack

K3078. Some actors

K3079. Swampy ground

K3080. Mark, as time

K3081. Bloody violent in thought

K3083. Look for truffles as a pig might

K3085. Crocus cousin

K3087. Where vision is most acute

K3088. Musician like Bugs in “Long-Haired Hare”

K3090. Pool table game

K3091. Trumpet part

K3092. Get snarky

K3094. All-time strike-out king

K3096. Meals that, unlike bacon or sausage, retain the shape the animal had when it was alive…I’m not much of a vegetarian, but I do find that kind of disturbing

K3099. Jelly made from red algae

K3100. Kenan’s partner

K3101. Improviser’s asset

K3103. Singer Tormé

K3104. Useful key when viewing NSFW content, or so I’ve heard

K3106. “You gon’ hurt your back, draggin’ all them bags like that” singer Badu

K3107. Not often

K3108. Thumbs-ups

K3109. Gregor’s grandma

K3113. Santa ___ (some winds)

K3114. “That is nasty”

K3115. Blustering intimidator, usually

K3118. ___ out (managed)

K3120. Gold lion for House Lannister, e.g.

K3122. Occasion for lomilomi or laulau

K3123. French “ones”

K3124. Street show of mostly bygone days

K3125. Battle of wits?

K3127. Another sleek fabric

K3129. 46, one way

K3130. Island bird

K3132. Sweet ‘___

K3134. Bowdlerizes

K3137. Go out and clear one’s head

K3140. Kiss and caress in Kent

K3141. Relaxing outing

K3142. Like some “South Park” episodes

K3143. Don of Steely Dan

K3144. Permanently, in poems

K3145. Grid positions

K3146. Sad end of a path?

K3148. Singer Joey who hosts Common Knowledge

K3149. Hall of Fame holdings

K3152. Third shift hours

K3154. Electronic entertainment

K3158. Grippers on horseshoes

K3160. Peddles

K3161. Name of three twentieth-century popes

K3162. “Fuzzy Wuzzy” follower

K3164. Performs like Drake

K3166. Strait of Dover county

K3168. Searched thoroughly

K3171. Dreamworks ___

K3172. Fleck

K3174. Apple co-founder Steve

K3176. They’re not required

K3178. Admitted to a doctor’s office

K3179. Somewhat dent-sensitive wood

K3180. Mannerly guy

K3181. Saxophonist Stan

K3183. “Tiny Bubbles” singer

K3185. Update, in a way

K3187. “Too busy, sorry!”

K3188. Type of tale

K3190. Make part of one’s filmography

K3192. Professor in The Nutty Professor

K3193. “Open hailing frequencies,” pre-starships

K3194. Middlingish grade

K3195. The Wizard of Oz farmhand

K3196. They’re more isolated and stricter than Mennonites

K3198. Appending haphazardly

K3201. Market overrun

K3202. Clair and Pleine

K3204. Third-largest moon of Saturn

K3207. What any first-place finisher did

K3208. Goblet’s edge

K3210. “Rock Me Gently” singer or Jersey representative

K3211. Kind of admiral

K3212. Shoot from hiding

K3213. Copper coins of older Italy

K3214. Comic lead-in?

K3215. Particle that includes a strange quark or antiquark

K3217. Remove a metal lubricant from

K3219. Violin-maker Amati

K3221. Ginseng, for one

K3223. Simple-minded stableboy at House Stark

K3225. To ___: like a glove

K3226. Tome or Tiago

K3227. Club chart mainstay Minogue

K3228. A lot of money

K3229. Hurl toward

K3231. Anti-acne med from Proactiv, now discontinued

K3232. Hash ingredient, informally

K3234. The “I” in I.M. Pei

K3236. ___ and Khloé Take Miami

K3238. Concern of the Nat. Council of Churches

K3240. Static remover

K3243. Name shared by two of the most prominent crossword publishers (three, if you go overseas)

K3244. Pick the wrong horse

K3246. Turtle-like Troopas in Mario games

K3247. Brand of furnace that’s “hard to stop”

K3248. Algal sensor

K3251. Druid stone of England

K3253. “Will you let me have a try?”

K3255. Poison oneself with a surfeit

K3258. “Tell me what we both know you want”

K3260. Make someone else’s problem

K3261. Little snap to carry around

K3263. De ___ (excessive)

K3265. Where elevators are confusing, cash is carried everywhere, dogs are allowed in all restaurants, and greetings are a kiss on each cheek

K3268. Used Kleenex stuff

K3269. Office equipment

K3272. Reciter that Homer probably used as source material

K3274. Small town (abbr.)

K3275. Trawling needs

K3276. Heckles or jeers

K3277. Hyponatremia (retaining water)

K3278. Pop-singer Martin

K3279. Hasbro or Fisher-Price

K3281. Hip-hop plagiarists

K3283. Setting straight or righting

K3285. Societal standard

K3286. “Whatever you want”

K3287. Tweak, as text

K3288. Plate shape

K3289. In this way

K3290. Narcissus spurned her

K3292. Karaoke option

K3294. Delta builder

K3295. Sat., vis-a-vis Sun.

K3297. Bridge-crossing cost

K3299. ___ City (computer game)

K3300. Health plan Trump prioritized getting rid of even after COVID hit

K3302. Moldova currency

K3303. Where to find a lion lyin’

K3305. “Thanks for noticin’ me” character

K3307. Luke or Leia, politically

K3308. Kid stuff?

K3309. Baseless, as rumors

K3310. Hollywood networker, for short

K3311. Family name in a Lew Wallace novel

K3312. Weight measures

K3314. Braking maneuvers for skaters

K3316. Cigarettes, casually

K3318. “I saw it first!”

K3320. The Unbearable Lightness of Being author

K3323. Forum footwear

K3326. Cry of pain

K3327. Daniel, Pat, and Megan

K3328. How some nonmonetary payments are made

K3330. Two years, for a representative on Capitol Hill

K3332. “None is so fierce that dare ___ him up” (Job 41:10)

K3334. Set terms to shake hands on

K3337. With a lot of spunk

K3340. Almost all animals

K3343. River under the Brooklyn Bridge

K3344. Woods who’s appeared at twenty-five Masters

K3345. General-greeting gesture

K3347. Get lost in a brown study

K3350. Steamed

K3352. What turns litmus blue

K3354. Larsson who created Lisbeth Salander

K3356. Make concave

K3358. Hide and ___

K3360. Lineup at some entrances

K3361. Take ___: see what’s what

K3362. Tom Sawyer’s pal

K3363. Loudly acknowledges, as a dog to the moon

K3364. Establishments just off the highway

K3365. Lodge officials (abbr.)

K3367. Conway who’s the first woman to have run a successful presidential campaign (um, yay?)

K3370. Bread dipped in dal

K3371. Yucatan “You bet!”

K3373. Toula portrayer in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

K3374. “___ Ba Yah”

K3376. “…___ what you can do for your country” (JFK)

K3377. LaGuardia alternative, familiarly

K3379. Inclined to smile

K3381. Legendary hockey coach Harkness

K3382. Like certain investments

K3386. Roger Rabbit or Roger Ramjet

K3387. Benjamin in a wallet

K3389. Shot putters’ supplies?

K3391. Gets people talking

K3394. Display dizziness

K3396. Founder of individual psychology

K3397. Feud side

K3398. Word before “food” that can mean to do without food

K3399. Allow to expire

K3400. Facetious

K3401. What vines do

K3403. Tried to make it home, say

K3404. “Hello, mate!”

K3406. Stego or bronto, e.g.

K3408. Colorful place?

K3412. Computer information unit

K3415. Reduce the density of

K3416. Eloi predator

K3418. Honorary letter

K3419. Often-unhelpful way to give change for a twenty

K3421. Types of whiskey

K3423. Enter rapidly

K3425. Mark Messier was one

K3426. Block the sun

K3429. Lifetime movie actress Campbell

K3430. Ad ___ (to the matter at hand) (abbr.)

K3431. Stop, in the name of love?

K3432. Ban ___ (Kofi Annan’s successor)

K3433. Refreshing

K3434. She starts next to the conservatory in Clue

K3436. After the females lay eggs, the males spend eight weeks laying on them

K3438. Keep your eyes open

K3441. General ___ chicken (Chinese menu choice)

K3442. What a future American might take (abbr.)

K3443. Northeastern inst. with a Stern School of Business

K3445. Quarterback Prescott

K3446. Offering from Santa

K3448. Bryn ___ (college)

K3449. Package

K3450. Gaelic exclamation

K3451. Negative votes

K3452. Red dwarf

K3453. Terminates

K3455. Papyrus plants

K3457. Jazz crooner Mel

K3459. Amicus ___

K3460. “This ___ isle” (England)

K3462. Google your own name

K3464. Converting coal

K3465. Classic actress Hayworth

K3466. Smart follower?

K3467. Where I’m writing this clue right now because this project never sleeps

K3469. Proceedings, in academic journal titles

K3471. Comparable (to)

K3472. Word with chain or prize

K3474. “The Father of Art Deco”

K3476. Least healthy

K3479. Post-WWII fashion

K3482. Fast-food outlet now offering vegan versions of its signature item

K3485. Halloween wear

K3486. Sayings that are short but not shallow

K3488. Nat.’s area meas.

K3490. Barely burns

K3492. Singer Abdul or Cole

K3494. He wrote triumphal odes on commission

K3496. They’re no good

K3497. Pre-Christian priests of Briton

K3498. Morons, slangily

K3499. Cobra’s greeting

K3500. Hide in the shadows

K3501. Seattle hoopster, once

K3503. Master of ___ fu

K3505. Item accompanying a ltr.

K3507. Somnambulate

K3510. Enc. with some bills

K3511. NCAA’s ‘Cats

K3513. Sch. in Troy

K3514. Bluesman Mo’

K3516. Point ___ return

K3517. Colder-climate seabird

K3518. She wore many pearls to the 2023 Met

K3519. Web prefix that means “fast”

K3521. Jay or O

K3523. LG Electronics competitor

K3525. More ethereal (var.)

K3527. Pastoral piece

K3529. Richmond, Diggory, or the Entertainer

K3531. Nicely warm

K3535. Jack or Hill of comedy

K3536. Forget again

K3537. Pair of antlers

K3538. Pal of Picasso

K3539. Tots’ modeling medium

K3541. Mode for less challenging drives

K3544. Inst. on the Hudson

K3545. Atlanta Brave, briefly

K3547. Hear about

K3550. Fight in a big way

K3553. Keeping up pretenses

K3555. One who’s seen combat

K3559. Moverman who directed The Dinner and The Messenger

K3560. Peanuts character holding a blanket

K3562. Notorious

K3564. Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to duel Laertes

K3566. Windborne and cruising

K3568. Josh of How I Met Your Mother

K3570. Aggressive, personalitywise

K3571. Platforms like YouTube and Netflix

K3572. Small, to Salvador

K3573. Repeated, the Swedish Chef’s catchphrase

K3574. Evil schemes

K3575. Anna Karenina actress Knightley

K3576. Encyclopedia unit (abbr.)

K3578. Having multiple boyfriends, perhaps

K3579. Judgmental sort

K3581. Sweatshirt who sang “Nowhere2go” and “Ontheway!”

K3583. Nears without being noticed

K3585. Alternatives to angel investors, for short

K3587. Theater of the 1960s

K3588. Where D.C. United play

K3590. Shakespearean sprite

K3591. R&B legend killed by his father in 1984

K3592. DDE’s command

K3593. Camouflaged by, perhaps

K3594. They get after-school time to themselves

K3597. Node in rope art

K3600. Cohost of the first X Games (1995’s Extreme Games)

K3602. Discover one’s moral line, maybe

K3603. Oklahoma people

K3604. “We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow,” per the Beach Boys

K3605. Dismantled ship

K3606. Tail-wagging cosmonaut

K3607. “___ Out” (Kline film)

K3608. Biology term

K3610. Eleventh letters

K3612. Björk’s exhortation to “wake up”

K3615. O’Hara place

K3616. Transforms via decoration

K3619. Embryonic attachment

K3622. Peeper’s vantage point

K3624. Take at least most of the tricks, in poker

K3625. Checker, e.g.

K3626. “TETSUOOO!” cartoon

K3627. Sermon who is the “E” in the hip-hop quartet EPMD

K3629. West Bank bank

K3630. Folderol

K3632. Outdoor attractions to get lost in?

K3634. Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor at the UN

K3636. She came tumbling after

K3637. Senior in Williams’ English class (1989)

K3638. Small, minor cut

K3639. One who seeks provisions

K3641. Likely lawyer-in-training

K3643. First-floor apartment

K3644. Crossed-arms style of stance

K3646. Public disturbance

K3648. Hawaiian instrument

K3650. Indonesia of old (abbr.)

K3651. NYC radio station

K3653. It makes your face red

K3654. Linkin Park “___ step closer to the edge”

K3655. First year?

K3658. Gomez Addams’ cousin

K3660. Do not, in old Rome

K3662. Lop-___ bunnies

K3664. The wrong way

K3666. Didn’t attend, despite expectations

K3668. Green Day and Grand Funk Railroad

K3669. Take to the pawnbroker

K3670. Lustrous soft cloth

K3671. “…only with ___ eyes”

K3672. “Wee wee wee” goer?

K3674. Hindu cupid

K3676. XXIV × XIX

K3678. Merrill Lynch owner, for short

K3680. Vivre

K3681. Bunker Hill Monument, for one

K3684. Working on commission

K3687. Bride of the Red Cross Knight

K3688. Works, as muscles

K3689. Ray, as of light

K3690. Reason to be barred by a bouncer, briefly

K3692. Freelancer’s encl.

K3694. A-Muse-ing instruments

K3696. Believers that Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism were all part of one chain of revelations

K3698. Mammoth, old-style

K3699. Says in another way

K3703. Most dizzying to look down from

K3706. Rock’s Jagger

K3707. Cryptogram keys, e.g.

K3708. Alternative to rain

K3709. Ropes that catch cattle

K3710. Its streaming analogue is Paramount Plus

K3712. Like a grade of C

K3714. Pelting pellets

K3715. Word for “tower” used on a really tall tower

K3717. Alejandro and Fernando

K3719. “Okay, all done, sorry if that went too far”

K3721. Car-tank filler

K3722. Wendy, to John and Michael

K3724. Jack Barksy and Vladimir Putin, once

K3726. Fairy-tale meanie

K3727. It enables listening to plays in the car

K3730. Not piquant

K3732. Sound that can signify dinner

K3733. Bookmark, in a way

K3735. Post-1968 tennis period

K3736. Acknowledge, as one whom it seems God has appointed

K3737. Relative of a ferret

K3738. Tailless Old World mammal

K3739. Hearty entree

K3740. This company’s mission, informally

K3741. Toaster’s output?

K3743. Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, with The

K3745. Cooking fluid once found on the Mosquito Coast

K3747. 1970s singer Dee

K3749. “Yeah…that isn’t happening”

K3750. UFC bout

K3753. Wd. for word?

K3754. Judging Amy director Ken

K3755. Appealing element in plotless movies, for some (abbr.)

K3756. Really enthusiastic about

K3757. “Am ___ insensitive?”

K3758. Notes 6 and 7 on a scale

K3759. Fencers’ code

K3760. “God is ___, that he should lie” (Numbers)

K3761. Plain for a gaucho

K3762. Breathe rapidly

K3763. Ran into anew

K3764. Shots in the dark

K3765. Street thugs

K3766. Handled a weapon, as a pirate with a sword

K3768. Brandy flavoring

K3769. Offhand comments

K3770. Carded, informally

K3771. MacGyvered boom-booms, for short

K3772. Be hospitable to

K3773. “We’ll ___ a cup o’ kindness yet” (Burns)

K3775. The Fellowship of the Ring, e.g. (The Hobbit was more like “Zero”)

K3780. Yr.-end sale time

K3781. Gives a thumbs-up

K3782. Tea tray goodie

K3783. Manuscript mistake

K3784. Estrada of telenovelas

K3785. Role frequently played by Placido Domingo

K3786. Otherworldly visitors

K3787. Beggars of old

K3789. Caribbean dance music

K3790. Places where numbers are dialed

K3791. Cheri of Liar Liar

K3792. Stephen King feline-themed anthology film

K3793. Church doctrine

K3794. The Dragonbone Chair novelist Williams

K3796. Planetary model

K3797. The Incredible Hulk co-creator

K3798. Get licked

K3799. Word followed by fox or turkey

K3800. Pants that are practically bikini bottoms

K3803. Flimflams

K3804. Austrian “alas!”

K3806. You’ll find four in the Good Book?

K3808. Charlotte’s Web inits.

K3810. USAF “eye in the sky”

K3811. Stare openly and stupidly

K3812. Elem. math

K3813. Early European settlers

K3815. Threesome on a triceratops

K3816. Connect, like a cable box

K3818. Sharp insight

K3820. Updates a blog

K3821. Polite request of yesteryear, replied to in a poster with “Care if I die?”

K3827. Got back to the host

K3832. Compassionate letters

K3835. Reinforces inequalities

K3844. T.S. Eliot creation J. Alfred

K3848. Lose all social order

K3851. Window unit’s output

K3852. Discuss the state of the world, at risk of making some uncomfortable

K3854. Turned tail? (abbr.)

K3857. Star Wars queen

K3862. “I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems…I want ___ crew”

K3866. Letters seen in a browser’s upper left

K3870. Intro for an afterthought

K3874. Extract hydrocarbons and also maybe poison everyone

K3878. Unenjoyable sound

K3880. Shade of red

K3881. “___ the Voice of the Lobster” (poem recited by Alice)

K3882. Indy 500 sound

K3883. Cedar relative

K3884. Large marine fish tanks

K3886. It beat A Bug’s Life to theaters

K3887. Small keyboard

K3888. French artist known for vibrant color

K3889. Major dud

K3891. Unwashed masses (sniff)

K3893. Controversial handwarmers

K3895. Neighborhood way

K3896. Seance sight

K3898. Recover your senses

K3901. [sneeze]

K3903. Absorbing all over

K3905. Showing off one’s summer bod

K3907. Writer of The Gay Science and The Antichrist

K3910. Fiscal irresponsibility

K3913. Radio station’s coverage, perhaps

K3915. Federally guaranteed security

K3917. They’ll help you hold your liquor

K3919. “This is no place for the faint of heart”

K3924. Quick survey

K3925. Time of military triumph

K3926. Cask component

K3927. Shaq shot

K3928. Coming up over and over

K3929. Polka heard frequently on The Benny Hill Show

K3930. Nolable sign of allenlion to delail

K3931. Indoor botany needs

K3932. Humble acceptance

K3933. Dated storage

K3934. Official cancellations

K3935. Greenwich Mean minus eight or nine hours

K3936. To the right, on the seas

K3937. Doctor’s cholesterol prescriptions

K3938. Uses impertinent language

K3939. Sturdy trees

K3940. Sylvia of jazz

K3941. Malfeasance

K3942. Dissipate slowly

K3943. Our cousins

K3944. Robert Francis O’Rourke

K3945. Tut-tutted tush

K3946. Contraction for the obedient

K3947. Amuse highly

K3948. Rundle

K3949. With great feeling

K3950. Fair amount

K1. Marten-like animal that does not eat what its name says it should

K2. Obsession suffix

K3. Order from the Capt.

K4. Written exam given to some immigrants

K5. Endorsing

K6. “We came from ___ when women normally did not rock” (Nancy Wilson)

K7. Toys at the beach

K8. Cybermoney

K9. Alongside

K10. Turn ___ ear: pretend not to notice

K11. Swashbuckler who left his initial as a mark

K12. Milton’s “Lycidas” or “To An Athlete Dying Young”

K13. What the K stands for, in printing

K14. After now

K15. Syed, convict featured on Serial

K16. Day of the week 2013 will begin (abbr.)

K17. Creek, in geography

K18. Not identified (abbr.)

K19. “Finally, the end of the week!”

K20. Bone-to-muscle connection

K21. Engine starter (abbr.)

K22. “Everything else” abbr.

K23. Silver-white metallic element in the body

K24. Shortages

K25. Danson of Cheers

K26. ___ Yosemite International Airport

K27. Those who do the work of parenting

K28. Toothed part of a bicycle

K29. All for ___ and…

K30. Like a cutter with a crew of seven

K31. Made online reservations

K32. While opening?

K33. Letters before omicrons

K34. Look Homeward, Angel dramatist Frings

K35. Actor/graphic novelist Hawke

K36. Tries to locate

K37. “___ of Control” (U2)

K38. Make some adjustments to the edge of

K39. Winning 4-3, say

K40. ___ Verdes blue butterfly

K41. Sharon of 1960s Hollywood or Andrew of…let’s say “social media”

K42. In need of rehab, perhaps

K43. Singer Josie of “CWJBHN” and “Old School”

K44. Hymn instrument

K45. Reduces to tiny bits

K46. Chevy vehicle of the 1970s, briefly

K47. “___ your side”

K48. Ball: Prefix

K49. King Kong’s Watts

K50. Cable channel for old films

K51. “He that ___ down with dogs…”

K52. Mother’s mother, e.g.

K53. Tropical food plant

K54. “No Woman ___ Island” (Rae Morris)

K55. Chance upon

K56. Ironic short story writer

K57. Hard form of lava

K58. Stripling

K59. Burden of proof, for one

K60. “The wolf ___ the door”

K61. Toni Morrison novel

K63. What the K stands for, in computing

K64. Shuttlecocks

K65. Someone special in olden days

K66. “The forbidden fragrance”

K67. Ness and others

K68. Ivy League instructor, briefly

K69. Much-loathed tabloid nickname for Britney’s ex

K70. Land in the sea, e.g.

K71. Calculating folks?

K72. It has no sharps or flats, with “the”

K73. Word or phrase usage instance

K74. Some potatoes

K75. Dispatch a message

K76. The next mid-millennium year

K78. Straight (prefix)

K79. Coauthor of The Elements of Style

K80. Expulsion, colloquially

K81. Propeller

K82. Refrain syllable

K83. Extinct winged “lizard”

K84. Floored with a sock to the head

K85. III preceders (abbr.)

K86. Awful smell

K88. Ending with system

K89. “I cannot ___ lie…”

K90. Projection printer

K91. Small fish in a prison?

K92. Nighthawks setting

K93. Resolution letters

K94. Org. for Paula Creamer

K95. Civil Rights Act org.

K96. Take ___ from: be inspired by

K97. Its 1994 round covered intellectual property for the first time

K98. Followers of Guru Nanak

K99. HS requirement

K100. These lads and lassies

K101. Pre-engagement purchase

K102. “Call My Name” jazz singer James

K103. Napoleon Dynamite’s oath

K104. “You couldn’t have made it more obvious?”

K105. End in ___: leave no clear winner

K106. Protective apparel fiber

K107. Snappy dialogue, with or without “bon”

K108. Sprouse and Mendes’ CW costar

K109. In conversation, it may be casual or pointed

K110. What the K stands for, in this section

K111. Ancient writing system from Crete

K112. As one body

K115. Go head-to-head

K116. Film text (abbr.)

K118. Room for Fatima

K120. ___ cloud: comet-filled region in interstellar space

K125. London’s prov.

K127. Stop, for short

K129. Pig tail?

K131. Spiky “how bad is this coma?” chart

K136. Very short time (abbr.)

K138. Animals that bugle a lot when in rut

K141. Sound of woe

K143. What the k stands for, in texting

K149. Coke poured on Mentos, if you want to get technical and cheeky about it

K151. Baddies in old spy films

K157. Straighten out, in a way

K158. A whole nother way of talking?

K160. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “___ Crossroads”

K162. Poker phrase

K163. “I’ll just have ___” (teetotaler’s facetious bar order)

K165. Word with log or traffic

K170. Native North Islander, e.g.

K174. Financial guarantor since 1933

K177. ETs’ crafts, maybe

K179. Population-level pointlessness

K181. “In case of emergency, break glass” weapon

K183. “Have ___ trip, seeya next fall, you can show me some slides!”

K186. One may be judicial (abbr.)

K188. Alaskan peninsula where Seward is located

K189. Tolled mournfully

K191. As sweet as most wineries offer

K193. Eccentric player

K195. The Castle author Franz

K197. Serrated tools

K199. Pink Floyd’s “The ___ at the Gates of Dawn”

K200. Ashanti song with the line, “Boy, you got me doing things that I would never do”

K201. [See Overlaps section]

K202. Pari-mutuel machine, for short

K203. Match.com abbr.

K205. Carnal craving

K206. Leading ship?

K207. [See Overlaps section]

K208. In ___: freaking out

K209. City on the Sumida

K210. It’s measured in amperes (abbr.)

K211. ___ Eisendrache (Call of Duty map)

K212. Dread police systems

K213. Expecting momentarily

K214. [See Overlaps section]

K215. A bit soused

K216. I-278 section

K217. Quitting hour for many

K218. First Libertarian congressperson Justin

K219. [See Overlaps section]

K220. More than -er

K221. Ottawa natives who passed hunting territory rights from parent to child (sometimes spelled with a qu)

K222. Ceramiclike compound

K223. Yellow Teletubby

K224. With “the,” euphemism for a tough diagnosis

K225. Scallion cousin

K226. Uber calcs.

K227. Music box

K229. China Sea gulf

K231. Take ___ at: try

K234. Swiss cheese

K236. Surveil

K239. Weight unit of Egypt

K240. Stockbreeding devices

K241. Miss the mark

K242. Bases’ neutralizers

K243. Bank calamities

K244. Frat-party must

K245. Used it up

K246. Noah’s great-grandfather

K247. ___ Levu, Fiji

K248. Wake-up times, for short

K249. Its climactic scene took 137 puppeteers, with “The”

K250. False lead?

K252. Like Billy Ray Cyrus, George Clooney, and, most obviously, Colonel Sanders

K253. Genesis and Dreamcast

K254. Western mountain range

K255. Haircutter

K256. “___ A Symphony” (The Supremes)

K257. One with an attorney

K258. Complain loudly

K259. Big brutes

K260. “I’m gonna be straight with you…”

K261. Nickname for YouTube comedian Fredericks

K262. Lewis Carroll beast to hunt

K263. Harbor craft

K264. de la Reguera of Eastbound and Down and Goliath

K265. Update, as a sailboat

K266. Distraught over

K267. Story in Kipling’s The Jungle Book

K268. Modern travel provision

K274. Classic joke exchange…and a couple of ways it can go wrong

K276. “Any problems with that?”

K278. Run together

K280. City ender

K282. Cheerless

K284. They grant access to the slopes

K286. It sells, reportedly

K287. One of a trident’s three

K293. One of two traps in a Poe title

K297. Signs of spoiled food

K299. Disguise adopted in Star Wars

K302. Andy Murray’s specialty

K304. “Who ___?” (Response to a knock)

K306. Dark time in Deutschland

K308. Like a smooth talker

K310. Wayne’s World, originally, e.g.

K312. Frequent campground setting

K314. Docs’ gp.

K317. Prayerful ascetic

K318. Potato-peeling station, in the USN

K319. Arm bones

K324. Endangered Arctic presence

K326. Inexperienced players

K327. Concealed

K329. Gave the nod

K331. Plastic coffee container designed for a Keurig brewer

K333. Dancer Hough

K335. Benefit from a mistake, e.g.

K337. Enclosed, as a community

K339. Source of most of my exercise, these days

K341. Activist Hampton or Hampton, Jr.

K344. Little bit, as indicated by a pinching gesture

K347. Fathers’ brothers, for short

K348. Meditative sound from which the universe began, it’s said

K349. Hyatt alternative

K351. Slicks up

K353. Where many vins come from

K354. River of Poland

K355. Decrepit

K357. Dairy farm machine

K359. Baby carrier maker

K361. Far from harbor

K363. Holiday changed to Thanksgiving in For Your Consideration

K365. Defeats easily

K367. S or SE

K368. Proctor’s reprimand

K369. Ho Chi Minh trail location

K370. Group founded Feb. 16, 1868

K371. Sit in the tub

K372. USAF decoration

K373. The Almighty

K374. Beer alternative

K375. Fletcher

K379. Bullfighting cheers

K380. Pod in southern cuisine

K381. Finish at cribbage

K382. 1990s Oldsmobile model

K384. Yale Bowl players

K385. Fa introducers

K386. Matches in Hold ‘em

K387. Chrysler front-wheel-drive cars of the Eighties

K388. Consolation for an also-ran

K389. Likely Muslim member of Russia’s biggest ethnic minority

K390. Crows, maybe

K392. One of the aliens on The Simpsons…or the MCU

K394. Bad-joke response

K396. Said in the Bible

K398. Lighter feature

K399. “Benevolent” ones

K400. “No hard feelings?”

K401. Toe drag, e.g.

K402. Strong connection

K404. Refuses to go along with

K406. Morning Joe cohost Brzezinski

K407. Widely viewed telly station

K409. Missionary pictures

K410. Workable if awkward solution to a computer problem

K411. Sips slowly

K412. Stupid bad

K413. Booth of Bones

K414. Getting along

K415. Five past quarter of

K419. Uses an adding machine

K421. Military parade vehicle

K423. Like glasses after a big sneeze, maybe

K425. Stains on one’s reputation

K427. Observatory that has two of the world’s largest telescopes

K428. Pickled vegetable, for short

K429. “…of ___ I sing”

K430. Feathered friend

K431. Cover, in commercial names

K432. “___ casual” [whistling]

K433. ___ Juan, Puerto Rico

K434. Foyt and Cook

K435. “Big” VIP

K436. Peter who won the third Best New Artist Grammy

K440. Some’s barreled

K441. Maine merchant

K443. Revealed the function of, with “over”

K444. Origin suffix

K446. Bay State motto opener

K448. Beltway region, briefly

K450. French bread?

K452. “Born on the Fourth of July” activist

K454. Has a channel with a camera

K456. Odd or outdated, as memes

K457. Olive-and-anchovy starter

K459. Supergirl’s birth name

K460. Vanishing deliverypeople

K462. Synthesizers worn around the neck and shoulders

K464. Procedures

K466. Brand name in lawn care

K470. Varnish ingredients

K472. Make a poor “gift” of to

K473. Instruments played by a memed cat

K474. Finger painting and paste-eating class

K476. Baking pans

K478. Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, in “The Lion King”

K480. Exact lookalike

K482. Japanese fish dish

K484. Calculus abbr.

K485. Framing effect, e.g.

K486. “Why do ___ this way?”

K487. Dense-fleshed pear

K488. Cereal brand

K490. “We hire females AND foreigners!,” more sensitively

K491. Its state song is “Home on the Range” (abbr.)

K492. Suffix meaning “native”

K493. Increase of sales potential, if not profit potential

K494. Infiltration target in the Spike Lee film Blac___ansman

K496. They never begin with 666 (abbr.)

K498. Bit of wit

K499. “Cash makes things happen”

K501. Graphic novel whose first volume is subtitled “My Father Bleeds History”

K502. Yellow dwarf

K503. Ladies in Spain

K504. Fund-drive VIPs

K505. Like some coins

K507. Comic-strip yells

K509. Moral duty?

K511. Covers a Bundt cake

K513. Roused to action

K515. Singjay with album U-Neek

K517. Various forensics shows

K518. Start of a miscellaneous collection?

K519. Siberian sleighs

K521. Fought with germs

K523. Mayim who got her Big Bang Theory role to get health insurance

K525. Glass formed by meteoric impact

K529. Wooden toy train maker

K530. Opponents of “shirts”

K531. Stared with mouth open

K533. Kernel-shaped snow

K534. Ten Commandments verb

K535. Middle of a classic palindrome

K536. Kind of floater you can’t stop seeing

K538. Portuguese money

K540. Came off as

K542. Some kind of nut?

K544. Disregards

K546. Rigidly formal

K547. World Cup skiing champ Lindsey

K548. Least nice

K550. One could be on a crib sheet?

K551. Outdoor company acronym whose first letter stands for a misspelled word

K552. S. ___ (Seoul’s country (abbr.))

K553. Get on the nerves of

K554. Call ___: stop play after a compromised serve

K555. Gobbler

K556. Do some underground exploring

K558. Provide for tenancy

K559. Crossing Over’s John, or one-time VP candidate John

K562. Malt-shop order

K563. Crafts

K564. Non-negotiable number

K566. Bering and Black

K570. Oil field sight

K572. Places for roasting?

K574. Where Augustus died

K576. Intersection pair (abbr.)

K577. Gambling documents sometimes written on napkins

K578. Tang who chants, “Just keep swimming”

K579. “Despite all my rage I am still just ___ in a cage” (Smashing Pumpkins)

K580. Mouth-bound, biologically

K581. First sergeant or martial arts move

K583. Stores, as wines

K585. Soon-to-be bride

K588. Central control unit for a network

K590. NBA hiree

K592. Stable worker

K593. Leaves alone

K594. Scenic paintings

K596. Game related to Parcheesi

K598. Short-legged lizard

K600. Mawkish sentiment

K602. New Zealand natives

K604. Second commonest Indian language

K606. Former Chilean president

K607. Currency at an arcade

K609. “Wonder Boy” of the mob

K610. Prospecting device

K611. Latin leader

K612. Sandwich that’s just fine with fakon, really

K613. “Lion of the Senate” inits.

K614. Brotherhoods?

K615. Creature with a spiral shell

K617. Rapper whose original nickname was Kid Wave

K618. Frequent race-car sponsor

K621. Sports venue bigwig

K622. Common area for a small population

K623. Hacks it

K624. White-flowered shrubs

K626. Stroked

K627. Sneakers with overlapping Ds

K629. Computer screen symbols

K631. Twist out of shape

K633. Bombay, today

K635. Unisex designer cologne

K637. Thomas who wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

K638. Pitch Perfect actress Mae Lee

K639. Software producer’s contract

K640. Cuneiform language of The Epic of Gilgamesh

K643. Accept blame with shame

K645. Electric bill no.

K646. Use finger paints

K651. Dame’s lead-in?

K653. Ivy League sch. in Philly

K654. Private eye, sometimes

K655. NYC booth

K656. Loki’s command to the people of Earth

K658. Part of a lifetime

K660. Create, as a football team

K662. Some ornamental pins

K664. ___ Gatos, California

K665. X’s opposite

K667. Focused breath

K668. Lead-in to “nautical”

K669. Garden store buy

K670. Hi-___ (hip-hop producer Tony Cottrell)

K671. Caramel bite from Hershey

K672. “Ootch!” alternatives

K673. Kauffman Stadium team, for short

K675. Baby names surging in popularity after Frozen

K677. He loved Olivia but married Viola

K679. Kit ___ (candy brand)

K680. “Mio” intro

K681. Prefix with fixed and fuge

K682. Thoroughly examined

K683. Green around the gills

K684. Have an affair, say

K686. Early 35mm manufacturer

K688. Gradually remove

K690. Rap-sheet listings

K692. Gorge oneself with, briefly

K693. Bugle favorite

K694. “Fight or flight” chemical (var.)

K696. Singer whose middle name is Louise

K698. Texted snicker

K700. Unit of Chinese phonetics

K701. Comes to pass, old-style

K703. “Desert Rose” singer

K706. Sch. across the water from Berkeley

K707. Sty youngster

K708. Regal location?

K710. Synagogue scrolls

K711. Arctic garb

K712. Ovaltine ingredient

K713. Sickly institution of the 1980s

K714. “Climb ___ my knee…”

K715. Fed. forecaster

K716. They’re intended to instill shame

K717. Gold-rush storyteller Harte

K718. Radamès’ lover

K719. Mouse it up twice

K720. No-goodnik

K722. Hassle, for short

K724. “___ safe and warm if…” (“California Dreamin’“ lyric)

K725. Popular tax shelters, for short

K726. One of the Cartwrights

K727. “Understood, dude”

K728. NC-17-rated stuff

K729. The Serpent and the Rope novelist Raja

K730. Local gov’t official

K731. Many workers yearn for them

K732. Wide size

K733. “Molto ___!”

K735. “Physician, heal thyself” book

K737. Gesture made with the thumb and nose

K739. Suffix with peril

K741. Caesar’s lover, most likely

K742. The robot and the Charleston, for two

K743. Punch bowl pranksters, perhaps

K744. More than manhandle

K749. Tut-tutted

K751. Bulletin-board material

K753. Varieties

K754. For each person

K756. They’re charged in physics

K757. French toast coloring

K759. Dreaded conversation between parents and teenagers

K760. Norwegian ___ (Northern US subculture)

K761. Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit “Seasons in the Sun”

K763. Astronaut Aldrin or Lightyear

K765. ___ a Stranger (1955 Sinatra film)

K769. Sparkly minerals

K770. Healers

K771. Goes after, in a way

K772. Oom-pah producers

K773. Bit of a bluff

K775. Paper handler

K777. Funny-bone neighbor

K779. Venue for drunken singing

K781. Pound sound

K782. Anti-dealer agent

K783. Insignificant creature

K784. Tea-length spec

K786. Mes’ followers

K787. C. Everett Koop and others (abbr.)

K789. Makes diverse

K790. Boiling point?

K792. About as long as it takes to write all these clues, seemingly

K794. Start of a serial

K796. Gov’t group with an eagle as its logo

K797. Small freshwater swimmer

K798. Perry who roars in song

K801. Toe pick-assisted skating jumps

K802. You might get one if you have respiratory issues

K803. June 6 remembrance

K804. Like bush pigs and bison

K805. Debussed

K807. ___ From the Gods

K809. Makes less harsh

K811. He wrote The Plague

K813. Penitent’s garment

K815. A stamped env. should have at least one on it

K816. Myers of Shrek and Austin Powers

K817. Work respite

K819. “Who Mourns for ___?” (the one where Kirk and Spock meet a Greek god)

K820. Put-___: gags

K821. Red container, maybe

K822. Surgically excise

K824. REO Speedwagon’s “___ on Loving You”

K826. Move upward

K829. Star of Marvin’s Room

K831. Scrabble 10-pointers

K832. Poverty stricken

K834. Ruble fraction

K835. Not at all compelling

K837. Gives the go-ahead

K839. Antimaterialist, anticonformist, spontaneous free-verse writer

K841. “The Gray Lady,” initially

K842. Admonish

K843. Voice amplifiers, for short

K844. It’s got a husk

K846. Optima, for one

K847. ___-American

K848. Water line adjuster

K849. Do a sudoku puzzle or two, perhaps

K851. Yalta Conference notable

K853. Cutty ___ (historic ship)

K855. Collectible money

K859. Knows how to wire efficiently, for short

K861. Where to tie one on?

K862. Byzantine emperor for fifty years “with interruptions,” as Wikipedia diplomatically puts it

K863. Indie rock band that makes elaborate one-take videos

K864. Dawn of the Dead director George

K865. Haunted house sound effects

K866. Potter and Styles

K867. Think the world of

K868. Tossed in, as a losing poker hand

K869. Giving a perfect performance on

K871. Expects the worst about

K873. Connery of Indiana Jones

K874. Suffix for zillion or trillion

K875. Not any, colloquially

K876. Mother ___ pudding (British dessert with a biblical name)

K877. No library fan

K879. Society’s ingenue

K881. Gustav Klimt’s birthplace

K882. Shifty character

K884. Certain bullet train rider

K886. Irritate or muddy up

K888. Kind of exercise in preparation for a life change

K889. Final washer phase

K890. Old Testament son whose name inspired a New Testament-related language

K891. Nonstop talkativeness

K892. Old sage Kenobi

K893. Place for a brace

K894. Singer John (with singing daughter Bonnie)

K895. You could ignite them off car battery power in many older models

K898. Antagonist

K900. Pericardia, e.g.

K901. Left side, at sea

K902. Interest of pollsters

K904. “Holla ___”

K905. Site of a low ring

K906. “That looks disgusting!”

K907. Grizzly Alaskans?

K908. Brett Favre target

K909. Probe for worms

K910. The Thin Blue Line director Morris

K912. Renaissance master of Venice

K914. Smartphones replaced them, for short

K918. Cereal brand promising “a bowlful of cookie milk” at the end

K919. One stuck in a corner

K920. Victor Dorian, Stark, Peter, and Blunt of comics and fiction

K922. Source of mosaic pieces

K925. Sound during a bad comedy routine

K927. Gala center?

K928. Sen. McCarthy ally

K929. Thickness units

K930. Name on maps that changes pronunciation if you remove its first two letters

K933. Practice “self-abuse”

K934. Shady payments

K936. Wild ducks

K938. Great Outdoor Games events

K940. Slow-dance movement

K942. Trifle

K943. Getting on the bandwagon

K944. Was fairly successful

K947. Optimally prepared

K948. Blow your horn

K949. Seuss’s faction against the Zooks

K950. ___ bisschen (some small amount)

K951. Celts’ rivals

K953. Backup vocalists’ syllables

K955. Keys often used by Schubert

K957. WWII menaces

K959. Primer

K960. Switzerland’s Gorge of the ___

K961. Profs’ interns

K962. Track and field’s governing org.

K963. NYSE buy

K965. Plumber’s rubber rings

K966. Breathe noisily

K968. Now-shuttered site that tried to quantify influence into a 1-to-100 score

K970. Martin Scorsese’s Dalai Lama film

K972. Pitcher’s rubber, in slang

K976. Starbucks and Pizza Hut

K977. Drink’s impact

K979. What to leave a message after

K980. Latin ballroom dances

K982. Some drillers, for short

K984. Department north of Paris

K985. Undressed pelts

K986. They’re often high

K987. One of great interest?

K989. Rustic couple

K991. To the stars

K992. Hopping chess pieces (abbr.)

K993. Casus ___

K994. The Red and Bloodaxe

K996. Twice ___: biannually

K998. Patriot Thomas and family

K1000. A Fever in the Heartland subject, informally

K1002. “If the pitch starts with ___ story, I’m out” (Mark Cuban)

K1004. Less frictional, perhaps

K1005. “You can skip me”

K1006. Pitching field?

K1007. One of accounting’s Big Four

K1008. Six-year-old Walter Mitty of classic comic strips

K1010. Jabba the ___ (villain in Return of the Jedi)

K1012. Dog role that reportedly paid more than a Munchkin

K1013. Things to check

K1014. Sometimes-shallow sexual success story

K1015. Quest for innocent mischief

K1016. Garten of eating

K1017. Baba ___

K1018. Vehicles sold as parts

K1019. Fistbump

K1021. Deadly bacillus now being used to create drugs

K1023. Lets evaporate

K1025. Alternative to a credit charge

K1027. Greek goddess of war

K1030. ___ avail (without result)

K1031. Seated firmly on the horse

K1032. “it’ll take a few texts for me 2 get 2 the point”

K1033. Lower in standing

K1034. Nautical jail

K1035. Cornily contrived

K1036. Went under

K1037. Netflix’s retelling of Arthurian legend

K1039. Words you sing

K1041. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals writer

K1042. Escape from Alcatraz, e.g.

K1044. Gary of golf

K1045. “They got me!”

K1047. “Party Up (Up in Here)” singer

K1049. Hamlet’s (possibly sarcastic) praise for his species

K1050. What a necklace with a pendant has

K1052. Knock for ___: smack down

K1054. Ditched, maybe

K1056. Start bit by bit

K1058. Holders for canines

K1061. Kind of bone

K1063. Vending machine drinks

K1064. Alençon is a kind of it

K1066. Situation when the first pitch is thrown

K1067. Officially name

K1068. Subsequent repetitions

K1069. Made sure

K1070. Condition alleviated with butterfly flutters

K1071. Any adult Brontë sister, e.g.

K1073. Scrawny

K1074. Addams Family adjective

K1075. First name in cookbook writing

K1076. The Grapes of Wrath name

K1077. High-school department

K1079. Ring results, briefly

K1080. Aircraft manufacturer named in Peanuts

K1081. LOL or TLC, e.g. (but not “e.g.”)

K1082. Acts like a hog

K1083. Ruth who sang “Ten Cents a Dance”

K1085. Diminishing suffixes

K1087. Sigmoid-shaped

K1089. Massive metric masses

K1093. Wasn’t in the dark

K1094. Like a back number

K1095. Where a baby develops

K1096. Much impressed

K1099. Title car in a 1964 pop hit

K1101. Sully’s human name

K1103. Year marked by banning conversions to Christianity, banning female gladiators, and permitting legionaries to marry

K1104. Certain garment edge

K1105. Curling tightly, as hair

K1107. ___ choi (var.)

K1108. Frame featuring Foghorn Leghorn

K1110. Nymph deserted by Paris

K1112. Tom who played Forrest Gump

K1114. Person starting from scratch, self-descriptively

K1116. Cuddle up

K1118. “She Believes ___” (Kenny Rogers tune)

K1119. Prescribed (abbr.)

K1121. Abbr. that may mean “no dining room”

K1123. Little outlander

K1124. Molars, e.g.

K1125. “___ always to tyrants”

K1126. Having the most marbles?

K1127. Scotts Miracle-___

K1129. Draw ___ on (get in one’s sights)

K1131. Something to knock on

K1132. Swimmer Kristin

K1133. ___ W root beer

K1135. Flavored wine aperitif

K1136. Slangy 180

K1137. Ding Dong alternative

K1139. Mediocre

K1140. Cruel smile

K1142. Won back, as territory

K1144. Play poorly, in slang

K1146. Touch up a tattoo, say

K1148. Waste liquid

K1151. Roald whose Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator includes a dangerously incompetent president

K1153. What a bird in the hand might do?

K1154. Natural ability

K1156. Assign the origin time

K1157. Like a poorly manicured lawn

K1159. Jillian, star of It’s a Living

K1160. Football coach’s lecture

K1161. Drink with omakase

K1162. Unusual people

K1163. “I have returned”

K1164. Unseen disaster waiting to happen

K1166. “So THAT’S the trick”

K1167. ___ Z: thoroughly

K1168. Like some mysterious portraits

K1169. Company with “counting sheep” ads

K1171. Coast Guard role

K1173. Cry too much, say

K1175. Heroine Catherine plays in The Mask of Zorro

K1177. Rustic types

K1179. Most swanky

K1180. Head operator

K1181. Chinese money plant

K1183. “Boop-Boop-A-Doop Girl” Helen

K1184. Error’s preceder

K1185. Use a hang-glider

K1186. Getting stuck in the mud

K1187. Fitzgeralds, to Kennedys

K1190. Design detail, for short

K1191. Coconut product

K1193. Muscles that some bodybuilders jiggle for fun

K1194. TV vet of Florida who tends unusual beasts

K1195. Made holes

K1196. Five-time Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winner

K1198. Express disapproval of

K1200. “How ___ my taxes?” (common Google search)

K1202. GMC truck

K1204. Like a space cadet

K1205. Nick who stars in Netflix’s Big Mouth

K1207. Adjust the seasoning

K1210. Shrimp dish

K1211. Turn’s partner

K1213. He won big with “Loser”

K1214. Immediately following this

K1215. Makes secure

K1218. “Are we there ___?”

K1219. Current Disney CEO Bob

K1220. Record information about, Dan-o

K1221. “Not to ___, but…yeah, that was me”

K1222. Sings without knowing the words

K1223. Stand in vertical stacks for easier drying

K1225. Icon known for bouncing across the TV screen and every so often, hitting its corner…juuust…perfectly

K1226. Slapstick lawman

K1227. Hyannis Port’s cape

K1228. Patient scene

K1230. Likely to creep you out

K1232. Traffic troubles

K1235. Little wise one

K1239. Used Kleenexes, e.g.

K1240. Like some fish-tank scum

K1241. Popular race length

K1242. Sweater, in Sicily

K1243. Org. with the annual Eddie Gottlieb Trophy

K1244. Sudden, loud noise

K1246. “More ___ Words” (Extreme)

K1247. Big tune for Falco

K1248. Mendelssohn’s Mrs.?

K1249. Pioneer in the study of supersonic velocities

K1251. Acct. posting

K1252. Getting ready to boil

K1254. “What makes Siri cool is that she has a personality” speaker

K1255. With nine zeroes after it, for short

K1256. French Iron Chef Hiroyuki, or cartoonist Stan

K1258. Weds on the sly

K1260. ML pitchers that hit

K1262. “Street painting” that mostly uses chalk

K1264. Links with

K1265. Minus sign symbol

K1266. “I’m Kissing You” chanteuse

K1267. Baseball’s Speaker

K1269. Rice of erotic vampire fiction

K1270. Midler or Davis who pronounce their names differently due to a misunderstanding

K1271. Darned thing

K1272. Junky

K1276. Baker of jazz

K1277. Munich actor Eric

K1278. Hip about

K1279. Big day in Dec.

K1280. Jupiter’s feature

K1282. British restroom

K1283. Name in Star Wars and Law & Order

K1284. Surf partners, on some menus

K1287. Type of premiere

K1289. Nuremberg events of note

K1291. “Keemy Casanova” Ali

K1293. Camera name

K1296. Sign on a bass’s staff

K1297. Do some outdoor patching

K1298. Resist stubbornly

K1300. Pepper, e.g., for short

K1301. Theater great Hagen

K1302. Cinema simian

K1303. Source material for Ragnarok

K1304. Hikers’ gear

K1306. John rumored to be invisible

K1308. “YOU! ARE! ___!” (Woody to Buzz, in their first film)

K1310. Jan. honoree

K1311. Leader of the Sunshine Band and “undercover” teen Cooper

K1312. One may be deep

K1314. Lost schemer

K1316. ___-de-lampe (decorative pattern at the end of a chapter in book publishing)

K1317. 1988 Quaid/Ryan movie

K1319. Confined to a pig pen

K1321. Hyper-inquisitive

K1323. With all one’s puissance

K1325. Salon offering

K1329. Model Jones married to Alex O’Loughlin

K1330. Prettify

K1331. Lease-to-own furniture resource

K1332. Dressed warmly, in a way

K1335. It may clash with the rest of the suit

K1336. Charitable

K1337. Incoherent speech

K1338. Miller of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

K1339. Whom “Beauty killed,” in classic horror

K1340. Popular online meta-dictionary

K1342. Post office form for your last visit to that post office

K1343. Convened to consider legislation

K1344. Get a wrong total

K1345. ___ ease (nervous)

K1348. Mob around

K1350. Insincere romancers

K1352. Take a course without preparation

K1354. Let ___ Cake (Broadway musical by the Gershwins)

K1356. Kin of onions

K1359. What a wink often means

K1360. Taxes to help the underprivileged, specifically

K1362. Hopscotch supply

K1363. Louis II-XIX, par exemple

K1364. Smith, Johnson, Van Doren, and Eisenhower

K1365. Name for multiple characters in the Barbie movie

K1366. It, in Innsbruck

K1367. ___-da (pretentious)

K1368. Actress Helgenberger

K1369. Neb. neighbor

K1370. Access

K1371. Educational discussions begun as protest and now recognized as forerunners to interactive learning programs

K1372. Olympic event, ___ dancing

K1373. Get an ___: ace, as the test

K1374. Trekkie’s language

K1376. Hindu goddess of destruction

K1377. “Whammo!”

K1379. Mock shock shriek

K1380. Parrot from New Zealand

K1382. Kitchen bottle with a long-a sign

K1384. Some business casual attire

K1386. Red giant in the night sky

K1388. Awe-inspiring

K1392. Word or phrase I was inclined to put in this section to help with alliteration

K1394. Slips into gear

K1395. Metric unit of pressure

K1397. Popeye’s buddies

K1398. Dapper chap

K1399. One watching very, very closely

K1401. 551, in stone

K1402. They’re composed of chs.

K1404. Food-themed Pixar pic

K1405. Film-inspired nickname for a bird

K1406. His last movie was Madadayo

K1408. German composer (1784-1859)

K1411. Bar patron

K1413. Come down fast

K1415. Beat poet Gary or film director Zack

K1417. Party parker

K1418. Moving company

K1419. Hurricane heading (abbr.)

K1421. Old ___ shoes (Vans)

K1422. What the France?

K1423. Of varied character

K1424. Comic eating sound

K1425. Word before cheri or coeur

K1426. Street known as “Home of the Blues”

K1428. Classified foreign-affairs briefing

K1429. Notch made by an axe

K1430. Senator Jake who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery

K1431. “___ Walks in Beauty”

K1432. Ding Dongs, e.g.

K1433. Open up

K1434. Mythical monsters

K1436. Cookout items

K1437. New Zealand parrots

K1439. Plant-based purgatives

K1441. Second sequel letters

K1442. Peas’ package

K1444. Vietnam-vet-turned-shrimper of film

K1446. Decadent cake

K1450. ___ Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico’s first poet)

K1452. Scarlet letter of fiction

K1453. Words with Friends has thirteen

K1454. Really hot ones

K1456. 2022 World Cup city’s name-ender

K1457. Puts in the House, say

K1458. Where everyone comes, in Casablanca

K1459. They say she’s born, not made

K1460. Capital whose name means “big tree” in Arabic

K1461. Site of many immunizations

K1462. Kindergarten teacher’s deg.

K1464. NCO below Sgt.

K1465. McDiarmid who played Emperor Palpatine

K1466. Chief magistrate of Genoa Province, once

K1467. Where Coach K coached

K1469. Symbolist painter Vedder who illustrated The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

K1472. “My dog has fleas” instrument

K1474. Walter ___ Disney

K1476. Indian team tag

K1478. Its caterpillars are green, but it’s whitish

K1480. “Very nice!”

K1481. Kill’d

K1482. Some Starbucks sizes

K1484. Ohio home to Hale Farm and Village

K1485. He’s featured in an “I want none of that…but oh! I do like that” meme

K1486. ___ it up (laughs)

K1487. “Can’t argue with THAT, then”

K1488. Historic Russian space station

K1489. Very, to Velázquez

K1490. Boys Town won him an Oscar

K1492. Pt. of OED

K1493. Blockbuster, or very much not a blockbuster

K1494. They have flat, transparent larvae

K1496. Afterthoughts in letters

K1497. Set for driving

K1499. Want for a girllllfrieeend (or a boyyyfrieeend or a themmmfrieeend)

K1501. “Je suis très ___, merci”

K1503. Barely scrimping (out)

K1504. Grunt on Talk Like a Pirate Day

K1505. “Shapeshifting Master of Darkness” who conquers the future

K1506. Some jigsaw pieces

K1508. Get from the judge

K1510. Aerodynamically designed

K1513. Right-hand woman

K1514. Rings up

K1519. Cherry picker, e.g.

K1520. Goddess who rides a wagon pulled by peacocks

K1521. A.I. actor Law

K1522. Picket-line placard

K1523. Hobie Cat need

K1524. They get firmer from alternating toe reaches

K1525. Popular store opening?

K1526. Help wanted announcement?

K1527. One of his paintings self-destructed after being sold for $1.4 million

K1528. New York ballplayer

K1530. Like a milquetoast

K1535. “We cool, yo?”

K1537. Three-wheeled Indian taxi

K1539. Exams with five 35-minute sections

K1541. Cookbook author Roman

K1542. Where company expenses are tallied

K1544. Lost seaworthiness

K1546. Meas. of investor’s reward over time

K1547. Tra trailers

K1548. Like gushing rapids

K1549. Ship owner who described Ahab as “ungodly, god-like”

K1551. Frost giant slain by Odin

K1553. C.O.N.T.R.O.L. opposition

K1555. Hawaiian surfing mecca

K1557. Buried treasure?

K1558. Sound eliciting a “Who’s there?”

K1560. Fail to float

K1562. Was sporting

K1564. Former telecom giant

K1565. .

K1567. “Faint heart ___ won fair lady”

K1569. ___ Island, Marine base

K1571. Long trips

K1573. Seventh Avenue fashion initials

K1575. Stamp on an incoming pkg.

K1576. Sermon subject

K1577. Codes, in Cambridge

K1579. Large, convex molding

K1580. Wish-granter

K1581. BB-8’s predecessor, casually

K1582. Dies follower

K1583. Liquor in a daiquiri

K1584. Byzantine picture

K1585. Initials on Vladimir Krutov’s helmet

K1586. Korean cabbage

K1587. Prefixes signifying eggs

K1588. Tokyo robe

K1590. Losers to Caesar

K1592. Babies born in late July

K1594. (With) a bare chest

K1597. “American Woman” singer Lenny

K1599. Former CIA director

K1601. Spontaneously steals

K1603. TV colonel

K1606. Out of stock

K1607. Censure

K1608. Waiter’s payoff

K1609. Duncan’s “do not”

K1610. Like pregnancy pants

K1611. Timetables, briefly

K1612. Mila of Bad Moms

K1613. Chess wunderkind in The Queen’s Gambit

K1614. Tzatziki herb

K1616. Juicer’s juice?

K1617. A chore or a real accomplishment

K1619. Julian Assange’s controversial website

K1620. Languidness

K1622. “Buy U a Drank” rapper

K1624. Landing approximations

K1626. Prefix with -cycline

K1628. The Master Mind of Mars monogram

K1629. Organizational system for plasma

K1631. Mediterranean restaurant staple

K1633. Secretive sorts

K1637. Irks some?

K1638. Shinbone neighbor

K1640. What “syne” means

K1641. Should there be one

K1642. Gumbo chefs’ needs

K1643. Nanny or billy follower

K1644. 1960s Haight-Ashbury sound

K1646. Springsteen’s “Working ___ Dream”

K1647. Unwelcome roll, often

K1648. Not natural

K1649. Joseph of frozen confection fame

K1650. Drug that’s central to William Shatner’s sci-fi series (any other sci-fi series he did with similar names are purely coincidental)

K1651. Nuts for soft drinks

K1653. Farmer’s start

K1655. Memory of what happened too fast to take in

K1657. Smoky chimney deposits

K1660. One of Judaism’s four matriarchs

K1662. Hog’s slop

K1664. Groups of eight

K1666. Mainlander, to a Hawaiian

K1667. “Allahu ___!”

K1668. Abounds (with)

K1670. Like the belief that morality doesn’t exist

K1671. Sibilant string

K1672. Deli implements

K1673. Certain sir

K1674. “Ooo, shot down!”

K1675. Ltd. counterpart, in the States

K1676. Astonishment

K1677. Logic gate’s input capacity

K1678. “I got the check this time”

K1679. Noises from an upstairs neighbor

K1680. Language in which the earliest modern arithmetic was written

K1681. “You” preceder in many questions

K1682. Make a cut

K1683. Card ___ (poker cheat, e.g.)

K1685. Name of Clinton’s cat, and many others

K1687. S&M parlor souvenirs?

K1689. Beverages from Japan

K1691. Urbanwear brand huge in the early 2000s

K1693. Russian figure skating gold medalist Ilia

K1695. Words from our sponsor

K1696. Dumbing of Age’s biker badass

K1698. Positioned accurately

K1700. 2023 film described as “Argo for gamers”

K1704. Musicians Mel and Bernie

K1705. Hit title for Fabolous and Ariana Grande

K1707. Newscaster Jennings

K1710. Reddish-brown salad ingredient

K1711. Passive-aggressive romantic creep

K1712. A tribune is one kind

K1713. Silent-movie police force

K1715. Kind of poke

K1716. Pay gotten when laid up

K1717. Awesome without half trying

K1719. UK humane org.

K1721. “If ___ see you…”

K1723. Head, in Hamburg

K1725. First word in the title of a living Bodhisattva

K1728. Marine 10-legger

K1729. “All Your Base Are Belong To Us,” e.g.

K1730. Coiled quantity

K1732. Coty creations

K1736. Taco order, perhaps

K1737. Handlers of urgent trouble in Hawaii

K1738. She played Ann in the original King Kong

K1739. Start to study?

K1740. U2 is him, first

K1741. Asian inn for caravans

K1742. Kin’s relative

K1743. Inspire awe visually

K1745. Thin and pale and weak

K1747. Inverted circumflex

K1749. Red flowering legume also called clianthus

K1751. Propelled, as a dory

K1753. Bring more suffering into the world

K1755. Malibu recreation

K1757. Fictional network that’s been getting more attention after recent developments in AI

K1759. Hardy follower?

K1761. Lover’s fire

K1763. “___ Matata”

K1765. Divas’ solos

K1767. Clockwise from due north

K1771. Word to address an audience

K1772. They used to spend markkaa

K1773. Furrow maker

K1774. “Good Grips” kitchenware brand

K1776. Otorhinolaryngology

K1777. Incrementally preparing

K1778. It helps break down phosphodiester linkages

K1779. Start of a relationship story

K1780. Talk-show host Smiley

K1781. Kin of 45s

K1783. Word of assent

K1785. Subdues with a shock

K1787. Omaha or Ottawa member

K1789. Aphorisms

K1791. Skittles variety

K1795. Net locales

K1797. Orange dwarf

K1800. “Give ___ whirl!”

K1801. William who played Paul Drake Jr.

K1802. How you might read an unsubtle person

K1803. “Que ___?” (“What’s going on?”)

K1804. Contacting

K1805. “I getcha”

K1806. Sanctuaries

K1807. Ring punch

K1808. Ulm uh-huhs

K1809. Nasdaq rival (abbr.)

K1810. Google alternative worth taking seriously again thanks to GPT

K1811. Greenish blue

K1812. Snatching sound uttered on The Simpsons

K1814. Small irritations

K1816. Treats to beat the heat

K1818. Settles in for a relaxing evening

K1820. Subordinate buddies

K1822. Sabbath seat

K1823. Fellow employees

K1825. “Jealous” singer

K1829. Fogell’s amorous-sounding alias in Superbad

K1831. Town near Le Havre

K1832. Knife at a gun fight

K1833. Drifts out of control

K1834. ASCII alternative

K1837. Televangelist couple of the Eighties

K1839. Peaceful slogan

K1842. Skateboarder’s accessory

K1844. Nikes alternative

K1846. Divinity

K1848. Peacenik’s counterpart

K1850. Vegan’s Thanksgiving loaf

K1852. Calls it a day

K1854. He’s a better fighter than thinker…and not much of a fighter

K1856. Last step before the majors

K1857. Conditional

K1858. Cracker brand from 1899 to 2015

K1860. Wine store selection

K1862. How to sign a contract

K1863. Of tree knobs

K1864. County festivals

K1865. Made manageable

K1867. Keep out of one’s diet

K1869. Common vines at Harvard and Yale

K1871. Very welcome watering holes

K1872. Go from dormant to active

K1874. King with the golden touch

K1875. ___ T. Firefly, Groucho role

K1877. “It’s good, it’s good”

K1879. ___ in (entered, as data)

K1881. “(Ahem) I ___ differ”

K1883. Well-manicured

K1885. Speaks gruffly

K1887. The Price Is Right host

K1889. Cheery cadence

K1891. Sand holders at the beach

K1895. Sea arm? (abbr.)

K1898. Chess pieces

K1901. Lo mein cooker

K1902. Online “Lordy!”

K1904. Sun and love goddess of Babylon

K1907. Finished edge

K1909. Ink source

K1912. AZ and HI don’t observe it

K1915. Sigur ___

K1917. Turnabout, informally

K1919. IBM’s original personal computers

K1921. Let up

K1923. Ones providing IVs, maybe

K1925. 1955 Disney title character

K1926. Name on Japanese ships

K1927. Playground backtalk

K1929. Actor/LGBT rights activist George

K1935. “I’m stumped!”

K1941. Social studies class

K1951. Rote learning, to most people

K1953. Like some outdoor carpet

K1954. Quiet parts in “shoulda coulda woulda”

K1957. Familiar OPEC figure

K1958. Blatherskite

K1960. Rounded like an egg

K1962. Vitamin K-rich green

K1965. It might restrict texting while driving

K1968. Shared workspace

K1969. Vividly colored fish

K1970. Stag attender

K1971. Eero’s father, in architecture

K1972. Carter-founded dept.

K1973. Comic sections, once

K1975. “Right now, opinions don’t matter; this is the situation”

K1977. Takes for a time

K1978. Twisted

K1980. Malodorous mammals

K1982. Shark fighter

K1983. (Arms) bent with hands on hips

K1984. Reality-show clan with 23 seasons and counting

K1985. “A LLAMA?! He’s SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!” subject

K1986. Popular dude

K1987. Common pregnant craving, according to late-night comedy

K1990. Service for Rick and Morty fans, for a while

K1991. Use another worm

K1994. Thompson of Selma

K1997. At ___: not knowing what to say

K1999. Chain unit

K2001. Nepal bearer

K2003. Vote ___ down (decide by ballot)

K2005. Numerical equivalents of URLs

K2008. Without anymore

K2009. Like one side of the Force

K2011. Albanian buck

K2012. Greases (up), as hair

K2014. Mrs. Jupiter

K2016. Comic book artist’s supplies

K2017. Broom Hilda, e.g.

K2019. Does’ mates

K2020. Mythical garden helpers

K2022. Bally Total Fitness, e.g.

K2024. Defeat decisively

K2027. Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s nation

K2029. “New Slang” singers (with “The”)

K2031. Rhyme scheme of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “There is ruin and decay / In the House on the Hill: / They are all gone away, / There is nothing more to say.”

K2034. Edda hero

K2036. ___Faire in Middle School (YA novel by Victoria Jamieson)

K2038. Adjunct to a sports facility

K2041. Regard as if to say “Wait…is that right?”

K2043. Hotel housekeeping need

K2044. Florida flora

K2045. Some people have a head for them

K2046. Hangs in the shadows

K2047. Core of an egg

K2048. Deposits with a pawnbroker

K2049. Malamute’s look-alike

K2051. Capsizes

K2053. Alters, as a dress

K2055. Not so sunny

K2057. Agcy. demonstratively cut by Trump

K2058. It lets you sketch on documents

K2060. Theatrically inspired Estee Lauder blush

K2062. Early New Hampshire settlement

K2064. “Forget it!”

K2066. First year at law school

K2067. Brand in the freezer section

K2068. Person on commission

K2070. Inspiring goddess for wordsmiths

K2071. Get the better of, as a base runner might a pitcher

K2073. Backup crew

K2074. Popular Russian food

K2075. mp4 or av1, e.g.

K2076. Like a pike

K2077. Some DVDs show their cuts (abbr.)

K2078. Proverbial speedsters

K2079. Representative, e.g.

K2081. Low spirits

K2082. Animal noses

K2084. It encompasses everything, but it’s just the start?

K2086. Many, after “a”

K2088. Adhesive banned by the NFL in 1981

K2090. Monica, of the nets

K2092. Add a bit of color

K2094. Stately home, say, of Athena

K2097. Noted patron org. in the U.S.

K2100. Beard on an ear

K2102. Tennis player, coach, and commentator Jelena

K2103. Half of a modern stoner flick duo

K2104. Yum-Yum’s companion in The Cat Who… mystery series

K2105. Go easy on

K2106. Ridicule through parody

K2107. 1,501, to Nero

K2108. Puff pieces?

K2109. Princess’s address

K2110. “That looked like it hurt!” follow-up

K2111. System start-up?

K2112. Oft-counterfeited Deco prints

K2113. Non-PC group?

K2114. It’s like a man’s or trans version of a sports bra

K2115. “Thanks for the ___”

K2117. Continental governor, for short

K2119. Japan’s 59th prime minister

K2120. Private and marshal

K2122. Diamond headgear

K2124. Shows frugality

K2126. Fashion suffix

K2129. Provided to Shakespeare?

K2132. Got around

K2135. Confine

K2136. When doubled, song and film score by Cole Porter

K2137. Puff from a joint

K2138. Guru ___ (founder of Sikhism)

K2139. Little-used letter

K2140. Org. behind the 2004 Games in Athens

K2141. Daughter of Helios

K2142. Western ring?

K2146. Ukraine’s capital

K2149. Permian Basin’s output

K2151. Pigs’ enclosures

K2153. October gemstones

K2155. Needs no more work

K2157. Driver’s decision point

K2159. Not Rep. or ind.

K2160. Four-stringed guitars (var.)

K2162. Home to Ellsworth AFB

K2163. Putting two cents in

K2164. Lead-in to “haw”

K2166. At first light

K2167. Languishing, as a swain

K2168. Villains’ hideouts

K2169. Toil

K2170. Parish official

K2171. Bloodsucking bug, in ‘Bama

K2174. Chewed tree product

K2175. Egyptian president ousted in 2013

K2178. Snarky state

K2180. Parisian thought

K2182. Breathing device

K2184. More than suggests

K2185. Start of a “Come again?” response

K2186. Don’t always play it safe

K2188. TV’s This Is ___ Life

K2191. Invention of 1824

K2193. Some discount clothes

K2195. The founder in The Founder

K2197. Certain guerrilla

K2198. Seafood servings

K2199. Pennsylvania city where the Continental Congress met

K2200. Japanese zither harps

K2201. Monetary unit of Indonesia

K2202. New Jersey’s is 122 mi. long

K2203. Great ___ Mountains (Appalachian subrange)

K2204. Chinese self-defense system

K2205. Supermarket section

K2206. Portrait sort

K2208. Prozac or Celexa, for example

K2210. Square dance staple

K2213. Naval intelligence outfit

K2216. Welcome to one’s home

K2218. Used too much

K2220. What James Cook called the “Looker-on Mountains” of New Zealand

K2221. Grams of tea in an average tea bag

K2223. Wall Street name

K2224. Home for Aida

K2226. Understand

K2227. Celestial visitor

K2228. Prell competitor

K2229. Philly campus

K2230. Seem drained of vitality, perhaps

K2232. Words for a stubborn sort

K2233. “After All” singer Peter

K2234. Watch name

K2236. Had heard about

K2237. Language used to encode WWII transmissions

K2238. Traditional Māori war dance used by the New Zealand rugby team

K2240. Looks again, as I did at this puzzle answer and realized that it’s not actually a snack brand

K2242. You can answer this (abbr.)

K2243. The Mummy beetles

K2245. Inclines one’s ___ (pays special attention)

K2248. Scott who sued to end his own slavery

K2250. Maugham’s ___ the Villa

K2253. Party org. last gathered in Milwaukee

K2257. Eats without relish

K2259. Showing respect to a superior officer

K2260. Worthless discards

K2261. Three-word defense

K2262. Andrew, to Elizabeth

K2263. Lean-___ (sheds)

K2264. O’Neill (then Chaplin) and Chaplin

K2265. Science of plants

K2266. Hasbro division

K2268. It’s put on before pulling away

K2269. Where people market their images?

K2272. Portable enclosures

K2274. Bruce and Kravitz

K2276. “Kitchy-kitchy-___!”

K2278. Deposit of loam

K2280. Eagle Eye Cherry’s “___ Tonight”

K2282. Bailing wire’s partner

K2284. Cheerleaders’ cries

K2286. Suffix with neat

K2287. Out-of-favor abbr. for the Inuit and Yupik peoples, included here to be buried, not praised

K2289. Salt Lake player

K2291. “Fighting hate for good” org.

K2292. Batteries in the remote

K2294. Song whose chorus begins, “Talk-in’ ‘bout / Hey now! / Hey now!”

K2295. Beginner’s supposed advantage

K2296. Darkly obscure

K2300. Vulgarly jocular

K2301. Mañana’s opposite

K2302. Scare slightly

K2303. Coined for one use

K2304. Trees yielding wood for ships

K2307. “___ lift?”

K2309. Humming away

K2311. Squirrel or magpie

K2314. Attack abruptly

K2316. Quick piercing

K2318. French noblemen

K2320. Intangible energy

K2322. Very wide shoe size

K2325. Stiffened

K2327. Self-detoxing risk

K2330. They used to be used at the five and dime

K2332. One-named new wave star

K2333. Opposite of pobre

K2334. Pacer’s burden

K2335. Prohibition opponent

K2336. “___ Darlin”‘ (jazz standard)

K2337. Lunged toward

K2338. Grammy winner Vandross

K2339. Recording transactions

K2343. Admitted politely

K2345. X.com founder Musk

K2346. Producer of fine threads

K2348. Any (German)

K2349. h

K2351. Milo of Ulysses and Barbarella

K2353. Ritual candelabras

K2355. Brothers’ name in Animal Crackers

K2357. Bumps

K2358. Language related to Thai

K2360. Colloquial denial

K2361. Pork knuckle

K2363. Ill. Jun. clock setting

K2364. Minor complaint

K2366. Lather grandmotherly love (on)

K2367. Was homesick

K2368. Ill-fated liner

K2370. Collaborative websites

K2371. Plundered

K2372. Neglectful

K2373. Studio floodlight

K2376. Faith, abbreviated

K2379. Part of a product name chosen because it sounds Scandinavian

K2381. She played the Bride in Kill Bill

K2383. Refuses drugs

K2385. Dick van consulted and briefly featured on WandaVision

K2388. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., (abbr.)

K2391. State marketed as “Almost Heaven,” for short

K2394. Nice way to sleep

K2396. Prepares veggies

K2397. Cycled

K2398. Baneful thing

K2399. Rand satirized in Bioshock

K2400. Gives a Dixie lickin’

K2401. Field goal specialist

K2402. Kin of alas

K2403. Hair raisers?

K2404. Way to order coffee

K2406. Swelter

K2408. Abu ___, Mohammed’s father-in-law

K2411. Sound over a tongue depressor

K2413. Harmless cysts

K2415. List cutter

K2416. Spanish painter Jose Maria

K2418. The curtain rises on it

K2420. Hole for a coin

K2422. Music genre for Rain

K2423. Pins or penny preceder

K2425. Boone or Crockett, notably

K2427. Point of a quill pen

K2428. Gun make that ended the Third Reich

K2430. One of 24 in a day

K2431. ___ One vodka

K2432. On the take

K2434. Hozenji Temple locale

K2435. Hullabaloo

K2436. Some muffins

K2437. Smoothly persuasive

K2440. Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

K2442. Follow closely

K2444. To ___ (as too much of a good thing)

K2446. It may lead to a term ending with “gate”

K2448. Prescriptivist’s no-no

K2450. Old Olds autos

K2452. Offspring (abbr.)

K2454. Early source of sustenance

K2455. Dos’ followers

K2456. P that’s two before T

K2459. Cutesy cry of disgust

K2461. Wrestler Solofa Fatu Jr.

K2462. ___ canto

K2463. ___-Tiki

K2464. Where the thigh joins the abdomen

K2465. Argue pettily

K2466. Learns a lot overnight

K2467. Like dirty chimneys

K2469. Tissues, indelicately

K2470. Joint in one’s room?

K2472. Not set at full power

K2474. Wet-road danger

K2476. Go for the varsity, say

K2479. Pouting organ

K2481. She, in Capri

K2483. Flamboyant leap

K2485. Monitors, as a suspect

K2490. “Hubba hubba!”

K2492. “Molecular unit of currency,” acronymed

K2493. Court VIPs, for short

K2495. Noted berry farm founder

K2496. “I’ve heard just about enough, buddy…”

K2498. Song title used by John Lennon and (separately) Paul McCartney

K2499. More watery

K2500. Diamond Jim ___

K2501. Strong string

K2502. Self-deprecating remark (sometimes said as the result of a prank)

K2503. Japanese religion promoting harmony and purity

K2504. Early spring financial-section advice

K2507. ___ Mason: investor acquired by Franklin Templeton

K2509. Sounds weary

K2510. Supplier of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s killer soundtrack?

K2512. Head for the horizon

K2514. Deeply regret

K2515. Singer/songwriter Bedingfield

K2517. Political bloc that probably won’t form

K2519. Informal speech

K2521. Gets going, in the Globe

K2522. “The farmer has to be an optimist, ___ wouldn’t still be a farmer” (Will Rogers)

K2524. Blue’s Clues clue

K2525. Theatrical winners, briefly

K2527. For whom Stan Lee’s mistaken in Iron Man

K2528. Tour de France measurements, briefly

K2531. It’s not at the edge of most wall calendars

K2533. Craft brewery choice, for short

K2534. Sundar Pichai, to Alphabet

K2535. Units in apt. ads

K2536. Netanyahu’s successor

K2537. Thai island with a Big Buddha; its name looks a bit naughty until you learn the “h” is simply silent

K2538. Executive’s benefits

K2541. “O earth, what changes thou ___ seen!” (Tennyson)

K2543. Old Glory designer

K2546. Pack of cards

K2548. Abstain from

K2550. Photographer’s orig.

K2552. Hundred-year-old clothing brand with the slogan “Live Your Adventure”

K2554. Gang member, maybe

K2557. Negatives in Nantes

K2559. Bird’s-nest, e.g.

K2562. Like some romantic evening walks

K2564. Mini-isle

K2565. It may be a hip design, informally

K2567. Unofficial name for the film that leads into Creed

K2570. Language that treats “dz” as a single consonant

K2571. Exchanged insults, as competitors

K2572. Pakistani or Philippine

K2573. Little bits of dust

K2575. “Man’s the ___, and Wealth the vine, / Stanch and strong the tendrils twine” (Emerson)

K2576. Like the fastest-eating animal (a mole--it helps them sense vibrations in the soil)

K2578. Tree-lined rte.

K2580. Naproxen, commercially

K2582. Potter forehead feature

K2584. Iliad advisor

K2587. Anne with ___

K2589. Kind of chair seen near pools

K2591. Ovid’s 1,003

K2593. Moment’s try

K2595. Big 12 org.

K2597. Not-so-mild winter ailments

K2599. About a decisecond

K2600. Chess piece (abbr.)

K2603. Inform

K2605. Tropical American animal

K2606. “Whilst ___ home starve for a merry look…” (Shakespeare)

K2607. Big name in backpacks

K2608. City across the river from Buffalo, N.Y.

K2609. Michael Moore film about healthcare

K2610. Small role, sometimes

K2611. Where the ark landed

K2613. Sponsorship (var.)

K2614. Cheer heard on RuPaul’s Drag Race

K2616. Showed obeisance

K2618. Acquires with effort, with “out”

K2619. Stone-faced

K2621. Letters associated with Brigham Young

K2623. Nightfall of poetry

K2625. Light yellowish tan named for an animal

K2626. Some shooters, for short

K2628. Road-trip “reading”

K2629. Edmonton footballers until 2020

K2632. F Troop sergeant

K2634. Practically any ball except a football

K2635. Its chimes were the first US registered “sound mark”

K2637. Mother of Gobo and Faline, in kidlit

K2639. Superman’s name at birth

K2640. Emulated hawks

K2641. Quality of God (more notably in the New Testament)

K2642. Celebrity couple portmanteau

K2643. Sound-___: effective mimics

K2646. River in a classic movie

K2648. Lowermost ship deck

K2651. Snack food since 1932

K2653. Prefix with motor

K2654. Refused

K2655. Way to determine a prescription

K2657. “I’m Good” singer Bebe

K2660. Japanese golf champion Isao

K2663. Thing on a baseball

K2665. 31,000-38,000 ft. for many flights

K2666. Widely hailed autism therapy

K2669. Pipes with long, flexible tubes

K2671. What a Möbius strip has

K2672. Actress Jovovich

K2673. Divines

K2674. Riversides

K2675. Sweetie or honey

K2676. “Put on a happy face!”

K2678. His enemies include Pookas and Fygars

K2680. Hosiery hue

K2682. Not ___ (just fair)

K2684. Singer Cruz

K2687. High spot in Europe

K2690. Tiny bird

K2692. Shot up with Novocain

K2694. Succeeds

K2696. Longest bk. named for a woman

K2698. She played Gwen Stacy in two Spider-films

K2700. Hard-to-remove stain

K2702. Zip, zilch, nada

K2703. Gp. to whom the Inspector General answers

K2705. Sticky-fingered types

K2706. Stark fear

K2707. Critics’ choices

K2708. Community centers, for short

K2709. Airline nicknamed “the Flying Kangaroo”

K2710. Relations between three or more variables

K2711. Entirely the responsibility of

K2712. Laborer of ancient Egypt

K2714. Thrash

K2715. Site now known as Fandom.com

K2717. Micronesian isle better known as Chuuk State

K2719. “Mighty Lak’ a Rose” composer Ethelbert

K2721. Music player’s modulator, for short

K2724. Royalty

K2726. Clove hitch, e.g.

K2728. Head for the hills

K2730. Increased by

K2733. ___ Boys (Little Women sequel)

K2734. When They See Us director DuVernay

K2737. Element name derived from the Latin for “Copenhagen”

K2739. “That’s ___!” (“Filming’s done!”)

K2740. Lena who played Cersei and Gorgo

K2741. Winery supply

K2742. Anheuser-Busch logo feature

K2743. Boosted chemically

K2744. Spellbound by celebs

K2745. The life of Riley

K2746. Occupies an Eames chair

K2747. It makes a point in elementary school

K2749. Checked by a pull

K2752. ___ Yello (soft drink)

K2754. Opener, of a sort

K2756. Some photographs

K2759. Hi-speed coupes

K2760. King Hussein’s queen

K2762. Brought (along)

K2764. “What I wouldn’t give for a warm shower”

K2765. Vogue rival

K2767. Render inoperative

K2770. Skeptically

K2772. Network with its HQ in Ottawa

K2773. Bloviating politician, e.g.

K2775. Fong of Hawaii Five-O

K2776. Drain at a gulp

K2777. Concerned about trifles

K2779. One on the run

K2782. Reluctant reply

K2783. Chill out, dude

K2784. Caught attending

K2786. Composer of comic verse Ogden

K2788. Asteroids producer

K2789. Antelope aunts

K2791. Alters again

K2795. What filler necks connect to

K2797. :There’s gold in them ___ hills!”

K2800. Missed not only the basket but the whole backboard

K2802. Transylvanian count, informally

K2804. Lead-in to some self-quoting

K2805. Org. featured in Anna and Tetris

K2808. Mousse cousin

K2810. Gin makers

K2811. Ill-fated Russian sub of 8/12/00

K2812. Ephesus and environs, anciently

K2813. Kind of shoer

K2814. Modern artist Mondrian

K2817. Measles symptom

K2819. Latter-day rookie

K2822. Air mattress problem

K2824. Reverse mantra of The Shining

K2827. Racecar rule number, to the Romans

K2828. White Russian ingredient, often

K2830. “Hot cross buns, ___ penny, two…”

K2832. Of animal life

K2834. Tibiae supporters

K2835. Riker’s wife, eventually

K2838. Gesture of genius

K2840. Laekenois is its 196th recognized breed

K2841. Early form of Greek

K2843. Honshu city, suburb of Tokyo, with a football team called the Red Diamonds

K2844. They may be harrowing

K2845. Capable of going from zero to passionate in seconds

K2846. Warm welcomes

K2847. Party leader

K2850. Manhattan cousin

K2852. Hudson River fish

K2854. Amount of cheese that’s a commitment

K2856. Chicagoland paper, for short

K2858. Attempt to make out

K2860. “La” lead-in

K2861. Champagne music maestro Lawrence

K2863. She was “so warm, so sweet, so shy,” to Johnny Mathis

K2864. Out of date?

K2867. Tie the hands of

K2869. Surface for the Olympische Winterspiele

K2870. “___ can’t do anything in moderation” (Eminem)

K2872. Withholding feature?

K2874. Geneticist’s study

K2875. Keaton of The Godfather and Book Club

K2876. “___ a good time for you?”

K2877. World’s largest freshwater lake

K2878. Largest organ

K2879. Abbr. on your Ameche

K2883. Lat. and Ukr., formerly

K2885. Comics caption

K2887. The rest of the Roman soldiers, e.g.

K2889. Word repeated before “moons ago”

K2891. Sleep together…without actually sleeping, ifyanowaddimean

K2894. What Goku and Calvin have in common, appearance-wise

K2896. Good fortune

K2898. Degrees to which some go?

K2900. Where some pairs perform

K2903. “Suspect is fleeing the scene” message

K2905. Tires, in England (but not “tyres”)

K2906. Shows skittishness

K2907. Comprehend

K2908. Hershey’s candy bar made with toffee

K2909. “You’re a funny guy!” “Yeah, but ___ aren’t everything!”

K2910. Juuust this big [pinches thumb and forefinger until they almost touch]

K2912. Made one’s displeasure known to all

K2913. Some are in the 90s

K2915. Onion, garlic, or the giant variety that looks like a floating purple pom-pom

K2917. “Juice ___?”

K2919. Cleopatra’s mascara

K2921. Kay or Bart

K2924. Japanese toast

K2925. Arabian rulers (var.)

K2926. Something kept

K2927. Communicates

K2928. They’re often grumpy, stereotypically

K2929. Meghan Trainor song with lines that elicit a double take

K2930. Laundry often washed separately

K2931. ___ Row, London garment district

K2933. Cheerleader’s directive

K2935. Reason to pack a bag

K2936. Before markdown (abbr.)

K2939. Conjectural (abbr.)

K2940. West African language

K2942. Liberian native

K2943. Silken fabric

K2945. Word often addressed to Bob?

K2946. Filmdom ogre

K2947. Sound of a blast

K2948. Voice heard in commercials with Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel

K2952. Pugilism-related

K2954. Boat owner’s problem

K2956. British baby buggy

K2958. ___ the storm

K2960. Tie who had a contentious relationship with hockey fans

K2963. Difference between “over-under” and “ovah-undah,” say

K2964. G-rated oath

K2966. Worker-benefit plan

K2969. Features of many Disney films

K2971. Pretentiousness

K2974. Track adjuncts

K2976. The Ten Commandments, e.g.

K2978. Capital company whose partners included Mitt Romney

K2979. Like rarebit

K2980. Weekly World News creation who kept escaping laboratories

K2981. Transfers recording to

K2982. Figure given by a used car salesman

K2984. Proclaimed

K2985. Will, according to a pact

K2986. Mind-bogglingly many

K2988. Large amount of resistance

K2990. Teatime, on some clocks

K2991. Kind of trees used for flour

K2993. Longtime political pundit Marvin

K2996. Prepares, as carrots

K2998. Print anew

K3000. ___ Explosion (band)

K3002. Grizzly’s pad

K3004. 1960s militant Brown

K3005. Noted vintner’s valley

K3007. Haitian assent

K3008. Period of literary style, e.g.

K3011. Multilingual broadcaster since 1942 (abbr.)

K3013. Spy for the US

K3014. Elements and Pilots

K3015. Some lap dogs, for short

K3016. Like a three-pitch inning

K3019. Tom Clancy’s final-conflict video game

K3021. Senate fabric

K3024. Bacon with links?

K3026. Modern sked app, for short

K3029. Greets on early Facebook

K3030. Annoying places for gum to stick

K3031. When major operations start

K3033. Trains and tops, e.g.

K3034. Washington’s first Secretary of War

K3037. John Hancock, famously

K3040. Nosher of discards

K3042. St. Louis pro

K3043. Holds a pose

K3045. Physicist Tesla

K3046. Game that reportedly originated in Texas

K3047. Goddess of the earth

K3048. Nature’s laxative

K3051. Placed in office

K3053. Hit hard, as the brakes

K3055. Caro who directed The Mother and The Zookeeper’s Wife

K3057. Palace in the Forum Romanum

K3058. “Movin’ ___” (TV theme song)

K3061. Knowledgeable on arcane details of a subject

K3062. Science writers Zimmer and Sagan

K3063. Dn. and a little to the left, on a map

K3066. Chat to settle a spat

K3068. It’ll give you gray hairs

K3070. Soothing application

K3071. High school equivalency test (abbr.)

K3072. Kenny G’s specialty

K3074. Manners

K3076. Hundred-thousandth of a newton

K3077. Early Mike Judge creation

K3078. Mass number?

K3079. Irish-born Tony winner Patrick

K3080. Intrude

K3082. Male honeybees

K3084. Suggestive and then some

K3086. Object of some pity

K3089. Royal flush component

K3091. Rate highly

K3093. Lumber suppliers

K3095. Boston’s is about . 36 (abbr.)

K3097. Swedish name that combines two opening consonants that I didn’t think went together before I saw it on Voltron

K3098. Roadblock

K3102. Flights leaving around midnight, usually

K3105. Nero’s 102

K3107. BlacKkKlansman director

K3108. Regular joe

K3109. Smear on one’s rep

K3110. Runner’s shock absorber

K3111. Jenner linked to Bad Bunny

K3112. Actor or singer

K3116. Paternity test site

K3117. Lingerie fabric

K3119. Yves Saint Laurent’s onetime employer

K3121. Give it away

K3124. Switched on again, as a pilot light

K3125. Fish with a pointed snout

K3126. Qualley of music, Mighty Fine, and Shut In

K3128. Spacey-Bridges film about an (allegedly?) alien visitor

K3131. Joining up with Uncle Sam

K3133. Wimpy

K3135. Brit’s bowling game

K3136. One who has trouble passing the bar?

K3138. ___ Nidre (Yom Kippur prayer)

K3139. Blue diamond, for one

K3141. Block, as a golf shot or an idea

K3142. Desirable Southeast Asian furniture wood

K3143. Goes by jet

K3147. Significant division

K3150. (Les) romances

K3151. “I’ve got ___ on my plate right now”

K3153. Ancient Phoenician city now in Lebanon

K3155. Change machine

K3156. Sras., in Paris

K3157. Cousin of the saber and foil

K3158. Home of “la familia”

K3159. Reactions to good surprises

K3160. Banana ___ (dessert)

K3161. Hailstones do it

K3163. U.S. Army E-6

K3165. One from Aberdeen

K3167. Sun hat on safari

K3169. Bird-feed item

K3170. Abbott and Costello and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, arguably

K3173. Isolated nation under the thumb of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov

K3175. World’s most active volcano

K3177. CI quadrupled

K3178. Ticks, say

K3179. Wide-open-space photog Adams

K3180. Less sensible

K3182. Nickelodeon’s ___ 101

K3184. Black tea variety

K3186. Vanderbilt Cup seats

K3189. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”, e.g.

K3191. Phffft costar Kim

K3194. President Ramaphosa

K3195. Healthful mineral

K3196. “Keys? Wallet? Cell phone? Gone to the bathroom?”

K3197. English coin

K3199. Many an Erbil resident

K3200. Abbess’s underlings

K3203. Brown on the beach

K3205. Walker, on street signs

K3206. One’s, in France

K3209. 380% of D

K3211. $200 per hour, e.g.

K3212. Sedate and rational

K3213. Piglet parent

K3214. Hendrix’s guitar, for short

K3216. Lumia maker

K3218. Skinny

K3220. Loathsome

K3222. Deprived of consciousness, for short

K3224. Twin who lost the naming competition

K3227. Name with “camera” and “moment”

K3228. Type of button

K3229. Zoological groups

K3230. Hiking troublemakers

K3233. Reintroduced in 2020, she’s the only one who can fully understand her boyfriend’s speaking voice

K3235. Lit out quickly

K3237. Crucifixion symbol

K3239. What gets out

K3241. Suffix with sex or text

K3242. Started one’s family, casually

K3244. Count in All’s Well That Ends Well, or half-brother on Family Guy

K3245. Media law topic

K3246. Big belt

K3248. Law school class

K3249. Outfielder’s “I don’t got it!”

K3250. Doesn’t hold back

K3252. Seagoing mil. training group

K3254. Squid organ

K3256. Largest and furthest of the dwarf planets

K3257. ___-Wreck

K3259. Used as sustenance

K3260. Device for ice or nuts

K3261. Which stars are popular this year

K3262. AL or NL city

K3264. Look through half-closed blinds, e.g.

K3266. Beauty supply chain

K3267. “…to us ___ is given…” (Isaiah 9:6)

K3270. Drink hot tea

K3271. Cable TV giant, once

K3273. Idaho’s ___ Perce Indians

K3275. Denial to a drill sergeant

K3277. LeBron’s team, on scoreboards

K3280. Al of Today

K3282. Agnew who resigned in 1973

K3284. Does concerningly on a quiz

K3288. Versatile kind of tape

K3289. Pug or poodle, e.g.

K3291. In the groove

K3293. ___ bien

K3296. Nonalcoholic socials once popular in the gay community

K3298. Café companion

K3301. Soluble salts

K3304. A serious-minded fella

K3306. Side dish that’s sometimes mashed

K3307. Unrespected people

K3308. Treasure chest security, in pirate books

K3313. Teasdale and Lee

K3315. “Now you___, now you don’t”

K3317. Shows sudden interest

K3319. “I can’t ___ thing!!”

K3321. Superman portrayer Christopher

K3322. “Happiness is the same price ___ bottoms” (“7 Rings”)

K3323. Talmud or Torah

K3324. Pretty fast, like “One” by Metallica

K3325. Not even the most one could imagine

K3326. Give the ax to

K3327. Good conductors use them sparingly

K3328. One of the Pac-Man ghosts

K3329. Schlock

K3331. Young woman of Ypres, for short

K3333. Three-min. periods

K3335. Jib, for one

K3336. Its highest score is 180 (abbr.)

K3338. Old Japanese coin

K3339. Deborah’s King and I costar

K3341. “That’s wrong!”

K3342. Stratofortress home, for short

K3344. Rock band whose guitarist introduced the “windmill” strum

K3345. Talk by a rev.

K3346. “Tik ___” (2009 #1 hit for Kesha)

K3348. Frost’s “The Road ___”

K3349. Working, as dough

K3351. “___ Think?” (Childish Gambino)

K3353. Influential WWII journalism couple

K3355. Popular dance at Victoria’s court

K3357. Corrosive kind of acid

K3359. First mass-marketed sneakers

K3362. Football break

K3363. Suck into muck

K3364. Home to Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids

K3366. Reason a lot of webpages add a bunch of useless extra copy

K3368. Peruvian port

K3369. “Fine women ___ crazy salad…” (Yeats)

K3372. Fundamental unity

K3375. Group controversially not in rock’s Hall of Fame, with “The”

K3378. MIT president instrumental in founding NASA

K3380. Syllables that often precede las

K3381. “Not…on…a…bet!!”

K3383. Stock debuts, for short

K3384. Chiang Kai-___ of Taiwan

K3385. Swap spit

K3388. Working Girl protagonist

K3390. Heaven Can Wait’s Hasso

K3392. Felt sun hat

K3393. Oscar winner Luise

K3395. Centers of focus

K3398. Tamarack’s kin

K3399. “Just watch…”

K3400. Landers at LaGuardia

K3401. His best-known song title had a radio-safe version

K3402. Chip holder?

K3405. Talky-talky-talky

K3407. “Juegos Olimpicos” awards

K3409. Lillehammer’s count.

K3410. Protested org. of the 1960s

K3411. PBS’ “Science Guy”

K3413. Linked-computers acronym

K3414. Principle of balance

K3416. Prefix with take

K3417. Ending for bull or hill

K3420. Gp. that supports buying rounds?

K3422. The Dark Knight and The Color of Money, for two

K3424. Barcelona black

K3427. Iraq’s Hussein

K3428. Lash memento

K3431. Garland of Tinseltown

K3432. Living dragon

K3433. UFO shape, often

K3434. Cord ends

K3435. African setting of John le Carre’s The Constant Gardener

K3437. Famous cremey filling

K3439. Hip-hop duo the ___ Yang Twins

K3440. Cough-syrup ingredient

K3444. Took by force

K3447. Japanese video game-based franchise

K3449. Sauk war chief who sought peace

K3451. Place a title on

K3453. “Queen of Salsa” Cruz

K3454. Signals to leave?

K3456. Big quake

K3458. Stargate Universe and The Big Ugly actress Levesque

K3461. Schemer’s hatching

K3463. Confession listing

K3464. Ionic or Doric, e.g.

K3465. Protagonist for most of The Walking Dead

K3466. Dog bred to guard Japanese royalty

K3468. “___ I stutter?”

K3470. “There’s ___ in the air tonight”

K3473. Similarity

K3475. Right-angle pipe connectors

K3477. Shout some bad news for the batter

K3478. Former channel name invoking a city

K3480. Typist’s stat, in brief

K3481. London district

K3483. Modifier for a kind of bag that comes from German “to bite”

K3484. Mo. without big holidays in the US

K3485. Slight bit

K3487. Annoy to no end

K3489. Commoner kind of navel

K3491. Ecological adjective

K3493. Physicist teacher Pandey whose name means “divinely imperceptible”

K3495. Washed the soap off

K3498. Jibs on racing yachts

K3499. “___! The Herald Angels Sing”

K3500. Fire result

K3501. Move seductively

K3502. Less-revealing go-withs for bikini bottoms

K3504. Understand what one needs to understand of

K3506. Lois’ sometime rival

K3508. Interstate mutual aid agreement

K3509. Etta of bygone comics pages

K3512. Return of the Jedi vehicles starting to become reality

K3515. Bloody insane

K3518. Luke who helped found SAG

K3519. Girl’s future

K3520. Lou Gossett Jr. Air Force flick

K3522. Alan who played Cameron in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

K3524. Part of a dress

K3526. Intro to Roni

K3528. Typesetters’ machines, for short

K3530. Bird with a 9- to 10-foot wingspan

K3532. Controversial term in Lizzo’s “Grrrls”

K3533. Lead-in to cast or scope

K3534. Zoo attractions also known as Tartary oxen

K3536. Tie again, as a necktie

K3537. Drummer’s tremolo

K3538. How my neighborhood’s houses all look to me

K3539. Tranquil state

K3540. Dragon’s home, in song

K3542. Word tied to happy or dash

K3543. Hershey brand with caramel

K3546. Take in People

K3548. Plaza introduced in Parks and Recreation

K3549. Org. that regulates ISPs

K3551. Jay of Jamiroquai

K3552. Certain baseball players (abbr.)

K3554. “Happy Birthday” writer, maybe

K3555. Forum farewell

K3556. Lend out again

K3557. Its stock number is my first name

K3558. “Easy to clean,” in ads

K3561. Barking place?

K3563. One might be worn in a sting operation

K3565. Underground cartoonist R.

K3567. Showed a contemptuous perspective (on)

K3569. 2016 Star Wars prequel (yet not considered one of the prequels)

K3572. Single-minded theorizer

K3573. Weightiness

K3574. People, to a narcissist

K3575. Dog, in some store names

K3577. Competes in Torino

K3580. Judge’s seat

K3582. JD predecessor in the U.S.

K3584. “Flying Dutchman” of racing Luyendyk

K3586. Image in Dali’s eye-tricking In Voluptas Mors

K3589. “Let the good times roll” advertiser

K3591. Be extremely excited

K3593. Half a 1950s TV duo

K3595. Rap duo Kris ___ (R.I.P. Chris Kelly)

K3596. Practice crystal gazing

K3598. Here to make friends

K3599. Get less gridlocked

K3601. Evidence of a leak

K3604. 2013 Oscar-nominated frontwoman for rock’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs

K3605. Country bumpkin

K3606. Bowling divisions

K3607. Confident way to solve crosswords

K3608. Stared snapping

K3609. Block a bid, in bridge

K3611. Mmes., in Murcia

K3613. Prince Harry topper

K3614. Smashers’ opposites

K3617. ___ volente (God willing)

K3618. Outfit for the slopes

K3620. Tiki bar freebie

K3621. Mountain pass

K3623. Head turner at the beach

K3624. Neverland pirate

K3628. Muppet frog

K3631. Farthest one can go before gravity kicks in

K3633. William Byrd works

K3635. “That seems right, anyway”

K3636. Bookworm’s counterpart

K3637. “I’ve ___!” (cry of impatience)

K3638. They consider Ali the true successor

K3639. 180-degree lens

K3640. Energetic and concussive

K3642. With violent rage

K3645. “And how!”

K3647. Threatening words

K3649. Inspirational speaker and Law of Attraction writer Hicks

K3652. Sticky and tacky, as pine sap

K3654. Elite clique

K3656. Like the world’s tallest and fastest animals

K3657. Pentagonal trapezohedron in gaming

K3658. App with vids, familiarly

K3659. “Total ___” (invoice words)

K3661. Nobelist Singer

K3663. God or goddess

K3665. 1972 US/USSR missile pact

K3667. Name in shampoo

K3669. Suspicion

K3670. Burns midnight oil

K3671. Darlene Hunt’s Showtime show

K3672. Great concert turnout

K3673. Severe, dreaded virus

K3675. Continent with a “Minor” part

K3677. War and Peace director King

K3679. “sssssniFFF…mmmm” inducer

K3682. Get to leavin’ out

K3683. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up author

K3685. Doomed hero with the same distribution of A’s as his author

K3686. Italian title (abbr.)

K3688. Griller’s preparation

K3691. Fantastic 4’s foe

K3693. Root of the taro

K3695. Barnyard meal

K3697. “Felt good…do it again”

K3700. Musical theme, in Italian opera

K3701. Of an important age

K3702. Europe’s oldest independent country

K3703. Partial cooling

K3704. Matching each other’s pace

K3705. Touchdowns

K3706. Character in Dracula

K3707. Feel comfortable with, at the literal end of the day

K3708. Zagora preceder in geography

K3709. Nautical windcatcher that’s easy to raise

K3711. “Just thinking about that puts me in a bad mood”

K3713. Dr. Seuss’s Hop ___

K3716. Western wear

K3718. Big name in power tools

K3720. Jerusalem newspaper

K3723. Have shtex with

K3725. Scam-monitoring org.

K3728. Send-ups

K3729. Bit of plasma

K3731. “Well, whoop-de-___”

K3734. Pooh’s pal

K3737. Salt-cured sushi

K3738. No longer maintained

K3739. Curved planks on ships

K3740. Makes furious

K3741. Road guides

K3742. Showed energy and enthusiasm, slangily

K3744. [This is frustrating!]

K3746. 2009 Eastern Conference winners (abbr.)

K3748. Stock exchange in a church?

K3751. Grafton’s ___ for Fugitive

K3752. Attracted

K3762. WWII MIA location

K3763. Cyclist’s wet-weather gear

K3764. Small-time source of dirt

K3765. May apple

K3766. Burn the midnight oil

K3767. 1997 Literature Nobelist

K3774. Crude product

K3776. Called

K3777. “We’re good to go” gestures

K3778. Naughty

K3779. Ascetics of yore

K3781. Avoids, as responsibility

K3788. Cutlasses, for instance

K3789. Canadian province (abbr.)

K3790. Lanka

K3791. Like the taste of Tang

K3792. Marching ant formations

K3793. Unit of pain

K3795. Gets crappier

K3801. Stately pair?

K3802. Noble descendants

K3805. Year Europe learned to cultivate oats

K3807. Bagpipe sound

K3809. Watch-face encircle

K3811. Character makeup?

K3812. Bling up

K3813. Margaret of stand-up comedy

K3814. Lionheart’s display

K3815. Sabres goalie from Pardubice

K3816. Syfy’s The ___ Wheaton Project

K3817. FAA overseer

K3819. CA, VA, GA, LA, etc.

K3821. “I don’t ___ bit”

K3822. Chris who sang “Wicked Game”

K3823. Wrap in the freezer

K3824. Burial isle of many Scottish kings

K3825. Infatuated, old-style

K3826. Spanish suffix (with three different vowels)

K3827. McDowall of Planet of the Apes

K3828. A way to restart a rugby game after an interruption

K3829. Ore concentrations

K3830. Have heat

K3831. Parenthesis following Jeanne Shaheen

K3832. Peter, Paul, and Mary, for one

K3833. Creditor’s paper

K3834. Nineteenth Amendment campaigner

K3835. ___ match for (couldn’t compete with)

K3836. Sustain, as losses

K3837. Like a little old lady in tennis shoes

K3838. “___ Yellow Ribbon…”

K3839. Kind of writer for when you want it fast, quality optional

K3840. Barcelona goalkeeper Robert

K3841. False glitters

K3842. Start of a Hammurabi phrase

K3843. Group following a star?

K3844. College head, for short

K3845. Classic name for a dinosaur

K3846. Like Polish jokes and “woman driver” comments

K3847. The New Republic editor Franklin

K3848. Potting materials

K3849. ___ pretty picture: disturbing

K3850. Miranda Lambert got seven noms for them in 2020

K3852. Groups of people at small show

K3853. Miss, to some

K3854. Literally shitty

K3855. One for the Money and Hypnotic actor Jason

K3856. Without much fat

K3857. Not in Nice

K3858. “Good…” beginning?

K3859. Old television part

K3860. Leonardo’s subject

K3861. Finishes

K3862. Drop in for ___: pay an actual social call

K3863. Rostand ou Rimbaud

K3864. “Gotcha, dude”

K3865. Are crawling

K3866. Like sriracha sauce

K3867. Rapper whose name sounds like an endangered cat

K3868. Pedal decade

K3869. When repeated, a club game?

K3870. “I never bet, unless it’s on ___ thing”

K3871. Don’t interfere with

K3872. Sailing ship

K3873. Butcher’s leavings

K3874. 1982-2005 Saudi king

K3875. Baseball trio (abbr.)

K3876. Sounds of mild dismay

K3877. Small voucher

K3879. Cardiologists’ aids

K3881. Digital recorder

K3885. Nelson Mandela’s party

K3890. Insolence, informally

K3892. Nobel letters

K3894. Winner at Caesar’s Palace?

K3897. PM times

K3899. Menlo Park inventor’s initials

K3900. Like away games

K3902. Pod opening?

K3904. Stevedore’s gp.

K3906. Drive-___ (some shootings)

K3908. Hospital’s quick-response div.

K3909. Proactiv target, informally

K3911. Drain of resources

K3912. “When ___ good time?”

K3914. Horse picker’s hangout, briefly

K3916. “Be Strong Now” singer James

K3918. Six-time All-Star Ron

K3920. Stoner’s stop words

K3921. “To come” marks, in editing

K3922. Rugby play

K3923. Male sex object?

Overlaps

“Overlap” clues start with the corresponding down number and proceed downward as two overlapping strings of answers. The “a” and “a2” answers start with the same letter, but “a” ends just before the beginning of “b,” where “a2” ends just before the beginning of “c.”

KK201a. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ over! B: Knock…knock? A: Who’s there? B: The one who owns this house! A: Then I should let you in, shouldn’t I? B: Yes! [opens door] A: Thanks!

KK201a2. A: Spock. B: Um, ACTUALLY, as any REAL fan knows, the doors in all the ___ series open automatically without any need for knocking.

KK201b. A: Browser. B: Browser who? A: Browser ____, trying again to figure out the point of these jokes.

KK201c. A: Julia Robertsand. B: Julia Robertsand who? A: …Grant starred in the movie ___!

KK201d. A: Fish. B: Fish who? A: Ah’m gonna hit’chew in th’ head with a fish. B: Why are you doing that ___ accent? A: It’s a tribute to the knock-knock jokes on The Amanda Show! Get some culture! [hits B in the head with a fish]

KK201e. A: Ren. B: Ren who? A: Renew your subscription to our magazine? Great, thanks! We’ll ___.

KK201f. A: Weenie. B: Weenie who? A: We need to ___ this boat so it can handle the family weenie roast!

KK201g. A: You need to use the ___. B: You need to use the ___ who? A: You need to use the ___ nometry you learned in school to make a ricochet shot when you pull the ___.

KK201h. A: Bad-faith arguer. B: Bad-faith arguer who? A: My identity isn’t really ___ to the discussion at hand, is it?

KK201i. A: Holland. B: Holland who? A: Holland Oates. “Oh-oh, here she comes…she’s a ___”

KK201j. A: P. B: P who? A: Sorry, I ___ onions and liver this morning.

KK201K. A: Private. B: Private who? A: That’s private. B: Your name is Private Private? A: No, but I’m ___ and I don’t want them to find me.

KK201l. A: Theo. B: Theo who? A: The ___, as in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. B: [goes insane]

KK201m. A: Tab. B: Tab who? A: Hey, we’ve all ___ we shouldn’t.

KK201n. A: Hit or miss. B: Hit or miss who? A: Hit or miss Muffet sat on a ___, eating her curds and whey…

KK201o. A. ___. B. ___ who? A. Bless you!

KK201p. A: Shar. B: Shar who? A: ___ delivery! Your toilet paper shortage is over! This was super funny when we workshopped it during the pandemic. B: No, it wasn’t.

KK201q. A1&A2: Armie. B: Armie who? And why’s it sound like there are two of you?” A1&A2: ___ is how we’re walking. Open the door so we can tell you about our LUV. B: Gross. And you won’t fit in the door like that anyway.

KK201r. A: ___. B: Really? Then ___ outta here!

KK201s. A: Oy vey. B: Oy vey who? A: Oy’ve ___ six years already, open the door!

KK201t. A: ___. B: You said ___, right? As in ___ Tr— A. WRONG! FAKE NEWS!

KK201u. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: ___ your door if you don’t let me in so you can try my spaghetti!

KK201v. A. Pasco. B. Pasco who? A. Passcode I ___ is wrong, let me in!

KK201w. A: Dakota. B: Dakota who? A: Taco Tavern Double Burger on sale at this joke’s sponsor, ___.

KK201x. A: Rob. B: Rob who? A: ___, he who takes from the rich and gives to the poor! B: I thought you were going to say “Robbin’ you.” A: [nocks arrow] That too, rich boy.

KK201y. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: ___-ie is yours if you let me in! B: I do love a snack cake, but I have a feeling you’re trying to ___ me! A: I have to, or the joke won’t have closure! B: Too bad.

KK201z. A: This computer has a ___. B: Must be from Microsoft…I mean, this computer has a ___ who? A: This computer has a ___ face! ;-)

KK201aa. A: Jane. B: Jane who? A: Jane ___, Mrs. Rochester. B: [demonic snarling]

KK201ab. A: The czar. B: The czar who? A: These aren’t all entirely accurate ___ of knock-knock jokes.

KK201ac. A: The prez. B: The ___ of these knock-knock jokes leave a lot to be desired. A: No, no, you’re supposed to say… B: Come in, sir! I’m not going to deny entry to the president.

KK207a. A: ___ B: I don’t want to let in any revolutionaries like ___. A: Well, ___ is just part of our name. B: Okay, ___ who? A: Jacobins! LIVE FREE OR DIE! [kick down door]

KK207a2. A: Closure. B: Closure who? A: Closure mouth when you ___!

KK207b. A: Is that a ___? B: Is that a ___ who? A: Is that a ___ I regret asking? B: Started with birding, ended with cat-o’-nine-tails.

KK207c. A: ___. B ___ who? A: ___ birdie two ewe, ___ birdie two ewe, let us animals in to eat the cake…___ birdie two ewe!

KK207d. A: Sheila. B: Sheila who? A: Sheila answer the door. B: …___?

KK207e. A: ___ B: Ooh, a commanding type from the East! ___ who? A: ___-speare married an Avon lady!

KK207f. [Start this one without “knock knock, who’s there”] A. Will you remember me in a year? B: Sure. A: Will you remember me tomorrow? B: Of course. A: And will you remember me in a few seconds? B: Uh, sure! A: Knock knock. B: Who’s there? A: ___ you’d forget!

KK207g. A: Thai. B: Thai who? A: Time Magazine is available at your local ___. B. But if I read it online, I can be home to answer the door!

KK207h. A: ___. B: ___ who? Like the reindeer from Frozen? A: ___ you gonna open the door and let me in?

KK207i. A. Plankers. B. Plankers who? A. Okay! ___ fa so la ti do [kazoo noises]

KK207j. A. ___. B. ___ who? A. ___ team player! B. That pun makes me want to flee the country.

KK207K. A: The ___, starring... B: The ___, starring who? A: ...Jackman as P.T. Barnum!

KK207l. A: Bikini. B: Bikini, you say?…<3 <3…Um, bikini who? A: Bikini Atoll population. Can we stay with you while America’s conducting ___?

KK207m. A. Bartholomew Bentley Bartleby. B: Bartholomew Bentley Bartleby who? A: ___ Bartholomew Bentley Bartlebys do you know?

KK207n. A: A ___, and I’ve already figured out your combination.

KK207o. A: I am the ___. B: I am the ___ who? A: I am the walrus! Goo goo ga joob!

KK207p. A: Deck. B: Deck who? A: …is the greatest hero in My Hero Academia! Ha ha! I made you say “Deku,” like in the ___! B: Too obscure, I don’t read Japanese comics. A: Th-there’s an anime, too…

KK207q. A: Gal. B: “Gal?” What is this, a 1930s pop song--? A: No, I’m Gal ___. B: WILL YOU SIGN MY DVD???

KK207r. A. Monster. B. Monster who? A. Monster ___! Want to hear our job offers?

KK207s. A. ___ B. ___ who? A: [pause] ___’n and open the door already! B: Why the pause…OH, I GET IT.

KK207t. A: Don. B: Don who? A: Don, the ___ leader. Capeesh? B: [opens door hurriedly, offers protection money]

KK207u. A: Waddafi. B: Waddafi who? A: What a ___ that you don’t remember me!

KK207v. A. Comet. B. Comet who? A. ___ ME, BRO! B. [latches door shut]

KK207w. A: Meet… B: Meet who? A: ___! B: [eats] Mmm, tashty.

KK207x. A: Mary. B: Mary who? A: Virgin Mary, not so merry, in ___ you posed. B: What the heck is wrong with you?

KK207y. A: Tab. B: ___? A: That’s right, it’s forbidden to discuss my identity. B. We already did this one in KK201m…

KK207z. A: Boo. B: ___ A: Aw, don’t cry! We’ve still got lots more of these dumb jokes to go! B [louder]: ___

KK207aa. A: Pull over. B: Pull ove--wait, am I supposed to be driving in this joke? What’s going on? A: Pullover ___ for sale now! B: So this is a winter wear ad?

KK207ab. A: Dee. B: Dee who? A [sings]: ___-- B: Would the “day of wrath” be worse than another knock-knock joke?

KK207ac. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___-sign from my role as knock-knock comedian. B: If only.

KK207ad. A. Emma. B. Emma who? A. ___. B. What, like retired educators? A. Yeah, this is that nightmare you have where your old teachers stop by and ask whether you’ve made something of yourself.

KK207ae. A: Bosco. B: Bosco who? A: Bosco-ts need ___ badges to make it to Eagle.

KK207af. A: Check your phone, I ___ you before I came over!

KK207ag. A: ___. B ___ who? A: ___’d delicious, that’s how I like my sandwiches that I find on the ___. B: Sounds unhealthy. A: It’s not vegan, but it is freegan!

KK207ah. A: ___ am here! B: Maybe you’d have more friends to bring over if you stopped referring to yourself like that.

KK207ai. A: Evan. B: Evan who? A: Evan more great jokes like this can be yours! Just ___-800-NOK-KNOK…B: What’s the number for the Do Not Knock registry?

KK214a. A: Erik B: Erik who? A: Erik Agard, can’t you see my ___ looming over the door? B: It is a beautiful head of hair…

KK214a2. A: Iga. B: Iga who? A: I got ___ for you, but it’s melting! Open the door!

KK214b. A: Little old lady. B: Little old lady who? A: I didn’t know you could ___! B: Ah, a classic.

KK214c. A. Jan. B. Jan who? A. ‘Janno ___ were first to ratify the Constitution but last to get a national monument?

KK214d. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___, ___ has my little dog gone? B: You’re ___ you can call the local shelters, right?

KK214e. A: Oscar. B: Oscar who? A: Oscar silly question, get a silly ___!

KK214f. A: The computer password is. B: The computer password is who? A: Okay, I tricked him into giving us the password! ___!

KK214f. A. Heath. B. Heath who? A. Heath lunked out of school but would show the world how smart he was anyway. And that man’s name? Albert ___!

KK214g. A: Chopin. B: Chopin who? A: Chopin this music around, see if you like it [plays a tune on a ___ piano]

KK214h. A: Has comedy…B: Has comedy who? A: House Committee on ___! B: Has comedy died? Yes.

KK214i. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ wiches for everyone! With only a little ___ in them!

KK214j. A: I’m cuke. B: I’m cuke who? A: YOU’RE CUCKOO [laughs] B: You’ve got a bit of a ___.

KK214K. A: Ew, no. B: Ew, no who? A: Uno, due, ___, quattro, cinque, sei…

KK214l. A:___ B: ___ who? A: ___ sted in the lock, so I can’t get in. B: Why not try using your mind powers, ___?

KK214m. A: Jack. B: Jack who? A: Jack of Hearts is the highest card in my hand! B: Well, then ___.

KK214n. A: Wanda. B: Wanda who? A: Wanda vided by two ___ to one half!

KK214o. A: Dewey. B: Dewey who? A: Dewey’oo ___ for a loan? Then call now!

KK214p. A. F.U.! B: F.U…. who? A: ___ to swear, I won’t have to use initialisms.

KK214q. A: Lettuce. B: Lettuce who? A: Lettuce in, it’s cold ___ here!

KK214r. A. ___ B. ___ who? A. ___ your peas, ___ and every one! B. I don’t come to your house and criticize your diet.

KK214s. A: Mister. B: Mister who? A: Mister last train home on the ___.

KK214t. A: Bras. B: Bras who? A: Brazil is in the ___ of Capricorn!

KK214u. A: Islam. B: Islam who? A: Islam ___ at the supermarket with all the shortages!

KK214v. A: Should give a free ___ to…B: Should give a free ___ to who? A: To its freakin’ owner, unless you want to get hissed at!

KK214w. A: Ashley. B: Ashley who? A: Ah shleep ___! B: Me too, that’s why I haven’t opened the door.

KK214x. A. ___. B. ___ who? A. ___ into your web, you human spider, you! B. No thanks, that sounds like too much relationship ___.

KK214y. A: I’m fast. B: I’m fast who? A: I’m fasting for ___ all day! Let me in, I’m starving!

KK214z. A: Razor. B: Razor who? A: Razor hand and ___ the boogie!

KK214aa. A: Sara. B: Sara who? A: ___! B: You think you’re so smart.

KK214ab. A: Vader. B: Vader who? A: Vader minute while I “Force” open the door, you ___ fools.

KK214ac. A: Architecture snob. B: Architecture snob who? A: Archi--Say, what kind of ___ is this door made out of?

KK214ad. A. Amanda. B. Amanda who? A. Amanda ___ Triangle; is this the door to a spaceship?

KK214ae. A: ___. B: Your name is ___? A: Go ahead, rub it in! B: Some people do that at a spa.

KK214af. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: You are? Well, get the foot wearing you to kick open the door!

KK214ag. A: Knickknack. B: Oh, did I ___? I thought you said, “knock knock.” A: Knickknack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone!

KK214ah. A. ___ B. ___ who? A. ___ you are, I’ve been looking for you! B. You’d need a tin ___ for that joke to land.

KK219a. A: Inlit. B: Inlit who? A: In litters, one is always the ___.

KK219a2. [Actually, you can never tell a dog a knock knock joke, because as soon as you say, “knock knock,” they ___ the door.]

KK219b. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: ___ seas just things we haven’t made reality yet? B: Deep. A: This joke is sponsored by Coca-Cola.

KK219c. A: Out of ___. B: Out of ___ who? A: Out of rain, geraniums grow.

KK219d. A: I’m a beautiful, rich supermodel, I’ve read your work, and I’m a fan! B: I’m a beautiful, rich supermodel, I’ve read your work, and I’m a fan who? A: I’m a beautiful, rich supermodel, I’ve read your work, and I’m a ___!

KK219e. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ -tra was asked to sing hymns at the church ___.

KK219f. A: Knock knock. B: …Knock knock who? A: Knock-knock joke-teller! B: ___.

KK219g. A: Urine. B: Urine who? A: Urine big trouble. B: ___!

KK219h. A: Eva. B: Eva who? A: Even more knock-knock jokes next! B: ___.

KK219i. A: Wine. B: Wine who? A: Wine don’t you have another glass, this was a very ___. B: A blimp joke would’ve been funnier.

KK219j. A: ___ B: Like…the planet? Or just everyone on it? A: ___ ritis acting up, don’t make me knock again!

KK219K. A: Snow. B: Snow who? A: Snow skating today, the ice is too ___!

KK219l. A: Fay! B: Fay who? A: Facebook! We decided the ___ wasn’t intrusive enough, so now we’re just going door to door to enter your homes.

KK219m. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ left, ___, you’re flying the wrong way!

KK219n. A. I’ma stabby. B. I’ma stabby who? A. ___, Brute?

KK219o. A: I want to play too! B: I want to play too who? A: I want to play ___ [woom pah pah pah pahpahpahpahpah pahpah]

KK219p. A: Philip! B: Philip who? A: Philip the tub, I wanna ___.

KK219q. A: Walter--wait, are you ___? B: No. A: Then I’m HEISENBERG, THE DRUG LORD.

KK219r. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: ___ Jane and Spot! Come out and “see” us!

KK219s. A. ___ freak. B. ___-- A. You should say “___ freak who” now.

KK219t. A: An internet ___. B: An internet ___ who? A: [stream of unprintable cursing]

KK219u. A: Ginny. B: Ginny who? A: Ginning’s done, stick the cotton seeds in the ___!

KK219v. A: Cows who ____. B: Cows who-- A: MOOOOO

KK219w. A: Yasplene. B: Yasplene who? A: Ya spleen will ___ from laughing!

KK219x. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ Franklin! Bet you thought this was a bathroom joke! I R-E-S-P-E-C-T you too much for that!

KK219y. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: ___ in your ___, they’ll do whatever you say.

KK219z. A: Per. B: Per who? A: That’s where my pet ___ came from!

KK219aa. A: ___. B: ___ who? A: [drone flies away]

KK219ab. A: Honk, shhh. B: Honk shhh who? A: I’ll visit later, sounds like you’re ___ out.

KK219ac. A: Chicory. B: Chicory who? A: Chicory ching the end of the board! ___!

KK219ad. A: Mmm. B: Mmm who? A: ___ to you too, little kitty.

KK219ae. A: Santa. B: Santa who? A: Santa text saying I’d be here! Let me in! B: ___ a sec, my phone’s on the charger.

KK219af. A:___ B: Just one initial? ___ who? A: If you’ve got a cold, I’ll come back later.

KK219ag. A: You know. B: You know who? A: Exactly! Who else would you expect in the ___ of Secrets? Avada kedavra!

KK219ah. A: ___ B: ___ who? A: ___ a joke that goes like thi-- B: Does this joke involve Johnny Depp in any way? A: Um… B: Yeah, we’re not touching that one.

KK219ai. A: A knock-knock joke! B: Forget it, I’ve ___.

KK219aj. A: A.D. B: A.D. who? A: ‘80s teen. Forget letting me in, let’s go to ___.

Down Stitches

K3906-P1. Shelley’s middle name

K3829-P10. Ore else?

K3697-P16. “Highlight of the movie for me”

K3911-P22. Poet invoked by Wonder Woman

K3848-P28. Sign of off-roading

K3707-P35. Be a boomerang kid, at least for a while

K3765-P42. Medicinal plants rumored to scream

K3640-P49. Boxers known for decapitations

K3856-P56. Xi Jinping and Thomas Jefferson, in physique and occupation?

K3864-P63. Quote from Doctor Evil as he tries relating to the youngs

K3922-P70. Overdoer

K3774-P75. Lantern liquid