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R1. They’ll get all your refs*

R5. Hairstyle that’s firm*

R9. Trucker’s competitions

R16. Better source of directions than your barman*

R22. Place to spend the day with purrs and pekoe*

R29. Brings about

R36. Though formless, it has mass*

R39. “___! What is it good for?”*

R42. Construction from a spinneret’s flow and ebb*

R45. Briefly, suggestions on boxes of maize*

R49. Café in Space writer Anais*

R52. Suffix with cook

R55. Initiate

R63. Pulls apart, creating a need for repairs*

R68. Hoda who ate an Oreo with mustard on live TV

R72. Office staples with keys*

R75. The US tied them in the first round of the 2006 World Cup (abbr.)

R79. Liable to fall apart*

R82. Cookie with a century-long story, yo*

R83. Not quite enough of the Supreme Court

R86. George Washington Carver birthplace

R88. Money lost in manufacture and/or acquisition*

R91. Certain milk mixtures

R92. Emulated Bo-Peep

R99. Spelling the King discarded later in life

R101. Small figurine*

R102. A “straight” set is a good sleep*

R104. Partner of wine?*

R105. Truth, to Shakespeare*

R108. Attainment of ministry*

R111. Be a host*

R112. Batgirl portrayer Silverstone

R114. Hoped-for words from a beaut*

R117. Put past losses aside*

R118. Rater of other devices’ responsivity*

R120. Polling church attendance by age, gender, and race, say*

R122. Principle that “I didn’t know” can’t shield one from responsibility for an abuse*

R124. Shaped like half an A-frame roof

R127. Suffix with buoy and dorm

R128. “___ for applause”*

R129. With them, the music goes up to seventy-five miles per hour*

R130. “What ___!” (comment a World Cup commentator gave)*

R131. Fivefold lead-ins

R132. Taking a view that’s wide?*

R133. Gift containers with tags*

R134. Get shaken from slumber*

R136. “___ Extinction” (Thousand Foot Krutch song)

R137. ___ and terminer (hearing or trial)*

R138. In dorm palates, it’s common*

R140. The Ps a classical scholar knows*

R141. Go there instead of here*

R142. Making one chary*

R143. Wrist-to-elbow bone

R145. “Femme Fatale” singers*

R146. Is planned by the fates*

R147. Chickenhearted bastard*

R149. Vice that begins by confusing want with need*

R150. ___ TURN (road sign)

R151. Cite sources for your sociology paper using its way*

R152. Cuts cattle “thorns”*

R154. Sax accompaniment, sometimes*

R156. Dukas ballet

R157. Batman screenwriter Sam*

R159. Quick works for English majors*

R161. Reads and follows*

R162. Dir. from Kauai to Waikiki*

R163. Sarah McLachlan hit song

R164. Loglike lie-in-wait-ers*

R165. Reaction to a near-sideswipe*

R166. “Endoderm,” e.g.*

R167. Vying for a win against*

R168. Source of eruption footage

R169. Bovary, for one (abbr.)

R170. Football’s Spikes

R171. Strap to restrain*

R172. Stop words with which one spurs speech*

R173. Make fast for a new voyage, say*

R174. Looking as if one had ne’er seen such sights*

R175. Earns an A*

R176. Worked at a salon

R178. Pic in front of the Mojave*

R179. HIV drug of old*

R180. Voting cheaters*

R182. Sometimes pinkish, sometimes brown

R185. Suit the specific needs of

R187. Directing or playing parts, e.g.*

R188. “___ his main hope” (Macbeth)*

R189. Cubic ___ = kiloliter*

R190. ___ numeros: uno, dos...*

R191. “Back in the ___...you don’t know how lucky you are...”*

R193. Beleaguered assistant at sea*

R195. Make workers into faceless mobs*

R199. Phone-data compilers*

R200. Pet that is 99.99% likely to be female*

R201. Sprays for muggers’ faces*

R203. Just over half a pound

R205. Lock (down) and flatten, as hatches*

R207. Physical contact is their love language

R215. Golgotha inscription

R219. (Lady Gaga) “Baby, I’d rather die without you ___…”*

R221. Start of the era of the steel cage?*

R228. Bit on TV saying, “Vote for my dad,” e.g.*

R234. Take so much of as to light up one’s veins like neon*

R236. Lawbreaker, to cops, as varmint, to Earp*

R240. Nonclerics

R246. “Ran like ___ out of hell”

R250. Erupt into bright light*

R254. Protects, as one’s heart from flattering charmers*

R258. Hindu princesses

R260. “___-la-la!”*

R261. Complain with a tongue that’s sharp*

R262. Athlete on a pre-planned route (abbr.)

R263. Fibonacci’s one

R264. Walter who wrote The Hustler and The Color of Money

R265. It should go a little more than half a week between feedings*

R266. Not upset anymore

R267. Per Ella Fitzgerald, “She had a most immoral eye”*

R268. With inflated pride*

R270. “Close, but ___” (still too far)*

R271. Cavalcade, e.g.*

R272. We know of them via Chichén-Itzá*

R273. Swear up and down*

R274. Georgia rep who’s dumb and mean*

R275. Eminem sampled her “Thank You”

R276. Tennis player (or fisher)

R277. Word on a Japanese ship

R278. He’s a Mexican family tree’s toppy*

R281. What “the meek’s inheritance” is worth*

R283. Like a night you can see Alpha Centauri*

R286. Low-key golf star*

R287. Cooperative, in capitalistic jargon*

R289. Sways one’s hips in tight skirts, say*

R292. Swampy mass*

R293. CNN and MSNBC divisions following cartoon pawprints?

R296. “The largest ticket marketplace carries on a tradition begun with cave paintings,” e.g.?

R298. The future I imagine where sexuality is less constrained?*

R300. Make everything about you, as a publicity hound

R303. Taser for giants?

R309. Smile style showing broad cheer*

R312. Ovid’s “Oh, wow…”

R313. Flexor of legs in sprays of dirt*

R314. Lasso or a ranch name in Giant

R315. Word after film or opera

R316. Ma’am to his sir*

R318. Flowed red*

R319. Finds her own body assails her*

R320. Small bit to snip*

R321. “___ la guerra!” (Spanish antiwar chant)*

R322. Dunces in life’s schools*

R323. Get sad or mad*

R324. Result of painters’ toils*

R325. Capture the attention of*

R327. If your usage of internet’s too high, this might make you trim it*

R329. French note before couture*

R330. Result from

R331. Blunt sound of disapproval*

R333. More like a well-made s’more (a poorly made one is chewier)*

R334. High-ranking Redditor*

R338. “I’m knowledge-free!”*

R339. What Mel Gibson, despite acting in Braveheart, is not*

R340. Paybacks on what you subsidize*

R341. Three-time NFL MVP

R342. Common collective word*

R343. Unit designed by an international bureau*

R344. Keats’s “___ Psyche”

R347. Caches*

R349. Type of pronoun (abbr.)

R350. Bills for candy-bar runs*

R351. Scar*

R352. Pals of the main characters in Quantum Leap and Home Improvement*

R353. LCDs’ alternatives

R354. Razor that’s discontinued its “Plus” model

R355. Hint at the road ahead*

R356. Nan*

R357. Breakdown, as of food or a question*

R359. Timecard figure (abbr.)

R360. Brung all moisture out by twisting*

R361. Dunderheads

R362. They might have names like Danger Lock, Puzzle Breakout, and The Ancients’ Tombs*

R367. Propellers in river tours*

R368. Turns to empty spaces*

R370. It flows far through nearly half of all Switzerland*

R371. Wanders from deserts to groves*

R372. Robespierre era’s alleged theme, not often applied to its definition of treason*

R374. Challenged with an equal bet*

R375. Heartier about “experimentation with the medium”*

R376. Meet and ___*

R377. Did divest*

R378. Straightening a vesture, e.g.*

R380. Male pets whose sleep calms*

R381. “Lady Gaga / What a saga! / She lost her meat tutu / But where is Lord Goo Goo?” and “Terry Crews / attracts views. / When he shouts, “NINE NINE!” / Our hearts say, “HE FINE!”*

R383. Described what was to be done*

R385. Son of Aphrodite

R387. Darker peer of Ariel and Anna*

R388. Paper left in the mailbox of a potential buyer*

R389. Mentally shaky*

R390. Condiment

R393. Film with sex and violence in juvie, e.g.*

R395. Steerer of the world’s oldest papyrus narrative*

R396. Priests’ jurisdictions

R397. Actor Gustin who can’t be sorry he wasn’t cast for the Flash movie*

R399. “There was an old woman of ___, who spent all her time in good deeds” (Mother Goose)*

R400. Questionable choirs*

R401. Maker of the Yukon SUV*

R402. One feeling oneself bog down into being a mere piece of the whole*

R403. “___ time to call it quits”*

R404. Via her efforts, Zeus survived childhood*

R405. Far yonder, at sea*

R406. 12:03, if it’s noon*

R407. Leon who wrote Topaz

R408. Locale for Persephone, Eurydice, and all dead ladies*

R409. They’ll be running VR scenarios for aircraft manufacturers*

R410. “Oh, blah blah blah, ___-di-dah”*

R411. Broken arms, e.g.*

R412. They’ve got two or more colors on the covering of their bones*

R413. In minority-rights cases, this judge is a likely veto*

R414. Deo ___ (“My God,” in Latin)

R415. Work, work, work chase*

R419. Golfer’s “butter knife”

R420. Acts like balms*

R421. Kid’s racer that’s tough to catch up to after a head start*

R422. Minecraft elevation where you find ores or diamonds, not the devil*

R426. Direction of the water’s force*

R427. That on which thegamer.com reports*

R429. East Slavic lang.

R430. It could hit Mach 3*

R431. “Oh, no…he swallowed my ___”*

R432. More than one will make you say, “Two? ‘E’s got no idea where ‘e’s goin’”*

R433. Slangily, any tome with a weighty look*

R435. Move ___ the bracket: win*

R436. Freest-thinking kind of believer in God*

R437. Dermatological sign of drinking too much gin*

R439. Sounds when breathing ails you*

R440. Get ready for another big sail trip*

R441. Particles more negative than gluons*

R442. Dance opening?

R444. What a sleeping kitty may trap*

R445. Establish a fruit-bearing foundation*

R448. The Gospels

R450. Innermore section*

R451. Sick days, e.g., when precipitated by a cough*

R453. Bonker during a headbutt*

R454. Blow up, e.g.*

R457. Olive family members?

R458. “It’s ___ day!”*

R459. Goal of the game*

R460. Luis von, creator of CAPTCHA*

R461. How does the middle part of a logical answer go?*

R462. Penetrate slow and deep*

R463. Button under the name of a Facebook friend*

R464. Subject of some cheeky British farce?*

R465. ___ fool (would know better)*

R466. TV spinoff that becomes an auto if you switch the last two letters*

R467. Where Dungeons and Dragons tales often begin*

R468. Saves roads from decline*

R469. Provide consistent aerial cover*

R470. Converge on the road*

R471. Bad, in Guatemala*

R472. Wriggly not-quite-word meaning “on a yuge scale”*

R475. Prefix with plasm

R476. Way to play movies on TVs*

R479. Badlands National Park loc.

R480. A demotion means this shrank*

R481. More alike (disclaimer: slang)*

R482. It’s her business to know where the business’s money is*

R483. Big name in home security*

R484. River contests

R486. Where you’ll see an autopsied body on the slab*

R487. Its calf is already long-necked*

R489. “YEEEEAAAARGH”*

R490. “Aw shucks” and “Gee whillikers,” e.g.

R492. “O.G.” rapper*

R493. Spot of scrub vegetation*

R494. “You know what you’re gonna get from me now”*

R496. Ex-governor Spitzer

R497. Those who might offer their lady a rose*

R498. Turkish tender of recent eras*

R499. Too cozy with your business, perhaps*

R500. Patriarch with twelve sons

R501. Symphonic, e.g.*

R502. Mountain wolves of Southeast Asia

R505. Part of well-established history*

R507. Breakfast stops*

R508. ___ in “Chaz”*

R509. Druggie loner*

R513. “I’m looking at a lotta amateur umpires sayin’ that wasn’t no strike…”?

R516. Money owed by the ostentatious?

R519. Darn fine old-style dance?

R523. Fugue state induced from a Grand Theft Auto shimmy?

R527. Super Mario Bros. movie promo kids might wear to school?

R530. Flashy lettering expertise?

R533. Chocolaty Post cereal

R534. First name in erotic diaries*

R535. May 21, 1952, for Mr. T*

R536. The White House and network TV were among this Bill’s employers*

R537. Williams who played it “crazy” in The New Mutants*

R538. Hobbit foe that looks like spoiled pork*

R539. “Love ___ Many-Splendored Thing”

R540. Animal named in Mary Poppins’ music-education flow*

R541. Where that hospital bill goes*

R542. Lydia you can’t defy in The Handmaid’s Tale*

R543. What a celebrity interviewer must soothe wherever she goes*

R544. Squeaks (by)*

R545. His career was fuel for many post-Gettysburg military debates*

R546. It crushes cottonseed or soybeans on its grill*

R548. Calvin whose jeans are fine*

R549. Addams butler who’s big as a birch*

R550. They waft around tombs*

R551. Jeeps and Jaguars*

R552. Chanteuses with many believahs*

R553. Places for derrieres*

R554. Start of a valentine often said aloud*

R557. Lengths to which one is willing to go, persistence, good cheer, e.g.*

R559. Study all need-to-know items (var.)

R561. Fora’s predecessors*

R562. Washington or Whitney (abbr.)

R563. Dunk alternative

R565. Norm for clocks (can’t think of a rhyme…oh, wait)*

R568. She’ll administer an oath

R570. Hearts, abbreviated

R571. One-time supermarket goliath that got its start selling tea*

R572. Biggest success in K-pop music*

R573. “I’m gonna get ___ train and go down to New Orleans…”*

R574. “Don’t!” response*

R575. “Gee!”*

R576. Then: She’s pretty and all, but her brain’s in limbo. Now: She likes being pretty and rejects your capitalist evaluations*

R577. Carry to the grave*

R578. Grab and move some indents*

R579. Did some ski-related maneuvers*

R580. Golfer’s little butt?*

R581. Comic strips show us their marriage every day*

R584. Popular model-railroading stage*

R585. Covered with dirt, as a hippie pad*

R588. Vocally proud*

R589. They’ll crack the safe and then leg it, see?*

R591. Acronymic fat*

R592. Guide for a pencil*

R593. Polynesian island word, or a wind*

R594. ___ bat (ready to hit)*

R595. Flexible flow of electricity*

R596. They better wear a chute*

R597. Little piggies with the littlest grunts*

R598. Pout over lost opportunities*

R600. Nasal, close-mouthed retort*

R601. The prof tells them about torts*

R602. What’s left with no one in a million?

R603. Last closes one’s eyes*

R604. Guides at dining venues*

R605. Felt like a hothead*

R606. Coin Ayn’d be glad to share a name with*

R607. Lots of bills*

R608. Sinuous swimmer that’s not a real cat*

R610. Bart, Brenda, and Ringo on drums (not guitars)*

R612. Time and a half’s a great one*

R613. Five-star Bollywood film of 2022*

R616. ___-steven*

R618. Like shoes in which runners competed*

R619. “Not sure the way to put it, but…”*

R621. Feel like running those last four miles was a mistake*

R622. Folktales and more*

R623. BTS's "___ Come"

R624. “Bien ___” (“Why, sure!”)*

R625. NATO turf

R626. Armless creature looking like a chalk-white, mustached sack of goo*

R627. What a sentry guards*

R628. Defer, as a patient to another doctor*

R629. They tend spars*

R630. Overemote with

R631. Labor camps

R632. Proton-neutron combos

R634. Bright, bright film tool*

R636. “Don’t waste your money on a new set of speakers / You get more mileage from a cheap pair of ___”*

R638. “___ Tú” (song meaning “It’s You”)

R639. “Change my litter! Now!”*

R641. Sounds off

R644. “___ you getting here, Renner?”*

R645. ___ de Marco Aurelio: Roman arch in Tripoli, to Spanish tourists*

R646. Words whose use jazzes up similes (“like” can get monotonous)*

R647. A fan of, through and through

R648. Bart, in The Simpsons, e.g.*

R649. Pronoun we rarely use now*

R650. Most compassionate

R652. Place where hair is viewed*

R653. Buzzi and Hussey whose performances revealed truths*

R654. Earned praise in the classroom*

R655. He rules by his vassals’ accord*

R656. Cloth partially protective against rattlesnakes’ venom*

R657. Commons a Brit may enter*

R658. Ring that’s not worn but still real*

R659. Giving ___ (embracing)

R660. Making one testy*

R661. Trail food

R663. Musical exercise that entails few complications*

R664. Daly with many a line*

R665. Movie-palace feature

R666. Tanzanian talenti*

R667. Comedic duo (it has two of these)?*

R668. Cartoon sticker that “means no! Stay away!” when stuck*

R670. “This env. is for…”

R671. Andys after they come out as trans, sometimes*

R672. Yearn (for)*

R673. Loggers’ contest

R674. It has one snake eye*

R675. What correlation does not imply*

R677. Fourth in the line of some Scots hero*

R678. Dietetic

R679. Fill-in at the office

R680. Briefly lower oneself from one’s exalted plane*

R681. Deserved, as far as capitalism is concerned*

R682. Large town, to a Dutch dad*

R683. Vocal blur*

R684. Zero stars, from a grader*

R685. Bikes’ sometimes collect briars*

R686. NYC setting*

R687. Time to work and play*

R688. Suffix with luncheon or poster

R689. Health insurers’ banes, sometimes*

R690. Reason for my top-bunk-bed preference?

R692. Underground gum with unshakable loyalty?

R695. Flirtatious, young woman’s so-bad-it’s-good lower back tattoo?

R699. Auto parts center where the mechanics look like the Beatles?

R702. Loss of geniuses who don’t care much about their appearance?

R706. Small wish-granting misanthropist?

R711. Spoiler for the Bruins in a 2023 game*

R713. Exceed the limit*

R714. ___-2023*

R715. One-seventh the age of the Earth’s oldest known neon*

R716. Opening for an anchor cable

R717. Writes “I want this one” notes*

R718. Others, in Oaxaca

R719. Kind of explosive causing ocean debris*

R721. Ancient city in Egypt

R722. Bus. “pay me” notice

R723. Play hard ___: let them work for it*

R724. “Just ___ little thing, no bigger than a flea”*

R725. Soup, sometime after you eat it*

R726. Roadside-filming locale for a YouTuber*

R727. ___ the rail: busted [someone] out

R728. Old radio host Don

R729. Dinners celebrating survival from rulers and raiders*

R730. “Bullish” name for a game or scooter*

R731. Ft. Bragg setting

R732. Picks that one saves above others*

R733. Ruler long ago in a country far, far away from the US*

R734. CCLXXX × II

R735. Campsite visitor going from there to here*

R736. Falls to pieces*

R737. Makes into desk-bangers*

R741. k.d. who sang*

R742. Walker that Luke defeats*

R743. Fix after being trod*

R744. Front wheel alignment for cars

R745. Nat. known for red wine

R746. Busy situations that confuse*

R747. Last word in the fencing yard*

R748. Texter’s “Au revoir and God bless!”*

R749. “…the nun who ___ dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself” (Helene Hanff)

R750. Hawaii or Alas., once

R751. You may bend one to make a plea*

R752. Plea resulting from a YOLO gone wrong, maybe*

R753. Red-handed

R755. My reaction when the hero died*

R756. Use persuasion about

R758. America’s largest firearm manufacturer (no relation to the Luger)*

R759. “I’ve ___ in Love Before”*

R760. Loose card in most decks*

R762. They’re kind of the opposite of Humvees*

R763. Walking states*

R764. 1997 film character who keeps many a bee*

R765. Obsolete term for weight-offset*

R766. “Uh, EVERYONE knows that”*

R767. Bags of fluid, per se*

R768. Self, in a Latin phrase

R769. Burp sound*

R770. Drop and roll preceder*

R771. Visibly sparked*

R772. “Maa” alternative*

R773. Never die

R775. One thousand calories, for short

R776. Hiss sound*

R777. It can be brighter or duller*

R778. Have a scent that isn’t weak*

R779. Genre Fred Rogers did*

R780. Driver’s card (abbr.)

R781. Broadcaster producing Mud Men*

R782. Conduit for acetylcysteine*

R784. It begins what may end with “.tv”*

R786. Picked up

R787. Baseball management stems from them*

R788. Game of Thrones family name

R791. Kepler contemporary

R792. Down-dressing*

R799. Instance of using “pound” over “kilogram,” e.g.*

R804. Beatles beat provider for each bar*

R809. ___ City (Baghdad area)

R813. Safety authority on the airway*

R816. Gave new meaning in our mind*

R817. Certain classifieds

R819. All of seven feet, say*

R820. What’ll buy a small candy in Tehran*

R821. Isolated land, to Emile*

R822. It can leave your pee dry*

R823. ___ barn: where knitting is taught*

R825. “With or Without You” band*

R828. Affectionate address to una esposa

R829. Director George who knew how to harrow*

R832. Seattle players

R833. Tea, after some time*

R834. Perimeter (abbr.)

R835. Hose output, informally*

R836. Nurses the social exchange*

R838. Staring down the gun barrel, maybe*

R839. East of Western poems, maybe*

R840. Universal flow?*

R841. Jai follower*

R842. Joni Mitchell album whose title means “journey”

R846. Musical venue that’s a chance for romance*

R847. Easily maneuvered by a tar*

R848. Chap who plays the field*

R849. Reason to lift yourself out of bed at sunrise*

R852. She’s let her appearance go into a slump*

R854. Slabs of stacked muscle, ideally*

R856. There is divinity, but this infinitive is human*

R858. Classic toon Grape ___*

R860. “___ or against?”*

R861. Make more able to endure*

R862. One in your mouth could garble your speech*

R863. Like that guy who drives over the median during traffic because some people JUST HAVE TO BE FIRST*

R865. Most ponds have some*

R866. Language that gives us gecko and orangutan

R867. Swipe all over*

R868. Back in the times almost none now know*

R869. What presidencies involve in the White House*

R871. Puppetry pioneer Tony

R872. Incentive to

R876. Non-heteronormative one (often but not always slender)*

R879. Harps on trivial concerns*

R880. Mame or Graeme*

R881. Damage the frame of*

R882. What a Russian boob’ll spend too quickly*

R884. “The Sage of Baltimore”

R886. Mammal whose mama is called a hembra*

R890. Primal Fear star Richard*

R891. Mailing label words

R892. Feeling aggressive and bad*

R893. “…even if you win, you’re still ___” (Lily Tomlin, on that well-known metaphor for petty competition)*

R894. Name to keep in mind if Amazon ever designs a more phallic home assistant*

R895. Actor Hall who did stunts with Humphrey Bogart*

R896. Ironic kind of toast*

R897. AEC, today*

R898. TV’s information-feeder*

R900. Kickoffs or initial stages

R902. “No hope of that!”*

R904. Rides you might pay for in dinars*

R907. Phone up, old-style*

R908. “I feel the ___...the ___ for SPEED!”*

R909. Exercise to make you feel like a ballet star*

R910. Metaphorically on fire*

R911. Rocky mountains formed by many downpours*

R912. Small stream

R913. Drinks traditionally favored by males*

R914. Riefenstahl with many propaganda film directing credits*

R915. Every twelve months

R916. Verbal buzz*

R917. Fire stokers*

R918. Where many begin a distant trip*

R920. At Home comedian who played Princess Carolyn

R922. Dot-___: CD-ROM info-sharing replacement*

R923. Donation or trade deal, e.g.*

R925. Look like a newer, once again darker, man*

R926. Wyatt chasing down any perp who killed Morgan*

R928. 4

R930. “Well, YOU’RE a sour puss-puss!”*

R932. Ranked as holiest of holies*

R935. Dancer’s rein-mate*

R937. Sick move to delight a crowd*

R939. “With ___ shall I room?” (life decision)*

R940. Woman as described in a bodice-ripper*

R941. Their actions reflect America’s safety-policy beliefs*

R943. Short text address?*

R944. They’ll prevent your tax errors*

R946. Hit bottom, but gently*

R947. Beach bottle inits.

R948. Birds in an Aquarium and Before My Birth, in an art museum

R949. Got back at it in the legislature*

R950. Ceiling on Medigap payment increases*

R954. Egg-producer

R956. Revolted throat-stretch*

R958. Meeting place on Zoom*

R960. “Neptune plant” that’s, er, actually an animal*

R962. Can’t excuse*

R964. Norse deity that decides your fate when you’re born*

R965. Aren’t sure about*

R967. In 1974, they agreed to put this Sam in the World Golf Hall of Fame*

R968. Brooks whose Magic of Christmas album could decorate a hearth*

R969. Dog’s “hark!”*

R970. Straight across, forward, or back are the only routes this chess piece ever took*

R971. Boss for J.E.B. Stuart*

R972. Make one’s face fall*

R973. Spongy, but not necessarily gross*

R976. Brody who starred with Leighton Meester and Sandler who starred with Rachel McAdams*

R977. Suffix employed for fact or planet*

R978. Favorite theme of Joss Whedon*

R980. “___ yuk to yum”*

R981. A peril to be around*

R982. Dressed and composed as one fair*

R983. Goes further ahead of, in a race, perhaps*

R985. After it’s off TV, put it back there*

R987. Outback creatures who’d need giant shoes*

R989. Trap for waste dishwater*

R991. Ability to bull one’s way through*

R993. Thang*

R995. Beef*

R997. Café Europa alternative*

R998. Orgs. advocating workplace inclusivity

R999. Hotheadedness

R1001. Mate of a mère*

R1002. Dust go-with in toolsheds*

R1006. Crumbly soils

R1009. Issa recruited to play President Barbie*

R1010. Corralled, as a hen*

R1011. Typically

R1014. Fusion genre with a street festival*

R1016. He restored some dignity to the office after Nixon*

R1017. It represented a new way in fabric manufacture*

R1018. More like a used diaper*

R1019. Stat seen on boxes of Special K*

R1020. It’s called “the North Korea of Africa”*

R1022. Horrors running through one’s head*

R1024. Kill, as an officer under the same flag*

R1026. Do with clothes what Silicon Valley promotion does to a startup*

R1028. Badge for a TV cop, e.g.*

R1030. One might be towed through it*

R1032. Slope for a Shay or McKay*

R1033. Compel the glance of*

R1035. Wags’ creations*

R1036. Disgraced mags, or disgraced flags*

R1037. Brothers who wrote about Rumpelstiltskin and the struggle to name him*

R1038. Knowledgeable

R1039. Winnebago nation member, once*

R1040. Wood in some helms*

R1041. Ancient Rome: ___ :: B-movie Tokyo : Godzilla*

R1042. SmartSurface mattresses

R1043. Handle opposite the shaft*

R1044. When to squeeze a win from a tie, in short*

R1045. They can’t detect the music of the spheres*

R1046. Crier in the night?*

R1047. Aid in a mechanical endeavor*

R1048. “I’d say, ‘___ artist, but I’m not really very good’” (Paul Simon)*

R1049. Dict. abbr.

R1050. “…voix ___ parole” (voice and speech)

R1052. Wipes moisture from, as eyes*

R1054. Cat that roams where a toucan might*

R1056. His rule spread over the East of the map*

R1058. Begin Wheel of Fortune*

R1060. Wheel on which fishing line is wound*

R1062. Like a gray slab, in terms of décor*

R1064. They’ll tell you what you’re seeing during bus rides*

R1065. Last survivor of the Arthurian wars*

R1066. Dignified sorts who aren’t thems or hers*

R1067. Where Monty Python members sat*

R1068. Start of a lament from Juliet

R1070. An adult one might be sold in a bag*

R1071. Oldest shoe company in America (try their thigh-high)*

R1072. Some small or large part of the total*

R1073. Novarro known for the silents before Ben Hur*

R1074. Iranis’ ancient versions*

R1076. God of wars*

R1077. History school as Polynesian dance*

R1078. Like a sagittarius bowman*

R1079. Greedy Amin*

R1080. Square in chess, or a mosaic piece*

R1083. Court nobleman in Hamlet

R1085. “Mateys, we’ll search for the booty near and far”*

R1087. Warner Bros.’ ___ Melodies

R1089. Mark of war*

R1091. Child of a dam*

R1093. The Hangover character who wakes up with a missing tooth*

R1094. Readiness to go harder*

R1095. First to learn what the Higgs boson looked like*

R1096. Can’t catch their breath*

R1097. Rhyme of l’academe*

R1098. Get out before someone gets hurt?*

R1099. Vehicle in a mountain

R1101. Writes a review, say

R1102. Belshazzar’s Feast painter Rembrandt van ___ (var.)

R1103. Important kind of strength when doing a dip*

R1104. Old measure of how freely electrons flow*

R1105. Kind of ship with loading and unloading that’s none too slow*

R1106. Acquired as an employee*

R1107. Win against procrastination*

R1108. Evil org. in Bond novels

R1111. Ida. neighbor

R1113. Those who can do Don Drapers and Eddie Murphys*

R1115. Demi’s venue in 2020*

R1117. Where boaters may tell each other “Vaya con Dios”*

R1119. That which went into the mind to stay*

R1121. Nickname for “Thomas Roberts,” maybe

R1123. It’s now used to signify shear stress*

R1124. Stroke it to get a purr*

R1125. Need Lasik

R1127. Twelve-tone Romanticist in Austria

R1128. Marcus who knew how to give people a show*

R1129. Rolled-up marijuana leaf, for short*

R1131. RGs and LGs’ colleagues*

R1132. Aid for those who can’t rely on crops*

R1135. Let the truth slip by*

R1136. Screenwriter’s ms.

R1137. Some Michelangeloes*

R1139. Plaything for many a nineteenth-century girl*

R1140. Nodes of mineral richness

R1141. Roald Dahl’s “Fantastic” critter

R1142. Certify

R1143. Vow meaning “our love is purer than wealth”

R1147. Scary anthology film with Peter Cushing in the title role, Christopher Lee, and Donald Sutherland

R1152. Lubes’ containers

R1153. Swimmers shaped like cigars*

R1154. Style that crossed a waterway to reach the world from Jamaica*

R1155. One who worked for or used an old internet services seller*

R1157. Shakespeare’s shown a couple of plays set there*

R1159. This way, boss*

R1163. Sang something divinely inspired?*

R1165. The Romans meant it more as “craftsmanship” than painting or sculpture

R1166. Percent of some personal budgets*

R1167. Like a high-speed windshield wiper, if they were a person*

R1168. Lends one’s ears*

R1169. As it should be*

R1170. Payment for el toro, once*

R1171. Skin-care brand Jennifer Aniston promotes as rejuvenating (and wouldn’t she know?)*

R1172. It makes eyes look finer*

R1173. Clothesless dudes*

R1175. First guy in space, to Ike’s administration’s fury*

R1176. Becoming the favorite product of a TV star, e.g.*

R1177. Meg and ___ (book series)*

R1178. Fashion for visiting gay Paree

R1179. Apprised of the situation and paths to deal with it*

R1182. Starship captain who’s sometimes a jerk*

R1183. Put a new essay on a Web host*

R1184. Spots where a deodorant stick fits*

R1186. What you learn to follow at home and in schools*

R1190. Conflict through the end of FDR’s presidency*

R1193. Impressed with smart-sounding nonsense*

R1194. Fourth Arabic letter

R1195. “I ___ Walrus” (The Beatles)

R1196. “That’s my aim”*

R1198. Spin like a tire*

R1199. It looks like a hair, if you stare at a letterform with some imagination*

R1200. 1980s world leader, in headlines

R1201. Jerry Garcia collaborator and keyboardist Saunders

R1202. West Pacific Isle that sounds like a transport (must suck)*

R1203. Takes ten

R1205. Miss Morgendorffer of MTV

R1207. People holding a flower may do so by holding this*

R1209. Want to be healthier? Try it*

R1211. Day a Lent-observer may become a feaster*

R1213. Actress Teri of The Moonshine War*

R1215. Like promises to “fix the deficit in a jiffy”*

R1216. Leaves pools of enthusiasm*

R1217. Ideal, as surf*

R1218. Rude-ass*

R1219. Oft-homemade beverage*

R1220. Italian soprano Scotto

R1221. Canadian “yeahs”*

R1222. Full enough to be sedated*

R1223. Filled to the rim*

R1225. Act under duress

R1227. “You can ___ far…”

R1228. Suppliers of thoroughbreds, in a way*

R1229. Texter’s greeting

R1230. Literally, “wrath” or “dismay”*

R1231. MCs of roasts*

R1232. Original TV screen type*

R1233. The SOTU is what he sez*

R1235. Lead-car chaser*

R1237. Tom Selleck poster, e.g.*

R1239. Rough jag*

R1241. Rembrandt’s city of birth

R1243. Dissent that’s hardly quiet*

R1245. No : nein :: one : ___*

R1246. Knowing every nook and cranny*

R1247. “Can’t afford cable? Cut the ___”*

R1248. Swung but didn’t run

R1249. Nature’s spurs*

R1251. “Oh…NO”*

R1252. Shout, “WHYYY?”*

R1253. Intimidate to the max

R1255. Motivated until one strove*

R1256. Mindlessly orate*

R1257. “Any openings?” speakers*

R1259. One who’s supposedly wiser*

R1261. Weather in a bog*

R1262. What a good coach may foster*

R1264. Verve*

R1266. Device for accelerating particles

R1268. One crossing a Kosovo curb, likely*

R1270. Companionable

R1272. Like neuronen, for neural cell*

R1274. Drawing aids for kids, at times*

R1275. Stir*

R1276. Slips out slowly in liquid form*

R1277. Equiv. to Chile clock settings*

R1278. With that time they were working, maybe they’ll take up painting or diaries*

R1280. Germaine de ___, who dared assert that Napoleon could fail*

R1281. Like some mus. keys

R1282. Vita nova*

R1283. View from many suites*

R1286. Gem to be used on a tiara*

R1287. Unboxing One Item a Day and Training My Dogs, e.g.*

R1288. Rolls-Royce rods

R1289. Acronymed show that was a huge ratings success*

R1290. Like a small Quaker farm*

R1294. Question for the receptionist: “Is he ___?”*

R1297. Beaten in the food chain*

R1299. Alternative to guitar*

R1301. Storage device from the days of Saddam*

R1303. Parts for a bee*

R1305. More gray-tinged

R1307. Warning of potential harm*

R1308. Comedienne who plays opposite Tina*

R1309. A charge makes it go far*

R1310. Dnieper port city (as crosswords used to spell it)

R1311. Mai ___: rum drinks of modest size*

R1313. Italiano who can see a leaning tower*

R1314. Org. with a say in our planet’s future*

R1315. One found in a zebra crossing, for short

R1316. Handwriter

R1320. Skyrocketing medication prices, e.g.*

R1321. ___d’oeuvres or appetizers*

R1322. Creator of many a chocolate “piece”*

R1323. These tribe members are largely Canadian*

R1324. Map areas that aren’t terres*

R1325. “Years of office work gave her the tools / Then her MBA fine-tuned the rules / This student from ___ / Though quirkily clerkly / Now staffs secretarial pools” (Charles Sullivan)*

R1326. Clean the keep*

R1328. Blazes with concentrated light*

R1330. Dared and lost*

R1332. Likely to enter the fray*

R1334. Where to make a “HUNNY” pot, a la Milne*

R1336. Believers in the doctrines of grace and double predestination

R1338. Caviar eggs (yeah, those)*

R1339. Source of the “This is your brain on drugs” phrase*

R1340. Aqua ___: mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids that dissolves gold or platinum

R1341. Kind of elf known for hunting boy and girl*

R1342. Body-odor ward*

R1346. “It’s ___ nothing!” (No smaller stakes here)*

R1348. Web feed address*

R1349. Scrape by, though insecure*

R1350. Modeled as an add-on, e.g.*

R1351. Judy Guliani’s ex*

R1352. “HULK SMASH!”

R1353. Can be heard very well from a distance*

R1354. Mud-filled.

R1355. Where Napoleon the Emperor became*

R1356. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Van Zant, brother of Johnny*

R1358. Fencing position or parry

R1360. Red head?

R1362. Smith whose “Help Me Make It Through the Night” won her a Grammy*

R1364. Tel Aviv flier

R1366. Told, “YOU FAILED, RAT!”*

R1367. Covering on which to lay a carp*

R1368. Likely to end the workday sore*

R1369. Dining options for a given venue*

R1370. Walk in the park*

R1372. He’ll give Archie a wedgie*

R1373. When starting to make this puzzle, the first thing I did*

R1374. Chocolate-covered morsel often eaten at the movies

R1376. Outraged French call*

R1377. Puny word for a big school*

R1378. Gets damper than frogs*

R1379. Mariah whose every Christmas is merry*

R1380. Peace Nobelist Anwar who got shot*

R1381. Two octillion of them is a “weight” for suns*

R1382. Marketed to the ladies, as it were*

R1383. “Hey Jude”‘s “las”*

R1384. Llama cousins

R1386. For a movie, they might buzz islets*

R1389. Indicate with a finger joint*

R1391. Part of seasonally unaffected scenes*

R1393. Fixation for a brony*

R1394. It’ll drop a big harvest*

R1396. They’ll put you under the lens*

R1397. Move without pep*

R1398. Sends as merch on trips*

R1399. Choked up with cheer or fears*

R1400. Shunted responsibility to another*

R1401. “Y’all put it like that, I cain’t say no”*

R1404. Company for kahunas*

R1405. Newman whom the Toy Story films found handy*

R1406. Eating it is fun, getting it back off your hips is hard*

R1407. Nobelist Jules of bacteriology

R1408. Syst. to process space, time, and mass*

R1409. Leeds light (don’t worry, Americans, it won’t scorch you)*

R1411. Bendy-shapes science, more formally

R1414. Surveys say that people having them enjoy the companionship and attention more than gifts (abbr.)*

R1416. Feel like one’s chest has been in a clasp*

R1417. Give up, as the deed*

R1418. Ru-in*

R1420. Magically spied*

R1421. “___ Mom” (parental reassignment of a task)*

R1422. Tasked with answering*

R1423. ___ Kosh B’gosh*

R1425. This show had its last two letters rendered as “$$”*

R1426. Spirits’ fires*

R1427. She scored a hit with “Royals”*

R1428. Save for later

R1429. It’ll stretch your back*

R1430. Less prone to biased error*

R1431. Spiny succulents

R1433. Podium offering (abbr.)

R1434. Hear, to Heloise

R1435. “No emails about this, no recorders,” e.g.*

R1436. Small falcons

R1437. Offshorers?*

R1439. “Uh…friend, should I be concerned about you?”*

R1440. Likely to fail*

R1441. “I mean, it’s just a little dessert”*

R1443. Charlotte whose novel was hardly jaunty*

R1444. GPS calculations (abbr.)

R1445. Where pigs put on size*

R1447. Show sorrow deep*

R1448. Cognitive arts*

R1451. Tire protrusion

R1452. She finally left him, yay!*

R1453. Sound accompanying a charley-horse crouch*

R1454. Response to a professor*

R1455. Where skaters go to work out the kinks*

R1457. Their aim’s accurate as a Jedi’s*

R1458. Distance one can cover*

R1459. Desire to get physically close*

R1460. Brits studying Babylonians*

R1463. “From the mountains to the prairies, to the oceans white with ___...God bless America, my home sweet home”*

R1464. Tool*

R1465. Modernist design hero Saarinen*

R1467. Fast Phoenician floater with a two-sided oar team*

R1468. Routh who didn’t abandon the Superman role by choice*

R1469. Sisters’ gp.

R1470. Put another lozenge down, as a throat*

R1471. Expelled from the galley*

R1474. Think ___ and databanks*

R1475. “Yes, ___!” (“I super agree!”)*

R1476. Don’t defer*

R1477. Brother to Dewey and Louie*

R1478. Succumbs to NASA’s notorious zero-g simulators, AKA “comets”*

R1479. ___ Tin Tin*

R1480. Guthrie who wrote the official folk song of Massachusetts

R1481. Long-necked lamps

R1484. “We hope you lose!” shouts*

R1485. Have claim to, but not alone*

R1486. “Differing from the default” prefix*

R1487. Fix, as one’s hair back at home*

R1488. Short on any signs of life*

R1489. “Just a ___!” (“Hold on!”)

R1490. Co. that might claim new tires are a “modification” that voids the manufacturer’s warranty*

R1491. Gun org. I wish would just go away*

R1492. Program suffix on XP*

R1493. Dispatched on the court with haste*

R1494. He could eat no fat*

R1495. Knocks out

R1496. Source of paranoid rage, briefly*

R1497. They may buy Persian dolls*

R1498. Newer versions of well-known characters’ stories

R1500. They manage paths for your SUV*

R1504. Jrs.’ key moment*

R1508. Writer Kerouac*

R1512. ___-wip (whipped topping brand)

R1517. Year Augustus lost his son

R1523. Long cigars for the fellas*

R1524. Lowlife out and out*

R1525. Old enough to know better but still too young to care*

R1526. Stained-glass window area, perhaps*

R1528. La ___, town in Spain (“The sunny spot”)

R1529. Flood residue*

R1530. Bro or sis

R1531. Actor known for adjusting his shades on CSI Miami ooh so carefully*

R1533. In ___ (archaeologist’s phrase)

R1534. “___ little longer…” (Big Red slogan)

R1536. They help adjust lights, whether brights or flats*

R1538. “A ___, tearin’ hunter” (Old Yeller)

R1539. Rapper with “One Wish” and “Pray”*

R1540. Imperils oneself at a Scrooge’s doorstep*

R1541. Abbr. to express spin*

R1542. One of 58 billion in a head of iceberg lettuce*

R1543. Be alike*

R1544. With “mater,” Universidad Iberoamericana for Salma Hayek*

R1545. Blemishes often picked and popped

R1546. Term for online animation, soon to be forgotten*

R1547. Get ___: feel inspired

R1548. Stairmaster rep*

R1549. Old Irish tongue (var.)

R1550. Motorola cell phone

R1551. Kind of electronic*

R1552. Honourary title received on bended knee (abbr.)

R1553. Around the knee

R1554. Trajan’s home*

R1555. Wings of a rara avis, one might say*

R1556. Tongue-lash*

R1557. “Our spy has entered the enemy stronghold”

R1558. Supplanted normal intake, say*

R1559. Ballet costume made by Nguni South Africans?

R1560. Faultfinding over two films with identical titles?

R1563. The Notebook, 13 Going on 30, or Legally Blonde, selected almost at random?

R1567. “Memo to the Pearl River city: You should’ve played ‘Hail to the Chief’ for the visiting president, not ‘Happy Birthday’”?

R1570. What you might need to clean up when walking Clifford

R1575. Blanket with Wilma Flintstone, Jessica Rabbit, and Ariel’s heads*

R1578. Military prog. for high schoolers

R1579. Nose-clearing brand

R1580. Where a piece of oar may get washed*

R1581. Withdrawn*

R1582. Year of the Battle of White Wolf Mountain

R1583. Hubristic woman of Greek myth

R1584. Mexican mate

R1585. Where a crescent moon isn’t dim*

R1586. Food for a goat*

R1587. He got to play against Marlon in On the Waterfront*

R1588. “Zip, zip! Let ___!”*

R1589. Way to do a quick auction*

R1591. Flying machine that seems to move on its own*

R1592. ∩-shaped monuments, to Marcos*

R1593. What you haven’t paid yet*

R1595. Deliver to, as a pickup line

R1596. They let you emulate games like Them Bombs*

R1597. Cold ___: not at all nice*

R1598. Routines the PD knows*

R1599. Put a hand out and sway*

R1600. Auditioner’s goal*

R1601. Tatty*

R1602. Sources of the good French booze*

R1603. ___ de veau (sweetbreads)

R1604. Troubles that might make you dish*

R1605. Periods of quick motion (not THAT quick motion, perverts)*

R1606. Older term for Boing Boing or Texts from Dog*

R1609. ___ and the Dominos (Eric Clapton band)*

R1610. Mid-XVIth century year

R1611. “There ___ free lunches”

R1612. Interviewer Walters

R1614. Believer that Ukraine belongs to Putin due to cultural destiny, end of discussion*

R1616. Fizzled-out firecracker sound

R1617. Andrea who’s been elected MVP and Best Opposite in international volleyball*

R1618. George employed as a security guard until his murder*

R1619. Become less clear than they were*

R1620. Keep to a path that’s clear*

R1621. Clic Stics, e.g.*

R1622. Sounds after too much cider-champagne mix*

R1623. “Handle it NOW, see?!”*

R1625. Noel Coward play Post ___

R1626. Mishima, creator of Edens Zero*

R1627. Swiss unit for watches

R1628. Easton Ellis who’s likely to get millennials upset*

R1629. It let the government break up groupings of a dozen or more…true fact*

R1631. Least challenging

R1632. L’___: Because you’re worth it

R1633. Year 763 AVC*

R1634. Part of Orion’s foot

R1635. Are a contributing factor to*

R1636. Finger-food islanders enjoy*

R1637. Soldier Robert E.*

R1638. Audience for dad puns*

R1639. Ski wear that goes with boots*

R1640. Teach for a soph*

R1641. Go-with for burger, shake, and kids’ meal prize*

R1642. Beasts once hunted with spears*

R1643. Mated one’s actions to another’s desire*

R1645. Game bird considered to have good luck*

R1646. Book sometimes near a menorah*

R1647. PD ranks

R1648. Securely*

R1649. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthplace

R1650. Start of a survey*

R1651. Drop Dead ___*

R1652. Colder in demeanor*

R1653. Thing to pay into to avoid tax*

R1654. Spits rhyme that slaps*

R1655. Technique that dots actors’ faces in a map*

R1656. Bases for some Arizona nests*

R1657. Crime-solver’s hint*

R1658. Water can make her brushstrokes fainter*

R1660. Contact, but don’t ring*

R1661. Eve alternative?*

R1662. Stravinsky with “Four Seasons”*

R1663. Highest rock formation in Massachusetts, Mount ___*

R1664. Like the Art Deco sign for the Metro*

R1665. How you escape a marshmallow burial*

R1666. Had one’s health derailed*

R1667. His black paintings are said to express paranoia*

R1668. Required deodorant*

R1670. Not bright-and-gaily

R1671. Assassin’s tool for quiet work*

R1672. “A bulge at a TSA checkpoint? ___ be patted”*

R1673. Front of the scow*

R1674. Things with xings

R1675. Maya Angelou: “Does my sexiness upset you? / Does it come as a surprise/ That I dance like I’ve got diamonds / At the meeting of my thighs? /Out of the huts of history’s shame / ___”*

R1678. Kind of investments that are not paying dividends*

R1682. Copier paper size, for short

R1683. Ability to handle

R1685. Mold or landscape*

R1686. Oath for Eliza*

R1687. Vowels old poets used to express their woes*

R1688. Orpheus plucked its wire*

R1689. Group of rooms that’s complete*

R1690. From where a backbeat may come*

R1691. Go, “Hey, sure”*

R1692. “Because ___ a bonny lad...”*

R1693. Some is fair*

R1694. Where to find Doctor Who besides the BBC*

R1695. Holding one’s nose high and speaking about “dreadful affairs,” e.g.*

R1696. Cats on biceps, e.g.*

R1697. “Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind” writer Evan

R1698. Boo whose community treated him badly*

R1699. On one’s own*

R1700. ___ at the mouth (looks rabid)

R1701. Undetermined days*

R1702. “A Farewell to Arms” subj.

R1703. “Does the work have heart?”*

R1705. Cold or worse (to)*

R1706. Gets through the day*

R1708. The Son’s “wives”*

R1709. Joey shown on Dancing with the Stars*

R1711. Worried she’ll be regretful*

R1713. Ending for share*

R1714. Exxon alternative

R1715. Put a cap on, as a show*

R1716. Tear up, as old crap*

R1717. Group plotting a downfall*

R1718. Sharp grandpa in One Piece*

R1719. Have the boss’s say-so*

R1720. A wiry old guy*

R1721. Author Michael whose Close to Home is about past trauma and breaking free*

R1722. “I suppose...”

R1723. Deliver by Aston Martin, say*

R1724. “___ digress…”

R1725. Post ___: be a responsible boss and admit failure to profit*

R1726. Where merchandise might have an escort*

R1727. Sea, to Pierre*

R1728. Look in case of

R1729. Src. of a G.I. show

R1730. Likelier to retire early*

R1731. Taj Mahal’s site

R1732. Made one’s pleasure heard*

R1733. It reclassified marijuana in 2016

R1734. Original subway operator for NYC*

R1735. Williams who played Brad Bellick*

R1736. “Ask and see”*

R1737. ___ Attaq*

R1738. Country, to Schott*

R1739. Ultimate building-closer*

R1740. Popular Halloween garb after Trolls: World Tour*

R1741. Pooh’s parent

R1742. Liable to blurt*

R1743. Of a knockoff make*

R1744. Agrees to date*

R1746. TV character John Boy or Jim Bob

R1747. Tyler who Jackson chose to give third being*

R1748. Leia’s birth name, rather than a title*

R1750. Wins in wrestling*

R1751. Platform for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3*

R1752. Headwear for Clan Graham*

R1753. Expensive instrument for a concerto by Menotti*

R1754. Detection system that uses a laser

R1756. Great deals*

R1758. 0-812-54809-4, for one

R1759. What a foul may put you in*

R1760. Sometime ally of Russia*

R1762. Apple feature making us smarter...in theory*

R1763. Doing the dishes or watering the plants*

R1764. “Made it through!”*

R1765. For businesses facing bankruptcy, it’s this or the morgue*

R1766. There’s two in “towel”*

R1767. “I could be beaten to a pulp!”*

R1768. Biological egg cell

R1769. Run and try to place*

R1770. His The Beach at Sainte-Adresse is full of gray*

R1771. Sports org. debuting in 1970 on NBC*

R1772. One whose whisper is a “whithper”*

R1773. Sigur ___ (Icelandic post-rock band)

R1774. Troupes, e.g.

R1775. They have eyes for men and women and maybe some in-between*

R1776. Attacks by flying brigades*

R1778. Historic term for “crowned with laurels”

R1779. Without letup

R1780. Rhyming game in Teletubbish?

R1784. Cop Rock?

R1788. “Satan’s defeat was swift”?

R1791. “My cowboy buddy keeps hooking up with his old girlfriend, even though he’s always a mess afterward”?

R1794. “This polycule revolves around her”?

R1799. Forgetful actors’ safeguards*

R1802. Grow grim*

R1803. “That makes me sick!”*

R1804. Balance the scales for

R1805. Scanty down payment at a game*

R1806. They’re denoted by ampersands*

R1807. Samples nutrient pastes*

R1808. C-34, 172, and other jets

R1810. Portions of les annees*

R1811. Princess of Power of cartoons

R1812. Small cylinders that aren’t that great for you, but #YOLO*

R1813. Fuel source carriable in a pail*

R1814. Sounded like God?*

R1815. Ewe-lamb, e.g.

R1816. Thorn-covered shrub that’s a metaphor for desire*

R1817. The ___ Dabba Honeymoon*

R1818. Levels out grass by rows*

R1819. Burning through potential fortunes burns their carbs*

R1820. Where to see ice-skating ballerinas*

R1821. Match, as expectations

R1822. Movie Jake Gyllenhaal plays in repeat mode?*

R1824. “Psych” and “sike” are this in sound and meaning*

R1827. Naught, to Caesar

R1829. Waver like a third rider in a two-seater*

R1830. “No!”*

R1832. Armed hoodlum

R1833. Sound-amplifier or the like*

R1834. King Cole of scat*

R1835. Area near the jaw*

R1836. Agreed to release*

R1837. “___ here!”*

R1838. Beer at most convenience stores*

R1839. “Seeing this film too early in life might leave a scar”*

R1840. Paddles near shore some more, I suppose*

R1841. Without fertility drugs, the chance of having them is million-to-one odds*

R1842. Inflammatory conclusion?

R1843. Do as doves do*

R1844. Cuts off

R1846. They end lives*

R1847. Crow relatives

R1848. Royal patience-testers*

R1850. Welcomed

R1851. Hazy in the brain*

R1852. Type of TV display*

R1853. One unversed in verse

R1854. She makes a mail carrier’s day shorter*

R1855. Roman justice

R1857. De ___-van Alphen effect

R1858. Get ___ of: get showed*

R1859. Groan alternative*

R1860. Porous shape*

R1861. Sounds of rings*

R1862. Gearshift type, ___ on the floor*

R1863. Hex, but worse*

R1864. Jags with remote keys*

R1865. One inclined to say, “Sod it,” on the telly*

R1866. “For you, it’s free”*

R1867. Person comparing costs and which one’s nicer*

R1868. Finds objects in a seemingly random pattern*

R1869. He never drew adults*

R1871. Savor again

R1873. Customary

R1877. Code for a Newark spot where you’d pick up a rental car*

R1878. Pelted*

R1879. Big ___*

R1880. Looked over as if to draw

R1881. With one’s attention trapped*

R1882. Pick up, as poop*

R1883. “Miss Leoni would...” [this one’s pretty awful, sorry!]*

R1884. A clear border between each category, say*

R1885. Group too big to ignore*

R1886. Brooks, Gibson, and Wells*

R1887. Material for a serving plate*

R1888. Property will pass into his care*

R1889. Short way?

R1890. Bull’s “thorns”*

R1892. One that an Italian relies on*

R1893. Capital that’s a woman’s name

R1894. Tracker’s pre-manure*

R1895. National Council ___ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group*

R1899. Looks like organs on nudes*

R1907. Tops in Moody’s survey*

R1908. “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” syllables

R1909. Island near Molokai

R1912. Comics pictures divided by gutters, aka white-space channels*

R1913. Cassandra, for one

R1915. Art of subconscious imagery

R1917. Is not reduced?

R1918. Wets one’s eyes*

R1919. Customs you might need to know for safe forays*

R1920. Part of a ship often made of steel*

R1921. Song and pun followers

R1922. Fix, as a split end*

R1923. Star Wars scavenger

R1924. Candy who met a wayward Amazon early in her journey*

R1925. They help study chromaticisms*

R1926. Fishing hole for dad and son to bond*

R1927. Brand that goes well with bologna*

R1931. Land in a strait*

R1932. Fleeing defeat*

R1933. It might need a new moon boot*

R1936. County Kerry seaport*

R1937. Immunity from time’s knife*

R1939. Devonshire dipwad*

R1940. Ob-gyn’s treatment, for short*

R1941. Good Place philosopher whose choices aren’t speedy*

R1942. Foreign spies we joked we’d find under beds*

R1943. Snarl in which one gets caught*

R1944. Knowledge explorer*

R1945. Grain storage structures

R1946. These may require expert defusers*

R1947. Correct like a sneak*

R1948. Villanelle-ending scheme

R1949. One who follows like a madman*

R1950. Sexts, e.g.*

R1952. Says, “I’m ready to graze”*

R1953. Prose composition (abbr.)

R1954. They’re likely to think Republicans won debates*

R1956. Homer or Fry

R1960. Visually put to paper*

R1962. Enough for a free sample*

R1963. “Luff ___!” (command at sea)*

R1964. Renaissance poet Clément

R1965. Exhibit the patience of a saint*

R1968. Letters that bring tee-hees*

R1969. Anonymous crowd that dots so-media discourse*

R1970. Aimed at God and everybody*

R1971. Opera heroine or part of Street Fighter canon*

R1972. Sp. mujeres

R1973. “Although this may be a smear...”*

R1974. They are like small trout*

R1975. Their rise led to prohibition*

R1976. “Are you saying ___ blame?”

R1977. Let go a bit

R1978. It sells a cheek palette with stars*

R1979. Herbert of many a Hollywood hit and bomb*

R1980. She kisses her Mr. or Mx.

R1981. Guitar effect that can disturb glasses*

R1983. End of an ABC*

R1984. Kagan hearing cases

R1985. Introduction to this earth*

R1988. “I hate,” in a Latin love poem

R1990. “___ but known!...”

R1991. Brand in a high-end fashion store*

R1992. Word on tape?

R1993. Isn’t quaint?*

R1994. “Sail on, ___ of State!”

R1996. Second to none*

R1997. Beest in view of*

R1998. Foursome times two

R1999. Big fan*

R2000. Oddball or geek*

R2001. Good signs for shows?*

R2002. “That’s my row to ___”*

R2003. Group that may sing “Higher and Higher”*

R2005. “Heal” face?

R2006. Prior to, in days of yore*

R2008. “Do I need to explain again?”

R2010. Med. asst.

R2012. Game with a goalie as blocker*

R2014. To fans, Erving of the MBA*

R2016. Peron married this senorita*

R2018. Pacific-to-Urals artery*

R2019. How to serve vichyssoise in Valois

R2021. Great party?

R2024. Trivial details?

R2028. Oddball loser with oddball tics?

R2033. Keep precipitation high?

R2036. “My horse and I are in BIG TROUBLE”?

R2038. They don’t oppose*

R2040. Yak about stuff that does...not...matter*

R2042. Per Weird Al as Luke, “I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah / Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda”*

R2044. “Air” that’s good for flora, bad for Gomorrah*

R2046. One who worships “the High Tower”*

R2047. Musical time for a lamento*

R2048. Grasslands with no trees*

R2049. Executed as a scan*

R2050. 63, e.g.*

R2051. “I’m innocent, let me go free,” e.g.*

R2052. Noises from angry boars*

R2053. Movie reviews*

R2054. Alternative to a Dorito*

R2055. Tool related to a trim-the-hedge-r* ;-)

R2056. The Philly version adds cheesesteak to the peppers and beans*

R2057. Not e’er*

R2058. Homemaker who gets paid*

R2059. Kiss off, lyrically*

R2060. Turns a profit*

R2061. It snaps

R2062. The TMNT without Leo, e.g.*

R2064. Don’t let them watch too many vids!*

R2065. JFK forecast*

R2067. Dieters with this blood type should avoid meat and egg products*

R2069. Where racecars get served without a tow*

R2071. Flash that could make you believe in Jehovah*

R2073. Make into a hostile*

R2075. Tiny eels that look like twigs*

R2076. Part of a Rhoda cocktail*

R2077. Reading matter to unroll*

R2080. More crafty

R2082. Sounds from those whom amusing things please*

R2083. Commie, in the Sixties

R2084. Singing group that sounds like powers that be*

R2085. Come back after renovation

R2086. Gambits a trickster uses*

R2087. French soldiers’ caps

R2088. He planted the seed of English history*

R2089. Revealing swimsuit

R2091. Talkative American Saddlebred*

R2092. Rel. figure many church names carry*

R2093. Drink with stew*

R2094. Guns the engine to be ready for whatevs*

R2095. Unique stunner*

R2096. Desirously burn*

R2098. It averages over $15 million; too damn high, I’d say*

R2100. Was sent*

R2102. Cleaner sometimes on a rope*

R2104. Starry ___ Night (fashion show)*

R2105. Rutabaga kin

R2108. Race that often dealt with the Sovs*

R2109. Say no one can*

R2110. Frigg and Odin’s handmaid/squire*

R2111. Plants that go with cheese*

R2112. Prima ___ (at first sight)

R2113. “It’s Pat” on SNL and “yada yada yada” on Seinfeld*

R2114. Latin horn

R2115. The Art of Love poet

R2116. Src. of Iraqi debris*

R2117. Eastern Church group

R2118. Kosher-unsafe*

R2119. Uncovered, except for hair*

R2120. Singer Josh who’s active on Twitter*

R2122. Like dashes that obscure the people we don’t want to name out loud...you know, them*

R2124. Onetime Ebert partner

R2126. People are making tracks for this*

R2129. Kind of mat, in India*

R2130. Frozen food brand beside a “57” bottle in Heinz’s offerings*

R2131. Gambit to confuse*

R2132. Baubles

R2134. Recreation place that may be in the shadow of un arc*

R2135. Cold wear

R2136. Animated pet we know from reruns*

R2137. Some is made with raw cabbage*

R2140. Like the largest polar regions we can see*

R2145. West Indian sorcery

R2150. Stock-minded TV*

R2154. “Betrayer!”

R2159. Cuisine with chili whole roast chicken*

R2160. Point of maximum flux*

R2161. Horizons near trims*

R2162. Soft and lumpen

R2163. Option a “File” submenu has*

R2165. Molded to cut through the wind, as a classic car*

R2167. Delph, to Delph*

R2168. Popular poker variety

R2170. Time for Armed Forces Day*

R2171. Medium through which a netizen condemns*

R2172. He may have a lad*

R2173. Lily, to a French guy*

R2174. Exemplifies, to given extents*

R2176. Some punk-rock feminists

R2178. French kiss recipient, maybe*

R2179. Tsar’s settling of a legal case*

R2180. Son of Jumbo*

R2181. Wrong way to greet the Messiah*

R2182. N/A pt.

R2183. Some are chocos*

R2184. Coke brand that’s not so much a water company as it is a plastic bottle company...Johnny*

R2185. Shutout*

R2186. Boolean alternatives to ors*

R2187. You see him as Holly in The Buddy Holly Story*

R2188. Way to see brainwaves*

R2190. Marsh hedges*

R2192. Got less indebted*

R2194. Make letters easier to discern*

R2196. That ‘70s Show guy with an Uncle Theo*

R2197. No more likely to be there*

R2198. Anime hero who’s a contest acer*

R2201. Like a bird only seen in Guadalajara*

R2202. Prefix for lateral

R2203. To some, they’re as attractive as lips*

R2204. Call forth memories of, like smoke to a campfire*

R2205. Where the Shawshank Redemption characters were*

R2206. Mad scientist’s prior internships at others’ laboratories, cowboy’s teenage years as a petty thief, poet’s childhood on the high seas, e.g.*

R2208. Pricewise, hardly astronomical*

R2211. ___ Nabisco (Sugar Rings and Wheat Thins are among its brands)*

R2212. Big name in cubics*

R2213. Animal that enjoys eating a pear*

R2214. “This is the ___ deal”*

R2215. Bored through, as a torero*

R2216. “It’s what you ___ me”

R2217. Scheduler that may have a banner*

R2219. Made one’s complaints loud and detailed*

R2221. [This position could be any of yours]*

R2222. “___ of wonder…” (“We Three Kings” lyric)

R2225. Cause of much dolor in Romeo and Juliet*

R2226. Controversialist

R2227. Bottom-drawer label, perhaps

R2228. Communicated oneself, perhaps with some signal loss*

R2230. Hatless deity nevertheless known for what he has overhead*

R2231. Explorer with a coon-skin cap*

R2232. It’ll twist at a high rate or low rate*

R2233. Siberian who went far*

R2235. “Don’t ___ do much at all” (pseudo-Buddhist quote)

R2236. Strain to a British guy*

R2237. US turtles

R2239. “That’s not yours, it’s mein!”*

R2240. Where late nights, wall posters, and hall frisbee are the norm*

R2241. Like a skier, compared to a water-skier*

R2242. Two-state region west of Minnesota*

R2244. Protein that keeps you from feeling cast in stone*

R2246. “___ yourself” (“explanation” that isn’t really one, but is briefer)*

R2248. 3 Days to Kill and Charlie’s Angels director*

R2250. Drew back (away from), or tried*

R2252. “Love that guy! ___ the bee’s knees”*

R2253. Material for an early belt*

R2256. News on a CNBC show*

R2257. Got the party going (shake a leg)*

R2259. “___, ___, so off to work I go”*

R2260. “Hubba-hubba! My breath just caught!”*

R2261. Ran back over roughshod*

R2262. Patriarch of two sitcoms with crass appeal*

R2264. Be once again as it once were*

R2266. “It’d be better if you flew!”*

R2268. DOJ appointees*

R2270. Where the text’s begun*

R2271. Stern Bruce of Nebraska and The Hateful Eight*

R2272. Alma mater for Talking Heads and Dale Chihuly*

R2273. Angrily stare*

R2274. State under the red star (abbr.)*

R2275. Esq., sometimes

R2276. Cheeses you shouldn’t eat in Sonatas*

R2278. What to smoke while making a bogey*

R2280. First word in a song by Lady Gaga*

R2282. Das Rheingold contralto

R2283. Compared to chamber pots, it’s newer*

R2287. Files to allow adoption of new programs with ease*

R2289. Steps (up)*

R2290. “...dwelt a miner, forty-___”*

R2291. 1974 film with Sutherland and Gould as CIA guys*

R2292. “Planet, schmanet, ___!”*

R2293. Paul who opposes wealthy protagonists in There Will Be Blood and The Batman, but plays a pal to AJ Soprano*

R2294. Platform with Battle Chess

R2295. Bargains may result in these*

R2297. Name on a Thanksgiving table*

R2299. “Oh, gawd, no WAY...”*

R2301. Beaux a young lady entertains*

R2302. “No glove, no ___”*

R2303. Gullible boob*

R2304. Kris ___, who won awards at 12 and 13 like a boss*

R2305. Foul attack?*

R2308. Nowhere near, brother*

R2310. Glitch deflector*

R2313. Why we go for fancy cars*

R2314. Cigarette sizes

R2315. Kick through the defenses’ hole*

R2316. It never moves, but gets you up and down from here to there*

R2317. Sounds that greet sheepdogs

R2318. Canoegoer*

R2319. Rural poem

R2323. Prone to act in a flash*

R2325. Kingdom ceded to Wessex*

R2327. It should equal your tricep in strength*

R2329. Fratty Silicon Valley pro*

R2331. Gaul’s Gujarat*

R2332. Get ready to retire*

R2333. Fear for Hobbes*

R2334. “G’wan, horsey!”

R2335. “Cash me outside, how ‘bout ___!”

R2336. Address ender for those who pursue academics*

R2337. Apply yourself*

R2338. “Aw, don’t be mad, ___ booger!”*

R2340. Inability to speak

R2341. It’s found in methane deposits*

R2342. Touch it after getting one hot*

R2344. When you need a job, wear this to apply*

R2345. Written equivalent of battle scars*

R2347. Decked, online*

R2348. The Knave of Hearts stole them*

R2349. Seals for chips*

R2350. Leshan whose books were a voice for those who need a voice*

R2351. Rhone feeder

R2353. Robot boxing movie Real ___*

R2355. Title film character played by Tyler Perry

R2357. Detached from the main historic narrative*

R2358. On-___ (bit of gossip)*

R2359. Genre from which many unrealistic ideas are born*

R2360. Slats in cribs*

R2361. Mistake, like wearing your pants too tight? (Sorry, I know this one’s a groaner)*

R2362. Like some vows or discord

R2364. “___ ever so humble…”

R2366. It’s like CBD*

R2368. Crosswalk stoppers

R2370. Food of the gods that can be a resurrector*

R2372. “___ Coy Mistress” (...is an Andrew Marvell poem)*

R2373. Arrive at ahead of

R2374. “B ___ basin…”

R2376. Need for any COVID-era outdoor task*

R2377. Brand to lounge on freely*

R2378. Your SUV phase’s memento*

R2380. Force to house consciousness*

R2381. Her “Haunted” was eerie*

R2382. Tie for a ta-ta*

R2384. Stood (with) when the group was divided*

R2386. Lay aside

R2388. Dials up the charm*

R2390. Further away, as a denier*

R2392. “I’m Yours and I’m ___” (1969 Johnny Winter song)*

R2393. On Love Island, he was boyf and then ex to Sharon*

R2394. Opposition party since 2018

R2395. Hugo’s ___ Blas

R2396. TV detective with a painter’s name and a spirit you can’t squash*

R2397. Rhyme scheme of this section’s theme answers (yay!)*

R2399. “___, meenie…”*

R2401. It joins the Saone*

R2402. Too funny for anyone to stay quiet*

R2403. Transport to go over a fallen tree*

R2404. Place without a view of the upcoming street*

R2406. Enough filthy riches to make a duke a duker*

R2407. Opposite end from where you steer*

R2408. Angry displays of personal slants*

R2409. Micro-wormy*

R2410. Sight in an old-fashioned smoke-filled bar*

R2411. Not-so-fast connection provider*

R2415. Not stick out at a sit-in*

R2417. Emotionally loud*

R2419. Win that’s big and fat*

R2420. Toughs in saloons*

R2421. Response to a concert promo*

R2422. Tries to get wise*

R2423. City that had resources for car companies to exploit*

R2425. Locked onto in understanding*

R2427. “Don’t worry, ___ mean little”*

R2429. Grease role

R2431. Leon lass (abbr.)

R2432. Kind of musical notation, for short?

R2433. S, when you prepare a message for a soldier*

R2437. Science news*

R2439. Sound that comes before two tats?

R2440. Galatea, for one

R2441. Subjects of many grammarian harangues*

R2443. Demons with horns that are bony*

R2444. Where Hitler’s strategy started to look mad*

R2447. Like “come” and “go” (abbr.)

R2449. Alaskan peninsula

R2451. ___ Geo (video game platform)*

R2452. God of thrusts and parries*

R2453. Magical being sometimes shown as cute, sometimes scary*

R2454. Splash or plunk lead-in

R2455. Ltd., stateside

R2456. Cover completely, as a throat*

R2457. Mai ___*

R2458. On the track, create a larger gap with*

R2460. Weakens, as videogame robo-serfs*

R2462. The Irish pronounce it “Ira,” not “air”*

R2464. Fam who might give you a dis*

R2465. Provides to use*

R2466. County in Wales

R2467. Slimy vegetables

R2468. He loves fire, oh*

R2469. Sketchy, elementary*

R2471. “You call that a threat?!”*

R2472. Long and narrow*

R2474. Oil Market Report producer

R2475. Smother the humanity of, in one’s own mind*

R2477. “Undo” key combo*

R2479. Crosswalk, on a sign

R2480. Piece of needlework

R2482. Preserver for a pecan*

R2483. Their passenger load varies*

R2485. When day is born*

R2486. Their kind of sexuality gets on society’s nerves

R2488. Dog puppet who preceded ALF*

R2490. Fresher out of the drawer*

R2492. Word in cheesemaking*

R2494. Its Barbie did...well*

R2495. Dippier*

R2497. Tea ___*

R2498. Lap dogs with flat cheeks*

R2499. Architect whose designs are often contrary*

R2500. The opposite of horrible*

R2504. Edible twig*

R2506. Say this in the dentist’s chair

R2508. World’s fastest-growing city...a real hot spot*

R2510. “Y’all heard o’ sundowns? Well, P.M. is when y’all ___”*

R2512. Healthy-but-not-enormous size

R2514. Un-commit*

R2515. Shaving imperfections time will fix*

R2516. “The doors ___ ajar”*

R2517. Measure of Apple’s progress*

R2518. Staple that balances out heavy spice*

R2519. Come back together from the street*

R2520. Burning and aglare*

R2522. Plainer compared to irrational stuff

R2524. Flyer drops, e.g.*

R2528. Part of older actuarial formats*

R2529. Triangle side excluding point C*

R2532. Wooed with a tone of voice*

R2533. She ruined the wedding of Paris*

R2534. Where they dunked witches rather than im-pail ‘em*

R2535. Boats’ inland locale*

R2536. They’re miles out from a continent*

R2537. Bk. of the Bible featuring a prophet prone to despair*

R2538. Equip with machinery

R2540. Lag and sag*

R2542. “Stop acting like a boy-pup!”*

R2544. Names in which the number of “r’s” varies*

R2546. From wax, it should be clear*

R2547. Not “nay”*

R2548. Proceeds to give up*

R2549. She makes the unstable unstabler*

R2551. Conk with a blunt instrument*

R2552. Does more than say prayers*

R2554. They’re often paired with paters*

R2556. Source of courtiers’ employ...al*

R2558. Revenue-raising social contract*

R2560. Hours of slumber, e.g.*

R2562. Strategic items your opponent disregards*

R2564. Start of a hyphenate meaning “pick-and-mix collection”*

R2565. Genome’s units*

R2567. Flies on the wall*

R2568. Push down the road*

R2569. Car companies may waive it for 72 months*

R2570. It makes outdoor gear fab*

R2572. Fitch who partnered with Abercrombie

R2574. Key-related and sonal*

R2576. Change bit by bit from dwarf to wharf, e.g.*

R2578. “Neither for ___ against”*

R2580. Exponential outside our knowledge*

R2583. Neighborhood watch for a bourg, e.g.*

R2584. Park-Lincoln who was a Knots Landing and horror star*

R2585. Hit on the head for some tosh*

R2586. “Is it stop or go?”*

R2587. What to get from a maple tap*

R2588. Brit grad who, stereotypically, could write for Smithsonian*

R2590. Went back to the head*

R2592. Rio ___*

R2593. Educate but try not to preach*

R2594. Re-creates as moving pictures*

R2595. Blockades from harm*

R2597. Philosopher who asked why anyone should continue to live, given the absurdity of existence (he’s more uplifting than that sounds)*

R2598. ___ D’Arcy (Married…With Children role)*

R2599. Chest, but more so*

R2600. Brown flatfish swimming past a crab*

R2603. Rhyme scheme from an old-school rap MC*

R2605. Heroes (like Wolfe) and villains (like the emperor, to most)*

R2607. Primate of large shape

R2609. She’ll get the folks’ terrace*

R2610. What makes people tell awed stories*

R2612. Nucleus a cell may carry*

R2613. Italian autos

R2614. Like Poseidon’s idle movements*

R2616. Make angry and intense*

R2618. ___ and pray (style of first-person shooting)*

R2620. Cut with a sickle to keep*

R2621. Telecom giant, initially*

R2622. Endeavored to pry with*

R2623. Fighting on foreign shores*

R2624. Does an oenophile’s chores*

R2625. Get oil into it*

R2626. Hopefully, lawyers of future eras*

R2627. Carries on in monotones*

R2628. Anger that’s dire*

R2629. Rhyming Song of the South character full of hair*

R2632. Disease with a rep*

R2634. Herbivore Aesop would compare to a tortoise*

R2635. Abbr. in a letter

R2637. Throes of wretchedness

R2638. Toy Story’s bad kid*

R2639. Like second-quality mdse.

R2640. Act devil-may-care*

R2641. Maker of Mr. Smith Goes to Town and Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington

R2642. Language expert William (the FBI once tapped his wire)*

R2643. Org. involved with the 2014 Ebola crisis

R2644. Once the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, but tough to rep since 2018*

R2646. God synonymous with “falcon” in my personal thesaurus*

R2648. There are green suns on these*

R2649. It splits its famous namesake molecule at the base*

R2651. Sons with the same peres*

R2652. Ship on which each rig is square*

R2653. Get juiced*

R2654. Reciprocate an impact*

R2655. Eel neighbor for ray*

R2656. Small thing to purloin*

R2657. “You’ve got grounds for a complaint, hope you’re not mad”*

R2660. Animal known for freezing in fear*

R2662. State on the opposite side from Mexico*

R2664. Ex of state Tillerson*

R2665. Former South Korean president Tae-woo (never met Joe)*

R2666. It’s deaf outside 300-3,000 MHz*

R2667. Prepares bean pies*

R2669. Study (over) more and more*

R2670. Peter who made this and that good deal*

R2671. Lobe for thinking that’s societal*

R2673. It may have a flash bar*

R2675. Like an Airedale’s coat

R2677. Making one’s body, or at least body outline, a show*

R2679. One whom love will never thrill to the marrow*

R2680. Healers, for short

R2681. Castle in the air, e.g.*

R2682. Opalescence, e.g.*

R2684. Desert-march, e.g.*

R2685. Clog one’s shoes with mud*

R2686. No longer a tyro*

R2689. Bern sight, to some (var. ...it does not rhyme with var.)

R2690. Star with an aureole*

R2691. “Better dead than ___” (Cold War saying)*

R2693. Underground part of a fruit*

R2695. Overdone “charm”*

R2697. Loose gowns

R2700. Song as widely played as “Whip It”*

R2703. It’ll tell you what handwritten words are*

R2704. Russell of Extraordinary Measures*

R2705. Tars with flame*

R2706. “For a bold bad man was this ___ / From Badman’s Gulch way down in Colorado”*

R2707. Familiar name for a maker of cabernet*

R2709. Aged brute*

R2711. Most acts get to it after a few minutes*

R2712. Middle name found in Sweeney Todd and The Crown credits

R2716. She’s quite contrary*

R2718. Vocal tilt*

R2719. Pans from far left to far right*

R2720. Like the ideals of a softie*

R2721. The ancients had theories about her season-changing depression*

R2722. Shape of a sitting bear*

R2723. Food that is “rustled up, bub”*

R2724. Having summited with a hop*

R2726. Rock that’s hard to shoulder*

R2729. Gain more and more altitude*

R2731. Send to attack

R2733. ___-Chapelle (church for a tante)

R2734. He’ll give your hiring efforts pep*

R2735. Schumer who knows how to slay me*

R2736. On skin, a contrasting line of dark*

R2737. He played the Monster, not Victor

R2738. “___ is Paris!”*

R2739. Frequent union foes*

R2741. Pathological distractibility*

R2743. Steffi with a fine arm and a toned calf*

R2745. Angel of death with the kindness of heaven, not hell*

R2746. Make information more “of late”*

R2747. No legal amateurs, they*

R2748. Where your truck might get stuck*

R2749. Anticipate*

R2750. Penultimate playoffs

R2751. Glass plates a church stains*

R2752. Sometime wear at spas*

R2753. Slowly implode*

R2754. “Lord” with poetic fire in his soul*

R2756. First-name follower that isn’t “Y.”*

R2757. When large enough, it makes a trap not a trap*

R2759. Exasperates*

R2762. “Note to teen would-be drinkers: this place is on guard”*

R2764. Alternative to corned beef on rye*

R2766. Cable channel owned by AMC

R2767. Voice type in ads for Kenner*

R2768. “___-tat-tat-tat”

R2769. Edmund of 1700s political work*

R2770. He resigned his FBI directorship just before 9/11*

R2772. A Disney ride decks it out with a big, gold-looking sign*

R2774. Kiev’s country (abbr.)

R2775. Opening parts*

R2776. Dr. Strangelove benefited from his rubric*

R2778. Grim and taciturn*

R2779. Billy Collins output

R2780. Lines on highway mains*

R2781. Is a genre-rover*

R2783. Drug that’ll make you see things and get dizzy*

R2785. Airier in mood*

R2788. Epps, Fatal Affair star*

R2789. Set up a slow-growing “road”*

R2791. Lead-in to comic

R2792. Passions like those of self-starters*

R2793. Needing a doily*

R2794. Don’t fly into this...don’t even engage*

R2795. Clothes? This J.C. sold many*

R2796. To some, he’d likely be a pariah*

R2798. Fascinated love for*

R2800. Incorporeal*

R2803. Shimmer with rainbowlike colors

R2805. Addis Ababa is its cap.

R2806. Abandon that makes you go “whee!”*

R2807. Slice up a turkey so we don’t starve*

R2808. Ross to whom Nineties voters said “no”*

R2809. Color of a mixed-color clone*

R2810. “A house built only out of straw?! There oughta be ___”*

R2811. Hope is safer*

R2815. “Riddle-me-___”*

R2816. State of just sitting on your butt*

R2818. Beggingly said*

R2820. With power to say what’s legal*

R2822. Declares one seems*

R2824. Telepathies*

R2825. Hardly one whit*

R2826. Untangler used post-shower*

R2827. Spoke up to foist one’s opinions*

R2828. Bird food prone to squirm*

R2829. Progenitor of screamo*

R2830. Fireside emanation

R2832. Bernie who urges voters not to be bystanders*

R2835. Like some well-spun stockings*

R2836. Furthermore, did nothing?

R2840. Cookie-wrapper litter?

R2847. The back’s where it’s at*

R2848. “Stop, don’t go”*

R2850. Allow to flee*

R2853. Emergency keys on desks*

R2855. “Haven’t I seen this?” one*

R2857. Where to see Chine and Japon*

R2858. “I agree completely, my respected investor”?

R2862. “Augh, I’m DONE with Netflix!” follow-up?

R2865. Didst exude*

R2867. 1101, to a Roman eye*

R2868. Metropolitan Opera star Podleś

R2870. “You wear a disguise to look like human ___...”

R2871. Came to an end

R2872. Rolls out sparingly*

R2873. Concerns now for Nineties goths*

R2874. Endangered language of South America

R2875. Looking like it was created by a smarty-pants*

R2876. Gets after taxes*

R2877. Golfer’s goal*

R2878. Created ___-profit business: sought to cash in

R2880. Outdoor, as supper

R2882. Printed anew

R2885. Bebe who sings “Break My Heart Myself” and “In the Name of Love”

R2887. Concerning, let’s say*

R2889. Wig almost as old-fashioned as a huke*

R2890. They lost a series of battles to the Iroquois*

R2891. Puccini’s morn-o and afternoon-o*

R2892. Inuit home shape*

R2893. Electrically insulating material around nerve fibers

R2894. Key STD*

R2895. Sigh in the saunaaa*

R2897. Pouffed (lay about on a pouffe)*

R2899. Hardware company known as “the helpful place”*

R2901. ___-tag*

R2902. Leafy, arched tower*

R2903. Law, Hill, and similarly named dudes*

R2904. Worst at waiting, perhaps*

R2905. Groups that stress student praise*

R2906. Parrots who ride a mountain breeze*

R2907. Smack for a goal, as a puck

R2908. Ron Heller, e.g.*

R2910. Light, as hair*

R2911. Wintry sound

R2913. Western guy with your regard*

R2915. They stare from the halls of toy collectors*

R2917. Rural bus.

R2918. Mementos from crashing cars*

R2919. Induction unit for a computer mouse*

R2920. Port with tantos como cualquiera*

R2921. Choice with no option 3*

R2922. Sneered at*

R2924. Fuel one big leap of energy*

R2927. Where Zeno might show ‘is points*

R2928. Square ___ a round hole

R2930. Religious choral work

R2932. Fallen Jedi crusader*

R2933. Uncommon indeed*

R2935. Clouseau, for ex.

R2936. Moisture-barest*

R2937. Women’s rights attorney Gloria, or like a Valentine’s-themed bed*

R2939. Note from an invitee*

R2941. Me, not toi*

R2942. Poetically above what’s lower*

R2944. Slyer speaker*

R2946. They shouldn’t be just listeners but also retorters*

R2949. Site of many an Axis and Allies scenario*

R2950. Relationship on the hearth*

R2951. Not neglect*

R2952. Dick alternative?*

R2953. Double entendre, e.g., vis-à-vis jokes*

R2954. Homer Simpson was once his babe*

R2955. Too much’ll give you diabetes*

R2956. Kylo who’s not a great leader of men*

R2958. Where you may decide whether drawing is fun*

R2959. They have to be careful shifting gears*

R2960. Stockings style

R2961. Ignores one’s audience reactions*

R2962. In a wily way*

R2963. Birds fold them before laying eggs*

R2964. Breakfast, if you go to sugary extremes*

R2966. Fixed a shoe, as from toe mold*

R2968. He was in a space station in 2001, but not on Mir*

R2970. Genre for a typical Bieber bop*

R2973. Day care*

R2975. Second adversarial suppression*

R2976. Lay out from north to south*

R2978. Advice which a lot of celeb-written self-help boils down to*

R2979. Tire ___ (disaster)*

R2980. Keeps thinking about debts*

R2981. Controversial locale where you might see an ao dai*

R2983. Seeing to festivities*

R2986. Part of a comedian’s flow*

R2987. Head of a comic trio*

R2988. Alters so one endures*

R2989. More like Thriller, or feeling more chills*

R2990. Rampages*

R2991. Cells, e.g.*

R2992. Mondrian whose work was revolutionary, albeit repetitive*

R2993. Reporter Roker

R2994. Former West African capital

R2996. Steep*

R2998. Speed around the record player’s stem*

R2999. Georg with an electrical law

R3001. Kal-El’s cousin, before she gets to Terra*

R3003. It’ll take the low off your low, and hopefully not the high off your high*

R3004. “Few...___ few”*

R3006. Racks one’s minds

R3007. Get bent about*

R3008. Violent disarray*

R3009. Steers off course*

R3010. Swerves and switches gears*

R3011. Brand of dentistry?*

R3012. They played “You Were on My Mind” live*

R3014. Chinnies with certain clefts*

R3018. Used electricity to leave days*

R3019. With an equal number of years, all told*

R3020. Like an Arctic patroller*

R3021. Fish for an osprey*

R3022. Undelivered by the P.O.

R3023. Jeff in ELO*

R3024. Rule issued from le roi*

R3027. Motorsport chase

R3031. Ignore, as a qualified candidate in favor of some scrub*

R3033. More like acting that makes you feel clammier*

R3036. Their presence calms kids*

R3038. Middle X, say

R3039. Squawk sound*

R3040. David who creates movies like the last four Harry Potter films*

R3041. Getting ready to accompany some crooning*

R3042. Tries to make lose money for an offense*

R3043. Periods one repents excess*

R3044. Chicken ___ (soybean, canola, sunflower seed)*

R3045. “This is ___ hour”*

R3047. Enoch, Eve, or Elizabeth

R3049. Elevationizes*

R3050. “Make war ___!”*

R3051. She was unfortunate enough to be in Dionysius’ general sphere of influence*

R3053. Car that doesn’t rate*

R3054. Likely disengaged with the kids these days*

R3055. Soulless bulk*

R3056. Country great Bonnie*

R3057. Garment edges for femmes*

R3058. Freddy who was once called “the next Pele”*

R3059. Grover’s Street

R3061. Scott who said, “The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom”*

R3063. Grab*

R3064. Alternative nickname to Bob*

R3066. Soothes the souls of*

R3069. Scale that measures when antigens show*

R3071. Mudhole with many a buzzing fly*

R3072. Site of a “Thrilla”*

R3073. Nicolas who acts like he’s playing for the stage*

R3074. Wonder Woman portrayer Carter

R3075. Earlier (abbr.)

R3076. Cornrow alternative*

R3077. The owners might hire her for a commercial to promote Lidl*

R3079. Pos. played by Shaquille O’Neal

R3080. “Let me handle the situation”

R3081. Friend you want for exams but not parties?

R3086. Booze sent by post?

R3089. Where things go to form*

R3091. Feary-er?*

R3093. Party where you might do the wave*

R3095. Obstacle to a carrier*

R3098. Word form for “lizard”*

R3099. “Why don’t you ___ the land lies now?”*

R3101. Where the magic gets concentrated?

R3105. Envy my lack of commitments?

R3108. Agreement to pay more if profitable

R3110. Correct performers as needed*

R3111. Plug on your iPad*

R3112. Turns in the fire*

R3113. Hubbard whose “religion” is a con*

R3114. Cotton prepped for sale*

R3115. “Ain’t Too Proud ___” (Temptations hit)

R3116. His madness helped forge America*

R3117. Liar in my kitchen: those clothes are not ready for folding yet*

R3119. Sawbuck, to a Brit

R3121. “The whole world’s a bottle / and life’s but a ___ / when the bottle gets empty / it sure ain’t worth a damn” (Bob Dylan)*

R3123. Tre + tre*

R3124. 2018 judicial documentary*

R3126. Stuffy bigwig, e.g.*

R3128. Old concert venues with custodians*

R3130. Shout of malign greed*

R3131. Work behind the scenes*

R3132. Assistant Commissioner of Baseball Joe

R3133. Make pure*

R3134. With the staff, tool of God*

R3135. 78.75 deg.

R3136. Outlay agcy. for entrepreneurs*

R3137. Sea prisoner’s digs*

R3140. Being, in a legal way*

R3141. Inside-the-flower bits, in layman’s terms*

R3142. “Carl ___ Francais”*

R3143. Way to float*

R3144. Get destressed*

R3145. Stabler in performance*

R3146. Avoiding every eye*

R3147. “___ one jot”*

R3148. Crap from the public*

R3150. More optimistic and cozier*

R3152. Name now most popular among Dutch men*

R3154. Ferried*

R3157. Brood-on-brood battle*

R3159. First word of Camus’ The Stranger

R3160. Earlier generation of gods whom Zeus frightens*

R3161. Busey of Let’s Get Harry*

R3162. Type of session giving everyone their say*

R3163. Underbrush valued by the Knights Who Say “Ni!”

R3165. Barely viewed?*

R3167. Linemen near centers (abbr.)

R3169. It tracks activity in Canadian airspace by the kilorad*

R3171. Source of aerial egress in Copenhagen*

R3172. Utters, in the voice of a sixteenth-century essayist*

R3173. Lounge around in slacks*

R3174. Like those who rule*

R3175. They’re not okays*

R3176. Summed up on the figurative wall*

R3177. Slip in a store (abbr.)

R3178. Fords of the 1980s

R3179. Complainingly gab*

R3181. Stop toeing the line

R3183. Language for The Battle of Lora verse*

R3185. Shortest thirty-one-day period in France?*

R3186. Where Jacques trains to shoot deer*

R3188. Mumbai misters, these*

R3190. The alpha and omega of ballerina painters*

R3192. Animal Farm bigwigs*

R3193. Samey with boar meat*

R3194. Young beauty (var.)*

R3195. Fellow with a map of London*

R3196. Way to express the law of identity*

R3197. 1655, to the Holy See*

R3198. “How provocative! I’d screw ‘er!”*

R3200. Maui bird

R3201. Where to deposit new clothes*

R3205. Assents that should cleanse the soul*

R3206. It’s like the “skin” of a plant cell*

R3207. Address for a grandam*

R3208. Reason an angel can’t lay low*

R3209. Intergalactic distances (abbr.)

R3210. It’ll follow 999*

R3211. “Bah!”*

R3212. “Your choice”*

R3216. Really, er, more slithery*

R3218. One who can top and bottom (to be terse)*

R3220. Blues Brothers wear

R3223. Aliens’ autos*

R3225. #3 who was #1, in truth*

R3226. Na’ big*

R3227. Tests for postgrad wannabes*

R3228. Higher in cunning*

R3229. What a buggy laptop may get*

R3231. Where to go in a castle when the casualties are getting deep*

R3233. Words with which a Scot naysays*

R3235. NYC clock setting*

R3236. Comics professor who created Amazo*

R3237. Suffix with Planet, as in Captain Planet (cheers)*

R3238. Microunits*

R3239. “Aaron ___, Sir”*

R3240. House most concerned with learning and laws*

R3242. Ouchiest in mood*

R3246. More prominent rock on a hill*

R3247. Title for Penny Mordaunt, for short

R3249. He played an Aven’ner (aw, sue me)*

R3251. Al whose main character spent years avoiding “the marriage trap”*

R3253. GMC Terrain, e.g.

R3254. “I don’t have to go ___ / to know where you are” (Bob Dylan)*

R3256. Older pollywog*

R3258. Sgt. and cpl.

R3260. Hank who’s dominated a decades-old cartoon-voicing area*

R3262. “___ gold in them hills!” (Bring on the ore-cars!)*

R3263. Model Harvey with an entrepreneurial story*

R3264. It makes a cake look nicer*

R3265. Poor diplomat*

R3266. ___ Pro (Arctic Cat line)*

R3267. Significant feature

R3269. One who delivers bad news when company times are direr*

R3271. June 29, 2007, was when it was first shown*

R3273. Poor drainage area*

R3274. Guido with many Baroque paintings*

R3275. Down the sink, it’ll find a way no other fluid can*

R3276. Scrub hub*

R3277. Beauty parlor specialty

R3278. It’s rare in Earth’s highest stratum*

R3280. Scuba site*

R3282. Contented oneself not to be an owner*

R3284. Read out loud, e.g.*

R3286. One who accepts a book as a thought leader*

R3290. Like a jazz cat’s step*

R3291. “Pick ‘em off, Bowser!”*

R3292. Dead sailor...who never abandoned his post, e.g.*

R3293. Stimulating shots

R3295. Weapons the wise Splinter gave to the most hotheaded Turtle*

R3296. High school jrs. take these*

R3298. Kids hit them while their parents might sip piña coladas*

R3299. “It’s true,” to your chero*

R3300. Prone to slight*

R3303. Gaining control over, in a way

R3305. Teen queen wear that may be backless*

R3307. Web site for the film devotee*

R3308. After une mauvaise mort, part that goes into the flame*

R3309. Matt of morning television who lost all his power*

R3311. Fuel for a smart remark*

R3313. Marijuana, but briefer*

R3315. Workforce*

R3317. Review with one star, metaphorically*

R3318. One who considers most everyone else a slob*

R3320. Take most of, like a big dog*

R3322. Actress Long who’s “really not interested in leaning into this idea of perfection”*

R3323. There’s not that much cooking in their preparation*

R3324. Open-palmed thwap*

R3325. High-res, in terms of what’s seen*

R3326. It’s at the lower left of my console*

R3327. Plays with, as a cat does a toy*

R3328. Quest to find one’s thoughts?*

R3329. Old Austrian coins

R3330. Baby on day eight*

R3331. Mr. Bond’s first foe*

R3332. Hang-glide, e.g.*

R3333. Winningest coach in NCAA football history, as he was once named, before the scandal that made everyone go “nope...uh...nope”*

R3334. UAR country

R3335. “I’ll weigh that option”*

R3336. Ran roughshod*

R3337. Her place would make a neat-freak sob*

R3339. Sunni or Shia, in Islam, for short*

R3341. San ___ (Marin County seat)

R3343. Inclined to frown*

R3344. Circled the sun, e.g.

R3347. Who social workers work for*

R3349. Required perforce

R3351. Hoosegows with women’s and men’s sections*

R3353. One to keep and one to share, e.g.*

R3354. Belafonte song heard near cacao*

R3355. Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial: The ___ of the Raj*

R3357. Makes like boats*

R3358. Risk at a protest*

R3359. Conjoined through natural growth

R3360. It’s hardly the ark of Noah*

R3361. Mind from end to end*

R3362. Very long stories

R3363. Indian tree*

R3364. They took over from the tsars*

R3365. One you’d forbid from watching certain movies*

R3366. Say, 1946-1954*

R3369. Therapist gab, in brief*

R3371. Emotion after learning one’s grief was misplaced*

R3373. ___-eyed*

R3375. Address that’s the opposite of a slur*

R3376. Neighbor of S. Dak.

R3378. Like the fires infernal*

R3380. “There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves” speaker*

R3381. Beat up*

R3382. Buddy with a laid-back attitude*

R3383. Like your intentions, I’m sure*

R3384. “Not ‘lesser or greater chance’...I want a straight ___ no answer!”*

R3385. Vacay-planning site*

R3386. Member of Canada’s Upper House (abbr.)

R3387. Gave that advice

R3388. Borrow a move from King Kong?

R3391. Pedestrians walking at one mile an hour outside the New York City Fire Museum?

R3394. He still doesn’t realize that driving around town doesn’t affect his step-count, the moron?

R3399. What to say to Cicero, if you meet him*

R3400. Smack, part 2?*

R3402. As a verb, to describe or praise in succinct type*

R3404. Cook (when unused to cooking)*

R3406. They sometimes get stuck in seals’ noses*

R3408. Between dorsal and ventral*

R3411. The most awkward time of day to resign*

R3412. News that the Wi-Fi center escaped the bullets?

R3415. What makes sure a wood waste area doesn’t flood?

R3420. Like one you’d most want to cheer up*

R3423. “But that thou overheard’st, ___ I was ‘ware...”*

R3424. Rosh Hashanah follows it

R3425. “Ave Maria” from Otello, e.g.*

R3426. Attempt to jar the human machine back into operation*

R3427. Like dark matter theory, when you think about it*

R3428. Mine and Eisenhower’s, e.g.*

R3429. “Did it ever dawn ___ you…”*

R3430. Exceed the scheduled date*

R3431. Orbit of our sphere*

R3433. Detached, in music (abbr.)

R3435. Prelude to a soup burp*

R3437. Like the path of an arrow*

R3439. Gets marked with brown dots*

R3441. Does it mean “great”? Hai*

R3442. Manhattan-based .edu*

R3444. Mountain guide whose knowledge reaches most far*

R3446. Golfer Michelle who’s a recent retiree*

R3447. Denial of every route of access*

R3448. “Mea ___” (ulp, a problem I created)*

R3449. Walter who was shot*

R3450. “And on this farm, he had a doe” follower*

R3451. Very heart

R3452. Operative’s expedition

R3457. See to descry*

R3458. Stylishly clothed bods*

R3459. How a Marine gives you a “yes”*

R3460. They’re about 12/7 the size of grams*

R3461. They’re way smaller than tenths*

R3462. Star Wars’ Owen*

R3463. Looking like the recipient of a rough ride*

R3464. With fewer distortions*

R3466. Thai alternative*

R3468. Tangle a thread

R3470. Wise-assed*

R3472. Driver on Dyer Ave.*

R3474. Gets less like the proverbial rose gardens*

R3477. Lead-in to plume or guerre

R3478. About 44% of nonantigens?*

R3479. Angry moments full of kicks and hits*

R3480. Pointillists use lots*

R3481. Resist entropy*

R3482. They’re sometimes vestidas como avocados*

R3483. Perching a dictionary on your lap, e.g.*

R3486. Third shot of story*

R3488. Gp. fighting a donkey*

R3489. “Hah! Pfah!”*

R3491. Org. that keeps our sea free*

R3493. Puff ___: Little blow there*

R3495. A statistician vests trust in them*

R3497. When autumn leaves look gray*

R3499. Rap nickname somehow less dated than “ill”*

R3500. Philip Wylie character

R3502. Less sophisticated

R3504. 2005 Rookie-of-the-Year power forward Emeka

R3505. Crimson

R3508. Early online communication std. one may use for a passkey*

R3513. Cop ___ Half (first role for Amanda Seales)*

R3517. GWTW surname

R3522. Ending with poet

R3526. Korean fighters

R3530. Texter’s “Who can say?”*

R3533. Punish, rugby-style*

R3537. Where the olives are*

R3539. Th : ___ :: z : zeds*

R3541. Way to raise money by walking*

R3543. Catering to the so-bad-it’s-good niche*

R3545. “Everyone loves Magical Trevor, the tricks that he does are ___ so clever”*

R3547. Sent “next day,” perhaps*

R3550. Not mein, ihr, es, ihres, or dein*

R3551. Crowd-pleaser Romero*

R3556. Tehrani, e.g.*

R3561. “We got punch! Take ___, then try the dip!”*

R3565. JFK regulator*

R3568. They could cause an ozone-eroding breeze*

R3572. Host for a fusion of word-game and roulette (are vowels red or black?)*

R3576. Popular show recorder

R3577. WWE rival

R3578. “Leaving now!”*

R3579. Exclamation when surprise makes one lose control*

R3581. Recompenses

R3583. He defeated T’Challa

R3584. First surviving work of French literature

R3587. FBI director’s term

R3590. Assign new meaning*

R3592. Start of a German signoff*

R3594. Loss on a massive scale*

R3596. He’ll get you a table for three*

R3598. He’s played around with Fran, Nan, Ann, and Dan*

R3600. They make hard water hard

R3602. Happy-go-lucky

R3605. Rival of a Mav*

R3606. Golden Gate City inst. of learning

R3607. “Stubborn minds are never free”*

R3612. Rock with concentric markings

R3614. Lingering optical illusions

R3616. P, as pronounced by a czar*

R3619. Backup in case of a collapsing economic curve*

R3621. “Let’s put a pin in that to revisit”*

R3625. In a furious state*

R3627. Precedent for UVWXYZ*

R3628. Salary-schedule paper trail*

R3629. Certain song on stage

R3630. Sched for myriad checks*

R3631. “Put another way...”*

R3632. Solaria with more soil*

R3633. Muggle-beaters*

R3634. Birds dimly resembling pratincoles*

R3635. One laying it on thick

R3636. Spotters from the skies*

R3637. Rapprochement offered by a cognoscente*

R3638. Remedies unfairnesses*

R3639. ___ questions: not seek to know*

R3640. It’s best sung in “gay apparel”*

R3641. Prog. guises as seen by ordinary guys*

R3642. Visual composers who like to fool the eye

R3643. Give a flat performance in*

R3644. Helping at a buffet

R3645. Collector (or klepto, to be crasser)*

R3646. Spottier*

R3647. John with a colossal collection of Emmys*

R3648. Mariners battle there*

R3649. Bad response when a performer tries for pathos*

R3650. The right ones make people feel like princesses*

R3651. Distress calls ships may raise*

R3652. They look like metal dusts*

R3653. “___ Beso”*

R3654. Widemouthed vases, or so they look to viewers*

Down

R1. Words are separated by it in some crosswords (like the B section)*

R2. Detectives with their HQ in D.C.

R3. Attacked like a bat*

R4. Weights with sleepiness*

R5. “Why is a raven like a bulldozer?,” e.g.*

R6. Actress Terrans Moran and Moriarty*

R7. Coffee order with an egg*

R8. Funny ___ (counterfeiting)*

R9. Regret through and through*

R10. “Like it ___, this is what we got”*

R11. Start of the “you kill, you die” principle*

R12. Likelier to make people expire or surrender*

R13. Equip to harm*

R14. Giant hotshot*

R15. Like a capsule report*

R16. Exceptional person, or gift for them*

R17. Stick out like ___ thumb

R18. What the R stands for, in directions

R19. One with a zero score on every test*

R20. ___ Teenage Exocolonist (game)

R21. Consciousness gap*

R22. Band with antiwar “Fortunate Son” and “Run Through the Jungle”*

R23. [hard-pressed] “Is this ___ of faith, Lord?”*

R24. Turn-of-the-century Puccini opera

R25. It’s like a deep squeak*

R26. Without ___: nonchalant and debonair*

R27. [holds out phone] “I’m not the one they want to talk to”*

R28. Emergency key on one’s desk*

R29. Film with a “Nature made me a freak. Man made me a weapon. And God made it last too long” slogan*

R30. Stern end of west?*

R31. With “That’s,” song parodied in “When the moon hits your knees / and you mispronounce trees / Sycamore”*

R32. Albrecht known for purer attention to detail than his rivals*

R33. Damns with no praise*

R34. Shade on a sailor man*

R35. Golden statuette

R36. They act dignified enough to be presidents*

R37. Make ___: present an argument for Facebook to host*

R38. Not he, they, or xie*

R39. Guard*

R40. Sorry, ___ (award-winning Web series)*

R41. International Olympics chief Jacques

R42. “Birds,” “curds,” “thirds,” and “Kurds,” e.g.*

R43. Hero of Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Lie”*

R44. Thank him for most classic Looney Toons voices*

R45. What the R stands for, on tampons

R46. Indian isle rich in Portuguese history

R47. Giving an aggressive stare*

R48. Molded or sculpted

R49. Capital of ancient Assyria

R50. Where it’s said Americans will come up if they assign a drill deep enough*

R51. R&B artist who’s “So Sick” (hey-o)*

R52. Theme restaurant where two hundred screens were shown*

R53. Chief ingredient in some Sunday fare*

R54. “Tu” in “et tu?”*

R55. SPCA pt.

R56. Captain Underpants refrain (ha!)*

R57. $88 for a quarter-page, say*

R58. Abrader

R59. Lighters’ fluid concentrations*

R60. Stunners*

R61. Modern brain scan, briefly

R62. A service has this when it’s not free*

R63. What the R stands for, in Japanese cartoons (they often get electrocuted like a socket)*

R64. Forty percent of smart modems?*

R65. Policy revising how, and how much, hospitalized people pay*

R66. Make want to bolt*

R67. “___ evil…”

R68. Thing the R stands for, in old church inscriptions*

R69. Groups of singers

R70. Prom queen’s wear, along with mascara*

R71. Fasten it around your newborn*

R72. Serpentine…or fluent in a common computer code

R73. Meshes like gears*

R74. ___ work (guaranteed)

R75. You may get it from a grinding device*

R76. Blast-furnace nozzle

R77. Underground explosions

R78. They’re buried in some reads*

R79. Way to serve shrimp that’s not so low in heat*

R80. What the ® stands for

R81. ___ Mad, Mad…

R83. Drop like a stone in the box office*

R84. Winston, in Time Bandits

R85. Samsung’s auditory beam that could replace headphones someday*

R86. Pharyngeal tissue at the back of nasal voids*

R87. Neoclassicist who painted the fresco “Parnassus”

R88. Impossible to worm out of*

R89. It used to be “as much as one could rake or plow in a day”*

R90. What the R stands for, on calendars

R91. Over, to Puccini*

R92. I am unable to go there because it’s Thailand now*

R93. Xia, alternately*

R94. One who used to help put high-level criminals away*

R95. Cables that make sure your TV plays*

R96. Just powder in the wind, as the Bible puts it*

R97. “___fiesta!” (It’s a party!)*

R98. Sweet people in one’s social spheres*

R100. Largest motorsports-sanctioning org. today*

R101. Useful piece when playing Dungeons and Dragons*

R103. Deal made on Wall Street*

R104. “La la la” alternative*

R106. Autocrat who managed the Crimean war*

R107. Magically vexed*

R109. Like a whelp*

R110. Hebrew letter before koph

R112. Caesar, when he offered treasure to the rebellious Gauls*

R113. Star of the convoy*

R115. What the R stands for, in this section

R116. Part of MIT’s grad class*

R119. #36 on its list was The Bridge on the River Kwai*

R121. Waver between choosing this or them*

R123. Female you take shears to*

R125. Three times, to a druggist

R126. Denial that’s loud and slow*

R133. Incendiary device using furry fliers (never used, but seriously developed in World War II)

R135. Band whose “Freak on a Leash” sounds forlorn*

R139. Turns whitish because of fungus

R144. Jim Croce called him “The baddest man in the whole damn town”*

R148. Memory-jogging binders, e.g.*

R153. Nobleman in Calcutta

R155. Chet “the Threat,” e.g.*

R158. Pertaining to the universe

R160. Short-tailed weasels

R175. Provided with temporarily

R177. Destinations, in brief, from some wrecked cars*

R181. It’ll hear*

R182. Very bankable Grant*

R183. MXXX divided by V

R184. Paddle near shore*

R186. Mama Soprano (trivia!)*

R187. Implied words after “learn to drive”

R189. “What annoys ___ you don’t even CARE...”

R192. Battle site between many a fellow, herr, and homme*

R194. Expels from chests*

R196. Mean Idi*

R197. 1953 film character created by Dr. Seuss*

R198. Use light burning to smear*

R200. Porsche of the Bush era*

R202. Carves on, as the walls of caves*

R204. Color of the nighttime Loire*

R206. There’s none for the public-domain Left Shark*

R208. Wail at a great volume*

R209. Takes a turn for the worse

R210. Socrates and Plato, abbreviated

R211. In his self-named film, he kills an inspector*

R212. Albert who broke ground for cognitive behavioral therapy

R213. Do another stint

R214. German “she”*

R215. Doesn’t listen to, as bores*

R216. Div. with membership that decreased when the Pirates left*

R217. “Discussion” that ends in “ow!”*

R218. Tax day’s paper swarms*

R219. Wearing hair curls that beautifully explode*

R220. Finsen and Bohr honored by Nobel for their achievements and ideals*

R221. Exertion to place within*

R222. Note for note*

R223. Add bin to observe faraway objects (but not stars)*

R224. Bit of kibble*

R225. Istanbul influencers (var.)

R226. Trinket likely worn by a fraud*

R227. “Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers” series, for short*

R228. Calls it quits*

R229. Possessive in many church halls*

R230. What a planet-eater absorbs*

R231. Lincoln famous for his dad*

R232. They say “Yes” despite their wedding dresses*

R233. Make metal smooth as healthy fur*

R235. Nymphs often in triads*

R236. Rate of getting from place to place*

R237. Happy expression that’ll make your skin crawl*

R238. Puts back into the clay oven

R239. First words in literary schemas*

R240. Short acronym for alt-sexuality*

R241. BWI stat

R242. “Sur-r-r-r-re, anyone’d believe that...no sweat”*

R243. Domestic establishments

R244. Imbued*

R245. ___-foot oil

R246. Tally how much one’s had*

R247. Rapper-actor that Idlewild and ATL employ*

R248. Heartbeat-hastening hormone (var.)

R249. Tree dweller that inflates like it’s about to explode*

R251. “___ Believer” (‘60s hit)

R252. Seven-piece puzzles

R253. Paths by which one guns for a goal and avoids obstacles*

R254. Included in

R255. Don’t try to find the rational part of this speech: you can’t*

R256. Foiled food-pack often including many a pea*

R257. Social circle growing*

R259. “Our attendance is like, whoa”*

R261. His show includes an “Investors may get back less than invested…” disclaimer*

R263. Evergreen without sticks, see?*

R264. Dynasts deposed by the bearers of red stars*

R269. Pythonic or like Christ imagery*

R278. They’re like less-loopy phis*

R279. Tried to sate oneself*

R280. Descendants through a genuine strain*

R282. “Why would you say that out loud?! Why?!”*

R283. Light from very far*

R284. Dots in the game of Life*

R285. Never a POTUS, but he was important to mid-20th c. politics nonetheless*

R286. Heeds the will of another*

R287. Sandwich now found in a candy store*

R288. “Never Have ___”*

R289. Calls to golfers who’ve gone before*

R290. “In the manner indicated by us…”*

R291. Beginning to ward off poisons?

R293. ___ metabolic rate

R294. Unit of saltpetre*

R295. Leers, e.g.*

R297. “In order to ___ more perfect union...”

R299. Sault ___ Marie

R301. Earnings at the end of the day*

R302. “Uh-huh” retort*

R304. Refuses to stay solid*

R305. Queen whose country had a small Dead Sea shore*

R306. He’ll echo insurance information onscreen*

R307. Brother of Qusay Hussein*

R308. Little sip*

R310. Cut short*

R311. Stephen of V for Vendetta*

R312. City whose name you might hear in a German lesson*

R313. Solid part of a cranial scan*

R315. Halliwell who sang with Scary*

R317. DeSantis I’d rather not dwell on*

R323. Las’ preceders, at Christmastime*

R326. Making big crosswords for me and swimming for a tetra*

R328. Slowly advances

R332. ___ luna (a moon)*

R335. Housewife Guidice compared to Lisa Linna*

R336. They top some fro-yos*

R337. Tool to prod*

R341. Plato’s 3-D norms*

R342. Song with “My empire of dirt”*

R343. Loosens, as tight squeezes*

R345. In suspense*

R346. Furry fella in the water*

R348. Gas truck or toy gas truck (hopefully, only the latter ones make a mess)

R349. Where your birds may give you pats*

R351. Peg alternative?*

R353. Knowledge-worker groups with a nose for best practices, for short*

R354. Rickman who did helium with Fallon*

R355. Worrilessly greet the day*

R357. Opted not to forgo that action*

R358. Statement made when falling out of line?*

R360. What my laptop supply, after a few hours, requires*

R361. Putting this TV character’s hair in a headband started a real-life fashion trend*

R363. Source of high-school unease*

R364. Leave other choices dropped*

R365. “Eh, whatever”*

R366. Put last letter first, and so on

R369. ___ Z: through and through*

R370. Don’t engage, as if paranoid*

R371. Ceases to hold*

R372. Prepare slices of*

R373. Fisher who’s not a reeler*

R376. She and her fellows may camp out*

R378. ___ ___: ___ caught

R379. 4x4 vehicle

R380. Anagnostopoulos of Nat Geo*

R381. “Geometry is the study of lines, points, and planes. Tajik is a pilot, so he flies planes. Therefore, Tajik is a geometer,” e.g.*

R382. “It’s all good in the ___”*

R383. ___-dieu: kneeler

R384. Wear for puddly routes*

R386. God who looks like a goat-man*

R387. Brooklyn Bridge-sellers*

R388. Deadly, large-scale pyres*

R389. Beats with clogs*

R391. Do what Muslims do five times a day*

R392. “Annabel Lee” monogram*

R393. Trio of letters in an auto museum*

R394. Bruins legend Bobby and family and spores*

R395. Wounded or dead revolution-starter*

R396. Put the car between either white mark*

R397. Ready five minutes ago*

R398. Hit for Whitney Houston (Bryan Adams too)*

R400. Adjective that, to Trump, means “treating me as royal”*

R401. “Hi, big ___!”*

R402. Aspiring app developer in college, probably

R404. Without delay*

R405. ___-Team (TV a child of the Eighties remembers)*

R407. Raises the stakes

R409. First name in dognapping

R411. Utter chaos

R412. Subject of a stage preview*

R413. Intangible qualities

R414. Element that breaks down toxins

R416. Red fox of medieval lore

R417. “Goofball fun” or “disgraceful indignities”…well, it’s a question of semantics*

R418. Strip with Foreign Legionnaires telling stock jokes*

R420. Governor Andrew who mocked the “MAGA” promo*

R421. Much bigger monster than The Sopranos’ Tony*

R423. Where you’d get multiple choices to define “voix celeste” or “chanson de geste”*

R424. Notes after treble clefs*

R425. Boy band who did “Girl on TV” live from Orlando

R426. Not merely deep

R428. Potential intoxicants rendered on tattoo sleeves*

R429. If you’re in the 1960s, it’s the reason why your TV reception appears*

R430. Manhattan “monsieur”*

R431. Where Sam becomes Frodo’s squire*

R432. Desire that may unexpectedly emerge*

R433. Like a sassmouth squirt*

R434. ___ eyes: supply me with descriptions*

R435. He gave us a flurry of info about deuterium*

R436. Where’ll his Walking Dead spinoff series go? There’ll probably be more zombies (written 8/12/23)*

R437. What TiVo or ReplayTV are*

R438. Jinx-preventing words after “Everything seems good”*

R439. Wilson whose Office character overestimates his own brain*

R440. Bug likely to encroach on your home*

R441. For the right price, they’ll do wetworks*

R442. Enjoy one’s surroundings without focusing on a task*

R443. Fab Genesis album of 1981*

R446. Broker who combines securities from multiple buy or sell orders

R447. Space Ghost, on Space Ghost Coast to Coast*

R449. Ali fought Liston in 1965…how’d that go?*

R450. Places for babies to see the streets*

R451. Chinese religion follower (but not a Maoist)*

R452. Demons that could provoke you by calling you wimps or simps*

R454. Lifetime achievement award for Sammy Davis, Jr., 2001*

R455. Associate, e.g.*

R456. Girl-watching

R458. Gal ___*

R459. Feel not so hale*

R460. Back of the seacraft*

R461. Birds whose sight discerns prey ashore (var.)*

R462. Extracts, mathematically*

R464. Tennis games with fast paces*

R465. Pup who needs mom’s help*

R466. Principal Skinner who could be more enlightened*

R468. “Respondez, s’il-vous-___”*

R469. “Whence?” answer*

R470. Plato in Rebel Without a Cause

R471. Cover for socks*

R473. Grossed-out verbal mix*

R474. Blob*

R475. Like info a floppy’d have, often*

R477. Venetian bigwig, once

R478. Galoshing*

R480. Corporate shake-ups, briefly

R481. Mideast ruler once

R485. It’s reddish on a common nightingale*

R486. LTD parallel*

R487. Look askance*

R488. Results of a programmer’s whoops*

R489. Dip ___ in the flow*

R490. Sofer from the daytime-TV arena*

R491. Church decoration

R492. Turner who got with Tina and Barinholtz who worked with Wanda Sykes*

R493. Time organizers to keep in yer heads*

R494. Norse goddess who gets you after the death knell*

R495. Suffix with adverb

R496. Time memorably spent*

R497. Satiric points

R498. Their meat’s served with jams*

R499. “While I’m doing ___ a thing that’s necessary” (Li’l Abner lyric)*

R500. They’re hot as lavas at a diner*

R501. They etch figure eights*

R503. Medium for business details*

R504. Whinnying birds in marsh floras*

R506. Dog in many a Wizard of Oz set photo*

R507. Attractively, to a born participator*

R508. Purchase to color your garage floor a faint blue*

R510. Emotion when somebody misidentifies Luke Skywalker’s age*

R511. Evolutionary period on Terra*

R512. Format fed by WordPress*

R514. His Impish Fruit resembles a harp*

R515. “Your health,” when you want a drink*

R517. Belle portrayer

R518. Part of a two-singer set*

R520. Southern pod veggie

R521. Take responsibility for

R522. Flatters unctuously

R524. ___ brasileño (Brazilian gold)

R525. Not fully attentively*

R526. News bit from a supermarket tabloid

R527. Storage for cigars*

R528. Like a Christmas tree, perhaps

R529. Pay two large without using bills*

R531. Friends star Aniston, as some called her then*

R532. Gets lunch for the meeting, say

R534. Suppressor of a peaceful protest*

R535. Stare in the eye and say “No, you move”*

R540. Ft. Worth neighbor

R543. Kepler’s word for Earth*

R547. Loan pmt.

R551. Help for those who lose their place*

R554. They’re rarely at the front of the litter*

R555. Fish with shocking appeal*

R556. Jolly Parton*

R558. Subtle meaning

R559. Like an old, abandoned, overgrown auto chassis*

R560. Successful inventors

R564. ___ Can Cook*

R565. Smell in a trench*

R566. Finished as a grid*

R567. ___ d’Oro Cigars*

R568. Sites of “sau-nas”*

R569. Sonic reflection, as “…secco” after “prosecco”*

R570. Don’t start by putting it in front of the horse*

R571. Trumpy

R572. Container for parrots of age*

R574. How early Beatles songs were recorded

R575. Tanning to well done, hopefully*

R576. Occurred to

R577. It’s heard in the treetops*

R578. Recollection of some old concupiscence*

R579. He wrote Bambi

R580. Saint also called “Saul”*

R582. “Vous etes ___” (sign ye see on a Parisian mall map)*

R583. Baggier*

R586. Prepare for adulthood in this sphere*

R587. Attends to raisins’ pre-drying needs*

R590. Maybe not good yet, but fair*

R592. Heavy hitter, even with its edge*

R594. “___ hooks”: cargo caution*

R596. Facial hair mainstream stylish in the 1970s, despite its trash connotations today*

R597. Get restarted*

R598. Like some bonds (abbr.)

R599. Umpire’s shouts*

R600. Sniper’s tutor, e.g.*

R601. As up as up can get, with nothing to do but drop*

R602. Fraternity to which Alfred Kinsey and Benjamin Spock belonged (apply now!)*

R603. ARPA, currently*

R604. Dragonball Z and Ranma ½, e.g.

R605. Largest religious sect

R606. Prepared state

R607. With great sorrow

R609. Birch who got her award for a performance in 1988*

R611. Reggae’s pa*

R614. Sound made when planes soar*

R615. Smuggles, as guns*

R617. It looks like a sail over the phone*

R618. He Who sacrificed*

R619. Thrash soundly, as with a club*

R620. People of Tartu

R621. States extra info in the footnotes*

R622. Game where someone playing a bard may bring a real harp*

R623. Helps others learn about restaurants

R624. Activity post-fiesta*

R626. He’ll shoot when the time is riper*

R627. Second continent to use the stirrup*

R628. Fear its giant squawk*

R629. Springsteen’s song about his ghost starts on the railroad*

R630. In wills, they get shares*

R631. Way who starred as frontman of My Chemical Romance

R632. Big name in the academic scene*

R633. Madlyn who was in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*

R634. Yellow-fever mosquito

R635. Ended up on top*

R637. With The, video game series with many Scandinavian-esque roles*

R639. Be torn between sorrow and not wanting to forget*

R640. Sometimes, unpredictably

R641. Patton of A.P. Bio

R642. Listen to again to make sure it’s clear*

R643. “Has ___ else done this?”*

R644. Jazz trumpet sound that’s opposite of a hurrah*

R645. Cries of agreement*

R647. “___ out?” (question next to a roulette spinner)*

R648. Tawny cat whom a mountain elk flees*

R649. Pal who know me*

R650. ___-up: whip to standing position*

R651. Ray who seems to have done every design project imaginable*

R652. Green Mountains town with lots of snow*

R653. Break up for another planting flow*

R654. It’s designed for fast-moving video*

R655. Of a fast time?

R656. Roughed up, as a game character*

R657. Work history year by year*

R658. Extinct flying reptile

R660. Summoning device tapped remotely by its engager*

R662. 1990s TV series title that was also a phone number

R667. Get intense

R668. Wind in the Willows character who spends a lot of time in goblin mode*

R669. ___ la Paix

R670. Cirque du Soleil performer

R671. “It’s ___” (any venue’s better than none

R672. They’re each other’s ever and always*

R673. Source of a Mark 3*

R674. Places to pay certain motorists’ fees*

R676. “His heart was caught,” in a classical language*

R677. Notable person

R678. “Born is the king of Israel” song*

R679. Tenth from the scythe*

R680. Showed to work*

R681. Kept up with current events?

R682. Pas ___ (solo dance)

R683. Ugly duckling, later on*

R684. Through no past, present, or future endeavor*

R685. Fed, likely

R689. Professional figurer who’ll survey records*

R691. “They made me do it!”*

R692. Consigns to being losses*

R693. Beehive State sports recruits*

R694. Secret Service police’s wear*

R695. Letters signifying quality brandy*

R696. Pregnancy isn’t the key part of their life plan

R697. One, few, or many*

R698. For whom a sitter sits

R700. Elvis and 007 liked this weapon that’s mostly gray*

R701. Source of MAX GO*

R703. There’s seemingly nothing it can’t climb on*

R704. Mineral that’s whiter than most*

R705. It tells you when you bend*

R706. Finding a 1990s-model recorder, e.g.*

R707. Hypoallergenic laundry brand

R708. Role in Chicago Shakespeare*

R709. OT prophet or book

R710. Ignitable*

R712. Thomas Hobbes work

R713. Today was my day to learn this means “ocean breeze that often brings mist”*

R717. Cinema ___, film style

R720. Scent of a marathon coder*

R730. Chinese drinks*

R736. The best kind of it is the kind you can’t spy onscreen*

R738. Grim-sounding part of a tourney*

R739. Site of many a casino*

R740. The future’s got her ear*

R743. Nureyev or Friml

R744. Holes that might spit out your future corpse*

R745. Heir apparent, though darn it, he’ll probably always be known as “the kid” when the comic strip’s named after his dad*

R747. Wavy pool next to potatoes*

R748. Rap on the door*

R754. Mangy fur is the least of his faults*

R755. Firing up*

R756. Evidence from a laptop, e.g.

R757. 4,132-mile river*

R758. Royce’s collaborator

R759. Defeat*

R760. Carpe ___ (paradoxically, this doesn’t mean capture your days so much as free ‘em)*

R761. Infused foods

R767. ___ Last Song: Tolkien’s non-prose LOTR coda*

R769. Auntie’s mate

R770. Where grape juice comes from*

R771. Ball’s partner

R772. Met by a horde of enemies*

R774. Birds-feather connector

R775. What a lorry won’t go over, if your driving’s superb*

R777. What rugs may turn into, if not rags*

R778. Increasingly prevalent, as life or strife

R779. Heidi on America’s Got Talent qualified to judge your costume*

R782. Org. acting as a currency ref*

R783. It’s played on a gondola*

R785. Three, to Jose*

R786. They make you weary

R787. Unit of gravity*

R789. Picture of Bart or “Girl with a Pearl Earring”*

R790. Cartoony sign of surprise*

R791. They’re each about 100,000 volts*

R792. Stairmaster steps*

R793. Savory part of a jewelry business*

R794. Advocacy group’s cause

R795. Not mes or tes*

R796. Nation especially protective of the Quran*

R797. African country whose name is contained in the name of its southern neighbor

R798. Stare that’s sour*

R799. Said, “The blade was serrated” over images showing the blade as serrated, e.g.*

R800. It grants access if you work hard*

R801. “Blank” tabula follower

R802. Bear with what others decide*

R803. What Holmes called Watson (but he didn’t mean it like THAT, we’re…pretty sure)*

R804. The bus stops here (abbr.)

R805. Old producer of the Magna Doodle

R806. “We do not consider ___…of ice cream to be a single serving” (Jerry Greenfield)

R807. ___ Pieces*

R808. Beverage brewed from petal debris*

R809. Flavorful bark

R810. Pate ___ foie gras*

R811. Fix a snarl of yarn*

R812. Bigger level of exactitude*

R813. Got violently sick

R814. Understand well enough to perhaps later agree*

R815. What doors neither open nor closed are*

R817. Talk of the town?

R818. Slowed one to a stop with a word*

R819. Be wary of leaving too quickly*

R820. Ancient Mariner’s tale of his crime*

R821. Friend and ex of Andi Mack’s Cyrus*

R824. Site of ancient games

R826. Be up by five, say

R827. Barbecue setting

R829. Construct quickly

R830. Common show time (abbr.)

R831. Man-purse*

R832. Tools for fruit preparers*

R833. Profs’ degrees*

R834. Claptrap*

R836. “Shut your mouth and stop talking!”

R837. “Unstoppable” singer who used to be a singer in Crisp*

R843. Civil endings, in London

R844. “Accuser” who’s thrown in with Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy*

R845. Aphid that’ll allow its namesake to “milk” it*

R847. Periods spent in jobs, in good careers*

R849. Place of your birth*

R850. Response to Honeymooners bickering*

R851. “Listen!” in the Dark Ages*

R852. Place where one eats by the strength of one’s arm*

R853. He finds your tastes crude*

R855. Gets hard*

R857. Alter in size (and sometimes detail), as a photo

R859. Positions miles from anyone*

R862. Words of defiance

R863. “___? ___? The word has lost all meaning” (Friends quote about foodstuffs that probably didn’t make it to Bartlett’s)*

R864. “___ all else fails…”

R865. Guys named Cooper, Stone, and Stallone*

R866. Illustration sometimes on plural walls*

R870. What’s rarer thanks to spellcheck*

R873. Margaret who took the crossword art far*

R874. Sandra Day, Your Honor*

R875. Authorities of college days*

R877. Sauce for a chip*

R878. Shout to the roadside*

R879. Vehicles at shopping marts*

R881. Schmo who’s never read a book*

R883. Colorful Fruit of the loom creations

R885. Short vid from a longer film strip*

R887. Allegorical, with a thematic summary at the end

R888. Title for Pogo’s Miz ___ Hepzibah *

R889. Military depots

R891. Yellowish reds in florals*

R892. Wii icon*

R894. Spec rarely found in car clocks

R895. ___ effect on (impacts)

R896. Blade hooked to a motor*

R899. Suffix for hip or hoop*

R901. Tendency to gain weight*

R903. ___ favor*

R905. Bad, dude!*

R906. Kiss and caress in London fog*

R909. Charge (in) uninvited*

R910. Empire’s composition in “Hurt”*

R911. He gets a new weapon in Infinity War*

R912. One a fan squad’ll emulate*

R917. Venetian’s neighbor about an hour from a Mantuan*

R918. 1950s tough-guy actor Ray

R919. Sibilance in dog training

R920. Doping or not, he’s still remembered like a modern baseball god*

R921. All-Star Williams once on the Utah Jazz*

R922. Pole to toss to the side that’s not your neighbor*

R924. “That is frustrating!”*

R927. Sound after a magician’s goof*

R929. “Wh” as in “wham,” e.g.*

R931. Fill another cup, so to speak, in an employment contract*

R933. Curtail, as a verb*

R934. It purred on roads from 1955 to 2005 or so*

R936. Substance often lit in glass*

R937. Sunday spots for LeClarques

R938. Asthma acronym for med-school grads*

R939. Troubles one knows*

R940. It’s small, but it can make you infirm*

R942. Popular PCs*

R945. Dolly chartin’*

R946. They’re usually later for crime shows and reports of actual crimes*

R948. Notes found at RRs*

R950. Write again*

R951. Objects in them may be closer than they appear to leerers*

R952. Need a pitch? It’s Romeo and Juliet meets Prince of Egypt*

R953. Bollywood “Villain of the Millennium” in Khandaan, Be-Imaan, and Don*

R954. Zirconium and titanium found on shores, e.g.*

R955. Unrhymable World War I site

R957. Greek prefix for “sacred”

R959. Cry to replenish the store*

R961. Dogs that, as their name implies, are barriers to vermin*

R963. Equipment to get snaps of stars, for short*

R966. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” duo singing since 1981…that’s a lot of years*

R968. Liberally

R970. Skyrim and Secret of Mana are two of these*

R971. Repeat often enough to obliterate any doubt about*

R973. Instrument an amateur may play alongside a viola*

R974. Focused, neither macroscopic nor microscopic*

R975. Tattier*

R977. Cut-___ (shorts he easily doffs)*

R979. 1948-founded org. with less than three dozen member states*

R980. They’d like to open doors for the cause on the table*

R981. Unit used in electromagnetism

R982. Where Muslims plan policy*

R984. Charts a path, in the naval force*

R986. Charge more per slices, e.g.*

R988. “I ___ Little Prayer” (1967 hit)

R990. Happy cat or “happy” engine

R992. Trims, as crops*

R994. Isle of Man male or female*

R996. Hollywood investment

R999. Darn rustic shelter*

R1000. Place to shop smart*

R1001. Baby tram*

R1003. Not done yet, as goals*

R1004. Volume unit for a ferry*

R1005. Sounds on busy routes*

R1006. He played the best-known aquatic hero who isn’t Noah*

R1007. ColecoVision commercial “Sorry, ___”*

R1008. “___-dodger!”*

R1011. Sunset equivalent to mass or intercession*

R1012. “No idea what the answer could be”*

R1013. Campus program of general assembly?*

R1014. Sign of getting older, but it’s hard to complain about the discounts it gets*

R1015. He dedicated a tapestry to John Lennon alongside Yoko Ono*

R1016. Game played in many Westerns (no, not bow and arrow)*

R1017. Brings piles of agita to*

R1018. Subject of polemics about art versus plagiarism*

R1021. Open-mouthed call, if you speak Phoenician*

R1023. Skin lead-in

R1025. “Rrrrr…”*

R1027. Arm or heart of, perhaps*

R1029. Record collector’s curio

R1031. Grasp that’ll never slip*

R1034. Some would-be parents’ options*

R1035. Like the Saw story*

R1037. Became not one, but two at heart*

R1040. Graphics showing data’s uncertainties

R1043. “___ his own worst enemy”*

R1045. Reformed churl in the title of an NBC sitcom*

R1046. Purer of knowledge*

R1047. Letterforms on NIN and Go-Gos albums*

R1048. A panacea is one, because it’s not a reality*

R1051. Seeming ready to keel over*

R1053. He, Alvin, and Theodore, escape some caiman in their first movie after being forced to dance for primitive natives (it, uh, hasn’t aged well)*

R1055. Water-light, like the kingdom of Herod*

R1057. Half of an early Nobel-sharing pair*

R1059. Grabs, as a crook*

R1061. “Ho ho ho ho ho!”, on Discord*

R1063. Ellen with many acting awards lauded first in The Last Picture Show*

R1065. Cells’ signal strength ranges from -3 to -11*

R1066. Breathing trouble that left China with emotional scars*

R1067. “Ha! I’m a ___ and I don’t even know it”*

R1069. Seeing and calling the plays*

R1071. Price to ride by land, sea, or air*

R1074. Gets a fix on the future*

R1075. Sounds from someone about to blow out their schnozz*

R1076. Short name omitting -imer*

R1077. Far from fuzzy, for short

R1078. Once again put on heat (high)*

R1079. Condemned to anxious texting, e.g.*

R1081. Cousin of a night heron

R1082. “Stress stinks” brand

R1084. Her “Wrecking Ball” caught on like a virus*

R1086. McIlroy who’s covered himself in golfing glory*

R1088. Put one’s stamp on, as a deal*

R1090. Walkabout director Nicolas once in vogue*

R1092. If the city is a sidewalk, it’s the curb*

R1095. What matters in traditional authority’s stead*

R1096. Work benefit*

R1097. Gets out of jail*

R1100. Roman 406

R1103. Key to the M.A. program*

R1105. Alphabet describing Máni, Norse god of the moon*

R1106. Arizona tribe

R1107. Mythical feminists of the 1970s

R1108. Not at all smol*

R1109. Jut one’s chin out while walking*

R1110. Books need them to get readers*

R1111. “If you think of her as Joan ___ / She’s burning for you, get your car out of park” (Barenaked Ladies)*

R1112. It wanders over other worlds’ surfaces

R1114. Where subs are shown far*

R1116. When Passover begins, this happens hours later*

R1118. He’s manly, bud*

R1120. “Under ___… under ___... Darlin’, it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me”*

R1122. Sci-fi species whose living quarters resemble a morgue*

R1126. Letters for UK honourees*

R1127. What you might do after you snarf too much*

R1128. “But stories that live longest / Are sung above the glass, / And Parnell loved his countrey / And Parnell loved his lass” (Yeats)*

R1130. Dios del sol, in Greece*

R1133. Artistic in the Van Gogh vein*

R1134. Easiest prey to allergens*

R1136. He’ll grab a striker’s job*

R1137. A chance to work off the chain*

R1138. Suffix with direct

R1139. Keeps going through the years*

R1140. They might accompany Greek choirs*

R1141. Cheery as a cherry*

R1142. Not up for any more activity*

R1144. Motivation, briefly

R1145. Showed again for the fan audience*

R1146. Be unattractive as hell*

R1148. Most generic modern Disney prince*

R1149. Kia car model

R1150. Severe anxiety*

R1151. Portugal’s Alfonso I, e.g.

R1153. Word often leading into “your loins”*

R1154. Codesters’ indulgences*

R1156. Fun ___ (friendly race)*

R1158. Expenses, when figuring out what the family spends*

R1160. Catchall survey opcion

R1161. It might make a sieve of you in prison*

R1162. Like “in flame” and “inflamed”*

R1164. “Yes” with a little too much “no”*

R1166. Handwoven Scandinavian rugs

R1167. Misters, abroad

R1168. Growls’ more submissive replies when animals fight*

R1169. Accessories for a pioneer*

R1174. Of Franks

R1179. YouTube peep saying, “I bet we could put two commercials before some of our videos, who’s gonna stop us?,” e.g.

R1180. Outflows for rains*

R1181. Shepard who went beyond a role as theme-song producer to play a fictionalized version of herself in Ally McBeal*

R1182. Deborah of An Affair to Remember*

R1183. Step-by-step rehearsal, e.g.*

R1185. Driving needs, like keys*

R1187. Converse All-Stars feature

R1188. Sommes infinitive

R1189. Dispenses the following word-Pez…*

R1190. Dampens, as pets’ fur*

R1191. Get sharp*

R1192. People Moses unites*

R1197. “There is no WE in pizza” wear*

R1198. Pass before one’s eye*

R1199. Blockade a land and its liege*

R1200. 1990s world leaders known for being bores*

R1201. Army food you don’t have to freeze to preserve*

R1202. Wearing clothes no good for anything but pretending to be Roman*

R1204. Where a bee might settle*

R1206. Very high shelter*

R1208. Chocolatier with Edelbitter Mousse Mint*

R1210. East Asian unit of scale?*

R1212. Once again enlarges one’s energies*

R1214. With its help, heartburn fades*

R1217. Store of soft drinks, in a restaurant*

R1218. Knightly

R1220. Turn to an angled state*

R1222. They’ll give each home they’re in a lit area*

R1223. Got out in the world

R1224. He died tragically filming The Crow*

R1226. “Drats!”*

R1227. A whole mob’s worth*

R1228. Smidgen, from Japanese “sukoshi”

R1229. Bill who sang about rocking all day, daily*

R1230. Org. whose existence is a terrorist crisis*

R1231. Impatient motorist

R1234. Etas’ preceders*

R1236. Journey down the strip without ever leaving home?*

R1238. Elwes and Grant onscreen

R1240. Lock onto with understanding*

R1242. Finger painting?

R1244. Sooner State oil city

R1247. They’ll cut through the tax haze*

R1248. Zwei + eins*

R1250. Letters on a battleship

R1251. “___ worldwide” (freight company’s boast)

R1254. Composed oneself in relaxation*

R1257. Source of fury in 12 Angry Men*

R1258. Somber song

R1259. Apply in an overt way*

R1260. 2001 high point for Ja Rule*

R1261. Tubelike animal who’ll want (but shouldn’t eat) your carrot*

R1262. Shows the court how the crime was done

R1263. Showed two-fisted defiance*

R1265. Investments’ returnings*

R1267. Admit guilt to go free sooner*

R1269. Larson of Fantastic Fungi*

R1271. Imposer of fines, both lighter and heavier*

R1273. Hair band that peaked with “Round and Round”*

R1274. Many a young adventurer’s quarry*

R1275. Farm sight

R1276. Prepare to use secrets to hurt*

R1278. Unfairly configged*

R1279. Workable if unsteady*

R1282. To Wordsworth, widen in scope*

R1283. Parks and Recreation and The Good Place were his creations*

R1284. “Blue Train” saxophonist, familiarly*

R1285. Totally sick*

R1286. Rebar visible in some facades*

R1288. Big display*

R1290. Leash together*

R1291. What the trolley sang*

R1292. Re-records to play on streaming instead of ghetto-blasters*

R1293. Appreciators of sunrise*

R1294. Countryman likely to pray three times daily*

R1295. Unnaturally large, as a colon*

R1296. Be a wifely pain in the neck*

R1298. First that hasn’t already been done*

R1300. Make again a boat*

R1302. Writing mining one’s recollections’ cores*

R1304. “Cheerful” in music, like much of Ludacris’ Incognegro*

R1306. Highly respected Miami Heat coach*

R1309. Scheme for stakeholders in their shop*

R1310. Game found in many a casino*

R1312. Construction of gopherwood bark*

R1313. Pooh pal

R1317. It has one owning entity, but three retail names or more*

R1318. France’s largest commune

R1319. Things on which one feeds*

R1321. You go to the World Science Fiction Convention to see it given out*

R1322. ___ aves (unique individuals)

R1323. Laddie all over the clubs?*

R1324. “If there be one, seek till you find it; If there be none, never ___ it” (Mother Goose)

R1325. Place to keep national relations in order*

R1327. Real-life figure who had conflict with the Cimmerians*

R1329. Like a well-built foundation for a house, to be wordy*

R1331. Meerkats who hear this bird might think it’s a hawk…wrongo*

R1333. In the middle of

R1335. Objects contemplated during omphaloskepsis

R1337. Robb whose pitches helped win the 2002 World Series (he never pitched again)*

R1338. Also-___ (not winners, but they have their fans)*

R1339. Display where one might drum and stomp*

R1340. The 45th-anniversary showing of Grease, e.g.*

R1342. Un-fire*

R1343. He kicked the ancient sciences into full throttle*

R1344. Legend among shortstops

R1345. Wannabe dentist’s success*

R1346. Fatcats*

R1347. More like a plank or noodle*

R1351. Supremes’ original boss*

R1352. Former home of Live PD*

R1353. “He ___ taught!” (dis given when somebody finally gets it)*

R1354. He’s from Ork*

R1355. “Hello Chuck ___ my name is Boris” (martial arts viral video)*

R1357. Dog-___ (corner-sheared)*

R1359. French signer’s need

R1361. Used for dinner

R1363. Like “My Hero,” as expressed by key*

R1365. He spoke to Attila, avoiding the worst*

R1367. Source of Christmas day noise*

R1368. Stop beating around the bush*

R1369. Caesar’s 1,401

R1371. Poem set “in a kingdom by the sea”*

R1372. Artist whom the underground comix traditions are from*

R1375. Training org. for ensigns-to-be*

R1378. Console with Super Everdrive available on AliExpress*

R1379. Path of wind along the Earth, as one may observe*

R1380. His horns are big, but his horniness is greater*

R1381. Device for an air jock*

R1382. Hoists (onto), metaphorically*

R1385. “___ nomine” (legally nameless)

R1387. As alternatives

R1388. With intentions pure*

R1390. Obedient after hearing one’s name*

R1392. After losing to JFK, he unfortunately tried again*

R1393. They’re low for golf stars*

R1394. L. Frank of lit fic

R1395. Jamesetta Hawkins and James Johnson, for Etta and Rick James*

R1397. Proposed arrangement according to a thema*

R1398. At some date*

R1400. Home to a claw*

R1402. Vincent Van Gogh and Spartacus portrayer

R1403. Decorations on messy eaters’ shorts*

R1404. “Not occupied yet”*

R1405. Roman figure whose fall did not redeem us*

R1406. Like a negligee that’s racy*

R1407. Bunting and rathbone

R1408. Herb’s predecessor and pal*

R1410. In the Windy City, org. that helps get you on your way*

R1412. COVID-concerned agency*

R1413. Saul’s uncle, in scripture

R1414. Slopes from which a Scott surveys*

R1415. Men’s or women’s indoor retreats, at times*

R1416. Bigger than moi*

R1419. Rhino- : nose :: ___ : ear*

R1420. It’ll help you not think*

R1421. 0.56438339119 of a dram*

R1422. Act like a bloody lout*

R1424. Most sincere

R1427. “___ Theme” (balalaika hit)

R1428. “I Am a Rock” duo beloved by your great-uncle*

R1429. Viewed in a regretful mood*

R1430. Demo slightly more likely to email*

R1431. Idea to accept as possible*

R1432. Not on IM but, say, at a hotel*

R1437. Nearby racers’ big gap*

R1438. 1990 Gibson-Downey Jr. comedy which lost some international business to the Gulf War

R1439. Snowsuit go-with*

R1440. Sleepytimes after enjoying Thanksgiving food and aromas*

R1442. Site of a council that made a Christian creed a widespread idea*

R1443. Pitt who, in Moneyball, plays a dad*

R1445. Line div.

R1446. Good to have with you at a launch*

R1448. HBO alternative

R1449. ___ Picchu (Incan site)

R1450. “When a fish bites your heel and it looks like ___, that’s a moray”*

R1451. Esthetic taste

R1452. Do data entry, perhaps

R1453. Seance board

R1454. Cellist with a Harvard and Julliard diploma*

R1455. If you got it, this company can dye it*

R1456. Punishment not strictly legal, but…trust us*

R1460. “Outer” lead-in

R1461. Thinker Adorno (there’s an internal rhyme there)

R1462. Gadget to help get mechanics’ work done*

R1463. Now there’s a balanced hand…a little too balanced*

R1464. Shakespearean olio*

R1466. L as in Lupita?

R1468. Master plan that hints at the finished product*

R1470. With São Paulo and Brasilia, it forms a trio*

R1472. Converts to a protrusion*

R1473. Least hopping

R1475. A lot on one’s plate*

R1476. “To try or not to try...”*

R1477. Tracking card game rules was his toil*

R1478. Roxie Hart was one (among other vices) in Chicago*

R1479. Say, “not 4-5, it’s 5-4”*

R1481. “You and I”? They two sang it*

R1482. Butted the ball straight in*

R1483. Vegetable oil source

R1484. TV clown

R1485. Mud-peeler alternative*

R1487. Hillary, pre-Clinton

R1488. Protects without removing from harm’s way*

R1489. Emotionally hurt, hard*

R1490. Smoker’s trash*

R1494. Hurt, as by an acid tongue*

R1495. Winter boot brand that takes its name from Inuit

R1496. Bar mitzvah presider

R1497. Ready to be waging war on the world*

R1498. Engineering sch. in Troy, NY*

R1499. “___ could just forget the whole thing”

R1501. What a guru’s title might be*

R1502. Not wishy-washy

R1503. Mineral melted and cooled by meteorite impact and just the correct height for a game of marbles*

R1504. She kept failin’ to bring any dignity to the vice-presidential candidacy*

R1505. “Whoops… __ of the lip”*

R1506. Once film-centric channel later known for peak TV*

R1507. Suppose to be.

R1508. Talk the ear off

R1509. “That behavior is ___ for help”

R1510. Sea military honcho*

R1511. Pitch Perfect star Anna

R1512. Seeds again after seeing what grows*

R1513. Collars almost as broad as Keatons*

R1514. Well begun is half this*

R1515. Family attention hog*

R1516. Asthmatics’ needs, sometimes

R1517. Sinatra and Reagan

R1518. “___ We Trust” (slogan on a coin’s façade)*

R1519. Peace___ (those who avoid conflicts)*

R1520. Period dominated by bushido*

R1521. Do well on the limbo*

R1522. Enclose behind bars

R1523. Sibilant “hey”

R1524. Nation where you might find a spirit house*

R1525. Type of pear

R1527. Popular beer in a Williamsburg dive bar, for short*

R1528. Lumet whose movies hit you in the kidney*

R1529. Ethics on the road*

R1532. Pac-12’s seventh (OSU is #3)*

R1533. Church wds.

R1534. 1996-1997 Deep Blue opponent

R1535. Numb to others’ pain*

R1537. Seat in art school*

R1538. Shouted, blathered, and waved*

R1539. Smear with more grease, as a coil*

R1540. Prevent alteration of*

R1541. Hopefully humbles with tumbles*

R1543. ASUS displacer in the laptop market*

R1550. In brief, they track the movements of cars’ “stems”*

R1551. “Begorrah” for “by God” and “the troubles” for schisms, e.g.*

R1553. Sweetly, as appropriate*

R1554. Time to tell a new city hello*

R1555. New York Life competitor

R1557. Like me when I realize the labeling on two thousand clues has numerical errors*

R1558. Baby food for Gina*

R1560. With the cost of living almost too high*

R1561. Distance covered by over 10,000 tiles*

R1562. Dark grayish shade of green*

R1563. Abu ___ Bay (Horatio Nelson won a naval victory here)*

R1564. Python who’ll make you say “blahhh…”*

R1565. Men’s section in Barbieland*

R1566. Giocondo and Angelico

R1568. One who might’ve gone to the agora to speak*

R1569. X-Man Storm’s real first name

R1571. Oboist’s need*

R1572. “___ Around the Clock”*

R1573. Coping strategies in a pandemic

R1574. ___-top (can opener)*

R1575. Barely*

R1576. Seeing one’s first morn*

R1577. Roared and paced as if caged*

R1578. Clothing retailer on the New York Stock Exchange since 2006

R1579. Champion of Israel

R1582. Stand-up comic Wyatt

R1585. It could make sports fans wish for a drought*

R1590. Your def closest mate*

R1594. Brig fare on older vessels

R1599. Ephron, perhaps, were she a colleen*

R1603. Chesapeake Bay would be a ___*

R1606. Whole of civilization unfurled*

R1607. “Rhymes are sexy” could be her motto*

R1608. Inhabit

R1609. Wear away*

R1610. ___ soup (starter at a Japanese restaurant--it can be so relaxing)*

R1611. Lived to ___ old age

R1612. Term that LGBTQs with at least some male alignment might employ*

R1613. What old Greeks believed their souls were made of*

R1614. Corncake that’s homegrown*

R1615. Hope legal force means one will

R1616. Dance that’s a good subject for many a high school romcom*

R1617. Hang like a group of dying flowers*

R1618. Posed like a shriveled beetle*

R1619. Fighter in a turn-of-the-century war*

R1620. Broadside from a battleship

R1621. Accepts to be true, as lies*

R1622. Jerk, to be crass*

R1624. Risk when free love gets too free*

R1625. Chris of the NBA

R1626. Make into more than a buyer*

R1627. O’Flaherty and Neeson

R1628. Longtime amigos*

R1629. In medias ___ (starting in the middle place)

R1630. Counting prefix

R1633. Not up ___ (below standard)

R1634. Where to find defs*

R1635. Name that can affect the market’s demand*

R1636. Of Shakespeare’s plays, only Henry VI has one of these, for the real Tudor devotee*

R1638. Sperm supplier*

R1640. Keyboard key used for scrolling

R1641. Viciously start to combat*

R1642. Kind of flask, or name on a bottle

R1643. Rip off a tiny bit*

R1644. Set of hills sometimes joined by a bridge*

R1645. Supporting toon character who got her own story*

R1646. Head for a bête*

R1648. “I regret to state…”*

R1649. Bite-size cookie

R1650. Chinese city with a Wanda Plaza*

R1651. Where you’ll find a college brat

R1652. Scan for eye and thigh*

R1655. Pees

R1656. Bird most likely to squawk “Vagina!”*

R1657. Ancient land of Sidon and Tyre

R1658. Writer of “The Cask of Amontillado”*

R1659. ___ Aviv-Yafo, Israel*

R1660. Funeral fire*

R1661. Beachcomber’s intellectual need*

R1662. “Shock and awe” war site*

R1663. Rock groups who hope their presence expands*

R1664. Like the Minutemen

R1665. There’s one in about half a stalk of rhubarb*

R1667. Carpenter’s beam (stay alert; if it hits you it’ll hurt)

R1668. Where a comic-book “splash image” might be*

R1669. Slam into*

R1670. Two-___ (starter and finisher episode)*

R1671. Tiny spot*

R1672. Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Raccoons*

R1673. What hipsters order in bars*

R1674. Toward disarmament, he and MG went far*

R1676. It’ll hide your head from a jungle cat*

R1677. Turn blue?

R1679. Like a patient student*

R1680. WikiLeaks founder

R1681. Buy another online recorder*

R1683. In an oily way*

R1684. Pitchpoles

R1685. Rip the paint off*

R1686. ___ straws

R1688. Spot for eliminations and dabs of perfume*

R1689. ___ fire (destructive 2008 blaze in Los Angeles)*

R1690. Pull in, as through a straw*

R1691. Eat so fast you might barf*

R1692. Color a gaze’ll sometimes be*

R1693. Its notes aren’t sharp*

R1694. Double ___ (DNA shape)

R1695. “Follow me” prelude to a “voila!”*

R1696. Responds to alarms*

R1698. Nader and Lauren

R1699. One a Brit may be always thinking of*

R1700. Feature of a deerstalker cap*

R1701. There are two thousand to one?*

R1702. On SpongeBob SquarePants, he played Strange Hal*

R1703. One cup of its cat food is about a hundred grams*

R1704. Not streaming quickly*

R1707. 1998 historical romance with a heroine who values “poetry above all”*

R1710. Roast-beef-and-cheese chain*

R1711. With efficient combustion, it’s bleu*

R1712. Video trait*

R1713. Like a front causing a storm*

R1714. Feature of Oklahoma barbecue*

R1715. What to say if you dream you’re a flying bee*

R1716. Got richer at the cost of one’s soul*

R1717. Intimidated, as by a crowd*

R1718. Pride going before a fall*

R1719. Dirty fighter*

R1720. Represent bad luck*

R1721. “Stan the ___”*

R1723. Hired in the role of

R1724. He who whisks crab might make some*

R1725. Flu-like symptom*

R1726. Sign that’s supposed to adapt well to crises*

R1727. It floats above our sphere*

R1728. Mass of bills, tobacco, and sod*

R1731. Requested tasks, in slang*

R1732. Harold who kept working into his life’s winter*

R1733. It’ll slow your skis*

R1735. These “repositioned Nintendo as a key player in the video game console marketplace”*

R1736. III, as a word*

R1737. Dodo (var.)*

R1738. Swells the bottom line*

R1739. Addicted no-hoper*

R1740. It’s usually screwed up

R1741. “___ supposes his toeses are roses...”*

R1742. Poopoo

R1743. Source of NFL reports*

R1745. Creature without much heft*

R1746. Relish makes it greener*

R1747. Pitch a fit*

R1749. Who Peri was, on Frasier*

R1750. Weapon for police*

R1751. Rises (up) in intelligence

R1752. Too quick to find one’s limit*

R1754. Stone enchanted to romantically disarm*

R1755. “Ugh, parenting is an exhaustion trap!”*

R1756. Blemish on what once was plain*

R1757. Rio ___, Brazil

R1758. Prefix for a country

R1759. Hissed*

R1760. Some 12-yd. soccer shots

R1761. Prom gp.

R1762. Ragout or burgoo*

R1763. Believer’s read*

R1764. Gomer with a simple smile*

R1765. Sees through early years*

R1766. The Impaler and others

R1767. Sparklers for femmes*

R1768. Aluminum ___ (insulating material)

R1769. In GWTW, their fortune ebbs*

R1770. Cat sound meant to charm you*

R1772. Square, in 11/55*

R1773. Way to send your regard*

R1774. “On your mark...___ set...”*

R1775. I’d like to visit this tower (for short), but the urge to look down would be terrifying*

R1776. No. and st., for a start

R1777. ___ et queue: wing and tail*

R1781. Lab site (abbr.)

R1782. Amiens aunts*

R1783. Causes a need for

R1785. Thetas’ followers*

R1786. Not steep*

R1787. Car feature allowing you to warn*

R1788. Time to begin for a military power*

R1789. Like a barge*

R1790. Bryn to which Katharine Hepburn saw her way*

R1791. Efface*

R1792. Stats for baseball guys*

R1793. Serious orthodontic actions*

R1795. Src. of a “This is only a test” address*

R1796. Mena and Schmidt, actresses in the Americas*

R1797. “Proper” prefix

R1798. Company for when you have to send it and don’t need finesse*

R1799. Shut off*

R1800. Make an impact*

R1801. It’s richer in most vitamins than dough*

R1804. Its Georgia Aquarium houses manta rays*

R1809. GRF’s star VP*

R1813. Chafing resembling pores*

R1816. Actors Reynolds and Lancaster that it hurts to compare*

R1822. “Vieni ___ Mar” (Italian tune)

R1823. Grain-like pasta

R1825. Actress Dunst

R1826. Dir. with a heading between 57 and 78 degrees

R1827. March Madness, with “the”

R1828. Taxpayers’ bugaboos

R1831. Futile, in situations*

R1832. Directions phrase

R1833. Clue suspect, in the game and onscreen*

R1835. “There’s only one (only one!) ___ Sun! It’s great-tastin’ fun when ya punch open one” (jingle that will be in my head until I die)*

R1836. Work to prevent tooth loss*

R1837. In brief, incomparably quality-free*

R1838. Program loader*

R1839. Crisp, as a designer sez*

R1840. Sugarless donut hole, e.g.*

R1841. Particle depicted as a spark*

R1842. “Don’t take me seriously! Heaven forbid!”*

R1843. Innovations*

R1845. Wintour who can make a bandana print cool just by wearing it*

R1846. Deity whose name means “black”

R1847. Juncture of those who’ve jelled

R1848. Uses*

R1849. Backwoods possessive

R1854. Top math undergrad with a name that sounds more like that of an elder animal-tangler*

R1855. Pizza box’s leftover food supply*

R1856. “‘Twas fun, chums”-type goodbyes*

R1857. Easy to forsake*

R1858. Toothpaste scrubs these off

R1859. Noun-forming suffix

R1860. Test-applied*

R1861. Element found in green fireworks or on nuclear reactor shields*

R1862. What hotels squeeze you with*

R1863. Not drear*

R1864. She faced Caesar in the arena*

R1865. “Oh, and not to trouble you, but” on IM*

R1867. Elaine of the stage*

R1868. Point where a chassis is a bit bent*

R1869. Angry “little chat”*

R1870. Center-borer*

R1872. Snag when it*

R1874. Twister’s creation

R1875. Toy store plea, maybe

R1876. “Kick” or “trample,” per a Korean guy*

R1878. Creature wreathed in fire and smog*

R1879. Drink that, in song, “makes me feel so fine”*

R1881. Structure that blew in*

R1882. Being companions in the altogether*

R1883. General ___ that’ll please your nose*

R1884. “Alternatively, as I gather my thoughts…”*

R1885. Simulator on Star Trek*

R1886. Pills for your heads*

R1887. Thin-sliced meat from 100% USDA beef*

R1888. Detect sound as if near*

R1889. No longer dared

R1891. A Man Called ___ (“Fall in love with the grumpiest man in America” is its motto)*

R1892. From where an ex-inmate has risen*

R1893. They put sod into rows*

R1894. Shore phenomenon on a windy day*

R1896. Much more likely to be a trendsetter*

R1897. Full of fun that just won’t quit*

R1898. 360-degree*

R1899. Yellow fruit’s “refinery”*

R1900. Org. for the GOP*

R1901. “Either that ___ overslept”

R1902. They hold the future, or so a fortuneteller believes*

R1903. Prelate’s address (abbr.)

R1904. Goddess of those who might spy Titania*

R1905. Stephen, military hero greater than his Revolutionary War-fighting father*

R1906. Get something savory, sour, or sweet*

R1909. Hunt-Hendrix and Remini

R1910. Harvey Birdman, Attorney ___ (first place some of us saw old Hanna-Barbera characters)*

R1911. “___ tell you why?”*

R1912. Easy terrain for trains*

R1913. Having swept more chimneys?

R1914. Steps to a season finale*

R1915. React to a suddenly terrifying fix*

R1916. “Still others wear a Golden Key / Or small Greek letter pin / But I have learned there’s one great club / That all of us ___” (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)*

R1917. Butts into others’ spheres*

R1918. Welcoming noises lovers use*

R1919. Hip-hop artist Nicki

R1920. Sandra’s The Lake House costar

R1921. Get skin wet*

R1922. Rewards for enough business tests and essays*

R1923. Predecessor of kay*

R1925. Illinois birthplace of Richard Pryor and Betty Friedan

R1926. They used to hack telco speakers*

R1928. Belief subject to schism*

R1929. Printing key combo*

R1930. White at the top of a map*

R1934. Bombard with betas

R1935. “Damn,” “lamb,” or exam,” e.g.*

R1938. What people adjusted to hear about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial*

R1939. Shake like a boat with no rudder*

R1941. Like a raspberry bush stem

R1943. Hong ___*

R1944. Hunt for food

R1945. Goatish group

R1946. Saddam’s one-time lackeys*

R1947. “___ aware”*

R1948. “Hey, there, sailor-boy”*

R1949. Sometime enemies*

R1951. Qatari without peer*

R1952. Oath taker

R1953. Strange, in Spain

R1954. David Lee who sang with froth*

R1955. In a noteworthy way

R1957. Area half a world away from its only real rhyme

R1958. A-to-Zed ref.*

R1959. No longer working (abbr.)

R1961. “What’s the reason...”

R1965. Hang like a bag*

R1966. Laptop for gaming at a high degree (abbr.)*

R1967. Per Bob Dylan, “she looked like she stepped out of La Dolce Vita”*

R1968. My favorite ed, it is*

R1969. “C’mon, feel the noise...girls, rock your ___”*

R1970. Acting vet Midler*

R1971. ___ Foods

R1972. Engraving pens

R1973. Had one’s temper jerked*

R1974. Belief to hold to even in a roaring tornado*

R1975. “You bet, my guy!”*

R1977. Not pilsners

R1978. Area above Soho*

R1979. If you buy into astrology, many CEOs*

R1982. Werner ___ Braun*

R1986. 1944 lady on the attack*

R1987. Show some verbal swag*

R1989. Response to, essentially, “You swear that what you’ll say is true?”*

R1992. Station with frequent “Who’s Winning the Election” reports*

R1995. Player whose mascot comes from a UFO*

R1996. Periodic table no.

R1997. Setter of terms like “beginning at 5 pm or later”

R1998. PTA and NEA

R1999. Flip past*

R2000. “No strings on me!”*

R2001. Outside of a chin*

R2002. Orthodox sect with prominence and “pious” views*

R2004. Blind side*

R2005. She’s in an incarcerated state*

R2007. “Not that this would trouble you, but...”*

R2008. Olympus and Asgard’s squads*

R2009. Lug in the direction of

R2011. Nine-line sonnets, e.g.*

R2013. Fix a ceiling goof

R2015. Don ___*

R2017. Come out of*

R2019. Nourishes wonder*

R2020. Robert Burns’ love is like one, I suppose*

R2022. Demetri Martin tells us these were invented “to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance”*

R2023. Scots name equivalent to “Johannes” in Central European*

R2024. Canadian spots visited by seals*

R2025. Ancient area nearly opposite to Paphlagonia*

R2026. She sings “Free Mind,” “Higher,” and other gems*

R2027. Gets rid of wrinkles

R2029. Suffix for those who are tied to scholastic life*

R2030. Scoreboard letters for the MLB*

R2031. Like three Chopin nocturnes and Guns N’ Roses’ “Nightrain”*

R2032. Pasta name owned by Campbell’s, now*

R2033. Gas station part*

R2034. Compared to their containers’ weight*

R2035. Boxing doc showing the side of Mohammed that was jolly*

R2037. Where bees thrive*

R2039. Bug that could put you in hosp*

R2041. Recruit quasi-unwillingly

R2043. Its fortunes mean little to most Americans now*

R2045. Not ___: small amount*

R2051. Feud-breaker*

R2059. Sign of a horse’s pivot*

R2062. Dino good at biting necks*

R2063. Guy sports fans often call blind and deaf*

R2066. “Any way this situation could come back to bite us?”*

R2068. Kowtowing sort

R2070. Original People’s Court judge

R2072. Bad things to have in your pants*

R2074. Respectively, in more common speech*

R2076. Just barely bear

R2077. Drugs that can cause dry eyes*

R2078. Lump of hair*

R2079. Asian civet cat class*

R2080. What the jackdaw says*

R2081. “___ for iguana”

R2082. He might say, “Sehr gut”*

R2083. Government giving power to the people, not the aristocracy*

R2084. Where moneymakers make their print*

R2085. Esther known for her Florida Evans role*

R2090. Peninsula with a DMZ (abbr.)

R2092. Peeks at movies*

R2093. Alternative to Absolute*

R2094. Parents of lambs*

R2095. Ready to be broiled*

R2097. Phrase that’s a hitchhiker’s gift*

R2099. Meddlers

R2101. Short name for a franchise with high-tech*

R2103. Crossword genius Pasco (everybody bow low!)*

R2106. “Risk? Don’t care!”*

R2107. Counterpart to a purveyor*

R2109. Rubs off on

R2111. He’s atop a family tree*

R2112. “Want a ___!” (spokesmodel jingle)*

R2113. It manages data flow

R2114. Stoppers sometimes laid next to forks*

R2117. Like a bear-person*

R2118. “That’s the correct view”*

R2119. Whirl about*

R2120. Early ___: allegedly wiser*

R2121. Base for salmon roast*

R2123. Document that’d impart a limit on royal power*

R2125. Supplies new bindings*

R2127. Robert who discouraged monuments because they “keep open the sores of the war”

R2128. Like months of summer recess*

R2132. Rinses with mouthwash

R2133. Universal need that’s pretty much everywhere*

R2134. 99th is the highest

R2135. Biblical figure who lived “when the earth was divided”

R2136. Slips to a lower level*

R2137. Native of Zagreb

R2138. ___ acids (energizer for when a cappuccino just doesn’t cut it)*

R2139. Not “tired,” “inspired,” or “hired,” in memes*

R2140. Heavy metal or emo

R2141. “Sure” that a spouse may volunteer*

R2142. Game where you toss a ball from stick to stick*

R2143. “You ___ interesting question”

R2144. Perform a dance again

R2145. Like carbon monoxide

R2146. Pod often stuck in fur (var.)*

R2147. Send (it) forth*

R2148. “Does ___ crap in the woods?”

R2149. Hiker’s stopover

R2150. Subjects for Raphael

R2151. Cage in Matchstick Men*

R2152. “Don’t look to me for libations”*

R2153. Stems seen on plains*

R2154. Orange tuber shoot*

R2155. Brand of finger dye*

R2156. Supermarket IDs*

R2157. Sony initiative for 2020, when no one had freedom to roam*

R2158. Fell into the tar road of melancholy*

R2159. Liner accommodations

R2160. What farmers get up each morn to shuck*

R2161. What buffalo do at a range “home”*

R2162. Prep dip for a vegetable tray*

R2164. Losing it would impair hearing*

R2166. Eliminate, as a repeat sentence*

R2169. Vacuum and sweep the floors*

R2172. Game to make you feel like a dance star, for short*

R2174. Speak like one’s about to gasp*

R2175. Ancient Euphrates region where granddad probably lived, right, boomer?*

R2176. Grow in size*

R2177. Where Winnebagos get got*

R2184. Teflon maker sued in Vermont*

R2185. In Spain, it stays mainly on the plain*

R2186. One who might say, “Now, the meaning of that third word has been blurred...”*

R2187. The Great Trek was among their tours*

R2189. Were sent down the chute*

R2191. Attack with intent to subdue*

R2193. Change into a shape that’s not the norm*

R2195. Making those prone to Satanic panic frantic*

R2199. Have a very great time and don’t worry about tomorrow*

R2200. Forbes hero, often*

R2201. Opens, as a bag of chips*

R2203. “___ about [What if our team allows]…?”*

R2205. “If I can make it, ___ can you!”*

R2207. Fabric ___ de jouy*

R2209. More awed, quieter woo-hoos*

R2210. It’s often two by four studs thick*

R2212. Electromagnetic manifestations*

R2213. Sheer*, but the connotation is that it’s not enough rather than too much

R2214. It’s easy on the nose*

R2215. Handclasp*

R2216. Date that may be worth solemnly memorializing*

R2218. Photog Herb with celebrity hits*

R2220. Where kenneled animals get out for fun*

R2223. Service linking much of French Polynesia

R2224. Colorful guacamole veggies

R2227. Vermont sweetness

R2228. Caesar’s dog

R2229. Rogers and Wood Jr. offering the joys of performance*

R2230. Whom you want doing military runs*

R2231. Focuses in people’s developments*

R2234. “Put every police on a slab”*

R2238. Feature of any realistic movie about dating*

R2239. Campbell whose Scream 4 got heavy*

R2240. Claim shouted between competing sibs*

R2241. Sweetbread’s origin that tastes sour*

R2242. Advanced degree in physics, for short*

R2243. Looking CEO-esque*

R2245. Peoples scattered through a pre-Columbian Mexico*

R2247. Sports fan, post-championship, who disgraces fans who are quieter*

R2249. Slender swimmer passing a sea star*

R2251. Has the nerve

R2253. Shopping center in Chi-Town with a magnificent view*

R2254. Heel sidekick in The Little Mermaid*

R2255. Like some windows and gates

R2257. Dream ___*

R2258. Record kept in a priory*

R2260. Took care of

R2261. Baron Munchhausen’s gaspy chronicler*

R2263. Overcasts one’s pasts*

R2265. “In the last episode, Harvey broke his kneecap,” e.g.*

R2267. Lunch budget, for the bourgeoisie*

R2269. Leader in electronic music with multiple Grammys

R2271. Actor known for wearing a prosthesis like a bony horn*

R2272. Shows affection to, as one’s cubs*

R2273. ___ screen*

R2274. Like every Lonely Island lyric*

R2277. “The next day…,” e.g.*

R2279. Bergen and Fromm

R2281. Gp. ruled by Frederick III*

R2284. Reacted badly to feeling inept*

R2285. Rita Moreno, she got one*

R2286. Start for “tiller”

R2288. West of Every Day is a Holiday*

R2289. Meat I need to eat more with a knife, less with a fork*

R2291. It’s got great clothing racks*

R2292. Blue shorts*

R2293. She starred in a trilogy that was, in the end, kind of middly*

R2296. “Fine! Do anything, anywhere!”*

R2298. Approached gradually, with “to”

R2300. Phil who sang folk for folks*

R2302. Line to the Hamptons, by car*

R2303. Does criminal jobs*

R2304. Games Bryn Kenney knows*

R2305. “We are (cynically) amused”*

R2306. Partner of Intel on video in 2006 in an ill-fated attempt to compete with YouTube*

R2307. Allegro, e.g.

R2309. Judge of lesser and greater*

R2311. Commercial area on a gas station floor*

R2312. Jazzy Jones and James

R2315. They got slimy bods*

R2316. Earns approving roars*

R2317. Care ___: Creature from Care-a-Lot*

R2318. Went completely through every part

R2319. “Liquid” used when you’ve done something dumb to your pipes...no, dumber*

R2320. Royal usurpers’ gain*

R2321. Likely to make your spirits sag*

R2322. Dens, for bears*

R2324. Bank listed on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges, with a secondary listing on the NYSE*

R2326. Selected, as on a survey

R2328. Bacteriologist known for his dish

R2330. Like the Atlantic

R2332. Where some corn grows?*

R2333. Surrealist hero*

R2334. Grim cartoonist Edward who influenced almost every Tim Burton story*

R2335. Fuel producers you might find on prairies*

R2339. Wanderer known in feudal Japan*

R2342. Need some change without knowing what*

R2343. Cut the schedule down to its prime*

R2345. Sound that may wake a new parent

R2346. Complex giants in much Japanese animation*

R2347. They will certify singles*

R2348. Like prime time shows? This is the last hour to see them*

R2349. Wendell or Haim who perform a story*

R2352. Srs.’ nest eggs for rainy days*

R2354. Permit to flow*

R2356. “Choose one of these three”*

R2359. Capital whose outskirt province is Sen Sok*

R2360. Times to dream of gems*

R2361. Kid on a cairn*

R2362. Host of World’s Craziest Fools on the BBC*

R2363. Boy ruler who worshipped Mut*

R2365. Surroundings

R2367. “The Caddy that zigs,” marketed with a cartoon duck

R2369. Scale analyzer*

R2371. Act like a startled steed

R2373. You’ll see one at first

R2374. “Shortening,” shortened

R2375. Ramirez; they’re a pioneer in nonbinary actor*

R2376. Converts to kilograms for weights*

R2378. Diet where you give carbs the veto*

R2379. Harold who appeared in Ghostbusters: Afterlife seven years after dying

R2380. Another fly*

R2381. Tool that caught a little dogie*

R2383. Considering

R2385. Soils on shirts*

R2387. Shelters that look like skirts*

R2389. Position to advance*

R2391. “Violence makes me queasy”*

R2392. Tool user who stoops lower*

R2393. Vocal showcases on stage

R2394. Brand on a water carrier*

R2396. (Weird Al:) “How come you’re always such a fussy young man / Don’t want no Cap’n Crunch, don’t want no Raisin ___”*

R2398. John Legend song dedicated to his wife Chrissy Teigen (squeee)*

R2400. Pound and Cornell

R2405. Crown-logo product in a candy store*

R2406. Beckoned, with reasons to say “no” obscured*

R2407. Like exotic fare*

R2409. Wooden snarl*

R2410. Agreers who signal assent with “10-4”*

R2411. Seaside

R2412. Catholic response to the Great Schism that amounted to “nope”*

R2413. Evil Queen’s address to the desire she holds dearer than all others*

R2414. Patatas bravas, por nina et papa*

R2416. Book describing the fall of Nineveh

R2418. Free the leg of profit from the shackle of government, some would say*

R2421. Sweat*

R2422. Puts the car right between the white line-marks*

R2423. “The” ser Deutschland*

R2424. States for hairdryers in salons*

R2425. Carnage of war*

R2426. Flies into new markets*

R2428. Foreign language seeing a lot of use in Manhattan*

R2430. Herman Wouk’s The Winds ___

R2434. Root vegetable with yellow flesh

R2435. Reinstalls electoral rejects*

R2436. Old chat query that could’ve been answered “21/M/Cornell”*

R2438. Workers who could migrate to the Smokies*

R2439. Bar buys*

R2440. Duke ___ 3D

R2441. “___ been a long time”

R2442. Accompaniment for pianos*

R2445. Set the work’s speed*

R2446. Do the job of a cat on*

R2448. Glow as if in a dream*

R2450. Tree-dwelling lizard in Botswana*

R2452. Religious figure who inspired the beliefs of Al-Ghazali*

R2453. App that’s a placer of “desktops” on smart watches*

R2454. Cookie company with a tree on its packages

R2456. What to do when you lock on target*

R2459. “Things represent ideas” belief

R2461. Mister with a menor*

R2463. First in Frankfurt*

R2468. Between demand and supply lines lies this joint*

R2469. Movement over kilos*

R2470. Leche drinkers

R2473. Fuel in soil*

R2476. Didn’t stop at the finish line?

R2478. Where you float free*

R2481. Stay low*

R2482. Places for guides*

R2483. Abbey address

R2484. Suffix with super

R2485. Ho Chi who proved he could fight colonial powers and win*

R2486. They smash things to smithereens*

R2487. Battle-readier*

R2489. Baguette

R2491. Kings who get Spanish praise*

R2493. Cannon, man of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice*

R2496. ___ over: worked toward understanding*

R2497. Four was her first kiss*

R2498. Old West guards*

R2500. Its name means “sound mind, sound body”

R2501. Ironside born to Ragnar*

R2502. Rent for a property piece*

R2503. The Kevin Bacon of mathematicians, with a similar “number” of association

R2505. It takes invalids on hospital journeys*

R2507. Put forth, as a guess

R2509. What can be played with glasses and spoons*

R2511. Gift for which Jesus didn’t stir*

R2513. Without any of them, you have poverties*

R2515. Full of current events, like how many died by Uzi*

R2516. Hotter under the collar

R2518. Like a posy*

R2519. Getting-off place (abbr.)

R2521. Lake key to winning the War of 1812, in theory*

R2523. On Green Acres, brother of Alf*

R2525. Hedge acting as a boxer (as in boxing in) for cattle*

R2526. Formatting trick used for design’s sake*

R2527. Violence-happier*

R2529. “On three! One, two…two and ___…” (laugh)*

R2530. Ongoing expense for a printer owner*

R2531. Army shade vocab*

R2533. Calls apples pommes des terres, e.g.*

R2534. It’ll affect how you perceive biceps*

R2535. NASA’s Deep Impact probe did actually bomb it*

R2536. “To God, one must say...”*

R2539. Home for a non-dad*

R2541. Snatch like a crab*

R2543. Where the series has begun*

R2545. Primitive tool to hunt deer*

R2548. Joel or Ethan whom reviewer Owen Gleiberman says are given to “elaborate gizmoid yarns”*

R2549. Het extender?

R2550. Spanish “das”*

R2551. Make listening a chore*

R2552. Name for a gem or girl*

R2553. Flashpoints of collective action at personal risk

R2555. Composition of shoreland*

R2557. Renaissance authority over all except la croix*

R2559. Growing matter you should be careful not to spoil*

R2561. President Syngman who was rescued from South Korea to live the rest of his life free*

R2563. Earthly subject of most prayers*

R2564. Little town

R2565. Stronger antidiscrimination laws, e.g.*

R2566. Barbecue’s gloss*

R2567. Palin of a bygone political era*

R2568. Musclebound loon*

R2571. Mesopotamian capital

R2573. Emulating a sleepyhead*

R2575. They rule over hordes*

R2577. They all share ‘im*

R2579. Believed in, then denounced*

R2581. Pretty basic?

R2582. Perfunctory

R2583. Caesar’s home*

R2585. Worry how another may fare*

R2586. Exclamation from jumpy types*

R2589. Letters in a compass bubble you consult*

R2591. Seals with thin yarns*

R2595. It gets rid of hair*

R2596. Reasons one broods*

R2598. Entrepreneurs Jacobs and Sparks*

R2599. Math that asks, “This angle is how big?”*

R2601. 120 points was his best personal score*

R2602. “Txt again in 3”*

R2604. Actor Max Jr. of The Beverly Hillbillies who, at 103, is still there*

R2606. Lady following threads

R2608. “All My Exes Live in ___”*

R2610. Pronounce it however: what’s the dif?*

R2611. Org. that won’t always tax largesse*

R2612. MythBuster Byron who took some risks that were hairy*

R2613. Where outdoor booths peddle their wares*

R2614. A dino might be preserved in it*

R2615. Idea-seeders*

R2617. Grand, as an adventure

R2619. Plant where moths suck a lot of pollen*

R2623. A judge may scribble it*

R2625. Number of pence*

R2626. Body’s little “doors”*

R2627. Open it to see more*

R2630. Caption seen at the start of a flashback (in a story with a curlier timeline...I know, I know)*

R2631. Bygone autos*

R2633. Rocker Liz who The Independent describes as “looks like California, sporting a surfer’s tan and dirty-blonde hair”*

R2636. Place for connection and, you know, hopefully not radicalization or hysteria*

R2638. Group of performances for the Met*

R2640. One who might respond to “Let’s do the twist” with “How much torque?”*

R2641. Where to sit*

R2642. Runway model stroll

R2645. Genre of rock for the Pink Floyd song inspired by a dog*

R2647. Port Said’s canal

R2649. “Pants down, now!”*

R2650. Unlike cherry milk*

R2652. It may mean you walk*

R2653. ___ drain*

R2654. New mortgage loans that aren’t always wise*

R2655. Foals are theirs*

R2656. Ones who honor social pacts*

R2657. Swedish car with an old-fashioned AM/FM knob*

R2658. It might make you bloaty*

R2659. It might order a whack job*

R2661. Shelter’s proof*

R2663. Ballenas asesinas, to a dorkus*

R2667. Ensure it ceases to be whole*

R2668. Hardly nicey*

R2669. He’s got an eye for every curve*

R2670. Spasm to make you go “oh!”*

R2671. Fretted over with stroking*

R2672. “Hey, Bubba! Peer at this!”*

R2674. Retrace the outline of a paw, e.g.*

R2676. Days of lore*

R2678. –, in old school*

R2679. Bamboozling or bruising*

R2681. Kick the ass of*

R2682. Words from one who’ll be there*

R2683. Programmus interrupti

R2684. Infiltrates, or starts to*

R2685. Homes of manatees*

R2686. Ont. or Que.

R2687. Crude*

R2688. Lauren promoting autism discussions that are sober*

R2692. PhDs and MAs, e.g.*

R2694. Tuber in a wheelbarrow*

R2696. ___boater*

R2698. “Aw, ___, that ain’t right!”*

R2699. First group in a product run*

R2701. History of Canada, vis-à-vis History of Quebec*

R2702. Warnings

R2704. Perry born four years after 1980*

R2705. Waiting together*

R2706. Suffix for those who couldn’t get “com”*

R2708. What it all come out in (slosh, splosh)*

R2710. Ride more comfortable in a maxi*

R2713. They result in quick wear

R2714. When the clock starts using another digit*

R2715. One in constant distress*

R2716. Pay off it*

R2717. Part of Aladdin’s crew*

R2718. They’re part of “libre” tours*

R2719. “Neat!”*

R2721. Rowboat for two*

R2722. Bonus likelihood (to)*

R2723. Aquaria, for tourism, e.g.*

R2725. Joining multiple people for some jolly folly*

R2727. “…”

R2728. Italian TV station with channels “uno,” “due,” and “tre”*

R2730. Source of a dump?*

R2732. Of fewer days*

R2735. Robots in disguise, e.g.*

R2736. Soften an audience’s mental parts*

R2737. It’s pretty enough to make my horn toot*

R2738. “I Really Like Him” singer in Man of La Mancha

R2740. It’ll tug a barge from a shallow pool*

R2742. Clothing material that’d be a historical Native American’s pride*

R2744. Christmas trees America prefers*

R2748. For baking or baseball, you need it*

R2749. Some Gillette products

R2750. Parts shirts from shorts*

R2751. Medicare section covering a doc’s fee*

R2752. Young prat*

R2753. He’d seesaw between wanting to kill his brother and forgiving him*

R2755. Letters to warn you about trouble you might get into for viewing this*

R2758. Barnstorm, e.g.*

R2760. One who covers his territory with pep*

R2761. Bob, musical big leaguer*

R2763. They offer pain for pay

R2765. Storytelling plan via news and advertising

R2766. Kristen who often plays a prig*

R2767. Quebecois crowd?*

R2768. Rules served by chamberlains*

R2769. He of the vertical-striped shirt*

R2771. YouTube item

R2773. Rail vehicle rarely prone to jam*

R2777. Got from paper to one’s head*

R2778. 3-D word form?

R2779. Swaths, e.g.*

R2780. Stones album we’d love to give a listen*

R2781. Beauty megabrand with throaty ads*

R2782. Hotels’ new wings*

R2784. Qapital city?

R2786. Not easily unnerved*

R2787. Play I think about when I see a self-driving car*

R2790. Didn’t act scared*

R2793. Rapper Trice who allegedly “stomped” Moby*

R2794. Mementos of bone breaks*

R2795. 1920s’ answer to Columbo*

R2796. Lip that looks all boo-hoo*

R2797. Had a work-free escapade*

R2799. “That’s great!”

R2801. Postal letters?

R2802. “I must vamanos!”*

R2804. 1860s gp. in gray*

R2806. His feast day is April 11

R2807. Likelier to get a suitor*

R2808. Until girls get pockets, carry this around. It’s...worse*

R2809. Reproductive phases that make animals a little nuts*

R2811. Flat, as if put through a drainer*

R2812. Staff’ll use the promise of prizes to raise funds with this*

R2813. Ringlike reefs around which volcanic water rolls*

R2814. Massage so hard as to put golf-ball-style dimples in*

R2817. Dogtag carrier*

R2819. Size comparable to a teacup*

R2821. Its Sphinx sits over a huge wealth fluxor*

R2823. Prokofiev or Rachmaninov or just some Russian guy*

R2825. Earthly and heavenly versions are both discussed in Exodus remarks*

R2826. “___, ___, bish”*

R2827. Channel opening shaped like a crotch*

R2828. From ___ to tomb*

R2831. Babushkas

R2833. She believes war’s storm must be less effective than peaceful change*

R2834. Worry about constantly, like a cattle drover*

R2837. Peter I’s bride Eudoxia Fyodorovna Lopukhina, e.g.*

R2838. Mythical flying horse

R2839. “When I put my finger on it...”*

R2840. Meeting spots for roads*

R2841. HBO comedy that’s dark...very*

R2842. He leaves school no longer a lad*

R2843. Drying another set of plaster on, e.g.*

R2844. The Ojibway would coat ‘em over poles*

R2845. To whom Beethoven dedicated a piece*

R2846. Housing payments*

R2849. Place from which to worship a superstar*

R2851. “Doin’ work,” initially*

R2852. Ne’er not*

R2854. “That’ll ___ the deal”*

R2856. Certain rink dweller*

R2859. Obnoxious expatriates making a splash in America with old, old money*

R2860. Virtue to pursue in youth*

R2861. You can command it with a verbal “Xbox, eject”*

R2862. It’s 341 miles from Cork*

R2863. They require lawyers*

R2864. Incompetent or unstable*

R2866. Daniel ___ Kim of Stowaway*

R2869. Batches of “Buy-it,” built out of bytes*

R2871. What tears cleanse*

R2873. More like an intruder*

R2879. Gamble in the hole*

R2881. Possibility of slipping a disc*

R2883. Hero in a can?*

R2884. Bad sign below decks on a ship*

R2886. Mont Blanc et Aiguille Verte

R2888. Lotta boo-boos in a list*

R2892. Seis + seis

R2896. Map labels for areas that’ve never seen our boats or wagons*

R2898. Absorbed the data ___ glance*

R2900. Dupont, in DC

R2902. State of moisture-minus*

R2903. Genesis 5:18–20 ancestor of Herod*

R2904. It cooks with oil and fire*

R2905. Pirates’ legs*

R2906. Put together from a split*

R2907. Milton who performed “I’m a Big Girl Now” in costume*

R2909. Tells in various ways*

R2912. Totally believable...not*

R2914. Like an inaccessible park*

R2916. Narratives getting into emotionally manipulative territories*

R2919. Herds (one’s loins) into an armor*

R2920. Triumphs in all the tourney programs*

R2921. Like a faerie*

R2922. They’re the opposite of cheers*

R2923. Damagingly doff*

R2925. One who seems to live on a wrestling mat*

R2926. Architect for Singapore’s “Gateway”*

R2928. Containing he, she, or it, e.g.

R2929. In yet a greater way

R2931. Using x, y, and z-axes

R2932. Beach game with falls*

R2933. Boom of unicellular growth*

R2934. With “on,” consider no lie

R2935. Tense, as if tired*

R2936. Quite revealing*

R2938. Angular difference one can scarcely see*

R2940. Dessert discs that rise*

R2943. Floor-cleaning robots

R2945. Sell a dream*

R2947. Not urban

R2948. “Tread lightly” sign*

R2950. Organizers for bills and paper slips*

R2951. Production studio that brought Star Trek to you*

R2952. Korea’s Gajeongcheon and Bokpocheon*

R2953. Gerwig of Phylum Cordata*

R2957. LA-to-Bakersfield heading

R2961. Hair color to which some respond*

R2962. Quick to find what’s faulty*

R2964. Candy plugged by Chance the Rapper and other stars*

R2965. She’ll insert herself into at least one event a day*

R2967. Get some exercise*

R2969. Send to pieces*

R2971. “It has been by grace you have been saved, through faith” bk.

R2972. Letter before chi*

R2974. He’s why you used to see Golden Arches on like every block*

R2977. Suit perfectly*

R2978. A little friendly advice?*

R2979. Pre-1861 areas with anti-slavery mandates*

R2980. ___ off (defends against)*

R2981. 29,028-ft. Himalayan peak

R2982. Comment from a now-ex-defender*

R2984. He habló and made you do le malo*

R2985. What Austrians speak (abbr.)

R2987. Nineties-era storage you’d risk losing*

R2989. Seems flawed*

R2990. Where trucks carry loads*

R2991. Challenging b-ball play*

R2992. Only man to play in three World Cup-winning teams*

R2995. Intentional terror*

R2997. “Do keep petting me, sir”*

R3000. ___-Webster, source of info about “megatherium”*

R3002. Famous ___*

R3005. “I don’t care for your old-man humor”*

R3007. Sentences that keep passing the batons*

R3008. Japanese fish that could theoretically kill you*

R3009. Performance situ*

R3010. “That life and letters ___ but a heroic dream” (Yeats)*

R3013. It can feature deliberately poor diction*

R3015. Pompeii heroine and actress Skye

R3016. Olympians Liddell and Heiden

R3017. Italian 7

R3019. Nicaragua’s lakes and coastlines*

R3020. Wrinkly item on your spoon*

R3021. End neighbor

R3022. Don’t drool*

R3023. Antecedent to Star Trek’s phaser*

R3024. Find out, to one’s dismay*

R3025. “What a bod!”*

R3026. Current separators

R3027. Genre heard on an Empire DVD*

R3028. Secret ID for a fascist soldier turned revolutionary of kidvid*

R3029. Leaving nothing to the imagination

R3030. Popular key in finer heavy metal*

R3032. Draw a ___ on: read one’s position and trajectory*

R3034. Queen who’ll grab you through your dreams*

R3035. Ability to buy low and sell high*

R3037. Sound of a mousetrap*

R3041. Gimme putts

R3042. It leads to yards walked back*

R3043. Bra material

R3044. Put boiled coke in faces*

R3046. Male deer

R3048. “Ce n’est pas bon!”*

R3052. Devonshire distinguishment*

R3053. Keys used to get images free of specks*

R3054. “A line is ___ that went for a walk” (Paul Klee)

R3055. Stop due to a fault

R3056. Give a defiant yell, say*

R3057. Gp. that might be concerned with your broken toe*

R3060. ___-weensie*

R3062. Where to record your favorite stars*

R3065. Seedlings shelved next to berries*

R3067. Water near the turf*

R3068. Meta keywords like “Theo” and “Castillo,” e.g.*

R3070. One who does this is exercising Second-Amendment rights*

R3072. Publication founded in 1972

R3073. Doctorow of many a sci-fi story*

R3074. “___, ___, look who’s forty!”

R3075. Site of Machu Picchu*

R3076. Aaron of shady doom metal*

R3078. Tennis shot that’s no prob*

R3081. Cavities, as in bones

R3082. Like big game*

R3083. Bottom of the mantle

R3084. Of the calf

R3085. Mountains that look good on a mural*

R3086. Don’t have to retake the class*

R3087. Falls into indolence*

R3088. Not woodway, but grassway*

R3090. What Jesus hated seeing in a church*

R3092. Paul who’s a cameo surpriser in Funny People*

R3094. Where one might leave a pie for a bit*

R3096. Letters on some cam tech*

R3097. Stats batters want to be high*

R3100. Q-pop and nu-jazz stem from it*

R3102. Last syllables

R3103. Emotion that could land you in front of a jury*

R3104. Self-zoner*

R3105. Unexpected prizes, e.g.*

R3106. ___ ___: Isle with a billionaires-only aura*

R3107. Video-game variant of Snake

R3109. Container for you after you burn*

R3114. Treating all compromise as treason, e.g.*

R3118. Comparatively like the name “Scherrer”*

R3120. One-___ (short)

R3122. Griffin who’d serve up narration for game shows*

R3125. Put behind you

R3127. Wise Hindu*

R3129. Quick-grab, as a batch*

R3133. Alpha cad*

R3138. Drink with sushi*

R3139. Blast metal in a certain way*

R3142. Holly Robinson of 21 Jump Street*

R3143. Omnivore in a lot of classic art*

R3144. Rattling death-scene detail*

R3145. “Well, hey, at least things can’t get ___” (statement that tempts fate harder than defying a mummy’s curse)*

R3146. Head of a troop group who’s sometimes also a pastor*

R3149. First division, labeled one way*

R3151. Overpruner, e.g.*

R3153. Approx. time it takes for light to travel one foot

R3155. Brit. air arm

R3156. C.B. DeMille was one

R3158. Calculus concept helpful in understanding potential energy*

R3161. God sometimes identified with the Roman Maia*

R3162. Tool to speed up a horse with mild hurt*

R3163. Loudly freaked*

R3164. Where mourners may shed a tear*

R3166. “Let us love one another ___ He has loved us” (1 John 4:19)

R3168. Misidentified creature (probably a seal or manatee) that made Georg Steller gape*

R3170. Considers vile pests*

R3173. German region for wine*

R3174. Actress Tia of the Nineties era*

R3175. Language spoken in Avatar

R3176. “Own ___ Land Your Dream Job” (motivational speech)*

R3177. Creature who sometimes hops as two*

R3178. Like one who hasn’t seen a church mosaic*

R3180. ___ model: electrons have fixed orbit around their cores*

R3182. James Mich-ENer, e.g.*

R3184. Periods, as in America Ferrera’s career*

R3187. First part of the roof to put up (the actual cover’s for afters)*

R3189. Word for a small bird*

R3191. Awkwardly make space for, as a rhyming word in a clue (win!)*

R3193. Like slim chances of survival*

R3194. What the crass lack*

R3195. Writer whose novels are a template for classic mystery*

R3197. Units for conductance of flows*

R3199. They’re like sculptural coral reefs*

R3202. Sounded a warning signal

R3203. It’s defeated some of the cleverest climbers*

R3204. You can get there from Scarborough pronto*

R3206. Youngling in a hogcote (var.)*

R3207. It’s true, on balance, that this acts like a “heavy electron”*

R3208. Relax with the gang*

R3209. Four-legged beast that brings the drama*

R3210. Basketball but not a football

R3211. Phone-snub*

R3212. And anyone else on the call, for short*

R3213. Slightest speck of biota*

R3214. Alternative to a wedding kimono*

R3215. Like the Earth’s ground, in shape*

R3217. Injure again, as a rotator cuff

R3219. Nautical crossbar*

R3221. Used as shelter, as from thunder*

R3222. Mineo who played James Dean’s pal*

R3224. Smooths out dirt clods*

R3227. Part of a quote about responsibility burned into our memories*

R3228. Unlike a wild horse brood*

R3229. Decided to opt out of more passengering*

R3230. Field for Adam Smith to speak on*

R3231. Work deep in the soil*

R3232. Sweet ___ (Southern dessert that brings a sigh)*

R3234. Blackjack spec*

R3238. Potassium source that goes well with ham*

R3239. “I’m ghetto, I’m thorough, I’m reppin’ my ___” (Lloyd Banks, “Money Don’t Matter”)*

R3240. Magritte who challenged images in an unconventional way*

R3241. Clips off the picture

R3242. “Gloomy” cuss*

R3243. “Gotta Be Me” Johnson with a roadie*

R3244. Mawashi-wearer’s sport

R3245. Covered, as a toilet after one peed*

R3248. Kind of court player*

R3250. Called whether the shot went left*

R3252. Multi-dyed, e.g.*

R3255. With one’s career expired*

R3257. Man from Kent*

R3259. Steel we’re firin’ to make a scooping utensil*

R3261. “It’s ___!” (“We got it in the clinch!”)

R3262. Distracted, as with a dramatic cough*

R3263. It’s on your way to a law degree*

R3265. Roseanne who proved you could in fact take celebrity tweeting too far*

R3268. Admit “I was being a brat,” e.g.*

R3269. “Yeah, I’m sorry, I can’t afford a ___” (CeeLo Green)*

R3270. What some musicians “tickle”

R3272. Silver in a U.S. slogan (but it’s not a translation to English)*

R3273. King or emperor

R3274. DC supervillain introduced one year after the Fiddler*

R3276. Star company in early RPGs*

R3279. Smelt, e.g.*

R3281. Lepus star fourteen times our sun’s mass

R3283. Reel in, as a card sharp might*

R3285. Awards for those who went above and beyond in mil. service*

R3287. Bilko, for one (abbr.)*

R3288. Prey for a cat*

R3289. Mies van der who changed Chicago*

R3292. Dance that packs a wallop*

R3293. Ran out like beer from a bottle of Pabst*

R3294. Reach agedness*

R3295. Tied into a pigpen*

R3296. Disbursement layouts*

R3297. Figures that choose to stay still in museums, if you have a good imagination*

R3300. With a hanging jaw*

R3301. Settles in the top three*

R3302. Put money in the cup*

R3303. Show pride verbally*

R3304. Used mouthwash

R3305. Bouncy object that could make a T-shaped logo*

R3306. Far more than a visual trifle*

R3307. Scanner used during surgery, for short

R3310. Mike hosting Airline Repo*

R3312. Place to buy trekking poles*

R3314. Royal ancestors of Latinas*

R3316. How we describe an injury when young*

R3319. Data-gathering phase before official release*

R3321. One who gets to checkmate faster*

R3323. Cleans off printses*

R3324. Movie featuring cuts between Jonah Hill and his psychotherapist*

R3326. Gripe to about this and that*

R3327. Throw at, in football

R3329. Casey with a countdown

R3331. ___ dust (uninteresting)

R3333. Cameron who claims Avatar 3 will be even bigger*

R3335. IDs in book publishing*

R3336. Vital, e.g.*

R3338. Mars ___*

R3340. Manhandles, as in brawls*

R3342. Size up salaciously

R3345. Lighter you flick*

R3346. Article for Orff*

R3348. They’re treated by vets*

R3350. Gomez portrayer John

R3351. Sneakerhead news*

R3352. Taps gently, unless he’s a klutz*

R3353. In stock fraud, preludes to dumps*

R3354. Repo ___, reselling company on The Simpsons*

R3356. Actor Dorman of Fifty Shades of Grey (me getting a little payback for seeing that terrible movie)*

R3360. Made restitution*

R3361. Banks making bank on TV

R3362. Propel oneself with every limb*

R3363. Leafy gloss*

R3364. Where to put unsold gds., at times

R3365. Captain who did get hanged for piracy*

R3366. It costs you to soil it*

R3367. Done so often as to feel staid*

R3368. Org. for a lt.-wannabe*

R3370. Mars you know*

R3372. Even if the relationship doesn’t work out, you’ll remember this*

R3374. Khan Academy alternative*

R3377. Baton-waver and music reader*

R3379. Readier to stop*

R3381. PBS you get in New York*

R3383. Truly small sheepdog*

R3384. Where the Village People say it’s fun to stay*

R3389. Go to and ___*

R3390. Character who met, married, and started raising children with his wife while most of his customers didn’t age a day*

R3392. “___ et labora”*

R3393. Kingly letters

R3395. Quick brew, one might say*

R3396. Wind dir.

R3397. Suburban finale?

R3398. Talks series with a logo that’s red*

R3401. Isle of Honolulu*

R3403. Zach who’ll make you laugh*

R3405. How planes have been parking at a gate*

R3407. Issue with an eye*

R3409. “Ah...___” (“I don’t think so”)*

R3410. Solution that can give you a blind eye*

R3413. Borough leader to Gothamites

R3414. Preceder of “Boy!”

R3416. Luxe outfit*

R3417. Battle of Shiloh monogram

R3418. “___ her request…”*

R3419. Harry Potter 3, abbreviated in a fannish way

R3421. Words that try and fail to convey a nonchalant air*

R3422. They’ll make the house better later*

R3432. Playa del ___, Calif.

R3434. “Mighty” man whom they see strike out*

R3436. Landscapes for some dairies*

R3438. Game of Thrones setting

R3440. Masters champ whose last name rhymes with the Game of Thrones setting mentioned elsewhere in the clues

R3443. Put back on the “available” sheet*

R3445. Gave stars, as food*

R3453. It’s loaded with freight from bow to prow*

R3454. Change from private-business status quo*

R3455. Address from a Brit to a bluecap*

R3456. Panama’s dictator omega*

R3465. The Big Bang Theory character who often Skypes with his parents

R3467. Exaggeration from a sleepyhead*

R3469. “YOLO,” but for taco sauce*

R3471. Footballers who need good knees*

R3473. “Go the other way,” but terse*

R3475. Whiffled through, as a text*

R3476. Content to vex Victorians*

R3484. Dragonball Z character similar to Goku*

R3485. Shovels displays of humility*

R3487. There’re shreds after she’s finished*

R3488. It puts out congressionally mandated ms.

R3490. Wayne film that never became an Atari game (hey, some of these are just for fun)*

R3492. Continued friction that’s eventually unsafe*

R3494. Conflate past and present, e.g.*

R3496. From 1986-2016, this Antonin pushed many a conservative idea*

R3498. No. 9 on a calendar

R3501. Daughter of Cadmus.

R3503. Draw emotionally near*

R3505. Classy lows*

R3506. Wide turns at intersections

R3507. “Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou ___, and do it with unwashed hands too” (Falstaff)

R3508. “Spiritual” types may cleanse them

R3509. Wheat dealt to European livestock*

R3510. They help you see color zones*

R3511. Odysseus’ rescuer (hidden in “Minotaur”)

R3512. Amy Winehouse’s “You Know ___ Good”*

R3513. They pass gases*

R3514. Short name meaning “North”*

R3515. Emirate with sky-high buildings*

R3516. “Poe” preceder

R3517. “Non ___ somnia” (dreams)*

R3518. Argued with

R3519. Andre Romelle Young, ___ Dr. Dre*

R3520. Plaintiff’s opposite (abbr.)

R3521. Female schnauzer changed to male terrier for the movies

R3522. “With luck...” (gonna grope at straws, here)*

R3523. Cotan’s numerator, in some calculations

R3524. Early-2000s Camaro alternative*

R3525. Not be sweatin’ entry protocols*

R3526. Proceeds through text*

R3527. Short meal*

R3528. Non-flying fowl

R3529. Take a bit off the limb*

R3530. Faith that inspires the greeting “Salaam”*

R3531. Prima whose gonna be treated well, or else*

R3532. Clots in the stomach*

R3533. Quasi-police squad*

R3534. “Sadly…”

R3535. Jennifer who’d sashay on Dancing with the Stars

R3536. When to spend your Christmas dinero*

R3538. Try a different knot*

R3540. Overseas misses (abbr.)

R3542. Your leg’ll be next to some well-developed muscles if you do this*

R3544. Comical character who, due to actor Jacques Tati’s height, can never stoop too low*

R3546. Sets up sailing gigs, e.g.*

R3548. Not merely flirty*

R3549. Hues without sparks of light*

R3551. Pulls for breeding*

R3552. Suffixes with refer

R3553. Rocky debris*

R3554. Noise of greetings amid ships?*

R3555. Flatten a flat, as with a blaze*

R3556. Cousin out of whose hair you could knit three sweaters*

R3557. Mend some skirts or shorten them*

R3558. Wanna fridge? Try theirs*

R3559. Wearing clothes that are the opposite of tatty*

R3560. Laid out on a spread?*

R3561. Alliance-making that aids in calamity*

R3562. Factions in divides*

R3563. Suffix for “bring”*

R3564. One at your side in social standing, not your rear*

R3565. King in twentieth and twenty-first-century Riyadh*

R3566. “Jr. Circuit” diamond-dweller*

R3567. Up voice Ed

R3568. Contest of forward-mindedness*

R3569. Feature of glass; it represents a single plane*

R3570. Site of Christ’s loss*

R3571. Aggregate income*

R3572. Planes developed in 2022 by the Chinese*

R3573. “Share ___” (novelty red-can campaign)

R3574. They won’t cause living creatures pains*

R3575. He’s supposedly “far too independent for a droid”*

R3580. “That sure is the sitrep”*

R3582. Ultimate questions

R3585. Cars praised in songs and pros*

R3586. Smart assassins’ weapon*

R3588. Almost here*

R3589. Tartan pattern that, being Scottish, I get*

R3591. “___ sher!”*

R3593. Was ready to melt, e.g.*

R3595. “How now, brown ___?”*

R3597. “___ I’ve been thinkin’ about it lately / Does it ever drive you crazy” (One Direction)*

R3599. Flat-tire sound

R3601. Inits. of a man who wrote “Self-Reliance” about being free*

R3603. “That gives ___ great idea!”*

R3604. Wireless ones range from $15 to $300 in price*

R3606. Nation east of Arg.

R3607. Preceder of “Buckle my shoe”*

R3608. Sour beginning?

R3609. Strike as a jerk*

R3610. Brick-carrier on a rod*

R3611. Michele, star from Glee*

R3613. It’ll shoot a dirty rat*

R3615. Greek precedent to “Romeo,” per NATO*

R3617. Valuable from the mine’s core*

R3618. State 35 mi. wide at its widest

R3620. “Hey…”*

R3622. What L may stand for, for sure

R3623. Virus-encoding medium with other biological roles to play*

R3624. Sch. of the Northwest

R3626. Uncooked, like slaw*

Across Stitches

R187-S151. Where the dollars are in the visual detail*

R482-S469. It outlines government standards of financial disclosure

R736-S790. Is, then isn’t

R1040-S1108. Fortunately for Freddy, there are more than 5,000 of them on US roadmaps

R1348-S1423. It’ll keep you up with updates

R1604-S1744. Having depth, but not much breadth

R1851-S2052. Resistance leader of the Lakota force*

R2129-S2364. On brown skin, it works well in blue*

R2432-S2681. Actors’ feedback*

R2745-S2997. A Smurf is his rat*

R3049-S3313. Shows oneself superior to

R3357-S3624. Launches, as a vessel

Down Stitches

R3505-W1. Criblets*

R3506-W2. Result of a bowler’s slight right hook

R3510-W4. Prairie freight wagons

R3518-W8. Peed relaxedly

R3582-W12. "___.J. with breakfast?" "Because it's good for you"?

R3582-W13. "___.O. all of you with this ridiculous fill-in-the-blank!"?

R3526-W14. Opens the blinds on others’ thoughts*

R3534-W18. Assuming no one is sooner

R3367-W22. Fraying tape, e.g.

R3588-W23. ___ and dearest*

R3542-W27. Iron Age head protectors

R3473-W31. R in PRNDL

R3549-W35. Storage rooms and attics, e.g.

R3554-W39. “Hey, Cap’n!”

R3562-W43. Hyper-competitive racer*

R3570-W47. Avengers movies, e.g.