Ubercross Abecedaria V

Across

V1. Global gp. once headed by Pascal Lamy

V4. Dan revered in Miami

V10. Icon of the underdog

V13. Lizard’s tail?

V17. “As far across as my hands are apart”

V24. Birds known for forcing others to adopt their young

V31. Extremely arid

V38. Words said frequently (if not so earnestly) by some celebrities

V41. ___ Boot

V44. Cash dispenser

V47. Ernie Banks, notably

V50. Was within popcorn-sharing distance, perhaps

V57. Don’t go it alone

V64. What’s coming

V71. Triumphant cries

V78. Toddler chow

V81. Marx man?

V84. Hawkeye Pierce portrayer

V87. Twinings product

V90. Mollusks seen in Subnautica

V92. Stylish boot

V94. Some franc spenders

V95. Ex-treem

V100. Genre for The Sundays’ “Wild Horses” and Conan Grey’s “Generation Why”

V103. Begin the journey to

V105. Party-hardy people

V107. It needed adjusting for 1960s viewers

V109. Imitate Julia Mancuso on the slopes

V111. Indian wrap

V112. Home theater component, maybe

V116. Eponymous William’s birthplace

V117. Instructions to solve the meta in this puzzle

V130. 2007 purchaser of Applebee’s

V131. Guest-star for a bit

V133. Comment after a song gets you crying

V134. The “I” in IBM (abbr.)

V135. Metropolitan thrush

V136. Safely secured

V137. Upper echelon of major combat

V138. Tetley competitor

V139. “What’s the ___ of worrying?”

V140. Seemingly the sole clerk of a 24-hour store

V141. Natives known as Long Tails

V142. When the lights dim

V143. Getting a gusher

V144. Peace Prize winner Yousafzai

V145. Olympics org.

V146. “___ roll!” (bettor’s cry)

V147. Paris path

V148. Julian of journalism

V149. Spirits that go after sleepers

V150. Holes to Hell

V152. Start of a legal conclusion?

V153. Utters discouraging words

V154. Two teaspoons or two tablets, say

V155. USMC officer

V156. Where some figures are made

V157. Aladdin’s servant (var.)

V158. Nation estab. in 1948

V159. Unified

V161. Watchable Web journals

V163. One scandal that harms a reputation

V164. The Wizard of Menlo Park’s initials

V166. Couturier initials

V167. “___ remember it…”

V168. Lousy egg?

V170. “But there ___ joy in Mudville…”

V171. Issy-___-Moulineaux, France

V172. Carb-watcher

V173. Gun less damaging than the bullet-loading kind

V174. Ballet boy

V175. Aspirin and ibuprofen, for example, in pharmacy parlance

V176. ___-crazy (restless)

V177. Curly ethnic hairstyle, colloquially

V180. Touch-and-go game

V181. “___ ‘em” (dog command)

V183. 2010’s less memorable AI

V186. Kept under wraps

V187. “Ladies?” alternative

V188. Spot between hills

V189. Royal retinue

V194. Org. in the movie Concussion (which more people should’ve seen)

V196. Yeti land

V198. Parking lot sign

V200. Is suffering from, as a cold

V201. ___ Married the Anti-Fan

V202. Outfit for a baby

V206. Race met by the Time Traveller

V207. Like a shot that hits a moving target

V216. Instagram and TikTok

V220. Prominent celeb in a popular filmmaking community

V233. Magna ___ laude

V235. Not-so-great airport gift for the allergic

V237. Traveled like Johnny Appleseed

V239. Damon and Drudge

V240. Other choice that’s practical

V245. Greek philosopher

V247. Common symbol in hieroglyphics

V248. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you” critic Harold

V251. Knee injury site, briefly

V252. New look for the office, e.g.

V265. Help! is one

V269. Backup in case of early failure

V277. Actor Kilmer et al.

V278. Element with the symbol Hg (abbr.)

V279. Dug in under enemy artillery

V280. Negative before “a”

V281. Sell short

V282. They make cookies, sometimes in their own image

V285. Make paste

V286. Eating only certain things

V287. Classic Tetris alternative

V288. She played Hayley Dunphy on Modern Family

V291. “Mentally unfit for service”

V294. Unlikely to wake anytime soon

V295. Service designation

V296. Pots, skillets, and kettles, e.g.

V297. FDR and Truman, fraternally

V298. Krazy of the komiks

V300. Starship commander’s command when outgunned

V302. Stops following what’s being said

V304. Japanese salad ingredients

V305. Injured sneakily on the ice

V306. Good, as an objection

V307. Pillages

V308. Beach guard

V310. Myopic cartoon Mister

V311. Vegetarian no-no

V313. Nykvist and Foyn

V314. Sidora from The Real Housewives of Atlanta

V315. Six feet or more, in 2021

V316. Defacement

V318. Honda SUV

V319. Grow less severe

V321. McConnell or McCain (abbr.)

V322. A Slinky “walks” down them

V323. When doubled, Easter Island spirits whose name inspired a Crash Bandicoot character

V324. C has one

V325. Boggs of baseball

V326. Lab maze solver

V327. Young at Rock ‘N’ Roll High School

V328. Safe place

V329. British stoolies

V330. Pass, but not with flying colors

V331. Stairway to Heaven star David

V333. “___ for the day” (“Can’t wait”)

V335. Having roof extensions

V337. Won at musical chairs

V338. Dockers’ union

V339. “Use ___ lose it”

V340. Latin initialisms found in many clues here

V341. They used to get burned a lot more

V343. Whence the Andrews Sisters’ “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”

V344. Feel upset just thinking about

V345. Essential for an investigator

V347. Biblical older sister with a role in The Prince of Egypt

V349. Committed to

V353. High school health topic

V355. How to ___ Book (Adler)

V360. “You ain’t” rejoinder

V363. Temple in Thailand

V365. Tenth-___ black belt

V366. Slowly diminishes

V367. Loses old skin

V368. Rubber-based paint

V369. Old workhorse walking up a brae

V371. Modern pentathlon blades

V373. Mary Quant creations

V375. Sea for Debussy

V377. Program design/hardware/algorithms coll. class

V378. Start doing the dishes, in a way

V380. ___ clock shadow

V384. Peel out like a bat out of hell

V386. Maker of Dibs

V388. House alternative

V389. Headlight, in slang

V390. Having three parts

V392. It also rises, according to Hemingway

V393. Jacket-sleeve text

V395. Virus named for a river

V397. Greatest hits comp with “Evil Woman”

V398. Cathodes’ opposites

V400. Navy personnel

V401. 2007 installment in a horror series

V402. Michelangelo work

V403. Airline for many a vacationing stoner

V406. Lighting unit

V408. Texas county whose seat is Paris

V410. Delivered

V412. Some cameras or copiers

V414. Apprehension

V415. He played Han in Solo

V416. Useful for correcting farsightedness

V417. Prepped to cool one’s drink in a hotel room, say

V419. Wide, scarflike necktie

V420. Smoothed wood

V421. Nadya Suleman, in 2009 headlines

V423. Site of the Garden of Relaxation

V425. Lets visit

V427. What 7 may stand for

V428. Confessional confession

V429. “Blue” singer LeAnn

V430. Quadrennial quarry

V431. Pill used in alternative “orthomolecular” medicine

V433. One who takes orders from a cap’n

V435. With small rocks in its road materials

V438. Four-time presidential candidate Ralph

V440. Baits a shark

V441. Movie that introduces a character by having him fight a tiger

V442. Tabloid TV debut of 2007

V444. Lack of it killed Padme

V446. Spider-Man’s girlfriend Stacy

V448. River across the Lake of Brienz (var.)

V449. Forward thinkers

V450. Xes’ opponents

V452. Memento affliction

V454. “Judy’s smile was ___” (from “Judy’s Turn to Cry”)

V456. Get close to

V458. “Am ___ fat for this dress?”

V459. Extreme sportswoman who conquers claustrophobia and aquaphobia, and all I have to say is, BETTER HER THAN ME

V461. Honda motor scooter

V462. Bad moon rising, for one

V463. Collations

V465. Kindergartener’s recitation

V466. Talks tediously

V468. Head honcho in Mexico?

V470. Broadcast journalist Marvin

V472. “Great” Egyptian monument

V474. Actress Liu

V475. Entranceway fasteners

V478. Technology beset by piracy in the early 1980s

V479. Total of weaponry

V483. School starters?

V484. Harvey Dent, alias Two-Face, is one

V486. Accruing fines, maybe

V488. Polytheist of sorts

V490. Threepio’s creator

V491. Like some books or cars

V492. Bring about, as labor

V493. Ltr. or no.

V494. UFO, many speculate

V496. Name-dropper’s shortcut?

V498. Where my dreams of drawing my own comics died

V500. Go from here to there

V501. “I should remember this later, IMHO”

V502. Acetic and nitric

V504. Affectedly dainty, to a Brit

V506. Source of certain beans

V507. Retort to an accusation

V512. Venezuelan coin

V513. Leading one to smell a rat

V514. Modern monitors, briefly

V516. Vernal occasions

V522. The “bad” cholesterol (abbr.)

V523. Greek god of shepherds and flocks

V524. Singing collectives

V525. Shadowy genre

V526. Garment worn with a pendant, often

V527. Aluminum silicates

V529. Aircraft that doesn’t taxi (abbr.)

V531. Cried out, as in pain

V533. Ingredient de l’eau de mer

V534. Trans-Canada Hwy. measures

V535. Take life-improving action

V541. Failing in one’s soul

V544. Drug cases

V545. Old metal utensils

V546. Chevy of 2004-2011

V547. Shrubby plant

V549. Airport west of OAK

V551. Rough sketch

V552. Doctor’s order

V554. Centennial number

V555. “Why should ___?”

V558. Meat-yielding calves

V560. Study of voting, paying taxes and such

V561. Plant, vegetable, or herb

V562. Very bright group

V563. C.W. who wrote Gods, Graves, and Scholars

V565. Know, in Nice

V567. Bag name

V569. Fiddler on the Roof milkman

V571. Countdown host Olbermann

V573. Starship Enterprise letters

V574. Checks, as checks

V576.

Attacking all over the place

V577. “Yeah, I get high ___” (Def Leppard lyric)

V578. Place to wash up

V579. “There’s ___here!” (When things start going wrong in Monsters Inc.)

V580. Faculty-meeting presider, maybe

V581. “Wait just a ___”

V582. Child’s counting word

V584. On Chesil Beach novelist Ia

V588. Packer of old

V589. Countless ages

V590. “Good evening, ___ madam…” (old-school telemarketing)

V591. Set of digits on a driver’s lic., e.g.

V592. Post the URL again

V593. Irish poet Aubrey de

V594. Skimpy skirts

V595. Heath and Eden (abbr.)

V598. Nine-to-five string

V600. “Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are ___?”

V602. English resort

V604. Like cuisine that includes pakoras, paapad, jalebi, and gulabjamun

V605. Terrorist Bin Laden

V606. Make loving sounds

V607. Times long past

V608. Whaleboat paddle

V609. Comedian Wilson who played Geraldine

V610. Loan payment, for short

V611. 2018 Masters champion Patrick

V612. Provokes

V613. Blows up with explosives

V615. Business involving clicking

V618. Amass, as a tab

V620. Perle that once gleamed in Washington

V622. Emotional need, for most

V624. Clergyman’s title (abbr.)

V625. Lack the courage to

V626. “Wow…HOT!”

V628. City near Phoenix

V630. Coldplay hit that won the 2009 Song of the Year Grammy

V633. Nickelodeon toon tot

V635. Mum’s mum

V636. “Jenny Lind” (kind of furniture for sleeping with wooden, cylindrical parts)

V638. N.Y. Ranger, e.g.

V639. French writer-director

V640. Bronze or beige

V642. Poet mentioned in Inferno

V643. Big Apple’s “bravest,” briefly

V644. Wimbledon org.

V645. Michelle and Barack’s elder daughter

V646. Common listing of award finalists

V649. “A ___ sante”

V651. “Are you ___ not?” (“Joining us?”)

V652. Profits on rental properties, for short

V653. Ending with pay

V655. German’s “Good day”

V657. Clear the surface

V658. Tudyk and Harris of Star Wars

V659. Old term for kinetic energy meaning “life force”

V661. Lassie or Bluey

V662. Tzara’s movement

V664. Nash work, typically

V666. Cry of feigned innocence

V667. Colleen’s land

V668. Alsace assents

V669. Quantification of the will of the people

V670. Backs up another time, as computer data

V672. The Dust Which Is God writer William Rose

V674. High pts.

V675. Stallone’s Balboa movie, as it’s not actually called

V677. “___ got to admit…”

V679. Three scruples

V680. Pit crew gear

V682. Valuable comic art

V685. Didn’t conceal one’s smugness

V686. Dovetail (with)

V687. Uncultured people

V688. Supplying with a fresh worm, e.g.

V690. Ballet jumps

V692. Rain drain

V694. Roses? No, the blue ones

V695. Supervised

V698. Draw a bead on

V699. Steinfuls

V700. Animation characters

V701. Colombian cowboy

V703. Question re origin

V705. Political ones can be attacks

V707. Secret-agent teddy bear with a palindromic name

V709. Former Dodger Hodges, and others

V711. Pasión

V713. Composer Ilyich Tchaikovsky

V715. Informative station, redundantly expressed

V716. Buddhist teachings

V717. Program note

V718. Refrains from

V719. Ancient tool, say

V720. Girlish Italian suffixes

V722. Cape Cod feature

V724. Beowulf, for one

V726. Emmanuelle actress Kristel

V727. Water-softening agent

V728. Tribe also called the Wyandot

V729. They’re more popular in the Amazon aftermarket than with soldiers

V730. Popular thermoplastic synthetics

V731. “Bond girl” and Knives Out star de Arnas

V734. Escape from bondage, briefly

V735. Laughable

V737. Hardly a palace

V738. Lava source known locally as Mongibello

V739. It sounds dull

V741. Allman Brothers album ___ Peach

V743. High boot

V745. Former TV psychic Miss

V746. Alike, to Andre

V747. Sea ___ (truffle topping)

V748. Jupiter, in an interjection

V749. Bright light

V750. One of Saudi Arabia’s most tourist-friendly spots

V751. Be a supplier for

V753. Word with home or bed

V755. Combination in the card game bezique

V757. Where “tiger cub economies” are

V758. Key with one flat (abbr.)

V759. “Timber!” shouter

V760. Incandescent wire (abbr.)

V761. Web spiders, e.g.

V762. Where undeliverables are delivered, for short

V763. Pigmented layer

V765. UN nuclear watchdog

V766. “How Sweet ___” (James Taylor)

V767. “It’s ___ the other!”

V768. Ball-throwing lawn game

V770. Sushi staple

V774. Bacchanalian cry

V776. Strike lightly, as a windowpane

V780. Where Cromwell once resided

V781. Mule feature

V782. Democratic enterprises

V783. Fowl poles?

V784. Dana of Body of Proof

V786. Matches timewise, informally

V788. Organism’s body

V790. Spot for reeds

V791. Counting rhyme start

V794. Ziegfeld et al.

V795. Home to the world’s tallest waterfall

V798. Salutes in World War II movies

V799. Children of Japanese immigrants

V801. Like a required course, maybe

V802. Head trauma trouble, for short

V803. Optometrists, casually

V805. Spicy parts of a Super Bowl spread

V808. Wet-blanket retort to “let’s do it!”

V811. 2003 Chrysler model with convertible variant

V813. Jet set, e.g.

V814. Red corundums

V815. 45 or 78, e.g.

V818. The ___ Spring (Stravinsky)

V820. “Supervision” preceder

V822. Lost and X-Files

V824. Violent breakdown in relations

V827. Not expecting expansion from

V829. Levy on polluters, e.g.

V830. The 3500 boasts best-in-class standard gas horsepower

V831. “But then again…”

V833. Rob Roy rebuff

V834. The J. and K. in J.K. Rowling (abbr.)

V835. ___ monster of the desert

V836. Blue October demand

V838. Vacation destination

V839. Babyish nonsense

V842. Farmers’ John

V843. Coastal birds

V844. Stellar object shaped like a spiral

V845. “You can ___ horse to water…”

V847. Convert chips to money

V849. Blazing Saddles, for one

V851. “Don’t be a hog!”

V852. Only African American to win an Oscar, Tony, and Emmy for acting

V854. Went to a wild dance party

V857. Structure having piles

V858. Auto-engine category

V859. Madame of Vietnam

V860. Ready to party

V862. ___ Beach (former home of Dodgertown)

V863. Ending after Chin or Taiwan

V864. Online ID nos.

V866. Cop making a traffic stop?

V868. Be inconsistent

V869. It may have a pet name

V871. Architect John with a namesake London museum

V872. 1997 role for Fonda

V873. Spanish singer who often appears on RuPaul’s Drag Race

V874. Movie critics, sometimes

V875. Mythical creatures from Australia

V877. Pope canonized in 936

V879. Absorb, as gravy

V881. ___’acte (1924 Dada film)

V882. Tried something new

V883. Lindsay’s family

V884. Rock’s ___ the Hoople

V885. Sabado o domingo

V886. Registered corp. symbols

V887. Org. that turned 50 in 2008, ironically

V888. Distinguishing emblem

V891. “I ___ emotional” (Whitney Houston lyric)

V893. It may have a footed base

V895. Madison, Lincoln, or Jackson

V897. Yelper’s revenge

V901. Sonic Mania company

V902. Long-running PBS film showcase

V903. Sauce in a boat

V904. Deep in thought

V905. Careers or callings

V907. Snowden’s ex-employer (but don’t ask them for a reference)

V909. Golfed perfectly (or, with a hyphen, unmitigated)

V911. Edwards of vaudeville days

V912. RPG spell’s metric

V913. There were fifty-seven to impeach Trump

V914. Be contingent

V915. Good sign

V916. Something taken before swinging?

V919. Nam neighbor, with “the”

V921. Every May, say

V925. Singleness of purpose

V926. Comic Jon

V927. Fruit found in bars

V928. They’re slow on mountain rds.

V929. Book in which God says, “I despise your religious festivals”

V930. Like myself

V931. Eye the appealing, unappealingly

V933. One in the chips

V935. Daily Hollywood publication

V937. Jousting needs

V938. “Chocolate Rain,” “8 flips in the air,” and “David After Dentist”

V940. Quite a lot

V942. 20-year-old game franchise from Japan

V944. Kettle’s accuser

V945. Mobile vs. desktop experiences, e.g.

V946. Capital of “Free France”

V947. What the V stands for, in chem class

V948. LeBron James, notably, for short

V949. One dumbbell curl, e.g.

V950. It’s important to be him, according to Wilde

V952. Opera headliners

V953. Just narrower than F

V954. Last quiet bit of resonance

V955. Out of tune

V957. Pushes off course

V959. “Get ___!” (boss’s order)

V961. Old-fashioned kind of party

V963. Lapidary specimen

V964. Number of pipers of song

V965. Playground item that’s no fun for one

V966. Classic chatrooms

V967. Stephen King title city

V969. “That’s as well ___ if I had…” (Swift)

V971. Chavez is one in Los Angeles

V972. “Oh, yes, please spill”

V974. Slightly short

V976. Dangerous, as an ancient wolf

V977. Hearty bowlful often topped with tortilla chips

V979. Coll. course teaching political ideologies

V981. Diaper woe

V982. Work-related malady (abbr.)

V983. Trail behind an airplane

V984. Daughter of Harmonia

V986. Co-founder of MGM

V987. It has wings but can’t take wing

V988. Burden or responsibility

V991. Start of some words with “twenty” in their meaning

V993. Like most M-rated video games

V995. Down comforter

V996. Address to a bloke

V997. Ransacks and robs

V998. Kind of pole in the swamp?

V1001. Russian ballet company renamed in 1991

V1003. St. Stephen, e.g.

V1005. Singer Gaye et al.

V1006. Where you step to make way

V1007. Where Hercule Poirot investigate a haunting

V1008. Remain through the seasons

V1010. Web-dev language in Facebook’s infrastructure

V1011. Consequently

V1012. AV device

V1013. Good violin

V1015. U. S. tennis org.

V1016. He wrote Cat’s Cradle

V1018. Abbr. for Harry Reid

V1019. California’s fashion monogram

V1020. LensCrafters rival

V1022. Aphrodite’s lover

V1024. Sighs of delight

V1026. Bits of scat

V1027. Bird-related prefix

V1028. Lasting forever

V1029. Marilyn Monroe, at birth

V1030. Actor Luke of Captain America and 13 Reasons Why

V1032. “Head” of the Northern Cross

V1034. Era in Japan that ended in 2019

V1036. Sue Grafton’s ___ for Lawless

V1037. Pro___

V1038. Miniature version

V1039. Equine gaits

V1040. Heartbreak

V1042. Indianapolis-to-Muncie dir.

V1043. Louvre looker

V1045. Intermediate material found when making bright paper

V1047. Like some football kicks

V1048. Bullet train technology

V1050. Lois Griffin or Marge Simpson

V1052. “Two options here”

V1054. Having more and stiffer hairs

V1058. Plays on the regrets of

V1062. Tweaked for the better

V1064. Words, briefly

V1065. Convivial one

V1067. “Eat! Eat! Before it gets cold!”

V1069. Entr’acte

V1071. 1982 film set in cyberspace

V1073. Viewed, as a horror franchise

V1074. Jewish steam bath

V1077. Tiant of baseball

V1078. ___ the day (was sorry)

V1080. Mean-minus-mean measuring methods

V1082. Scornful glance

V1083. Rapper with the #1 album “Hip Hop Is Dead”

V1084. “It’s probable…”

V1085. Some wireless consoles

V1086. Pretend not to notice

V1088. Textile apparatus

V1089. Comedian with the 2016 memoir Born a Crime

V1091. Painted, like cast iron

V1092. Central point

V1093. Know one’s way around the business

V1095. Composer Franck

V1097. Communicational

V1098. Flibberti-gibbety

V1099. “Oh, well, that’s the game…”

V1102. Splash softly against

V1103. British candy bar that, with its first letter changed, becomes an American candy bar

V1104. Michael who portrayed Alfred in several Bat-films

V1105. Color of some spirits

V1107. Maple stuff

V1108. Vaulted areas

V1111. Pitchfork-shaped letters

V1112. “Get ___ Ya-Ya’s Out!” (Rolling Stones concert album)

V1113. Some action takes place here, but the skipper’s less likely to focus on it

V1116. While ignoring cries of “There’s no point to that!,” e.g.

V1118. Star ___ (big name in exercise machines)

V1120. Praise from a choir

V1121. Midmorn

V1122. Adjunct of cold cuts

V1124. Holy Jewish scroll

V1126. (The) good ol’ wifey

V1127. Dorothy who was blown in on one

V1128. Truly one’s own worst enemy

V1130. Like an eighteen-year-old driving stick to school, often

V1133. Accts. payable receipt

V1134. Like many a head-turner

V1136. Most widely prescribed class of antidepressant

V1139. Parisian pronoun

V1140. Ward’s son

V1141. Proposition in logic

V1143. Nothing Records flagship band, to fans

V1144. Eastern VIPs

V1146. X-ray, perhaps

V1147. Concert cry

V1148. Parts of arms

V1149. Salad spheroids

V1151. Motel sign

V1154. A thumbs-up

V1155. Bobbleheaded avatars

V1156. Recording and editing setups, for short

V1157. Investment available from 1941 to 1980

V1158. Mountain climber’s aid

V1159. Black-and-white Antarctic whale

V1160. Deputy exec.

V1162. Place for a stroll

V1164. Smartwatches interfacing with GPS, e.g.

V1165. Showery mo.

V1166. Chews and swallows

V1167. Bleu who sang “I Don’t Dance”

V1168. “___ as the ocean”

V1171. Ancient porch

V1172. Folkie Fineman or synth-pop Ramirez

V1173. Application form abbr.

V1175. The Dark Crystal role

V1176. Verb that reverses to a synonym of itself

V1177. Flights’ heights (abbr.)

V1178. Sculpted, as muscles

V1179. Comedian Hart, casually

V1182. Lesser Sunda Island

V1183. Picture presentation

V1185. Thousands of lbs.

V1186. Tangent of 45 degrees

V1187. Have to return

V1188. First year of Spanish king Philip II’s rule

V1189. Hardly stiff

V1191. Berlin “bahs”

V1194. Shout when the murderer’s face is revealed to their next victim…but not yet to the audience

V1196. Blister or sac

V1198. Extended short story

V1200. Traffic lane you need passengers to use

V1201. Lead-in with car or system

V1202. Augustine’s De Civitate ___

V1203. Patriotic gp.

V1205. Employee IDs

V1207. Ending for harp or bassoon

V1208. Try to pass the bar?

V1210. Christ’s following?

V1212. View of a sort

V1215. Missouri or Colorado

V1216. Be one of the gang

V1218. Girlfriend, to Luis Miguel

V1220. “We’re on the same page now!”

V1223. Actress Redgrave

V1226. Trade collective the UK struggled to join in the 1960s

V1227. Trombone part

V1228. Consider the worst-case scenario and go ahead

V1230. Make sure of

V1231. Turkish moneys (abbr.)

V1233. Where a Nintendo might be hooked up

V1234. Mosque VIP

V1235. Acknowledge as an author

V1236. Filmmaker Riefenstahl

V1238. Pensioner’s age in old Rome?

V1239. ___ gin (liqueur type)

V1241. Slangy retort to “This you?” when someone holds up a picture of someone else

V1243. “___ a stranger”

V1244. It sells razors and erasers

V1245. Mocking imitations

V1246. What made Halloween parties the scariest part of Halloween last year

V1247. Devastated

V1249. Opposite of “fades”

V1251. More at home with app code and screen time

V1252. Avenged, with “on”

V1255. Highland games attire

V1257. ___ Park, New Jersey

V1258. Classic Morris Motors cars

V1259. Marie Saint of On the Waterfront and North by Northwest

V1260. Actress Farmiga

V1261. Inst. with a weekly Big Picture Science radio program

V1263. “Ol’ buddy, ol’” follower

V1264. “Pain says you can’t…___ says you can” campaigner

V1266. Asphalt

V1267. Destry Spielberg’s middle (hidden in this clue, actually) name

V1268. Southernmost cross-country US highway

V1270. Twice DXXX

V1271. Secretary of state under Carter

V1272. Total patient care

V1273. Battleship barrage

V1275. Search for nirvana

V1276. The Craft focus

V1277. Tranquilizers

V1279. Beak kin

V1281. Old, to a teen

V1282. “But despite that…”

V1283. Substitute for every conjugation of “not be”

V1284. Upper bodies

V1285. “Are you sure that’s not within my capabilities?”

V1287. Extremely mad

V1289. Car brand or its founder’s name translated to Latin

V1291. Belly part

V1295. Spanish province

V1296. Dispense

V1297. Double-feature fodder, often

V1298. Involving only main features

V1300. The NSA’s headquarters

V1302. Name taken to replace “Solo”

V1303. Hollywood-lunch agendas

V1306. What lurks beneath Chuck Norris’ beard, by legend

V1307. Legal scholar Guinier et al.

V1308. Star Trek’s Mr. Chekov’s first name

V1309. Elton John song about a failed father

V1311. Deadly nerve gas

V1313. Power efficiency improver

V1314. Jungle swinger

V1315. Economic rule-setter

V1318. Bunk up

V1319. Passive protests

V1321. Mold for setting concrete

V1323. Israeli tennis player Dudi

V1324. Average amount

V1325. Former NFL commissioner Rozelle

V1326. Windows 95, Windows NT, e.g.

V1328. Emulate a dad-to-be

V1329. Hayes of Bill and Ted Face the Music and One-Minute Time Machine

V1330. Exclusive date

V1333. Type of tire (abbr.)

V1334. Not even once, to Nietzsche

V1335. Org. formed to regulate US railroads

V1336. Labor Day baby

V1337. Diamonds, e.g.

V1338. Boxer in Louis’s day

V1340. Chunk or hunk

V1342. Write down anew, captain-style

V1344. French pronoun that sounds like a fish

V1345. Berlin’s “___ This a Lovely Day…”

V1346. Golfer Steinhauer

V1348. Prefix with -poly

V1349. Klaatu portrayer in The Day the Earth Stood Still

V1350. College interviewees, briefly

V1351. In one’s mind’s eye

V1353. Han Solo’s love

V1355. 56, in Roman numerals

V1356. Looks up to

V1358. Canon competitor

V1359. Abu Dhabi’s letters

V1360. Dementieva of the WTA

V1362. Close to, classically

V1364. Does some acting without much thinking?

V1367. What’s black and white and red all over at the pet store?

V1369. Rum-based liqueur

V1371. “Dear” followers

V1372. Weak at the knees

V1374. CBers’ equivalent to a telegram’s “stop”

V1376. Some geometry class lines

V1378. Aphrodite, Cupid, Hathor, and Freyja

V1380. “___ lot going on at the moment” (innocuous statement that Taylor Swift uses as code before a big release)

V1381. Galaxy Tab competitor

V1382. Word with put or gun

V1383. King James-y suffix

V1384. New, to Neruda

V1386. Patron of Wales

V1388. “He never ___ to amaze me”

V1389. Cops a look

V1390. Comparable to a rose

V1392. Where informed data comes from

V1394. Rhyme scheme of Elizabeth Bishop’s “—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture / I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident / the art of losing’s not too hard to master / though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.” [There’s a slant rhyme in there.]

V1396. “No going back now,” as Caesar put it

V1398. 23AndMe scientist’s workspace

V1399. NBA announcer Albert

V1400. True believer

V1402. Concert scream

V1404. Material lining the Batsuit (those bullets can’t miss every time)

V1405. God, in some translations

V1406. Transferred information using a lot of hot air, as to suits

V1408. Spring forward or fall back

V1410. Withered old woman

V1412. One way to do a crossword

V1414. Corrida figure

V1415. Centennial, e.g.

V1417. Political advice of a sort

V1418. Looking even deader

V1420. Egg container

V1422. Certain sequels, informally

V1424. Ender like -ettes

V1425. Go “WAHHHHHH”

V1426. The best-known Louis

V1427. Anatomical vessel

V1429. Kind of rug

V1431. Flagstones

V1432. Singer and former American Idol judge, familiarly

V1435. Wife of Paris, in myth

V1436. Many a shot in the arm, for short?

V1437. Theatrical dud

V1438. Enrapture

V1439. Med for cold sores

V1441. Sitting Bull, for one

V1443. Kind of leather

V1444. Certain words (abbr.)

V1445. Dish for Robin Hood

V1446. The curly type is underserved by French salons

V1447. MMXX/V

V1449. Dave’s pal in educational products

V1450. Words after count or let

V1451. “He ___ a God of the dead…”

V1453. When fasting is forbidden

V1454. Game shows’ Griffin

V1455. One planning an overhaul

V1460. Projecting tooth

V1462. “Right you ___!”

V1463. Bob Seger’s street

V1464. Wheat-based Japanese noodles

V1465. World Wide Web fan

V1467. Appendages

V1468. Lessen or release

V1469. Subservient ones

V1471. What a cranial nerve serves

V1473. Beach lotion numbers, briefly

V1479. Plantation drink

V1480. Sat ___ (GPS, to a Brit)

V1482. Big source of coal (abbr.)

V1484. Show whose host walked away due to too many fatal relapses

V1488. Carbohydrates’ suffix

V1490. Pitch ___-hitter: do well on the mound

V1491. Tiny locator beacon

V1493. “Wish you ___ here!”

V1494. Old-fashioned cry of despair

V1495. “Checkmate, sucker!”

V1497. Kimono-clad hostesses

V1499. The first 25 days of December, usually

V1501. Mars’ neighbor

V1503. Very, to Thierry

V1504. Pull quote

V1507. Levy included in the price

V1508. Humble on the brae

V1510. Mare’s mate

V1511. Pt. of EMS

V1514. Romantic way to walk

V1515. Festival showings, perhaps

V1516. The Bachelor part two?

V1517. Cygnet’s papa

V1518. Certain pronouns

V1519. Wine vat sediment

V1520. 11 on calendars

V1521. “___ Time” (Queen Latifah tune)

V1522. Kind of shooter

V1523. Time unit

V1524. Made a diagonal cross

V1525. Heart-healthy, probably

V1528. Ending for acro- or homo-

V1530. One who rants about those @#$% millennials

V1531. Landlord e.g.

V1532. Nun’s headdress

V1534. Restaurant figure

V1535. “___ gehts?”

V1536. Dilbert’s “AUGH!”

V1537. Bowl men

V1539. Germanic law code

V1541. Firm-name ending

V1543. Issues in the News broadcaster (abbr.)

V1544. Longer stanzas

V1545. Aqua ___ (after-shave brand)

V1546. Add zing to

V1547. Jacked

V1549. Computerized photo

V1551. Bill (abbr.)

V1553. Darker than turquoise

V1555. To you, to Iulius

V1557. Spanish hero El ___

V1559. Timetable list (abbr.)

V1560. Little bits (monovocalic var.)

V1562. Boxers’ or workmen’s protection

V1565. Affleck’s Academy Award-winner

V1566. Low-tech word processor

V1567. Debate position

V1568. Grenoble girlfriends

V1569. ___ Penh, Cambodia

V1570. NBA Hall-of-Famer Holman

V1571. Ultimatum close

V1572. Star Trek IV director

V1574. “I am the monarch of the sea, The ruler of the Queen’s ___”

V1576. Curious fellow in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and sometimes Daniel Tiger’s

V1578. Comes from

V1579. Match named for a goddess of the hearth

V1580. Wimp’s cry

V1581. STD distinct from, but caused by a strain of, chlamydia

V1583. Ashanti language

V1584. Sharp, quick humor

V1586. ___ Poetica (Homer)

V1588. Newborn’s bed

V1590. Tangy hot sauce

V1592. Dress(up)

V1593. “WHYYYYY?” [clutches hair]

V1594. Could be correct, as a crossword answer

V1595. Lead-in to meter and tude

V1596. Store that used to sell the drug andro

V1598. Like any channel between 30 and 300 MHz

V1599. USA airing, e.g.

V1601. Earlier in Arles

V1602. Need no help

V1603. Wireless mouse batteries

V1605. NASA spacewalks

V1606. Visibility, in product names

V1607. Neckline cut

V1609. Routh, Welling, and Cavill’s predecessor

V1611. Spot for a warm pie

V1612. Thrush

V1613. Money makers?

V1614. Better mousetrap?

V1615. Husky pest?

V1616. Homeland, affectionately

V1620. Japanese infotech giant

V1622. Form of encumbrance

V1624. Office on the Potomac

V1626. Reach across again

V1627. Tale in which a superhero begins his career

V1630. Monthly hassle for most women, for short

V1633. They fly fast

V1636. Occasional astronomical event

V1637. Her “Hello” was first to hit #1 on iTunes in 100+ countries

V1638. Donne’s daybreak

V1639. Dark, probably

V1640. River nymph

V1641. Concerns, in memos

V1643. Div. in a Law & Order spinoff

V1645. Virtual assistant you can make sound like Samuel L. Jackson

V1647. Music video hosting service owned by Universal Music Group, Google, and Sony Music Entertainment

V1649. Fumbles a slow roller

V1650. Adds up to

V1651. It might have a fixed thirty-year rate

V1653. Snapdragon, e.g.

V1654. Legendary lawman Wyatt

V1656. Event presided over by a king and queen

V1658. “Great Caesar’s ghost!”

V1660. Argues with

V1662. Vouchers

V1663. Poisonous prefix

V1664. Faint light

V1666. ___ Dimittis

V1667. I came, to Caesar

V1668. Robert Wuhl-Sandra Oh comedy

V1669. First word in a cross-dressing sitcom title

V1670. Spot on the telly

V1672. “Like a stoop’d falcon ___ he takes his prey” (Keats)

V1673. Half-cyclic?

V1674. Be better than, and act it

V1677. Like movies borrowed from the library

V1679. Relic of twentieth-century toons

V1680. Mother without a mother

V1681. “___ got a girl for you!”

V1682. Baal Shem ___ (Hasidism founder)

V1683. Lima lady (abbr.)

V1684. Play-bite

V1686. Objectively best competitors

V1689. Seller of Ingatorp tables

V1691. “___ Autumn” (hit 1941 song)

V1693. Green pasta sauce

V1694. Anne Morrow Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart

V1696. Heineken fermentation station

V1698. Where local access programming may air

V1700. “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” and “The Boy Is Mine”

V1701. Public address system?

V1702. Architect van der Rohe

V1703. Diet suffix

V1705. Without

V1706. Org. with a summer championship

V1707. “Modified Pon-Pon” in a Top Ten hit of 1964

V1708. Audio file format

V1710. Flooring selection

V1711. III, in modern Rome

V1712. Got back into business

V1714. Arabian Nights characters

V1716. Sch. whose students have won more than 200 Olympic medals

V1717. Turning away, as a hotelier might

V1718. Early event that some find romantic

V1722. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward

V1723. Usti ___ Labem, Czech city

V1724. Tombstone abbr.

V1725. Cape associated with space flight

V1727. Clunky ship

V1728. Site of Japan’s Imperial Shrine

V1729. City in northern Vietnam

V1730. Being noisy

V1732. Smile-sparking silliness

V1735. Perform on Glee, perhaps

V1737. Like most “love triangles,” if you diagram them

V1740. In ___ (minus basic data)

V1742. Periods of creative bankruptcy

V1743. Contend (for)

V1744. Salami holder

V1745. Kitchen lures

V1747. Little green men, proverbially

V1748. Calves raised for meat

V1750. Success, failure, or progression, e.g.

V1752. Sugar servings (abbr.)

V1754. Willingness to attempt a risky shot

V1756. Makes an incised mark

V1757. An ___ mystery

V1759. One-time distributor of trading stamps

V1761. Utilize bullet points

V1762. Puts in the pen

V1763. “We’re getting ready to put out!”

V1765. Supermarket paperback

V1766. The last one showed population declines in sixteen states

V1768. Georgia, e.g., formerly (abbr.)

V1769. This place only (abbr.)

V1771. Donkey Kong obstacle

V1774. 1500s painter known for his “Lives” of Italian artists

V1777. Hamlet relative

V1779. Kind of gun

V1780. Cash reg. display

V1781. “…and L ___ Lollapuzzoola”

V1783. Sugary suffix

V1784. A part of Life?

V1786. Permissible

V1788. Collarless shirt

V1789. Secret-keeping docs.

V1790. Get (from a source)

V1791. System for ViaMichelin, for short

V1793. Heyerdahl craft

V1794. Wear and tear

V1795. ___ Grande, city in Brazil

V1796. Like Big Mouth Billy Basses and Velvet Elvises

V1798. One in Bonn

V1799. Risktaker’s challenge

V1800. 1921 play with artificial men

V1801. Starbucks instant coffee brand

V1803. Forgone, as a possible path

V1806. Taster’s choice

V1808. Overdramatize

V1809. Texter’s “Just sayin’”

V1810. It’s a cinch in Sapporo

V1811. Noted paperback publisher

V1812. “I ___ great debt of gratitude”

V1813. Parliamentary proposal

V1815. Ski-rescue vehicle

V1818. Turkic people found in Siberia (and giving their name to its neighbor)

V1819. Sunshades

V1821. Cousin to Gomez

V1822. Work hard, in rap

V1823. Adult anime

V1825. Sportswriters’ pick, for short

V1826. Pertinent

V1828. Dixie Chicks member Maguire

V1830. Reserve force part of two separate military orgs.

V1831. One who loves a good bouquet

V1832. Barbara who was Jeannie

V1834. Video game series with a lot of carjackings (abbr.)

V1836. Bruce Cockburn’s “___ Tree Falls”

V1837. Tiny energy units, for short

V1839. Carell of The 40-Year-Old Virgin

V1840. Overhead figure

V1841. Fantasy villain with an iron fist

V1844. Sith “Sir”

V1846. Hawked

V1848. Heartburn writer

V1850. Three-hour exam for teens

V1851. “There’ll ___ sunlight” (“It Will Rain”)

V1852. They had the closest thing to “fast food” in old Italy

V1854. Unsound

V1857. Does like Tinkerbell in an older version of the Disney logo that many people misremember

V1859. Cure for writer’s block

V1860. Honored formally

V1861. Role Jeff Bezos announced he was stepping away from as I wrote this clue

V1862. Walker, briefly

V1863. Mother ptarmigan

V1864. 1999 BP acquisition

V1865. Can do anything

V1869. Jewish eve

V1870. Legal org.

V1871. After-school org.

V1872. Zone vulnerable to wide-angle attacks, in RPGs

V1873. Obsidian, originally

V1874. Present recipient, casually

V1875. “Sword,” in French

V1876. Actress Blaine, for short

V1878. ___ mining

V1880. Subject of some tales

V1881. Many a cop car

V1886. Accompanied

V1887. Persuaded

V1889. Suez Canal name

V1890. Their feet hurt a lot

V1894. Director Harold

V1895. Internet address beginning

V1896. George Strait’s “All My ___ Live in Texas” (sic)

V1897. Club’s descendant

V1898. Knock down

V1900. Sudden sharp feeling, as of worry or hunger

V1901. Arch site (abbr.)

V1902. Daughter of Steven Tyler

V1904. L train?

V1905. Doomed

V1909. Ingredient in a screwdriver

V1911. A Marriage Made in Heaven…or Too Tired for an Affair author Bombeck

V1912. Nonsense, to a Brit

V1913. Be victorious in a game of

V1915. Rent, as a car

V1916. (Can’t be) bloody well bothered

V1918. Fencer’s case

V1919. Second chance at three points, e.g.

V1920. Hurried next door, e.g.

V1922. Flamethrower adjunct

V1923. Shouldn’t deny

V1924. Amateurish scribbles, e.g.

V1925. Short genetic subsequences

V1926. ___ de cachet

V1928. Pungency

V1929. Network for hoops fans

V1931. Written record of attendees and their well-wishes

V1934. Telephone

V1935. Whence the uvula dangles

V1936. Faceplanted

V1937. Corp. shuffling

V1939. Keep still and out of sight

V1942. Traditional key material

V1944. Ending with “a” instead of “us” or “um,” often (abbr.)

V1946. Without any port stops, as a cruise

V1948. Flashes

V1949. Like a tailor-made sweater

V1951. The Guiding Light heroine

V1952. Get off the leash

V1953. Places to grow?

V1954. Homebuyer’s org.

V1955. Emergency rm. sights

V1956. AIDS cause

V1957. Standing upright

V1958. Cameroon export

V1959. Eden denizen

V1960. Whist variant

V1961. Craigslist, e.g.

V1962. “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” e.g.

V1963. To prevent the scenario wherein

V1964. Hairs on a caterpillar, e.g.

V1965. Finnish pentathlete Lehtonen

V1966. Tightassed

V1968. Prop pursuer?

V1969. Ins. letters

V1971. Word from the Latin for “wish for”

V1973. “(as anyone would know who’s not a MORON)”

V1974. Dickinson poem “___’ my destiny be Fustian”

V1975. Architectural angles

V1976. Bakeshop worker

V1978. Cell part?

V1979. The Green Goblin’s real last name

V1980. Ancestor of human race

V1981. Why we have a healthcare.org

V1982. Start of Claudius’ reign

V1983. Brute ou animal

V1984. “Stand Back” singer Stevie

V1985. Sci-fi author S. Tepper

V1986. Prefix with -path

V1987. They’re endowed

V1988. Time of the wk. to show old photos?

V1989. Performing a flattening motion

V1993. Getting under the skin of

V1996. Donkey sounds

V1997. Elephant Appreciation Day mo.

V1998. Boat butt

V1999. Thing sought after on the beach

V2002. “Beneath the Wheel” US thrash band

V2003. Rapper Spice featured on “Barbie World”

V2004. Work for

V2005. Alicia Keys’ trademark cornrows, e.g.

V2007. Resystematization, e.g.

V2010. “___ soy yo” (“I’m her!”)

V2011. ___ the door (knocks)

V2017. Did some spelunking

V2022. King of Norway in 1960

V2027. Calm and impassive

V2030. Snake dance participants

V2031. Bird caretakers

V2033. Antoni who built the church of the Sagrada Família

V2035. Kim Kardashian and Kate Upton size

V2037. Maker of the first Superman video game

V2039. He never got to Canaan as his son did

V2041. City in the shadow of Mt. Apo

V2043. “Tabulae” follower

V2044. Racer Charles or WWII general Philipe

V2045. Olds’ car company

V2046. Long of The Best Man

V2047. One may be sick

V2048. At the start of the large intestine

V2051. Maker of the XC90 and XC40

V2056. “Open wide!”

V2061. Miles Davis music

V2066. Paper-clip alternative

V2067. Galactica commander

V2068. Florida senator who once said “Donald Trump is not a Republican”

V2069. Spenser’s title “Faerie” charactere

V2070. Convenience store with its headquarters in Arizona

V2073. Painful effort

V2075. Common type size

V2077. Affectionate line from Aeneas

V2078. Mortgage deal, for short

V2079. Off-brand

V2081. “Good for what ___ ya”

V2082. Make scholarly revisions in

V2083. Rose and fell smoothly

V2084. Boxer’s wrap

V2087. School cafeteria sandwiches, briefly

V2090. Reduced

V2091. Intestine-related

V2092. Low-budget lead-in

V2093. Mobster Victor who sparked the Third Colombo War

V2094. Picture used as a classroom springboard

V2096. Some counterintelligence targets

V2098. Lao-tzu’s “way”

V2100. Uncompromising decree

V2102. Full of calories

V2104. Stereotypical status seeker

V2106. Significant changes

V2108. Top-selling J-Pop band with the album Gravity

V2109. He instituted glasnost

V2111. B1 is one (abbr.)

V2112. Printer’s space

V2113. Sub technology

V2114. 1989 Kenneth Branagh role

V2116. Tussah’s cousin

V2117. Beach near Omaha

V2120. Body of troops (abbr.)

V2121. A little too bright and active (to be believable, say)

V2123. Concerning disease study

V2125. Bacteriologist with a dish named after him

V2126. Stay in service

V2127. Baseball surname hidden in “scandalous”

V2129. Treated the soil, in a way

V2130. Star of Fringe Anna

V2131. Maligned

V2133. Stop oneself from

V2137. Skyping, e.g., for short

V2139. Given to mobile looting and pillaging

V2141. Part of cell reproduction

V2143. Some Toyota Camrys

V2145. Football kick

V2146. Ready for Christmas morning

V2147. Reports on certain subject matter

V2149. 2001 WB sitcom debut

V2150. Ledger men

V2152. When Ophelia drowns

V2153. Work-shift start, at times

V2155. Detective series teaming a psychologist with a priest-in-training

V2156. Bubbly drink

V2157. Shock jock of morning radio Don, once

V2158. Champagne choice

V2159. With no leader

V2160. Light entertainment

V2161. Très désireux

V2162. Clinical term sometimes applied to anyone detail-oriented

V2163. Make winnings

V2165. Not expected to wake up again

V2167. Device that can save a game?

V2169. Piquant triangular nosh

V2170. Some theaters

V2171. Single out

V2172. Jumps in and helps out

V2173. Support of one’s argument

V2174. Hindu ascetics

V2175. Catfish Row dweller

V2176. His death created the Earth

V2177. Gown material

V2179. “Mark him down as participating”

V2181. Dusk on an aircraft carrier

V2183. Gets results?

V2185. Dallas cager, briefly

V2186. Latino USA carrier

V2187. Hottest YouTube category of the late 2010s

V2188. The thin blue line?

V2189. Gets less

V2190. “Rock It” rapper

V2192. Car financing abbr.

V2194. Initial response to a yenta?

V2196. Dance music provider

V2198. Hat-hanger

V2200. Diet dressing words

V2201. Smoothie ingredient

V2202. CIA’s Soviet counterpart

V2205. Chef Richard or hockey player Samuel

V2206. Name preceder

V2207. Totally satisfy

V2208. GI’s street clothes

V2209. Jazz singer Mel

V2210. Anderson who sang with Duke Ellington

V2211. Educational outlines

V2213. “Like I ___” (way to make calls)

V2215. WWII rocket

V2217. ESPY nominee

V2219. Is comprehensive and alphabetic

V2222. Like a full-figured body, in slang

V2223. Soup starter

V2224. Machine that fits in one’s hand, briefly

V2225. “___ a muse of fire…” (oath in Shakespearean song)

V2227. Nonspecific things

V2230. Unctuous

V2232. Kid ___ (TV for youngsters)

V2234. Entrepreneur Dogg, to friends

V2236. Mom. over mass

V2237. Dishonest ones

V2239. “Como es ___?” (“How come?” in Cadiz)

V2240. Garrisons (abbr.)

V2241. Fraternity letters

V2242. Where an expose might bring secrets

V2243. Captain Underpants janitor with a secret past (whose name is a pun on secrets)

V2244. Continues to pay for

V2245. They’re often released before the album

V2246. Exercise in more musical and/or less literal language

V2248. Glimpse over some low-riders

V2250. Question starter in some “purity tests”

V2252. Baby seat, often

V2253. How the English spell “raccoon”

V2254. “Stop by!”

V2256. Airport abbr.

V2257. Fruits bought to make guacamole

V2259. First-stringer squads

V2262. A few

V2265. ___ tube defect (spina bifida, e.g.)

V2266. Statement of faith from a friend

V2269. “Gesundheit” go-before

V2271. Temptresses of Greek myth

V2272. Japanese drum

V2273. Bored with life, say

V2274. Nickname sometimes eliding “hu” or “jah”

V2275. The “Americans” in The Americans, e.g.

V2278. Like desert earth

V2279. Overweeningly

V2280. TV actor Burton

V2283. Peters on American Horror Story

V2284. Creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor

V2285. ___ This Earth (1988 film)

V2286. Freshman-to-private prog.

V2288. Articulate about European wars, e.g.

V2291. Present as a center of attention

V2294. Programs you can test out before buying the “real” ones

V2295. Like horror

V2298. Activity that got much more fraught in the COVID era

V2300. River in southeast Kenya

V2302. Olympic volleyballer ___ Walsh Jennings

V2303. Woodcock’s relative

V2305. Astronomic wonder

V2307. MTV sight, once

V2311. Total Effects skin care brand

V2312. Cake-candle numbers

V2313. Spenser’s cadence

V2314. Jingle or slogan writer

V2315. Baltic land

V2316. “Let’s salute…”

V2317. Sounds of gaiety

V2319. Oklahoma sch. named for a televangelist

V2320. Source of revenue for smaller papers

V2322. “Breeze ___” (Donny Osmond song)

V2323. The I in FYI, for short

V2324. Charles who invented the solar panel

V2325. Slip of the mind

V2326. Oxford feature

V2327. Popular soup legume

V2328. When the microwave beeps

V2330. Knock over again?

V2332. Lemon locale

V2334. Kind of splinter group

V2336. Pick from a deck

V2337. Memory unit, briefly

V2338. At-bat stats.

V2339. Mulligan of Promising Young Woman

V2340. Fruit-and-ice-cream treat

V2341. Heeded

V2342. Inits. for side costs when buying a car

V2343. Tie-breaking periods, for short

V2345. Connected, as hotel rooms

V2347. Draft or track endings

V2349. Nice name

V2350. “I regret tasting this!”

V2351. Tampa campus, in brief

V2352. Eat Drink Man Woman director Lee

V2355. Univ. domain suffix

V2356. Thing, at bar

V2357. Topper pin

V2358. British greetings

V2359. “Is ___ dot…” (“Particle Man” lyric)

V2360. Subzero, maybe

V2361. “Black and Yellow” singer Wiz

V2363. Dunkin’ product

V2365. College basketball venue

V2367. Headline-making illness of the Bush years

V2369. Arellano of 90 Day Fiancé

V2370. Collections of work

V2372. “Faboo!”

V2373. Lab measuring tube (var.)

V2374. “Porsche. There is no substitute,” e.g.

V2375. ___ the cat out of the bag

V2377. Nixon’s middle name

V2380. Famous king or famous aardvark

V2382. Muslim sect

V2384. Lang. that gives us “blitz”

V2385. Violin or cello (abbr.)

V2386. His name is a letter short of his description

V2387. Furry adoptee

V2388. Like cells in an organism

V2392. ___ in pluribus unum

V2393. Neck, anatomically

V2394. General Ross who gives the Hulk and Avengers a hard time

V2396. Escort, as to the door

V2397. “___ the One That I Want” (song from Grease)

V2399. Beamed intensely

V2401. Ancient villain

V2403. Took a fresh poll

V2405. They may have islands in the house, for short

V2406. Brink or edge

V2407. Place to find studs

V2408. Parts of cathedrals

V2409. “Well, Did You ___?” (Crosby-Sinatra song)

V2410. Doubles tennis pro Shibahara

V2411. Criminal trickery

V2414. Less-truncated-than-it-could-be truncation for “truncation”

V2416. Center row starter

V2417. Social thing, these days

V2419. Athens’ coast

V2422. Sound in a library

V2423. Flanked by

V2425. Common benzo

V2426. Biochemist’s letters

V2427. Peruvian singer Sumac

V2428. “I ___ I taw a puddy tat!”

V2430. Self-titled 1990s band album

V2432. He tells Forrest Gump the importance of socks

V2434. Likely to figure out this clue immediately

V2436. Tetragrammaton representing God

V2437. Those too young to walk

V2439. Somebody’s fault

V2441. Provides (for)

V2442. Battled like mensches

V2444. Old muscle cars with racing stripes

V2446. She played Dory

V2448. Machine on Mars

V2450. Prefix before tan or frost

V2452. What the binary number for two looks like

V2453. Shout after a too-bookish discourse

V2454. Mel Gibson movie

V2456. One in a tight squeeze

V2457. Three-layer topography of humus, clay, and loose rock

V2459. Steam, British style

V2461. Places for some Christmas lights

V2463. Blog revenue source

V2466. Hungarian’s neighbor

V2468. Put cargo away

V2469. Bit of term paper color

V2470. Count up

V2471. Cause trouble

V2472. Small two-wheeled vehicle

V2473. Abbr. meaning “lack” (_ _ or _ a _ e)

V2475. Temple feature

V2478. Made one’s mark

V2480. Try to locate

V2481. Passes in the newsroom?

V2482. Sun of war

V2483. Herr’s “Hrrrrgh!”

V2484. Cause of climate change

V2485. George, the “dean of counterculture comedians”

V2486. Bus letters on the City of Big Shoulders

V2487. Rock’s Jethro

V2488. Untouched by time

V2490. Lynn ___ Ryan of baseball

V2492. “Ouch, that hurts!”

V2493. Blood component that’s part of the immune system

V2495. Apt first name for a thief

V2496. What non-Far Side cows say

V2497. They’re often converted to pounds

V2498. Powerful breakup song from Neil Diamond, named for an imaginary friend

V2499. Unintimidatable

V2500. Synagogue props

V2501. Rocker Ocasek

V2503. Aerialist film of 2009

V2504. Be honest (with)

V2506. Flight-path stat.

V2508. ___ Jima

V2510. Suffix with racket or rocket

V2512. It could be ginger or blonde

V2513. Noted brand of water filter

V2514. Christmas party quaff

V2515. Russian comic Smirnoff

V2516. “Ya got it?”

V2519. It may be unlocked in some video games

V2521. Duo that asked what the fox said

V2523. Barrel part

V2525. Rod once used for reception

V2527. “Fixing” racism by hiring one Black middle manager, e.g.

V2529. What people in the 1980s would probably call an “omnidevice,” if they saw how we used it

V2530. Recipient

V2531. Patterned textiles

V2532. Relax, informally

V2534. Cole Porter’s Sweeney and others

V2536. Has on hand

V2538. Scot’s stunning strike

V2540. Having only a front row and a back row

V2542. Country that surrounds Lesotho (abbr.)

V2543. Two and a Half ___

V2544. Otters’ prey

V2545. “Naughty, naughty!”

V2546. Either of Odin’s information gatherers

V2547. “Thanks ___”

V2549. Informal assessment?

V2552. Bane for many grammarians

V2553. Bags in turndown service

V2555. Big name in wireless speakers

V2557. Hollow medical device

V2559. Makes up

V2560. Never too ___

V2561. Make one’s own

V2562. Ski ___

V2563. Seat of Montana’s Lewis and Clark County

V2564. Electric truck set for release in 2025

V2565. Michigan politician John

V2567. “UNNERSTAND?!”

V2569. Rosie’s fastener

V2571. Ballet pose with both feet “on the ground”

V2572. Get completely wet, in dialect

V2573. Military rank (abbr.)

V2574. Stir-frying aid

V2575. Triple-A’s Mud Hens, on scoreboards

V2576. Spassky or Yeltsin

V2577. To the penny

V2578. The external world, in philosophy

V2580. Short-term stand-in for an electron

V2582. Makes lively

V2584. Notations between notes

V2586. Story of the year

V2588. Performer’s appearances

V2589. Kind of newspaper column

V2592. Complaint department item

V2593. Legal setting

V2594. Ending of many URLs

V2595. B.C. Judean king

V2596. Managing, as fires in Birmingham

V2599. Quartet that’s missing a member

V2600. Likely to miss a lot of the picture

V2602. One-man Broadway show

V2604. Important Vermont tree

V2606. Butcher’s trimmings

V2607. It’s often overlooked

V2609. When Hamlet sees the ghost, in Act I

V2611. Close-it-down key combo

V2612. Dahl’s “Fantastic” title character

V2614. “Water pill” brand

V2616. She won three Grammys for her 1989 album Nick of Time

V2618. Fire truck noisemaker

V2620. Claps and peals

V2624. “If thou ___ he; But O how fall’n! how chang’d” (John Milton)

V2625. Bridge player’s comment

V2626. Assembly line product, sometimes

V2627. Slot machine fruit

V2628. Solar phenomenon

V2630. The word of word of mouth

V2632. FB stoppers

V2634. When a clock’s hands point up

V2635. Sorrel soup

V2637. PDA communiqué

V2638. It sublimates when there’s no condensate

V2640. Lat and lit ender

V2641. Pep rally cheers

V2643. Sushi ingredient

V2645. Form a smooth surface

V2647. Rarely-prescribed antidepressant using the letters in ALIVE

V2649. Accompany to the penthouse

V2651. Alvin’s sarcastic brother

V2653. Personality piece

V2654. One-time place for downloading software, now a software news source

V2655. Shout upon walking in the door, perhaps

V2656. Actress in a noted shower scene

V2657. Use abusive language on

V2658. The Koran denotes it as 2.5% of business earnings and 10% of harvest

V2659. Production co.?

V2660. Peripheral connector

V2661. Calendar jottings

V2664. Crunch in cereal bowls

V2667. In ___ (coordinated)

V2670. Congressional meeting (abbr.)

V2671. Deteriorates, in a way

V2672. Hideous

V2674. Michael Jackson’s 1987 boast

V2676. “Where did you even HEAR that ridiculous lie?”

V2679. Ari Gold or Princess Carolyn, briefly

V2680. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 ___ Minor

V2681. Pre-festival hours

V2683. “Sure, I guess”

V2685. Jib overlapping a mainsail

V2687. Bogart’s role in The Caine Mutiny

V2689. Rachael Ray acronym

V2690. Abbr. in cookbooks

V2691. Slalom challenges

V2692. ___ vie

V2693. Recorded for later viewing

V2694. Established as true

V2695. ___ Beach, Oahu

V2696. Kiss, in Harry Potter

V2698. Reacted to long underwear

V2700. Car trip

V2703. Word with “valve” or “dissection”

V2705. Home of the ‘Noles

V2706. Canned nutritional supplement

V2707. Legal eaglets

V2708. Czar of Russia, circa

V2709. Eyes amorously

V2711. Pierre’s fish bait

V2712. Crop containers

V2714. Lydia’s sugar substitute on Breaking Bad

V2716. Rejuvenate

V2718. Checked one’s license, e.g.

V2720. Hurry-scurry

V2721. Volcano in Italy

V2723. “Get over here…but act casual!”

V2724. Examines financial statements

V2725. Wooster’s peerless valet

V2726. Language of “Avatar”

V2728. Off-white jumper with cable patterns

V2730. Supreme Samuel

V2731. Dissolve again

V2733. Frat’s opp.

V2734. “Speak softly and carry ___ stick”

V2738. Wooden spike used to keep knots open

V2739. Glacial, in product names

V2742. Anapests, e.g.

V2743. English by ancestry, in England

V2744. Louis XIII and Rémy Martin, notably

V2746. Loc. of Nigeria

V2747. Western resort named after a Civil War general

V2748. “___ yourself”

V2750. Become attentive ASAP

V2752. “Just say no!”

V2754. Divulged

V2756. ___ So Rave

V2757. Brewers’ ovens

V2758. Work the waterfront

V2759. Decorative neckline insert

V2760. Cleric’s title (abbr.)

V2761. Terror, to Juan

V2763. KAL flies here

V2765. Where the disgraced are dragged through

V2767. Source of much opportunity and, lately, much debt

V2769. Product tag

V2770. Solo flying?

V2771. Sue Grafton’s ___ For Owl

V2772. Anti-fraud agcy.

V2773. Like many government employees, locationwise

V2775. Holy Tibetans

V2777. Give ground-ball practice, maybe

V2779. Kind of vacay that should follow the “3/3/3” rule

V2781. Dolman or raglan

V2783. It’s sometimes called two chisels put together

V2785. Fez cover

V2786. Newton and Asimov

V2788. Beetle that got around

V2789. Generally newest and most valuable, as buildings

V2790. Barbecuer’s buy

V2791. Bit of code

V2792. Assertive type

V2794. Arrondissement heads?

V2796. Service jobs

V2798. Disciplinary

V2800. Hallmark starts selling it in January

V2804. Dusty speck

V2805. Blouse partners

V2806. Turn, as a desk chair

V2808. Private sleeping spot

V2809. Meat in a croque monsieur

V2811. Winter river blocker

V2813. Formal-sounding “Me too”

V2815. Mandela portrayer Elba

V2817. Grammy Award org.

V2819. Company whose name means “six” in Japanese

V2820. English, Scottish, and Welsh rivers

V2822. Having joined the mass transit

V2824. Pertaining to the spinal cord

V2826. Cry of surrender

V2828. Dir. opposite to WbS

V2829. Field where Jackie Robinson played

V2831. Aztec god of rains

V2834. Devastates

V2836. Kind of yr.

V2837. Speaker’s platform

V2838. Press down on, informally

V2840. Word for a furnishing that resembles what it signifies when written in lower case

V2841. Jane of the jungle

V2842. Norfolk VA campus

V2843. Andrews and Brockovich

V2845. Destination of the “midnight choo-choo”

V2847. Warming up the car, maybe

V2849. Its “The Best of Both Worlds” was a television highlight for ‘90s nerds, in brief

V2851. Bible edition abbr.

V2852. He “brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock”

V2853. Rhinestone feature

V2854. Plant known as “seer’s sage” because of its hallucinatory effect

V2855. Total dominance, in gamer-speak

V2856. She has six older mer-sisters

V2857. No longer active, for short

V2858. Network offering home improvement advice

V2859. TechCrunch publisher

V2861. Misapplications of the law

V2863. She’s not talking

V2864. “I can feel it all the way down to ___”

V2866. Saudi salutations

V2868. Deem to be

V2873. For the full time

V2875. Frantic signal

V2876. Letters after M

V2877. Use some Listerine

V2878. Renovate

V2879. Talk before the class

V2880. “Ha ha, as your friend, that’s just what I’d expect to happen!”

V2881. “Mercy sakes alive!”

V2882. Be bratty to

V2883. Civil rights martyr Medgar

V2884. Proper and then some

V2885. Disguised

V2886. “My heart means ___” (Shak.)

V2887. Strategically blacken

V2889. Labor source on the Southwest range

V2892. Hemorrhaged alarmingly

V2896. Suffix with inherit

V2897. “Not to be ___ blanket…”

V2898. Feature of the populace in a total-surveillance state

V2901. They’re for the books

V2903. Not irreg.

V2904. Golf great Sam

V2905. Excessive constriction of the pupils

V2906. Front-meets-front result, for short

V2907. Make more exciting

V2908. One place to shop while watching TV

V2909. Anti-gun-control lobbying agcy.

V2910. “Ugh, keep that to yourself”

V2911. Like some stocks (abbr.)

V2912. Racers in 2013’s Turbo

V2913. One who’s charmingly besotted

V2915. Laugh-In co-host

V2917. “Forsooth!”

V2919. Shout of surprise from an old-timey pirate

V2920. Makes haste

V2922. Get from ___ (progress)

V2926. Hannibal’s favorite beans

V2931. Smith role “protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe”

V2937. S California desert

V2943. Author Mario ___ Llosa

V2949. “___ Tok” (2010 #1 hit for Kesha)

V2950. Overpriced, e.g.

V2952. Like a zany

V2956. “Su-u-u-ure”

V2957. It may be bourguignon

V2959. ___ freunde: Ol’ buddy Hans

V2960. Discovered, in Derbyshire

V2962. Dawn Chong and Issa of Hollywood

V2963. Toon in a Keebler commercial

V2965. Yellow-white dwarf

V2966. Gunn of Breaking Bad

V2967. Spectacle suffix

V2972. Tanning booth item, briefly

V2978. Beat the stuffing out of

V2984. Short-tempered

V2989. Bautista of Guardians of the Galaxy

V2993. Any of the Four Noble Truths

V2994. “No Trump” stater?

V2995. Leofric’s equestrian lady

V2996. How Altoids mints are packaged

V2997. Mobster’s code of silence

V2998. ___ Celestial (controversial baby-food maker)

V3000. Landlord’s guarantee?

V3002. Newman song played after a Dodgers home victory

V3004. Highway vehicle

V3005. Zoomed

V3006. Head cheese component

V3010. Orgs. with patrol cars

V3011. Auditor’s work

V3014. Besiege while cutting off food supplies

V3018. Scoreboard figures (abbr.)

V3019. Pete’s wife on Mad Men

V3020. Trig abbr. that leaves off “ant”

V3021. Tract of land

V3022. Pamplona shout

V3023. Asia Minor region of yore

V3024. Fingered, briefly

V3025. Alice’s companion in Through the Looking Glass

V3026. “Cave ___”

V3027. Isaac who enshrined the Three Laws of Robotics

V3028. Circuit City stock

V3029. It’s best for short-range communication

V3031. Maritime raptors

V3032. Form a connection

V3033. Cash or vegetable

V3034. Air stirrer

V3035. Removes wrinkles

V3037. Retailing

V3040. Conceptual frameworks

V3041. J/H creator’s monogram

V3042. Considers, as an argument

V3043. Molar, e.g.

V3044. World leader Merkel

V3045. Called it quits

V3046. Faults

V3047. Title in Tijuana

V3048. Aggressive poker table words

V3050. Brewer’s device

V3052. Hypothetical narratives

V3054. Dermatological troubles

V3056. Flower-based fragrance

V3057. Kennel threat

V3059. Suffix in zoology

V3060. Alveoli and bursae

V3061. Conjugation target

V3062. Tries to damage, as a pinata

V3064. Goal of a self-designed maj., often

V3065. 2010s governor of Ohio

V3067. Laptop screen meas.

V3069. Sun, to Suetonius

V3070. Closing poetic lines

V3072. “Talks about his regrets, but ___ do it all over again”

V3073. Chaplin and others

V3075. Mega trailer?

V3077. German shepherd of TV and radio

V3079. Beginning to care for the older set?

V3080. Groin-protecting band in medieval armor

V3082. Taste for fine art

V3083. Golf forerunners, briefly

V3085. Singer Park or crossworder Pahk

V3086. Burst with pride

V3087. Get a spark going

V3089. They may be packed for a trip in the mountains

V3091. Discussing, with “out”

V3094. Bulwer-Lytton heroine

V3095. Durante’s trademark

V3098. Negations

V3100. “And ___ Was” (Talking Heads song)

V3101. Sen. Gore’s state

V3102. Coordinated attacks

V3105. Acts boldly

V3107. “Love and Marriage” composer Sammy

V3108. Vera who was #2 in world tennis

V3111. Sans annual charge

V3112. To whom notes are assigned

V3114. Web-connecting businesses, for short

V3115. Skiing great Lindsey

V3116. Exemplify that group

V3117. Hazardous gas

V3118. Grandson of Adam and Eve

V3119. “Uhhh, of course not”

V3120. Hef, as his friends didn’t call him

V3123. Business recruiter

V3125. Split asunder

V3126. Cows’ chew

V3127. Who Luther prayed to

V3128. Eyes going from (o) (o) to (.) (.)

V3132. Break off

V3135. Maris, to his pals

V3136. “___ Love” (Curtis Mayfield song)

V3137. “Huh? What ___?”

V3139. Once Upon a Time in China star

V3141. Clear the field

V3143. Leif’s father

V3144. Stalin and Lukashenko

V3146. Who Ernest talks to

V3147. Copper and iron

V3148. Democratic Minority Leader Harry

V3149. Minute amount

V3150. “Not yet…not yet”

V3153. Head-shaking initialism

V3155. Banderas who voiced Puss in Boots

V3157. “Let me think…hmm, I don’t think so”

V3158. ___-cake (child’s game)

V3159. Like me when I think about politics for too long

V3160. “I need this like I need ___ canal”

V3162. Athletes may have to break them

V3164. “Best Aida ever!”

V3165. Island chain near Taiwan

V3167. Elle and Starship Troopers director

V3171. Level a cloud may form

V3173. Of Pindar’s work

V3175. Format dumped by Microsoft Edge

V3177. Astronomical measure (abbr.)

V3178. Lower-cost Nintendo offering

V3182. Fruit of the Loom-owned underclothers

V3183. Letter-turner of TV

V3185. The Ancient Greek Trump

V3186. Faith, in France

V3187. Title from the Sanskrit for “beauty”

V3188. Kept on doing, unfortunately

V3190. They’re welcome sights for minks, foxes, and nature photographers

V3192. Making audible nearby, e.g.

V3195. Piloting to a safe landing

V3197. Releases, as a horse

V3198. 1998 World Series star Ricky

V3200. Researcher with drooling dogs

V3203. Do some door drama

V3205. Where water samples may be tested

V3209. Records accessed day by day

V3211. Trimmed again

V3212. River once called Araxes

V3213. Good reasons for lane closures

V3216. Last letter of the Hebrew alphabet

V3217. Missile-zapper, in theory, for short

V3218. The Goonies’ Sean

V3219. Responds to a text, perhaps

V3220. Part of S&L (abbr.)

V3222. Jazz’s Montgomery

V3223. 2012 Gillian Flynn novel in which the title character fakes her own death

V3225. Sail troubles

V3226. Dia de ___ Muertos

V3227. Big bang letters?

V3228. Roof gutter

V3232. Robbie Knievel’s dad

V3233. Overall composition?

V3235. “Everything Now” band my brother introduced to me on our cross-country train trip

V3237. Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown

V3238. Belgian canal connector

V3239. Throws a party for

V3240. Direct-sales giant with beauty products

V3241. Pink Friday singer Minaj

V3242. He whose first word was “RECITE!”

V3243. Sacred linguistic artifact?

V3245. Calf meat

V3248. ___ crow (suffer defeat)

V3249. Worshipped ones

V3250. Check alternative?

V3252. Dog, wolf, or fox

V3254. Partners in Health, e.g.

V3255. 2020 candidate Patrick

V3256. Film that prompted Roger Ebert to say, “The kind of guy who would agree to having his whole life televised…is a loser, painfully needy or nuts”

V3257. Jack viewed by mid-century night owls

V3259. Tongue depressor sound

V3260. Noted snake remover, for short

V3261. Israeli hot spot

V3263. Old school computer?

V3265. Whence the balcony scene

V3267. B’way, e.g.

V3268. Rating for CSI-type programs

V3269. Freezer brand

V3270. Mindsets

V3272. Use gum

V3273. Ignored, as a bill

V3276. ___ cavae (large veins)

V3277. County in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and Virginia

V3279. Like some kosher foods

V3280. CIA director under Clinton and Bush

V3282. “Friendly Skies” flier (abbr.)

V3283. It’s 180 from X

V3284. Album

V3286. Questions in The Gateless Gate

V3287. Guardian Angel Curtis

V3289. TWA Hotel designer

V3293. The end of Shakespeare?

V3295. Fictional material the writer didn’t seem to spend long thinking about

V3298. Chin-wag

V3299. Break bread

V3300. “C’est ___”

V3301. Went for the gold

V3302. “That’s the Way ___ It” (1975 #1 hit)

V3303. Wrinkle-inducers

V3304. Governing agent

V3305. Owners’ documents

V3307. Very wee (var.)

V3308. Condition that can make it hard to pick Christmas decorations

V3313. Congo add-on

V3314. One who faced Talos and the Sirens

V3317. Birthday party crock

V3319. Not the fighting types

V3320. Measure of how often a word gets used

V3322. Renaissance and Baroque

V3324. Kind of grind

V3325. Event where Kanye West embarrassed himself, before he started doing that everywhere

V3327. Spider’s activity

V3331. Draw toward evening

V3332. Tough situation

V3333. They double as commanders for the U.S. Cyber Command

V3336. Consider

V3338. Best man’s duty

V3339. Unlikely steakhouse patron

V3340. Nation on the Medit. Sea

V3341. Prime cut

V3342. Cover seen in hip-hop albums? (var.)

V3343. Here, in Hidalgo

V3345. Late friend’s request

V3347. Careful and delicate, as treatment

V3349. Chant to correct your golfing stance

V3353. Deck with I joker, e.g.

V3355. Watch bearing

V3357. ___ Warriors: show following four teen heroes for hire

V3362. Like many sportscasts

V3363. Cold-weather-wear unit

V3364. Sinful habit

V3365. Drive into the mud

V3366. Mississippi politico

V3367. Fixed tire

V3368. Roller in Vegas

V3369. They should be avoided

V3371. Try for dates

V3373. Bridge opening

V3376. Space-shuttle’s path

V3377. Ranch closing?

V3378. Cattle-grazing area

V3380. Isaac of music

V3381. Swiss calculus pioneer Leonhard

V3383. You or me, once

V3385. Finished, as a wall

V3387. Tender and brittle

V3388. Right to express oneself

V3389. Positive feedback

V3390. Port opening?

V3391. Irradiators in dentists’ offices

V3394. Mythical king of Crete

V3395. Starchy dish

V3397. Motley Crue duo?

V3400. Their top picks in a Rotten Tomatoes poll were Breaking Bad and The Sopranos

V3402. “What ear is the sound coming from?” exam

V3405. Book that ends with Joseph’s death

V3409. Domino’s fixtures

V3411. Kind of share

V3413. Habitual gum-chewing or nail-biting, e.g.

V3417. Drinks bought from a stand

V3419. North Pole helpers

V3421. “I always knew I was ___. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me” (Freddie Mercury)

V3422. Woolly mothers

V3423. Vaulted

V3424. Roof rooster

V3425. “So Much in Love” singing group, with “The”

V3426. Flushed, as the cheeks

V3427. Font of knowledge

V3428. Triangular pastry that may be served with chutney

V3429. Spanish menu offering

V3430. The Sandman creator Neil

V3431. St. Lawrence, for one

V3435. Be inherited by

V3438. Soda-can device

V3440. Eastern newt, by another name

V3441. Feels sorry for

V3443. Austrian actress Palmer

V3445. Like an ogre, it has layers

V3446. Maker of hydrating mist

V3448. SNL-like show filmed in Canada

V3450. Voice actress Carerro, or “Voices Carry” singer Man

V3452. Rescuer, e.g.

V3453. Sound engineer’s control

V3454. Endless

V3455. They analyze current with mercury

V3458. Bios of a sort

V3459. Basis of the Nintendo Wii’s processor

V3460. Excited acronym

V3461. Coloratura’s quaver

V3462. Profs, often

V3464. Suffix with lemon or orange

V3465. Mary in Look Back in Anger

V3466. Countrified “Scram!”

V3468. Pre-seizure perceptions

V3470. Marilyn ___ Savant

V3471. Handkerchief, if you’re being all edgy about it

V3473. Prevarication

V3475. Holdups on the website side

V3479. Layover cities, often

V3481. Some are wind-powered

V3483. Disadvantage or worse

V3488. Anime hero ___ Rider

V3489. Top part of a form

V3490. PaintShop Pro maker

V3491. Symbolic Logic author John

V3492. Latin abbrs. rarely used in crosswords

V3494. Raveled a blanket, e.g.

V3498. Where a potter gets raw materials from

V3501. Refusing the prospect of further performance in the field

V3505. Stuns with sudden force

V3509. “Hoist by my own petard!”

V3510. Volley

V3512. Elevated hair

V3514. Fear Street author

V3515. “Sit back and ___ the show” (announcer’s request)

V3517. Way to calculate money flow

V3519. Nugatory

V3520. Sculling equipment

V3521. Common bathroom-floor materials

V3524. Switchblades

V3525. Mooring site

V3526. Old European card game

V3528. Fields of scientific study

V3529. Played all game without running bases

V3530. Year “Poker Face” was released, casually

V3531. Tool to carry a camera or rifle

V3533. Barbershop activity

V3534. Online shopping site

V3537. Romeo’s “Right!”

V3539. Tickles pink

V3541. Last pair of instructions in many main-course recipes

V3545. Punt or junk

V3546. Gosh preceder

V3547. Parking attendants

V3548. TV adjuncts

V3549. Link’s partner on Good Mythical Morning

V3550. Pubs not reviewed much

V3551. Architect’s info

V3552. It’s longer in South Korea than in America

V3555. Cassiterite

V3556. Wanders widely

V3558. 14th-century music

V3560. Its unit is the J

V3561. Meningococcus, e.g.

V3563. Bernadette or Genevieve, par exemple

V3564. In terms of what’s good for the story

V3568. Quick onscreen bulletin

V3570. Took down

V3571. Their panels are strictly optional

V3573. It’s her job to be a bit of a know-it-all

V3575. Have a pint at the pub

V3579. Cinemax competitor

V3580. Gale was his heroine

V3581. They point to leprechaun’s pots of gold, it’s said

V3584. Clasp or boning

V3585. “Wanna make ___?”

V3586. Fraction used in “possession is ___ of the law”

V3588. Two-month king probably killed by Richard III

V3590. Benedict Cumberbatch mocap role in two films

V3591. Nickname that removes the “red”

V3593. Take without warning

V3595. ~40-decibel unit

V3596. SNL’s Carvey

V3597. “More to come!”

V3599. Pole or Serb

V3601. Windowpane

V3603. It activates some outdoor lights

V3607. Fast food tycoon Ray

V3609. No longer current, as an issue

V3610. Like a ___: awesomely

V3611. TV journalist Frank

V3612. Form of neo-paganism

V3613. At any time at all

V3615. Notes in many mnemonics

V3616. It needs a lic.

V3617. Sought compensation

V3620. The Dow, e.g.

V3621. More viscous

V3623. Provide ___: let save face

V3625. “Here Comes Science” band, for short

V3627. Fancy Honda

V3629. “Hello…is ___ you’re looking for?”

V3631. Muslim flute (var.)

V3632. Verne captain et al.

V3634. Markings from a nudist beach

V3637. 2012-2022 power couple

V3638. “You have ___ in the matter!”

V3640. Spanish wine descriptor

V3642. B&O & AT&SF

V3643. Revolution 9 co-composer

V3646. Pew place

V3647. Gets plumper

V3650. Opera and Vivaldi alternative

V3651. Partner of null

V3652. They’re kept in cabinets

V3653. Squeezing device

V3654. Us, in Essen

V3655. First name in Uganda

V3656. Knotty

V3657. East end?

V3659. Anglo-Saxon fricatives

V3661. Sp. compass point

V3662. Hill position

V3664. Illegal baseball catch

V3666. Great dogs?

V3668. Ex of Burt

V3669. Ease tension

V3671. “No guarantees”

V3675. Low-altitude clouds

V3677. Casino on the Vegas Strip

V3679. USC, to some

V3680. Levels out

V3681. Spanish spider

V3682. Grimm and Parker of Marvel Comics

V3683. They can be fast or slow on the road

V3684. Rockies resort

V3685. Compulsive “shoppers”

V3688. At its most diminished

V3690. Omelet-making discard

V3693. Class system for “universal receivers” and “universal donors”

V3695. Broadway success

V3696. Classic actress Madlyn

V3698. How a package may arrive

V3700. Occupy, as a desk

V3702. American Gigolo actor

V3704. Kick out of a flat

V3706. Actress Volz of Diff’rent Strokes (or actress Eve, backward)

V3707. Goatskin shield

V3709. Mutation

V3712. “___ girl” (sporting last words in Jurassic Park)

V3713. Frozen sandwiches that were my elementary school’s desserts

V3716. By-the-hole golf contest

V3717. Marvin’s home

V3718. Plays swing music

V3719. Conciliatory bribe

V3720. Nice way to refer to you?

V3721. “I knew this would happen”

V3724. Put on a calendar

V3726. Not that many

V3729. Devoted to eating

V3731. Integers (abbr.)

V3733. Ingmar protegee

V3735. Cheroot

V3737. Lennon’s johns

V3739. Aged hero of Bubba Ho-Tep

V3741. Content for many news publishers around Christmastime

V3745. Northern California newspaper, slangily

V3746. Chianti’s color

V3747. Delaware Indian

V3748. Plenty, casually

V3749. “Nothing ___!”

V3750. Name in retail

V3751. Some recording devices

V3752. Deep Blue opponent

V3754. Batting game for tots

V3755. Coven count

V3756. Engage anew

V3757. Supplies with a new hand

V3758. The King, late in his career

V3761. Like skinny-dippers

V3763. His share is the largest

V3765. Browser history list

V3767. ___-a-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants

V3768. Construction items hyphenated with E, H, I, and T

V3770. “Boxer” of barley

V3771. The Hague, officially

V3773. Without object?

V3776. Socially smooth and polished

V3777. Metaphor for secrecy

V3778. More there

V3779. Three or four, approx.

V3780. “I need this like I need ___ in the head”

V3781. They’ll help you find some better hookups if they can

V3782. Talk to end the Napoleonic Wars, say

V3783. Character in OZ?

V3784. Where someone might keep a little “sugar” on the side, secretly

V3786. First of a Roman trio

V3787. To you, to Yolanda

V3789. They’re buried in clickbait

V3791. Harsh punishment for a tube-loving kid

V3793. Channel to mainline law-enforcement reruns

V3795. Where to learn improv and Method

V3799. Mother of Helen of Troy

V3800. Surprising 2018 World Cup finalist (abbr.)

V3801. A, B, AB, ___

V3802. Quince-hollowers

V3803. Pianist Schumann

V3804. Traditional beverage with vermouth

V3806. “Right back ___, duder!”

V3807. Acupuncture alternative

V3809. Completely factual

V3811. e.g., William Henley’s “It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul.”

V3813. Seemingly contradictory size of car

V3816. Big name in cordless phones

V3818. Lack of energy

V3819. Dinner for Mister Ed

V3821. Force, in ancient Rome

V3822. “That’s a stumper, all right!”

V3826. Cold airs?

V3827. Negotiating goal

V3828. They go E-A-D-G

V3831. Demanding words from a tot

V3834. Hand sanitizer brand

V3840. Unproven

V3853. Bucking horses

V3859. Gives ‘er the old school try

V3861. Touches on some personal issues

V3864. Anchoring or digital amnesia

V3866. Shot contents

V3868. 49ers’ home

V3872. Seat fixer

V3873. Playboy-owned magazine evoking French erotica, one assumes

V3874. Every year, for short

V3875. Winning dad in a race

V3876. Major D.C. employer

V3877. Barbecue entree

V3878. Truly would rather not

V3879. Place to see YouTubers or TikTokers in person

V3881. Drink with mint or lemon

V3882. Where the president works

V3883. Sleeping beauty of Disney

V3884. Historic high-water mark

V3886. Responds to steering

V3887. Requirements

V3889. Worker’s weekend whoop

V3891. US Army rank

V3893. “That was a meal ___ for a queen”

V3894. Four-time Hugo winner Frederik

V3895. The Lion King’ queen

V3897. Reduce with time and patience

V3900. Reward good restaurant service

V3903. Encyclopedia start

V3906. Far-reaching family bonds

V3908. What a bark or meow may mean

V3910. How the Brits described American soldiers in World War II

V3915. ___ End ALZ (Biking for charity)

V3917. It’s no moon

V3919. Krampus, who appears on December 5 to give coal and sticks

V3922. Did some permanent damage, as to one’s heart or body

V3925. Kids’ song about an acorn “lying on the cold, cold ground”

V3927. Abets with dishonesty

V3928. Wing of Versailles?

V3929. Brand with ReEmber shoes

V3930. Sudden death

V3931. Clothes presser

V3932. Newish kind of digital signage

V3933. Clarence Darrow was among its early leaders

V3934. Delightful

V3935. London’s industrial zone

V3936. Simon’s “___ Rock”

V3937. Carpet component

V3938. Word processing command

V3939. Message from a sponsor

V3940. Skinny ___

V3941. Most common pieces in at least two crosswordlike games

V3942. Bk. with a Purim origin story

V3943. Ensigns-to-be, for short

V3944. Powerball player’s rejoice

V3945. Pigeon enclosure

V3946. Story that may be “tall”

V3947. Bear in the air?

V3948. Ramble on

V3949. Shrine on a hero’s grave, e.g.

V3950. Reply of innocence

V3951. Cast-off spouses

V3952. Candy seller a bit sweeter than Godiva

V3953. Da’s opposite in the Kremlin

V3954. It’s signed, sealed, and delivered

V3955. Charge a lawbreaker?

V3956. Synthetic fibers

V3957. Hates, hates, hates

V3958. Aged brandy info

V3959. Francisco and Paulo

V3960. Tillie Olsen short story

V3961. Makes damp

V3962. Devilish designs

V3963. Electrical conductor

V3964. Jaguar models

V3965. Freelancers enc.

V3966. Turner Cantrell

V3967. “A poem lovely as a ___” (Kilmer)

V3968. Cowboy’s prod

V3969. Propel a grocery cart

V3970. Fully filled-in, lawnwise

Down

V1. “___ have thought…”

V2. Mexican entree

V3. Willy, e.g.

V4. Bucks, e.g.

V5. Buy ___ box: make an in-video-game acquisition

V6. Big name in gourmet pasta sauce

V7. Finalize with pen

V8. US-Mexico-Canada commerce pact

V9. Branch of knowledge

V10. Approaches, as fate

V11. Furrow-making tool

V12. Conqueror of Valencia

V13. Little monsters

V14. Able to do a handstand

V15. It’s within a second of the Earth’s rotation, for short

V16. Features of most woodwinds

V17. “___ La La La Suzy”

V18. Words before “miss”

V19. 14th-century Russian prince

V20. Perfumery oil

V21. Cement unit

V22. Green crawlers

V23. Educ. certificate earned by Paris Hilton

V24. Have (with)

V25. Bruins

V26. Spock, e.g. (abbr.)

V27. Ex-QB who knelt for justice, nicknamed

V28. Praying woman, in classical art

V29. Frolicking fish eaters

V30. Soup ___ (matching tureens, crocks, etc.)

V31. Chance to speak

V32. Are plentiful

V33. O’Meara’s is in Orlando

V34. She succeeded Steffi

V35. Fixed up

V36. In the last few months or so

V37. Just out

V38. Texting shrug

V39. Treat fairly

V40. Doing well

V41. Easterner out West

V42. “Sorry to say…”

V43. Luke, to Darth

V44. Ill-fated informant on The Sopranos

V45. Reality-show pioneer, for short

V46. Ft. or mi.

V47. Certain naval officers (abbr.)

V48. Raise, as a steering wheel

V49. Stamp collection?

V50. Prefix in hematology

V51. When the workday often begins

V52. Hauler’s rope

V53. Attacker from behind

V54. Deficit’s is given online as “1782, from French déficit (late 17c.), from Latin deficit ‘it is wanting,’ an introductory word in clauses of inventory, third person singular present indicative of deficere ‘to fail, be deficient,’ from de ‘down, away’ (see de-) + combining form of facere ‘to do, make’ (from PIE root *dhe-’to set, put’)” (abbr.)

V55. Extramarital activity

V56. Diner freebies

V57. Tom yum ___ (Thai soup)

V58. “___ Big Mess” (Sesame Street breakup book)

V59. Take-home meals

V60. Commie-busters of 1950

V61. PC upper-left key

V62. Pope of 795-816

V63. Steak rating and Amazon rating

V64. Eggs fit for Caesar

V65. Won’t leave alone

V66. Gay Tibbets whose bomber son named a plane after her

V67. Specialized planes

V68. Pfeiffer of Big Sky

V69. Line or mine starter

V70. Direction opposite WSW

V71. Koteas on Chicago P.D.

V72. Ahead by a small margin

V73. Japanese horror film series about a cursed videotape that inspired a similarly titled American remake

V74. On the ocean, near France

V75. Big Island draw

V76. Say, “Want to come up for a cup of coffee?”

V77. Potato parts

V78. Mythic beauty contest judge

V79. Perfume by Grande-Butera

V80. Cousins of the elite

V82. Complete de-escalation

V83. Columnist Syndey who was a Leo himself

V85. Cloves of homegrown MJ

V86. His portrayer also did scenes with Katherine Hepburn

V88. “That’s a shame!”

V89. “___ often the case…”

V90. “___ said…” (on the other hand…)

V91. Teutonic town

V92. The done thing

V93. Safety item

V94. Grinds one’s teeth

V95. Sounds from the Raven, or sometimes from a rave

V96. Critical hosp. ward

V97. Gamer’s power move?

V98. Org. in the Troubles

V99. Army noncom (abbr.)

V101. Gallery-loving

V102. Vulnerably to influence

V103. Shaped like an arrowhead

V104. Libra follower

V105. Asst. hired before April 15

V106. Tissue residue?

V107. Old Russian bigwig (var.)

V108. Police sch.

V109. The Y, e.g.

V110. Bygone Peruvian

V111. Right, to the USN

V112. That Catholic priest

V113. AL players who bat only

V114. Ballerina’s pivot

V115. Agnew and Quayle, once (abbr.)

V118. Hop-___-thumb

V119. “The whole family can watch” program rating

V120. Seize a vehicle in transit

V121. Michael Collins’ costar Stephen

V122. “May I take your ___?”

V123. Giant of old

V124. Ratifies, old style

V125. West bank gp.

V126. Animal adjective ending

V127. “This ___ travesty!”

V128. Mouse, for one (abbr.)

V129. Retail chain popular with kids

V132. Siamese sounds

V151. ___ and yang

V158. Beverage brand on Burger King’s menu

V160. Suffix meaning “sort of”

V162. Meditation mutterings

V163. Rescues can repair them for birds now

V165. Swimmers in a crawling period

V169. “cya l8r, but not 2 much l8r”

V171. Rendered ineffective

V172. Foolish one

V177. Atticus Finch’s boy

V178. Moray, old style

V179. Office, for many

V182. Tribulations

V184. She voiced Harley

V185. ___-dovey

V187. Skywalker Ranch’s county

V188. Assholes

V189. Vehicle history report provider

V190. Ancient Veracruz people

V191. Some lizards

V192. Served TV leftovers?

V193. Jeopardy! staple

V195. Neeson of Taken

V197. Pocket game, perhaps

V199. Shoe widths for Bigfoot?

V200. Snookums

V201. Unstressed vowel

V203. El ___ (Central American nation)

V204. Type, often contemptuously

V205. Useful Scrabble letter

V208. Hot times in Quebec

V209. Sam Cooke tune, “Everybody ___ Cha Cha Cha”

V210. Enterprise fleet

V211. Super Bowl highlights, for short

V212. “___ Were a Boy” (Beyonce song)

V213. 1004

V214. “¡___ a toda madre!” (Spanish compliment)

V215. One of two certainties, to Franklin

V216. Guatemalan city flanked by volcanoes and sharing a name heard in a Caribbean nation

V217. Tournament arrangements

V218. Common speech

V219. Roget’s entry (abbr.)

V220. Unwieldy mass

V221. “We’re finally ___ way!”

V222. Mormon letters

V223. Jeans brand

V224. Kin of mos. and wks.

V225. All ___ (totally wrong)

V226. Producer of workplace regs.

V227. Hill, in Spain

V228. Ersatz toilet

V229. “WTF? Seriously. W. T. F”

V230. Repository used in gasoline manufacture

V231. In relaxed but still disciplined posture

V232. Most immediately available

V234. Writer Peter whose studies facilitated organ transplants

V236. Really pester

V238. Indian writer Mehta

V239. Stubborn sorts

V240. VapoRub name

V241. Adjusted, as for television

V242. “I will fear ___…”

V243. True, in Rouen

V244. Old ten-dollar coin, or feature on one-dollar bill

V246. Weest of wee hours

V248. Non-varsity squad

V249. Cotton machine

V250. Goose eggs on the scoreboard

V251. Evergreen

V252. Young woman into the punk rock lifestyle

V253. Demanding shout

V254. Lightest

V255. Home to 1/3 billion

V256. List on an actor’s Wikipedia page, maybe

V257. Push slightly

V258. “The best way to deal with fitting ___ to be yourself” (Meaghan Jette Martin)

V259. College degrees (abbr.)

V260. FDR’s follower

V261. Linguists’ gp.

V262. Sunset time, to Spenser

V263. Conversation Hearts maker

V264. Used Charmin for shenanigans, for short

V265. Cam’s total eyeshot

V266. Where Tony Stark built his armor from a box of scraps

V267. Poe lady

V268. Star-making title role for Mel Gibson

V269. Patriot-diplomat Deane

V270. Green land?

V271. Get affectionate, with “up”

V272. How some stupid stuff gets done

V273. Part of Can.

V274. Boxes in the refrigerator aisle

V275. One might have a smooth feel on your leg

V276. Russo in Avengers: Endgame

V283. Phytomedicine, e.g.

V284. Not ___ expected (finish with a surprise)

V285. Makes concrete?

V286. Jason Lives, e.g.

V289. Stuffed-shirt comics landlord of yore

V290. Jim of cartooning

V292. Academics’ resumes, for short

V293. Edible seaweed also called carrageen

V299. Star of 1990s TV’s The Naked Truth

V301. Coral-reef border islands

V303. Happenin’s, duder

V306. Big mouth-breather of sci-fi?

V307. Envelope sealer

V308. Give access

V309. Sharply accelerate

V312. Thompson who played Fat Albert

V315. ___ Club (conservationists’ group)

V317. They test Micro and Psych

V318. Gets nearer

V319. “Couldn’t find it with ___”

V320. Take part in drunken revels

V323. Half a vocalic sequence

V328. Penis-___: cis male

V329. Punny genre for Sonic Youth

V330. MacLeod of The Love Boat

V332. Site of a Herculean battle

V334. Talmudist’s reading matter

V336. Where Freud’s patients lay

V342. Uninclined to complain

V346. Morse units

V348. Slipped up

V350. Small bird that sounds like a mammal birds eat

V351. Standing or on the move

V352. New parents’ decision

V354. Award for James Harden

V356. Suffixes with diminutive force

V357. Well up

V358. Big name in chocolate and soap bars

V359. Tenor John, or baseballer

V361. Gosling

V362. Pre-stereo

V364. Romantic drama with Willem Dafoe as T.S. Eliot

V365. Dis twice?

V366. In the cards

V367. Tricks and illusions

V368. More pathetic, as excuses go

V370. Hasidic leader

V372. Mouth-watering

V374. Autumn Joy, e.g.

V376. “He wore a diamond” in “Copacabana”

V377. Eager joiner’s comment

V378. Like the better-for-you chocolate

V379. What you gotta punch to get some cash

V380. Phase one of a two-phase con game?

V381. Rice cake served with chutney

V382. Eland land

V383. Cog attachment?

V385. What Warren Buffett says drives the world

V387. Called in the 1950s

V388. $/X, for shareholders

V391. Worthless scoundrel, in Shakespeare’s day

V394. Mitchell’s fictional belle

V396. Falklands Warriors, for short

V399. Picnic appetizer

V400. Like wicker baskets and tales

V401. Elaborate scams

V402. Deep Space Nine revolutionary fighter

V403. Red cent?

V404. It can complicate credit

V405. “Divine” nickname for Bette Midler

V407. Where people once went for Heroes

V409. “Hold that note,” in notation

V411. What fledgling singers cut

V413. Hearty tortilla chip dip

V415. Where Hulk Hogan got his start

V416. Whoever wrote this

V417. French playwright

V418. Go ___ great length

V422. Arranged music, in a sense

V424. Wake-up call provider

V426. Dick and Kaufman of comedy

V427. “Johnny Get Angry” singer Sommers

V430. Passes

V431. Animated Scrooge

V432. In French it’s frapper

V433. Digilux camera maker

V434. Rules of conduct

V436. Future DA’s hurdle

V437. Air Force Base at Las Vegas

V439. Support with stone, as an embankment

V443. Cajun “roots music” style

V445. Promise et al.

V446. Page, often

V447. Verb associated with destruction

V451. Dirty and disheveled

V453. Line on a job appl.

V455. Subsurface shocker

V457. Start of genesis?

V458. Pasta name suffix

V460. Lego but bigger

V461. Smear, but in a complimentary way

V463. Like May through August, orthographically

V464. Shout to put police dogs in pursuit

V467. Tunnel-building soldier

V469. Commanded anew

V471. Supposedly an acronym meaning one you put “ahead of everyone else”

V473. Blog feed letters

V475. ___ good turn daily (follows the Boy Scout motto)

V476. Groupon thing

V477. Satires’ cousins

V478. Carrots provide it

V479. National park called the “Crown Jewel of the North Atlantic Coast”

V480. Go back, in action, thought, etc.

V481. End-credits teaser, e.g.

V482. Stiff collars

V485. Sandler of manchild comedies

V487. Mil. fliers

V489. In a single stroke

V492. Rip van Winkle creator Washington

V493. Fundamental beliefs

V494. Per ___ date

V495. Fifth installment of a miniseries

V497. Some bank employees

V499. Drench in praise

V503. Enterprise once’s invested in

V505. Nukes and such

V506. Go-with for early iMacs

V508. “Heigh-Ho” singer

V509. It feeds on giant underground tubers and never stops having babies

V510. Give one’s bearings

V511. Roosevelt and Kennedy

V515. World banking org.

V516. “Don’t throw that away”

V517. Whitish edible root

V518. Inflated speech

V519. Being wasteful with, as a tool

V520. Prince Ali, e.g.

V521. Computer voice in The Lego Batman Movie

V524. Balmy place?

V525. Musician Brown or Van Elken

V526. Lawmaking blockages

V528. And to Think That I ___ on Mulberry Street

V530. Cotton portrayer in Scream

V532. End of the NSA’s URL

V535. Language of China’s Hmong

V536. Spheric lead-in

V537. It means “queen” in Dothraki

V538. Sophisticated style of wit

V539. Type of harp played by the wind

V540. Easiest to move

V542. Flats, e.g.

V543. Olympics athlete Carl

V548. Called in from the reserves

V550. Understanding

V553. Kind of bean or tree

V556. Opposite of all

V557. Prohibitionist’s pleasure

V559. Areas within circles but without other circles that are within those first circles

V560. In truth, old-style

V561. “___ Only Just Begun” (1970 hit by The Carpenters)

V562. Elementary lepton particles

V564. J.J. Jackson once was one

V566. Recited

V568. Canines underfoot at Buckingham Palace, once

V570. Shakespeare’s Antonio and Bassanio, e.g.

V571. Pristina is its capital

V572. Made out

V575. How many operas begin?

V577. Cutesy word in store names

V578. 100% effort

V583. Mouth, so to speak

V585. It may precede woo on a valentine

V586. With ___: showing quiet assent

V587. Maker of Garli-Eze and Fact-C supplements

V592. Chew out

V593. Smoke, as an e-cig

V594. Tube commercials

V595. Exodus remembrance

V596. When Hannah Montana debuted

V597. Treats with malice

V599. Less colorful

V601. Stds. prescribed by some doctors

V603. Japan’s fourth most populous city

V608. Kathy of Misery and American Horror Story

V609. Preferred, briefly

V614. Words after “I don’t want a million dollars…”

V616. “Unless it’s impossible”

V617. Parcel for Pedro

V619. Canterbury crib on wheels, basically

V621. Area near cactus flats?

V623. She could make a pig out of you

V625. Wedding ceremony starter

V626. Unspoken feeling

V627. By or beside

V628. Skeletal pair

V629. Added to the party’s Facebook group

V631. Dream supplier

V632. How Luciano and Placido might sing

V634. Reads personal futures, if you’re a believer

V637. Michael, star in many James Cameron films

V638. Bêtes ___ (bugbears)

V639. Small-eared rodent

V640. 123-45-6789, e.g. (abbr.)

V641. Gets one’ eths and esses crossed

V642. Total lack of awareness

V645. Mid-13th-century year

V647. Rock cavity

V648. Fierce, athletic daughter in Howards End

V650. Genre for Paramore and Cash Cash

V654. Bert and Fred

V656. Calculated

V657. Marry

V659. African prairies

V660. Head-butting bumper

V663. Kind of stopped clock right only once a day

V665. Ebert and Siskel, e.g.

V666. ___ Eisley (Tatooine spaceport)

V669. Old scoundrel

V670. Fabled fliers

V671. Bringer of light, in myth

V673. She was Lois to Dean’s Clark

V676. Bills that may prove helpful in solving the contest

V678. More than just cheer up

V681. Wonder or J of music

V683. Punkies, e.g.

V684. Like some designs or tables

V686. Insincere talk

V687. China problems

V688. The Gulf of Aqaba is its arm

V689. French

V691. Parting sometimes followed with “Wouldn’t wanna be ya”

V693. Some takeout meals

V696. Film including a scam to earn a decoder ring

V697. Like Eva Longoria and Will.i.am’s birthdays

V698. Self-insufficiency in manufacture

V700. Playground game of shouting shows’ names

V702. Cause of a traffic delay

V703. “___ way did he go?”

V704. ___ trot: excited

V706. Totally meaning exactly what one says, uh-huh

V707. Vegas venue, briefly

V708. Japanese sliding door

V710. Hurt bitterly

V712. Fiennes or Macchio

V714. Part of a house ensuring some privacy

V717. Needing editing, perhaps

V718. Cordials

V719. Lubes anew

V721. Of any of fifty

V723. Smooths, as a plank

V725. Turn into curds

V728. Part of a person that belongs to Heaven, in some renderings

V729. “After dinner” candy

V730. Kind of bear, ideally camouflaged

V732. North Dallas Forty star

V733. Body part often synecdoche’d

V734. List with soups, salads, and sandwiches

V736. “Now I ___ down…”

V738. El primer mes del año

V740. Cicero’s 651

V742. Wets with the Holy Spirit

V744. Follows closely

V748. Mrs. George Jetson

V749. Lithuanian capital until World War II

V750. Mandela’s old stomping grounds, familiarly

V752. Quick round of tennis?

V754. Breast augmentation goal, often

V756. They may give you a ticket with a number like “V756”

V760. Has beef, e.g.

V761. Start a biblical generation

V762. Say never happened

V764. Isle whose animals are unnaturally domesticated beasts or transformed humans

V767. Document-based law cases

V769. Feeding the fetus

V771. “It’s kind of ___ on words” (awkward punster’s explanation)

V772. Act threatening, like an untamed animal

V773. Guayaquil girls (abbr.)

V775. Far-spreading problem

V777. Some beer orders, initially

V778. Between-scene performances

V779. Baby name that’s a backwards spelling popular with Christians

V781. Sludge

V782. Lug along

V783. Flemish master

V785. Refrain from piracy?

V787. John B. of song

V789. Sports champ who fought apartheid by example

V791. Black hues, to Byron

V792. H-dropping “Hi”

V793. To ___ (without profit)

V794. Wi-___ (coffeehouse amenities)

V795. Angle used in boat-trailer axles

V796. Like some coat linings

V797. Platoons

V798. Make the shortstop bend over

V800. Pig Latin negative

V803. ___ now and then

V804. Has visual hallucinations

V806. Switch rival

V807. Spring Air alternative

V809. In a sitcom, say

V810. Slow racer

V812. Look again at

V813. Teeming (with)

V814. Critical work

V815. Relating to kidneys

V816. Encore, e.g.

V817. When Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa

V819. Mnemonic for evaluating whom to lend to

V821. Make full again

V823. “I’m gonna ask you to press ‘pause’ here…”

V825. Delorme of linens

V826. Free (of)

V828. Sports shoe sort

V829. Kirk’s greatest love

V832. It doesn’t require a paper ballot

V837. “___ turned to B’s, and so did my grades” (apocryphal senior quote)

V840. Becomes involved with

V841. It can raise dough

V843. Not this’n

V844. Daytona 500 letters

V845. George whose name is a lead-in to “film”

V846. Animals who’ll never run

V848. Common starting hr.

V850. Public outburst

V852. Streamers of the late twentieth century

V853. Hospitalized one

V855. Half-throat-clearing, half-outraged-yell

V856. Moving sight?

V861. Flintstone or Stone

V865. Hardware fastener

V867. Ominous invitation (from kidnappers, maybe)

V869. Meshed man

V870. Surprised sounds

V873. Prone to blab? (Word root usually seen with a “dis-” prefix, and a homophone for a Greek island)

V874. Won’t stop gabbing

V875. Really stiff ones may be crashing

V876. Sort of preview

V878. First of the major Hebrew prophets

V880. Marten’s cousin

V883. Queso base

V884. Feminine title, abbreviated

V885. Chunk of the fairway

V888. Jose in the liquor cabinet

V889. Progeny of a DISK, sometimes

V890. Slugabed mornings

V891. Transformer relative

V892. Chlorofluorocarbons damage it

V893. Craft often depicted landing on three legs

V894. Biathlete’s need

V896. Penn, for one

V898. Word in the Postal Creed

V899. Sugarloaf Mountain setting, informally

V900. Love after Lockup broadcaster

V903. Tell everything

V904. Dionysian princess

V905. Microsoft’s biggest failure

V906. Cube or cone

V908. Director Tarkovsky or hoopster Kirilenko

V910. Like loss-of-function mutations

V914. Coin shape

V915. Scrutinize, with “over”

V916. Closet item, for short

V917. Ecologist’s suggestion

V918. Droid download

V919. Diplomat aimed at ending conflicts

V920. Some noncoms

V922. Insulation measure

V923. “As the final point…”

V924. Physical feature of some merging lanes

V926. Autoimmune ailment

V929. Unremarkability

V932. Police bust

V934. Figure with a gurney, briefly

V936. Getting ready for action

V937. Called up, as troops

V938. WWII “doodlebug”

V939. Became dried up

V941. Sleek fabrics

V943. Small floppies from bygone days

V944. What you may sign to see a sneak preview, for short

V945. Kin of -kin

V946. Salome’s seven

V947. Movies, slangily

V948. Fear, e.g.

V951. Bulls in bullfights

V954. Emersonian plants?

V956. Lord with a scale

V957. Cardiologists’ org.

V958. Scot’s precipitation

V960. File, for example

V962. 101-digit number

V965. Outdoor brew

V966. “Star” of Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

V968. Like polynomials with a leading coefficient of 1

V970. Gambler’s method

V973. Skrillex or Avicii genre

V974. It uses British headword spellings, briefly

V975. LA-to-Helena dir.

V976. Scatterbrain

V977. “Get a load of ___!”

V978. “Telefone” singer Easton

V980. “Quo ___?”

V983. Hindu scriptures

V985. Put too much detail into

V987. “Losing My Religion” group

V989. Populous area, slangily

V990. Doris Day’s “will be”

V992. It’s everybody you disapprove of

V994. Gloomy (var.)

V996. Slap-shot stopper

V997. Steam Era conveyances

V998. Kislev follower

V999. “You ___ mean, hahaha!”

V1000. Colonization chronicler Bartolomé ___ Casas

V1002. Followers of dietary reformer Sylvester Graham

V1004. Send out again

V1007. Take a ___ silence

V1008. “Let It Go,” in the opera version you know someone’s already working on

V1009. Florentine Primavera painter

V1010. They’re in orders

V1012. Curtained area where one registers choices

V1014. Pops to tots

V1017. Padres and Pirates

V1018. Most scoutmasters

V1020. Smart, in a way

V1021. Like jagged edges

V1023. Communicate nonverbally

V1025. Love song

V1028. “If ___ time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin” (Samuel Adams)

V1029. Stewart’s costar in Vertigo

V1030. They’re stronger, happier, and better than us, but they’re not Buddha or anything

V1031. NFL running back Barlow

V1033. Largest mammal in North America

V1035. Douglas Hyde’s people

V1038. Tree-lined promenades

V1039. Rating for most Simpsons episodes

V1040. Spiritual leader

V1041. Dangerous blowup

V1044. Much misc. mail

V1046. Cans more common in Harrison, New York

V1048. Flavius’ 1504

V1049. Cousin of angel hair

V1051. School near the Charles R.

V1053. Overflow points

V1055. “A man ___ train passing” (start of a word problem)

V1056. Fringe of the green?

V1057. Take a breather

V1059. Two Towers trilogy, initialed

V1060. Cookie on Empire

V1061. Like dolls that come with razors

V1063. “Got that under control, trust me”

V1064. Swings for Tarzan

V1065. R or X preceder or follower

V1066. Place to park a camper

V1068. DEA agent, slangily

V1070. Call “heads” wrongly

V1071. “Booty Wurk” rapper

V1072. Taking over for

V1073. Holey vessels

V1075. Healthcare center

V1076. Third of a foot

V1077. Paul V’s predecessor

V1079. Turnabout, for short

V1080. Some social-media celebrities

V1081. Drip (in)

V1084. Barcelona bears

V1086. Longtime doubles partner with Jimmy

V1087. Revises or rewrites

V1090. Letters on a brandy bottle

V1092. Pet ___

V1093. Wait near at hand

V1094. System housing the Rebel base in Star Wars

V1096. Mikhail’s spouse

V1100. Cast onto the ground to promote growth

V1101. Pupil’s need

V1103. “It’s ___ worse than death”

V1104. Informal cold medicine

V1106. 514, to Claudius

V1108. Tudor Jogia of Victorious and Now Apocalypse

V1109. Cops, on the street

V1110. Show in which “Outdoorsman and survival expert Les Stroud permits himself to be stranded for a week in a remote location with no equipment or supplies apart from his one-man camera rig, documenting his experience and providing insight into how to manage whatever hurdles the wilderness might throw at him”

V1111. Org. with a fur-gone conclusion?

V1114. Fancy greens dish

V1115. Constant friction

V1117. James Madison, religiously

V1119. Secret cooperation

V1121. Long baskets

V1122. Carried a torch (for)

V1123. Bourne portrayer Matt

V1125. Gymnast’s dismount

V1127. Source of “frankenfood,” briefly

V1128. ___-off shotgun

V1129. Word after “slithy”

V1131. Prefix with “muscular,” or electro-house DJ duo who are twin sisters

V1132. Jasmine and oolong

V1135. Discard at high velocity

V1137. Caramel-and-chocolate candy

V1138. Two movie stars dating, e.g.

V1140. Kind of cure famous in Gilead

V1141. Aphrodite’s domain

V1142. Likely lead from an immigrant neighborhood

V1145. California city or winds

V1147. Snake souvenir

V1149. Toothpaste once said to contain the bacteria-fighting compound “GL-70”

V1150. “Good ___” (1966 #1 song)

V1152. Mountain hollows

V1153. Actor Bob of Full House

V1158. Muscovites, in early Cold-War slang

V1160. Crabby disposition

V1161. Encycl. components

V1163. Answer, as a party announcement

V1166. Airline at Lod

V1167. ___ d’Ivoire (African nation)

V1168. Bit of improvisation

V1169. Potentially embarrassing video

V1170. Start to steal

V1173. Completely preposterous

V1174. Title given to Ketel Marte in 2023, for short

V1177. It is, in Innsbruck

V1179. Bit of crowdfunding

V1180. Nice state?

V1181. Always watching

V1184. Stone in the Rhone

V1187. ___ cat: baseball variation

V1188. It’s no side or appetizer

V1189. Go to an extreme

V1190. Media-presence consultant/manager

V1192. Measure taken after reckless sex, maybe

V1193. Primly restrained

V1195. Chemical compound

V1197. It was once ruled by a shah

V1199. “Let ___” (Paul McCartney)

V1200. Center of activity

V1204. James who is the star of TV’s The Angry Video Game Nerd

V1206. Measure of passing time

V1208. Letters on a remote

V1209. Danceable (music-score abbr.)

V1211. It means “crookedness” in Greek

V1213. King-killer

V1214. Expensive equipment you should remove car keys before getting into

V1215. Bad Piggies developer

V1216. Hairstyle also called a taper

V1217. Campbell in Wild Things

V1219. Going wild, as a crowd

V1221. Emergency Broadcast System opening

V1222. Vultures, ominously

V1224. Pro-underdog, in betting (for short)

V1225. Powder hound’s hangout

V1229. Guernsey or Anglesey

V1232. Oreo fillin’

V1235. Early home of man

V1237. Trapped Endor-style

V1240. Mouth-immolating

V1242. Sherberts

V1243. “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons” speaker

V1246. Musical sequence?

V1247. Part of RPM

V1248. Game-making team

V1250. More reliable

V1252. It may be 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

V1253. Tsar who co-ruled with Peter I

V1254. Footpath, in Paris

V1256. Network standard for smartphones, for short

V1257. The President in Deep Impact

V1258. Make ghost noises

V1260. Cons welcome them

V1262. Thing of which the Bible forbids worship

V1264. Llama lookalike

V1265. Apply Novocain to, say

V1266. Cherry remnants

V1267. Bushy ‘dos

V1269. ___ Creed (Christian prayer)

V1272. Frequent trouble quantity

V1273. Take part in military engagements

V1274. Appearing after adolescence

V1276. Indigenous Brazilian

V1277. BJ’s rival

V1278. How Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic

V1280. Hindu’s forehead mark

V1283. Reach your destination

V1284. Space Invaders company

V1285. Name of a nation or slang for a stud muffin

V1286. Spice sprinklings

V1288. Reaction to flatness

V1290. Great and terrible angers

V1292. 2005 Grammy-winning rock supergroup

V1293. Campy horror hostess of screen

V1294. Applied with a trowel, say

V1296. You get down from them

V1297. Tom Sawyer’s love interest

V1299. Comedy series aka Wyatt ___

V1301. Popular snackwiches in a variant form

V1302. Plot again

V1304. ___ of (postal phrase)

V1305. Lyrical poems

V1307. They were both Turkish and Italian, once

V1308. Scumbag

V1310. Sailing outfit

V1312. Local area network members

V1314. OPEC concern

V1315. Wyoming’s Grand ___ Mountain

V1316. Thinner go-with

V1317. Prayer sometimes followed by “my rock and my redeemer”

V1318. Actor Astin

V1320. Camille Saint-___

V1322. Yankee’s wear

V1325. DVD go-back button

V1326. They contend

V1327. “As ___” (ad words)

V1331. Carrere in True Lies

V1332. Number on rolled dice in a casino, renamed so that no one confuses it with “seven”

V1336. Commencement speaker, often

V1337. “___ of the Golden West”

V1339. My Milanese?

V1341. Their knees are great, supposedly

V1343. Congratulate with the palm of one’s hand

V1346. “___ evil,…”

V1347. Breezy spousal greeting

V1349. Blackpink and Twice genre

V1351. Exactly as spoken

V1352. Date in Nero’s reign

V1354. Think fondly of

V1357. Woe ___ (best-selling grammar guide)

V1358. “…___ its ugly head”

V1361. College football game in Honolulu

V1363. Genre influenced by jazz

V1365. One hundred in the shade

V1366. USAF division

V1368. Fleming the writer

V1370. Policy statement

V1371. If you see this one, you’re only halfway through a long-running horror franchise

V1372. Popular thing, slangily

V1373.

VCR alternative

V1375. Fan support

V1377. Gentle as can be to the touch, as toothbrushes or toilet paper

V1379. Went into a coffin

V1381. Pledges exchanged at the altar

V1382. FICA payout

V1385. Screen names without identifiers

V1387. Word following surface or service

V1389. The 23rd is famous

V1390. Shipshape ships

V1391. He’s famous for his relief work

V1393. Multi-octave soprano Sumac

V1395. Kind of breaker

V1397. Part of a certain structural framework (watch your feet!)

V1399. Former CSI actress Helgenberger

V1400. Accuracy

V1401. Lead character in Jumanji?

V1403. Put up paintings

V1407. Nightmare locale, in brief

V1408. Demolish, British-style

V1409. Vacation spot in Florida

V1410. University of Virginia athletes

V1411. Reality star Jenelle first featured on 16 and Pregnant

V1413. Mila of That ‘70s Show

V1416. Camper owners, briefly

V1417. Bespectacled detective who befriends a talking dog

V1419. Cold-weather fisherman’s tool

V1421. Inexcusable

V1423. About 768 miles per hour

V1425. String together

V1426. Gen ___ (baby boomer’s baby)

V1428. Repair a sock

V1430. Mother of the Titans, in Greek myth

V1432. The Karate Kid and Entergalactic star

V1433. Ullmann and Tyler

V1434. Dollar bills

V1435. Concluding bit of music

V1436. “Not impressed”

V1438. Popular census multiple-choice answer

V1440. Float ___: keep solvent, say

V1442. Copy of a sort

V1445. Subject of Gustave Courbet’s painting “L’Origine du monde”

V1448. Competes

V1451. Weather map line

V1452. Dead weight in a portfolio

V1454. Range units (abbr.)

V1455. “King of Party Records” who played Sanford

V1456. They may be written before a wedding

V1457. Galley measures

V1458. Esau in-law

V1459. Record the transaction on the register

V1461. Prefix on hertz

V1463. Wicked

V1465. Bing things

V1466. ___ -Julie, Que.

V1467. ___& Janis

V1468. Off-ramp, for one

V1470. Kind of collector

V1472. This word has two meanings, but they both come down to “what keeps a roof over your head, sometimes”

V1473. Airline based in Stockholm

V1474. Keep safe from time

V1475. It’s tuned in

V1476. Metric liquid measures

V1477. Hostile party

V1478. Large wine containers

V1479. Leaves loveless

V1481. “It’s mine,” saith the Lord

V1482. Places to go in England?

V1483. Promise one will

V1485. Violinist Jean-___ Ponty

V1486. Vietnamese new year

V1487. ___ plaisir: gladly

V1489. Spread into the surroundings

V1492. Opera title character who gets dragged into hell

V1493. “Twilight” K-Pop group

V1496. Stand-up comedian Louis

V1498. Attendancy

V1500. Swed.’s long neighbor

V1501. First rapper to win Best Original Song

V1502. In ___: irritated, old-style

V1503. Vehicle with caterpillar tread

V1504. Most Walkmans, by now

V1505. Imitate successfully

V1506. Definite article

V1507. Sci-fi group

V1509. “To ___ barren sister…” (Shakespeare)

V1512. Cannery or Catfish

V1513. Iceman actor Kilmer

V1515. Fun gatherings

V1516. Apt. feature, often

V1521. Before Popeye, she went out with Ham

V1524. Trimmed holiday item, for short

V1526. Some switch settings

V1527. Yarn measure

V1529. Song by The Who that came out long before Ms. Frizzle’s first adventure

V1532. Greets with a hand-and-arm gesture

V1533. Promise to a contact upon arriving at the rendezvous point with the suitcase

V1534. Mob Wives airer

V1538. Eliz. II or Chas. III

V1540. The Voice judge Green

V1542. Switchblade, in the clink

V1545. Starbucks order

V1546. Muser’s words

V1548. Soup-to-go topper

V1550. It’s illegal to prank-call it

V1552. Make a false step

V1554. Some think Tesla and Newton were this--all we know for sure is that they never married

V1556. “___ your pardon”

V1558. Bestows upon

V1560. ___ Joaquin Valley

V1561. Kind of aircraft, for short

V1563. Number generator patented in 1906

V1564. Time off, in mil. slang

V1566. Discontinued retro Chrysler

V1569. They might express their breast wishes

V1570. Hair-removing brand

V1571. The Good Body playwright

V1573. Flunky’s reply

V1575. Schedule listing

V1577. Office-granting public

V1579. Held at the shop?

V1580. Drinkable letter-homophone

V1582. Cookies often put into banana pudding

V1585. Riot-neutralizing weapon

V1587. Calligrapher’s creation

V1589. Hunt successfully

V1591. ___ to Cerberus

V1593. Schrödinger claimed this seemingly obvious principle was untrue in particle physics

V1597. 206 AD, as written out in 1206 AD

V1600. Fueler with green and white stations

V1601. Embraces, as a new system

V1602. Place to buy vino y comestibles

V1604. “Smart ___!” (You think you’re so-o-o clever…)

V1605. They keep hazardous building materials from residents

V1606. Sir Richard Branson started it

V1608. 2010s Bolivian leader Morales

V1610. Reinvestment date, for short

V1612. Swing off course

V1613. Dance floor abilities

V1614. Cosmetics modeled by Lili Reinhart and Christie Brinkley

V1615. Its cap. is Tallahassee

V1617. Makes room on the couch

V1618. Positions as different as they can get

V1619. You can’t see much when it’s overhead

V1621. Some bayou residents

V1623. Name in cell phones

V1625. He’ll help you grasp “amo, amas, amat”

V1628. Walkthrough with explanations

V1629. Roof, in Paris

V1630. Bring a smile from

V1631. Talk show pioneer Griffin

V1632. File menu option

V1634. “I’m conservative, but I’m not ___ about it” (George H.W. Bush)

V1635. Concern of “three strikes” laws

V1637. Tamar’s avenging brother, in the Bible

V1638. More than anything else

V1639. Gives voice to

V1642. Brain-scan letters

V1644. It may be issued on days with strong sun, for short

V1646. Class for tomorrow’s Spielberg

V1648. Otis Redding’s “___ Man Trouble”

V1650. “Why ___ get this right?”

V1651. Polloi lead-in

V1652. Triage places, for short

V1655. Nickname of a name meaning “wisdom”

V1657. Some autos, for short

V1659. High positions

V1661. 1937 Cary Grant comedy

V1664. City on Lac Leman

V1665. “Dreamlover” artist Carey

V1668. Formally inform

V1671. Place a picture on another part of the wall

V1675. Ute cousin

V1676. Initials of a US poet

V1678. Low-test, coffeewise

V1681. 1/24 of un jour

V1682. Herbie’s moniker

V1685. It bears purple-red mangos

V1686. Metal bar, across and down

V1687. Like some rights and engrs.

V1688. Name for the effect found when the word “red” is colored blue

V1690. “I think I need ___ of execution” (“Nine Lives,” Aerosmith)

V1692. Chases away, as a fly

V1695. Hebrew letters hat anagram to a word meaning “huge”

V1696. Herbs in the mint family

V1697. Made flashy, with “up”

V1699. Relative of an angle iron

V1701. Break off a bit from

V1702. Did a dairy job

V1704. DIY bomb

V1705. Convenience numbers

V1706. Role-playing character with robes and a peaceful bearing but not much religious knowledge

V1709. Forgivable transgressions

V1713. ___ & Whitney (engine maker)

V1714. Dusk-dawn insert

V1715. Thomas Hardy vamp Eustacia

V1716. Pitch caller

V1719. Brown and Turner

V1720. Hoard zealously

V1721. Brewing vat

V1725. Ancient documents

V1726. Exiled dictator with a palindromic name

V1730. Appeared wearing the guise of

V1731. Most titillating

V1732. Some washers

V1733. ___ awful way

V1734. Early Scot, or a radical newspaper of the 1800s

V1736. Soho sir

V1738. College in Arcata, CA

V1739. R&D pt.

V1741. Entries in a modern address book

V1743. Profaned

V1745. Was bought

V1746. Recite aphorisms?

V1749. “From Dresden” surname

V1751. When Peter Pan grew up

V1753. Provencal possessive

V1755. Harried-looking hairdos

V1756. Pocket again, as a pool ball

V1758. Make plump

V1760. Office door attachment

V1761. Carry wearily

V1762. Norma McCorvey, in a Supreme Court case

V1764. It’s armed every European war since 1650

V1766. Liqueur found in a grasshopper

V1767. Mournful nonverbalism

V1770. Appear to be

V1772. Taylor Swift’s second 2020 album

V1773. Romantic missive

V1774. Portico’s cousin

V1775. Like a moving bag of water that keeps inventing feet

V1776. Beethoven works

V1777. “The West Point of the South”

V1778. Homer’s dad

V1779. Impressive processions

V1782. Birthday that’s still ten years too early for Willard Scott to notice you

V1785. Brienne of ___, Game of Thrones protagonist

V1787. 77 Sunset Strip restaurant

V1790. Big red hogs

V1792. Famed Poughkeepsie brewer

V1795. USMA students

V1796. Three-hulled sailboat

V1797. Clothing

V1799. “Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted, and thou ___ deliver them”

V1802. Steadily

V1804. Rich Cronin’s boy band

V1805. MXII / II

V1807. Rescinds

V1809. Tolstoy’s Ilyich

V1811. Sign of dissent

V1812. “Hate this!,” to Horace

V1814. Tribute poem

V1816. Winnemucca resident, e.g.

V1817. Japanese temple gateway

V1820. “You call that important?”

V1822. She needs to back off her kids a little (or a lot)

V1824. They know what’s wrong with the company email

V1827. Berle of TV fame

V1829. Interstudent response to research

V1830. Scowls and moves jerkily

V1831. Puzzles

V1833. Pessimist’s word

V1835. Virtual self

V1838. Normandy battlesite of WWII

V1841. Encampment place

V1842. Alley Oop’s girlfriend

V1843. Palindromic WWII appeaser

V1845. Within earshot

V1847. Date of construction of the Anastasian Wall

V1849. Blissful state

V1851. Non-A Scantron options

V1853. Be brave

V1854. Investment in the government

V1855. Tell the world

V1856. Band that wore flowerpots and hazmat suits

V1858. It’s tough to pay

V1862. Relating to the lower part of the upper body

V1864. Hunky-boys

V1866. Ballade’s closing stanza

V1867. “Where ___” (1996 Beck single)

V1868. Fathered

V1871. ___-être (perhaps, to Pierre)

V1874. It shoots coppers up real good, see?

V1877. Pol. maverick

V1879. Kind of serf, basically

V1882. “___ Blu Dinpinto Di Blu” (1958 hit)

V1883. A soldier might get a medal for it

V1884. “You might need to decide what your last words to him should be”

V1885. Bumblebee portrayers

V1887. ___ Search for Meaning (Frankl)

V1888. Health researcher Sridhar

V1890. Representativeships

V1891. Product with the store’s name on it

V1892. Inspiring one’s devotion

V1893. Blackhead-remover brand

V1894. Like 10, 54, and 300

V1895. Fowl territory

V1899. SASEs, e.g.

V1903. ___ girl (egirl and soft girl’s contemporary)

V1906. 1051, on a monument

V1907. FDR energy project

V1908. Dutch uncle

V1910. Traveling bag

V1913. Loud sound of victory

V1914. Mao’s successor

V1917. Modulus of elasticity associated with, briefly

V1920. Much more than engaged

V1921. Accepted (abbr.)

V1924. Treated funerally, as a body

V1927. Not our

V1930. “I scorn the very idea!”

V1931. Brandy specification letters

V1932. Columbia Records jazz producer Macero

V1933. Prevention, or to prevent

V1938. Air the details of one’s grievances

V1940. The old switch’s completion?

V1941. US Open champ of 2010, 2013, and 2017

V1943. Bring up, as an old grievance

V1945. Scott-Young who created Love & Hip Hop

V1947. It’s taken as read

V1949. Audio breakthrough, ‘50s-style

V1950. Guy obsessed with minutia

V1952. Novelist Pilcher or Schubert composition

V1954. Reputation

V1955. Classic war story

V1957. Blanket inclusion

V1967. Stevie Wonder’s “Part Time ___”

V1969. Flip or Flop network

V1970. Monument Valley features

V1972. PC key

V1975. Big name in WWI espionage

V1977. Org. that fought Napster

V1980. More albinolike

V1982. Fios competitor

V1983. AC unit

V1990. Started shit

V1991. Sade hit “___ Crime”

V1992. Source of video game, entertainment, and lifestyle content founded by Jimmy Wales, in 2015

V1994. Its symbol is an eagle

V1995. Cold pad?

V1996. EM duo flexing their skills with “Apricots”

V1999. Year the emperor Claudius was born

V2000. Two-dimensional volume

V2001. Some undercover cops

V2005. His simple clothes and seating style made him a meme at Inauguration 2021

V2006. Steerable electronic toy, for short

V2008. Seeing red

V2009. With eyes no bigger than one’s stomach

V2011. Conveying acceptance or regrets

V2012. Timely in Tijuana

V2013. Shepherd’s spot

V2014. Urges onward

V2015. End of a game with a pelota

V2016. Pt. of AT&T

V2017. Pivots to videomaking, e.g.

V2018. Potential serve-breaker’s score

V2019. Repeated passage, in music

V2020. Semiconductor’s doomsday burst, familiarly

V2021. Pie and bar charts

V2022. Charlton’s “Touch of Evil” co-star

V2023. Kona cookout

V2024. Sample / this rhyme / scheme; time / to see / how it / can fit

V2025. Criterion for an R rating

V2026. Altar burners

V2027. “OH MY GOSH, YES, YAY!”

V2028. Dropping

V2029. Those gone but not forgotten

V2032. Eng. peerage title

V2034. Corp. head

V2036. Like rankings

V2038. Sworn declaration

V2039. Copley and Hatcher

V2040. Ritz alternatives

V2042. Full of life

V2043. ___ in pace

V2044. Tao teacher

V2045. Baseball’s Sanchez and Ordonez

V2048. As if unable not to

V2049. Edison’s middle name

V2050. Worm once used for bloodletting

V2051. Ruthlessly critical, metaphorically speaking

V2052. Actors Laurence and Martinez

V2053. Bulgarian coin

V2054. Self-admiring

V2055. “What a Wonderful World,” e.g.

V2056. Bergman’s The ___ Seal

V2057. Prefix that’s not about the base?

V2058. In days of ___

V2059. Test for differences between groups

V2060. July 3 and December 24

V2061. Ground that can’t support much weight

V2062. Plutoid just beyond the Kuiper Belt

V2063. Pass out of existence

V2064. At dinner for two, maybe

V2065. Kibitzing

V2071. Like a Mark McGwire triple

V2072. Sub-sub-players

V2074. Overrun

V2076. Voracious

V2079. “We ain’t ___ badges!” (Treasure of the Sierra Madre line)

V2080. One whose eight-year-old tweet will suddenly go viral and start a hashtag

V2085. Unusual blokes

V2086. Shiverer’s signals

V2088. “Toss a brew over here”

V2089. Decision of a courtroom dozen

V2095. Film ad, e.g.

V2097. Prey for dingoes

V2099. Teed off too hard

V2100. UK military decoration

V2101. “That’s fine with me”

V2103. Time of the earliest known reference to the Catholic Church

V2105. Raise one’s hand at “going twice”

V2107. Name notably not on the Graceland tombstone

V2109. Search feature that shows results as you type

V2110. Startup phase without sustainable cash flow

V2113. Exam for some prep schools

V2114. Virginia Tech team

V2115. Formal name for an e-cigarette

V2118. Avoidant

V2119. “Betcha think you’re funny”

V2120. Public square

V2122. Rural addr. words

V2124. “You’re never too ___ learn”

V2128. Spy thriller writer Deighton

V2130. Zenith product

V2132. Temperance proponents

V2134. Manor attachment

V2135. 601, in old Rome

V2136. Soho coins

V2138. Purely competitive, as a game

V2140. Often stoplight-inspired measure

V2142. Gloomy and hard to see through

V2144. Think through

V2145. Praying to multiple audiences

V2146. Meghan Markle’s breakfast fruit of choice

V2147. Exploring subterranean

V2148. Was relevant to

V2151. Rocks the jukebox

V2154. Home of the Excelsior Mts.

V2158. List on a lot

V2159. Org. that deals with workplace discrimination

V2160. Sam who directed three Spider-Man movies

V2161. Mandvi once of The Daily Show

V2164. Few

V2166. Allen or Blanc

V2168. Incomes

V2174. Involving a quintet of negatives (used in foreign relations)

V2178. Kindle purchase

V2180. Parts of carts in Vermont

V2182. First word of “A Visit from St. Nicholas”

V2184. “Stop flapping your gums!”, with “up” (and sometimes without)

V2187. Over yonder

V2188. Dodge Viper engine, for one

V2189. Question from the picked-upon

V2190. Jar type

V2191. Colored parts of many mushrooms

V2193. “Let’s see what you got,” at a dojo

V2195. “___ was going to Tosche station to pick up some POWER converters!”

V2197. Name in a Bach hymn

V2199. Encircle with a belt

V2202. Ukraine capital, in old pre-war crosswords

V2203. Pitched in

V2204. Title in that movie Disney would like you to forget it made

V2207. Place to pick up merch

V2208. Taking the middle out of

V2209. They have one more wheel than bikes

V2210. Greedy declaration

V2211. Travels a lot

V2212. “How can ___ repay you?”

V2214. Host’s task, informally

V2216. Chef’s concern

V2218. 10th-century pope

V2220. Whack

V2221. Santa ___ (dry California winds)

V2222. Stick around

V2223. Tried to chomp

V2226. Fixups in the boiler room

V2228. Star of a Disney+ show released December 2021

V2229. Laissez-___

V2231. Regimen with a high-fat focus

V2233. Creator of Bucket and Salt

V2235. Promised for

V2237. One of TV’s Munsters

V2238. Mexican’s assent

V2240. Family whose patriarch helped establish temperature measurement

V2241. Bets build them

V2242. Makes neat

V2243. “___ moment” (ad catchphrase)

V2244. “___ Island with You”

V2247. Up to the hubs

V2249. Knightley of ‘Pride and Prejudice’

V2251. Asteroid in Mars’ orbit

V2254. Cat who’s an enemy-turned-friend of Dog Man

V2255. Liquidate your assets, prepare dinner for a racist, bring it up for a vote

V2258. ___ dlvy. (rush!)

V2260. Thom ___ shoes

V2261. Tostitos dip

V2263. Ending meaning “eater”

V2264. November meteor showers

V2267. They’re kept at monitored, low temperatures

V2268. Degree to which water expands when it freezes

V2270. Gender-affirming treatment, aka “anticistamines”

V2271. Show annoyance with, in a way

V2272. What not to cross when throwing darts

V2273. Words of understanding

V2276. Flamboyant Flynn of film

V2277. Portmanteau utensil

V2280. Swoosh, for one

V2281. Night writer Wiesel

V2282. Obscure one’s status on social media, but hint that it’s full of drama

V2283. Quiche-maker’s need

V2284. Object of one’s prayers

V2286. Beanery brews

V2287. Be much concerned

V2289. “But consider the alternative,” in texts

V2290. Dern of Jurassic Park

V2291. One might say she invents new paradigms and defies old agreed-upon ways of doing things

V2292. One way to get off

V2293. Wild no more

V2296. Nigerian VIP

V2297. Composition’s original form

V2298. Woodsy

V2299. Good spirits

V2300. File into church

V2301. Pleiades hunter

V2304. Shia LaBeouf sitcom

V2306. Rent-___

V2308. Scratchy symptom of nerves

V2309. Place for an icicle

V2310. Was shy

V2312. 18 Monopoly sqs.

V2313. Grover’s partner

V2314. Weapon in early Disney film

V2315. Roman tutelary gods

V2318. Baccalaureate deg.

V2321. Wilder and higher in pitch

V2324. Perk of living near a dairy

V2326. Magic, in reality?

V2329. Availing

V2331. “I Know What You Want” singer Rhymes

V2333. Platonically, in Paris

V2335. Three, in a deck of cards

V2338. Mollusks that, ironically, Noah didn’t need to save

V2339. Go at the joint

V2340. Word before String that my wife always says “the world needs more” of

V2341. Judge’s attention getter

V2344. Certain ruse

V2346. Coin with twelve stars

V2348. Last syllable of an Ali G expression

V2352. Did impressions of

V2353. Operator of weather.gov

V2354. Not specialized (abbr.)

V2357. Taking an axe to

V2358. Klum of Project Runway

V2359. Inits. used in some home-cooling systems

V2362. Adjective that, like the swastika, has mostly been tainted by association

V2364. Rushmore face

V2366. “Halt, salt!”

V2368. Upgraded recording format released in 1987

V2371. Scenic vista

V2372. Starts some diplomacy

V2373. First name in Spanish art

V2374. “Call Me Maybe” singer Rae Jepsen

V2376. Tarot code some say represents honesty

V2378. Roofer’s strip

V2379. Pizzeria of protest film

V2381. Bacchic get-together

V2383. Road Runner or Mindspring (abbr.)

V2389. “Down with…!” from Descartes

V2390. Shirt feature that looks like an armband

V2391. Smit

V2393. Paste in many systems

V2394. Downstairs in Dijon

V2395. Cioran who wrote The Trouble with Being Born

V2396. Averts

V2398. High-ranking ambassador

V2400. Swiss Alps site of the World Economic Forum

V2402. In an upright position

V2404. Protect to excess

V2406. Motorcycle noise

V2407. Cartoon character whose “feet” are tank treads

V2408. Green, so to speak

V2409. State motto of California

V2412. Company once subtitled as “Salon, Cosmetics and Fragrance”

V2413. Judges to be

V2415. Bothered, plagued, and pestered

V2417. Create inroads or try to clear the field

V2418. Set out to do what must be done

V2420. Grislier

V2421. They’re rising…so, great news! More water for everyone! (puts finger to ear) What? Oh…oh, dear

V2422. Pigeonhole people

V2424. Platform for Apple mobile devices

V2425. Alphabetically first name in the Bible

V2426. Designated amount of food

V2429. Auto adjustment

V2431. Honeycomb divisions

V2433. Terrarium pets

V2435. Fountain near the Pantheon

V2437. Dept. store floor

V2438. “Be light in ___-often dim world” (Anon.)

V2439. Ad-hoc budget

V2440. Infect or spoil

V2441. Picnic throwaways

V2442. Stunning

V2443. Where film projects go to idle

V2445. Tough going

V2447. Hair removal brand

V2449. Audio effect that suggests where music was performed

V2451. Get soft

V2455. “The More You Know” spot, e.g.

V2456. Kobe quaffs

V2458. Captain America’s secret identity

V2459. With “the,” Hank and Dean whose adventures spoof Jonny Quest

V2460. Gave gas to in a garage

V2462. Taste appreciatively

V2464. Rope used to catch horses

V2465. Neologisms

V2467. OPEC units

V2469. In most respects

V2471. Al ___ (a bit firm)

V2472. Provides fare for

V2474. Treat variety my wife’s good at baking

V2476. Red herring, e.g.

V2477. Illumination, in Bonn

V2479. Faustian buyer

V2485. Concrete construction aid shaped like a rectangular eight

V2486. Parental-abuse preventer

V2489. Three-hanky movie

V2491. Monster Park player, familiarly

V2494. Jeans with copper rivets

V2497. Don’t kill

V2498. Tries on clothes at the mall, e.g.

V2499. Too Puritan

V2500. Moses of hoops

V2502. Bowed to an evil regime

V2505. Rosemary’s Baby writer Ira

V2507. Exercise suffrage

V2509. Jenufa and Alceste, e.g.

V2511. Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name

V2512. Sine-wave crests and dips

V2513. “Watch your back”

V2515. Boucle or Shetland wool, e.g.

V2516. Grammy-winning gospel singer Winans

V2517. Inclined to see the world differently (&ru?)

V2518. Smallest city in the smallest state

V2520. Helm on the USS Enterprise

V2522. Kin of slugger Sammy

V2524. 2005 Heath role

V2526. Acquired again

V2528. (Hopefully opt-in) recipients of marketing messages

V2529. Self-assurance

V2530. “___, blow your horn!”

V2531. Hear directly

V2533. Deicidal video game series

V2534. Must for some coll. courses

V2535. Put out on the market

V2537. 1991 Lenny Kravitz album Mama ___

V2539. Jocular Jay

V2541. Union dues and uniform manufacture, on some paychecks

V2545. Cargo weight

V2546. Muddying

V2547. File extension for Skype

V2548. Beethoven’s middle

V2550. Clothing parts highlighted on Phineas and Ferb

V2551. Stage direction modifying dialogue

V2552. About to occur

V2554. Quran contents

V2556. Larsson who wrote the Millennium trilogy

V2558. Longtime Saddam henchman

V2561. Packs like sardines

V2562. Windowsill, for one

V2563. Compadres, in old hip-hop

V2564. Gets ready for action

V2566. Antagonize

V2568. Gp. that might recruit in the quad

V2570. Boxing stats

V2575. Supplies for a tear-jerker

V2576. Drag queen accessory

V2577. Old Tales from the Crypt and Crime Doesn’t Pay comics

V2579. Costume shops’ favorite mo.

V2581. Right on the money

V2583. Swivels

V2585. Prepare, as tea

V2587. Madagascar primate

V2589. The Good Doctor network

V2590. Practically impenetrable

V2591. Quadrennial US occurrence

V2592. Guides from above?

V2593. Casablanca actor Conrad

V2594. Give entirely

V2595. Desert Storm carrier

V2597. ___ Sad (Serbian city)

V2598. Garbo born Gustafsson

V2601. Top Irish solo artist

V2603. Rays that some glasses filter out, initially

V2605. Type of resistance

V2606. Four before LBJ

V2607. College freshmen’s dodgy docs

V2608. Opposite of post-

V2609. Famously burned-out rock musician Barrett

V2610. Part of many German surnames

V2613. Psychic who founded the X-Men

V2615. Compares

V2617. Like a mandolin that’s about to be played

V2619. Tone-deafness

V2621. Where warships dock

V2622. LED’s D

V2623. Got to one’s feet

V2625. “We can’t blame anyone else”

V2626. Who’s creator

V2627. The Nutcracker choreographer

V2628. One of Tito’s people

V2629. Absent-minded cheaters in basketball

V2631. What SASEs and certs. are

V2633. Iraq’s Muqtada al-___

V2636. Prosecutors complain this show created unrealistic standards for evidence

V2639. Make a target, ruthlessly

V2642. Batteries for many a remote control

V2644. ___ Fighters

V2645. Have fun

V2646. Put on the air

V2648. Gelatinous light sources

V2650. Low-priced American vodka known affectionately (and ironically) as “Russia’s finest”

V2652. “Kisses on the Wind” singer Cherry

V2655. “This won’t explode, right?”

V2656. Desperate and pressed for time

V2657. Disney World attractions

V2658. Climber’s ridgeline

V2662. Peter who basically destroyed Gawker

V2663. Venture forth

V2665. ___-a-porter (ready-to-wear)

V2666. The Secret of ___ (1982 film)

V2668. Lottery selections, briefly

V2669. “Teary” reptile, for short

V2673. N.Y.C. subway

V2675. Canasta holdings

V2676. Payday haul

V2677. Number (abbr.)

V2678. Pie-mode center

V2682. What you’ll find twice with specificity

V2684. “Uh-oh”

V2686. Dorothy’s guardian

V2688. Quitting

V2691. Troop withdrawal

V2692. “Is hers,” as they say in Brazil

V2693. Last day to vote, often

V2694. Ground, as spices

V2697. Become a mother (or father, occasionally)

V2699. Pair seen in many a spy movie

V2701. HBO series about the politician Selina Meyer

V2702. “What’s Opera, Doc?” singer

V2704. Treasure find

V2707. A while ago

V2708. Like some advanced research, briefly

V2710. Bankrupt player in Monopoly, e.g.

V2713. Pitcher’s woe

V2715. Got owned

V2717. Russian weight

V2719. ___ vu (false familiarity)

V2722. Orange-and-white rentals

V2723. Erstwhile Milwaukee beers

V2724. Pre-Wiis

V2725. From the early ‘50s to date

V2727. “Your experience is not unique”

V2729. “Wa-a-ay off!”

V2732. Emeril might make one with provolone

V2735. Full o’ big hard muscles

V2736. Like a match

V2737. Begins eagerly

V2739. Divergent star Woodley

V2740. Prepares for prey

V2741. ___ day (dosage instruction)

V2743. Setting for beers or Cheers

V2744. [please put the above below]

V2745. Tried to avoid being tagged

V2747. State flower of West Virginia

V2749. Russell’s Gladiator director

V2751. Bighorns, argalis, mouflons and the like

V2753. Museum sculptures

V2755. Sound my wife makes when the printer stops working (“I take it personally”)

V2757. Small-business boss

V2758. Native Czechs and Poles

V2759. Like some computer woes

V2760. Tangle or untangle

V2762. The Pioneer Woman host Drummond

V2764. Big name in business jets

V2766. Blaine and Bowie

V2768. Chorus line?

V2772. Bone cavities

V2774. Neck-napkin

V2776. Uncountably many

V2778. Put one’s ___ (interfere)

V2780. Nurmi, the “Flying Finn”

V2782. Monarch’s command

V2784. Capable of doing the splits, say

V2786. They may be rolled over, briefly

V2787. Japanese buckwheat noodle

V2788. Word after viva

V2789. Escherichia follower

V2790. Bond type, briefly

V2791. Death-date of the Huns’ last ruler

V2793. Detroiter’s neighbor

V2795. Opposite of legato (abbr.)

V2797. High end pic-snappers

V2799. End-of-March comparison

V2801. Fountain treat

V2802. Understated garden entrance

V2803. Pouring on the pressure

V2804. Like a guy’s sweaty gym clothes, smellwise

V2806. “I mean, depends on how you classify it”

V2807. She, her, and hers (though they’re also used by some nonconformists and nonbinaries)

V2808. Connected sets of points, in math

V2810. What the seagulls squawk in Finding Nemo

V2812. Many Wall St. recruits

V2814. Unique prefix

V2816. Hades waterway

V2818. Dutch speed-skating gold medalist Kramer

V2821. Sixth Hebrew letter

V2823. Ingot, e.g.

V2825. Ovine seeking males

V2827. Miracle-___ (garden-care brand)

V2830. Bohemian Manhattan district

V2832. It may be heard after an accident

V2833. Crooked intimates

V2835. Salon finish

V2839. Rain gear

V2841. Decent chap

V2844. Data-mining org.

V2846. Ally with whom you allez

V2848. Common paper size (abbr.)

V2850. The “I’m made of rubber…” defense, in texting

V2860. “I’ll have to check, hold on…”

V2862. Responsible for one's actions, as medical and legal authorities would agree

V2864. Early 16th century date

V2865. “Non sibi ___ patriae” (Navy motto)

V2866. Woebegone

V2867. Mmes. of Madrid

V2869. City in central Turkey

V2870. Comes down hard?

V2871. “Empty” areas in organisms

V2872. HPV, e.g.

V2874. Set-___ (brawls)

V2888. Getting really fast, as profits

V2890. Hakeem Olajuwon, e.g.

V2891. Magnavox competitor

V2893. “___ yellow ribbon...”

V2894. Butter replacement

V2895. Slug-in-the-gut grunt

V2899. Unfeeling, hopefully

V2900. Surveyor’s letter-shaped instrument

V2902. Getting to, as a core conflict

V2903. Networking asset

V2914. Wins bread

V2916. ___ the hills

V2918. Proto-matter of the universe

V2921. Behests

V2922. When you should get off work, no matter what our culture says

V2923. Enter hurriedly

V2924. “Let’s go!’”

V2925. The famous Mussolini

V2926. Mississippi mutt

V2927. Gardner of The Barefoot Contessa

V2928. LA Law character Grace

V2929. Perambulates closer

V2930. Bug-eyed character?

V2931. Eastern leader

V2932. Scandalmongers

V2933. Tyrant’s whims made law

V2934. Neighbor of Montpellier

V2935. ___ the Radio (band)

V2936. Humble coffeehouse

V2937. Follower

V2938. Runner at first (and only at first)

V2939. Movie with bit parts?

V2940. Pt. of “the DA”

V2941. By word of mouth

V2942. Mise-___

V2943. Wheel of Fortune purchase

V2944. Conjugation lesson word

V2945. Jeremiah Wright’s title (abbr.)

V2946. Scooby’s breed

V2947. Tripping along, on the track

V2948. “Great” part for Robert Duvall

V2951. Dial, Zest, and Coast

V2953. Lofgren who rocks with Springsteen

V2954. Mother of Romulus

V2955. Sight recalling frontier living

V2957. Tulip starter

V2958. Summer, to Zola

V2961. Small musical group

V2964. Give birth to a horse

V2967. Nobelist Paz

V2968. President in 1907

V2969. Site of many Japanese hot springs

V2970. Breaking Bad product

V2971. Felt intense desire

V2972. Powerless to progress

V2973. Sacco’s codefendant

V2974. Garment size (abbr.)

V2975. Maple tree or golf great

V2976. Designed to be sung

V2977. On the level?

V2978. Start one’s movie night, perhaps

V2979. ___-Ude, city in Russia

V2980. 1950s sitcom family name

V2981. What’s often considered alongside opportunity and means

V2982. Turtles song meant to parody “Happy Together”

V2983. Taught a class

V2984. Charitable soul

V2985. Used performance-enhancing substances, in slang

V2986. Boorish

V2987. King Lear expletive

V2988. Make a ___ buck

V2989. Kid’s denial

V2990. Domínguez or Sardiña of fashion design

V2991. Thin layer of wood

V2992. Sets up a meet cute on Messenger

V2999. Closes in on first place

V3001. One with experience

V3003.

Big name in credit cards

V3004. Cry of consternation

V3005. Mix movie

V3007. Cried a river

V3008. Golf shop purchase

V3009. Mississippi River source

V3012. “Dancing With ___” (opening track of the Rolling Stones’ “Goats Head Soup”)

V3013. Land slide?

V3015. P, on campus

V3016. Language in which paa means water

V3017. ___ mieux: so much, to Manet

V3019. It separates characters from the knowledge that their world isn’t real

V3030. “We’ll ___ a cup o’ kindness…” (Burns)

V3033. Japanese swordplay

V3034. Works at a gallery

V3035. Tries one’s very hardest

V3036. Some snow vehicles

V3038. Make room on the bench

V3039. Sir, in New Delhi

V3049. Outlast

V3051. Gang in Grease with an automotive name

V3053. US naval base in Spain

V3055. Cards’ div., once

V3058. Leash or speed bump, e.g.

V3061. Something tasty

V3062. Some herbal brews

V3063. O’Neil of Turtle journalism

V3066. National Farmers’ ___ (abbr.)

V3068. Late conductor Solti

V3071. (The) incomparably bad

V3072. Cheering in church

V3074. Near, old-style

V3076. Rule of India

V3078. Sci-fi series where a woman returns from seven years’ disappearance

V3079. Eye part subject to degeneration

V3081. Over toast, at the diner

V3083. Confirming as true

V3084. Shovels it

V3086. “Melancholy” odist

V3087. Palate stimulus

V3088. Sexologist’s topic

V3090. Do the mall

V3092. “Enough out of you!”

V3093. Macho males

V3094. Hanging out up high, like a cat

V3096. Egg-containing capsule

V3097. Didn’t go straight?

V3099. Oscar actor Rod

V3103. Wants to trade places with

V3104. Break for good

V3106. “I’m a ___ 4 U” (Britney Spears song that hits a bit different after the conservatorship battle)

V3109. Defeats, barely

V3110. Feigned foolishness

V3113. Western Samoan coin

V3115. Planet with a nearly circular orbit

V3116. Cartoon dog addicted to martinis

V3117. Further amend

V3121. Half of deux

V3122. Bhagavad ___ (Hindu text)

V3124. In the sky

V3129. Did some dinner prep on

V3130. Like some halls of academe

V3131. Begin’s co-Nobelist in 1978

V3132. Seagoing birds (var.)

V3133. Eli Manning’s team, on scoreboards

V3134. Turkey on Broadway

V3138. Arizona cultural resort

V3140. “___ it my best”

V3142. Ornamental nettle

V3145. Do some keyboarding

V3147. Like last month’s great song that you’re sick of

V3148. White and Black, e.g.

V3149. Warm up, a la Pedro Martinez

V3150. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell poet

V3151. Uses IRS.org as certain income brackets could over 2020

V3152. US/Canada partnership

V3154. Dollar store forerunner

V3156. Doesn’t back away

V3159. Having to eat humble pie in public

V3161. Stopping from reaching home plate

V3163. Cry pathetically

V3166. Caffeine-rich seed

V3167. “Hush!”

V3168. Mother’s father, e.g.

V3169. Answered, quickly

V3170. More modern, in Munich

V3172. It can help you go

V3174. Key West mollusk

V3176. 1968 film that “takes sex to outer space”

V3178. Beach breaker

V3179. Like summer drinks

V3180. “It doesn’t come easy”

V3181. Planes in Top Gun

V3182. Fellated

V3183. Venerable sports car, briefly

V3184. Signaled “goodbye”

V3185. Kind of spaniel

V3189. ___ standstill

V3190. Connect to a switch, as lights

V3191. Bedeviled

V3193. Dr. Seuss’s king character

V3194. Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne

V3196. Kupcinet of old TV

V3199. Messy holiday prank

V3201. Topographic point

V3202. ___ organs

V3204. 12th-cent. date

V3206. Historian of Rome

V3207. ___ virumque cano…: Of arms and the man I sing…

V3208. Woodpecker’s wood-pecker

V3210. Response to “Got it?”

V3211. Enzyme regulating blood fluid and pressure

V3213. Lake shown on TV

V3214. Dorchester dad

V3215. Parisian preposition

V3219. Vice ___

V3221. Speaks boastfully

V3222. “On it, boss!”

V3224. End of a Literature Nobelist’s surname

V3229. “Great music is in the ___ the beholder” (Noel Benedict)

V3230. Heat sources

V3231. Neolithic British Isles monument

V3234. Trinidadian singer Nicki

V3236. Tel ___

V3239. Change from a Hamilton

V3240. Sounded contemplative

V3241. “Haven’t got a clue”

V3244. Alter anew

V3246. Regarding the topic of

V3247. Rochon of Waiting to Exhale

V3249. Installs, as drapes

V3251. Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Bowes-Lyon

V3253. Hook (a crook)

V3254. Causes, to Buddhists

V3257. Corny creation?

V3258. Monoliteral yell of frustration

V3259. Want to attain

V3262. Corner (of a triangle)

V3264. Abbr. in PC menus

V3266. “Sounds likely to me”

V3270. George of the Jungle’s transport

V3271. Blonde author

V3272. Movie opening?

V3273. Proto- or ecto- add-on

V3274. Put in a large container

V3275. Rare award feats, for short

V3276. Mirage setting

V3278. Paper ballot marks

V3279. Discards duds

V3280. The tenth month of the Jewish calendar

V3281. Info on bus. cards

V3283. Memo starter

V3285. “As seen on TV” rotating hair styler

V3286. Ring floorings?

V3288. Pay ___: use E-Z Pass

V3290. Arrange for

V3291. Starry prefix with “seismic”

V3292. Pre-Columbian Mexican

V3294. Sony computer brand

V3296. “Incredible!”

V3297. Arthur the aardvark’s creator Brown

V3299. Sub order?

V3301. End of a famous claim

V3302. The only reason you need for why you have to go to bed at eight, young man

V3304. Scout’s task, for short

V3306. Rickey Henderson feat

V3307. First British Best Musical Tony recipient

V3308. Sparks again, as a love affair

V3309. Wide foot spec

V3310. It has a charge

V3311. Water for Elephants novelist Gruen

V3312. Donatellos and Rodins

V3314. Some cats’ eye color

V3315. One on le trone

V3316. Having a portal

V3318. Serve the purposes of

V3321. Changed states?

V3323. One of the Hindu trinity (var.)

V3326. Author Teasdale

V3327. Did some tapestry work

V3328. Amply, anachronistically

V3329. “The truth may hurt for a little while, but ___ hurts forever” (Anon.)

V3330. Dana and Seixas

V3331. Complete undistractibility

V3332. You have to swallow it to get along with people sometimes

V3333. Bobcat or Timberwolf

V3334. Miracle worker who outdid his near-namesake

V3335. Highway sights in orange

V3336. Jim’s costar in Me, Myself, & Irene

V3337. Umibōzu or siren

V3340. “Grenada” songwriter

V3344. “I ___ be wed”

V3346. One dyne per centimeter

V3347. Comedian who starred in 2014’s About Last Night

V3348. Give a rejuvenating rub

V3350. Neil Young album from ‘82

V3351. Kids with no siblings, in slang

V3352. Rob, to Rob Roy

V3354. Pill alternatives

V3356. Floaters

V3358. Four-armed Hindu deity

V3359. Hold in regard

V3360. Not dense

V3361. Neophyte

V3363. River embankment

V3364. Get complaints off one’s chest

V3365. High-end fashion brand

V3367. North Carolina, to Duke

V3370. Lat. version of the Bible

V3371. 1950, in copyrights

V3372. Petty and irritable

V3374. “Wild Thing” group

V3375. Pop music’s Salt-N-___

V3379. Ashani song with a 2023 video

V3382. Disturbed

V3384. Field of engineering (abbr.)

V3386. Formal objection, in court

V3389. Wireless call?

V3390. “…why ___ thou forsaken me?” (Psalm 22)

V3391. Plant circulatory system

V3392. Construction site sights

V3393. Optimists’ are high

V3394. Wins at chess

V3395. Little man

V3396. Villainy personified

V3397. “Godless” band

V3398. Interpol song about elephant cousin?

V3399. Something to be settled in the courts or the Congress

V3400. Visible part of a comet

V3401. Repellent

V3403. Checkwriter’s remainder

V3404. Knobby

V3406. Walt Whitman’s “Queries to My ___ Year”

V3407. “Slips my mind”

V3408. Hollywood and Vine

V3409. Chocoholic or caviar-lover

V3410. Feudal flunky

V3412. Minor errata

V3414. Head ahead

V3415. Not hidden

V3416. Indian flatbreads

V3418. Card game

V3420. Automatic control system, briefly

V3423. Spanish shelters

V3424. Carpet cleaners, briefly

V3425. Home garden yield

V3427. Certain warheads

V3428. Family address

V3430. Napoleon at Eylau painter

V3432. Changing shape, as the moon

V3433. Glandular prefix

V3434. Capital on the Hrazdan River

V3435. London taverns

V3436. “We each have ___ to play”

V3437. Poking at a bee, e.g.

V3439. One speaks of it as a sacrifice for some greater gain

V3442. Weapon used by Elektra and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

V3444. Endow with a quality

V3447. Surprise Super Bowl III winners

V3449. Split, short hairstyle for women, or a gun Wesson discontinued in 2018 (the latter is more googleable)

V3451. It could blow a city back to the Stone Age without killing a soul

V3453. Conductor Reiner

V3454. Grindr spec

V3455. Optional Medicare section

V3456. Good witch of film

V3457. Makes hopping mad

V3458. Offscreen announcements

V3459. Prickly ___ cactus

V3461. Star Wars I setting (more specific than “Naboo”)

V3463. X-ray spec?

V3467. Fraternity row letter

V3469. Clint Eastwood sang that he still saw her

V3472. Newton discovery (abbr.)

V3474. Taking off online

V3476. Equip, as a knight of old

V3477. Shot again, as a photo

V3478. Kind, in Calais

V3480. Put clumsily (on), as make-up

V3482. Jaw-dropping courtroom admission

V3483. Offroaders

V3484. “Aw, nuts!”

V3485. Sears spokesman Bob

V3486. “If ___ a Wiz there was” (song lyric)

V3487. ___ team (minor league club)

V3488. Attracted to

V3490. Puck, Lagasse, and Ramsay

V3491. Word in many pho restaurant names

V3493. Rows in public

V3495. TV announcer Pardo

V3496. Nwodim on Saturday Night Live

V3497. Put out via cable

V3498. Standard Oil successor

V3499. Delays, to Das

V3500. Have covered

V3502. Like xenon

V3503. Flawed but still used tools for linguists

V3504. Former Japanese prime minister with a very un-Japanese habit of making controversial statements

V3506. Worldwide phenomenon (despite its nationalized name) associated with dodgy medicine

V3507. Endorphin, e.g.

V3508. Burgundy, in Burgundy

V3509. Less clever

V3511. Stereotypical movers in some paintings

V3513. Shoulder scarf

V3516. Actress Orji of Insecure

V3518. Small songbird

V3521. Tough fabric used in uniforms

V3522. Havel’s compatriots

V3523. Lightly dye

V3524. ___-tingling: eerie

V3525. She lives a mobile life

V3526. Rakes the garden, e.g.

V3527. Old Testament letter corresponding to 1 (var.)

V3529. TV season container

V3532. Caribbean city

V3535. Mother Hubbard’s son?

V3536. Washed, old-style

V3538. Model, fashion designer, and Second Stepdaughter Emhoff

V3540. Bandmate of Lennon and McCartney

V3542. Ancient Greek dialect, or room in the home

V3543. Dallas department store front

V3544. Kind of bath salts

V3548. Ornamental vessel

V3549. Fight, in Dogpatch

V3551. 83 Indy winner Tom

V3552. Under the covers

V3553. Protractor numbers

V3554. Taunting remarks

V3556. Norah’s musical dad

V3557. NATO, for one

V3558. Near neither bow nor stern

V3559. Fleshy-leaved plants

V3562. Escape view

V3565. Mario’s themes?

V3566. Having hidden humor

V3567. Group addressed in the South

V3569. Lauder of scents

V3572. Certain scrubber

V3574. Rogues’ gallery

V3576. Standing

V3577. What the V stands for, in this section

V3578. Mi.’s 1760

V3580. Sci-fi author Ben

V3581. Get back in blacktop

V3582. Wonder Woman setting, timewise

V3583. Capricorn and Aries

V3584. Chaka and Aly

V3585. It might be rara

V3587. Home invader and wall-wrecker whom everyone is happy to see

V3589. Mass for masticating

V3590. Audience shout

V3592. Runic alphabet used by early Anglo-Saxons

V3594. King of music and Simon of watches

V3596. Records in a CSV file

V3598. Responsiveness to audience choices

V3600. Internet broadcasting platform

V3602. Soothing ointment

V3604. “What’ve I done to deserve all this tsuris”

V3605. Was without

V3606. Honey badger, to use an older name

V3608. Surveillance network, briefly

V3610. Once-famous Famous-___

V3611. Hardly prolix

V3613. Wrong way to say “wrong” (okay, fine, it’s a dialect thing)

V3614. Seemingly immeasurable spans

V3615. Berlin billfold fillers

V3618. Liable to offend

V3619. Monticello, for example

V3622. Shelley or Milton

V3623. Life of Pi director

V3624. Largest US union

V3626. Shirk one’s military duty, perhaps

V3628. Arbor in Spain

V3630. Fertilizer for lime-deficient soil

V3633. Became widespread

V3635. Contracts class student

V3636. Madge’s concern

V3639. Boo Boo’s buddy

V3641. “___ my uncle used to say…”

V3643. Dungeons & Dragons monster

V3644. World Cup zero

V3645. Accessible without special permission, as drugs

V3646. Be in want of

V3647. One of Petrarch’s sonnets, e.g.

V3648. Some computer-less internet access systs., once

V3649. Urn-shaped

V3650. The ocean

V3652. Party plaything

V3653. All-access ticket

V3655. Dot of land in the ocean

V3656. Highest levels of some H.S. competitions

V3658. Moses’ father-in-law

V3660. Insomniac’s need

V3663. Spanish I infinitive

V3665. Those canvassed

V3667. Married…With Children star Katey

V3670. 97

V3672. “…each venture is a new beginning, ___ on the inarticulate” (T.S. Eliot)

V3673. “Boom” preceder, in song

V3674. Heeds the bailiff

V3676. Word preceding “Spring” and “League”

V3678. “___ Been Everywhere” (Johnny Cash)

V3679. He tricked Simba into exile

V3681. ___ Goldsman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind

V3682. Middle Eastern pastry

V3683. Like some modern TV broadcasts

V3684. Multiple narrators, e.g. (abbr.)

V3686. Covers breaking news in real time

V3687. Rahs in Guadalajara

V3688. Like a fox in the henhouse

V3689. Giga- times 1,000

V3691. Likely to say “Okay, boomer” to an Xer

V3692. When doubled, a Hawaiian massage technique

V3694. Male presence, in slang

V3697. Overly frank, perhaps

V3699. Stk. payout

V3701. Don’t sell solely on credit

V3703. Displayed

V3705. Cosmonaut Gherman

V3708. Boarding pts.

V3710. ___ say more?’

V3711. Japanese monasteries

V3713. Completely, to Caesar

V3714. Not standard

V3715. Watered silk

V3716. Gets hot quick, as a stock price

V3717. Injure grievously

V3718. Supernatural being, in Arabian legends

V3719. Super scholar

V3720. Deanna who often said “Captain, I sense…”

V3722. Cabaret and Chicago lyricist Fred

V3723. Certain child (abbr.)

V3725. Son’s sib (abbr.)

V3727. Detailed account, for short

V3728. BRB or FTW

V3729. Calendar column (abbr.)

V3730. Beginning of many ship names

V3732. Got to work

V3734. Suzuki’s Grand ___

V3736. Put back on

V3738. Flue problem

V3740. One-time coins of Estonia

V3742. Fervors

V3743. Give a designation matching

V3744. Big wet lipsmack

V3747. Void

V3749. Twin characters, often

V3750. Fired off an e-mail

V3751. Spinal column terminus

V3752. Negotiating point that can’t be tabled

V3753. Sound following “A little to the left…lowerrr…there, right there…”

V3759. Bird down under

V3760. Indented section at the back of the book

V3762. Sharp cognitive decline

V3764. Wreck-checking org.

V3766. Common work boot feature

V3769. Seeking escargots

V3771. Disquieting emotionlessness

V3772. Neighbor of Slovenia

V3773. Present participle finish

V3774. “That’s also been my experience!”

V3775. “Goodnight ___” (Eric Clapton)

V3776. LP holders

V3777. What the V stands for, in hand-signs

V3778. Talker at the station, maybe

V3779. Saunters through Ireland

V3781. Swindled, as with a parlor trick

V3785. They’re on the fringe

V3788. Hardwood furniture in a home office

V3790. Unfolds

V3792. Big name in luxury bags

V3794. Part of an obsolescing movie collection

V3796. Embryonic membranes

V3797. Raises, as heads or spirits

V3798. Elm and Mulberry (abbr.)

V3801. Turn to vapor

V3803. Daredevil Charlie

V3804. Yielded

V3805. Teased playfully

V3806. Theseus’ part of Athens

V3808. ___ Tome and Principe

V3810. Trop. of Cancer, for one

V3812. Show up at fifty o’clock, so to speak

V3814. Contrary

V3815. What the v stands for, in euphemisms

V3817. Cling to

V3820. Many a recital piece

V3823. Russian measure of length

V3824. 1998 animated film

V3825. Agriculturalist’s letters?

V3826. Many California wines

V3827. Certain lap dog, informally

V3829. ___ the feet of: looked up to

V3830. Be super successful

V3832. Stellar phenomena

V3833. “A bird in ___ is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings” (Matshona Dhliwayo)

V3834. Fipple flutes or whistles

V3835. “___ Touch This”

V3836. Former senator Harry and family

V3837. LAX listing

V3838. Pope before Benedict III

V3839. Basalt sources

V3840. Purse feature

V3841. 1989 comedy set at Channel 62

V3842. Chicks’ comments

V3843. Lecturers’ spots

V3844. Architectural ellipse

V3845. Makes regular deposits

V3846. Tahiti “est une”

V3847. Sculptured trunk

V3848. Words starting a supposition

V3849. The Three Faces ___ (1957 film)

V3850. Doesn’t permit

V3851. One-year prison term, slangily

V3852. Certain Samsung set

V3853. Deny access to

V3854. TV newsman Hughes et al.

V3855. Cortez’s quest

V3856. Heavenly phenomena

V3857. Getting louder, in the orch.

V3858. Miles or Vaughan

V3859. Letter-shaped construction girder

V3860. Place to keep a nest egg

V3862. The ones yonder

V3863. Actors Green and Rogen

V3865. ___ for Silence (Sue Grafton book)

V3867. Feels the heat?

V3869. Take ___: Opt not to

V3870. Singer and pianist Jones

V3871. Impossibilities in one’s own mind

V3875. ___-year plan

V3876. Teeth holders

V3877. Superman without a cape

V3879. What the v. stands for, in shorthand

V3880. Lead-in for gram or graph

V3885. Pull up stakes, to a realtor

V3888. Commodores #4 hit “___ On”

V3890. Checker’s determination

V3892. Opposite of spring, tidewise

V3896. “Well, it’s worth ___”

V3898. Characteristic of Devonshire

V3899. Suffix with quack or fool

V3901. Prefix with “milk” and “weekly”

V3902. Gulf St.

V3904. Statement of subterfuge

V3905. Valley of San Francisco

V3907. Approved of

V3909. “Are we there yet?” answer

V3911. Motorist’s way (abbr.)

V3912. Kooky comic Philips

V3913. Forum greeting

V3914. Realm that dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars (abbr.)

V3916. TV mogul Turner

V3918. Some T-shirt szs.

V3920. Early gangsta rap group featuring Dr. Dre

V3921. “…___ any drop to drink” (Coleridge)

V3923. Viral misery

V3924. Grape nursery

V3926. 3

Across Stitches

V507-W470. “You’re seeing me do this for the first time”

V921-W890. Annual basis

V1291-W1263. Center of gravity

V1806-W1758. Details a gourmet perceives

V2307-W2252. Eighties would-be filmmaker’s constant companion

V2620-W2561. Slur one’s words and talk about “the universe, man,” e.g.

V2989-W2894. Pulitzer-winning humorist known for insisting “I am not making this up”

V3357-W3256. 1980s space Western toon

V3709-W3598. Different look for the same book

V3821-W3719. Literally, “the sixth’s labyrinth,” e.g., trap found in the sixth Saw movie?