Rows Garden Year 1, #1 EASIER version, 1/9/18

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Rows Garden Year 1, #1

EASIER version, 1/9/18

Rows

A Like terms in the upper

house of Congress

B Served in the lower house

of Congress, e.g.

Breakaway country of

1971

C Casino locale that’s even

closer to the CA border

than South Lake Tahoe

T.S. Eliot poem written at

his conversion to

Anglicanism (2 wds.)

D Unflappable

Common medical centers

in pre-antibiotic days

E “Lemony” flower found in

herbal teas

In a naïve or gullible way

F Like Viktor Quisling

One given to hyperbole

G Shortened

Showing a lack of

decorum or tact

H Of bishops

Laid out with limbs in all

directions (hyph.)

I Drink that’s usually

colorless in the US but

pink in most of Canada (2

wds.)

1902 novel that spawned

4 film versions and a TV

series (2 wds.)

J Cointreau rival (2 wds.)

By its very nature (2 wds.)

K That "Do these chopsticks

go in Compost or

Recycling? Is the plastic

box Recycling or Landfill?"

feeling (2 wds.)

Philosopher Popper

L Fran who threw 342

touchdown passes

Light Blooms

Slackens (off)

Neapolitan nothing

Chewed (on)

Rain-bringing nymphs

How you might not like

something (2 wds.)

County on the English

Channel

Biometric scan target

Fillmore follower

Footless

PC slot with a colon (2

wds.)

Achieved spectacularly

Ark resting spot

Cold War diplomat

George F. ___

Intractable, as a problem

Medium Blooms

Cop-holster items

Implored

Prop for Romeo

Elvis’s dad ___ Presley

Once every revolution?

Jelly-maker’s supply

In the manner of

Martin Shkreli

Does a tribute-band

thing

Flatters (oneself on)

Language that gave us

“shindig” and “spunk”

Muscat harvest

Mete (out)

Playful sprites

Tire-kicker’s milieu (2

wds.)

Dark Blooms

Après-ski locale

Soft drink named for a

California volcano

No longer abed

Listing that may

include some zombies

(2 wds.)

Ventilate (2 wds.)

Pestered

Make like a volleyball

team

Some little green discs

from Mars? (3 wds.)

“One or the other for

me”

At sea (3 wds.)




Rows

A Conductor whose name

begins with an opera

B Oil used as a topical pain

reliever

Viral 2017 gift whose

buyers, one wag said,

“were mostly Coloradans

who returned it, saying,

‘Not what I expected’” (2

wds.)

C Last word in a Knock-

Knock joke about Allison

Ivanka & Jared, e.g. (2

wds.)

D 1982, 2017, and 2049

film? (2 wds.)

Like Schubert’s 8th

Symphony

E Wonder Woman, e.g.

Brown’s “Kool” partner

F Kickback for positive press

Margot Fonteyn of the

Royal Ballet, e.g. (2 wds.)

G Destroyed

Feature of each gun in the

Burr-Hamilton duel (2

wds.)

H 1,2,3, or 5, but not 4 (2

wds.)

Triangular pyramids

I Man of class?

Pub food bound in

sausage and breaded (2

wds.)

J Online-images social

network

Revelatory oral blunder (2

wds.)

K Oldest-ever MLB rookie (2

wds.)

Agreeing (to)

L One who might take away

your old dishwasher

Light Blooms

Separate the chaff

The Man with The

Golden Arm writer

Scattered (about)

Oust, as a dictator

“Deuce Bigelow,” for

one

Ashram teachers

Bubble wrap-lined bag

Smoke-detector-with-

dying-battery sounds

Gridiron flub

Do ushers’ work

Frayed and worn

Crannies

Ristorante desserts

Eventually yield

Medium Blooms

Gaggle:geese::raft:___

Dingo or jackal, e.g.

Enola Gay takeoff

island

Inculpated

Pled for payment

Urban space-

optimizing

construction

Snacked

IL home of Deere & Co.

More than animus

Mecca-Medina trek

Bites, puppy style (2

wds.)

Attach, in a way

Riyadh residents

Foundation feature

that is driven

Dark Blooms

More embarrassed

Teemed

One with a common

set of grandparents

Feathered

Himalayan ethnicity

Clannish

Saskatchewan’s

capital

Opportunist in a riot

Bloom

Grab rudely




Rows

A “Housework to arouse a

partner” portmanteau

B Sampling of what lies

ahead

Uneasily illiquid (hyph.)

C In an uncontrite manner

Endive variety

D Mao suit cousin (2 wds.)

Causing one to pucker, as

some red wine or black

tea

E Opposite of “should”

Largest carnivorous

marsupial, now believed

extinct (2 wds.)

F Autograph site on an

injury victim (2 wds.)

Madonna role of 1996 (2

wds.)

G Good hiding place (2 wds.)

Rommel’s African

Waterloo (2 wds.)

H Sherlock’s forte

Caribbean capital (hyph.)

I Failed calamitously,

slangily (3 wds.)

Like a steel-trap memory

J Motown

1964 film featuring

screaming girls (4 wds.)

K One who finds gods

everywhere

Operations owned by Jack

Daniel and George

Washington

L Popular word puzzles

Light Blooms

Previous

Brosnan TV role

Most timid

Took off to team up

Numbers after a “.”

Prepares, as clams

Victoria’s Secret buy

Ishtar rides

Going (over)

Not as slack

Manifest

Novelist Willa

Paean penners

Saints’ bones in altar

stones

Medium Blooms

JFK’s prep school

The Friendly Ghost

Let-it-ride bet

“Okay, I’ve HAD it!”

Set upon

Remove tea leaves, say

Acting king

Minnesota city

Allegro non ___ (1976

Fantasia spoof)

Like some urges or

screams

Breathed like Bowser

“In other words” (2

wds.)

Not requiring a flash,

now that the sun is up

“Crazy” playing cards?

Dark Blooms

Peers, sometimes

Clusters of candidates

Going full speed

Comes in second

“Is nothing ___?”

Sportscaster Dick

Singer Gilbert or

Milsap

Beethoven’s 3rd,

popularly

Don of Mad Men

Mailed, as a contest

entry (2 wds.)




Rows

A “Little bitters” in the

liquor cabinet

B Swashbuckler’s forté

(hyph.)

Quote out of context, say

C Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life

duettist (2 wds.)

Inexpensive wrapping (2

wds.)

D Southerner’s “Goodness

sakes!” (2 wds.)

Hosp. tester with a

powerful field (2 wds.)

E Trusting way to buy

something (2 wds.)

Place for many pickups? (2

wds.)

F Southern Italian dance

form

2007 Pixar hit

G Musically monotonous (2

wds.)

1971 chase movie that

was a drive-in standard (2

wds.)

H BART, e.g. (2 wds.)

Evil, from a root meaning

“left”

I Heart of the Great White

Way (2 wds.)

Body part that feels no

pain

J First buyer of Levi’s jeans,

legendarily (2 wds.)

BHT or BHA, e.g.

K Illegal item on 11 million

VW diesel cars (2 wds.)

Hardly unblemished

L Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life

duettist Jeanette

Light Blooms

First baker to mass-

produce bagels

Eluded

Apartment overseers

Preacher’s admonition

Third UN boss (2 wds.)

Equally close (2 wds.)

Thelma’s pal

Perpetrate

Number of saisons

Add one’s name to a

clipboard (2 wds.)

Sell to the public

Attacked (2 wds.)

Fuhgeddaboutit! (2

wds.)

Didn’t have

Medium Blooms

Lee Oswald’s widow

“Hey, sir!”

Salad maker, at times

Red light, e.g.

Snacks

Stud’s job

Infertile

Irish stew bit

Dried-out one

Playing the model

Hit the links

Raw-___: full of

courage

Artist of spatial

impossibilities

Get from,

etymologically

Dark Blooms

Elton John’s boy

Zachary, to Lady Gaga

Animus

Hors d’oeuvre

One making amends

Singer Rudy

Get close to, but don’t

say (2 wds.)

Doorframe top

Taunt at a pea shooter

Put before

Saloon




Rows

A Whales and dolphins

B Good place for an outdoor

tryst (2 wds.)

Of a skin layer

C Plaintiff’s wear in a

personal-injury lawsuit,

perhaps (2 wds.)

Like Monty Python humor

D Ostensible (hyph.)

Less-essential perfume? (3

wds.)

E Full name: Daniel ___ Day-

Lewis: 2 wds. (check

Wikipedia if you don’t

believe me) (2 wds.)

Curlicues

F Standard for the Florida

Panhandle (2 wds.)

Flattened grains (2 wds.)

G With serious intent (2

wds.)

One called to attention in

a retail setting? (2 wds.)

H Where a driving ban

ended in 2017 (2 wds.)

Is hardly reticent under

interrogation (2 wds.)

I Genetic engineering’s

primary product (2 wds.)

On the way to fullness, for

the moon

J Came in first, but barely (4

wds.)

Seizes, militarily

K Travel agent’s preference

question (3 wds.)

Big name in footed

pajamas (2 wds.)

L Didn’t keep, as a promise

(2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Comes in second

Hallowed

Great Plains capital

Bemoan

First name on a Santa

Baby record label

The Last ___ of Beau

Geste (Feldman movie)

Restaurant-bag

beneficiary?

What’s under a cup

Rabbi/minister/priest

meeting place? (3 wds.)

Oversee

Salon application

Depressing event

Gangster Bugsy

Put on

Medium Blooms

Sweet, as to the ear

Subject of a “Tru”

story?

___ Raiders (consumer

watchdogs)

Kind of ray or dust

Alexis who was Rory

on Gilmore Girls

Cites

Avoid a court case

Unit equal to 180/π

degrees

Troy, the Cowboy

Zinger response (2

wds.)

Free grain from chaff

State bordering

Arizona

Butted (into)

Observant ones

Dark Blooms

Belgian lager, to fans

Attends a class

without getting credit

Disparage

___ Creed (325 C.E.

document)

Book-spine items

Chat-room

annoyances

Dwindles

Gin brand

Well-informed guide

Cross- or glass-

follower, in pen

descriptions




Rows

A Decimal-calendar month

created by the French

Revolution, now seen only

in a seafood recipe name

B 1929 western novel made

into a 1931 film that won

the top Oscar

Medical practitioner

characteristic that may

cost you sleep (2 wds.)

C Medical practitioner who

may help you sleep?

CPR dolls, e.g.

D Kind of car introduced in

the '60s

Seth Meyers vehicle (2

wds.)

E Karma cousin

Request for info

F Alternative to General

Tso’s chicken (4 wds.)

Force members

G Behind

Spelling bee’s less-

impressive rival? (2 wds.)

H Chats (3 wds.)

Hannibal of fiction

I Like the shape of a Prius

Prevents commingling

J College Park ballplayer

#9 novel of the 20th

Century, in a Modern

Library ranking (3 wds.)

K Distinguish (2 wds.)

Helped the Nazis, say

L The Lone Ranger, in every

final scene (2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Lackluster

Test, as a coin (2 wds.)

Xavier's senior, in the

Senate

SF squad

Tweaked upward, as

rankings

Sheen

Amistad mutiny leader

No longer at sea

Ayn Rand novel

Codger

Crossword constructor,

across the Atlantic

Las ___, Canary Islands

Having hair?

Type of pax beginning

with Augustus

Medium Blooms

Somewhat

Collagen-containing

layer

Pippen teammate

Want more

Apple Watch display

name

Brazilian or Mexican

Tightener’s mnemonic

word

Conservatives

Rules violator on a

mound

Porch pirate’s quarry

Make the varsity team

Use a sieve

CSI milieu (2 wds.)

Forestalls

Dark Blooms

What may be civil or

human

Nasty weather spot on

a map (hyph.)

Like a zebra

Docked

Spat alternative

Taking long strides

Make like a Big

Brother

Spaceballs, to Star

Wars, e.g.

Heirs and heiresses

Parsley-like herb used

in soups




Rows

A South Park “weather

warning” triggered by

hybrid cars in San

Francisco (2 wds.)

B Easy path feature? (2

wds.)

Grimm sibling

C Like Shaw when he wrote

Buoyant Billions, his last

play

Cooked or served plainly

(2 wds.)

D Lunglike apparatus used

for buoyancy in some fish

(2 wds.)

Sheer and translucent, as

fabric

E Ability to feel, see, be

aware

Pablo Picasso pal (2 wds.)

F Colt .45s, now

Outback feature (2 wds.)

G Quick-to-punish sort

Hormone whose synthetic

form was Genentech’s

first blockbuster drug

H 2004 documentary about

a restricted diet (3 wds.)

“It’s a mystery” (3 wds.)

I Another devilish

takeover?

“Famous” utterances (2

wds.)

J Airy, like a sweater (2

wds.)

Ostracizing, in a way

K Strew about

Defying scientific

explanation

L Something to do on the

dock of the bay? (2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Coerce (2 wds.)

Up

Fine distinction

Silent partner in a stage

production?

Military incursion

“Little” one who heard

“Not I” a lot (2 wds.)

Nashville squad

Catholic Mass re-

creation

Snatches

Lonesome Dove’s Dry

Bean, for one

Foils, e.g.

Users of some wooden

horses

Deadly sins, e.g.

Key with one sharp (2

wds.)

Medium Blooms

Plays guitar chords, say

P.O.W. camp

Rue

Dirty, lowdown,

contemptible,

disgusting sorts

Cut a rug

Weaken

Tipplers

Victim of a Melissa

McCarthy lampoon

Leatherneck

Like some treasure

___ shoes: ballet gear

Fix, as a bumpy street

Hussein predecessor?

Causing a limp

Dark Blooms

Take a risk

Nobelist Sakharov

Mitt Romney,

nowadays

Cruel one

Small finch

Palace that was used

as police

headquarters on

Hawaii Five-O

Ditzy OJ trial witness

Kato

Crisco rival

England, to Pliny

Important ingredient

in pemmican




Rows

A Surgeon’s removals

B Battleship game piece

Lemonade/iced tea mix (2

wds.)

C IMF secretary’s actions

when the impossible

missions fail?

Followers of the Code of

Hammurabi

D “Boneless lean beef

trimmings,”

dysphemistically (2 wds.)

Tall ship whose sails’ tops

are parallel to its deck

(hyph.)

E Cry of despair (2 wds.)

Nurse Florence born in

Florence

F Pirate’s ship-boarding tool

(2 wds.)

Bad poet’s output

G Thing before the best

thing since it? (2 wds.)

Go snooping (2 wds.)

H Fictional band whose

amplifiers went to 11 (2

wds.)

Meteorite (2 wds.)

I Rationale used in nuclear

arms buildup

Like men in song “who will

fight for the right they

adore” (2 wds.)

J Like some mottled

eyeglass frames

From Pokhara, say

K Cozy to the max (7 wds.)

Cranny

L Color of some lined school

paper

Light Blooms

Insulted, slangily

Solicitor

How Capt. Kirk goes?

Parents, at baptisms

Like a contortionist’s

limbs

Sure-to-be-elected

(hyph.)

Urging (on)

Was malicious to

Copyright kin

Got on base more

Tattled

Phony fireplace kindling

Deseeded, as cotton

Actor Charles of the

Beethoven movies

Medium Blooms

Brain layer

Former grape

Apply sloppily, as paint

(2 wds.)

Easy NBA baskets

(hyph.)

Writer Zola and boxer

Griffith

Round Tablemate of

Galahad and Gawain

Entertain

extravagantly

Speared, as a boil

Civics and Accords

Some apes, for short

Totals up as (2 wds.)

Mistreats

___ network: artificial

intelligence concept

Word said to a selfie

stick?

Dark Blooms

Linguistic cousin to

Czech

Edible pigeons

Source

Highly sought-after

things

Drinker to excess

Finishes respectably (2

wds.)

Horizontal ladder

piece

Molotov Cocktail

wielder

Spartan slaves

Winter-cap feature




Rows

A “The greatest thing

mankind ever devised,” to

2000-year-old Mel Brooks

(2 wds.)

B Tartuffe’s creator

Physical phenomenon that

has the idea of iron in its

name

C Extremely durable, like

jet-age plastic

Station wagon, across the

Pond (2 wds.)

D The Price Is Right’s original

host

Held back a criticism, say

(3 wds.)

E Northern Ireland

Protestant

Sleepwalk

F Broken (2 wds.)

World city from 1949 to

1990 (2 wds.)

G Power plant that

generates much of its own

fuel (2 wds.)

Hootenanny cousin

H Extreme TSA action (2

wds.)

Horsemanship

I Absence of prejudice

(hyph.)

Tactile feature of

Canadian currency

J Containing more alcohol

1984 autobiographical

Oliver Sacks book about a

near-fatal fall from a cliff

(5 wds.)

K Tiffany Lamp feature (2

wds.)

Answered

L Blotto

Light Blooms

Famous Merl Reagle clue

for YOSEMITE that calls

for parsing it as two

words

Have a greater liking for

Most ready to play

Bigotry

Sewing-machine name

Chemical “fraternal

twin”

Oaf on a crew

Reverse a decision to

delete, online

Got close

Short takes at ends of

magazine articles, e.g.

Big name in little trains

Type of skiing

Balance-sheet section

Consider

Medium Blooms

GMC truck model

Like AAA shoes

Fascinated

Vision-related

Abolitionist Harriet

Protected

denominazione region

for balsamic vinegar

Biblical hand-washer

Caught notice of

Sign of prestige

Almost reveal (2 wds.)

Flinches

Looked daggers (at)

Salad maker,

sometimes

Appeared ready to fall

asleep

Dark Blooms

Edible green that

loses its sting when

cooked

Slow-but-healthy way

to get there (2 wds.)

Body of old men,

etymologically

Loose-leaf paper

holder

Harvester

Old Dean Martin TV

shows

Sitting at a red light,

say

“Cute,” in Calais

Map feature

NYC subway of song (2

wds.)




Rows

A What Terry could have

been, in On The

Waterfront

B Blushing

Type of change one

shouldn’t accept (2 wds.)

C Indian princes

Newspaper since 1910;

the “bible of fashion” (3

wds.)

D Beatles, originally

Straightforward and

unemotional (hyph.)

E Struck up again, as an

affair

Peacekeeper’s job (2 wds.)

F Show that made Gary

Coleman a star (2 wds.)

Excellent, in slang

G “Move it!” from a drill

sergeant (4 wds.)

Splashy basketball play (2

wds.)

H Site of an infamous “death

march,” 1942

Next of kin (2 wds.)

I Bialys, e.g. (2 wds.)

60s TV mom (2 wds.)

J Actor/”singer” whose Lucy

in the Sky With Diamonds

was voted the worst

massacre of a Beatles

song ever (2 wds.)

Forced away (from)

K Haters

Onetime Coke machine

fixture (2 wds.)

L Not spontaneous, as in an

interview answer

Light Blooms

Struck disagreeably

Doing lawn work

Taken off a liquid diet?

Probable

Keeper, in an adage

Vacation destination

Navel, e.g.

Like the isla in a

Madonna song

Early tie score (2 wds.)

Middle of London?

Successfully perform CPR

Williams in a swimming

pool

Right-arms connection?

(2 wds.)

Remove from office

Medium Blooms

Swindled

Like a boxer’s combo

(hyph.)

Fireplace residue

Oatmeal brand

Big name in grafting

Baddie, in Birmingham

Delete the sensitive

stuff from

Greeks’ Minerva

One who extinguishes,

in a way

Loudly scold (2 wds.)

Like old lettuce

Soviet agcy. in Bond

novels

Confused mess

Paid for by the hour

Dark Blooms

Hemingway “New

York Bar” hangout in

Paris

Flower part

Bear, financially

Betray nervousness

Home of the Braves (2

wds.)

Fried Hanukkah treats

Without skill

Criticize harshly and

repeatedly (2 wds.)

Post-revolutionary

cabals

One who chooses not

to buy, as an auto




Rows

A Titular tradesman in a C.L.

Dodgson poem

B Had a go-around on 10

wheels, say

Retro term for x-ray

C One batting last, in cricket

Utterly destroying

D Grande cathédrale de

Paris (hyph.)

Healer of many in Calcutta

(2 wds.)

E Tan pumpkin cousin (2

wds.)

Home of JFK, 1931–1935,

until he graduated

F Expostulation in

opposition

Latin saying that ends vita

brevis (2 wds.)

G Opposite of tranquilizer

Other name of C.L.

Dodgson (2 wds.)

H Kickass rodeo star (2 wds.)

Impose regularity

I Not really thinking about

the task at hand

Given refuge, perhaps, but

not a nation to call home

J Gravely worried

Little darling’s pamperer

K Adversary of San Antonio

Spurs in an NBA rivalry (2

wds.)

Short phrase behind

Lincoln’s head? (2 wds.)

L Some puzzles that hide

long answers, as this one

hides a C.L. Dodgson title

Light Blooms

Customize

Made like a boom box

Word in an LA medical

center name

A Bergman

Observers

Ring-toss game

Instruct

Involve completely

Rain cloud

GM feature with eNav

Wrests

Star in Gemini

Kind of wrench

Panoramic

Medium Blooms

Library cubicle

Awaited further action

Iodine-deficiency

problem

Close, in a way

___ Bol, NBA’s tallest-

ever player

Go over. . . again

Cousin of “parade

rest” (2 wds.)

Regular newspaper gig

Boxer who weighs 145

lb., for short

Blazing Saddles role

for Korman, Hedley

___

Sheltered

Florid in style

Expensive

Be less insistent

Dark Blooms

Packaged-bagel baker

Harry

Detective’s

determination

More pucker-inducing

Sends in payment

Kilt cloth

Measurement in

radians, for short

Dairy case measure

Word on a prophet’s

sandwich board

Formed while pliable

Walk like a 2-year-old




Rows

A Emmanuel Macron’s

argument for action

against global climate

change (3 wds.)

B Serious personality

disorder

Science whose discovery is

tracked in Guns, Germs,

and Steel

C In a save-the-world

manner

Oil in many paints

D Meet at sea?

Led Zeppelin hit of 1969 (3

wds.)

E Disdainful, scornful

Certain babe in the

movies (2 wds.)

F Not-really-here look (2

wds.)

Franchise with an 8th film

in 2019

G Ukrainian skater Baiul

Trustworthy one (2 wds.)

H Bond parody starring

James Coburn (3 wds.)

RS232 connector on an

early PC, e.g. (2 wds.)

I Like a bench warmer (2

wds.)

Color mentioned in

America the Beautiful

J Beginning of a saying

about inattention (3 wds.)

Girl’s name in more than 4

dozen book titles (2 wds.)

K Highly aromatic, as some

oils

Persons with no cause for

alarm?

L Adjective applied to some

murders, even if it applies

to all

Light Blooms

Stan Lee creation,

familiarly

Film based on an SNL

character (2 wds.)

“These days”

Venal

Like Michelangelo?

Ejection, as from office

Leonid predecessor

Leaker, to a journalist

Some teasers

Telescoping auto

accessory, once

Snappy comeback

Gets in touch

Skips over

Foolin’ (around)

Medium Blooms

Armless garment

Book in a seat back

Roy Rogers’s dog

Big eel

For a spell

Praises

Expensive Roman

street, with “Via”

Peggy Lee song about

procrastination

Buster Posey’s team

Foofaraw

First name in White

House internship

Biblical landing place

Yugoslavia spinoff

Operagoing pal of

Justice Ginsburg

Dark Blooms

“Scourge of God”

Vicinity

Most South Americans

Ernie on early TV

Reacts with surprise

100,000-BTU

measures

Cad

“I’ve got this” (2 wds.)

Work the room at a

party, say

Cheapen




Rows

A Most populous of the

Mascarene Islands

B Certain Manitoban

Like Kenya, Sumatra, or

Colombia

C One not worth beating,

stereotypically (2 wds.)

Cycled, then swam, then

ran (hyph.)

D Cylindrical treats since

1953 (2 wds.)

Hardly friendly

E Bruno Hauptmann and

Richard Allen Davis, e.g.

Chewing

F Seriously straitlaced

Certain dumpling

G Nickname of Mac

operating system OS X

10.6 (2 wds.)

City renamed in 1961 to

ward off a cult of

personality

H Dwelling on the gruesome

(One’s) forte (3 wds.)

I Monroe of the NBA (3

wds.)

Windsurfer’s buy

J 99¢ Store rival that goes it

one better? (2 wds.)

Descriptor of Jenny Lind

K Repair shop inventory

item (2 wds.)

One enamored of

locomotives

L Brought under one’s

power

Light Blooms

Lady Mountbatten

A Heartbreaking Work of

Staggering Genius

author

Leg strengtheners

“Not a river in Egypt,”

per some wags

Film about a statue?

Transfused medium

Stratagem

Gordon of Oklahoma!

Pager

National lab in New

Mexico

Cause to be late

Paul Newman title role

Nissan model

Tyrant

Medium Blooms

Tales of the City author

Armistead

Go to bed

Serenader, perhaps

Tyrant’s decree

Heavy drinkers,

slangily

We’re on! (3 wds.)

Including footnotes

Crybaby

Rastafarian’s pride

River-floater’s sport

Go back and forth in

the pool (2 wds.)

More pucker-inducing

Hotel stays

Tell, as a story

Dark Blooms

All the rage (2 wds.)

Synagogue singer

Dried fruit

Urge (2 wds.)

Serpico portrayer

Sums

Further past twilight

State of complete

absorption

Going directly from A

to B

Halloween spook




Rows

A Start of an Oliver Twist

request (2 wds.)

B LA nightclub that spawned

many jokesters’ careers,

with “The” (2 wds.)

Adaptable maxims like ‘X

is the new y’ or ‘Have x,

will travel’

C Nary a one (3 wds.)

Arranged like typical

college dorms

D Most wasabi, actually

Drowsiness

E Guanine and cytosine,

e.g., but not guanine and

thymine (2 wds.)

The ___ Song, number

whose music was

borrowed for Lehrer’s The

Elements (2 wds.)

F Wish-list item for many an

apartment dweller (2

wds.)

Drunk, slangily

G Font’s bottom?

“Church key” end (2 wds.)

H Emulate Beau Brummell (4

wds.)

Cleave

I Casablanca song

performed by Dooley

Wilson (5 wds.)

Europe’s largest port

J Worked for The Donald in

the 00s?

Primavera painter

K Cheesecake base, often (2

wds.)

One mentioned often in a

whodunit

L Celebrated “the triumph

of hope over experience,”

per Dr. Johnson

Light Blooms

Sgt., e.g.

Distributes

Utilize (2 wds.)

Perfect game pitcher

Don

Iberian euro predecessor

Wheedle

Wisconsin city

Be indecisive

Clare ___ Luce

Sage in the Iliad

More irate

Word before home or

head

Loser at pool, in the next

game, often

Did a pre-takeoff job

Medium Blooms

Howled with

displeasure online?

Wipes out

Player of Phyllis on TV

Loathes

Bad place for a

collision

Guten ___

Pricks, as a boil

Aromas

First name in fascism

Major that Sam Snead

never won, but placed

2nd in 4 times (2 wds.)

Italian brandy

Like part of Sweden

Went bad

Mujadara bit

Dark Blooms

Move to another

table, say

Racket sport

Chaise ___

Like many museums

on Monday

Chose not to punish

Last name at Tara

Leased

Doesn’t risk, quaintly

Lifted, as one’s spirits

Say, as a poem




Rows

A Venetian’s “bus”

B Really, really disagreeable

thing to face (2 wds.)

“The one over there was

my favorite” (3 wds.)

C How no animals lived until

about 530 million years

ago

Brand of absorbent clay (2

wds.)

D 60s TV series that

reappeared on Netflix in

2018 (3 wds.)

Cancer fighter, often

E Committed perjury (3

wds.)

Ring of Fire perils

F Nadine Gordimer novel

that was banned during

apartheid (2 wds.)

Mourn

G Common descriptor of the

last thing in a series (2

wds.)

Urban restaurant’s

outdoor seating (2 wds.)

H Scuffle on a diamond

“Battle stations!” (4 wds.)

I What one may take to be

incognito (2 wds.)

Penalty for not showing

up

J Title for Abe, with “Great”

Word referred to by a

pronoun

K Half again as large as foot-

long, etymologically

Blustery gait

L Secretion popularly

associated with happiness

Light Blooms

“Fab!”

Fresca rival

In an unserious way

Use Velcro, say

Elbow user

Should, slangily

Pellet firer

Hungarian horseman

CSI set (2 wds.)

Palm products

Catcher in the Wry

author/sportscaster Bob

Knight-to-be

SF politician Angela who

failed 6/5/18 to become

mayor like her father

Storefront shade

provider

Medium Blooms

Covering in asphalt,

say

Band aide

Counted (up)

Certain skateboard

leaps

Showed mercy

Luther’s 95

Comment from a

possessed man? (2

wds.)

Suitable for farming

Exfoliating sponge

Saint George’s prey

Tahini ingredient

Knocked softly

Edict locale of 1598

Acting monarch

Dark Blooms

Word before “coin” or

“tab”

Memory

Nook’s partner

Nile explorer Richard

Expensive violins, for

short

Rowling creation

Tied (the score)

Indiana city called

“Middletown, U.S.A.”

A plural form for

“thighbone”

Chicanery




Rows

A Cherished

B Balladeer Arnold George

Dorsey, to his fans

Lawsuits brought by

groups of plaintiffs (2

wds.)

C 2018 Spike Lee film about

an undercover cop

Household-hints purveyor

D What evolution draws on

for diversity (2 wds.)

“This book should not be

tossed aside lightly—it

should be thrown with

great force” critic (2 wds.)

E National park in the east

Toon name using a

national park in the west

(2 wds.)

F Unlike most living trusts

Gunman portrayer in

Silverado (1985) (2 wds.)

G Cutlets-pounded-thin-and-

flour-coated dish (2 wds.)

Unwavering, as a

defender

H Assertive

Scotch, e.g. (2 wds.)

I French term for “young

lady” and the source of

“damsel”

Adds photos, say

J Jumping-jacks-on-one’s-

back creation (2 wds.)

Pompous in speech

K “At that price, buy!” (3

wds.)

Scary movie (hyph.)

L Seemingly fearless

showman

Light Blooms

Kolkata’s locale

Cinema distractor

With “II,” Moroccan king

for nearly 40 years

Library distractions

Gunman portrayer

Danny in Silverado

(1985)

Bumpkins

Go wee-wee

Brought together, as a

band

Single-___ (like an

ameba)

Early antibiotic drug type

Euro predecessor

Fellini’s La ___

Glimpsed

Residing

Medium Blooms

Stereo knob

Like Dockers in the

office

Latin for “s/he trusts”

World Health Org’s

Swiss HQ, to locals

Really wealthy

Some spices in the

mint family

One who conceals

Doctor’s writing,

stereotypically

Hoi-___

Remove slack, as from

a rope

Holds back, as a

discovery (2 wds.)

Assert

Finch that likes flax

(which gave it its

name)

Cancel a demand, say

Dark Blooms

Part of a ruble: Var.

“Knuckleheads!”

Get-out-of-jail

arrangement

Become famous

Bogart’s bride

Murine rival

___ Blanc wine

Johnny Carson and

John Wayne, by birth

Pitcher whose

nickname was “Sal the

Barber”

Four-leaved book size




Rows

A Budget choice (2 wds.)

B Newfangled gadget that’s

banned on eBay (hyph.)

Newfangled gadget

banned in some museums

(2 wds.)

C Pyramid or prism, e.g.

Treasure site of film (2

wds.)

D Hardly a quitter, slangily

(2 wds.)

Portraying as wicked

E Cut-flower industry’s

biggest appointment (2

wds.)

Undertake (to)

F Director David Lynch’s

first feature-length film,

1977

One who prefers the

status quo ante

G Minimal trip in Euclidean

space (2 wds.)

Head for the hills

H “Land sakes!” (2 wds.)

German city known for

cartwheeling children and

statues

I 1967 tell-all book about

stewardesses (4 wds.)

Devilish

J Prepared to feather?

“Can’t you wait?” (4 wds.)

K Carl Sagan’s Ph.D. area

Like some big dogs, but

only with a strong leash

L Focal point of some shock

waves

Light Blooms

Sting’s group

Went bad

One who searches

quickly, like a burglar

Bargain on price

Take exception to

Anticipates with angst

“Search me” (2 wds.)

Debacle

And others, to Ovid (2

wds.)

Made, as a statement

Gambol

Nastro Azzurro Italian

beer

Smoker in a cathedral

Eye part

Medium Blooms

Jennifer or James of

filmdom

Thrills

Copies, in a way

Manservants

Gainsaid

Bitcoin, e.g. (hyph.)

Traveling far and wide

World Series champs

of 2010, 2012, and

2014

Andy of old oaters

Confused

Layers

Fodder locale in a barn

Phrase after lower or

pass (2 wds.)

Eight dry gallons

Dark Blooms

Prime of one’s life

Like some bank jobs

Like the ’69 Mets

Most prized, often

Word in a toast

Coffin

Boo from Harper Lee

Tributary

Lightning-bolt icon on

a weather map

(hyph.)

Lucrezia of toxicology

fame




Rows

A 68 and 85, e.g., for 17

B Good place for a lovers’

lane (2 wds.)

Words below a truncated

pyramid, on a dollar (2

wds.)

C Team Coco’s leader (2

wds.)

“Sheesh! That’s a first” (3

wds.)

D “High” shrubland in an old

TV title

Aggressively question

(hyph.)

E Caught short, in a way (3

wds.)

Dish that inspired

jambalaya

F Bit by bit

Sometimes clingy fruit

part (2 wds.)

G Way to beg (3 wds.)

End-of-quarter

requirement (2 wds.)

H Rationalizer’s weakness

(hyph.)

Air again

I Tardy Carroll character (2

wds.)

Upscale British SUV (2

wds.)

J Deck often abbreviated

with 3 apostrophes

“Divine” chanteuse (2

wds.)

K State of great decay

Antipasto-on-a-roll New

Orleans treat

L Unneeded accessory for a

Luvs wearer (2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Candle holder, often

Explosion scatterings

Magician Uri

Tell (a secret)

Line drive that falls

beyond and between

outfielders

Fabric with hooks and

loops

Huey cousin

Makes time pass (away)

Rival of a Lyft driver

Destination of a boxcar

in King of the Road

Prevents

Settled, as a debt

Did a do, lastingly

Resembling a wolf

Medium Blooms

Bourne’s creator

Unsurpassed

Goes bad, as bread

Sets a course, on the

main

Like bell-bottoms

Window parts

Like a direct

descendent

Warded (off)

Main course

Zany

Compelled

Minstrel, often

Seat in a nursery

rhyme

Annoy; get to

Dark Blooms

About even (with) (3

wds.)

With “Plaza,” hotel

chain

Congresswoman

Waters

“You’re welcome,” to

a hipster (2 wds.)

Touched, as billiard

balls

Input a deleted file,

perhaps

Favorite of a maître-d’

Others, to Ovid

Wooster who was

served by

Wodehouse’s Jeeves

Moola (hyph.)




Rows

A Psych test with a spotty

record?

B Señorita counterpart

Whence the Ferry crosses

the Mersey

C Stockbroker’s assignment

to buy unless later

retracted (2 wds.)

Like many dim photos

D Crime boss

Floridian’s jocular term for

“iguanas as food” (4 wds.)

E Printing system using

cylinders (2 wds.)

Certain Spanish-American

war cavalryman (2 wds.)

F Speak with authority

Station wagons, to Brits (2

wds.)

G Apex

Much-debated

phenomenon (2 wds.)

H Toyota model, 1978–1999

Not taboo, as a topic (3

wds.)

I Rescuing Apple and

launching the iPhone, for

Steve Jobs (3 wds.)

Pilot or Flying J station (2

wds.)

J Millennials’ predecessors

(2 wds.)

2018 Disney bomb

starring Oprah Winfrey

and Reese Witherspoon (4

wds.)

K Jaw-droppingly amazing

(hyph.)

Burns in sacrifice

L Less-expensive-than-

Posturepedic Sealy line

Light Blooms

Greaser’s goo

Inhabit

Experience again, maybe

hauntingly

Unleashed

Approve, as an

amendment

Directs

How Peter denied, in

Matthew

Bordeaux, to a Brit

Set back, as a wedding

date (2 wds.)

Some Like It Hot star

Elixir, e.g.

Cruise-ship

accommodations

Querying

Song whose real title is

Nel blu dipinto di blu

Medium Blooms

The Joker on TV’s

Batman

Maximilian of

Judgment at

Nuremberg

Give a sermon

One holding a prisoner

Banjo player, slangily

Battled

Farmer’s furrow filler

Render unusable, as a

stamp

Term of address for an

English nobleman

“Can you give an

example?” (2 wds.)

Holistic, mystical,

environmental, and all

that (2 wds.)

Cutter along the grain

Jimmy of late night

Jew or Arab, e.g.

Dark Blooms

Word in many high-

end watch names

With loose buttons,

say

Sell abroad

Part of Japan’s ANA

Toyota model, 1970–

2006

Annoys (2 wds.)

Hotpoint products

Nonalcoholic bar

supplies

Leatherneck

Chimney worker? (2

wds.)




Rows

A Persons emerging from

dark to bright light,

usually

B Time of life you can “goof

off and not worry about

being caught at it”

Like a sentence that

makes a statement

C Without quitting before

something ends (3 wds.)

In an intensely happy way

D Most ludicrous

[SEE NOTE]

E CBS police show with a

“psychic” on staff (2 wds.)

Geological system of

successive eons (2 wds.)

F Restore after subtracting

(2 wds.)

Form-letter reply, typically

(2 wds.)

G Chose

Really stubborn quality

H Smartphones, e.g., when

used for Netflix (2 wds.)

Oscar of design (3 wds.)

I Oklahoma land rush, e.g.

(2 wds.)

Game time before

overtime

J Barbershop quartet

standard (2 wds.)

Smithfield specialty (2

wds.)

K Oft-abbreviated

gravestone sentiment (3

wds.)

Dinner-and-a-movie night,

say (2 wds.)

L Vivian of Lolita, whose full

name is an anagram of the

author’s name

Light Blooms

Teeter-___

Catkins

Written for church

singers, say

In a villainous manner

Taxi drivers

Nadal’s sport

Thickets of trees

Brothel bosses

Bend upward in the

center, as a ski

Enormous flood

Dab with oil

“Rats!” (2 wds.)

Dutch painter Pieter van

___ (sorry about this

one)

Dairy-farm sound

Medium Blooms

Like a see-through

blouse, back in the day

Like many limousine

windows

Fixated one

Has a wash

Most up to date

British bishops’

headdresses

Over-the-moon happy

Tiny victims of an HIV

attack (hyph.)

Horse-farm sounds

Arouse affection

Stitches anew

Tolled, as a bell

Bee and snake poisons

Hindu elephant

handler

Dark Blooms

Track-and-field

obstacle

Possible positive

outcome

Barf-inducing syrup

Get ready for a trip on

horseback, with “up”

Got ready for a trip

More like a doornail?

Sight, taste, etc.

Orange boxes

Mend, as an old coat

Spoke




Rows

A Having brain-enhancing

powers, in some drug or

supplement ads

B King in 1922 headlines

What even a Tenderfoot

can tie (2 wds.)

C From Mogadishu

Ruins the elastic

D Condiment whose color

comes from not ripening

(2 wds.)

Wrap whose color comes

from not bleaching (2

wds.)

E Like some truths, to

Jefferson (hyph.)

One who fades away? (2

wds.)

F Lead-in to a main feature

Difficult to categorize

G Elitist’s opposite

“Shh!” (3 wds.)

H Budget or Alamo rival

Golden Arches addition in

1971 (2 wds.)

I Sticking to the job

Poe poem (2 wds.)

J “Out of control” Cal

campus, to detractors

Out-of-control police

problem (2 wds.)

K Imprudent slip-up

Backstage access card,

perhaps (2 wds.)

L Latin for whip, or a

whiplike cell part

Light Blooms

Maximal

Warren Buffett, notably

Edy’s purchases

Moses portrayer

“Spiking” symptoms

Poisonous-sounding

alarm bell

Lent

Annoying dog

Country gent

Many a gold miner

Lasciviously looked

Corporate type of year

Multitudinous

Batters’ lean periods

Medium Blooms

Eskimo on 1922

marquees

Type of desk lamp

Certain farmworker

Passes time, with

“away”

Alternative to Calais,

for Channel crossers

With “apart,” really,

really separate

First pope, to the

French

Most awesome, in the

'hood

Alluring dancer of Peer

Gynt

Pound parts

Assemble again, as a

book

Storytelling Studs

First reader

Delhi garments: Var.

Dark Blooms

Biblical hand-washer

Guitar-pedal control

NCAA conf. before

adding 2 teams in

2011 (2 wds.)

Tesh genre (2 wds.)

NY site of Mark

Twain’s grave

Cry in Streetcar

Forcible removal

Is useful

Cohan portrayer

Annapolis frosh




Rows

A “You’re welcome,” with a

sometimes off-putting

implication (2 wds.)

B “Dinosaurs and humans

coexisted” believer

Dishonest vintner’s supply

(2 wds.)

C Car system with three

differentials (3 wds.)

Mobster’s lackey

D LVI on 2/13/22

Generator of 90% of U.S.

electric power (2 wds.)

E Stir-fried beef entree (2

wds.)

Bradley Fighting Vehicle,

for one (2 wds.)

F After “on,” hanging by a

thread (2 wds.)

1970s list that included

Angela Davis (2 wds.)

G Worked casually (about)

Neighborhood near The

Bowery (3 wds.)

H Hang up one’s spurs (3

wds.)

Park since 1955

I March favorite in Ireland?

Blonde German bombshell

in A Shot in the Dark (2

wds.)

J Ethical misstep in a sting

operation

TV sourpuss judge (2 wds.)

K Cowboy order in a saloon

Cowboy epithet for a

farmer

L Porcelain cousin

Light Blooms

One with an I.D.?

Nikita successor

Laid eyes on

Saintly founder of

scholasticism

Examine with care

Acela operator

Rove

Does a glacier’s iceberg-

creating move

Of horses

Velvety smooth

Send back, as a court

case

Throw at, as a QB (2

wds.)

TV promo promise (2

wds.)

One who mistreats

Medium Blooms

How a detective may

act (3 wds.)

Stepford wives, e.g.

1st to 500 HR in the

National League (2

wds.)

Energizes (2 wds.)

Big-eyed nest denizens

“Whistle pig”

French playwright or

Wisconsin town

Jouster

Put (away)

Most cunning

Civic rival

John Glenn in the

1950s, e.g.

Donny or Marie

Keep alive, as a story

Dark Blooms

A Semite

Makes like Rosie

Midmorning meal

Morale boost

Sheared (off)

Upset with (2 wds.)

Shortened, usually

Guardian alternative?

Certain believer

Capital that, like

Lisbon, is 1450 miles

from Frankfurt




Rows

A Added, as software

B Common U.S. reptile

Common U.S. amphibian

C Certain growth regulator

(2 wds.)

Member of Kerouac’s

“generation”

D Serbia’s capital

Went like lightning, in

NASCAR (4 wds.)

E Sheepskin (2 wds.)

Tier

F Folk-medicine aphrodisiac

(2 wds.)

Laundromat synonym

G Meets at sea?

Hardly a niche strategy, in

business (2 wds.)

H Not poisonous, as a plant

Demand an explanation (4

wds.)

I Historian Arthur in the

Camelot White House

Abstemious one

J Zoloft or Lexapro

Helper in the weight room

K Cousin of copyrighted

Real-life TV boy of the

1950s (2 wds.)

L Most needful of a haircut

Light Blooms

La Brea feature (2 wds.)

Ancient Indo-Europeans

CSI facility (2 wds.)

Adjective, with

“gentler,” applied to the

IRS by Bush 41

Marx partner

Kind of tennis shoe

(hyph.)

Tarzan’s pet ape

Criticizes

Tying, as a tennis shoe

Erupt, in a way

“Stormy” sea bird

Castigated publicly

Fixed, crooked

Quik manufacturer

Medium Blooms

Christmas-tree

adornment

Hanukkah fried cakes

Funny Howie

Hilaire of children’s

verse, like “Matilda

who told lies and was

burnt to death”

Improved, as text

Work together (2 wds.)

Like some mutual

funds (hyph.)

Keyboard-less

computer

Educational gatherings

Din

Scot’s plaid

Surname of board-

game Brothers

Dec. 24 visitor (2 wds.)

“Canned heat”

Dark Blooms

Segovia’s forte

Loser in a 2000

Supreme Court case (2

wds.)

Zap again

Movie star on

Gilligan’s Island

Peak experience

Place for Hindu

meditation

Broadcasting

Says, “I’m just sayin’,”

for example

Put forward, as an

argument

Answer to the riddle,

“It has eyes but

cannot see”




Rows

A After “Hold my beer,”

utterance most commonly

made before winning a

Darwin Award (2 wds.)

B Those in the know

One asked to decide for all

at a café table, say (2 wds.)

C Crotchety

Language center, usually (2

wds.)

D U.S. event of 8/21/17 or

4/8/24 (2 wds.)

Whitman specialty (2 wds.)

E Afterword

Like a family after someone

brings up politics at a

holiday table, perhaps

F Symbol equated by some

with Southern heritage,

others with racism (2 wds.)

Orator whose name came

from Latin for “chickpea”

G In a protective manner

Large government

contractor, slangily (2 wds.)

H Arrangement in Grey and

Black No. 1, familiarly (2

wds.)

2-pointers that don’t use

the backboard

I Egotist’s vice (hyph.)

Letter-writing, some say,

e.g. (2 wds.)

J Sauce that makes grilled

food shiny, from a word

meaning “shiny grilled”

Storekeeper’s skill

K Where to find folders and

documents (2 wds.)

Closet denizen?

L Sears brand sold in 2017 to

Black & Decker

Light Blooms

Courvoisier, e.g.

One at Lover’s Lane

Tiger or liger

Don’t relinquish

Hit the links

A thing for feet, e.g.

Like the shape of a Coke

bottle

Passes pleasantly, with

“away”

Stoves since 1874

Tartuffe, at heart,

despite outward piety

Use a colander

Moving, as from a

catapult

Unsurpassed

The skin of one’s teeth?

Medium Blooms

Ken Jennings defeater

Nervous reaction

Respond to, as a villain

(2 wds.)

Soft and hairy, like a

caterpillar

Author whose

textbook had > 1000

editions

Agriculturalist

Awakens

Take stock, wrongly?

Cover with spots

Duke in King Lear

Pulley, often

“My trip has ended!”

(2 wds.)

“’Preciate it!”

Jotting down

Dark Blooms

Name meaning “born

again”

One who said “I do”

Type of colonel

Alexander Hamilton

became in 1783

Candle holder

By the skin of one’s

teeth

Bay of Ireland

Abridger, often

“With your

permission. . .” (3

wds.)

Epimedes’ nationality,

in the Liar’s Paradox

Keats and Pindar




Rows

A Like the world of Mad

Max

B Physician: renal

calculus::Everyone else:

living hell (2 wds.)

One of a pair in a

Christmas song (2 wds.)

C Including all sororities

(hyph.)

Clobbered

D Relative of Jack Frost (3

wds.)

Tweety Bird pursuer

E Event first included in the

1998 Nagano Olympics

Workplace in Alice (2

wds.)

F Jones who played Morticia

on The Addams Family

Lurch on The Addams

Family, notably

G Communication that

disappears in a puff (2

wds.)

Early cold symptom (2

wds.)

H Went postal (3 wds.)

Bodice ripper, often (2

wds.)

I Hardly sturdy

1997 Harrison Ford thriller

(3 wds.)

J Sponges that soak and

soak

Slaw ingredient that turns

blue when cooked (2

wds.)

K Magnetic (in 2 senses)

characteristic

Like fabric made from

bark

L Packers’ winning QB in the

retroactively named Super

Bowls I and II (2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Shanghai, in a way

Catcher Howard of the

60s Yankees

Dash headlong

Called to mind

Squat chest of drawers

Leap (to mind)

Squalid

Aggie, e.g.

Nurse, as a baby

Spain’s Generalissimo

Hinged flap on a plane

wing

Where to find a Rusty

Nail on a train (2 wds.)

Guiding beliefs

Shoe specification

Medium Blooms

Hugh Jackman’s

birthplace

Adjective for a

Letterman list (hyph.)

Got absolutely right

Convinced of (2 wds.)

Cause to enter, as an

argument (2 wds.)

Odiferous

Temporary paid user

Eponymous source of

“guy wire”

Fable finishers

Toilet, slangily

More obese

“To or for” Latin case

Recited an oath?

League of Nations

home

Dark Blooms

Brothers in a 2008

meltdown

Highway patrolmen,

often

Breaks off a new

iceberg

Makes like a billiard

ball

2 words before

“there” and “the

balance” (2 wds.)

Herculean, say

Lao-Tse follower

Caucasians, in Kauai

Broadcasts again

Only actor to play

Tarzan, Flash Gordon,

and Buck Rogers




Rows

A “Everyone’s favorite

parasite,” per National

Geographic

B Plays the President on SNL,

say

Readying a factory to make

a different product

C On-your-tummy

entertainments (2 wds.)

Daliesque

D Moving toward the jetway

“He looks like a king”

aspect (2 wds.)

E Japanese gift given on each

of 12 days, in a 1963 Allan

Sherman parody (2 wds.)

Benzocaine paste brand for

tooth and gum pain

F Words after “She wrote

upon it” in an Elvis song (3

wds.)

Try to hit a slider, say (2

wds.)

G “Time to begin!” (2 wds.)

Host of The 700 Club for

more than 50 years (2

wds.)

H One who keeps showing

you a gift but never lets

you open it, say

LA Lakers’ home (2 wds.)

I Red-and-green plant native

to Mexico

Hardly handcrafted (hyph.)

J Giving the right (to)

Failed business for young

Harry Truman

K What Tyson Beckford ranks

#1 as, per Vogue (2 wds.)

Cousin of a sugar plum? (2

wds.)

L Biggest day for KFC sales in

Japan

Light Blooms

Drives forward

Artist colony south of

Flagstaff, Arizona

Pied-___ (flat in the city,

say) (2 wds.)

Referencing

Arrests (2 wds.)

Comedian Gilda

How answers to paired

clues are entered here (3

wds.)

Christie detective

Temp employee on date

night

Sculptor’s tool

Falsify a check, perhaps

Firefox rival

Prejudiced one

With “Las,” capital of

Gran Canaria island

Medium Blooms

Neglectful

Reach an agreement

(out of court, say)

Actor Peter who

voiced Pantaloon in

The Nutcracker Prince

Make tracks

Gold bars

Half a nonsensical

Beatles title

Make a sleigh-bell

sound

Sashays with attitude

Raven sound on a

chamber door? (hyph.)

Newish

Bewail

Peninsula in Ireland

(that rhymes with that

sleigh-bell sound)

Cleaned, as a pipe

Online reviewer

Dark Blooms

#2 after Armstrong

“Perfect head” beer

aerator sold by

Guinness

To which “Emmanuel

shall come” in a

holiday lyric

What “it” was in Row

F’s Elvis song

Prefix for sphere or

lounger

Auger users

Susan who wrote

Illness as Metaphor

Type of garland on

some trees

Freeport’s “Grand”

island

Garbage removers




Rows

A The current era, to some

political pessimists (hyph.)

B Long-lasting, as meds

(hyph.)

To the literal-minded,

“tightened,” ironically

C PM address, even in the

AM? (2 wds.)

Like a pet sought by many

owners (hyph.)

D Like Does in morgues

Blended (sometimes too

much)

E Ephemeral

React like fans when their

team beats a #1 seed (3

wds.)

F Category including

dressage

Role of mithridate in

ancient medicine

G Goosebump-inducing

thriller (hyph.)

Performer with a chair (2

wds.)

H Rusted

Where Mom and Dad

usually sleep (2 wds.)

I Freudian drive

“Until we come up with

something better” (4

wds.)

J Good loser’s remark (5

wds.)

The Avengers costar of

Rigg

K Credit-earning college

exam, for short (2 wds.)

Like NCAA Final Four

games

L Sheer drop

Light Blooms

Glove cousin

Advice to women from

Sheryl Sandberg (2 wds.)

Home of The Times

Betray embarrassment

Abandoned homes, in

horror movies, e.g.

French for “grape”

Shillyshally

Port town in a Neil

Simon title

Bend out of shape

Quality of sound, in

music

Pasture sound

Beleaguer

Press secretary Sean

Restaurant of song

Medium Blooms

Relaxation

Most faithful

Ump’s call (2 wds.)

Tiny

Endorse, in a way

Maupassant spécialités

Elevated, as a cake

plate

Go to

Warns

Fervid

Choice for a lottery

winner

Nincompoop

Western U.S. spiny

cactus

Lure

Dark Blooms

Drank quickly

Perhaps unlikely

recipient of a

restaurant “bag”

Rolled, filled, and

deep-fried tortilla

Provides with gear

Broadcasting

J.R. Ewing, for one

Unlikely, as a

possibility

Tripping (2 wds.)

Crème de ___

Showed to advantage,

as an outfit




Rows

A Murderous plotlines in

Hamlet and Macbeth

B Me-first concern (hyph.)

Sometimes-hinged egg

cooker (2 wds.)

C Blend word in the subtitle

of Eric Idle’s 2018 memoir,

Always Look On The Bright

Side of Life

Guitarist Nils

D Something often said to

be different altogether (3

wds.)

Athens attraction

E Barbara who wrote 700+

mostly romance novels

Where “a pizza comes to

you faster than an

ambulance,” jocularly (3

wds.)

F Step beyond kissing,

slangily (2 wds.)

What-went-wrong

inquiries

G String together

In a thinking fashion

H Chemically treated

malaria preventer (2 wds.)

Amass

I Complete and total

newbie (2 wds.)

Kind of depression

J Hit the road

Veal dish from Austria (2

wds.)

K Really, really fortunate (2

wds.)

Coerced (into)

L “Good luck onstage” (3

wds.)

Light Blooms

Rental contract side

Swelled thyroid

condition

Plain looking

Riverine gold miner

Bond between Moore

and Brosnan

Hardly in a hidden way

Mild quake

Kidnap demand

Add references

Mission-style house

finish

Change

Ethnicity across North

Africa

Calendar Girl singer

Look up, nowadays

Medium Blooms

Identify to the cops

Least welcoming

Primogeniture

beneficiary

Din

Partial to (2 wds.)

Mental cases?

Desiccant beads

Find innocent

Corona shelfmate

Of a shadow’s darkest

part

Had an evening meal

Night author Elie

Red- and green-stalked

leafy vegetables

Malcolm portrayer in X

Dark Blooms

Conflict

Louisiana subdivision

Vanish, perhaps

magically (2 wds.)

Candle holder

mounted on a wall

Erstwhile Belgian

airline

Most trifling

Malodorous

Coast Starlight

operator

Worker in the branch

office?

To a certain degree (2

wds.)




Rows

A Portmanteau word for a

weight-conscious male

who eats like a bird

B Hardly conformist

One to imitate (2 wds.)

C Second husband of Graça

Machel, widow of the

Mozambican president (2

wds.)

Risqué carnival attraction

(2 wds.)

D Some apes’ (or Tarzan’s)

locomotion

Recite “Peter Piper

picked…” etc.

E Chinese-restaurant broth

(3 wds.)

Profitable pursuit

F Pioneering craft brew (3

wds.)

What it’s important to be,

to Oscar Wilde

G The Prince of Tides

novelist (2 wds.)

Predicted using both art

and science

H One of 12 for 2001’s The

Producers (2 wds.)

Item located with a dial (2

wds.)

I Scope rival

Opposite of open

platform, in product

design (2 wds.)

J Fab Four hit that began,

“Last night I said…” (3

wds.)

Humdrum, ordinary

K Device in the center of a

Ghost love scene (2 wds.)

Without modesty

L “Real soon now” (3 wds.)

Light Blooms

Actress Kidman

Author Rushdie

Type of officer or

violation

Screamed in pain

Nod (off)

Invented (hyph.)

Dada photographer (2

wds.)

Kid’s surgery target,

often

Came down

Used, as a diaper

Chief interpreter of Burt

and Hal’s songs

Eye part

So Anyway…

autobiographer

3-time Tour de France

winner Greg

Medium Blooms

Stinger? (2 wds.)

Steamy

Where Porfirio Diaz

ruled

Dog at the table,

sometimes

Backyard-BBQ settings

Tip of the House?

Seize again, as a hill in

battle

TV partner of Burnett

and Korman

Disputed

Japanese mat

Knock over

Has puppies

Groups guarded by

eunuchs

Nets with floats

Dark Blooms

Many Dockers pants

Presidential middle

name

Dies (out)

“Click and Clack, the

___ Brothers”

Owner of a skull in

Hamlet

Girds (oneself)

Loathe

Mother who won a

Nobel

Solidarity leader

Goulash relative




Rows

A Jazz singer/bandleader

overshadowed by his

brother (2 wds.)

B Beardless (hyph.)

One thinking more broadly

than a tactician

C Our Town character who

breaks the 4th wall (2 wds.)

Be logical (2 wds.)

D Thorn in one’s side (2 wds.)

The “surf” part (2 wds.)

E Assent from Jeannie, or any

genie (2 wds.)

Like soldiers at Gallipoli (2

wds.)

F Dog-eared part of a

romance novel, perhaps (2

wds.)

Earth-circumnavigating

eponym of a Venus

circumnavigator

G “Saving Private Ryan” plot

(2 wds.)

Herbert Hoover’s alma

mater

H Heart murmur?

Famous

lexicographer/glossarist/ph

ilologer/wordsmith (2

wds.)

I British/Jamaican actor in 3

Spike Lee films (2 wds.)

Abraham Lincoln’s lack (2

wds.)

J Already inclined (to)

Holes 11−13 at Augusta

National, familiarly (2 wds.)

K Occupying spaces between

Many a 2021 vaccine

resister (2 wds.)

L Comic named for his

tresses (2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Spikes

Expensive smoke

“All Aboard!” service

Maps within maps

Not-for-sale marking

Burden for an

unplanned

hitchhiker (2 wds.)

Live Aid founder Bob

Hung (around with)

“Amo Amas” class (2

wds.)

Tried to lose

Ovum, for one

Pit visitors

Common theater

name

Pull into, as a diner

(2 wds.)

Medium Blooms

“Nattering ___ of

negativism”

(Agnew)

Edit out

Ekes out a living (2

wds.)

David

Copperfield’s

aunt, ___

Trotwood

Hang up one’s

spurs

Mortise partners

Small burger

Chalked item in a

game (2 wds.)

Dior perfume

Sought, as office

(2 wds.)

Playwright Harold

Yellow sticky

(hyph.)

Seamstress,

sometimes

Lessee

Dark Blooms

High-tech map

subject

Costar of Garland

and Lahr

Move a

troublesome jet

passenger, say

Ship officer

Appearing

multiple times

subsequently, in

footnotes

Flower part

Doonesbury

reporter ___

Hedley

San ___, Calif.

Got by with what

one had (2 wds.)

Philosopher/activi

st West

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