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- 007 feature of 1979
- 1985 song by John Cougar Mellencamp
- 1991 blockbuster with the tagline "One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage"
- 1997 animated movie in which John Cusack voiced Dimitri
- A boxer's might knock you out
- A Class Act
- A little of this and that
- "A passport to human development," per the United Nations
- A very high price, so to speak
- A-one
- A.M. station
- Abnormal talkativeness
- *Academy Award, e.g.
- After 11:30 p.m., say
- Aid for someone studying a culture
- Aids in recalling
- Alternative to French fries
- Alvin and his backup singers
- Analyze excessively
- Ancient text whose Sanskrit title means "Principles of Love"
- Annual appraisal statement
- Anti-matter?
- Apt synonym for "wake-up call"
- Archipelago that helped shape Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
- Arrived at via plane
- Arsenic's realm, in years past
- Artistic designs that glow under black light
- "Au contraire!"
- Aussie greeting
- Avian metaphor for a romantic couple
- Back-to-basics regimen
- Backs up on its own, say
- Bahamians and Bahrainis
- Band that helped popularize "pay-what-you-want" pricing with their album "In Rainbows"
- Bare
- *___ Beach, Calif.
- Beat badly
- "Beats me!"
- Became a household name, say
- Bestowing extravagantly (on)
- Bewilder
- Beyond impressive, informally
- Bic filler
- Big bang source
- Bit of musical flair
- Bit of smooth eveningwear
- Blue-book event
- Board game with ancient origins
- Bobblehead, e.g.
- Bounty
- Branch with a stem?
- Brand associated with push-ups
- Bring into the mainstream
- Brings a fresh effort (to)
- Build-your-own breakfast spot
- Building that shouldn't have running water
- By an even stronger argument, at law
- Canal blocker?
- Canning package?
- Carrot on a stick, metaphorically
- Cause of a cold sweat, perhaps
- Celtics legend nicknamed "The Hick from French Lick"
- Cephalopods with a name derived from Greek mythology
- Certain father figures
- Change for a bill
- Chock-full ... like three squares (and foods) in this puzzle
- Church parts crossing naves
- Classic potluck dish
- Clay-and-calcium-carbonate mix used in cement making
- Clean with a rough spray
- Clicked with a partner?
- Clothing tag warning
- Clue examiner
- Clumsy
- Coach's lack, often
- Colorful capsule that splatters
- Colorful taffy candy brand
- Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"
- Common things in processed foods
- Complete shocker
- Conclude an agreement, say
- Consequences of supply chain problems
- Corrupting sorts, in an orchard metaphor
- Couldn't get any higher?
- Counterfeit
- Creature that blends into its surroundings
- Creature whose appendages allow it to camouflage in masses of kelp
- Crew building
- Crème de la crème
- CVS rival … or a phonetic hint to the answers on this puzzle's perimeter
- Dad's pop, perhaps
- Daytime regulars
- Deftly evades
- Delivery methods?
- Descriptor of a sleek kitchen material
- Dessert
- Desserts that may feature frangipane
- Detonation region
- Device for starting an engine
- Dinosaur named for a lizard tooth
- Dis/cuss?
- Disappearing from the earth
- Doesn't exactly ham it up
- Doves
- Drawing on another's life
- Drawing pad
- Drill
- Drink from a tub?
- Drives for money?
- Early bloomer?
- Eating plan that attempts to mimic Stone Age conditions
- Eco-friendly area around a city
- Edging, e.g.
- Eerie substance faked in 19th-century ghost hoaxes
- Eisenhower was the first president to use it
- Elaborate invitation from a senior, maybe
- Element of economic globalization
- Elf portrayed by Cate Blanchett in "The Fellowship of the Ring"
- Emits a stream of hot air
- Enchanted
- End of a rant, perhaps
- Engaged in some grooming
- "Enough already!"
- Ensemble piece
- *Essential oil with a musky scent
- Evade
- Exaggerated speaking style that promotes language development
- Examples of media on Medium
- Excessively greedy
- Expansive marine exhibits
- Expressions of disbelief or exasperation
- Extremely ambitious projects
- Extremely difficult and ultimately futile
- Fair weather followers
- Fancy spirals in calligraphy
- Feline adoption option
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- Field whose prospects are looking up?
- Film snippet
- Fire starter?
- Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly?
- First enactors of democracy
- Fixed, as a "m-i-t-s-a-k-e"
- Flag-waving, say
- Flip
- Following bad advice
- … for an aspiring flutist?
- Form of literature coined by Sartre
- Formal notes
- Former
- Frigg and Freyja, e.g.
- Furniture that's designed to break down?
- Game piece made of four squares
- Gathering for this puzzle's attendees
- Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41
- Gestures of incredulity
- Get used to it
- Gets into a tight spot
- Giggle
- Go down swinging, perhaps
- "Go right ahead …"
- Goes down in estimation
- "Good job!"
- Got it all off his chest?
- Great heights
- Grooved parts of golf irons
- Groups at the First Continental Congress in 1774
- "Ha! Betcha didn't see that coming!"
- Had an uplifting experience?
- "Hang on a sec"
- Hard-shelled delicacies
- Heavens
- High concept?
- Historical region of southwestern France
- *Honeybunch
- Hotshot lawyer
- Hungers
- "I'll wait for your update"
- In a class by oneself
- In free fall
- Individual account?
- Inner tube?
- Insect that stings
- Instrument also known as a ukitar
- Into the Woods
- Inverse of an exponential function
- "Is everything cool between us?"
- It separates China and South Korea
- It's a breeze
- It's a zoo out there
- "It's finally clear"
- Jay's reticent partner of filmdom
- Jewelry that may double as a fastener
- John James Audubon?
- "Just relax!"
- Key to Aladdin's success
- Kind of beard that follows the jawline
- Kind of sequence that proceeds 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
- Kind of student
- Kitchen counter
- Label on some domestic products
- Land's end
- Large insect named from Greek myth
- Laxity
- Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery
- "Let go of unrealistic expectations," e.g.
- Lifeless
- Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps
- Like a person who might prefer platonic relationships
- Like e-statements and digital receipts
- Like jellyfish … but not books about jellyfish?
- Like slavery per the 13th Amendment
- Lingering aura of success
- Locket!
- Longtime Pixar character who says "I might be old, but I still got a spring in my step!"
- "Lord, have mercy!"
- Lunchroom
- Made chitchat
- Made in a nonmechanized way, as food products
- Made it big
- Made more enticing
- Main ingredient in salsa verde
- Major annoyance
- Making a comeback
- Many characters on "The Pitt"
- Marked by a religious zeal
- Market!
- Mars rover named in honor of a 19th-century activist
- Masonry unit
- Medium-spicy chili peppers
- Meeting spot for a company's overseers
- Memorization tool
- Memphis barbecue staple
- Mensches
- Met someone?
- Meteor shower?
- Milky Way's nearest major galaxy
- Minestrone morsel
- Mockumentary band with the real-life album "Break Like the Wind"
- Most slipshod
- "Moving on ..."
- Much-anticipated rivalry game in soccer's La Liga
- Music genre named for its voluminous dos
- Musical production that might include grunts, groans, thwops, snorts and barks
- "My mistake"
- Neck topper
- Nested birds?
- Newlyweds' getaway
- *No - but it does have three feet
- "No need to worry around me"
- "No sweat!"
- No-talent boss
- Not following a straight path
- Number ones
- Nut in Sausalito cookies (3x)
- Oculus Rift or Meta Quest 3
- Of an indefinitely large number
- Of the highest importance … or, when parsed differently, what each bracketed number in the clues indicates?
- Offer from many a streaming service
- Offerings on a hotel list
- Old-time theater item
- "OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"?
- One involved with checks and balances
- One may sit near a bench marking time
- One might be felt
- One might feature rivers and bluffs
- One preferring purrs to pooches
- One putting the pedal to the metal
- One who enjoys the high C's?
- One who makes a living from fish
- One who's off-base?
- Ones running along a road
- Online show pieces
- Opener for an aerial act
- Opposite of a bargain price
- Optional mission in a video game
- Orbit
- Orthodontists' offerings
- OUT OF ORDER! USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
- Overwhelming amount
- Part of a story line
- Part of a surveillance system
- Part of an asymmetrical hairstyle
- Part of an intersection
- Passengers getting an illicit free ride
- Penalty for exceeding a payroll threshold, in sports lingo
- Person providing a sworn account
- Person who's off-base?
- Personification of England, Scotland and Wales
- Pertaining to conflict, in behavioral science
- Philadelphia-area university that's a powerhouse in men's hoops
- Phone connector?
- Pioneering P.D.A.
- Places for intertidal ecosystems
- Poison classification
- Police officer who monitors an assigned area
- Politician's response, maybe
- Popular antibiotic ointment
- Popular board game adapted from India [1]
- Portable writing surface
- Position of Rickey Henderson in M.L.B.
- Potential outcomes
- Potters, e.g.
- Pottery so named for its hardness
- Prayerful form of worship
- Pretty long time, in an idiom
- Previously unseen sporting result (term coined in 2014)
- Prone
- Providers of support for travelers
- Public eye
- Punxsutawney Phil, for one
- Purchase for the Atari 2600
- Put under ___
- Puts on a big display
- Quick transition on the basketball court
- Rabelais character who, as a baby, was fed by 17,913 cows, "for it was impossible to find a nurse sufficient for him in all the country"
- Re-election restriction
- Reason why
- Refueling spot
- Relatives of sloths
- Reminiscent of a certain French author’s work
- Reputable, in a way
- Request for assistance from a higher-up?
- Residents of Tirana
- Restriction on how much one can serve
- Rewards program tracker
- Ridiculous
- "Right now!"
- Rigorous
- Rotating feature at the cinema
- Runner's goal, maybe
- Sang to
- "Save me ___!"
- Schmoozed (with)
- School unit
- Score sneakily
- Seafood-based ingredient in Eastern cuisines
- Secret offering?
- "See ya!"
- Selling off, as stocks
- Services for senior citizens
- Setting for Ghassan Kanafani's "All That's Left to You" and Mourid Barghouti's "I Saw Ramallah"
- Sex work?
- Showed up earlier than
- Simple check for freshness
- Singer dubbed the "Matriarch of the Blues"
- Slingshot ammo
- "Slow down a second!"
- Small aircraft for short flights
- Smartphone setting that removes all color from the screen ... or a feature of this puzzle?
- Snippet in a film review show
- So great it's unnerving
- Soft drink originally made with egg whites
- Some capitol workers, for short
- Some limb-moving muscles
- Some wand wielders
- Someone who's not thinking may be on this
- Something to jump on
- Speak rationally
- Spoilers that ruin a whole lot
- Spun yarns
- Spur-of-the-moment
- Staff
- Stares into space
- "Start talking"
- State capital that's closest to the U.S. Capitol
- Stayed somewhere temporarily
- STEM field concern
- "Sticks"
- Still waffling
- Stop in the afterlife
- Straightaway driving contests
- Strap-and-buckle shoes named for a comic strip character who wore them
- Strengths
- Stunning attraction at a winter festival, maybe
- *Subs
- Sudden, widespread appearances of illness
- Supercomputer precursor
- Supplementary materials accompanying a home movie purchase
- Supporting structure
- "Sure … that's true …"
- Swiss Army knife component
- Tables
- Targets of some regulations
- "Tell me!"
- Temporary suspensions
- Text that's often unread
- "That was rejuvenating!"
- "That's good thinking"
- That's not the whole story!
- "That's what she said" and others
- The headline "Kids Make Nutritious Meals," e.g.
- "The most amazing part is ..."
- The national fruit of Japan, the kaki, is a variety of it
- They croak as soon as they grow up
- They may go in for cursing
- They might get lit at a birthday celebration
- They rate up to 350,000 on the Scoville scale
- They shine during the day
- Thin paper
- Thing you may regret hitting "Reply All" to
- Throwing weapons for the Dark Knight
- Toothpaste brand since 1961
- Total mess
- Totality of everything, in sci-fi-speak
- Tough-but-loving fathers, informally
- Track event won by the fastest four legs
- Trams
- *Trendy
- Tropical tree whose product is sometimes used as a meat substitute
- Two-in-one computer command
- Umbrella-shaped sea creature
- Uncovered
- Unpredictable emotional shift
- Unshakable
- Update
- Upper hand
- Upset tummy, medically speaking
- Verdant privacy features … or a punny description of the four longest answers in this puzzle
- Verify, as an editor might
- Very rude email, informally
- Video game in which users build tools from raw resources
- Vilnius is its capital
- Visual aid with a three-dimensional aspect
- Walk on water?
- Was a ham
- Websites whose URLs are stored, typically
- What a pictogram of a man with a walking stick might indicate
- What may begin at the end
- What Odysseus' crew waxed on about?
- What strong leadership may be perceived as
- What's lacking in a crowded elevator
- When it happened
- Where a wallflower often stands
- Where some monster home runs land
- Whoop it up
- Winning country at the 2022 World Cup
- With even stronger reasoning, in law
- Worker who's the subject of the song "Sixteen Tons"
- Written posts?
- *Yes - sometimes more than 1,000
- "Yowzers!"
- "Zip it!"
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