USA Today - Jan 23 2020
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'Forever' post-office purchase STAMP
'Get lost!' SCRAM
'Moonlight' actor Sanders ASHTON
'The Martian' actress Kate MARA
'Who's there?' response ITSME
'You can't be serious!' CMON
A handful of SOME
Acknowledged applause, perhaps BOWED
Act hammily, perhaps EMOTE
Alternative to AOL GMAIL
Alum GRAD
Angry outburst TIRADE
Beginning on ASOF
Blemishes and such MARKS
Burnett with a namesake Golden Globe CAROL
Clip wool from SHEAR
Cluttered state MESS
Computer command after 'copy' PASTE
Cry of distress YELP
Cry of distress YOWL
Currency in Milan EURO
Damp WET
Farmland measure ACRE
Feed false information LIETO
Felt pain ACHED
Flout the rules CHEAT
Food associated with Tuesdays TACO
Forged works of art, e.g FAKES
Furnace output HEAT
Gets less firm SAGS
Glittery strands TINSEL
Grab with a toothpick STAB
Greek island home to Knossos CRETE
Hard to lift HEAVY
Has a bug AILS
Herbal beverages TEAS
Historical periods ERAS
Kentucky's nickname BLUEGRASSSTATE
Lament BEMOAN
Media watchdog agcy FCC
Moose relatives ELKS
Much of the time ALOT
Muscat native OMANI
Mystical light field AURA
No longer damp DRY
Novelist Zola EMILE
Old standbys MAINSTAYS
Oyster ___ (Chinese takeout container) PAIL
Part of a plan STEP
Particle studied in physics ATOM
Persian Gulf nation IRAN
Place for a belt WAIST
Place for Christmas lights EAVE
Portable music player WIRELESSSPEAKER
Predatory feline LION
Regular customer PATRON
Revises for publication EDITS
Rights org. since 1920 ACLU
Rocket sections NOSECONES
Rupi Kaur creation POEM
Shelter rescue PET
Sportscaster Holly ROWE
Succulent plant ALOE
Taker of minutes on a student council CLASSSECRETARY
Thorny flower ROSE
Took a break RESTED
Top of a rotunda, often DOME
Trike rider TOT
Upper-echelon ELITE
View from a porthole OCEAN
Watches the kids SITS
Widespread RIFE
Wing measurement SPAN
___ it down (got quieter) TONED
___ pants CAMO
___ Plaines, Illinois DES
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USA Today - Jan 22 2020
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'Also . . .' AND
'Are You the One?' channel MTV
'Dang it!' AWMAN
'Mean Girls' screenwriter Fey TINA
'X-Men' mutant with claws BEAST
'You have my permission' YES
'___ am I kidding?' WHO
'___ assured . . .' REST
27 or 64 PERFECTCUBE
Animal on Michigan's flag ELK
Aquatic Disney princess ARIEL
As easy as ___ ABC
Author of a hare racing story AESOP
Become baggy SAG
Body parts that might ring EARS
Book's introduction PREFACE
Brewery product BEER
Bro's place FRATROW
Cabbies collect them FARES
Carry laboriously LUG
Castle-storming strategy SIEGE
Chicago airport OHARE
Chop ___ SUEY
Coastal inlets COVES
Curator's stuff ART
D.C. is its capital USA
Desires WANTS
Dietary diagram FOODPYRAMID
Families CLANS
Fearsome folklore figure OGRE
Follow through on SEETO
Futbol fan's chant OLE
Hairy rainforest dweller APE
Initials indicating urgency ASAP
Iraqi city BASRA
Irish equivalent of John SEAN
Its tail may be tucked in SHIRT
Keep ___ on (monitor) TABS
Like 64 but not 27 EVEN
Like some chords MINOR
Like the proverbial cucumber COOL
List of options MENU
Mauna Kea formation VOLCANICCONE
Megalomaniac's problem EGO
Member of a voting college ELECTOR
Message-prompting sound BEEP
Miss a lot PINEFOR
Mournful song DIRGE
Mukimo veggie PEA
Musical blast from the past OLDIE
Navigational aids MAPS
Paddy-grown grain RICE
Physiques, for short BODS
Play energetically ROMP
Poetic salutes ODES
Polish up for English class EDIT
Popular pens BICS
Put whipped cream on, say TOP
Realm of open discourse PUBLICSPHERE
Regions AREAS
Requirement NEED
Sierra ___ LEONE
Silent-letter landmass ISLE
Ski resort courses RUNS
Some cookware POTS
Spanish for 'mother' MADRE
Spanish small plates TAPAS
Spring migration direction NORTH
TKO declarer REF
Traffic light color AMBER
Unlucky occurrences BADBREAKS
Unruly crowd MOB
Unwraps impatiently TEARSOPEN
Website with crafts ETSY
Word from the Latin for 'burden' ONUS
Word of sudden comprehension AHA
___ noir PINOT
___ off (repels) FENDS
USA Today - Jan 21 2020
Clues Answers
''Enough already!'' NOMORE
'Boo'd Up' singer ___ Mai ELLA
'Brokeback Mountain' director Lee ANG
'Early signs are encouraging' SOFARSOGOOD
'Elementary' star Lucy LIU
'Guy walks into ___ . . .' ABAR
'Keep It' host ___ Madison III IRA
'Kim Possible' character ___ Stoppable RON
'Same here!' ASDOI
'Star Trek' antagonists BORG
'Warmer' CLOSER
'___ and Soul' BODY
'___ Miserables' LES
'___ you with me?' ARE
Address for a knight SIR
Ballpoint brand BIC
Bar food GRANOLA
Billion-year period EON
Breakfast-in-bed holder TRAY
Carnival shelter TENT
Catch in a sting operation, perhaps ENTRAP
Chain that sells camping gear REI
Challenge for new immigrants SLANG
College transcript figure GPA
Conclude through logic INFER
Creme-filled cookies OREOS
Dame, e.g TITLE
Discourage DETER
Disney World city ORLANDO
eBay action BID
Fails to keep pace LAGS
Fish often grilled with sweet soy sauce EEL
Friend PAL
Fruit with fuzzy skin KIWI
Gets three RBIs, perhaps HITSATRIPLE
Glitzy fundraiser GALA
Golf garment SKORT
GOT7 genre KPOP
Hardwood floor cover RUG
Haughty sort SNOB
In circles AROUNDANDAROUND
In first place ONTOP
Island near Curacao ARUBA
Item in an Easter basket EGG
Letters on packages of meat USDA
Like 'Monsters, Inc.' RATEDG
Lung filler AIR
Made less difficult EASED
Make glum SADDEN
Make leakproof SEAL
Maple tree output SAP
Messy bagel variety SESAME
Mete substitute DOLE
Microbrewery option, for short IPA
Mollified APPEASED
Mooring spot PIER
Musician's mishap SOURNOTE
Oolong holder TEABAG
Org. with many schedules IRS
Performing in a theater ONSTAGE
Person who's looked up to IDOL
Personal points of view TAKES
Practically forever AGESANDAGES
Relative of the pine marten SABLE
Repeatedly AGAINANDAGAIN
Road repair substance TAR
Sign before Virgo LEO
Soprano's solo ARIA
Surfaced AROSE
Tennis court fixtures NETS
To boot ATTHAT
Took the bus RODE
Totally dominate OWN
Untidy person SLOB
Whisper tenderly COO
___ your stuff STRUT
___-fi SCI
___-la-la TRA
USA Today - Jan 19 2020
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'Don't let ___ to your head!' ITGO
'Phoebe and Her Unicorn' author Simpson DANA
'The Read With Kid Fury and Crissle West' channel FUSE
'The Way' singer Jill SCOTT
'___ gawd, that's [insert pro wrestler]'s music!' BAH
'___ to Your Beautiful' (Alessia Cara song) SCARS
Absorbent sphere COTTONBALL
Aid and ___ ABET
Analyze grammatically PARSE
B&B alternative HOTEL
Bird on the Canadian dollar coin LOON
Bit of Winter Olympics equipment SKI
Bleating youngster LAMB
Boot-shaped country ITALY
Born and ___ BRED
Boulevard divider MEDIAN
Chess turn MOVE
Chilling in a bucket, say ONICE
Clumsy person OAF
Drink mixer that contains quinine TONICWATER
Equals PEERS
European mountain range ALPS
Faceplanted, say ATEIT
Foldable beds COTS
Forever ETERNITY
Gave professional guidance MENTORED
Glossary item TERM
Grain for paella RICE
Graphic design choice FONT
Hollywood preview FILMTRAILER
Horror FEAR
In addition ALSO
In this very spot HERE
Insect in an evolutionary 'arms race' against bats MOTH
Journalist Serwer ADAM
Kindle competitor NOOK
Lawn care chore MOWING
League in which Lusia Harris was drafted in 1977 NBA
Like unwritten contracts ORAL
Makes less strict EASES
Mayor or councilwoman LOCALOFFICE
Neighbor of Missouri IOWA
Other than this ELSE
Overhaul REWORK
Part of a fork TINE
Partner in crime CRONY
Pass into law ENACT
Pennsylvania city ERIE
Personal assistants might run them ERRANDS
Physics, e.g SCIENCE
Prefix for 'chamber' ANTE
Proceed slowly PLOD
Put on clothes DRESS
Put some ___ in your step PEP
Quick tennis point ACE
Reduce, ___, recycle REUSE
Saint ___, Minnesota PAUL
Scent ODOR
School break RECESS
Screenplay starter TITLE
See 61-Across OUT
Shopper's document LIST
Showed again RERAN
Small body of water POND
Substantial MEATY
Take to heart HEED
The 'P' of IPA PALE
Tournament ranking SEED
Traditional music genre FOLK
Trends upward RISES
TV shoot TAPING
Underground habitat CAVE
Wandered around ROAMED
Webpage SITE
With 23-Down, listen to HEAR
Word after 'loose' or 'tight' END
___ beaver EAGER
___ Verde National Park MESA
USA Today - Jan 18 2020
Clues Answers
'Exactly!' BINGO
'I'd be glad to!' YES
'I'm game!' LETS
'If all ___ fails . . .' ELSE
'Super' grps PACS
'That's ___ blow!' ALOW
'What ___ I tell you?' DID
'When ___ the World' (LIZ song) IRULE
'Who you tellin'?' IMAWARE
'___ to Gossips' (Safia Elhillo poem) ODE
Basketball competition won by Dinamo Sassari in 2019 EUROPECUP
Big-leaguer PRO
Bit of progress INROAD
Brand of cinnamon gum or cream soda BIGRED
Camp bed COT
Caterer's dispenser URN
Cathedral bench PEW
Cedar-lined piece of furniture HOPECHEST
Chaotic scenes ZOOS
Commercials ADS
Concert device AMP
Cookware brand hidden in 'crestfallen' TFAL
Dad POPS
Do a ___ job BANGUP
Embodying a character ACTING
Fondue cheese GRUYERE
Fruit used to make duck sauce PLUM
Fundraising lottery RAFFLE
Gets the pot started ANTES
Ginger ___ ALE
Grande's nickname ARI
Ground beef sandwich SLOPPYJOE
Gym class exercise ROPECLIMBING
High point PEAK
Home to Norway's Royal Palace OSLO
Improvise like Ella Fitzgerald SCAT
It ushers in chilly weather COLDFRONT
Itsy-bitsy TEENY
Jazz player's showcase SOLO
Letters on a sunscreen bottle SPF
Like some gumbo and jambalaya CAJUN
Lingerie material LACE
Machu Picchu's country PERU
Moral code ETHIC
National Library of Iran city TEHRAN
Nook's counterpart CRANNY
Nurse, as a drink SIPAT
Ocean State sch URI
Perform in a glee club SING
Pool hall triangles RACKS
Rhyming youth sports level PEEWEE
Rude person ASS
Runner-up in a race LOSER
She played Donatella Versace PENELOPECRUZ
Short records, for short EPS
Show preview PROMO
Silent-letter body part KNEE
Silly antics CAPERS
Sneaky SLY
Snowman in 'Frozen 2' OLAF
So far YET
Spanish for 'bull' TORO
Squirrel's nut ACORN
Stage backdrops SETS
Stand-up comedian Wong ALI
Stat measured in square miles AREA
Strong desire URGE
Take a tumble TRIP
Teller of tall tales LIAR
The British ___ ISLES
Train terminal DEPOT
Warm jacket FLEECE
Without a companion ALONE
Wooden duck, e.g DECOY
Youthful-sounding surname KIDD
Zigzags downhill SLALOMS
___ mignon FILET
___ Moines, Iowa DES
USA Today - Jan 17 2020
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'Boomerang' actress Robin GIVENS
'Born in the ___' (Springsteen song) USA
'It's Raining ___' MEN
'Look at you, all fancy-schmancy!' OOHLALA
'See ya in the morning' NIGHT
'Sorry for Your Loss' star Kelly Marie ___ TRAN
'Why did the ___ cross the road? To get to the body shop' SKELETON
'You're something ___' ELSE
'___ the Explorer' DORA
30 or 50, often SPF
52-Down curl TRESS
Admits a shortcoming, say OWNSIT
America's national tree OAK
Are backward ERA
Ave. crossers STS
Bit of rain DROP
Breakfast meat SAUSAGE
Cellular barrier MEMBRANE
Comedian Rudner RITA
Commands from a judge COURTORDERS
Compete VIE
Cooking spray brand PAM
Enlighten EDIFY
Family diagram TREE
Flavor-enhancing additive, for short MSG
Follows incessantly HOUNDS
Four-award feat, for short EGOT
Gemstone with a 'fire' variety OPAL
Get older AGE
Ginger ___ SNAP
Hoity-toity type SNOB
Hoops asset AIM
Informed verbally TOLD
Insulating handwear MITTENS
Just alright SOSO
Landmark near Waikiki DIAMONDHEAD
Like 100-to-1 odds SLIM
Like orange juice and vinegar ACIDIC
Mining target ORE
Mont Blanc's mountain range ALPS
Mythical creature in 'Puss in Boots' OGRE
New Testament disciples APOSTLES
Nojito or Virgin Mary MOCKTAIL
Number of amendments in the Bill of Rights TEN
Octavia Butler novel KINDRED
Outside-the-classroom adventure FIELDTRIP
Pekoe, e.g TEA
Positives, in decision-making PROS
Prefix for 'arm' or 'cast' FORE
Radiate, as light EMIT
Remove frost from an airplane's wings DEICE
Result in LEADTO
Role for an actor PART
Saltwater expanses OCEANS
Savage X Fenty buys BRAS
Scientific inheritance GENE
Shearing target WOOL
Singer Kodi LEE
Sneaky 'Hey, you!' PSST
So to speak ASITWERE
Some strays ALLEYCATS
Something to type on a login page USERNAME
Spreader of falsehoods LIAR
Spry NIMBLE
Stenches ODORS
String snarl KNOT
Stylist's creation HAIRDO
Suffix for 'micro' or 'stetho' SCOPE
Twosome DUO
Ulna's place ARM
Units of corn EARS
Unusual ODD
Wasabi-coated legume PEA
Winnie the ___ POOH
Winter precipitation SNOW
___ bran OAT
___ jokes DAD
___ out a living EKE
USA Today - Jan 16 2020
'A Black ___ Sketch Show' LADY
'Full Frontal' host Samantha BEE
'If you ask me,' in tweets IMO
'Show Boat' author Ferber EDNA
'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' star Tierney GENE
'___ the fields we go . . .' OER
'___ there's a will . . .' WHERE
'___ was I ere I saw Elba' ABLE
Ace's value, at times ONE
Almost bring to a boil SCALD
Astronaut's assignment MISSION
Astronomer who clashed with Pope Urban VIII GALILEO
Auditions for a part READS
Ballpark hot dog seller, e.g VENDOR
Best Actress nominee for 'Casino' SHARONSTONE
Borscht veggie BEET
Bouncer's post DOOR
Brand of 28-Across RCA
Burst of wind GUST
Candy and cookies SWEETS
Chile's northern neighbor PERU
Cut with an ax HEW
Defib experts EMTS
Devices for streaming SMARTTVS
Earth Day mo APR
Farmer's plant CROP
Former fillies MARES
Get some air INHALE
Get some shut-eye SLEEP
Golfer's warning FORE
Got out of hand RANWILD
Halloween costume part MASK
Headgear for horses HALTERS
Honeycomb sites HIVES
If all goes right ATBEST
In need of a massage, perhaps SORE
Kibbles 'n Bits competitor ALPO
La Scala performance OPERA
Like the Grinch MEAN
Little rascal IMP
NBA exec Brand ELTON
Not even one NONE
Numerous MANY
Obedience school command STAY
Out of the ___ LOOP
Parks and such GREENSPACE
Person handling the intros EMCEE
Pitcher Doolittle SEAN
Planned destination of the Rosalind Franklin rover MARS
Plucked instrument HARP
Portable wrinkle remover TRAVELIRON
PreCheck org TSA
Puts away for later STORES
Quaking tree ASPEN
Quick haircut TRIM
Quite uncommon RARE
Reacted to a stressful situation TENSEDUP
Realtor's goal SALE
Rooster or gander MALE
Sandal or clog SHOE
Shakespearean king LEAR
Ship diary LOG
Skeptical LEERY
Some coding projects APPS
Source of lead ORE
Square peg in a round hole MISFIT
Strike up a conversation, say BREAKTHEICE
Style of Bridget Riley paintings OPART
Tailless primates APES
Tempo PACE
Tennis court divider NET
Tour leader GUIDE
Twisted the truth LIED
Vehicle for Bessie Coleman PLANE
Wavee Dave, for Jackson State University MASCOT
Work hard LABOR
___ peppers CHILI
___ tax INCOME
USA Today - Jan 15 2020
Clues Answers
'Aw, darn!' RATS
'Back in Black' band ACDC
'Breaking ___ News' (comic strip about furry reporters) CAT
'Can I come in?' KNOCKKNOCK
'Everything's going to be OK' THERETHERE
'If it ___ broke . . .' AINT
'Iliad' setting TROY
'Read all about it!' EXTRAEXTRA
'Sleep tight' NIGHTNIGHT
'The Souls of Black ___' FOLK
Accessory for a prom queen TIARA
Applied a freezer pack to ICED
Big Apple baseball team YANKEES
Brewery barrels KEGS
Bump on a toad WART
Cloud of bees SWARM
Completely erase WIPE
Control, as energy HARNESS
Cuatro cuatro OCHO
Deeds ACTS
Drive-___ THRU
Escorted over the threshold LEDIN
Food in a hard or soft shell TACO
Fool TWIT
Freedom from worry EASE
Frequent library patron BOOKWORM
Fruit with as many syllables as vowels ACAI
Hairstyle for a special occasion, perhaps UPDO
Hoops game named after an animal HORSE
In favor of FOR
Itty-bitty EENSY
Kool's backing GANG
Lake vessel CANOE
Leaves speechless, maybe STUNS
Leftovers SCRAPS
Like some teeth and lies WHITE
Marching insects ANTS
Mariah whose first four singles all topped the Billboard cha CAREY
Number of winks in a nap FORTY
Nutrition label listings FATS
Occasion to dine with dolls TEAPARTY
Owns HAS
Patchwork elephant of kidlit ELMER
Pay to borrow RENT
Pilot ___ ('The Bachelor' nickname) PETE
Place for a welcome mat DOORSTEP
President after Roosevelt (the first one) TAFT
Private log DIARY
Result of a fender bender DENT
Results of some modern engineering (Abbr.) GMOS
Rowboat needs OARS
Scott Joplin's 'Treemonisha,' e.g OPERA
Settles a debt PAYSUP
Sewing finishes HEMS
Shelter that's pitched TENT
Sing to SERENADE
Slight advantage EDGE
Slowly drips TRICKLES
Sly FOXY
Smoothie seeds CHIA
Soup ingredient TORTILLA
Spunky SASSY
Strikebreaker SCAB
Substance in bars SOAP
Successors HEIRS
Symbol on the Texas flag STAR
Tabloid subject, for short CELEB
The 'A' of STEAM education ARTS
They might be e-filed TAXES
Tool for a guitarist CAPO
Try again REDO
Type of savings plan, for short IRA
USSR agency KGB
Video replay effect SLOMO
Word before 'seas' or 'season' OPEN
___-haw (donkey's bray) HEE
Wall Street Journal - Jan 23 2020 - Wild Pitches
Clues Answers
“A bit of talcum/Is always walcum” writer NASH
“Amen!” ILLSAY
“Everything but” items KITCHENS
1900, on a cornerstone MCM
1979 miniseries starring Robert Duvall IKE
1990s party RAVE
Acting after much hesitation, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle TAKINGTHEPLUNGE
Age abbr YRS
Alitalia destinazione ROMA
Amethyst kin LILAC
Auel heroine AYLA
Bleeding Gums Murphy plays it SAX
Blinkers EYES
Bois de Boulogne, par exemple PARC
Butler’s bride OHARA
Cast HEAVE
Certificate feature SEAL
Collaborator of Bowie and Byrne ENO
Comanche foe UTE
Common pasta sauce ingredient PLUMTOMATO
Composer Bartók BELA
Crumbling sections of glaciers ICEF
Dark purple berry ACAI
Darn SEW
Do a snow job PLOW
Easy out POPUP
Evasive sub maneuvers CRASHD
Express from Penn Station ACELA
Farsi speaker IRANI
Flyers with tails KITES
Goes down DIVES
Goes down DROPS
Goes down SINKS
Goes down FALLS
Good fighter EVIL
Guantánamo prisoner, e.g DETAINEE
Hindu honorific SRI
Hold fast ANCHOR
In a moody manner MOROSELY
It may be written on a tablet EMAIL
It may leave you shaken up TURBULENCE
It’s a sin TRESPASS
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister ABE
Jump for joy EXULT
Key material CORAL
Like some ballot boxes XED
Little sucker? VAC
Livy’s law LEX
Love, Italian-style AMORE
Mt. Sunflower setting KAN
NBC show since 1975 SNL
Norwegian king until 1991 OLAV
Not free INUSE
Objective END
Parisian pyramid planner IMPEI
Penn pal TELLER
Picks up GETS
Psyche component EGO
Pumping unit REP
Rebel Alliance general LEIA
Religious recesses APSES
Reprimand for a Rottweiler BAD
Rich dessert TORTE
Safecracker YEGG
Scores ALOT
Second of two LATTER
Shrunken “sea” ARAL
Sowing machine SEEDER
Sparkling wine source ASTI
Spread apart SPLAY
Staff members? NOTES
Sundae topper, sometimes OREO
Tart treats LEMOND
The Grand Combin, for one ALP
Theban queen who was the aunt of Dionysus INO
Things on hand NAILS
Vicious with a bass SID
Viscosity symbol ETA
What’s left ESTATE
Your, of yore THY
Wall Street Journal - Jan 22 2020 - Heaven Above
Clues Answers
“It’s ___-win situation” ANO
“Should that come to pass...” IFSO
*Gettysburg site that served as Robert E. Lee’s headquarters SEMINARYRIDGE
*Historic Boston neighborhood MISSIONHILL
*Jerusalem site holy in Islam, Christianity and Judaism TEMPLEMOUNT
*Yosemite site first climbed by John Muir in 1869 CATHEDRALPEAK
1981 NBA MVP, familiarly DRJ
Bear trap? MAW
Before now AGO
Branch ARM
Buddhist master LAMA
Campus bigwig DEAN
Church recesses APSES
Colin Firth’s “Shakespeare in Love” role WESSEX
Colleague of Olsen and Lane KENT
Different ELSE
Eddy WHIRL
Eight English kings HENRYS
Elementary teacher’s charges KIDDOS
First name in mysteries AGATHA
Friend of Tigger POOH
George’s songwriting partner IRA
Have the ear of ADVISE
Help section on a site FAQ
Inquisitive folks ASKERS
Interjects ADDS
It just won’t cut it DULLKNIFE
It may make the grade EXAM
It’ll take your breath away APNEA
It’s indicated by wavy lines in the comics AROMA
Its versions included Yosemite and El Capitan OSX
JFK’s successor LBJ
Juicy Fruit, e.g GUM
Killing, as a test ACING
La Méditerranée, par exemple MER
Lawn material SOD
Leave off of a guest list, maybe SNUB
Like 1-2-3 innings NOHIT
Like self-referential clues META
Like some prices and incomes FIXED
Mining magnate Rhodes CECIL
More faithful TRUER
More than enough AMPLE
Noon, on some clocks XII
Northeast Corridor train ACELA
Off-kilter ALOP
Olympus queen HERA
Part of a Clue accusation ROOM
Part of the MGM intro ROAR
Placid, e.g LAKE
Plug of tobacco CHAW
Pool tool CUE
Post-op spot in a hosp ICU
Pound of poems EZRA
Puts on the line RISKS
Red-carpet treatment recipient VIP
Rocksteady relative SKA
Sap-sucking pest APHID
Sky shade AZURE
Snowfall unit INCH
Speak as if sloshed SLUR
Suit EXEC
Tackle component ROD
Tank top TURRET
Telecom initials ATT
Tennessee senator Blackburn MARSHA
Tire feature TREAD
Took in ATE
Unappealing bowlful GLOP
Very QUITE
Very large MEGA
Very thought-provoking DEEP
Was ahead in the polls LED
Well chosen APT
What the righteous may claim, and a hint to the starred answers MORALHIGHGROUND
Where checkers ring up checkers GAMESTORE
Work, work, work TOIL
Wrath IRE
Wall Street Journal - Jan 21 2020 - Finish What You Start
Clues Answers
“Compromising Positions” writer Susan ISAACS
“Have a sample” TRYONE
“How cute!” AWW
“Never mind” PC key ESC
“The Lord of the Rings” meanie ORC
“The Time Machine” race ELOI
“Think I’m too yellow?” DAREME
007 introduction BONDJAMESBOND
Alphabetizes, say SORTS
Annoy with sweetness CLOY
Apiece PER
App annoyances ADS
Army div INF
Aussie jumpers ROOS
Between ports ATSEA
Bus map indication STOP
Carefully places LAYS
Coffee shop lure AROMA
Comic strip reporter Brenda STARR
Creature viewed in biology class AMOEBA
Defiant cry when it’s time to leave IWONTGO
Early Hollywood studio RKO
Embroidery on some towels HIS
Emma Watson’s role in 2019’s “Little Women” MEG
Emulate a professor TEACH
Encouragement of individuality YOUDOYOU
Exclamation of disbelief WHATTHEWHAT
Folded fare TACO
Fuzzy fruits KIWIS
Garb DRESS
General on Chinese menus TSO
Good name for somebody living life to the fullest? MAX
Half-___ (Starbucks order) CAF
Heavy drinker SOT
High heart ACE
Hoodwink FOOL
Hydrocarbon suffix ENE
Imperfection FLAW
Incidentally, in texts BTW
Inventor’s inspiration IDEA
Investigated SAWINTO
JFK lander until 2003 SST
Jones of jazz ETTA
Kristen of “Bridesmaids” WIIG
Letters after upsilons PHIS
Letters outside a crowded theater SRO
Like eight of the last ten Best Picture winners RRATED
List-ending abbr ETC
Mao ___-tung TSE
Mismatch BADFIT
Official in stripes REF
On the whole ALLINALL
Org. in many Tom Clancy books CIA
Part of many an urban addr APTNO
Pigeon call COO
Polo of “The Fosters” TERI
Process SYSTEM
Prop for a Grim Reaper costume SCYTHE
QB goals TDS
Record holders? EXCONS
Retail’s Eddie ___ BAUER
Sarcastic apology SORRYNOTSORRY
Scrooge portrayer Sim ALASTAIR
Sen. Warren, e.g DEM
Shortcut alternative LONGWAY
Spoil ROT
Tagged on a diamond OUT
Telecom that became part of Verizon GTE
Track runners TRAINS
Unable to sit still FIDGETY
Under the weather ILL
Unscheduled winter breaks SNOWDAYS
Verbatim WORDFORWORD
Where a test-drive typically starts CARLOT
Will Smith’s singing/acting son JADEN
With the result SOTHAT
Work without ___ (risk failure) ANET
Youngster TOT
Wall Street Journal - Jan 18 2020 - Singular Songsters
Clues Answers
“Ain’t that the truth!” AMEN
“East of Eden” brother CAL
“Great retort!” NICEONE
“Lowdown” singer Boz SCAGGS
“Rumor has it...” IHEAR
“The cow is of the bovine ilk” poet NASH
“___ petit placidam sub libertate quietem” (Massachusetts motto) ENSE
403(b) cousin IRA
Accept, as a policy EMBRACE
Access co ISP
Advocates for a U2 singer? PROBONOLAWYERS
Aid for online shoppers EWALLET
Amused a colorful pop-rock singer? TICKLEDPINK
Apache or Comanche COPTER
Approx. fig EST
As of now TODATE
Bag bearer BELLHOP
Barracks array COTS
Basics ABCS
Batting coach concern STANCE
Big foot indication EEE
Blood type abbr NEG
Bob Cousy specialty SETSHOT
Bop on the bean CONK
Brazilian resort RIO
Brief time MOMENT
Bring up to speed CUEIN
Businessman for whom Kmart is named KRESGE
Candidate’s goal SEAT
Cause to blush ABASH
Caustic chemical LYE
Comedic Conan OBRIEN
Corp. money managers CFOS
Court divider NET
Cow-feteria? LEA
Coy communications WINKS
D.C. debater SEN
Degs. for attys LLDS
Diner choices SOUPS
Do some metalwork ARCWELD
Dr. Jones, to his friends INDY
Dull drills ROTES
Early times DAWNS
Enthusiastically gonna EAGERTO
Equal ARE
Fails to DOESNOT
Faith based in Haifa BAHAI
Fashion name LABEL
Fights that take seconds DUELS
Fire CAN
Flock member RAM
Food item VIAND
Forceful TELLING
Frisbees, e.g DISKS
Go bad ROT
Good sign for producers SRO
Grafton’s “___ for Malice” MIS
Guitar legend Paul LES
Gymnastics feats VAULTS
Hall of Famer Wade BOGGS
Health, to un docteur SANTE
Hero’s tale SAGA
His tag line was “And that’s the way it is” CRONKITE
Hybrid utensils SPORKS
Insult DIS
Irish brew REDALE
It’s going around ROTATION
Its motto is “North to the Future” ALASKA
Junior’s junior III
Justice Dept. branch DEA
Lanai loop LEI
Landlords LESSORS
LBJ beagle HER
Least cockamamie SANEST
Lennon’s love ONO
Like a grandfather clock ANALOG
Longtime 11-Down from Mass EMK
München misters HERRS
Major maker of 44-Across NCR
Make it into the Hot 100 SCOREAHIT
Mariano Rivera and others CLOSERS
Market-overseeing org SEC
Medical procedure for the Police’s lead singer? STINGOPERATION
Medium skill ESP
Moisten while roasting BASTE
Moody music EMO
More fastidious NEATER
New Zealand parrots KEAS
None-too-generous R&B singer? CHEAPBRANDY
Not truant INCLASS
Orbital extremes APOGEES
Out-of-the-park homers, e.g CLOUTS
Painter’s tool SCRAPER
Papeete’s place TAHITI
Paroxysm THROE
Pastrami purveyor DELI
Pentane derivative AMYL
Pinochle cousin SKAT
Poetic paean ODE
Pollen-bearing part ANTHER
Princely initials HRH
Put the kibosh on END
Reacts to a drill sergeant’s order SNAPSTO
Reserved DEMURE
Rouse again REWAKE
Rubs the wrong way ANNOYS
Saudi neighbors OMANIS
Sicilian spouter ETNA
Six, in Sicilia SEI
Smell ___ (detect wrongdoing) ARAT
Soda bottle capacity ONELITER
Some GPS lines STS
Some new parents ADOPTERS
Something to hang your hat on PEG
Speeder’s undoing RADAR
Stars of the publishing world ASTERISKS
Start for muscular or mural INTRA
Stock units STEERS
Stress, e.g AGER
Support a Guns N’ Roses guitarist? BACKSLASH
Sushi side EDAMAME
Swedish author Larsson STIEG
Tag info SIZE
Taiwanese PC maker ACER
Takes ten RESTS
Taught exercises to a soulful singer? TRAINEDSEAL
The Material Girl and Lourdes? MADONNAANDCHILD
Treats for a Canadian rapper? DRAKESCAKES
Twenties providers ATMS
Use a taser on ZAP
Very upset INTEARS
Weaknesses in an argument HOLES
Where an R&B singer lives? THEHOUSEOFUSHER
Where the College World Series is played OMAHA
Wine holder CASK
Wise guys SAGES
Wooden projection TENON
Word on a Paris stop sign ARRET
Wall Street Journal - Jan 16 2020 - Split Personalities
Clues Answers
“The Pajama Game” choreographer FOSSE
“Thou shalt ___ long be free”: Prospero ERE
Backing AEGIS
Bad things for bluffers TELLS
Baja resort CABO
Ballpark figures STATS
Be a poor loser, perhaps POUT
Beat, barely EDGE
Betelgeuse site ORION
Black-and-white classic OREO
Boastful sort LFPROMOTER
Breathless, so to speak EAGER
Bug’s kin WIRETAP
Buzzards’ banquet CARCASS
Came to WAKENED
Complete, as a PDF contract ESIGN
Court worker NNISPLAYER
Denial from Deneuve NON
Devious tactic RUSE
Director’s assistant AGEMANAGER
Dish often topped with melted Gruyère ONIONSOUP
Divine FORESEE
Drags through the mud DIRTIES
Eightieth of a teaspoon MINIM
Enters the draft, maybe GOESPRO
Farrier’s file RASP
Fed. ID issuer SSA
Filled with four-letter words COARSE
First of an astrological dozen THERAM
Forcibly take WREST
Forum additions POSTS
Fumbled, say LOOSE
Gutter site EAVE
Howe in the National Inventors Hall of Fame ELIAS
Inn intake ALE
Intrinsically PERSE
Intro to physics? META
Kicked in ANTED
Lacking vitality SAPLESS
Leading figure in folklore PIEDPIPER
Like SIMILAR
Like Russian Caravan tea SMOKY
Major accounts SAGAS
Merry mood GLEE
Moderates EASES
Monopoly token that replaced the iron CAT
One doing the lord’s work SERF
Ooze SEEP
Others, in old Rome ALII
Overflow TEEM
Passing requirement AYES
Past pudgy OBESE
Pinkish hue CORAL
Planes, say EVENS
Plot divisions ACRES
Principle TENET
Readily available HANDY
Ready for customers OPEN
Remote setting? SOFA
Rock specialist NERALOGIST
Secluded corner NOOK
Sever LOP
Sharon’s “Cagney & Lacey” co-star TYNE
Shipping routes SEAWAYS
Slavko Avsenik composition POLKA
Some charity ALMS
Spending checks CAPS
Start a second crop RESOW
Take unfair advantage of USE
Unsympathetic STERN
Value of the hexadecimal A TEN
Winner of four gold medals in Berlin OWENS
Woodard of “12 Years a Slave” ALFRE
Youngest ever champion at Roland Garros SELES
Wall Street Journal - Jan 15 2020 - Indefinite Pronouns
Clues Answers
“Little pitchers have big ears,” e.g.? EWERSAYING
“That’s ___!” (courtroom outburst) ALIE
“The Rise of Skywalker” role REY
“This just ___ fair!” ISNT
“Thrilla in Manila” victor ALI
Academic’s address ender EDU
Act the vagabond ROVE
Animal of the altiplano LLAMA
Argentine aunt TIA
Asian holiday TET
Beach-expanding event LOWTIDE
Beaujolais bouquet AROMA
Before, once ERE
Behave like a child GROW
Catch ENSNARE
Confronted FACED
Connected cars TRAIN
Cosmic craft UFOS
Cozy lodgings INNS
Cuban coin CENTAVO
Dry cleaning challenge SPOT
Dull event SNORE
Everglades wader HERON
Exam including logical reasoning: Abbr LSAT
FDR’s job-creating agcy WPA
Film critic Roger EBERT
Funnies array STRIPS
Gallic assent OUI
Generous LIBERAL
Go after SEEK
Go back REVERT
Handle MONIKER
High point ACME
Honor, metaphorically LAURELS
Impertinence SASS
Interested in trying a little poetry? IAMBCURIOUS
Jeopardy PERIL
Kanga’s child ROO
Clues Answers
Late OVERDUE
Light metal TIN
Luanda’s nation ANGOLA
Madison’s successor MONROE
March honoree, familiarly STPAT
Military store ARSENAL
Move obliquely SIDLE
Observed SEEN
One might hold a dog BUN
Painter Veronese PAOLO
Papal name first used in the second century PIUS
Paper work, of a sort ORIGAMI
Paragraph start INDENT
Produit d’Evian EAU
Put one’s feet up REST
Renders less severe EASES
Revolutionary Trotsky LEON
Sensational plot device AMNESIA
Shouts of revelation AHAS
Sicker WORSE
Sign painter’s tool STENCIL
Sit heavily PLOP
Six-line stanzas SESTETS
Some bike lock parts UBOLTS
Sources of literature PRESSES
Spy method WIRETAP
Tattooist’s collection INKS
The Chornaya, which flows into Sevastopol Bay? CRIMEARIVER
Transmit SEND
Truism ADAGE
Unfeeling NUMB
Wanted poster abbr AKA
Way to go GAIT
Way to go: Abbr RTE
Went off the deep end, perhaps DOVE
What freelancers write on SPEC
What happens during Baltic ballets? LETTSDANCE
Wren’s wings? ELLS
January 22 2020 New York Times - Puzzle Solution
Clues Answers
'Grody!' ICK
'The nerve!' INEVER
Actress Graff of 'Mr. Belvedere' ILENE
Actress Meriwether LEE
Adjust to match, informally SYNC
Altered dishonestly COOKED
And the following: Abbr ETSEQ
Anthem contraction OER
Arcade fixtures COINOPS
Art nouveau? ARE
Atoll material CORAL
Bar code? LAW
Bearded beast GNU
Berth place QUAY
Biblical shepherd ABEL
Class SORT
Clothing RAIMENT
Contents of many an index card RECIPE
Cousins of crepes BLINI
Criticizes pettily SNIPESAT
Diner order that often comes with a toothpick BLT
Dover's home: Abbr DEL
Ear covering HUSK
Egg pouch SAC
Give off EMIT
Gunpowder alternative, for short TNT
Halley's comet, to William the Conqueror OMEN
Having everything in its proper place NEAT
Hornets are in it, in brief NBA
Horseshoe Falls setting NIAGARA
Hosp. locale ICU
Hosp. locales ORS
Hugo ___, longtime Supreme Court justice BLACK
It's a gas NEON
It's often left on the table TIP
Kind of salad with tomatoes, eggs, olives and anchovies NICOISE
Kind of wine drinker who might remark 'I'm getting hints of unripened banana' SNOB
Language akin to Thai LAO
Launch time RELEASEDATE
Like calypso music CARIBBEAN
Like soliloquy deliverers, typically ALONE
Lovefest, literally ORGY
Moby Dick, for one ALBINO
Monsieur, across the Pyrenees SENOR
Moving targets for waves CARANTENNAS
Nook NICHE
Part of a crystal radio kit DIODE
Perhaps SAY
Philly Ivy UPENN
Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay EDNA
Pop subgenre EMO
Porcelain CHINA
Prince of Narnia CASPIAN
Promoting peace IRENIC
Put on WEAR
Radio shortcut PRESET
Rendered pork fat LARD
Result of connecting the circled letters in a certain way, in a punny manner of speaking SEVENSEAS
Santa ___ winds ANA
Second Monopoly avenue BALTIC
Send to cloud nine ELATE
Some casino personnel DEALERS
Spanish queens REINAS
Spare part, perhaps TENPIN
SS ___, onetime flagship of the White Star Line ADRIATIC
Stain TINGE
Stiff and mechanical ROBOTIC
Suit material for Mr. Toad TWEED
Super Mario Galaxy console WII
Tears RIPS
Terrific time, in slang GAS
Third Greek vowel ETA
Those, in Segovia ESOS
Tore RACED
Web address ender EDU
Woodworker's shaper LATHE
___ Babies (bygone fad) BEANIE
___ Tour PGA
January 21 2020 New York Times - Puzzle Answer
Clues Answers
'Aaron ___, Sir' (song from 'Hamilton') BURR
'Baa baa' mama EWE
'Bullets,' in poker ACES
'Casablanca' setting CAFE
'I give up!' UNCLE
'Live and Let Die' villain MRBIG
'Mr. Blue Sky' band, for short ELO
'Nothing in life is fun for the whole ___': Jerry Seinfeld FAMILY
'Sign me up!' IMGAME
'You are not!' retort IAMSO
1988 Summer Olympics city SEOUL
A.T.F. agent, e.g FED
Abbr. in a real estate ad BRS
Advocate for URGE
Airport across the bay from OAK SFO
Annual Austin festival, for short SXSW
Aviated FLEW
Barkeep's grabber ICETONGS
Beat writer ___ Cassady NEAL
Brief moments SECS
Bronze and brass ALLOYS
Cellphone button ASTERISK
Cougar or cheetah CAT
Desktop image ICON
E-file recipient, in brief IRS
English school that's a rival of Harrow ETON
Fluorescent bulb filler ARGON
Go back and forth SEESAW
Grasps GETS
Greatly desires LUSTSFOR
Groups plotting coups CABALS
Ham or lamb MEAT
Hands down BYFAR
Healthy diet and regular exercise, say SELFCARE
Hit from the '60s? LSD
Hullabaloo FOOFARAW
Ideologies ISMS
IV solution SALINE
Keyboard key pressed by a pinkie TAB
Layer below the earth's crust MANTLE
Major Baltic port RIGA
Mama Cass ELLIOT
Minuscule TEENY
Not be punctual COMELATE
Old German money MARK
On drugs USING
Orchestra locale PIT
Panache BRIO
Party purchase ... or a hint to each circled letter set SIXPACKOFBEER
Pokémon Go, in the late 2010s, e.g FAD
Pour forth SPEW
Prepped, as apples for baking CORED
Quick to anger TESTY
River rental CANOE
Rummage (through) ROOT
Savage FIERCE
Shade of blue STEEL
Soccer stadium chant OLEOLE
Something to pitch or break CAMP
Sportscast summary RECAP
Study DEN
Subject of interest to a 23andMe user GENE
Symbol on a Braves baseball cap CAPITALA
They'll earn you a 2.0 CEES
Tiffs QUARRELS
Tiny sound? INLET
Twistable joint ANKLE
Unburdened by FREEOF
Upset stomach soother, informally BICARB
URL ending ORG
Vacuum cleaners featuring 'cyclone' technology DYSONS
Vivacious PERT
Witticism QUIP
Xylophonist's need MALLET
___ bowl (health food offering) ACAI
___-told OFT
January 20 2020 New York Times Puzzle Solution
Clues Answers
'1984' language NEWSPEAK
'Hear, hear!' AMEN
'Saturday Night Live' segment COMEDYSKETCH
'Yellowfin' fish TUNA
A diamond that has one is moderately expensive CARAT
After-tax amount NET
Apple computer IMAC
Army no-show AWOL
Attempt TRY
Back-and-forth changes to a Wikipedia page EDITWAR
Beats by ___ (headphones brand) DRE
Big name in online satire, with 'The' ONION
Bitter-tasting ACRID
Black gem with bands ONYX
Born and ___ BRED
Bring back, as a worker REHIRE
Chinese tree with fan-shaped leaves GINKGO
Chips with melted cheese NACHOS
Cinnamon-and-sugar cookie SNICKERDOODLE
Collections of funny outtakes GAGREELS
Comprehend ... or what 20-, 29- and 47-Across do, finally GETTHEPICTURE
Computer cable WIRE
Deceived with a fake-out, in hockey DEKED
Dress (up) GUSSY
Drive home, as a runner on third base BATIN
Explorer Ponce de ___ LEON
Female donkey JENNY
Finger or toe DIGIT
Finishes ENDS
Great Lake bordered by Ohio ERIE
Had on WORE
Humorous Bombeck ERMA
Hurdle for a coll. senior, maybe GRE
Hurdle for a H.S. senior, maybe SAT
In the thick of AMID
J.F.K.'s successor LBJ
Jewish festival usually in March PURIM
Jolts JARS
Kind of wagon for pioneers CONESTOGA
Lake into which Michigan's 'thumb' juts HURON
Letter before iota THETA
Mate for a mama PAPA
Neighbor of a Saudi OMANI
One attending a shindig PARTYGOER
One cause of an 'R' rating SEX
Opera solo ARIA
Plays a role ACTS
Poker or snooker GAME
Pooh's pessimistic pal EEYORE
Quintet to which 'y' is often added AEIOU
Rat Pack member ___ Davis Jr SAMMY
Reggae relative SKA
Result no longer allowed on 'Jeopardy!' TIE
Retail giant with a famous catalog, once SEARS
Richly adorn GILD
Ride for a Quidditch player BROOM
Ross of the Supremes DIANA
Savory food quality UMAMI
School lunch sandwich, for short PBJ
Sign, as a check ENDORSE
Smell really bad REEK
Strive for an epic effect GOBIG
Televised activity with Ping-Pong balls LOTTODRAWING
The Devil SATAN
The first one begins 'Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly' PSALM
Time in history ERA
Tune MELODY
Very: Sp MUY
W.W. I's Red Baron, e.g AIRACE
Watching closely EYING
Writer F. ___ Fitzgerald SCOTT
Yang's counterpart YIN
Zilch NADA
___ Antonio, Tex SAN
___ Baba, crier of 'Open sesame!' ALI
___ torch TIKI
January 19 2020 New York Times - Puzzle Solution
Clues Answers
'Believe ___ not!' ITOR
'Dallas' family name EWING
'ER' actress Laura INNES
'Hamilton' Tony nominee Phillipa ___ SOO
'In time we ___ that which we often fear': Shak HATE
'Nyah, nyah!,' e.g TAUNT
- ERAL
- EITY
- EON
- ERATION
- ETS
- EWS
- EIONESCO
- ETTLE
1979 film inspired by Janis Joplin's life THEROSE
1980 Olympic hockey champs USA
1990s-2000s compact car DODG
Adam's ___ (water) ALE
Ancient Dead Sea land EDOM
Ancient monuments STELES
Angered by MADAT
Anon ERELONG
Anti-athlete's foot brand LOTRIMIN
Apostle called 'the Zealot' SIMON
As a rule ING
Available to the public OPEN
Bambi's aunt ENA
Be bothered by MIND
Beethoven's birthplace BONN
Beethoven's only opera FIDELIO
Berry receiving much attention in the 2000s HALLE
Big e-cigarette brand BLU
Big story FRONTPAG
Biological manipulation suggested four times by this puzzle GENESPLICING
Bit of ancient script RUNE
Breadwinner EARNER
Broadway's '___ Todd' SWEENEY
Brother on 'Frasier' NILES
Capital of Albania TIRANE
Chafe RUBRAW
Cheyenne Mountain org NORAD
Christian with a big house DIOR
City that ancient Greeks called Philadelphia AMMAN
Closes in a thin membrane ENCYSTS
Companions of Dionysus SATYRS
Composer of the 'London' symphonies HAYDN
Composer Schoenberg ARNOLD
Comprehension UPTAKE
Cook on the outside BROWN
Country star Womack LEEANN
Devoted AVID
Didn't know but said something anyway GUESSED
Disappointing response to an application DENIED
Dreamer WANNABE
Fall color providers MAPLES
Feverish AFIRE
Finished OVER
First African-American Davis Cup player ASHE
First name in spy literature IAN
First National Leaguer to hit 500 home runs OTT
First takes DRAFTS
Flower part SEPAL
Forecast PREDICT
From Shiraz or Tabriz IRANIAN
Full of spirit PERKY
Gag item floating in Halloween punch EYEBALL
Gaston ___, 'The Phantom of the Opera' novelist LEROUX
Goes through physical therapy REHABS
Good for leaving handprints in WET
Greenbacks CASHMONEY
Half in advance? SEMI
Hole in one's head EARCANAL
Home of the Latino Walk of Fame, informally EASTLA
Homeowner's action, for short REFI
Humpty Dumpty, e.g EGG
Ignorant person, in slang GOOBER
Indistinct shape BLOB
Ingredient in some health food supplements OATGRASS
Insinuating SNIDE
Insurance for the crash-prone AUTOSAVE
Island nation west of Fiji VANUATU
It doesn't need land to land SEAPLANE
It's down in the dumps ODOR
James who won an Emmy two years in a row for the same role on different shows SPADER
John Wilkes Booth's actor brother EDWIN
Lack of variation HOMOG
Latte choice, informally CAF
Launched SENT
Like much of Iowa RURAL
Like the sun god Inti INCAN
Locale for un capitaine MER
Loch ___, site of Urquhart Castle NESS
Magazine with the motto 'Cure ignorance' UTNE
Make into a couple YOKE
Midlength records, for short EPS
Mike and Carol Brady, e.g TVPARENTS
Not occurring naturally STAGED
Nursery sight CRIB
Olden Tokyo EDO
Phrase of agreement TRUETHAT
Polynesian carving TIKI
Possible consequence of default, in brief REPO
Provider of child support? KNEE
Put back on RERAN
QB protection squads OLINES
Rackets DINS
Receptionist on 'The Office' ERIN
Refrain from nursery singing EIEIO
Remarkable ability of a starfish REG
Repair material SEALANT
Roman emperor before Hadrian TRAJAN
Romanian-born writer once in the French Academy EUG
Rooms with views SOLARIA
Ruling family of Edward I PLANTAG
Secure MOOR
Security system array SENSORS
Service with more than 1.5 billion users GMAIL
Shark fighters JETS
Skeptically ASKANCE
Smelter's supply ORE
Smiles smugly SMIRKS
Some instant coffees SANKAS
Some liturgical vestments STOLES
Sometimes-white animal STOAT
Staff note MEMO
Start of a countdown TEN
Starting point EDEN
State without reservations AVOW
Stays out of EVADES
Subject for Kinsey SEX
Tender spot? ATM
The 'she' in the lyric 'She would merengue and do the cha-cha' LOLA
The Anne of 'Anne of the Thousand Days' BOLEYN
Things blockers block ADS
Total ENTIRE
Tribe of Moses and Aaron LEVI
Turn out ENDUP
Twist together ENTWINE
Unique individual ONER
Up ARISEN
Use a rototiller on, say AERATE
W.W. I French biplane SPAD
Wikipedia's logo GLOBE
Wildflower with spiky, purplish blooms HEDG
Wimbledon champ, 1976-80 BORG
Winter vehicle SNOCAT
Woozy REELING
X's DELETES
___ de Triomphe LARC