Letter A 154750–155000

An NFL team was nicknamed after one of his works Aptly named mascot of the Baltimore Ravens Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" Author Edgar Allan __ Author beloved by goths Author buried in Baltimore Author credited with inventing the detective story Author expelled from West Point Author expelled from West Point in 1831 Author known for macabre tales Author known for the macabre Author mentioned in the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" Author of Annabel Lee Author of The Gold Bug Author of The Raven Author of "Hop-Frog" Author of "Israfil." Author of "The Black Cat" Author of "The Cask of Amontillado" Author of "The Gold-Bug" Author of "The Purloined Letter" Author of "Ulalume" Author of "William Wilson" Author of an 1844 article later titled "The Balloon Hoax" Author of eerie stories Author of macabre fiction Author of macabre tales Author of some stories appropriate for Halloween Author of the line "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..." Author of the short story "Loss of Breath" Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" Author said to have influenced Hitchcock Author who coined the words "multicolor" and "normality" Author who coined the words "multicolor," "tintinnabulation," and "normality" Author who helped popularize the cryptogram Author who influenced Conan Doyle Author who influenced Verne Author who inspired Verne Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname Author who was expelled from West Point. Author who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia Amy of "Parks and Recreation" "A Dream Within a Dream," e.g. "A Litany for Survival," e.g. "A ___ is never finished, only abandoned": Paul Valéry "A ___ should not mean / But be": Archibald MacLeish "A ___ should not mean / But be": MacLeish "America is a __ in our eyes": Emerson "Auld Lang Syne," e.g. A piece often recited at readings A short one by Ogden Nash reads "Parsley / is gharsley" Abou Ben Adhem Ada Limón work Adrienne Rich work, e.g. Aglaura Allen Ginsberg medium Amanda Gorman creation Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," for one Annabel Lee Anne Sexton creation Anything beautiful. Artistic creation. Auden offering Audre Lorde creation Anatole France opus Arthur Rimbaud work "Auld Lang Syne" and others "__ are made by fools like me" "___ are made by fools . . . " Ada Limón works Alan Dugan's works. Amanda Gorman productions Amanda Gorman verses Amanda Gorman's writings Andrea Gibson works Angelou compositions Angelou works Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning," and others Anthology entries Among ___ works are "Tamerlane," "Ulalume," etc. Art of metrical composition: Var. Axiom that states that it is difficult to distinguish satire from extreme opinions on the Internet Arnold's art Art of verse Art of verse writing "A Touch of the ___" "A ___ can survive everything but a misprint": Oscar Wilde "A nightingale who sits in darkness," per Shelley "A person who is passionately in love with language": W.H. Auden "Always be a __, even in prose": Baudelaire "___ and Peasant" Ada Limón, e.g. Ada Limón, for one Adcock, Fleur Adrienne Rich or Nikki Giovanni Adrienne Rich, for example Alan Seeger, e.g. Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac Amanda Gorman or Maya Angelou Amanda Gorman, e.g. Amanda Gorman, for one Amy Lowell was one Angelou or Dickinson Anne Lindbergh, for example. Annie Finch or Rita Dove Any limerick writer Any of three Lowells Archibald MacLeish. Arnold or Milton Artisan in words Artist in words Artist using line breaks Artist with words Ashbery, John Auden or Aiken Auden, Blake or Coleridge Auden, e.g. Audre Lorde or Lord Byron Audre Lorde, e.g. Author of elegies A person who writes bad poetry acting as a poetaster Amy Lowell or H.D., formerly Amy Lowell. Anne Bradstreet, e.g. Anne Bradstreet, for one Any of the Brontë sisters Applicable to Kipling's sister, Beatrice. Archaic term for a female author A.E. Adjective with license or justice Appropriate for versification A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980 *Artistic freedom (note the last word in each starred clue's answer) Artistic latitude Aristotle tome Aristotle work Aristotle work on dramatic theory Aristotle work that began literary theory "A ___ born, not made." "A ___ man speaking to men": Wordsworth "Articulate painting."—Plutarch. ACMEIST movement (pert. to) Art form that might be in free verse Ada Limón and Emily Dickinson, for two Amanda Gorman and Mary Oliver Amanda Gorman and others Angelou and Cummings, e.g. Angelou and Plath Angelou, Brooks and Clifton Arnold and Milton Artists in a Robin Williams film title Ashbery and Nemerov Auden and Angelou Auden and Frost Auden and Lowell Audre Lorde and Lord Byron, e.g. Authors of verse Authors of verses Awesome, on Twitch A kind of stick for jumping. Albert the Alligator's friend. An organised massacre of an ethnic group an irregular red blood corpuscle AUSTRALIAN red-flowering tree A beautiful red flower A good hunting dog will do it A pencil's end Act impolitely, in a way Act rudely, maybe Aim; unit of type size Antler end At very close range Aim the gun "Another," in "from one place to another" Alaska's northernmost spot acuate Aimed toward A definition for "hand" Advice bits Arrows, at times a painting technique using separate dots of pure colour rather than blends Artist using dots of color. Airline requirement for a fencer? Accusing, with "at" A waste of time with empty beer glass, nothing to drink A commitment must be made here Advance is the only alternative Auto company participating in parliamentary procedure? Aims an index finger Argument components "At least you tried" Abbreviated term for athletic scores or grades Acknowledgment that another person is at least partly right A way to measure A pear in Paris A Christie sleuth Agatha Christie once described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature" Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth Agatha Christie's rogue-hunter. Agatha Christie's sleuth. Alt's asset Asset at an interview Asset for a Miss America wannabe Asset for a ballerina Asset in a beauty pageant All set (to) ASPHYXIANT Another man's meat Arrow application Arsenic e.g. Arsenic, but not old lace Arsenic user, maybe Aunt in "Arsenic and Old Lace" Authorization for the exterminator to employ rodenticide? Abusive missive Anonymous work, often Anonymous and angry missives Arsenic and strychnine a poisonous tree of the cashew family native to Florida A bag or sack, as "a pig in a ___." A kind of bonnet. AMERICAN hellebore Annoy, as a sibling on a road trip Assault la Moe Assault a la Moe Assaulted a la Moe Annual festival when everybody eats a trendy fish dish? Activity involving folding and drawing Activity that involves seeing people? Activity that may involve raising the blinds Amarillo Slim's game Advantage in Vegas Asset at the card table Abode of Bret Harte's "Outcasts." Aces with aces? Apt jobs for Ace and Jack? Attends to, as a fire Antagonize a powerful figure American jail Annoyingly slow. Awfully slow At a slow pace At a sluggish pace Attention-getting act Archaic human who foreshadowed the Three Stooges? AOC or JFK, e.g. AOC or Mayor Pete Anneliese van der ___ of "that's so raven"