Letter A
Adopting
Appropriating
Activity with a rubber duckie, perhaps
Acknowledging applause
Action after the final curtain
About to shoot
Acting the steno
Airline pilot: "Business is ___"
Accepting undue blame
Acting after much hesitation, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle
Acting on an impulse
Assuming leadership
A Russian chess master
Application at the barbershop
ARGENTINIAN tree
Argentina tree
Argentine timber tree
Argentine tree
About 45c in Addis Ababa.
Ankle-length robes.
Argentine timber trees.
Argentinian trees.
ancient Balearic stone tower
Actor Lyle of 1950's TV's "The Bob Cummings Show"
Actor Lyle or actress Nita
ancient breed of large hound
A pat on the bottom?
A powder
A treatment for a rash
Absorbent after-bath powder
Absorbent application
Absorbent powder
After bath dust
After bath powder
After-bath item
After-bath powder
After-bath powder, perhaps
After-bath soother
After-bath sprinkle
After-bath stuff
After-shave item
After-shave soother
After-shower application
After-shower application, for some
After-shower freshener
After-shower item
After-shower powder
After-shower sprinkle
Aftershave application
Agalite
Anti-chafing powder
Anti-rash agent
Anti-rash powder
Apply a powder
Apres-bath powder
Apres-bath stuff
Athletes use it when they take a powder
Applied some powder to
Applier of soapstone
After-bath items
After-bath powders
After-bath products
After-bath sprinkles
After-shower powders
Anti-rash powders
Applies bath powder to
Applies powder to
" . . . a ___ told by an idiot . . . "
"A Christmas Carol" is one
"A Knight's ___" (2001)
"A Prairie Home Companion" feature
"A Winter's ___"
"A __ of Two Cities"
"Attend the ___ of Sweeney Todd . . ."
"___ as old as time . . ."
"___ as old as time" (line sung by an animated teapot)
A fiction.
A fisher may spin one
A fisherman may bring one home
A fisherman may spin one
A fisherman might bring back a big one
A tall one is exaggerated
Account from Scheherazade
Account of incidents
Account of incidents or events
Account that joins words in seven of this puzzle's answers
Account that might earn interest
Account with growth potential
After tall or tell
An account of incidents
An angler may spin one
An intriguing yarn
Anagram for teal
Anecdotal narrative
Angler's account
Any "Twilight Zone" episode
Any Poe story
Apologue, e.g.
Arctic Monkeys might tell a "Fake" one of San Francisco!
Asimov product
Atwood novel "The Handmaid's _____"
Atwood's The Handmaid's ____
A storyteller’s offering
"America's Got __"
"America's Got ___" (competition show)
"American Idol" display
A kind of scout.
Ability spotted by a scout
Actors, to agents
Agent's clients
Agent's roster
Aid to success
Ancient monetary unit
Ancient unit of money.
Ancient unit of weight or money.
Ancient weight and money unit.
Any special skill
Artistic asset
Adjective for a virtuoso
Acting and singing, for two
Ancient money units.
Ancient units of money.
Audition display
"American Idol" was one
"A ___ Two Cities"
"A ___ Tub," by Swift
Accounts of Scheherazade
Adventurous, heroic stories
Armistead Maupin's "___ of the City"
"A Writer's Life" author
"A Writer's Life" autobiographer, 2006
"A Writer's Life" memoirist
"A Writer's Life" writer
"A Writer's Life" writer, 2006
Author Gay
Author of "A Serendipiter's Journey"
Author of "A Writer's Life"
Author of "Fame and Obscurity"
Author of "Honor Thy Father"
Author of "Thy Neighbor's Wife"
Author of "Unto the Sons"
Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire
Author Gay and family
Ankle opening
Ankle: Comb. form.
Anklebones: Anat.
Ankles or anklebones
Ankles, anatomically
Astragali
A co-star of Sylvester
Acress Shire
Actress Balsam who was once married to George Clooney
Actress Shire of Rocky
Actress Shire of "Bed and Breakfast"
Actress Shire of "Rocky" movies
Actress Shire of "The Godfather"
Actress Shire of the "Godfather" trilogy
Actress Shire of the "Rocky" franchise
Actress Shire of the cult classic "Rad"
Actress who played Connie in "The Godfather"
Adrian player
Adrian's portrayer
Al's "Godfather" sister
Al's sister in three films
Answerer to "Yo, Adrian"
Aunt of Nicolas
Aunt of Sofia and Nicolas
__ al Ghul: daughter of a Batman enemy
___ al Ghul (Batman foe)
___ al Ghul (on-and-off lover of Batman)
Actress Shire and others
Actresses Shire and Balsam
Actress sister of Francis Ford Coppola
Aqib ___, five-time Pro Bowl cornerback
AFGHANISTAN political group
Afghan power
Afghanistan faction
AM radio staple
Arbitration basis
Acted insubordinately
Argue repetitively ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme
Arion, for one
Al Jolson helped usher them in
A reprimand.
Advice, part four
"Actions speak louder than words"
AM format
AM station format
Addresses without exchanges
Audience member held captive by Oprah?
Address, as a listener
Admonish, as a child
"And all I ask is a ___ ship"
Able to dunk, say
Able to leap __ buildings ...
Able to reach the high shelves, perhaps
Able to reach the top shelf, maybe
Above average in height
Above-average in height
Adjective for Dave Cowens
Adjective for Ralph Sampson
Adjective for Robert Parish
Adjective for a sequoia.
Albee's "Three ___ Women"
Always bumping one's head on doorways, say
At risk from ceiling fans
a ___ order
Alabama county or its seat
Alabama speedway locale
"And ___ Amazon": Keats
American Indian star.
American ballerina.
___ and handsome
Average NBAer, compared to the average NFLer
Above all the rest
Adjective for Burj Khalifa
Adjective for Chicago's Sears Tower
Adjective for Toronto's C.N. Tower
Adjective for redwoods
Adjective for the Empire State Building.
An adjective for Sears Tower
Amazon band?
Among which weeds can hide
Added up, as a score
Agrees; scores
Around 6', say
Animal oil used in making soap and candles
Animal suet
"A ___ and a star to steer her by."
"And all I ask is a ___ . . . ": Masefield
Account of John Henry or Pecos Bill, e.g.
Accounts of Paul Bunyan, say
A Bankhead, familiarly
Actress Bankhead
Add the score
A kind of cape or cloak.
Ancient Jewish law and tradition
Ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition
Ancient writings on Jewish law
Ankle: Prefix.
A claw.
Accipiter's weapon
Anatomical food grabber
Avian claw
Avian grabber
Avian gripper
Avian preening aid
Armed with claws
Avian claws
Avian grippers
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