Letter A
a pile fabric with uncut loops on both sides
Absorbent robe material
"America's Got Talent" host since 2019
Alaska and Hawaii, once: Abbr.
Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"
Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments
Antisesquipedalian
As in a nutshell
action of rubbing off or wiping
Alps' formative period
"A Deeper Faith" musician
"A Romantic Christmas" musician John
'Avalon' musician John
"All the world's his power house," per his "Time" cover (1931)
A Musk company
A contemporary of Edison
A.C. : ___ :: D.C. : Edison
All-electric car company
Alternating current advocate
Alternating current pioneer Nikola
Alternating current proponent
Alternating-current innovator
Alternating-current motor inventor
American electric car company
American electrical engineer and inventor
American engineer and inventor
American inventor and electrician (1857–1943).
American inventor from Croatia.
Artificial lightning creator
Artificial-lightning inventor
Auto maker that donated hundreds of ventilators to New York on 3/27/2020
Auto named for a physicist
Auto named for inventor Nikola
Auto that debuted in 2006
Automaker sued by California's DFEH in 2022
Automaker with Supercharger stations
Automaker with a Cybertruck
Alternating current producer
Alternating-current producer
All-electric supercar with a quarter million dollar price tag
Automotive models S and X
Autos with charging stations
"A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"
"A Pure Woman" of an 1891 novel
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" screenwriter Slessinger
"A pure woman faithfully presented," per the subtitle of the novel in which she appears
A D'Urberville lass
A Durbeyfield
A Hardy girl
A Hardy lass
A Harper
Actress Harper of "No Country for Old Men"
Actress Harper of "Tender Mercies"
Alec D'Urberville's slayer
Angel Clare's bride
Angel Clare's love
Angel Clare's love, in an 1891 novel
Angel Clare's wife
Angel Clare's wife, in literature
Angel on 'Touched by an Angel'
Angel's bride in a classic novel
Angel's lover, in literature
Assistant DA on "Reasonable Doubt"
Author Gerritsen
Author Gerritsen who created Rizzoli and Isles
Author Gerritsen who created the characters Rizzoli and Isles
Actress Allen of "Enough"
Actress Thompson of "Creed"
Actress Thompson of "Mississippi Damned"
Actress Thompson of "Passing"
Actress Thompson of "Selma"
Actress Thompson of "Sorry To Bother You"
Actress Thompson of "Thor: Love and Thunder"
Actress Thompson of "Thor: Ragnarok"
Actress Thompson of "Veronica Mars"
Actress Thompson of "Westworld"
Actress Thompson starring in the 2015 film "Creed"
"Actress Thompson of 'Sense and Sensibility'"
Actress Thompson and ice dancer Virtue
Adorn with mosaic
Adorns with mosaic
"A Wrinkle in Time" discovery
Art tiles
Actress Harper and others
Author Gerritsen and actress Harper
Actress O'Shea
Actress O'Shea of music-hall fame
An 1891 novel.
A ___ of wills
A crucible is a hard one
A negative one might be positive
ACT, for one
ASSESS ability of
Academic assessment
Academic ordeal
Acid follower
Acid or aptitude follower
Acid or high
Acid or screen follower
Activity at Cape Canaveral.
After acid or field
Another hurdle in school
Anxiety producer
Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections
Assay or essay, perhaps
Assay, perhaps
Assay, say
Assayer's activity
Assessment device
Assessment in school
Assessment that may end with "Pencils down"
Audition, for instance
Audition, say
assessment or exam
Acorn's coat
acorn coating
Acorn coats
A covenant.
Affirmation of beliefs
Acting willfully?
A person making a will
Agreement to curtail nukes, e.g.
Anti-nuke action
Anti-nuke agreement
Anti-nuke pact
Anti-nuke treaty topic
Antinuclear agreement
Antinuclear pact
Antinuclear treaty
Antinuclear treaty topic
Antinuke pact topic
Arms control subject
Arms treaty goal
Anti-nuke agreements
Attempt to halt nuclear programs?
An important trial.
Applicants.
A teacher, at times
Altar canopy
AVCX constructors, e.g., during weeks when they don't write the puzzle
Appropriate style of dress for exams?
Audience research focus
Adjective for a curmudgeon.
Appear before a House committee
Account in court
Analyzing.
Aid in self-diagnosis
Aids for determining pregnancy, e.g.
At-home radon detectors, e.g.
Adversity, optimistically
A triathlon, e.g.
ANABOLIC steroid hormone made by the body
ANDROGEN
Aerospace company employee
Aerospace employee who assesses new aircraft
Airborne faultfinder
Aircraft inspector, of a sort
Aircraft's first aviator
Aviation's indispensable man.
Aviator in search of bugs
Aviators trying out new planes
A. E. C. activities.
ACT and GED, for two
Academic assessments
Academic evaluations
Academic ordeals.
Acid and blood, for two
Acid and rabbit
Activities at Cape Canaveral.
Aptitude determiners
Aptitude questions.
Assessments of blood and IQ, e.g.
Auditions, essentially
Auditions, for instance
Auditions, perhaps?
Accepts a tough challenge
Aid in studying a culture
Ancient Roman military shelter
Arched ceilings or vaults
A bit quick to be ticked
Acting irritable
Acting peevish
Apt to explode
Apt to strike out
Acolyte with a bad temper?
Annoying ads?
Answer to "Man, where can I find good music videos online?"
Ace with a temper?
A holiday in Asia
Ancestor worship holiday
Annual Asian holiday
Annual Hanoi holiday
Annual Vietnamese celebration
Annual Vietnamese holiday
Annual celebration during which sweeping is taboo
Annual three-day celebration
Asian New Year
Asian New Year celebration
Asian New Year's festival
Asian celebration
Asian celebration occasion
Asian festival
Asian fete
Asian observance
Asian winter celebration
Asian winter festival
Asian winter observance
A shot given G. I.'s.
Affliction also called lockjaw
"Alouette" body part
ANCIENT hairstyle
Alsatian bean?
An 18th-century wig
André's head
Antoinette lost hers
Antoinette's head
Author ___-Michel Kpomassie
Avoir la _____ dure (be obstinate: Fr.)
A head-to-head competition, in French
An S-shaped seat for two.
a private conversation between two people
Arabian antelope.
Areas for berets
Arrondissement heads?
Animal restraint
Animal's restraint
Attach to a leash
Animal chains
Attaches by rope, as a ball to a pole
ALPHEUS, mother of
A range of mountains in the Rockies.
A range of the Rockies.
A range of the Rockies, in Wyoming.
African long-finned ___ (fish)
Aquarium brightener
Aquarium fish with a name that derives from the Greek for "four-sided wing"
Aquarium inhabitant
an antibiotic derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections
Aces in a deck, e.g.
Any foursome
ancient coin with a value of four drachmas
A word of four letters
Any four-letter word
AFRICAN click-beetle
A group of four related literary or operatic works
Almost any mammal
Any larger land animal
Aquarium acquisitions
Aquarium denizens
Aquarium standbys
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