Letter A
Anna May ___: 1907–61
Anna May of "Shanghai Express"
Anna May of films
Anna May of old movies
A grind: Slang
A hardworking person
A policy expert, say
All-work, no-play student
Arcane-detail experts
An established custom
"And we ___ home till morning"
Alternative to eggdrop
Asian dumpling
Asian food that sounds gratuitous?
Avoidance of a Chinese noodle?
Asian soup ingredients
Alternative to an eggroll, perhaps
Ad: Part 4
A suitor may pitch it
Act the Romeo.
Action director John
Aim to charm
Aim to win
Amorously pursue
Apt rhyme for "pursue"
Attempt to make love (to)
advances, make
attempt to attract
A three or a five, for instance
Alberta's ______Buffalo World Heritage park
Alternative to an iron, in golf
American Gothic painter Grant
Anniversary gift after linen
Area for bird watchers.
Area of trees
Army Chief of Staff, 1910–14.
Artist Grant
Ash or alder
Ax target
Axman's byproduct
ability and experience in matters concerned with living in a wood or forest
Albrecht Dürer works
Art pieces that date back to the Han dynasty
Art-print category
Awkwardly stiff
Accessories worn under Sikh turbans
a blockhead, a stupid person
Attribute of 1904 champion gymnast George Eyser
Attribute of Capt. Ahab.
Another three horses
ASCELLUS relative
area restricted to the growing of trees
any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body
A president and his conflict
Another funnies flier
Area with trees
AMERICAN germander
Actors James and Jeremy play Pebble Beach?
A trip here means trouble!
a species of shrike, with black-and-white plumage but a red-brown crown
Aquarian event at Yasgur's farm, and a hint to what's formed by the circled letters
Appliance certified by the EPA
an American bird
Auto-interior option that offers a veneer of luxury?
Antique storage chest
Alliterative craftsperson
Advanced carpentry
Aboreous
Allen of "Annie Hall"
Allen or Harrelson
Allen or Herman
Arlo's father
A LEWD LOONY, all mixed up
"Annie Hall"
Allen and Herman
Animated bird
Animated cartoon character
Animated redhead
Angst-filled movie?
Apt rhyme for "pursued"
Affection seeker
Apollo, to Daphne
Apt rhyme for "pursuer"
"Arf!" equivalent
Adoption center sounds
Alerts from dogs
'A frog he would a- -- go . . .'
Activity that may include flowers and candy
All ___ and a yard wide (genuine)
Alpaca or vicuna
Alpaca's coat
Angora output
a fabric made from the hair of sheep
all ___ and a yard wide
All ___ a yard wide
... and pursue sportscaster Berman instead?
"A Room of One's Own" author Virginia
"A Room of One's Own" novelist
"A Room of One's Own" novelist Virginia
"A Room of One's Own" writer
Author Virginia
Author of "Mrs. Dalloway"
Author to be afraid of?
Author who once wrote a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog
"A Room of One's Own" writer wearing a wool sweater?
Absent-minded type, on the farm?
a person who keeps sheep for their wool
a country bumpkin
a kind of fungus
Alaska's state fossil
Alpaca and cashmere
Alpaca and vicuña
Angora and alpaca
Angora and cashmere
Angora and merino
Angora and mohair
Angora, merino, etc.
a person who sorts wool according to quality
AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal spear thrower
AUSTRALIAN rocket-launch site (SA)
AUSTRALIAN spear thrower
Arrow poison, also called curare
Acts like a suitor
Amorously pursues
Apt rhyme for "pursues"
Asks for a hand, maybe?
"Awesome!" in a text
"Awesome," online
A bit dazed
A little out of it
Actor Tom of "The Dukes of Hazzard"
a N. American species of gooseberry
A promise
AFTER: Slangy "Amen"
Adverb, for instance.
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
"Answer with the first thing that comes to mind" exercise
*As sequenced in this grid, what the answers to starred clues form
Author's concern that, when parsed as four parts, provides a hint to this puzzle's theme
Anagrams, e.g.
any game involving the formation, discovery, or alteration of a word or words
a writer or speaker who uses language pretentiously or carelessly
Annual American Dialect Society award given to seven answers in this puzzle
A quarrel
An argument
Angry debate
Arguers have them
Activity that requires scanning letters
a type of word puzzle
App for lexical searching games (decent connection)
"A ___ the wise . . . "
As time ___ on
Attrited
___ a happy smile (beamed)
arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
able to operate efficiently
a way of circumventing a difficulty
a basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like
a person who works at a specific occupation
Apiarist's study, sometimes?
Attitude valued by diligent employees
a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
Arrange a time for
A London school of economics study showed this ranks worse in people's minds than physical illness
Argument at a job site?
At the orchard, farmers are often __
a labouring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labour
Allotment of chores
amount of work to be done, esp in a specified period
a bad always blame his tools
a bad always blames his tools
appropriate to or befitting a good workman
Artisan's skill
Associate on the job
Apply effort to
A job ticket often accompanies one
All the toppings, with 'the'
Author's canon
Applies sustained effort
A Southern sodbuster ___
Accountants' backups
area where work is done
Attempts to sway
area set aside for work
Assigned office area
area of activity into which a company's business may be divided
___ a lather (sweats)
A flat surface for working on
"All's right with the ___": Browning
"As the ___ Turns"
A small place.
A very great quantity.
A. W. Clausen's concern
Ambitious objective for, um, a total villain, not a human like me! How did this answer even get in here? *Nervous synthetic laugh*
a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world
"A ___" (Auchincloss book)
An Olympic athlete might set one
Athlete's ambition
"All the ___ a stage..."WS
"All the ____ a stage"
Advertising exaggeration, perhaps
Annual Major League Baseball event
Annual news event.
Attire at the UN?
applying or extending throughout the world
Availability to anyone, anywhere
Another name for the internet
Actor Jack, circling the globe?
Annual competition whose divisions include Single Hand String Trick, Two Hands Looping Trick, and Offstring
Antivirus software target
Anything spiral.
Apple dweller?
Apple intruder
Apple spoiler
Apt rhyme for squirm
Achieved artfully, with "into"
Apple bug?
A lot of bait
Absinthe source
Annelid imitated a dog?
A bit beat-up
Anxious or uneasy
Apprehensive ones.
"A fate ___ than death"
"And if that weren't bad enough ..."
An anagram for sower
A more dilapidated state
Address for a British magistrate, with "Your"
Adoration of a deity
Adoring reverance
act of honoring a deity
adore reverence
A principle belief of the Sikh religion
Apt to finish last
At the bottom, in a way
a woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap
Autumn at its poorest?
"A Woman's ___" (Alicia Keys song)
"A great purchase!"
A good buy
Americans who are always bragging about their wealth?
Argue about your old mayor?
an important, honorable person
"A garden is a lovesome thing, God ___!": Brown
"A garden is a lovesome thing. God ___!”
Author Herman
Author of "The Caine Mutiny"
And I ___ do anything for love
As luck ___ have it
Auxiliary verb that sounds like lumber
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