Letter A
Astronomical sightings
"___ and see me sometime"
Arise in conversation
"A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership" author
Author of 2018's "A Higher Loyalty"
A JAR CONTAINING RICE FOR THE MOST PART, OR FRUIT
Alex
AT home
At ease in body and mind
ANALEPTIC
Advent claims keep reassuring (10)
All nestled in
A real stand-up guy?
A real stand-up kind of guy?
A real standup type?
Adjective for George Gobel.
Ali Wong or Joan Rivers
Ali Wong or Tiffany Haddish
Ali Wong, for example
*Annual pop culture gathering noted for cosplay
Annual superhero gathering
A real standup bunch
A Sunday one might have six panels
"___' atcha!"
Attempting to score in 1978?
Attempting to score? (1978)
Arriving aggressively
Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing?
-- and goings
Arrivals
Approaching 212 degrees
Arriving where there's no outlet
Actually happening
A LOOSE COVERALL REACHING DOWN TO THE ANKLES
Achieving prominence
A BRILLIANT AND NOTABLE SUCCESS
ANCIENT Roman assembly
ASSEMBLY, ancient
Ad hoc gp.
A BOMB THAT GIVES OFF THICK SMOKE WHEN IT EXPLODES
A slight pause.
Analogue to a musician's breath mark
authoritative instruction
ASSUME control
___ and His Lost Planet Airmen (one-hit wonders of the '70s)
Any of the Decalogue
Apollo orbiter
Assault-team member
Acting as a mark of an event or person
Applaud property boundaries?
ANIMAL living in or upon another and sharing its food
ALLUSION
ANIMADVERT
a written or spoken opinion
annotate
Appear to control car trade
A television "must"
ASH Wednesday, part of an office for
a member of a commission
Allocate, as funds
act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a courrse of action
Acts on a burning desire
A raw material or agricultural product that can be bought and sold
Article of trade
A sense for many
ANIMAL that may be pastured on common land
Ailment considered incurable
A citizen.
a person who holds no title
Anno Domini alternative
Average citizen
AS a matter of course
Average Joe
Average karate instructor?
a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
a group of people living in a particular local area
a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one
Altered, as a metal
"___ Agua Para Chocolate" (hit 1992 foreign-language film)
African island nation whose vowels are all Os
Archipelago in the Indian Ocean
Archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean
AS TIME PASS
Admit for free
Associate: Abbr.
Abbreviation for a complimentary ticket
Audio cassette successor
A person who is frequently in the company of another.
a traveler who accompanies you
"Aningaaq," to "Gravity," e.g.
A workbook could be one
ARMY unit of one hundred soldiers
a business or a firm
an institution created to conduct business
An employee might use it to pay for dinner
Army lieutenant, e.g.
ADJECTIVE, of an inflectional form of
ADVERB, of an inflectional form of
ANALOGIZE
Advertiser's urging
Analogies
Aid to navigation
Airman's guide.
Ancient instrument, used by Columbus.
A PERSON FROM YOUR OWN COUNTRY
An equal.
Achieve by force
a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject
A collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject
APERCU
Audition, e.g.
Ability to do a thing well
Attempts to best
ACT of competing for by examination
ADVANTAGE SLIGHT
Ability to defeat an opponent
Ability to outperform
Advantage over rivals
Aggressive image consulting?
Assemble, as parts of a document
Anthologist.
Anthology editor, e.g.
Anthology editor.
Assembles for composition.
a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
*Additive interval
An entirety.
ACTING AS OR PROVIDING A COMPLEMENT
ANGLES which together make ninety degrees, one of either
All there
All through
ALL hollow
a successful forward pass in football
Aaron Rodgers stat
A difficulty
Approving remark
AS TOLD DO
Act in accordance (with)
A person who writes music
ALBÉNIZ
A PHOTOGRAPH MADE WITH A TELEPHOTO LENS
AGREEMENT for paying of sum of money in lieu of other obligation
A mixture of decomposing plants for fertilising the soil
a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure
Alternatives to preserves
A large open area enclosed by a fence
Agree, for a bribe, not to prosecute
Adding interest to a Brit's account?
Attention given toa chemical mixture?
Ammonia and water?
ADJUSTMENT of conflicting opinions
A.P. subject since 1984, for short
American physicist who showed that the wavelength of X-rays increased when scattered by electrons
Alternative to Best Buy or Circuit City
a machine for performing calculations automatically
Apple, for one
A la mode girl friend?
Amusement on a drive?
Apple field
artificial intelligence study
Apple shipping vehicles?
Apple picker, perhaps? (... 5 to 10)
a fellow member of a team
AT&T's Telstar, e.g.
Auguste ___, French philosopher
Ancien Régime nobles
Athlete who's better than almost everyone in the league
"Anti" kin
"___ Air" (1997 movie)
A BENEVOLENT ASPECT OF DEVI
A reason not to
A scam and this puzzle's theme
A vote in opposition.
AGREEMENT TO SWINDLE GRACIOUS ACTOR
ARGUMENT against
ARTFUL dodge
Allegro __ brio
Annual meeting, for short
Anti Body
Antipathetic one
Antipathetic side
Argument against a course of action
Arroz __ pollo
Arroz ___ leche
Arroz ___ pollo (chicken-and-rice dish)
Attica insider
Argument against
___ artist (scammer)
_____ amore (with love)
anima
Action film that takes place on a plane
Arnold's barbarian
Arnold's swordsman
Arthur Doyle's middle name
Arthur ___ Doyle
Author Arthur ___ Doyle
Author Doyle's middle name
Author __ Doyle
Ambassador and High Commissioner.
add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series
ADVERTISE (ant.)
Avoid mentioning
Air marshal's possession
Ankle holster contents
act of hiding
Acknowledge an election loss
Acknowledge reluctantly
Acknowledge the loss of an election
Admit (defeat in a match)
Admit having lost
Admit, as defeat
Accepted defeat
Admits as true
Admits defeat
Allows as true
AMOUR propre
Advice to a scatterbrain
A generalised idea
AN ABSTRACT OR GENERAL IDEA INFERRED OR DERIVED FROM SPECIFIC INSTANCES
Abstract idea
Ad campaign start
Attention-grabbing models at an auto show
A BROAD RANGE OF RELATED OBJECTS OR VALUES OR QUALITIES OR IDEAS OR ACTIVITIES
Abstract creations
Abstract ideas
A matter of interest
AFFECT PERSONALLY
appertain to
"As far as I'm ___ . . ."
aubade
ACCORDION ___
Accordion's cousin
Accordion's kin
Accordion's next of kin
Accordion relatives
Any one of Bach's Brandenburgs
Arthur Rubinstein or Leonard Bernstein
Auditorium events
ACT of grace
a spiral shaped shell that can be used as a trumpet
Anatomical shell-like structure
Apse dome
a structure that resembles a shell in shape
Actress Maria ____ Alonso
A FRENCH CARETAKER OF APARTMENTS OR A HOTEL
Attempt to end a quarrel/dispute
Abridged, perhaps
A CONFIDENTIAL OR SECRET MEETING
Assemblies
Afterword
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