Letter A
Among presidents, Jackson was the first
Andrew Jackson was one.
advocate of democracy
ANTISLAVERY political party
Activity requiring a crash course?
An abandoned building may get one
A TOUGHER AND MORE REDOUBTABLE ADVERSARY THAN THE HEEL-CLICKING, JACKBOOTED FANATIC- G.H.JOHNSTON
An evil spirit
Asmodeus, e.g.
"Angels & __": Dan Brown best-seller
Angels' counterparts
a public display of group feelings
Apt to cause hopelessness
a state of disorder and confusion
Actors' greatest-hits compilations
Author of "Joseph Vance.”
ACTRESS REBECCA
Actress Rebecca of "John From Cincinnati"
Ancient Greek populace
Aspiring bands make them
Aspiring singer's tapes
Aspiring singers' submissions
Audition C.D.'s
Audition DVDs
Audition recordings
Audition tapes
Auditioner's recordings
Autos for test-driving
Attic orator
Aspiring artist's submission
Amateur musician's samples
Aspiring musician's recordings
Aspiring rock star's submissions
ADVANCE (ant.)
Assign to a lesser rank
A kick downstairs
Aspiring executive's dread
act of lowering in rank or position
A.E.S. and H.S.T.
Adlai and company.
Almost half of the Sen.
Abbr. for progressive politicians
Abbr. for one of the two major U.S. parties
ANSWER negatively
Affectedly reserved
American watercolorist of flowers.
A size of paper.
A size of writing paper, 16x21 inches.
"...a ___ of thieves"
A FAVORITE HAUNT WHERE PEOPLE GATHER
ANIMALS LEADER
Abolish a lion's home
Animal lair
Animal's abode
Animal's home
Animal's lair
Armchair quarterback's room, perhaps
Australian "bear"
animal family fox
Answer to 'Gracias'
A.k.a. McKinley
ALASKAN national park
Alaska Range attraction
Alaska Range highlight
Alaska Range peak
Alaska mountain or its national park
Alaska nationl park
Alaska vacation destination
Alaska's __ National Park
Alaska's ___ Park Road
Alaska's tallest mountain
Alaskan high peak
Alaskan national park or peak
Alaskan park
Alaskan peak
Alaskan vacation destination
Alternate name for Mount McKinley
America's highest peak
America's third-largest national park
Athabaskan for "the high one"
Alaska Veterans Memorial's site
Alaska area almost half the size of Rhode Island
Ancient Roman coins
ancient Roman silver coin, often called a penny in translation
ALTER the nature of
Academy Award winner Dame Judi __
Actress Dame Judi __
Actress Judi
Actress Judi whose Best Supporting Actress role was a tidy six minutes
Actress in eight Bond films
Actress who played Queens Elizabeth and Victoria in film
Assistant selected by a Scoutmaster
AUSTRALIAN stinging tree
an ancient carving on a tree
an instrument for measuring trees
a snake of the genus Dendrophis, a tree snake
Alaskan group
Arctic Canadians
Athabascan speaking people of the north
Athabaskan speakers of northern Canada
Athapascans
A bright star
Alpha Cygni
Alpha Cygni star
Alaskan Athapaskans
Actress once featured in ads for Chanel No. 5
AFRICAN fever
AFRICAN infectious eruptive fever
AUSTRALIAN mosquito-transmitted disease
Able to be gainsaid
Apt to be contradicted
"Am not," e.g.
"Am not," for one
A REVOLVING MECHANISM
Addict's problem, often
Addict's state, often
Assertion of falsehood
Accused one's cries
ANY OF VARIOUS FORMER EUROPEAN COINS OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS
Atheist, to a believer
a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
atheist Hindu
A HEAVY WOOLEN CLOTH HEAVILY NAPPED AND FELTED, OFTEN WITH A PLAID DESIGN
A SILKLIKE FABRIC
A STRONG WORSTED OR COTTON FABRIC WITH A DIAGONAL RIB
AIR SIMPLE KIND OF SHIRT COVERING JEANS
Acid-washed jeans fabric
All of a "Canadian tuxedo"
acid-washed fabric
A DEALER IN FABRICS AND SEWING MATERIALS
"A Bronx Tale" director
"Analyze That" actor
"Analyze That" star
"Analyze This" actor
"Analyze This" actor Robert
"Analyze This" star
"Awakenings" Oscar nominee
Actor who starred in "Taxi Driver" and "Goodfellas"
A famous movie speech improvised by him includes the line "Well, I'm the only one here!"
Actor Robert of "Taxi Driver"
Actor in "True Confessions"
Actor in many Scorsese films
Actor who won a 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Awakenings star
APOSTLE of the French
ARIOSTO, LODOVICO PATRON
Actor Leary
Actor O'Hare of "Milk"
A Huxtable
Actress Darcel
Actress Richards of 'Wild Things'
Actress Richards who is Charlie Sheen's ex
Aerobics instructor Austin
Austin Actress
Actress Darcel et al.
a person animal or plant that lives in a particular place
a plant or animal naturalized in a region
Aarhus is its second largest city
All the stuff a bear needs to feel comfortable at home?
Actor Quaid
Author of "Auntie Mame."
Athlete who sings karaoke with Kim Jong Un
Author of "Bad As I Wanna Be"
*A comics menace behaved immorally
Alice Mitchell's son
Actor Reginald
Actor Reginald: 1891–1967
Actor Reginald chose not to attend a university in New York?
"America's diner is always open" sloganeer
All-American Slam server
A NOUN FORMED FROM A VERB
Afresh: Lat.
Again, to Androcles
Again, to Gaius
Anew, to Caesar
Anew, to Nero
ANY VINE OF THE FAMILY CUCURBITACEAE THAT BEARS FRUITS WITH HARD RINDS
AT leisure
Animal abodes
Animal caves
Animal lairs
Animals' lairs
A few bits short of a byte
A few bricks shy of a load
A few fries short of a Happy Meal
A few players short of a team
A little on the slow side
AN OPAQUE WATERCOLOR PREPARED WITH GUM
Admitting less light
an instrument for measuring closeness of grain of a substance
Amount-per-unit sizes
an instrument for measuring optical or photographic density
A BARBER MIGHT NICK IT
A DIFFICULTY OR FLAW IN A PLAN OR OPERATION
A NARROW DEPRESSION
A SMALL CONCAVITY
A blemish
A body shop will tend to it
A little progress, idiomatically
A little progress, so to speak
A small ding
ACCIDENT WITNESS, OFTEN
ACCIDENT, THE AUTHOR
AN ACCIDENTAL COLLISION THAT IS NARROWLY AVOIDED
AVOID COLLISION
Accident memento
Apt word found in "accident"
Arthur ___ (character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
Auto blemish
Auto body repair task
Auto ding
Auto door defect
Auto scar
Auto-body flaw
Auto-body repair task
Auto-shop target
Autobody impression
Associated with choppers
A periodontist's petunia, e.g.?
Attorneys' fees paid with gold fillings?
Al -- (a bit firm)
Al -- (a little firm)
Al -- (cooking term)
Al __ (firm)
Al __ (pasta preference)
Al __ (pasta style)
Al __: firm, as pasta
Al ___ (chewy)
Al ___ (chewy): It.
Al ___ (chewy, in Calabria)
Al ___ (cooked but still firm)
Al ___ (cooked just until tender): Ital.
Al ___ (cooking instruction)
Al ___ (degree of doneness)
Al ___ (firm pasta descriptor)
Al ___ (firm to the bite)
Al ___ (like some noodles)
Al ___ (not too soft)
Al ___ (not well done, as spaghetti).
Al ___ (pasta descriptor)
Al ___ (pasta phrase)
Al ___ (pasta recipe direction)
Al ___ (pasta specification)
Al ___ (somewhat firm)
Al ___ (spaghetti spec)
Al ___ (spaghetti style), in Italy.
Al ___ pasta
Al ___: cooking style
Al ____ (order to a pasta maker)
Al _____ (way to cook pasta)
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