Letter A
Apparent value
Apparent worth.
A beauty treatment for the face
ACHIEVED VICTORY
act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
Accepting responsibility
"A dolphin sleeps with one eye open," e.g.
"ATTENTION: I AM ABOUT TO SAY A TRUE THING:"
"Alternative ___" (bit of fake news)
"An octopus has three hearts," e.g.
A true statement
Accessory after the ___
Accurate statement
Almanac excerpt
Almanac item
Almanac statement
Anything certain.
as represented
A small dissenting group within a large one
a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one
Agent at HBC posts
Allow for, with "in"
Acted as an agent
Accounted for, as during calculations
Agribusiness enterprise
Alternatives to malls
An employee who does all kinds of work
"A snail can sleep for up to three years" and others
"Alternative ___ are -1" (March for Science sign)
"Alternative ___" (falsehoods)
Accurate statements
Actualities
Ain't they the truth
Almanac data
Almanac entries
Almanac items
Almanac offering
Almanac offerings
Almanac stuff
Almanac tidbits
Alternative ___ (Kellyanne Conway phrase that drew comparisons to "1984")
Argument supporters
__ and figures
Adhering to the truth.
any of the bright areas on the sun's surface
A group of university departments
academics
A TEMPORARY DEBARMENT
A VERY BRIEF MOMENT
A day's craze
Activity that in five years you're going to be embarrassed you were so into today
Angry Birds, e.g., in 2010
Animal Crossing, in 2020
a person who subscribes to a variety of fads
Addicted to crazes.
A LAP LOSE
Age blue jeans
Age, as blue jeans
Appeared gradually.
Appear gradually
Appear gradually, as on film
Appear gradually, in films
Appear gradually, on film
Audio control
Audio engineer's controller
Audio engineer's device
Audio mixer knob
Auto sound-system control
Appears gradually
Appears gradually on the screen
Appears gradually on-screen
Appears on-screen gradually
Appears slowly, as an opening scene
About to be a has-been
A junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil
a male homosexual
act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
Abuser of Oliver
Alec Guinness role on the screen.
Artful Dodger's mentor
Artful Dodger's teacher
Abdullah's predecessor
Abdullah's predecessor as king of Saudi Arabia
Also-ran.
automatic transfer to a backup computer system in the event of a primary system failure
Achieves no proficiency in
appetite in French
"April Love" composer Sammy
American League batting leader.
Almost undetectable
Aswoon one
Axiomatic barrier to amatory conquest.
A bit woozy
"All's ___ in love and war"
A. A. of mysteries
Adjective for a lady.
Annual county festival
Antonym of dark.
__ and square (honestly)
"___ a star . . . "
A cut above Truman's Deal
Adjective for Snow White
Attractive 18th-century novelist in Connecticut?
A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
A legitimate object of attack
A legitimate object to attack
Acceptable target of criticism
An outdoor area where a fair is held
an area where outdoor fairs, circuses, or exhibitions are held
Alabama town
Adequate swimmer gulping oxygen?
Appraiser's determination
Appraiser's guideline
Asset for a sports official
Average desert drainage basin?
Amount that's not exorbitant
Agricultural exhibitions
Agricultural get-togethers.
Annual exhibitions
Arab blond?
A navigable channel in a river or harbour
Area that's rough around the edges
area between the tee and the green
Area of town where the supernatural hang out?
Andersen output
"__ accompli"
-- accompli (done deed)
-- accompli (thing done)
Au ___ (fully informed)
Au ___ (socially correct)
___ accompli (thing already done).
Argument forestaller
"___ and begorra!"
Apostle's belief
Alternative to standard medicine
All ___ (phrase in some nondenominational church names)
Alton Brown makes a marinade for it in the "Good Eats" episode "Raising the Steaks"
Alternatives to chimichangas
Art buyer's concern
Art exhibit embarrassment
Art expert's discovery
Art world fraud
Answer evasively?
Aid for a minor drinker
Artistic license?
Act like an expert without being one
Ad lib, maybe
Actor, usually
Applicable to the duke: Huckleberry Finn.
Asian ascetic
Artful art.
Art buyers' worries
Art museum's woe
Alternative to sunbathing
Artificial skin color
Artificially bronzed look
Acting deceptively
Asian wonder-worker
a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
A predecessor of Checkers
A predecessor of Miss Beazley
A prez's pooch
Animal owned by a statesman.
ARABIC word for till the soil
A certain political adherent.
Actress Edie whose surname anagrams to "focal"
A. F. Academy's mascot.
Air Force Academy emblem.
Air Force Academy mascot
Air Force athlete
Air Force college athlete
Animal trained to hunt prey for over 4,000 years
Anthony Mackie's "Avengers: Endgame" role
Atlanta gridder
Atlantan that may go out of bounds
Avenger who stepped into the role of Captain America
a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
art of training falcons
AIRFORCE athletic team
AIRFORCE college athletic team
Air Force Academy athletes
Atlanta N.F.L. team
Atlanta eleven
Arkin's "The In-Laws" co-star
Arkin's co-star in "The In-Laws"
AMERICAN season
Apple-picking season
Autumn in America
a lapse into sin
An illogical notion.
A useless piece of finery.
An alternative plan for use in an emergency
Alternative plans
Annual sports event, familiarly
Attractions of October foliage tours
Anaheim players tripping over their own feet?
Autumn outfit collection
A harvest moon is the full moon closest to it
Aster or mum
Aster or pansy
Autumn leaves, e.g.
Autumn splendor
"A stunning collapse: once toast of the town, now total outcast? I can't believe it!"
An easy victim: Slang.
ABLE to make error
ABLE to make mistake
[aria-label] Raking time, having six flats
Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers
Actress failing to live up to expectations?
Arrive, as an unexpected opportunity
Abandon abstinence
Adverse aftermath
Antlered Eurasian animals
AKAKA
Angel and Victoria.
Angel in Venezuela, e.g.
Angel in Venezuela?
Angel or Victoria
August through December, for many collegians
Autumn colors ... or an alternative title for this puzzle?
Autumn conditions, and a hint to reading the answers to the starred clues
"A dagger of the mind, a __ creation ... ": Macbeth
ALARMS AND DIVERSIONS AUTHOR
Alternative to true, on a quiz
Answer choice on a test
Answer, in exams
Answer-sheet column
"Actually, there's nothing to worry about!"
"Actually, you can ignore that warning"
Assumption that there are two genders, e.g.
Assertion flagged by a fact-checker
An idolatrous person might worship them
Athletic infraction ... or what occurs at the beginning of this puzzle's four theme answers, both across and down
Athletic infractions for jumping the signal
...and so is this
An artificially high voice in music
Artifical male voice
Artificial high voice
Artificial voice.
Artificially high voice
Artificially-high singing voice
artificially high
Artificial eyelashes, informally
Alter a document, account, or evidence in order to deceive
Albee's "___ and Yam"
Aunties and grannies and such
"A fickle food upon a shifting plate": Dickinson
"A fickle food upon a shifting plate," according to Emily Dickinson
"A fickle food," per Emily Dickinson
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