Letter A
An artist might blow it
Author of "Abe and Mawruss" (1877–1934).
Artisan who makes delicate items
Art of making bottles, etc.
a process used in making glass
Advancement barrier for some
Alternative to contacts
Artificial object in orbit?
Abodes with transparent walls
Allusive Beatles song with the line "the Walrus was Paul"
Antique store section
an inhabitant of Glasgow
Arrow actress Summer
ashine
Accumulate gradually
Accumulate, as information
Amass clues
Acquired bit by bit
AFTERCOMER
Acquires piece by piece
Ascertains slowly
And away he went
ADVOWSON
"... as they shouted out with ___" ("Rudolph" lyric)
"As they shouted out with ___ ..." (carol lyric)
Absolute delight
Antonym for "glumness"
Apt rhyme for "Whoopee!"
Assembly of school singers
Apt to jump and shout
accordionist
Alert: Scot.
"Anyone But You" star Powell
"Anyone but You" actor Powell
A Campbell
A SMALL HIDDEN MICROPHONE
A musical Campbell
A narrow valley.
A stream might run through it
Alanis mentor ___ Ballard
Angus ______ ( Southern Ontario golf course)
Apt name for a narrow valley resident
Arizona's ___ Canyon Dam
"A Touch of Class" actress Jackson
"A Touch of Class" star Jackson
A non-singing Jackson
Actress Jackson in "A Touch of Class"
Actress-politician Jackson
Actress/former Parliament member Jackson
Award-winning British actress and former Labour MP
Arizona Cardinals' home
Arizona city that hosts the Fiesta Bowl
Actress Farrell et al.
Actresses Farrell and Jackson
Actor Ford
Actor Ford of "Gilda"
America's first orbiter
Astronaut John
Astronaut John (or the sender of the message)
Astronaut at 77
Astronaut from Ohio
Astronaut of '62 and '98
Astronaut of '98
Astronaut senator
Astronaut-Senator
Astronaut-turned-politician
Astronaut-turned-senator
Astronaut-turned-senator John
Aviation's Curtiss.
Actress with the most Oscar nominations without a win
Actress stops further action
Actress Headly
Actress Close and bandleader Miller
Astronaut John and family
"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" actor
Actress missed bull's-eye, but ___
Areas between peaks
Actress co-starring in TV's "Burn Notice"
Aka Cagney
Actress Sharon familiar to "Cagney & Lacey" fans
Article in L'Osservatore Romano
ASTROCYTES
A bit too articulate, perhaps
A little too silky, maybe
A little too slick
A little too smooth-talking
Articulate to a fault
AQUAPLANE
Aviate without an engine
Aviated effortlessly
A form of aircraft.
Air-borne troop carrier.
Aircraft with no engine
Air transport auxiliaries.
A light: Slang
Acted like a star
An optimist might cling to one
A brief or incomplete review
Ariana Grande's "Wicked" role
"A Life for the Czar" composer
"A Life for the Tsar" composer
A momentary brightness
A sPArkling brightness
Asparkle
a malignant tumour of the central nervous system
ASTROCYTOMA
An unexpected setback in a plan
Aria from Bernstein's "Candide"
Award show attendees
___ and glam
"All those Day-_____ freaks who used to paint their face / They've joined the human race" (Steely Dan lyric)
Act self-satisfied
Act smug
Act smugly
Act the braggart
Act the smug winner
Acts smug
A THICK VISCOUS LIQUID
A lump of bubblegum, for instance: Colloq.
Amorphous amount
Amorphous hunk
Amount of goo
Amount of goop
Amount squeezed from a tube
Apt rhyme for "blob"
All over the world
a world crisis
Alien attackers' goal?
AT&T logo
An actor might want a "Golden" one
a plant of damp places, with a round yellow head
A person who travels widely
Amorphous lumps
Amounts of cookie dough
Austrian-made pistol
ARMONICA
Austrian pistols
Attach (onto)
Attach oneself (onto)
attach oneself to or associate oneself with
a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body
Acquires, slangily
A state of depression or despondency
Air of despair
Apt rhyme for "doom"
Atmosphere of despondency
Atmosphere of many a Poe story
Atmosphere of deep darkness and despair
__ and doom
ACHERONTIC
Augustus ___ ("Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" child who falls into a chocolate river)
Augustus ___ ('Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' character)
Augustus of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Amorphous food
Any thick, soupy liquid
"After Black Power, Women's Liberation" author Steinem
"All in the Family" daughter
"All in the Family" role
Actress DeHaven
Actress Swanson
Archie Bunker's daughter
Archie Bunker's little girl
Archie and Edith's girl
Archie's TV daughter
Archie's daughter
Archie's offspring
Archie's sitcom daughter
Arroyo, who was sworn in as the Philippines' president
Attorney Allred
Anderson Cooper's heiress mom
award the palm
Adjective for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Adoring praise
Artfully misleading interpretation
A butterfly's tongue.
Argot aids
A grossly misused reference
Added lustre to a surface
"And the final touch-ups: goodbye dull, dingy walls! The painters sure ___"
Actors' photos, often
Alternative to matte
*A dueler may pick one up
Actor Danny of "The Color Purple"
Admiral Lynde D. McCormick's Chief of Staff.
Accessories for magicians or boxers
Action that precedes a duel, perhaps
A warm feeling
Aura for the smitten
Angry look when the power goes out?
Age beautifully, informally
AMINO acids linked together, series of
ANTAGONIST of insulin
"Alceste" composer
"Armide" composer
A gulping sound.
any of a group of steroid hormones which affect glucose metabolism, having an anti-inflammatory effect
an acid that occurs naturally in fruit and wine
a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
AMINO sugar believed to play a role in cartilage formation
AMYGDALIN
any of a large group of glycosides that yield glucose on hydrolysis
"Ammo" for some guns
A bond
ADHESIVE for sizing
Add to the scrapbook
Adhesive for false eyelashes
Adhesive for press-on nails
Adhesive goop
Adhesive sold in sticks
Affix, in a way
Animal gelatin and water.
Apt rhyme for "goo"
Archivist's supply
Art box stuff
Art class adhesive
Art class aid
Art class goop
Art supply eaten as a kid and sniffed as a teenager
Art-class supply
Arts and crafts purchase
Arts-and-crafts adhesive
Arts-and-crafts supply
Affixed with rubber cement
Affixed, as with Elmer's
Applied epoxy
Applied epoxy to
Attached firmly
Attached with Elmer's
Attached, in a way
Attached, as with paste
Arts and crafts gadgets
Athletes that aren't stars, but do the little things for their team
Affix with paste
Attach googly eyes, e.g.
Attach with Elmer's
Attach with paste
Attach, as fake fingernails
Arts and crafts supplies
Adhesive applier
Adhesives found in many craft rooms
Affixes (to)
Affixes in a scrapbook, say
Affixes with an adhesive
Affixes, in a way
Applies cyanoacrylate
Attaches with adhesive
Attaches, in a way
Affixes on
Amount of olive oil, informally
Apt rhyme for "chug"
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