Letter C
Christmas plants
Chevelle debut "___ #1"
Cogency.
Compass division
Commands to a dog?
Can't-miss distance
___ Claire (city near Montreal)
___ Claire, Que.
Cutting, as a criticism
Certain dogs from the same litter?
Certain hoopster
Court quarterback
Cement used for filling the joints of brickwork
Conductor's baton?
Critical stage after which reversal is impossible
Can't go back after this
Can't-go-back spot
Commitment line
Committed people pass it
Critical line
Call for a meeting?
Cape north of San Francisco
Carat divisions
Contents of a precious book.
Commonality of elves and Vulcans
Christie sleuth Hercule
Christie's Belgian
Christie's Belgian detective
Christie's Belgian tec
Christie's Hercule
Christie's late steuth
Calm confidence
Calmness under pressure
Candidate's asset
Charm school subject
Composed manner
Composure and coolness
Composure under duress
Confident manner
Cool-headedness
Coolness of a sort
Calm and confident
CYANIDE
Cause of Romeo's death
Cause of death in some cozy mysteries
Cause of death in the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign of the Four"
Cause of death in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four"
Claudius, vis-à-vis King Hamlet
Chemical warfare weapons
Contaminates
Cyanide and arsenic
Cyanide and arsenic, e.g.
Cyanide and hemlock
Cobra's lethal reservoir.
Cause of itching
Check, as a cake for doneness, e.g.
Contact on Facebook
Contact, in a way, on Facebook
Cowboy, informally
Completely ruin, as a theory
Check things out
Creature catcher in gaming
Colonial woman's sunshade.
Contacted on Facebook, in a way
Card/video game
Character on a collectible card
Charizard or Pikachu
Charizard or Pikachu, e.g.
Collectible card creatures
Critters hunted in a 2016 mobile app
Critters hunted with a hugely popular 2016 mobile app
Card game seen on TV
Card game that's a hint to today's theme
Card game with antes
Card game with flops
Card game with flushes
Card game with televised tournaments
Cardroom game
Cincinnati and lowball are versions of this
Contest game in Las Vegas
Card game with bluffs and bets
card game in which players try to win money
Card-game token
Casino tokens
Card player's stack?
Communication barrier
"Casino Royale" battleground
Competition where strong hands are advantageous?
Competition with straights and flushes
Competitions where chips are thrown on tables
Cards to bet on
Combinations like flushes and straights in cards
Chances of success at Texas Hold 'Em
Coarse herb
Competitor in a Vegas-based World Series, perhaps
Casino area where gamblers don't compete against the house
Certain gambling bet
Clubhouse fixture
*Casino fixtures where blinds might be used
Cans for cons
Correctional institutions, slangily
Comparatively slow
Components in relatively slow computers?
Cans or jugs
Contacting on Facebook, in a way
Contacting via Facebook, in a way
Classic children's book, with "The"
Celebrated Harvard club
C-SPAN figure
Cambodia's Pot
Cambodian Pot
Cambodian dictator Pot
Campaign figure, informally
Campaign guru
Campaign hustler, for short
Campaign pro, for short
Campaign trail pro
Campaign vet
Campaigner found in the fronts of words of the four long Across answers
Campaigner, for short
Campaigner, in brief
Campaigner, informally
Candidate (abbr.)
Candidate, for short
Capitol Hill V.I.P.
Capitol Hill fig.
Capitol Hill figure
Capitol Hill figure, briefly
Capitol Hill mover
Capitol Hill sort, for short
Capitol figure, briefly
Capitol figure, for short
Capitol insider
Capitol wheeler-dealer, informally
Career campaigner
Career campaigner, for short
Certain seat seeker
Chopin's country: Abbr.
City Hall denizen
Cong. go-getter
Councilman, e.g.
Country bordering the U.S.S.R.
Cracow's land: Abbr.
City in Croatia.
Contemporary of Theda
COUNTRY invaded by Germany to start WWII
Chopin's birthplace
Chopin's country
Chopin's homeland
Composer Chopin's birthplace
Country in Europe.
Country on the Baltic
Country where kielbasa originated
Curie's homeland
__ China (hog)
"Chinatown" director
Can you bear this?
Cap or bear
Cap or bear preceder
Central and guiding
Central or pivotal
Central; pivotal
Certain bear
Chris Van Allsburg's "The __ Express"
Cold kind of vortex
Cold to the max
Completely opposite
Covered with icebergs, probably
Creature on Klondike bar wrappers
Carnivores important to Inuit people
Club members who break the ice with splashy entrances?
Cool customers at the zoo.
Cold drinks?
Cold calling?
Chicken dish for Adm. Peary?
Cause dissension
cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
Caused sharp divisions
Cambridge-based company
Classic name in instant cameras
*Complete antithesis
Certain secants
Conic lines in geometry
Cold weather phenomenon
Caber
Cat or star preceder
Certain dancer's prop
Cherished position in auto racing
Choice position at the Indy 500
Chopin or Copernicus, by birth
Chopin or Curie
Chopin or Gomulka
Chopin or Paderewski
Chopin was one
Citation' s preferred position
Connector between levels of a fire station
Copernicus or Chopin
Copernicus or Chopin e.g.
Copernicus was one.
Copernicus, by birth
Copernicus, e.g., by birth
Coveted NASCAR position
Cracow man.
Curie or Copernicus
Czech's neighbor
Combination chopper
Crusader's weapon
Certain medieval combatant
Completely shocks
Climbing vegetables
CITY-state (pl.)
"Crossfire" commentary, often
Contents of a political tract, maybe
Controversial argument
Controversial discussion
Contentious point of view?
Controversial discussions.
Controversial study
Cornmeal in a trattoria
Cornmeal mush for Mario
Cornmeal paste
Cornmeal side
Creamy Italian side dish
Cornmeal dishes
Car racer's advantage
Coveted racing spot
Canal propeller
Certain boat propeller
Caps' places
Chopin and others.
Chopin's people
Citizenry of Polska.
Copernicus, Kosciusko, Sienkiewicz.
Cracow people
Certain 1920s faddist
Celestial navigation guide
College major, ___ sci.
Courteous: Fr.
CONSTABULARY
Chase scene party, often
Civil guardians.
Clean up, militarily
Copper's group
city police
crime control
Cop's station in England
Cop's patrol vehicle
Cop's wheels
Copped out?
Certain crime solver
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