Letter C
Character jailed for a crime he can't recall in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Clark Gable's last movie
Collection of offers?
Cosa Nostra, familiarly
Crime film group
Crime group with dons
Carroll reptile
Cephalopod-about-town in Swinging London?
Certain corporate career path
Church-owned newsweekly, for short
Classic horror tale by W. W. Jacobs
Collection of conical dwellings at an abbey?
Creature from many a horror flick
Common childhood fear, examples of which may jump out at you four times in this puzzle?
Collins mystery
Common phrase: “The greater the person, the greater the burdens,” in philosophical terms
Celebrant's time for sorrow
"Choose your allegiance!"
*Colorado cousins?
Christie's record-breaking long run
Cheesy 60's TV show?
Central item in kindergarten song.
Classic variety series featuring Kermit and friends
Calliope and kin
"Continuing with my story..."
"___ Came Bronson"
"___ Came You" (1974 Dionne Warwick and Spinners chart-topper)
Christie's "And ___ There Were None"
Consequence word
Consequential word
____ Came Bronson : TV show
Classic 1953 Western starring James Stewart as a bounty hunter
Connery-Slater film
CBC news show
Charity recipients
"Can you believe that guy?!"
Contestants race to prepare baby's first bottle on ...
Cooking show winner
Commanders became part of it in 2022, for short
Crystals "___ Kissed Me"
Crowe whodunit film
Christie's 'Death on ___'
Checkers masters
Caroler's reward?
Civil War winning side
" . . . constant as ___": Shak.
Classic ballet set on Christmas Eve, with a hint to four black squares in this puzzle
"Cosby Show" son
Chicago Cubs president Epstein
Cliff Huxtable's boy
Cliff Huxtable's son
Cliff and Clair's son
Cliff's TV son
Clive's "Children of Men" role
Comedian ___ Von
Cosby boy
Cosby's TV son
Cubs exec Epstein
Cubs executive Epstein
Cubs front office guru Epstein
Cross C&W band?
Ceremonial vow taken at an inauguration
Couple code-named Renegade and Renaissance
College football game played in Florida
Comedy play with Oscar and Felix
Current Broadway comedy.
Classic work involving much travel, and what's spelled out by ten traveling letters in this puzzle
___ CAN NOW BE TOLD
CALAMITY! I SHOOK, SHATTERED
Certain changed beast
Character in "Cats" known for organizing mice, as described by T. S. Eliot
Certain churchmen: Abbr.
Culture vultures' hangout
Corollary's kin
Concerned with hypotheses
Creative thinker
conspiracy ___ with jesse ventura
Ceremony with Art Deco statuettes
Ceremony with envelopes
Chinese astrological sign
Characters who "haunt" this puzzle's theme answers
Canary Islands seaport, English translation
Celebrities at a game-show desk
Comic coopts Harvard Law drama
Child punishment tool?
Celebrated literary magazine founded in 1953 in France
Chances for recovery are slim, per the medical chart
Character in Mark Twain tale.
Classic Steinbeck story
Cheesy 1993 legal drama?
Cheesy legal thriller?
Cheesy movie starring Julia Roberts?
Chick lit book #1 (1992)
Conqueror of the sword.
Christine's captor
Comic strip owner of Devil the wolf
Countess Nesselrode's memoir?
Certain contraceptive, commonly
Carnivore in a colorful movie?
Carolina football fan's favorite film?
Cooper novel, 1823
Cal's game-winning kickoff return against Stanford in 1982, familiarly
Cartwrights' TV ranch.
Catholic Church head (Last four letters + ...)
Comment after a big raise?
Commander-in-chief, so to speak
Classic game show where contestants guess the value of items
Catchphrase: "Come on down!" show
Choice chicken pieces?
Charles, formally
Cardiff memorabilia?
Clue that helped convict a movie snack thief?
Canaan, in the Bible
Cannan.
Copy of "Atlas Shrugged" that was ordered?
Classic mystical book by Khalil Gibran
COLUMBIA AWARDS THEM
Cat hood?
Colorless Walker novel?
Cat's favorite movie of 2000?
Cavaliers' home court, for short
"Chanson d'Amour" subtitle
Cold war defense?
Colorado State, athletically
Cooking appliance with burners and oven
Company that epitomized Silicon Valley's "fake it 'til you make it" culture
Certain dog's purpose
Couples may be in it
Curative treatment
curing treatment
Calming presence in the workplace
Certain emotional support animal
" . . . cat that killed ___"
Classic poem set in "bleak December"
Cohan's "Over ___"
Comforting phrase, when repeated
Companion of then
Consolation beginning and ending
Consoling word
Consoling word that bears repeating?
Consoling word, when said twice
concerning that matter
Confederate Chinese cookbook?
Connected with that.
Communist watering hole?
"Cincinnati has an inexperienced team this year"
Concluding words about David Ortiz's team?
Consequently: Var.
consequently, that being so
Corollary to Descartes' famous conclusion? (Part 3)
Classic song by the Drifters
Classic song from the Drifters
Complaint to a waiter in a classic joke ... or to the author of this puzzle
Campion title
Clancy explaining the spelling of his name?
Christina Rossetti's greeting
Cynical words of an opportunist
Concerning that
Cohan's "___ Something About a Uniform"
Concerned comment, when people are supposed to be social distancing?
Complaint overheard in a restaurant (Part 1)
*Classic comical restaurant complaint
Comment while looking through old yearbook pictures
Comment upon making a fateful decision
*Coach's clichéd reminder
Coach's adage about player selfishness
Coach's admonishment
Coach's cliché ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme
Coach's maxim
Coaching cliché
Classic saying stating the absence of a certain letter in collaboration
"Could be anything"
Comment about a recently razed vacation complex?
Cry upon arriving at an earthquake site?
Cry from a con man spotting an easy mark?
Calming comment
Calming words to Ms. Russell?
Critics' consensus phrase often heralded after an evaluation
Cry upon discovery
Classic line of debate?
Commercial center of Venice known for its historic marble bridge
Chuck Connors title role
"Clinton's a well-known southpaw, so this exposé on his other-handed punches is an eye-opener"
Cobblers' cause?
Classy Paris hotel
Charleses
Cannes site
CALORIC unit
Column of rising air
Column of rising air used by gliders
Current of rising air
connected with heat
Curative at a Baden-Baden spa
Course to learn about heat transfer, casually
capable of being thermoformed
capable of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening again when cooled
Container brand that lost its trademark status in 1963
Container in a lunchbox
container to retain heat
Calories
Cormac McCarthy book
Cormac McCarthy novel
Classic verse from the collection "Mountain Interval"
"___ China" (TV special starring 41 Down)
Classic economic treatise by Friedrich Hayek warning against centralized planning
Cause of the buzz surrounding northern Illinois?
Corporal punishment, figuratively
Corporal punishment, metonymically
Corrective action, metaphorically
"Cider House Rules" actress
Charlize Actress
Charlize of "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Charlize of "Monster"
Charlize of "Reindeer Games"
Co-star of Robbie and Kidman in 2019's "Bombshell"
Charlize's bedchamber? (2003, 2005)
Cheesy James Garner series?
Champollion's decoding key
Challenge for a court jester?
"Cherry Bomb" band after Joan dropped out over the band's excessive modeling gigs?
Country film?
Catcher in __
Crossword solver's ref. book
Canceled Iraqi show?
Charteris hero
Copycat's drink order
Court proceedings in New Mexico?
Cheesy tale set in Puritan times?
"___ Charming People” by Michael Arlen.
"___ Colors Don't Run" (flag maxim)
"____ Charming People": Gershwin
Chloe Gong novel "___ Violent Delights"
Chicken of -- (tuna brand)
Coldplay: "Swallowed in ___"
Composition by Debussy.
Chekhov drama.
Chekhov's bio of Jonathan?
Candy from a marine machine?
Chaucer's "___ Nun's Tale"
Classic 1911 children's novel ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme
Classic Frances Hodgson Burnett children's novel
Classic children's novel, and what to look for in this puzzle's three other longest answers
Classic children's story about healing
Classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett featuring Mary Lennox
Caption for a tournament round of four
College chores
College papers
Concerns for prospective Ph.D.s
CRETAN Bull, slayer of
Contest for riflemen, maybe
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