Letter C
Classic cars
Collectible autos
Complete loss of hope
Criminal dares to get involved with dope
Cook's absolutely horrible cutting job?
Consider beneath contempt
Contemned
Contemnors
Can't stand, in a sense
Caligula was one
Caligula, e.g.
Cruel dictator
Cruel ruler
Caligula and Herod
Coup targets
Cruel rulers
clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
Capital of Anhalt.
CHEESECAKE
CUMQUAT lemon
Calorie counter's temptation
Calorie course
Calorie-crammed course
Calorific course
Charlotte russe, for one
Check preceder
Check preceder, often
Closing course
Concluding course
Course hinted at by this puzzle
Course shunned by losers?
Course skipped by a dieter
Course skipped by dieters
Course that a Brit calls "afters"
Course that might involve cake
Course that's commonly skipped
Crème caramel
Culinary school listing?
Chocolate pie, say
Cake and pie
Cake, ice cream, etc.
Cake, pie, etc.
Cakes and pies
Calorie collectors' courses
Cart fillers
Charlotte russe and mousse
Cobbler and compote, for two
Cobbler and pie, for two
Cobblers, e.g.
Courses people look forward to?
[*cross out* After-dinner display] One way to see a pie's filling?
Cream, e.g.
Come-on from a sweet thing?
Come-on over cake and coffee?
City taken in by sackers
Completely wrecks
capable of being destroyed
causing destruction
CLASSIC WESTERN
Certain repeat rider
Classic 1939 Western film starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich
condition of not being in use
'CSI' fig.
Cagney or Lacey: Abbr.
Cannon, e.g.: Abbr.
City of Lions and Tigers: Abbr.
Clue collector: Abbr.
Clue follower: Abbr.
Clue gatherer: Abbr.
Clue seeker: Abbr.
Columbo, for one: Abbr.
Comerica Park team, on scoreboards
Crime solver: Abbr.
Common shorthand for a detective
CUT OR TEAR IRREGULARLY
Cause to be free
Clip, as a coupon
Cut off, e.g.
Car shelter separate from the house
Clean a car thoroughly
Close-ups show it
Closeup from a piece of art
clocklike
Car wash worker
Car-wash worker
CARICATURIST MURDERED...
Causes to remain.
cosmetic product used to detangle hair
Coup __ (rebellion)
Coup __ (revolt)
Coup ___ (government takeover, saY)
Coup ___ (master stroke)
Coup ___ (political rebellion)
Coup finis
Coup follower
Coups ___
Catch a hint of
Catch a scent of
Catch a whiff of
Catch the scent of
Catch with the nose, say
capable of being detected
Caught in a misdeed
Crime-solving sleuth
CRIMINOLOGIST
Catches a misdeed
Catches a whiff of
Catches the scent of, say
CLOCK, striking part of
Catch in a lock.
Clock catch.
Certain lessening of tension
Cold War easing
Cold War follower
Cold War lull
Cold War thaw
Cold War warm-up
Cold war period
Cold-War follower
Cold-war cool-off
Cooling off period
Class clown's comeuppance
Catch mechanisms.
Catches, in machinery.
Clicks or pawls.
CHECK WRITER
Cause to have second thoughts
Cause to pause.
Cause to think twice
Check from an act
Construct a roadblock
Curb by fear.
Clean with some dish stuff or some laundry stuff
Cleanse with Era, say
chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body
Cleansed
chemical substance for washing clothes or dishes
Cleans
Cleanses
capable of being determined
causa causans
CESSATION of estate (law)
Causes second thoughts.
Can't put up with
Considered revolting
Couldn't abide
Can't brook
Causes a power outage?
Cause to explode
Causes an explosion
CROSSFIRE
Commuter's bane
Commuting hassle
Commuting nuisance
Construction by-product
Construction site sign
Changed course
Cause of some trip delays
Causes of traffic jams ... or ways to avoid them
Commute lengtheners
Commuting hassles
CLEAN out
Cleaning out, for short
Cleaning treatment?
Cleaning up process
Cleanse goal
Cleanse, casually
Cleanse, informally
Colon cleansing, e.g.
Cleansing ritual
Clean, now
Cleanses, in a way
Calumnies
CANDID critic
CAPTIOUS critic
CAUSING loss
Cadillac founded it.
City across the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor
City founded by Cadillac
City home to the AUDL's Mechanix
City in a Kiss song
City named after the French for "strait"
City near Windsor
City of great recall
city Michigan
Certain Midwesterner.
Certain Wolverine
Charged items of a "Guys and Dolls" guy?
City founded by Antoine de Cadillac
Cellar dwellers.
Comerica Park team
Certain policemen: Abbr.
Crime scene investigators: Abbr.
causing detumescence
Card showing two spots
Card below a trey
Card that loses to a trey
Card that's sometimes wild
Card with two pips
Certain tie
Club that doesn't beat much
Common wild card
Court deadlock
Court parity
Court tie
Curveball, in slang
Cards that may be "wild" in poker
Cards that may be wild
Court ties
Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers
Card-game declaration
Condition in kids' card games
Condition in some poker games
"Cidade de ___" (2002 Brazilian crime film)
"___ Creator Omnium" (ancient hymn)
Cidade de __: Rio neighborhood
Cupid, pro exemplo
Cyberpunk video game whose name literally means "God From"
Celine Dion album
City in Transylvaina
Carne ___ (beef): Sp.
Costello's predecessor.
Currency maneuver
CURRENCY, lower the value of
Clean shrimp
CULTIVATE, TEND, AND CUT BACK THE GROWTH OF
Cause to grow
CONSTRUAL
Commander U. S. Sixth Army Group.
Commanding General, European Theatre.
Consort of Shiva
Consort of Siva
consort Shiva/Siva HARA DHARMA
Change from the norm
Channeling your inner Dionysus
Commission of crimes, e.g.
Cause to swerve; turn aside.
cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
Colored outside the lines, say
Creative-writing technique
Contraptions
Contrivances.
Chop fine and season.
Crafty sort
___ Cross (Evan Birnholz's puzzle blog)
capital New Jersey
cloven-hoof
coat or stuff with a spicy paste
Camp Pendleton recruit
Creme-filled Drake's cake
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