Letter T
the quality of being usable
the state of being practicable
The real facts or aspects of a situation rather than theories
the state of being practical
THE OTHER HALF OF THE TITLE
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary," per Vladimir Horowitz
The way things are done
translating theory into action
Training space for a basketball team
Try a quid-pro-quo policy
*Tag sale task
"The Devil Wears __"
"The Devil Wears ___" (Lauren Weisberger bestseller)
The Devil's label?
The devil wears it?
The devil wore it on the big screen
The devil's label, in a movie
The devil's preferred fashion label?
The devil's preferred label?
The house of the devil?
Treasure house founded by Carlos III
the state of being praedial
the name used for a prefect in some English public schools
They're home to spinners
the state of being pragmatical
the study of inherent practical usage, and social and behavioural aspects, of language
the process of pragmatising
the process of pragmatizing
The City of a Hundred Spires
"The ___ Years," by Carl Sandburg.
TRACT of grassy land
The endless plain.
Two-thirds of Minnesota.
Type of schooner
Tunnel-creating rodent
The Lakota's Wakan Tanka, "the Great Spirit"?
Tracts of grassland
Trek vehicle
Type of transportation.
"___ the Lord and pass . . . "
Tough love rarity
"Thank God!"
"Thank the Lord!"
Took part in a revival
They're sung by admirers
Tobacco juice
They're sweet and nutty
Tot toter
Tot toter, in Tottenham
Tot's buggy.
Tot's wheels
Tottenham tot's transport
They may go on park walks
They might carry babies in nappies
Tottenham tot toters
"The Killing Fields" character
Take springy steps
Teammate of Dasher, Dancer and Vixen
The last of the team
"The War of the Worlds," famously
Traditional act of early spring
the state of being prankish
They're pulled
Throwing cream pies and such
Translucent, greenish variety of chalcedony
The beginning of fall?
Trick, in Scotland
Type of fall
Talk pointlessly
Talk to little purpose.
Talk too much and foolishly.
Talk too much in a boring way
Talked gibberish
Tongue-wagger.
Talkers.
They talk too much
Talks excessively
Talks twaddle
Twaddles
Trifling talk
Talked like a tot.
Talkative tot.
"Truth" in Russian.
Trotsky's paper
Truth (Russ.)
Truth, to Lenin
Truth, to Trotsky
Town near Oviedo, Spain.
Tasty crustacean
Ten-legged sea creature
Tom yum soup need
Étouffée option
Ten-legged edibles
They have "sand veins"
They're found in tom yum soup
the study of human action and conduct
translation of an idea into action
Take it to the highest level?
Talk in church
Talk in the service, perhaps
Talk to God
Talk to the Man Upstairs
Talk with folded hands
Thank God, maybe
Thank the goddesses, e.g.
___ to the porcelain god
Told one's beads
Talking up?
Thing said before bedtime
Type of book or closet
the act of communicating with a deity
the state of being prayerless
Thing faithfully rolled out?
They end in 'amen'
They usually end 'amen'
The last three books
Talks to God
Talks to the man upstairs
"___ thy father . . . ": Matt. 6:6
TSA __Check
TSA ___ (airport screening program, informally)
TSA ___ (screening program)
TSA ___ (traveler's program since 2013)
TSA ___-Check (screening program)
Teen introduction?
Teen leader?
Tense beginning?
Tense lead-in
Tense start?
Test starter
Text start
The "P" in PMS
The beginning of school, for a toddler?
This sometimes gets a fix
This sometimes needs a fix
Testament "Practice What You ___"
They deliver on Sunday
They serve up sermons
the office of preacher
the quality of being preachy
Tiresome sermons
Tediously didactic
Tediously moralistic
taking place before acquisition
to admonish in advance
to make a preamble
They may be used to make mics louder
taking place before an anaesthetic
to announce beforehand
Try to get in beforehand
to approve in advance
to arrange in advance
Things made before the wedding
the right to be heard before another; precedence at the bar among lawyers
Take a reservation, perhaps
To be delivered
taking place before breakfast
the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon
tending to become cancerous
The order to be observed by protocol.
the fact of preceding in time
the office of precentor
Teacher or principal
the office of preceptor
the act of going before, or forward
the act of preceding in time or order or rank
"Thanks, man", casually
The "Nine-Nine" of TV's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
The area within the walls or boundaries of a place
the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
Things found in this puzzle's eight longest answers
type of legal document
the quality of being precipitable
the quality of being precipitate
the state of being precipitant
Terse summary
the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
Top watch's quality
Tidy up ahead of time
taking place before attendance at college
taking place before colonialism
Teotihuacán find
to compute in advance
to form (as an opinion) prior to actual knowledge or experience
the process of preconising
the process of preconizing
taking place before the Norman conquest
to construct in advance
to consume in advance
taking place before contact
to contract in advance
the state of being predaceous
Time before nightfall
Tiger or T-Rex
Time for a raid, sometimes
Time for some raids
The one before
taking place before delivery
to deposit in advance
to specify beforehand
to determine beforehand
tending to predestine
the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place
to develop in advance
the quality of being predial
the quality of being predicable
the state of being predicable
Tough thing to get out of
Trouble at the starts of the answers to starred clues
the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication
the woeful plight of homeless people
Talk of tomorrow
Tell of tomorrow
Tell the future
tell in advance
the quality of being predictable
the state of being predictable
Tells a fortune
Tries to imagine a better tomorrow
treat (food) artificially to aid subsequent digestion in the body
to dispose in advance
Tendency to contract a particular disease
the state of being predominant over others
the state of being predominant
the quality of being more noticeable than anything else
taking place before an election
the state of being preeminent
Took first?
the act or right of purchasing before others
the right to purchase something in advance of others
Takes over the time spot
Takes precedence over
Take care of one's appearance
Take care of parasites, in a way
Take pride in (oneself)
Tidy and clean (feathers)
Tidy one's feathers
Tidy oneself
Tidy, like a beard
Trim (the feathers).
Trim and oil.
Trim feathers with the beak
Trim, as feathers
Try to get smart?
tidy up feathers
Tried to look smart
to establish in advance
TEMPORARY building
to make standardized parts of beforehand, for assembling later
They're not built onsite
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