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Recent entries

23 Dec 2025 (Tue)

ACED
Nailed, as a test
ADEPT
Highly capable
ALLINFUN
Just for grins
AMEN
Prayer ender
AMSO
Playground retort
ANDCUT
Cry from a movie director
APNEA
Sleeper's breathing problem
APTLY
In a fitting way
ASL
Hand-y communication method, for short?
ASTHMA
Condition that may require an inhaler
ASTUTE
Clever
CAESAR
Kind of salad whose dressing contains anchovies
CASH
Alternative to check or credit card
CATCHAIR
Go off a ski jump, say
CICADA
Insect that emerges en masse every 13 or 17 years
CLIP
Short video
CSUITE
Top execs, colloquially ... or what 20-, 28-, 39- and 59-Across are, phonetically?
CUPCAKE
Classic classroom party treat
DIALUP
1990s internet option
DOVE
Sign of peace
EAT
Lead-in to "drink and be merry"
EDEN
Biblical garden
ENBANC
With all judges present
EPA
Org. regulating water safety
ETCH
Carve
FDNY
Big Apple org. that's going to blazes?
FTC
Antitrust enforcement org.
HACKS
Breaks (into), as a computer system
HATEON
Make negative remarks about
HUCK
___ Finn
ISTHATSO
"Oh, really?"
KATO
Character played by Bruce Lee on "The Green Hornet"
KEMP
Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"
KHAKI
Brownish-yellow fabric
LASIK
This should clear things up!
MAE
Sallie or Fannie follower
MINOR
Secondary subject for a college student
MISHAP
Unfortunate accident
NADA
Nothing, in Nogales
NCIS
Longtime CBS procedural with multiple spinoffs
NCO
Sgt. or cpl.
NEO
Prefix with classic
OLGA
Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
ONO
Middle name for Lennon starting in 1969
OTTO
Appropriately named bus driver on "The Simpsons"
PINA
"Escape (The ___ Colada Song)"
PORTIA
___ de Rossi, "Arrested Development" actress
PROUDOF
Highly pleased about
SABRE
Alternative to épée or foil, in British English
SAVE
Ctrl+S command
SAYSWHO
"Where'd you hear that?"
SCOOP
Reporter's big get
SCOW
Flat-bottomed boat
SEERED
Get more than a little mad
SHOOK
Tried to identify, in a way, as a wrapped gift
SIP
Drink slowly
STAINED
Colored, as church glass
STEPUP
Take responsibility
SUS
Not on the up and up, slangily
TASK
It's part of the job
TINE
One of three on the pitchfork in "American Gothic"
TREE
Aspen or pine
TUCKED
Like many a dress shirt, with "in"
TUSCAN
Resident of Pisa or Lucca
UNI
Institution of higher education, to a Brit
UPON
"Once ___ a time ..."
USA
Dream Team country, for short
USE
Take advantage of
VETO
Reject, as a bill
VIGNETTE
Short version of an impactful story
YELPS
Cries out
YES
"That's correct!"

22 Dec 2025 (Mon)

ACELA
High-speed Amtrak train
ADZE
Woodworking tool
ALDENTE
Pasta preference
ALLERGY
Reaction to pollen, e.g.
ANI
Singer DiFranco
ANN
Raggedy ___
ANODE
One of a battery's poles
ANT
Word after fire or carpenter
ANTON
Playwright Chekhov
ARTIST
Monet or Manet
ASANA
Yoga pose
ATIC
Suffix with problem
AUNT
Em, to Dorothy
AURAL
Hearing-related
AWAKENS
Stirs from sleep
AWARDS
Oscars and Grammys, e.g.
BAG
Word with punching or sleeping
BANE
Scourge
BEAK
Bill
BIGLEAD
Don't blow it!
BRR
"It's freezing!"
CAJOLES
Persuades with flattery
CIRRI
Wispy clouds
COMAS
Deep sleeps
DNA
Bit of forensic evidence
EASY
"No sweat!"
EDYS
Breyers competitor
EEL
Fish that may have an electric charge
ENDSAT
Is over by
ERS
Stammering sounds
ESAI
Actor Morales
EST
Approx.
FLOYD
Pink ___ (rock band)
GAS
What electric cars don't use
GENTLY
With a light touch
GLO
Day-___ paint
GLOSSES
Shiny coatings
HAT
Beanie or bowler
HUE
Shade of color
ILL
Under the weather
ISLES
Typical "Survivor" locales
JEEP
Cherokee maker
KARAT
Gold standard
LED
Kind of lamp that's energy-efficient
LEE
Harper ___, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
LIL
Rapper ___ Uzi Vert
LOW
Like a 49-Across gauge that's near "Empty"
MONO
"The kissing disease"
MOZILLA
Creator of Firefox and Thunderbird
NARC
Drug agent, informally
NONAGON
Nine-sided figure
ODIE
"Garfield" dog
OIL
Mideast export
ONADIET
Doing keto, perhaps
ONATEAR
Enjoying great success
ONELINE
Length of a pithy joke
ORS
Surgery sites, in brief
OUTRAGE
Indignation
PAROLED
Released from jail early
POPFOUL
Ball batted up and behind the catcher, say
POPO
Cops, slangily
SAT
Rode the bench
SEQ
Orderly arrangement: Abbr.
STATE
What each U.S. senator represents
STRESS
Heart attack risk factor
TEENS
Romeo and Juliet, agewise
TESTY
Easily irritated
TOOTSY
Foot, in baby talk
UBER
Lyft competitor
UNE
French "a"
WISER
Older but ___

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