Frequent words

Recent entries

16 Jan 2022 (Sun)

ABET

Help with a crime

ACE

Big club in Las Vegas?

AERO

Commercial prefix with postale

AFIT

Throw ___ (rant and rave)

AHAB

He gave Starbuck's orders

ALCAPONE

Who infamously boasted "They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money"

ALI

Slugger from Louisville

ALLIES

NATO members, e.g.

AMEN

The final word

AMES

Home of Iowa State

AMIGO

Compañero

ANN

Mary ___ Evans a.k.a. George Eliot

ATTN

Memo abbr.

AWE

Shock's partner

AWW

Reaction to puppy pics

BOVINE

Water buffalo, for one

BYE

Pass during the N.F.L. playoffs

CALF

Barnyard baby

CANOE

Craft carried over a portage

CAT

Laser pointer chaser

CATCHON

Figure it out

CHANUKAH

Annual eight-day celebration

CHROME

Google web browser

CILIA

Eyelashes

CITIZEN

Upscale watch brand

COM

Internet ending that's also an ending for inter-

CRIPES

"Jeez!"

CUTEY

Adorable sort

DEEPEN

Become more complicated, say

DEICES

Clears for takeoff?

DJINN

Islamic spirit

DRLAO

1964 Tony Randall title role

DUCT

Air carrier

DUGUP

Unearthed

EEN

Poetic dusk

EGO

Sense of self

EIRE

Land of blarney

ELATE

Give a lift

ELI

___ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant)

EMERGE

Crop up

ENGAGE

Captivate

ENOTE

Mi, in a C major scale

ENYA

One-named Irish hitmaker

ESP

Madrid's country, in the Olympics

ETA

Greek letter that might follow "z"

EVES

Dec. 24 and 31, e.g.

EXODUS

Book that's the source of the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey"

FARE

Airline posting

FISCHER

Only player to win the U.S. Chess Championship with no losses or draws

GAB

Chatter

GEARCASE

Enclosure for a bike chain and sprockets

GORILLA

Terk in Disney's "Tarzan," e.g.

HEINZ

Ketchup brand

HERA

Female Olympian of note

HOHO

Jolly laugh

HOP

Move barefoot across a scorchingly hot beach, maybe

HUM

Keep one's mouth shut?

HUMANE

Kind

ICEAXE

Glacier-scaling tool

ILIA

Pelvic bones

IMA

Song lead-in to "Believer," "Loser" or "Survivor"

INI

Suffix in some pasta names

IRE

Pique

ISO

Same: Prefix

JOANNA

Protagonist in "The Stepford Wives"

JUICY

Like oranges and some gossip

LIEIN

Certain peaceful protest

LIMEKILN

Furnace for calcium oxide production

LITRE

Petrol unit

LIV

Actress Tyler

LUSTER

Sheen

MAHI

When doubled, Hawaiian food fish

MAX

Tops

MILES

Air traveler's accumulation

MISHAP

Minor accident

NEO

Opposite of paleo-

NHLER

Duck or Penguin

NOPEST

Brand of insecticide strips

OGEE

Arch type

ONE

Out of gas, informally

ORCA

Quint's boat in "Jaws"

OTELLO

Opera with the aria "Ave Maria"

OYE

"___ Como Va" (Santana hit)

PAGODA

Place of worship whose third, fourth and fifth letters are appropriate

PETE

Davidson of "S.N.L."

PETUNIA

Porky Pig's girlfriend

PONS

Part of the brainstem

POSH

Luxurious

POSTAGE

It cost 5¢ in 1965

POULT

Young chicken, e.g.

PRE

Opposite of post-

RAKE

Yard tool

REB

Basketball stat: Abbr.

REBA

Country singer McEntire

RED

Color of traffic on a GPS

REF

"Zebra"

RENEGE

Go back (on)

RENT

Landlord's due

RESECT

Surgically remove

RETD

Out of office?: Abbr.

RIME

Frost

RINGY

"One ___-dingy" (Ernestine the operator's catchphrase on "Laugh-In")

ROES

Richard and Jane in court

RUB

Chafe

SAAB

___ story (tale of a car company's bankruptcy?)

SEABEE

Naval engineer

SEXES

Palindromic battlers

SMARTY

Know-it-all

SMOG

Delhi issue

STAPLE

Affix, in a way

STIR

Instruction in an oatmeal recipe

SWEETIE

Darling

SYSTOLE

Rhythmic part of a heartbeat

TAHITI

Island where Paul Gauguin painted

TAROT

French ___ (trick-taking game)

TBSP

One of eight in a stick of butter: Abbr.

TERI

Actress Garr

THAWED

No longer frozen

THEMAN

Symbol of authority, informally

TIBETAN

Kind of terrier

TIDE

Beach shaper

TUG

Harbor helper

TUTEE

Private student

TWIT

Numbskull

UNITING

Getting together

UPS

FedEx competitor

USFLAG

Old Glory

VICES

Number twos

WARTORN

Like the Balkans in the 1990s

WEEDY

Overgrown, say

WYNNE

Arthur who invented the crossword puzzle (1913)

ZOOS

Madhouses

15 Jan 2022 (Sat)

ACIDIC

Like apples and oranges

AGEOUTOF

Grow too old for

AMEN

Eye-opening declaration?

ANTHEM

Country song

ASLANT

Not straight up

ATEIT

Wiped out

AWOMAN

What God is, per an Ariana Grande hit

BLUBBER

Cold weather layer

BUC

2021 Super Bowl champ

CLAMS

Simoleons

DICTU

Mirabile ___ (wonderful to say: Lat.)

DIE

One might be loaded

DOYOGA

Get into a pose, perhaps

EAGLEOWL

Old World bird with distinctive ear tufts

EEL

Main ingredient in hitsumabushi

EMUS

Creatures whose newborns have striped bodies

ENTIRE

A-to-Z

ERAS

W.W. I, W.W. II, etc.

FETED

Wined and dined, say

FUTURA

Popular typeface similar to Bauhaus

GABS

Prattles

HEAVE

"Ho" preceder

HOLD

Word after foot or before hands

IHEARYOU

Sympathetic response to dissent

INBETA

Like many apps with faulty features

ISLET

Locale for a castaway

ITSBAD

"Things aren't looking so great"

KERB

Spot for a bus stop, in Bristol

KTS

Gold units: Abbr.

LOT

Area for development

MAHOMES

Youngest-ever QB to be named Super Bowl M.V.P. (2020)

MAKESHAY

Takes advantage of a situation, so to speak

MINER

Any of the Seven Dwarfs

MMDDYYYY

Date format on digital forms

MOOCOW

Baby's barnyard bovine

NATTY

Well-suited?

NEAP

___ tide

NORISK

Safe

OHBOTHER

Catchphrase of Winnie-the-Pooh

OKAY

Response akin to "So what?"

REALTALK

"To be honest with you ..."

REEBOK

Creator of the first pumped-up athletic shoe

REOIL

Make slicker, maybe

RULER

Stick around school

SEIZES

Gets stuck, as an engine

SET

All ___

SMACKDAB

Squarely

SMURFS

Blue-nosed sorts?

SOHO

London's ___ Square

SPACEY

Out of it

SPARKY

Dalmatian mascot of the National Fire Protection Association

STATELY

Majestic

TENT

Something you might raise a flap about

THENORM

How things typically are

TOO

Start of many a criticism

TOTEM

Spiritual object

TWEETS

Some brief updates

USB

Kind of drive

WISEUP

Get smart

WRIST

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