Frequent words

Recent entries

30 Sep 2022 (Fri)

ACAI

Food pronounced in three syllables

ACETEN

Winning blackjack hand

AGES

Forever and a day

AKIN

Parallel (to)

ALEXA

Echo voice

AON

Chicago's ___ Center

ARTSY

Pretentiously creative

ATONE

Make up

AVENUE

Path

AVS

Colorado N.H.L. team, casually

BAHAIS

Religious adherents governed by the Universal House of Justice

BLEAK

Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot"

CAST

Play group

CLAM

Zip it, with "up"

COBRA

One with a forked tongue

CORSET

The ties that bind?

CRISP

English chip

CROC

Shoe with holes

DOC

Something to be filed, in brief

EAVES

Settings for squirrels, at times

ECLAT

Brilliance

ERECT

Put up

EVE

Ensler who created "The Vagina Monologues"

EVER

Always

EYE

Word with catching or popping

FLOR

Rosa, tulipán or jazmín

FORT

Hold the ___

FREE

Not busy

HASTA

"___ luego" (Spanish "bye")

HOC

Ad ___

IBEX

Wild goat with curved horns

IDEA

Brain wave

KATE

Funny McKinnon

LAIR

Secret spot for a secret plot

LIBEL

Run down illegally

MACK

Name on a truck

MICA

Mineral used in drywall

MOVIE

You might catch this when seated with other people

NAPTIMES

Stretches for the rest of us?

NEATO

"Oh, cool!"

NESTS

Makes a house a home, say

NOBARS

Sign of bad service

NYE

Bill promoting science

OAKS

They may throw shade

OCHO

Símbolo del infinito, rotated 90°

OKRA

Garden plant in the mallow family

PLACATED

Happy, now

PORTS

Boston and San Francisco, but not Denver

RILE

Vex

RIOT

Gigglefest

ROSIE

Robot maid on "The Jetsons"

SCOFF

Show disdain, in a way

SETH

Rogen who played the other Steve in 2015's "Steve Jobs"

SHIN

Tibia

SHIV

Pen knife?

SOL

Martian day (24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds)

SWANEE

River of song

SYRAH

Red wine variety

TARO

Hawaiian crop threatened by the apple snail

TATA

"Later, alligator!"

TORE

Rent

WIDE

___-leg jeans

29 Sep 2022 (Thu)

AAHS

Spa day sounds

ANNA

Actress Gunn

ANNEX

Result of an architect's winging it?

ANNUL

Void

ANTI

Challenging

DAMP

Tear-stained, perhaps

DKNY

Fashion house with a Manhattan HQ

DRY

Word with clean or rot

EDGER

Landscaping tool

EIEIO

Common refrain in pre-K circles

ELO

Grp. with the 1977 hit double album "Out of the Blue"

EPSON

Printing giant

ESPN

Presenter of many games

ETON

Windsor Castle neighbor

FAD

Everybody's doing it

HELM

Big wheel's place

HIS

Introductory remarks

HMS

Royal Navy inits.

IAM

Cartesian sum?

IDEA

Starting point for a plan

IHOP

Maker of the Split Decision Breakfast

IMAM

Quran keeper

INHEELS

How many salsa dancers dance

IPA

Sierra Nevada's Dankful, e.g., in brief

IRAQ

Setting for Operation Red Dawn

JAPAN

"Homeland" of the monsters Mothra and Gamera

JOANIE

Chachi's "Happy Days" sweetheart

LABEL

Def Jam, for DMX

LASS

Damsel

LEX

First name in DC Comics villainy

LICE

Pet peeves?

MESH

Go together nicely

MIA

God-knows-where, casually

NINE

Impressive diving score

NUN

One who may be out of the habit

OKRA

Often-pickled pods

OLAV

Father of Norway's King Harald

ONGOAL

Like a blocked penalty kick, in soccer

ONUP

"Get ___" (2014 James Brown biopic)

ORBS

Eyes, poetically

OTOH

Tweeter's "That said …"

OVA

Fertility clinic donations

PAIL

Beach mold

PAPA

Family man

PEEL

Take off fast, with "out"

PIEPLATE

Quiche base

PITA

Pocket stuffed with tabbouleh, maybe

QUEUE

Line

RANT

Go off

RATS

"Oh, fudge!"

RECUR

Come back

RNA

Molecule in some modern vaccines

SCAB

Part of a healing process

SCAN

It's a good look

SENOR

"El ___ de los Anillos" (translation of a Tolkien title)

SNAZZ

Spiff (up)

SNEER

It's a bad look

SNOW

Word with shoe or cap

SOAR

Take off

SOY

Miso base

TEAM

Group often told to "Go!"

TOPTEN

A big hit might break it

TUBA

Big band staple

TUBED

Floated for fun, in a way

URL

Certain link

VIETNAM

World's largest producer of black pepper

WOKE

Socially "with it"

ZEALOTS

Extremist group

ZIGS

Veers sharply