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Across Clues
- Supply for an ultimate Frisbee teamDISCS
- 2019 box-office flop described by one critic as “Les Meowsérables”CATS
- Picks the brain ofASKS
- ExtemporizesVAMPS
- “Why should ___?”ICARE
- Feeling tenderACHY
- Apartment, in real estate lingoUNIT
- How spring rolls are cookedINOIL
- Oscar-winning actress born Mary LouiseMERYL
- One side of a 2015 nuclear agreementIRAN
- It’s irreversibleTIME
- University of Florida athleteGATOR
- “That was great!” – “No, it stunk!”DIFFERENCEOFOPINIONS
- Setting for Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novelsOSLO
- They have stems and white headsHALFNOTES
- Mild, light-colored cigarsCLAROS
- Have because ofOWETO
- Drive (from)OUST
- Recurring pain?IMP
- Route 70 in {Route 10, Route 95, Route 101, Route 70, Route 25}HIGHWAYMEDIAN
- SnitchTATTLER
- Hit film set aboard the spaceship NostromoALIEN
- Cereal grainOAT
- Fastener that leaves a flush surfaceTNUT
- Modern party planning toolEVITE
- LoftyTALL
- Collector’s itemCURIO
- Word after combat or cowboyBOOT
- What two Vikings have exploredMARS
- Royal staffSCEPTER
- Brainy sortNERD
- Fruits often used in sushiAVOCADOS
- Cattle in [cattle / pigs]STOCKDIVIDEND
- Burrito condimentHOTSAUCE
- Vodka mixerSODA
- Hopeless predicamentRATTRAP
- Birthstone for Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOPAL
- Toffee bar brandSKOR
- What the nose knowsSMELL
- Major move, for shortRELO
- “… unless you disagree”ORNOT
- Naturally occurring hexagonal crystalsSNOW
- “Dames at ___” (Broadway musical)SEA
- Was fed upHADIT
- Comics character with the dog DaisyDAGWOOD
- Bear x tigerANIMALPRODUCT
- “Billions” airer, for shortSHO
- Et ___ALIA
- Hamilton, to BurrENEMY
- Green cards, informallyAMEXES
- Offering to a houseguestSPAREROOM
- Hardly anyAFEW
- Car in {plane, car, train, horse, car, car, train}MODEOFTRANSPORTATION
- Pong companyATARI
- Shakespeare character who inquires “Are your doors lock’d?”IAGO
- Greet grandlyHAIL
- Provide funding forENDOW
- Was acceptedGOTIN
- ___ mess, English dessert of berries, meringue and whipped creamETON
- Its merchandise often comes with pictorial instructionsIKEA
- “Set Fire to the Rain” singerADELE
- Part of a golf clubSHAFT
- Mathematician DescartesRENE
- Credit application figs.SSNS
- PC platform popular in the ’80sMSDOS
Vertical Clues
- Grow faintDIM
- Coffee order specificationICED
- Garment whose name sounds like an apologySARI
- Sign of distressCRYFORHELP
- Like many wildflower seedsSELFSOWN
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s home cityCAIRO
- Nearly 5,000 square yardsACRE
- Comparative wordTHAN
- Matched upSYNCHED
- What has interest in a car?AUTOLOAN
- Sound of disdainSNIFF
- Long, loose robeKIMONO
- Leave momentarilySTEPOUT
- Brief evocative accountVIGNETTE
- Diarist NinANAIS
- “Hello ___” (old cellphone ad line)MOTO
- Subatomic particlePION
- Some nice cameras, for shortSLRS
- Wife of Albert EinsteinELSA
- Wipe out, slangilyEATIT
- “___ deal”ITSA
- Has a tête-à-têteCHATS
- Pale pinkish purpleLILAC
- Light-footedAGILE
- Muhammad’s father-in-lawOMAR
- Cause of a smudgeWETINK
- First work read in Columbia’s Literature Humanities courseILIAD
- Like some news coverageMETRO
- SqueezePRESS
- “Nice going!”YOUROCK
- Crux of the matterNUB
- Rating for risqué showsTVMA
- ___-in-the-hole (British dish)TOAD
- Whale constellationCETUS
- Massive ref. booksOEDS
- Have things in commonOVERLAP
- Like music that uses conventional keys and harmonyTONAL
- Org. whose website has a “What Can I Bring?” sectionTSA
- Summer Olympics host before TokyoRIO
- They may come in a boxed setDVDS
- Summer hrs. in IowaCDT
- Co. captains?CEOS
- First line of a Seuss classicIAMSAM
- Parts of cars and stovesHOODS
- High-profile interviewer of Harry and MeghanOPRAH
- Style of “Roxanne” in “Moulin Rouge!”TANGO
- Drawn-outSLOW
- EasterliesTRADEWINDS
- Done againREDUX
- Chef Waters who pioneered the organic food movementALICE
- Mrs. ___, “Beauty and the Beast” characterPOTTS
- Kind of vaccine used against CovidRNA
- SlipperyEELY
- PartiallyTOAPOINT
- Two-person meetingONEONONE
- Certain sotsWINOS
- Words often replaced when singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”HOMETEAM
- Disney character who says “Some people are worth melting for”OLAF
- Less sportsmanlikeDIRTIER
- Where the King livedMEMPHIS
- Tennis’s Nadal, familiarlyRAFA
- Make sparklingAERATE
- Font flourishSERIF
- TeaseRAGON
- Cartographic collectionATLAS
- In Touch and Out, for twoMAGS
- Texter’s “Then again …”OTOH
- Cloud contentsDATA
- Trees under which truffles might growOAKS
- “De ___” (response to “Merci”)RIEN
- Took too much, for shortODED
- ___ contendereNOLO
- ___ Moore, antipoverty entrepreneur of the Robin Hood FoundationWES