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Other crossword clues for answer "XXXXX"

XXXXX
Swans Reflecting Elephants and others
Admit
Baltimore club, for short
Blackmail, e.g.
Cartoonist Wilson
Covent Garden performance
Cum ___
East German secret police
Electromagnetic device
Ethan of "Before Sunrise"
Foreordained
Like eyebrows
Like video games, nowadays
Lilac and lavender
Magazine to which Obama gave his first postelection interview in 2008
N.F.C. West player
One with a name on a plaque, maybe
Ones getting the red-carpet treatment, say
Orchestra section
Pirate's cargo
Push off
Rings of angels
Rolling Stones #1 hit with the lyric "You're beautiful, but ain't it time we said goodbye?"
Some West Coast wines
Trifling
Words after "win by" or "hang by"
T option
Tag figure
Holy moly!
Arrested
Clue room
Dead ___ (1991 Emma Thompson film)
Honest!
I'm impressed!
Pynk singer Janelle
R.U.R. playwright
Reading in the Dark writer Seamus
Someone ___ Story (song from the musical "Chess")
Sunrise, Sunset singer
The Exorcist co-star Max von ___
Wish you'd told me sooner!
You ___ here first!
You are, if you are in the Yucatán
___ Daughter (1970 David Lean movie)
___ Evil (Mia Farrow movie)
___ the winter of our discontent ("Richard III" opening)
83-year-old drummer
A bunch
Above what is expected
Act like a Razzie nominee
Adler in a Sherlock Holmes tale
Adorably mischievous
Alphabetic quintet
Alternative to an espresso, cortado or macchiato
Appliance brand with the motto "Just Right"
Appraiser's guess
Article of faith
Aunt in "Oklahoma!"
Author of "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Authority
Awards ceremony hosted by Earl Warren in 1951
Away from the center
Bacon Temptation Omelette restaurants
Beer magnate Bernhard
Beginning
Big TikTok demographic
Bikini, e.g.
Bird-based
Blood vessel insertion
Boarded
Bogart's role in "The Caine Mutiny"
Breakout maker
Bucolic poem
Bulky items of furniture
Cannes color
Cause to worry
Cheech or Chong, say
Chuckling sound
City north of Cologne
Clarifying Latin words
Colorful wraps
Compadre
Company insignias
Completely cut
Condition
Country singer Clark
Crazy as ___
Crunchy lunch
Crunk, funk or punk
Devices that Alexa answers
Did a farrier's job
Divisive Easter candy
Dodge
Drive insertions
Drumroll drum
Dud from Detroit
Dueling blades
Easily crumbled
Electronic sounds
English record producer Warren
Envious critic
Fifth number?
Filtering brand
Fires
First of a dozen signs
First pick at the 1992 NBA draft
Fleet Jeter
Flower named from the French for "thought"
Flynn who played Robin Hood
Forget to bring
Formal orders
Former California governor Johnson
Former Houston hockey team
Fortune 500 retailer
Full of playful energy
Gem County is there
Get on the same page
Gets a look at, archaically
Gettysburg general
Gizmo for making salsa
Go from 0 to 60, say
Go toe-to-toe
Google Meet alternative
Got people excited
Greek vowel
Grind irritatedly, as teeth
Hands and feet
Hard to please
Hint at
Hiss convicted of perjury
Hot spot
Huddle instruction
Icicle feature
Inclusive word
Information gatherer
Informed
Interior choice
It may be Type A
It's above krypton on the periodic table
JPEG, say
Joe Cocker's "You ___ Beautiful"
Joe ___ (car salesman in old TV ads)
Jon of "Napoleon Dynamite"
Judy who wrote "Blubber"
Justice Kagan
Jutland natives
Knife sold in infomercials
Lagoon shaper
Language spoken in Auckland
Like a ski jumper's path
Like many bathrooms
Like rainforests
Like time-capsule stuff
Long neckwear
Loses color
Low-voiced ladies
Loyal sidekick of old TV
Lunar period
Madonna movie role
Maker of Glide floss
Maker of watches and phones
Man with morals
Many Amazon victims
Mel Brooks's "History of the World, ___"
Mexican soccer star Guillermo
Minimum wage on set
Mortise partner
Mother punished for her hubris, in Greek myth
Mountain Dew maker
Mubarak of Egypt
Nation of filmmaker Luis Buñuel
Ne'er-do-well
Negation symbol, in logic
Nerve-wracking
New Zealand birds
No longer in dreamland
Not mincing words
Old autocrats
One way to play the piano
Onion's skin, e.g.
Online post
Out of energy
Overturn
Part of a princess costume
Partitioned peninsula
Pay
Performed without speaking
Phisher's emails
Plants near water?
Play part
Polynesian people
Posh residence
Power units
Prefix with path
Prepare, as a plane for takeoff
Pro parker
Protagonist of a Pulitzer-winning play
Pulled apart
Put back to 0
Put together haphazardly
Qualifiers
Quite snug
Radiate
Red costume for a trick-or-treater
Refines over time
Religious offshoots
Request one's presence at
Route indicator
Ruin, informally
Screen star Sam
Sea splitter
Select group
Set of values
Shell out
Shesterkin and Sikorsky, for two
Shocked shouts
Silhouettes of swans
Sister of Arya Stark
Sivan or May, say
Skateboard trick
Skin: Prefix
Small soldier
Soccer goalie Guillermo
Sounds from geese
Sphere
Spike on a peak
Spoils a surprise
Spring flower
Standing upright
Stares stupidly
Starts to wake
States of fervor
Sticky bun morsel
Stresses for students
Strike force?
Sub builders
Sure thing
Swap goods
Swiss monetary unit
TV actors--or TV singing stars
Talks like Cindy Brady
Team that became the Nats
Temple of Isis site
Test answer choices, sometimes
Thermocline detector
They may turn into pumpkins
Thin biscuit
Thrash
Thus far
Title role for Rita Hayworth
Tony, e.g.
Too soon
Track runner
Ultimate character
Unpleasant looks
Waimea Canyon's island
Waiting line
Weapon for a cobra
Weasel family member
Wee insectivore
Well founded
Well-formulated
What many subscriptions now do automatically
When some news airs
Where newborns nap
Where you might find monks
Words after catch or feed
Words dropped by Olay in 1999
Work production?
Wreck completely
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___ Bay (Antarctic inlet)
___ Dame
___ Productions (Winfrey's media company)
Gender-neutral possessive
General Alexander and jazzman Al, for two
German steel city
Get the cheap version
Get the idea
Ghana's first prime minister ___ Nkrumah
Gleeful cry
Goes out of business
Golf gaffe
Good judgment
Govt. security
Greek bread
Green sauce
Greta Thunberg, e.g.
Grind together
Groomsmen's garb
Had longings
Had the nerve
Hall of Hall & Oates
Harbor sight
Hard stuff
Hard work, in metaphor
Hard-hitting Judge
Harder to find
Have as a creditor
Hawke of "Boyhood"
Hawkins of Dogpatch
Herman Miller office chair
Hibachi waste
Himalayan hulks
Home for lanternfish
Home to many Atlanta academics
Hoodwink, maybe
Hooting youth
Hopper of Tinseltown
Horse-drawn carriages
Hot, in Saint-Tropez
Hotel option
House coverer
How movies may be stored
Human resources focus
Idyllic areas
Impairs
Improvises musically
In isolation
In the work mentioned earlier, in footnote abbreviations
In total harmony
In-your-face
Increased
Indian honorific
Indian, e.g.
Indivisible entity, to Leibniz
Injected weapon
Instrument that's also a musical term for "soft," abbreviated by its first letter
Interior design
Inverted sixes
Invigoratingly cold
Irish national hero de Valera
Irritate
Irritate successfully
Irritation
Is really awful
Is the father of
Islamic jurist
It comes from the heart
It connects bones
It might come from Mars
It splits at Arles
It splits near Arles
It used to be yours
It's "Returns and allowances," on the IRS's Schedule C
It's longer than a shiitake
Its numbers include "Buenos Aires"
Jay Gatsby's love
Jimmy, jigsaw and jack
John from London
Juniors' juniors
Justin Verlander, e.g.
Keats, notably
Kept in reserve
Key
Kicking's partner
Kicks
Kind of hole to retreat to
Lake on Tanzania's border
Language group that includes Swahili
Large duck
Largish combo (and a hint to the number of letters in each country that you'll need)
Last letter
Last words of a phone call, often
Lay to rest
Layer of bricks
Leaflike flower part
Lear's middle daughter
Left, on a boat
Left-to-right line
Legitimate
Lemonheads frontman Evan
Let others partake of
Let up
Lew of 1948's "Johnny Belinda"
Lifesaving device
Light name
Likably lippy
Like Laotians
Like Van Gogh and Vermeer
Like fans after a touchdown
Like old photos
Like one twin, barely
Like onions, sometimes
Like some consonants
Like some durable furniture
Limited support?
Next year's juniors
Lindsay seen in the new "Mean Girls" movie
Listless feeling
Literary lover
Lodgings for many Londoners
London Breed, for one
Long-tailed animal
Looking for damages
Looks to be
Loser to Dwight twice
Loses weight
Losing schemes
Lot unit
Lucca's location
Lucknow lute
Luigi's brother
Lustful
Ma Rainey's genre
MacDowell of "Groundhog Day"
Made a lot
Made better
Made over
Major successor
Make amends
Make things right
Maker of Any'tizers Chicken Fries
Maker of Supersonic Nural hair dryers
Mammal often wet
Mar. honoree
Mardi Gras souvenir
Mark over a short vowel
Maserati mover
Mathematics great Paul
McDonald with six Tonys
Mechanical worker
Member of the party?
Members of a Great Lakes tribe
Mendacious
Mercury or Mars, e.g.
Merlin Olsen, memorably
Michelangelo masterpiece
Mike in "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Milo of "The Verdict"
Modish Mizrahi
Mole, e.g.
Money from a foundation
Money of Mauritius
Monopoly buy
Montana in the 1980s, e.g.
More fitting
More than chuckles
More than mean
More ticked off
Moscow is there
Moscow's Saint Basil's Cathedral has nine
Moves gently
Movie critic Jeffrey
Movie critic Roger
Much of a mannequin
Muscular dog breed
Museum piece
Musician Reznor
Mystal, Honig, and Wiesel, e.g.
NBA Hall of Famer Elvin
Name in the credits to "The Color Purple"
Name on "Rocky" posters
Name on cosmetic packages
Name shouted in a pool
Native companion in 2013's "The Lone Ranger"
Nickname of Tito Puente
Nigeria neighbor
Nimble
Nine: Prefix
Noah sent one out after 40 days
Not bogus
Not very reliable
Not warranted
Numbers for one
Object of Versailles cheers
Occupied, as a restaurant table
Of top quality
On the edge of
One making great strides?
One might stir things up
One of Alex's successors
One of England's home counties
One of the black keys
One of the senses
One way to get from the Louvre to the Bastille
One way to think
Order ___ of proceedings (stop the trial)
Organist's accompaniers
Ornamental stone
Out of fashion
Outdoor gear chain
Ouzo flavoring
Painter's cover
Pan that never gets old
Parallel to
Parchment page
Parent, early on
Parental nickname
Parliament group
Part of LGBTQ+
Part of the Golden State
Part parts
Partner of each
Parts of Stetsons
Parts of pipes
Pass pattern
Paste-up piece
Peace goddess
Peak athletic performance
Penske rival
People who call their island Aotearoa
Philosophy's Kierkegaard
Phone bank worker
Phone flash component
Photo app, familiarly
Piano piece
Pintos, e.g.
Piquant dip
Pitch
Place of action
Plaque accumulators
Play honors
Played slowly
Players on a polo field, e.g.
Plemons of "Killers of the Flower Moon"
Plot units
Polymath Newton
Pops
Porch
Porterhouse kin
Potato chip, to Mr. Chips
Prayer opening, perhaps
Pre-DVD combo
Prefix meaning "tooth"
Prepare for a marathon
Prepared for war
Prepared to propose
Prepares for print
Present presenter
Printer component
Printer purchase
Project details
Promotes in excess
Prop for a portraitist
Protruding navel
Puppy dog
QB protectors
Quick-thinking
Rainforest climber
Raise objections
Raised, as an anchor
Rama Navami celebrant
Ranch marking
Rapp in 2024's "Mean Girls"
Rapp in 2024's "Mean Girls" movie
Rapper Elliott
Rash
Rather, informally
Reception choice
Reduce by 50%
Refusal to give up
Region of southwestern England
Reid and Westover, for two
Reject derisively
Relish
Remove, as a floorboard
Repeat the question
Replay tech
Reply to a pledge seeker
Resident of Peru's capital
Respond to something cringey
Reveals
Rider of Scout
Rides the rapids
Rings out
Rink figure
Roberto Duran's 1980 plea
Rocky Mountains resort
Romantic rendezvous
Roof peak
Rwandan people
SWAT team wear
Sacha Baron Cohen movie
Sad sack
Sailor's worry
Saints quarterback Carr
Scene of battle
Scorching
Scorpion attack
Scots swim in them
Scratchy voices
Screen reading
Script division
Sculpting medium
Seafood platter choice
Sealskin boat
Sealskin kayak paddler
Seaman's "stop!"
Sean who played Samwise
Secret supply
Selma's sister, on "The Simpsons"
Senokot alternative
Serengeti beast
Shade
She sang "Let It Go" as Elsa
Sheds a shell
Shore diner wedge
Shoshone Falls Park is there
Shot in the dark
Show awards
Show with "Oh What a Circus"
Shows disuse
Shrieks of pain
Signs on for another tour
Simple elegance
Singers with a mass audience?
Sister brand of Beautyrest
Site of the annual Wintersköl festival
Skate park trick
Skate's cousin
Skin care brand whose name comes from the Latin for "snow"
Slash, say
Slowly, to maestri
Sly bunch
Small rise
Small tomatoes
Smarts
Sneaker features
Snowy bird
Sociologist Durkheim
Sole point
Some shirts
Somewhat lubricated
Sound of an acorn opening?
Soup with scallions
Sources of soothing
Southern sound
Spacek with an Oscar
Spanish for "oak tree"
Speak like Forrest Gump
Sprint competitor
Squander
Stadium sections
Standard font
Stands the test of time
Start
Statement of faith
Stave off
Steak splitter
Steve Jobs introduced them in October 2001
Sticky substances
Stockpile
Stop on Amtrak's Empire Service
Stop on a trek
Stranger who tries to act real chummy with you
Strapping
Stuck
Stud farm stallions, e.g.
Stylish elegance
Subj. with nos.
Such a long time
Suffix meaning "incision"
Suggest
Suit fabric
Sunk, as a putt
Support financially
Suppress
Surname of singers Nick, Joe and Kevin
Surprising win
Sweetie
Swift device
Swim cap material
Sylvester's "Rocky" co-star
Take to the next level
Tangy sauce
Test for purity
Test the purity of
They grow below
They have an i for technology
They may be manicured
They must be met
They precede tees
Thin as ___
Think piece
Thomas Jefferson, for one
Three-nation pact
Throng
Tidying pro Kondo
Tierney of "NewsRadio"
Tijuana "ta-ta"
Title priestess in a Bellini opera
Toblerone rival
Toffee bar
Tom who's Biden's ambassador to Samoa and New Zealand
Tony of "Taxi"
Too trusting
Took care of
Top pick in the 1992 NBA draft
Top-level, as a celebrity
Toy plane material
Track divisions
Track great Owens
Tracking system
Treacherous type
Treasure Valley city
Treeless tract of South America
Triangular architectural feature
Tribe leader
Tripled trio
Turn out
Turning part
Twangy
Twiddles one's thumbs
Twisted the water from
Unable to move
Unbeatable
Unbending
Unconcealed
Undermine
Understand fully
Unfamiliar
Unfussy
Units of force
Unspoken
Urban oases
Use a lever on
Used, as a bench
Uses a blowtorch on
Uttar Pradesh or Utah, e.g.
VCR button
Vegas Strip hotel
Verb on theater tickets
Very
Victor Vasarely's movement
Vision-related
Vulcan ideal
WWII humanitarian hero Sendler
Walker in bookstore aisles
Walt's partner in "Breaking Bad"
Warren Buffett's birthplace
Was furious
Water filter brand
Way to walk
Way too excited
Web-footed frolicker
Weight room grunter, often
When the "SNL" crew finishes
When turns may be illegal
White-plumed wader
Wicked one
Wide gulf
Will of "Blue Bloods"
Willie of "Charles in Charge"
Windmill parts
Window display, of a sort
Winners of a certain show
Winter fall
Winter wrap
With 16-Across, uncomfortable
Witherspoon with an Oscar
Without a doubt
Wolfpack vessel
Wonderful
Word after false or storm
Word before code or colony
Word before drinking a Jarlsberg
Word in many coll. course names
Words before a package date
Work units
Works with meters
Worried utterances
Writer Calvino
X is 88 in it
Yankees manager Aaron
Yellowy-brown
Yeshiva topic
Zenith's opposite
___ Boingo (Danny Elfman band)
___ Wafers (cookie brand)
___ du Canada (Ottawa body)
___ up (said something)
___-and-bailey (type of castle)
...who lived in ___
All ___ Is a Miracle
Are not! counter
Are you kidding me?
Bird on ___
Bless you! preceder
Bon appétit!
Can it!
Cheers role
Convivio author
Copy that
Everything's curious today speaker
Evita surname
Four Quartets writer
Get outta here!
Gone With the Wind surname
Hanging Up author Ephron
Holy cow!
Hungaria composer
I feel the same way!
In my dreams!
Iphigénie en Tauride composer Christoph Willibald ___
Ish
It's Gonna Be Me group
John Brown's Body writer
Keen!
Let me clarify...
Mexican Eats chain
My Cousin Vinny Oscar winner
Network director
No kidding!
Nothing more for me, thanks
Now I remember!
On Photography writer Sontag
Say no more
Seriously!
Siddhartha novelist
Skyfall singer
Sound like a plan?
Ta-ta!
Tender Buttons writer
Terrific!
That's not what I ___!
The Alchemist author Coelho
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo novelist Larsson
The Hobbit title character
The Love Boat bartender
The Stranger author
The Three Faces ___
The ones I'm pointing at
Walkin' After Midnight singer
Well, imagine that!
What a shame!
Yeah
___ Name (Jim Croce song)
___ humanity!
___ your heart
1924 novel by Edna Ferber
1944 film noir classic
1950s news series "___ Now"
1961 Best Actress winner
1985 Holocaust documentary
200 milligrams, to a jeweler
53-Down, for one
72 degrees, say
80-time opponent of Navratilova
A little, a little casually
A ton
Absolute
Acid type
Add to, as a bill
Adler in a Sherlock Holmes story
Alfred honored with element 102
All-star crew
Amazing stories
Amorous
Angel of the Chicago Sky
Angry talk
Annoyed
Annoying swarm
Any of 100 in Dante's "Divine Comedy"
Apple on records
Architect's references
Arizona State's setting
Arm's ___ artery
Army chaplain, informally
Arthur Miller's "___ From the Bridge"
Asian capital
At liberty
Backup operation
Bad way to live
Bakery buys
Balance sheet item
Ballet position
Bankruptcy filer of 2001
Banksy's "Girl With Balloon," e.g.
Barack awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Barber creation
Barista's creation
Barq's rival
Barter
Baseball commissioner from 1998 to 2015
Bathroom fixture
Battery part
Be less than truthful with
Beam in sci-fi movies
Beautify
Became prominent
Bel ___ singing
Ben with birdies
Benefit
Berries used in liquor
Best
Best of the best
Bias
Big name in balers
Big name in film history
Big ray
Biggest of the Florida Keys
Bird often bald
Birthplace of LeBron James and Steph Curry
Biscotti flavoring
Bisque server
Bit of inspiration
Black Sea port
Blessing preceder
Blood drive participant
Blow up on X
Blue Mosque builder
Blue-haired TV housewife
Blunt with dialogue
Board game from ancient Egypt
Boiling
Bond components
Book after Daniel
Book review, of a sort
Boosted, say
Botch
Brand begun as Brad's Drink
Brand of speakers
Brazen
Brazilian dance
Bright circles
Bring together
Brown, perhaps
Buggy releases
Burnett and Brockovich, for two
Burstyn or Barkin
Bus route terminus
Butler's partner
Bygone resident of Peru
Cabinet dept. since 1862
Calendar page
Calf catcher
Capital of Belarus
Capital of France
Capital on the Gulf of Guinea
Car part with a blade
Carnivorous lizard
Carry ___ (sing)
Carter who played Wonder Woman
Case for Scully and Mulder
Cast aloft
Casual greeting
Catch, as a movie at a theater
Celebrity-based show since 1991
Cersei's twin brother on "Game of Thrones"
Chance to hit
Change the boundaries of
Channing of "Magic Mike"
Charged
Check writer, sometimes
Chevron competitor
Chiefs running back Pacheco
Chilling
Chris of "The Avengers"
Circle
City about 275 miles south of Kyiv
City east of Syracuse
City in Kent County, whether in England or Delaware
City near Düsseldorf
City with a palm tree on its seal
Clarifying words
Classic film maker
Classic movie house
Cleaning brand since 1889
Clear, in a way
Climbing plants
Cloud's makeup
Cluster
Cocktail bar supply
Cocky boast
Cologne's river
Columnist Joseph
Comb components
Comic Marc
Committee leader
Common coffee break hr.
Complete
Composer Ned
Composer Webern
Composer's creation
Concert highlights
Considers, as testimony
Conversation starter
Cooler brand
Copy's counterpart
Coral formations
Corn cake of Colombia
Counting everything
Country estate
Country great Haggard
Country music's Tucker
Country on the Pacific Ocean
County of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri
Cousteau concern
Cowboys linebacker Parsons
Crashing through a window, perhaps
Craze
Critic Roger
Criticizes severely
Croc's cousin
Crowd sounds
Cruise vehicle
Cuban export
Cultural spirit
Cure, in a way
Curtain fabric
Dark and depressing
Dark period
Dark wood
De ___ (in reality)
Debate topic
Delhi tongue
Deli device
Deliberately lost
Demolish
Denigrates, in Derby
Depiction on 1940s pennies
Derisive look
Designer of a famed chair
Despise
Diamond flub
Did the wrong thing
Digital pub
Divided peninsula
Dog of film and TV
Dog on "The Jetsons"
Dome-shaped dessert
Double bogey's counterpart
Dress to the ___
Dressy shoes
Drifting sheets
Dug
Early storyteller
Earth colour
Eartha Kitt's "Mambo de ___"
Earthquake
Edison rival
Edith Wharton's "___ Frome"
Edmund Pettus Bridge site
Elvis song "___ Feelin' in My Body"
Embezzle
Emotional, in a way
Emperor of Japan, 1867-1912
End-of-semester ordeals
Endorse on a tablet, say
Euro divisions
European vacation rental
Expel from the body
Expert with a fork
Extent
Extinguished candles create them
Fails completely
Faithful subgroups
Falling-outs
Famed Milwaukee brewer
Far from any coast
Far from equatorial
Far from lenient
Far from loquacious
Far from thrilled with
Feared creature
Fess up to
Festival or fun run, say
Fey and Turner
Fielding goof
Fiestas de Santa Teresa city
Fifth-largest city of Iraq
Fight the power
Fill the tank
Financial crime
Finely ground stone
Fire
First name on posters for the movie "Hairspray"
First name on the Supreme Court
First thing to try
Flies off the shelves
Flight feature
Flight makeup
Foil, e.g.
Forecasting aid
Forest fledgling
Forging pro
Former Brazilian airline
Former NFL running back Foster
Foul-smelling
Four for Simone Biles in Rio
Freedom, in Swahili
French infantryman
French lexicographer Littré
Full force
Fungus for foodies
Furnish with food
Furry character in a can
Fuss
Gave up