- Abat-voix: 2 wds.
- According to Emily Post, it’s placed on top of a small plate in a formal place setting: 2 wds.
- Agenda that is not loose and leaves very little time between events: 2 wds.
- Ammophila arenaria, for example
- Annual Halloween event at Six Flags: 2 wds.
- Archivist’s activity involving storing annals: Hyph.
- Begun, as an enterprise
- Blank item that’s a metaphor for beginning anew: 2 wds.
- Bombing attacks from above: 2 wds.
- Casual occasions where people congregate: Hyph.
- Catcher inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969
- Conversion, in football: 2 wds.
- Cords used to help recharge a car’s dead battery: 2 wds.
- Denzel Washington’s first movie: 2 wds.
- Doctor Who serial before “Mawdryn Undead”
- Earth, Wind & Fire’s first hit to reach the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100: 2 wds.
- Edward W. Kellogg was one of its inventors
- Encino Man star: 2 wds.
- Exposes, as if from out of the darkness: 3 wds.
- Film partly set at the Hotel Earle: 2 wds.
- Focus of the ministry that employs Mr. Teabag: 2 wds.
- Food basics given to prisoners, stereotypically: 3 wds.
- From Bonn, from 1949 to 1990: 2 wds.
- Giving up criminal activities, or not turning: 2 wds.
- Heaviest, or of most import
- “He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time”
- Home to the World Backgammon Championship: 2 wds.
- House-warming technique embraced by the SEIA: 2 wds.
- Howard Wolowitz’s nickname on the International Space Station: 2 wds.
- How you might be “called” if you’re being criticized: 3 wds.
- Instigates something dangerous, as putting a match to a stick of dynamite: 3 wds.
- It contains “our daily bread”, with “The”: 2 wds.
- Item that might feature isobars: 2 wds.
- It’s collected during trepanging: 2 wds.
- It was ratified December 15, 1791: 3 wds.
- Keeping protective watch (over), as a sentry would: 2 wds.
- Kind of hero in a John Lennon title: 2 wds.
- Leading, as an organized group effort
- Lines on a Yankees home uniform
- Main entrances to houses, usually: 2 wds.
- Making permanent scratches in, as the skin of some African tribe members
- Mechanical pencil, such as the Staedtler Mars Technico
- Members of genus Camponotus: 2 wds.
- Michael Jackson’s debut solo album: 4 wds.
- Mirror, as Lewis Carroll would put it: Hyph.
- Mixologist’s skill
- Movie that begins “My life fades. The vision dims”: 3 wds.
- News that’s happening right now: 2 wds.
- Nonviolent battles that may cause feathers to fly: 2 wds.
- Not currently having a vested title holder, as an estate: 2 wds.
- Not giving up (like the New Kids on the Block): 2 wds.
- One of the three lifts in the sport of powerlifting: 2 wds.
- Parent organization of Vermont Creamery: 2 wds.
- Persistent, loud throat sound from someone with a cold: 2 wds.
- Person searching for things along a shoreline
- Pieces of furniture where people sit to have dinner: 2 wds.
- Place mentioned in the lyrics of “Cabinet Battle #1”
- Potentially ready to buy, with “for”: 3 wds.
- Random virtue testing is a form of it
- Rowena Mohr’s character on Neighbours: 2 wds.
- Rubber, traction-providing features found on cars: 2 wds.
- Simultaneous, conflicting feelings: 2 wds.
- Smallest of the US’s 383 metropolitan statistical areas, in terms of population: 2 wds.
- Steinway’s Model D, e.g.: 2 wds.
- Stingy person, like Rick Broida’s CNET persona
- Studio that produced The Smurfs: Hyph.
- Technique that takes advantage of Barnum statements: 2 wds.
- The TB of TBC, to an engineer: 2 wds.
- They could be personal or dependent, to the IRS: 2 wds.
- They’re gripped to bring vehicles to quick stops: 2 wds.
- Tortrix moth
- Transporting by water, as military supplies over the Mediterranean
- Unspunnenfest’s location
- Using hues to distinguish different things: Hyph.
- Variety of fruit commonly used to make purple juice: 2 wds.
- Vehicles owned by members of the Wally Byam Caravan Club
- What Oliver wanted when he asked for “more”: 2 wds.
- Where Constantine falls in a list of popes (ignoring antipopes): Hyph.
- Where Motel 6 was founded: 2 wds.
- Word in the title of the 1958 Tony winner for Best Play
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