| ‘A cruel thief to rob us of our former selves,’ per Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey |
TIME |
| ‘At ___!’ (Army order) |
EASE |
| ‘Factotum’ actress Taylor |
LILI |
| ‘For ___ purposes …’ |
OUR |
| ‘Got a ___?’ (‘Do you have a moment?’) |
SEC |
| ‘Holy smokes!’ |
WOWIE |
| ‘Lucifer’ actress Garcia |
AIMEE |
| ‘Please, ___, I want some more’ (line from ‘Oliver Twist’) |
SIR |
| ‘Pop’ band, 2001 |
NSYNC |
| ‘Several years ___ …’ |
AGO |
| ‘Such a pity!’ |
ALAS |
| ‘This ___ what I had in mind’ |
ISNT |
| ‘You’re not that far off’ |
ALMOST |
| ‘___ on Eileen’ (hit for Dexys Midnight Runners) |
COME |
| Aberdonian boys |
LADS |
| Acorn sources |
OAKS |
| Adjust, as a constitution |
AMEND |
| Adjust, as a paragraph |
EDIT |
| Aid and ___ |
ABET |
| Ambitions among friends … or what seven answers in this puzzle represent? |
SQUADGOALS |
| Animals that help free the narrator in ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ |
RATS |
| Applause for Oklahoma City’s NBA team? |
THUNDERCLAPS |
| Approaching, in a poem |
NIGH |
| Arctic fox’s fur color |
WHITE |
| Arizona Western College city |
YUMA |
| Arranges alphabetically, say |
SORTS |
| Australia Zoo bird |
EMU |
| Base’s counterpart |
ACID |
| Board, as a motorcycle |
HOPON |
| Boldness |
PLUCK |
| Bread made with atta |
ROTI |
| Buffalo NFL players who deserve praise? |
BILLSOFCREDIT |
| Bygone Iranian ruler |
SHAH |
| Channel for many who fill out college basketball brackets |
ESPN |
| Chase scene outburst |
FASTER |
| Cheer for a team |
RAH |
| Chicago’s NFL team winning a second championship in a row? |
BEARSREPEATING |
| Chilling signs |
OMENS |
| Chvrches singer Mayberry |
LAUREN |
| Class involving analysis of fiscal policy, for short |
ECON |
| Cliffside habitat |
AERIE |
| Comedian Rachel who played Barbara Walters on SNL and ’30 Rock’ |
DRATCH |
| Comedian’s delivery |
GAG |
| Constrictor seen on a branch |
TREEBOA |
| Corn unit |
COB |
| Cylinders in sewing kits |
SPOOLS |
| DEA employee |
NARC |
| Dehydration symptoms |
CRAMPS |
| Desert that was a backdrop for the sci-fi planet Tatooine |
SAHARA |
| Digit on the floor |
TOE |
| Disclosures of secret government activities |
LEAKS |
| Discombobulates |
ADDLES |
| Discord channel visitor |
USER |
| Dissertation committee figure, briefly |
PROF |
| Do something without help |
GOITALONE |
| Drummer Blaine |
HAL |
| Externally visible parts of respiratory systems |
NOSES |
| Fabric of some jackets |
TWEED |
| Film that covers food |
SARANWRAP |
| First sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Coolidge |
OBAMA |
| First two words of a ‘Hamlet’ soliloquy |
TOBE |
| Fledglings’ dwellings |
NESTS |
| Flower bed surface |
SOIL |
| Flower shop emanation |
AROMA |
| Gaming beginner |
NOOB |
| Great Plains people |
OSAGE |
| Greek food truck bread |
PITA |
| Greek letter denoting the heat capacity ratio in thermodynamics |
GAMMA |
| Group with a practice exam? |
STATEBAR |
| Had in one’s grasp |
HELD |
| Hall of Famers who played for St. Louis’s NHL team? |
BLUESLEGENDS |
| Happy players on Tampa Bay’s MLB team? |
RAYSOFSUNSHINE |