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- Cleopatra's killer
- Clerical vestment
- Cleveland-to-Akron dir.
- Clic Stic and Wite-Out brand
- Clichéd holiday gift for dad
- Clinch
- Clip-on mic, for short
- Clock setting in the U.K.: Abbr.
- Clock-setting std.
- Close
- Close of business?
- Closest bud
- Closest pal, for short
- Closest pal, in brief
- Closest peeps
- Cloth covered in dust, say
- Clothing brand named for perceived generational differences in the ’60s
- Clothing line
- Clubs opening, perhaps
- Clumsy vessel
- Clunker
- Clutch producer
- CNBC subj.
- Co-founder of the A.C.L.U.'s Women's Rights Project, familiarly
- Co-producer of the documentary "The Beatles: Get Back"
- Co-star of 2025's "Kiss of the Spider Woman," to fans
- Co-star of 2025's "Wicked: For Good," informally
- Co-Stooge of Larry
- Co. name ending
- Co. that created the first floppy disk
- Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers
- Co. with a lot of connections?
- Co. with red-and-yellow trucks
- Co.'s $$$ head
- Coastal inlet
- Coastal waterway
- "Cobra ___" (Netflix series)
- ___ code (what most product packages have)
- Code for Queens-landers?
- Code of the world's busiest airport
- Code-breaking grp.
- Coffee container
- Coffee spot
- Cohort above jrs.
- Coin dated with the year of its country's imperial era
- Coll. senior's test
- Collecting org.
- Collection of poker bets
- College admissions fig.
- College football rival of Michigan, for short
- College located in Cedar Rapids
- College sr.'s test
- College subj. that can be evolutionary or behavioral
- Cologne conjunction
- Colonel Sanders's chain
- Colonel Sanders's fast-food chain
- Colonial rule in India
- Colony member
- Color associated with passion
- Color on the beach
- ___-color pasta
- Colorado Plateau people
- Colorful pond fish
- Colossal quantity
- Combat sport, for short
- Combine
- "Come to our rescue!"
- Come up short money-wise
- Comedian Costello
- Comedian Margaret
- Comedian Notaro
- Comedian Sedaris
- Comedian Wong
- Comic book onomatopoeia
- Command to a jumpy dog
- Comme ___ Garçons (fashion label)
- Commercial lead-in to Caps or Balls
- Commercial preceder of Geo
- Commercial suffix with Power
- Commodity whose price has risen sharply in 2026
- Common ___
- Common adult ed. class
- Common beverage suffix
- Common Chinese surname
- Common day to enjoy Thanksgiving leftovers: Abbr.
- Common diner order
- Common end to an address
- Common export, nowadays
- Common fish-and-chips fish
- Common fixtures over fireplaces
- Common food shelf donation
- Common garnish in a chirashi bowl
- Common holder of pens
- Common injury site for a basketball player, informally
- Common item at a checkout line, informally
- Common palindromic text
- Common poke ingredient
- Common sight at an airport drop-off, in brief
- Common soccer cheer
- Commotion
- Communication syst. in which the letter Z is drawn with one's index finger
- Community property pronoun
- Company that made the world's first two-nanometer chip in 2021
- Compete
- Compete (for)
- Complete collection
- Complete dump
- Completely savage
- Completist's goal
- Complimentary lines
- Component of most salad dressings
- Composers' rights org.
- Compound found in marijuana, for short
- Compound in a joint
- Compound in some sleep aids, familiarly
- Computer addresses, for short
- Computer brought to a Genius Bar
- Computer cable type
- Computer covered by AppleCare
- Computer key that might be pressed repeatedly in a panic
- Computer networking addresses, for short
- Computer's "brain," in brief
- Computer's storage space, for short
- Computing pioneer Lovelace
- Con's opposite
- Concern for a seamstress
- Concert souvenir
- Conclude
- Conclusion
- Concorde, e.g., in brief
- Condition affecting TV's Monk, in brief
- Condition of Freud's "Rat Man," in brief
- Condition that may be treated with C.B.T.
- Conditions
- Conduct surveillance
- ___-cone
- Cone ___ (iconic Jean Paul Gaultier undergarment)
- Coney Barrett of the Supreme Court
- Confederate soldier, informally
- Confirmation from a maître d'
- Conflict sparked by an archduke's assassination: Abbr.
- Confucian "way"
- Congregant's seat
- Connected
- Connecticut governor Lamont
- Connection letters
- Connections
- Conned
- Conniption
- Consideration for an Oscar, informally
- Consideration when figuring out how early to arrive at the airport, for short
- Constellation feline
- Constellation near the Big Dipper
- ___ Constitution
- ___ constrictor
- Consumed
- Container at a beer blast
- Container for sardines
- Contents of a scuba diver's tank
- Contents of a sleeve
- Contents of l'océan
- Contents of la Seine
- Contents of plastic sleeves or jewel cases, informally
- Contents of some pockets
- "___ Contes d'Hoffmann" (Offenbach opera)
- Contribute
- Contribute something more
- Control center?
- Convened
- Convention bldg., in a mailing address
- Cook in oil
- ___ Cook, longtime tech C.E.O.
- Cooked rice, in Korean cuisine
- Cookie container
- Cool ___ cucumber
- Cool and in the know
- "Cool" quantity
- Cool, in streaming slang
- Cool, in ’90s slang
- Cool, old-style
- Coolers, for short
- Cooling units, in brief
- Copa Mundial chant
- Copacabana locale
- Copy cats?
- Corn whole?
- Corner key
- Cornish game ___
- Corp. exec overseeing engineers, say
- Corp. money bigwig
- Corrida cry
- Cosmetics alternative to Essie
- Costume that might include a black trench coat and sunglasses
- Counsel council, for short
- Counter order
- Counterculture drug, in brief
- Counterpart of "Pls"
- Counterpart of a sire, on a horse farm
- Counterpart of a sub
- Counterpart of down: Abbr.
- Counterpoint segue
- Country ___
- Country known for luxury tourism, in brief
- Country music's ___ Young Band
- Country that has hosted the most Olympics
- Country whose flag is known as "An Trídhathach" ("The Tricolor"): Abbr.
- Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.
- Course standard
- Court figs.
- Cousin of a curtsy
- Cousin of Gomez Addams
- Cousin of Inc.
- Cousin of kabuki
- Cow's mouthful
- Cowboy nickname
- Cpl. or sgt.
- CPR expert
- Crack of the ___ (ballpark sound)
- Crafty
- Crater's edge
- Craven behind the camera
- "___ crazy?"
- Creator of Beats Electronics, familiarly
- Creature sometimes trained for bomb detection
- Creatures on U.F.O.s, for short
- Credential for many a C.E.O.
- Crestfallen
- Crevice
- Crew need
- Cricket's Men in Green, on scoreboards
- Cries of pain
- Crime ring, for short?
- Crimebuster
- Criticize harshly
- Crop whose trade contributed to the Opium Wars
- Cross product
- Crossed (out)
- Crosses (out)
- Crossword clue type
- Crow's call
- Crow's cry
- Crumb-carrying insect
- Crunchy sandwich, for short
- Cry a river
- Cry at a bullfight
- Cry before being milked, maybe
- Cry between "Ready" and "Go!"
- Cry for milk, maybe
- Cry from Miss Piggy
- Cry in many a horror film
- Cry of frustration
- Cry of playful discovery
- Cry on a tennis court
- Cry over a newborn
- Cry uncontrollably
- Cry, cry, cry
- Cryptology grp.
- ___ culpa
- "___ Culturistas" (popular podcast)
- ___ Cup, tournament established in the 2020s
- Cup-and-ball or yo-yo
- Cupcake, in Ireland
- Cupful for a cold
- "Curb Your Enthusiasm" network
- Curious
- Curmudgeon's exclamation
- Curse
- Curve together, as one's hands
- Curved path
- Curved shape
- Curvy shape
- Customizable avatar for Nintendo games
- Cut down on greens?
- Cut out
- Cut the grass
- Cut, as grass
- Cutesy suffix with "best"
- Cutter with teeth
- Córdoba's country: Abbr.
- D&D or WoW
- D&D, e.g.
- D- or F-worthy
- D.C. winter hours
- D.C.'s National ___
- D.O.J. agency
- D.O.J. bigwigs, in brief
- D.O.J. branch that deals with trafficking
- Dad on "Black-ish"
- Daddy
- Dads
- Dallas baller
- Dallas hooper, for short
- Dallas N.B.A. player, for short
- Damage
- "Dancing With the Stars" network
- Dandy
- "Dang!"
- Dangerous sort of stick
- Dangerous, as a winter sidewalk
- Danson of "The Good Place"
- Dark half of a famous duality
- Dark side
- "Darn it!"
- Darth Vader's childhood nickname
- Dashboard reading, for short
- "___ dat" (slangy agreement)
- "___ dat?"
- Date in France?
- Dated
- Dating app listing
- "Daughter," in Hebrew
- Dawn deity
- Dawn hrs.
- Day before a big day
- Day before taking the SAT: Abbr.
- Day-___ paint
- Days or Knights follower
- De Armas of "Knives Out"
- De Armas who starred in 2025's "Ballerina"
- ___ de Janeiro
- ___ de los Muertos
- ___ de Mayo (symbol on the flags of Argentina and Uruguay)
- ___ de plume
- ___-de-sac
- De-tension center?
- "Deadline" for a rush order
- Deadpan
- "Deadwood" actor McShane
- Dear ___ (letter start)
- Dearie
- "___ death do us part"
- Debtor's note
- Debussy's "La ___"
- Decade makeup: Abbr.
- Decide (to)
- "Decidedly not"
- Deciding periods, in brief
- Declare
- Decline cookies, say, with "out"
- Decorative vessel
- Dedicated lines
- "Dee-lish!"
- Deep sorrow
- Deep-dish vessel
- Deep-frying vessel
- Deer mother?
- Deface
- Defensive player who keeps an eye on the QB, in football lingo
- Defensive tennis shot
- "Definitely!"
- Deg. for a writer
- Deg. for an entrepreneur
- Deg. for some writers
- Deg. held by many a C.E.O.
- ___ degree
- Delhi lentil stew
- Deli bread option
- Deli counter units: Abbr.
- Deli selection
- Deli supply
- "Delicious!"
- Delivery person's assignment: Abbr.
- Demon of Japanese folklore
- Demure
- Denali and Whitney: Abbr.
- Denali, e.g.: Abbr.
- Denial in Aberdeen
- Denials
- Dennis's sister on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
- Density symbol
- Deplete
- Deposit that might gather interest?
- Deposit/withdrawal site, in brief
- Depot: Abbr.
- Depressed
- Derivative of sin
- Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief
- Designation for the Louisville Bats and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp
- Designation for the Toledo Mud Hens
- Designer who helped popularize the beatnik look, in brief
- Desire
- "Despicable Me" antihero
- Dessert often eaten before the ides of March
- Dessert with a crust
- Destination
- Destination for a mother-daughter day, perhaps
- Destiny in life
- Detective, in old shorthand
- Device built into most laptops
- Device once used with a Blockbuster rental
- Device with a keypad that's typed on discreetly, for short
- Devoured
- ___ Dhabi
- ___-di-dah
- Dial-up pioneer
- Diamond, e.g.
- Diarist Anaïs
- Dictionary tag: Abbr.
- Didn't play
- Difficulty, to Hamlet
- DiFranco who made her Broadway debut in "Hadestown"
- Dig in
- Dig up dirt?
- Digital ID?
- Digressive remark
- Diminutive Spanish suffix
- Dined
- Ding-dong
- Dinghy thingy
- Dip
- Dip target, maybe
- Dir. from San Francisco to Santa Monica
- Dir. from St. Paul to Duluth
- Direction from N.Y.C. to Miami: Abbr.
- Directly
- Director Coppola of 2024's "The Last Showgirl"
- Director DaCosta of "The Marvels"
- Director DuVernay
- Director Guillermo ___ Toro
- Director Howard
- Director Jon M. ___
- Director Lee
- Disappointing firework
- Disc golf "hole"-in-one
- Disclaimer in a quote
- Disco guy on "The Simpsons"
- Disconsolate
- Discouraging words
- Disgusted squeals
- Dish often topped with lime and cilantro
- Dish that's often fermented before eating
- Dish traditionally flavored with Saigon cinnamon
- Disingenuous reply to "Are you asleep?"
- Disney still
- Disney World souvenir
- Dispensary inits.
- $$$ dispenser
- Display option, in brief
- Dissenting votes
- Distant
- Distinct period
- Distinct stretch of years
- Distinctive doctrine
- Division of Warner Bros. Discovery
- Do a diner job
- Do a restaurant job
- Do one better than
- Do some cleaning
- Do some garment-making
- Do some lawn work
- Do something
- Do wrong
- Do-over at serving
- Doc seen for an annual checkup
- Doc using an otoscope
- Doc who's seen for sinusitis
- Doctor
- Doctor's order, for short
- Document that promises secrecy, for short
- Documentarian Burns
- Dog's warning
- Doll that comes in multiple body types, skin tones, eye colors and hair colors
- Dollop
- Domain for salty dogs
- Dominate, in sports slang
- Dominican poet Pedro ___
- Domino dot
- Don't believe it
- "Don't give up!"
- "Done!," in geometry class
- Donkey, by another name
- Doo-wop's ___ Na Na
- Dooley Wilson's role in "Casablanca"
- Dope
- Doraphobe's fear
- Dorm leaders, in brief
- Dorm supervisors, in brief
- Dorm V.I.P.s
- Dot follower
- Dot follower in academia
- Dot on a domino
- Double-crosser
- Double-decker, e.g.
- Double-helix molecule
- "___ Doubtfire"
- Dove's soft call
- Down in the dumps
- Down Under bird that scientists are working to "de-extinct"
- Down Under bounder, for short
- Down Under land: Abbr.
- "Down, doggy!"
- Downed
- Downward ___ (basic yoga pose)
- Dr. Seuss's Sam-___
- "Dr." from Compton
- "Dr." who co-founded Death Row Records
- Dr.'s order?
- Draft pick?
- Drag performer's accessory
- Dramatic end to a World Cup game, for short
- "Drat!," in Dortmund
- Dreaded workday: Abbr.
- Dream setting, for short
- Dream stage
- Dream Team country, for short
- "___ dreaming?"
- Dress (up)
- Drill insert
- Drill instructor's rank: Abbr.
- Drink "for two," in song
- Drink cooler
- Drink served by the Mad Hatter
- Drink slowly
- Drink suffix
- Drink that may come in a yard
- Drinks with or without pulp, for short
- Dripping, say
- Driver's guide, for short
- Droll
- Drone or queen
- Droop
- Drop
- Drop the ball
- Drug featured in "How to Change Your Mind"
- Drug taken in tabs
- Dubai's country, for short
- Dude
- Dude in Jamaica
- Duds in bed?
- Due + 1
- Duluth-to-Minneapolis dir.
- Dummkopf
- Dump
- Dundee dissent
- Duo with the 1999 hit "Steal My Sunshine"
- Día de ___ Muertos
- Día de ___ Reyes Magos
- E, in a code
- E.M.T. process often administered to the beat of "Stayin' Alive"
- E.M.T.'s skill
- E.R. V.I.P.s
- Eager response to "Wanna join?"
- ___-eared
- Earlier
- Earliest drug approved to treat H.I.V.
- Early chat app with a Buddy List, in brief
- Early Chinese dynasty
- Early email provider
- Early giant in punch-card tabulating systems
- Early hrs.
- Early leader in instant messaging
- Early major producer of vacuum tubes
- Earn a bronze?
- Eastern philosophy
- Eats
- Eccentric
- Edge of a snifter
- Educational inst.
- Educational support grp.
- ___ effect (purported influence of police shows on juries' expectations for forensics)
- Efron of "The Greatest Showman"
- Egg carton?
- Egg cells
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