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- Quench
- Questionable
- "Qui ___-vous?" (French for "Who are you?")
- Quibbles
- Quick bite
- Quick cut
- Quick kiss
- Quick puff on a joint
- Quick punches
- Quick touch on the nose, cutesily
- Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy
- "Quickly!"
- Quiet period
- Quinceañera celebrant, e.g.
- "Quit it!"
- Quite a few
- Quite the
- Quitter's word
- Quizzes
- "Qué ___ contigo?" ("What's wrong with you?")
- R&B singer Redding
- R&B's Braxton
- R-rated, maybe
- Rabbit relative
- Rabbit's title
- Raced
- Racetrack shape
- Rachel ___, author of "Heated Rivalry"
- Rackets
- Radar operator's concern
- Radio City Music Hall style, informally
- Rae of "Insecure"
- Rae who co-created "Insecure"
- Rae who played President Barbie in "Barbie"
- Rage
- Rain clouds, to some
- Rain on your wedding day, perhaps
- Raisins, when on a celery-and-peanut-butter "log"
- Raison d'___
- Rake in
- "Ramona the ___" (Beverly Cleary book)
- Rams' mates
- Ran in the rain, perhaps
- Rank of some profs: Abbr.
- Rapper ___ Ma
- Rapper ___ Rocky
- Rapper born Tracy Lauren Marrow
- Rapper in K-pop's Blackpink
- Rare four-award achievement in entertainment, for short
- Rare U.S. bills
- Rarities in baseball routs
- Rat (on)
- Rate
- Rate of passage
- Raven's haven
- Raving
- Ray of light
- Ray of McDonald's
- Razor brand
- Razor scooters and Rubik's Cubes, once
- Reach across
- Reach out with your fingers?
- Reached new heights
- Reaching far and wide
- Reacted to a bad taste, perhaps
- Reacted to capturing a championship, perhaps
- Reaction to a hilarious text
- Read quickly
- Read receipt below an Instagram message
- Read, as a bar code
- Ready for business
- Ready to eat
- Ready, willing and ___
- Real comedian
- Real grind
- Real hoot
- Reality TV icon ___ Leakes
- Really eager
- Really get to
- Really long yarn
- Really weak, as an excuse
- Really, really
- "Really?!"
- Rear end
- Reason for success in games like Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders
- Reason to edit a text message
- Reason to give a darn?
- Reason to see an ophthalmologist
- Reason to take a painkiller
- Reasonable
- Reassurance after a loud crash, say
- Reassuring reply
- Rebel Alliance princess
- Rebel's opposite
- Rebound, as a pool shot
- Recipe amt.
- Recipe directive
- Reclined
- Record of money owed
- Record, in a way
- Recording studio effect
- Recover from injury
- Red carpet hairstyle, perhaps
- Red denizen of Sesame Street
- Red state
- Red vegetable
- Red, in Spanish
- Red, white and blue land: Abbr.
- Red-coated cheese
- Red-haired hunter in Genesis
- Red-haired outdoorsman in Genesis
- Red-hot flow
- Redding who sang "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"
- Redding with two posthumous Grammys
- Reddish-brown color
- Reddish-purple vegetable
- Redheaded "Queen of Country"
- Redheaded monster on TV
- Reduce
- Reduce to a pulp
- Reference
- Refs' ring rulings
- Refuses to
- Regalia for some queens
- Regarding
- Regarding, on a memo
- Region
- Region that produces Riesling wine
- Regrets
- Reign man
- Reindeer cousins
- Reject, as a bill
- Relative of a gull
- Relative of a harp
- Relative of Hindi
- Relative of turquoise
- Relatives of banjoleles
- Relaxing soak
- Relaxing sounds
- Relayed, as a story
- Release
- Release steam
- Relieves (of)
- Religious offshoot
- Religious wearer of a turban known as a dastar
- Relinquish
- Remain unresolved
- "___ remains to be seen"
- Remedy for a missed exit
- Remedy for deflation
- Remote button with a house icon
- Remote worker's office, perhaps
- Remove from a position of power
- Remove outer parts from, as a photo
- Remove unceremoniously
- Remove, as from a cluttered container, with "out"
- "Render ___ Caesar …"
- Rent
- Rep
- Repeated cry at a kegger
- Repeated role for Chris Hemsworth
- Repellent ingredient
- Repellent spray
- Repetitive sound effect
- Repetitive way of learning
- Reposed
- Reptiles on papyrus
- Request after eating a habanero, perhaps
- Request at the bottom of an invitation
- Request from a dentist
- Requests
- Require
- Requirement
- Requirement for a juror
- Research for a political hit, slangily
- Reserve in advance
- Resident of Ayrshire or Lanarkshire
- Residue on Santa's suit
- Resort near Snowbird
- Resort that bans snowboarding
- Respond to the alarm
- Response of comprehension
- Response to a funny text
- Responsibility
- Rest like a bat
- Restaurant chain acronym
- Restaurant chain with locations in more than a dozen countries, thus justifying the first letter in its name
- Restaurant handout
- Resting place for a boa
- Rests
- Result of a shopping spree
- Result of brainstorming
- Result of breaking the ice?
- Result of touching poison ivy
- Result of yelling into a cave
- Retail chain with ready-to-assemble products
- Retail giant with a three-syllable name in four letters
- Retail outlet with a store map at its entrance
- Retailer across the street from Rockefeller Center
- Retired rapper Azalea
- Return filers, for short
- Reunion attendee, for short
- Reunion attendee, informally
- Reunion group
- Reveal
- Revealing statement?
- Revel (in)
- Revered figure
- Revered one
- Revs (up)
- Rice lookalike
- Rice-A-___
- Rice-shaped pasta
- Richard of "Pretty Woman"
- Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven"
- Rickman who played Snape
- Riddle in Zen Buddhism
- Rider's line
- Rides
- "Right away!"
- Right direction?
- "Right now!"
- "Right on, man"
- Right out of the ___
- "Right, gotcha"
- "Right, right, right"
- Right-eous path?
- Rightmost compartment in a till
- Rights advocacy org.
- Rights advocacy org. since 1920
- Ring
- Ring around the pupil
- Ring in many Renaissance paintings
- Ring location
- Ring of light
- Ring stats
- Riot
- Rip apart
- Rip-___ (awful deals)
- Rip-off
- Ripped (up)
- Risqué
- River at Memphis
- River by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
- River deposit
- River in which Achilles was dipped (except for his heel!)
- River in which baby Moses was found
- River of the Greek underworld
- River of the underworld, in Greek myth
- River past Cincinnati
- River through Kazakhstan
- River through Orsk
- River whose basin spans 11 countries
- River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi
- Riverbank deposit
- Riveted
- Road Xing animal
- Roams (about)
- Roaring Twenties style, informally
- Rob of "The West Wing"
- Robert Frost creation
- Robitussin target
- Rock band with albums like "High Voltage" and "Flick of the Switch"
- Rock climber's handhold
- "Rock of Ages" or "Stand by Me"
- Rock's Carmen or Clapton
- Rod Flanders's brother on "The Simpsons"
- Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting
- Rogen of "The Studio"
- "Roger that"
- Roll call response
- "Roll the ___!"
- Rolling ___ (super rich)
- Rolling in it
- Rolling series of comments on a Twitch stream
- Rolls out the green carpet?
- Roman author of "Metamorphoses"
- Roman emperor who competed in the Olympics (and "won" every event he was in)
- Roman Empire invader
- Roman goddess who drives a two-horse chariot
- Roman love god
- Roman poet who wrote "Metamorphoses"
- Roman theaters
- Roman à ___
- ___ Romeo
- ___ Romeo (sports car)
- Romeo or Juliet, notably
- Romp
- Romulus and Remus, e.g., for short
- Roof overhang
- Roof projection
- Roof type with removable panels
- Rooftop accessory often shaped like a rooster atop an arrow
- Room in an adobe
- Room in the audience up for grabs
- Room in una casa
- Rooster giving directions on a farm, maybe
- Roosters' mates
- Root used in making poi
- Root vegetable used for poi
- Rory's love interest on "Gilmore Girls"
- Rory's school on "Gilmore Girls"
- Rose bowl?
- Rose's lover of 1920s Broadway
- Ross Edgley's 1,700+-mile journey around Great Britain, for example
- ___ Ross, George Clooney's role on "ER"
- Roti alternative
- Roughly
- Roughly equivalent (to)
- Round figure
- Round striker
- Roundish, say
- Routine surfaces
- Roves
- Row house?
- Row houses, to Brits
- Rowers' workout machines, informally
- Rowing machines, in gym lingo
- Royal term of address
- Royal title
- Rubber ducky's "habitat"
- Rubber end of a golf club
- Rubberneck
- Rubbery part of a handlebar
- Ruckus
- "Rude Boy" singer, to fans
- Rude sound at the dinner table
- Ruffian
- Ruffle or Pringle
- Ruler before 1917
- Ruler division
- Ruler in Russian history
- Ruminate (over)
- Run amok
- Run in neutral
- Run into
- Run-down
- Runners carry it
- Running behind schedule
- Runs
- Runs out of gas
- Runs superbly
- Rural skyline feature
- Rural structure seen in a Grant Wood lithograph
- Rush order
- Rushing yards, e.g., informally
- Russia's Peter the Great, e.g.
- Russian denial
- Russian refusal
- Russian ruler of old
- Rustic verse
- Rustic wedding venue
- Rx quantity
- Ryan and Adams of Hollywood
- Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu, in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie"
- Résumé problems, at times
- S, as in shaker
- S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short
- S.E.C. football powerhouse, informally
- "S.N.L." alum Bryant
- "S.N.L." alum Nora
- Sacha Baron Cohen character
- Sacha Baron Cohen persona
- Sacred bird of ancient Egypt
- Sacred bird to the Egyptians
- Sacrifice in some chess gambits
- Safari destinations?
- Safe place to stand on a diamond
- Safety devices for trapeze artists
- Sagacious
- Sahara-esque
- Said "guilty," say
- Said angrily
- Said who's who or what's what?
- Sailboat propeller
- Sailor's opener
- Sailor's patron
- Sailor's septet
- ___-Saint-Michel (French commune on a tidal island)
- Salacious material
- Salad choice
- Salad ingredient often paired with goat cheese
- Sale caveat
- Salon job, informally
- Salon service, for short
- Salsa quality
- Salt Lake City's home
- Salt's formula
- Salt-N-___, "Shoop" group
- ___ saltado (Peruvian stir-fry dish)
- Samberg of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
- San Francisco or San Antonio
- San Francisco's rail system
- ___ San Lucas, Mexico
- "___ Sancte Spiritus" (medieval Latin hymn)
- Sandwich shop
- Sandwiches often on toasted bread
- Sandwiches that are neither kosher nor halal
- Sanskrit word for "teacher"
- Santa ___, city that's home to the Charles M. Schulz Museum
- "Santa Baby" singer Eartha
- "Santa Claus in Camp" artist, 1863
- Santa makes one
- Santa's "present" for naughty kids
- Santa's landing place
- Sapa ___ ("the only emperor" in Quechua)
- Saps
- Sarcastic "Sure"
- ___ Sarratore, "My Brilliant Friend" character
- Satanic
- Satellite alternative
- Satirist Freberg
- Sauron's soldiers in "The Lord of the Rings"
- Sausage segment
- Saves, as a digital location
- Savory South Asian rice cake
- Say "$%&!," say
- "Say ___!" ("Alright, I get it")
- Say again
- Say for sure
- "Say it ___ so!"
- Scads
- Scallops can have hundreds of tiny blue ones
- Scandinavian capital
- Scandinavian city that's home to a bunch of Munch
- Scandinavian name that becomes a number if you add an "e" inside it
- Scaredy-cat
- Scary Spice, by another nickname
- Scatters, as seeds
- Sch. attended by Steve Martin, James Dean and Jack Black (none of whom stayed to graduate)
- Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 405
- Sch. with the Daily Bruin newspaper
- Schism
- Schlep
- Scholarly "same"
- ___ school
- School described as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen"
- School grps.
- School on the Thames
- School support grps.
- School with a larger-than-life bronze statue of Henry VI
- Schooner's stabilizer
- Sci-fi character who says "Your father, he is"
- Sci-fi franchise that takes place in "the Grid"
- Sci-fi franchise with light cycles
- Sci-fi princess
- Sci-fi warrior
- Scientific classification for birds
- Scissor cut
- Scissors sound
- Scoop holder
- Scorch
- Score direction for some stringed instruments
- Score somewhat akin to an A-
- Score with some acid
- Scot's word meaning "past"
- Scotch order specification
- Scotch's partner
- ___ Scotia
- Scotsman's wear
- Scottish caps
- Scottish dance
- Scottish girl
- Scottish hill
- Scottish loch
- Scottish terrier breed
- SCOTUS head count
- Scoundrels
- Scourge
- "Scram!"
- Scrapbook keepsake
- Scraped (by)
- Scrapes (out)
- Scrapes (out), as a living
- Scratch that!
- Scratches (out)
- "Scream" queen Campbell
- Screen capture?
- Screen name
- Screw or nail, to a Brit
- Screw-up
- Scruff : cat :: ___ : human
- Scuba gear
- ___ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean)
- Sea creature known to mourn its dead
- Sea creature that can weigh 400 pounds at birth
- Sea sight in black and white
- ___ Sea, body of water that lost 90% of its volume to irrigation
- ___ Sea, Kazakh/Uzbek body of water
- Seabird
- Seal hunter
- Search (through)
- Season
- Season in December
- Season ticket holders, presumably
- Seasonal tree purchases
- "Seasons of Love" musical
- Seat of one European monarchy
- Seaweed in an underwater forest
- Sebastian the ___, mascot of the Miami Hurricanes
- Secluded valley
- Second attempt
- Second chance
- Second City district, with "the"
- Second Freudian stage
- Second person seen in "Hamlet"
- Second-born son in the Bible
- Second-in-command
- Second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland, after Dublin
- Second: Abbr.
- Secondhand
- Seconds, say
- Secrecy contracts, in brief
- Secretary, for example
- Secrete
- Section in a textbook
- Sections of a circle's circumference
- Sections of a play
- Sections of pre-K days
- [See title]
- "See ya later!"
- "See ya!"
- Seeming eternities
- Seep
- Seized vehicle, in brief
- Selene's Roman counterpart
- Self-assured words
- Self-referential
- Self-righteous type
- Semaphore device
- Semi segments
- Semiaquatic carnivore
- Semiaquatic relative of a weasel
- Semihard cheese of North Holland
- Seminar head, informally
- Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say
- Send an instant message
- Send forth
- Send packing
- Send-___ (farewells)
- Senior dance party
- Senior event
- Sensation after getting a tattoo, for some
- Sensation before a migraine, medically
- Sensible
- Sensitivity
- Sentry's "Stop!"
- Sephora competitor
- Serenade
- ___ serif
- Serious aversion
- Serpentine shape in architecture
- Servant in "The Handmaid's Tale"
- Service org. since the 1850s
- Service symbolized by a dot and three curved lines
- Serving of meat loaf, maybe
- "Sesame Street" character who was once sung to sleep by Andrea Bocelli
- "___ sesame!"
- Set of 24 for a box jellyfish
- Set piece
- ___ Seton, author of "Foxfire" and "Katherine"
- Sets (on)
- Sets of points, in math
- Setting for most of the TV series "Pachinko"
- Setting for the graphic novel series "Persepolis"
- Setting of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
- Setting of many Winter Olympics
- Settle into a new home
- Settled down
- Settled down, in a way
- Settled on the ground, say
- Setup for an extra point
- Setups for some routers, in brief
- Seven-plus-hour exam with a lunch break, in brief
- Seville snack
- Shade in the desert
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