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- ___ Vista, Calif.
- Visually sizes up
- Voice above tenor
- Voice between soprano and tenor
- Voice of the modern age
- Voice of the smartphone generation?
- Volcano seen on HBO's "The White Lotus"
- Volunteer's offer
- Volunteer's words
- Voting group
- "Vous ___ ici"
- "Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase)
- Vow
- "W" on a light bulb
- W, on a map
- W.C.s
- W.N.B.A. star Jewell ___
- Wacky
- Wad in a wallet
- Waffle House alternative
- Wait for a passenger, perhaps
- "Wait, ___?"
- Waiter's handout
- Walk like a rhino
- Walk slowly and heavily
- Walked
- Walkers, informally
- Walking stick
- Wallop
- Walrus's long tooth
- Wander
- Wander aimlessly
- Wander this way and that
- "___ want for Christmas ..."
- Ward (off)
- Ward of "Sisters"
- Warms up for a race, say
- Warning after a slice
- Warning next to a suspicious link, perhaps
- Warning sign in a relationship, metaphorically
- Warren Beatty film based on "Ten Days That Shook the World"
- Was a copycat of
- Was a passenger
- Washington notes
- Washington paper
- Washstand item
- Wasteful government spending, informally
- Watch over
- Watch sound
- "Watch your ___!"
- Watch's display
- Water bearer
- Water containers
- Water pitcher
- Water, in Colombia
- Water, in Juárez
- ___ wave (summer phenomenon)
- Waves a hand in front of, maybe
- Way
- Way off
- Way off in the distance
- Way up a mountain, perhaps
- Ways to go: Abbr.
- Ways to raise capital, in brief
- Waze ways: Abbr.
- "We said the same thing at the same time!"
- "We stand today on the ___ of a new frontier": John F. Kennedy, 7/15/1960
- Weak, as an excuse
- Weak, submissive person, in modern slang
- Weapons
- Wear (out)
- Wear out around the edges
- Wear the same clothes, in slang
- Weather phenomenon often appearing in the evening
- Web addresses
- Web page
- Website associated with the domain www.news.com
- Website for finding professional services
- Website for restaurant bookings
- Website gift custom
- Website that competes with PCMag
- Website with a "Craft Supplies & Tools" page
- Website with a "Star Seller" program
- Wedding vows
- Wednesday a.k.a. ___ day
- Wee, informally
- "Weed ’Em and ___," gardening book whose title is a spoonerism
- Weight
- Weight to bear
- Weight unit at British markets
- Weird Al Yankovic parody of the Kinks's "Lola"
- Welcome figure on Wall Street, unwelcome figure in a china shop
- "Well, ___ that special!"
- Well-grounded
- Well-used pencil, say
- Wendy's, but not Jimmy John's, say
- Went (for)
- Went by plane
- Went hell for leather
- Went illegally fast
- Went on the fritz
- Werewolf on TV's "Wednesday"
- West Coast gas brand
- West Coast N.F.L. team
- West Coast sch. that joined the Big Ten in 2024
- West side?
- Western defense grp.
- Western Indians
- Whale groups
- What "Coco" is a nickname for, for tennis's Coco Gauff
- What "Eat" stands for in the mnemonic "Never Eat Soggy Waffles"
- What "masticate" is a fancy word for
- "What ___ can I say?"
- What a bargain hunter hopes to pay
- What a booth in a recording studio shouldn't have
- What a dawdler may need to pick up, with "the"
- What a diaper pail helps minimize
- What a dog might do to its owner
- What a drawbridge might cross
- What a leaky faucet has
- What a light bulb represents, in comics
- What a mosquito bite causes
- What a paper airplane icon may indicate
- What a phone call or new album might do
- "What a pity"
- What a punch line may end
- "What a relief!"
- What a rest indicates ... or a word after rest
- What a scare might make you do
- What a shepherd may shepherd
- What a stein might hold
- What a surfer might ride
- What a tall collar covers
- What a track athlete may do three times in one attempt
- What am I, chopped liver?
- What arms may hold, informally
- What blue crabs do roughly 20 times in their lifetimes
- What boilers and microwaves generate
- "What can ___ to help?"
- What can be found on frozen roads or frozen margaritas
- What cologne may mask
- What connects these names: Chris Pine, Zach Cherry, Willow Smith
- What Dante's second circle of hell represents
- What dogs do the most in the spring and fall
- What drones might be mistaken for
- What everyone becomes at the touch of love, per Plato's "Symposium"
- What Excedrin relieves
- What first has over second
- What gives a wine tartness
- What hearts represent in the face of a love emoji
- What helps you get a leg up?
- "___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!"
- What icicles do
- What makes a stud become studious?
- What many plants do in the heat
- What may precede a texter's two cents
- What might be made while clasping one's hands
- What might get filled up around dinnertime
- What might lead to a romantic rendezvous
- What might leave stains on a gardener's pants
- What might wind up in your mattress?
- What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions
- What parallel lines never do
- What postseason games can't end in
- What sets the tone
- What sfouf is, in Lebanese cuisine
- What shares a key with "(" on a keyboard
- What snobby people put on
- What some articles are written on
- What some bio majors do prep work for
- What some houses are built on
- What some may be dyeing to conceal?
- What some people think this puzzle's image represents
- What some tech companies mine
- What someone behind bars may need
- What someone flat-footed lacks
- What spicy food has
- What Taylor Swift calls the stages of her career
- What the "M" of BMX stands for
- What the 7 may mean in 7/11
- What Thomas Carlyle called "the dismal science," for short
- What time did in fun times
- What to do with egg whites when making meringue
- What travellers typically have in America?
- What yeast makes dough do
- What you do when you tour a certain SoCal campus, phonetically?
- What you eat
- "What"
- What's displayed at the top of many iPhone lock screens
- What's distorted in a Mercator projection
- What's going on
- What's more
- What's paid
- What's the point of bullfighting?
- What's to be with Québec?
- "Whatcha ___?"
- Whatchamacallit
- "Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma
- Wheel assembly component
- Wheel support
- Wheel that comes apart easily?
- When "One Day More" is sung in "Les Misérables"
- When doubled, a breed of dog
- When doubled, a cry of approval
- When doubled, a fluffy Chinese dog
- When doubled, Hawaiian for "very strong"
- When doubled, kid's term for a train
- When Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream" in "Les Misérables"
- When Macbeth meets the witches
- When many parks close
- When many take stock, informally?
- When repeated, "Oh, please"
- When repeated, "Preach!"
- When repeated, a fish
- When repeated, leading only to bad outcomes
- When repeated, secret
- When strikes go on the longest?
- When tripled, "That's correct!"
- Whence the line "Beware the ides of March" in "Julius Caesar"
- Where "the man gave names to all … the birds in the sky and all the wild animals"
- Where "You Are," on a mall map
- Where a congregation congregates
- Where a flock may gather
- Where a nuthatch hatches
- Where Adam and Eve were eatin' the apple, fittingly?
- Where an annoying person might be told to go?
- Where Anheuser-Busch is "BUD"
- Where Bart Simpson directs his prank calls
- Where bats hang
- Where Caitlin Clark played college hoops
- Where Caitlin Clark played Division I basketball
- Where Coca-Cola is KO
- Where Dante's path to paradise begins
- Where Eve reached for the forbidden fruit
- Where Ferrari is "RACE," in brief
- Where heroes are made?
- Where Jackie Robinson played four(!) college sports, in brief
- Where many family names begin O'-
- Where many papyrus plants grow
- Where Marco Polo is played
- Where Mongolia is
- Where one may park to see the Super Bowl
- Where some bills originate
- Where something irksome might stick
- Where the Bengals and Buckeyes play
- Where the coffee and Wi-Fi might both be strong
- Where the hands are placed when "Hey, Macarena!" is sung
- "Where the heart is"
- Where the monster and Frankenstein cross paths, in "Frankenstein"
- Where the N.F.L.'s Colts play, informally
- Where the Red Delicious apple originated
- Where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet
- Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines)
- Where Uzbeks and Uyghurs live
- Where you might lose your way
- Which way the Great Sphinx of Giza faces
- Whirling water
- ___ whiskey
- Whiskey mixer
- Whiskey portion of a boilermaker
- Whisky flavorer
- Whisper that might accompany a tap
- Whispered sound from a test cheater
- Whistling stickup man on "The Wire"
- White bed, perhaps
- White bills in Monopoly
- White dwarf phenomenon
- White part of an orange
- White whale chaser of literature
- Whitish
- Whizzed
- Who said "Revolutions are the locomotives of history"
- Who's asked the musical question "Do you want to build a snowman?"
- Who's that woman in Paris?
- "Whoa ... that's too much for my brain to handle!"
- Whole bunch
- Whole lot
- Whole lot (of)
- Whom Austin Powers parodies
- Whom you might say "hey" to every day
- Wicked
- Wide-eyed and eager
- Wielder of a red lightsaber
- Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, in myth
- Wields
- Wiener schnitzel meat
- Wife of Jacob
- Wikipedia or WebMD
- Wild ___
- Wild and funny
- Wild cards, at times
- Wild European rabbit in Australia, e.g.
- Wild guess
- Wilde thing
- "Will do!"
- Willie ___, first Black player in the N.H.L.
- Wilson of the Frat Pack
- Wind-up toy?
- Window ledge
- Window section
- "___ Window"
- Windows alternative
- Windows feature?
- Winds up
- Windy City exchange, in brief
- Windy City paper, with "the"
- Wine barrel
- Wine leftovers
- Wine list header
- Wine list heading
- Winner of a Booker prize, fittingly
- Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, with "The"
- Winnow
- Winslet with five Golden Globes
- Winter coaster
- Winter forecast
- Winter ride
- Winter road application
- Wisc. neighbor
- Wise counselor of sci-fi who might not be great at karaoke?
- Wise guy
- Wise one
- Wise thinker
- Wisecrack
- ___ Wiseman, commander on NASA's Artemis II mission
- Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern lingo
- Wished
- Wishes undone
- Wishy-washy words
- With a clean slate
- With dexterity
- With the bow, in music
- With warts and all
- With, in French
- With, in Oise
- Withdraw (from)
- Within
- Within a stone's throw of
- Without
- Without a date
- Without a warranty
- Without charge
- Witnessed
- Woes
- ___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America)
- Woman central to electioneering?
- Woman of the d'Urbervilles
- Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters
- Woman's sleeveless undershirt, for short
- Women in ___ (educational advocacy group)
- Wood sculptor's tool
- Wood strip found in many Ikea bed supports
- Wood-shaping hand tool
- Woodpecker food
- Woods of "Legally Blonde"
- Woods seen on Broadway
- ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist
- Woodsy scent
- Woodwind related to the cor anglais
- Woodworking tool
- Word after "Copy" or "Fancy"
- Word after "leading" and "first"
- Word after B or bucket
- Word after back or snack
- Word after finger or poke
- Word after Georgia, Virginia or low
- Word after news or line
- Word after rib or batting
- Word after video or Scotch
- Word aptly filling the blanks of this verb: SE_ _ _A_E
- Word before "a hand" or "a hoot"
- Word before "language" or "lotion"
- Word before baked or naked
- Word before beer or after square
- Word before chance or pickings
- Word before market or collar
- Word before or after butt
- Word before stick or after Scotland
- Word before ware or ball
- Word fittingly evoked by the phrase "Together everyone achieves more"
- Word following bear or honey
- Word following bike or memory
- Word for "dad" in Spanish, Italian, Russian and Hindi
- Word found at the start of "Poe, to name one"
- Word made up of the four main compass points
- Word of farewell in old Rome
- Word often printed in red
- Word on a Staples button
- Word on either side of "___, all ___!"
- Word on either side of "against"
- Word on either side of "or no"
- Word on either side of "à"
- Word repeated before "against the dying of the light" in a Dylan Thomas poem
- Word repeated during a mic check
- Word repeated in "___ ye, ___ ye!"
- Word repeated into a mic
- Word repeated while trying out a microphone
- Word rhymed with "flash" in "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
- Word shouted into a canyon
- Word sung three times in a row in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- Word that comes from Sanskrit for "bread"
- Word that may precede itself?
- Word used in conditional coding
- Word with ball or board
- Word with bean or lemon
- Word with black or coffee
- Word with block or platform
- Word with cap or socks
- Word with cavity or contraceptive
- Word with confidence or checkout
- Word with cooler or country
- Word with dish or drag
- Word with family or fir
- Word with flat or tax
- Word with freeze or hike
- Word with giver or taker
- Word with good or raw
- Word with grade or school
- Word with guitar or go
- Word with happy or half
- Word with home or half
- Word with live or chicken
- Word with napkin or nose
- Word with rabbit or all
- Word with rock or medicine
- Word with set, cast or writer
- Word with sound or snake
- Word with sponge or fish
- Word with still or shelf
- Word with sweet or blind
- Word with vault or position
- Word with wax or butter
- Word with wet or sweat
- Word with wine or city
- Wordle or Boggle
- Wordless entertainment
- Words ___ Friends
- Words after cash or zero
- Words after check, follow or catch
- Words before "with my little eye," in a game
- Words before a date
- Words exchanged at the wedding altar
- Words of affirmation
- Words of denial
- Words of reproach following a betrayal
- Words of understanding
- Words on either side of "___ is ___"
- Words on either side of "___ what ___"
- Words with one's right hand raised
- Work benefit
- Work like a dog
- Work overseer
- Work place
- Work well together
- Work with Python, say
- Work's opposite
- Work, as a joke
- Workers in a colony
- Workers' rights org.
- Working hard
- Working obediently
- Works of praise
- Works with a needle
- World capital near the 60th parallel
- World capital on both banks of the Daugava River
- World capital that's home to the Kon-Tiki Museum
- World traveler's need
- World's fair, e.g.
- World's largest country with a four-letter name
- Worms and such on hooks
- Worry, worry, worry
- Worshiper in a turban
- Worshiper's locale, at times
- Worth a pick?
- ___ Wowie (cocktail with a rhyming name)
- Wrangler on the road
- Wrap for an athlete's injury
- Wrap in South Asia
- Wrap seller
- Wrap, as rope
- Wrapped garment
- Wrapper at a Japanese restaurant
- Wraps
- Wraps (up)
- Wrestler/actor John
- Wriggly swimmers
- Wrinkle remover
- Wrinkly citrus fruit
- Wrinkly fruit
- Write on stone, maybe
- Writer Lowry
- Writer of "Esmé" and "The Open Window"
- Writes
- "Wrong answer"
- Wrote fiction?
- Wyatt at the O.K. Corral
- ___-X (computer command to cut text)
- x or y
- X or Y, often
- X's, sometimes
- X's, to Aphrodite
- X-ray units
- Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
- Yamaha product
- Yankees nickname until 2016
- Yanks (off)
- Yea or nay
- "Yeah, nice try"
- "Yeah, right!"
- "Yeah, why not!"
- Yearn
- Yearn (for)
- Yearnings
- Yell sharply
- "Yep, noticed that"
- "Yes, ___!" (phrase popularized by the restaurant drama "The Bear")
- "Yikes!"
- Yokel
- Yosemite or Yellowstone
- "You ___?"
- "You are correct about that"
- "You bet!"
- "You betcha!"
- You can find her in this clue (hidden!)
- "You can say ___ again!"
- "You can say that again"
- "You can't make me!," e.g.
- "You don't need to tell me"
- "You got that right!"
- "You have a point there"
- "You just made that up!"
- You love, in Latin
- You might dance on one
- You might go on tiptoe in this
- You might heave a big one
- You might take a spin in this
- "You said it!"
- "You talkin' ___?"
- You'll pay for this!
- "You're ___ something!"
- "You're full of baloney!"
- You're looking at it!
- You're reading one
- "You," archaically
- Young fellows
- "Young Frankenstein" woman
- Young lady
- Young miscreant
- Young newts
- Young stud
- Young ’uns
- "___ Your Enthusiasm"
- ["Your fly is open"]
- "Your guide to a better future" website
- "___ your mouth!"
- "Your point being ...?"
- "Your turn to speak"
- "Your turn," on a radio
- "Yuck!"
- Zebras in the field?
- Zen riddle
- Zeno of ___, Greek philosopher who rejected the existence of space, time and motion
- Zero
- Zero out, in a way
- Zest
- Zesty flavor
- Zilch
- Zing ___ (brand of Bloody Mary mix)
- Zip
- Zipped along
- Zoom call issue
- Zoom, e.g.
- Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes ___ Watching God"
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