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- Eight bits
- Eight, in Spain
- Eight, in Spanish
- Eight, on a grandfather clock
- Either acting sibling Andrew or Elisabeth
- Either bronze animal in front of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Either brother who wrote 1996's "Fargo"
- Either of two wives of Henry VIII
- Eject
- El ___, Tex.
- El ___, West Texas metropolis
- El Pollo ___ (chicken chain)
- Elaborate trick
- Elapsed
- Elate
- Election-influencing groups, for short
- Electrical resistance units
- Electrical units
- Electrified Olympic weapon
- Electronic musician Steve
- Element between copper and gallium on the periodic table
- Element between fluorine and sodium
- Element with the symbol Ne
- Elephant ___ (pastries)
- Eliminated for not following the rules, informally
- Eliot of the Untouchables
- Ellington's "Take ___ Train"
- Elliptical areas
- Elmer who hunts "wabbits"
- Elmer's nemesis
- Elmer's product
- "Elvis at ___" (classic album of Memphis recordings)
- Elvis Presley's middle name
- Em, to Dorothy
- Email sign-off
- Email status
- Emails discreetly
- Emanating glow
- Embellish as with unnecessary words
- Emergency alerts, for short
- Emergency removal, in brief
- Emily Dickinson's early period
- Emmy winner Ann of "The Handmaid's Tale"
- Emoji indicating interest
- Emoji used to mean "Ooh, interesting"
- Emoji voiced by Sir Patrick Stewart in "The Emoji Movie"
- Emotional state
- Emperor who didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned
- "Empire of the ___" (1977 sci-fi film with an approval rating of 5% on Rotten Tomatoes)
- Empire State Building's style, informally
- Empty ___ (home after the kids go off to college)
- Empty vehicle weight
- Emu relative
- Emulate a vagabond
- Emulates a dog around the family dinner table
- Emulates Big Boi and Lil' Kim
- En ___ (legal phrase)
- En ___ (with all the judges present)
- Enclose in fancy paper, say
- Encounter
- Encumbrance
- End of a fishing line
- End piece?
- End-of-semester hurdle
- Ending of seven country names
- Ending with Jumbo or beta
- Ending with kitchen
- Ending with kitchen or earthen
- Ending with the name Ann or Nan
- ENE and WSW
- Enemy of Wonder Woman
- Engage in a playful back-and-forth
- English boarding school attended by many royals
- English facilities
- English school at which teachers are known as "beaks"
- English singer Parks
- English writer/philosopher ___ Wollstonecraft
- Engrave
- Enjoy a fantasy, say
- Enjoying recognition
- Enlivens, with "up"
- Enormous
- "Enough already!"
- "Enough out of you!"
- Entered a bear market, say
- Enterprise rival
- Enthusiasm
- Enthusiastic
- Enthusiastic approval abroad
- Entice
- Entreaty
- Environmental activist Brockovich
- Environmental concern
- Environmental portmanteau
- Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally …"
- Epitome of graceful beauty
- Epitome of smoothness
- Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium
- Eponym of the company that marketed the first escalator
- Equipment for a gymnast
- Equipment for podcasters
- Equipped with footwear
- Erase
- Erelong
- Erin's onetime love interest on "The Office"
- Ernest in the Country Music Hall of Fame
- Erotic practice in "Fifty Shades of Grey," for short
- Erté's style, informally
- Erupt
- "Escape (The ___ Colada Song)"
- "Escape (The ___ Colada Song)" (last Billboard #1 hit of the 1970s)
- Espy
- Essayist who wrote "If you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool"
- Essayist who wrote "Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door"
- "Essays of ___" (19th-century collection)
- Essence
- Essential
- Establishments offering facials
- Et ___ (and others)
- Et ___ (and others: Lat.)
- Ethel Barrymore was a great one to Drew
- Etta James, vocally
- Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter
- Europe's highest volcano
- Europe's tallest active volcano
- European city on the Bay of Angels
- European landmark whose name begins with an "A" in classical literature
- European ski destination
- Eurovision contest entry
- Eve's man
- Eve's mate
- Even
- Even outcome
- Evening, in ads
- Event captured in the photograph "Into the Jaws of Death"
- Ever so slightly
- Ever's partner
- Evergreen trees with red arils
- Every day, say
- Every's partner
- "Everything must go!" event
- Evil counterpart in an 1886 novella
- "Ew, gross"
- ___ Ewbank, Hall-of-Fame football coach
- ___ ex machina
- Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen's status, repeatedly, in "Catch-22"
- Ex-Yankee with appearances on "Shark Tank," familiarly
- Exam
- Exam for a doctor-to-be
- Exam for a future atty.
- Exam for a future doc
- Exam for a future J.D.
- Exam for a future OB/GYN
- Exam for future docs
- Exam for some sophs.
- Exam that doesn't need pen or paper
- Exam with a max score of 1520
- Exams for srs.
- Exasperated cry
- Exceptionally good, in Gen Z slang
- Excessively uptight
- Exchange
- Exchanged words?
- [Excuse me]
- $$$ execs
- Executive's underling: Abbr.
- Exercise groups
- Exile locale for Napoleon
- Exits
- Expand, as dough
- Expected outcome
- Expensively elegant
- Expert employed by a sportsbook
- Experts
- Experts in CPR
- Exploits
- Explorer with her monkey friend Boots
- Explosion's sound
- Expressions of shame
- Extemporize to fill time, say
- Extend a tour of duty
- Extend, as a contract
- Extol
- Extra
- Extra-large film format
- Extreme craving
- Extreme happiness
- Extremely
- Exuberance
- ExxonMobil brand
- Eye affliction
- Eye drop?
- Eye irritation
- Eye part whose name shares the same etymological root as a throat part
- Eyelid affliction
- F or G, but not H
- Fab ___ (nickname for a noted University of Michigan basketball team)
- Fab ___ (nickname for the Beatles)
- Fabled example of poor competition strategy
- Fabric used for casino tables
- Fabrication expert
- Fabulous, in slang
- Face covering?
- Face off
- Facilities with treadmills
- Facility
- Facility that produces coins
- ___ facto
- Factual
- Fad toy of 1996
- Fail to engage
- Fail to include
- Fail to mention
- Fails to be
- Fair
- Fair trade, say
- Faire ___ (get by with, in French)
- Fairy tale fiend
- Fairy tale opening word
- Fairy tale villain
- Falco of "The Sopranos"
- Falcons' grp.
- Fall asleep, with "out"
- Fall into disrepair over time
- Fall short
- Falling-out
- Fallopian conduit
- Falls behind
- False front
- Falsehoods
- Famed opera with over 1,000 performances at the Met
- Familiar with the tricks of
- "Family Guy" character with a nasal voice
- "Family Guy" creator MacFarlane
- Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"
- Famous ___ cookies
- Famous last words
- "Famous" cookie baker
- "Famous" cookie entrepreneur
- "___ Fan Tutte"
- Fancy
- Fancy coif
- "Fancy meeting you here!"
- Fancy party
- Fancy prom ride
- "Fancy seeing you here!"
- Fancy-schmancy
- Fanfare
- Fantastic beast
- "Far from it"
- Far from the target, in a guessing game
- Farewell in Florence
- Farm females
- Farmer Hoggett's entrant in a sheepherding contest
- Farming area
- Farmland area unit
- Farmland measure
- Farthest points
- Fashion designer Emhoff
- Fashion designer Rabanne
- Fashion designer Schiaparelli
- Fashion inits. in Manhattan
- Fashion magazine founded in France
- Fashion's Oscar ___ Renta
- Fashionable
- Fast time?
- Fastener with an onomatopoeic name
- Fat in a bird feeder
- Fateful day
- Father
- Father of Deimos
- Father of five sons in the Bible
- Fatty tuna, at a sushi bar
- Favorable starting point of an auto race
- Favorite Muppet of little kids
- "Fearless" and "Folklore," for Taylor Swift
- Fearsome dinosaur, for short
- Feast offering lomi salmon
- Feature of a slasher film
- Feature of one's voice following a loud concert, say
- Feature of undermixed batter
- Features of some early presidential portraits
- February 14, informally
- Fed
- Federal food stamps initiative, familiarly
- Feedbag contents
- Feeling after a long hike
- Feeling it the next day
- Feeling the flu, say
- Fellas
- Fellow fighter
- Fells
- Fem. or masc.
- Female antelopes
- Female red deer
- Female sheep
- Females shepherded by shepherds
- Feminine pronoun in Florence
- Feminist sex educator Shere ___
- Feminist writer ___ Mae Brown
- Femme fatale-filled genre
- Fencing blade
- Fencing sword
- Feng ___
- Feodor I, for one
- "Fernando" group, 1976
- Ferry or wherry
- Festival flier
- Feudal estate
- Feudal underling
- Few and far between
- Fiber-rich substance
- Fibrous
- Fictional company famous for its duds
- Fictional lab assistant with a hunchback
- Fictional lover of Rochester
- Fictional maker of Rocket-Powered Roller Skates and Dehydrated Boulders
- Fictional manufacturer of a Do-It Yourself Tornado Kit
- Fictional subjects of 13 movies between 2000 and 2020
- Fiddler-emperor, legend has it
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- ___ fide (genuine)
- Fidget spinners and Labubu dolls, for two
- "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)
- Field
- Field for the philosopher David Hume, informally
- Field goal percentage, for one
- Field of study
- Field you can feel, maybe
- Fifth Avenue retailer
- Fifth Avenue store
- Fifth-most abundant element in the universe
- Fight night souvenir, perhaps
- Fight à la the Capulets and Montagues
- Fighting
- Figs. related to car loans
- Figs. that include interest
- Figure depicted in Michelangelo's "Pietà"
- Figure skating jump
- Figure that might be measured in acres
- Figure-eight, for example
- Figures on DraftKings or FanDuel
- File type
- Filing job, for short?
- Fill fully
- Fill up
- Fill-in
- Film ___
- Film composer Silvestri
- Film composer Zimmer
- Film director Johnson
- Film information on IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes
- Film that may have inspired "Sharknado"
- Final boss in the game God of War
- Final, e.g.
- Finalize, in a way
- Financial aid basis
- Find fault with, informally
- Finding a penny with the tails side up is said to be a bad one
- "Finding Nemo" setting
- Fine
- Fine-grained wood in some woodwind instruments
- Finger covering after eating Cheetos
- Finish (up)
- Finish line?
- Finishes deliberating
- Finishes off
- ___ Finn
- Fire enthusiast, slangily
- Fire truck attachment
- Fireball-throwing demons from Doom
- Firefighting aid
- Fireplace fuel
- Firework part
- Firm
- First Amendment protector, in brief
- First chimpanzee to orbit Earth
- First coin to use the $ symbol
- First in a line of 14 popes
- First in a race?
- First lady's partner
- First line on many a form
- First name in classic horror
- First name in daring jumps
- First name in hog riding
- First name in Norse exploration
- First name in soul music
- First name of the singer dubbed the "King of Soul"
- First part of a musical
- First place?
- First president to sit in the Oval Office
- First tennis player to achieve a Golden Slam
- First things first for a chef
- First to die in the Bible
- First two syllables of "I am what I am," aptly
- First word of "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- First, second or third
- First-class
- First-rate
- First-year law student, informally
- Fish in a negitoro roll
- Fish in niçoise salad
- Fish that can be 12 feet long
- Fish traditionally in the British dish "pie and mash"
- Fish whose name is a synonym for "complain"
- Fish with leaf-shaped larvae
- Fisheye, e.g.
- Fishy Hawaiian dish
- Fit
- Fit of irritation
- Fitting kind of exam for a dental student
- Five things in each of Shakespeare's plays
- Five train in Brooklyn
- Fivers
- Fix
- Fix a litter problem?
- Fix, at the vet's
- Fix, in a way
- ___ fixe
- Fixes, as a driveway
- Fizzy drink
- Fizzy pop
- Flabbergast
- Flag bearer
- Flair
- Flapjack franchise
- Flare up?
- Flash
- Flat earth?
- Flat-bottomed boat
- Flatbread from India
- Flatbread sometimes brushed with garlic butter
- Flatbread with a palindromic name
- Flavoring in an earthy whiskey
- Flaw in an argument
- Flex time?
- Flexible practice?
- Flightless bird from South America
- Flim-___
- Fling
- Float component
- Floating mountain of ice
- Flooring choice for a mudroom
- Floral Van Gogh subject
- Florentine farewell
- Flour in Indian cooking
- Flour used in Indian flatbreads
- Flour used to make paratha
- Flow down the neck
- Flow slowly
- Flubs
- Fluid-filled lump
- Fluttering insect that lends its name to a national storytelling event
- Flutters
- Fly by night ... or by day
- Fly catcher?
- Fly in the ointment
- Fly to new heights
- Fly-by-night types?
- Flying squirrel's landing point
- Foam on a seashore
- Focus of a concussion protocol
- Focus of many a small private college
- Focus of some physicists
- Focus of the historians Tacitus and Suetonius
- Foe of the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars
- Foe of Wonder Woman
- Foggy mental state
- Folded Mexican snack
- Folk singer Guthrie
- Follow
- Follow closely
- Follow directions
- "Follow me"
- Follow orders
- Follower of "4" on a love note
- Follower of "Gossip" or "Gone"
- Follower of "x" or "y"
- Follower of catch or latch
- Follower of hand or home
- Follower of John in the New Testament
- Follower of latch or catch
- Follower of New or teen
- Follower of open or closed, sartorially
- Follower of pointy or pigeon
- Follower of six or seven, but not five
- Follower of the Gospels?
- "&" follower, in some business names
- "Following that ..."
- Food brand for Fido
- Food court locale
- Food generally known outside the U.S. as "lady's fingers"
- Food item whose name comes from the Greek for "turn"
- Food or water
- Food, water or shelter
- Foot or stone
- Football field unit
- Football player's protection
- For fear that
- ___ for thought
- Forbidden subject in Islamic art
- Force felt on Earth, for short
- Force holding us onto Earth, informally
- Force through a food mill
- Ford or Lincoln
- Foreshadowing
- ___ forgiveness
- Fork prong
- Form a clump
- Form of detective fiction
- Formal accord
- Former alliance of France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and West Germany
- Former attorney general Bill
- Former boy band with the members Harry, Liam, Louis, Niall and Zayn, familiarly
- Former French president ___ Coty
- Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met
- Former Medicare IDs
- Former Mideast bigwig
- Former N.B.A. star Shawn with the nickname "Reign Man"
- Former queen of Jordan
- Former small-sized G.M. cars
- Former transportation secretary Elaine
- Forte
- Fortified stuff, maybe
- Fortune 500 listing: Abbr.
- Fortuneteller
- Forum setting
- Foul mood
- Foundations of many dad jokes
- Founder of Stoicism
- Foundry waste
- ___ fountain
- "Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 1945
- Four minus one
- Four-time N.B.A. All-Star Young
- Four-wheelers, in brief
- Fourth place in an N.F.L. division, for example
- Foxholes, e.g.
- Foxx of 1970s TV
- Fr. title
- Fragile mineral
- Frame for a game of pool
- "___ framed!"
- Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short
- Frank of diary fame
- Fraternal order since 1868
- Fraternity/sorority event
- Fraudulent offer
- Frayed
- Freakin' awesome
- ___-free
- Free trial version
- Free-spirited aesthetic
- Free-spirited style, informally
- Freedom from fretting
- Frees (of)
- Freeze
- Freeze's opposite
- Freight barge
- Freight car weights
- French "with"
- French 101 verb
- French bread?
- French city on the Rhone
- French crown?
- French director Clair
- French fashion magazine
- French filmmaker Jacques
- French for "with"
- French letter opener
- French name meaning "born again"
- Frequent forecast in Seattle
- Frequently
- ___ fresca (Latin American refreshment)
- Fresh and glowing, in skin-care terminology
- Fresh powder, e.g.
- Freshly
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