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- Utopias
- Utter fools, to a Brit
- Utter pandemonium
- Utter rubbish
- "V," to a violinist
- Valentine's Day symbol ... or a ’70s-’80s rock band
- Valletta's land
- ___ Valley (French wine area)
- Valuable commodity in "Dune"
- Value
- Van Gogh retreat in southern France
- Van Halen of Van Halen
- Vapes
- Vapes, familiarly
- Vapid
- Variety of cold brew
- Variety of violet
- Variety of wheat in a grain bowl
- Vaudeville show
- Vault in a mummy movie
- Vaulted
- Vegas attraction, with "the"
- Vegas casino shaped like a pyramid
- Vegetables in Cajun cuisine
- Vegetables that should typically be sliced lengthwise before washing
- Vegges out
- Vehemently dislike
- Vehicle subject to a 15 m.p.h. speed limit in New York City, as of 2025
- Veil worn by Muslim women
- Venomous snake
- Ventilated
- Ventricle suppliers
- Venue for a boss fight
- Verbally notify
- Verboten
- Vernacular found in Urban Dictionary
- ___ Veronese, "The Wedding at Cana" painter
- Versace's parent company
- Versatile Scrabble tile
- Very iffy
- Very little
- Very proficient
- Very, slangily
- Very, very
- Vessel often stored upside down
- Vexillologist's subject
- Vexing
- Via
- Vibe
- Vibes
- Vibes, in Gen Z speak
- Vice president Agnew
- Vicious circle?
- Video game character aptly celebrated on Mar. 10
- Video game section
- Vietnam's capital
- Vietnam's capital city
- Vikings' offense?
- Vikings, for example
- Villain
- Villain in the Bible's Christmas story
- Villainous expression
- Viola score symbol
- Violate the Tenth Commandment
- Violating the rules
- Violently eliminates, in gamer-speak
- Violinmaker of Cremona
- Virile
- ___ Virtue, three-time gold medalist ice dancer
- Viscous goo
- Visible part of a book on a bookshelf
- Visible sign of hard work
- Visionary people
- Visitor from another world
- Vividly shocking
- Vocal cords, informally
- ___ voce (under one's breath)
- Voguing sequence
- Volkswagen compact
- Volkswagen sedan
- Voltaire's penultimate play
- Volume units
- Volunteer's offer
- Volvos or VWs
- Vote in
- Vote into law
- Vote into office
- Voting spots
- Vowel quintet
- Vows you may stand for
- Vulgar
- W.N.B.A. star Caitlin
- "Waaaah!"
- Wading bird
- Waffle patterns
- Waft fragrant smoke around
- Waggish
- Wails
- "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" grouping
- Wake word for an Amazon device
- Wake-up call
- Walk around stealthily
- Walk with swagger
- Walk-off inning, usually
- Walk-on
- Walked through water
- Walked while fraught with worry, say
- Walks nervously, in a way
- Walkway for newlyweds
- Wall for an outdoor maze
- Walmart or Walgreens
- Walt Disney initially designed it as a utopian city
- Walt Disney's middle name
- "WandaVision" co-star Elizabeth ___
- Wanders
- Wanders here and there
- Want from
- Want more than anything
- War of 1812 treaty locale
- Warhead weapons, for short
- Warm and cozy
- Warm bed covering
- Warms up
- Warning before your breaking point?
- Warrior with throwing stars called shuriken
- Was mistaken
- Was out of other options
- Was over
- Was rude on the road or the dance floor
- Was totally awesome
- Wash away
- Wash under a tap
- Wash vigorously
- Wash with a glycol spray, as an airplane wing
- Washer cycle after "wash"
- Washing the dishes, e.g.
- Wasn't doing well
- Wasn't even close, as in comparison
- Wasn't paying attention
- Watch an entire season in one day, say
- Watch brand with a crown logo
- Watchdog's warning
- Water colors
- Water filter brand
- Water nymph of Greek myth
- Water or rust, chemically
- ___ water, cooking ingredient sometimes called "liquid gold"
- Watercraft for an Inuit
- Wave to, say
- [waving the white flag]
- Way
- Way in
- Wayne's buddy in "Wayne's World"
- Wayne's sidekick in "Wayne's World"
- "___ we all?"
- "We feel the same way"
- "We feel the same!"
- "We need to talk"
- "We're alike in that way"
- "We're innocent of wrongdoing"
- "We're live!" studio sign
- "We're the best!," e.g.
- Weapon in a scabbard
- Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth
- Weapon that stuns
- Weapon used by some chimpanzees
- Wear away
- Wear away slowly
- Wear away, as the soil
- Wear for just a moment, say
- Weasel with a black-tipped tail
- Web browser whose logo is a red O
- Website that describes itself as "a place to share knowledge and better understand the world"
- Website with a "Conservadox" option
- Wedding ceremony site
- Wedding speech made with a drink in hand
- Wedding walkway
- Wee
- Wee winter workers
- Weed
- Weighing device
- Weightless state, for short
- Weighty subject of some children's books
- Weirdly spooky
- Welcome advice from a financial planner
- Welcome at the door
- Welcome at the door, say
- Welcome sight for a sailor
- Welcome to one's home
- "Well done!"
- "Well, ___ you have it!"
- "Well, how about that?!"
- "Well, this oughta be good!"
- "Well, whoop-de-doo!"
- "Well, would ya look at that!"
- Well-informed
- Well-known scheme designer
- Well-manored men?
- Went by car
- Went downhill or cross-country, say
- West Pointer
- Western half of Hispaniola
- Western landforms
- Westernmost African capital
- Westernmost territory of the Netherlands
- [Wham!]
- What "ain't" can substitute for
- What "clams" and "cheddar" are slang for
- What "E" stands for in the musical mnemonic EGBDF
- What "e-" can mean
- What "each of us already has, all we need to do is find it," per Diane von Furstenberg
- What "m" stands for in the equation "y = mx + b"
- What "margarita" means in Spanish
- What "my guitar gently" does, in a classic George Harrison song
- What "R" might stand for on an envelope
- What "seder" means, literally
- What "Sing Sing" and "Bling Ring" do
- What a bad student might play
- What a best-selling book might be adapted into
- What a Bohr!
- What a bug may cause
- What a crush might make you do
- What a hot iron may give off
- What a humidifier emits
- What a new hire might learn, with "the"
- What a phoenix rises from
- What a sad person might break into
- "What a shame!"
- What a ticket gets you
- What accompanies gin and a lime wedge
- What acids do when mixed with bases
- What airlines often charge for selecting your seat
- "What am I, chopped ___?"
- What an electric meter measures
- What an old car might be sold for
- What Anora and Vanya do in 2024's "Anora"
- What bar bouncers spend all night doing
- What coins are exchanged for at an arcade
- What connects these names: Al Green, Betty White, Rose Byrne
- What connects these names: Tennessee Williams, Georgia O'Keeffe, Denzel Washington
- What cotton candy is made of
- What do you have in mind?
- What each U.S. senator represents
- What empty stomachs do
- What fear leads to, as Yoda told a young Anakin
- What food is at dinner
- What gets texts (and also scrolls?)
- What Hamlet holds while giving his "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech
- What happens there stays there, in a saying
- What has a "belt" seen only at night
- What has a mouth, but never talks?
- What has legs, but never walks?
- What helicopter parents do
- What jellyfish and bees do
- What Joe Montana was in the '80s
- What lovers often overlook
- What makes the world go 'round, per "Cabaret"
- What many wine corks do
- What matching ends of magnets do
- What may be right but not left?
- What might add a bit of flavor to a salsa?
- What might be all tied up for a basketball game
- What might be found at the end of a rainbow
- What might be pulled when pulling one's leg, informally
- What might come with some baggage?
- What might go straight to the heart?
- What might lead to a pile of dirty laundry
- What might pile up during a digital detox
- What might support an arm
- What not to wear to a wedding, it's said
- What pants come in that shirts don't
- What parking garages, ladybugs and dominoes all have
- What pulls out all the stops?
- What some people solve the Mini for
- What some sisters become
- What someone may attempt to explain in a long, drawn-out description
- What SpongeBob uses as a telephone
- What Superman is mistaken for
- What the "A" stands for in A/V
- What the "face with steam from nose" emoji suggests
- What the Kansas scenes lack that the Oz scenes do not, in "The Wizard of Oz"
- What the Louvre Pyramid is primarily made of
- What the Tin Man wants from the Wizard of Oz
- What The Week puts out once a week
- What the world's first chess set was carved from
- What there's no accounting for, in a saying
- "What this country ___ …"
- What to call people … or what not to call people
- What volcanoes do
- What was always seen blocking Wilson's face, on "Home Improvement"
- What you might be "on" when you're undecided
- What you might hear when you get someone's goat?
- What's close to the bone?
- What's found next to the Hall and Library on a Clue board
- What's going around?
- What's spoken into a fast-food intercom
- What's the deal?
- Wheel connectors
- "Wheel of Fortune" purchase
- Wheelchair access paths
- When a post receives far more negative comments than likes, in social media slang
- When Aries transitions to Taurus
- When dreams occur during sleep, for short
- When farmers typically wake up
- When many arrive at stores on Black Friday
- When pigs fly
- When repeated, "It'll be all right"
- When repeated, "You get the gist"
- When some late lunches begin
- When tripled, "You get the picture"
- When tripled, a 1962 Elvis movie title
- When tripled, a response from Hamlet to Polonius
- "When We Were Young" singer, 2015
- Where 97% of the Earth's water is found
- Where a band might go
- Where Boise is
- Where chess, shampoo and the number zero were invented
- "Where do you think you're ___?"
- Where French fries are "frog sticks"
- Where idols go head-to-head?
- Where locks are set
- Where Mother's Day breakfast might be served
- Where roots take hold
- Where Shrek lives
- Where the Hangul alphabet is used
- Where the Rosetta Stone was discovered
- Where the rubber meets the road
- Where to find the towns Bigfoot and Tarzan
- "Where we're going we don't need ___" ("Back to the Future" quote)
- Where wedding rings are exchanged
- Where you'll find two hands on one arm
- "Whew! Sweat is dripping off me"
- Whimpers
- Whimpers like a baby
- White heron
- ___ White, three-time Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding
- Whittled (down)
- Who "turned my whole world upside down," in a 1970s rock hit
- Who "wants to be defeated" in "Beat It"
- Who knows what preceded the Big Bang
- Who said "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth"
- "Who'd have ___ it!?"
- "Whoa, ___!"
- "Whoa, settle down!"
- "Whole ___ Red" (2020 Playboi Carti album)
- Whole kit and caboodle
- Whom a diary is often shown to
- Wibbly-wobbly
- "Wicked" co-star Cynthia ___
- Widespread disorder
- Wield, as authority
- Wife of Abraham, in the Bible
- Wife-carrying in Finland and cheese-rolling in England
- Wild ___
- Wild hogs
- Wild party
- Wild party, informally
- Wild, as an animal
- Willfully causing pain
- William and Harry's mum
- William's brother in the British monarchy
- William, Edward and Harry, e.g.
- Willy Wonka and Bob Dylan, for Timothée Chalamet
- Wind pipe?
- Windfalls
- Windows upgrades, perhaps
- Windowside perches
- Windy City airport
- Wine specialty of the Burgundy region
- Wing it onstage
- Winning a blue ribbon
- Winning Monopoly player's collection
- Winning, for the moment
- Winter pellets
- Wipe clean
- Wipe from one's memory, so to speak
- Wipe off, as a blackboard
- Wipe out
- Wired
- Wirelessly driven toy, for short
- Wise sorts
- Wished (for)
- Wispy clouds
- With ___ breath (anxiously waiting)
- With a wink, say
- "With any luck ..."
- With everything on the line
- ___ With Friends
- With nary a chance
- With whom the dish ran away in "Hey Diddle Diddle"
- Withdrawn
- Witherspoon of "Legally Blonde"
- Without any toppings
- Without clothing
- Without dissenting voices
- Without revealing one's true intentions, maybe
- Withstand
- Witting
- Witty one-liners
- Wizard of ___ Park (Thomas Edison nickname)
- Wolf (down)
- Wolf groups
- Wolf in "The Jungle Book"
- Woman who bests Sherlock in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
- Woman's name meaning "night"
- Woman's name that's an anagram of ERNIE
- Women's Basketball Hall-of-Famer ___ Beard
- Won land
- Won't let it go
- "Wonderful performance!"
- Wonk
- Wood finish
- Woodard with multiple Emmys
- Woodpeckers' peckers
- Woodworkers' grooves
- Woodworking or glass blowing
- Woodworking tool
- Word after "match" or "mischief"
- Word after "Midas" or "magic"
- Word after lucky or little
- Word after mountain or vocal
- Word after smart or flip
- Word after space or screen
- Word after spitting or mirror
- *Word appearing 51 times in the New Testament
- Word appearing on the nickel but not the dime or quarter, surprisingly
- Word before "card," flood" or "photography"
- Word before "time" or "potatoes"
- Word before "time" or "ribs"
- Word before park or after cheap
- Word before printer or pointer
- Word before relief, book or strip
- Word before space or Mongolia
- Word before winner or after Wonder
- Word employment
- Word from the Lakota for "they dwell"
- Word has it
- Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language"
- Word in a Tibetan leader's title
- Word in two U.S. state names and two country names (can you name them all?)
- Word like equine, feline or canine, but for sheep
- Word meaning "details" or "glasses"
- Word on either side of "say"
- Word said while pointing
- Word that becomes its opposite when its first letter is removed
- Word that can precede "book" or "tour"
- Word that can precede "code" or "colony"
- Word that can precede Bowl or Glue
- Word that can precede piano, total or staircase
- Word that comes from the Japanese for "picture" + "character"
- Word used 10 times in Roger Ebert's review of "North" (1994)
- Word whose letters are appropriately found from left to right in … CHARISMA
- Word with Bad or Bugs
- Word with bird or leave
- Word with blue or open
- Word with cane or corn
- Word with city or peace
- Word with comb or towel
- Word with corn or cough
- Word with dating or skating
- Word with extra or living
- Word with fire or false
- Word with heavy or scrap
- Word with letter or grant
- Word with market or list
- Word with mouth or training
- Word with record or union
- Word with ring or roll
- Word with strip or skirt
- Wordle and Scrabble, for two
- Words after "ding, ding, ding"
- Words after a knock on the door
- Words before "a penny" or "a treat"
- Words from a doctor checking your tonsils
- Words from someone hoping to be friends on Facebook
- Words of affirmation
- Words of comfort
- Words of interest to a language learner, informally
- Words that may open doors
- Words that might be seen on a docent's badge
- Words that might come before a meal
- Words to a genie
- Words to live by
- Work ___
- Work of Bellini or Bizet
- Work with a libretto
- Work, as dough
- Worked at, as a trade
- Worker who frequently takes off
- Worker who sticks a thick mix on bricks
- Workout inspired by martial arts
- Workout program that's a portmanteau of two different sports
- Workplace notes
- Works on a muffler, say
- Works on an ice cream cone
- World capital known as the "City for Peace"
- World capital on the world's longest river
- World capital once known as Philadelphia
- World capital split by the world's longest river
- World Cup highlights
- World traveler?
- World's leading wine producer
- World's most populous country
- World's most populous Creole-speaking country
- Worries
- Worship
- "Would you look at that!"
- "Wow!"
- "Wow, that's wild!"
- Wrap name
- Wrap up by
- Wrapped
- Wrapping material in mummification
- Wraps in the Mideast
- Wrecked
- Wrinkly fruit
- Write-up on a book jacket
- Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns
- Writer of the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
- Writer's fillip
- Writing that lacks substance
- Writing wrongs
- Written with a pen
- Wyoming peak
- Wyoming's Grand ___ National Park
- Yard sticks?
- Yawning, say
- "Yay me!"
- "Yeah, but even so ..."
- "Yeah, I know them"
- "Yeah, in my dreams!"
- "Yeah, same!"
- Yell "#$%!"
- "Yellow Submarine" lead vocalist
- Yellowish color for old computer graphics
- Yemeni neighbor
- "Yes ___!"
- "Yes, I can come," "No, we're out of town," etc.
- Yeshiva head
- Yesterday, tomorrow
- Yoga pose
- Yogi's pose
- Yogurt drink in Delhi
- Yogurt-braised Indian entree
- York ___
- ___ York, Spanish name for New York
- Yotam Ottolenghi called it "the one spice I could never give up"
- "You ___ right!"
- "You are not!" retort
- "You can count on me"
- You cannot get them from frogs, contrary to popular myth
- "You down?"
- "You get what you give" principle
- "You got it!!" … or a possible cry after hearing the calls hidden in the answers to the starred clues?
- "You have my sympathy"
- You knead dough to make it
- You might let these "fall where they may"
- "You should come foraging with me, because I'm a ___" (bad pun)
- "You win! I give up!"
- [You're boring me]
- You're doing it every day
- "You've got a friend in me"
- "You've Really Got ___ on Me" (1960s hit)
- Young grasshopper
- Young salmon
- Young turkey
- Young's partner in accounting
- Youngest Bennet sister in "Pride and Prejudice"
- Your answer to "Where were you at 9 p.m. last night?," perhaps
- "___ your heart!"
- *Your home
- "Your point being ...?"
- Your wish is his command
- YouTube button with two lines
- YouTube posting
- "Yuck!"
- Yuks
- "Yup, yup, yup"
- Zac of "High School Musical"
- Zany behavior
- Zellweger of "Bridget Jones's Diary"
- ___Zeneca (pharma company)
- ZipRecruiter client
- Zodiac sign in early autumn
- [Zzzz]
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