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- Class that might be all play and no work?
- Classic arcade game with a pyramid
- Classic ballroom dance
- Classic elevator tunes
- Classic Harlem ballroom
- Classic music style beloved by Weird Al Yankovic
- Classic opera set in Rome
- Classic origami design
- Classic pitchers
- Classic radio song
- Classical Indian stringed instrument
- Classroom jottings
- Clause separator
- Claw
- Clay being of Jewish folklore
- Cleanse
- Clear
- Clear a sentence?
- Clear molding material
- Clear one's name, say?
- Clear up, as a windshield
- Clear, as a board
- Clear, as a chalkboard
- Clear, as a whiteboard
- Cleared of dust, say
- Clearing account?
- Clears, as profit
- "Clemency" actress Woodard
- "Clemency" star Woodard
- Clever
- Clientele
- Cliff formed by a fault
- Climate activist Thunberg
- Climbs without a partner, e.g.
- Clobber
- Clorox competitor
- Close call
- Close-mouthed sound of agreement
- Close-up map
- Closest living relative of the [circled letters]
- Closing
- Cloth shopping bags
- Clothing for SWAT teams
- Cloud up
- Clown locale
- Coalesce
- Coarse fabric for some suit jackets
- Coarse, as language
- Coarse, woolen fabric often used to make jackets
- Coastal region of ancient Greece
- Coat material
- Coat of paint
- Coffee ___ Bar Crunch (classic Ben & Jerry's flavor)
- Coffee choice before bed
- Coffee supplement ... or a ’60s rock band
- Coffeehouse chain that owns the domain coffee.com
- Coffeehouse pastry
- Cognizant
- Cognizant (of)
- Coins of Cuba
- Coins spent in Turkey
- Cold and unfeeling
- ___ cold brew
- Cold call?
- Cold, hard cash
- Cold-weather coat
- Collect
- Collection of photographs or songs
- College credit hours
- College reunion attendees
- Cologne waters
- Colombian cornmeal cake
- Colombian food cart dish
- Colonial news source
- Color similar to salmon that's also named for a sea creature
- Colorado resort town
- Colorful glows
- Colorful parrot
- Colorful parrot with a long tail
- Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, etc.
- Combinations with numbers and sets
- Combined
- Come again
- Come back
- "Come in"
- Come next
- Come to attention, in a way
- Comedian DeGeneres
- Comedian Gillis
- Comedian Murphy
- Comedians' event
- Comedic takedown
- Comes down hard
- Comes face to face with
- Comes to
- Comes to deserve
- Comic actor Seth
- Comic figure at a circus
- Comic Jost
- Comic strip sound of impact
- Comic Wanda
- Comic/TV host O'Brien
- Comically ridiculous
- Comics often printed in black and white
- Coming in handy
- Command from space command
- Command posts
- Commence
- Commences
- Comment that breaks the fourth wall
- Commercial lead-in to -matic, once
- Committee head
- Common Chinese surname
- Common con game
- Common default computer font
- Common fixture in a gym bathroom
- Common folk
- Common parts of kids' bedtime routines
- Common saying
- Common sleep disorder
- Common slot machine symbol
- Common street sign symbol
- Common Wordle starting word
- Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels)
- Commoners
- Communication method with dits and dahs
- Communication system for almost two billion people
- Community spirit
- Compact holder
- Compact, maybe
- Companion of Ash and Misty in Pokémon anime
- Company acquired by Panasonic in 2009
- Company behind the game Centipede
- Company behind the game Pong
- Company bought by Tempur-Pedic in 2012
- Company man?
- Company named after a volcano
- Company that created Pong
- Company that made Missile Command
- Company that's the subject of the documentary "The Smartest Guys in the Room"
- Company whose logo has a bite taken out of it
- Company whose logo has a hidden arrow between its fourth and fifth letters
- Company whose market cap (~$4 trillion) exceeds the G.D.P. of most countries
- Company whose name comes from a term in the board game Go
- Company whose products suck
- Compassion
- Compete in a bee
- Compete in a contest that's lost by blinking
- Competition with clowns, maybe
- Competition, for starters
- Competitive thing to "bring"
- Competitor at an esports tournament
- Competitor of Rao's
- Complete fiasco
- Complete pandemonium
- Completely change course, in business jargon
- Completely defeated
- Completely get rid of
- Completely incompetent
- Completely lost
- Completely lost … or where the now-idiomatic answer to each italicized clue has a literal meaning
- Completely rid (of)
- Completely wreck
- Component of a chess set
- Component of a nautilus shell
- Component of fertilizer and gunpowder
- Component that may emerge from Earth's asthenosphere
- Composure
- Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters
- "Comprende?"
- Computer acronym since the 1960s
- Computer geeks
- Computer pros
- Conceal for the time being, as information
- Concern for a singer or a salesman
- Concerning hearing
- Concession admission
- Concur
- Condemn
- Condiment with lots of garlic ... and vowels
- Condition treated with a CPAP machine
- Condo building's inventory
- Conductor Previn with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy
- Conductor Seiji of the Boston Symphony
- Conductor's reference
- Conductor's stick
- Conduit from a ventricle
- Confection whose name is a contraction
- Conference handout
- Confidence
- Confused
- Congressional divide
- Conical accommodations
- Conical dwelling
- Connection between topics
- ___ Connor, the Terminator's target in "The Terminator"
- Consideration when diving
- Conspiring (with)
- Constant critic
- Constantly complaining
- Constellation whose name comes from the Latin for "dragon"
- Construct
- Construction site sight
- Container for peaches
- Containers for reds and whites
- Contemptuously laughed at
- Content creator's output
- Contented sounds
- Contents of a bear-shaped bottle
- Contents of a black-and-white pod
- Contents of a laugh track
- Contents of a modern flood
- Contents of a volcano
- Continental currency units
- Continue a subscription
- Continued interminably
- Contract negotiator
- Contradict
- Contributed
- Convex physical feature
- Cook quickly in a pan
- Cookies featured in Weird Al's "The White Stuff"
- Cookies with their name embossed on them
- Cooks just the outsides of
- Cool again, maybe
- "Cool beans!"
- Cool in a throwback kind of way
- "Cool it, okay!"
- "Cool!"
- "Cooties"
- Copy
- Core belief
- Cornea-reshaping surgery
- ___-corner
- Coronary insert
- Corp. shake-up
- Corporate department that handles contracts
- Corporate musical chairs, for short
- Corrosion signs
- Costume garments made from bedsheets
- Cotton or silk
- Cotton swabs not recommended for ear canal use
- ___ Cottontail
- Couch
- Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body)
- Count (up)
- "Count me out"
- Counter, as a claim
- Counterpart of "Musical or Comedy" at the Golden Globes
- Counterpart of a rani
- Counterpart of flora
- Counting-out rhyme opener
- Country across the Adriatic from Croatia
- Country rental
- Country rocker Steve with the album "Exit 0"
- Country that contains the southern slope of Mount Everest
- Country that's about 25 times longer than it is wide
- Country that's won the World Cup four times (but failed to qualify in 2018, 2022 and 2026)
- County fair animal
- Courageous
- Courier and Century Gothic, for two
- Course for future therapists, for short
- Course that doesn’t require much studying
- Course that you could sleep through and still pass
- Court defense
- Courtroom excuse
- Courtyards
- Cousin of a cravat
- Cousin of a mink
- Cousin of a wolverine
- Cousin of edelweiss
- Cove
- Cover letters, say?
- Cover story, in court
- Cover-up for a curse
- Covered in vines
- Covers completely
- Covers for campers
- Cow
- Cowboy contest
- Cozy corners
- CR-V or Civic
- Cracker alternative to Ritz
- Crafts, in Córdoba
- Cranberry-tinged cocktail
- Crazy Horse's people
- Crazylegs Hirsch, from 1949 to 1957, informally
- Created Yoda, he did
- Creative spark, in slang
- Creator of Asteroids and Pong
- Creator of Indiana Jones and Han Solo
- Creator of the "Odyssey"
- Creature that moves at an average speed of 0.03 miles per hour
- Creature-friendly org.
- Creatures formed from the fingers of the sea goddess Sedna, in Inuit myth
- Creatures that can turn into humans on land, in Scottish folklore
- Creep
- Creepy
- Cricket's call
- Cries out
- Criminal suspects, informally
- Criminally good deal
- Crinkly fabric
- Crispy treat during Hanukkah
- Crispy, say
- Crocodile ___
- Crocs and mocs
- Crop on the South Dakota state quarter
- Crossplay plays
- Cruising the Caribbean, say
- Crumbs used for coating
- Crush a test
- Cruz known as the "Queen of Salsa"
- ___ Cruz, at 6'7" the tallest shortstop in M.L.B. history
- Cry of frustration
- Cry of resignation
- Crystal-filled rock
- Ctrl+P command
- Ctrl+V action
- Cuban poet/philosopher José
- Cube maker Erno
- Cube, e.g.
- Cuddle closely
- Cuff or hem, say
- Culinary personality Lakshmi
- ___ cum laude
- Cunning skill
- ___ cup
- Cup holders
- Cup-shaped flower
- Cups o' joe
- Curling or speed skating, for the Winter Olympics
- Currency in Mumbai
- Currency in The Legend of Zelda
- Currency of Serbia
- Curry complements
- Curry ingredient
- Curry of the N.B.A., informally
- Curse word cover-up
- Curtain for silhouetting on stage
- Cusp
- Custardy desserts
- Customary behaviors
- Cut completely
- Cut finely
- Cut into small cubes
- "Cut" command, on a keyboard
- Cut-off point for cropped jeans
- Cut-rate, in brand names
- Cute, woolly farm animals
- Cuts (back)
- Cuts a line?
- Cuts at the margins
- Cuts open, as an envelope
- CVS Health subsidiary
- Cyber punk?
- Cybertruck maker
- Cynthia ___, Tony winner for "The Color Purple"
- Cytologists' study
- D.I.Y. dessert item
- da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, for example
- "___ dabba doo!"
- Dad's dad, informally
- "Dagnabbit!"
- Daily ___
- Daises
- Dal ___ (musical notation)
- Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers
- *Dallas Cowboys stat
- Dam on the Nile
- Damascus's land
- ___ Dame
- ___-Dame Cathedral
- Dance for flexible people
- Dance from Cuba
- Dances around?
- "Dang it!"
- Dangerous stretch of a mountain road
- Daniel ___ (children's TV character)
- Daniel ___, 007 portrayer
- Daniel of the "Knives Out" movies
- Danish money
- Daredevil's deed
- Daring bet
- Dark
- Dark yellowish-green
- Dashboard instrument
- Date circled in blue on a Google Calendar
- Date unlikely to be on a calendar
- Dating app action
- Dating app alternative to Tinder or Bumble
- Dating app with a curvy "H" logo
- Dating qualifier
- Daughter of King Lear
- David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present," e.g.
- David Szalay novel that won the 2025 Booker Prize
- David who directed the final four Harry Potter films
- David who fronted Talking Heads
- Davis of "Thelma & Louise"
- Davis of old Hollywood
- ___ Davis, actor and eulogist for Malcolm X
- ___ Day (April 22nd observance)
- ___ Day (April observance)
- ___ Day (tree-planting celebration)
- Day at the movies
- ___ Day, observance on the last Friday of April
- ___ days
- ___ days (times past)
- "___ days are gone"
- Dazzle
- ___ de asador (Mexican meal)
- Deadly snake with fangs that fold upward
- Dealt with something
- Deandre ___, N.B.A. center who was picked first in the 2018 draft
- Deathly serious
- Debate
- Debate back and forth
- Debunked "facts"
- Decade after the aughts
- Decapod with three pairs of claws
- December air
- Deceptive move in fencing
- Decide one will
- Decide to deal with at a later time
- Deciduous tree often found in regions dominated by conifers
- Deck in divination
- Deck out?
- Declare void, as a marriage
- Decorate
- Decorates
- Decorations around the United Nations
- Decorous
- Decreased in size, as the moon
- Deduce
- Deep chasm
- Deep fissure
- Deep pass?
- Deep sleep
- Deep sleeps
- Deep-sea predators
- Deep-seated desires
- Default outcomes, perhaps
- Defeat decisively
- Defeat soundly, in slang
- Defeats going away
- Deftly avoid
- Deices, as a road
- ___ del Carmen (Mexican resort)
- Delay airing, as a news story
- Delightful locales
- Delivery option
- Demand from a disgruntled customer
- Democratic political figure ___ Tanden
- Demolishes
- "Demon Slayer" or "Attack on Titan"
- Denizen of hell
- Depart
- Depicts unfairly, as data
- Derby drink
- Derived from gold
- Des'ree's "You ___ Be"
- Descendant
- Descendant of a wealthy family
- Descendants of the Picts
- Desert for which an African country is named
- Desert havens
- Desert plant used in tequila production
- Desert plant with many uses
- Desert watering hole ... or a ’90s-’00s rock band
- Designation for a potato
- Designation for prolific Yelp reviewers
- Designer Calvin
- Designer Geoffrey
- Desirable feature
- Desirable place to sit on a hot day
- Desires
- Dessert item usually eaten moments after it's made
- Dessert that wiggles
- Destination for a day trip from Sorrento
- Destination for mail that doesn't go to your home address, perhaps
- Detach from a bulletin board
- Detangles, in a way
- Deuce topper
- Develop
- Device for sending group messages?
- Devise, as a plan
- Devoured
- Devoured completely
- Devoured entirely
- Devout
- Di- follower in CO2
- Diabolical deeds
- Dibs, e.g.
- Dickens villain ___ Heep
- Did a boring job?
- Did diddly-squat
- Did some doughnuts?
- Did some knifework on
- "___ did the time go?"
- Diddly-___
- Diddly-squat
- Didn't do the right thing
- Diego Rivera project
- Diet that eschews processed food
- Difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set
- Difficult shoes to run in
- Difficult thing to achieve in a noisy office
- Difficult-to-work-with stars
- Digital assistant
- Digital party request
- Digs in the snow?
- Digs up by the roots
- Dilapidated
- Dine at home ... or at a restaurant
- Ding on a phone, e.g.
- [Ding, ding ding!]
- Dings on a car
- "Dinner is served!"
- Dinners in sties
- Dinosaur in the Mario games
- Dipped (out)
- Dips a toe in, say
- Direct (to)
- Direction in a challah recipe
- Directive written in currants in "Alice in Wonderland"
- Directly called out in a post, using an "@"
- Director Kurosawa
- Director Lee ___ Chung
- Director of 2026's "The Odyssey"
- Dirt pie ingredients
- Dirty stuff
- Discombobulated
- Discontinued iPods designed to fit into watch pockets
- Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g.
- Disgusting
- ___ dish
- ___ dish (lab item)
- Dish of stuffed grape leaves
- Dish with vinegared rice
- Dishwasher cycle
- Disney deer
- Disney heroine based on New Orleans chef Leah Chase
- Disney princess in New Orleans
- Disney princess who longs to be "part of that world"
- Disney princess whose name is one letter off from a common princess accessory
- Disney street-smart mutt
- Disney villain between Gaston and Scar
- Disney+ series whose name sounds like a compound conjunction
- Dispense carefully
- Display some emotion, perhaps
- Displayed audacity
- Disposed (to)
- Disrelishes and then some
- Dissect with a diagram
- Distinctive feature of an aardvark
- Distinctive smell
- Distort
- Distorts, as data
- Distrustful
- Ditch digger
- Divas' big moments
- Divert
- Divide, as the check
- Division in a supermarket
- Division of the earth's crust
- Division signs, more formally
- ___-Dixon line
- Dizzying designs
- Dizzying gallery works
- Do business
- DO NOT ___
- Do penance
- Do some booty-shaking
- "Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film)
- "Do we have a problem here?"
- Do you read me?
- Doc who really delivers?
- Docking area
- Dodge
- Dodge deceptively
- Does the Narrows hike at Zion National Park, say
- Does to perfection
- Doesn't go at full speed
- Doesn't take vacation, say
- Dog breed famously owned by Queen Elizabeth II
- "Dog Day Afternoon" director
- Dog harness attachment
- Dog walker's restraint
- Dog's nose and mouth
- Dog's reward after a trick
- Dog-___
- Dog-___ (like the pages in some books)
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