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- Dog-napping spot?
- Doggedness
- Doll with neon hair
- Dolly Parton vis-à-vis Dollywood
- Dome-shaped Buddhist shrine
- Domed home
- "Don Giovanni" genre
- "Don't ___ me!"
- "Don't Look Back in ___" (Oasis hit)
- "___, don't shop" (pet shelter slogan)
- Donation at some Red Cross events
- Done to death
- "Done well"
- Done-up dos
- Doohickey
- Doorbell sounds
- Dormant
- Dough at a taquería
- Down the hatch, perhaps
- Down under
- Downright mean
- Downright unpleasant
- Dr. J, for all of his N.B.A. career
- Dr. Seuss' environmentalist
- Dracula, for one
- Draw an outline of
- Draw forth
- Dream interrupter
- Dressing choice
- Drew back
- Dries out, as lips
- Drilling site
- Drink often sipped
- Drink with a red, white and blue logo
- Drinks at a pub
- Drinks kept in a cellar
- Drinks served at fountains
- Drive back
- Drive dangerously in traffic
- Driver of some engines
- Driver's alternative to automatic
- Drop
- Dropped a note
- Dropped the ball
- Drops
- Drops while running, say
- Drug cops, informally
- Drum kit component
- Drummer with the coffee table book "Another Day in the Life"
- Drums up interest in
- Drunk, in modern slang
- Duane ___ (New York-based pharmacy chain)
- Duck down
- Duck known for its insulating feathers
- Dude
- Dugout, e.g.
- "Duino Elegies" poet
- Dulcet
- Dull and dim
- "Duly ___"
- Dumbbell exercises
- Dummy
- Dumps
- Dunderheaded
- Dunderheads
- "Dune" genre
- Dunkin' offering
- Duration
- Durin's burial place in "The Lord of the Rings"
- Dutch Caribbean isle
- Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
- Dwelling
- Dwelling for clergy
- Dwellings for nomads
- Dwells on angry feelings
- Dye for body art
- E-cigarette claim
- Each and ___
- Eagle pose, for one
- Eagle's claw
- Ear-related
- Early 2000s first lady
- Early 2000s hip-hop subgenre for songs like "Get Low" and "Yeah!"
- "Earth to [name]? You there?!"
- Earthen pots, from the Spanish
- Earthy deposits by a river
- Earthy tone
- Ease off
- Ease up
- Easily broken
- Easily duped
- Easily irritated
- Easily set off
- Easter Island's country
- Eastern lines
- Easy putt
- Eat, as cattle might
- Eavesdrop, e.g.
- Ebb
- Eccentric
- Echo speaker
- Echo starter
- Echolocation technology
- Eco-friendly
- Ecosystem that includes the bristlemouth, the most common vertebrate on Earth (roughly 1 quadrillion organisms)
- Edible bulb
- Editorialize
- Edmonton hockey player
- Edward who wrote and illustrated "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
- Eel, at a Japanese restaurant
- Eel, at a sushi bar
- Egg maker
- Egg-producing organ
- Eggshell, for one
- Egypt/Sudan border region
- ___ Eight (tournament round)
- "Eight Crazy Nights" or "12 Angry Men"
- Eight-related
- Eightsome
- ___ Eisenhower, 1950s first lady
- El ___ (precursor of the Expressionists)
- El Niño feature
- Elasticized part of sweatpants
- Elba who portrayed Nelson Mandela
- Eldest Corleone brother
- Eldest von Trapp daughter in "The Sound of Music"
- Electric instrument played on Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
- Electrical impulse transmitters
- Electrician's specialty
- Electricity bill calculation
- Element of a poetry analysis, maybe
- Element whose name comes from the Greek for "inactive"
- Elevate, as a flag
- Elevated
- Elevated seabed
- Elevator selection
- Elevators, in British English
- Elitist
- Elizabeth of "WandaVision"
- Elysia
- Email button with a backward-facing arrow
- Emanations
- Embedded design
- Emblem topping a coat of arms
- Emblem with an Ojibwe name
- Emerge
- Emerged
- Emergency option for a fighter pilot
- Emma ___, protagonist of "A Woman of Substance"
- Empathetic response to an apology
- ___ Empire
- Employee after working hours, on "Severance"
- Employees, collectively
- Empty inside
- Emulate Cicero
- Emulates a tree frog or ballerina
- Enchantress of Greek mythology
- "Encore!"
- End of a letter
- End of the Greek alphabet
- Endangered marine ecosystems
- Endorse digitally
- Ends of dress shirt sleeves
- Enemy W.W. II vessel
- Energy-healing practice
- Enervate
- English county NE of London
- English county whose name sounds like the 19th and 24th letters of the alphabet
- English lesson subject, for short
- English soccer star ___ James
- English town famous for its salts
- English town known for its salt
- English writer with an apt surname
- Enjoy an outdoor vacation with extra amenities
- Enjoys a quiet weekend morning, perhaps
- Enlighten
- Enraged
- Enter the N.F.L. draft, say
- Enticed, with "in"
- Enticing scent
- Entry in red ink
- Environmentalist Adams
- Environmentally friendly
- Epic poem originally passed down orally
- Epic that ends "Such was the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses"
- Epithet for Bill Clinton
- Epitome of a hot place
- Epitome of thinness
- Eponym for a lounge chair
- Eponym of a popular puzzle
- Eponym of element 96
- Eponym of U.S. track and field's Male Athlete of the Year Award
- "Ergo ..."
- Eric who wrote and illustrated "Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me"
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, to James Bond
- Escapade
- Eschew
- Eschew a heavy meal in favor of light snacks
- Escort
- Essayist Francis
- Established fact
- Establishment whose name means "lounge" in French
- Estoques are pointed at them
- Eucalyptus eater
- Eurasian divide
- Eurasian mountain range
- "Eureka" for California, or "Excelsior" for New York
- European capital that names some animals if you interchange its last two letters
- European capital with layers of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history
- European fixture
- European viper
- Evade artfully
- Event with cowboys and clowns
- Event-planning platform
- ... every clue
- Everybody's hands
- Evil one
- Evil spells
- Ewok's home
- Ewoks' home moon
- Exam marks
- Excel
- Excel spreadsheets, essentially
- Excellent grade
- "Excellent job!"
- Excelling at trivia, say
- Excels at Simon Says, say
- Excessive, as criticism or punishment
- Excites
- Exclamation often made while covering the face
- Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat
- Exclave's spot in an atlas, often
- Excludes
- [Excuse me]
- Exhausted
- Exhibit poor sportsmanship, in a way
- Exhibits model behavior?
- Exiled character in "King Lear"
- Expands, as dough with yeast
- Expanse
- Expansive
- Expensive dark wood
- ___ experience
- Expert in stealth
- Expert in worldwide fulfillment and distribution operations?
- Explorer da Gama
- Express misgivings
- Express one's thoughts
- Expresses approval, in a way
- Expression de gratitude
- Expression of proportion
- Extend, as a membership
- Extend, in a way
- Extending brim
- Extension
- Extinct flightless pigeons (don't worry, you've heard of this answer!)
- Extra bit of clothing for warmth
- Extra hot
- Extraterrestrial
- Extraterrestrial British TV villain that debuted in 1963
- Extreme edge
- Extremely excited
- Extremely, extra, very
- Extremes of the earth
- Eyed lustfully
- Ezra who co-founded Vox
- F in physics
- F, on a test
- "F1" or "One Battle After Another"
- Fab Four drummer
- Fable's takeaway
- Fabric debuted by DuPont in the 1940s
- Fabric made from flax
- Fabric related to chambray
- Fabric with diagonal ribbing
- Face in the crowd, say
- Facial cavity that can become congested
- Facial features missing from most emojis
- Facing the pitcher
- Facts and figures
- Faculty
- Fails to keep things down
- Faint after eye contact with one's crush, say
- ___ fairy
- Faith with five pillars
- Fall bloom
- Fall bloomer
- Fall perennial
- Falls in line, so to speak
- Falls in winter, say
- Famed firefighter Red
- Familiar narrative device
- Family diagrams
- Family girl
- Family name on TV's "Dallas"
- Family name with an eponymous Row, Court, Place and Avenue in New York City
- Family tree addition
- Famous
- ___-famous (reel popular?)
- Fan's buzz
- Fanatical groups
- Fancy and then some
- Fancy dos
- Fancy fabrics
- Fancy feather
- Fancy hairdos
- Fancy necktie
- "Fancy seeing you here!"
- Fancy watch brand
- Fancy-schmancy
- Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl"
- Fantasy author Bardugo
- Far from house-trained
- Farm machine that bundles hay
- Farm measures
- ___ Farnsworth, inventor dubbed "The Father of Television"
- Farrow with a Pulitzer for his investigative journalism
- Fashion development
- Fashion name that's become slang for "excellent"
- Fashionably old-fashioned
- Fast and nimble
- Fasten, as a ship's rope
- Fastened, as a corset or shoe
- Father of Methuselah
- Fathers
- Fauna's counterpart
- Faux flattery
- Favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Fax predecessor
- Fear for a launderer
- Fearsome felines
- Feathered creature, in kid-speak
- Feature of a mountain or fingerprint
- Feature of many a smart toilet
- Features of gathering clouds?
- Features of leftovers, at times
- Features of some wineglasses
- Feel
- Feel a suddenly overwhelming fear
- Feeling all wound up
- Feeling of distress
- Feeling relaxed
- Feeling resentful, in slang
- Feeling tired and worn out
- Feelings of getting older
- Feints, in hockey
- Fellow crew member
- Felt sick
- Female donkey
- Fence-sitter's response
- Fenced in, as a private community
- Fencing contests
- Fend (off)
- Fermented apple juice
- ___ Ferrante, author of the "Neapolitan Novels"
- Fertile place
- Fertile soils
- Fertilizer obtained from bats
- ___ Fester, "Wednesday" character played by Fred Armisen
- Feudal lord
- Fiber also known as viscose
- Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth
- Fibrous part of broccoli
- Fictional region that includes Bag End
- Fictional sidekick on a donkey
- Fiddle with feathers, say
- "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- Fidel ___, Philippine president in the 1990s
- Fidget spinners or Angry Birds, once
- Fields
- Fiery spirit
- Fighter pilot's garb
- Figure in Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment"
- Figure painted by Michelangelo, which can be found hidden in the name "Michelangelo"
- Figure skating duos
- Figure with three faces, in Dante
- Figures in "Puss in Boots" and "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"
- Figures in a speed trap?
- Figures in the films "Kazaam" and "Wishmaster"
- Fill in a mill
- Fill in for
- Fill in the ___
- Fill the role of
- Fill with joy
- Filled with activity
- Filler akin to "like …" or "I mean …"
- Film director Coen
- Film without much wardrobe, informally
- Filter option
- Filtered food for whales
- Filthy, in slang
- Finagled a discount, say
- Final inning, typically
- "Finally!"
- Find another purpose for
- Find charming
- "Fine, see if ___!"
- "Fingers crossed"
- Finish up by
- Finish up with
- Finishes a season, say
- Finishes filming
- Finito or kaput
- Fire truck attachments
- "Fire-breather" in the night sky
- Fired up again
- Firing offense?
- Firmly committed to
- Firs and beeches, but not furs and beaches
- First American multimillionaire
- First country to use paper money, way back in the 7th century
- First Disney film with songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- First grade of high school, typically
- First inning in extra innings
- First movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- First name in beauty products
- First name in cosmetics
- First name of Julius Caesar
- First name of poet Poe
- First name on the Supreme Court
- First name that contains four of the first five letters of the alphabet
- First sign of fall
- First word in two U.S. state names
- First-string squad
- First-year West Pointer
- Fish using a large net
- Fish, roads or weapons that are long and thin
- Fishing accessory
- Fissile rock
- Fitness fad popularized by Billy Blanks
- Fits one inside of the other
- Fits one inside the other
- Five Below or 7-Eleven
- Five lines on sheet music
- Five Pillars religion
- Five-time role for Sylvester Stallone
- Fix, as shoelaces
- Fixin' to
- Fizzle (out)
- Fizzling out
- Flakes out?
- Flappable origami creation
- Flat-topped hills
- Flatbread choices
- Flatbread eaten during Passover
- Flatscreen product that might be "4K UHD"
- Flatten, informally
- Flavor of a purple lollipop
- Flavor of yellow Skittles
- Fleet of foot
- Flexible
- Fliers in a V
- Flinch, say
- Flintstone with a red updo
- Flip
- Floating markers
- Floats
- Floats in the breeze
- Flock that honks
- Flood embankment
- Flood regulator
- Flooded
- Floor show?
- Floppy hat
- Flops
- Flora and fauna, collectively
- Florence-based fashion house
- Florida's ___ National Forest
- Florida's ___-Dade County
- Flossing brand
- Flower in a Whitman poem written as an elegy for Lincoln
- Flower that's the subject of Dutch festivals
- Flower with a cup-shaped bloom
- Flowering period
- Flowing tresses
- Flubs
- Fluctuate between normal singing and falsetto
- Fluster with embarrassment
- Flute, for one
- Fly into ___ (become furious)
- Flying ___ (train between Mumbai and Surat)
- Flying high
- Foamy coffee order
- Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games
- Fold
- Folded French pancake
- Folk religion akin to voodoo
- Follow a dentist's recommendation
- Follow, as advice
- Follow-up to "Sit!"
- Follower of "sun" (for weather) or "moon" (for liquor)
- Follower of double or gilt
- Follower of Jah, informally
- Followers of articles
- Followers of the guru Nanak
- Following
- Following behind
- Following closely behind
- Following Islamic dietary laws
- Following the leader too closely, say
- Follows
- Follows an order
- Follows through on one's R.S.V.P., say
- Font similar to Helvetica
- Food and water, e.g.
- Food for a baleen whale
- Food from the heavens
- Food item placed in Egyptian tombs, as its layers symbolized eternity
- Food mentioned in the Lord's Prayer
- Food that can be prepared de canasta
- Food you might eat wearing a bib
- Football player with a team name inspired by the California gold rush
- For a single purpose, as a committee
- "For real!," in modern slang
- "For real"
- For the ___
- "For we walk by ___, not by sight": II Corinthians 5:7
- Ford flop
- Forearm-related, in a way
- Foreboding signs
- Foreign Service assignments
- Formally yielded
- Former "S.N.L." comic ___ Yang
- Former boxer Ali who voiced herself in a "Scooby Doo" series
- Former competitor of Google Hangouts
- Former fillies
- Former governor Schwarzenegger, informally
- Former M.L.B. team with the mascot Youppi!
- Former member of the force
- Former times
- Fortune 500 company started by a blacksmith, informally
- Fortune-telling deck
- Foul smells
- Foundational skateboard trick
- Founder of the Mughal Empire
- ___ four
- Four 2-Downs
- Four Seasons, e.g.
- Fox or Foxx
- Fragrance
- Fragrant compound
- Fragrant compound released during fermentation
- Frank Costanza or Morty Seinfeld, e.g.
- Franz ___, Prague-born writer of dark fiction
- Fraud victim's filing
- Freak out
- "Freddie Mercury" or "Lady Gaga"
- Free of animal products
- Free-for-all
- French composer who refused the Legion of Honour in 1920
- French farewell
- French fathers
- French film award
- French for "after"
- French for "love"
- French fries and coleslaw, for two
- French fries-to-be
- French Impressionist Claude
- French relative
- French sweetheart
- French wine region
- French-speaking nation in West Africa
- Frequently
- Fresh addition to a pasta sauce, perhaps
- Fresh from the dishwasher
- Friar with a famous "razor"
- "Frida" star Salma
- Friend in Mexico
- Friend, to a Spaniard
- Fries in England
- Frighten
- Frighteningly monstrous sorts
- From further back
- From Singapore or South Korea, say
- From the ___ (right at the beginning)
- From the British Isles, say
- From time past
- Front part of a stage
- Front-line hero during the 2020 pandemic
- Froth
- Fruit on a Georgia license plate
- Fruit snack brand
- Fruit that can be used to add highlights to your hair
- Fruit that makes your lips pucker
- Fruit that's often in an Edible Arrangement
- Fruit-peeling gadget
- Fruits often seen in still lifes
- Fruity dessert named for its crunch
- Fruity-smelling perfume ingredient
- ___-frutti
- Frère de la mère
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