Clues |
Answers |
&#$!@, e.g |
SYMBOLS |
‘About ___ high’ |
YEA |
‘Heavens!’ |
MERCYME |
‘Order waiting to be deciphered,’ per José Saramago |
CHAOS |
‘___ Coltrane’ (1961 John Coltrane album) |
OLE |
2006 Beyoncé album released, fittingly, on Sept. 4 |
BDAY |
A rooster crowing before midnight, it was once believed |
OMEN |
A year in Italy |
ANNO |
Actress Kirke of ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ |
LOLA |
And so on |
DOTDOTDOT |
Aroused, informally |
HORNY |
Bank based in the U.K |
HSBC |
Begins to see a pattern |
CONNECTSTHEDOTS |
Beltway insider |
POL |
Big Apple debut of 1998 |
IMAC |
Car at the front of a line, maybe |
HEARSE |
Cartoonist Thomas |
NAST |
Charades |
SHAMS |
City of 5+ million just north of Royal National Park |
SYDNEY |
Cover |
COAT |
Each |
APOP |
Folk-rock quartet whose name derives from its members’ last initials |
CSNY |
General in American Chinese cuisine |
TSO |
Grown lad |
CHAP |
Guests may be welcomed with them |
OPENARMS |
I, to Homer |
IOTA |
Iconic Voyager 1 photograph taken 3.7 billion miles from Earth |
PALEBLUEDOT |
It has its ups and downs |
GRAPH |
James who sang ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’ |
ETTA |
Kazakhstan’s ___ Sea |
ARAL |
Known publicly |
ONRECORD |
Landmass once surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa |
PANGAEA |
Like all animals in the genus Equus |
MANED |
Literary alter ego |
HYDE |
Music genre for Dashboard Confessional |
EMO |
N.B.A.’s Jazz, on scoreboards |
UTA |
Nest egg option, for short |
DOTIRA |
Not get reception? |
ELOPE |
Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish |
POPDOTIDOL |
On |
ATOP |
Ones colliding in the Large Hadron Collider |
DOTIONS |
Ooze |
SEEP |
Oral history |
LORE |
Pay attention to details … or a hint to filling in seven of this puzzle’s squares |
DOTTHEIS |
Pound alternative |
EURO |
Pound alternative |
PETSHOP |
Prey for polar bears |
SEALS |
Put on notice |
WARN |
Quench |
SLAKE |
Rapper ___ Sweatshirt |
EARL |
Rapscallion |
DOTIMP |
Salamanca salutation |
HOLA |
Sanctify |
BLESS |
Savage X Fenty product |
BRA |
Seems bad somehow |
SMELLS |
Serf |
PEON |
Singer with the debut single ‘My Bologna’ |
WEDOTIRDAL |
Small bouquet |
POSY |
Some baked entrees |
POTPDOTIES |
Song of triumph |
PAEAN |
South Asian garment |
SARI |
Space heaters? |
SUNS |
The third |
III |
They’re spotted on Lucille Ball and Minnie Mouse |
POLKADOTDRESSES |
Things most cars and many clocks have |
ALARMS |
To a certain extent |
Dotish |
Took to court |
SUED |
Topical matter for the sunburned? |
ALOE |
Turn-of-the-century financial crisis |
DOTCOMCRASH |
TV actor who co-starred in ‘Rocky III’ |
MRT |
TV stories sometimes have them |
ARCS |
___ de parfum |
EAU |
___ Deco |
ART |
___-friendly |
ECO |