The Million Word Crossword Dictionary

A

a: 3 per

in code: 4 able, alfa

in French: 3 une

in German: 3 ein 4 eine

in Spanish: 3 una, uno

a__: 3 bit, quo 5 leg up, tempo, tergo, to zed 6 little, priori, trifle

a__a dozen: 4 dime

a__and a day: 4 year

a__’clock scholar: 4 ten o

a__cry: 3 far

a__dozen: 5 dime a

a__for one’s money: 3 run

a__for sore eyes: 5 sight

a__in one’s bonnet: 3 bee

a__in one’s cap: 7 feather

a__in one’s ear: 4 flea

a__in one’s own time: 6 legend

a__in the bucket: 4 drop

a__lease on life: 3 new

a__nut to crack: 4 hard 5 tough

a__of: 6 couple

a__of another color: 5 horse

a__of fate: 5 twist

a__of one’s mind: 5 piece

a__of the action: 5 piece

a__one’s bonnet: 5 bee in

a__on one’s escutcheon: 4 blot

a__order: 4 tall

a__pass: 6 pretty

a__row to hoe: 5 tough

a__situation: 5 no-win

a__unto oneself: 3 law

a__up: 3 leg

à__: 3 bas 4 fond, gogo, jour, pied 5 point, terre 6 cheval, gauche, propos 7 bientôt, l’étuvée

A: 4 mark, type 5 grade, vowel, width 6 letter 8 Martinez 9 blood type

in communications: 4 alfa

in phonetic alphabet: 5 Alpha

list: 5 elite

major: 3 key

minor: 3 key

A__: 3 one, to Z 4 list, star, Team 5 level 6 supply 7 battery, horizon

A__apple: 4 as in

A__of Honey: 5 Taste

A__one: 6 number

A,__adorable…: 5 you’re

A-__: 4 axes, axis, bomb, line 5 frame

A-__, A-Tasket: 6 Tisket

__ A: 4 Q and, Type 6 Cygnus, Linear, radium 7 Project, vitamin

‘A’__Alibi: 5 Is for

__-A: 5 Retin

AA: 5 width 7 battery

candidate: 5 toper

like ~ shoes: 3 nar.

part of ~: 4 Anon.

A.A.: 4 Fair 5 Milne

affiliate: 6 Al-Anon

AAA: 5 width 7 battery 8 top-rated 9 top-drawer, topflight

class ~ baseball: 6 minors

giveaway: 3 map

job: 3 tow

opposite: 3 EEE

suggestion: 3 hwy., rte. 5 route 7 highway

Aachen: 4 city, town

locale: 7 Germany

Aage: 4 Bohr

aah partner: 3 ooh

Aaker: 3 Lee

Aalborg: 4 port

locale: 7 Denmark, Jutland

Aaliyah

last name: Haughton

song: At Your Best (1994)

Back & Forth (1994)

The One I Gave My Heart to (1997)

Try Again (2000)

Aalto: 5 Alvar

Aames: 6 Willie

AAM firer: 3 MiG

A And Ealternative: 3 BET, CMT, MTV, PAX, TBS, TLC, TNN, TNT, USA 4 ESPN, HGTV 5 C-SPAN, Style 6 Noggin, Tech TV, TV Land 7 Court TV, Ovation, SoapNet 8 Lifetime

__ A and M: 5 Texas

Aar: 5 river

city on the ~: 4 Bern 5 Berne

aardvark: 6 animal, mammal

feature: 5 snout

food: 3 ant

home: 6 Africa

young: 3 pup

aardwolf: 6 mammal

prey: 6 insect

Aare: 5 river

city on the ~: 4 Bern 5 Berne

Aargau: 6 canton

Aaron: 4 Burr, Hank, Klug 5 Tommy 6 Sorkin, Tommie 7 Copland, Neville 8 Caroline, Lipstadt, Spelling

brother of ~: 5 Moses

daughter: 4 Tori

idol: 4 calf

parent of ~: 5 Amram 8 Jochebed

sister of ~: 6 Miriam

son of ~: 3 Eli 5 Abihu, Amram, Nadab 7 Eleazar, Ithamar

wife of ~: 8 Elisheba

Aaron, Hank: 5 Brave 7 slugger 10 out-fielder

weapon: 3 bat

Aaron Loves Angela (1975 film)

cast: Irene Cara, Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks

director: Gordon Parks

Aaron’s__: 3 rod 5 beard

Aaron, Tommy: 6 golfer

AARP

member: 2 sr. 3 snr.

part of ~: 3 Ret. 4 Amer. 5 Assoc. 7 Persons, Retired 8 American

__ A. Arthur: 7 Chester

ab: 6 muscle

neighbor: 3 pec

ab__: 3 ovo 4 esse 5 extra, intra 6 initio 7 aeterno, origine

Ab: 5 month 6 Hebrew

month after: 4 Elul

AB: 4 type 9 blood type

A.B.: 4 Dick 7 Guthrie

aba: 4 robe 6 fabric 7 garment

Aba: 4 city, town

locale: 7 Nigeria

Aba__Honeymoon, The: 4 Daba

ABA

member: 3 att. 4 atty. 6 lawyer

part of ~: 3 Bar 4 Amer., Assn. 8 American

title: 3 esq.

__ Ababa: 5 Addis

abaca: 4 hemp, rope 5 fiber

aback: 8 confused, off-guard, unawares 9 surprised, thrown off 10 by surprise

take ~: 4 faze, stun 5 shake 7 astound, nonplus, stagger, startle 8 astonish, bowl over, surprise 9 discomfit, dumbfound, give a turn 10 disconcert

taken ~: 7 fuddled

abacus: 10 calculator

unit: 4 bead

use an ~: 3 add

user: 5 adder

Abadan: 4 port

locale: 4 Iran

__ a bad example: 3 set

Abadi: 4 font 8 typeface

__ a bad moon rising: 4 I see

abaft: 4 back 6 astern 8 backward 9 to the rear

not ~: 7 forward

__ a ball: 4 have

__ a Ball: 4 I Had

abalone: 5 shell 7 mollusk 8 seashell

eater: 5 otter

product: 5 nacre

shell: 5 ormer

__-à-banc: 4 char

abandon: 4 cede, drop, duck, dump, élan, fail, jilt, kick, quit, sell, shed 5 break, chuck, ditch, forgo, leave, let go, scrap, scrub, sever, verve, waive, yield 6 betray, bow out, cop out, desert, disown, forego, give up, maroon, opt out, reject, resign, strand, vacate 7 bail out, discard, forfeit, forsake, freedom, impulse, let down, let go of, license, pull out, scuttle, ship out 8 abdicate, cut loose, forswear, get rid of, give up on, hand over, jettison, lay aside, lewdness, part with, renounce, run out on, throw out, wildness, withdraw 9 back out of, cast aside, dispose of, disregard, foreswear, frivolity, looseness, lubricity, repudiate, skip out on, surrender, take a walk, throw away, throw over, walk out on 10 chicken out, exuberance, fly the coop, go away from, relinquish, storm out of, wantonness

Abandon__!: 4 ship

abandoned: 4 left, lone, lorn, lost 5 alone, empty, loose, stray 6 lonely, rakish, vacant, wicked 7 lustful, outcast, run-down, shunned 8 cast away, derelict, deserted, desolate, forsaken, helpless, isolated, passed up, stranded, untended 9 cast aside, corrupted, debauched, discarded, dissolute, forgotten, left alone, neglected, ownerless, shameless, sidelined 10 dissipated, eliminated, friendless, high and dry, licentious, profligate, unattended, unoccupied

abandonment: 6 waiver 8 apostasy 10 abdication

Abandon Ship (1957 film)

cast: Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling

director: Richard Sale

__ a bang out of: 3 get

__ a barrel: 4 over

à bas: 8 down with

abase: 5 lower, shame 6 demean, humble, insult, reduce 7 corrupt, cut down, deflate, degrade, depress, put down, run down, vitiate 8 belittle, bring low, cast down, dishonor, take down 9 bring down, devaluate, disparage, downgrade, humiliate 10 put to shame

oneself: 5 crawl 6 grovel

abased: 4 vile

abasement: 8 dishonor 10 degeneracy, depression

abaser: 5 bully

abash: 4 faze 5 shame, shock 6 dismay, humble, rattle, ruffle 7 chagrin, fluster, mortify 8 confound 9 discomfit, embarrass, humiliate 10 demoralize, discom-pose, disconcert, disgruntle, dishearten

abashed: 5 fazed 6 afraid, bugged, shamed 7 anxious, ashamed, crushed, fuddled, humbled, nervous, panicky, rattled 8 confused, hesitant, in a tizzy, sheepish, timorous 9 awestruck, chagrined, diffident, flinching, ill at ease, mortified 10 bewildered, confounded, humiliated, taken aback

abashment: 3 awe 5 shame 6 dismay 7 chagrin, shyness 8 vexation 9 confusion

Abasolo: 4 city, town

locale: 6 Mexico 10 Guanajuato

abat-__: 4 jour

abate: 3 die, ebb 4 cool, ease, fade, fall, flag, lull, sink, slow, wane 5 allay, drain, let up, lower, quash, quell, relax, remit, slack, taper 6 dampen, deaden, ease up, go down, lessen, modify, recede, reduce, slow up, soften, subdue, weaken 7 abolish, cut down, decline, die down, drop off, dwindle, ease off, mollify, relieve, slacken, subside, tail off 8 abrogate, blow over, decrease, diminish, fade away, head away, level off, mitigate, moderate, palliate, peter out, slack off, taper off 9 attenuate, quiet down 10 invalidate, slacken off

abatement: 3 ebb 4 curb, fall 5 check, letup 6 easing, fading, relief, waning 7 anodyne, control, cutback, decline, falloff 8 decrease, discount, mark-down, quashing, quelling, stoppage, write-off 9 abolition, allowance, annulment, deduction, lessening, reduction, remission, restraint, softening, tempering, weakening 10 arrestment, diminution, limitation, mitigation, moderation, palliation, prevention, repression, subsidence

__ a bath: 4 draw, take

__ a Battlefield: 6 Love Is

Abaya: 4 lake

locale: 8 Ethiopia

abba-__: 5 dabba

Abba: 4 Eban

ABBA (pop group)

homeland: Sweden

song: Chiquitita (1979)

Dancing Queen (1977)

Fernando (1976)

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do (1976)

Knowing Me, Knowing You (1977)

Mamma Mia (1976)

SOS (1975)

Take a Chance on Me (1978)

Waterloo (1974)

The Winner Takes It All (1980)

Abbado, Claudio: 9 conductor

abbé: 4 monk 5 friar, padre, prior, title 6 cleric, curate, divine, pastor, priest 7 Prévost 8 celibate, minister, monastic 9 clergyman 10 monastical

Abbe: 4 Lane 9 Cleveland

abbess: 3 nun 4 rank 5 title 7 Héloïse 9 religious

Abbess, The author: Athol Fugard

abbey: 6 church, friary, priory, temple 7 convent, nunnery 8 cloister, ministry 9 monastery 10 tabernacle

dweller: 3 nun 4 monk 5 friar, prior

Abbey: 5 Edwin 6 Edward

Abbey__: 4 Road 7 Theatre

__ Abbey: 7 Tintern

Abbey, Edward: 11 illustrator

Abbey Road Studios owner: 3 EMI

Abbie: 7 Hoffman

Abbie an’__: 5 Slats

abbot: 3 Dom 4 abbé, monk, rank 5 title 6 cleric 8 minister 9 churchman, religious

headwear: 5 miter

subordinate: 5 prior

Abbotsford: 4 city, town

locale: 6 Canada

Abbott: 3 Bud 6 George, Philip 7 Gregory 8 Berenice

Abbott and Costello: 3 duo 4 pair, team

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948 film)

cast: Bud Abbott, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi

director: Charles Barton

Abbott, Berenice: 12 photographer

Abbott, George: 8 director

film: Damn Yankees (1958)

The Pajama Game (1957)

Too Many Girls (1940)

abbreviate: 4 clip, pare, trim 5 prune, slash 6 cut off, cut out, digest, narrow, recede, reduce, shrink 7 abridge, compact, curtail, cut back, cut down, shorten 8 abstract, boil down, compress, condense, contract, diminish, minimize, restrict, truncate 9 capsulize, stop short, summarize, telescope

abbreviated: 3 cut 5 short 7 partial, sketchy 9 condensed 10 compressed, unfinished

version: 4 mini

abbreviation: 3 cut 6 digest, sketch 7 outline, summary 8 abstract, clipping, synopsis

Abby: 6 Dalton 8 Van Buren

sister: 3 Ann

__ Abby: 4 Dear

ABC: 3 net 7 network

a.m. show: 3 GMA

follower: 3 DEF 4 DEFG 5 DEFGH

HQ: 3 NYC

part of ~: 4 Amer.

rival of ~: 3 CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN 5 The WB

telephone ~: 3 two

watchdog: 3 FCC

__ ABC: 6 easy as

ABC (1970 song) artist: Jackson 5

ABC of Relativity, The author: Bertrand Russell

ABCs: 6 basics, letter 8 alphabet 9 rudiments 10 essentials, foundation

ABC’s__World of Sports: 4 Wide

__ Abdel Nasser: 5 Gamal

abdicate: 4 cede, drop, quit 5 bag it, demit, forgo, leave, yield 6 abjure, depart, forego, give up, opt out, resign, retire, secede, vacate 7 abandon, bail out 8 abnegate, renounce, step down, withdraw 9 go to sleep, quitclaim, surrender 10 relinquish

abdication: 6 ceding, waiver 7 cession 8 retiring, transfer, yielding 9 demission, deserting, desertion, disowning, rejection, resigning, surrender 10 abnegation, renouncing, retirement, transferal

abdomen: 3 gut, pot 5 belly, tummy 6 middle, paunch 7 midriff, stomach 10 midsection

combining form: 4 celi- 5 celio-, coeli-, ventr- 6 coelio-, ventri-, ventro-

crustacean ~: 5 pleon

muscle: 6 rectus

muscles: 5 recti

of the ~: 6 celiac 7 coeliac

terminus: 5 groin

abdominal exercise: 5 sit-up

abdominous: 3 fat 5 obese, plump, pudgy, round, tubby 6 chubby, portly, rotund 7 paunchy 9 corpulent 10 bigbellied, overweight, potbellied, well-padded

abduct: 4 take 5 seize, steal 6 collar, kidnap, ravish, snatch 7 capture 8 carry off, grab away, shanghai, take away 9 carry away 10 run off with, spirit away

combining form: 3 -nap

abduction: 7 seizure

abductor: 9 kidnapper

Abdul Abulbul__: 4 Amir

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem alma mater: 4 UCLA

milieu: 5 court

org.: 3 NBA

sport: 10 basketball

Abdul, Paula

song: Blowing Kisses in the Wind (1991)

Cold Hearted (1989)

Forever Your Girl (1989)

Opposites Attract (1990)

The Promise of a New Day (1991)

Rush, Rush (1991)

Straight Up (1988)

The Way That You Love Me (1989)

spouse: Emilio Estevez

Abe: 4 Kobo 5 Beame 6 Attell, Fortas, Pollin, Vigoda 7 Burrows, Lincoln, Simpson 10 Saperstein

boy: 3 Tad

like ~: 6 honest

Mary, to ~: 4 wife

parent: 3 Tom 5 Nancy

wife: 4 Mary

__ a bead on: 3 get 4 draw

abeam: 6 across

Abebe: 6 Bikila

abecedarian: 4 tiro, tyro 6 novice 7 learner 8 beginner, neophyte 10 tenderfoot

phrase: 4 as in

abecedary: 7 primary 10 elementary

__ à Becket: 6 Thomas

abed: 5 not up 6 laid up 7 retired 8 sleeping, snoozing, tucked in 9 in the sack, sacked out 10 sawing logs, slumbering

maybe: 3 ill

not ~: 5 astir

__-abed: 3 lie

__-A-Bed: 4 Hide

__ a bee: 6 busy as

a bee in one’s__: 6 bonnet

__ a beet: 5 red as

Abe Family, The author: Mori Ögai

Abe Kobo: 6 writer 8 Japanese 10 playwright

Abel: 3 Bob 4 Alan, Elie 5 Gance 6 Jeanne, Rudolf, Tasman, Walter 7 Ferrara 8 Magwitch

brother of ~: 4 Cain, Seth

love: 4 Rima

nephew of ~: 4 Enos

parent of: 3 Eve 4 Adam

Abelard: 5 Peter

Abel composer: 4 Arne

abele: 4 tree 6 poplar

abelia: 5 shrub

relative: 5 elder 8 snowball

Abe Lincoln in Illinois: 4 film, play

author: Robert E. Sherwood

cast: Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Massey

character: 3 Ann 4 Gale, Seth

studio: 3 RKO

__ a bell: 4 ring

Abel, Rudolf: 3 spy

Abenaki: 6 Indian 7 Amerind

Aberdeen: 4 city, port, town

locale: 8 Maryland, Scotland

river: 3 Dee

Aberdeen__: 5 Angus 7 terrier

Aberdeen__Ground: 7 Proving

aberrance: 5 quirk

aberrant: 3 odd 4 eery 5 eerie, flaky, weird 6 atypic, flakey, freaky, morbid, quirky, way-out 7 bizarre, deviant, off-base, offbeat, strange, unalike, unusual 8 abnormal, atypical, freakish, peculiar, uncommon 9 anomalous, different, divergent, eccentric, fantastic, grotesque, irregular, monstrous, not normal, out of line, unnatural 10 nonuniform, unorthodox

aberrate: 7 deviate

aberration: 3 pip 4 blip, warp 5 freak, lapse, mania, quirk 6 oddity 7 anomaly, mistake, veering 8 delusion 9 deformity, departure, deviation, diversion, variation, wandering, weirdness 10 difference, distortion, divergence

ab esse: 6 absent

abet: 3 aid 4 back, help 5 egg on 6 assist, excite, foment, foster, incite, lead on, spur on, urge on 7 advance, collude, forward, support 8 embolden, imbolden 9 encourage, instigate, lend a hand, stimulate, subsidize

__ a bet: 5 place

__ a bet!: 5 Not on

abetment: 3 aid 4 help 6 assist 10 assistance

abettor: 4 ally 5 agent 6 helper 8 henchman 9 accessory, assistant 10 accomplice

abeyance: 4 lull 5 pause 6 recess 7 latency, waiting 8 deferral, dormancy, reprieve, stoppage 9 remission 10 inactivity, quiescence, suspension

be in ~: 4 pend 5 await

hold in ~: 8 postpone

in ~: 5 on ice 6 latent 10 unrealized

abeyant: 6 latent, put off, tabled 7 dormant, resting, shelved, waiting 8 deferred, inactive, set aside 9 postponed, quiescent, suspended

abhor: 4 hate, loth 5 loath, scorn 6 detest, loathe 7 deplore, despise, disdain, dislike, hold low 8 execrate 9 abominate, can’t stand 10 look down on, recoil from

old-style: 5 spise

abhorred: 7 unloved

abhorrence: 4 hate 5 odium 6 enmity, hatred, horror, malice 7 disgust 8 aversion, distaste, loathing 9 antipathy, hostility, repulsion, revulsion 10 execration, ill feeling, repellence

abhorrent: 4 base, foul, grim, poor 5 awful, lousy, nasty, woful 6 crumby, crummy, dismal, horrid, odious, rotten, woeful 7 accurst, baleful, baneful, beastly, doleful, ghastly, hateful, heinous, satanic, vicious 8 accursed, dreadful, God-awful, grievous, horrible, shameful, stinking, terrible, wretched 9 appalling, atrocious, defective, execrable, frightful, insidious, loathsome, miserable, offensive, repellant, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, satanical 10 abominable, despicable, detestable, disastrous, forbidding, horrendous, petrifying

Abib, month before: 4 Adar

abide: 2 go 4 bear, last, live, lump, stay, take, wait 5 brook, dwell, exist, lodge, sit by, stand, stick, tarry 6 accept, endure, hang in, hold on, inhere, keep on, linger, remain, reside, settle, suffer, take it 7 consent, persist, sojourn, stomach, sustain, swallow, undergo 8 continue, kill time, stand for, tolerate 9 persevere, put up with, withstand 10 hang around, stay a while, wait around

apt rhyme for ~: 6 reside

by: 4 heed, mind, obey 5 bow to 6 accept, adhere, bend to, follow, fulfil, hold to, redeem 7 agree to, conform, consent, defer to, fulfill, observe, respect, stand by, stick to 8 adhere to, carry out, listen to, submit to 9 conform to, discharge, persist in, stick with 10 comply with, keep in step, toe the line

abiding: 4 fast, firm 5 fixed 6 stable, steady 7 chronic, durable, endless, eternal, lasting, undying 8 constant, enduring, timeless, unending 9 ceaseless, chronical, perennial, permanent, perpetual, steadfast, unabating, unceasing 10 changeless, continuing, habituated, inveterate, persistent, unchanging, unwavering

__-abiding: 3 law

Abidjan: 4 city, port, town 7 capital

capital east of ~: 5 Accra, Akkra

locale: 10 Ivory Coast

à bientôt: 8 au revoir

Abie’s Irish Rose star: 3 Dru

abigail: 4 maid

Abigail: 5 Adams 8 Fillmore, Van Buren

sib: 3 Ann

Abigail Adams,__Smith: 3 née

__ a Big Boy Now: 5 You’re

Abiko: 4 city, town

locale: 5 Japan

Abilene: 4 city, town

locale: 5 Texas 6 Kansas

Abilene Town (1946 film)

cast: Edgar Buchanan, Ann Dvorak, Randolph Scott

ability: 4 bent, gift, head 5 craft, flair, knack, might, power, reach, savvy, sense, skill, touch 6 talent 7 command, faculty, finesse, freedom, know-how, mastery, prowess, stature 8 aptitude, artistry, capacity, deftness, facility, hang of it, strength 9 adeptness, dexterity, endowment, expertise, handiness, ingenuity, intellect, knowledge, potential 10 adroitness, competence, efficiency, expertness, green thumb, right stuff

has no ~ to: 6 cannot

having the ~ for: 9 capable of

natural ~: 5 knack 6 genius 8 instinct 9 endowment

__ a bill of goods: 4 sell

__-A-Billy: 4 Rock

__ a bird,…: 3 It’s

__ a bite: 4 grab

abject: 3 low 4 base 5 sorry 6 broody, humble, menial, sordid 7 fawning, forlorn, hangdog, ignoble, outcast, pitiful, servile 8 degraded, dejected, hopeless, penitent, pitiable, wretched 9 groveling, miserable, prostrate, worthless 10 deplorable, despicable, humiliated, submissive

abjectly, act: 6 cringe

abjectness: 10 depression, woefulness

abjuration: 8 apostasy

abjure: 3 ban, bar, nix 4 veto 5 debar, forgo 6 disown, eschew, forbid, forego, recall, recant, reject 7 abstain, disavow, forsake, retract 8 abdicate, disallow, disclaim, forswear, keep from, prohibit, renounce, swear off, withdraw 9 foreswear, proscribe, repudiate 10 contravene

ablactate: 4 wean

__ a blank: 4 draw

__ a blanket: 5 pig in

ablare: 4 loud 10 trumpeting

ablate: 4 melt 5 erode 8 vaporize 9 dissipate

ablative: 4 case

ablaze: 3 lit 5 afire, aglow, angry, fiery, light, shiny 6 aflame, alight, bright, flashy, fuming, heated, on fire, raging 7 aroused, beaming, blazing, burning, fervent, flaming, flaring, fulgent, furious, glowing, ignited, lambent, lighted, radiant, shining, zealous 8 dazzling, flashing, frenzied, gleaming, incensed, in flames, luminous, lustrous, vehement 9 brilliant, refulgent, sparkling

be ~: 4 burn

set ~: 3 lit 5 light 6 ignite

able: 3 apt, fit 4 deft, good, keen 5 adept, can-do, handy, hardy, quick, savvy, sharp, smart 6 adroit, artful, clever, expert, facile, gifted, strong, up to it 7 knowing, skilled, trained 8 adequate, dextrous, equipped, powerful, prepared, skillful 9 competent, dexterous, effective, efficient, empowered, masterful, permitted, practiced, promising, qualified, versatile 10 proficient

become ~: 5 learn

be ~ to: 3 can 6 afford

facetiously: 3 ept

follower: 5 baker

isn’t ~ to: 4 can’t

is ~ to: 3 can

able__: 6 seaman

able-__ seaman: 6 bodied

Able__ere…: 4 was I

Able, Baker,__: 7 Charlie

able-bodied: 3 fit 4 hale, iron, well, wiry 5 beefy, burly, hardy, hefty, hunky, husky, lusty, stout, tough, whole 6 brawny, hearty, mighty, potent, robust, rugged, sinewy, steely, stocky, strong, sturdy, virile 7 doughty, healthy 8 athletic, forceful, indurate, muscular, powerful, puissant, stalwart, vigorous 9 Atlantean, Herculean, strapping, well-built 10 red-blooded

Able to__tall buildings…: 4 leap

Able was I__…: 3 ere 4 ere I

__ a blind eye: 4 turn

__-a-block: 5 chock

abloom: 8 in flower 9 flowering 10 blossoming

ablush: 3 red 4 pink 8 reddened

ablution: 4 bath, wash 6 shower 7 washing 8 lavation 9 cleansing, showering

Islamic ~: 4 wudu

ably: 4 well 6 deftly 7 capably, rightly 8 adroitly, laudably, worthily 10 skillfully

ABM: 6 weapon

part of ~: 4 Anti 7 Missile 9 Ballistic

user: 4 USAF

Abnaki: 6 Indian 7 Amerind

abnegate: 6 disown, recant, refute 7 abstain 8 abdicate, disclaim, keep from, renounce 10 relinquish

abnegating: 5 sober

abnegation: 6 denial 7 refusal 8 eschewal 9 rejection, sacrifice, surrender 10 abdication, abstinence, self-denial, temperance

Abner: 5 Yokum 9 Doubleday

creator: 4 Capp 6 Al Capp

father of ~: 3 Ner

friend: 3 Lum

__ Abner: 3 Li’l

abnormal: 3 odd 5 gross, queer, weird 6 atypic, morbid, off-key, screwy, wayout 7 bizarre, curious, deviant, oddball, off-base, strange, unusual 8 aberrant, atypical, freakish, isolated, peculiar, uncommon 9 anomalous, deviating, divergent, eccentric, fantastic, heterodox, irregular, malformed, out of line, shapeless, unnatural 10 unexpected, unorthodox

combining form: 4 anom- 5 anomo-

prefix: 3 mal- 4 para-

abnormality: 4 flaw 6 oddity 7 anomaly 8 deviance 9 variation

abnormally: 5 oddly 10 especially

aboard: 2 on 6 loaded, on base, on deck 7 en route, on a ship 8 embarked 9 consigned, in transit, traveling

come ~: 4 join 6 embark, jump on 9 affiliate

go ~: 6 embark 7 emplane, entrain, set sail, ship out 9 leave port

put ~: 4 lade, load

ship: 4 asea 5 at sea

__ aboard!: 3 All

__ a board: 6 flat as

abode: 3 pad 4 base, co-op, digs, farm, flat, home, iglu, nest, seat, tipi 5 cabin, condo, house, igloo, lodge, manor, place, shack, tepee 6 teepee 7 address, château, domicil, habitat, housing, lodging, mansion 8 domicile, dwelling, fireside, log cabin, quarters 9 apartment, motor home, residence

animal ~: 3 den 4 lair

bird ~: 4 aery, eyry, nest 5 aerie, eyrie

fowl ~: 4 coop 5 roost

humble ~: 3 hut 5 hovel, shack 6 shanty

Indian ~: 4 tent, tipi 5 hogan, tepee 6 teepee, wigwam

see also home, house

aboil: 7 cooking 8 seething, steaming 9 simmering

abolish: 3 end, nix, rid, zap 4 kill, undo, void 5 abate, annul, erase, quash, scrub 6 cancel, finish, negate, repeal, revoke, vacate 7 call off, destroy, expunge, inhibit, nullify, rescind, root out, squelch, subvert, vitiate, wipe out 8 abrogate, dissolve, overturn, prohibit, set aside, stamp out, suppress 9 eradicate, extirpate, liquidate, overthrow, repudiate, supersede, terminate 10 annihilate, do away with, extinguish, invalidate, obliterate, put an end to

abolition: 9 abatement, annulment, overthrow 10 abrogation, rescinding, rescission, revocation, subversion, withdrawal

abolla: 5 cloak

aboma: 5 snake 6 animal 7 reptile

relative: 3 asp, boa 5 adder, cobra, krait, mamba, racer, viper 6 dhaman, python, taipan 7 markhor, rattler 8 anaconda, moccasin, ringhals 9 boomslang, coach-whip 10 bushmaster, copperhead, sidewinder

A-bomb scientist: 4 Urey 5 Fermi

abominable: 3 bad 4 base, foul, grim, poor, vile 5 awful, curst, gross, hairy, lousy, seamy, woful 6 crumby, crummy, cursed, dismal, grisly, horrid, odious, rotten, wicked, woeful 7 accurst, baleful, baneful, beastly, doleful, ghastly, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, satanic, squalid 8 accursed, dreadful, God-awful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, inferior, shameful, shocking, stinking, terrible, wretched 9 abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, defective, execrable, frightful, insidious, invidious, loathsome, miserable, nefarious, obnoxious, offensive, repellant, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, satanical 10 despicable, detestable, disastrous, disgusting, horrendous, petrifying

snowman: 4 yeti

Abominable__: 7 Snowman

Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971 film)

cast: Joseph Cotten, Vincent Price

abominate: 4 hate 5 abhor 6 detest, loathe 7 despise, disgust, dislike, hold low 8 execrate 10 recoil from

abomination: 4 hate 5 crime, odium, wrong 6 hatred 7 disgust, offense 8 enormity, iniquity 9 revulsion

__ a bone: 5 dry as

__ a bone to pick: 4 have

__ a book: 4 like 5 crack

__-a-Boom: 5 Chick

aboriginal: 3 old 5 early, first 6 native 7 ancient, endemic, primary 8 primeval 9 endemical, primaeval, primitive, unevolved 10 indigenous, primordial

aborigine: 6 native 7 bushman 8 indigene, original 10 inhabitant

Antilles: 5 Carib

Australia: 4 Mara

call: 5 cooee

hatchet: 4 mogo

India: 4 Gond

Japan: 4 Ainu

New Zealand: 5 Maori

Panama: 4 Cuna

Sri Lanka: 5 Vedda 6 Veddah

weapon: 5 spear, waddy 6 waddie

abort: 3 end 5 cease, check, scrub 6 arrest, cancel 8 cut short 9 terminate 10 contravene

abortive: 4 vain 7 useless 9 premature

Abou Ben Adhem: 4 poem

author: Leigh Hunt

abound: 4 flow, teem 5 crawl, crowd, swarm, swell 6 infest, rich in, thrive 7 prevail, run riot 8 flourish, overflow 9 luxuriate

abounding: 4 full, rich, rife 5 alive, flush, leafy, thick 6 filled, heaped, plenty 7 copious, profuse, replete 8 infested, prodigal, prolific 9 plentiful

about: 3 say 4 as to, back, in re 5 anent, circa 6 active, almost, around, moving, nearby, nearly, toward 7 apropos, close to, roughly, towards 8 backward, in motion, relative, stirring, well-nigh 9 apropos of, as regards, generally, regarding, somewhere 10 as concerns, concerning, give or take, relating to

prefix: 4 peri-

starter: 3 gad, lay, run 4 here, turn, walk 5 knock, round, roust, there

suffix: 3 -ish

about-__: 4 face

__ about: 3 gad, get, put, see, set 4 cast, come, just, kick, muck, nose, on or 5 knock, noise, up and

About__: 4 a Boy, Adam 5 a Girl

About__Leslie: 3 Mrs.

About__Night …: 4 Last

About a Boy (2002 film)

cast: Toni Colette, Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz

About Adam (2001 film)

cast: Kate Hudson, Frances O’Connor, Stuart Townsend

About a Girl (1994 song) artist: Nirvana

About a Quarter to Nine composer: 5 Dubin 6 Warren

__ About Bob?: 4 What

__ About Eve: 3 All

about-face: 4 turn 5 shift, U-turn 6 change, switch 7 reverse, setback 8 apostasy, flip-flop, reversal, variance 9 inversion, one-eighty, vice versa 10 alteration, conversion

do an ~: 9 back-pedal

About Last Night … (1986 film)

cast: James Belushi, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Elizabeth Perkins

director: Edward Zwick

About Mrs. Leslie (1954 film)

cast: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan

director: Daniel Mann

abouts starter: 5 there

__ about that: 3 how

__ about the bush: 4 beat

__ about the gills: 5 green

__ about time!: 3 It’s

__ about town: 3 man 5 woman

__ About You: 3 How, Mad

above: 3 o’er 4 atop, high, over 5 aloft, on top, upper 6 beyond, on high, upward 7 aloft of, north of, on top of, skyward, topping 8 hovering, in heaven, more than, overhead, superior, upraised, upstairs 9 aforesaid, exceeding, foregoing, upwards of 10 better than, heavenward, larger than, superior to, surpassing, up in the sky

ender: 5 board 6 ground

in German: 4 über

prefix: 3 epi-, sur- 5 hyper-, super-, supra-

above__: 3 all 5 it all, water 6 stairs

above__beyond: 3 and

__ above: 4 a cut

Above and Beyond (1952 film)

cast: Eleanor Parker, Robert Taylor, James Whitmore

aboveboard: 4 fair, just, open, true 5 frank, legal, legit, licit, moral, overt, right 6 candid, honest, lawful, openly, square 7 sincere, up-front, upright 8 straight, truthful 9 guileless, high-toned, sincerely, veracious 10 believable, forthright, from the hip, virtuously

above it__: 3 all

above-mentioned: 5 prior

Above Suspicion (1943 film)

cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt

director: Richard Thorpe

above the__: 3 law 4 line

Above the Law (1988 film)

cast: Pam Grier, Steven Seagal, Sharon Stone

ab ovo: 3 new

__ a bow: 4 take

__ a boy!: 3 It’s

__-a-brac: 4 bric

abracadabra: 3 gas, hex, rot 4 blah, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, jazz, jive, pooh, tosh 5 bilge, fudge, hokum, hooey, magic, prate, spell, stuff, trash, tripe 6 bunkum, bushwa, drivel, footle, gabble, gammon, gibber, havers, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, kibosh, piffle 7 baloney, blarney, blather, blether, boloney, bushwah, eyewash, flannel, flubdub, fustian, garbage, hogwash, inanity, rubbish, sorcery, twaddle 8 buncombe, claptrap, falderal, falderol, flimflam, flummery, folderal, folderol, nonsense, slipslop, tommyrot, trumpery 9 banana oil, gibberish, kidstakes, moonshine, poppy-cock, rigmarole 10 applesauce, balderdash, bilge water, codswallop, double-talk, flapdoodle, galimatias, Jabberwock, mumbo jumbo, rigama-role, taradiddle

Abracadabra (1982 song) artist: Steve Miller Band

abrade: 3 bug, irk, rub 4 file, gall, rasp, sand, skin, wear 5 annoy, chafe, erode, grate, graze, grind, scour, scrub, scuff 6 scrape 7 flatten, roughen, rub down, wear off 8 irritate, wear away, wear down 9 excoriate, sandpaper, scrape off, stone-wash

abraded: 3 raw

abrading: 7 erosive

Abraham: 6 Cowley 7 Lincoln

brother of ~: 5 Haran, Nahor

father of ~: 5 Terah

grandfather of ~: 5 Nahor

grandson of ~: 4 Esau 5 Jacob

half-sister of ~: 5 Sarah

nephew of ~: 3 Lot 4 Hazo 5 Gaham, Tebah 6 Kemuel, Maacah, Tahash 7 Pildash

partner: 6 Straus

son of ~: 5 Isaac, Medan, Shuah 6 Midian, Zimrah 7 Ishmael

wife of ~: 5 Sarah, Sarai 7 Keturah

Abraham, F. Murray: 5 actor

film: Amadeus (1984, AA)

Finding Forrester (2000)

Last Action Hero (1993)

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Abraham, Martin and John (1968 song) artist: Dion

Abrahams: 3 Jim 5 Peter

Abraham’s__: 5 bosom

Abrahams, Jim: 8 director

film: Airplane! (1980)

Big Business (1988)

Hot Shots! (1991)

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Ruthless People (1986)

Abrahams, Peter: 6 writer 12 South African