Crossword Clues Start With A, page 1656
An ancient flute or aulos after which the shinbone is named (5)
An artisan who fuses glass by heat onto gold, silver or other metal as a colourful way to decorate jewellery, pillboxes or other ornate objects (9)
An old name for the dog collar of a clergyman; or, a jar for conserves, preserves, jellies and the like (6)
An old word for amorous sport/ play, frivolous entertainment, an antic or a trick; a trifling object or plaything, such as a doll, miniature, model, teddy bear or tin soldier; or, something diminutive
An onomatopoeic Norse name, adopted in the Scottish Isles, for the "William" also known as a black guillemot, Gwilym ddu or scraber (6)
Ancient Greek city in SW Asia Minor famous for its school of medicine
Ancient name of "La Ville Rose", the French "Pink City", whose culinary specialities include "saucisses" and the cassoulet in which they are served (6)
Army post that merged with USN and USAF installations in 2005
Author of a number of novels featuring the hatted pipe-smoking commissaire, Jules Maigret (7)
Author whose Beasts and Super-Beasts includes Dusk, The Cobweb, The Hen and The Quince Tree (4)
Actress Paquin
Aficionado
Actress Pompeo
Athletic shoe feature
Actor Richard
Away from the shore
__ a question; asked
Actor Christian
Apparition
----: A Star Wars Story, movie prequel starring Alden Ehrenreich (4)
A result of smoking in bed ? (5,2,5)
Actor in Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew -------- (8)
Actors adopted title
Acts of generosity in article penned by peerless members of parliament? (9)
Alex Zane's video-clips show, Rude ---- (4)
Archie in Monarch of the Glen, ... Mackenzie (8)
Attendant hanger-on
Annual New Year's Day event
A whole bunch
Air pollution portmanteau
''Amore mio''
A borough in London but a city in New Jersey?
1935 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Robert Donat, The 39 ----- (5)
2000 action comedy with Jackie Chan, Shanghai ---- (4)
Actor who played Perry in Big Little Lies, Alexander --------- (9)
After-dinner need?
American singer and poet
Andrew Lincoln's role in This Life (3)
Award-winning TV host, - - - Norton
Axe, scrap
Actress Daly of "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
AAA and BBB
Aggregate
Act like a snake
Actress Spacek
“A Raisin in the Sun,” for one
Advanced degrees
A monarch in state you reportedly banished? Just the opposite
Absent, but not as successful strikers (7)
Achieves satisfaction succeeding king, making fortune
Actor who plays Ramsay Street regular Leo Tanaka in Neighbours (3,4)
Additional run on the presses (9)
Adivi, aspexi, "debellavi" in verbis praeclaris Caesaris
Adv. in another way: haud ____, not otherwise, ie just so (litotes)
Agile sprite's liveliness (6)
Agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail (8)
"Akata Witch" author Okorafor
Art of combining melodies
Asked a question of demented dopes? (5)
Assumed choice of directions
Activist Mandela
Alcohol and fruit juice drink
Apple juice brand
___ and far between
Accumulate
A long, long time
22-Across figs.
A Man Called Otto actor, Tom _ (5)
A deputy, representative, etc (8)
A forced labour camp in the former Soviet Union (5)
A high official, bailiff (hist) (5)
A kind of toffee made with caramelised sugar and nuts (7)
A short garment resembling a surplice (5)
A tree like a beech with hard tough wood (8)
A type of Spruce tree (5)
Accumulated goods
Actress, screenwriter and star of Nanny McPhee (4,8)
Actress and Britain's Got Talent judge, _ Holden (6)
African capital city (pop 2 million). Founded in 1890 (6)
Agent playing "I spy" with these people (9)
Alicia -, US singer-songwriter (4)
Amber-coloured liquid which separates out when blood coagulates (5)
American talk show hostess, _ Winfrey (5)
Anatolian goats (7)
Andrea _, lead singer with her family's band (4)
Another term for Aardvark (8)
Ants all around the food, is it wise ? (7)
Australian actress who appeared in Sucker Punch and Limitless (5,7)
About to cry
As a result
2010 action movie with Michelle
2011 action movie in which Michelle appears in a photo
A gear
Actress, Ione ___
Actress, Penelope ___
Actress, ___ Spacek
Adapt, switch (7)
Aerial camera
Ahead of deadline
Airfield hazard
Alan strangely put copper into gap (6)
Anne Hathaway film, The Devil Wears ___
Austin Powers actor, Mike ___
"Avatar" genre (hyph.)
(and 4 Down) Tried converting fan of red meat (4,2,6)
And 5 and 8 Mix for stern-sounding salad dish? (8,6,8)
Access hatches (8)
Ace's tricky pitch
Acted the fall guy?
Adventurous Saul Bellow hero (5,5)
Amazon's sphere
Animal in a pod
"___ appetito!" ("Mangia!")
A representation in art/sculpture of the external form of a person or object; a mental picture evoked by a poem or story; or, a visible impression obtained by a camera (5)
Avail
Abbr. after an old date
Abbr. that ends a list
Abruptly focuses
American broadcaster Geraldo
Ancient philosopher, ___ Tzu
Asset on a blockchain, for short
Avocado dip, fun-style
- a reasonable doubt
AFL
Acted sketchily, in a way
Admonishment when a cast member copies Chris's physical comedy? (1990-95)
Advisable behaviors
Andy's kid, in 1960s TV
Annual Nashville event, briefly
Apologies for trying to impersonate Maya? (2000-7)
Attach, as a bow
Awesome people
___ Alla Scala (Milan stage)
"___ and Niki" (kids' show)
Abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere
Accountant Ross organised awards (6)
African river in a Christie mystery
Anything that's needed
Art movement founded by Lucio Fontana
Artist with a talent for connect-the-dots pictures?
Attend to every last detail, metaphorically
Austen, Alcott or Angelou
Award for advertisements
___ acid (compound in red wine)
Actor Greene returns to register
After nine a little saint must return to camp
Alcohol after tea? I'll string along with that!
Anyway! It's lunchtime!
Art's needed for one to be given a top billing
& 22A US actress who played Clare Pettengill in Channel 4 sitcom The Book Group (4,5)
1990 action-comedy film starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr (3,7)
Amass debts for chicken enclosure at university
A hormone or vitamin (7)
A relative from the milkrun, clearly (5)
Admit responsibility (3,2)
A Hard Day's ___, Beatles film
A horse confused on the beach (6)
Ann did play one part in panto (7)
Apply for directions to one's house
Assume mail delayed about mid- January (9)
Alexanders I-III
Acronymic devices in atomic clocks and radio telescopes
Apocalyptic scene
Actor Wilson of "The Office"
Abandon without warning
Accessibility concern
Actress Mireille ___ of TV's "Hanna" and "Lucky Hank"
Auntie ___ (pretzel chain)
"American ___," TV talent show
A printmaker has these urges (7)
Accuser (archaic)
American ___ (TV talent show)
Anagram of "Sale" YESTERDAY'S ANSWER
Any malignant growth
As a replacement or alternative
Animals from the west
Affair of the bag
Anxious
Abundant
Alfred —, Austrian psychiatrist who authored The Neurotic Character and The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology
Airline company; flag carrier of the Netherlands
Annual or biennial grass used to make flour
Anomalous
Abbr. on a navy vessel
Ariel’s planet
Actress Long
Album’s first half
"__ About You"
"America's Got Talent" judge
Actor Rob
As hard as __
Actor William
"__ Age: Collision Course"; 2016 film
Andean ruminants
Aplomb
At any time
A conservative shot in golf and an easy one in basketball
Advertising slogan of Skittles confectionery
African port capital on the Mediterranean Sea
Author of Notes from a Small Island
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience (6)
A native of Ayrshire, say, somewhere in Berkshire (5)
A piece of dishonesty about verse of a vigorous nature (5)
A root vegetable with a white, tapering taproot (6)
A small pitcher for serving thick liquid taken from milk (5,3)
A small sailing boat put back in constantly
A usable oil is sprayed behind starter of beef, a French dish (13)
A video in which a person's face or body has been digitally manipulated (8)
About Sunak's lacking height: it's a major problem
Achieved by using indirect or dishonest means (4,4)
Acidic hard yellow fruit (6)
Ad words with "on TV"
Advice giver (5,4)
All together in Marseilles? (2,5)
Ally soon regularly observed in addition (4)
An instance of hurried or careless writing (6)
Anagram of 'redaction'
Anti-bias, covering a shinbone (5)
Argyll and Bute resort town (4)
As a horse is after one's dismounted (9)
Auto mechanic's lubricating device
“A thinning layer” (Australian joke)
A 12th-century empress; daughter and heir of Henry I and mother of Henry II (7)
A 1941 animated film by Walt Disney Productions (8)
A Good Man in ___, 1994 Sean Connery film (6)
A conservative shot in golf and an easy one in basketball
A male who stops traffic to allow children to cross a road safely (8,3)
A social division of a people, defined in terms of descent, territory, culture etc (5)
A wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves etc (7)
Accumulation of work inventory (7)
Acronym for a pitching statistic
Activity in box A (8)
Advertising slogan of Skittles confectionery
Agitation of whistleblower turning workers tense (7)
American TV sitcom that starred Ron Howard and Henry Winkler (5,4)
American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
An event marked by savagery, inhumanity, cruelty (ICY TAROT anagram) (8)
An open-textured Italian bread made with olive oil (8)
Artful when packaging large pottery (5)
As 33 is here, No 102 is too
Audition tape
Author of Notes from a Small Island (1995)
Award of honour and bravery (5)
An electrically driven public transport vehicle running on rails set into a road (4)
Author Philip in sleeping car
An outside line to ring?
Alsatian? Or poodle transformed with CGI?
An Oxbridge tutor is handsome fellow
Able to wait
Attractive youth