Crossword Clues Start With A, page 1759
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Actress reportedly to bear chess prodigy
Artificial
Au contraire!
'Artificially grown fall flower?
2011 and 2012 Austrian Open Kitzbuhel singles tennis tournament winner (5,5)
A Slinky may "walk down" one
A gander would fly off (6)
A help with DIY jobs you're not up to (6)
A particular crate is unpacked in (7)
A simple card game
A strange turn of events for him (6)
Acclaimed novelist, --- Follett
Albert, German field marshal who was supreme commander in Italy from 1943-45 (10)
Alexander, London-born fashion designer named British Designer of the Year in 1996 (7)
Allow the girl to start bleating (6)
An equally small animal (3)
And filling the streets with stalls (6)
And translated to English by the foreigner (4)
Any one of the twelve legendary companions of Charlemagne (7)
Are disposed to, if you look after (4)
Area for penalized ice hockey or rugby players (3,3)
As the male cat is about to do (5)
At "The Brown Adder," he got drunk, the fool (10)
At the back, the swivelling crane is an obstacle (9)
Assistance, right? No, it's an attack (4)
"Ain't gonna happen"
Arcade coins
Award similar to a Tony
Architectural drawing
A cadet has it due to him - being taught a lesson (8)
A love plant? Not quite! (4)
Alessandro, Bolognese sculptor whose works include Innocent X (7)
Alexander, director of 1936 film Rembrandt (5)
Arch has nothing but fish (5)
American entertainer whose films included "Roman Scandals" and "Ali Baba Goes to Town"
Ancient South East Italian port, end point of the Roman Appian Way and a centre of the Crusades in the Middle Ages (8)
Activities that waste precious hours of your life
Affected by a recession in the main (2,1,3,3)
After almost 30 days, I take alternative being of lower rank (6)
After fourth of September, sorceress had spasm (6)
Aim of protest I have (9)
Alternative to snowboards
Asimov work with "Three Laws"
Associated with royalty and bishops, colour of the flowers lavender, lilac and violet and also anthocyanin-rich fruits including aubergine, acai and cherry (6)
A baffling problem for the artist's model (5)
Author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate whose youngest and fifth sister Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire lived at Chatsworth (7)
*Artificially grown fall flower?
Australian bird
Auction action
Actress Thompson of "Sorry To Bother You"
Awaits resolution
Arctic people
... Antetokounmpo, the Nigerian-greek NBA player. (7)
Actress Chabert of Hallmark's "Crossword Mysteries" series
Aston Villa manager Unai ... (5)
(and 5 Across) OK for athlete to train to start dancing (4,3,5)
Access to a mine
- and drakes; outdoor game or pastime where the object is to skim a stone across the surface of water as many times as possible before it sinks (5)
Airline that only offers kosher meals
Angry, really cross (5)
Assassin returns to BBC1 crime series (6)
Attend to formal speech (7)
2023 animated film about a family of ducks going south for the winter
A man of steel with just one right boot
Actor McElhenney of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Actor Pascal of The Last of Us
An American flag officer?
Animal whose name can also be a verb meaning mimic
Anti-Hero singer Taylor
Attach as a windshield sticker
Avoid as one's duties
A drink of cider and lager? It's best avoided on a hike! (9)
A person, place or ___ is a noun (5)
A person who uses sign language
Accept as true, without evidence (7)
Apply lip gloss with a heavy hand
About to leave oil production plant in glad rags
Accessory less used during Movember, perhaps
Action working both ways (4)
___ a Boy, Nick Hornby novel (5)
100 acres
A break from school (4-4)
A cape, ness (8)
A drink of spirit, sugar, hot water (5)
A lump of wrought iron embedded in unstable thoroughfare (4,4)
A predicament (7)
A princess wears this on her head
A really famous pop star from the olden days
A shorter word used for this crossword's big word
A trifle, fat-free, prepared with old Italian bread (4)
Animal scientists (10)
As an illustration, Oman is hosting a hundred self-seekers (10)
Audition (coll) (6)
Alaskan islander
*Accept a responsibility
Audition goal
Artist Jean
Ambulance wailer
Actress Watson who once said "It's LeviOsa, not Leviosa!"
Actress West of "She Done Him Wrong"
Academy Award-winning costume designer Roth
Abandon inhibition (3,2)
Arrive (4)
All go ahead, missing every other Honolulu greeting (5)
Animal doctor near injured warhorse (7)
A jinx (6)
Arsenal manager Mikel ___ (6)
“A snake!”
Always
Abounds
Aviator’s milestone
Association of countries
A pie's changed colour
Average guy
A lamp is burning
Additional
Average
Acted sullenly
Ancient Athenian statesman whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offence
Anticipate
Andrew Flintoff’s nickname
As a result of
A second amount of money editor accepted
Aeroplanes
Alcoholic drink
Amaze
Attempt
Axiom
American on black horse's caught entering office
Artist on the rise snapped with anger, seeing financial exploitation
Attack damaged marionette where extremities lost
Amber, say, to commit further offence?
Able to read and write
Acknowledged mistakes
Altitude
Aromatic paste — mostly strong, is it?
A bit of whisky, say, before a play
A brief one-piece bathing garment for males (7)
A dark pigment occurring in the hair, skin and iris of the eye (7)
A libertine takes on domesticated bird
A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden (5)
A personal best in undignified language? Exactly! (4-4)
A stand in a market-place (5)
A thin sheet with a pattern or letters cut out of it used to make a print (7)
A yellowish cotton cloth
Actress Smith of "Why Did I Get Married?"
Actress and singer born in 1991 who was a 2023 I'm A Celebrity... contestant (5,4,6)
Addams family character voiced by Snoop Dogg
Aimed at damaging the papers, say (5)
Aiming to get slightly reduced number (7)
Amber, say, to commit further offence? (5)
American predator beginning to disturb pirate
Amphibian went hopping all over the place
Appear hungry (5)
Artist; revolver? (6)
Assemble (as a temporary measure) (3,2)
Astute, flushing it out
Asylum seeker good to enter EU, free to travel (7)
At first stand-ins, though ill-prepared, are used sporadically
Ancient city in the "Iliad"
A masterstroke or clever stratagem (4)
A non-drinker, pain, embassy worker
A pound abandoned by elite soldiers, for example (8)
A rep's upset, scoffed, and cut off (8)
AA propose reforms in Corrie?
And the rest His Eminence had eaten into (6)
Annual college football game held in Hawaii
Auction condition (2 wds.)
Aviator, say, is French soul returning to trouble (6)
___ asinorum, point at which learners fail (4)
____ Air Arm, aviation component of the Royal Navy (5)
Aisle walker
Albacore or bluefin
__ again; on second thought
Actor James
Astute
African desert
Above
Actress Burstyn
As wise __ owl
Agree that man must enter church
Able sons done in
Aim revealed by creature with venom and anger
Arena
"And the earth _ without form" (Gen 1:2) (3)
"And the earth _ without form" (Gen 1:2) (3)
"AsIseeit..."
Assist with a wrongdoing
Alternative to a thigh
Apple ___
Apathetic
Angel hair, bowties, shells, etc.
Approximate shape of this puzzle's white squares ... and a synonym of the circled letters
About the year of
Airport screeners' org.
Any assistant
Aviation prefix
Abbey resident
Aspirations
Actor Daniel __ Kim
Abbr. on old phones
__ and pains
--- And Peace, Russian novel (3)
... area
1976 African Cup of Nations winners (7)
A bonus is reduced somewhat when responsibility is expected (4)
A position for the old boy just to humour him? (7)
A pressing need for you, Reg and Cy
A swift dash right to Kate's place if you've nothing on, that is!
And 11 Down. South Africa, Racing 92, 2012-20 Stormers and 2021-23 Sharks flanker (4,6)
As an act of mortification you get the cane for taking a pen
*Accept a responsibility
A lunatic involved in seafaring (8)
A spell that isn't working
Abbr. for Miami's state
All without exception
Anderson who directed Asteroid City and Bottle Rocket
Apt name of the fire truck in the "Cars" franchise
Army or navy doctor, one of the workers? (5,7)
Attacked baseball player Edgar (8)
___ Adams, Enchanted star (3)
___ Adams, Enchanted star (3)
AOL rival
Andean animal
"As I see it . . ."
Actor- Bob Thornton
Aide-memoire about a surplus (9)
American Revolutionary Christopher, who designed the DONT TREAD ON ME flag
(and 5 Across) Place affording a good view of reworked vintage panto (7,5)
Attired
Adult female birds
Apollo and Artemis agency
Accumulation for a vacation, for short
Aegean or Caribbean, e.g.
Alter egos, e.g.
Annie takes pet expert to meet city dweller (8)
Attire for the tired, for short
Australian youngster
After road is renovated it is showing skill (6)
Aggressive lad turned British - his improvement
Allowed no knight to be reduced to shreds
Ancient local criminal, scrapping
Anyone can spread irritation
Aristocrat of the French game
Arsenal group getting old smile
Awareness is within view
Awareness of former intellectual movement
A male performer making a first appearance before the public (8)
A bushel and a pound for a tuber (4)