| TRUEORFALSE | #1. ___ There is a word that can precede 'colors' and 'friend' to form common compound phrases. |
| LANE | "In Penny ___ there is a barber showing photographs" |
| ESCARGOT | Nice food ___ there is a load being eaten (8) |
| TRIOSONATA | Instrumental form, common in Baroque chamber music |
| INTERIORE | Adj. (comp. form) common gender abl., inner, in the middle of |
| SPARRINGPARTNER | Careful to include king, his consort, and friend to argue with? (8,7) |
| ROYALLY | Man and friend, to an extreme degree (7) |
| STAGNATION | Only men like Al can land in foulness and like it. (Note: Each theme answer is a word that can divid |
| EMPIRIC | What is a word that describes a person who makes trials or experiments (7) |
| SYNONYM | What is a word that means the same or nearly the same as another word? (7) |
| QUEST | Whether a knight's crusade for the Grail, a pilgrim's progress to a holy place, a philosopher's pursuit of truth, a hound's hunt for game or a computer's scan for data, it is a word, from "ask, seek", |
| CHROME | ___ yellow is a shade of the color, and it is a lead compound. (You can also fill in the blank with the name of a well-known web browser.) |
| HARDTOSAY | 'Conjectural' is a word that doesn't trip off the tongue (4,2,3) |
| EVIAN | Water brand whose name in reverse is a word that means "innocent" |
| HUE | Sights and sounds: This word is a synonym of "color" and a homonym of "Hugh" |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| LOPEZ | "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for." She began her TV career in 1990 as a Fly Girl on In Living Color, and she performed at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. Pres |
| ART | "Drawing is the honesty of the ___. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.": Dali |
| SODIUM | A soft metal whose most common compound is table salt (6) |
| NONAME | Rapper and activist with a book club dedicated to authors of color and abolitionist texts |
