Over-the-top Crossword Clue

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Over-the-top Crossword Answer

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EXCESSIVE

(9 letters)

DRAMATIC

(8 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. added to a regular schedule
2. further or added
(noun)
1. a minor actor in crowd scenes
2. something additional of the same kind

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OVER-THE-TOP (adjective)
1. far more than usual or expected
OVER (adjective)
1. having come or been brought to a conclusion
OVER (adverb)
1. throughout a period of time
2. over the entire area
OVER (noun)
1. (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

EXCESSIVE
(9 letters)
DRAMATIC
(8 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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More LA Times Crossword (11/2/2025) Answers

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5. Perceived

9. Puck's flagship restaurant

14. Wound remnant

18. 2-Down's love interest

19. Long skirt

20. Classic quilted handbag maker

21. Goddess of marriage

22. Dance of the moonlighters?

25. Garden spot

26. Many a first-time voter

27. Night, in the Eternal City

28. Blow up, in a way

29. Wiser companion

30. Terra firma

32. Dance of the anglers?

35. Tear

37. Upper limb

39. "Blessed event"

40. Dance of the mothers-to-be?

46. Middle sch. math class

47. Temporary repair material

51. __ cube

52. First-year student working toward a JD

53. Poet's "at no time"

55. Troubled

57. "Whiskey Lullaby" singer Paisley

59. Prefix with -pathic

61. Savor

63. Work unit

64. Coin from the Royal Mint

66. Roman garb

67. Concern

69. Dance of the homebodies?

73. Sleepy housemate

76. Flag

77. MLB team playing in Sacramento ahead of their move to Las Vegas

81. Mathematician Lovelace

82. Spotless

85. Israeli airline

86. Give kudos at a poetry slam

87. Stressful position

89. Tolkien's "Shepherds of the Trees"

92. Surrounded by

94. Evergreen with upright cones

95. Tennis icon Arthur

96. King or queen

98. Dance of the flamboyant?

101. Principles

104. Musician and peace activist Yoko

105. Once ___ while

106. Dance of the investigators?

110. Biblical mariner

113. Insider parlance

117. Not moving

118. White Rabbit follower

120. Silica gel packet target

122. Undershirt, briefly

123. Dance of the pickpockets?

126. Put in stitches

127. "__ percent of the game is half mental": Yogi Berra quip about baseball

128. How to get in on a deal?

129. Natural balm

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Down

1. Sauce made with basil and pine nuts

2. Rebellious mermaid

3. Helped through hard times, with "over"

4. Set crew's responsibility

5. Arrogant

6. Support for a work in progress

8. World Cup score, maybe

9. Closes

10. Angel hair and linguine

11. Radio receiver

12. Take shape

13. World Cup score, maybe

14. Fruity, frozen desserts

15. Surrendered

16. Final Four venue

17. H.E.R.'s genre

20. Margaret of "Drop Dead Diva"

23. Big name in gummy bears

24. Evasive maneuver

28. Toon devil

31. Catch

33. India Gate city

34. "L'Absinthe" painter

36. Less sizable

38. Butterfly honorific, for short

40. Lobster dinner accoutrements

41. Prefix with -polis

42. Wally's sitcom bro

43. Combat caregiver

44. Predicaments

45. "Evita" name

48. Some Belgian blondes

49. Cradle of the Inca Empire

50. Slight advantage

54. Jamaican genre

56. Gleam

58. "Nosferatu" actress Lily-Rose

60. Not remote

62. Racer's final chance to win

65. Rolls-___

66. Precursor to overtime

68. Some military figs.

70. Small but loud songbirds

71. Hula Hoop maker

72. "Fighting" team of the Big Ten

73. ur so funny

74. Kerfuffles

75. Trail

78. Facts, for short

79. Abel's brother.

80. Chipper

83. 'Se ___ espanol'

84. Devoured

88. Harshness

90. E'en if

91. Many a Petrarch poem

93. King or queen

97. Holds back

99. Curry favor with

100. Not quite there

102. Court fig.

103. Ointments

106. Candle threads

107. Silly

108. New version of an existing song

109. Michelangelo masterpiece

111. __ acid

112. Shade-loving perennial

114. Cunning

115. “Citizen Kane” director Welles

116. Heads of France

119. Get teary

121. One thing alone or two people together

123. Que. neighbor

124. Whopper

125. “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” band

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