Referring Clues

• Subject of illicit trade
• Weaponry
• Branches
• Embracers
• They're sometimes twisted
• Hand holders
• Equips for war
• Kind of race
• Makeshift cradle
• Second Amendment subject
• Pentagon inventory
• "There is little reason in ___": Virgil
• Magazines have them
• Venus de Milo's lack
• Supplies with weapons
• Uzis and AK-47's
• Treaty subject
• Prepares to fight
• Kind of dealer
• Gives a piece
• Sleeves cover them
• Shaw's "___ and the Man"
• Jacket parts
• Cache contents
• M-1's and AK-47's
• Hug givers
• Some matériel
• ___ race
• Matériel
• An octopus has eight
• Part of SALT
• Battle needs
• Second Amendment word
• Hand holders?
• Buys bullets
• Weapons
• Concern of the Second Amendment
• Provides weapons to
• Man's partner, in a Shaw title
• Sofa parts
• "A Farewell to ___"
• Munitions
• What bicep curls tone
• Oft-smuggled items
• Starfish features
• They're frequently folded
• Supplies with guns
• Spots for shots
• Half of all fours?
• With open ___ (in a friendly way)
• Pentagon topic
• Octopus costume features
• Prepares for battle
• Gives pieces to
• Venus de Milo knock-offs?
• Right shoulder ___ (military command)
• "Or to take ___ against a sea of troubles ...": Hamlet
• ___ race
• Magnums, e.g.
• Iran-Contra affair subject
• Arsenal supplies
• Provides pieces for
• Huggers
• Shirt parts
• Up in ___ (outraged)
• Tentacles
• Sleeve fillers
• Upper limbs
• Tattoo sites
• Blouse parts
• Up in ___ (angry)
• Activates
• Shirt-sleeve fillers
• Equips for combat
• Battle equipment
• They're bearable
• Two of all fours
• Hand-holders
• What the Venus de Milo is missing
• They may embrace you
• "A Farewell to ___"
• Second Amendment concern
• Instruments of war
• They can embrace you
• Octopus' abundance
• Bodily pair
• Items of illicit trade, perhaps
• Proper length to avoid conflicts of interest?
• They give hugs
• Semaphore features
• Subject of illicit trade, sometimes
• Slot machines' features
• What are featured in the theme entries of this puzzle
• Word in an Ernest Hemingway title
• Ordnance
• Up in ___ (indignant)
• Parts of shirts or sofas
• Equips for battle
• Supplies weapons to
• Popeye's have anchor tattoos
• Rifles and such
• Administrative divisions
• Barcelona chairs lack them
• Subject of some treaties
• An octopus' eight
• Hugging limbs
• Guns
• Combat supply
• The man's partner, in a Shaw title
• Shootin Irons
• Gives guns
• Up in ___ (outraged)
• Up in ___ (angry)
• Gives guns to
• Vishnu's four
• They lead to pits
• Limbs
• Jacket sleeves
• Partner of "the Man," in a George Bernard Shaw title
• Readies for war
• Up in ___
• They go into sleeves(4)
• Hug needs
• Heraldic drawing
• This puzzle's theme
• Gives weapons to
• Things you can bear
• Octopi have eight
• Prepares for war
• Venus' lack
• Gets ready to rumble
• Octopod's octet
• Hug providers
• Weaponizes
• "A Farewell to ___" (Hemingway novel)
• Second Amendment topic
• Some outlawed international trade
• Appendages
• Starfish rays
• Escutcheon depiction
• Acquisitions in a certain race
• ___ deal
• Artillery
• Couples' connectors
• "A Farewell to ___" (Hemingway)
• Octopus features
• Arsenal stash
• Hugging pair
• ___ running
• Octopus octet
• Arsenal contents
• These get sleeved in a tattoo parlor
• Recliner parts
• They may be heavy or open
• Tattoo sites, often
• Slot-machine features
• They're taken up in war
• See 49-Down
• Combat supplies
• Some chairs lack them
• Provides pieces for?
• Weapons, collectively
• Hugging duo
• "Venus de Milo" knock-offs?
• Octopus' octet
• Arsenal's stock
• Fortifies
• Provides weapons
• Magazine contents
• Biceps locale
• Arsenal's inventory
• What the Venus de Milo lacks
• Pitchers, to a manager
• Chair supports
• Ones holding hands?
• Vests don't cover them
• Inlets, for instance
• Provides weaponry
• "Sanford ___"
• Akimbo limbs
• With 65-Down, technological escalations
• Barcelona chair's lack
• Some black market wares
• Venus de Milo knockoffs?
• Suit vest's lack
• General's command
• Administrative branches
• Octopus's octet
• Drill teams present them
• Embracing pair
• Readies for battle
• Activates, as a security system
• Handy limbs?
• Crest
• "Babes in ___"
• Legs counterparts
• They may be up your sleeves
• Opposite of legs
• Use these to embrace loved ones
• They're made for hugging
• Provides weapons for
• They hold your hands
• Journey: "Open ___"
• "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your ___)"
• What U2 threw "Around the World"
• Dire Straits "Brothers in ___"
• Lemonheads go "Into" yours?
• Dire Straits "Brothers" were in them
• Kylie Minogue "In My ___"
• Willie Nelson "Can I Sleep in Your ___"
• Hunters & Collectors "Throw Your ___ Around Me"
• Creed "With ___ Wide Open"
• Lemonheads hit "Into Your ___"
• "Cindy" had loving these, that reached out to the Beach Boys
• Prepares to fight artist about manuscript
• Arsenal's items?
• See 15
• Monk's head falling two places in planet's insignia
• Weapons taken as alternative to taking slings and arrows
• Weapons a regimental sergeant major can provide
• See 11
• Arsenal's content members ...
• They may be open to receive weapons
• Topic of some talks
• International competition for weapons
• See 12
• Members getting their 3?
• See 9 and 23
• Provides protection for limbs
• Shirt sleeves
• Cast members?
• Hugging twosome
• Empty ___ Hotel (recurring "Hee Haw" setting)
• Welcomed with open ___
• They may hold one in affection
• Blazonry; weaponry
• Members' arsenal
• Supplies a reduced value of statistical significance
• See 9
• Handy things?
• Octopus' eight
• Some limbs
• Triceps' locales
• Parts missing from the Venus de Milo
• Sweater's sleeves
• Some of Lockheed Martin's business
• Coat of ___ (family symbol)
• "A Farewell to ___" (Hemingway classic)
• Engages. as an alarm
• Zaphod Beeblebrox had three of these; the Black Knight eventually had none
• Dangerous race type
• Places for tattoo sleeves
• Pitching staff, metaphorically
• Rifles et al.
• Means of defence gets hot with top off
• Things in sleeves
• Regenerable parts of a sea star
• Elbows' homes
• Weapons from Mars?
• Navy and Air Force vis-à-vis the military
• Quip, part 4
• Fillers of shirt sleeves
• Humerus locales
• Quartet for Vishnu
• Tank tops expose them
• Activates, as an alarm
• Tattoo sleeve spots
• Rocker parts
• See 12 Down
• Limbs in sleeves
• Sites of biceps and triceps
• Vishnu's tetrad
• Sleeve tattoo spots
• Venus de Milo’s lack
• Triceps' places
• Limbs inside sleeves
• Coat of ___
• Kept at ___ length
• Missiles and such
• Subsidiaries
• Warm-hearted writing by members
• Estuaries, for instance
• Assets for QBs
• Up in ___ (incensed)
• Second Amendment focus
• Vishnu's quartet
• At ___ length (not too close)
• SALT component
• Things that may be open or folded
• Sets, as a security system
• Octet for a squid
• Some floaties are worn on them
• Things in jackets?
• Sticks, for snowmen
• Starfish's five, usually
• Octopus parts
• Shiva is often pictured with four
• Chromosome features
• Pitchers' assets
• Pushups work them
• What sleeves hold
• Refs raise them to signal a successful field goal
• Gives a slingshot to
• Most starfish have five
• Hand-y supporters?
• ___ control
• Open ones are welcoming
• They can be quite muscular
• Things you can flap
• Limbs bared by a halter dress
• Muscular items, for many
• Open ___
• They may be dealt or folded
• Chair parts that tend to wear out quickly
• Sofa sides
• Squid's eight
• Pair on a chair
• Quintet for most starfish
• They may be presented for visiting dignitaries
• Two things you can swing
• Parts of a computer chair
• Mr. Potato Head limbs
• The Hindu god Ganesha is often depicted with four of them
• 18-Across fillers
• Limbs with triceps
• Things in jackets but not in jacket pockets
• They give great hugs
• Outstanding huggers
• Biceps' locations
• Body parts that tank tops expose
• Body parts with elbows
• Cactus limbs
• Plank supports
• Limbs that azabaches are worn on
• Hand-holding necessities?
• Word with "open" or "up in"
• Limbs on cacti
• Limbs worked in a handstand
• Sweater parts
• The Venus de Milo's missing body parts
• Cuttlefish's octet
• Set of pull-ups?
• Limbs symbolic of power in Hinduism
• Gives some heat, say