Referring Clues

• Kind of check
• ___ cats and dogs
• Picnic hamperer
• Pour
• See 47-Across
• Many a Seattle weather forecast
• Shower
• Farmer's prayer, perhaps
• Reason for postponement
• Sahara rarity
• 1994 Peace Nobelist
• Picnic spoiler
• Storm production
• Seeders make it
• Precipitate
• Fall in April?
• A pluviometer measures it
• Reservoir filler
• Subject of some prayers
• Parade spoiler, perhaps
• Gobi rarity
• Picnicker's worry
• Drops from above
• Parade spoiler
• Drops from the sky
• "Walkin' in the ___" (Ronettes hit produced by Phil Spector)
• Pitter-patter maker
• Wet forecast
• Ballgame spoiler
• Acid ___
• Parade stopper
• Desert rarity
• Cause for umbrellas
• It may delay things
• Drops down from above
• Game delayer
• Flooding cause
• Farmer's prayer
• Common cause of postponement
• Outdoor event planner's worry
• Game stopper
• Eavesdropper?
• Drought relief
• Not be fair?
• Mac user's motivation
• Common Seattle forecast
• Reason for a makeup game
• Cause of a game cancellation
• Word repeated before "go away"
• Word after "ppd." on a sports page
• "___ Man" (Hoffman flick)
• Drought ender
• Flood cause
• Downpour or drizzle
• Gene Kelly was singin' in this
• Frequent occurrence in Seattle
• Outdoor shower
• Drought buster
• Start to fall?
• Shine counterpart
• Wet stuff
• Cause for a makeup game
• Postponement cause
• Outside shower
• Storm form
• Seattle forecast, often
• Word with dance or date
• Water fall?
• It's forecast in percentages
• Cause for a game delay
• With 39-Down, area of tremendous biodiversity
• Ball game delayer
• Tlaloc's domain, to the Aztecs
• Be unfair?
• Barbecue spoiler
• Fall from the sky
• Delay cause, maybe
• Fall from above
• Desert lack
• Epitome of rightness?
• Drought easer
• April forecast
• Acid ___
• Drops from the clouds
• Picnic concern
• Cause of some delays
• Picnic ender
• Ballgame delayer
• Yard-sale spoiler
• Death Valley rarity
• Bad weather for golf
• Ball-game spoiler
• Golf spoiler
• Come down
• Cloud seeder's product
• Maugham story
• Reason for a wet suit?
• Picnic dampener
• What "it looks like," in conversation
• "___ Man" (Hoffman flick)
• Type of check
• End of a dry spell
• Farmer's necessity
• It'll fall
• What Gene Kelly was singin' in
• Eaves dropper?
• Fall from the sky?
• Small talk topic
• Drops on the ground?
• Shine alternate
• Patter source
• Parade woe
• Type of shower
• It ruins a dry spell
• Word with forest or barrel
• Type of barrel
• It's heard on the roof
• Type of forest
• It may be forecast for the start of the second quarter?
• Showers, e.g.
• Baseball game postponer
• Nonfactor at domed stadiums
• Parade problem
• Parade postponer
• Genesis forecast
• Certain dancer's hope
• Precipitation
• Noah's concern
• Ball game ruiner
• It often messes tresses
• It falls somewhere every day
• Picnic problem
• Game delay cause
• April forecast, often
• Phenomenon described by the ends of 17-, 23-, 47- and 57-Across
• 69-Across source
• Cause of delay
• It might hold up a parade
• Weather in Genesis 7
• Reason for a delay, perhaps
• Cloudburst
• What "it looks like," in conversation
• Watery downpour
• Relief for the Kalahari
• Reason to wear 57A
• It might lead to a check
• Dust Bowl dream
• *It may drop acid (1)
• Arid area dweller's prayer request
• Farmers look for it
• Dark sky's omen
• Water down?
• Shower in public?
• "Still Falls the ___": Edith Sitwell poem
• Pavement pounder
• Game interruption
• Shower, maybe
• Puddle source
• It may come in buckets
• Weatherman's forecast(4)
• Check or date preceder
• Drizzle, say
• Reason for a tarpaulin
• Forecast word
• Monsoon weather
• April weather
• Reason for a tarp
• Ball game postponer
• BBQ ruiner
• BBQ spoiler
• Parade ruiner
• Picnic ruiner
• See 116-Across
• Sprinkle
• Result of a high seeding?
• Result of high seeding
• Some precipitation
• Right as ___
• "A Little Fall of ___" ("Les Miserables")
• Windshield-wiper weather
• Parade concern
• Gift from the god Jupiter Pluvius
• April forecast, typically
• Downpour
• Deluge
• Wet weather
• What gray clouds may produce
• Shine alternative
• Camping trip dampener
• "Liquid sunshine"
• "liquid" sunshine
• Grass grower's need
• Flower bed wetter
• "Purple ___" (1984)
• What to be right as?
• It may come in sheets
• Prince's "Purple ___"
• Cloudburst, e.g.
• Reason for a game delay
• Showers, say
• Picnic worry
• Word with check or date
• Game delayer, perhaps
• Water from the sky
• Nonfactor at the Skydome
• Drops out of the sky
• T.J. on "Head of the Class" ___ Pryor
• Gully filler
• Outing ruiner
• Farmer's prayer, sometimes
• Wetness in Seattle?
• Ball game spoiler
• Baseball game delayer
• Best Picture between "The Last Emperor" and "Driving Miss Daisy"
• Come down hard
• Cause of a game delay
• Makeup of some sheets
• *Drought ender
• Golfer's inconvenience
• Showery forecast
• Word with fall or dance
• Dreary forecast for nonfarmers
• Drizzle, e.g.
• Umbrella weather
• Drought's lack
• Forest fighter's aid
• Cats and dogs, metaphorically
• Desire of some dancers
• Form of precipitation
• Ballgame postponer
• It can come in sheets
• ___ check
• Dramatization of a Maugham story
• Common London forecast
• Goal of some seeders
• Word with drop or fall
• Spring shower
• Bad weather for a parade
• Cause of pitter-patter
• Golf game spoiler
• Sprinkle, say
• "Purple ___" (Prince hit)
• Golf outing spoiler
• It might be driving on your head
• It often occurs following a car wash, seemingly
• What may hit tarps
• Common 68-Across forecast
• Common forecast for Mobile, Alabama
• Gullywasher
• Dust Bowl's lack
• Weather for 63 Across
• Drought reliever
• Downfall
• April shower
• April showers
• It falls from the sky
• It's warmer than snow
• It falls from clouds
• Spring showers
• It ends a dry spell
• Type of cloud
• Drought need
• Wet weather keeps artist at home
• Ballgame ender
• "Chocolate ___" (2007 YouTube viral video)
• What it does a lot in London
• Drizzle
• Festival drag
• Phil Collins: "I Wish It Would ___ Down"
• What Phil Collins wishes it would do
• Beatles' psychedelic B-side
• Festival no-no
• Blind Melon "No ___"
• Wet Beatles song?
• Counting Crows are the "King" of this
• CCR wonders "Who'll Stop" it
• It waters the garden
• Dramatic weather
• Being under a cloud puts a damper on things
• Pronouncement of rule that could stop play going on
• Is it forecast precipitately?
• With precipitation, I shot round
• Farmer's hope during droughts
• Weather - shower
• See 12
• See 10
• See 1
• Directed film about filling of Big Mac
• It might get the drop on you
• Ballgame stopper
• Dreary forecast
• It hits the roof
• One managed to hold water
• Precipitation from clouds
• Wildland firefighter's aid
• It may hold up the game
• Favorable forecast, to farmers
• CCR hit "Have You Ever Seen the ___?"
• Kelly sang in it
• Drops on your head?
• It might come in buckets
• Word with date or dance
• Water from sky
• Said to be monarch's downfall
• Among flora I need cats and dogs?
• Most endangered (having collected stats) - as this in 22 across?
• The weather according to Miss Thompson
• Rare weather forecast for a desert
• Reason to roll out the tarp
• Crawford film
• Water from clouds
• Wimbledon delayer
• Common precipitation
• Pour, e.g.
• Dust Bowl deficiency
• Reason for a tarp on the ball field
• Common forecast for Seattle
• Weather that might cause a tennis match to be canceled
• Head wetter
• Prince album that was #1 for 24 weeks
• 40-day event in Genesis
• Monsoon phenomenon
• Precipitate commonly
• What fills some gauges
• Spring fall
• I ran out in the wet
• Water fall?
• Nursery rhyme word repeated before "go away"
• The water was running when I came in
• Rarity in a 58-Across climate
• Precipitation falling in drops
• Drought-ending weather
• "God's tears"
• Seattle forecast
• Dramatic downpour
• Puddle producer
• Sadie Thompson drama
• One dashed to get out of it
• Weather word
• Farm relief, perhaps
• Cloudy day chance
• Drops not all restraint!
• Come down, in a way
• One hurried to get out of it
• Reason for a ball game delay
• A sound rule in weather forecasting
• "Purple ___"
• Thunderstorm precipitation
• It doesn't stop a mail carrier
• Puddle former
• Drizzle or shower
• Field day spoiler
• Nonissue at domed stadiums
• Dry spell ender
• Reason to roll out a tarp
• What may come down in buckets
• Shower or drizzle
• Genesis problem
• Delay cause
• What may be mixed with snow
• Common April forecast
• Eaves dropper?
• Type of forest in Iran?
• Drops in a forecast
• See 7 Across
• "Don't ___ on My Parade"
• Shine's counterpart
• "Purple ___" (Prince album)
• Reason for indoor recess
• Common Portland forecast
• Unwelcome wedding-day forecast
• Weather often associated with Vancouver
• Drops from a great height?
• Green on a weather map
• Word before check or forest
• Pour, say
• Golf date ruiner
• Sprinkle, perhaps
• Reason to reschedule
• Drizzle or pour
• It's of no concern if the stadium is domed
• Farmer's occasional joy
• Reason to wear a hat
• Weather that may cancel a picnic
• "Drop everything now / Meet me in the pouring ___" (Taylor Swift lyric)
• "Make it ___"
• *Certain forecast
• and 19. With a dark look, promises to water the garden
• Heavy drizzle
• Spring forecast, often
• It may lead to greener pastures
• "___ on Me" (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song)
• Is it forecast precipitately?
• What Noah was expecting
• Common PNW forecast
• Dry-spell relief
• What a pluviometer measures
• Pour down
• "Pouring" precipitation
• Drops in the forecast
• Word before date or dance
• "Mouths of ___" (essay collection by queer Black writers)
• Petrichor is the aroma produced by this
• "Purple ___" (Prince song)
• Common sound from a white noise machine
• Rarity in a drought
• Welcome downfall for a gardener
• Pluviometer measure
• Showery weather
• Its name in Botswana is the same as the word for "money"
• Beach day bummer
• Contents of some sheets
• Part of the water cycle
• Parade worry
• Pennies from heaven
• Common forecast in Portland
• Bad forecast for a parade
• Under a cloud, I sprinted out
• Frequent forecast in Seattle