Answer: ARMS
ARMS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 273 times.
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?
 - Handy things?
 - Octopus' eight
 - Some limbs
 - Triceps' locales
 - Parts missing from the Venus de Milo
 - Sweater's sleeves
 - Some of Lockheed Martin's business
 - Engages. as an alarm
 - Stens and brens
 - Dangerous race type
 - Places for tattoo sleeves
 - Regenerable parts of a sea star
 - 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
 - Triceps' places
 - Limbs inside sleeves
 - Kept at ___ length
 - Missiles and such
 - Subsidiaries
 - 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
 - Welcomed with open ___
 - Octet for a squid
 - Some floaties are worn on them
 - Starfish's five, usually
 - Octopus parts
 - Chromosome features
 - Pitchers' assets
 - Pushups work them
 - What sleeves hold
 - Refs raise them to signal a successful field goal
 - Most starfish have five
 - ___ control
 - Open ones are welcoming
 - They may be dealt or folded
 - Chair parts that tend to wear out quickly
 - Limbs bared by a halter dress
 - Sofa sides
 - Squid's eight
 - Pair on a chair
 - Quintet for most starfish
 - They may be presented for visiting dignitaries
 - 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
 - Biceps' locations
 - Body parts that tank tops expose
 - Body parts with elbows
 - Cactus limbs
 - Plank supports
 - Limbs that azabaches are worn on
 - Word with "open" or "up in"
 - 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
 
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