“Restaurant chain with a smiling face in its logo”

___ Batlló, Antoni Gaudí masterpiece whose roof arch mimics a dragon's back

Cheese that comes from northern Italy (and not another continent!)

Tote, for one

Certain sports bet

You can see right through it

Subject of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hand-held communication devices

Pioneers, in hip-hop slang

D.O.J. branch