2016 NYT Crossword

Monster film hit of 1984

(GHOST)BUSTERS

Top dog

(HEAD) HONCHO

Commercial ending with Wonder

-BRA

End of geologic time?

-CENE

Verb-to-noun suffix

-ENCE

Suffix with Obama, once

-MANIA

Suffix with Québéc

-OIS

Ending with syn- or ant-

-ONYM

Half of S.W.A.K

... A KISS

Hazel relatives

ALDERS

Inspiration for "Lolita"

ANNABEL LEE

Jargons

ARGOTS

Like a barbecue pit

ASHY

Anatolia, familiarly

ASIA MINOR

Laddie

BOYO

Call of Duty

Black ___ (video game)

Bag carrier

CADDIE

Makes out

CANOODLES

Green-glazed Chinese porcelain

CELADON

Like many bad words

CENSORED

Like motets

CHORAL

Warranting a heart on Instagram, say

CUTE

Key of Pachelbel's Canon

D MAJOR

Base of a follicle

DERMIS

Torpedo

DESTROY

Went on the fritz

DIED

Prilosec and Prozac

DRUGS

Right of way, at law

EASEMENT

Holiday cupful

EGGNOG

Adorn brilliantly

EMBLAZON

Romanian composer George

ENESCU

___ jazz (fusion genre)

ETHNO

Like some top-quality kitchen oil

EXTRA-VIRGIN (giving 'gin')

Discombobulate

FLUMMOX

Proposal of Woodrow Wilson ..

FOURTEEN POINTS

Having one's business mentioned in a news article, e.g

FREE PR

First Amendment guarantee

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

Brains

GRAY MATTER

Peer onstage

GYNT

Asylums

HAVENS

Get tats

INK UP

Hit song title for Bob Marley, Whitesnake and Survivor

IS THIS LOVE

Pen name of the female author of "Out of Africa"

ISAK DINESEN

Info in a 1-Across

ISBNS

What Ramadan is an annual feature of

ISLAMIC CALENDAR

Nickname for DiMaggio

JOLTIN' JOE

Sir ___ Ive, designer of the iPad, iPod, iPhone and iMac

JONY

Tease good-naturedly

JOSH

Little bits

JOTS

Going out with a hot model?

JOYRIDE

Arbiter of 1980s TV

JUDGE WAPNER

You might be thrown on it

JUDO MAT

Rowdy joint

JUKE HOUSE

___ jumbo

MUMBO

Nina Totenberg's milieu

NPR NEWS

N.F.L

NY GIANTS

Like Cheerios

OATY

Result of shaking a soda too hard before opening?

DR PEPPER SPRAY (Dr. + 'pepper spray')

Self-help guru who wrote "Life Code"

DR PHIL

"The paternity results are in ..

DR WHO'S YOUR DADDY (Dr. + 'who's your daddy?')

Excessively harsh

DRACONIAN

Airborne animal with a monstrous name

DRAGONFLY

Female street-racing champion?

DRAGSTER QUEEN (from 'drag queen')

Bibbled

DRANK

Dixieland sound

DRAWL

Concoct

DREAM UP

Show, informally + African capital = Adonis

DREAMBOAT = DEMO + RABAT

Hit 1981 Broadway musical made into a 2006 film

DREAMGIRLS

Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff

DREGS

A number of cocktails in Berlin?

DREI MARTINIS (sounds like 'dry martinis')

Top choice in December?

DREIDEL

Large letter in a manuscript

DROPCAP

Subject of the 2015 film "Sicario"

DRUG WARS

Ones hitting snares

DRUMSTICKS

Legs at KFC

DRUMSTICKS (giving 'drumroll')

Cocktail made by combining the ends of 17-, 26- and 38-Across

DRY MARTINI

In a deadpan manner

DRYLY

"Juno and the Paycock" setting

DUBLIN

Tickets, in slang

DUCATS

Italian dictators

DUCES

Children's game ..

DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE

With 34-, 40- and 60-Across, a somber message for our loyal fans

DUE TO BUDGET CUTS ...

Union jack?

DUES

Small lollipops with collectible wrappers

DUM DUMS

Toon that flies with his ears

DUMBO

Trash collector

DUMPSTER

Restaurant critic who lent his name to a brand at the supermarket

DUNCAN HINES

Iconic U.S

DUNCAN PHYFE (DUNCE around)

..

DUNCES WITH WOLVES (from 'Dances with Wolves')

Actress Eliza of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

DUSHKU

Redbox offerings

DVDS

Brace

DYAD

Longtime nickname in comics

DYNAMIC DUO

Bourbons, e.g

DYNASTY

Upset

DYSPEPSIA

1999 parody featuring the starship Protector

GALAXY QUEST

Show with the record for most Emmys won in a single year (12)

GAME OF THRONES

Egg, for one

GAMETE

Key employer in England?

GAOLER

Like Michael Strahan of "Live! With Kelly and Michael"

GAP-TOOTHED

Hefty item

GARBAGE BAG

One of the knights of the Round Table

GARETH

Wasabi go-with in sushi meals

GARI

Cartoonist Trudeau

GARRY

Harmless slitherer

GARTER SNAKE

French waiter

GARÇON

French cake

GATEAU

Title fictional character who "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself"

GATSBY

Target audience of Out magazine

GAYS

Murray ___-Mann, Physics Nobelist who coined the term "quark"

GELL

"Les Misérables" extra

GENDARME

Powerful foe of the Man of Steel

GENERAL ZOD

Jets quarterback Smith

GENO

1960s TV show whose star weighed 650 pounds

GENTLE BEN

How George Harrison's guitar "weeps"

GENTLY

Pen name of the female author of "Silas Marner"

GEORGE ELIOT

Post-Impressionist Seurat

GEORGES

Onetime political leader with a museum in Grand Rapids, Mich

GERALD FORD

..

GERMS OF ENDEARMENT (from 'Terms of Endearment')

Comic strip featuring Satchel Pooch and Bucky Katt

GET FUZZY

Takes it easy

GETS A LITTLE R&R

Guys' dates, informally

GFS

Gravy goody

GIBLET

Controversial fish catcher

GILL NET

Gin cocktail

GIMLET

Dwarf warrior in "The Lord of the Rings"

GIMLI

What NOTICING can anagram to

GIN AND TONIC

Some home remedies

GINGER ALES

Armani with a plaque on the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style

GIORGIO

TLC and Destiny's Child

GIRL GROUPS

French frozen desserts

GLACES

Party clothes

GLAD RAGS

Hand-blown wine bottle that's also the title of a 1968 Beatles song

GLASS ONION

___ the film deal

GLENN CLOSED ...

Major blood protein

GLOBULIN

Latches (onto)

GLOMS

Stepmom of Mitchell and Claire on "Modern Family"

GLORIA

What fireflies do

GLOW

Luminescent larvae

GLOWWORMS

Muscle strengthened by a StairMaster, informally

GLUTE

Rice elbows, e.g

GLUTEN-FREE PASTA

Non-___ (modern food label)

GMO

Fed

GNMA

Vanish, in a way

GO AWOL

Risk everything

GO FOR BROKE (giving 'go figure!')

Attack viciously

GO FOR THE JUGULAR

Australian monitor lizard

GOANNA

Game also called Five in a Row

GOBANG

One who wants a ring for bling?

GOLD DIGGER

Biblical idol ..

GOLDEN CALF ('The Golden State' is California - CA)

Region around a star "just right" for habitable planets

GOLDILOCKS ZONE

..

GONG WITH THE WIND (from 'Gone with the Wind')

Conservative's opinion of the Republican presidential candidates?

GOOD AS GOLDWATER (from 'good as gold')

Camera manufacturer whose slogan is "Be a Hero"

GOPRO

Spiny shrub

GORSE

Very light, delicate material

GOSSAMER

Grokked

GOT

Received high marks

GOT AS

"Roger that"

GOT IT

"Wuthering Heights" genre

GOTHIC

Invaders of ancient Rome

GOTHS

Singer with the 2012 #1 hit "Somebody That I Used to Know"

GOTYE

Thanksgiving table decorations

GOURDS

(BIG) CHEESE

GRAND POOBAH

Discriminatory part of post-Reconstruction legislation

GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

Curling stone stone

GRANITE

What may be in a breakfast bar

GRANOLA

Fragrant Italian brandy

GRAPPA

Hibachi feature

GRATE

Gadget for Parmesan

GRATER

1974 National Book Award winner by Thomas Pynchon

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

Austrian city where Kepler taught

GRAZ

The Fonz, for one

GREASER

Only living thing that can be seen from outer space

GREAT BARRIER REEF

Result of a Morton's factory explosion?

GREAT SALT LEAK (from 'Great Salt Lake')

Film about rock groups?

GREEN ALGAE

Title food in children's literature

GREEN EGGS

Goya or Del Monte product

GREEN PEAS

Nine-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner

GRETZKY

Waxed

GREW

___ Goose vodka

GREY

"The price we pay for love," per Queen Elizabeth II

GRIEF

"Emma, do that sexy dance!"

GRIND, STONE! (from 'grindstone')

Yank, in Yucatán

GRINGO

Cool, in the 1960s

GROOVY

Michigan's ___ Pointe

GROSSE

Where the 9/11 Memorial is

GROUND ZERO

Less polite + wildly unconventional = epicenter

GROUND ZERO = RUDER + GONZO

Results of some unexciting at-bats

GROUNDOUTS

Somatotropin, e.g

GROWTH HORMONE

VW Golf hatchback

GTI

Drink in an old Pontiac?

GTO MILK (from 'got milk?')

Cave deposits

GUANOS

Hermès rival

GUCCI

Taste (State) of Mexico

GUERRERO

When shortened, topic in sexology

GUEST SPOT (shortened to 'G-spot')

Oscar-winning Hanks role

GUMP

Yellow-flowered plant producing a sticky resin

GUMWEED

___-ho

GUNG

Overly ambitious student, in slang

GUNNER

Dressed to the nines

GUSSIED UP

"___ Tag!"

GUTEN

Full of moxie

GUTSY

Early 2000s White House inits

GWB

Early British actress Nell

GWYN

Plaster of paris, essentially

GYPSUM

Result of the Queen of Scat's backup group messing up?

ELLA DISENCHANTED (Dis + 'Ella Enchanted')

Comedian who hosted the 2014 Oscars

ELLEN DEGENERES

Pen name of the female author of "Wuthering Heights"

ELLIS BELL

Ticklish dolls

ELMOS

SpaceX C.E.O

ELON MUSK

Scandal involving Tesla C.E.O

ELONGATE (Elon + gate)

Many "Frozen"-inspired Halloween costumes

ELSAS

Conditional construct in computer programming

ELSE IF

Juneteenth

EMANCIPATION DAY

Maple leaf, for Canada

EMBLEM

Port in Lower Saxony

EMDEN

What shoulders are often used for

EMERGENCIES

Band with the 1991 #1 hit "Unbelievable"

EMF

Iago's wife

EMILIA

Mexican revolutionary

EMILIANO ZAPATA

"Miss Dickinson, put your poem on Facebook"?

EMILY, POST IT ('Emily Post' + 'it')

Fall Out Boy genre

EMO POP

Film villain who says "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side"

EMPEROR PALPATINE

Northeast nickname, with "the"

EMPIRE STATE

Catherine the Great, for one

EMPRESS

Mayonnaise, for one

EMULSION

With all judges present

EN BANC

Lead-up to mating

ENDGAME

Like the coda of "Hey Jude," seemingly

ENDLESS

The thyroid is part of it

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

Supply, as a chair

ENDOW

Onetime Expos/Mets outfielder Chávez

ENDY

Adams and Jefferson, e.g

ENEMIES

Layers of sherry-soaked torte, homemade custard and fruit served chilled in a giant stem glass

ENGLISH TRIFLE

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

ENHARMONIC

Small-capped mushrooms

ENOKIS

"Uncle!"

ENOUGH!

Nestled

ENSCONCED

Settles snugly

ENSCONCES

Midshipmen, after commission

ENSIGNS

Crosses the sill

ENTERS

Here today, gone tomorrow

EPHEMERAL

Temple of Artemis city

EPHESUS

Not gendered, as a noun

EPICENE

It has you covered

EPIDERMIS

Storied endings?

EPILOGUES

One handling an OD

ER DOCTOR

Pitches

ERECTS

Lily Tomlin character with a headset

ERNESTINE

"Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)" Grammy winner

ERYKAH BADU

It's in the far northwest

ESCAPE KEY

Arcane matters

ESOTERY

Channel for college sports

ESPNU

Trattoria shot

ESPRESSO

Gallery habitué

ESTHETE

"I thought you had my back!"

ET TU?!

Vingt-___ (multiple de trois)

ET-UN

Belief in a strong central government

ETATISM

Mattie Silver's love, in fiction

ETHAN FROME

Friend of Lucy Ricardo

ETHEL MERTZ

Historic institution on the Jubilee River

ETON COLLEGE

Some Kings' Scholars

ETONIANS

2000-03 Disney Channel series with Shia LaBeouf

EVEN STEVENS

100-meter dash or shot put

EVENT

See blurb

EVIL ANTAGONIST (hiding the answer 'IAGO')

Talismans, or the curses they protect against

EVIL EYES

America's Cup, for one

EWER

Retroactively, at law

EX POST FACTO

Bill Clinton or George W

EX-GOV

Course coda

EXAM

Bay Area newspaper

EXAMINER

Incapacitated Ford?

EXPLQRER (Explorer)

Where you may need to read the fine print

EYE CHART

Provider of contacts, informally

EYE DOC

Consider in a lascivious way

EYE UP

Scrutinizes the underworld?

EYES HADES (from 'eyeshades')

Some canines

EYETEETH

*Food item often dipped in ketchup or tartar sauce

FISH STICK

Honda offering

FIT

Activity-tracking devices

FITBITS

Graveyard hour

FIVE AM

TV's "Hawaii ___"

FIVE-0

Like 100 vis-à-vis 20

FIVEFOLD

*Expense independent of production

FIXED COST

Single-speed two-wheeler

FIXIE BIKE

Swing wildly, as one's arms

FLAIL

Distress signal producers

FLARE GUNS (giving 'flare jeans')

Spontaneous public gathering

FLASH MOB

Ostentatious member of the Mafia?

FLASH MOBSTER (from 'flash mob')

Wearing the most bling, say

FLASHIEST

U.S.P.S

FLAT RATE BOX

___ out (didn't make it on base, in a way)

FLIED

Old jalopy

FLIVVER

Modern brain-scanning procedure, for short

FMRI

Most NPR stations

FMS

Ship part spelled with two apostrophes

FO'C'SLE

Big name in travel guides

FODOR

Warm Alpine wind

FOHN

Whip up

FOMENT

Postprandial woe

FOOD COMA

They mind their manors

FOOTMEN

Grass and such

FORAGE

Ontario town across from Buffalo

FORT ERIE

Historic trading post in 39-Across

FORT LARAMIE

Knox and Dix

FORTS

R&B group with the #1 hit "Reach Out I'll Be There"

FOUR TOPS

Holiday suggested by the starts of 20-, 26-, 36- and 42-Across, literally

FOURTH OF JULY

Hall-of-Fame quarterback Dan

FOUTS

Shep Smith's channel

FOX NEWS

When shortened, violin feature

FOXHOLE (shortened to 'F-hole')

See 25-Across

FRAME)

Gavotte, minuet and cancan?

FRANCE'S DANCES

Santa player in "The Man in the Santa Claus Suit"

FRED ASTAIRE

Big Mac?

FREDDIE

How Queen's former frontman got around?

FREDDIE'S MERCURY

Pricing model for many apps

FREEMIUM

..

FRENCH CONFECTION (from 'The French Connection')

Ones with love-hate relationships, say

FRENEMIES

Scoring high on Rotten Tomatoes

FRESH

Terry Gross's NPR program

FRESH AIR

Hips (Ship) that can move quickly

FRIGATE

Hybrid outdoor game

FRISBEE(R) GOLF

Double feature about the Arctic Ocean?

FROZEN WATERWORLD

Banned wrestling hold

FULL NELSON (giving 'full figure')

What you might get a distorted picture from?

FUN HOUSE

*Inaptly named part of the elbow

FUNNY BONE

Rigidly old-fashioned

FUSTY

"This might be of interest ...," for short

FYI ...

Listen to violinist Itzhak's music?

HEAR PERLMAN (from 'Rhea Perlman')

With 52-Across, Aaron Copland ballet

HEAR YE ('Hear Ye! Hear Ye!')

With 55-Across, town crier's cry

HEAR YE (Hear ye! Hear ye!)

*Valentine outline

HEART SHAPE (giving 'take heart' and 'take shape')

Combustion contraption

HEAT ENGINE

It may keep cafeteria food warm

HEAT LAMP (hiding MALTA backwards)

Nautical command

HEAVE TO

What's beyond the Pearly Gates

HEAVEN

Shot-putter's activity

HEAVING

Star of Hitchcock's "The Birds"

HEDREN

"Mad About You" co-star

HELEN HUNT

DNA strand shape

HELIX

"S O S"

HELP ME!

Terse and unadorned, as writing

HEMINGWAYESQUE

Certain powerful engines, briefly

HEMIS

Prefix with -stat

HEMO-

___-on-Thames (regatta site)

HENLEY

Funny Youngman

HENNY

The past, from a feminist standpoint

HER STORY

Preservers of plant specimens

HERBARIA

Crime that Joan of Arc was charged with

HERESY

___ Greene, character on "The Walking Dead"

HERSHEL

They're straight

HETEROS

Six-legged creature, to an entomologist

HEXAPOD

With 61-Down, Jimi Hendrix's first single ..

HEY ...

Grammy-winning LL Cool J song that starts "I've been watching you from afar for as long as I can remember"

HEY LOVER

Primary loser to J.F.K

HHH

Journalist/columnist Carl

HIAASEN

Very powerful

HIGH-OCTANE

*Doctor's orders?

HIPPOCRATIC OATH

What a limo may be for

HIRE

Subject of medical research since the 1980s

HIV VACCINE

Dustin who won an Oscar for "Rain Man"

HOFFMAN

The ordinary folk

HOI POLLOI

Military vehicle for actor William?

HOLDEN TANK (sounds like 'holding tank')

Possible rap sheet entry

HOLDUP JOB

Big-picture approach to patient care

HOLISM

One taking the big view, medically

HOLIST

Of mind, body and spirit

HOLISTIC

Suriname colonizer

HOLLAND

Queens neighborhood next to Jamaica

HOLLIS

"Star Trek" virtual reality room

HOLODECK

Onetime for-girls-only course, for short

HOME EC

Mortgage, often

HOME LOAN

Four-baggers

HOMERS

Lincoln signed it into law in 1862

HOMESTEAD ACT

French bachelor?

HOMME ALONE (from 'Home Alone')

Did a tour after joining up?

HONEYMOONED

Start of many a bumper sticker

HONK ...

Payments to speakers, say

HONORARIA

Server of pink champagne on ice, in song

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Red ___

HOTS

One who wasn't high-class, per a 1956 hit

HOUND DOG

French royal line

HOUSE OF BOURBON

Futuristic mode of transportation in the "Back to the Future" films

HOVERBOARD

Luke Skywalker's landspeeder, e.g

HOVERCAR

Guides for D.I.Y.'ers

HOW-TOS

Ingredient in a Spanish omelet

HUEVO

Hit band heard on the soundtrack of "Back to the Future"

HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS

Fit of pique

HUFF

A number of grain-producing sites in Normandy?

HUIT FIELDS (sounds like 'wheat fields')

What "to err is"

HUMAN

One side in "The Terminator"

HUMANS

Depression era?

HURRICANE SEASON

Sadists, e.g

HURTERS

Sum for keeping mum

HUSH MONEY

Hawkeye rival, briefly

HUSKER

Toyota Prius, e.g

HYBRID

Jellyfish relatives named for a mythological monster

HYDRAS

Drink Gatorade after a workout, say

HYDRATE

Singer's volume?

HYMN BOOK

What hath the gardener wrought?

IRON FENCE (hiding 'Fe')

"Elijah, press your clothes!"

IRON, WOOD! (from 'ironwood')

Taxpayers' bugaboos

IRS AUDITORS

"A Mighty Fortress ___ God" (hymn)

IS OUR

Daughter and half sister of Oedipus

ISMENE

New colander from Apple?

ISTRAIN (sounds like 'eye strain')

Relative of "Without a doubt" in a Magic 8 Ball

IT IS DECIDEDLY SO

"My Heart Can't Take ___ More" (1963 Supremes song)

IT NO

"Keep ___ the D.L." ("Don't tell anyone")

IT ON

What Stephen King's editor provided for a 1986 novel?

IT SUPPORT

Gist of a Dear John letter

IT'S OVER

*Like a nursery rhyme spider

ITSY BITSY

Climber in a children's rhyme

ITSY BITSY SPIDER

Some contraceptive devices

IUDS

Czar known for his mental instability

IVAN IV

2011 Best New Artist Grammy winner Bon ___

IVER

West African country whose name is usually rendered in French

IVORY COAST

Neocon's target of derision

IVORY TOWER

Unique feature of Wrigley Field

IVY-COVERED WALLS

"Oh, really?!"

IZZATSO?!

Buttercup family member with irregularly shaped blossoms

LARKSPUR

Don ___, 1956 World Series M.V.P

LARSEN

Zapper

LASER GUN

Hallström who directed "The Cider House Rules"

LASSE

Denouement

LAST ACT

Part of LIFO, to an accountant

LAST IN

Valentino type

LATIN LOVER

"The Miseducation of ___ Hill" (1998 Grammy-winning album)

LAURYN

Leading newspaper that took its name from a stage comedy

LE FIGARO

Newspaper name that becomes a beverage if you insert an "a" after its fifth letter

LE MONDE

Play the siren to

LEAD ON

"Twenty Thousand ___ Under the Sea"

LEAGUES

Longtime Vermont senator

LEAHY

2/29/16, e.g

LEAP DAY

With 16-Down, what "stet" means

LEAVE ...

Not fit for Passover

LEAVENED

N.B.A

LEBRON JAMES

TED talk, e.g

LECTURE

Abstract Expressionist who married Jackson Pollock

LEE KRASNER

Vichyssoise vegetables

LEEKS

One-eyed female on "Futurama"

LEELA

Satyrs' looks

LEERS

"Louie"

LEFT TURN

*How Clayton Kershaw pitches

LEFT-HANDED

[Put yesterday's General Tso's in microwave; heat for 2 minutes]

LEFTOVER CHINESE

Like Ziegfeld girls

LEGGY

Gangland rival of Dutch Schultz

LEGS DIAMOND

What happens after getting in Vivien's way on a movie set?

LEIGH SHOVES YOU (from 'She Loves You')

Golf's Champagne Tony

LEMA

Delaware Valley tribe

LENAPE

Attraction temporarily shut down and partly moved to Siberia during W.W

LENIN'S TOMB

Shot blockers

LENS COVERS

Grateful Dead bassist Phil

LESH

___ Antilles

LESSER

P.M

LESTER PEARSON

1995 top 10 hit for Hootie & the Blowfish

LET HER CRY

Like arsenic in large amounts

LETHAL

Banks that are too important to fail?

LEVEES

Voicer of Aslan in "The Chronicles of Narnia"

LIAM NEESON

1997 comedy with the tagline "Trust me"

LIAR LIAR

Defamed in print

LIBELED

Avoid the limelight

LIE LOW

Emulated Pinocchio

LIED

Everyday productivity enhancer, in modern lingo

LIFE HACK

[See circled letters]

LIFE OF RILEY ('EE' sounds like 'ease')

Big house party?

LIFER

Mild form of corporal punishment?

LIGHT SWITCHING (from 'light switch')

Jedi defenses

LIGHTSABERS

Drug company founder of 1876

LILLY

Legal?

LINDA EVANS (L.E. gal)

Famous crosser of the 12-Down

LINDBERGH

Hope chest filler

LINEN

Pottery Barn stock

LINENS

It may be a credit to the band

LINER NOTE

Statements for the record

LINER NOTES

Safari sight?

LINK

*1968 Peter O'Toole drama, with "The"

LION IN WINTER

Simba sobriquet

LION KING

Electrified, as a Christmas tree

LIT UP

With 96-Across, bit of Chinese cuisine

LITCHI ...

Eurozone member beginning in 2015

LITHUANIA

Another nickname for the Ocean State

LITTLE RHODY

California city for which element #116 was named

LIVERMORE

Competitor of The North Face

LLBEAN

"OMG, I'm cracking up!"

LMAO

Alternative to chow fun

LO MEIN

Sandwich for a dieter?

LO-CAL HERO (from 'Local Hero')

Like good soil

LOAMY

One day's drive, maybe

LOANER

Alley-oop starter

LOB

Early home for Lincoln

LOG CABIN (giving 'logroll')

Apple's apple and others

LOGOS

Participates in quid pro quo

LOGROLLS

Teases, in older usage

LOLITAS

Coach who said "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work"

LOMBARDI

Texas

LONE STAR STATE

Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares

LONGFELLOW

"There's this thing called Google ..."

LOOK IT UP

Lead-in to land for Willy Wonka's workers

LOOMPA

___ Tunes

LOONEY

"He hath ___ the fateful lightning ..." ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic" lyric)

LOOSED

Fictional character whose name is French for "flight of death"

LORD VOLDEMORT

"Wheel of Fortune" penalty

LOSE A TURN

Goes bonkers

LOSES IT

Outcome in Eden

LOSS OF INNOCENCE

Frequent theme for Adele

LOST LOVE

Mandrake the Magician's sidekick

LOTHAR

"Walk on the Wild Side" singer, 1973

LOU REED

Bandleader whose band was the New Orleans Gang

LOUIS PRIMA

One of the rooms in Clue

LOUNGE

2003 Hugh Grant romantic comedy

LOVE ACTUALLY

See blurb

LOVE INTEREST OF OLIVIA (hiding the answer 'VIOLA')

2010 R

LOVE LETTER

The Beatles' first single, 1962

LOVE ME DO

Tryst sites

LOVE NESTS

Couples' soft spot?

LOVE SEAT

Serenades, e.g

LOVE SONGS

1990 #1 hit for Mariah Carey

LOVE TAKES TIME

Rick, Ilsa and Victor, in "Casablanca"

LOVE TRIANGLE

Insect also called a honeymoon fly

LOVEBUG

Kitsch, e.g

LOW ART

Nadir

LOW POINT

Lethargic

LOW-ENERGY

Psychedelic experience

LSD TRIP

Service jobs

LUBES

Gangster Luciano performing a risqué prank?

LUCKY STREAKING (from 'lucky streak')

One of the Borgias

LUCREZIA

Archaeological find of 1974

LUCY

Anglers' aids

LURES

Boozehounds

LUSHES

Renaissance fair instruments

LUTES

She was "the answer to a prayer" in a 1941 #1 Jimmy Dorsey hit

MARIA ELENA

Montessori and Sharapova

MARIAS

Malady?

MARIE ANTOINETTE (M.A. lady)

Hemingway who wrote "Out Came the Sun"

MARIEL

Pot

MARIJUANA

Other than the Nationals, only current Major League Baseball team never to have played in a World Series

MARINERS

Governor who was the father of another governor

MARIO CUOMO

Promote singer Crow's music?

MARKET SHERYL (market share -al)

Stripe on a zebra, e.g

MARKING

Fish in "The Old Man and the Sea"

MARLIN

Team "spawned" in 1993

MARLINS

Fictional dog owned by the Winslow family

MARMADUKE

Comedian Marc who recorded a memorable podcast with President Obama

MARON

Like Robinson Crusoe

MAROONED

Opportunity, e.g

MARS ROVER

Actress Mason

MARSHA

Strict disciplinarian

MARTINET

Red giants

MARX AND LENIN

Advance men?

MASHERS

Classic TV show with a celebrity panel

MATCH GAME

Dura ___ (brain membrane)

MATER

Certain racy magazines

MAXIMS

Call for help

MAYDAY

Bob Ewell's daughter in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

MAYELLA

Keystone Kops-like scene

MAYHEM

Restaurant V.I.P

MAÎTRE D'

Big name in computer security

MCAFEE

Place to get a brew in more than 11,000 U.S

MCCAFE

"In Flanders Fields" poet John

MCCRAE

"Charlie's Angels" director, 2000

MCG

Washington suburb

MCLEAN

John or Christine of Fleetwood Mac

MCVIE

Year that Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" was published

MDXC

Player of Molly on "Mike & Molly"

MELISSA MCCARTHY

Mechanism for making things disappear in "1984"

MEMORY HOLE

Founder of Egypt's first dynasty

MENES

"Someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself," per Oprah

MENTOR

Car mentioned in "Hotel California," informally

MERCEDES

Stuff for sale at concerts

MERCH

Friend of Romeo

MERCUTIO

1971 hit for Marvin Gaye subtitled "The Ecology"

MERCY MERCY ME

Popular reds

MERLOTS

Fixes

MESSES

Rendezvoused near

MET AT

Set of info about sets of info

METADATA

New York sports fan's purchase

METS JERSEY

Booker T.'s backup

MG'S

Cry after "Freeze!" on a 1980s TV show

MIAMI VICE!

*County that includes much of Everglades National Park

MIAMI-DADE

Noxious emanations

MIASMAS

2014 U.S

MICHELLE WIE

Head Stone

MICK

It operates Hamburger U

MICKEY D'S

One-millionth of a meter

MICRON

Navy student, informally

MIDDIE

Bette who won a Golden Globe Award for "Gypsy"

MIDLER

Little fingers or toes

MINIMI

Boris or Natasha, to Fearless Leader

MINION

Odyssey, e.g

MINIVAN

Garrison Keillor's home state

MINNESOTA

Small fry

MINNOW

2002 Tom Cruise sci-fi film

MINORITY REPORT

What a pianist uses for triple-time pieces?

MINUET HAND (from 'minute hand')

Quick-cooking cut of meat

MINUTE STEAK

Billy Crystal's role in "The Princess Bride"

MIRACLE MAX

Pride of Moscow?

MISS IDAHO

Mr

MIYAGI

Computer hookups

MODEMS

Steven who co-created TV's "Sherlock"

MOFFAT

Clark Gable film that was a remake of his "Red Dust"

MOGAMBO

Like some brownies and towelettes

MOIST

European river that inspired Smetana

MOLDAU

Ukraine neighbor

MOLDOVA

Paul ___, 1993 World Series M.V.P

MOLITOR

May honorees, colloquially

MOMMAS

"The Magpie" and "Grainstack"

MONETS

Neighbor of Irkutsk on a Risk board

MONGOLIA

Only African capital named after a U.S

MONROVIA

& 18

MONTEVERDI & VERDI

"Old MacDonald" sounds

MOO MOO

Translucent sea creature that drifts with the current

MOON JELLY

Deposits of glacial debris

MORAINES

Sloughs

MORASSES

"Encore!"

MORE!

Title "Dr." in an H

MOREAU

Angel who visited Joseph Smith

MORONI

Like Monopoly deeds that are flipped upside down

MORTGAGED

Contents of the Torah

MOSAIC LAW

Putter (along)

MOSEY

Source of five daily calls

MOSQUE

Spy group

MOSSAD

Godzilla foe

MOTHRA

Spinal cord cell needed for muscle contraction

MOTOR NEURON (MORON around)

View from the Gulf of Catania

MOUNT ETNA

Genre for "Dueling Banjos"?

MOUNTAIN DUET (from 'Mountain Dew')

Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ..

MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW

Alternative to boeuf or poulet

MOUTON

Romeo's repertoire

MOVES

Onetime Fandango competitor

MOVIEFONE

What a film may be emailed as

MPEG FILE

Marvel superhero

MR FANTASTIC

"Don't mess with" him, per an old song lyric ..

MR IN-BETWEEN

Title character in a "Sgt

MR KITE

Steve Buscemi's role in "Reservoir Dogs"

MR PINK

Landlord on "Three's Company"

MR ROPER

Iconic green poison symbol

MR YUK

After Rainier, highest peak in the Pacific Northwest

MT ADAMS

Resort area in northeast Pa

MT POCONO

Series often seen with S's on the ends

MTWTF

Robert ___, F.B.I

MUELLER

Neither wizards nor witches, in Harry Potter books

MUGGLES

Soil enricher

MULCH

Title locale in a 2001 David Lynch thriller

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

Unhung paintings

MURALS

Certain homicide, in police lingo

MURDER ONE (giving 'drumhead')

Gheorghe ___, former 7'7" N.B.A

MURESAN

Ruminated (on)

MUSED

"When the ___ Over" (1967 Doors song)

MUSIC'S

"Hamilton" and "1776"

MUSICALS

Five Pillars adherent

MUSLIM

Religious period dating from A.D

MUSLIM ERA

Hot words?

MUST-READ

Wolverine of Marvel Comics, e.g

MUTANT

Chant often heard toward the end of an N.B.A

MVP!

..

MY HAIR LADY (from 'My Fair Lady')

"Dude!"

MY MAN!

2009 million-selling Justin Bieber release

MY WORLD

Narrow-minded views

MYOPIAS

Onetime rival of Facebook

MYSPACE

Senate's president pro tempore after Patrick Leahy

ORRIN HATCH

Roundup alternative

ORTHO

Pasta, apparently?

ORZO IT WOULD SEEM (sounds like 'or so it would seem')

Who wrote "There is no sin except stupidity"

OSCAR WILDE

Comedian Patton ___

OSWALT

"Anatomy of a Murder" director

OTTO PREMINGER

Shorts popular in the 1920s and '30s

OUR GANG

Persona non grata

OUTCAST

North Carolina vacation area

OUTER BANKS

Auricle's site

OUTER EAR

Lose control at the buffet

OVEREAT

Like London's City Hall

OVOIDAL

Has a mortgage, say

OWES

Ted Turner vis-à-vis the Atlanta Braves, once

OWNER

Chesapeake Bay delicacy

OYSTER CRAB

See 23-Across

... A-CHANGIN'

The gardener wore ..

... BLOOMERS AND HOSE

See 17-Across

... CROSSWORD PUZZLE ...

International court site, with "The"

... HAGUE

"Amazing Grace" verse ender

... I SEE

More after more?

... OR LESS

The happily unemployed person wore ..

... SLACKS AND LOAFERS

The reptile expert wore a ..

... TURTLENECK, BOA AND CROCS

12

0

The N.C.A.A.'s Aggies, informally

A AND M

..

A BEAUTIFUL MINK (from 'A Beautiful Mind')

With nobody playing, say

A CAPPELLA

What Old MacDonald had

A FARM

1922 Kafka short story

A HUNGER ARTIST

Jonathan Swift satire

A MODEST PROPOSAL

"Without ___" (1990 live Grateful Dead album)

A NET

Whirlybird whose paint job is flaking off?

A PATCHY HELICOPTER (sounds like 'Apache helicopter')

Foucault's "This Is Not ___"

A PIPE

"How now!" follower in "Hamlet"

A RAT?

Photographer's impossible task?

A SHOOT IN THE DARK (from 'A Shot in the Dark')

Declaration at Ringo's birth?

A STARR IS BORN (from 'A Star Is Born')

Color used by teams from both San Jose and Jacksonville?

A TEAL OF TWO CITIES (from 'A Tale of Two Cities')

Exclamation when raising one's champagne glass

A TOAST!

Peter the Great, Mother Teresa and Bob Marley, palindromically

A TSAR, A NUN, A RASTA

1978 Robert Altman comedy with Desi Arnaz Jr

A WEDDING

Beverage since 1922

A&W ROOT BEER

Opening of a kid's song

A, B, C, D ...

Quintet that sometimes adds a sixth member

A, E, I, O & U

Build-___ Workshop (toy retailer)

A-BEAR

Cap-___ (from head to toe)

A-PIE

Author whose most famous character is introduced as Edward Bear

AA MILNE

Good thing to get from Moody's

AAA RATING

Hopeless

ALL UP

This, and no play, make Jack a dull boy

ALL WORK

Circuits

AMBITS

Boot hills?

APENNINES

Galore

APLENTY

Coal-mining center

APPALACHIA

Scandal affecting iPhone owners?

APPLEGATE (Apple + gate)

Suitable for farming

ARABLE

Spider's class

ARACHNIDA

Three before seven?

AREA CODE

Nipple rings

AREOLAS

National Historic Landmark in Pearl Harbor

ARIZONA MEMORIAL

*Tucson collegians

ARIZONA WILDCATS

Radius, for one

ARM BONE

House majority leader before DeLay

ARMEY

Cowboy singer Gene

AUTRY

Eastern border of Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park

AVENUE B

Stave off

AVERT

Mean fig

AVG

Aviary cry

AWK!

x, y and z

AXES

Colorful ornamental with a trunk

AZALEA TREE

Calendar notation

Abbr. : APPT

Mail

Abbr. : LTRS

They may be on the house

Abbr. : MTGES

Albuquerque's home

Abbr. : NMEX

Fall times

Abbr. : OCTS

"Caravan of Courage

An ___ Adventure" (1984 "Star Wars" spinoff)

12 meses

AÑO

Neighbor of Illinois

B&O RAILROAD

Hoops

B-BALL

Card table cloth

BAIZE

Orthodontist's recommendation

BRACES

Large fern

BRACKEN

___ two film studios against each other

BRAD PITTED ...

Ben ___, legendary Washington Post editor

BRADLEE

Rio's land, to natives

BRASIL

Deg

BSED

Baseless rumors

CANARDS

One looking to serve mankind?

CANNIBAL

Batman?

CASEY

Visa option

CASH ADVANCE

Walkman insert

CASSETTE

One of a pair that clicks

CASTANET

Nickname for an accident-prone L.A.P.D

CASUALTY FRIDAY (from 'casual Friday')

Single-masted pleasure craft

CATBOATS

But

CAVEAT

Decorative enamelware

CLOISONNE

Feature of the 1876 or 2000 presidential election

CLOSE VOTE

What causes storms to swirl in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

CORIOLIS FORCE

World's second-largest retailer

COSTCO

Shelters for sheep

COTES

Former New York senator Alfonse

D'AMATO

One-named R&B singer who won a Grammy for his 2014 album "Black Messiah"

D'ANGELO

"Vissi ___" (Puccini aria)

D'ARTE

Perfidy

DECEIT

Harlequin exhibitions?

DISPLAYS FOR A FOOL (Dis + 'plays for a fool')

Opposite of took off

DONNED

Free-for-all

DONNYBROOK

Words from Sinatra

DOOBY DOOBY DOO

Condo building employees

DOORMEN

Athlete who uses steroids

DOPER

Poet Mark Van ___

DOREN

Dweebs

DORKS

Kind of printer, formally?

DOROTHY MATRIX (from 'dot matrix')

Gobbledygook

DOUBLE-TALK

Key of Chopin's étude "Tristesse"

E MAJOR

Some highway conveniences

E-ZPASS TOLL LANES

Minneapolis-St

EAGAN

Like a beaver

EAGER

Part of the body studied by otolaryngologists

EARDRUM

Aviation's Amelia

EARHART

Longtime Orioles manager in the Baseball Hall of Fame

EARL WEAVER

19,101-foot volcano next to Peru's second-largest city

EL MISTI

See blurb

ELDERLY MONARCH (hiding the answer 'LEAR')

Master of the King's Music under George V

ELGAR

Princess in line to the British throne after Beatrice

EUGENIE

Kirk Douglas, Robert Wagner and Gregory Peck, for Frank Sinatra

EULOGISTS

Annual celebration when a 12-star flag may be flown

EUROPE DAY

Symbol on a cello or tuba composition

F-CLEF

Key that's oxymoronic at school?

F-SHARP

Christmastime refrain

FA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Spanish steps?

FANDANGO

Promote to annoyance

FLOG

Scandal in the aftermath of a tsunami?

FLOODGATE (flood + gate)

Glad handlers?

FLORISTS

Struggled to make progress

FLOUNDERED AROUND (starts with 'flounder')

Drainage (Gardenia), e.g

FLOWER

Fireplace smoke escapes through them

FLUES

Schmaltz in kids' films?

G-RATED CHEESE (from 'grated cheese')

Chutzpah

GALL

Caesar's "Commentaries on the ___ War"

GALLIC

Vasco da ___

GAMA

Go, for one

GAME

Big fan of the "Lord of the Flies" author?

GOLDING DIGGER (from 'gold digger')

Magical creatures in Jewish folklore

GOLEMS

Gesture of sarcastic support

GOLF CLAP

Pioneering labor leader Samuel

GOMPERS

David Fincher thriller of 2014

GONE GIRL

Mensch

GOOD EGG

Something a mother wears

HABIT

Collaborative computer coding event

HACKATHON

Was unhappy (with)

HAD A BEEF

___ for just the right film role

HELEN HUNTED ...

Winner of the Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Tony and Emmy)

HELEN MIRREN

Mount St

HELENS

Phaëthon's father, in myth

HELIOS

39-Across filler

HELIUM

Search for a really funny person?

HOOT PURSUIT (from 'Hot Pursuit')

Schnoz

HOOTER

*Beef alternative in many countries

HORSE MEAT (horsehead & meathead)

Food item that may be eaten on a dare

HOT CHILI

IHOP topping option

HOT SYRUP

Telegrams sent by those in trouble?

HOT WATER WIRES (from 'hot-wires')

Showboat

HOTDOGGER

Bluff-busting words

I CALL

Start of Caesar's boast

I CAME ...

Pre-buffet declaration

I COULD EAT A HORSE

Cream song with the lyric "Dance floor is like the sea, / Ceiling is the sky"

I FEEL FREE

Classic R&B hit about a returning lover

I HEAR YOU KNOCKING

"..

I IN

"Where Is the Life That Late ___?" ("Kiss Me, Kate" number)

I LED

"Roger that"

I READ YOU

"If ___ a Carpenter"

I WERE

Word with two apostrophes

I'D'VE

Lackey's response

I'M ON IT

Home office item that's surprisingly expensive to replace

INK CARTRIDGE

Calligrapher's grinding mortar

INKSTONE

It may have a stretch in it

INNING

Odor-Eaters, e.g

INSERTS

Longtime F.B.I

J EDGAR HOOVER

Historic headline of 1898

J'ACCUSE!

Common quesadilla filler

JACK CHEESE

Nose nipper

JACK FROST

"Glengarry Glen Ross" co-star, 1992

JACK LEMMON

With 48-Down, children's toy ..

JACK-IN

Top prizes

JACKPOTS

Skiing mecca in 39-Across

JACKSON HOLE

Eastern Mediterranean port since ancient times

JAFFA

___ several filmmaking awards

JAMES GARNERED ...

He succeeded two queens

JAMES I

Some jazz sessions

JAMS

Co-author of the Federalist Papers

JOHN JAY

Woman of whom it's begged "Please don't take my man," in a 1973 hit

JOLENE

Kentucky Derby drinks

JULEPS

1962 François Truffaut film classique

JULES ET JIM

Whom Unesco lists as the world's second most translated author, after Agatha Christie

JULES VERNE

Hot time

JULY

Mesozoic Era period

JURASSIC

Nullius ___ (of no legal force)

JURIS

Assemble in a makeshift way

JURY-RIG

Some big boxes

KMARTS

Deceitful sorts

KNAVES

Largest sesamoid bones

KNEECAPS

Passing sounds?

KNELLING

Switchblade, e.g

KNIFE

Put down on canvas?

KO'D

Singers who go from "sol" straight to "ti"?

LA DODGERS

"Rent" showstopper

LA VIE BOHEME

Canadian beer ___ Blue

LABATT

September honoree

LABORER

Ceremonial basin

LAVABO

By no means experts

LAYMEN

1960s sitcom matriarch

LILY MUNSTER

French city known for its porcelain

LIMOGES

Fruta that's sour

LIMON

One with a long stretch to go?

LIMOUSINE DRIVER

Some atom smashers, briefly

LINACS

Lower back pain

LUMBAGO

Day before mardi

LUNDI

Galoot

LUNK

Following the shaded squares, the end to a seasonal song

ME AND MY DRUM

Apology opener

MEA ...

Like polenta

MEALY

1998 Brad Pitt film

MEET JOE BLACK

Rendezvous

MEETUP

Archenemy of Optimus Prime in "Transformers" movies

MEGATRON

"Cabaret" song with a German title

MEIN HERR

Theodore who directed "St

MELFI

"Isn't that so?," to Rousseau

N'EST-CE PAS?

Catches red-handed

NABS

Pro-consumer ideology

NADERISM

Far Eastern city whose name means "long cape"

NAGASAKI

Passing remark?

NAH

Say "When I met the Dalai Lama last year," say

NAME-DROP

Civil rights activist ___ Helen Burroughs

NANNIE

Obama's first Homeland Security secretary

NAPOLITANO

International airport near Tokyo

NARITA

Empty ___ (parent whose children have all moved away)

NESTER

Good news for business

NET PROFIT

Niece's counterpart, in French

NEVEU

Noted bomb in a longtime war

NEW COKE

With 42-Across, Frank Sinatra signature song

NEW YORK ('New York, New York')

With 40-Across, where Broadway is

NEW YORK (New York, New York)

Sinatra/Bennett duet on the 1993 album "Duets"

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Lament from an unlucky shrimper?

NOTHING BUT NET

..

NOTORIOUS KINGPIN

Isaac Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man," e.g

NOVELETTE

Program that turns out ensigns, for short

NROTC

Martial arts weapons that are two sticks connected by a chain

NUNCHAKUS

Bronx nine, on scoreboards

NYY

Cry from a Veronese lover

O ROMEO!

Most common blood group

O-TYPE

Surprise ending, as in "The Gift of the Magi"

O. HENRY TWIST

Image on the Connecticut state quarter

OAK TREE

Stored in certain wood barrels, as 65-Across

OAKED

Naturalization requirement

OATH

Scottish seaport known for its single-malt Scotch

OBAN

Take a clothing slogan too seriously?

OBEY YOUR T-SHIRT (thirst)

Sycophantic

OBSEQUIOUS

Shape of a stop sign

OCTAGON

Rara avis

ODD ONE

Ammonia and others

ODORS

Big name in energy bars and smoothies

ODWALLA

Long, trying trips

ODYSSEYS

Nearly throws a perfect game against, maybe

ONE-HITS

Patrick Stewart's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," e.g

ONE-MAN SHOW

Old sandlot game

ONE-O'-CAT

Common soccer draw

ONE-ONE

Connected to Wi-Fi, say

ONLINE

Word before "Sixteen," "Time" and "You" in top 10 hit songs

ONLY ...

Twinings product

OOLONG TEA

"Young 'uns, yer cuzzins are here" and others?

PA ANNOUNCEMENTS

His wife and sons were Depression-era criminals

PA BARKER

Nickname for Francisco

PACO

Show of respect at the Vatican

PADRES BOW TO CARDINALS

Songs of praise

PAEANS

Dishes sometimes served with Riojas

PAELLAS

Hairstyle with straight-cut bangs

PAGEBOY

Oom-___ (polka rhythm)

PAH

"Sunflowers" and "Water Lilies"

PAINTINGS

Bedroom set piece?

PAJAMA BOTTOMS

Spacious and splendid

PALATIAL

Some blonds

PALE ALES

Shipping platform

PALLET

Opponents of the Protestant Reformation

PAPISTS

Rock's Blue ___ Cult

ÖYSTER

Subcontinent-wide

ALL-INDIA

Like Wabash College

ALL-MALE

"Animal Farm," for one

ALLEGORY

Jamaican jerk chicken seasoning

ALLSPICE

Women's beauty magazine

ALLURE

Titular queen of Castile in a Handel opera

ALMIRA

Fragile fabric made from certain plant fibers

ALOE LACE

Quarters' quarters?

COIN PURSE

Typical "S.N.L." start

COLD OPEN

Emerson or Dickinson

COLLEGE

Radio's "The Alan ___ Show"

COLMES

Wing man?

COLONEL SANDERS

Mustard and others

COLONELS

Chuck who advised Nixon

COLSON

Star on the horizon?

COMER

*Laos or Vietnam

COMMUNIST STATE

Sancho Panza, to Don Quixote

COMPADRE

See blurb

COMRADE OF MERCUTIO (hiding the answer 'ROMEO')

Orbiting info relayer

COMSAT

Big Apple power supplier

CON EDISON

Liszt wrote three for piano

CONCERTI

___ Nast, publisher of Vogue

CONDE

One of Augusta National's first two female members

CONDOLEEZZA RICE

Tale of adventure

CONTE

"Great!"

COOL BEANS! (giving 'Joe Cool')

"Coach, get those guys a little ice water" [N.F.L.]

COOL YOUR (New York) JETS

Flowering plants from Australia

COPPER CUPS (hiding 'Cu')

Aquarium decorations

CORALS

Smokeless explosive

CORDITE

Davenport, e.g

COUCH

"Coach, make sure everyone's here" [N.H.L.]

COUNT THE (Dallas) STARS

Two-door auto

COUPE

"Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses," e.g

COUPLET

Rigoletto, for one

COURT JESTER

Alternative to quinoa

COUSCOUS

Groups usually of 13

COVENS

Groups of quail

COVEYS

Plant poisonous to cattle

COWBANE

Directed the rowers

COXED

Prairie predator

COYOTE

Ranchers' enemies

COYOTES

British scientist/novelist with a wintry name

CP SNOW

H&R Block employee's biceps?

CPA GUNS (from 'cap guns')

Soggy computer brain?

CPU OF NOODLES (from 'cup of noodles')

Curmudgeonly

CRABBY

Much Etsy merchandise

CRAFTS

*Britain's (Brain's) location

CRANIUM

Focal points of many F.A.A

CRASH SITES

Feature of CNN or Fox News

CRAWL

Bonkers, in modern lingo

CRAY

What old knees may do

CREAK

Relative of ecru

CREAM

Boston specialty

CREAM PIE

Alfredo, for one

CREAM SAUCE

"Them!" or "The Fly"

CREATURE FEATURE

Drink for Hercule Poirot

CREME DE MENTHE

Treated with a preservative, as telephone poles

CREOSOTED

Saggy and crinkled

CREPEY

Period when dinosaurs became extinct

CRETACEOUS

"___ and Punishment"

CRIME

Events in Bonnie and Clyde's biography

CRIME SPREES

It splits the uprights

CROSSBAR

Popular strength-training program

CROSSFIT

Caesar salad ingredient

CROUTON

Group led by Richard the Lionheart

CRUSADERS

Jon of "Two and a Half Men"

CRYER

Four-for-four Super Bowl-winning QB

JOE MONTANA

Daughter of Sweeney Todd in the Sondheim musical

JOHANNA

Equipment for actor Michael?

LANDON GEAR (sounds like 'landing gear')

N.B.A

LANIER

Sri ___

LANKA

Sri ___

LANKAN

Clobbered, in British slang

LAMPED

Walter who created Woody Woodpecker

LANTZ

Home to the Sami people

LAPLAND

Familiar story line

ONCE UPON A TIME

Vitamin brand with an instructive name

ONE A DAY

Double solitaire?

ONE AND ONLY

Order to a sommelier, maybe

ONE BOTTLE

Amoeba feature

ONE CELL

Place for airing an opinion ..

OP-ED COLUMN

Leaning column

OP-ED PIECE

Realtor's big day ..

OPEN HOUSE

It's not busy

OPEN LINE

89-Across character played by Adam Sandler

OPERA MAN

Modus ___

OPERANDI

Venus and Mars, so to speak

OPPOSITES

Works in a conservatory?

OPUSES

Agatha Christie's "N ___?"

OR M

Surgical asst

OR NURSE

"Laborare est ___" (Masonic motto)

ORARE

Make an Amazon visit, say

ORDER ONLINE

___ into a major film star

ORLANDO BLOOMED ...

The jaguar on a Jaguar's hood, e.g

ORNAMENT

Jazz saxophonist Coleman

ORNETTE

Only U.S

ORO Y PLATA

Like Jane Eyre or Harry Potter

ORPHANED

Article of tropical apparel ..

ALOHA SHIRT ('The Aloha State' is Hawaii - HI)

Mont Cervin and others

ALPES

PC task-switching combo

ALT-TAB

___ Springs, Fla

ALTAMONTE

*Holy Communion drink

ALTAR WINE

Fix as 20-Across might do

ALTER

Prefix with cumulus

ALTO-

Audio feature that comes standard on cars

AM/FM RADIO

Spiritual that lent its name to a 2015 Broadway musical

AMAZING GRACE

South American monkey's handhold?

AMAZON VINE (Amazon.com & Vine.com)

Mosey along

AMBLE

Royal name in ancient Egypt

AMENHOTEP

___ Cup

AMERICA'S

An airline now serves a Minute Maid beverage?

AMERICAN GOT HI-C (from 'American Gothic')

Tamarack trees

AMERICAN LARCHES

One working for Supercuts?

AMERICAN SNIPPER (from 'American Sniper')

H.I.V

AMFAR

Biopharmaceutical company that makes Enbrel

AMGEN

Firenze friend

AMICO

___ Stewart, singer of the 1979 #1 hit "Knock on Wood"

AMII

Old radio show set in Harlem

AMOS 'N' ANDY

Trysters

AMOURS

Like the D-Day assault on Normandy

AMPHIBIOUS

*Mojito (Mojo), for one

AMULET

___ Kitchen (frozen food brand)

AMY'S

How to avoid becoming 1-Across, so they say

AN APPLE A DAY

Hedge fund employee

ANALYST

One of Buddha's 10 disciples

ANANDA

Brazilian city name that sounds like a U.S

ANAPOLIS

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes

ANCIENTS

Literature Nobelist between Hermann Hesse and T

ANDRE GIDE

Name that went down in history?

ANDREA DORIA

Pen name of the female author of True Detective stories

ANDY STACK

Kings' supporters

ANGELENOS

Drops a line

ANGLES

Child actress Jones of "Family Affair"

ANISSA

Alternatives to Bartletts

ANJOUS

Rug rat

ANKLE-BITER

Classic novel about an orphan girl mistakenly sent to Prince Edward Island

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Model in 10 straight Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, familiarly

ANNE V

Gives a gloss

ANNOTATES

Yearly tree growths

ANNULI

Painkillers

ANODYNES

R.S.V.P

ANSWER

Like PETA

ANTI-FUR

Like 1947's Taft-Hartley Act

ANTI-LABOR

Like Norton software

ANTIVIRUS

___ de Saint-Exupéry, author of "The Little Prince"

ANTOINE

Late justice Scalia

ANTONIN

Ear parts

ANVILS

Question repeatedly posed by Ferris Bueller's teacher

ANYONE?

Soldier from Down Under

ANZAC

Longtime New York Times film critic

AO SCOTT

App with over 200 free stations

AOL RADIO

1948-94, in South Africa

APARTHEID ERA (hiding 'eider')

Opening on the side of a vest

ARMHOLE

Like the Venus de Milo

ARMLESS

Tropical insect that "marches"

ARMY ANT

Where many grunts may be heard?

ARMY BASE

Smell-O-Vision competitor of 1950s cinema

AROMARAMA

Pirate's interjection

ARRR!

With 38-Across, 1920s-'30s design style

ART ...

One making People look good?

ART EDITOR

Christie's event

ART SALE

PowerPoint slide with fake data?

ARTIFICIAL CHART (sounds like 'artificial heart')

What the museum curator didn't want to be?

ARTLESS

Benzene derivative, for one

ARYL

Frowned-upon construction material

ASBESTOS

An emoticon is a simple form of it

ASCII ART

"Beauty and the Beast" lyricist Howard

ASHMAN

Actor Kutcher and others

ASHTONS

Totally far-fetched

ASININE

Like the Miller beer logo

ASLANT

Not voiced, as the first "d" in "Wednesday"

ASONANT

Subject of the 2013 film "The Fifth Estate"

ASSANGE

Church response that's taken as a given?

ASSUMED AMEN (from 'assumed name')

Viking girl in "How to Train Your Dragon"

ASTRID

Up

AT BAT

5 for B and 6 for C

AT NOS

Parts of many modern addresses

AT-SIGNS

Alma-___, Kazakhstan

ATA

Maiden who raced Hippomenes, in myth

ATALANTA

J.F.K

ATC

Was humiliated

ATE CROW

Dined watching Netflix, say

ATE IN

With lance in hand

ATILT

Anxiety-treating medication

ATIVAN

Perfumery oils

ATTARS

Decorative skewer for serving hors d'oeuvres

ATTELET

Baked with breadcrumbs and cheese

AU GRATIN

Place to find four Os

AUDI DEALER

Puffin relative

AUKLET

Neighbor of Miss Gulch

AUNTIE EM

Goldfinger's first name

AURIC

Stephen King or Ellery Queen

AUTHOR

Prognostication tool

CRYSTAL BALL (Billy CRYSTAL & Lucille BALL)

Gulf Coast port that's gone bonkers?

BATTY MOBILE (from 'Batmobile')

Many an étagère display

BAUBLES

Burlesque theater?

BAWDY BUILDING (from 'bodybuilding')

Secretariat's mother, for one ..

BAY MARE ('The Bay State' is Massachusetts - MA)

Dark horses

BAYS

Where dogs may be put in the backyard

BBQ PIT

Wing covering

BBQ SAUCE

1951 #1 Mario Lanza hit with lyrics written by 36-Down

BE MY LOVE

Wait anxiously

BE ON TENTERHOOKS

Nacho accompaniment ..

BEAN DIP

Infant + straying = noted coach

BEAR BRYANT = BABY + ERRANT

Endure, in an expression

BEAR IT

University of Cincinnati squad

BEARCATS

Beret-wearing individualists of the 1950s-'60s

BEATNIKS

Chivalrous deeds

BEAUX GESTES

Start of a possible answer to the riddle

BECAUSE POE WROTE ...

One getting a bite at night?

BEDBUG

Mixed stock

BEEFALO

The Devil

BEELZEBUB

Sound from the Road Runner

BEEP BEEP!

Best Picture adaptation about ..

BEER HUNTER (from 'The Deer Hunter')

Oktoberfest venue

BEER TENT

Small VWs

BEETLES

Reach a conclusion by assuming one's premise is true

BEG THE QUESTION

1979 film that ends with Peter Sellers walking on water

BEING THERE

Disprove

BELIE

Student's saver

BELL

Gym activity that works the pectorals

BENCH PRESS

India's national anthem was originally written in it

BENGALI

St

BERNARD

Salt sack?

BERTH

Fourth element on the periodic table

BERYLLIUM

Under siege

BESET

"Mum's the word"

BETWEEN US

Pals 4 life

BFFS

Pumas and panthers

BIG CATS

..

BIG CONSPIRACY THEORY

Boston megaproject completed in 2007, informally

BIG DIG

Quality of a diva

BIG EGO

One of a pair of cuddlers

BIG SPOON

Tour de France sights

BIKES

New York City mayor de Blasio

BILL

Debt for comedian Will?

BILL OF FERRELL (bill of fare -al)

Invoice a whole Mideast peninsula?

BILL SINAI (from 'Bill Nye')

He played the antagonist to Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic"

BILLY ZANE

Reductive film trope for a blonde

BIMBO

Arabic name part

BIN

Feature of the Six Million Dollar Man

BIONIC EYE

Obits, basically

BIOS

One over an eagle

BIRDIE

Best Picture of 2014 ..

BIRDMAN

Hallmark occasion

BIRTHDAY

It doesn't have much to say

BIT PART

Single-named musical artist

BJORK

One-named singer from Iceland

BJÖRK

2015 Whitey Bulger biopic

BLACK MASS

1960s-'70s radical

BLACK PANTHER

1990 #1 hit for Alannah Myles

BLACK VELVET

"Deadly" vodka cocktail

BLACK WIDOW

Italian Fascist

BLACKSHIRT

"The Great" magician whose signature trick was the "floating light bulb"

BLACKSTONE

Tony ___, 1990s-2000s British P.M

BLAIR

Censors

BLEEPS

W # # # #

BLEMISHES (Warts)

*Bar order requiring celerity (celery)

BLOODY MARY

Calligraphic messes

BLOTS

Vacillate

BLOW HOT AND COLD (giving 'Joe Blow')

Romantic night in Kentucky?

BLUEGRASS DATE (from 'Bluegrass State')

Off-road racer

BMX BIKE

Remain + "Hmm ..." = R&B great

BO DIDDLEY = BIDE + ODDLY

J

BO'S'N

Move up and down, as a doll's head

BOBBLE

Reigns (Singer) at a music hall

BOCELLI

"The Consolation of Philosophy" author

BOETHIUS

Uses without sharing, in slang

BOGARTS

Unconventional sorts

BOHEMIANS

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

BOILERMAKER

*Basic china color

BONE WHITE (bonehead & whitehead)

Lisa of "The Cosby Show"

BONET

Knock on the noodle

BONK

What improved tire tread produces?

BONUS TRACTION (bonus track + shun)

Film chimp

BONZO

Staples of Indiana Jones films

BOOBY TRAPS

Take the wrong way?

BOOST

Some pears

BOSCS

Tom of "Happy Days"

BOSLEY

Ship mates

BOSUNS

Leather bag for wine

BOTA

Gray matter?

BOTANY

Pepsi employee

BOTTLER

City that, despite its name, is smaller than Little Rock

BOULDER

Colorado River landmark dedicated by F.D.R

BOULDER DAM

Like a trampoline

BOUNCY

Popular Bach piece for the lute

BOURREE

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben

BOVA

Julie ___, portrayer of Claire on "Modern Family"

BOWEN

Old-fashioned affair à la "Oklahoma!"

BOX SOCIAL

Law documents concerning pugilists?

BOXER BRIEFS

1899-1901 uprising in China

BOXER REBELLION (giving 'Joe Boxer')

Present time in England? ..

BOXING DAY

Cup holder

BRA STRAP

William ___, Pilgrim Father

BREWSTER

Fanny ___, Barbra Streisand role

BRICE

"Coach, get 'em to today's game" [N.B.A.]

BRING THE (Miami) HEAT

British port from which John Cabot sailed to the New World in 1497

BRISTOL

Pax ___ (century preceding W.W

BRITANNICA

Pop diva Spears

BRITNEY

Women, impolitely

BROADS

Where some long runs take place

BROADWAY

Sagan wrote about his brain

BROCA

Ones making lots of bucks?

BRONCS

People's Sexiest Man Alive of 2001

BROSNAN

About which it was asked "Why are you blue?," in a classic song

BROWN EYES

Base for some ice cream

BROWNIE

Treats named for their color

BROWNIES

Wharton, e.g., informally

BSCHOOL

"An A/C measure? Are you kidding me?"?

BTU? SERIOUSLY? (from 'but seriously ...')

Ohio State student

BUCKEYE

Good, in Guatemala

BUEN

Start of a Spanish greeting

BUENOS ...

Software issues

BUGS

Regal automaker

BUICK

Hobo at the wheel?

BUM STEERING (from 'bum steer')

Rolls for dogs

BUNS

"41"

BUSH SR

Hooters menu?

BUSTY FARE (from 'busfare')

Fought head to head, like bighorns

BUTTED

Quaff at the Three Broomsticks inn

BUTTERBEER

Presenter of many listicles

BUZZFEED

"Ciao"

BYE BYE

1920s standard with the lyric "Sugar's sweet, so is she"

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD

Actress Amanda of "She's the Man"

BYNES

Sign in a restaurant that doesn't serve white bread?

BYO WONDER (from 'Boy Wonder')

Route through the boondocks

BYROAD

Financial aid plan for a school in Provo?

BYU ON CREDIT (from 'buy on credit')

Author who wrote "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again"

CS LEWIS

Providers of low notes for rumbas?

CUBA'S TUBAS

Castro, por ejemplo

CUBANO

Things to chew on

CUDS

Ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other

CUESTA

The orangutan, in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

CULPRIT

Neighbor of Aruba

CURAÇAO

Like pigs' tails and permed hair

CURLED

2/2, to Toscanini

CUT TIME

Follower of 1-Across on the calendar

CYBER MONDAY

RoboCop, e.g

CYBORG

Young swan

CYGNET

Container to keep a canine cool?

DOGGY WATER BAG (from 'doggy bag')

Some links holes ..

DOGLEGS

Doesn't give one's full effort

DOGS IT

Imbecile

DOLT

"Clear!" procedure, for short

DEFIB

Gridiron scandal of 2015, informally

DEFLATEGATE

Marvel Comics superhero wielding a nearly indestructible shield

CAPTAIN AMERICA

House of Tybalt and Juliet

CAPULET

Auto booster

CAR THIEF

Something to pack up the trunk for

CAR TRIP

Longtime soap actress Hall

DEIDRE

Albert Einstein and others

DEISTS

Big name in retirement community development

DEL WEBB

Online addresses, in part

DOMAIN NAMES

Scandal surrounding copy editors' proofreading marks?

DELEGATE (dele + gate)

Prohibitionists' target

DEMON RUM

Home of Queen Margrethe II

DENMARK

Comics troublemaker

DENNIS

How black holes are packed

DENSELY

Washington in "Philadelphia"

DENZEL

Ozone layer issue

DEPLETION

Behind

DERRIERE

Spelunker's activity

DESCENT

Treat with violent disrespect

DESECRATE

Bandleader who popularized the conga line

DESI ARNAZ

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

DESPOTICALLY

Stave off

DETER

Hors d'oeuvre often topped with paprika

DEVILED EGG

Undersea animal with a monstrous name

DEVILFISH

Noted rock formation in 39-Across

DEVILS TOWER

For-profit university with dozens of U.S

DEVRY

Bygone Ottoman rulers

DEYS

Abu ___

DHABI

Ross and Spencer

DIANAS

One with changing needs

DIAPER BAG

Sticker in a nursery

DIAPER PIN

"Much Ado About Nothing" villain

DON JOHN

Exchange program for preschoolers?

DIAPER SERVICE (giving 'ice')

Foe of Big Boy and Little Face

DICK TRACY

Liberal arts college in the Keystone State

DICKINSON

Checked off the bucket list, say

DID

Conks out

DIES

Orders

DIKTATS

"Rugrats" baby

DIL

1956 jazz/blues album with an exclamation point

DINAH!

Greasy spoons

DINERS

Greek god of wine

DIONYSUS

God, in Granada

DIOS

___ Doodles (snack brand)

DIPSY

Warren Buffett's rule about hugging?

DON'T SQUEEZE THE RICH MAN (Charmin)

1992 Clinton campaign song

DON'T STOP

Drool from both sides of the mouth?

DOUBLE DRIBBLE

Leave one's vehicle in a traffic lane, say

DOUBLE-PARK (DORK around)

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" author

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Secrecy, with "the"

DOWN LOW

Part of a neutron's makeup

DOWN QUARK

1970s-'80s Sixers star and friends?

DR J CREW (Dr. + 'J.Crew')

Nickname for baseball's Dwight Gooden

DR K

*Boots brand big in grunge fashion

DR MARTENS

"Legends of the Fall" director, informally

ED ZWICK

There are two Oscars for it

EDITING

Genre for much Top 40 radio, for short

EDM

Santa player in "Miracle on 34th Street"

EDMUND GWENN

250-year span in Japan's history

EDO PERIOD

Start to -tainment

EDU-

Erudite

EDUCATED

One of eight English kings

EDWARD

King nicknamed Longshanks

EDWARD I

Informant trapped after an icy storm?

EDWARD SNOWED IN (from 'Edward Snowden')

A migraine sufferer might have one

EEG TEST

What to get an "E" for

EFFORT

First first family of Alaska

EGANS

Easter Day activities

EGG HUNTS (giving 'egg roll')

Restaurant breakfast innovation of 1971

EGG MCMUFFIN

Searches for oneself

EGO-SURFS

Rough choice?

EIGHT IRON

Director of the "Hostel" films

ELI ROTH

Those saying "somethin'," say

ELIDERS

Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived the Holocaust

ELIE WIESEL

For whom the Collegiate School was renamed in 1718

ELIHU YALE

First country in the world with universal suffrage (1906)

FINLAND

Flame-colored gemstones

FIRE OPALS

"Larry, shoot!"

FIRE, BIRD! (from 'firebird')

Night light?

FIREFLY

Stephen King novel with a pyrokinetic character

FIRESTARTER

Emergency worker ..

FIRST RESPONDER ('The First State' is Delaware - DE)

Exam that's losing popularity in high schools?

DISAPPEARING ACT (American College Testing)

Take heat from?

DISARM

Flee in separate directions?

DISBAND ON THE RUN (Dis + 'Band on the Run')

Damage a St

DISCREDIT CARDS (Dis + 'credit cards')

Run-down tavern

DIVE

Music mixes at a nightclub

DJ SETS

Title role in a 2012 Tarantino film

DJANGO

Brute working on the Human Genome Project?

DNA SAVAGE (from 'Dan Savage')

Hurt a Bond villain?

DO DR NO HARM (Dr. + 'do no harm')

Nail

DO TO A TEE

They're rich in omega-3 fatty acids

FISH OILS

Way to stream "Game of Thrones"

HBO GO

With 36- and 40-Across, organization whose name hints at some missing letters in this puzzle

DOCTORS

Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Harry who regularly led the Wrigley Field crowd in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"

CARAY

Antiquated office duplicate

CARBON COPY (hiding 'C')

One adept with a deck

CARD SHARP

Deep scarlet shade

CARDINAL RED

Southern constellation that holds the second-brightest star in the night sky

CARINA

"The Undiscovered Self" author

CARL JUNG

Criticized nigglingly

CARPED ABOUT (starts with 'carp')

Lover boys

CASANOVAS

Maine's ___ Bay

CASCO

Smith who wrote "The Hundred and One Dalmatians"

DODIE

"Coach, nab a few of those curfew violators" [M.L.B.]

CATCH SOME (Tampa Bay) RAYS

___ lab (place for an angiogram)

CATH

Broad in tastes

CATHOLIC

They might spook spelunkers

CAVE BATS

Scale opening

CDEF

"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" instrument

CELESTA

Cooler person to live with?

CELLMATE

The Fed, for example

CENTRAL BANK

Start of many a dance routine

CHA-

Burger King or Costco

CHAIN

Briefs from Walmart or Target?

CHAINS UNDERWEAR (sounds like 'Hanes underwear')

Spiced teas

CHAIS

Snooker accessory

CHALK

Writing implement from Planters?

CHALK FULL O'NUTS (from 'Chock full o'Nuts')

Place to play with toys

DOG PARK

One easily bowled over?

HEADPIN

Shamans, e.g

HEALERS

Treat, as table salt

IODIZE

Like some radiation

IONIZING

Some small tablets

IPAD MINIS

What Carrie needed after the prom?

CHANGE OF A DRESS (sounds like 'change of address')

Many a Wall Street Journal graphic

CHART

Grand Canyon, notably

CHASM

Something you might have a handle on

CHAT ROOM

Georgia county of which 4-Down is the seat

CHATHAM

Basic order at Domino's

CHEESE PIZZA

Sliced serving with ritzy crackers?

CHEESE SO FINE (sounds like 'He's So Fine')

*2000s group with three eponymous Disney Channel films, with "the"

CHEETAH GIRLS

Orange snack in a red box

CHEEZ-IT

Orange snacks

CHEEZ-ITS

___ blanc (wine variety)

CHENIN

Incapacitated Jeep?

CHERQKEE (Cherokee)

Where Roger Ebert's reviews appeared for 47 years

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

Lingerie material

CHIFFON

Fishing boat at summer camp?

CHILDREN'S DORY (from 'children's story')

*One "as lucky as lucky can be," in "Mary Poppins"

CHIMNEY SWEEP

Far Eastern mimics?

CHINA'S MYNAHS

Neighborhood south of SoHo

CHINATOWN

Achebe who wrote "Things Fall Apart"

CHINUA

Cuts up little bloodsuckers?

CHOPS TICKS (from 'chopsticks')

Literally, "fried noodles"

CHOW MEIN

Time periods in a polo match

CHUKKERS

Ladder's counterpart

CHUTE

Paratroopers' gear

CHUTES

Affair that led to Scooter Libby's 2007 conviction, informally

CIA-GATE

Panini bread

CIABATTA

Hundred, in Honduras

CIENTO

Youngest "Brady Bunch" daughter

CINDY

Mark in the intersection of 19-Across and 11-Down

CIRCUMFLEX

Place to find three Os

CIRCUS TENT

Mufti

CIVVIES

Allison Janney's role on "The West Wing"

CJ CREGG

Place for steamers

CLAM BAR

C in shop class?

CLAMP

Hardwood percussion stick

CLAVE

Obvious indication

CLEAR SIGN (hiding ISRAEL backwards)

Like the rock in "Rock of Ages"

CLEFT

Fiscal ___

CLIFF

Give an "Odyssey" character a trim?

CLIP CYCLOPS (from 'clip-clops')

Bumbling detective of film

CLOUSEAU

Grab and go?

CLUTCH (and) CHINESE BOARD GAME

10th-century year

CMI

Early 10th-century year

CMIX

Like Colgate University, since 1970

CO-ED

Kind of sauce

ALFREDO

Procedure for solving a mathematical problem

ALGORITHM

..

ALIEN CONTACT

Tender towards one's exes?

ALIMONIES

1950 Bette Davis film hinting at something found 15 times in this puzzle

ALL ABOUT EVE

Fright night?

ALL HALLOWS' EVE

Happy as a clam

ALL SMILES

"Poke-___!" (kids' book series)

A-DOT

Pop group whose name is an exclamation

A-HA

Crème de la crème

A-LIST

Third grade?

A-MINUS

Narrator of Broadway's "Hamilton"

AARON BURR

First string?

ABCD

Record six-time N.B.A

ABDUL-JABBAR

King's collaborator

ABERNATHY

*Salem witch trials accuser

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS

*Romantic comedy featuring two members of the Brat Pack

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (about time, last time & nighttime)

How the Great Emancipator got around?

ABRAHAM'S LINCOLN

Green spirit

ABSINTHE

Bounty work?

ABSORPTION

Rothko's field

ABSTRACT ART

The discovery of penicillin, e.g

ACCIDENT

Swedish pop group whose 1994 hit "The Sign" was #1 for six weeks

ACE OF BASE

Got nothing back from?

ACED

Manicure destroyer

ACETONE

Sound of sternutation

ACHOO!

Like many flu sufferers

ACHY

Make look old, in a way

ACID WASH

Frequent trip takers

ACID-HEADS

Emulates the O

ACQUITS

Like Cirque du Soleil performers

ACROBATIC

V feature

ACUTE ANGLE

At the beginning

AD INITIUM

Mulishness

ADAMANCY

Where the U.S.S

ADEN, YEMEN

"Goodbye, mon ami!"

ADIEU!

Kind of professor

ADJUNCT

Server overseer, informally

ADMIN

Verb in "O Come, All Ye Faithful"

ADORE

Ninth-century pope who was married with a daughter

ADRIAN II

"The application of democracy to love," per H

ADULTERY

He gave Odysseus a bag of winds

AEOLUS

Museumgoer, e.g

AESTHETE

Flambé, say

AFIRE

Old World lizard

AGAMA

Like Alzheimer's disease

AGE-RELATED

Ulterior motives

AGENDAS

Weapon used in the Vietnam War

AGENT ORANGE

F.B.I

AGENTS

Repeatedly cried "Land ho!" with no land in sight, maybe?

AGGRAVATED A SALT (sounds like 'aggravated assault')

"Henry V" battle setting

AGINCOURT

Relatives on the father's side

AGNATES

Affliction in "Philadelphia"

AIDS

1851 Sojourner Truth speech

AIN'T I A WOMAN?

1983 hit for Rufus and Chaka Khan

AIN'T NOBODY

*Feature of a carpenter's level

AIR BUBBLE (airhead & bubblehead)

Website for budget travelers

AIRBNB

J.F.K

AIRTRAIN

Amelia Earhart, e.g

AIRWOMAN

International prize first awarded to Stephen Hawking in 1979

ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDAL

He played Moe Greene in "The Godfather"

ALEX ROCCO

Creamy cocktails

ALEXANDERS

Last king of Spain before Juan Carlos

ALFONSO

Means of transportation in "Cinderella"

COACH

Annual California music festival

COACHELLA

Jet

COAL BLACK

Foyer fixture

COATRACK

"It's the real thing" brand

COCA COLA

Part of the inner ear

COCHLEA

Some break dancers, informally

B-BOYS

Ricky Ricardo's signature song

BABALU

Commemorative Yevtushenko poem

BABI YAR

Noted sexologist, in her infancy?

BABY DR RUTH (Dr. + 'Baby Ruth')

Swedish-based maker of infant carriers

BABYBJORN

Makeup for actor Kevin?

BACON POWDER (sounds like 'baking powder')

Celeb's arrest report, to the celeb, say

BAD PR

"The Chalk Garden" playwright, 1955

BAGNOLD

Ice cream and sponge topped with meringue and placed in a very hot oven for a few minutes

BAKED ALASKA

Shoulder-to-hip belt

BALDRIC

Chrome dome

BALDY

Desi Arnaz?

BALL HANDLER

*Car part that works in a similar manner to the human hip

BALL JOINT

"Oh! Susanna" and others

BALLADS

Vehicle that's loaded in a Harry Belafonte hit

BANANA BOAT

Bêtes noires

BANES

Vietnamese sandwich

BANH MI

Capital of Gambia

BANJUL

Targets of the Dodd-Frank Act

BANKS

See blurb

BANQUET GHOST (hiding the answer 'BANQUO')

War cry

BANZAI!

Immersive experience

BAPTISM

St

BAPTIST

13 things?

BAR MITZVAHS

Tavern assistant

BAR-BACK

B.A

BARACUS

Figaro, e.g

BARBER

Hooked projection on a bird feather

BARBICEL

Island north of Antigua

BARBUDA

Public transportation system in the capital of Catalonia

BARCELONA METRO

Carnival person

BARKER

Musical with the song "There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute"

BARNUM

Competition in a rodeo ring

BARREL RACE (giving 'barrel roll')

Crude measurements?

BARRELS

Next Republican nominee after Dwight D

BARRY COLDWATER (from 'Barry Goldwater')

Compiler of an 1855 reference work

BARTLETT

Risky business for a compiler of quotations?

BARTLETT PERIL (Bartlett pear -al)

What an overbearing sergeant causes?

BASE TENSION (base ten + shun)

What the G.I

BASELESS

Medieval steel helmets with visors

BASINETS

Hare-hunting hounds

BASSETS

Actress Angela of "American Horror Story"

BASSETT

"Enough!," to a Roman

BASTA!

Dugout figure

BAT BOY

Robin's refuge

BATCAVE

Houseware purchases that may have suction cups

BATH MATS

Realty listing data

BATHS

Dyes with wax

BATIKS

Way down in Wayne Manor

BATPOLE

Secure, with "down"

BATTEN

Note on a watered-down assault indictment?

BATTERY NOT INCLUDED

"Sally, keep up the fight!"

BATTLE, FIELD! (from 'battlefield')

Cough queller

CODEINE

Agemate

COEVAL

Dos

COIFS

*Z, for one

CABLE CHANNEL (Starz, for one)

Mideast robe

CAFTAN

Place for a parakeet

CAGE

"I Am ___" (Jenner's reality show on E!)

CAIT

Battery container?

CAKE PAN

Abu Bakr and others

CALIPHS

Daily schedule for filming

CALL SHEET

They all start with "K" and "W" in the U.S

CALL SIGNS

"Safe!" and "You're out!"

CALLS

Activity for Hobbes

CALVINBALL

Brand once billed as "the soap of beautiful women"

CAMAY

People ruled by an elective monarchy

CAMBODIANS

Charm City landmark

CAMDEN YARDS

Rained cats and dogs

CAME DOWN IN SHEETS

Style of "iPhone" or "eBay," typographically

CAMELCASE (giving 'Joe Camel')

Jewel heist outcome?

CAMEO DISAPPEARANCE (Dis + 'cameo appearance')

1994 Oscar- and Grammy-winning song for Elton John

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT

Dance with high kicks

CAN-CAN

Cylindrical pasta

CANNELLONI

John Steinbeck novel

CANNERY ROW

Sat in a dugout?

CANOED

Travelers with paddles

CANOEISTS

Jargon

CANT

Synagogue singers

CANTORS

Canadian hockey team

CANUCKS

1991 Scorsese/De Niro collaboration

CAPE FEAR

What a star may denote

CAPITAL

Apparel also called clamdiggers

CAPRI PANTS

The Canadian loonie or toonie, e.g

COIN

1982 international chart-topper by Trio with a repetitive title

DA DA DA

1984 hit for Bruce Springsteen, literally

DA-DANCING-RK ('Dancing in the Dark')

Cabaret Voltaire iconoclasts

DADAISTS

Icarus' father, in myth

DAEDALUS

Radishes with long white roots

DAIKONS

Honorary title in Wisconsin?

DAME CHEESE (from 'Edam cheese')

Classical exemplars of steadfast friendship

DAMON AND PYTHIAS

Distressed maiden, in fairy tales

DAMSEL

Eternal water-pourers in Hades

DANAIDES

Footwear for actor Ted?

DANSON SHOES (sounds like 'dancing shoes')

Edmond ___, the Count of Monte Cristo

DANTES

Literature Nobelist ___ Fo

DARIO

Lawyer who defended Leopold and Loeb

DARROW

Debonair

DASHING

Match.com competitors

DATING AGENCIES

Auto name discontinued in 1986

DATSUN

Huge stock purchase at the start of a day's trading

DAWN RAID

Former "Family Feud" host Richard

DAWSON

Where Batman and Superman live

DC UNIVERSE

Jet similar to a 747

DC-TEN

2011 hit for Adele, literally

DE-ROLLING-EP ('Rolling in the Deep')

Spy communication spots

DEAD DROPS

It'll never reach its destination

DEAD MAIL

Where service is lacking

DEAD SPOT

Followers of Lord Voldemort

DEATH EATERS

Like the Hallows in a Harry Potter title

DEATHLY

Go down the gangplank

DEBARK

Balance sheet data

DEBTS

Names in someone's honor

DEDICATES (giving 'acid-head')

Particulars, in slang

DEETS

Cover with graffiti, say

DEFACE

___ Court (district in London)

EARL'S

Bit of Secret Service gear

EARPHONE

Magic Johnson's real first name

EARVIN

Like Monday crosswords

EASIEST

Exhortation after saying grace

EAT!

Bistro

EATERY

Dangerous virus strain named for its original outbreak location

EBOLA ZAIRE

Bursting with joy

EBULLIENT

Prohibition of strip mining, e.g

ECO-LAW

One of the "E's" in E.E.C

ECONOMIC

*Search party

ED MCMAHON (Star Search party)

Grammy-nominated rock band for "Epic"

FAITH NO MORE

Dish in a tortilla

FAJITA

Clifford Irving's "Autobiography of Howard Hughes," e.g

FAKE

When leaves 56-Across

FALL

Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme

FALLING DOWN

Leno's late-night successor

FALLON

Counterfeit Dodge?

FALSE DART (from 'false start')

Show on which Adam West voices Mayor Adam West

FAMILY GUY

Snack brand since 1975

FAMOUS AMOS

Certain geek

FANGIRL

Marvel Comics group

FANTASTIC TWO (from 'Fantastic Four')

Field of DraftKings and FanDuel ..

FANTASY SPORTS

Publications for and by aficionados

FANZINES

Old MacDonald's place

FARM

Website for people interested in "cultivating" a relationship?

FARMERSONLY

Palazzo ___, architectural gem of the Renaissance

FARNESE

___ Islands (autonomous part of Denmark)

FAROE

Language descended from Old Norse

FAROESE

Roman emblem of power adopted by Mussolini

FASCES

Trendy type

FASHION PLATE

Violation of Yom Kippur?

FAST BREAK

Hoopster observing Ramadan?

FASTING FORWARD (from 'fast forward')

Outfits for big parts?

FAT SUITS

What an Ironman has to battle

FATIGUE

Young deer

FAWNS

Listing on a Rolodex

FAX

Some of them are devoted to gangsters

FBI CASES

Facility at Quantico

FBI LAB

___ of Strength (Festivus rite)

FEATS

Running a high temperature

FEBRILE

Film director from whose work the word "paparazzi" is derived

FELLINI

Longest bone in the human body

FEMUR

Pagoda placement consideration, often

FENG SHUI

Target of a trap-neuter-return program

FERAL CAT

Charon's craft

FERRY

Winning an Oscar for "Norma Rae"?

FIELD GOAL

Sole orders

FILETS

Complete, as a crossword grid

FILL

Preceder of the sound of a gavel

FINAL BID

Like sand vis-à-vis gravel

FINER

Seven things on a Nathaniel Hawthorne house

GABLES

Group of geese

GAGGLE

Son of Sir Lancelot

GALAHAD

Sampled the sauce

HAD A NIP

Staked a claim

HAD DIBS

What may keep a mohawk in place

HAIR GEL

Supposed morning remedy

HAIR OF THE DOG

Shampooing, e.g

HAIRCARE

First or last quarter in the lunar cycle

HALF-MOON

Bromine and fluorine compounds

HALIDES

Like some lights

HALOGEN

Fire-suppressing compound

HALON

Crumbly Mideastern dessert

HALVA

With 40-Across, common deli sandwich

HAM ...

Overplay

HAM UP

(BIG) MAC

HAMBURGER

Squeaker in a cage

HAMSTER WHEEL

"I can't help you, but the Brady Bunch mom will be happy to assist"?

HANDLE WITH CAROL (handle with care -al)

Wilber who founded a fast-food chain

HARDEE

How the star of the Indiana Jones films got around?

HARRISON'S FORD

Famous London department store

HARRODS

"The Broken Tower" poet

HART CRANE

Play with an imaginary friend

HARVEY

Claims, with "on"

HAS DIBS

Experiences fame

HAS THE LIMELIGHT

Orthodox group

HASIDIM

Place for bowlers

HAT TREE

Hockey scoring play

HAT TRICK (3 points)

"Drink" for the overly critical

HATERADE

Milliner's accessory

HATPIN

Word after New or tax

HAVEN

Shout when there's no cause for alarm?

I'M UP!

Sam-___ (Seuss character)

I-AM

Basketball Hall-of-Famer Hank

IBA

Agile mountain climbers

IBEXES

Kind of challenge

ICE BUCKET

Student housing in Fairbanks?

ICE DORM (from 'ice storm')

Winter Olympics venues

ICE RINKS

Places to do figure eights

ICE-SKATING RINKS

Summertime coffee order

ICED LATTE

How a Seattle Mariner great got around?

ICHIRO'S SUZUKI

Dropbox competitor

ICLOUD

Frost-covered biochemical solid?

ICY STEROL (icy stare -al)

Comedians who do material on the Freudian psyche?

ID CARDS

No longer anonymous, in brief

IDED

Speech habits unique to an individual

IDIOLECT

New parachute from Apple?

IDROP (sounds like 'eye drop')

Certain military hazards, for short

IEDS

"I Wanna Be Your Dog" vocalist

IGGY POP

Places to buy furniture to assemble

IKEAS

Glazer of "Broad City"

ILANA

Parts of small intestines

ILEA

New push-up bra from Apple?

ILIFT (sounds like 'eye lift')

Hobbes, in "Calvin and Hobbes"

IMAGINARY FRIEND (giving 'imaginary numbers')

Band with the 2012 double-platinum album "Night Visions"

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Stain

IMBRUE

Books written entirely in chat rooms?

IMED NOVELS (from 'dime novels')

Mummy in "The Mummy"

IMHOTEP

Chatting online with, for short

IMING

Antidiarrheal brand

IMODIUM

Foist (upon)

IMPOSE

Charlatan, of a sort

IMPOSTOR

Batting .200, maybe

IN A SLUMP

Like three men of rhyme

IN A TUB

Like conspirators

IN CAHOOTS

12 9 11 5 20 8 9 19 3 12 21 5

IN CODE

Per se

IN ITSELF

As a replacement

IN LIEU

Over the 104-Across

IN SEVENTH HEAVEN

Where "no one can hear you scream," per "Alien"

IN SPACE

How Buddhists strive to live

IN THE MOMENT

Kind of fertilization

IN VITRO

Evil spirits

INCUBI

S&P 500, e.g

INDEX

"Colorful" folk duo

INDIGO GIRLS

Vehicles for the Unsers

INDY CARS

Newspaper essay on why not to go outdoors?

INSIDE OP-ED (from 'inside dope')

A good cure for it is sleep, per W

INSOMNIA

Car engine component

INTAKE VALVE

The first parts of 17- and 22-Across are always this, the first part of 46-Across is sometimes this, and the first part of 55-Across is never this

INTEGER

Sign on the N.S.A.'s entrance?

INTEL INSIDE

It's of no concern to a usurer

INTEREST RATE CAP

Swiss tourist destination

INTERLAKEN

With 53-Down, blogger's bugbear

INTERNET

Something a server can give you

INTERNET ADDRESS

Like lingerie

INTIMATE

Teddy, e.g

INTIMATE APPAREL

Senses

INTUITS

Greenland natives

INUITS

Starchy substance found in some plant roots

INULIN

Martians, in "The War of the Worlds"

INVADERS

'01 album that knocked the Beatles' "1" off the #1 spot

JLO

Actress with an icy stare?

JODIE FROSTER (from 'Jodie Foster')

"Walking Tall" actor ___ Baker

JOE DON

Jaromir ___, five-time N.H.L

JAGR

*Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car ever made"

JAGUAR XKE

Two-faced Roman god

JANUS

Groundbreaking Al Jolson title role

JAZZ SINGER

Matchmaking site that asks "Do you keep kosher?"

JDATE

Yoda, e.g

JEDI MASTER

Manipulative use of the Force

JEDI MIND TRICKS

Cherokees, for example

JEEPS

Hit 2005 Broadway musical made into a 2014 film

JERSEY BOYS

Film title role for Tyrone Power and Brad Pitt

JESSE JAMES

2012 Best Actress nominee for "Zero Dark Thirty"

JESSICA CHASTAIN

Like Loyola and Xavier universities

JESUIT

Dark as dark can be

JET-BLACK

Fitting gifts for puzzle enthusiasts?

JIGSAWS

Deceptive talker

JIVER

"The Hunger Games" star, in tabloids

JLAW

Word that fills both blanks in "This ___ is your ___"

LAND

Singer Musgraves who won a 2013 Grammy for Best Country Album

KACEY

Old German ruler

KAISER

Dorothy and Auntie Em, for two

KANSANS

Pope John Paul II's first name

KAROL

___ White, singer of the 1991 #1 hit "Romantic"

KARYN

Sagal of "Married ..

KATEY

Heat meas

KCAL

Temperature unit

KELVIN

Company that sold Spirographs

KENNER

Obi-Wan ___

KENOBI (giving 'bonehead')

College where Rutherford B

KENYON

Oil-producing matter in shale

KEROGEN

Jet fuel, mainly

KEROSENE

Some fuel oils

KEROSENES

Lead actress on TV's "Scandal"

KERRY WASHINGTON

Fore-and-aft-rigged vessel

KETCH

Put an end to

KIBOSH

Noted jazz trombonist's nickname

KID ORY

Richard who won a Tony for playing Don Quixote

KILEY

Eponym of Bible history

KING JAMES

Glitch

KINK

Competitor of Sapporo

KIRIN

"A Fish Called Wanda" co-star Kevin

KLINE

Classic cameras

KODAKS

Alaskan beer container?

KODIAK BARREL (Kodiak bear -al)

Faucet brand

KOHLER

Ornamental garden installation

KOI POND

Nutcases

KOOKS

Fraction of a ruble

KOPECK

Keystone ___ of early film

KOPS

Big name in headphones

KOSS

Is a kiss-up

KOWTOWS

Some G.I

KPS

Detractors' epithet for the Putin regime

KREMLIN INC

Source of the "K" in Kmart

KRESGE

Hindu god pictured playing a flute

KRISHNA

Longtime "60 Minutes" reporter

KROFT

Zeus' father

KRONOS

Give an earful

LACE INTO

Like sneakers and corsets

LACED

Like skates and corsets

LACED UP

What red markers may indicate on 59-Acrosses

LADIES TEES

Freight

LADING

Shakespeare character who says "I dare damnation"

LAERTES

Liberal arts college in the Keystone State

LAFAYETTE

Chef with the catchphrase "Kick it up a notch"

LAGASSE

___ Beach, Calif

LAGUNA

Los Angeles suburb next to San Fernando

LAKE VIEW TERRACE

Crazy Horse, e.g

LAKOTA

Like traditional media, to some

LAMESTREAM

Kid's cry

MAA!

[Boil contents for 8-10 minutes; drain; add butter; stir in bright orange powder]

MAC AND CHEESE

Things found at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues

MAC OPERATING SYSTEMS

Apple variety

MAC PRO

See blurb

MACABRE THANE (hiding the answer 'MACBETH')

Cousin of a baboon

MACAQUE

Supersonic speed

MACH TWO

Norman who wrote "A River Runs Through It"

MACLEAN

Title for the leader of Chile or South Korea

MADAME PRESIDENT

Violent vortex

MAELSTROM

Devotee of Dionysus

MAENAD

Equipment endorsed by Inside Tennis?

MAGAZINE RACQUET (from 'magazine rack')

One of the Gabor sisters

MAGDA

Wand wielders

MAGES

Mojos

MAGIC CHARMS

Soft rock?

MAGMA

Alternators in some internal-combustion engines

MAGNETOS

Pair on Mississippi's state quarter

MAGNOLIAS

1 1/2-liter bottle

MAGNUM

The rest of China, to Hong Kong and Macau

MAINLAND

___ Theater, venue of "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest-running production in Broadway history

MAJESTIC

Snafu

MAJOR PROBLEM

Finish a hole between a birdie and a bogey

MAKE PAR

Youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

One might start working on Black Friday

MALL SANTA

Example of bad parenting?

MAMMA MIA (missing in action)

Word repeated in James Brown's "It's a ___ ___ ___ World"

MAN'S

Diamond head?

MANAGER

Civil War battle site

MANASSAS

"Moon River" composer

MANCINI

1982 #1 hit with the line "Watch out boy she'll chew you up"

MANEATER

More macho

MANLIER

Miss ___, etiquette columnist

MANNERS

Shop (Posh) houses

MANORS

Variety of sherry whose name means "little apple"

MANZANILLA

1976 Dustin Hoffman thriller

MARATHON MAN

Medium for Michelangelo

MARBLE

Roman consul who captured Syracuse in A.D

MARCELLUS

It just took this before "I fell so hard in love with you," in a 1960s hit

ONE LOOK

Bid on a hand unsuited for suit play, maybe

ONE NO

Cocktail recipe phrase

ONE PART

"Explorer" channel

NAT GEO

Christmas, in Italy

NATALE

Cub, e.g

NATIONAL LEAGUER

Slovakia and Slovenia

NATIONS

What 28 states are

NATO MEMBERS

Tsunami, for one

NATURAL DISASTER (giving 'natural numbers')

Ad follower?

NAUSEAM

Spiral-shelled mollusks

NAUTILI

Where Pamplona is located

NAVARRE

Scandal depicted in "Avatar"?

NAVIGATE (Na'vi + gate)

Incapacitated Lincoln?

NAVIGATQR (Navigator)

7 on the Beaufort scale

NEAR GALE

What MARTINET can anagram to

NEAT AND TRIM

Lincoln's locale

NEBRASKA

Acupuncturist's supply

NEEDLES

Genre of some of Yoko Ono's art

NEO-DADA

Taxonomic terms, for instance

NEO-LATIN

Nickname for the only man to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series

NEON DEION

Popular website with virtual animals

NEOPETS

Novices

NEOPHYTES

"Ha ha, what a dork!"

NERD ALERT!

Cosplay and fanfic are parts of it

NERD CULTURE

Like Comic-Con attendees vis-à-vis the general public

NERDIER

Promontories

NESSES

Some caches

NEST EGGS

Seinfeld's neighbor whose name is spoken as an epithet

NEWMAN

Virginia city known for its shipbuilding

NEWPORT NEWS

Like Y's

NEXT TO LAST

Faboo

NIFTY

Country of 180+ million people that has never participated in the Winter Olympics

NIGERIA

Composer Rimsky-Korsakov

NIKOLAI

Billiards variant

NINE BALL (hiding BENIN backwards)

Pickup trucks from a foreign-owned company made and sold only in North America

NISSAN TITANS

Feature of a neat drink

NO ICE

"Enough!," in Ensenada

NO MAS!

Tropicana label specification

NO PULP

"___ Please, We're British" (1971 stage farce)

NO SEX

End of a match, in rugby

NO SIDE

That tropical entry could not have captured first place in the fruit competition, palindromically

NO WAY A PAPAYA WON

Offer of free pillow fill?

NO-MONEY DOWN

Emily Dickinson, self-descriptively

NOBODY

Architect/sculptor with an eponymous New York museum

NOGUCHI

Dark films, informally

NOIRS

Chuck who won four Super Bowl rings

NOLL

Carlos the Jackal, for one

NOM DE GUERRE

Like the four things named in the shaded squares

NON-KOSHER

Like hormones synthesized from amino acids

NON-STEROID

7 or below on the pH scale

NONBASIC

Sarge's "Sell my city bonds!" telegram?

NONCOM MUNI CABLE (noncommunicable)

Material that is foreign to the body

NONSELF

Neophyte, in modern slang

NOOB

Certain trysts

NOONERS

"S.N.L." cast member, 1985-90

NORA DUNN

Corcoran of "Bachelor Father"

NOREEN

Hillary's mate

NORGAY

Body of water between Denmark and Scotland

NORTH SEA

Arctic gale

NORTHER

Bouquets, quaintly

NOSEGAYS

Rhinoplasty targets

NOSES

Certain logic gate

NOT

Target of the Occupy movement

ONE PERCENT

Minimal diamond margin

ONE RUN

Like barely spicy chili

ONE-ALARM

& 35

OFFENBACH & BACH

Humorist who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker"

OGDEN NASH

Old Irish character

OGHAM

Eyed caddishly

OGLED

Response to a verbal slam

OH SNAP!

Like seven of the 12 presidents between 1869 and 1923

OHIO BORN

Offshore structure for Shell or ExxonMobil

OIL RIG

Prop for the Tin Man

OILCAN

Receptacle in a machine

OILCUP

Prepares for a Mr

OILS UP

Emulated one of Old MacDonald's animals

OINKED

Breakfast drinks, briefly

OJS

Gumbo ingredients

OKRAS

Site of Oscar Wilde's trials

OLD BAILEY

Andrew Jackson nickname

OLD HICKORY

Bellini and Botticelli

OLD MASTERS

Palindromic 1976 greatest hits album

OLE ELO

Prefix with resin

OLEO-

Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director

OLIVER REED

Dickens classic ..

OLIVER TWIST ('olive or twist')

Place to find five Os

OLYMPIC FLAG

Like some soap

ON A ROPE

How many try to capture Bigfoot

ON CAMERA

Elated

ON CLOUD THREE (from 'on cloud nine')

"..

ON EARTH

Anne Sexton's palindrome-inspired poem "Rats Live ___ Evil Star"

ON NO

Under the 67-Across

ON THE DOWN LOW

Not working

ON THE FRITZ

En route

ON THE WAY

"___ saw a little bird ..." (Mother Goose rhyme)

ONCE I

Onetime stage name for Sean Combs

P DIDDY

Conductor Järvi

PAAVO

Alternative regimen to an 84-Down, informally

PALEO

Brand once pitched with the slogan "You're soaking in it"

PALMOLIVE

Golden galloper

PALOMINO

Like a French door

PANED

"The Hunger Games" nation

PANEM

Ancestor of the harmonica

PANPIPE

Frittata equipment

PANS

Victoria's Secret job description?