• Creature comforts

• Pop star from London

• Conan’s home after NBC

• 45th state

• Allude

• Be discontented

• 10 Down agency of a sort

• A member of

• Sitar melody

• Stratfordian nickname [letters 4-8]

• Litigate

• Juniper berry product

• Without interruption

• It might move you on a mountain [letters 4-8]

• French royal name

• ”. . . such __ is”

• Munch Museum home

• Contralto’s concern

• Soft ball since 1969

• Poetic foot

• ”Gunga Din” locale

• Breakfast order [letters 2-6]

• Goosebump-y

• Without exception

• Erode or annoy

• Overflow insurance [letters 4-8]

• ”. . . __ away childish things”

• In-group

• Swanky

• Not so great

• Capital of 41 Across

• West Point mascot

• Tennyson preposition

• Solemn affirmations

• ”Paradise Lost” river

• Knock-knock joke e.g.

• Frat letter

• Showing class

• Title like ”czar”

• World’s largest peninsula

• Factor in pricing

• Get an __ effort

• Furnish for a time

• Conclusion intro

• Journey

• Old-style ”Scram!”

• Oboist’s accessory

• Euro predecessor

• Head swellers

• Indy family name

• Without a 42 Down

• Unsettling sightings

• Former South American capital

• White-tailed toon

• MSN or AOL

• AFL partner

• Key near Q

• Modern moody music

• Compass reading

• Squeaks by

• Largest Baltic States city

• Snappy

• Put a name to

• Insignificant

• One on Santa’s staff

• Incite

• Very funny folks

• Jack London captain

• In-groups

• TurboTax choice

• 1910s screen superstar

• Common scholarship donor

• Ready for reaping

• Spinning wheel stat.

• Roguish

• Bad spell

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• Incite

• Order to Spot

• Small

• Verdi piece

• Hollywood workers

• Brown songbird

• Ominously gloomy

• Pert talk

• Low joint

• Huck’s friend

• Studied intensely

• Historic stretch

• Young fellow

• Galena for one

• Engravers

• Tiny

• Albert and Victoria

• Cuts off

• One of Santa’s team

• Smell

• Full-price payers

• Weather map spots

• Do over

• Auto ding

• Comes in

• Relaxing place

• Coat rack part

• Salt Lake City player

• Saturn feature

• Director Preminger

• High home

• Like tears

• Locate

• Melody

• Shaggy ox

• Ranch workers

• Girder material

• Heart outlet

• Wrestling show

• Enticed

• Foils’ kin

• Consecrate

• Crew tool

• Noted newspaperman

• Blow one’s top

• Fast runner

• Genesis site

• Archaic

• Buck’s mate

• Director Spike

• Sticky stuff

• Ave. crossers

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• Writers

• Bearlike marsupial

• Super-impressed

• Numerical suffix for “about”

• Fast Northeast train

• Severe distress

• Greater

• Usually well-compensated leader

• Animated image of Santa repeatedly going down the chimney?

• Adorn

• Owie spot maybe

• Burdens

• Windshield sticker

• Cashew family shrubs

• Garage service

• Extract with a solvent

• Crew member

• Robert who sang the role of Figaro 46 times at the Met

• Fruity neckwear?

• Votes at a beer convention?

• Smaller

• Socially challenged one often

• Rural skyline standouts

• Hereditary

• Japanese pond fish

• Beach volleyball team

• Woman’s name that means “pleasure” in Hebrew

• Country sound

• Sam or Wiggily

• Cruller coating

• Words before a view

• Muffin grain

• First catch the fly then eat the fly?

• Indication of growing impatience?

• Valentine card hugs

• Popular school cafeteria item

• Immerse (in) as maple syrup

• Togo neighbor

• Sharpening tool

• Fare-well link

• Maker of Aspire laptops

• “Sorry lad”

• How Sitka Alaska ranks as the largest U.S. city

• Wedding party

• Trojan War god

• Small-time British crook

• Social newcomer who won’t go away?

• Basic banking rule?

• Plague

• USCG officer

• Courage

• __ even footing

• __ network

• Meaningless

• BP pulse etc.

• Causes of traffic jams … or ways to avoid them

• The “there” in “Don’t go there”

• Subjecting to a basic haunting strategy?

• Heart test letters

• Hunger remedy wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette

• Means

• Hard work

• Poor grade

• Is indebted to

• Principle

• Goes off

• Treaty

• Repetitive sound

• Emperor adopted by Claudius

• Buttonholes e.g.

• Ukulele wood

• MD workplaces

• Ship protected by Hera

• Cut of meat

• Really bad

• Tiny shape-shifters

• Goes downhill

• North end?

• Numb

• Rock at the bar?

• Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger

• Cop’s case-breaking tip perhaps

• Supposes

• Campaign nastiness

• Kitchen convenience

• Skin pigment

• Renter’s rental

• 1993 Aerosmith hit that begins “There was a time / When I was so broken-hearted”

• Tuscany city

• Recipe meas.

• Tenor’s moment

• Faith

• PC-to-PC system

• Future attys.’ exams

• Set as a price

• __ Cup

• Unexpected story ending

• Improve upon

• __-Nehemiah: Hebrew Bible book

• Coll. units

• Japanese tech company

• Sparkling rock

• Happen at the same time

• Fall behind

• Addis Ababa’s land: Abbr.

• Company named for a volcano

• Playwright Chekhov

• About on memos

• Weep

• “The Purloined Letter” writer

• Allow

• Reach

• Bee team

• Iridescent gems

• How some things are set

• Mortise joiner

• Dutch city with “The”

• Eve’s first home

• Civil War fighters

• Paul Anka’s “__ Beso”

• Mythical elephant carrier

• Inspiring acts?

• Counseled

• Lost Colony’s island

• Blow up

• Incite

• Sets a match to

• Plod

• White-plumed wader

• Painting on wet plaster

• Annoy constantly

• “Almost Like Being in Love” composer Frederick

• Happening right now

• Pet reindeer in “Frozen”

• Lyft competitor

• Lion’s warning

• They’re often smashed

• Friendly dog’s offering

• Like Bach’s French Suite No. 6

• Superfan

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• Venus to Serena

• Sad

• Padlocked fastener

• E.T.’s craft

• Slithery

• New York canal

• Sobriquet

• Karate level

• Poolroom prop

• Livid

• Fury

• Coal source

• Loathe

• “The — Papers” (Dickens novel)

• Bird (Pref.)

• Hay bundles

• — chi

• Fined for speeding e.g.

• Shopper’s aid

• Geese formations

• Selects from a group

• Everglades wader

• Delhi dress

• Hip

• Popular playground game

• Corridor

• Adhesive

• Born abroad?

• Rhyming tributes

• Hotel furniture

• Boston team for short

• Day light?

• “— Had a Hammer”

• Relating to Plato’s teacher

• Dugout seating

• Plumbing woe

• Einstein’s birthplace

• CBS logo

• Semitic language

• Region

• Sediment

• Seeger or Sampras

• Winslet of “Titanic”

• Pen fluids

• “Huh?’

• Sitarist Shankar

• Odometer reading

• On the rocks

• Cracker spread

• Natives of Rome

• Poet Sandburg

• Young foxes

• Borscht veggie

• Gushes with pride

• Street edge

• Bakery array

• Canyon sound

• Incite

• Actor’s quest

• Gulf War missile

• Old CIA foe

• — -de-France

• Zodiac cat

• Superman foe Luthor

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