| Clues | Answers |
| “Carmen” solo | ARIA |
| “Diamonds” singer | SIA |
| “Excuse me …” | AHEM |
| “Going There” author Katie | COURIC |
| 100 percent | ALL |
| Actor Holbrook | HAL |
| Afternoon show | MATINEE |
| Balloon filler | AIR |
| Biblical peak | MTSINAI |
| Bigwigs | NABOBS |
| Black gold | OIL |
| Blend | MELD |
| Bottom line | SUM |
| Buckeyes’ sch | OSU |
| Cacophony | DIN |
| California wine, for short | ZIN |
| Catches some rays | TANS |
| Crib | BIN |
| Crowing winners | GLOATERS |
| CXII, halved | LVI |
| Declare | AVER |
| Diarist Anaïs | NIN |
| Director Welles | ORSON |
| Equip | RIG |
| Film buff’s website | IMDB |
| Folksinger Guthrie | ARLO |
| French river | OISE |
| French salt | SEL |
| Grapples, slangily | RASSLES |
| Hankering | YEN |
| He loved Lucy | DESI |
| Honolulu’s isle | OAHU |
| Impudent | PERT |
| In a dismal way | GLOOMILY |
| Joplin piece | RAG |
| La __, Bolivia | PAZ |
| Lewd material | SMUT |
| Like an attic, maybe | DUSTY |
| Liquid lumps | GLOBULES |
| Long-eared hound | BASSET |
| Low digits | TOES |
| Mafia boss | CAPO |
| Model’s portfolio photos | GLOSSIES |
| Night before | EVE |
| On the up and up | LEGIT |
| Panache | ELAN |
| Pen tip | NIB |
| Pisa farewell | CIAO |
| Prematurely | TOOSOON |
| Pro vote | YEA |
| Sailor’s saint | ELMO |
| Scoundrel | CAD |
| Sheltered | ALEE |
| Show ennui | YAWN |
| Shredded cabbage dish | SLAW |
| Slender | SLIM |
| St. crosser | AVE |
| Sudan neighbor | CHAD |
| Suggestive | RACY |
| Sultry Horne | LENA |
| Tabby temptation | CATNIP |
| Toy bricks | LEGOS |
| Train alternative | BUS |
| Under the weather | ILL |
| Verse by Pablo Neruda | ODE |
| Zilch | NIL |