| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Ben-Hur’ novelist Wallace | LEW |
| ‘For rent,’ in other, shorter words | TOLET |
| ‘Melrose Place’ actor Rob | ESTES |
| ‘Yeah, pretty unlikely’ | ITSASTRETCH |
| 1920s mobster who mainly worked in bootlegging and numbers rackets | DUTCHSCHULTZ |
| 1994 movie mainly set on a bus | SPEED |
| Actress Whitman of ‘Parenthood’ | MAE |
| All excited | AGOG |
| Antiquing material | AGER |
| Aries symbol | RAM |
| Beetle variety | STAG |
| Bill of Rights count | TEN |
| Blood-sucking African fly | TSETSE |
| Boil down | DECOCT |
| Bull, in Bilbao | TORO |
| Casino delicacy? | CLAM |
| Cocoa amts | TSPS |
| Did some community theater, say | ACTED |
| Doctor’s directive | SAYAH |
| Does 2 Chainz’s job | RAPS |
| Dog, unkindly | CUR |
| Element #42 (which for some reason isn’t in as many puzzles as, say, 19-Across) | MOLYBDENUM |
| Element #50 | TIN |
| Fall Out Boy bassist Pete | WENTZ |
| Fierce look | GLARE |
| Find a way to make things happen | PULLSOMESTRINGS |
| Freebie at a Mexican restaurant | AGUA |
| Full pairing? | ELLS |
| Gatekeeping org.? | TSA |
| German submarine | UBOAT |
| Gone wrong? | AWOL |
| Grain-storage building | SILO |
| Hosiery shade | ECRU |
| In any way | HOWEVER |
| Industrial city of the Ruhr Valley | ESSEN |
| Ireland, in Ireland | EIRE |
| Its state song is the creatively titled ‘The Song of [that state]’ | IOWA |
| Japanese general of WWII | TOJO |
| Jay Presson Allen play about Capote | TRU |
| Kiddos | LITTLEONES |
| Kit piece | DRUM |
| Like Boban Marjanovic | TALL |
| Like new vacuum bags | EMPTY |
| Like, making your mind blown | DEEP |
| Michelle’s predecessor | LAURA |
| Musical ligature | SLUR |
| Obnoxious kid | BRAT |
| Permanent marker brand | SHARPIE |
| Played in Las Vegas | GAMED |
| Playwright T.S | ELIOT |
| Potato often used for fries | RUSSET |
| Prepare flour for baking | SIFT |
| Sault ___ Marie, Mich | STE |
| Shepherd’s pie tidbit | PEA |
| Small batteries | AAS |
| Some NCAA players | SRS |
| Spot in la mer | ILE |
| Start to awaken | STIR |
| Starting at the beginning | FROMSCRATCH |
| Tater ___ | TOT |
| Thanksgiving dinner item | YAM |
| The O. Henry ___-Off | PUN |
| The other side | THEM |
| Throws, as dice | CASTS |
| Ticket remainder | STUB |
| Tie type | BOLO |
| Topple | UPSET |
| Trajectory influenced by gravity | ARC |
| Traveling through | VIA |
| Voicemail sound | TONE |
| Want ad palindrome | EOE |
| What the ‘J’ in TMJ doesn’t stand for | JAW |
| Will’s concern | ESTATE |
| With ‘The,’ fantasy video game series including ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Skyrim’ | ELDERSCROLLS |
| Without being asked | UNBID |
| Words after ‘on’ or ‘by’ | THEHOUR |
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