| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Bang and Blame’ band | REM |
| ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ singer Campbell | GLEN |
| ‘Roots’ family surname | KINTE |
| ‘Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ narrator Burl | IVES |
| ‘Spring forward’ clock abbr | DST |
| ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ hero | REY |
| ‘That’s funny’ | LOL |
| ‘The Bathers’ artist Pierre-Auguste | RENOIR |
| ‘The King ___’ | ANDI |
| ‘___ of One’s Own’ (Virginia Woolf work) | AROOM |
| ‘___ Will Be Loved’ (possible song at the next Super Bowl halftime show) | SHE |
| ‘___ You Glad You’re You?’ | ARENT |
| ‘___, c’est moi!’ (Louis XIV claim) | LETAT |
| 1994 campus comedy with a cameo by George Clinton | PCU |
| Actor Lew of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ | AYRES |
| Actress Vardalos | NIA |
| Actress Witherspoon | REESE |
| Addition to the dictionary | NEOLOGISM |
| Adds seasoning to | SALTS |
| Air quality index issue | SMOG |
| All finished | EATEN |
| At the back of the boat | AFT |
| Ballet outfits | TUTUS |
| Bela Fleck’s instrument | BANJO |
| Brewery founder Adolphus | BUSCH |
| Bright blue shade | AZURE |
| Bring joy to | ELATE |
| Buca di ___ (Italian restaurant chain) | BEPPO |
| Buddy’s ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ role | JED |
| Capone’s nemesis | NESS |
| City with the world’s tallest man-made structure | DUBAI |
| Clinger on a hiker’s sock | BUR |
| Confront | STANDUPTO |
| Country home | ESTATE |
| Courteous fellow | GENT |
| Dental crown alternative | ONLAY |
| Dispatched, Biblical-style | SMOTE |
| Distress signal | SOS |
| Dizzy | AREEL |
| Egypt’s org. from 1961 to 1971 | UAR |
| Epitome of slowness | SNAIL |
| Gather wool from | SHEAR |
| Groceries holder | PAPERBAG |
| Group within a group | SECT |
| Highland Games wear | TAM |
| In progress | UNDERWAY |
| Jon of ‘Two and a Half Men’ | CRYER |
| Keep away from | EVADE |
| Laborious way to open an envelope | STEAM |
| Latin for ‘where’ (or prefix for ‘soft’ in a video game publisher name) | UBI |
| Law professor Hill | ANITA |
| Long swimmers | EELS |
| Macbeth’s burial isle | IONA |
| Makes a decision | OPTS |
| Microsoft MP3 player discontinued in 2012 | ZUNE |
| Monk’s condition | OCD |
| Moves on | GOES |
| Natural furniture that’s only good for serving stew, thanks to some spoons? | WOODENSOUPTABLE |
| Neighbor of Wyo | SDAK |
| Nervous twitch | TIC |
| Noel Fielding’s character on ‘The IT Crowd,’ e.g | GOTH |
| Off-base designation | AWOL |
| Open, as a toothpaste tube | UNCAP |
| Overlook | MISS |
| Pass, as a law | ENACT |
| Push forward | IMPEL |
| Quick Internet message, back at the beginning of the Internet | ENOTE |
| Radiohead’s ‘Fake Plastic ___’ | TREES |
| Rook’s cousin | CROW |
| Scolds, with ‘out’ | BAWLS |
| Some baseball stats | RBIS |
| Some World Cup cheers | OLES |
| Starting note for an underwater orchestra, thanks to some forks? | FISHTUNINGPITCH |
| They rarely give ones | ATMS |
| Tikkanen who won the Stanley Cup five times | ESA |
| Without missing ___ | ABEAT |
| World’s smallest island nation | NAURU |
| Writing implement that’s realer than margarine, thanks to some knives? | YELLOWBUTTERPEN |
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