| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Cha-__!’: register sound | CHING |
| ‘Fighting’ Notre Dame team | IRISH |
| Absorb the lesson | LEARN |
| Afflicts | AILS |
| Aleut relative | INUIT |
| Applauds | CLAPS |
| Believability, for short | CRED |
| Best Buy ‘squad’ members | GEEKS |
| Biblical pronoun | THEE |
| Blessed with ESP | TELEPATHIC |
| Braying beast | ASS |
| Break in the action | LULL |
| Casual shirt | TEE |
| Cereal go-with | MILK |
| Claire of ‘Homeland’ | DANES |
| Cooled with cubes | ICED |
| Crook’s cover | ALIBI |
| Cuts (off) | LOPS |
| Dalai __ | LAMA |
| Delighted shout from the roller coaster | WHEE |
| Dr. of rap | DRE |
| Education division governed by a board | SCHOOLDISTRICT |
| Effort | TRY |
| Enjoyed the ocean | CRUISED |
| Enjoying the ocean | BOATING |
| Exclaimed | CRIED |
| Facts known to a select few … and a hint to each set of circled letters | INSIDESTORY |
| Faked, in hockey | DEKED |
| Falsehood | LIE |
| Film watcher’s channel | TMC |
| Forgetful moment | MENTALLAPSE |
| Freq. sitcom rating | TVPG |
| Frito-Lay corn snacks | CHEETOS |
| Funhouse reaction | EEK |
| Govt. agent | FED |
| Great enthusiasm | GUSTO |
| Hockey enclosure | RINK |
| House with brothers | FRAT |
| Humble dwelling | HUT |
| Indian lentil stew | DAL |
| Lake that’s a homophone of 59-Across | ERIE |
| Legal document | WRIT |
| Lightened, as hair | DYED |
| Like a funhouse | EERIE |
| Listening organ | EAR |
| Louvre Pyramid architect | IMPEI |
| NFL list of games, e.g | SCHED |
| Nietzsche’s ‘never’ | NIE |
| NYC’s Madison and Lexington | AVES |
| Observed closely | EYED |
| Ocean map dot | ISLE |
| One arguing for the unpopular side | DEVILSADVOCATE |
| Peer | EQUAL |
| Phone in a purse | CELL |
| Plane, to Pierre | AVION |
| Primary thoroughfare in many towns | MAINSTREET |
| Quacked insurance name | AFLAC |
| Received | GOT |
| Request | ASK |
| Rescheduled after being canceled, as a meeting | ONAGAIN |
| Revise, as text | EMEND |
| Right smack in the middle | DEADCENTER |
| Road divide | FORK |
| Rowing tools | OARS |
| Slimming surgery, for short | LIPO |
| Smooching in a crowded park and such, briefly | PDAS |
| Soft shoe | MOC |
| Sporty sunroofs | TTOPS |
| Summer hrs. in Oregon | PDT |
| Tempo similar to lento | LARGO |
| Threat from a fault | EARTHQUAKE |
| TiVo products | DVRS |
| Wafer named for its flavor | NILLA |
| William __, early bathysphere user | BEEBE |
| Windy City rail initials | CTA |
| Yves’ yes | OUI |
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