| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Chin up!’ | DONTBESAD |
| ‘Don’t leave’ | STAY |
| ‘Don’t think so’ | NAH |
| ‘Gangnam Style’ musician | PSY |
| ‘I’m game!’ | LETS |
| ‘Thus with a kiss I die’ speaker | ROMEOMONTAGUE |
| ‘Until next time’ | ADIOS |
| ‘__ you alone?’ | ARE |
| Add to the staff | HIRE |
| Amazon Echo’s voice assistant | ALEXA |
| Baked pasta dish | RIGATONIPIE |
| Bench press beneficiary | TRICEPS |
| Big beverage server | URN |
| Biting desert lizards | GILAS |
| Bread or butter | STAPLE |
| Broadcaster | AIRER |
| Buddhist temple bell | GONG |
| Builder’s guideline, briefly | SPEC |
| Business abbr | INC |
| Business losses, figuratively | REDINK |
| C.S. Lewis’ fantasy world | NARNIA |
| Caribou cousin | ELK |
| Church official | PARISHCLERK |
| Cleveland’s lake | ERIE |
| Difficult journey | TREK |
| Dollars for quarters | RENT |
| Fabric flaw | RIP |
| Fantasy meanie | OGRE |
| Festival in the month of Adar | PURIM |
| Firepit detritus | ASH |
| Flood-anticipation precaution, briefly | EVAC |
| Folklore lumberjack Bunyan | PAUL |
| Fox of ‘Transformers’ | MEGAN |
| Gambling city on the Truckee | RENO |
| Ginger or ginseng | ROOT |
| Golden Delicious, e.g | APPLE |
| Harlem Renaissance writer Locke | ALAIN |
| Held on to | KEPT |
| Hindu philosophy | TANTRA |
| Hit the bell | RANG |
| Holed up | HIDOUT |
| Hosp. recovery area | POSTOP |
| Jedi master with pointy ears | YODA |
| Little lamb’s mom | EWE |
| Nanny __ | GOAT |
| Nissan sedan | SENTRA |
| Not so well-done | RARER |
| Only state with a non-rectangular flag | OHIO |
| Oxen connectors | YOKES |
| Plane engine housing | POD |
| Precise | EXACT |
| Prepared | SET |
| Previously | AGO |
| Ring exchange place | ALTAR |
| Salade niçoise morsel | OLIVE |
| See 37-Across | CAPITAL |
| Signals for firefighters | ALARMS |
| Simon who co-wrote and co-starred in ‘Shaun of the Dead’ | PEGG |
| Singer Mann | AIMEE |
| Sport for equestrians | POLO |
| Stick for a walk | CANE |
| Sun worshiper’s mark | TANLINE |
| Three-dimensional | SOLID |
| Thus far | YET |
| Tolkien monster | ORC |
| Touch lightly | TAP |
| Travel plan | ITINERARY |
| Twaddle | ROT |
| Vermont senator since 2007 | BERNIESANDERS |
| Was nearly empty | RANLOW |
| White House’s 132: Abbr | RMS |
| With 39-Across, seed money … or what 18-, 24-, 48- and 58-Across each has | STARTUP |
| Word from a poser | CHEESE |
| Youthful fellow | LAD |
| __ park | THEME |
| __-Rooter | ROTO |
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