| Clues | Answers |
| “Aww!” | CUTE |
| “Slippery” tree | ELM |
| “Was __ hard on you?” | ITOO |
| “__ be fine”: “No prob” | ITLL |
| 1860s White House nickname | ABE |
| 1971 New York prison riot site | ATTICA |
| Adidas rival | PUMA |
| American flag feature | STRIPE |
| At hand | NEAR |
| Attended, with “to” | WENT |
| Avant-garde | EDGY |
| Big mouths | MAWS |
| Bizet opera priestess | LEILA |
| Blue expanse, on a clear day | SKY |
| Bring to light | EXPOSE |
| Buddhist school | ZEN |
| Caused some nose-pinching | STUNK |
| Commercial writers | ADMEN |
| Cost of a car, in most family budgets | MAJOREXPENSE |
| Court order to testify | SUBPOENA |
| Daycation destination | SPA |
| Distance between bases, in feet | NINETY |
| Do nothing | LAZE |
| Edmund Hillary’s conquest | MOUNTEVEREST |
| Emulate Degas | PAINT |
| Evaluate, as metal | ASSAY |
| Farm sound | MOO |
| Fermented quaff | ALE |
| Gardener’s bane | WEED |
| Get up | RISE |
| Go to bed | RETIRE |
| Help rob the bank | ABET |
| Hit’s opposite | MISS |
| Home of the NBA’s Jazz | UTAH |
| Island setting for Melville’s “Omoo” | TAHITI |
| Jazzman Blake | EUBIE |
| Large-scale departure | MASSEXODUS |
| Les __-Unis | ETATS |
| Linguine seafood sauce morsel | CLAM |
| Loch Ness local | SCOT |
| Mindless memorization | ROTE |
| Motown’s Marvin | GAYE |
| Neighbor of Yemen | OMAN |
| Nest egg acronym | IRA |
| Not virtual | REAL |
| Old flames | EXES |
| One on your side | ALLY |
| Pilot | AVIATOR |
| Potato chips source | SPUD |
| Produced | MADE |
| Quick taste | SIP |
| Receipt detail | ITEM |
| Reduce in brightness | DIM |
| Region including Egypt, Israel, etc | MIDDLEEAST |
| Removing from the text | DELETING |
| Restricted in number, as an edition | LIMITED |
| Rick’s “Casablanca” love | ILSA |
| Robert of “Dirty Grandpa” | DENIRO |
| Rotund | PORTLY |
| Sad verse | ELEGY |
| Singer Amos | TORI |
| Slugger’s stat | RBI |
| Spell-checker discovery | TYPO |
| Spring bloom | IRIS |
| Stows cargo | LADES |
| Take for granted | ASSUME |
| Take ten | REST |
| Taunt from the bleachers | JEER |
| The “Y” in “YTD” | YEAR |
| Thought | IDEA |
| Traditional black piano key wood | EBONY |
| Traffic light color | YELLOW |
| Tribal leader | ELDER |
| TV award, and a homophonic hint to the four longest puzzle answers | EMMY |
| Wordsworth works | ODES |
| __ a one | NARY |
| __ bean | LIMA |
| __ pressure | PEER |
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