| Clues | Answers |
| ”Life” lesson | HACK |
| ”Miss” metaphor | BUS |
| ”Preposterous!” | WHATANIDEA |
| A buck of a sort | HART |
| Address an empty feeling | NOSH |
| Artie __ (Disney ”Gummi Bears” toucan) | DECO |
| Attach, as a motorcycle visor | SNAPON |
| Be of two minds | DITHER |
| Best alternative | REGARDS |
| Bright highlighter | LASERPEN |
| Cabinet nickname | PETE |
| Call unexpectedly | POPIN |
| Coin | INVENT |
| Coldly impersonal | ANTISEPTIC |
| Contracts studier, for short | ONEL |
| Deeply respectful | PIOUS |
| Dirt spreaders | YENTAS |
| Document placeholder | NMI |
| Drained | DRY |
| Ecclesiastic sounding like an appliance | FRIAR |
| Enthused about, with ”in” | SWEPTUP |
| Feels discontented | FRETS |
| Flying fruit-eaters | BATS |
| Forensic evidence collector | SWAB |
| Free from | SANS |
| Get snarled | MAT |
| Go on a run | SKI |
| Hardly fair | RAINY |
| Is in no hurry to decide | DALLIES |
| Keep occupied for a while | RENT |
| Key crossing of WWII | RHINE |
| Lab work, briefly | SCI |
| Lone Ranger ring request enclosure | BOXTOP |
| Many a railroad relic, today | RETRODINER |
| Milk source | OATS |
| More, for less? | XTRA |
| Mull over | THINKON |
| Object of aversion | TOAD |
| One may be touring | CAR |
| Owner of three Southern nuclear power plants | TVA |
| Paper from the Latin for ”woven” | TISSUE |
| Patron of the Argonauts | HERA |
| Picnic __ | AREA |
| Predators of the lizards of Oz | ROOS |
| Producer of a ”Don’t Hang On, Hang Up!” video | FCC |
| Rise | ASCENDANCE |
| Rise preventers | SHIRTSTAYS |
| Scorecard stats | PARS |
| Scraped (out) with great effort | EKED |
| Seasonal Arctic visitor | TERN |
| Single out | CITE |
| Special order for Qatar Airways (!) | KOSHERMEAL |
| State issuances | IDS |
| Steel __ | TRAP |
| Stumblebums | PALOOKAS |
| Thrift shop staples | LPS |
| Time and place | SETTING |
| Update alerts | PINGS |
| Viticultural refuse | LEES |
| Was stopped | STOODSTILL |
| Welding byproduct | SLAG |
| Whaler-turned-retailer | MACY |
| What ibuprofen went in the ’80s | OTC |
| What Indy Jones got from the Sorbonne | PHD |
| Where posers are often presented | ARTCLASSES |
| Where to see columns on the house | FREENEWSPAPER |
| Where you meet we? | ROYALAUDIENCE |
| Word on a birth ”anuncio” | NENA |
| Zoologist’s mouths | ORA |
| __ Crozet (Indian Ocean archipelago) | ILES |
| __ stick (paint store freebie) | STIR |
| __-hike (end-to-end trek) | THRU |