| Clues | Answers |
| ”All kidding __ . . .” | ASIDE |
| ”Famous Potatoes” state | IDAHO |
| ”Hey you!” | PSST |
| ”I’ve got it!” | EUREKA |
| ”To make a __ story short . . .” | LONG |
| Antlered animals | ELKS |
| Archer on Valentine’s cards | CUPID |
| As of now | YET |
| Astonishes | AWES |
| Bee’s attack | STING |
| Big name in elevators | OTIS |
| Camper’s shelter | TENT |
| Cash alternative | CREDIT |
| Casual greeting | OHHI |
| Coffee cup cover | LID |
| Cozy corner | NOOK |
| Custodial staff | JANITORS |
| Dime’s value | TENCENTS |
| Distrustful | CYNICAL |
| Dwelling place | ABODE |
| Enthusiastic about | INTO |
| Erie and Huron | LAKES |
| Eve’s garden | EDEN |
| Experimental working model | PROTOTYPE |
| Female choir voice | ALTO |
| Find fault | CARP |
| Fishing rod | POLE |
| Fit for a monarch | REGAL |
| Folk-rock singer Bob | DYLAN |
| Forbidden | PROHIBITED |
| Freeloaders | MOOCHERS |
| French cap | BERET |
| Ft. Wayne’s state | IND |
| Gardener’s small shovel | TROWEL |
| Go on tiptoe | SNEAK |
| Had a hunch | FELT |
| Home for hatchlings | NEST |
| Hosp. test scan | MRI |
| Hotel at a snowy resort | SKILODGE |
| In real time | LIVE |
| Itsy-bitsy | TEENY |
| Leave out | OMIT |
| Low in fat | LEAN |
| Lyft’s ride-sharing rival | UBER |
| Make amends | ATONE |
| Mexican cheer | OLE |
| Mint __ (bourbon drink) | JULEP |
| Noon to 1 pm, for example | HOUR |
| Not at any time | NEVER |
| Novelist __ Mae Brown | RITA |
| Obtained | GOT |
| Oil cartel | OPEC |
| Over with | DONE |
| Payroll IDs | SSNS |
| Peculiar | ODD |
| Pigpen | STY |
| Playful prank | ANTIC |
| Plopped down | SAT |
| Positioned | SITED |
| River mouth formation | DELTA |
| Roll call response | HERE |
| Sample of food | TASTE |
| Samson’s barber | DELILAH |
| Sassy | PERT |
| Scene of a event | LOCALE |
| Scrapes by, with ”out” | EKES |
| Second notes of a scale | RES |
| Secondhand | USED |
| Sense of right and wrong | CONSCIENCE |
| Shower attention (on) | DOTE |
| Small jeweled crown | TIARA |
| Sure of oneself | CONFIDENT |
| Take a crack __ (try) | ATIT |
| Upper limb | ARM |
| Verse writers | POETS |
| Walking stick | CANE |
| __ stick (bouncing toy) | POGO |
| __-and-dagger (secretive) | CLOAK |
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