| Clues | Answers |
| ”A shame” | SOSAD |
| ”Beetle Bailey” bulldog | OTTO |
| ”Not exactly” | SORTA |
| ”One more time!” | AGAIN |
| ”Simpsons” shopkeeper | APU |
| ”World Factbook” publisher | CIA |
| ”__ culpa” | MEA |
| 12th-century English king | HENRYI |
| 900+ kilograms | TON |
| A Potter professor | SNAPE |
| A Rocky Mountain st | IDA |
| All the ones here | THESE |
| Ancient abductee | HELEN |
| Arrival’s announcement | IMHERE |
| Assent of a sort | AYE, YEP, YEA |
| Barely passing grade | DEE |
| Before it’s needed | EARLY |
| Benchmark: Abbr | STD |
| Body-building compound | AMINOACID |
| British guy running an elevator | LIFTMAN |
| Broadcast again | REAIR |
| Carry off | TAKE |
| Category of six of his seven Emmys | OUTSTANDINGMINISERIES |
| Celebratory verse | ODE |
| Census Bureau accumulation | STATS |
| City west of Tulsa | ENID |
| Clobber | SWAT |
| Close kin to Czech | SLOVAK |
| Cuisine with peanut sauce | THAI |
| Dad of a duckling | DRAKE |
| Degree of insight | DEPTH |
| Dinner party | SOIREE |
| Discussed but not proven | RUMORED |
| Draw forth | EDUCE |
| Draws for resorts | BEACHES |
| Eats like chickens | PECKS |
| Editor’s order | DELE |
| Eight-time fan-voted bestowals | PEOPLESCHOICEAWARDS |
| Environmental sci | ECOL |
| Evaded, with ”out of” | WEASELED |
| Except for | SAVE |
| Fall rapidly | PLUMMET |
| Farm cart | DRAY |
| FBI investigator | AGT |
| Feign feelings | EMOTE |
| Feral urban feline | ALLEYCAT |
| Former minors | ADULTS |
| French states | ETATS |
| From American Film Institute | LIFEACHIEVEMENTAWARD |
| Funds long-term | ENDOWS |
| GI uniforms | ODS |
| Global expanses | SEAS |
| Goes back over | REREADS |
| Golf ball indentation | DIMPLE |
| Grazing ground | MEADOW |
| Hair, essentially | STRANDS |
| Handled bag | TOTE |
| Help out | AID |
| Hems’ partners | HAWS |
| Hole-punching implement | AWL |
| Holler | CRY |
| Homeland Security org | TSA |
| Horse operas | OATERS |
| Howard who’s directed Hanks five times | RON |
| In Washington, DC | KENNEDYCENTERHONORS |
| Ingested | ATE |
| Intended (to) | AIMED |
| Jazz accompaniment | VAMP |
| Jones of locker fame | DAVY |
| Korean car | KIA |
| Kuwaiti ruler | EMIR |
| Last to be released | NEWEST |
| Lodge temporarily | STAYAT |
| Lowdown, slangily | SKINNY |
| Major in | STUDY |
| Mary Lincoln, __ Todd | NEE |
| Meditation sounds | OMS |
| Metal part of an envelope | CLASP |
| Mint activity | COINAGE |
| Mouthwash-endorsing org | ADA |
| Narrows to a point | TAPERS |
| Neighbor of Minn. and Mich | ONT |
| Netflix series scientist | NYE |
| Newborn’s clothing | LAYETTE |
| Nickname for Netanyahu | BIBI |
| NL Central team | STL |
| NL East team | ATL |
| Novelist Ferber | EDNA |
| Obfuscated | BECLOUDED |
| Oktoberfest souvenir | STEIN |
| Old floorboard sound | CREAK |
| Parakeet food | BIRDSEED |
| PBS supporter | NEA |
| Play up | STRESS |
| Portray | ARE |
| Prescription product | DRUG |
| Propeller sound | WHIR |
| Pullover, perhaps | SWEATER |
| Reply to ”Gracias” | DENADA |
| Rollaway bed | COT |
| Rolling, as topography | HILLY |
| Salad green | ENDIVE |
| Savannah-based chef | DEEN |
| Sequel title starter, sometimes | SONOF |
| Singing sounds | TRALALA |
| Sound boosters | AMPS |
| Sources for resin | PINES |
| Speaker system | INTERCOM |
| Spruce (up) | NEATEN |
| Strike down, in the Bible | SMITE |
| Sudden increase | SPURT |
| Supplemental purchases | ADDONS |
| Surgery sites: Abbr | ORS |
| Talked back to | SASSED |
| Texter’s comment intro | IMHO |
| Thanksgiving dinners | FEASTS |
| Three-note chords | TRIADS |
| Three-time ”Funniest” actor bestowals | AMERICANCOMEDYAWARDS |
| Toaster slot filler | SLICE |
| Tom managed her in ”A League of Their Own” | GEENA |
| Triangular formation | DELTA |
| Turned down | DENIED |
| Ultimate height | ACME |
| Umpire, for instance | ARBITER |
| Unseal, to Shakespeare | OPE |
| USCG rank | ENS |
| Verizon’s ISP | AOL |
| Voice of Apples | SIRI |
| Wash-and-wear | DRIPDRY |
| Wined and dined | WOOED |
| Wool coat owner | EWE |
| Youngest Olympian | EROS |
| __ de plume | NOM |
| __ facto | IPSO |
| __ Martin (007 auto) | ASTON |
| __-mo replay | SLO |
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