| Clues | Answers |
| ”. . . __ iron bars a cage” | NOR |
| ”Casablanca” woman | ILSA |
| ”Conan” airer | TBS |
| ”To __ own self be true” | THINE |
| ”Who’s on First?” straight man | ABBOTT |
| 747 rival | TRISTAR |
| A word with you | ARE |
| Actress Zellweger | RENEE |
| After-school event sponsor | PTA |
| Allow to observe | LETSEE |
| Alludes to | CITES |
| Amp-jack label | MIC |
| Angry state | IRE |
| Arabian sultanate | OMAN |
| Arizona river | GILA |
| As long as | WHILE |
| B-school statistical subject | ECONOMETRICS |
| Basket for bass | CREEL |
| Bear flowers | BLOOM |
| Between extremes | INTERMEDIATE |
| Big name in cognac | HENNESSY |
| Bit of dust | MOTE |
| Blows off steam | RANTS |
| Bottom-of-barrel | WORST |
| Campus quarters | DORMS |
| Capone, through much of the ’30s | INMATE |
| Casting director’s type | INGENUE |
| Caused to clam up | SILENCED |
| Celebrated period | ERA |
| Charitable recipient | DONEE |
| Charlie Brown outburst | RATS |
| Chem lab colorant | LITMUS |
| Chimed | RANG |
| Come up | ARISE |
| Completely opposite | POLAR |
| Convenient feature | AMENITY |
| Cry of success | TADA |
| Defeats | UPENDS |
| Dental image | XRAY |
| Descends slowly | SINKS |
| Designer Cassini | OLEG |
| Desktop art | ICON |
| Desktop option | MAC |
| Discussion venue | FORUM |
| Don’t really try | COAST |
| Dozen in a box | JURY |
| Drama teacher’s deg., often | MFA |
| Evening bash | SOIREE |
| Evergreen herb | SAGE |
| Eye-color determinant | GENE |
| Face-down | PRONE |
| False account | LIE |
| Family nickname | DAD |
| FDR successor | HST |
| First family’s home | EDEN |
| Follow aggressively | DOG |
| Forestation limit | TREELINE |
| Freedom from self-centeredness | MODESTY |
| Freeloader | LEECH |
| French farewell | ADIEU |
| Friends of the family, often | PETS |
| Garden adornment | GNOME |
| Gives advice to | COUNSELS |
| Govt. intel group | NSA |
| GPS lines | RDS |
| Gross fraction | DOZEN |
| Had in mind | MEANT |
| Hair preparation | RINSE |
| Hang out to dry, say | AIR |
| Helpful contacts | INS |
| How saints are often painted | HALOED |
| III, in modern Rome | TRE |
| Incentivizes | SPURS |
| Indistinct sound | MURMUR |
| Influences, as one’s opinion | COLORS |
| Insert, as text | PASTE |
| It inspired the Frisbee | PIEPAN |
| It wears on a tire | TREAD |
| Jockey’s concern | PACE |
| Joining of giants | MEGAMERGER |
| Leak slowly | SEEP |
| Less congenial | ICIER |
| Letter-closing word | YOURS |
| Makes a blunder | ERRS |
| Many Manets | OILS |
| Mixed with extraneous matter | IMPURE |
| Most clearly embarrassed | REDDEST |
| Moves a little | BUDGES |
| Mr. Peanut accessory | CANE |
| Musical postscript | CODA |
| Noble mounts | STEEDS |
| Not so forthright | SLIER |
| Omen | SIGN |
| On hand | HERE |
| One of Canada’s First Nations | CREE |
| One on the move | GOER |
| One with a Visa, say | CARDMEMBER |
| Ones close-by | THESE |
| Opinion piece | ESSAY |
| Opposite sides | FOES |
| Outfits for attorneys | FIRMS |
| Paris-born philosopher | SARTRE |
| PlayStation alternative | XBOX |
| Poetic contraction | EER |
| Presented evidence for | DOCUMENTED |
| Quarterback setback | SACK |
| Rapper seen on ”Law & Order: SVU” | ICET |
| Rather close | SIMILAR |
| Reciprocal | MUTUAL |
| Refinable minerals | ORES |
| Reflector in some telescopes | PRISM |
| Run-down | SEEDY |
| Sauté and simmer | BRAISE |
| Small cut | SNIP |
| Some track stars | MILERS |
| Sorority letter | ETA |
| Sort of steak | TBONE |
| South African Peace Nobelist | TUTU |
| Started a hole | TEED |
| Stiffly formal | PRIM |
| Supposed source of Solomon’s wealth | MINES |
| Tending to moralize | JUDGMENTAL |
| Thorny plant | BRIER |
| Titles differently | RENAMES |
| To some degree, slangily | SORTA |
| Tract fraction, perhaps | ACRE |
| Turn sugar brown | CARAMELIZE |
| Two-legged support | BIPOD |
| Unabridged | ENTIRE |
| Uncluttered | NEAT |
| Under siege | BESET |
| Up on a globe | NORTH |
| Valhalla VIP | ODIN |
| Via, for short | THRU |
| Vocally scratchy | HOARSE |
| W. Florida city | STPETE |
| Wagon wheel connector | AXLE |
| What a dessert tray is meant to be | TEMPTER |
| What oxygen lacks | ODOR |
| White wader | EGRET |
| Whole slew | SCAD |
| Wipe off | ERASE |
| With a flickery glow | SHIMMERING |
| __ about (circa) | ONOR |
| __ later date | ATA |
| __ with faint praise | DAMNS |
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