| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Big Deal’ singer Rimes | LEANN |
| ‘Encore’ rapper | EMINEM |
| ‘Give this a shot’ | TRYIT |
| ‘Ho-hum’ | MEH |
| Jack Sprat could __ fat’ | EATNO |
| ‘Li’l Abner’ drawer | ALCAPP |
| ‘River’ New Age artist | ENYA |
| ‘That so?’ | OHYEAH |
| ‘The A-Team’ director Joe | CARNAHAN |
| __ Boot’ | DAS |
| __ Boys’ (Louisa May Alcott novel) | JOS |
| __ lizards!’ | LEAPIN |
| __ So Fine’ | HES |
| 1930s coalition between Italy and Germany | ROMEBERLINAXIS |
| 1987 Steven Spielberg war film | EMPIREOFTHESUN |
| 24-book epic | ILIAD |
| 30-day mo | SEPT |
| 30-day month | APRIL |
| Actor Len | CARIOU |
| Appended | ANNEXED |
| Arena arbiter | REF |
| Aussie jumper | ROO |
| Bar mixer | SODA |
| Big public protest | OUTCRY |
| Boxer Max | BAER |
| Brain wave test: Abbr | EEG |
| Brand of TVs | RCA |
| Briny bodies | OCEANS |
| Bristol beer | ALE |
| Bruins’ sch | UCLA |
| Cacklers with clutches | HENS |
| Called off the relationship | ENDEDIT |
| Coin money | SPECIE |
| Composer of the musical ‘Rent’ | JONATHANLARSON |
| Construction toy brand | KNEX |
| Dearies | HONEYS |
| Decide (to) | OPT |
| Delta deposit | SEDIMENT |
| Do some dickering in court | COPAPLEA |
| Drivers’ org | AAA |
| Enter like a butterfly | FLITIN |
| Even though | ALBEIT |
| Facts, briefly | INFO |
| Fantastic | AWESOME |
| Fast Amtrak choice | ACELA |
| Festive affair | GALAOCCASION |
| Fire: Prefix | PYRO |
| Foul vapor | MIASMA |
| Galoot | BIGAPE |
| General __ chicken | TSOS |
| Gratifying wry twist | DELICIOUSIRONY |
| Had a debt | OWED |
| Half of a 45 | SIDEB |
| Halliwell of pop music | GERI |
| Hangs on to | RETAINS |
| Has begun, as a TV show | ISON |
| Herb that tastes like anise | FENNEL |
| Hi-tech special FX | CGI |
| I, to Kant | ICH |
| IM chuckle | LOL |
| In the house | ATHOME |
| Industry of a merchant marine | SEATRADE |
| Inner self | SOUL |
| Invitation for radio call-ins | OPENLINE |
| It helps pay for roads and schools | STATETAX |
| Japanese noodles | RAMEN |
| Kitchen pest | ANT |
| Lathered up | SOAPY |
| Learning by memorizing | ROTE |
| Legless sideboard | CREDENZA |
| Less usual | RARER |
| Library stall | CARREL |
| Lie dormant | REST, SLEEP |
| Like gluttons | GREEDY |
| Long Island university | ADELPHI |
| Longtime name in restaurant guides | ZAGAT |
| Longtime Nissan | SENTRA |
| Mafioso Frank | NITTI |
| Magic charm | MOJO |
| Metric ‘thousand’ | MILLI |
| Mooch | CADGE |
| More bashful | COYER |
| Mosque turret | MINARET |
| Navy vessel inits | USS |
| Neophyte, in modern slang | NOOB |
| Net message board operator | SYSADMIN |
| No-frills | BASIC |
| Nose about | PRY |
| Not as fatty | LEANER |
| Not crowded | SPARSE |
| Not normal | ABERRANT |
| Nutrition std | RDA |
| Ontario tribe | CREE |
| Oyster find | PEARL |
| Pago Pago islander | SAMOAN |
| Perceive in error aurally | MISHEAR |
| Pitch-perfect? | NOHIT |
| Pixel, e.g | DOT |
| Play on a fife | TOOTLE |
| Put on one’s big-boy pants | MANUP |
| Racecar track near a Japanese mountain | FUJISPEEDWAY |
| Rash-causing plant | SUMAC |
| Reel partner | ROD |
| Rock’s Reed | LOU |
| Rub clean | ERASE |
| Rubble on ‘The Flintstones’ | BARNEY |
| Santa __ winds | ANA |
| Shiba __ (spitz breed) | INU |
| Short cut | SNIP |
| Skin colorer | MELANIN |
| Snare | ENTRAP |
| Specialists in stone | MASONS |
| Start to doze | NOD |
| Stripping off | PEELING |
| Suffix with Method | ISM, OLOGY |
| Tchr.’s union | NEA |
| Tearful | WEEPY |
| Things worth saving | KEEPERS |
| Time to wear a conical party hat, for short | BDAY |
| Tissue injury | LESION |
| Tolkien menace | ORC |
| Two halved | ONE |
| Univ. URL ender | EDU |
| Vancouver-to-Seattle dir | SSE |
| Venue | SITE |
| Verdi’s slave | AIDA |
| Vertex | ACME |
| Very cloying things | TREACLES |
| Villa d’__ | ESTE |
| VIP in D.C | SEN |
| What you do when you read the first words of 23-, 30-, 48-, 85-, 102- and 114-Across? | COMPAREAPPLESTOAPPLES |
| Whirlpool | EDDY |
| Yahoo! rival | AOL |
| __ avis | RARA |
| __ Harbor (Guam port) | APRA |
| __ Major (Great Bear) | URSA |
| __ Spumante (Italian wine) | ASTI |
| __ Vegas | LAS |
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