| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Ecce homo’ speaker | PILATE |
| ‘Got anything __?’ | ELSE |
| ‘It’s just a scratch’ | IMFINE |
| ‘Life Is Good’ rapper | NAS |
| ‘Lives of the Mayfair Witches’ trilogy author | ANNERICE |
| ‘Nothing to it!’ | EASY |
| *Newbie | GREENRECRUIT |
| *Overly defensive stance | BUNKERMENTALITY |
| *Preliminary sketch | ROUGHOUTLINE |
| *Stud poker element | HOLECARD |
| *Top selection | TEESHIRT |
| 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Terrell | OWENS |
| Agonize about | STEWOVER |
| Amazon berry | ACAI |
| Assigns relative value to | RANKS |
| Astern | REARWARD |
| Back nine opener | TENTH |
| Be at loggerheads | CLASH |
| Big name in PCs | ACER |
| Bookish sort | NERD |
| Brawny rival | VIVA |
| Bring pleasure (to) | APPEAL |
| Canal zone | PANAMA |
| Cost | RANTO |
| Cowboy leggings | CHAPS |
| Cubs’ digs | DEN |
| Deal with | HANDLE |
| Deal with a bounced email | RESEND |
| Defies | FLOUTS |
| Degrees of creativity, briefly | BFAS |
| Dungeons & Dragons bird | ROC |
| Epidermal flaw | ZIT |
| Equip anew | RERIG |
| Farm girl | EWE |
| Final Yahtzee roll, e.g | LASTTURN |
| Fleur in heraldry | LYS |
| Heck of a party | BLAST |
| High on the Scoville scale | HOT |
| Horror film line that usually gets its speaker in trouble | ILLGOSEE |
| Hunt stealthily | PROWL |
| Indian noblewoman | RANI |
| Interoffice PC connection | LAN |
| Its practice doesn’t make it perfect | LAW |
| Kareem, once | LEW |
| Kind of band | ONEMAN |
| Less refined | CRUDER |
| Mayberry kid | OPIE |
| Mil. three-striper | SGT |
| Mine feature | TUNNEL |
| Not as messy | NEATER |
| Omaha-to-Milwaukee dir | ENE |
| PC key | ALT |
| Please mightily | ELATE |
| Put on quite an act | EMOTE |
| Quite small | WEE |
| Rodeos, e.g | ISUZUS |
| Roofing unit | TILE |
| Seminarian’s subj | REL |
| Source of lean red meat | EMU |
| Stun gun brand | TASER |
| Support for a stroller | CANE |
| Swedish tennis great | BORG |
| Thoroughfare: Abbr | AVE |
| Track calculation | ODDS |
| Utopia | EDEN |
| Vehicle that really moves? | VAN |
| Very long time | EONS |
| Video game figure | AVATAR |
| Vigorous spirit | ELAN |
| Wealthy | AFFLUENT |
| What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to | PAR |
| With conviction | FIRMLY |
| __ bran | OAT |
| __ culpa | MEA |
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