| Clues | Answers |
| “Beetle Bailey” canine | OTTO |
| “It’s the ___ I can do” | LEAST |
| “___ missing something?” | AMI |
| Accident | MISHAP |
| Activity center | LOCUS |
| Actress Downey | ROMA |
| African slitherer | ASP |
| Astronomer’s sighting | NOVA |
| Bad day for Caesar | IDES |
| Bank in Israel | WEST |
| Barely beats | EDGES |
| Bread to stuff | PITA |
| Center court nothing | LOVE |
| Chew persistently? | GNAW |
| College fire insurance? | TENURE |
| Cotton variety | PIMA |
| Coulter or Curry | ANN |
| Cut it out | STOP |
| Decay | ROT |
| Disturb, as the balance | TIP |
| Don Juan’s rescuee | LEILA |
| Early Sunday events, for many | MORNINGSERVICES |
| Empty-headed | INANE |
| First radio code words | ALFAS |
| Flower part | PETAL |
| Foot part | SOLE |
| Geek | NERD |
| Get up | ARISE |
| Hand drier? | TOWEL |
| Ho ___ Minh | CHI |
| It may be bulletproof | VEST |
| Jacob’s womb mate | ESAU |
| Knot type | GRANNY |
| Letter opener? | DEAREST |
| Like a befuddled captain? | ASEA |
| Little bits | IOTAS |
| Make slow progress | PLOD |
| Map initials no more | USSR |
| Measures of loudness | SONES |
| Monster relative | OGRE |
| Mrs. Garrett portrayer | RAE |
| Night before | EVE |
| Note-passer’s sound | PSST |
| Official emissary | LEGATE |
| Open-handed blow | SLAP |
| Opera performance | ARIA |
| Part of us | YOU |
| Permission for a search | WARRANT |
| Piano variety | SPINET |
| Picky start to pick? | NIT |
| Plot of some horror films | NIGHTINTHEWOODS |
| Poem form | ODE |
| Prairie wagon | CONESTOGA |
| Quisling’s place | OSLO |
| Raves angrily | RAGES |
| Relative of 31-Down | ENOS |
| Romantically lit | AGLOW |
| Russell of Hollywood | KURT |
| Self-evident statements | TRUISMS |
| Separate | APART |
| Shakespearean king | LEAR |
| Shout over a dirty plate | SAFE |
| Sit for a shoot | POSE |
| Soldier’s helmet, slangy | TINHAT |
| Sport on horseback | POLO |
| Storm warning | ALERT |
| Suffix with “velvet” | EEN |
| Take five or ten | REST |
| The late, great Aretha’s music | SOUL |
| Tilling tools | HOES |
| Tuskegee, for one (Abbr.) | INST |
| Wait in the shadows | LURK |
| Waterproofed canvas | TARPAULIN |
| Wee barks | YIPS |
| Worker’s anticipatory time | FRIDAYAFTERNOON |
| Writers of poetry | VERSERS |
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