| Clues | Answers |
| ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ director DuVernay | AVA |
| ‘Biscuit’ introduced in 1912 | OREO |
| ‘Dad,’ to a rustic | PAW |
| ‘Feel the ___’ (Sanders slogan) | BERN |
| ‘Just sayin’,’ in texts | IMO |
| ‘Survivor’ teams | TRIBES |
| ‘The Censor’ of Rome | CATO |
| ‘Z,’ to a Brit | ZED |
| 1941 Orson Welles classic | CITIZENKANE |
| Applies sloppily | DAUBS |
| Arabian Peninsula sultanate | OMAN |
| Avian source of red meat | EMU |
| Beer hobbyist of sorts | HOMEBREWER |
| Bug to no end | ANNOY |
| Business school subj | ECON |
| Chi-Town exchange, with ‘the’ | MERC |
| College course unit | CREDIT |
| Conan of late-night TV | OBRIEN |
| Crimson Tide, familiarly | BAMA |
| Crosstown ride, perhaps | BUS |
| Forbidden fruit site | EDEN |
| Go-go dancer’s wear | MINISKIRT |
| Graduate’s debt, perhaps | STUDENTLOAN |
| Hardly well-known | OBSCURE |
| Home of twigs, perhaps | NEST |
| House flippers’ deals | RESALES |
| Hypothetical missing link | APEMAN |
| India’s first prime minister | NEHRU |
| Italian tire brand | PIRELLI |
| Key in | ENTER |
| Liederkranz cheese quality | ODOR |
| Lightbulb, in comics | IDEA |
| London or Manhattan area | SOHO |
| Make a typo, say | ERR |
| Mouth off | RANT |
| Nary a soul | NOONE |
| Nurse at a bar | SIP |
| Often-microwaved noodles | RAMEN |
| One in the clink | CON |
| Pack firmly, as tobacco | TAMP |
| Page with essays | OPED |
| Part of a Lionel set | CAR |
| PC introducer of 1981 | IBM |
| Periods ending in ‘-zoic’ | ERAS |
| Pine exudation | RESIN |
| Place for antes | POT |
| Ponte Vecchio’s river | ARNO |
| Powerful working dog, for short | ROTTIE |
| Predecessor and successor of 44-Across | LENO |
| Press for payment | DUN |
| Prog. for ‘Dreamers’ | DACA |
| Put on a flash drive, say | SAVE |
| Ran against | OPPOSED |
| Read the UPC of | SCAN |
| Respectful refusal | NOSIR |
| Seeker of handouts | MENDICANT |
| Sharp as a tack | ACUTE |
| Slaps the cuffs on | NABS |
| Smartphone image | ICON |
| Sometimes-uneaten pizza part | CRUST |
| Sounds from a bullpen | SNORTS |
| Stack-serving chain | IHOP |
| Suppress, as a story | SITON |
| Surname at Tara | OHARA |
| Take five | REST |
| Take from, as savings | DIPINTO |
| Terrier named for a Scottish isle | SKYE |
| Three-letter scale note | SOL |
| Ugly duckling, in time | SWAN |
| Underdog’s win | UPSET |
| USN noncom | CPO |
| Utter disaster | TRAINWRECK |
| Wedding party member | USHER |
| Where one lives (Abbr.) | RES |
| Wholly absorbed | RAPT |
| Wordplay from Groucho | PUN |
| ___ XING (street sign) | PED |
| ___ Ysidro, Calif | SAN |
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