| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Aw, phooey!’ | DARN |
| ‘I do’ sayer | BRIDE |
| ‘Iron Man’ star Robert ___ Jr | DOWNEY |
| ‘The Lord of the Rings’ hero | FRODO |
| ( or ), for short | PAREN |
| Apollo Theater neighborhood | HARLEM |
| Be worthy of | EARN |
| Big Apple cultural ctr | MOMA |
| Bird on a Canadian dollar | LOON |
| BMW competitor | AUDI |
| Button word | PUSH |
| Canyon perimeter | RIM |
| Captains’ posts | HELMS |
| Chew like a chipmunk | GNAW |
| Chipped away at | ERODED |
| Come down in buckets | POUR |
| Compete like Jesse Ventura did | WRESTLE |
| DACA beneficiary | DREAMER |
| Declines, as support | FALLSOFF |
| Deep female voice | ALTO |
| Did a jockey’s job | RODE |
| Dragon’s home | LAIR |
| Eggs in sushi rolls | ROE |
| Electric eye, e.g | SENSOR |
| Envelope feature | FLAP |
| Fez and fedora | HATS |
| First Hebrew letter | ALEPH |
| First word of ‘Jabberwocky’ | TWAS |
| Full of excitement | AGOG |
| Higher in rank than | ABOVE |
| Hometown to college football’s Black Bears | ORONOMAINE |
| Hurling or curling | SPORT |
| Icky stuff | GOO |
| Insults online | FLAMES |
| Jack who shunned fat | SPRAT |
| Jimi Hendrix hairdo | AFRO |
| Johanna Spyri heroine | HEIDI |
| Like a clarinet’s sound | REEDY |
| Like loose-leaf paper, usually | LINED |
| Lowly laborer | PEON |
| Luxuriant locks | FLOWINGMANE |
| Made the scene | CAME |
| Manicurist’s abrasive | EMERY |
| Meaty Chinese noodle dish | PORKLOMEIN |
| Mia in the Soccer Hall of Fame | HAMM |
| Nits, in time | LICE |
| Partners’ pronoun | OURS |
| Pigskin prop | TEE |
| Pindaric work | ODE |
| Pool table fabric | FELT |
| Poor, as attempts go | FEEBLE |
| Prefix with normal or legal | PARA |
| Pub potation | ALE |
| Put down, in a way | ABASE |
| Respond on ‘Jeopardy!’ | ASK |
| Revered tribesman | ELDER |
| Shamu, e.g | ORCA |
| Side with a burger | SLAW |
| Spanish bar snacks | TAPAS |
| Sparkling wine, informally | ASTI |
| Stage, as a Civil War battle | REENACT |
| Standing-room-only show | SELLOUT |
| Sugar unit | LUMP |
| Sumter or McHenry | FORT |
| Sunscreen additive | ALOE |
| Take a beating | LOSE |
| Texter’s ‘didn’t need to know that’ | TMI |
| Time of anticipation | EVE |
| Trans title character in a Kinks song | LOLA |
| TV-dinner holder | TRAY |
| Unattributed, in Bartlett’s (Abbr.) | ANON |
| Upfront payment | ANTE |
| Victor Borge and Niels Bohr, for two | DANES |
| Watergate evidence | TAPES |
| West coast zoo city | SANDIEGO |
| Where Caribbean pirates plundered | SPANISHMAIN |
| Wine and dine | FETE |
| ___ mater | ALMA |
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