| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Unleaded,’ as coffee goes | DECAF |
| ‘___ on a true story’ | BASED |
| A 35-Across might spring one | LEAK |
| Abrupt way to kick a habit | COLDTURKEY |
| Absorb, as a cost | EAT |
| AFB truant | AWOL |
| Birds with iridescent plumage | PEACOCKS |
| Blasted with pepper spray | MACED |
| Bone up in a hurry | CRAM |
| Bonny girl | LASS |
| Bored with it all | BLASE |
| Bowls over | AWES |
| Census form datum | RACE |
| Chartered ride | BOAT |
| Chartered ride | PLANE |
| Churchill Downs events | DERBIES |
| Create messages with a 38-Across | SKYWRITE |
| Crunchy strips at a brunch | CRISPBACON |
| Dolphin that preys on others | ORCA |
| Dory propellers | OARS |
| Drake’s genre | RAP |
| Fall short | FAIL |
| Fault-finding | CRITICAL |
| Fuel in a scuttle | COAL |
| Golden State gridder, for short | NINER |
| Green veggie made into chips | KALE |
| Have regrets | FEELBAD |
| Ho-hum | BLAH |
| Isn’t perfect | ERRS |
| Jackson 5 hairdos | AFROS |
| L. Frank Baum’s coward | LION |
| Leave one’s bandmates, perhaps | GOSOLO |
| Like much testimony | ORAL |
| Like some roof panels | SOLAR |
| Lo mein vessels | WOKS |
| Lower in esteem | ABASE |
| Manning of the NFL | ELI |
| Material in a beekeeper’s veil | NETTING |
| MDs’ aides | RNS |
| Monocle, essentially | LENS |
| Mount Rushmore nickname | ABE |
| Muffin choice | BRAN |
| Off the wall | ODD |
| Often-dunked snack | OREO |
| One of the gang | PAL |
| Origami bird | CRANE |
| Orson of ‘Citizen Kane’ | WELLES |
| Packs to capacity | FILLS |
| Pay, with ‘over’ | FORK |
| PDF or MP3 | FILE |
| Peron of Argentina | EVA |
| Place for a snooze | SOFA |
| Prior to, poetically | ERE |
| Pulitzer-winning Ferber novel | SOBIG |
| Put on the back burner | DEFER |
| Put on the market | SELL |
| Ranked higher than | ABOVE |
| Remove, as coupons | CLIP |
| Ring decisions, for short | TKOS |
| Risked getting pulled over | SPED |
| Rob of ‘Parks and Recreation’ | LOWE |
| Sharp upturn in the economy | BRISKGROWTH |
| Simple 35-Across | RAFT |
| Slinky’s shape | COIL |
| State firmly | AVOW |
| Stop pedaling | COAST |
| Strings at luaus | UKES |
| The life of Riley | EASE |
| Tidy sum of cash | COOLMILLION |
| Vineyard measure | ACRE |
| Way back when | LONGPAST |
| Wear camouflage, say | BLENDIN |
| What you wear | GARB |
| Where you live | ABODE |
| Words of defeat | ILOSE |
| Worker with a trowel | MASON |
| Zero-shaped | OVAL |
| Zuckerberg, to Facebook | CEO |
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