| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Beauty ___ Witch’ (Shakespeare poem) | ISA |
| ‘Heartburn’ novelist Ephron | NORA |
| ‘It won’t be long’ | SOON |
| ‘Nana’ novelist Zola | EMILE |
| ‘Riverdance’ dance | IRISHREEL |
| ‘The Lion King’ group | PRIDE |
| ‘Waiting for Lefty’ playwright Clifford | ODETS |
| ‘What ___ can I say?’ | ELSE |
| 28-Across’ milieu | AISLE |
| About 30 percent of Earth’s land area | ASIA |
| Andy’s raggedy friend | ANN |
| Avail oneself of | UTILIZE |
| BBQ slab | RIBS |
| Birds’ resting spots | PERCHES |
| Catch some Z’s | SNOOZE |
| CBS cop show for 10 seasons | CSIMIAMI |
| Clinical drug test | TRIAL |
| Courteney of ‘Friends’ | COX |
| Cow’s re-chewed fare | CUD |
| Croc or sandal | SHOE |
| Curie with two Nobels | MARIE |
| Do some patchwork | SEW |
| Dutch illusionary artist M.C | ESCHER |
| Enthusiasm, plus | ZEAL |
| Entry before a password | USERID |
| Eton, to Harrow | RIVAL |
| Fail to include | OMIT |
| For all, as a salon | UNISEX |
| Goods sold abroad | EXPORTS |
| Goose egg, so to speak | ZERO |
| Grapple with | TAKEON |
| Gravity-driven cable ride | ZIPLINE |
| Grp. that affects 37-Across prices | OPEC |
| Haunted house sound | MOAN |
| Highbrow type | ELITIST |
| In the offing | TOCOME |
| Incisor or cuspid | TOOTH |
| Internet user’s lure | CLICKBAIT |
| It’s mostly nitrogen | AIR |
| Key Persian Gulf cargo | OIL |
| Like most seafood in sashimi | RAW |
| Member’s payment | DUES |
| Memory jogger | NOTE |
| Nation with Quechua speakers | PERU |
| Of the flesh | CARNAL |
| Optional feature | EXTRA |
| Otologist’s focus | EAR |
| Pack in a crate, say | ENCASE |
| Passed with flying colors | ACED |
| Pirate pursued by a crocodile | CAPTAINHOOK |
| Places to 20-Across | SLOPES |
| Portuguese island group | AZORES |
| Preserves with salt | CURES |
| Provide support to | AID |
| Ranter’s feeling | IRE |
| Real-time online notes, for short | IMS |
| Relaxed state | EASE |
| Roaring Twenties, e.g | DECADE |
| Scraped together, with ‘out’ | EKED |
| Showed the way | LED |
| Slough off | SHED |
| Snow removal vehicle | PLOW |
| Source of fleece | EWE |
| Struck, old-style | SMOTE |
| Suffix with kitchen or luncheon | ETTE |
| Tango requirement | TWO |
| Tennis serve that doesn’t count | LET |
| Thesaurus compiler | ROGET |
| Three-time ring foe of Frazier | ALI |
| Toy gun’s sound | POP |
| Twice-a-month shore occurrence | NEAPTIDE |
| Use cusswords | SWEAR |
| Walk nervously | PACE |
| Wedding party member | USHER |
| Whale groups | PODS |
| Without exception | ALL |
| Y-shaped stick for water seekers | DIVININGROD |
| Zigzagging ski event | SLALOM |
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