Clues Answers ‘. . . fingers crossed!’ IHOPE ‘30% off’ event SALE ‘Also . . .’ AND ‘it ___ never going to be okay’ (jaye simpson book) WAS ‘Of course!’ YES ‘Still I Rise’ writer Angelou MAYA ‘What time?’ WHEN 1/48th of a cup (Abbr.) TSP Affirmative votes AYES Aretha Franklin genre SOUL Awareness ad…

Clues Answers ‘Absolutely!’ YES ‘Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino!’ speaker on ‘The Simpsons’ NED ‘I can’t unhear that’ TMI ‘No worries’ ITSCOOL ‘Toy Story’ dinosaur REX ‘Wait one ___!’ SEC ‘___ Class’ (‘Abbott Elementary’ episode where the kids learn a dance routine) STEP ‘___ me something I don’t know!’ TELL Absurd INANE Activist Lee known as the ‘grandmother…

Clues Answers ‘Age/Sex/Location’ artist Lennox ARI ‘Any moment now!’ SOON ‘bahaha’ LMAO ‘Can we put on the AC?’ IMHOT ‘Floating, Brilliant, Gone’ poet Franny CHOI ‘No one can outplay me tonight!’ IMONFIRE ‘No way that’s real!’ ITCANTBE ‘Poker Face’ creator Johnson RIAN ‘Thx’ counterpart PLS ‘Tomorrow, ___ Tomorrow, ___ Tomorrow’ AND ‘Well, OK ___’ THEN…

Clues Answers ‘Can’t stay!’ IHAVETOGO ‘Nurse Jackie’ star Falco EDIE ‘Otherwise . . .’ ORELSE ‘Red Cliff’ director John WOO ‘The Dutch House’ author Patchett ANN ‘when r u getting here?’ ETA ‘___ from that . . .’ APART ‘___ Was a Rollin’ Stone’ PAPA ‘___boy!’ (‘Way to go!’) ATTA 37-Across show OPERA Accelerate HASTEN…

Clues Answers ‘Aha!’ EUREKA ‘Heads I win, ___ you lose’ TAILS ‘In that case . . .’ IFSO ‘It’s a ___, don’t fall for it’ TRAP ‘Mona ___’ LISA ‘No, thanks’ PASS ‘Plastic Off ___ Sofa’ THE 100% ALL Actress Stephanie HSU Amazement AWE An ___-cited study OFT Baby turtles hatch from them EGGS Basement’s…

Clues Answers ‘Alki,’ for Washington state MOTTO ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ protagonist AANG ‘Later!’ BYE ‘Psych!’ NOT ‘Smooth Operator’ singer SADE 2002 animated movie with the tagline ‘Sub-Zero Heroes’ ICEAGE At any point EVER Attached with glue PASTED Baseball game divisions INNINGS Bit of rosemary SPRIG Boo-boo OWIE Cause-and-effect concept in some religions KARMA Cold…

Clues Answers ‘Beyond Vietnam’ (1967) speaker, for short MLK ‘I was wrong, so what?’ SUEME ‘Like, yesterday!’ ASAP ‘Orinoco Flow’ singer ENYA ‘The ___: Generation Q’ LWORD ‘You’re not mad at me, right?’ WECOOL ‘___ have you know . . .’ ILL ‘___ is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected…

Clues Answers ‘. . . sitting in a ___, K-I-S-S-I-N-G’ TREE ‘All my exes live in Texas / Therefore I ___ in Tennessee’ (George Strait) RESIDE ‘Bleeding Love’ singer LEONALEWIS ‘How cute!’ AWW ‘How gross!’ EWW ‘Last Week Tonight With John ___’ OLIVER ‘Without further ___ . . .’ ADO ‘___ you sure?’ ARE Ahead…

Clues Answers $1,000,000, for short MIL ‘Don’t I look like a ___ Berry poster?’ (Missy Elliott lyric) HALLE ‘Let’s do it!’ IMIN ‘NBA Today’ channel ESPN ‘Ohh’ ISEE ‘Postcolonial Love Poem’ author Diaz NATALIE ‘___ noted!’ DULY ‘___ Twist’ (Charles Dickens novel) OLIVER Acceptances YESES Aloe ___ VERA Attempt anew REDO Battery fluids ACIDS Bert…

Clues Answers ‘And others,’ in bibliographies ETAL ‘ASAP!’ STAT ‘Fine’ or ‘liberal’ subjects ARTS ‘Gross!’ EWW ‘I ___ you big time’ OWE ‘It was literally too funny to handle’ IDIED ‘Let’s drink!’ BOTTOMSUP ‘Rumor ___ it . . .’ HAS ‘Well, how about that!’ OHO ‘You wish!’ ASIF Angels’ rings HALOS Apple tablets IPADS Assistants…