Crossword: by Stella Zawistowski
Across
| Plaint prelude | ALAS |
| Not bubbly | STILL |
| Models | SITS |
| Smattering | LICK |
| Places for addresses | PODIA |
| Folkloric, presumably | ORAL |
| Routines without resolution | ANTICOMEDY |
| Winnipeg near Winnipeg | LAKE |
| The Buick stops here | RESTAREAS |
| Buff | TONED |
| Tacit | MUM |
| 22 letters of DC | STS |
| Driver’s ritual | TEEING |
| Leaves | PARTS |
| Yard sale datum | RAINDATE |
| No longer under a misapprehension | DISABUSED |
| Resistance units? | NOS |
| Banes of hosts | PARASITES |
| Wharton ex-offering | BBA |
| Issued | SENTFORTH |
| Fancy formal wear | EARRINGS |
| Key with six black keys | GFLAT |
| Main force | ARMADA |
| Hymn Him | DEO |
| Nursing degree | SIP |
| What your beef may be | TBONE |
| Liquid refreshment | SPOTOFTEA |
| Face __ | CARD |
| Dropper’s denouement | WEIGHTLOSS |
| 2023’s piece of Blackout Cake | OREO |
| “I know” | ASKME |
| Its player must master air control | OBOE |
| Trattoria term | PARM |
| Aviation hazard | SHEAR |
| Paradoxical philosopher | ZENO |
Down
| Phone setting | ALARM |
| Grade school instruction | LINEUP |
| Rants and raves | ACTSMAD |
| One seen regularly on variety shows | SKIT |
| Place to play | SPORTSARENA |
| Units of volume | TOMES |
| Block buster | IDEA |
| Toppers | LIDS |
| Herman of snack food fame | LAY |
| Had no help | SOLOED |
| Isfahani, for instance | IRANIAN |
| Begun to enjoy | TAKENTO |
| Heavy hitters | SLEDGES |
| Rejects | CASTSASIDE |
| Rank between Scout and Second Class | TENDERFOOT |
| Link | TIETOGETHER |
| Step on it | RIP |
| __ through (becomes holey) | RUSTS |
| Presupposing for the moment | ASIF |
| Sound of 13 Down | BANG |
| Where Washington U. is | STL |
| Pedestrian observer | BEATCOP |
| Name from the Greek for “foreign” | BARBARA |
| One delivering mail | ARMORER |
| Is unavoidable | HASTOBE |
| Scattershot | RANDOM |
| Makes fast, perhaps | TIESON |
| Something to believe in | DOGMA |
| Argentine avenue | PASEO |
| Brief meeting | SESH |
| Louisiana Purchase explorer | PIKE |
| Letters after numbers of refreshments | FLOZ |
| Saw around | WAS |
