Author: by Steve Mossberg
Across
Attention getter at an outdoor show CLASSICCAR
Carousel rider BAG
Directive when sparring LISTENHERE
One bred by Washington at Mount Vernon MULE
Pleased APPEALEDTO
Old school ETON
Small nest dweller WASP
Latin chorus OLES
Trifling PETTY
What you’d best not break LAWS
Common gathering announcement MEMO
Wild card? RIOT
In which “language” is lingvo ESPERANTO
Legendary paragon of purity SIRGALAHAD
Tear up WEEP
Mode for modern motorists ECO
Got ready for dinner, at times DEBONED
Settled at last DEE
Nickname for a western capital namesake LENA
While away the hours FUTZAROUND
Nonflier from 1945 to 1955 LUFTHANSA
They traverse Slovenia ALPS
Apt rhyme for “Can’t say” IMAY
Western union NATO
Theme of Nora Roberts’ Blue Smoke ARSON
Sport with shells CREW
Zwieback RUSK
See 59 Across METS
Swindle saw starter FOOLMEONCE
Before “the” and 56 Across, an MLB fight song MEET
Half of a formal pairing COLLARSTAY
Or so ODD
Semiconductor spaces CLEANROOMS
Down
Part of an avian or automated crane CLAW
Song superstar who’s Mermaid Barbie (2023) LIPA
“Very dangerous” ones in an ’81 film ASPS
Apple pedometer app STEPLOG
Wide body SEA
Ready to climb, perhaps INLOW
Sussex cinnamon roll CHELSEABUN
Let go CEDE
Cultivated fields ARTS
Flying Cloud of the 1920s REO
Unlikely to blab BUTTONEDUP
Much ALOT
First to grow up with the Web GENY
Granny MEEMAW
Coming from PER
Not much ATAD
Circe’s niece/emulator MEDEA
Mr. McMurtry alma mater RICEU
Dictatorial IRONFISTED
Reports from the battlefield SHOTS
Stale-bread Italian salad PANZANELLA
Group with many seniors TEENS
Doubly shortened article OPED
Cause to move SELL
Britain’s 23 Down LEFAY
Nuts alternative DRAT
Tops ATMOST
Spanish fortified wine OLOROSO
What most Chinese are HAN
Exclamation of frustration AWMAN
Fuel for debate AMMO
Metallic part of organs REED
Composed COOL
Play thing ROLE
“__ my books–so good to turn”: Dickinson UNTO
Improper taking SCAM
Grand array KEYS
TV watcher FCC
Are off ERR
