Author: by Winston Emmons
Across
| Trying to be | ALA |
| “Pretty” name | BELLA |
| Harsh sound | BRAY |
| Theater tier | LOGE |
| From port to starboard | ABEAM |
| Heckled | RODE |
| Numerical suffix | TEEN |
| FDR VP John __ Garner | NANCE |
| Chances often taken | ODDS |
| Expression of indifference | IWOULDNTKNOW |
| Lose it | FREAK |
| Keep talking | RUNON |
| Needing training | GREEN |
| Expression of indifference | WHATEVER |
| Price of admission | FEE |
| Comparison with a colon | RATIO |
| Gaming giant | SEGA |
| Unreliable source | LIAR |
| Expression of indifference | SHRUG |
| Cable car kin | TRAM |
| Cicero’s existence | ESSE |
| Beyond unexpected | EERIE |
| Dearborn and LaSalle, in Chi | STS |
| Expression of indifference | WHOCARES |
| Heard all too often | TRITE |
| “Today is the last day of __ past”: Yeltsin | ANERA |
| Cheery sounds | TRALA |
| Expression of indifference | ITISWHATITIS |
| Pole, for example | SLAV |
| Type of columns supporting the Parthenon | DORIC |
| Press secretary, e.g. | AIDE |
| Field trip of a sort | HIKE |
| Choose to hold office | ELECT |
| Tech review website | CNET |
| What a date ends with | YEAR |
| Icy fields | RINKS |
| Premium purchase | GAS |
Down
| Choral contingent, to conductors | ALTI |
| Theater magnate and MGM cofounder | LOEW |
| Thomas Paine topic | AGEOFREASON |
| Colorful neckwear | BANDANAS |
| Online loan source | EBANK |
| Shrove Tuesday follower | LENT |
| Insufficiency | LACK |
| Egyptian sun god | AMENRA |
| How set-for-max toast comes out | BROWNEST |
| Shape of some pretzels | ROD |
| Put into the mix | ADD |
| “Just what I was hoping for!” | YES |
| Get used (to) | ENURE |
| Sideways look | LEER |
| Not at home, or call at home | OUT |
| Making too much of | OVERSTATING |
| Neutralize | NEGATE |
| Kimono-clad dancer | GEISHA |
| Strands inside walls | WIRES |
| Customary time | HOUR |
| Barrels into | RAMS |
| Seemed to go quickly | FLEW |
| What Ahab called the whale | THEE |
| Radio, for instance | RECEIVER |
| Digestive system parts | GITRACTS |
| Part of QED | ERAT |
| High school class | ART |
| Pirate or bandit | RAIDER |
| Ending for sacro- | ILIAC |
| Close together | THICK |
| 1 Down performances | SOLI |
| Little singer | WREN |
| Innovation initiation | IDEA |
| Becomes fixed | SETS |
| Averse to first moves | SHY |
| Be situated | LIE |
| Nickname preceder, at times | AKA |
