Author: Michael Schlossberg
Editor: Joel Fagliano
Across
Staff symbol CCLEF
Items on the backs of some Jeeps GASCANS
Test pilot’s attire GSUIT
Bedridden LAIDUP
Creditor, in legalese OBLIGEE
Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr. SPENCE
Once or twice ADVERB
Like Mary Shelley when she wrote “Frankenstein” TEENAGE
Marketing expenditure PAIDAD
Bearing MIEN
Natural source of rubber TREESAP
County that’s home to the White Cliffs of Dover KENT
Unimpressed BLASE
Sheet under a tent TARP
Sharp pain STAB
Major vessel AORTA
Chinese ___ (bonsai choice) ELM
Rhyme for “away” in “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” GAY
Agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre’s org. in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” IRS
No. on a résumé TEL
Ewes’ guys RAMS
“Invisible hand” subj. ECON
Quattro e quattro OTTO
President during the Mexican-American War POLK
Ice cream shop employee, e.g. SCOOPER
Shakespearean misanthrope TIMON
Small Southwestern birds of prey ELFOWLS
“The Harlequin’s Carnival” painter MIRO
Nickname for a British relative NAN
Brouhahas ADOS
Buds CHUMS
Ben who starred in Broadway’s “Dear Evan Hansen” PLATT
Role for Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” MITZI
Wordle player’s pride STREAK
“Who, me?” MOI
Partner ship? ARK
Belief NOTION
“___ magic!” ITS
Title pig of kids’ TV PEPPA
Schmear topper LOX
Annoying bot SPAMMER
They have the Guinness distinction of Longest Running Fan Club for a Group QUEEN
Work like the devil? POSSESS
“Who, me?” response YESYOU
Pixy Stix containers STRAWS
Carpentry vise CCLAMP
___ service LIP
Percival of legend, for one SIR
Mystical Buddhist text TANTRA
Minecraft material ORE
Cooper’s tool ADZ
Folder flap TAB
End of a sports movie, often WIN
Advance LOAN
Block (up) DAM
Some four-year degs. BAS
Letters that sound out a sentence IOU
First-rate TOPS
Playful hit BOP
Speculative fiction subgenre that envisions a sustainable energy future SOLARPUNK
Limited number FEW
Bitter-tasting salad ingredient ENDIVE
Fun facts NUGGETS
Sophisticated URBANE
Farm machine REAPER
French form of “Stephen” ETIENNE
Area 51 sighting SAUCER
“C’mon, you’ll love it!” TRYONE
“And ___ …” YET
Celebration in late January or early February TET
Tweaks ALTERS
Down
Ascends with one’s hands and feet CLAMBERS
Escalade, e.g. CADILLAC
Blanks’ opposite LIVEAMMO
Shangri-las EDENS
Hair of the dog FUR
“See ya later” GOTTAGO
Not normal ABERRANT
Like beach towns in the winter SLEEPY
Cannes subject CINE
Tennis great known as “The Punisher” AGASSI
Former name of the electron NEGATRON
Ignore, as a shortcoming SEEPAST
Application fig. GPA
Casio rival SEIKO
Shore hazard UNDERTOW
“That much is obvious” ICANTELL
Speeches with an 18-minute limit TEDTALKS
Channel with on-air fund-raising PBS
Mole, e.g. SPY
Taunt JEER
Shout at an auction SOLD
battle site, with “the” SOMME
Boast CROW
Blue-green TEAL
Hypothesize POSIT
City on the Arno PISA
Taking the place (of) INLIEU
“Here’s looking at you, kid”? MAA
Like old audiobooks ONTAPE
Why some app users check their notifications constantly, for short FOMO
Several CBS dramas CSIS
Link letters HTTP
___ Major URSA
Classroom surprise POPQUIZ
Passage of a planet across a star, e.g. TRANSIT
Noted export of Portugal TILE
Common field trip destinations ZOOS
“Need You Tonight” band, 1987 INXS
Blubber CRY
Stew tidbit PEA
E.M.T.’s technique CPR
One-named singer on 1998’s “Ghetto Supastar” MYA
Distracted Boyfriend, e.g. MEME
One of Eleven’s powers on “Stranger Things” ESP
___ milk OAT
Gift on the seventh day of Christmas SWAN
Mr. Burns supposedly received the second one ever on “The Simpsons”: Abbr. SSN
What Tom and Daisy embody in “The Great Gatsby” OLDMONEY
Gift for an aspiring conductor TRAINSET
Last name in late-night COLBERT
Ol’ Blue Eyes, e.g. CROONER
Quadrennial occurrence LEAPDAY
District attorney-turned-Batman foe TWOFACE
Ethylene gas, to tomatoes RIPENER
Key components ANSWERS
Some batteries AAS
Ginormous LARGE
___ choy BOK
Throw in the towel BAGIT
Didn’t save SPENT
Appliance that may self-clean OVEN
Renaissance instrument LUTE
___ Reader UTNE
Kind of tradition ORAL
N.Y.S.E. debut IPO
Afore ERE
Letters on the Saturn V rocket USA
Protester’s word BUT
