| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Anything Goes’ writer Porter | COLE |
| ‘Beowulf’ and ‘Gilgamesh,’ for two | EPICS |
| ‘George,’ in aviation slang | AUTOPILOT |
| ‘High five!’ | UPTOP |
| ‘His ___ little mouth was drawn up like a bow’ (line from ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’) | DROLL |
| ‘Skip me’ | IPASS |
| ‘Well, that much was clear’ | SOIGATHERED |
| ‘You there!’ | HEY |
| A, for one | ARTICLE |
| Absence excuser | DOCTORSNOTE |
| Ancestral emblem | TOTEM |
| Anxiety | UNEASE |
| Bat signal | SONAR |
| Betray nervousness, in a way | STAMMER |
| Celebrate, as a new year | RINGIN |
| Certain creature comfort? | DOGBED |
| Certain surprise party? | AMBUSH |
| Cheat | BILK |
| Chess ranking system named for a Hungarian physicist | ELO |
| City planner, at times | ZONER |
| Classic Beat Generation roman à clef | ONTHEROAD |
| Department store that once sold mail-order houses | SEARS |
| Disney villain inspired by the drag queen Divine | URSULA |
| Dispenses, with ‘out’ | DOLES |
| Don’t match | CLASH |
| Drain | TIRE |
| Dutch scientist with an eponymous ‘cloud’ | OORT |
| Fatigues, familiarly | CAMO |
| First word in a 13-Across | DEAR |
| Flinches, but only a little | BATSANEYELASH |
| Forest giant | REDWOOD |
| German food that’s better than it sounds? | WURST |
| God who is destined to slay the serpent Jörmungandr | THOR |
| GPS guess | ETA |
| Holes in the wall? | OUTLETS |
| Hunt | PREYON |
| Like some N.S.F.W. content | EROTIC |
| London-based insurance company | LLOYDS |
| Mark’s replacement | EURO |
| Mulligan | REDO |
| NewLeaf potato, e.g., in brief | GMO |
| One holding all the cards | DEALER |
| Outer ear? | HUSK |
| Peeved, for short | POD |
| Pepper, for one: Abbr | SGT |
| Poet Scott-Heron | GIL |
| Popular pet originally from Mongolia | GERBIL |
| Present-day request? | LETTERTOSANTA |
| Ray on one’s TV | ROMANO |
| Right on a map | EAST |
| Rocks | ICE |
| Royal attendant | PAGE |
| Sassy, letter-shaped gesture accompanying a retort | ZSNAP |
| Saw and punch | TOOLS |
| Say ‘Yay!,’ say | CHEER |
| Sequence of steps | DANCEROUTINE |
| Shift, for one | DRESS |
| So | ERGO |
| Study of riddles | ENIGMATOLOGY |
| Subway stop: Abbr | STA |
| They’re offered seven times a year | SATS |
| Total | ENTIRE |
| Via, on signs | THRU |
| What one star may represent | EASY |
| Word with boot or spaghetti | STRAP |
| ___ End (setting in ‘The Lord of the Rings’) | BAG |
