| Clues | Answers |
| ‘OK, try me’ | ILLBITE |
| ‘That’s beside the point!’ | IRRELEVANT |
| ‘The Big Lebowski’ protagonist, with ‘the’ | DUDE |
| ‘This outfit looks ridiculous’ | IFEELSILLY |
| ‘Who ___ and mends, to God himself commends’: Cervantes | ERRS |
| Actress Amanda | PEET |
| Alma mater for Jackie Robinson, in brief | UCLA |
| Apt laptop choice for a tennis pro? | ACER |
| Archenemy | NEMESIS |
| B-worthy | GOOD |
| Band whose debut album, ‘Murmur,’ was Rolling Stone’s 1983 Album of the Year | REM |
| Base fig | NCO |
| Become apparent | ARISE |
| Betting emotionally, in poker slang | ONTILT |
| Company acquired by G.E. in 1986 | RCA |
| Consequently | THEN |
| Crispy confection | WAFER |
| Daredevil’s equipment, maybe | RAMP |
| Ding for a QB | INT |
| Escape room? | GARAGE |
| Feel elation | FLOATONAIR |
| Feuding big-time | ATWAR |
| Fictional group led by a Dark Lord | SITH |
| Film ineligible to get an Oscar | MADEFORTVMOVIE |
| Go on and on | BLATHER |
| Grand outlook | VISTA |
| Grass-roots marketing group | STREETTEAM |
| Guitarist Carlos | SANTANA |
| Hankerings | YENS |
| Holder of very small blueprints | GENE |
| Hunter gatherer? | GAMEWARDEN |
| Independent in Congress beginning in 1991 | SANDERS |
| Italian football coach ___ Pioli | STEFANO |
| J.J. or T.J. of the N.F.L | WATT |
| Jazz singer Sylvia | SYMS |
| Link warning | NSFW |
| Little surprises in computer games, e.g | EASTEREGGS |
| Longtime celebrity gossip show | ENEWS |
| Man’s name that becomes a popular toy brand if you move the first letter to the end | OLEG |
| Milk duds? | NURSINGBRA |
| More than a couple | TRIO |
| Mount seen from Reggio Calabria | ETNA |
| Move quickly | HIE |
| Musical figure in Dungeons & Dragons | BARD |
| Nomads | ROAMERS |
| One going out on a limb? | TIRESWING |
| One taking a lode off? | ORECART |
| Orch. section | STR |
| Pact replaced by the U.S.M.C.A. in 2020 | NAFTA |
| Party time, informally | BDAY |
| Precipitous? | RAINY |
| Ragù, e.g | MEATSAUCE |
| Ranch alternative | CAESARDRESSING |
| Rear guard? | SEATPAD |
| Service accessories | HYMNALS |
| Setting for some high school experimentation | SCIENCELAB |
| Sign of a big hit? | POW |
| Smeltery waste | SLAG |
| Snack for a pangolin | ANT |
| Syst. in which making an ‘L’ with the thumb and index finger and raising the pinkie means ‘I love you’ | ASL |
| Targets of reflexology | FEET |
| Top spot, in brief | CEO |
| Video game hurdle | BOSS |
| Whole bunch | HOST |
| Wrangler competitor | LEE |
| ___ Games, developer behind League of Legends | RIOT |
| ___ Lincoln Harris, early Black economist | ABRAM |
| {T, H, I, S}, in mathematics | SET |
