| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Honesty with the volume cranked up,’ per George Saunders | IRONY |
| ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ rapper, informally | KANYE |
| ‘___ Love That Makes Us Happy’ (hymn) | TIS |
| Air | TUNE |
| Airbnb alternative | VRBO |
| Applies to | USESON |
| Approved by one’s insurance company, say | INAREA |
| Beginnings | ONSETS |
| Big name in eyedrops | RENU |
| Big success | SMASHHIT |
| Bit of X Games gear | CRASHHELMET |
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | NAMES |
| Catch some waves? | HEAR |
| Claims it first | HASDIBS |
| Clicking sound | TSK |
| Co. that, in 1925, said of crosswords ‘The craze evidently is dying out fast’ | NYT |
| Composer Henry | MANCINI |
| Conjunction with other or rather | THAN |
| Connection option, in brief | USB |
| Department store with a New York City flagship | SAKS |
| Drive-___ | THRU |
| Email header | FROM |
| Eventually | INTIME |
| Expression of false modesty from a texter | IMHO |
| Feature of ‘Monty Python’ and ‘Peep Show’ | BRITISHHUMOR |
| First of the Jewish High Holy Days | ROSHHASHANAH |
| Friendly — or sly — look | GRIN |
| Headwear with breathable fabric | MESHHAT |
| High place | ACME |
| Idiotic | INANE |
| In which Bulls lock horns with Bucks, for short | NBA |
| Informal goodbyes | CIAOS |
| It might be on the tip of your tongue | SALIVA |
| Kitchen game? | CORNISHHEN |
| Like a high-fat, low-carb diet | KETOGENIC |
| Major gold exporter | MALI |
| McEntire of country | REBA |
| Midmonth time | IDES |
| Name associated with speed | MACH |
| New parent’s whispered admonition … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle | THEBABYISASLEEP |
| Norm ___, longtime host of ‘This Old House’ | ABRAM |
| Noted whale watcher | AHAB |
| O.R. figs | MDS |
| One with secrets to tell | SPY |
| Ones asking you to raise your hands, in brief? | TSA |
| Online marketplace since 2005 | ETSY |
| Org. that might have a beef with beef | USDA |
| Pair nicknamed ‘dynamite’ in Texas hold ’em | TENS |
| Peacock’s home | NBC |
| Phony personality? | SIRI |
| Pioneer in atomic theory | BOHR |
| Played the first card | LED |
| Propels, in a way | OARS |
| Seasonings that chefs employ | FRESHHERBS |
| Seat in court | BANC |
| Secret | HUSHHUSH |
| See 52-Down | NATURE |
| Sing ‘Scooby-dooby-doo,’ perhaps | SCAT |
| Sister of un oncle | MERE |
| Smooth | SUAVE |
| Soccer superstar Hamm | MIA |
| Some grid lines: Abbr | STS |
| Source of pink juice | GUAVA |
| Straightens things out? | IRONS |
| Supernatural surroundings | AURAE |
| That chap | HIM |
| The ‘chum’ of chumming | BAIT |
| Ties often tied in bows | OBIS |
| Title meaning ‘superior one’ | LAMA |
| Took a load off | SAT |
| Unseasoned | GREEN |
| West Coast sch. with the mascot King Triton | UCSD |
| With 58-Across, why we do what we do | HUMAN |
| Won’t respond until later, say | ISOUT |
| ___ of Titus (Roman landmark) | ARCH |
| ___ the Enchanter, ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ character | TIM |
