| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Are you freaking kidding me?’ | FORREAL |
| ‘Bleeding Love’ singer Lewis | LEONA |
| ‘Grand slam’ in showbiz | EGOT |
| ‘I wish I were under four feet tall,’ e.g.? | SHORTLONGING |
| ‘Whoa there, Warren G.!’? | EASYHARDING |
| 1970 hit for Neil Diamond | SHILO |
| A kiss, a hug, a wave, the works? | WHOLEPARTING |
| Act on behalf of | FILLINFOR |
| Ad Council output, in brief | PSA |
| Adjective often capitalized in the Bible | HIS |
| Analogy words | ISTO |
| Author who wrote ‘Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them’ | AAMILNE |
| Bear, in Bogotá | OSO |
| Bet bit | CHIP |
| Bit of a fit | SNIT |
| Bit of doubling down from a parent | ISAIDNO |
| Black humor | BILE |
| Broad valley | DALE |
| Bubbly, in a way | FOAMING |
| Career for a scammer? | PROCONNING |
| Carnival ride | PONY |
| Certain government agent, informally | FBISPY |
| Chili variety that means ‘wide’ in Spanish | ANCHO |
| Choler | IRE |
| Common pet name | SWEETIE |
| Compliment for a lexicographer? | NICEMEANING |
| Considerably large, in Appalachian dialect | RIGHTSMART |
| Coors of brewing fame | ADOLPH |
| Course number | PAR |
| Crab or lobster | DECAPOD |
| Cutting class in med school? | ANATOMYLAB |
| Diatribes | RANTS |
| Dinner date that makes a good story? | ODDEVENING |
| Double-helix material | DNA |
| Dripping in jewelry, slangily | ICY |
| Earthling, in sci-fi | TERRAN |
| End of a college search? | EDU |
| Energy option | NUCLEAR |
| Event at a hot new club? | INOUTING |
| Family-friendly ratings | PGS |
| Famous drawing of a ship? | SIRENSONG |
| Food fight sounds | SPLATS |
| For whom the bell tolls | THEE |
| For-eh-ver | AGES |
| Former Indigenous inhabitants of modern-day Buffalo | ERIES |
| Forwards | RESENDS |
| Friend group | PALS |
| German ‘village’ | DORF |
| Go ‘poof!’ | VANISH |
| Goes on and on and on | JABBERS |
| Good name for a political pundit? | ILENE |
| Great garage sale find | STEAL |
| Greetings | HELLOS |
| Hot | EROTIC |
| How Cassius looks to Caesar, in Shakespeare | LEAN |
| Increases | GAINS |
| It’s guarded in soccer | SHIN |
| Jedi ally from Endor | EWOK |
| Kapoor who played the game show emcee in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ | ANIL |
| Kate of ‘House of Cards’ | MARA |
| Kicks down the road | PUNTSON |
| Kind of lily | SEGO |
| Kind of race that’s not quite a half-marathon | TENMILE |
| Late ___ | FEE |
| Lead guitarist of Queen, who has a Ph.D. in astrophysics | BRIANMAY |
| Leading | ONTOP |
| Like much prized blue-and-white porcelain | MINGERA |
| Lot lot | AUTOS |
| M.S.G. team, on scoreboards | NYK |
| Making an impression? | APING |
| Many a ‘Survivor’ setting | ISLE |
| Muscle relaxers | HOTPACKS |
| Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry | THALIA |
| Name found on a calendar | APRIL |
| New England vacation destination, familiarly | THECAPE |
| Nickname for Atlanta | THEA |
| Not quite enough | ONETOOFEW |
| Old timer | SANDGLASS |
| One of two for six of VIII? | ANNE |
| Org. concerned with plants | OSHA |
| Party person | HOST |
| Pocket at a restaurant | PITA |
| Prefix in the names of many causes | ANTI |
| Public hatred | ODIUM |
| Publication co-founded in 1889 by Dow and Jones, in brief | WSJ |
| Real dope | GOOF |
| Record | LOG |
| Red grp | GOP |
| Regret | RUE |
| Relationship conditions, so to speak | STRINGS |
| Repeated small role for Paul Rudd | ANTMAN |
| Resting place | TOMB |
| Richard Parker in ‘Life of Pi,’ for one | TIGER |
| Rock’s ___ Brickell & New Bohemians | EDIE |
| Rural greeting | HOWDEDO |
| Scissors’ sound | SNIP |
| Score on a clean sheet | NIL |
| Secret service member? | ELOPER |
| Serve, as messy cafeteria food | SLOPON |
| Sight along a country road | SILO |
| Six-winged biblical being | SERAPH |
| Slinky? | SPRINGFALLING |
| Some gas stations, in brief | BPS |
| Some of the wildlife in the 20,000-year-old paintings in Lascaux Cave | DEER |
| Some work at a car wash | DETAILING |
| Sommelier’s superlative | OAKIEST |
| Squid squirt | INK |
| Still fighting | INIT |
| Still shot of a moving image, in tech-speak | SCREENGRAB |
| Stop hiding behind? | MOON |
| Street clearers | PLOWS |
| Tactical reductions in lighting, as during W.W. II | DIMOUTS |
| Test subject | LABANIMAL |
| Texter’s toodle-oo | TTYL |
| Thanksgiving table decoration | GOURD |
| That one will never have again | OFALIFETIME |
| That’s in Seine! | EAU |
| The first man ever created, in Maori lore | TIKI |
| Theater rival of Regal and Cinemark | AMC |
| Tiny trunks | SPEEDO |
| Title of an essay by a hit man? | ONOFFING |
| Touches on both sides | SPANS |
| Transcript fig | GPA |
| Tried to engineer an advantage | ANGLED |
| Unclaimed area | NOMANSLAND |
| Weeks, in Oaxaca | SEMANAS |
| What prices and hearts may do | SOAR |
| What’s said in passing? | NAH |
| Word after Minute or meter | MAID |
| Work-from-home wear, informally | SWEATS |
| You might see one upside down on a bar | STOOL |
| ___ Troi, character on ‘Star Trek: T.N.G.’ | DEANNA |
