| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Free to pursue other opportunities,’ dysphemistically | AXED |
| ‘Notorious’ initials | RBG |
| ‘Start running … now!’ | OKGO |
| ‘You don’t say!’ | GOSH |
| America’s first vice, so to speak | ADAMS |
| Any Simpsons character | TOON |
| Asylum seeker, maybe | REFUGEE |
| Big baddie | OGRE |
| Birthplace of Zeus, in Greek myth | CRETE |
| Borax, for one | CHEMICAL |
| Camera with an optical viewfinder, in brief | SLR |
| Captain’s emergency quarters | SEACABIN |
| Cat, vis-à-vis milk | LAPPER |
| Catch, in a way | HEAR |
| Clubby order, for short | BLT |
| Creator of U.S. flood maps | FEMA |
| Crossbreeds smaller than ligers | TIGONS |
| Dedicated address? | ODE |
| Demi ___ (Victoria’s Secret offering) | BRA |
| Digs in the winter? | DEN |
| Director Lee | ANG |
| Dismissible | MERE |
| Energy industry transport | COALER |
| Equipment | GEAR |
| European capital that uses the Cyrillic alphabet | SOFIA |
| Explicit | STATED |
| Facilitate | ENABLE |
| Fail to articulate, in a way | SLUR |
| Feature of the flags of Lebanon and Belize | TREE |
| First name in pilsners | STELLA |
| French clog … and the root of an English word meaning ‘disrupt’ | SABOT |
| Game of catch? | TAG |
| Garment providing lower back support during pregnancy | BELLYBAND |
| Grubs, e.g | BAIT |
| Heap of junk | SCRAPPILE |
| Heavenly messengers, in Madrid | ANGELES |
| ID since the Great Depression | SSN |
| Lend a hand | PITCHIN |
| Letters of interest | APR |
| Luminance | SHEEN |
| Meas. roughly equivalent to a burning match | BTU |
| Member of the genus Vespa | HORNET |
| Members of the genus Apis | BEES |
| Mexican beach resort, informally | CABO |
| Network where ‘Impractical Jokers’ originated | TRUTV |
| Odd fellows, informally | RANDOS |
| Old-time poker | LANCE |
| One-sixth of the world’s ground surface until 1991, in brief | USSR |
| Org. supporting the Lovings in the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia | ACLU |
| Oscar-winning director Kazan | ELIA |
| Patagonian prairie | LLANO |
| Period of concealed development | LATENCY |
| Phasmophobic’s fear | GHOST |
| Pigment made from iron ore | OCHER |
| Pilots | AVIATES |
| Poet whose Latin name relates to sheep | OVID |
| Port tower | TUG |
| Provides lodging for | BILLETS |
| Reacted purposefully when handed ‘the ball’ | RANWITHIT |
| Runs through | STABS |
| Secure, as an interview | LAND |
| Serious | GRAVE |
| Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases | EXCHANGINGRINGS |
| Sheath of connective tissue | FASCIA |
| Slip | ERROR |
| Sweet-talk, maybe | WOO |
| They do bettors one better | RAISERS |
| Thomas Hardy title character | TESS |
| Tittle | DOT |
| Vehicle with a spotlight and municipal plates, most likely | COPCAR |
| Very tight squeeze | BEARHUG |
| Was clear as a bell? | RANG |
| What many beachgoers do | BAKE |
| ___ Productions (media company) | HARPO |
