| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Haha’ | LOL |
| ‘I’ve ___ thinking …’ | BEEN |
| ‘Sprechen ___ Deutsch?’ | SIE |
| ‘Take it easy’ | GOSLOW |
| ‘The Banana Boat Song’ | DAYO |
| ‘Whoops,’ in a text | MYB |
| ‘___ I’m saying is …’ | ALLS |
| ‘___ we there yet?’ | ARE |
| Academic acronym | STEM |
| Alpine climber’s tool | ICEAXE |
| Area around a nipple | AREOLA |
| Assert | CLAIM |
| Bass booster | AMP |
| Bat an eye, say | FLIRT |
| Beverage brand whose mascot is a polar bear in a sweater | ICEE |
| Big name in speakers | BOSE |
| Big name in underwear | FRUITOFTHELOOM |
| Bit of hair | HANK |
| Bit of regalia | SASH |
| Bits of news | ITEMS |
| Cartoon frame | CEL |
| Certain explosive, informally | NITRO |
| Cheer for a matador | OLE |
| Community pool org | YMCA |
| Cooks in the oven, maybe | ROASTS |
| Country singer Underwood | CARRIE |
| County north of San Francisco | NAPA |
| Dead duck | GONER |
| Dedicated poem | ODE |
| Dirty look | SNEER |
| Dweller on the Mekong River | LAO |
| Feeding apparatus at a petting zoo | PELLETDISPENSER |
| Funky bit of noodling | RIFF |
| Future atty.’s exam | LSAT |
| Greek god of love | EROS |
| Group whose ‘Butter’ video was the fastest to reach 100 million views on YouTube | BTS |
| Headquarters | BASE |
| High point | APEX |
| Home test kit component | SWAB |
| Ideal scenario | BESTCASE |
| Ilhan in Congress | OMAR |
| Inc. cousin | LLC |
| Just gets (by) | EKES |
| Khmer temple | WAT |
| Last thing to go in a pocket, one hopes | EIGHTBALL |
| Letters above 2 on a phone | ABC |
| Mangle, e.g | MAIM |
| No later than | UPTO |
| Nook in a church | APSE |
| Not outer | INNER |
| Obama health legislation, for short | ACA |
| One who is one, e.g | BABY |
| Otherwise | ELSE |
| Parts of some smiles | GAPS |
| Peddle | SELL |
| Phrase of clarification | ASIN |
| Plastic grass | ASTROTURF |
| Product of solar steeping | SUNTEA |
| Raise to the third power | CUBE |
| Rapper with the 2010 hit ‘No Hands’ | WAKAFLOCKAFLAME |
| Rib structure | CAGE |
| Second-brightest stars | BETAS |
| Sky safety org | FAA |
| Slightest opportunity | GHOSTOFACHANCE |
| Something agreed upon by consenting sexual partners | SAFEWORD |
| Spiteful feeling | MALICE |
| Sun, in Spanish | SOL |
| Tina of ’30 Rock’ | FEY |
| Tiny hill-dweller | ANT |
| Toadstool topper | CAP |
| Victory | WIN |
| Where to find the starts of 17-, 28-, 45- and 58-Across? | PACMAN |
| Word that can be a state abbreviation | ILL |
| Word with angry or flash | MOB |
| Word with level or legs | SEA |
| You can open it with a twist | OREO |
| Yuzuru ___, first skater to successfully land a quadruple loop in competition | HANYU |
| ___ d’oeuvres | HORS |
