Across
| Deciding contest | RUNOFF |
| Musical whose preshow warning about cellphone use says that knights “may drag you onstage and impale you” | SPAMALOT |
| God on a mission? | APOLLO |
| Cry after a windfall | WERERICH |
| Louisiana ___, religion with West African roots | VOODOO |
| Bit of gear for gliding | ICESKATE |
| Personal struggles personified | INNERDEMONS |
| ___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history | RON |
| Critics’ picks, informally | RECS |
| Eldest daughter of Oceanus and mother of Nike | STYX |
| Source of milk for Manchego cheese | EWE |
| Comme ci, comme ça | SOSO |
| European airline that was nationalized from 1944 to 2001 | IBERIA |
| Boston Harbor detritus, once | TEAS |
| Cartoonist Groening | MATT |
| Hands and feet | UNITS |
| Trancelike state during a monotonous drive | HIGHWAYHYPNOSIS |
| Northern hemisphere? | IGLOO |
| Antivenoms, e.g. | SERA |
| World’s rarest goose | NENE |
| Symbol found in Pac-Man and on slot machines | CHERRY |
| Going ___ | RATE |
| Rode the bench | SAT |
| First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth | ENOS |
| Its tributaries have colorful names | NILE |
| Cry from Homer | DOH |
| “I want to, but really I shouldn’t …” | DONTTEMPTME |
| [Violin emoji] | OHBOOHOO |
| Stand-up person? | NOSHOW |
| “You did great!” | NICEWORK |
| Moving company? | TROUPE |
| Suboptimal ending | SOURNOTE |
| Name on an envelope | SENDER |
Down
| Sitarist Shankar | RAVI |
| Informed of | UPON |
| Time to draw? | NOON |
| “Getting ___ is no problem. You just have to live long enough”: Groucho Marx | OLDER |
| Jardín contents | FLORES |
| Post-Thanksgiving meal drowsiness, familiarly | FOODCOMA |
| Compete in a freestyle, e.g. | SWIM |
| Cowboy Bill | PECOS |
| Coy response to a compliment | ARENTI |
| Casually chic updo | MESSYBUN |
| Original tablet holder | ARK |
| Makeup artist? | LIAR |
| Prefix with -genarian | OCTO |
| Storyteller’s transition | THEN |
| Bacon bits | ESSAYS |
| Noble gas used in propelling ion thrusters | XENON |
| Code of conduct | ETHIC |
| Carefully consider | WEIGH |
| Boston College athlete | EAGLE |
| Check box in a survey | OTHER |
| Stands | RISES |
| rock autobiography | ITINA |
| Selling point | ASSET |
| Prop (up) | SHORE |
| Cruel ruler | TYRANT |
| Spent | WORNDOWN |
| Ones in a waiting room | PATIENTS |
| Drink brand that sounds like a shout | YOOHOO |
| Novelist Leonard | ELMORE |
| Act bullish? | SNORT |
| Printer brand | EPSON |
| Slips into | DONS |
| Where Life Savers and pop-top cans were both invented | OHIO |
| Howard or Spelman: Abbr. | HBCU |
| Hit, in a way | TOKE |
| Fall sound | THUD |
| Brood | MOPE |
| It’s got a big mouth | EWER |
| “Jingle Bells” contraction | OER |
