| Clues | Answers |
| “Bad, Bad — Brown” | LEROY |
| “Insecure” actress | ISSARAE |
| “It matters to me” | ICARE |
| “It takes two” dances | TANGOS |
| “Just my opinion,” in a text | FWIW |
| “One World” musician John | TESH |
| “Relax!” | COOLIT |
| “So funny!” | HAHA |
| “When I Need You” singer Leo | SAYER |
| “— -haw!” | YEE |
| * “The Price Is Right” host | DREWCAREY |
| * “Vanity Fair” novelist | WILLIAMTHACKERAY |
| * Getting tired | GROWINGWEARY |
| * Hope when the situation is desperate | AWINGANDAPRAYER |
| * Period superseded by automobiles | HORSEANDBUGGYERA |
| * Star of the 1950s TV series “China Smith” | DANDURYEA |
| * Three-part novel by Gertrude Stein | THINGSASTHEYARE |
| * Town crier’s cry | HEARYEHEARYE |
| Actor Bridges | LLOYD |
| Actress Alley | KIRSTIE |
| Actress Polo | TERI |
| Aficionado | FAN |
| Agents, in brief | REPS |
| All-time low | NADIR |
| Ames’ state | IOWA |
| Astonishment | AWE |
| Auditing gp | IRS |
| Award for U2 | GRAMMY |
| Baby bird | NESTLING |
| Battle with spongy balls | NERFWAR |
| Big name in thesauruses | ROGET |
| Bit of word wit | PUN |
| BLT seller | DELI |
| Boggy areas | MIRES |
| Boomer’s kid | XER |
| Brontë’s Jane | EYRE |
| Bullfight yell | OLE |
| Cab cost | FARE |
| Chip topper | DIP |
| Climb up | SCALE |
| Contributed | GAVE |
| Counterparts of manis | PEDIS |
| Cousin of a chimpanzee | GORILLA |
| Cowl wearer | MONK |
| Creeping vine | IVY |
| Dangerous | RISKY |
| Deep desires | YENS |
| Delight in | ENJOY |
| Despite this | YET |
| Dissimilar | UNALIKE |
| Divided Asian land | KOREA |
| Drag race vehicle | FASTCAR |
| E’en if | THO |
| Early auto | REO |
| Ergo | THUS |
| Escorted from outside | LEDIN |
| Even a single | ANY |
| Evergreen with red arils | YEW |
| Fake coins | SLUGS |
| Falco of TV | EDIE |
| Fathers | PRIESTS |
| Fido’s noise | ARF |
| Fido’s threat | GRR |
| Fight (for) | VIE |
| Fish spawn | ROE |
| Fitness locale | GYM |
| Fox-sighting cry | TALLYHO |
| Genetic stuff | DNA |
| Get by logic | INFER |
| Girl in the fam | SIS |
| Globe | ORB |
| Green-light | OKAY |
| Halloween mask feature | EYEHOLE |
| Happy dance | JIG |
| Holders of frozen cubes | ICETRAYS |
| Honorarium | FEE |
| Hoodwink | CON |
| Hopper of old gossip | HEDDA |
| How Alaska is populated | SPARSELY |
| In a fitting manner | APTLY |
| In no danger | SAFE |
| Intertwine | ENMESH |
| Jagged, as a leaf’s edge | EROSE |
| Japanese noodle type | SOBA |
| Joins closely | WEDS |
| Large cut | GASH |
| Lay in place | SETDOWN |
| Leave off | OMIT |
| Legal equal | PEER |
| Light beams | RAYS |
| Links letters | PGA |
| Lyricist Gershwin | IRA |
| Minerals in thin sheets | MICAS |
| Mosque official | IMAM |
| Motorists’ gp | AAA |
| Mug handle | EAR |
| Naval forces | FLEETS |
| Net, as earnings | POSTTAX |
| NFL goals | TDS |
| Nimble | AGILE |
| Not fooled by | WISETO |
| Of Swiss mountains | ALPINE |
| Once called | NEE |
| Org. for cavity fixers | ADA |
| Org. with bag screeners | TSA |
| Playa del — | REY |
| Playground fixture | SEESAW |
| Playwright O’Neill | EUGENE |
| Poehler of “Baby Mama” | AMY |
| Previous to | ERE |
| Pronounces | UTTERS |
| Ragtime pianist Blake | EUBIE |
| Rap sheet abbr | AKA |
| Regal seat | THRONE |
| Removal of restrictions, for short | DEREG |
| RV refuge org | KOA |
| Saturate | SOAK |
| Schuss, e.g | SKI |
| Scrooge portrayer Alastair | SIM |
| She-sheep | EWE |
| Shells out | PAYS |
| Sierra, Yukon and Acadia | GMCS |
| Six-legged marchers | ANTS |
| Small kid | TYKE |
| Spider’s hatching pouch | EGGSAC |
| Stephen of “V for Vendetta” | REA |
| Stinging flier | WASP |
| Suffix with Carol | INE |
| Suffix with owl or wolf | ISH |
| Supermodel Banks | TYRA |
| Tartan skirt wearers | KILTIES |
| Tendency toward chaos | ENTROPY |
| The whole — and caboodle | KIT |
| Thereafter | SINCE |
| Tossed | THREW |
| Trendy berry | ACAI |
| Vardalos of Hollywood | NIA |
| Very thin, as clouds | WISPY |
| Vetoing vote | NAY |
| Was disgusting to | REPULSED |
| What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically | NEWYEAR |
| Wipe clean | ERASE |
| With it, in old slang | HEP |
| Writer Rand | AYN |
| Young moray, e.g | ELVER |
| Zeta follower | ETA |
| — Field (Mr. Met’s home) | CITI |
| — Hawkins dance | SADIE |
