| Clues | Answers |
| “Congrats!” | KUDOS |
| “Gung Ho” actress Rogers | MIMI |
| “I’ll take that as __” | ANO |
| “Memento” star Guy | PEARCE |
| “Oz” co-star Walker | EAMONN |
| “__ minute!” | INA |
| 10-year-old student, often | FIFTHGRADER |
| 1040 org | IRS |
| Actor Milo | OSHEA |
| Actor Ryan | ONEAL |
| Actress Ryan | MEG |
| Agrees (with) | SIDES |
| Alternative to apple pie | PEACHCOBBLER |
| American poet __ Baraka | AMIRI |
| Ancient Palestine | CANAAN |
| Arizona-to-Kentucky dir | ENE |
| Atomic cores | NUCLEI |
| Auditory stimuli | SOUNDS |
| Aves | STS |
| Baby’s breath and cowherb are members of it | CARNATIONFAMILY |
| Baggage screeners’ org | TSA |
| Balloon pilot | AERONAUT |
| Bamboo eaters | PANDAS |
| Basra natives | IRAQIS |
| Before | ERE |
| Big internet portal | YAHOO |
| Bits of land in eau | ILES |
| Blue-green | AQUA |
| Boxer Ali | LAILA |
| Brazilian soccer hero | PELE |
| Brian of rock | ENO |
| Broccoli __ | RAAB |
| Burger meat | BEEF |
| Carrier with a Toronto hub | AIRCANADA |
| Cath., e.g | REL |
| Closer to now | SOONER |
| Country of NW Afr | MOR |
| Court hearing | TRIAL |
| Crispy-skinned fish dish | PANSEAREDSALMON |
| Cubic __ (fake gem) | ZIRCONIA |
| Debonair | URBANE |
| Destroying Scuds, say | ANTIMISSILE |
| Diplomacy | TACT |
| Feb. 29, for leap day babies | DOB |
| Fiero or GTO | PONTIAC |
| Fleur-de- __ | LIS |
| Florida city near Miami | CORALSPRINGS |
| Four-page sheet | FOLIO |
| Fourteen times five | SEVENTY |
| French cathedral city | REIMS |
| Frisbees, e.g | DISCS |
| Glossy fabric with an elaborate floral pattern | SATINDAMASK |
| Goodyear’s home city | AKRON |
| Greasier | OILIER |
| Green prefix | ECO |
| Guitarist Lofgren | NILS |
| Having a saintly ring | HALOED |
| Hesitate like a mule | BALK |
| In reserve | ONICE |
| In __ (stuck) | ASPOT |
| It’ll stop traffic | SIREN |
| Jackson 5 #1 hit of 1970 | ABC |
| Jewish villages of old | SHTETLS |
| Job honcho | BOSS |
| Lease topic | RENT |
| Leg midpoint | KNEE |
| Lieu | STEAD |
| Like a laundromat washer, for short | COINOP |
| Mail in, e.g | SEND |
| Main points | GISTS |
| Malicious sort | MEANIE |
| Many KFC pieces | BREASTS |
| Mariner’s distance unit | SEAMILE |
| Material on a Q-tip | EARWAX |
| Mauna __ | LOA |
| Meowing pet | CAT |
| Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” e.g | MEMOIR |
| Moose kin | ELKS |
| Nanny’s cry | BAA |
| Narrow road | LANE |
| Native American feathered headdress | WARBONNET |
| Native of Fiji or Nauru | OCEANIAN |
| Notable time | ERA |
| Noted presidential matriarch | ROSEKENNEDY |
| Papal crowns | TIARAS |
| Pasta sauce brand | RAGU |
| Peel off | STRIPAWAY |
| Performs an axel, e.g | SKATES |
| Person howling | WAILER |
| Philosopher Hannah | ARENDT |
| Playpen toy | RATTLE |
| Prez Lincoln | ABE |
| Promiser’s qualifier | IFICAN |
| Qty | AMT |
| Raggedy __ | ANN |
| Results of compromises | TRADEOFFS |
| Rib-eye, e.g | STEAK |
| Round bodies | ORBS |
| Rule, in brief | REG |
| Schick item | RAZOR |
| Ship’s spine | KEEL |
| Showy debut, perhaps | SPLASH |
| Shunned one | PARIAH |
| Singer DiFranco | ANI |
| Singer Marc | COHN |
| Sinus doc | ENT |
| Site of rural peace | ARCADIA |
| Site: Abbr | LOC |
| Some light planes | CESSNAS |
| Sondheim’s “Everybody Ought to Have __” | AMAID |
| Square-cut building stones | ASHLARS |
| Squeal (on) | RAT |
| Strong as __ | ANOX |
| Suffix with resident | IAL |
| Swam some pool lengths | DIDLAPS |
| Tavern | PUB |
| Tavern | INN |
| Tram rocks | ORES |
| Trinidad and __ | TOBAGO |
| Triple Crown venue | BELMONT |
| Twilight time, to poets | EVENTIDE |
| U.K. equivalent to an Oscar | BAFTA |
| Upon initial sight | ATFIRSTBLUSH |
| Vardalos of the screen | NIA |
| VirusScan company | MCAFEE |
| Wage recipients | PAYEES |
| Walk cockily | STRUT |
| Walloped in a boxing ring | KOD |
| Well-reasoned | COGENT |
| What seven key words in this puzzle are | SHADESOFPINK |
| Yemen port | ADEN |
| __ -Croatian | SERBO |
| __ -fi flick | SCI |
| __ and pestle | MORTAR |
| __ Bo | TAE |
| __ Domingo | SANTO |
| __ for tat | TIT |
| __ Lingus | AER |
