Author: by Paul Coulter
Across
Unimportant MINOR
Secluded valley GLEN
Top spot ACME
Without equal ALONE
Latest craze RAGE
“Go ahead!” DOIT
How you can spell “anger”? OUTOFRANGE
OR workers DOCS
Alt. spelling VAR
“As I was going to St. ___ …” IVES
Like many older siblings BOSSY
Modernize UPDATE
Coal container BIN
What you can spell “cellar” with? RECALLLETTERS
Tangle SNARL
Sensitive subject for some AGE
Nickname hidden in “two-piece” OPIE
Horse food HAY
Instruction for spelling “race?” USECARE
Hoppy brew, briefly IPA
Keats poems ODES
Cheer in Chihuahua OLE
Workout spots for some YMCAS
What you can spell “cheeps” with? PARTSOFSPEECH
Japanese currency YEN
Perplexes ADDLES
Athlete’s best effort AGAME
Hot spot for a pot KILN
Origami, for one ART
Spelling unrelated to this puzzle’s theme TORI
How you can spell “aboard”? FROMABROAD
“Put your wallet away” ONME
Subway route LINE
Stinks REEKS
Difficult situation MESS
KGB’s place USSR
Beginning phase ONSET
Down
Leader of China’s Cultural Revolution MAO
Fond message on a candy heart ILUVU
“Never!” NOTAPRAYER
Like a product that’s coming ONORDER
NFL whistle blower REF
Rocky driveway surface GRAVEL
Narrow street LANE
Baker’s dozen? EGGS
Born, in bios NEE
Expand, as a house ADDONTO
Whispers sweet nothings COOS
They might be dropped onstage MICS
Site with homemade candles ETSY
“Lovely” Beatles girl RITA
What may be boring? BIT
Org. fighting censorship ACLU
“Cold one” BEER
Shoestrings LACES
NYC airport LGA
Aeneas and Odysseus EPICHEROES
Talk show host Kelly RIPA
Wet septet SEAS
Boutique SHOP
Zilch NADA
Any day now SOON
One with a pole position? ELF
Watched closely EYED
Obstructs STYMIES
British sports car MCLAREN
Word before “red” or “the light” SEE
Golfer Arnold who had a fan army PALMER
“Giant” author Ferber EDNA
Share in a business STAKE
Elemental particle ATOM
Eaten up GONE
Elbows’ limbs ARMS
Kendall Jenner’s mom KRIS
Charged particles IONS
Kind of shot given annually FLU
Dude BRO
It starts in Mar. DST
