| Clues | Answers |
| “15 minutes could save you …” insurer | GEICO |
| “Feel me?” | YADIG |
| “How much is this gonna set us back?” | WHATSTHEDAMAGE |
| “Same for me” | ASAMI |
| “That true?” | ISIT |
| “This is harder than you’d think, OK?!” | ITSNOTTHATEASY |
| “Who am ___ judge?” | ITO |
| “Wicked Game” singer Chris | ISAAK |
| 17-syllable poems | HAIKUS |
| Actor/Tibetan rights activist Richard | GERE |
| Archer of myth | EROS |
| Arches and Zion, for two | PARKS |
| As of yet | TONOW |
| Attorney’s org | ABA |
| Avoid like the ___ | PLAGUE |
| Battery variety | AAA |
| Become well | HEAL |
| Black hair, brown eyes, etc | TRAITS |
| Bloke | CHAP |
| Calculate | COMPUTE |
| Capitals’ and Senators’ grp | NHL |
| Corona alternative | TECATE |
| Corp. leader | CEO |
| Diacritic that indicates nasalization in Portuguese | TILDE |
| Director Coen | ETHAN |
| Drug that some take microdoses of | LSD |
| Employ | USE |
| Employ | HIRE |
| Employee at a publishing house | EDITOR |
| End of a threat | ORELSE |
| Ferry or dinghy | BOAT |
| First quarters? | STARTERHOME |
| Fish eggs | ROE |
| Flock females | EWES |
| Forceful warning | DONTYOUDARE |
| Fruity dip | MANGOSALSA |
| Hawaiian island where it rained for 331 consecutive days in 1939-’40 | OAHU |
| Indignation | IRE |
| Knight’s title | SIR |
| Like an intense winter | HARSH |
| Like rams and bulls | MALE |
| Like some wine and cheese | AGED |
| Make bubbly | AERATE |
| Mention in a footnote | CITE |
| Move through deep mud | TRUDGE |
| Naan flour | ATTA |
| Name yelled by Rocky in “Rocky” | ADRIAN |
| Native people in Utqiagvik, Alaska | INUIT |
| Place for lox | DELI |
| Places to roll on the floor laughing | AISLES |
| Polygraph | LIEDETECTOR |
| Printer’s blue-green color | CYAN |
| Proposes a date to | ASKSOUT |
| Rene of “The Thomas Crown Affair” | RUSSO |
| Reverberate | ECHO |
| Ruler who lived in Russia’s Winter Palace | TSAR |
| Section of a play | ACT |
| Shake up | RATTLE |
| Sick | ILL |
| Stacks at a publishing house | SLUSHPILES |
| Stereotypical tattoo dedicatee | MOM |
| Sun, in Spanish | SOL |
| Sweet parts of jams? | GUITARSOLOS |
| Term of address that elides a “d” | MAAM |
| Throw or fling | TOSS |
| Tons | ALOT |
| UFO pilots | ETS |
| Vaccine research org | NIH |
| Where sheep graze | MEADOW |
| Wind that may be an eight on the Beaufort scale | GALE |
| Word before “project” or “hair” | PET |
| Works such as Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin” sculpture | ART |
| ___ Moines | DES |
| ___ mortals | MERE |
