| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Don’t be sad!’ | CHEERUP |
| ‘I’d do it again!’ | NOREGRETS |
| ‘I’m thinking very hard about this . . .’ | HMM |
| ‘Noodle and the ___ Day’ (book about a floppy pug) | NOBONES |
| ‘Runaway Bride’ actor Richard | GERE |
| ‘Whoa, ___!’ | NELLY |
| ‘___ and the Bee’ | AKEELAH |
| ‘___ next time!’ | TIL |
| 401(k) alternative | IRA |
| Abbreviation in an away-from-work message | OOO |
| Alternative to gel | PRESSON |
| Bathroom, in Brisbane | LOO |
| Bearded ___ (flower) | IRIS |
| Build up | AMASS |
| Cat’s paw pads | TOEBEANS |
| Chowed down | ATE |
| City in ‘Crying in H Mart’ | SEOUL |
| Container that Winnie the Pooh gets his head stuck in | HONEYPOT |
| Coyote noise | YIP |
| Dance in a pit | MOSH |
| Deep-cover spy | MOLE |
| Director DuVernay | AVA |
| Excited exclamation | WHOO |
| Final stroke in an individual medley | FREESTYLE |
| Fish eggs | ROE |
| Fit in | BELONG |
| Getting 100% on | ACING |
| Green-and-brown pattern, for short | CAMO |
| It might be pulled during finals week | ALLNIGHTER |
| Major enthusiast | FANATIC |
| Minor quarrel | SPAT |
| Mystical letters | RUNES |
| Name equivalent to Oleg | OLGA |
| Not dim | WELLLIT |
| Offer you shouldn’t accept | SCAM |
| One of Canada’s official languages (Abbr.) | ENG |
| Online encyclopedia, for short | WIKI |
| Org. that conducts workplace inspections | OSHA |
| Pack animal | MULE |
| Parts of cars and glasses | RIMS |
| Period | ERA |
| Places to roll the dice | CASINOS |
| Planking position | FACEDOWN |
| Pop star who is an Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo | RITAORA |
| Possible response to ‘tu aimes les mots croises?’ | OUI |
| Provider of reproductive care | OBGYN |
| Rapid | SWIFT |
| Reacting to a dreamboat | SWOONING |
| Relatives of clementines | TANGERINES |
| Shrek and Fiona, for example | OGRES |
| Silent performer | MIME |
| Sin, ___, tan (trigonometry trio) | COS |
| Smart ___ (know-it-all) | ALEC |
| Smashed topping for toast | AVOCADO |
| Snug as a bug in a ___ | RUG |
| Some people born in August | LEOS |
| Something worth something | ASSET |
| Spinning speed stat | RPM |
| Spot for a stud | NOSE |
| The windows to the soul, it’s said | EYES |
| They’re poached to make shakshuka | EGGS |
| Thing | ITEM |
| Three-pointer | TREY |
| Translation of 43-Across | YES |
| Travel stat | ETA |
| Wail | HOWL |
| Wedding answer | IDO |
| Wetlands with reeds | MARSHES |
| With cunning | SLYLY |
| ___ acid (chemical compound in lemons) | CITRIC |
| ___ in (stuck during a blizzard) | SNOWED |
| ___ the Hun | ATTILA |
