| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| 'Dire' places | STRAITS |
| 'Douglas' evergreen | FIR |
| 'Right now,' in the ER | STAT |
| 'Son of,' in Arabic names | IBN |
| Academic degrees for which the candidates' hood color is dark blue (abbr.) | PHDS |
| Airline that would never serve scampi | ELAL |
| Answer to the question, 'Fritz, does 5 plus 4 equal 8?'? | NEIN |
| Assessed, as a tax | LEVIED |
| Balto's destination in the 1925 Great Race of Mercy | NOME |
| Beat in an auction | OUTBID |
| Bibliographer's 'and other folks' | ETAL |
| Big oxes | OAFS |
| Bounce like a bunny | HOP |
| Brand of grape pop | NEHI |
| Calendar squares | DAYS |
| Canterbury can | LOO |
| Catcalls | JEERS |
| Commit Fido-filching upon | DOGNAP |
| Communicate manually | SIGN |
| Concede | ADMIT |
| Consume | INGEST |
| Cunning | SLY |
| Cutter's kin | SLOOP |
| Director Lee | ANG |
| Drench | SOAK |
| Drop ___ (moon someone) | TROU |
| Dwell | LIVE |
| Enhanced radiation weapon, for short | NBOMB |
| Eponym of an alternative anthology magazine | UTNE |
| FBI operatives | AGTS |
| Fortune's partner | FAME |
| Frenziedly | AMOK |
| Goat that makes offers the others can't refuse? | MAAFIABOSS |
| Harsh reality of a horse's life? | NEIGHKEDTRUTH |
| How someone who jumps bail might be tried | INABSENTIA |
| Huge, to a poet | ENORM |
| Land and buildings thereon | PREMISES |
| Landlocked African nation whose capital is Lilongwe | MALAWI |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Largest organ, anatomically | SKIN |
| Leaning on one's shovel, perhaps | IDLE |
| Leaves out | OMITS |
| Like an uncommon Latin bird? | RARA |
| Like some pickings | SLIM |
| Lose vitality | FADE |
| Lunch counter alternative to American | SWISS |
| Maximally, in a way | TOTHETEETH |
| Method a cow uses to relocate from pasture to pasture? | MOOVINGVAN |
| Modeler's wood | BALSA |
| Moon goddess | LUNA |
| Musical key with five sharps (abbr.) | BMAJ |
| Musical Mr. Dogg | SNOOP |
| Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George who cameoed on 'The Big Bang Theory' | SMOOT |
| Not barefoot | SHOD |
| Odafin Tutuola's portrayer on 'Law & Order: SVU' | ICET |
| Opportunist that takes advantage of the other sheep? | BAATTOMFEEDER |
| Pop | SODA |
| Put down | DEBASE |
| Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter | ANNE |
| Roman wrap | TOGA |
| Rosebud, for one | SLED |
| Seeming eternity | AEON |
| Shaq's sneakers, widthwise | EEES |
| Sitar relative | LUTE |
| Small thrill | KICK |
| Spring in one's step | PEP |
| Tangles up | ENMESHES |
| Ten or higher, in bridge | HONOR |
| Texter's bosom buddy | BFF |
| Tittles | DOTS |
| Totally nuts | BONKERS |
| Upon | ATOP |
| USS Enterprise helmsman played by George Takei | SULU |
| Veggie from Vidalia | ONION |
| What many service providers work for | TIPS |
| With 'out,' attain with difficulty | EKE |
| Witness's oath | IDO |
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