| Middle of the quip, with 37-Across |
ENOUGH |
| Mideast native |
SEMITE |
| Most gutsy |
NERVIEST |
| Name for a king or a queen? |
SERTA |
| Name immortalized by Poe |
LENORE |
| Once, once |
ERST |
| Online merchants |
ETAILERS |
| Pelvic parts |
ILIA |
| Put belowdecks |
STOW |
| Rare string |
STRAD |
| Rears |
STERNS |
| Rest against |
LEANON |
| Routing word |
VIA |
| Santa's reindeer, e.g. |
TEAM |
| Secular |
LAIC |
| See 1-Across |
WILDE |
| See 25-Across |
AVE |
| See 35-Across |
TOKNOW |
| Sleek fleet |
SSTS |
| Soak |
DOUSE |
| Solzhenitsyn, e.g. |
EMIGRE |
| Speech sound |
SONANT |
| Spun, as a story |
YARNED |
| Start of a quip |
IMNOTYOUNG |
| They have a lot of pull |
TUGS |
| They hold your horses |
HALTERS |
| They're for the birds |
TREES |
| To be, at the Sorbonne |
ETRE |
| Waikiki gift |
LEI |
| Watch a monitor, say |
TELEVIEW |
| When '77 Sunset Strip' aired: Abbr. |
FRI |
| Where the U.N. is in Manhattan, with 27-Across |
FIRST |
| With 63-Across, author of the quip starting at 17-Across |
OSCAR |
| With refinement |
SUAVELY |
| Writers' bloc |
SCRIBES |
| ___ polloi |
HOI |