| Limelight occupant at a cotillion |
BELLE |
| Looks happy |
SMILES |
| Make amends (for) |
ATONE |
| Miss Piggy, self-referentially |
MOI |
| Mojave Desert city frequented by Snoopy's brother Spike |
NEEDLES |
| Mop & ___ |
GLO |
| Neverland henchman |
SMEE |
| Nile Valley crawlers |
ASPS |
| Numbers on soccer goalies' jerseys, often |
ONES |
| Odd duck |
WEIRDO |
| One sharing a bunk bed, maybe |
SIS |
| Papers inside pkgs |
ENCS |
| PBS benefactor |
NEA |
| Plane making short hops |
AIRTAXI |
| Pre-election ad sponsor |
PAC |
| Proofs of laundering, or what this puzzle's groups of circled letters could be called |
MONEYTRAILS |
| Rebekah's firstborn |
ESAU |
| Rich earth |
LOAM |
| Santa ___ winds |
ANA |
| Shake off |
SHED |
| Some works in progress |
DRAFTS |
| Spender of the note represented by the circled letters in 48 Across |
LAO |
| Subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning documentary 'Citizenfour' |
SNOWDEN |
| Taper off |
WANE |
| Tend to one's risotto, perhaps |
STIR |
| Tries to lose |
DIETS |
| Trio associated with Lennon? |
ENS |
| Twitter milestone of 2013, for short |
IPO |
| Two caplets, e.g |
DOSE |
| Vegan gelatin substitute |
AGAR |
| Vegetable in miso soup |
SCALLION |
| Voice one's displeasure, in a way |
BOO |
| What may carry feed from an aerie? |
EAGLECAM |
| When many shops open |
ATNINE |
| Where Shonda Rhimes got her M.F.A |
USC |
| Worker in a pool, perhaps |
TYPIST |
| Yamaha product |
BABYGRAND |
| You'll find carbon molecules in it |
ORGANICCOMPOUND |
