| ''Backwoods Barbie'' artist |
PARTON |
| ''Batman'' comics explosion sound |
BLAM |
| ''Big'' choreographer |
ABDUL |
| ''Sure do'' |
YEP |
| ''To Be or Not to __'' (Dizzy Gillespie memoir) |
BOP |
| ''__, lad'' (apt anagram for a UN member) |
ERIN |
| About five pounds of letter-size |
REAM |
| Allowing a peek |
AJAR |
| Ark builder in a 2007 film |
EVAN |
| Athena guided its construction |
ARGO |
| Basis of a platform |
TENET |
| Brand name on Yoplait's Cotton Candy yogurt |
TRIX |
| Break or time preceder |
DAY |
| Bring up with, with ''on'' |
WEAN |
| Brown sphere |
ACADEMIA |
| Canceled a reservation, say |
DINEDIN |
| Center of many comparisons |
THAN |
| Cleared for launch |
OKED |
| Daschle's ex-Senate collaborator on a 2016 book |
LOTT |
| Defensive fortification |
REDOUBT |
| DVD player part |
TRAY |
| Egg whites, to some |
ALLERGEN |
| First audience-participation TV talk show |
DONAHUE |
| Focused grp |
ASSN |
| Future star debuting in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' |
DEPP |
| Get into |
DON |
| Giant of the Enlightenment |
KANT |
| Grand fraction |
CSPOT |
| Grape-Nuts developer |
CWPOST |
| Hard to resist, in a way |
ADORABLE |
| Heated denial |
LIES |
| Heels |
SCOUNDRELS |
| Hooey |
BILGE |
| Ideal model |
PARADIGM |
| Lacking backing |
ACAPPELLA |
| Literally, ''publicity'' |
GLASNOST |