| Lets out ___ (bellows) |
AROAR |
| Light gas |
NEON |
| Little boys |
TADS |
| Lose hair |
SHED |
| Luster |
SHEEN |
| Makes a move |
ACTS |
| Making long strides |
LOPING |
| Male mallards |
DRAKES |
| Mantle teammate |
MARIS |
| Mapquest alternative |
ATLAS |
| McCoy, to Kirk |
BONES |
| Mineral residue |
CALX |
| Mint family herb |
THYME |
| More pretentious |
ARTIER |
| More than loyal * |
TRUEBLUE |
| Nontheistic type |
HUMANISTS |
| O'Neill-title verb |
COMETH |
| Oklahoma oil town |
ADA |
| Old expression of admiration (and the key to this puzzle's theme) |
ITSTHEBERRIES |
| Orchestra section |
BRASS |
| Oreck prods. |
VACS |
| Out of key, as a piano |
UNTUNED |
| Paralegal, for ex. |
ASST |
| Pharaoh's cross |
ANKH |
| Place ___ (buy newspaper space) |
ANAD |
| Play prolonger |
TIE |
| Poker IOU |
CHIT |
| Popular Miami dessert |
FLAN |
| Positioned |
PUT |
| Pres. appointee |
SECY |
| Published |
RAN |
| Putts out |
TAPSIN |
| Pygmy antelopes |
ORIBIS |
| Rather high, pricewise |
ABITSTEEP |
| Realistic prefix? |
NEO |
| Relinquish |
CEDE |
| Retired boomer? |
SST |
| Rich contributor |
FATCAT |
| S ___ Sam |
ASIN |
| See 35 Down |
LOCO |
| Sen. Barbara Boxer's predecessor * |
ALANCRANSTON |
| Sinatra hit, "The World ___" |
WEKNEW |
| Slips |
ERRS |
| Smelter input |
IRONORE |
| Special interest grp. |
ASSN |
| Spode abodes * |
CHINACABINETS |
| Spot early on? |
PUP |
| State on I-5: abbr. |
OREG |
| Statue at St. Peter's |
PIETA |
| Stock symbol of Southwest Airlines |
LUV |
| Stupid * |
CHUCKLEHEADED |
| Subject of a Steve Martin song |
TUT |
| Summer buzzer |
CICADA |
| Surprisingly cold |
NIPPY |
| The Bard's Athenian |
TIMON |
| The Governator's wife |
MARIA |
| The same |
ALIKE |
| Tiki bar handout |
LEI |
| Tirade prelude |
IRE |
| Toastmaster |
EMCEE |
| Tough guy's usual remark after meeting an all-American girl |
NICEKID |
| Tour of duty |
STINT |
| Unofficial votes * |
STRAWBALLOTS |
| Verdun verb |
ETRE |
| War-hero prez |
IKE |
| Weighed down |
LADEN |
| With 111 Down, crazy as a loon, in the Crazy A Saloon |
PLUMB |
| Word on Mitchum's hand in "Night of the Hunter" |
HATE |
| Words of shock, in a play |
ETTU |
| Worst place? |
LAST |
| Zesty finger foods |
TAPAS |