| 'Congratulations!' |
BRAVO |
| 'Now I get it!' |
AHA |
| 'Shucks!' |
AWGEE |
| 'Who's there?' response |
ITSME |
| *'___ England Slept' (1938 Churchill book) |
WHILE |
| *Celery unit |
STALK |
| *Formation of poker chips |
STACK |
| *Hackneyed |
STALE |
| *Leeway |
SLACK |
| *One side of a 23-Across piece |
BLACK |
| *Other side of a 23-Across piece |
WHITE |
| *Pinocchio swallower |
WHALE |
| *Sedimentary rock |
SHALE |
| A few: Abbr |
SEV |
| Actor Paul of 'American Graffiti' |
LEMAT |
| Actress Vardalos |
NIA |
| Aggregate |
AMASS |
| Airplane seat restraint |
LAPBELT |
| Albanian currency |
LEK |
| Another name for 23-Across |
REVERSI |
| Baltic capital |
RIGA |
| Big name in cameras and copiers |
CANON |
| Book between Galatians and Philippians: Abbr |
EPH |
| Brown ermine |
STOAT |
| Buildings in a Washington, D.C., 'row' |
EMBASSIES |
| Coastal raptor |
ERN |
| Composition of dunes |
SAND |
| Corporate raider Carl |
ICAHN |
| Creator of a logical 'razor' |
OCCAM |
| Disc-flipping board game hinted at by a word ladder formed by the answers to the nine starred clues |
OTHELLO |
| Dollar bill, e.g |
BANKNOTE |
| Eleanor Roosevelt, to Theodore |
NIECE |
| Embarrass |
ABASH |
| Fair-hiring letters |
EEO |
| Farm female |
EWE |
| Grand Marnier flavor |
ORANGE |
| H&R Block V.I.P |
CPA |
| H.S. students getting ready for college |
SRS |
| Haphazard |
SLAPDASH |