| Grueling work |
SLOG |
| Hardly fastidious |
SLOPPY |
| Help with the dishes |
DRY |
| Hiding place |
LAIR |
| High pair |
ACES |
| Ionized gas |
PLASMA |
| Keystone setting |
ARCH |
| King, in Cannes |
ROI |
| Knitting project |
SCARF |
| Largish |
GOODLY |
| Late time, in ads |
NITE |
| Like many flowers visited by bees |
CROSSPOLLINATED |
| Meat-inspecting agcy |
USDA |
| Mountain vista |
PANORAMA |
| New York's largest lake |
ONEIDA |
| Officer's honorific |
SIR |
| One of Alcott's 'Little Women' |
MEG |
| Oscar-winning director of 'Out of Africa' |
SYDNEYPOLLACK |
| Parishioner's donation |
TITHE |
| Part of a defendant's case, often |
ALIBI |
| Pitches |
SPIELS |
| Ponder |
MULL |
| Pretzel shape |
KNOT |
| Rocky peak |
TOR |
| Senator Hirono's state |
HAWAII |
| Source of bills |
ATM |
| Start of a formal letter |
SALUTATION |
| Sunny perch for a cat |
SILL |
| Tiananmen Square portrait |
MAO |
| Ticked off |
SORE |
| Try to gain, as a political office |
SEEK |
| Twins aboard the Argo |
CASTORANDPOLLUX |
| Voting process found in the four longest Across answers |
POLL |
| Wander |
ROVE |
| Wanted poster datum |
ALIAS |
| Ward off |
PARRY |
| ___ Dhabi |
ABU |