Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate - Dec 17 2017

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Clues Answers
'Botch- --' (Rosemary Clooney hit) AME
'I'll second that' DITTO
'I'll second that' AMEN
1,051, in old Rome MLI
2009 'Star Trek' director J.J ABRAMS
53-Across containers KEGS
A Trump ex IVANA
Accept a Facebook request from a fish? FRIENDREDFIN
Actor Stiller BEN
Actress Davis of 'The Matrix Reloaded' ESSIE
Actress Sarandon SUSAN
Al -- (pasta preference) DENTE
As to INRE
Atlanta-to-Miami dir SSE
Aussie critter KOALA
Bards' A.M MORN
Barely obtain, with 'out' EKE
Baseball Hall of Famer Ralph KINER
Baseball stat ATBAT
Baseball stat ERA
Boarding school student, informally PREPPIE
Boat in Genesis ARK
Bow of 'It' CLARA
Bud MAC
Catches a fish in a net? TRAPSSPRAT
Cheeky INSOLENT
Cheese type BRIE
Choose (to) OPT
Choose (to) ELECT
Clamor DIN
Conceal VEIL
Concert stage items AMPS
Cover thickly COAT
Creole cooking pod OKRA
Crock-Pot meal STEW
Cures a fish by salting and drying? KIPPERSSKIPPER
Declines FALLS
Disgrace SHAME
Divinity sch SEM
Dog part TAIL
Early Andeans INCAS
Earthworm, e.g ANNELID
Eightsome OCTET
Ending for Bronx ITE
Envoy's building EMBASSY
Erté's style ARTDECO
Expulsion HEAVEHO
Eye parts with irises UVEAS
Fair shelter TENT
Fake ID ALIAS
Fish covered with more grit? SANDIERSARDINE
Fish drifting about aimlessly? ROAMERREMORA
Fish smeared with black gunk? TARREDDARTER
Fish that's a sainted guardian? PATRONTARPON
Flee to get hitched ELOPE
For fear that LEST
Free (of) RID
Free-for-all MELEE
French river to the Rhone ISERE
Furniture finishers STAINERS
Give a fish medication? TREATTETRA
Got along FARED
Grabs hold of a fish? TAKESSKATE
Gratify, as a base instinct PANDERTO
Grid stats TDS
Had to admit an error ATECROW
Have bills OWE
Heavyweight great ALI
Hide -- hair NOR
Holy tables ALTARS
Honey-colored fish? AMBERBREAM
Hoppy quaff ALE
Clues Answers
Hubbubs UPROARS
Hyundai compact ELANTRA
In general ASARULE
Informer RAT
It precedes Sept AUG
It's south of Can USA
Just clear of the bottom, as an anchor ATRIP
Lance cpl.'s org USMC
Larch, e.g TREE
Leaf-gathering tool user RAKER
Light meal NOSH
Like spoiled cooking oil RANCID
Long side up ONEND
Lovingly, in music AMOROSO
Makes a fish more softhearted? MELTSSMELT
Max. or min LIM
Mineo of 'Giant' SAL
Modifies ADAPTS
Music styles GENRES
No more than MERE
Not a soul NOONE
Not as cruel NICER
Not as much LESSSO
Notice SEE
O'er there YON
Of the ear AURAL
Old horse NAG
Old man POP
Old's opposite, in German NEU
On Soc. Sec., often RET
On-the-nose PRECISE
Operated on smaller than a national level STATERUN
Palette part HUE
Perfumery oil ATTAR
Philly's train system SEPTA
Put on TV again REAIR
Puts more ammo in RELOADS
Q-U queue RST
Rapa -- NUI
Rd.'s cousin AVE
Runner Bolt USAIN
Samantha Bee's station TBS
Score -- with (impress) AHIT
Seafarer TAR
Seafarer MARINER
Seepage of methane, e.g GASLEAK
Sell for FETCH
Singer Anita or Aubrey ODAY
Sleeveless casual shirt TANKTOP
Some china ensembles TEASETS
Splits RIPS
Spruced up NATTY
Stephen of 'Utopia' REA
Suffers AILS
Suffix for an enzyme ASE
Super- -- DUPER
Teach a fish privately? TUTORTROUT
Texter's 'Didn't need to hear that!' TMI
Theoretical things IFS
They support teeth roots GUMS
Transforms, as larvae PUPATES
Triplets of adjacent nucleotides CODONS
Turn liquid THAW
Twilled fabrics SERGES
Unclothed NAKED
Ushered in LEDUPTO
Wash. bigwig SEN
Went unused SAT
Western treaty inits OAS
Writer Zora -- Hurston NEALE
Wrongful act, legally TORT
Yellow tropical fruit GUAVA