| He followed a trail of breadcrumbs |
HANSEL |
| Home Depot competitor |
LOWES |
| Industrial city of Japan |
OSAKA |
| John of 'Entertainment Tonight' and new age music |
TESH |
| Kristen of 'The Last Man on Earth' |
SCHAAL |
| Laugh-out-loud type |
RIOT |
| Lawn straightener |
EDGER |
| Major 2017 event that required special glasses |
SOLARECLIPSE |
| Menzel who sang in 'Frozen' |
IDINA |
| Oath-taker's prop |
BIBLE |
| Olympic gold medalist Sebastian |
COE |
| Overwhelming wonder |
AWE |
| Parrot's cousin |
MACAW |
| Part of DOS, for short |
SYST |
| Part of MIT |
INST |
| Pirate executed in 1701 |
KIDD |
| Prefix meaning 'all' |
OMNI |
| Protect, as with plastic |
ENCASE |
| RR stops |
STNS |
| Scythes through the underbrush, perhaps |
CLEARSAPATH |
| Setting for 'Julius Caesar' |
ROME |
| Soviet org. dissolved in 1991 |
KGB |
| St. Vincent album on a lot of 'Best of 2017' lists |
MASSEDUCTION |
| Suffixes after 'twenti-', 'thirti-,' etc |
ETHS |
| Sushi selection |
EEL |
| There were 'A Few' in a 1992 film title |
GOODMEN |
| Thor Heyerdahl's '___-Tiki' |
KON |
| Took in dinner (but not a movie) |
ATE |
| Took off on two wheels |
BIKED |
| Toy fad that caught on in 2017 |
FIDGETSPINNER |
| Tropicana's locale |
VEGAS |
| Turtle-ish enemy in Super Mario Bros |
KOOPA |
| Unrestrained way to run |
AMOK |
| Util. measured in kWh |
ELEC |
| Whitman of TV's 'Parenthood' |
MAE |
| ___ cum laude (with highest honors) |
SUMMA |
| ___ moment (epiphany) |
AHA |
| ___-Lorraine (area in northeast France) |
ALSACE |