| Molecular component |
ATOM |
| Name in a Harold Robbins title |
BETSY |
| NBA coach Pat |
RILEY |
| Oxen linker |
YOKE |
| Persuade |
SWAY |
| Pond-dwelling duck |
TEAL |
| Private instruction? |
ATEASE |
| Publisher's payment |
ROYALTY |
| Put (down) |
LAY |
| Referendum choice |
YES |
| Reproductive cells |
OVA |
| River of song |
OLDMAN |
| Russian pancake |
BLINI |
| Saint Petersburg neighbor |
TAMPA |
| Seaweed |
KELP |
| Second letter addendum |
PPS |
| See 31-Across |
INTHEDARK |
| Slip away, as time |
ELAPSE |
| Solid ground |
BEDROCK |
| Spare part |
RIM |
| Spicy |
HOT |
| Standards of perfection |
IDEALS |
| State positively |
ASSERT |
| Stop on a line |
DEPOT |
| Summers on the Seine |
ETES |
| They're put on by snobs |
AIRS |
| Tight situation |
DILEMMA |
| Toys that go around the world |
YOYOS |
| Tristan's secret love |
ISOLDE |
| Tropical nut or palm |
BETEL |
| Type of coach (Abbr.) |
ASST |
| Uplift morally |
EDIFY |
| Vegetates |
LOAFS |
| Vladimir Nabokov novel |
ADA |
| Watch for the cops, maybe |
ABET |
| Wheels for wheels |
LIMO |
| Words with ''TV'' in an old NBC slogan |
MUSTSEE |
| Yellowish-red chalcedony |
SARD |
| ___ Toguri D'Aquino (certain Tokyo Rose) |
IVA |