| Inning half |
BOTTOM |
| Invite to one's penthouse |
ASKUP |
| Iraqi port |
BASRA |
| Jerk |
IDIOT |
| Layered cookies |
OREOS |
| Marvel Comics mutants |
XMEN |
| Medicare section for doctors' services |
PARTB |
| Narrow crack |
FISSURE |
| Needing a drink |
THIRSTY |
| NHL surface |
ICE |
| Number of sides on most game cubes |
SIX |
| Omelet meat |
HAM |
| Pale |
ASHY |
| Persian monarchs |
SHAHS |
| Peruvian native |
INCA |
| Pitchfork-shaped Greek letter |
PSI |
| Poet Nash |
OGDEN |
| Prefix with -bar or -tope |
ISO |
| Pro __: in proportion |
RATA |
| Put together, as IKEA furniture |
ASSEMBLE |
| Puts up with |
ABIDES |
| Reason to roll out the tarp |
RAIN |
| Reduce |
LESSEN |
| Reggae relative |
SKA |
| Royal decree |
FIAT |
| Salty waters |
SEAS |
| Sean Penn film with a Seussian title |
IAMSAM |
| See 63-Across |
PAD |
| Sewn loosely |
BASTED |
| She, in Sicily |
ESSA |
| Sitcom producer Chuck |
LORRE |
| Some Little League eligibility rules |
AGELIMITS |
| Taxi meter amount |
FARE |
| Tickle the fancy of |
APPEALTO |
| Urge forward |
IMPEL |
| Western neighbor of Wyoming |
IDAHO |
| What a stet cancels |
DELE |
| With 21-Down, dictation taker's need |
STENO |