| Lead |
HELM |
| Letter closing from one brother to another |
FRATERNALLY |
| Like a virgin |
CHASTE |
| Measure of military alertness |
DEFCON |
| Nick, e.g |
MAR |
| Not just passes |
ACES |
| Pattern breaker |
ANOMALY |
| Piled leaves |
RAKED |
| Place of eternal happiness |
AVALON |
| Profit chaser? |
EER |
| Pull one's hair out? |
TWEEZE |
| Pushover |
SOFTIE |
| Recalls |
LOOKSBACKON |
| Reddit V.I.P., for short |
MOD |
| Response to a burn or a pun |
OUCH |
| Riffraff |
LOWLIFES |
| Say nasty things about |
SLIME |
| See 17-Across |
FOR |
| See 54-Across |
MOTEL |
| Something the Netherlands has but Belgium doesn't? |
CAPITALN |
| Take root |
SETIN |
| The last pair you'll ever wear? |
CEMENTSHOES |
| They may hold the solution |
BEAKERS |
| Tied the knot |
SAIDIDO |
| Title setting for Shakespeare |
VERONA |
| What 'I' am, in a kid's song |
TEAPOT |
| Where the magician hides the rabbit |
FALSEBOTTOM |
| Who once described puritanism as 'the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy' |
MENCKEN |
| Window: Ger |
FENSTER |
| With 18-Across, desires |
LONGS |
| With 19-Across, spot for a tryst |
NOTELL |
| Word before and after 'in' |
ALL |
| ___ Canals |
SOO |
