| 'Ben-Hur' novelist Wallace |
LEW |
| 'For rent,' in other, shorter words |
TOLET |
| 'Melrose Place' actor Rob |
ESTES |
| 'Yeah, pretty unlikely' |
ITSASTRETCH |
| 1920s mobster who mainly worked in bootlegging and numbers rackets |
DUTCHSCHULTZ |
| 1994 movie mainly set on a bus |
SPEED |
| Actress Whitman of 'Parenthood' |
MAE |
| All excited |
AGOG |
| Antiquing material |
AGER |
| Aries symbol |
RAM |
| Beetle variety |
STAG |
| Bill of Rights count |
TEN |
| Blood-sucking African fly |
TSETSE |
| Boil down |
DECOCT |
| Bull, in Bilbao |
TORO |
| Casino delicacy? |
CLAM |
| Cocoa amts |
TSPS |
| Did some community theater, say |
ACTED |
| Doctor's directive |
SAYAH |
| Does 2 Chainz's job |
RAPS |
| Dog, unkindly |
CUR |
| Element #42 (which for some reason isn't in as many puzzles as, say, 19-Across) |
MOLYBDENUM |
| Element #50 |
TIN |
| Fall Out Boy bassist Pete |
WENTZ |
| Fierce look |
GLARE |
| Find a way to make things happen |
PULLSOMESTRINGS |
| Freebie at a Mexican restaurant |
AGUA |
| Full pairing? |
ELLS |
| Gatekeeping org.? |
TSA |
| German submarine |
UBOAT |
| Gone wrong? |
AWOL |
| Grain-storage building |
SILO |
| Hosiery shade |
ECRU |
| In any way |
HOWEVER |
| Industrial city of the Ruhr Valley |
ESSEN |
| Ireland, in Ireland |
EIRE |
| Its state song is the creatively titled 'The Song of [that state]' |
IOWA |
| Japanese general of WWII |
TOJO |
