| Like sore muscles |
ACHY |
| Long, long times |
EONS |
| Loosen |
EASE |
| Maalox competitor |
GASX |
| Make thinner, like mountain air |
RAREFY |
| Musical talent |
EAR |
| Neckwear for Paul Lynde |
ASCOT |
| Novelist Zora ___ Hurston |
NEALE |
| Org. with the slogan "We create music" |
ASCAP |
| Overwhelm with bugs |
INFEST |
| Pacific Northwest evergreen tree |
OREGONFIR |
| Pikes ___, Colorado |
PEAK |
| Poses a question |
ASKS |
| Question I hope to be correct |
ISTHISYOURCARD |
| Rainn Wilson sitcom, with "The" |
OFFICE |
| Response I'm really hoping to get |
HOWDIDYOUDOTHAT |
| Response that, odds are, I'm probably going to get |
BOO |
| San ___, CA |
MATEO |
| See 1-Across |
CARDFROMTHEDECK |
| Some microwaves, brand-wise |
GES |
| Something depended upon too much |
CRUTCH |
| Sound effect now heard after putting it back |
SHUFFLESHUFFLE |
| Speaks after a few drinks, perhaps |
SLURS |
| Stadium cheers |
RAHS |
| Study all at once |
CRAM |
| Suffix for mod or nod |
ULE |
| Telegram punctuation word |
STOP |
| That girl |
HER |
| Tokyo, formerly |
EDO |
| Tony-winning Hagen |
UTA |
| Two, to some |
DOS |
| Vinyl record |
ALBUM |
| With 17-across, what you're instructed to pick |
ANY |
| Word before Borealis or Australis |
AURORA |
| WWI hideout for soldiers |
TRENCH |
| ___ Buena (town that later became San Francisco) |
YERBA |
| ___ chi |
TAI |
| ___ worms (chewy candy) |
GUMMI |
| ___-Magnon man |
CRO |
