| Lion's abode |
DEN |
| lllinois city that symbolizes Middle America |
PEORIA |
| London quaff |
ALE |
| Long-eared leaper |
HARE |
| Major conflicts |
WARS |
| Medieval estate |
FIEF |
| Mimics |
APES |
| Misleading thing |
DECOY |
| Musical stack |
CDS |
| Narrow valley |
GLEN |
| Nightclub bash |
RAVE |
| On pace to win |
AHEAD |
| Opera solos |
ARIAS |
| Opts for a more private life, or a feature of 16-, 27- and 42-Across? |
DROPSOFFTHEGRID |
| Org. overseeing airspace |
FAA |
| Oxymoronic social occasion |
WORKPARTY |
| Pair in an idiomatic pod |
PEAS |
| Persian Gulf country |
IRAN |
| Pharmacy buy |
DRUG |
| Plot points? |
DATA |
| Prez #16 |
ABE |
| Self-referential |
META |
| Significant others, in slang |
BAES |
| Skin designs, for short |
TATS |
| Sound of a 56-Down |
PFFT |
| Spanish art museum |
PRADO |
| Spun records at a 15-Across |
DJED |
| State capital north of Colorado Springs |
DENVER |
| Symptom of a bug bite |
ITCH |
| The "R" of RBG |
RUTH |
| They're higher than cellos |
VIOLAS |
| Urgent, as circumstances |
DIRE |
| Water polo site |
POOL |
| What waiters and privates take |
ORDERS |
| You may sing one in the snow showers |
CAROL |
| Zigzag down a slope |
SLALOM |
| ___ Reader |
UTNE |
