| In ___ straits |
DIRE |
| Insert, as a video |
EMBED |
| Items on a to-do list |
TASKS |
| Joey's home |
POUCH |
| Jordanian or Syrian |
ARAB |
| Just hanging around |
IDLE |
| K, on a sorority sweatshirt |
KAPPA |
| Lead-in to "historic" |
PRE |
| Light purple |
LILAC |
| List keeper in college? |
DEAN |
| Look narrowly |
PEER |
| Many a singing show performance |
SOLO |
| Match up |
SYNC |
| McBride of "Hawaii Five-0" |
CHI |
| Mouse relative |
RAT |
| Musk who's dating Grimes |
ELON |
| Niihau neckwear |
LEI |
| Noisy precipitation |
HAIL |
| One way to learn |
ROTE |
| Own (up) |
FESS |
| Part of 51-Across |
PALE |
| Part of the plan? |
STEP |
| Past or future |
TENSE |
| Pig's place |
STY |
| Place to store a rake, perhaps |
SHED |
| Prompted |
CUED |
| Q-tips, for instance |
SWABS |
| Share-increasing action, or a hint to the word that bookends the starred answers |
STOCKSPLIT |
| Some parental siblings |
AUNTS |
| Space flare-ups |
NOVAS |
| Special ___ (some missions) |
OPS |
| TGIF segment |
ITS |
| Unpleasant fuss |
STINK |
| Wasatch ski resort |
ALTA |
| Woodland measure |
ACRE |
| Word before "times" or "news" |
OLD |
| Wrinkly tangelo |
UGLI |
| Writes in stone, say |
ETCHES |
| Wu-Tang ___ (rap group) |
CLAN |
| ___-Saxon |
ANGLO |
