| "Foreign Affairs" Pulitzer winner Alison |
LURIE |
| "Is it too risky for me?" |
DAREI |
| "Same here" |
METOO |
| 1980 Winter Olympics host |
USSR |
| Athol Fugard play: "A Lesson from ___" |
ALOES |
| Bookworm |
READER |
| California's locale |
WESTCOAST |
| Cancun mister |
SENOR |
| Certain mushroom |
MOREL |
| Choir recess |
APSE |
| Classical Brahms |
JOHANNES |
| Cry weakly, as a kitten |
MEWL |
| Delicately suggestive |
SUBTLE |
| Despised |
DETESTED |
| Directional suffixes |
ERNS |
| Fortuneteller's lead-in |
ISEE |
| Gen Xer's dad |
BOOMER |
| Golfers' shouts |
FORES |
| Hamelin's flutist |
PIPER |
| Horror-movie sound |
SCREAM |
| Indication of indifference |
SHRUG |
| Instruments like 16-Across |
REEDS |
| Intestinal obstruction |
ILEUS |
| Jib or spinnaker |
SAIL |
| Language spoken by Amazonian natives |
TUPI |
| Legislators pass them |
LAWS |
| Letter-to-Santa word |
WANT |
| Like obnoxiously colored clothes |
LOUD |
| Lip soother |
BALM |
| Middle of three black keys |
AFLAT |
| More, proverbially |
LESS |
| New York strait |
EASTRIVER |
| Nonglossy |
MATTE |
| Oil cartel letters |
OPEC |
| Old telephone feature |
DIAL |
| One-celled organism (Var.) |
AMEBA |
| Orchestra output |
MUSIC |