| "Explain, please?" |
HOWSO |
| "Ginger __": 1952 Newbery Medal-winning book |
PYE |
| "Hair" dos |
AFROS |
| "SNL" staples |
SPOOFS |
| "Spring forward" letters |
DST |
| "Today" rival, briefly |
GMA |
| "Wait ... let me start over" |
IMGETTINGMYSELF |
| "What a mess!" |
OHNO |
| "__ a loss" |
IMAT |
| 911 pro |
EMT |
| A time to dye |
EASTER |
| Alaskan native |
ALEUT |
| Alpha's antithesis |
OMEGA |
| Asian festival |
TET |
| Asian wraps |
SARIS |
| Assumed names |
ALIASES |
| Back (out) |
OPT |
| Bad look |
LEER |
| Beach toys |
PAILS |
| Beat in the kitchen |
WHISK |
| Beautify |
ADORN |
| Belief common to much religion |
DEATHLIFE |
| Big name in tennis |
SERENA |
| Big shot: Abbr |
ENL |
| Boat owner's rental |
SLIP |
| Brother of Ham |
SHEM |
| Bunny tail |
SCUT |
| Busy center |
HUB |
| Campaign funders |
FATCATS |
| Car radio button |
PRESET |
| Carpenter's groove |
DADO |
| Caught |
INATRAP |
| Cellar, but not collar, opening |
SOFTC |
| Christine of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" |
LAHTI |
| Comics cry from a birdcage |
AWK |
| Coral component |
POLYP |
| Culture: Pref |
ETHNO |
| Diamond surfaces |
FACETS |
| Did gondola duty |
POLED |
| Disappearing retail giant |
KMART |
| Dollar alternative |
ALAMO |
| Drawers? |
MAGNETS |
| Dudley's toon foe |
SNIDELY |
| Dusk, to Donne |
EEN |
| Early Mesoamerican sculptors |
OLMEC |
| Early pictures |
SILENTS |
| Ed.'s stack |
MSS |
| Eponymous newborn score creator |
APGAR |
| Family dinner fowl |
ROASTER |
| Fancy poultry dish |
GLASSPHEASANT |
| Features of urns |
SPIGOTS |
| Feeling ecstatic |
SITTINGTHEWORLD |
| First name of Dickens' Madame Defarge |
THERESE |
| First novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle |
ERAGON |
| Fitness mantra opening |
USEIT |
| Flat owner, maybe |
LESSOR |
| Flock hangout |
LEA |
| Friend of Goat in "Pearls Before Swine" |
PIG |
| Gentrification target |
EYESORE |
| Georgia gridders, to fans |
DAWGS |
| Gets dirty |
SOILS |
| Gets one's feet wet |
WADES |
| Granada girls |
NINAS |
| Hacking targets: Abbr |
SSNS |
| Hackneyed |
TRITE |
| Half of scissors? |
ESSES |
| Half of some couples |
SPOUSE |
| Heat up |
RILE |
| Heckle, but not Jeckle |
HARASS |
| Hermione's guy |
RON |
