| Irascible |
CRANKY |
| Islamic rulers |
EMIRS |
| Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered |
NAGOYA |
| Kind of acid |
AMINO |
| Labor-regulating org |
OSHA |
| Lacking freshness |
OLDHAT |
| Latin clarifier |
IDEST |
| Lead-in to rail |
MONO |
| Like most mouthwashes |
MINTY |
| Look ahead |
PLAN |
| Look extremely stylish, slangily |
SLAY |
| Male deer |
HART |
| Map section |
REGION |
| Modern prefix |
NEO |
| Monk's title |
FRA |
| Needing a passcode, maybe |
LOCKED |
| Old enough |
OFAGE |
| One of the so-called 'Three Crowns of Florence,' along with Petrarch and Boccaccio |
DANTE |
| One vain about his looks |
FOP |
| Opposite of WSW |
ENE |
| Order by the border |
TACO |
| Part of many California place names |
LOS |
| Part of New York City's Museum Mile, with 'the' |
MET |
| Party tray meat |
SALAMI |
| Penny going through the wash once again? |
RECYCLINGCENT |
| Perfectly placed 'Batman' punch? |
ABSOLUTEPOW |
| Persuade by force |
COERCE |
| Piece of news |
ITEM |
| Practices lexicography |
DEFINES |
| Pried, with 'in' |
NOSED |
| Printed cotton fabric |
CALICO |
| Puts forward |
NOMINATES |
| Responded in court |
PLED |
| Sanskrit scripture |
VEDA |
| Says without feeling |
INTONES |
| Send over the moon |
ELATE |
| Sheep's kin |
GOATS |
| Singer/songwriter Lee |
AMOS |
| Small anatomical opening, as in a bone |
FENESTRA |
| Some Hollywood up-and-comers |
STARLETS |
| Soup pod |
OKRA |
| Soup served at the church social? |
AMENBROTH |
| Source of the idioms 'fat of the land' and 'fire and brimstone' |
GENESIS |
| Stark who was crowned king in the 'Game of Thrones' finale |
BRAN |
| Start of a magician's phrase |
HOCUS |
| State |
AVOW |
| State you'll never get to |
UTOPIA |
| Stealing attempts on the diamond? |
HEISTS |
| Sticks a fork in |
STABS |
| Subject of Walter Lord's 'A Night to Remember' |
TITANIC |
| These can go for a lot of bucks |
DOES |
| Think of together |
ASSOCIATE |
| Turn down |
REFUSE |
| Unfilled spaces |
CAVITIES |
| Unit of current |
AMP |
| Units of distance in physics |
FERMIS |
| Viewed optimistically |
ATBEST |
| Waited at a red light, say |
IDLED |
| What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by |
EMAIL |
| Where to find MA and PA |
USA |
| Withdrew |
REVOKED |
| Without reserve |
ALLIN |
| Word with freeze or fixing |
PRICE |
| World-renowned |
ICONIC |
| Yucatán natives |
MAYAS |
| ___ American Heritage Month (April) |
ARAB |
| ___ Bora, area of Afghanistan |
TORA |
| ___ flour |
SOY |
| ___ People's Democratic Republic |
LAO |
| ___ snake |
GARTER |
