| "Because __ so!!" |
ISAID |
| "Desperate Housewives" character |
BREE |
| "Dust-colored," in Hindustani |
KHAKI |
| "Islands in the Stream" duettist |
PARTON |
| "Queen Sugar" creator DuVernay |
AVA |
| "__ of Us": Joan Osborne hit |
ONE |
| 1800s Mexican leader Juárez |
BENITO |
| Accommodates |
FITS |
| Aspect of a problem |
FACET |
| Big bash |
FETE |
| Box score abbr |
PTS |
| City addr. info |
APTNO |
| Clear dishes from |
BUS |
| Composer Rorem |
NED |
| Cul-de-__ |
SAC |
| Day-__ |
GLO |
| Dumbbell abbr |
LBS |
| Eggs |
OVA |
| Enlists again |
REUPS |
| Excursion in a Loire Valley town? |
TOURSTOUR |
| Falls for lovers? |
NIAGARA |
| FDR power program |
TVA |
| Flash drive port |
USB |
| Flood |
INUNDATE |
| Former trucking watchdog agcy |
ICC |
| Going down |
SETTING |
| Horse of southeastern France? |
RHONEROAN |
| Hose color |
ECRU |
| Hybrid linguistic term that hints at the answers to 17-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across |
FRANGLAIS |
| Improve, as a highway |
REPAVE |
| Japanese carrier that sponsors a major LPGA event |
ANA |
| Laugh syllable |
HAR |
| Lestrade's rank, in Sherlock Holmes stories: Abbr |
INSP |
| Lip |
SASS |
| London's Old __ |
VIC |
| Longtime Utah senator Hatch |
ORRIN |
| Louisville-based fast-food company |
KFC |
| Loved |
ADORED |
