| 'Black Water' author Joyce Carol ___ |
OATES |
| 'Bus Stop' playwright William |
INGE |
| 'Can I ___ your phone?' |
USE |
| 'Come in the morning while the ___ of night, / Which are fair Nature's tears in darkness shed': Wilfrid Scawen Blunt |
DEWS |
| 'Doing fine' |
IMOK |
| 'Hey, check this out!' |
OHLOOK |
| 'In here, quickly!' |
HIDE |
| 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' playwright |
ONEILL |
| 'Mean Girls' producer Michaels |
LORNE |
| 'Misty' singer Fitzgerald |
ELLA |
| 'Napoleon Dynamite' actress Majorino |
TINA |
| 'OMG, we're having a blast!' |
ITSLIT |
| 'Pull the plug on the whole thing!' |
SHUTITDOWN |
| 'Silent All These Years' singer Amos |
TORI |
| 'The Rapture' actress Rogers |
MIMI |
| 'This hot tub feels nice!' |
AAH |
| 'Whatever you say' |
SURE |
| 'Wild' star Witherspoon |
REESE |
| 'You win' |
ILOSE |
| 'You've got that right!' |
AMEN |
| 2018 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Steve |
NASH |
| Ace Hardware offerings |
TOOLS |
| Adorn ornately |
GILD |
| Again |
ANEW |
| Allocate, with 'out' |
METE |
| Apt soda pop for pops? |
DADS |
| Awards for off- and off-off-Broadway shows |
OBIES |
| Bespectacled pirate in 'Peter Pan' |
SMEE |
| Burnt firewood residue |
ASH |
| Characters in Lara Prescott's novel 'The Secrets We Kept' |
SPIES |
| Chardonnay and riesling, e.g |
WHITEWINES |
| Cheetah feature |
SPEED |
| Chronological chunks |
ERAS |
| Claim again, as power |
REASSERT |
| Close off from others |
ISOLATE |
| Clue weapon |
ROPE |
| Contrapuntal musical piece composed by a fiction author? |
LITERARYCANON |
| Defeat decisively |
TROMP |
| Difficult |
NOTEASY |
| Diminish the strength of |
DILUTE |
| Dr. Robotnik's hedgehog foe in video games |
SONIC |
| Driving range prop |
TEE |
| Extremely foolish |
ASININE |
| Eye on one's arm, e.g., briefly |
TAT |
| Fly with duplicated letters |
TSETSE |
| Follows |
HEEDS |
| Food bank donations |
CANS |
| Form of self-reflection? |
ECHO |
| Freezes |
HALTS |
| Georges whose book 'A Void' notably avoided the letter E |
PEREC |
| Grammy winner Harper |
BEN |
| Guy doing corp. spin |
PRMAN |
| Hawaiian wedding band instrument, for short |
UKE |
| He has 2020 visions |
BIDEN |
| Herb on caprese pizza |
BASIL |
| Hr. when you may leave |
ETD |
| Identify, as on social media |
TAG |
| Imaginative instrumental work composed by a stoner? |
HIGHFANTASY |
| In the neighborhood |
LOCAL |
| Informal refusal |
NAH |
| Instrumental piece composed by a South Korean car salesman? |
HYUNDAISONATA |
| Invites, as one's Tinder match |
ASKSOUT |
| Is situated atop |
LIESON |
| Italian setting of the Palazzo Giusti |
VERONA |
| Like Kramer in 'Kramer vs. Kramer' |
REPEATED |
| Like many black light theater productions |
ARTSY |
| Like sleep free of nightmares, say |
DREAMLESS |
| Like some marsh plants |
REEDY |
| Like some radiation |
SOLAR |
| Lion voiced by Beyoncé in the 2019 remake of 'The Lion King' |
NALA |