| Nabokov novel |
PNIN |
| Network launched as CNN2 |
HLN |
| Nickname alternative to Terry |
TESSA |
| No later than |
UNTIL |
| Nonarrival |
ABSENTEE |
| Nonreactive in the lab |
INERT |
| Not capricious |
STAID |
| One from Belgrade |
SERB |
| One word in the 10 longest answers, if one letter is changed |
BIRD |
| Pasta ''alla vodka'' |
PENNE |
| Planning, for short |
PREP |
| Playwright Fugard |
ATHOL |
| Poetic preposition |
ERE |
| Port of Yemen |
ADEN |
| Post-op areas |
ICUS |
| Postcard sentiment |
MISSYOU |
| Predatory dolphin |
ORCA |
| Put forth, as a question |
POSIT |
| Race of 3+ mi |
FIVEK |
| Really long time |
EONS |
| Red veggie |
RADISH |
| Regarding |
INRE |
| Role model, slangily |
INSPO |
| Rudolph's claim to fame |
REDNOSE |
| Salty water |
SEAS |
| Scriptural poem |
PSALM |
| See 29 Down |
UTAH |
| Sharp as __ |
ATACK |
| Shove off |
SAIL |
| Sign of condensation |
ETC |
| Small advantage |
EDGE |
| Smile broadly |
BEAM |
| Snarky |
SNIDE |
| Soil-enriching material |
MULCH |
| Sort of steak |
TBONE |
| SSA assignments |
IDNOS |
| Stirs or shakes up |
MIXES |
| Straight __ arrow |
ASAN |
| Stretched to the max |
TAUT |
| Strollers in Surrey |
PRAMS |
| Succeed in a big way |
GETFAR |
| Surpassed in splendor |
OUTSHONE |
| Taco topping |
HOTSAUCE |
| The elite |
HAVES |
| Things we share |
OURS |
| Thurman of ''Pulp Fiction'' |
UMA |
| Tilted type, for short |
ITALS |
| Tinseltown trophy |
OSCAR |
| Tiny bit of dust |
SPECK |
| Title for Merkel |
FRAU |
| Tops of org charts |
CEOS |
| Train patron |
RIDER |
| Tugboat sound |
TOOT |
| Tutu material |
TULLE |
| TV pro bono spot |
PSA |
| Ubiquitous Japanese restaurants |
RAMENSHOPS |
| Uses a ridesharing app |
UBERS |
| Warner __ |
BROS |
| What an 87 Across might be |
ALES |
| What many 3 Down have |
MBAS |
| What surrounds 96 Across |
PERSIANGULF |
| Where ''The Kiss'' is kept |
MUSEERODIN |
| Where a fork might form |
ROAD |
| Where L. Frank Baum set his best-known novel |
KANS |
| With 24 Down, city near Provo |
OREM |
| With no place __ (SRO) |
TOSIT |
| Witherspoon with a 1 Across |
REESE |
| Would-be DA's hurdle |
LSAT |
| Xylophone kin |
VIBES |
| YMCA class |
CPR |
| Youngest Girl Scout |
DAISY |
