| "J'accuse...!" writer Zola |
EMILE |
| "Your highness" |
SIRE |
| 20 dispenser |
ATM |
| Admit to knowing |
LETON |
| Arctic or snowshoe animal |
HARE |
| Beginnings of ideas |
GERMS |
| Big name in Italian fashion |
ARMANI |
| Brouhaha |
ADO |
| California/Nevada resort area, informally |
TAHOE |
| Catalog insert |
ORDERFORM |
| Certain unpopular collector |
TAXMAN |
| City in northwestern Pennsylvania |
ERIE |
| Civil rights activist Ruby |
DEE |
| Combined, as funds |
POOLED |
| Common drying agent in packaging (see letters 6 to 8 in this answer) |
SILICAGEL |
| Cowardly |
CRAVEN |
| December 31, briefly |
NYE |
| Dined |
ATE |
| Drive very fast |
RACE |
| Eavesdropping org |
NSA |
| End of an ultimatum |
ELSE |
| Eve, for Cain and Abel |
MOM |
| Fellow associate |
COMRADE |
| Fiona in "Shrek," for one |
OGRESS |
| Fly a plane |
AVIATE |
| Gave the once-over |
EYED |
| Get ready to eat a kid's meal? |
TEETHE |
| Highest point value for a Scrabble tile |
TEN |
| Jones or James of jazz |
ETTA |
| Karaoke need, informally |
MIKE |
| Kick out of school |
EXPEL |
| Kimono sash |
OBI |
| Less constrained |
FREER |
| Like owls' feet |
TALONED |
| Maximally unpleasant situation |
THEPITS |
| Medication-approving org |
FDA |
| Millenniums, for instance ... or a hint to the hidden words in 17-, 31- and 44-Across |
TIMESPANS |
| More cunning |
SLIER |
