| “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae |
JEPSEN |
| “Chain Gang” singer Cooke |
SAM |
| “Futurama” spaceship captain |
LEELA |
| “Golden Boy” playwright |
ODETS |
| “In the Magic Mirror” painter |
KLEE |
| “Invasion had come to the town of ___” (opening words of a 1944 novel) |
ADANO |
| “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” writer Nancy |
PELOSI |
| “Someone Like You” singer |
ADELE |
| “Take a shot!” |
GOFORIT |
| “You wish!” |
DREAMON |
| “___ been real!” |
ITS |
| 1958 Pulitzer winner James |
AGEE |
| Account that might earn interest |
TALE |
| Adversary |
FOE |
| Altiplano animals |
LLAMAS |
| Amanda Gorman and others |
POETS |
| Anesthetize |
DEADEN |
| Arbitrary order |
FIAT |
| Away from shore |
ASEA |
| Baseball T sleeve style |
RAGLAN |
| Battery component |
ANODE |
| Big media agcy |
UPI |
| Blows away |
AMAZES |
| Board supporter |
SAWHORSE |
| Brings down |
REDUCES |
| Busy business on St. Patrick’s Day |
IRISHPUB |
| Carnival rides |
LINERS |
| Cedar Rapids college |
COE |
| Certain something |
AURA |
| Chooses |
OPTSFOR |
| Chopsticks source |
PIANO |
| Clairvoyants |
SEERS |
| Conspicuous |
INEVIDENCE |
| Corn unit |
EAR |
| Course number |
PAR |
| Court feat |
ACE |
| Cross bearer, perhaps |
SPIRE |
| Cry from the defeated |
UNCLE |
| Cry of dismay |
ACK |
| Cupid figure in a painting |
AMORETTO |
| Dahl of 1954’s “Bengal Brigade” |
ARLENE |
| Dark times in the ad biz |
NITES |
| Deep cuts |
GASHES |
| Desperate transmission |
SOS |
| Destructive crime |
ARSON |
| Detail map, often |
INSET |
| Dine after dark |
SUP |
| Division of the Brunei dollar |
SEN |
| Do some macramé |
TIEAKNOT |
| Eclipse participant |
SUN |
| Eclipses |
BESTS |
| Either side of a leaf |
PAGE |
| Escalation |
RISE |
| Exactly right |
SPOTON |
| Extend an invitation to |
ASK |
| Field marshal? |
REF |
| Florist’s bunches |
SPRAYS |
| Foxtrot preceder |
ECHO |
| Functions |
ROLES |
| Gas, e.g |
STATE |
| German luxury auto, informally |
MERC |
| Gluttony, e.g |
SIN |
| Graynor of “I’m Dying Up Here” |
ARI |
| Gymnast Hernandez |
LAURIE |
| Hard stuff |
BOOZE |
| Hardy title character |
TESS |
| Have a go |
TRY |
| Have a hunch |
FEEL |
| He succeeded Claudius |
NERO |
| Hex- halved |
TRI |