| Landlocked African nation |
MALI |
| Leave |
EXIT |
| Letters before a pseudonym |
AKA |
| Med. research agency |
NIH |
| Middling |
SOSO |
| Most gauzy |
SHEEREST |
| Nobelist Tokarczuk or Olympic medalist Korbut |
OLGA |
| Not eliminated |
INIT |
| Not just think |
KNOW |
| Noted stretches |
ERAS |
| Nutrition fig |
RDA |
| Offshore |
ASEA |
| On-screen parent such as Lorelai Gilmore |
TVMOM |
| Ones deserving of respect |
ELDERS |
| Org. fighting to end bullfighting |
PETA |
| Queen's domain |
REALM |
| Roma's home |
ITALIA |
| Savory fish appetizer |
CODCAKE |
| Sharpen |
HONE |
| Soccer ball filler |
AIR |
| Sometimes-baked cheese |
BRIE |
| Sound from a tabby |
MEOW |
| Source of laughs at the end of a comedy? |
GAGREEL |
| Sphynxes might sit on them |
CATTREES |
| Thing an anxious writer may chew |
PENCAP |
| This' partner |
THAT |
| This, in Spanish |
ESTO |
| Thompson who qualified for the U.S. Women's Open at age 12 |
LEXI |
| Title for Obama's satirical assistant Luther |
ANGERTRANSLATOR |
| Top of an organizational chart, and a hint to the first words of 3-, 8- and 17-Down |
UPPERMANAGEMENT |
| Transcript figs |
GPAS |
| Unstressed vowel |
SCHWA |
| Wishful words |
IHOPE |
| Word before "Grail" or "Ghost" |
HOLY |
| Zilch |
NADA |
| ___ common denominator |
LEAST |
