| Like morning people vis-à-vis night owls, around dawn |
PERKIER |
| Lip-puckering |
SOUR |
| List of performers |
LINEUP |
| Long runs? |
EONS |
| Makeup target |
LASH |
| Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers' League, with 'The' |
ENIGMA |
| More convinced |
SURER |
| Most chiffonlike |
AIRIEST |
| Most Times Square signage |
ADS |
| Musicianship |
EAR |
| Nail polish brand |
OPI |
| Neighbor of Mozambique |
MALAWI |
| Ninny |
TWIT |
| Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally |
MDS |
| Not thinking |
ONAUTO |
| Novelist Margaret |
ATWOOD |
| One getting special instruction |
TUTEE |
| Overturned |
REPEALED |
| Overwhelm |
FLOOD |
| Part of many a corsage |
ORCHID |
| Pasture |
LEA |
| Performance check |
TEST |
| Places for development |
UTERI |
| Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist |
ENO |
| Post on Insta |
PIC |
| Practice whose name means, literally, 'union' |
YOGA |
| Prefix with classical |
NEO |
| Press ___ |
KIT |
| Prof's degree |
PHD |
| Pushing up daisies |
THREEFEETUNDER |
| Question of perplexion |
WHA |
| Quite |
EVERSO |
| Racial justice movement since 2013, in brief |
BLM |
| Real cutup |
RIOT |
| Response to 'How bad was it?' |
DONTASK |
| Samoan capital |
APIA |
| Sarcastic internet laughter |
LOLZ |
| Seller's need |
CUSTOMER |
| Set of 50 on the Argo, in myth |
OARS |
| Signed off on |
OKD |
| Some $200 Monopoly properties, in brief |
RRS |
| Some Hershey candies |
ROLOS |
| Some tax breaks |
WRITEOFFS |
| Something that bugs criminals? |
WIRETAPPING |
| Sound at the end of December, appropriately? |
BRR |
| Spain's Duchess of ___ |
ALBA |
| Spirit in Arabian myth |
JINN |
| Star man? |
ZAGAT |
| Sternutation |
SNEEZE |
| Stop along the highway |
INN |
| Stroke |
PET |
| Symbol on the Connecticut state quarter |
OAK |
| The avant-garde 'artists' Congo and Pierre Brassau |
APES |
| The Supremes' record label |
MOTOWN |
| Thin incision |
SLIT |
| Things that may be rubbed after din-din |
TUMMIES |
| Time-consuming assignment to grade |
ESSAY |
| To's opposite |
FRO |
| Ukr. or Lith., formerly |
SSR |
| Up on |
HIPTO |
| Wednesday, but not Friday |
ADDAMS |
| What the beleaguered are behind |
FOURBALL |
| When repeated, a reproof |
TUT |
| Where a 'Married at First Sight' contestant meets his or her mate |
ALTAR |
| Word before cap or pop |
ICE |
| Word in many font names |
SANS |
| Words before 'before' |
ONOR |
| Xanax alternative |
VALIUM |
| ___ dress |
PROM |
| ___ of lies |
WEB |
| ___ the Cat (fictional feline of children's books) |
PETE |