| Melee |
FRAY |
| Members of a certain den |
SCOUTS |
| Missing |
AWOL |
| Niche mag |
ZINE |
| Off |
AMISS |
| Oldest independent state in the Arab world |
OMAN |
| One doing inside work |
SPY |
| One hell of a writer? |
DANTE |
| One known as "the Alive, the Eternal" |
ALLAH |
| One might bend over backward |
YOGI |
| One way for packages to arrive, in brief |
COD |
| Op. ___ (footnote abbr.) |
CIT |
| Orangish shade |
TANGERINE |
| Orchard products |
PEARS |
| Org. featured in 2011's "Contagion" |
CDC |
| Out of practice |
RUSTY |
| Party people, for short? |
DJS |
| Pass over, in a way |
ELIDE |
| Personality that's hard to read |
ENIGMA |
| Plan to leave at a very specific evening time? |
SEVENTENSPLIT |
| Playwright who wrote "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything" |
SHAW |
| Poet Rainer Maria ___ |
RILKE |
| Product that increases volume |
MOUSSE |
| Props for majorettes |
BATONS |
| Protect |
SHIELD |
| Question after an argument has died down |
AREWEOK |
| Raison d'___ |
ETRE |
| Rapscallion |
IMP |
| Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed |
NOR |
| Semiaquatic creature |
NEWT |
| Site for some creative entrepreneurs |
ETSY |
| Skin-care brand |
OLAY |
| Small bird |
TIT |
| Smear |
DAUB |
| Solo traveling in space |
HAN |
| Something a mover or a movie might have |
TRAILER |
| Southern cooking staple |
OKRA |
| Sport |
WEAR |
| Stars |
CELEBS |
| Stick (out) |
JUT |
| Stirs up |
ROILS |
| Subdued |
TAME |
| Summer shoe style |
OPENTOE |
| Tabloid twosome |
ITEM |
| Texas border city |
LAREDO |
| The "B" in its name stands for "brush" |
ORALB |
| Theater award |
OBIE |
| Therapists' org |
APA |
| There are 24 in a cuboctahedron |
EDGES |
| Things you can crack without damaging them |
DOORS |
| Threesome |
TRIAD |
| Tiff |
SPAT |
| Trident look-alike |
PSI |
| Vaccine holder |
VIAL |
| Visually evaluate |
EYEUP |
| Walking the dog, for instance |
YOYOTRICK |
| What Vulcan's forge lay underneath, in myth |
ETNA |
| Where subs are standard |
DELIS |
| Who actually lives in Lapland, some say |
SANTA |
| Who's talking on the phone? |
SIRI |
| Winona of "Stranger Things" |
RYDER |
| Word that can precede or follow pack |
ICE |
| Work, work, work |
TOIL |
| Workers' advocate, informally |
UNIONREP |
| Young partner? |
ERNST |
| Your ex's new date whom you just can't stand? |
OFFENSIVEREBOUND |
| ___ jam |
INA |
| ___ Kong |
HONG |
| ___ New York (Brooklyn neighborhood) |
EAST |
| ___ Rose, Catherine O'Hara's character on "Schitt's Creek" |
MOIRA |
