| Justice Kagan |
ELENA |
| Lays down turf |
SODS |
| Low's opposite |
HIGH |
| Make music on a kazoo, say |
HUM |
| Measure of gold's purity, not its weight |
KARAT |
| Mohawked star of 'The A-Team' |
MRT |
| Once-standard feature not found in most newer vehicles |
ASHTRAY |
| Pace set by a metronome |
TEMPO |
| Peel ... or, phonetically, a fruit you might do this to |
PARE |
| Percolate |
SEEP |
| Private eye, in old slang |
TEC |
| Puzzle with a 9 x 9 grid |
SUDOKU |
| Rainy day hue |
GRAY |
| Revealed accidentally |
LETSLIP |
| Rough patch in adolescence? |
ACNE |
| School fund-raising grp |
PTA |
| Sculptures made of found objects and scraps |
TRASHART |
| Similar (to) |
AKIN |
| Small butter unit |
PAT |
| Solaced |
SOOTHED |
| Something special |
ALLTHAT |
| Sound heard twice in 'George' |
SOFTG |
| Stephen of 'The Crying Game' |
REA |
| Sufi poet thought to have coined the adage found at the starts of 19-, 27-, 45- and 52-Across |
ATTAR |
| Texter's 'Hold that thought' |
BRB |
| The 'S' in iOS |
SYSTEM |
| The Reds or the Red Sox, for short |
MLBTEAM |
| The ___ of Babel |
TOWER |
| Title cyborg in a 1987 sci-fi flick |
ROBOCOP |
| Transport built for revelry |
PARTYBUS |
| Trolley |
TRAM |
| Tweeter's 'alternatively' |
OTOH |
| Uncle 'we don't talk about' in Disney's 2021 film 'Encanto' |
BRUNO |
| Wretched |
AWFUL |
| ___ de toilette |
EAU |
| ___ K. of Kafka's 'The Trial' |
JOSEF |
| ___ Pet (onetime fad item) |
CHIA |
| ___-bitsy |
ITSY |