| Muscle twitch |
SPASM |
| Muscles that get crunched |
ABS |
| Necessitates |
ENTAILS |
| Obsessed whaler of literature |
AHAB |
| Odium |
HATE |
| Office note |
MEMO |
| Olympian queen |
HERA |
| Omar of “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” |
EPPS |
| On the briny |
ASEA |
| Opposite of post- |
PRE |
| Penny prez |
ABE |
| Pest-spotting cry |
EEK |
| Poker payment |
ANTE |
| Polite French phrase said while holding a door |
APRESVOUS |
| Pop singer Rita |
ORA |
| Pop, e.g |
PARENT |
| QVC alternative |
HSN |
| Regret |
RUE |
| Restrooms, informally |
LAVS |
| Rice cakewalk |
EASYA |
| Road crew’s goo |
TAR |
| Roberts’s co-star in “Pretty Woman” |
GERE |
| Rocker Rose |
AXL |
| Scottish cattle breed |
ANGUS |
| Seasonal worker |
TEMP |
| Security breach |
LEAK |
| Seriously wound |
MAIM |
| Shakespearean forest |
ARDEN |
| Ship’s spine |
KEEL |
| Source of some jingling, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 28- and 45-Across |
SPARECHANGE |
| Sow or cow |
SHE |
| Streamlined |
SLEEK |
| Stuff in a “Star Trek” warp drive |
ANTIMATTER |
| Sushi tuna |
AHI |
| Temptresses of myth |
SIRENS |
| Thomas Hardy title heroine |
TESS |
| Took charge of, as a mission |
SPEARHEADED |
| Yale benefactor Yale |
ELIHU |
| ___ center (community hangout) |
REC |
