| Lavish party |
FETE |
| Letter after zeta |
ETA |
| Like the highest degree |
NTH |
| Loses one's cool |
PANICS |
| Major addition? |
ETTE |
| Major in astronomy? |
URSA |
| Naive |
ARTLESS |
| Name before "lemon," in an activewear brand |
LULU |
| Nays' opposites |
YEAS |
| Neglect to mention |
OMIT |
| Nickname similar to Beth |
BESS |
| Normandy or Aragon |
REGION |
| One who has your back |
ALLY |
| Pancake topper |
SYRUP |
| PC's "Get me outta here!" key |
ESC |
| Pesky flyers |
GNATS |
| Product consumer |
USER |
| Renaissance ___ (historical reenactment) |
FAIRE |
| Retina's organ |
EYE |
| Rhine siren who inspired Sylvia Plath |
LORELEI |
| Root for a luau |
TARO |
| Rounded hammer end |
PEEN |
| Sharing a common culture |
ETHNIC |
| Sister and sometime rival of Venus |
SERENA |
| Sports or concert venue |
ARENA |
| Start of many rap names |
LIL |
| Straight to the point |
DIRECT |
| Summer tops |
TEES |
| Temperature on a hot day, or a hint to the starred clues' answers and each black square arrangement in the grid |
NINETYDEGREES |
| The Big Apple, briefly |
NYC |
| Underlying reason |
RATIONALE |
| Well-versed in a language |
FLUENT |
| When woolly mammoths roamed the Earth |
ICEAGE |
| Word after "man" or "picky" |
EATER |
| ___ de cologne |
EAU |
| ___ Park, Colorado |
ESTES |
