| "A Suitable Boy" novelist Vikram |
SETH |
| "After Happily Ever After" cable channel |
BET |
| "Blue Bloods" daughter played by Bridget Moynahan |
ERIN |
| "If you __ you, then we'd all be a bit less we": wisdom from Piglet |
WERENT |
| "This week has gone on long enough!" letters |
TGIF |
| *1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, e.g |
ARTHEIST |
| *Particularly memorable event |
ONEFORTHEAGES |
| *Party topper |
PAPERHAT |
| Afternoon sports event |
DAYGAME |
| Arctic trout |
CHAR |
| Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
CHANGEOFHEART |
| Barbecue briquettes |
COALS |
| Beat, as a favored incumbent |
UPSET |
| Beats, as an incumbent |
UNSEATS |
| Besides |
ELSE |
| Bird's crop |
CRAW |
| Bit with neutrinos |
ATOM |
| Colbert of late-night |
STEPHEN |
| Confines, as a pet bird |
ENCAGES |
| Cuba libre mixer |
COLA |
| Diatribes |
RANTS |
| Disdainful chorus |
BOOS |
| English cuppa |
TEA |
| Estate home |
MANOR |
| Fed. benefits provider |
SSA |
| Fiction or nonfiction |
GENRE |
| Fiji alternative |
EVIAN |
| Fissile rock |
SHALE |
| Folklore brute |
OGRE |
| French Toaster Sticks brand |
EGGO |
| Garden areas |
BEDS |
| Give birth to |
HAVE |
| Hall of Fame quarterback Tarkenton |
FRAN |
| Household succulent |
ALOE |
| Ink spots? |
TATS |
| Irons (out) |
SMOOTHS |
| Jedi Master voiced by Frank Oz |
YODA |
