| "I'm afraid this will sound funny" |
YOULLLAUGH |
| 17-Across in the neck |
PEST |
| Actor Neeson |
LIAM |
| Adventurous |
RISKY |
| Ancient strings |
LYRE |
| Andean ancient |
INCA |
| Angle irons graphically represented by four sets of black squares in this grid, and by letter formations starting in the four longest answers |
LBARS |
| Ballet leap |
JETE |
| Banana discard |
PEEL |
| Benevolent lodgeful |
ELKS |
| Big name in beer |
PABST |
| Big name in video games |
ATARI |
| Bigger photo: Abbr. |
ENL |
| Boatload |
SLEW |
| Bounty rival |
VIVA |
| Bronze relative |
TAN |
| Brush component |
BRISTLE |
| Business card abbr. |
TEL |
| Cat-__-tails |
ONINE |
| Cats' quarry |
MICE |
| Chase on stage |
ILKA |
| Cowardly |
YELLOW |
| Crete-born "View of Toledo" painter |
ELGRECO |
| Do a slow burn |
FUME |
| Domesticated |
TAME |
| Donkey's protest |
BRAY |
| Dublin's land |
EIRE |
| Ernie of the PGA, to whom this puzzle could be dedicated |
ELS |
| Extremely, in Essex |
BEASTLY |
| Eyelid problem |
STYE |
| Fair grade |
CEE |
| Farmers' publication? |
ALMANAC |
| Finishes the road |
TARS |
| Follower of Mary |
LAMB |
| Future atty.'s hurdle |
LSAT |
| Garden site |
EDEN |
| German GM subsidiary |
OPEL |
| Got sick again |
RELAPSED |
| Gumbo pod |
OKRA |
