| Like the strongest cases |
PROVABLE |
| Male name hidden in this clue |
LEN |
| Most chic |
SWANKEST |
| Music's Outkast and Erasure, e.g |
DUOS |
| Nativity scene decoration |
STRAW |
| Not much, as of gel |
ADAB |
| One with an 'If You Choose the Lesser of Two Evils — You Are Still Choosing Evil' bumper sticker, perhaps |
NADERITE |
| Ones working with bread |
KNEADERS |
| Overly sentimental fare |
SLOP |
| Overseas title |
SENORA |
| People for whom a state is named |
IOWAS |
| Person with a 99801 ZIP code |
JUNEAUITE |
| Piazza, for one |
EXMET |
| Positive restaurant review? |
YUM |
| Private |
NONPUBLIC |
| Put on the board |
POST |
| R-rated, as a love scene |
STEAMY |
| Role for Robin Williams in Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet,' 1996 |
OSRIC |
| Round bits |
ZEROES |
| Salty and spicy |
RIBALD |
| School co-founded by Albert Einstein in 1918, informally |
HEBREWU |
| See 22-Across |
SUITED |
| Shape of the heart's electromagnetic field |
TORUS |
| Spoil, superstitiously |
JINX |
| Surefire |
CANTLOSE |
| Surreal |
DREAMLIKE |
| Tends to a minor issue? |
SITS |
| Thesis defense, e.g |
ORALEXAM |
| They have everyone buzzing |
TOSSUPQUESTIONS |
| Toon husband of Manjula |
APU |
| U.S. motto starter |
INGOD |
| With 12-Down, unfit |
ILL |
| Word with belly or barrel |
BEER |
| ___ Babbitt, inventor of the circular saw |
TABITHA |
