| Anatomical ring |
AREOLA |
| Ares or Mars |
WARGOD |
| Attacked with clubs and such |
RANAT |
| Auto club offering |
TOW |
| Behind-the-scenes worker |
STAGEHAND |
| Brick baker |
KILN |
| Brief and forceful |
PITHY |
| Carrying a lot of weight |
OBESE |
| Christmas mo. |
DEC |
| Clairvoyance, briefly |
ESP |
| Cold capital? |
OSLO |
| Distract |
SIDETRACK |
| Effect's partner |
CAUSE |
| Fact-finding process |
RESEARCH |
| Falling object's direction |
EARTHWARD |
| Farsi-speaking republic |
IRAN |
| Feat |
DEED |
| Fictional Arabic woodcutter |
ALIBABA |
| Flora eaters, perhaps |
FAUNA |
| George W.'s first press secretary |
ARI |
| Glum |
SAD |
| Go by bike |
PEDAL |
| Gp. concerned with fluoride safety |
ADA |
| How to turn something into nothing? |
ERASE |
| In the future |
ONEDAY |
| It stretches from Maine to Florida |
EASTCOAST |
| Lambasted |
BASHED |
| Largest continent |
ASIA |
| Lash flash? |
WINK |
| Liar's undoing |
TRUTH |
| Light controller—either of its first two words can precede either part of 17-, 25-, 51- and 61-Across |
ONOFFSWITCH |
| Like many a slick road |
ICY |
| Like most attics |
DUSTY |
| Links elevator? |
TEE |
| Lord's laborer |
SERF |
| Make better, as cheddar |
AGE |
| Method |
WAY |
| Mob enforcer |
HITMAN |
| Old Great Lakes natives |
ERIES |
