| Mid-term exam? |
AMNIO |
| Midwestern city that's an anagram of "Mesa" |
AMES |
| Model Huntington-Whiteley |
ROSIE |
| Nora who wrote, "Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from" |
EPHRON |
| Nothing to write home about |
MEH |
| One may disrupt an ecosystem |
EXOTICSPECIES |
| One with a track record, say? |
RACER |
| Org. for 20-Downs |
DEA |
| Paramount production |
MOVIE |
| Parts of some addresses |
ATS |
| Peyton's younger brother |
ELI |
| Piercing tool |
AWL |
| Playground retort |
ARESO |
| Religious leader in a puffer jacket, in a viral AI-generated image |
POPE |
| Romance trope popularized by Jane Austen |
ENEMIESTOLOVERS |
| Shapes of many Christmas ornaments |
SPHERES |
| Shirts shot at stands |
TEES |
| Source of inspiration |
MUSE |
| Spread sloppily |
SMEAR |
| Stand-up guy |
MENSCH |
| Start of a fitness motto |
USEIT |
| Story where many plot points are spun out? |
CHARLOTTESWEB |
| Suspicious of |
ONTO |
| Tech company whose name precedes "chat" |
SNAP |
| The ___ State (Idaho) |
GEM |
| They're taken during a feud |
SIDES |
| Time's 2023 Athlete of the Year |
MESSI |
| Tip of a tongue? |
ESE |
| Tissue layer |
PLY |
| Toddlers' taboos |
NONOS |
| Type of ball or fracture |
STRESS |
| Uncertainties |
IFS |
| Voices above basses |
TENORS |
| Word before "tip" or "card" |
CUE |