| Less prosperous |
POORER |
| Massage |
RUB |
| Mathematician Turing |
ALAN |
| Mischievous type |
RASCAL |
| Natl. Pizza Mo |
OCT |
| Nowhere near |
AFAR |
| Numeral |
DIGIT |
| One official language of the U.N |
CHINESE |
| Org. with a summer All-Star break |
MLB |
| Parade VIP |
STPAT |
| Party bites |
CANAPES |
| Pays to play |
ANTES |
| Person who prefers platonic relationships, for short |
ARO |
| Pleasantly calm |
SERENE |
| Protective talisman |
AMULET |
| Render unreadable, in a way |
SHRED |
| Ride for a few days |
RENTAL |
| Riveted |
RAPT |
| School space that's full of drawers |
ARTROOM |
| Seattle's airport-sharing neighbor |
TACOMA |
| Semisolid hair product |
GEL |
| Shocked sounds |
GASPS |
| Short "We'll announce this later" |
TBD |
| Sketch on a dust jacket |
BIO |
| Stay behind |
SHADOW |
| Steel part of a work boot |
TOECAP |
| Story that might be dark and creepy |
ATTIC |
| Sublease |
RELET |
| Suffer disgrace, or what the starred clues must do as a set to match their answers? |
LOSEFACE |
| Sultanate on the Arabian peninsula |
OMAN |
| Umami source, briefly |
MSG |
| Unrefined resource |
ORE |
| Word with cat or power |
NAP |
| Yogurt-based dip |
RAITA |
| __ planning |
ESTATE |
| __ whim |
ONA |
| __-minded |
ABSENT |