| Iran, formerly |
PERSIA |
| J.D. seekers' hurdles |
LSATS |
| Kentucky college |
BEREA |
| Key for special characters |
ALT |
| Like a chimney |
SOOTY |
| Like some black diamond runs |
STEEP |
| Like some Summer Olympics events |
AQUATIC |
| Look online |
SEARCH |
| M.A. seeker's hurdle |
GRE |
| Madre's hermana |
TIA |
| Melodic composition |
ARIOSO |
| Melville captain |
AHAB |
| Mideast title |
EMIR |
| Most unusual |
ODDEST |
| Musical interval also called "the devil's interval" |
TRITONE |
| Musician Sean Ono __ |
LENNON |
| Neon and xenon |
GASES |
| NorCal law force, for short |
SFPD |
| Org. for Suns and Rockets |
NBA |
| Other, in Spanish |
OTRA |
| PC's "brain" |
CPU |
| Prattles on |
YAPS |
| Prepare for a pass, in basketball |
POSTUP |
| Protective wound cover |
SCAB |
| Pursued, as a tip |
ACTEDON |
| Quivered |
SHOOK |
| Refutes |
DENIES |
| Required amount |
QUOTA |
| Rice __ |
PILAF |
| Rowing blade |
OAR |
| Safeties in the NFL, briefly |
DBS |
| Saunter |
AMBLE |
| Security letters |
CCTV |
| See 105-Across |
OFFTHETOP |
| See 17-Down |
EPPS |
| Ship in 1898 news |
USSMAINE |
| Skirmish |
FRAY |
| Small nocturnal bird of prey |
ELFOWL |
| Some forensic evidence |
HAIRS |
| Song often played at Dodger Stadium |
ILOVELA |
| Sound for imitating a car |
VROOM |
| Soup server |
LADLE |
| Sport with horses |
POLO |
| Sprinkled |
STREWN |
| Spy org |
CIA |
| Spy-fi novelist Deighton |
LEN |
| Stable sounds |
NEIGHS |
| Stern's counterpart |
BOW |
| Stratford-__-Avon |
UPON |
| The "E" of ENT |
EAR |
| Thief count in the Ali Baba folktale |
FORTY |
| Throbs |
PULSES |
| Tire abbreviation |
PSI |
| Top left Battleship coordinate |
AONE |
| Trades jabs |
SPARS |
| Turn to face the pitcher |
ATBAT |
| TV friend of Sheldon |
RAJ |
| Two-rod antenna |
DIPOLE |
| Upset with |
MADAT |
| Ward off |
REPEL |
| Wedding attendant |
USHER |
| Well-used pencil |
NUB |
| Wise |
SAGE |
| With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed |
ALITTLE |
| With 47-Across, "House" actor |
OMAR |
| Writer Wiesel |
ELIE |
| __ monde: fashionable society |
HAUT |
| __-Roman architecture |
GRECO |