| Mo. town |
STL |
| More than a few |
NORMANDY |
| Nerdy type |
DWEEB |
| Oscar winner Swinton |
TILDA |
| Overly |
TOO |
| Papal name chosen by Robert Prevost |
LEO |
| PC hookup |
LAN |
| Planetary scientist Sagan |
CARL |
| Poem part |
STANZA |
| Pretzel topping |
SALT |
| Purge (of) |
RID |
| Pyramid city with the Great Sphinx |
GIZA |
| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's lake |
ERIE |
| Scheduling abbr |
TBA |
| See 31-Across |
THEBATTLE |
| See-through dish |
ASPIC |
| Shade tree |
ELM |
| Shelved item |
BOOK |
| Shoe support |
HEEL |
| Sidewalk artist's supply |
CHALK |
| Smooching at the movies, say |
PDA |
| Snack brand based in Hanover, Pennsylvania |
UTZ |
| Some silver cups |
AWARDS |
| Southampton smooches |
SNOGS |
| Squeeze (out) |
EKE |
| St. with 14 HBCUs |
ALA |
| Stoke |
FUEL |
| Summer hrs. in 26-Down |
CDT |
| Sunflower shade |
YELLOW |
| Tech sch. in upstate New York |
RPI |
| Three-time AL MVP in the 2000s |
AROD |
| Vietnamese soup |
PHO |
| Wan |
ASHY |
| Waste time |
DALLY |
| With 42-Across, encouraging words to someone making a good effort, and an apt description of this puzzle's circled letters |
THATSHALF |
| Writer who studied under William Strunk Jr. at Cornell |
EBWHITE |
| Yak |
GAB |
| Zooplankton eaten by whales |
BUNKERHILL |
| __ fever |
HAY |
