| Increasingly quaint phone sound |
DIALTONE |
| Large planets made mostly of hydrogen and helium |
GASGIANTS |
| Lend a hand |
ASSIST |
| Logical oversight in a story |
PLOTHOLE |
| Loose organization unit |
PILE |
| Massachusetts city that becomes a tourist hot spot in October |
SALEM |
| Modest home |
HUT |
| Neutral shade |
ECRU |
| Not available |
INUSE |
| Notable period |
ERA |
| Orange tuber |
YAM |
| Otherworldly |
EERIE |
| Picked-off pass, for short |
INT |
| Poly- ending |
ESTER |
| Pop singer Mars |
BRUNO |
| Previously |
AGO |
| Pull behind |
TOW |
| Receded |
EBBED |
| Resigned expression |
ALAS |
| Rotisserie rod |
SPIT |
| Rough estimates, and what can be found at the ends of 17-, 25-, 52-, and 62-Across |
BALLPARKFIGURES |
| Scoop in a tureen |
SOUPLADLE |
| Scorches |
SINGES |
| Set eyes on |
SEE |
| Sign between Cancer and Virgo |
LEO |
| Social outing for couples |
GROUPDATE |
| Some sinister siblings |
EVILTWINS |
| Stately trees |
ELMS |
| Tadpole |
POLLIWOG |
| That girl |
SHE |
| The Grand __ Opry |
OLE |
| Tiebreakers, briefly |
OTS |
| Turtle cover |
SHELL |
| UFO occupants |
ETS |
| Viral post |
MEME |
| When repeated, "et cetera" |
YADDA |
| Writer/actress Issa |
RAE |
| Wrongful act |
TORT |
| __ out a living |
EKE |