| Excessive bureaucracy |
REDTAPE |
| Food warmer in a cafeteria |
HEATLAMP |
| Gimme on the green |
TAPIN |
| Group that's going downhill? |
SKICLUB |
| Halves of qts |
PTS |
| Hardly a twinkletoes |
OAF |
| Iota |
MODICUM |
| It means nothing in Spanish! |
NADA |
| It's more than a job |
CAREER |
| Journalist's focus |
NEWS |
| Left-wing pols |
DEMS |
| Like an American in Canada, probably |
UPNORTH |
| Madrid museum |
PRADO |
| Make red-faced |
ABASH |
| Matriculate |
ENROLL |
| Millimeter, e.g |
UNIT |
| Nick of "The Prince of Tides" |
NOLTE |
| One flies in a cave |
BAT |
| Photo ___ |
OPS |
| Piano, to a pianist? |
SOFTLY |
| Places to adopt puppies and kitties |
SHELTERS |
| Playground comeback |
DOESTOO |
| Quit in poker, or work on origami |
FOLD |
| Simultaneously |
ATATIME |
| Some Girl Scout cookies |
SAMOAS |
| State whose motto is "Crossroads of America" |
INDIANA |
| Stir up |
ROIL |
| Suffix with "percent" |
ILE |
| Taiwanese computer manufacturer |
ASUS |
| Tank tops? |
GASCAPS |
| Teachers' org |
NEA |
| There are lodes of them |
ORES |
| Walk like a crab |
SIDLE |
| Water tank |
CISTERN |
| Wise words ... or 17-, 28- and 44-Across, based on their first words? |
SOUNDADVICE |
| Wrote a five-star review, perhaps |
RAVED |
| Zebras on the court |
REFS |
