| "Hear what I'm saying!" |
LISTENTOME |
| "Sleeping Beauty" villain whose name means "doing evil" |
MALEFICENT |
| "The Matrix" hero |
NEO |
| "The Raven" poet |
POE |
| 1 of 100 in D.C |
SEN |
| Actress Zellweger |
RENEE |
| Adorned with sequins |
SPANGLY |
| Anti-flood structure |
LEVEE |
| Bit of a process |
STEP |
| Buffalo's lake |
ERIE |
| Chaka Khan hit with an amorous title |
IFEELFORYOU |
| Coming into being |
NASCENT |
| Connecticut university |
YALE |
| Dubai's nation, for short |
UAE |
| Feature of a cross-generational friendship |
AGEGAP |
| Foamy coffee drink |
LATTE |
| Get away with no punishment |
GOSCOTFREE |
| Hall and Oates hit that warned "Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up" |
MANEATER |
| Helical shape |
COIL |
| Hockey puck's shape |
DISK |
| Homes for nuns |
ABBEYS |
| Illinois city symbolizing Middle America |
PEORIA |
| Instant replay tech |
SLOMO |
| Insult |
DIS |
| Jabber on |
YAK |
| Joining the crowd? |
STAGEDIVING |
| Leader in the 49-Across |
EMIR |
| Leslie ___ Jr. of "Hamilton" |
ODOM |
| Lymph ___ |
NODE |
| Mediocre |
SOSO |
| Mild oath |
HECK |
| Morse code click |
DIT |
| Mountain lion |
PUMA |
| Muppet who insists that Rocco is a rock |
ELMO |
| Nonbeliever |
ATHEIST |
| North Carolina university |
ELON |