| Least arid |
WETTEST |
| Like many "Twilight Zone" episodes |
IRONIC |
| Like the 4-Down in a 1960 chart-topper |
TEENIE |
| Lot |
TON |
| Major outlet |
AORTA |
| Member of an ancient Asia Minor empire |
HITTITE |
| Meter lead-in |
ODO |
| Mid-seventh-century date |
DCL |
| Mill fill |
GRIST |
| Nintendo's Super __ |
NES |
| Online chuckle |
LOL |
| Outclassed by a large margin, as competitors |
DWARFED |
| Pay after taxes |
TAKEHOME |
| Payoff |
SOP |
| PETCO Park player |
PADRE |
| Poetic pugilist |
ALI |
| Pompeii burier |
ASH |
| Prior to |
ERE |
| Pub choice |
STOUT |
| Quip, part 2 |
WITHWINE |
| Quip, part 3 |
SOMETIMES |
| Quip, part 4 |
IEVENPUT |
| Reading pen? |
GAOL |
| River wriggler |
EEL |
| See 23-Across |
BIKINI |
| Singer Grant |
AMY |
| Spanish possessive |
NUESTRO |
| Start of a quip |
ILIKETOCOOK |
| Stranded in winter, perhaps |
ICEDIN |
| Take willingly |
ACCEPT |
| Thumbs-up person, perhaps |
RATER |
| Top-secret org. |
NSA |
| Witchy woman |
HAG |
| Wool-coloring agent |
ACIDDYE |
| Word in a current account? |
AMPERE |
| Words of reassurance |
ITSOK |
| You are, in Yucatán |
ESTAS |
| __ Bo |
TAE |