| It may have a wood stock |
RIFLE |
| Join the competition |
MERGE |
| Kisses, in Brit slang |
SNOGS |
| Knight club |
MACE |
| Liqueur flavorer |
ANISEED |
| Lunkheads |
CLODS |
| Market benchmark, with 'the' |
DOW |
| Mars Observer, e.g. |
ORBITER |
| Mozart's '___ fan tutte' |
COSI |
| Much-mocked car of the late 1980s |
YUGO |
| Muddy |
ROIL |
| Nebula makeup |
COSMICUST |
| Neutralize |
ANNUL |
| OS X runners |
MACS |
| Overly suave |
OILY |
| Panic |
RUNSCARED |
| Pass slowly |
DRAG |
| Penna. neighbor |
DEL |
| Penultimate letters |
PSIS |
| Performer with many fans |
EXOTICANCER |
| Perry White, to Jimmy Olsen |
CHIEF |
| Phoenix setting |
ASHES |
| Place of safety |
HAVEN |
| Poll category |
UNDECIDED |
| Porkpie part |
BRIM |
| Port for sailors |
LEFT |
| Pre-1917 ruler |
TSAR |
| Procrastinator's utterance |
MANANA |
| Pull |
CLOUT |
| Queues |
LINESUP |
| Razzes |
TAUNTS |
| Respectful address |
MADAM |
| Rill setting |
VALE |
| Rock sci. |
GEOL |
| Roly-poly |
PLUMP |
| Salon color |
HENNA |
| Scanty |
SLIM |
| Scientist's sprinkle |
NACL |
| Scooby-Doo, for one |
GREATDANE |
| See 43-Across |
OATS |
| Shakespearean avenger |
MACUFF |
| Sistine ceiling figure |
ADAM |
| Site of the USS Cole bombing |
ADEN |
| Skirt for the modest |
MAXI |
| Sleek horse |
ARABIAN |
| Snow line prowler |
YETI |
| Software holders |
CROMS |
| Some love songs |
DUETS |
| Some singing groups |
TRIOS |
| Stinky |
RIPE |
| Subsidiary |
UNIT |
| Suitable |
APT |
| Sweetie pie |
DOLL |
| Takes turns |
GYRATES |
| Tess's seducer |
ALEC |
| The big picture? |
IMAX |
| The going rate |
SPEED |
| The one who 'will be provided for you' |
PUBLICEFENDER |
| They eat 53-Across |
MARES |
| They're subject to inflation |
EGOS |
| Thimblerig need |
PEA |
| To-do list item |
CHORE |
| Transferred to another department, perhaps |
REASSIGNED |
| Tribe also called the Cat Nation |
ERIE |
| Union jack? |
DUES |
| Vexatious sort |
PEST |
| Voting, for example |
CIVICUTY |
| Was reasonable |
MADESENSE |
| What a sheepskin symbolizes |
ACADEMICEGREE |
| Whiskey choice |
BLEND |
| You might get a charge out of it |
CREDITCARD |