| Hardly rigid |
LAX |
| Head, in Cannes |
TETE |
| Height: Abbr |
ELEV |
| Hindquarters |
REAR |
| Horse kin |
ASS |
| Huff and puff |
PANT |
| Ill-bred fellow |
CAD |
| Intimidate |
OVERAWE |
| Israeli arm |
UZI |
| Joke-telling Jay |
LENO |
| Kind of comb |
RATTAIL |
| Knighted English portraitist |
JOSHUAREYNOLDS |
| Last Greek letters |
OMEGAS |
| Lie around |
LAZE |
| Life forms |
BEINGS |
| Like a fez |
TASSELED |
| Longtime classroom magazine |
WEEKLYREADER |
| Mild cheese |
GOUDA |
| Neil of the Pet Shop Boys |
TENNANT |
| New rough sketches |
REDRAFTS |
| Not far from |
NEAR |
| Notorious emperor |
NERO |
| Nun |
SISTER |
| One-eighty on the road |
UEY |
| One-named Deco artist |
ERTE |
| Open, as a gate |
UNBAR |
| Paltry |
MERE |
| Pep up |
ENERGIZE |
| Periods |
ERAS |
| Picnic crawler |
ANT |
| PIN-taking dispenser |
ATM |
| Pining type |
YEARNER |
| Poe maiden |
LENORE |
| Previously, in poetry |
AFORE |
| Professional copyists |
SCRIBES |
| Put on, as cargo |
LADE |
| Relaxing resort |
SPA |
| Represent as perfect |
IDEALIZE |
| Rio de --, Brazil |
JANEIRO |
| Samuel with a code |
MORSE |
| Sea, to Simone |
MER |
| Sealant stuff |
TAR |
| See 9-Down |
AWAY |
| Serving several functions |
MULTIROLE |
| Socks with diamonds |
ARGYLES |
| Something bad that has to be done |
NECESSARYEVIL |
| Starch-yielding palm |
SAGO |
| Stellar phenomena |
NOVAE |
| Suffix with east or north |
ERN |
| Suffix with launder |
ETTE |
| Teachers' gp |
NEA |
| Thing shot in skeet shooting |
CLAYTARGET |
| Thither |
YON |
| Three-horse carriages |
TROIKAS |
| Title role for Patti LuPone |
EVITA |
| Track wager |
BET |
| Turn into a mummy |
EMBALM |
| TV Tarzan player Ron |
ELY |
| Two-by-four |
BOARD |
| Utter |
SHEER |
| Very interested in |
KEENON |
| Vying venue |
ARENA |
| Wary about |
LEERYOF |
| Wasp attack |
STING |
| Wheaton of TV and film |
WIL |
| Wide-shoe letters |
EEE |
| Wind quintet instruments |
OBOES |
| With 40-Down, erase |
CLEAR |
| Word rearranged and hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers |
YEAR |
| Yearbook bit |
BIO |
| Youngman of one-liners |
HENNY |
