| Love a lot |
ADORE |
| Love personified |
EROS |
| Motorist's stop |
RESTAREA |
| Nabokov title heroine |
ADA |
| Naval inits. |
USS |
| Nervous laugh |
TITTER |
| Nest builder in the eaves |
WASP |
| Nightmarish street |
ELM |
| Not much moolah |
CHUMPCHANGE |
| One with a six-yr. term |
SEN |
| Part of 5-Down: Abbr. |
AMER |
| Physique, so to speak |
BOD |
| Pitcher's tour de force |
NOHITTER |
| Play one's part |
ACT |
| Police dept. alerts |
APBS |
| Program problems |
BUGS |
| Protection for the royal family |
PALACEGUARD |
| Pugilist's poke |
JAB |
| Reddish-brown |
MAHOGANY |
| Result of teasing? |
BIGHAIR |
| Runway surface |
TARMAC |
| Sign of a full house |
SRO |
| Silly 70's fad |
PETROCKS |
| Sling mud at, say |
SLUR |
| Small rows |
SPATS |
| Spanish snacks |
TAPAS |
| Sporty Chevy, briefly |
VETTE |
| Stephen of 'Still Crazy' |
REA |
| Table salt, to a chemist |
NACL |
| Thunderous sound |
CLAP |
| Title of this puzzle, in reference to 17- and 39-Across and 11- and 26-Down |
FIRSTMATES |
| Tony-winning Hagen |
UTA |
| Toots one's own horn |
BRAGS |
| Trite truth |
BROMIDE |
| Tyrant |
DESPOT |
| X and Y, on a graph |
AXES |
| Yankees' div. |
ALEAST |
| ___ Darya (Asian river) |
AMU |
| ___ Dhabi |
ABU |
