| 'My fingers are crossed' |
IHOPE |
| 'Out of ___' |
AFRICA |
| 'That's gotta hurt' |
OOH |
| 'What a relief!' |
PHEW |
| Abscond |
FLEE |
| Ancient markets |
AGORAE |
| Anklebone |
TALUS |
| Bits of sugar |
GRANULES |
| Blood fluids |
SERA |
| BMI rival |
ASCAP |
| Certain marcher in a parade |
FLAGBEARER |
| Charge to appear in a magazine |
ADFEE |
| Choose the best of |
CULL |
| City east of Santa Barbara |
OJAI |
| Comics beagle |
ODIE |
| Copier need |
TONER |
| Critic James |
AGEE |
| De ___ (in practice) |
FACTO |
| Demanding sort |
DIVA |
| Diagonal |
BIAS |
| Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
OPERA |
| Enticed |
LEDON |
| Finished with |
RIDOF |
| Gene arising through mutation |
ALLELE |
| Grinder of a sort |
COFFEEMILL |
| Groups of limos, e.g |
FLEETS |
| Grow dim |
WANE |
| Grp. created at the Baghdad Conference, 1960 |
OPEC |
| Gunk |
GOOP |
| Headline after one of Becker's Wimbledon wins? |
BORISGOODENOUGH |
| Heckelphone cousins |
OBOES |
| Help with a cover story, say |
LIEFOR |
| Hoedown partner |
GAL |
| Home near the Arctic Circle |
IGLOO |
| Job listing inits |
EEO |
| Kazan of Hollywood |
ELIA |
| Kitten sound |
MEW |
