| Literary matchmaker |
EMMA |
| Little nothing |
TRIFLE |
| Loud, as a color |
NEON |
| Max of physics |
PLANCK |
| Most music is played in it |
STEREO |
| Neglects to |
DOESNT |
| Not shoot straight |
LIE |
| Nothing |
NIHIL |
| Number of weeks in Julius Caesar's year? |
LII |
| Official with a list |
DEAN |
| One of the two characters in Dr. Seuss' 'Fox in Socks' |
KNOX |
| One who's morally flawed |
NOSAINT |
| One-volume works of Shakespeare, e.g |
TOME |
| Person who has a way with words? |
LINGUIST |
| Pickled veggie |
CUKE |
| Pince-___ |
NEZ |
| Plant holder? |
ROOT |
| Poem in which Paris plays a prominent part |
ILIAD |
| Pollster Roper |
ELMO |
| Puts the pedal to the metal |
GUNSIT |
| Rock's Limp ___ |
BIZKIT |
| Scarce |
LIMITED |
| Scooter ___, Plame affair figure |
LIBBY |
| See 35-Across |
EEL |
| Sign on a door |
WOMEN |
| Skater Lipinski |
TARA |
| Sweet Swan of ___ (epithet for Shakespeare) |
AVON |
| Symbol after 'I' on many a bumper sticker |
HEART |
| Symbol of the National Audubon Society |
EGRET |
| Take ___ from |
ACUE |
| Tropical food that is poisonous if eaten raw |
TARO |
| Ukr., until 1991, e.g |
SSR |
| With 45-Across, conger, e.g |
SEA |
| You, generically |
ONE |
| ___ Hollywood |
PLANET |
| ___ the Kid (N.H.L. nickname) |
SID |
| ___-3 fatty acid |
OMEGA |