| Like wet paint |
SMEARY |
| Nuke |
ZAP |
| Old A. C. Gilbert toy |
ERECTORSET |
| Old D&D co |
TSR |
| Particle accelerator particles |
IONS |
| Plowman's command |
GEE |
| Poetic preposition |
ERE |
| Refine |
HONE |
| Ritually torments |
HAZES |
| Seagoing vessels |
SLOOPS |
| See 17-Across |
AREA |
| See 27-Across |
TIME |
| See 29-Down |
ASK |
| See 45-Across |
VOLUME |
| She, in Italy |
ESSA |
| Showing ill humor |
SULLEN |
| Sif's husband in myth |
THOR |
| Some Groucho Marx humor |
PUNS |
| Something groundbreaking |
AFIRST |
| South America's ___ Trail |
INCA |
| Stitch |
CARD |
| Tarnishes |
STAINS |
| Terse invitation |
COME |
| The Yoko of 'Oh Yoko!' |
ONO |
| Tiny bit of kindling |
TWIG |
| Tolkien's Dark Lord of Mordor |
SAURON |
| Too much |
DETROP |
| Unit of energy |
ERG |
| What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
PHYSICSFORMULAS |
| What was cool in the '50s? |
HEP |
| Where people get loaded on a train |
BARCAR |
| Whimsical outburst |
EGAD |
| With 22-Across, fail to cope with difficult circumstances |
CRACKUNDERFORCE |
| With 35-Across, highway sign meaning 'slow down' |
REDUCEDISTANCE |
| With 4-Down, reluctant questioner's opening |
DAREI |
| With 51-Across, Monaco has the world's highest |
POPULATIONMASS |
| World Cup chorus |
OLES |
| ___ Diurna (daily Roman notices) |
ACTA |
