| "About the author" pieces |
BIOS |
| "Are you ___ out?" |
INOR |
| "Excuse me..." |
AHEM |
| "Gone With the Wind" surname |
OHARA |
| "Pressing" things |
NEEDS |
| "The Canterbury Tales" author |
CHAUCER |
| "The Square Egg" writer |
SAKI |
| "___ Kommissar" (1980s hit) |
DER |
| 19th-century British prime minister |
DISRAELI |
| Acquires |
GAINS |
| Actor Harry Dean ___ |
STANTON |
| Athletic boost "taken" by the four theme answers |
PED |
| Band with the 2006 album "Decemberunderground" |
AFI |
| Big boy band, briefly |
NKOTB |
| Bugs |
PESTERS |
| Calif. paper |
LATIMES |
| Cartoon mouse who "Goes West" |
FIEVEL |
| Cheers for toreadors |
OLES |
| Chemistry suffix |
OSE |
| Cocks and bulls |
HES |
| Commodores hit |
SAILON |
| Country on the Gulf of Oman |
IRAN |
| Cutlass manufacturer, once |
OLDS |
| Deep gorge |
CHASM |
| Depeche ___ |
MODE |
| Digital camera dot |
PIXEL |
| Dollar bill, in retro slang |
ONESPOT |
| Elton John musical |
AIDA |
| Emerald is a variety of it |
BERYL |
| First name in a Poe poem |
ANNABEL |
| Fluidless, as a barometer |
ANEROID |
| God of love |
EROS |
| GPS lines |
STS |
| Gravy Train competitor |
ALPO |
| Gray matter matter |
IDEA |
| Hammerin' Hank |
AARON |
| Hard to outwit |
FOXY |
