| 'Garfield' cartoonist Davis |
JIM |
| 'Yikes!' |
EGAD |
| '___ Misérables' |
LES |
| '___ you for real?' |
ARE |
| 1930s art style, informally |
DECO |
| 1957 hit covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968 |
SUSIEQ |
| Achieved a perfect score on |
ACED |
| Add by degrees |
PHASEIN |
| African country bordering 12-Down |
MALI |
| African country bordering 16-Across |
ALGERIA |
| Animal whose name sounds like a pronoun |
EWE |
| Army NCOs |
SSGTS |
| Beg |
PLEAD |
| Boy Scout ___ badge |
MERIT |
| Breaks ... or an anagram of the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle |
TAMES |
| Business setback recorded on Schedule C |
NETLOSS |
| Car fuel additive |
ETHYL |
| Carpentry spacer |
SHIM |
| Clothing chain with a 'Baby' division |
GAP |
| Cut up, as a frog |
DISSECT |
| Deluxe |
POSH |
| Drink cooler |
ICECUBE |
| Earth-shaking |
SEISMIC |
| First word in many newspaper names |
THE |
| Fossil fuel |
COAL |
| Golden State school up the coast from L.A |
UCSB |
| Groups hired for high-profile cases |
LEGALTEAMS |
| Hesitation about something |
QUALM |
| It goes 'Ah-h-h-choo!' |
SNEEZE |
| It's really something |
ENTITY |
| Jane Austen heroine |
EMMA |
| Kind of school after nursery school: Abbr |
ELEM |
| Leaves dumbstruck |
AWES |
| Letters before an alias |
AKA |
| Like a game with equal winners and losers |
ZEROSUM |
| Like Old Norse writing |
RUNIC |
| Make a goof |
ERR |
| Many a car on the autobahn |
OPEL |
| Many a service station adjunct |
MART |
