| '___ Mio' |
OSOLE |
| 3.26 light-years |
PARSEC |
| 43-Down in English |
PEACE |
| 45-Down in Russian |
MIR |
| A.L. or N.L. Central city |
CHI |
| Abandon the Centennial State? |
DESERTCOLORADO |
| Abbr. on an envelope |
ATTN |
| Acoustic |
AURAL |
| Actor Beatty and others |
NEDS |
| Airline abbr. |
DEP |
| All-American name |
KNUTE |
| Alternative to a dish |
ANTENNA |
| Automaker's bane |
RECALL |
| Babe or fox |
HOTTIE |
| Baby's resting spot |
LAP |
| Ben Jonson wrote one to himself |
ODE |
| Best and Ferber |
EDNAS |
| Best Musical of 1996 |
RENT |
| Biblical verb |
HAST |
| Bidding card game |
SPADES |
| Big laugh |
ROAR |
| Book before Phil. |
EPH |
| Bryologists' study |
MOSSES |
| Busy |
INUSE |
| Candid |
OPEN |
| Capitol Hill abbr. |
SEN |
| Certain Arab |
DAPPLE |
| Certain spawner |
EEL |
| Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. |
HRE |
| Common aspiration |
AITCH |
| Completely |
INTOTO |
| Construction financed by a hedge fund? |
MAZE |
| Crunchy chip |
DORITO |
| Cultural entertainment |
OPERAS |
| Cup, maybe |
PRIZE |
| Cut an awful demo? |
RECORDBADTRACK |
| Czar in a Mussorgsky opera |
BORIS |
| Descriptive wd. |
ADJ |
| Donald Duck, e.g. |
DRAKE |
| Drink at a Kyoto reunion? |
SAKEFOROLDTIMES |
| Each |
APOP |
| Eastern European |
CROAT |
| Ejaculate |
CRY |
| Emily Dickinson's home |
AMHERST |
| Env. science |
ECOL |
| Experts, slangily |
SHARPS |
| Feel extreme discouragement |
DESPOND |
| Fire |
ARDOR |
| First name in courtroom drama |
ERLE |
| Flu fighter |
SERUM |
| G.P.'s grp. |
AMA |
| God, in Roma |
DIO |
| Greek vowels |
ETAS |
| Grier of the gridiron |
ROSEY |
| Happens |
TAKESPLACE |
| Heart |
CRUX |
| Hitchhiker |
RIDER |
| Hospital hook up |
DRIPFEED |
| How you may know something |
COLD |
| In the manner of |
ALA |
| Insipid |
ARID |
| It runs down the leg |
INSEAM |
| Just a bite |
NIBBLE |
| Kind of queen |
DRAMA |
| Köln or Nürnberg |
STADT |
| Kung ___ chicken |
PAO |
| La ___, Bolivia |
PAZ |
| Lead-in for long |
ERE |
| Like a spent campfire |
ASHY |
| Like about half the world's pop. |
FEM |