| Jobs, figuratively |
HATS |
| Kind of testimony |
ORAL |
| Least equivocal |
SUREST |
| Loquacious |
TALKY |
| Lt. hopeful |
SGT |
| Made a lot of noise |
CLAMORED |
| Maintained |
HELD |
| Managers, sometimes |
AXERS |
| Marcel Duchamp subject |
NUDE |
| Margin |
RIM |
| Matter |
COUNT |
| Mother ___ |
LODE |
| Muslim's House of God |
KABA |
| Naldi of the 'Ziegfeld Follies' |
NITA |
| Name of 11 ancient Egyptian rulers |
RAMESES |
| No longer dirt |
PAVED |
| Norwegian coin |
ORE |
| One doing a balancing job |
CPA |
| Part of a workout |
REP |
| Philippine island |
NEGROS |
| Place |
LOCALE |
| Plans, as a course |
CHARTS |
| Polite refusal |
NOSIR |
| Prefix with fuel |
SYN |
| Prehistoric medical supply? |
ROCKBANDAGE |
| Presence |
CHARISMA |
| Punkie |
GNAT |
| Puts in |
ENTERS |
| Quattros and others |
AUDIS |
| Questionable ancestry? |
FOULLINEAGE |
| Reach capacity, slangily, with 'out' |
MAX |
| Real estate ad abbr. |
BDRM |
| Reckless arrival? |
ENTRANCERAMPAGE |
| Revival gear |
TENTS |
| River at Avignon |
RHONE |
| Romantic bit of film making? |
TENDERFOOTAGE |
| Rumple |
MUSS |
| Rural sight |
LEA |
| Sailing pronoun |
HER |
| Saturn, for one |
CAR |
| Schoolbag item |
RULER |
| She played Thelma in 'Thelma & Louise' |
GEENA |
| Sky-___ (TV news aid) |
CAM |
| Slacken |
EASE |
| Smalltown, U.S.A., family, in the comics |
KENTS |
| Some apartments |
COOPS |
| Spica's constellation |
VIRGO |
| Stimulate |
WHET |
| Storyteller |
LIAR |
| Temporary talent scarcity? |
ACTINGOUTAGE |
| Their motto is 'North to the future' |
ALASKANS |
| They exist from hand-to-mouth |
REINS |
| Trace |
VESTIGE |
| Transfix |
IMPALE |
| Trick |
CON |
| Tropical cuckoo |
ANI |
| Tumult |
MAYHEM |
| University V.I.P. |
DEAN |
| Vacuum malfunction result? |
HOOVERDAMAGE |
| Warren Moon, once |
OILER |
| Was shown |
AIRED |
| Where the Bio-Bio flows |
CHILE |
| Word before Rodham, perhaps |
NEE |
| Words of understanding |
OHS |
| Writer Wolitzer |
MEG |
| Zero hour for Will Kane, in a film |
NOON |
| ___ Arenas, port in 93-Down |
PUNTA |
| ___ rigueur (literally) |
ALA |
| ___-Cat |
SNO |
| ___-Magnon |
CRO |