| ''Ada'', for one |
OPERA |
| ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' author |
LOOS |
| ''Gimme a break!'' |
CMON |
| ''That's OK!'' |
AGREED |
| ''The Constant Gardener'' wife |
TESSA |
| ''Titanic'' passenger class |
STEERAGE |
| 44 Across fodder |
FLOUR |
| 51 Across grp. |
OPEC |
| 551, once |
DLI |
| Actor Stephen |
REA |
| Adrien of cosmetics |
ARPEL |
| Alphabetic trio |
EFG |
| Arises, with ''up'' |
CROPS |
| Author Zola |
EMILE |
| Averts, as a fencing thrust |
PARRIES |
| Awakenings from sleep |
AROUSALS |
| Baking gadget |
SIFTER |
| Baltimore birds |
ORIOLES |
| Baylor University locale |
WACO |
| Begins to bloom |
BUDS |
| Biblical scribe |
EZRA |
| Black bird |
DAW |
| Bleachers yell |
RAH |
| Blissful states |
RAPTURES |
| Bob Dole's state |
KANSAS |
| Book after Daniel |
HOSEA |
| Brass instrument |
SLIDETROMBONE |
| Car mechanism |
WINDSHIELDWIPER |
| Carbon dioxide and methane |
GREENHOUSEGASES |
| Cash or property |
ASSET |
| Catches, as a concert |
SEES |
| Chiang opponent |
MAO |
| Circle ratios |
PIS |
| Circus employee |
TAMER |
| Co. head |
CEO |
| Comic-book blows |
POWS |
| Comparatively foxy |
SLIER |
| Cooking ingredient |
LARD |
| Create art, in a way |
SCULPT |
| Cribbage marker |
PEG |
| Cried aloud |
BAWLED |
| Days off for most |
WEEKEND |
| Do needlework |
SEW |
| Eats like a bird |
PECKS |
| Egyptian god |
AMONRA |
| Elevator inventor |
OTIS |
| Emphatic ''yes'' follower |
SIRREE |
| Encryptions |
CODES |
| Essex, for example |
EARLDOM |
| Exact copy |
MIRRORIMAGE |
| Faux pas |
SLIP |
| Federal agcy. since 1970 |
EPA |
| Feeling sore |
ACHY |
| Find a new tenant for |
RELET |
| Flightless birds |
RHEAS |
| Forearm bone |
ULNA |
| Free-for-all |
BRAWL |
| Gender abbr. |
FEM |
| Gets around |
SKIRTS |
| Gift of __ |
GAB |
| Give an address |
ORATE |
| Goalpost adjunct |
CROSSBAR |
| Goat features |
BEARDS |
| Got up |
AWOKE |
| Hawkish Olympian |
ARES |
| He's not buying it |
WINDOWSHOPPER |
| Helm dir. |
SSE |
| Hobbits' home |
SHIRE |
| Hoops group: Abbr. |
NBA |
| Improved, as musculature |
TONED |
| Irene of ''Fame'' |
CARA |