| Nearly nada |
UNO |
| Nicknames |
TAGS |
| Not fair |
RAINY |
| One of 14 in the Big Ten |
IOWA |
| Outs |
ALIBIS |
| Part of a black cloud |
GNAT |
| Pitch |
SLANT |
| Place often named after a corporation |
ARENA |
| Places where you can hear a pin drop? |
ALLEYS |
| PlayStation maker |
SONY |
| Rhythmic feet |
IAMBS |
| Sch. whose team is the Violets |
NYU |
| Setting for 'Gladiator' |
ROME |
| Situates |
ORIENTS |
| Some sitters |
NANAS |
| Something set in a place setting |
UTENSIL |
| Song that was a hit for a spell in the 1970s? |
YMCA |
| Soon |
INABIT |
| Soon |
ANYDAY |
| Sound of an incoming text, e.g |
ALERT |
| Sp-[gasp]-speaks like th-[sniffle]-this |
SOBS |
| Spelling clarification #2 |
AASINARE |
| Spelling clarification #3 |
SASINSEA |
| Spelling clarification #4 |
EASINEYE |
| Spelling clarification #5 |
YASINYOU |
| Spicy quality |
BITE |
| Support staff |
CANE |
| Tailor, say |
ALTER |
| Takes responsibility for |
OWNS |
| Team that last won an N.F.L. championship in 1957 |
LIONS |
| Tequila source |
AGAVE |
| To have, in Toulouse |
AVOIR |
| Together |
ASONE |
| Tree in a giraffe's diet |
ACACIA |
| Tree-dwelling snake |
MAMBA |
| Unhelpful spelling clarification #1 |
CASINCUE |
| W.S.J. alternative |
NYT |
| What the listener might think 16-Across's name is? |
QRCIU |
| Wife, informally |
MISSUS |
| ___ Lingus |
AER |