| 'Great' kid-lit detective |
NATE |
| 'Impossible!' |
NOWAY |
| 'Nevertheless ...' |
EVENSO |
| 'That's mine!' |
DIBS |
| 'Time to rise, sleepyhead!' |
UPANDATEM |
| Ancient Greek colonnade |
STOA |
| Bad-mouth |
BASH |
| Baylor's city |
WACO |
| Beatle, endearingly |
MOPTOP |
| Big Apple awards |
OBIES |
| Blessing-inducing sound |
ACHOO |
| Brazilian dance |
SAMBA |
| Bring together |
UNITE |
| Calendar units hidden in 20- and 61-Across and 11- and 35-Down |
DATES |
| Chooses to participate |
OPTSIN |
| Cold one |
BREW |
| Craps natural |
SEVEN |
| Crockpot concoctions |
STEWS |
| Deplete, as energy |
SAP |
| FEMA recommendation, briefly |
EVAC |
| Fire remnants |
COALS |
| Flank |
SIDE |
| Follow direction? |
ACT |
| From the top |
ANEW |
| Gave the boot |
AXED |
| Gimlet garnish |
LIME |
| Greedy monarch |
MIDAS |
| Hand-waver's cry |
MEME |
| Hard to please |
FUSSY |
| Impoverished |
NEEDY |
| Ingrid's role in 'Casablanca' |
ILSA |
| It's sold in skeins |
YARN |
| La preceder |
SOL |
| Largish combo |
OCTET |
| Lighted sign in a theater |
EXIT |
| Like a brainiac |
SMART |
| Like a yenta |
NOSY |
| Like batik fabrics |
DYED |
| Like hair, usually, after combing |
PARTED |