Top Clues This Week

Yellow-flowered shrub
John Lithgow, e.g.
Ending of many an old nightclub name
Complete schmuck
Military officer
Right hands, so to speak
Moorish castle
"Open, sesame!" sayer
High-pH
Lily plant: Ref. sp.
NH(subscript)2 compound
Some Plain People
So said Murphy, Part 2
Consist of
Contest site
Songs "di sentimento"
Male symbol components
The ___ the Deal
Man of the courts
Not trebly
Head banger?
Ladybug, e.g.
Fast food classic
Sound of trumpets, e.g.
Cabaret singer's accessory
Wrinkle-reducing treatment
Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them
Dental tools
Birthday slice
Spaniards and Portuguese
It's got the sun in the morning
Spoke the words
Neaten the lawn
Like Clay Aiken or Liberace
''Meatballs'' setting
Piece polisher
www.nyu.___
Apollo Theater's neighborhood
Egotism?
Early morning favorite
Azalea in a studio
Voting regions
Tahiti, for example
Drive-in employee of old
Artie who wrote "Too Fat to Fish"
Chatters inarticulately
Wrist-related
Wren's wing?
"Bennifer" bomb
Tree with tough, useful wood
River reflection
Gives way to an approaching train
Robber, in old days
Mosqued man?
Sailor of the East.
Lord High Everything ___ ("The Mikado")
Bear's place
Pavement pounder
Maggie's acting brother
Trip for a politician
Reference book on branches of knowledge
Big brand in bonding
2005 Jake Gyllenhaal movie
P.I.
___ little longer
Name on a WWII bomber
Plenty, once
Part of a split personality
Baseball announcer's shout, sometimes
Large ursine
Ben Affleck film of '04
Country-club game
Colossal, as a film
West Point posture
Finnish hockey player Tikkanen
The principal waterway of Venice
Gourmet cook
Virginia city horse?
Fifth element, per Aristotle
Feed on the lea
Overnight places
More than wicked
Duffers' expenses
Feeling like sandpaper
Obtainsthrough intimidation
Midnight, for one
Slimer filling in for Letterman?
"Are we having ___ yet?"
"You're no ___, ___"
Swingers in some cars
Brand with earbuds
Makes room on, as a schedule
Seeker of services
Consumer of professional services
Singer Petina
"Judy ___ Punk"
Stock no-no
"Once upon a midnight ___"
Unpleasant but indispensable parts of a job
Former Sen. Bentsen
Keanu, in the "Matrix" series
Sea, si?
Grant/MacDowell romantic comedy
Spoils — heavenly body
Rail hubs?
The Village Voice awards
Shoulder ___ (parts of a football uniform)
W.W.E. head Vince ___
'-- did not!'
Main dish, often
Reconciles
Fisherman's remark after catching a cod relative?
Rah, in Spain
''The Comic'' actor Jerome
Abbr. in a formal salutation
"Scarborough Fair" spice
Displays of military power, for short
Condition after 40 or so
Home of Our Lady of the Lake University
Stomach-punching sound
Brilliant fish
Piano bar standard
Replaces a dancer
Food with a fold
Atlantic City sweet
Voters' nonchoice in 1912
Instant in time
Sings like Mel Torme
Synonym for "the love of Mike"
Fills in, in a way
Embarrassing predicament
Boardwalk-to-beach passage
Thing to do in a beautiful garden
Pressed a doorbell
Dessert menu item
Company that once offered "the Thrift Book of a Nation"
Question decisions, in a way
It delivers goods
__ firma
D.C. goings-on (Abbr.)
''Come up and ___ sometime''
Take minutes
Magician known for debunking paranormal claims
Meat or pepper
Like Betelgeuse
1970s NBC courtroom drama
One in a crowd at a bookstore?
Second cup of coffee
Anemic
"The American President" director
Unearthed object from the distant past
Musical that won a Pulitzer and a Tony
Soulmate
Doomsday expression, or what you might start to think if you stare at the Down answers for too long
Slows
Historic structure on the Thames
Former Shanghai Shark ___ Ming
''Dirty'' Cajun dish
Attains a higher status
Puts on the line, as money
Word with "good to go"
1929's "Street Girl" was its first official production
Sun blocker, of sorts
Doonesbury character in a cowboy hat
Org. for those with Dream jobs?
"Sea of troubles"
Steel levers
Became threadbare, with "out"
Fantasy leagues that aren't head-to-head
"Mickey Mouse Club "grownup
Learned works
China Sea gulf
The Bulldogs of the SEC
Beauty pack
Former best seller by J. A. Peterson
In __ (completely)
Seven-person combo
Wanted: Person to organize biographical records
Supportive of unions
"Thou __ not steal"
Bring forward
The Beatles' ''___ Love You''
Metal cover on ammo
Any old Russian ruler
Knitters, going the other way.
Carrier that folded into American in 2001
Yuri Gagarin's SK-1, e.g.
Duplex feature
Most resentful
Eastern instrument
__-chef
Ribs jocularly
Slam one's foot down
33-center
Lincoln's Tad, for one
Internet calling service
Acts as if money were no object
Lot's hometown

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Best-selling memoir of 1996
__ of reality
Hollywood dealmaker
William Morris employee: Abbr.
Ostentation
Shy of being shut
Wellaway!
Raggedy ones
Paraguayan border river
Source of info for those on the go
Hidden means of support?
Like a sunbow
Statistic for a point guard
Prize getter
It's where "EastEnders" can be found
Major wealth mgmt. corp.
Champers
Scotsman's name.
Gendarme's topper
The Bee Gees' "Gee"
Carefree diversion
Response to "Gracias"
RSVP cards, say
The bee's ___ (old-timey slang meaning "great")
"You Gotta Be" singer, 1994
Creative-writing technique
Took a big step to relieve debt [IEOAUY]
Become liberated
French philosopher Denis
Sooner than, to bards
Take on a new employee
End of a Shakespeare title
Buck's other half
Dominican, e.g.
Bed in a dorm room, maybe
Agile conifer?
Sort of edition
Set ___ (song order)
Body of principles binding on society
Trawler attachment
Official agreements
Duffer.
Capital of Denmark
Acct.'s
Sounded like a rooster
Rioting crowd
Fleet-footed fellows
One of Jack White's bands, with "The"
Places for MDs and RNs
Sci-fi role for Natalie Portman
Frequent co-star of Sly
What robbers cop
Feature of many a greeting card
Be ambiguous
30% of venti
Work for political purposes
Figure above God's throne, in Isaiah
Caesar from Yonkers
Battle of Britain fighter
Mexican affirmative