| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| #2 baby girl's name in 2013 | EMMA |
| ''Capitale della Lombardia'' | MILANO |
| ''Organe politique'' | ETAT |
| ''__ before you dress'' (soap slogan of yore) | CARESS |
| 1998 film with ''Back to the Colony'' music | ANTZ |
| Alphabetically second presidential middle name | ALAN |
| Aquatic oxygenators | GILLS |
| Army-base hangout | DAYROOM |
| Army-base hangout | RECHALL |
| Bash of CNN | DANA |
| Bestriding | ATOP |
| Broadcasters banned by North Korea | HAMS |
| Clean, as tech writing | DEBUG |
| Cools it | RESTS |
| Crescent components | ARCS |
| Eddie Redmayne alma mater | ETON |
| End of a pas de deux | CODA |
| Energy saver and security device | GASCAP |
| Fictional Covent Garden merchant | ELIZA |
| First US airer of ''Monty Python'' episodes | PBS |
| Flavorful | ZESTY |
| Fortification | BASTION |
| Handi-Snacks spread | CHEEZWHIZ |
| He's the focus of three Spanish museums | DALI |
| Home of the Geffen School of Medicine | UCLA |
| Hunk | ADONIS |
| It's made from a ''root'' in root beer | SASSAFRASTEA |
| It's often eaten with relish | OLIVE |
| It's taken by Nicholson in ''A Few Good Men'' | OATH |
| Italian site with two ski resorts (!) | MTETNA |
| Jackie portrayer in two ''Kennedys'' miniseries | KATIE |
| John Paul's court successor | ELENA |
| Language with many Sanskrit loan words | THAI |
| Last word in a Seuss multimillion seller | SAMIAM |
| Lightning by-product | ACIDRAIN |
| Loser at Thermopylae | SPARTA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Merest degree | IOTA |
| Metaphor for stoicism | ICEWATER |
| Mexican desert menace | VIPER |
| Mission headquarters | EMBASSY |
| Nonreactive | INERT |
| Olympic sport since 1968 | SKEET |
| One of Sinatra's favorite lyricists | CAHN |
| One who must work under pressure | DEEPSEADIVER |
| Opposite of ''discourage'' | ABET |
| Optimal | PEAK |
| Oscar actor for ''Cocoon'' | AMECHE |
| Part of a major plot | ACRE |
| Player in the most Grand Slam singles finals | EVERT |
| Plunder | SPOILS |
| Power structure | GRID |
| Promptness + joy | ALACRITY |
| Proscribe | BAN |
| Purple-haired comic persona | DAMEEDNA |
| Put away | STASH |
| Rewards for some KOs | BELTS |
| San Diego State athlete | AZTEC |
| Slap bracelets, circa 1990 | MANIA |
| Slipped past | EDGED |
| Species | SORTS |
| Stir-fry morsel | PEA |
| Summons specification | COURTDATE |
| Team second to the Yanks in WS wins | STL |
| Things brushed by barbers | NAPES |
| Top of an oceanic food chain | ORCA |
| Toulouse-Lautrec inspiration | DEGAS |
| Unintended escape | LEAK |
| Weasel word | UNLESS |
| Wine __ | SNOB |
| Winner of eight choreography Tonys | FOSSE |
| Word before agreement or argument | ORAL |
| __ lightning | SHEET |