| Carpet thickness | PILE |
| Crowbar, basically | LEVER |
| Vanishing ski lift | TBAR |
| Preemptive rescue op | EVAC |
| Wear down | ERODE |
| MasterCard rival | VISA |
| *Boot camp newbie | RAWRECRUIT |
| Not fer | AGIN |
| Slap in the face | INSULT |
| Play the hand you were dealt | STANDPAT |
| Smooth engine sound | HUM |
| __-Locka, Florida | OPA |
| Aetna’s bus. | INS |
| Michelin product | CARTIRE |
| Ancient vase in a museum, say | RELIC |
| Fuel-efficient Chevy | AVEO |
| Physics work unit | ERG |
| Starts the kitty | ANTES |
| Truth stretcher | LIAR |
| Nebula Award genre | SCIFI |
| Undiluted | PURE |
| Untrue | FALSE |
| Acquired | GOT |
| __ Minor: Little Bear | URSA |
| Chinese menu promise | NOMSG |
| Company co-founded by J.P. Morgan | USSTEEL |
| "The Simpsons" disco guy | STU |
| Sport-__: 4 x 4 | UTE |
| 90 deg. at the North Pole, e.g. | LAT |
| Overly long and generally unproductive activity | TIMESINK |
| One of Santa’s reindeer | DASHER |
| "SOS" pop group | ABBA |
| *Defensible alibi | GOODEXCUSE |
| Baked desserts | PIES |
| Latest craze | MANIA |
| Ointment additive | ALOE |
| Tortoise racer | HARE |
| Spiritual guardian | ANGEL |
| Identity hider | MASK |
| Prefix with scope | PERI |
| Hall of Fame catcher Rodriguez | IVAN |
| Newton’s motion trio | LAWS |
| Color of raw silk | ECRU |
| Professors’ talks | LECTURES |
| Boot the ball | ERR |
| "Parlez-__ français?" | VOUS |
| Manuscript fixer | EDITOR |
| Make another recording of | RETAPE |
| Promo on the tube | TVAD |
| *Grand scheme of things | BIGPICTURE |
| From China, say | ASIAN |
| Tirades | RANTS |
| Pre-college, briefly | ELHI |
| Simba’s playmate | NALA |
| Defunct Ford division, for short | MERC |
| Baby whale | CALF |
| Sports shoe brand | AVIA |
| *It may be rational, in math | REALNUMBER |
| Sculptor’s subject | TORSO |
| Data to be processed | INPUT |
| Band tour booking | GIG |
| Highland tongue | ERSE |
| Close tightly | SEAL |
| Basketball transgression | FOUL |
| "Agreed!" … and what can be said about the start of the answers to starred clues | ITSADEAL |
| Grounded Aussie birds | EMUS |
| Mark of disgrace | STIGMA |
| Columbus, by birth | GENOAN |
| Lay’s chips-in-a-can brand | STAX |
| Dangerous bacterium | STAPH |
| Knee-to-ankle bone | TIBIA |
| Lessen, as pain | EASE |
| Skull Island ape | KONG |
| Rip-off | SCAM |
| Island dance | HULA |
| Those, in Mexico | ESOS |
| Cause serious nose-wrinkling | REEK |
| Stop working, as an engine | DIE |
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