| Clue |
Solution |
| "Jeopardy!"
host Trebek |
ALEX |
| "Slumdog
Millionaire" setting |
INDIA |
| *Dispenser
of psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown |
LUCYVANPELT |
| *Game-quickening
timer in basketball |
SHOTCLOCK |
| *Long
vegetable with a yellow pod |
WAXBEAN |
| *Marinara
sauce thickener |
TOMATOPASTE |
| *Snowbirds'
destination |
SUNBELT |
| 1970s
tennis champ Nastase |
ILIE |
| Adhering
to old-fashioned modesty |
PRIM |
| Animal
with a rack |
ELK |
| Arabian
Peninsula nation |
YEMEN |
| Book
jacket write-up |
BLURB |
| Bottle
stopper |
CORK |
| Budgetary
excess |
FAT |
| Call
at a deli or barbershop |
NEXT |
| Cartoondom's
Olive ___ |
OYL |
| Charlotte
___ (rich dessert) |
RUSSE |
| Cheerleader's
cry |
RAH |
| Churchill
Downs event |
DERBY |
| Clobber
in the ring |
KAYO |
| Columbus
campus, briefly |
OSU |
| Congeal,
as blood |
CLOT |
| Cooking
oil brand |
CRISCO |
| Ease
up on |
LOOSEN |
| Fairy
tale boy who outsmarts a witch |
HANSEL |
| Food
unit counted by a dieter |
CALORIE |
| Game
of pursuit |
TAG |
| Gate
closer |
LATCH |
| Golf
ball propper-upper |
TEE |
| Govt.
of the Rebs |
CSA |
| Green
precious stone |
JADE |
| Hairlike
projections on cells |
CILIA |
| Hippocratic
___ |
OATH |
| Honolulu
hello |
ALOHA |
| Landmass
bounded by a mountain chain and three oceans |
ASIA |
| Like
a midlevel general or a so-so movie |
TWOSTAR |
| List
of popular songs … or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
HITPARADE |
| Lyndon
Johnson and George W. Bush |
TEXANS |
| Mean
witch's pronouncement |
CURSE |
| Mel
honored in Cooperstown |
OTT |
| Mischievous |
IMPISH |
| Miss
America accessory |
SASH |
| Motorists'
org. |
AAA |
| Nighttime
wear, familiarly |
PJS |
| Notable
achievement |
FEAT |
| Overly
theatrical type |
HAM |
| Peak |
SUMMIT |
| Playful
river animal |
OTTER |
| President
saying "No!" |
VETOER |
| Purchase
for a newborn |
LAYETTE |
| Racket |
DIN |
| Reb's
foe |
YANK |
| Ships'
direction controllers |
RUDDERS |
| Small
food fish |
SMELT |
| Social
gaffe |
FAUXPAS |
| Soft
mineral |
TALC |
| Some
"big" burgers |
MACS |
| Something
an arrested person tries to "make" |
BAIL |
| Sorvino
of "Mighty Aphrodite" |
MIRA |
| Sound
of disapproval |
TSK |
| Spunk |
MOXIE |
| Stars-and-stripes
land, for short |
USA |
| Steamy |
EROTIC |
| Subway
system |
METRO |
| Swede
who developed a temperature scale |
CELSIUS |
| Swine |
HOGS |
| Take
part in 49-Across |
RUN |
| Tie,
as figure skates |
LACEUP |
| Utter
failure |
FIASCO |
| Vice
president between Gore and Biden |
CHENEY |
| Wagner's
"Liebestod," e.g. |
ARIA |
| Wealth |
RICHES |
| Weirdo |
NUT |
| What
might turn up dirt on someone? |
HOE |
| What
psychological trauma may leave |
SCAR |
| Without
repetition |
ONCE |
| Words
solemnly sworn |
IDO |
| Years
and years and years |
EONS |
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