| Clues | Answers |
| 'Ghostbusters' character ___ Spengler | EGON |
| 'Glory to the ___ king' (carol line) | NEWBORN |
| 'Monster's Ball' Oscar winner | HALLEBERRY |
| 'One more thing ...,' in a text | BTW |
| 'The Misanthrope' playwright | MOLIERE |
| *Abundant harvest | BUMPERCROP |
| *Bologna, e.g | COLDCUT |
| *Carpenter's decorative molding | WINDOWTRIM |
| *Device for holding papers together | BINDERCLIP |
| 2014 movie about Dr. King | SELMA |
| Air kiss sound | MWAH |
| Alternative to café | THE |
| At hand | NEAR |
| Ballplayers with birds on their caps | ORIOLES |
| Beer buy | SIXPACK |
| Black-purple fruit from a palm tree | ACAI |
| Bone paralleling the fibula | TIBIA |
| Book that might include 'Silent Night' | HYMNAL |
| Brimless chef's hat | TOQUE |
| Bring on board | HIRE |
| Bring to bear, as pressure | EXERT |
| Brit's 'Baloney!' | BOSH |
| Capp and Capone | ALS |
| Cincinnati radio station of bygone TV | WKRP |
| Cleaned the dishes? | ATE |
| Co. in the Dow Jones index since 1979 | IBM |
| Commencement celebrant, in brief | GRAD |
| Common bar order, with 'the' | SAME |
| Compensate for a sprained ankle, say | LIMP |
| David Bowie song whose title subject is 'waiting in the sky' | STARMAN |
| Director of 2000's 'Charlie's Angels,' to film fans | MCG |
| Does the crawl, say | SWIMS |
| Dutch-speaking Caribbean vacation spot | ARUBA |
| Epitaph words | INMEMORIAM |
| Española, por ejemplo | ISLA |
| Factual | TRUE |
| Feeling of wonder | AWE |
| First things you learn | ABCS |
| Genetic 'messenger' | RNA |
| Hairy Himalayans | YETIS |
| Hesitant assent | UHYES |
| Hook's sidekick | SMEE |
| Impose, as a tax | LEVY |
| In need of cheering up | SAD |
| Lacking slack | TAUT |
| Lady ___ (nickname in jazz) | ELLA |
| Lakeside rental | CANOE |
| Larsson who wrote the 'Millennium' trilogy | STIEG |
| Liveliness | SPUNK |
| Loses one's cool | SNAPS |
| Low in fat | LEAN |
| Managed, somehow | EKEDBY |
| Museum-funding org | NEA |
| N.Y.C. museum, with 'the' | MET |
| Not staged | REAL |
| Of a historic period | EPOCHAL |
| Of a ring-shaped part of the iris | AREOLAR |
| Offset, as costs | DEFRAY |
| Old cornball variety show with Buck Owens | HEEHAW |
| On the briny | ATSEA |
| Oversaw, as a committee | CHAIRED |
| Personal manner | MIEN |
| Played at a hoedown, perhaps | FIDDLED |
| Pseudocultured | ARTY |
| Renter's contract | LEASE |
| See 54-Across | QUARTET |
| Spud ___, 5'7' N.B.A. star who famously won a Slam Dunk Contest | WEBB |
| Take apart, as a tapestry | UNWEAVE |
| Target of an ID thief | SSN |
| Way in or out | DOOR |
| Wild guess | STAB |
| With 63-Across, singing group ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the four starred clues | BARBERSHOP |
| Yelps of pain | OWS |
| ___ hall (place to play) | REC |
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