| Clues | Answers |
| 'Absolutely!' | AMEN |
| 'Beau ___' | GESTE |
| 'Egads!' | EEK |
| 'I tell ya!' | BOY |
| 'Je ne ___ quoi' | SAIS |
| 'Nope' | NAW |
| 'Seriously?' | FORREAL |
| 'Te ___' | AMO |
| 'The Caine Mutiny' author | WOUK |
| 'The Gift of the Magi' author | OHENRY |
| 'We ___ Kings' | THREE |
| 'Why do you ask?' response | NOREASON |
| 1/x, for x | MULTIPLICATIVEINVERSE |
| 1935 Triple Crown winner | OMAHA |
| A couple of Bible books | SAMUELS |
| A short rest, so to speak | FIVE |
| Abstainers ... or the central column's answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively | TEETOTALERS |
| Admiral Graf ___ (German W.W. II ship) | SPEE |
| Ark contents | PAIRS |
| Bearing | MIEN |
| Big name in denim | LEE |
| Brushed up on | RELEARNED |
| Capital of Belarus | MINSK |
| Charitable offering | ALMS |
| Charlotte of 'The Facts of Life' | RAE |
| Collected $200, say | PASSEDGO |
| College town of George Washington Carver | AMES |
| Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song | TWO |
| Completely unrestrained | ONAJAG |
| Congressional budget directives | EARMARKS |
| Cut (off) | LOP |
| Deep-fried doughy treats | CRULLERS |
| Derisive expressions | SNEERS |
| Director DuVernay | AVA |
| Disfigure | MAR |
| Doze (off) | NOD |
| Drain, as blood | LET |
| End of some school names, for short | TECH |
| Famed Chicago steakhouse | MORTONS |
| Fashionable | ALAMODE |
| Film character who says 'Kiss me as if it were the last time' | ILSA |
| Focus of an egoist's gaze | NAVEL |
| Fold | GOBROKE |
| Followers of dos | RES |
| Food that Marge Simpson once served with 'a whisper of MSG' | PORKCHOP |
| Former superstore chain selling diapers and strollers | BABIESRUS |
| Fuel line | GASMAIN |
| Gobbles (down) | SNARFS |
| Govt. org. often impersonated on scam calls | SSA |
| Group with the 2012 chart-topping album 'Up All Night,' to fans | ONED |
| Has finished | ISDONE |
| Hay fever irritant | RAGWEED |
| He: Lat | ILLE |
| Headed for overtime | TIED |
| Hides one's true nature | LIVESALIE |
| Hither's partner | YON |
| Home of the N.C.A.A.'s Rhody the Ram, for short | URI |
| Houston A.L.'ers | STROS |
| It postulates a space-time fabric | THETHEORYOFRELATIVITY |
| It's pitchfork-shaped | PSI |
| Joint winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award in 2000 | PELE |
| Labor day setting? | DELIVERYROOM |
| Leaf (through) | PAGE |
| Little Richard hit with 'the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,' per Rolling Stone | TUTTIFRUTTI |
| Longtime NPR host Diane | REHM |
| Lowly workers | PEONS |
| Lucky strikes? | ORES |
| Lucky ticket holder's cry | IWON |
| Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards | GLAMOUR |
| Many-time N.H.L. All-Star Jagr | JAROMIR |
| Massage target | SCALP |
| Miss | GIRL |
| Monopoly quartet: Abbr | RRS |
| Mr. Incredible's actual surname | PARR |
| Mythical being depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor | MERMAID |
| Nonbinary identity | AGENDER |
| Obsolescent TV companion | VCR |
| One in a pocketful | POSY |
| One might be taken in protest | KNEE |
| One who might give you a shot | NURSE |
| Online payment option | ECHECK |
| Opening words? | SESAMES |
| Orbicularis ___ (eyelid-closing muscle) | OCULI |
| Org. whose academy's motto in English is 'The sea yields to knowledge' | USCG |
| Paris's ___ La Fayette | RUE |
| Perturb | VEX |
| Phaser setting | STUN |
| Picked a card | DREW |
| Picked nits | DELOUSED |
| Prefix for a polygon with 140-degree interior angles | NONA |
| Preserves something? | BERRY |
| President Ford and others | GERALDS |
| Purple pool ball | FOUR |
| Quite a tale | SAGA |
| Radio medium | AIRWAVES |
| Record holder for the most Indianapolis 500 laps led | ALUNSER |
| Renaissance-themed festival | FAIRE |
| Runs smoothly | PURRS |
| San Francisco's ___ Valley | NOE |
| Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr | ISS |
| Sea eagle | ERNE |
| Sheepish | OVINE |
| Signs off on | OKAYS |
| Spa amenity | ROBE |
| Speed that would enable a 23-minute D.C.-to-L.A. flight | MACHSIX |
| Spirit | BRIO |
| Steinful | ALE |
| Super Bowl trophy eponym | LOMBARDI |
| Swiss dish | FONDUE |
| Swollen, as a lip | FAT |
| Tears to pieces | MAULS |
| The 1 in (1,2), in math | ABSCISSA |
| They can't do without does | STAGS |
| Thieves' place | LAIR |
| Things the Energizer bunny may need | AAS |
| Tiny margin of victory | HAIR |
| Top female baby name of 2014-18 | EMMA |
| Top type | BLOUSE |
| Top-level foreign policy grp | NSC |
| Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks | ROGERFEDERER |
| Traditional, if bulky, presents in Santa's bag | SLEDS |
| Tribute | HOMAGE |
| Trump who wrote 2017's 'Raising Trump' | IVANA |
| TV screen inits | LCD |
| Universal self, in Hinduism | ATMAN |
| Wallop | PASTE |
| What fools might make of themselves | ASSES |
| When one usually goes through customs | ONARRIVAL |
| Where fans are often placed on high? | ARENAS |
| Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously | NOONE |
| Work times, typically | WEEKDAYS |
| Year that Michelangelo's 'The Crucifixion of St. Peter' was completed | MDL |
| Yosemite attraction | ELCAPITAN |
| ___ fast one | PULLA |
| ___ sleep | REM |
| ___ tear (athlete's injury) | ACL |
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