| Like crowd before big show |
| Slithering sea creature |
| Protest vehemently |
| Vision-related |
| Obtain despite resistance |
| Knowledge gained through tradition |
| Fact-finder's volume |
| Path of Federer's lob |
| "Bat Out of Hell" rocker Meat ___ |
| Visually challenged burrower |
| Led Zeppelin's final studio album, appropriately |
| "It's beginning to look a ___ like Christmas" |
| What accountant will do to matters |
| What Michelle Wie recently turned |
| Landing spot for Santa Claus |
| Used up |
| Garden event each spring |
| Benzyl acetate, for one |
| Proverbial French coin |
| Muscle that merges with the Achilles tendon |
| Prepare manuscripts for publication |
| Static |
| Payment for services rendered |
| Word after going or before hike |
| Heating system conduit |
| Story told over multiple films, perhaps |
| Tacky? |
| Suspect's "I was home all night," e.g. |
| Hair-hardening goo |
| Setting for many stained-glass windows |
| It can capture only diagonally forward |
| Big citrus fruit |
| Memory jogging letters, at times |
| The "W" in V.F.W. |
| Material used for fishing lines or guitar strings |
| Spot where you might enjoy a steam bath |
| Swerved |
| Upscale |
| Animal Collective "___ Frightened" |
| Simpleton (Yiddish) |
| One of the "proud" items in a Murray book |
| "Sure, why not?" |
| Sacred |
| Wood used in Voldemort's wand |
| Calls for, like a cab |
| Fertilizer for soils deficient in lime |
| Verb from which "sum" is derived |
| Valuable sphere sought in "Guardians of the Galaxy" |
| Palindromic preposition of old |
| Go straight |
| By hook or by crook |
| Riot squad's concern |
| Southey's "The Curse of Kehama" |
| Setting for Radiohead's "Karma Police" video |
| Legolas of Middle Earth, e.g. |
| Questlove's big hairstyle, for short |
| Scand. country that borders Russia |
| Provide |
| Substance-banning agcy. |
| Pesticide banned since the 1970s |
| Embarked on |
| Contemptuous comment |
| Word with "military" or "heating" |
| Pointed ends |
| Indulge excessively in |
| Show-___ (attention-getting people) |
| Farewell to Herculaneum |
| Word with ''eye'' or ''final'' |
| Like Felix and Oscar |
| Spanish devil |
| Sample the culinary arts |
| Document transmitted over a phone line |
| It's connected to this puzzle's theme |
| It might have the family name on it |
| Iceberg feature, figuratively |
| Three letters that start a Beatles song title |
| High chair user's accessory |
| Pole topper |
| Tallest land quadruped |
| This might be given some latitude |
| Place for four-and-twenty blackbirds, in a rhyme |
| Ledger column |
| Where pigs live, on a farm |
| They precede the final round of a tournament |
| Source of ultraviolet rays |
| Juicy item in a gossip column |
| X out |
| Sitcom veteran McClanahan |