| "Rent" character who sings "Light My Candle" |
| "And there you have it!" |
| "Woo-hoo! The weekend's here!" |
| Stench |
| Darling one |
| Otherwise |
| Titular animated character whose theme music is by Henry Mancini |
| Place for a ponytail |
| Add, as an extra perk |
| Indian and Arctic |
| Baseball great Mel |
| Cereal mascot whose catchphrase is "They're gr-r-reat!" |
| Like a famed piper |
| Winning tic-tac-toe line, when player X isn't paying attention |
| All together |
| Barely manage |
| Certain sib |
| Triumphed |
| Fictional feline from Japan … or how one might greet 17-, 24-, 54- or 65-Across |
| Yard cover |
| Wooden part of a railroad track |
| Animal with a long, sticky tongue |
| ___ Gay (W.W. II plane) |
| Song refrain syllable |
| There's no place like it |
| Oz resident lacking in courage |
| Jenna Fischer's role on "The Office" |
| Negotiator's refusal |
| Toy item set up to be toppled |
| Cried |
| Lewis Carroll character with a disembodied smile |
| Hoppy beers, in brief |
| "Take the ___" (Duke Ellington classic) |
| Partner |
| London art museum |
| Body parts that might be "bumped" |
| Celebratory stadium cries |
| Shaggy Beatles hairdos |
| Inane |
| Under-the-bed resident, in a child's imagination |
| Peeves |
| Middle of many German names |
| Choose |
| Old Apple picture-editing app |
| Freeloader |
| "___ Grows in Brooklyn" |
| Pickleball relative |
| Scottish city on the River Clyde |
| Web connection letters |
| Around 2%-3%, for a customer using a credit card |
| Hand: Sp. |
| Avocado's center |
| Just one tiny bite |
| Like the gases argon and xenon |
| Ma who once left a $2.5 million cello in the trunk of a taxi |
| Ambient music trailblazer Brian |
| Stimpy's pal in cartoons |
| Morse code "morsel" |
| Old explosive device used to breach castle walls |
| Retired QB Manning |
| Mount that Moses mounted |
| Hairy cousin in "The Addams Family" |
| Philosopher Marx |
| "___, sure, you betcha!" (classic Minnesotan expression) |
| Fraction of a min. |
| Artist/activist Yoko |
| Thoroughly memorized |
| Buzzworthy, say |
| Flow (from) |
| Broadcasts not done in a studio |
| Founder of Taoism |
| White House family in the 1840s |
| Common after-dinner coffee preference |
| Christine of "Chicago Hope" |
| Norse god of wisdom and war |
| Negative conjunction |
| Note "to all staff" |
| Cleverness |
| Energy-monitoring org. |
| Ordeal for many H.S. seniors |
| What's-___-face |