| Lawn game played with a ball known as a pallino |
| Thin snack |
| Formal words of commitment |
| Omitted, as a syllable |
| Toyed (with) |
| Neighborhood in lower Manhattan |
| Exhibited heliotropism, as a flower |
| Plus-or-minus one? |
| Joe's co-host on "Morning Joe" |
| Part of a Tolkien army |
| Big fuss |
| What gives a gin fizz its fizz |
| Novelist Brontë |
| Prepared for an oral exam? |
| Construction beam |
| Abolitionist who wrote "Twelve Years a Slave" |
| Fantasy sports scoring standard, informally |
| Bygone phrase for "gone by" |
| "Enough! I get it!" |
| Overly proper |
| Cambridge or Oxford, to a Londoner |
| Big initials in theaters |
| Dip that might be made in a molcajete, informally |
| Poor review |
| Went uneaten, as some groceries |
| Classic Asimov collection |
| Part of a calendar septet, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| Florida's "Sunshine City," for short |
| Futile |
| Philly basketball player |
| Leafs (through) |
| Bully in "Back to the Future" |
| Home for the artist Edvard Munch |
| Spicy ramen condiment |
| Monte ___ |
| John who sang "Bennie and the Jets" |
| Exploded |
| Lei man's term? |
| Rank's counterpart, on a chessboard |
| New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident |
| Come back |
| ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly) |
| Ballet or ballroom, e.g. |
| First phase of a home reno |
| Finished off |
| Word after kick or bad |
| "The Way," in Chinese Pinyin |
| Track-and-field athlete with a strong arm |
| Pretentiously avant-garde |
| Dweeb |
| Te ___ ("I love you," in Spanish) |
| Yap from a lap? |
| Jazz singer Jones |
| Elvis hit that was the B-side of "Don't Be Cruel" |
| Caterer's container |
| Smallest Canadian province, for short |
| Stop in a desert |
| Once-popular big box stores |
| Ocean creatures with nearly triple the neural wiring of humans |
| Rapper whose name sounds like a beverage |
| Thousand-dollar bill, slangily |
| Before surgery, informally |
| Writer/podcaster Harris |
| Mountain goat |
| A good time |
| Be wide-open |
| Parts of the "Mona Lisa" that seem to follow you around |