| Preceder of Christmas |
| What follows both the living and dead? |
| Xeriscape garden plants |
| A good deal |
| Call upon arriving home, maybe |
| Exchange rings? |
| Canceled, to a philatelist |
| Towers from which muezzins announce calls to prayer |
| One who's out and about? |
| Privy to |
| Say again |
| Billboard number, maybe |
| Opening gambit of sorts |
| Traffic director |
| First national magazine to feature Steve Jobs on the cover |
| Meaning of the Persian suffix "-stan" |
| Runs |
| Magazine that debuted in France in 1945 and the U.S. in 1985 |
| Get metal from, in a way |
| Kitchen variety |
| Class some people are dying to get into? |
| Amazed reactions |
| UNESCO World Heritage listings |
| Business abbr. |
| Joy of MSNBC |
| How theremin music sounds |
| Zaphod Beeblebrox in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," for one |
| "Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!" |
| Calamity |
| W.W. II hero who retired from the mil. to run for president |
| "Don't be ___" |
| Example of exemplary service |
| Kind of drawing |
| Dating preference |
| Temple building |
| Oscar-nominated director Gerwig |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" character |
| "Aren't I somethin'?!" |
| Knight clubs |
| Buckets |
| Actress Lanchester |
| Group cultivated by a recruiter |
| Big part of California? |
| Muse of lyric poetry |
| Pulls and analyzes online information, e.g. |
| Cross shape |
| More than a twinge |
| Barbershop fixture? |
| Possible result of a major fall |
| Core group |
| Grp. that might get a talking-to by the principal |
| Heroine of novels set at Lilac Inn, Shadow Ranch and Red Gate Farm |
| Creatures that can regrow a lost tooth up to 50 times |
| Features of some cheesy dinner parties? |
| Cobs, e.g. |
| What I might be |
| Boundary for "first and goal" plays |
| Defeater of Jörmungandr |
| Woman's name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped |
| Highly trained body |
| Suddenly think of |
| Quad ___ (2022 record jump achieved by Ilia Malinin) |
| Like electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelength |
| Place to find a hammer and anvil |
| Fancy wheels |
| Name that means "no one" in Latin |
| Account |
| "Nothing ___" |
| Thames town |
| Row |
| Some names on buildings |
| Little buggers |