| Metallic waste |
| Isn't a bystander |
| Longtime Syrian leader |
| Preferred seating request |
| Get ready for planting |
| In ___ (developing) |
| Understood |
| Ithaca, to Odysseus |
| Odysseus, to Ithaca |
| Les ___-Unis |
| Patent preceder |
| Girder type |
| Lineage-based women's grp. |
| "___ be my pleasure!" |
| "Star Trek: ___" (syndicated series of the '80s-'90s) |
| Draft org. |
| Pizza chain |
| Stumblebum |
| Rare craps throws |
| Like Mercury among all the planets |
| Legendary Manhattan music club |
| "Here comes trouble!" |
| Distance for Captain Nemo |
| ___ package |
| Big name in mortgages? |
| TV host Ryan |
| Singer Carly ___ Jepsen |
| Hide away |
| Place to go to swim, informally |
| Mythical figure known for ribaldry |
| Writer Edgar ___ Poe |
| Places where streams flow |
| Indirect comment ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| Org. for students in uniform |
| Danish money |
| Blackberrys, e.g., for short |
| Spread in a spread |
| 27 Chopin works |
| Bombard |
| Acorn, essentially |
| Deals with |
| Indulged to excess, with "on" |
| Like the slang "da bomb" and "tubular, man!" |
| Vaquero's item |
| Award for Washington and Lee |
| Pupil of a lizard, e.g. |
| Becomes established |
| Garden pest |
| Dummkopf |
| "Personally ..." |
| Worry about, informally |
| The Charioteer constellation |
| Bit of theater detritus |
| Tennis Hall-of-Famer with a palindromic name |
| Arts and hard sciences, e.g. |
| Sides of some quads |
| Pictorial fabric |
| Studying aid |
| Grp. that gets the show on the road |
| Recipient of media complaints, for short |
| Some turkeys |
| [Yawn!] |
| 1-1 |
| Well-organized |
| Eponymous physicist Ernst |
| Horrid sort |
| Chop ___ |
| Made the rounds, say? |
| It varies from black to white |
| Ballpark purchase |
| N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer with four rap albums, informally |
| "The Tale of ___ Saltan" (Rimsky-Korsakov opera) |
| Like some golf shots and most bread |
| City under siege from 2012 to '16 |
| "No ___" (bumper sticker) |
| Page 2, 4 or 6, generally |
| Space balls |
| Art Deco notable |
| Dissolute man |
| Butts |
| "Dogs" |
| Abbr. on a brewery sign |