| 'Fingers crossed!' |
| 'I love,' to Cato |
| 'Most likely ...' |
| 'Smoking or ___?' |
| 'The one thing that's clear to me ...' |
| 'What do you think of ...?' |
| 'What ___, chopped liver?' |
| 'You can't joke about that yet' |
| '___ day now ...' |
| 10%-er: Abbr |
| Actor Holbrook |
| Appear |
| Biden and Pence, in brief |
| Big electronics chain |
| Blow away |
| Blue state? |
| Boaters' implements |
| Boxing achievements, in brief |
| Choir member |
| Crow's sound |
| Cuba's capital |
| Cultural spirit |
| Currency of France or Italy |
| Dance in which one partner might hold a rose between his teeth |
| Day-___ paint |
| Dec. celebration |
| Distant |
| Enters hurriedly |
| Event for meeting new people |
| Expressed amazement |
| FedEx rival |
| Fluorescent bulb alternative, for short |
| Greedy one |
| Group of books that an educated person is supposed to be familiar with |
| Group of three |
| In the company of |
| Japanese soup |
| Jason's ship |
| Jealous words of congratulations |
| Labourite's opponent, in British politics |
| Liable to tip over, maybe |
| License plates |
| Lose traction on the road |
| Many millennia |
| Mimic |
| Narrative connector |
| Narrow water passage |
| Novices |
| Obama's successor |
| Often-unheeded advice from dentists |
| Ohio city that was once the Rubber Capital of the World |
| Old-fashioned wine holder |
| One might apply gloss to them |
| Peach or walnut |
| Peach pit or walnut |
| Perfect world |
| Picked |
| Planted, as discord |
| Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across? |
| Polite affirmative |
| Problem with a shoelace |
| Pull off perfectly |
| Reprieves |
| Set of pictures at a dentist's |
| Some woodwinds |
| Sound to fear in the savanna |
| Thanksgiving dessert |
| That guy |
| Things for sale |
| Thorny parts of roses |
| Tick off |
| Unscripted comedy, informally |
| Unsuccessful |
| Vietnamese soup |
| Villainous count in the Lemony Snicket books |
| Watch over |
| What car wheels turn on |
| What Google's Ngram program tracks, for word usage |
| When planes are due to take off, for short |
| ___ Juan, Puerto Rico |
| ___ Lanka |