| 'Apocalypse Now' setting, familiarly |
| 'This weighs a ___!' |
| 'Why should ___?' ('No, it doesn't bother me') |
| 1960s TV icon whose name follows a pair of letters found, appropriately, 16 times in this puzzle's Across answers |
| 2015 Whitey Bulger biopic |
| Achieve great success |
| Actress Davis of 'Beetlejuice' |
| Altar vow |
| Ask 'Can I?' repeatedly, say |
| Available from a keg |
| Bad to the bone |
| Ball's partner |
| Bart or Ringo |
| Basics |
| Bees collect it |
| Big name in sports shoes |
| Bob Cratchit's job in 'A Christmas Carol' |
| British soldier in the Revolution |
| Build-___ Workshop (toy retailer) |
| Chomsky who wrote 'Syntactic Structures' |
| Chows down |
| Citrus drinks |
| City called the 'Silicon Valley of India' |
| Close |
| College in New Rochelle, N.Y |
| Computer cooler |
| Cookie that started as a Hydrox knockoff |
| Cool, in the 1960s |
| Country singer Loretta |
| Crowd reactions to a daredevil |
| Diarist Frank |
| Dreamboat |
| Duke Ellington's 'Take the ___' |
| Early American diplomat Silas |
| Easily bruised fruit |
| Embarrassing laugh accompanier |
| Genghis Khan, e.g |
| Get better |
| Gift of ___ |
| Gives a bad review |
| Granny |
| Hamburger holders |
| Hang-ups |
| Hawaiian coffee region |
| Hendrix famously used one in his Woodstock rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' |
| Indian drums similar to bongos |
| Jacob's first wife |
| Kicked off |
| Like a virgin |
| Like most knock-knock jokes |
| Like yellow 17-Acrosses |
| Little Italian girls |
| Lug |
| Maple syrup, essentially |
| Microsoft's defunct digital encyclopedia |
| Mini-albums, informally |
| Modest two-piece bathing suit |
| Mop, as a deck |
| Musher puller |
| News network with a stock ticker |
| Olympian war god |
| Org. for the New York Liberty |
| Org. with a '100 Years ... 100 Movies' list |
| Post-lunch pick-me-up |
| Pub orders |
| QB Brett |
| Question repeatedly posed by Ferris Bueller's teacher |
| Quickly pan (in) |
| Rare blood type, for short |
| Record of the year |
| Silent screen actress Naldi |
| Singer of love songs |
| Tee preceder |
| Teen's affliction |
| Tennis player who posthumously received a Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Time in history |
| When doubled, a 2010s dance |
| ___ fides (credentials) |