| 'A Confederacy of Dunces' author |
| 'American Pie' actor Jason |
| 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' author, 1970 |
| 'I'm game!' |
| 'Myself was stirring ___ the break of day': Shak. |
| 'The Family Circus' cartoonist |
| 'TV Funhouse' show, for short |
| *Barnyard fixture |
| *Drifter |
| *Ice hockey penalty |
| *Professional courtesy in pricing |
| *Sign of coming danger |
| *Somewhat in jest |
| *Time during a graveyard shift |
| *Tongue-in-cheek |
| *What 'dele' means |
| 1965 movie '___ What You Did' |
| 4-Down's brothers |
| Actress/spokeswoman Belafonte |
| Ad follower |
| Ancient Greek region |
| Annual literary award |
| Arch sites |
| Backing |
| Banquet holder |
| Beach bash |
| Biotite and phlogopite |
| Brings to naught |
| Bygone U.S. gas brand |
| Came down |
| Card catalog abbr. |
| Carded, say |
| Chiantis, e.g. |
| Christopher Morley novel 'Kitty ___' |
| City of New Orleans operator |
| Colorless, flammable gas |
| Companion of a spade |
| Connections |
| Corkscrew, e.g. |
| Cote d'___ |
| Cousin of Spot |
| Crossword solver, presumably |
| Dan ___, former N.B.A. star and coach |
| Dashed |
| Day-___ |
| Derisive gesture |
| Designer Cassini |
| Development sites |
| Dinner spread |
| Does just all right |
| English playwright Ayckbourn |
| Exclamations of exasperation |
| Family V.I.P.'s |
| Feminist Germaine |
| First word spoken to earth from the lunar surface |
| Fivesome seen in order in the answer to each starred clue |
| Flair |
| Food label abbr. |
| Footballer-turned-politician Swann |
| Frog's place |
| Future residents |
| General ___ chicken |
| Give a come-hither look |
| Go-go-go |
| Grp. conducting Operation Deny Flight |
| Home of 'The Diane Rehm Show' |
| Hungry lion, e.g. |
| Imitator |
| Inn's offering |
| Israeli statesman Barak |
| Italian poet Torquato ___ |
| Jazzy Anita |
| Jewish crêpe |
| Key holder?: Abbr. |
| Lack of variety |
| Landlord, e.g. |
| Lick again |
| Maker of Bug-B-Gon |
| Mame, e.g. |
| Misbehave |
| Motrin rival |
| New Hampshire senator John |
| Newts |
| Nielsens |
| Not go by one's own locomotion |
| Not skip a beat? |
| Nothing doing? |
| Novice, maybe |
| Observed |
| Oiled, in a manner |
| Old French coins |
| One-liners |
| One-to-one, e.g. |
| Org. that inspects factories |
| Patron saint of metalworkers |
| Periods in prison, e.g. |
| Philosopher Wittgenstein |
| Pivots |
| Pod that's sometimes pickled |
| Poet who wrote 'The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on' |
| Purges |
| Put away for good |
| Rampaging |
| Relative of 26-Across |
| Religious recluse |
| Repeated cry at a beer blast |
| Rocky Mtn. highs? |
| Role in 'The Color Purple' |
| Roman historian |
| Saint-___, capital of France's Loire department |
| Sea of ___ |
| Shady sorts? |
| Sharp bend |
| Side flap |
| Silas of the Continental Congress |
| Simile's center |
| Small bark |
| Some cliff dwellers |
| Special case? |
| Starting point |
| Stephen Jay ___, author of 'The Panda's Thumb' |
| Surgically excise |
| Tears to pieces |
| They may be high before a competition |
| Thompson and Lazarus |
| Tin: Prefix |
| To be handled by |
| To-___ |
| Top-notch |
| Toy company whose name is an anagram of 124-Across |
| Unaccompanied |
| Unbroken |
| Uneducated boor |
| Upshot |
| Word with bar or color |
| Wraps on stage |
| ___ moss |
| ___ nitrate |
| ___-eyed |
| ___-pointe (ballet position) |