- 1 ALOE
36A ___ vera
46496 - 2 ANTE
63A It's just for openers
45461 - 3 NEON
54A Glitzy sign
24219 - 4 EDGE
53D Periphery
21293 - 5 ONUS
45A Unpleasant task
21197 - 6 AIDE
7D Right-hand person
20192 - 7 ELSA
61A Fashion's Klensch
19220 - 8 EDIE
13D Actress McClurg
19190 - 9 ELO
56D "Strange Magic" rock band
17250 - 10 ENG
20A Chang's Siamese twin
17160 - 11 OMIT
52D Leave off
16218 - 12 REC
23D ___ room
15163 - 13 WOE
51A "___ is me!"
15119 - 14 SNO
8D ___-cone
14188 - 15 URGE
21A Itch
12208 - 16 ATTN
50D Envelope abbr.
11134 - 17 UPON
2D "___ the housetop..." (Christmas lyric)
11129 - 18 ONLY
40A Just
11116 - 19 OOPS
49D Kin of "Uh-oh!"
10104 - 20 LOAN
38A Money to tide one over
1089 - 21 CAPE
1D Supergarb
1066 - 22 INE
43D Suffix with elephant
9155 - 23 DOA
57D 1988 Dennis Quaid remake
888 - 24 MAINE
15A "Remember the ___!"
881 - 25 SEOUL
30D 1988 Olympics site
840 - 26 ARTE
24A Commedia dell'___
7154 - 27 IVAN
11D Russian "John"
7135 - 28 ICET
25A Rapper who co-starred in "New Jack City"
7110 - 29 APEX
14A The top
7101 - 30 OVID
16A "Ars Amatoria" poet
799 - 31 744
- 32 ANDY
35D "Handy" man
693 - 33 SWAT
26D Quite a hit
685 - 34 ALTOS
59A Chorus girls?
654 - 35 IRONY
25D Humor not for dummies
650 - 36 VEAL
48D ___ piccata
554 - 37 ORANGE
22A Full moon color
472 - 38 BERG
3D Arctic Ocean sighting
471 - 39 RAREST
44D Least cooked
426 - 40 LURES
18D Fishing gear
418 - 41 EXT
4D Phone line abbr.
367 - 42 PIPE
10A St. Nick accessory
356 - 43 WARD
46A Hospital unit
339 - 44 WARN
51D Alert
333 - 45 GOOP
33A Gunk
331 - 46 SLASH
5A Virgule
246 - 47 234
- 48 SMALL
31D Inconsequential
227 - 49 SMILEY
26A Le Carre character George
29 - 50 AARE
50A Swiss river
183 - 51 ORIG
60A The first: Abbr.
144 - 52 CERES
41D Goddess of agriculture
143 - 53 CAPP
58A Cartoonist Al
136 - 54 MILER
27D Distance runner
134 - 55 CUBE
1A 27, to 3
128 - 56 LANGE
6D Jessica of "Frances"
121 - 57 NOONS
37A Middays
120 - 58 COULD
41A "What ___ I do?"
115 - 59 114
- 60 PROCESS
29A Methodology
110 - 61 TENN
39A It's west of N.C.
046 - 62 ILONA
28D Actress Massey
039 - 63 WAHOO
46D "Yippee!"
020 - 64 POOLS
29D Chlorinated waters
014 - 65 ANCE
47D Suffix with utter
012 - 66 09
- 67 REILLY
44A Comic Charles Nelson ___
07 - 68 AVOWER
47A Declarer
05 - 69 05
- 70 04
- 71 03
- 72 01
- 73 01
- 74 01
- 75 01
- 76 01
- 77 01
- 78 01