| Like serials |
EPISODIC |
| Like some criticism |
TEXTUAL |
| Little jerk |
TIC |
| Luc's denial |
NON |
| Magic's city |
ORLANDO |
| Magna -- |
CARTA |
| Make swollen |
BLOAT |
| MBA, say |
DEG |
| Medit. land |
ISR |
| Melody |
SONG |
| Member of a noted racecar-driving family |
MICHAELANDRETTI |
| Moreover |
TOO |
| Most August newborns |
LEOS |
| Natural home |
HABITAT |
| Navigator Islands, now |
SAMOA |
| Neighbor of Chile |
PERU |
| Net minder |
GOALIE |
| No. on a road sign |
RTE |
| Nonclerical females |
LAYWOMEN |
| Not genuine |
FALSE |
| Oklahoma tribe member |
OTOE |
| Open ocean |
HIGHSEAS |
| Output of Tolkien |
FANTASYLITERATURE |
| Oxalate, e.g |
ESTER |
| Parts of it appear at both the starts and ends of this puzzle's eight theme phrases |
MUSICALSCALE |
| Patients' gp |
HMO |
| Pick again |
RESELECT |
| Placed in the middle, to a Brit |
CENTRED |
| Pool coverer |
TARP |
| Popular energy drink |
REDBULLCOLA |
| Port-au-Prince's land |
REPUBLICOFHAITI |
| Prism, cone or sphere |
SOLIDFIGURE |
| Proverb |
MAXIM |
| Prudential competitor |
AETNA |
| Quarterback Boomer |
ESIASON |
| Religious branches |
SECTS |
| Rent- -- |
ACAR |
| Retaliate |
AVENGE |
| Rome's country, in French |
ITALIE |
| See 13-Down |
LOAF |
| She sang 'Smooth Operator' |
SADE |
| Shut angrily |
SLAM |
| Singer Menzel |
IDINA |
| Singer Ochs |
PHIL |
| Snappy reply |
RETORT |
| Some captives |
HOSTAGES |
| Spanish for 'daddy' |
PAPI |
| Specter in politics |
ARLEN |
| Splinters |
SLIVERS |
| Stands for hot dishes |
TRIVETS |
| Start to chew |
BITEINTO |
| Stick in |
ADD |
| Structure of a plane without the engine |
AIRFRAME |
| Studmuffin |
ADONIS |
| Sun, e.g |
ORB |
| Surplus item |
EXTRA |
| Taj -- |
MAHAL |
| Text giggle |
LOL |
| The NBA's 'King James' |
LEBRON |
| Tibetan priest |
LAMA |
| Tub traction aids |
BATHMATS |
| Uno plus due |
TRE |
| Uru. neighbor |
ARG |
| Veg out, say |
REST |
| Vermont ski town |
STOWE |
| Wearing a lounge robe |
CAFTANED |
| West Germany's Ludwig |
ERHARD |
| Wheel turner |
AXLE |
| Wildlife lair |
DEN |
| With 84-Down, lunchmeat with pimiento |
OLIVE |
