Like cutting in line |
RUDE |
Lit sign in a theater |
EXIT |
Longtime Syrian strongman |
ASSAD |
Low-pH substance |
ACID |
Mishmash |
OLIO |
Moneymaking skill ... or, when read as three words, what happens in 17-, 21-, 35-, 45- and 54-Across |
MIDASTOUCH |
Noted California horse-racing venue |
SANTAANITA |
Nurse, as a drink |
SIP |
One traveling with a backpack |
HIKER |
Ones providing backing for writers? |
CLIPBOARDS |
Order to a dog to bark |
SPEAK |
Orson Welles's 'Citizen ___' |
KANE |
Period in history |
ERA |
Place to leave an auto, in Britain |
CARPARK |
Pods of cotton |
BOLLS |
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, e.g |
MAGIC |
Read the ___ act |
RIOT |
Rock's ___ Might Be Giants |
THEY |
Scarlett of Tara |
OHARA |
See 55-Down |
SEA |
Something on a to-do list |
TASK |
Song from way back |
OLDIE |
Songs for divas |
OPERAARIAS |
Stairs unit |
STEP |
Stately hardwoods |
ELMS |
Stereotypical parrot's name |
POLLY |
Strategize |
PLAN |
Tennis's Sampras |
PETE |
Tibetan watchdogs |
LHASAAPSOS |
Toward a ship's rear |
AFT |
Union man? |
GROOM |
War-hero candidate of 1996 |
BOBDOLE |
With 37-Down, shrunken body of water in Asia |
ARAL |
With perfect timing |
ONCUE |
Withdraw gradually from a mother's milk |
WEAN |
Writer ___ Du Bois |
WEB |
___ of March |
IDES |
___ out a living (gets by) |
EKES |
___ vera |
ALOE |