| King topper |
ACE |
| Kitchen cutting tool |
DICER |
| La Brea goo |
TAR |
| Largest city in Nebraska |
OMAHA |
| Leaning left |
LIBERAL |
| Less forgiving |
STERNER |
| Let (up) |
EASE |
| Like some processed apples |
CORED |
| Likelier to win a baby contest |
CUTER |
| Long-term inmate |
LIFER |
| Most of our planet's surface |
OCEAN |
| One of Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' |
IRINA |
| Pay hike |
RAISE |
| Per ___ (daily) |
DIEM |
| PlayStation competitor |
WII |
| Popular sandwich, informally |
PBANDJ |
| Prominent shark feature |
FIN |
| Put up, as a picture |
HANG |
| River inlet |
RIA |
| Roughly 3.8 million square miles, for the United States |
AREA |
| S.&L. offerings |
IRAS |
| Saw logs |
SNORE |
| See 35-Across |
MOORE |
| Serenaded |
SANGTO |
| Shrek, for one |
OGRE |
| Single-stranded molecule |
RNA |
| Talk incessantly |
GAB |
| The Washington Post, CNN, etc |
MEDIA |
| Think ahead |
PLAN |
| Tighten, as a fist |
CLENCH |
| Tool for a carpenter or dentist |
DRILL |
| Two, in cards |
DEUCE |
| Vail trail |
SKIRUN |
| Wedding cake layer |
TIER |
| What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
BOND |
| With 39-Across, *1973-85 |
ROGER |
| Words of self-empowerment |
ICAN |
| ___ Hashana (Jewish holy day) |
ROSH |
| ___ of the line |
END |
