| It has the world's highest per capita income |
QATAR |
| Its shell isn't hard |
SOFTTACO |
| Literary orphan who lived for a while in a cupboard |
POTTER |
| Meter masters |
POETS |
| Name on an annual literary award |
AGATHA |
| No longer flexible |
SET |
| Not even slightly |
INNOWAY |
| Not remote |
ONSITE |
| One forced to take the blame |
GOAT |
| One surrounded at sea |
ISLE |
| Oscar follower, in communications |
PAPA |
| Parenting challenges |
IMPS |
| Person picking a ticket |
VOTER |
| Pincered bugs |
EARWIGS |
| Plan for later yrs |
IRA |
| Quick flight |
HOP |
| Sack |
AXE |
| Sci-fi beeper |
ARTOO |
| Sci-fi TV series before 'DS9' |
TNG |
| Singer Green and others |
ALS |
| Snapping ... as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle |
FLIPPINGONESLID |
| Something the narrator of 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' threw up |
SASH |
| Squids' squirters |
INKSACS |
| State quarters? |
PALACE |
| Staten Island Railway inits |
MTA |
| Steady |
MAINSQUEEZE |
| Summer shade |
TAN |
| Thanks for waiting |
TIP |
| Tranquil |
SEDATE |
| Trattoria treat |
TORTONI |
| Trumpet vine, e.g |
CREEPER |
| Villain whose alter ego is Edward Nigma |
RIDDLER |
| What can get two feet higher |
OTTOMAN |
| What we have 'in order not to die of the truth,' per Nietzsche |
ART |
| With only slight provocation ... as suggested by some black squares in this puzzle |
ATTHEDROPOFAHAT |
