| Hit the ball out of the park |
RIPIT |
| How some exciting N.B.A. games are won |
INOT |
| Hyatt alternative |
OMNI |
| In the past |
AGO |
| Inflatable transport |
RAFT |
| Laudatory poem |
ODE |
| Make up a cover story, say |
LIE |
| Mecca pilgrimage |
HAJ |
| Member of the largest Rwandan ethnic group |
HUTU |
| Muscles strengthened by belly dancing, for short |
ABS |
| National park freebie |
MAP |
| Native New Zealander |
MAORI |
| Noted British racecourse |
ASCOT |
| Opposite of full |
EMPTY |
| Org. for physicians |
AMA |
| Peel off |
STRIP |
| Perfect scores for divers |
TENS |
| Place to get a mud bath |
SPA |
| Polite palindromic term of address |
MADAM |
| Popular cobbler fruit |
PEACH |
| Prefix with angle or cycle |
TRI |
| Pro-___ (some golf tourneys) |
AMS |
| Producer Rhimes who created 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Scandal' |
SHONDA |
| Sheepskin boot brand |
UGG |
| Showers with flowers and chocolates, maybe |
WOOS |
| Soaking spot |
TUB |
| Spice holder |
RACK |
| Stage comebacks? |
ENCORES |
| Staples Center, for one |
ARENA |
| Still-life vessel |
EWER |
| Street sign with an arrow |
ONEWAY |
| Substitutes for coins |
TOKENS |
| Sugar bowl invaders |
ANTS |
| Summer Olympics contest whose participants do the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
PENTATHLON |
| Toss in |
ADDTO |
| Traditional wearer of plaid |
SCOT |
| Tree houses |
NESTS |
| Use steel wool on |
SCOUR |
| Website for some custom-designed jewelry |
ETSY |
