| Long narrative poem |
EPIC |
| Malawi-to-Kenya dir |
NNE |
| Melt down, as fat |
REARENDER |
| Metric of corporate success |
SALES |
| Middle of a diamond |
MORIBUND |
| Middle-distance runner |
MILER |
| Minuscule, informally |
ITSY |
| Mobile home? |
CRIB |
| Muscle Beach sight |
BOD |
| N.B.A. franchise whose mascot is the fireball Burnie |
MIAMIHEAT |
| Nickname for an ESPN baseball commentator |
AROD |
| Not much |
ATAD |
| Occasion to sing 'Dayenu' |
SEDER |
| Old kingdom of Spain |
ARAGON |
| One frequently saying 'Sorry, I missed that' |
SIRI |
| One-named electronic musician and D.J. with multiple Grammys |
DIPLO |
| Other side |
ENEMY |
| Outhouses |
PRIVILEGES |
| Paranoid types, slangily |
TINHATS |
| Part of an acacia tree |
THORN |
| Party that might not start till midnight |
RAVE |
| Peace Nobelist who went on to become president |
MANDELA |
| Picasso's '___ Demoiselles d'Avignon' |
LES |
| Plant, as an idea, modern-style |
INCEPT |
| Post production locales? |
NEWSROOMS |
| Qatari leader |
EMIR |
| Rabid enthusiast |
FIEND |
| Really tickles |
ELATES |
| Red wine from France |
MALBEC |
| Response to tickling |
TEHEE |
| Responses to an offer, colloquially |
BITES |
| Russian ruler known as 'the Moneybag' |
IVANI |
| Saint-___, capital of the Loire department |
ETIENNE |
| Secluded valley |
GLEN |
| Seconded, so to speak |
ECHOED |
| See 114-Across |
VERY |
| Semidomed church area |
APSE |
| Sights on many music festival grounds |
TENTS |
| Sikorsky of aviation |
IGOR |
| Slow Wi-Fi woe |
LAG |
| Speck |
MOTE |
| Speechify |
ORATE |
| Stand that an artist might take |
EASEL |
| Subj. of a 'Delayed' sign |
ETA |
| Their eggs are incubated by males |
EMUS |
| They might be hawked |
WARES |
| Top celebs |
ALARMIST |
| Treated meanly |
SPITSHINED |
| Tribe famous for weaving and sand painting |
NAVAJO |
| Troglodyte |
CAVEMAN |
| Ukulele accessory |
CAPO |
| Uninteresting and self-absorbed |
SHALLOW |
| Urged (on) |
EGGED |
| Villainous brother of Prospero in 'The Tempest' |
ANTONIO |
| Volunteer's phrase |
IMIN |
| Warrior, e.g., in yoga |
POSE |
| Way down |
CHUTE |
| Weapons thrown by the Dark Knight |
BATARANGS |
| Well, I'll be dammed! |
NILE |
| Wettish |
DAMP |
| What may follow bigger or better |
THAN |
| Wisecracking Marvel superhero |
DEADPOOL |
| With wisdom |
SAGELY |
| Worker at a recycling plant |
SORTER |
| World capital with the historic Temple of Hercules |
AMMAN |
| Writer Anaïs |
NIN |
| ___ Dunphy, 'Modern Family' matriarch |
CLAIRE |