| 'Explain, please?' |
HOWSO |
| 'Ginger __': 1952 Newbery Medal-winning book |
PYE |
| 'Hair' dos |
AFROS |
| 'SNL' staples |
SPOOFS |
| 'Spring forward' letters |
DST |
| 'Today' rival, briefly |
GMA |
| 'Wait ... let me start over' |
IMGETTINGMYSELF |
| 'What a mess!' |
OHNO |
| '__ a loss' |
IMAT |
| 911 pro |
EMT |
| A time to dye |
EASTER |
| Alaskan native |
ALEUT |
| Alpha's antithesis |
OMEGA |
| Asian festival |
TET |
| Asian wraps |
SARIS |
| Assumed names |
ALIASES |
| Back (out) |
OPT |
| Bad look |
LEER |
| Beach toys |
PAILS |
| Beat in the kitchen |
WHISK |
| Beautify |
ADORN |
| Belief common to much religion |
DEATHLIFE |
| Big name in tennis |
SERENA |
| Big shot: Abbr |
ENL |
| Boat owner's rental |
SLIP |
| Brother of Ham |
SHEM |
| Bunny tail |
SCUT |
| Busy center |
HUB |
| Campaign funders |
FATCATS |
| Car radio button |
PRESET |
| Carpenter's groove |
DADO |
| Caught |
INATRAP |
| Cellar, but not collar, opening |
SOFTC |
| Christine of 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' |
LAHTI |
| Comics cry from a birdcage |
AWK |
| Coral component |
POLYP |
| Culture: Pref |
ETHNO |
| Diamond surfaces |
FACETS |
| Did gondola duty |
POLED |
| Disappearing retail giant |
KMART |
| Dollar alternative |
ALAMO |
| Drawers? |
MAGNETS |
| Dudley's toon foe |
SNIDELY |
| Dusk, to Donne |
EEN |
| Early Mesoamerican sculptors |
OLMEC |
| Early pictures |
SILENTS |
| Ed.'s stack |
MSS |
| Eponymous newborn score creator |
APGAR |
| Family dinner fowl |
ROASTER |
| Fancy poultry dish |
GLASSPHEASANT |
| Features of urns |
SPIGOTS |
| Feeling ecstatic |
SITTINGTHEWORLD |
| First name of Dickens' Madame Defarge |
THERESE |
| First novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle |
ERAGON |
| Fitness mantra opening |
USEIT |
| Flat owner, maybe |
LESSOR |
| Flock hangout |
LEA |
| Friend of Goat in 'Pearls Before Swine' |
PIG |
| Gentrification target |
EYESORE |
| Georgia gridders, to fans |
DAWGS |
| Gets dirty |
SOILS |
| Gets one's feet wet |
WADES |
| Granada girls |
NINAS |
| Hacking targets: Abbr |
SSNS |
| Hackneyed |
TRITE |
| Half of scissors? |
ESSES |
| Half of some couples |
SPOUSE |
| Heat up |
RILE |
| Heckle, but not Jeckle |
HARASS |
| Hermione's guy |
RON |
