| $, %, & or @ |
SYMBOL |
| '2001: A Space Odyssey' antagonist |
HAL |
| 'Acid' |
LSD |
| 'Easy on Me' singer, 2021 |
ADELE |
| 'If ___ Street Could Talk' (2018 film) |
BEALE |
| 'It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury': Shak |
IDIOT |
| 'Take me ___' |
ASIAM |
| 'The Waste Land' author's monogram |
TSE |
| A live one might be hot |
MIC |
| Artist Henri Toulouse-___ |
LAUTREC |
| Big nights before big days |
EVES |
| Bit of lightning |
BOLT |
| Book-loving Disney princess in a yellow gown |
BELLE |
| Bookish sorts |
NERDS |
| Bubbling away |
ABOIL |
| Card player's call |
UNO |
| Coil in a mattress |
BEDSPRING |
| Common conjunctions |
ORS |
| Community card between 'flop' and 'river' in hold'em |
TURN |
| Compadre |
AMIGO |
| Composer Copland |
AARON |
| Cucumber-like, maybe |
COOL |
| Defeatist's assertion |
ICANT |
| Dict. offerings |
DEFS |
| Easy order for a barista |
BLACKCOFFEE |
| Exclamation of epiphany |
AHA |
| Feature of five U.S. presidents from Lincoln to Harrison |
BEARD |
| Feminine suffix |
ESS |
| Flappers in a gaggle |
GEESE |
| Furious |
IRATE |
| Gawk |
STARE |
| Genre with a Hall of Fame in Cleveland ... or what can follow the respective halves of 17-, 33- and 40-Across |
ROCKANDROLL |
| Gin flavoring |
SLOE |
| Go a-courting? |
SUE |
| Hot dish that sounds cold |
CHILI |
| Hummus, for one |
DIP |
| Increase, as a pot |
ADDTO |
| Intel mission |
RECON |
| Inventor's protection |
PATENT |