| Latin hymns |
TEDEUMS |
| Lessen |
EASE |
| Lessens |
ABATES |
| Like much real estate, annually |
REASSESSED |
| Like rotini |
HELICAL |
| Lumbar punctures |
SPINALTAPS |
| Moistens with drippings |
BASTES |
| Old dwelling for 68-Across |
TEPEE |
| Ones minding their peas in queues? |
PODS |
| Pasternak heroine |
LARA |
| Pat |
DABAT |
| Priestly garb |
ALB |
| R&B artist Des'__ |
REE |
| Ready for use |
PREP |
| Scots Gaelic |
ERSE |
| Scrutinized |
EYED |
| See 36-Down |
PERU |
| Seine feeder |
OISE |
| Self-help segments |
STEPS |
| Shows inattention at a lecture, maybe |
NAPS |
| Shrinking sea |
ARAL |
| Slip floater, to its owner |
HER |
| Somewhat suspect (and a hint to what can be found by connecting the circled letters in alphabetical order) |
ALITTLEBITFISHY |
| Sudan neighbor: Abbr. |
ETH |
| Support in a dresser drawer |
BRA |
| They might be executed by a judge |
STAYS |
| Tiny crawler |
ANT |
| Turn out to be |
ENDUP |
| Uprising |
RIOT |
| Urge |
PROD |
| Uses a straw |
SIPS |
| Vast expanse (and a fitting setting for this puzzle) |
DEEPBLUESEA |
| Very wide shoe |
EEEE |
| Way to relocate a king |
CASTLE |
| Western natives |
UTES |
| Where the music stops? |
HARDC |
| York's title: Abbr. |
SGT |
| __ band |
PEP |
| __ Lanka |
SRI |
