| You might draw them when answering questions |
| Needle opening |
| A check inside? (Abbr.) |
| Food additive (abbr.) |
| Action needed to spot the four fliers in the theme answers |
| Former Egypt-Syria alliance (Abbr.) |
| Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
| Hoosier State (Abbr.) |
| A long time ___ in a galaxy far, far away ..." ("Star Wars" opening words) |
| A WWI song urged us to keep them burning |
| Anathema, to Polonius |
| Partially obscured (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| Dramatic opening? |
| Adele won five of them in February |
| Opening |
| Fabergé jeweled them |
| Mathematician's ordinal |
| Conversation opener? |
| Ambulance riders (abbr.) |
| Miss Marple finds them |
| Lone Ranger's theme composer |
| Alerts that might contain makes and models (abbr.) |
| Grades K-6 (Abbr.) |
| About 57 degrees, mathematically |
| Container holding slips of paper with tasks written on them |
| Bodybuilder's theme song? |
| Admit openly and bluntly |
| Civic group (abbr.) |
| A hillside near ____ farm" (opening "Peer Gynt" scene) |
| African American mathemetician who purportedly surveyed the District of Columbia |