| Small annoyances |
16 |
| Specialist with TNT |
19 |
| Secure shoelace feature |
23 |
| Sweetens |
8 |
| Site for a common vow |
21 |
| Space needed by Abdul-Jabbar |
28 |
| Steeps in a liquid |
18 |
| Some Pepsi purchases |
20 |
| Sight during a 1973 shortage |
28 |
| Small part for a star |
21 |
| Social critic Eric |
18 |
| Sound of suffering |
18 |
| Short plea |
10 |
| Sac that aids motion |
20 |
| Sports enthusiast |
17 |
| Second son of George H.W. Bush |
30 |
| Shares a movie, perhaps |
23 |
| Snack-tray items |
16 |
| Survey unit |
11 |
| Soccer player Fernando |
22 |
| Substitute new parts for old |
28 |
| Shiraz spending money |
21 |
| Some polo shirts |
16 |
| Second-largest Syrian city |
26 |
| Surveyors' assistants |
21 |
| Sphere lead-in |
14 |
| Surveyor's rod |
14 |
| Sheriff or Mountie, e.g. |
24 |
| Spicy Eastern cuisine |
21 |
| Some soccer venues |
18 |
| Sitting duck, to a swindler |
27 |
| Small role for a famous actor |
29 |
| Suffered from mosquito bites |
28 |
| Shim, e.g. |
10 |
| Soccer star Brandi |
18 |
| Sydney of "The Maltese Falcon |
29 |
| Surface decoration |
18 |
| Sound from a pond |
17 |
| Says "No, thanks |
16 |
| Spinner's spot at a party |
25 |
| Sugar refining byproduct |
24 |
| Sunday rite |
11 |
| Soldiers of the ancient Roman army (11) |
39 |
| Skull session flashes |
21 |
| Storybook spirit |
16 |
| Shrine for the NHL or NBA |
25 |
| Spanish matchmaker? |
19 |
| Shed in fine drops |
18 |
| Stuff that's strikingly strange |
31 |
| She played Serena on "Gossip Girl": 2 wds. |
42 |
| State east of Nebraska |
22 |
| Source of some leather |
22 |
| Singer Smith from Norfolk |
25 |
| So You Think You Can ___" (Fox reality show) |
44 |
| Space out, say |
14 |
| Seattle transportation |
22 |
| Smiling, maybe |
14 |
| Squire's domain |
15 |
| Small construction company |
26 |
| Socks, stockings and such |
25 |
| Second-longest African river |
28 |
| Staind album "___ V |
19 |
| Siberian salt lake |
18 |
| Steve Buscemi's role in "Reservoir Dogs |
39 |
| Suffered from sciatica |
22 |
| Stereotypical sci-fi villain |
28 |
| Some risqué humor |
18 |
| Spingarn Medal winner Parks |
27 |
| Ships' hands |
12 |
| Stop overseas |
13 |
| Snake-house updater |
19 |
| Skin Bracer maker |
17 |
| Students who aren't yet seniors: Abbr. |
38 |
| Setting for paintings by Tintoretto and Hieronymus Bosch |
56 |
| Start of a little daredevil's declaration |
41 |
| Saharan tracts |
14 |
| Signal an OK |
12 |
| Saab or Wiesel |
14 |
| Selena or J. Lo |
15 |
| Some drawers in a laundry room? |
31 |
| Start of a Langston Hughes quote |
32 |
| Shearer or Rae |
14 |
| Spanish for "tar |
16 |
| State of confusion in November, 2000 |
36 |
| Stovetop fixture |
16 |
| Scrap, slangily |
15 |
| Signals, as a taxi |
18 |
| Shemp Howard's brother |
22 |
| Spamalot" name |
14 |
| Surgical procedure that can improve the way you look? |
53 |
| Seasonal wish |
13 |
| Sweet bulb |
10 |
| Stockings and tights |
20 |
| Some A's |
8 |
| Some game with antlers |
22 |
| Strawberry tree, in poesy |
25 |
| Sales technique |
15 |
| State featured in this puzzle |
29 |
| Show hosts: Abbr. |
17 |
| Straits of ___ |
14 |