New York Times, Thursday, October 24, 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| '2 funny!!!' | ROFL |
| 'Little ___ in Slumberland' (early comic) | NEMO |
| 'QB VII' author, 1970 | URIS |
| 'What ___?' | ELSE |
| ... 'Keep at it!' | ISEASY |
| ... 'Piece of cake!' | TOIT |
| ... 'Swish' | BUTNET |
| ... A matter worth considering | TOSNEEZEAT |
| ... A small amount | MUCH |
| ... Dud | BURGER |
| ... Magician's claim | UPMYSLEEVE |
| ... Plaint upon going through one's closet | TOWEAR |
| ... Surgeon's goal | LEFTBEHIND |
| A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z | NOTES |
| Address starter | HTTP |
| Bridge scorecard heading | THEY |
| Bubbled, as a cauldron | ROILED |
| Calumnies | LIES |
| Carrier that operates only six days a week | ELAL |
| Chips in | HELPS |
| City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS | BASRA |
| Comforts | BALMS |
| Delights in | LOVES |
| Deserving, to Santa | NICE |
| Difficult situation | SPOT |
| Displace by force | ELBOWOUT |
| Does a surfing trick | HANGSTEN |
| Drop | OMIT |
| Drywall support | STUD |
| Fail to invite, maybe | SNUB |
| Feudal superior | LIEGE |
| Gladiatorial accessory | SPEAR |
| Go (for) | OPT |
| Heiress of Hartfield, in an 1816 novel | EMMA |
| Ho Chi ___ City | MINH |
| Holiday song | NOEL |
| Home to a majority of the world's alpacas | PERU |
| In the thick of | AMID |
| Introductory course? | SALAD |
| It's a tradition | RITE |
| Jeff of the Electric Light Orchestra | LYNNE |
| Level | TRUE |
| M-1, for one | RIFLE |
| Mythical meanie | OGRE |
| Old kind of pool | STENO |
| One in it for the long run? | MILER |
| Opening of a fitness motto | USEIT |
| Opiner's opener | ISAY |
| Overly theatrical sorts | HAMS |
| Palindromic woman | ANNA |
| Part of a medical kit | GAUZE |
| Popular Renaissance instrument | VIOL |
| Purple perennial | ASTER |
| Repeated cry after 'Stop shaking me!' | IMUP |
| Result of atmospheric inversion | SMOG |
| Shade of green | NILE |
| Sharp part | EDGE |
| Singer who played the title role in 'Calamity Jane' | DORISDAY |
| Ski area in the Wasatch Mountains | ALTA |
| Smith, sometimes | ALIAS |
| Spinnaker or spanker | SAIL |
| Stereotypical frat member | BRO |
| Suggest gently | HINTAT |
| The Taj City | AGRA |
| They're taken in chess | TURNS |
| Totally dope, in dated slang | PHAT |
| Unaltered | ASIS |
| Watch surreptitiously | SPYON |
| Waterford offering | VASE |
| Whale's closest living land relative | HIPPO |
| When prefixed with 72-Across, what a friend wishes for you | BUTTHEBEST |
| Where Bill and Hillary Clinton met | YALE |
| Widely banned building material | ASBESTOS |
| Wild West? | MAE |
| Words repeated in '___ right, or ___ right?' | AMI |
| ___ deer | ROE |
| ___ shot | FLU |
| ___ toast | MELBA |
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