- 1.
- Takes a little off the top
- 2.
- Janelle who sang 'Make Me Feel'
- 3.
- Run up, as charges
- 4.
- Hockey surface
- 5.
- Alliance founded in 1949
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- First name of composer Nomi or Doldinger
- 7.
- Ordinal after fifth
- 8.
- Tel Aviv native
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- Nuclear power plant component
- 10.
- Swear to
- 15.
- Tournament favourites, in bracket parlance
- 16.
- Bipolar episode, clinically
- 20.
- Brought back to mind
- 22.
- Go wrong in print, say
- 25.
- List-ending abbr.
- 27.
- Loire Valley landmark
- 28.
- Far from strict
- 29.
- Chop, or a homophone of a color
- 30.
- Cream of the crop
- 31.
- Traditional cottage roofing
- 34.
- Montaigne's literary form
- 35.
- Larger LEGO bricks for toddlers
- 37.
- They go up in surprise
- 38.
- "The ___": bartender's shorthand for a regular
- 39.
- Have another go
- 41.
- Requiring little effort
- 45.
- Dove's call