| Opera trimmed at both ends by erstwhile actor (9) | 49 |
| Noriega dancing when metal took off (4, 3) | 42 |
| 27 states providing you uranium (3, 2) | 38 |
| Afrikaans (with ''the'') | 40 |
| It's run up and then settled | 32 |
| One might pick it up after dinner | 33 |
| One may be kept running in a bar | 32 |
| It's settled when settling up | 33 |
| Yours may be picked up, if you're lucky | 43 |
| Setting that makes things right? | 32 |
| Once-popular diet soft drink, or part of the can | 48 |
| Key on the far left of a keyboard | 33 |
| It's usually closed before leaving | 38 |
| It's often picked up after dinner | 37 |
| Guitar transcription system, briefly | 36 |
| Game played with unmentionables? | 32 |
| Early '90s Monster Magnet release | 37 |
| Computer key with opposed arrows | 32 |
| "Canterbury Tales" inn | 32 |
| "The Canterbury Tales" inn | 36 |
| Sleeveless tunic worn over a knight's armor | 47 |
| Sauce aged in white oak barrels for three years | 47 |
| Mexican state whose capital is Villahermosa | 43 |
| Mexican state or a product that originated there | 48 |
| It heats up your food immediately | 33 |
| Horse that won the 1994 Belmont and Preakness | 45 |
| 1994 Preakness and Belmont winner | 33 |
| Comedy of errors with the hot sauce? | 36 |
| U.S. priest-poet John Banister ___ | 34 |
| He wrote "The Rosary in Rhyme" | 40 |
| He wrote ''The Rosary in Rhyme'' | 48 |
| Moved from cell to cell in a spreadsheet, perhaps | 49 |
| Spiderman portrayer's kitty? | 32 |
| Catty "Hard Headed Woman" singer? | 43 |
| ''Damn Yankees!'' star | 38 |
| Daughter on "Bewitched" | 33 |
| Babbitt who invented the circular saw | 37 |
| Notation using fingering instead of pitches | 43 |
| There's one in each theme entry | 35 |
| Something that has legs but can't walk | 42 |
| Postpone, as consideration of an issue | 38 |
| It should be clean enough to eat off | 36 |
| DMB "Under the ___ and Dreaming" | 42 |
| Engage in parliamentary postponement | 36 |
| Actor Stanley's dinner reservation? | 39 |
| Reservation at a Johannesburg restaurant? | 41 |
| "...and I see a __..." | 32 |
| Postpone consideration of rap music? | 36 |
| Being sociable in a restaurant, e.g. | 36 |
| Evidence of dinnertime expansion | 32 |
| Laundry that's often food-stained | 37 |
| Ping-Pong player's etiquette? | 33 |
| List at the front of a reference book | 37 |
| Book's condensed enumeration | 32 |
| Non-choice for restaurant seating? | 34 |
| Sets aside for later consideration | 34 |
| Rattigan's "'Separate ___" | 44 |
| 'You Turned the -- on Me' | 33 |
| Sodium chloride in our home chemistry set | 41 |
| Refined comestible used by pretty much every cook | 49 |
| It may be poised for a shake out | 32 |
| High-roller's limit, perhaps | 32 |
| One of two for the Ten Commandments | 35 |
| Packed item that might make a racquet? | 38 |
| Olympic sport with the smallest ball | 36 |
| One who dropped a pill on the floor? | 36 |
| Something discussed over dinner? | 32 |
| Something to check out at the checkout | 38 |
| Format for "Enquiring Minds" | 38 |
| "The Sweetest ___" (Sade hit) | 39 |
| Proscribed by society as improper | 33 |
| Something that's just not done | 34 |
| Sade "The Sweetest ___" | 33 |
| One of the Ten Commandments, more likely than not | 49 |
| Hasbro's "game of unspeakable fun" | 48 |
| ''The Sweetest ___'' (Sade hit) | 47 |
| They're broken by some fetishists | 37 |
| Small drum sometimes joined by a fife | 37 |
| Drum that often accompanies a fife | 34 |
| Drum that might accompany a fife | 32 |
| Home to Iran's Iron Age Museum | 34 |
| Capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan Province | 46 |
| Starts a paragraph, electronically | 34 |
| They're picked up by treaters | 33 |
| Police may keep them on suspects | 32 |
| Papers that often have scareheads | 33 |
| Notations for guitarists (abbr.) | 32 |
| It's good to keep these on kids | 35 |
| Guitarists' cheat sheets (Abbr.) | 36 |
| Close surveillance, idiomatically | 33 |
| Programmed command for fixed indentations | 41 |
| Formatting feature on a typewriter | 34 |
| Freud's "Totem und ___" | 37 |
| "Forbidden" perfume brand | 35 |
| Dana's "forbidden fragrance" | 42 |
| "The forbidden fragrance" | 35 |
| Perfume with a "verboten" name | 40 |
| Perfume name that sounds forbidden | 34 |
| Mononymous "Life of Pi" star | 38 |
| "Forbidden" fragrance brand name | 42 |