| Actress Cameron who voices Princess Fiona in the "Shrek" films | 62 |
| FBI Unit Chief Emily played by Paget Brewster on "Criminal Minds" | 65 |
| Reformist leaders of local unit nervous around a certain regiment | 65 |
| Gets about awkwardly with a sweet on a stick and no internet protocol | 69 |
| Bona fide Inspector-General not starting to straighten up again | 63 |
| "the ...... in the arena" [motivational theodore roosevelt speech] | 66 |
| Start of a children's rhyme with the line "Have you any wool?" | 62 |
| Snack brand whose Japanese flavors include tuna mayonnaise and clam chowder | 75 |
| tex-mex snack that improves the performance of an alpine singer? | 64 |
| "miles ......" [2015 biopic directed by don cheadle, who portrays miles davis] | 78 |
| what many muslims don't do in the daylight hours during ramadan | 63 |
| campaign slogan associated with a chicago politician of the 2000s | 65 |
| marketing slogan associated with a brand worn by a chicago athlete of the 1990s | 79 |
| ...... & dave [legendary soul duo with the hit "hold on, i'm comin'" | 68 |
| businesses that often see an uptick in membership after the new year | 68 |
| "...... and the jets" [elton john song that was used in "gnomeo & juliet"] | 74 |
| shrieking sea creatures that attack the ship in "the princess bride" | 68 |
| reading, pennsylvania, short line, and b&o, in "monopoly" [abbr.] | 65 |
| weaponry-named company that buys dunder mifflin in "the office" | 63 |
| 2012 six nations championship grand slam-winning rugby union team | 65 |
| 2011 film comedy starring seann william scott and jay baruchel | 62 |
| actress who played rollergirl in 1997 film drama boogie nights | 62 |
| samuel ..., author of 1753 novel the history of sir charles grandison | 69 |
| river in n england that flows to the north sea at south shields | 63 |
| philip ..., author of novels the plot against america and portnoy's complaint | 77 |
| best actress in a leading role oscar nominee for un homme et une femme | 70 |
| the ..., 1977 action film directed by and starring clint eastwood | 65 |
| sue ..., actress who played the title role in 1962 film drama lolita | 68 |
| ballet step in which a dancer springs from one leg and lands on the other | 73 |
| Where, formerly, putting the finish before the start led to anger! | 66 |
| Sacred text brought back inside as things becoming extremely heated | 67 |
| One leaves emptier after initially trusting someone leading us astray | 69 |
| At the outset, naturally - exactly when you entertain ambitious resolutions | 75 |
| Carelessly recomposed missing page, "i" needing two dots in this context | 72 |
| Fanatical obtuseness every other couple's ignored before this writer has | 72 |
| new listener, reportedly quoted as unable to see clearly ahead | 62 |
| they punctuate what examinees dissatisfied with their assessments do | 68 |
| needing regeneration, reeves leading the way – it's most brutal | 65 |
| tomorrow's headache, matt? member gone and michael too – labour's back! | 73 |
| buyer's recommendation to persuade enrolment in bespoke aa cover | 64 |
| one's pudding follows, say, never over, as a cold dish will be enjoyed | 70 |
| tourists: people adding gratuities without eagerness, essentially | 65 |
| coach what ronnie o'sullivan does in return for place to board | 62 |
| perhaps be more conservative with car horn around hotel, it's ineffective | 73 |
| want liberal to step down, choked by party's negative reaction | 62 |
| most spruce trees regularly cut after each acquired by conservationists | 71 |
| president casually accepting shame – democrat sat on the fence? | 65 |
| executive car, after publicity gaining status, impressing driver ultimately | 75 |
| bank promoted chief over excellent portrayal of business's health? | 66 |
| again mail letter in envelope and head out for post office counter | 66 |
| mars made from top grade british milk finishing touch for elevenses | 67 |
| Speeches that might start by tapping a utensil against a glass | 62 |
| *Reject someone on a dating app [In this answer, note letters 4-7] | 66 |
| *Something viewed in a smartphone's web browser [… letters 3-7] | 65 |
| Attempts … or, when read differently, contains a sports legend? | 65 |
| Basketball legend Jerry whose silhouette is part of the NBA logo | 64 |
| Tennis great Monica who won the French Open three years in a row in the 1990s | 77 |
| Actor Rami who won an Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 78 |
| 2023 Taylor Swift hit that debuted at #1 on the Hot 100: 4 wds. | 63 |
| 2023 Drake hit featuring SZA that debuted at #1 on the Hot 100: 3 wds. | 70 |
| Definitively voluble performers perhaps run separate schedules out of line | 74 |
| Means to regain past job? Cut down unction about head of Personnel | 66 |
| President that is backing both sides in election held by group of incompetents | 78 |
| Unpleasant character cutting parking in school leading to horrible cry | 70 |
| song that begins with a spoken "for the other half of the sky" | 62 |
| "star wars" movie whose title character was played by alden ehrenreich | 70 |
| ...... o'neal, american former professional basketball player (informally) | 74 |
| dr. cristina ...... ("grey's anatomy" role played by sandra oh) | 63 |
| Its film school alums include Francis Ford Coppola and Carol Burnett | 68 |
| Bill with the 2024 book "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" | 64 |
| poet mahmoud who wrote the palestinian declaration of independence | 66 |
| canadian actor who starred as jesus in 1973 film musical godspell | 65 |
| ship in the herman melville novel moby-dick commanded by captain ahab | 69 |
| river rising in ukraine that flows through romania to the danube | 64 |
| character in the musical guys and dolls who marries sarah brown | 63 |
| us reality television personality who married kanye west in 2014 | 64 |
| 1941 novella by robert a heinlein republished in 1963 novel orphans of the sky | 78 |
| Undergarment's wrong on guys in parade — a bugler must play through it! | 73 |
| out of the race making a gear adjustment on a sporting occasion | 63 |
| home country of the late marathon-world-record holder kelvin kiptum | 67 |
| "I cannot ... the things that I saw that night" (erase memory, informally) | 74 |
| Roald who authored "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Witches" | 72 |
| Aisle in the grocery store where one can find ice cream, milk, yogurt, and more | 79 |
| secretive envelope with payment for the output of thames water? | 63 |
| Friend of Sheldon and Leonard, on "The Big Bang Theory" (anagram of JAR) | 72 |
| Bachelor's collection of phone numbers (prior to smart phones mostly) (2 wds.) | 78 |
| greeting to welcome american radio broadcaster who made a pilgrimage? | 69 |
| salman rushdie invented the word "irresistibubble" to describe it | 65 |
| vauxhall model that was the bestselling car in the world in 1998 | 64 |
| ... hughes, australian cricketer known for his handlebar moustache | 66 |
| site where selena gomez has 426 million (!) followers, briefly | 62 |
| nearly impenetrable barriers for the angels on neon genesis evangelion | 70 |
| Lead actor in Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" | 66 |
| Conservative party making a comeback in great film shown online | 63 |
| Gju string, perhaps old type used in traditional music originally | 65 |
| American tennis star who was ATP player of the Year six times: 2 wds. | 69 |
| Spanish tennis star who was ATP Player of the Year five times: 2 wds. | 69 |
| Reference book that might have a page for a single country or state | 67 |
| "Of Mice and ......" (Gary Sinise film based on a John Steinbeck novella) | 73 |
| "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Oscar winner Rockwell | 65 |
| Judgement of international court on cases of Verlaine and Rimbaud | 65 |
| Ruthlessly ambitious person using sleight horrifies you at first | 64 |
| Livingstone, say, once extremely popular, welcoming folk traditions | 67 |
| alfred, lord ..., british poet who was poet laureate under queen victoria | 73 |
| madonna's fashion label colleague and daughter, lourdes ...... | 62 |
| Informally, the ship a Christian burnt off Pitcairn Island around 1790 | 70 |
| "Double, double .... and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble" (Shakespeare) | 78 |
| Line which was first shown on the London Underground map in 1948 | 64 |
| Depression-era bank robber Lester Joseph Gillis was also called .... Nelson | 75 |
| Pithy statement of truth such as "all that glitters is not gold" | 64 |
| The book accompanying this Kenneth Clark BBC TV series is still in print | 72 |
| Coronation Street villain Alan Bradley was killed by a Blackpool .... | 69 |
| Actress Thompson who starred in the "Back to the Future" trilogy | 64 |
| Popular game franchise with "Vice City" and "San Andreas" installments: Abbr. | 77 |
| ... Speedwagon, band whose album "Hi Infidelity" sold over 10 million copies | 76 |
| ... Stewart with the hit "You're in My Heart [The Final Acclaim]" | 65 |
| 1996 film with the line "don't you ever get tired of babysitting scumbags?" | 75 |
| vampire ...... [sea creature that can be jet black or blood-red] | 64 |
| what some streaming services include with their cheapest subscriptions | 70 |
| genus of plants of the daisy family that includes rosilla and yellowdicks | 73 |
| clive ..., rugby union winger; 1974 wales test debutant against ireland | 71 |
| actor who portrayed hank williams in 1964 biopic your cheatin' heart | 68 |
| council region of south island, new zealand, founded by scottish settlers | 73 |
| ... sea, arm of the pacific ocean between new guinea, australia and vanuatu | 75 |
| strong aniseed-flavoured spirit distilled in turkey and yugoslavia | 66 |
| Film for everyone ends in threesome, synopsis wrongly explains | 62 |
| respectful honour given by george, say, with heart leading head | 63 |
| for example, seal escape from us, covering a very short distance in retrospect | 78 |
| work odd bits of echo into record by rock group, and do it thoroughly? | 70 |
| seafood caught entirely in well? on the face of it, preposterous | 64 |
| drying out hint of damp smell, one that's building up externally | 64 |
| spring enthrals mediocre, extremely emotional assistant of old? | 63 |
| spineless creature from flanders maybe caught restraining american? | 67 |
| flipping vacuous debate loathsome republican experienced again | 62 |
| mythical creature with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man | 72 |
| what [or who] , according to flannery o'connor, is hard to find? | 64 |
| name shared by a stephen king novel and a single by the prodigy | 63 |
| traveller for pleasure with small child taking in ancient city on island | 72 |
| chief magistrate in venice once describing dutch leader's cunning trick | 71 |
| support absolute ruler at first over the french fellow abstaining from alcohol | 78 |
| conclude rating failing to include power of detergent for instance | 66 |
| yours truly finding conservationists impolite to enter uninvited | 64 |
| editor initially overwhelmed by review of sarong finished by dior for example | 77 |
| american ........, 1930 painting featuring a couple with a pitchfork | 68 |
| puccini aria sung by pavarotti that was no. 2 in the uk charts in 1990 | 70 |
| indonesian island, final destination in 2024's race across the world | 68 |
| dreadlock ........, song by 10cc that was their last uk no. 1 hit, in 1978 | 74 |
| andras, classical pianist and conductor born in hungary in 1953 | 63 |
| kazuo, writer who was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 2017 | 67 |
| ida, hollywood actor and pioneering director born in london in 1918 | 67 |
| loose garments worn indoors when preparing for bed or having just risen | 71 |
| a counter service offering small meals to be eaten or taken away | 64 |
| james, actor who played britt in 1961 film the magnificent seven | 64 |
| makes inactive in order to extend eligibility, as college athletes | 66 |
| Prolific American inventor who lost most of his hearing at age 12: 2 wds | 72 |
| prince harry's international multi-sport event, the .... games | 62 |
| jin is the first member of this k-pop band to complete national service | 71 |
| amanda ...., played the less-than-bright mean girl karen smith | 62 |
| dazzling dame whose farewell tour was eat, pray, laugh - .... everage | 69 |
| dutch supermodel briefly married to david walliams, .... stone | 62 |
| terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | 65 |
| a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | 69 |
| Financial assistance for costs associated with court proceedings | 64 |
| 1962 film thriller remade by Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro as Max Cady | 76 |
| British gold medallist in the 100m breaststroke at the 1988 Seoul Olympics | 74 |
| Location of the "stately pleasure dome" in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan | 70 |
| Celebrated US sitcom about a stand-up comedian and his eccentric friends | 72 |
| Trailblazer on expedition initially requiring external support? | 63 |
| Rise of number one team, one bound to be permanently revolutionary | 66 |
| locale of the attraction journey of water, inspired by "moana" | 62 |
| cyril .................. was recently re-elected president of south africa | 74 |
| new york stock exchange which specialises in technology companies | 65 |
| helena bonham carter is the great-granddaughter of which uk prime minister? | 75 |
| veil covering the head and shoulders sometimes worn by muslim women | 67 |
| barry norman hosted the bbc's ........ … programme for over 25 years | 70 |
| what is the name of the muscle below the lungs which enables respiration? | 73 |
| ireland clinched the 2009 grand slam with a ronan o'gara ........ goal | 70 |
| who has been nominated for an academy award for acting a record 21 times? | 73 |
| the unbearable lightness of ..........: celebrated novel by milan kundera | 73 |
| which former eurovision host was recently elected as an mep for ireland south? | 78 |
| name shared by a district in dublin and the oldest bridge in venice | 67 |
| in the popular song, what is gifted on the sixth day of christmas? | 66 |
| the sam maguire trophy is modelled on the ............ chalice | 62 |
| traditional christian community which features in the 1985 movie witness | 72 |
| rival for traditional taxi services founded in san francisco in 2009 | 68 |
| imogen's in hospital clinic twice after initially sick feeling | 62 |
| country's introductions of zebras and monkeys backfired immediately. anarchy! | 77 |
| locksmith centre to be suspended over incomplete locks in foreign city | 70 |
| The person or entity who receives payment for a service or product | 66 |
| Brad ... who won an Academy Award for "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" | 69 |
| Rec room staple game that has small soccer players controlled by rods | 69 |
| Legendary jazz singer ... James anointed "the matriarch of blues" | 65 |
| ... Hockey, game where players use handheld discs to score goals | 64 |
| Cue sport that has variants like "eight-ball," "nine-ball," and "blackball" | 75 |
| Excuse for texting errors, jocularly … or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| "The longest distance between two places," per "The Glass Menagerie" | 68 |
| arizona politician morris, author of "too funny to be president" | 64 |
| Country where the word for "lobster" translates literally to "dragon shrimp" | 76 |
| river in sw australia that flows to the indian ocean below perth | 64 |
| aristotle ..., turkish-born ship owner who married jackie kennedy in 1968 | 73 |