Crosswordese

[Disposable sock in a shoe store], [___ XING], [One on foot, informally], [Short walker?], [Banned MLB substance]

[First letter of “tsar” in Russian], [Lao-___], [“Cats” monogram]

[Flat for short], [Lacking depth], [Less than solid], [Like flicks seen without special glasses], [On a plane for short]

[Map abbr. until 1991] in today’s NYT
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Also: [Georgia, once: Abbr.], [Lith., once]

[Once called]in today’s WSJ
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Also: [Name-dropper’s word?], [Miss-named], [Born this way]

[Volume unit] in today’s LAT
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Also: [Subjective loudness unit], [~40-decibel unit]

[Fashion inits.] in today’s NYT
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Also: [Designer monogram], [DKNY competitor]

[___-Missouria tribe] in today’s NYer
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Also: [Oklahoma tribe], Siouan speaker]

[Half a sawbuck] in today’s NYT
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Also: [Abe], [Skate part], [Bass part], [Cod piece]

[Code of O’Hare] in today’s Univeral
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Also: [California’s historic Fort ___]

[Massive Brit. lexicon] in today’s WSJ
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Also: [Big ref.], [Brit. lexicon], [Subj. of “The Professor and the Madman”]

[___-mo replay] & [___-mo]
in today’s Universal & NYT
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Also: [___-pitch]

[Margaret’s husband in “Addams Family Values”] in today’s WaPo
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Also: [Former communications corp.]

[Texted lead-in to an alternative]
in today’s NYT
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Also: [However brief?], [Texting alternative?]

[Jonathan Van ___, “Queer Eye” stylist”] in NYer
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Also: [Monster’s loch], [Capone’s nemesis]

[Honorific from Sanskrit]
in today’s NYT
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Also: [___ Lanka], [Hindu title]

[NBA legend Ming] in today’s Universal
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Also: [Retired Chinese Rocket]

[___-compliant (wheelchair-accessible, maybe)]
in the NYT
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Also: [Mathematician Lovelace]

[Bird in Liberty Mutual ads]
in today’s LAT
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Also: [Big bird], [Late start?], [Green egg layer]

[Elusive, in a way]
in today’s NYT
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Also: [Slippery], [Hard to grasp], [Hard to pin down]