___ Lanka
___ Juan, Puerto Rico
When planes are due to take off, for short
What Google's Ngram program tracks, for word usage
What car wheels turn on
Watch over
Villainous count in the Lemony Snicket books
Vietnamese soup
Unsuccessful
Unscripted comedy, informally
Tick off
Thorny parts of roses
Things for sale
That guy
Thanksgiving dessert
Sound to fear in the savanna
Some woodwinds
Set of pictures at a dentist's
Reprieves
Pull off perfectly
Problem with a shoelace
Polite affirmative
Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across?
Planted, as discord
Picked
Perfect world
Peach pit or walnut
Peach or walnut
One might apply gloss to them
Old-fashioned wine holder
Ohio city that was once the Rubber Capital of the World
Often-unheeded advice from dentists
Obama's successor
Novices
Narrow water passage
Narrative connector
Mimic
Many millennia
Lose traction on the road
License plates
Liable to tip over, maybe
Labourite's opponent, in British politics
Jealous words of congratulations
Jason's ship
Japanese soup
In the company of
Group of three
Group of books that an educated person is supposed to be familiar with
Greedy one
Fluorescent bulb alternative, for short
FedEx rival
Expressed amazement
Event for meeting new people
Enters hurriedly
Distant
Dec. celebration
Day-___ paint
Dance in which one partner might hold a rose between his teeth
Currency of France or Italy
Cultural spirit
Cuba's capital
Crow's sound
Choir member
Boxing achievements, in brief
Boaters' implements
Blue state?
Blow away
Big electronics chain
Biden and Pence, in brief
Appear
Actor Holbrook
10%-er: Abbr
'___ day now ...'
'You can't joke about that yet'
'What ___, chopped liver?'
'What do you think of ...?'
'The one thing that's clear to me ...'
'Smoking or ___?'
'Most likely ...'
'I love,' to Cato
'Fingers crossed!'