Themeless 17! (Hard Mode)

#88 on the periodic table

"On The Regular" singer

Remark after reading the clue for 7-Across, for most

A number puzzle (that could be paired with the middle evolution in Butterfree's evolution line in an indie-constructed Split Decisions)

11-Down's clue, for one

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't lead a horse to milk" and others, as my kindergarten self thought it was

"Help!"

When doubled, a number puzzle

Identical rhyme of 7-Across

Interesting

They Might Be Giants children's song whose lyrics remind me of CDB! by William Steig

Someone who you're back together with, in slang that nobody uses (but it should be used, definitely)

[insert annoying and stale clue that references Prince's When Doves Cry here]

Awe and others

"What in the ___ is going on?"

Fishing line material

Like most people, identity-wise

Group of "Homies+", as my friend Jax phrased it (Abbr.)

Crosswordese weapon

Lack support

Band whose members all look like gay men but that's just the aesthetic of British 80s rock bands I guess, with "The"

Liking frogs, stereotypically

BSer's confession

___ fly

"She's 12?"

State with its own power grid

It may have a treasure map on it

Animal whose name basically means the same thing without its first and third letters

Transgender musician with the album "Kick I"

Banger, both opinionatedly and statistically

Pierce Hawthorne from Community refused to drink pinot ___ because he thought it meant "black penis"

Tab

A good measurement?

___ and Allo (Oneohtrix Point Never song whose title translates to "Self and Other")

Uracil haver

Steve's partner, they say

Formation not found in the world's largest desert

Not IRL

Adjective that means nothing because gender is a construct anyway

Stirred them stumps

Jackson of the Panini music video

Relatives of 49-Across

2014 J-Lo and T.I. song off of her album of the same name

Prop for a certain cartoon bulldog

It's all the rage!

Sigur ___

Fake

Wordy, kinda

An oast is a ___ for 28-Down (this has been today's lesson in Crosswordese)

Danny Brown (ft. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt) - Really ___

Dreamer

See 19-Down

Deserve a blessing?

Butt

Death Grips - ___ Eagle Cross The Block

Queen City team

They can be oral, but not anal (I don't think (I would hope))

Well-known Rob Thomas collaborator

Bard bud, maybe

"Demon of Might", in Sindarin

DNA profile??? (Because DNA is a protein and profile in this case is used in the context of the phrase "flavor prof-" yeah you know what this clue sucks I'm sorry)

Friday Night Funkin's site

Cross

Kvetch

You can take one, or you can throw yours away

Crime drama that John Mulaney poked fun at in his New In Town special, for short