Animals long thought to be the main spreaders of the Black Death

Ones stringing up shoes

Noncommittal reply

"_ ___ __ with my own two eyes!"

"____ ____, go away, come again some other day..."

A terse rejection

Ready to drive, park, or go in reverse, say

___ top (midriff-bearing shirt)

Opposite of "nyet"

Hollywood's West (not to be confused with West Hollywood)

Recovery support group

Said twice, a phrase like "on and on" and "over and over"... or, more simply, how repeated words are said

@ in proper English

Whether said once or on its own, means "see ya"

The ___ Club, pop culture-heavy online paper

"Me too!"

Big Small man in "Of Mice and Men"

King book that gave us Pennywise

Red algae found in some Japanese pudding recipes

What I do, late at night

Endoscopic surgery for kidney stone removal (acronym)

Maps within maps

Kids' toy on a string

Super Bowl LVII half-time star, to her fans

Bynes or Seyfried

Biome neighboring the tundra

Last word of a three-word New Year's song title

Said twice, a 1997 Jim Carrey flick

"__ _ Lay Dying"

"-, can you do the -..." infectious refrain about a certain cabaret dance

"Gross!"

Black sheep of the GOP?

Hey, knock it off!

Maximum minus minimum in a set of numbers

Memo subject line: In __

Social gathering (or tonic water, take your pick)

St. Francis of ___

Affirmative answer to a captain (or an especially bug-eyed kind of lemur)

It's for the birds

Letters before the "W" in a German car brand

Prefix in front of -sperm in fruit plants

Memo heading far more urgent than 18D

Passes the same runner on the track (again)

None, none at all

Jyn ___,"Rogue One" heroine

Instinct or reaction source

Essential conjugation in a simile