Successor of the League of Nations

FIRST ELEMENT; dug up

Bk. Lrning

Drink also known as Bubble Tea

Rummage through Grandma's closet and pretend to by

Yoked cattle

West Point initials

"Architect of the nuclear age" Enrico

Defender of air space over U.S. and Canada

Negative contraction

When Tabitha Twichit's children lost their clothing to Jemima Paddle-duck and her sisters, Moppet and Mittens laid the blame ------.

Classical Guitarist Adres

Each; per unit; at a go

My bestest

Three score and ten

"gasp Lieutenant Smash!" Yeah, that's right. Lieutenant--- Smash."

Stage-name of Tracy Lauren Marrow

Wayland Flowers' ventriloquist dummy

Insight cry

Flowers involved in a sex scandal that actually helped the political candidate. (Now that's a clue taylored for the ---- Xer's)

Real rate of return (taking compound interest into account) abbr.

Direction from your forehead to your left ear

"Conditional on my ability"

Back end

What @ denotes

Multiple spouses (like the ones Large Amelia has?)

If a crossword clue mentions hockey the entry is probably this

Fargo's St.

Mechanical beings in RUR

Muppet Eagle

Elba who affected a Baltimore accent on "The Wire"

Even

33 rpm disc

Exist

Float through the air

"Squawk Box" network

"Just try and stop me"

In heated competition

"was to be" in "That which was to be shown"

Nope

SECOND ELEMENT; at this present time, according to Chaucer

More common than Rd., Ave., Bld., of Dr.

"Der ----mensch"; Nietzsche concept. (Honestly, I never understood why the ride-share app chose that name)

Grandmas

Ending for academic Internet domains

Old French musical style that's Latin for "new art"

In this meta, what the clue "Disease prevention by DNA modification" has been

Alexandra was the last one

Secondary 8A Inst.

City in the Congo basin (anagram of E -PANE; yeah... like that's a thing....)

A standard feature of Irish pubs

French for "good"

Kitchenware brand that won't help you in tic-tac-toe

What an airplane would be if we couldn't identify it (but since we can, it's not)

Unblemished and wrinkle-free

Mischievous sprite

French for "of" or "any" (pl.)

Precious stone (... hey! that's the name of my dog--- "Precious Stone"... it's a long and boring story. But a cute dog... sadly, she is currently having kidney failure and won't be around after a few months. But it's nice to roll over in the night and feel her lying against me.... but I digress....)

20s dispenser

FOURTH ELEMENT; Nov. 5 in Britain

Cooling unit

Herbivorous

Supporting vote

A title for Oz' principal academic. H.M. means the Woggle-bug is Highly Magnified and the ---- means.... well he's complete in his book learning.

THIRD ELEMENT; hinderance

Pencil tip

Side a 31D vote is for

Wildcat Kelly desired to straddle his old this underneath the western skies.

Popular Christmas tree

What Lady Gaga said to Liz Minnelli at the 2022 Academy Awards (It may have been upstaged by Chris Rock's "Will Smith just smacked the #### out of me")

Kitchen cubby

One-celled organism

"All the news that is fit to print"

Qatar's peninsula

After dusk

Informal friendly (possibly condescending) term of address

Website with over 20,000 articles about the game of Go, familiarly

Suffix that forms nouns from adjectives

Mathematical collection

Desserts with crusts

It may be written once and read many times

He played "the wise janitor" in "Not Another Teen Movie"

Hey! That hurt!