Before: “__ __ I” (me too) (2 wds.) | After: Radio wave bands (2 wds.) (abbr.)

Before: “Holy ____” (wow!) | After: Bard’s instrument

Before: Cut, as an onion | After: Sentiment(al) piece, perhaps? (hyph.)

Before: Tolkien trilogy (abbr.) | After: Uno, dos, ____

Before: Flight-related prefix | After: Space

Before: “__, __ are you going to drink with us and we can all catch an Uber later?” (2 wds.) (abbr.) | After: Evil minions in 9A’s Before clue

Before: “_ ___ tear is an injury to the inside ligament supporting the knee joint | After: Iron ____ (unbreakable, as a contract)

Before: Artsy Manhattan neighborhood | After: Loosened or cultivated, as soil

Before: Many (2 wds.) | After: “____ día” (another day)

Before: “It’s __ __” (proud response to 4D’s After clue) (2 wds.) | After: “ __, __ your second best race finish?” (2 wds.) (abbr.)

Before: “____ Willy” (1993 film about an orca) | After: Federal workplace discrimination agency (abbr.)

Before: Scripts, perhaps? | After: Psychiatrists’ manuals (abbr.)