Collector of couples

Answer: Noah

Certain chess piece, informally

Answer: horse

Locations for declamations

Answer: Podia

The orange variety is black

Answer: Pekoe Tea

Some college seniors take it

Answer: LSAT

Suave, and then some

Answer: oily

Cause for some fluff filling

Answer: slow news day

Books with many cross references?

Answer: Bibles

Collector of bizarre facts

Answer: Ripley

Link between DNA strands

Answer: base pair

Bearer of scales and plates

Answer: atlas

Abbr. on many Quebec road signs

Answer: STE

College in south central New York

Answer: Elmira

Steel guitar sound

Answer: whine

A challenger might go after one

Answer: title

One concerned with school activities?

Answer: marine biologist

Plans named for a Delaware senator

Answer: Roth IRA

Tollbooth option for Northeasterners

Answer: EZ pass

Rangers' venue: Abbr.

Answer: MSG

Maker of wake on a lake

Answer: jet ski

"Cryptonomicon" novelist Stephenson

Answer: Neal

Japanses P.M. Shinzo ___

Answer: Abe

Capital on the Daugava River

Answer: Riga

Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood

Answer: San Diego Zoo

Disneyland attraction since 1955

Answer: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

"Blade Runner" actress Young

Answer: Sean

"The Last of the Plainsmen" novelist

Answer: Grey

Mathematician seen on a Swiss 10-franc note

Answer: Euler

Pennsylvania town that was the longtime home of Rolling Rock beer

Answer: Latrobe

Measures of brightness

Answer: IQs

TV's Maverick

Answer: Bret

Ripe for a trial lawyer

Answer: suable

In position to inherit the throne, say

Answer: eldest

Something a doctor may check

Answer: pulse

Fifth-century invader of Britain

Answer: Saxon

One of two A.L. teams

Answer: Sox

You can see through it

Answer: iris

Do cobbling work on

Answer: Resole

Sponsor of early radio's "Five Star Theater"

Answer: Esso

Well-known maker of two-by-fours

Answer: lego

Targets for weightlifters

Answer: quads

Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.

Answer: ENE

1950s-'60s American rocket

Answer: Asp

Leader of the Autumn Harvest Uprising

Answer: Mao

Jeremiah, e.g., in the Bible

Answer: seer

Volcanic formation

Answer: dome

It's lowered before a joust

Answer: visor

Singer Reese

Answer: Della

Ukrainian capital

Answer: Kiev

Cleveland's lake

Answer: Erie

Computer-memory unit

Answer: RAM

Singer Loretta

Answer: Lynn

"Garfield" pooch

Answer: Odie

Wife of Jacob

Answer: Leah

"To Kill a Clown" actor Alan

Answer: Alda

Senate leader Harry

Answer: Reid

Gillette razor

Answer: Mach

Ms. Zadora

Answer: Pia

Actress Verdon

Answer: Gwen

Surrealist Max

Answer: Ernst

Chevy truck model

Answer: Tahoe

City south of Atlanta

Answer: Macon

Mountain in Thessaly

Answer: Ossa

Wile E. Coyote's brand

Answer: Acme

"____ Kind of Wonderful": 1987 film

Answer: Some

Classic Calvin Klein fragrance

Answer: Eternity

Start of a wand waver's utterance

Answer: abra

Viking family dog of comics

Answer: Snert

"Symphonie espagnole" composer

Answer: Lalo

"You Are My Love" singer James (1955)

Answer: Joni

County bordering California's Solano County

Answer: Napa

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" singer

Answer: Jim Croce

Former politician Abzug

Answer: Bella

Kelly who played Hayley on "All My Children"

Answer: Ripa