| One of Santa's reindeer |
| Sandwich shop |
| Sandler of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry |
| Insane |
| Actor Sandler who was once a regular on "Saturday Night Live |
| Four-time baseball All-Star Jose |
| Baseball's Fielder |
| Retired outfielder Barry, who was conspicuously denied entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 |
| Home run, in baseball slang |
| Assert sans proof |
| Nissan hybrid |
| A partisan: Comb. form. |
| Hideo, Major League Baseball's winningest Japanese pitcher |
| Aerial transit used in San Francisco. |
| ___ the aisle (bipartisanly) |
| Baseball's Manny |
| Baseball's ''Walking Man'' Eddie |
| Santa's load |
| Group of partisans |
| Baseball/football Hall-of-Famer Hubbard |
| All of Me" singer who sang backup for Alicia Keys and Kanye West: 2 wds. |
| Occupy pleasantly |
| Complain incessantly |
| Al ___, of baseball's Hall of Fame |
| Author Locke of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African-American Rhodes scholar (1907) |
| Surprises unpleasantly, and a hint to each starred answer's first two + last two letters |
| Nuisance stoppers, in law |
| Accompanies musically sans words |
| San Francisco arena |
| One of Santa's helpers |