- BLACK
- Inky
- Chess choice
- Chess side
- Like some humor
- Roulette bet
- See 1-Across
- Sans cream
- Coffee order
- Even-money roulette play
- Served without milk or cream
- Enveloped in darkness
- Panther color
- Halloween hue
- Magic color?
- Potter's godfather
- This puzzle's theme
- With 17-Down, subject of this puzzle's leaps
- Supreme Court justice for 34 years
- Like coffee sans cream
- __ belt
- Coffee preference
- __ comedy
- *Stephen Hawking subject
- *Hypothetical object that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation
- Crow's color
- Poe title color
- Color of a crow
- Chess piece color
- How some prefer their coffee
- Jet
- Beginning of a transformation
- Ex-Senator, now Supreme Court justice.
- Justice, U. S. Supreme Court.
- Anna Sewall's "Beauty."
- Supreme Court Justice since 1937.
- Member of the Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court Justice.
- Missouri-Arkansas river, flowing into White River.
- Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Epithet for a kettle
- Ebon or raven
- Poe's "The ___ Cat"
- Color of 63 Down
- Expanse also called the Euxine
- Longtime Supreme Court name
- With 42-Across, a famous pirate
- African-American
- Ravenous?
- ___ Sea (waters between Europe and Asia)
- ___ Tuesday (October 29, 1929, when the 25-Down collapsed)
- Forbidding, as 25-Down
- Shade of 17- and 57-Across
- With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle
- Ebony
- *One side of a 23-Across piece
- One side in 70-Down
- Hugo ___, longtime Supreme Court justice
- The circled letters in the first shaded area
- Word with tie or belt
- One way to order coffee
- I Gotta Feeling band
- Jet color?
- With 34-Down, regions that can only be entered ... and a hint to the starred answers
- Part of BIPOC
- Word that this puzzle's author uses frequently ... and that pairs with both parts of 17-, 25-, 51- and 61-Across
- Color of squid ink pasta
- With "and" and 67-Across, what 17-, 29-, 45- and 59-Across are
- Night vision?
- Jack of "School of Rock"
- Ultraviolet bulb/Deem as undesirable
