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- Comedian Martin ___
- Wiring problem
- Strapped for cash
- Financially shy
- In need of a few bucks
- In need of a loan
- Knee-high to a grasshopper
- Funnyman Martin
- Like some tempers
- Lacking a quorum
- Lacking sufficient funds
- Unlike a shaggy-dog story
- Word before bread or cake
- Martin of "Father of the Bride"
- Word before term or circuit
- ___ game (chips, pitches, and putts)
- In need of cash
- With 47-Down, magazine fiction, perhaps
- Like some vowels
- Position between second and third
- Sweet partner
- Electrical problem
- Like an onside kick
- Type of film or circuit
- Insufficient
- Small picture
- Lacking funds
- In need of money
- Of brief duration
- Testy
- Curt
- Once-prevalent feature lead-in
- Less likely to be boring
- Abrupt
- Brief
- Hardly patient
- Needing cash
- Brusque
- Not a good way to come up
- In need of dough
- Low on funds
- Written in few words
- Gruff
- Concise
- Shy
- Terse
- Brief in duration
- Taking little time
- Not long
- Low on cash
- Not quite enough
- Unable to pay
- A little underfunded
- Not giving enough
- Condensed.
- Fuse blower.
- Two-reel movie.
- Vertically challenged
- Circuit breaker?
- Quick flick
- Abbreviated.
- Former U. S. lieutenant general.
- Pearl Harbor's ex-Commandant.
- Army general relieved of command.
- Rep. Dewey ___ of Missouri.
- Succinct.
- Peewee Reese's post.
- H. S. T.'s late press secretary.
- One of Mr. Truman's secretaries.
- Truman's press secretary.
- Dewey from Missouri.
- Infield position.
- Infielder: Colloq.
- Position on a ball team.
- Inadequate.
- Infielder.
- Sweet's companion.
- Lacking.
- Scanty.
- Wall Street term.
- Partner of sweet.
- Certain movie
- In need of funds
- Hand or ribs
- Kind of cake or cut
- In arrears
- Like hamsters' tails
- Circuit mishap
- Out of funds
- Unawares
- Kind of stop
- Like a hamster's tail
- Story or range preceder
- Kind of cut or cake
- Stepquote: Part III
- Adjective for an elf
- Height-challenged
- Lacking, with "of"
- Midgetlike
- Strapped
- Pint-sized
- Missing money
- One way to be caught
- Cheat, in a way
- Unable to pay the bill
- Reason for lights going out
- Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues
- Underfunded
- Not having quite enough money
- There has been one with every Pixar film since 1998
- Without enough money
- Third neighbor?
- Position between second and third, informally
- Potential fire hazard
- Not having quite enough cash
- Low on dough
- Missing funds
- Current issue?
- Snippy
- With 39-Across, some Sundance submissions … or a hint to four squares in this puzzle
- Like someone nicknamed "Sprout"
- Like Randy Newman's "People"
- Unlike NBAers
- Unable to pay the tab
- Bad way to come up
- See 68-Across
- ___ king (charismatic five-foot-four-inch guy, maybe)
- Father of the Bride actor
- Bad way to be caught
- In need
- Stature-impaired?
- Stature-deprived
- Film that's not very long
- Like hair in a pixie cut
- Height-impaired
- Not tall
- With not enough cash
- Word with "story" or "straw"
- ___-sheeting (bed prank)
- Low on money
- Singer Bobby
- Word to describe the three theme entries
- Martin in Father of the Bride
- Not in the money
- Kind of story
- Hot-tempered
- Stunted
- Needing money
- Lacking in stature
- Word that can precede the last parts of 17- and 65-Across and 10- and 30-Down
- Electrician's headache
- Only Murders in the Building actor Martin
- ___ Skirt/Long Jacket (2001 Cake song)
- Film genre
- Easily provoked
- Pixar DVD extra, often
- Like a pixie cut
- Stop start?
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- In insufficient supply
- Problem for an electrician
