- SOAPS
- Lathers up
- Some Bath & Body Works purchases
- Mid-afternoon fare
- Ivory, Coast, et al.
- Daytime dramas
- Overwrought dramas
- Shows to do laundry by?
- Aids in laundering
- Afternoon TV fare
- Daytime TV fare
- Daytime TV dramas
- Passions, et al.
- Television "operas"
- Cakes not to be eaten
- Some daytime programming
- Melodramatic daily fare
- Serial melodramas, familiarly
- Wet bars?
- Daytime fare
- Day operas
- Afternoon fare
- Shower bars
- Many daytime shows
- Port Charles et al.
- Complex serials
- Much daytime TV
- Bars bought dry
- Cakes not for eating
- Lathers
- Some aromatic cakes
- They're sold in bars
- Most TV "operas"
- Bathroom bars
- Ivory and Coast, for two
- Some daytime TV
- Serial guilty pleasures for many
- Serialized daytime TV
- Bars not for drinking
- Melodramatic fare
- Daytime serials
- TV serials
- Daytime TV staples
- Midday TV fare
- Afternoon network fare
- Supermarket display
- Bathday cakes
- Endangered TV fare
- Some wet bars
- Afternoon TV serials
- Endangered TV species
- Hand-washing needs
- Cakes on kitchen sinks
- Supermarket section
- Bath bars
- Cleaning products
- Cleansing bars
- Bars that get wet
- Shaving __
- Wet bars, often
- Weekday dramas
- Sudsers
- Flatters.
- Detergents.
- Cleansers.
- Cleansing agents.
- Opera sponsors on radio.
- Hard-milled items.
- Household commodities.
- Household necessities.
- Opera sponsors.
- Castile and others.
- Makes a lather.
- TV offerings
- Shampoos.
- Supermarket items.
- Cleaners.
- Fragrant cakes.
- Does a shower routine.
- Relatives of oaters
- Castile et al.
- Soft and saddle
- Afternoon TV programs
- Daytime TV operas
- TV fare
- Afternoon fare on TV
- Milieu for Carey and Lucci
- Tearjerkers, sometimes
- Daily dramas
- Ivory, Coast and others
- Bars that gradually get smaller
- This puzzle's theme
- Much of afternoon TV
- Afternoon fare ... or a hint to the ends of 20-, 33-, 41- and 52-Across
- Some afternoon fare
- Melodramatic shows
- Individually wrapped hotel amenities
- Detergents, e.g.
- The Young and the Restless and "The Bold and the Beautiful"
- Daytime dramas, informally
- Substances next to sinks
- Afternoon serials
- Dial and Zest
- Where Jack Wagner moonlighted
- Bath & Body Works offerings
- Some long-running TV shows
- They're eligible for a daytime Emmy
- Afternoon shows
- They're eligible for Emmys
- Vanishing daytime fare
- Disappearing afternoon TV shows
- Days of Our Lives and the like
- Bars that produce suds
- Ivory and Irish Spring products
- Daytime TV melodramas
- All My Children, et al.
- They provide drama every weekday
- They're eligible for Daytime Emmys
- General Hospital and "One Life to Live"
- Afternoon entertainment
- Ivory and Coast
- Daytime dramas, familiarly
- Some fragrant cakes
- Suds makers
- Dove or Dial products
- Irish Spring or Dove products
- Telenovelas
- Stagy shows
- Sources of relationship drama?
- Daytime viewing
- Cakes from the drugstore
- Melodramatic TV shows
- Melodramatic viewing
- Bars from the locker room
- Some afternoon shows