The clues are not given in diagram order, and the enumerations are missing.
26 letters have already been entered into the grid. They are ignored in the subsidiary parts of the clues.
One answer is a proper noun.
- An inspiration, not quite up to date
- Avoid work through abnormal ingenuity
- Bit of rind in lemon tea: different flavor
- Bring into harmony during Fat Tuesday
- Cat in Brooklyn lacking water
- Cats in rows
- Characteristic of spinning, taut tire
- Constructed spire to have a strong effect
- Corny game
- Earliest resort on Erie
- Enacted northward advances conspicuously
- GI holding odd bits of silk in elbow
- Give up garland? Yes
- Have wine, ignoring "College Hour" in bar
- He lacks firmness when set on perch, for example
- Illicit tripper's ways to a fix
- It sinks to the bottom in boiling steam
- Line drawn in peachy yellow
- Maul viciously, with a certain reluctance
- Near the ocean, start out with a seasick salt
- One thousand mortals swimming in whirlpool
- One who might say: "Excellent! Eat grain any old way!"
- Orient part of a simile
- Rise, somehow, with one whose goal is to go down
- Sea creature with chlorine in spilled liquid
- Sequester a red ant in back of sponge...
- ...set apart most of soap in it
- Singer without a head
- Singer without a large head
- Threatened to draw without fault
- Traveler never takes train
- Unit!
- With sheepish expression, reveal origin of extremely unimportant matter