"There once was a Young Lady of Bute/Who played on a silver-gilt flute/She played several jigs/To her uncle's white picts/That amusing Young Lady of Bute", for instance (4)
Tax levied on an African gem or European wine, for example (8)
European country with an all-volunteer military since May 1, 1997 (4)
2006 was the centennial of this dramatist's birth (13)
Term for methanol implying it was produced from an evergreen or pine tree (9)
Value that (by one measure) reached a pre-COVID peak in the time of peace gardens and Rosie the Riveter (4)
Portion of the natural world that includes birds, bees, and badgers (2)
Term for an organizaton like Hawkeye's employer SHIELD or Black Widow's KGB (4)
"I'm going to finish first," perhaps (4)
"Sooner with half a loaf contented be/And water from a broken crock, like me/Than lord it over one poor fellow man/Or to another bow the vassal knee" poet (per E. H. Whinfield) (4)
X-24, vis-a-vis Wolverine (9)
Decoration that shouldn't in City Hall, per the Constitution (4)
You can say "aloha" to it when leaving a job (8)
Tom Cruise in Magnolia and Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine play characters with this profession (14)
Monument on the Canadian border that sounds like it has a keystone (3)
You can use this gadget to get free change and bottlecaps (13)
Richard Nixon delivered a eulogy for this man, who used his leadership in the National Urban League to fight for equality nationwide (4)