| YOGI | Cartoon character who's "smarter than the av-er-age bear" |
| AUDIO | It puts the A in the AV Club |
| HORNE | "Always be smarter than the people who hire you." Her role in the film Stormy Weather (1943) included her rendition of the title song, which became her trademark. |
| NATTIER | Smarter than the brown, returned to the drawer (7) |
| AVERAGE | 'Smarter than the - - - bear', Yogi's IQ meter? (7) |
| YOGIBEAR | "I'm smarter than the average..." speaker |
| ONEJUMPAHEAD | Smarter than the other bounders? (3,4,5) |
| OUTWIT | Whiteouts she got out of to be smarter than the rest (6) |
| AVERAGEBEAR | Yogi's famous call, "I'm smarter than the ..., Boo Boo" (7,4) |
| PRIVATEJETSON | Space Age cartoon character who's joined the army? |
| DEPOT | Home or Office follower [The AV Club xword moves to a subscription model soon! - sign up at avxword.com] |
| TSETSE | Sleeping sickness bug [get whole past years of the AV Club for just $8 - avxword.com/puzzles/archive] |
| SMURF | Cartoon character who's always blue in the face |
| ODIE | Cartoon character who's always getting beaten up |
| APU | Cartoon character who's a stinker |
| FLAT | Like a cartoon character who's been squished by a steamroller |
| AVIATORSHADES | Eyewear whose first word is formed by AV + an anagram of "ratio": 2 wds. (Theme answer: The first word is airplane-related, and the second word is a synonym for "hues") |
| TRAVAIL | The first protest over AV by Labour (7) |
| ELUL | Av follower on the Hebrew calendar |
| SCART | 21-pin connector for AV equipment, created in the mid-1970s |
