| THEBEAN | Nickname of Chicago's "Cloud Gate," so called for its legume-like shape |
| STEEL | Nickname of Chicago's USHL team |
| LITIGATE | Set fire to one gate - so take to court (8) |
| HITWICKET | Success with the gate, so get out (3,6) |
| BEAN | The ___, nickname for Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture |
| MISTAKES | Young lady straddles gate, then slips (8) |
| AZALEA | From "dry", a rhododendron-like flowering shrub, so-called for its apparent preference for arid soil (6) |
| POUNDCAKE | Dessert so-called for its portions of flour, butter, eggs and sugar |
| VINAIGRETTE | Historical man- or horse-drawn French sedan chair, so called for its resemblance to acetum-sellers' carts; a small decorative bottle for smelling salts; or, French dressing (11) |
| DIGIT | Word for 1/12 of the diameter of the Sun or the Moon; a numeral; any one of the fingers, so called for the practice of counting on said pinkies, pointers or "Onkaparingas"; or, a finger-breadth (5) |
| BOOTLEGGER | A kind of moonshiner, so called for the practice of smuggling illicit bottles of liquor in the upper shafts of their buskins or trousers (10) |
| SHORTBREAD | Buttery round or petticoat tail-shaped biscuit, so called for the old meaning of "crumbly" in its name, versus "long", meaning stretchy (5,5) |
| LIGHTS | Word for animals' lungs, so called for their imponderousness; candles, chandeliers, Chinese lanterns, fairy bulbs, lustres, pharoses, windows or other sources of lux or, clues, hints and tips towards |
| BANYAN | English name, from the Gujarati for "merchant", for an Indian fig tree, so called for the tree under which Hindu traders built a pagoda (6) |
| ORZO | Variety of risoni-like pasta whose name, from Italian for "barley", aptly refers to its grain-like shape (4) |
| CST | Setting for some visitors to Cloud Gate: abbr. |
| TREMBLER | A buzz coil, circuit breaker/maker, earthquake, poplar, thrasher-like bird or trepidatious person, each so called for quaking, shaking, shivering or vibrating (8) |
| ENTAILED | Hospital department needed a doctor, so called for (8) |
| NABLA | From Greek for "stringed instrument", in reference to its harp-like shape, the inverted delta symbol that is also called a del (5) |
| PYRAMIDMOUNTAIN | Jasper National Park peak named for its ancient egyptian architecture like shape: 2 wds. |
