“Not yet decided ... or an "artful" description for the last words of 17-, 27- and 45-Across?”

Highly successful, on Broadway

Redding who sang "The Dock of the Bay"

Opposite of right

___ Copland, the so-called "Dean of American Composers"

Halloween cover-up

Spanish "other"

Player facing the leadoff batter

Like a wallflower

"How sweet ___!"