CIGAR

New dad's handout

• --- Aficionado (magazine with much poker coverage)*

• ... but no ___

• ... is a good five-cent ___

• 1995 Horse of the Year

• April 1 exploder

• Bell-ringer's prize, perhaps

• Brown smoke

• Burns prop

• Burns smoke?

• Castro's companion

• Castro's prop

• Celebratory smoke

• Certain Cuban

• Cheroot

• Cheroot, e.g.

• Churchill item

• Churchill namesake

• Churchill trademark

• Churchillian trademark

• Claro or cheroot

• Close, but no ___

• Colorado, e.g.

• Corona, e.g.

• Cuba export

• Cuban treat

• Cuban, e.g.

• Exploding gag gift

• Exploding joke item

• G. Burn's hot companion

• Gag exploder

• Gag that might explode

• George Burns prop

• George Burns trademark

• George Burns's companion

• Grandson of Seattle Slew

• Groucho Marx fixture

• Groucho Marx prop

• Groucho prop

• Groucho trademark

• Hall of Fame racehorse whose damsire was Seattle Slew

• Havana

• Havana export

• Havana product

• Havana smoke

• Havana, e.g.

• He smoked a big ___ (Boston)

• Horse of the Year in 1995 & 1996

• Humidor item

• It may be in a poker player's hand

• It may be made of bubble gum

• It usually has a band around it

• Its brand is on its band

• Mark Twain prop

• Marx trademark

• Mid-'90s champion racehorse

• New father's handout

• Obsolescent carnival prize

• Panatela, e.g.

• Panatella

• Perfecto, e.g.

• Pipe alternative

• Post-delivery handout

• Practical joker's exploder

• Prop for George Burns

• Prop for Groucho

• Prop for Groucho Marx

• Prop for this puzzle's featured comics

• Proud papa's handout

• Proud papa's handout, perhaps

• Puff piece?

• Puffer's pleasure, perhaps

• Puritano, e.g.

• Retreating soldier shrouded by vehicle's smoke (5)

• Reward for doing better than close

• Smokable Cuban

• Smoke

• Smoke after a delivery

• Smoke for Churchill

• Smoke for Rush Limbaugh

• Stogie

• Stogie or cheroot

• Theme of this puzzle

• Thick smoke

• Victory smoke

• What a banker smokes

• What a tabaquero makes

• You Bet Your Life prop

• A roll of tobacco for smoking