Possible Clues:

• Word before "otherwise specified"
• Equivocator's word
• If not cloudy, going topless
• Save a French takeaway
• "___ we get a little crazy" Seal lyric
• Word sometimes followed, mysteriously, by an ellipsis
• The Lorax's final word
• If not without cakes supposedly, the first polished off
• Except in the case that
• "___ you have a better idea"