Possible Clues:

• Weak poker hand
• Three deuces beats it
• It beats ace-high
• Two (of)
• '__ of star-crossed lovers'
• '___ of Blue Eyes' (Thomas Hardy novel)
• Domestic … or a title for this puzzle
• ''Aren't we ___?'' (Sondheim lyric)
• Child-care provider
• "I should have been __ of ragged claws": Eliot