| Hit hard |
WHACK |
| Hyundai or Honda |
AUTO |
| In the short term |
FORNOW |
| Invigorating drinks |
TONICS |
| Involved with |
INON |
| Jacket |
COAT |
| Kind of seed on a roll |
SESAME |
| Kuwaiti chief |
EMIR |
| Leak slowly |
OOZE |
| Like some winter sidewalks |
SLUSHY |
| Like squashed insects |
ICKY |
| Make one |
MERGE |
| Matter of fact? |
TRUTH |
| Muse's instrument |
LYRE |
| Nail filer |
EMERY |
| Needle hole |
EYE |
| Negligent |
REMISS |
| Netlike |
MESHY |
| New millennium year, or a part of 20-, 37- and 49-Across |
MMI |
| Once more |
AGAIN |
| One who stands to gain a lot? |
HEIR |
| One-inch news story |
ITEM |
| Popular Ford auto, informally |
TBIRD |
| Postal delivery |
MAIL |
| Raging |
ANGRY |
| Ready to pluck |
RIPE |
| Saws and laws have them |
TEETH |
| Singer Ford from Tennessee |
ERNIE |
| Slangy denial |
UHUH |
| So be it |
AMEN |
| Street's edge |
CURB |
| Strong cleaner |
LYE |
| Sweeper |
BROOM |
| Tear |
REND |
| Tiptop, on a report card |
APLUS |
| Unnamed ones |
THEM |
| Verdi heroine |
AIDA |
| Voice amplifier on a pole |
BOOMMICROPHONE |
| ___ Moines |
DES |