| Leave stranded |
MAROON |
| Like some library books |
OVERDUE |
| Liza Minnelli film |
CABARET |
| Low-risk proposition |
SAFEBET |
| Microscopic arachnid |
MITE |
| Mighty small |
TEENY |
| Milky Way ingredient? |
STAR |
| Money maven Orman |
SUZE |
| Move up |
ASCEND |
| Mr. Simpson |
HOMER |
| Mrs. Simpson |
MARGE |
| Muse sometimes seen with a lyre |
ERATO |
| Muted trumpet wail |
WAWA |
| Not fem. or neut. |
MASC |
| November time task |
SETTHECLOCKBACK |
| One of all fours? |
KNEE |
| Ordinal number ending, sometimes |
ETH |
| Out of the rat race (Abbr.) |
RETD |
| Particle that's got a charge |
ION |
| Paste's partner |
CUT |
| Plush pelts |
FURS |
| Prefix with ''zoic'' |
CENO |
| Prone to primping |
VAIN |
| Puncture opening? |
ACU |
| Raison d'___ |
ETRE |
| Razor sharpener |
STROP |
| Ready and willing |
GAME |
| Red as ___ |
ABEET |
| Retaliate |
GETEVEN |
| Right-hand page, in printing |
RECTO |
| Solstice mo. |
DEC |
| Some batteries |
AAAS |
| Swamp stalk |
REED |
| The Joker, to Batman |
FOE |
| The Science Guy |
NYE |
| What a co-star might steal |
SCENE |
| Where the whale is? |
THAR |
| Writer of sweet words? |
ICER |
| ___ spumante |
ASTI |