| "... but to no ___" |
AVAIL |
| "Away in a Manger," for one |
NOEL |
| "Do it, or ___!" |
ELSE |
| "Doggone it!" |
DRAT |
| A month of Sundays |
AGES |
| Abbr. on Topps cards |
ERA |
| Absolute (Abbr.) |
ULT |
| Almost upon us |
NEAR |
| Audio plug-ins |
AMPS |
| Bar |
MIXOLOGISTSSITE |
| Bar |
POLEVAULTERSAIM |
| Bar |
ATTORNEYSHURDLE |
| Better half |
SPOUSE |
| Big biceps, familiarly |
GUNS |
| BlackBerry messages |
EMAIL |
| Breeds, so to speak |
ILKS |
| Bullet accompanier |
ITEM |
| Burial stone |
STELA |
| C-section "souvenir" |
SCAR |
| Came to rest on a wire, e.g. |
ALIT |
| Certain cheese |
EDAM |
| Chemically related compound |
ISOMER |
| Chip's chum, in cartoons |
DALE |
| Clean, as a flash drive |
ERASE |
| Come by honestly |
EARN |
| Comic who kills |
RIOT |
| Commendatory composition |
ODE |
| Common songbirds |
SPARROWS |
| Connie Chatterley's title |
LADY |
| Corporate concern |
IMAGE |
| Croucher's sore spots |
KNEES |
| Dental school exam? |
ORAL |
| Determined |
RESOLUTE |
| Drains of energy |
SAPS |
| Eye-closing problem |
STYE |
| Fleur-de-___ (Quebec symbol) |
LIS |
| Folio page |
RECTO |
| Four-point H, e.g. |
TILE |