| Kiss rocker Simmons |
GENE |
| Loving touches |
CARESSES |
| News clipping |
ITEM |
| Noah's construction project |
ARK |
| Out of bed |
RISEN |
| Parts that go in vases |
STEMS |
| Pipe tobacco has a strong one |
AROMA |
| Plants used in lotions |
ALOES |
| Polygraphist's detection |
LIE |
| Promising words? |
OATHS |
| Providers of life lessons |
HARDKNOCKS |
| Put in a pen, maybe |
EMBAR |
| Requirements of etiquette or custom |
FORMALITIES |
| Runner-up to a tortoise |
HARE |
| Salacious material |
SMUT |
| Scandal location in a Sherlock Holmes title |
BOHEMIA |
| Sea direction |
ALEE |
| Self-defense with a kick? |
KARATE |
| Shift, tab or caps lock |
KEY |
| Ski straight downhill |
SCHUSS |
| Slays, slangily |
OFFS |
| Snake's warning |
HISS |
| Stone monument |
STELE |
| Supports for laths and drywall |
STUDS |
| Surgery instrument |
CURETTE |
| Sylvester, to Tweety Bird |
TAT |
| They may get high in Vegas |
STAKES |
| Tiny bit |
IOTA |
| Trash boat, e.g. |
SCOW |
| Tree-rings indication |
AGE |
| Trial and tribulation |
WOE |
| Triple ___ (orange liqueur) |
SEC |
| Unit of length equal to 1,760 yards |
STATUTEMILE |
| Unit of pressure |
TORR |
| Vocal quality |
TIMBRE |
| Whiff |
STRIKEOUT |
| ___ del Plata (Argentine port) |
MAR |
| ___ Mountains (edge of Asia) |
URAL |
