| Lead-in to wife or life |
MID |
| Left work, perhaps |
STRUCK |
| Like Maurice, in “Beauty and the Beast”? |
SAVEDBYTHEBELLE |
| Like snoops |
NOSY |
| Lose one’s reserve |
THAW |
| Make incoherent, as a story |
MANGLE |
| Makes fast |
SECURES |
| Matador’s foe |
ELTORO |
| Messenger molecule |
RNA |
| Morning answer from a kid’s bedroom |
IMUP |
| Move in the slightest |
BUDGE |
| Occupies, as a battle station |
MANS |
| Olive who existed for 10 years before Popeye |
OYL |
| Oracle’s home |
DELPHI |
| Org. whose website has a Greener Living section |
EPA |
| Part of a tuba’s sound |
PAH |
| Passionate feelings |
ARDORS |
| Past dates? |
EXES |
| People of the Great Basin |
UTE |
| Period |
DOT |
| Poet’s palindrome |
ERE |
| Pound division |
CAGE |
| Praising poem |
ODE |
| Pronoun for some |
SHE |
| Quick bit of tennis |
ONESET |
| Quick points in tennis |
ACES |
| Relating to bees |
APIAN |
| Response to “You’re hiding something” |
AMI |
| Restaurant waiting area |
BAR |
| Retinol |
VITAMINA |
| Rx item, for short |
MED |
| Scrooge utterance |
BAH |
| Seriously embarrassing blunder |
EPICFAIL |
| Sharp counterpart |
FLAT |
| Singer Simone |
NINA |
| Singer ___ Khan |
CHAKA |
| Sister brand of Humble |
ESSO |
| Sit shiva, say |
GRIEVE |
| Snoop’s sometime collaborator |
DRE |
| Snowball fight taunt |
YOUMISSED |
| Some pens |
BICS |
| Spoil |
MAR |
| St. Kitts and ___ |
NEVIS |
| Start for center or graph |
EPI |
| Story tellers |
LIARS |
| Subside |
EBB |
| Supporters’ answers |
YEAS |
| Surfing device |
REMOTE |
| Sushi restaurant stock |
ROE |
| Swear |
ATTEST |
| Take in |
SEE |
| Take on |
ASSUME |
| Targets of PETA protests |
FURS |
| The dwarfs, in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”? |
MINERCHARACTERS |
| The Horned Frogs’ sch |
TCU |
| Theater honors |
OBIES |
| Theater reprimand |
SHH |
| To be, in France |
ETRE |
| Took part in a regatta |
OARED |
| Transport in a Duke Ellington song |
ATRAIN |
| Uncompromising |
RIGID |
| Unspecific choice |
THISORTHAT |
| Vaughan Williams’s “Riders to the Sea,” e.g |
OPERA |
| Vespidae family member |
WASP |
| Walked in water |
WADED |
| Western sight |
SUNSET |
| What a Jenga tower will do, eventually |
TIPOVER |
| What Arthur took after he pulled Excalibur, in “The Sword in the Stone”? |
ABREATHOFFRESHHEIR |
| Where Alice winds up, in “Alice in Wonderland”? |
THEHOLEWORLD |
| Window closer, sometimes |
ESC |
