| ''American Beauty'' director |
SAMMENDES |
| ''Getting a Grip'' autobiographer |
SELES |
| ''King Kong'' heroine |
ANN |
| ''Over'' starter |
SUPRA |
| ''Return a Conqueror'' singer |
AIDA |
| 10 micronewtons |
DYNE |
| Account |
TALE |
| Actress who was Miss Scandinavia, 1975 |
OLIN |
| Ancient mariner |
ERIC |
| Attack, with ''at'' |
COME |
| Book by Jenna Bush |
ANASSTORY |
| Campaign preceders |
TEASERADS |
| CIA graduate |
CHEF |
| Closings, essentially |
SALES |
| Conclusion of a 1910s ''prairie trilogy'' |
MYANTONIA |
| Conduce |
TEND |
| Conversation starter |
HIYA |
| Dash |
RACE |
| Data, up or down |
STATS |
| Descriptor of a sea snake's tail |
OARLIKE |
| Einstein's ''precursor of relativity'' |
ERNSTMACH |
| Enthusiastic |
CANDO |
| Fin face |
ABE |
| First of all |
ADAM |
| French colony capital, 1902-1954 |
HANOI |
| French naturalist |
ZOLA |
| Gains prominence |
RISES |
| Get lost |
SCAT |
| Got everything from |
MAXIMIZED |
| Guiding principle |
POLESTAR |
| Hickory family member |
PECAN |
| His last novel was published in 2005 |
DUMAS |
| Isn't tough |
SPARESTHEROD |
| Keep hidden, perhaps |
ABET |
