| "What ___ the odds?" |
ARE |
| 100 Ethiopian cents |
BIRR |
| Accepted rule |
AXIOM |
| At ease |
RELAXED |
| Batting statistic |
AVERAGE |
| Beatty and Buntline |
NEDS |
| Boxer's comeback? |
BARK |
| Buffalo shore |
ERIE |
| California vibration |
TREMOR |
| Can't stop thinking about something |
OBSESS |
| Card-catalogue listing |
TITLE |
| Deep carpet |
SHAG |
| Dick was his running mate in '52 and '56 |
IKE |
| Dressy shoe |
WINGTIP |
| Emulating a goat |
BLEATING |
| Expressions of 140 characters maximum |
TWEETS |
| Famed horror-film street |
ELM |
| Fastener for a girder |
RIVET |
| Fuming |
SEEINGRED |
| Fury |
IRE |
| Garfield's girlfriend in the comics |
ARLENE |
| Glacial deposit |
KAME |
| Grant money, essentially |
AID |
| Habitually idle person |
LOAFER |
| Hard hitter, biblically |
SMITER |
| Hardly a rocket scientist |
DOLT |
| Hardly go-getters |
SLOTHS |
| He once ran a Mickey Mouse operation |
EISNER |
| He played Ponch |
ERIK |
| Hindu garment |
SARI |
| Horticultural beginnings |
SEEDS |
| It goes with "neither" |
NOR |
| It's never neutral |
ION |
| Items for emcees |
MIKES |
| Like an angry watch maker? |
TICKEDOFF |
| Like some calls |
CLOSE |
| Literally, the "way" |
TAO |
| Little kiddie |
TOT |
