| Kraits and boas |
SNAKES |
| Landlubber's least-liked locale |
SEA |
| Large parrot |
KEA |
| Less moist |
DRIER |
| Letter before iota |
THETA |
| Like a catty remark |
SNIDE |
| Like much of Poe's work |
MACABRE |
| Lover of Aphrodite |
ARES |
| Lowly laborer |
DRUDGE |
| Made even, as a car's alignment |
TRUED |
| Man from Mattel |
KEN |
| Matador cape color |
RED |
| Metric heavy weights |
TONNES |
| Middle Brady Bunch girl |
JAN |
| More hair-raising |
EERIER |
| More pitiless |
UNKINDER |
| Morphine and codeine |
OPIATES |
| Mugger stopper |
MACE |
| Old Philco competitor |
RCA |
| Org. with operatives |
CIA |
| Pachyderm outcast |
ROGUE |
| Person named on a check |
PAYEE |
| Pester constantly |
NAG |
| Pharmaceutical giant ___ Lilly |
ELI |
| Popped the question |
ASKED |
| Pulitzer winner for "His Family" |
POOLE |
| Restraining |
HOLDINGBACK |
| Shad eggs |
ROE |
| St. crosser, in New York City |
AVE |
| Three-step dance |
CHACHA |
| Turn on the waterworks |
CRY |
| Unambitious one |
SLACKER |
| Unpleasant sensation |
PAIN |
| Water weasel |
OTTER |
| What candles on a cake might indicate |
YEARS |
| What Fred Sanford often faked |
HEARTATTACK |
| Where some go through the withdrawal process |
ATM |
| Yemen city on its own gulf |
ADEN |