| Left the ground for a moment |
LEAPT |
| Light-dawning exclamation |
AHA |
| Like mortarboards |
TASSLED |
| Love to pieces |
ADORE |
| Many profs' degs |
PHDS |
| Money in Munich |
EURO |
| Mountain pass |
GAP |
| Mythical twin |
ROMULUS |
| Not as many |
FEWER |
| Oscar role for Forest |
IDI |
| Out to lunch |
EATING |
| Part 2 of quip |
SAYSABOUT |
| PBJ alternative |
BLT |
| Perfectly timed |
ONCUE |
| Perpetual |
ENDLESS |
| Person, place, or thing |
NOUN |
| Pi follower |
RHO |
| Plaintive poem |
ELEGY |
| Pretenses |
RUSES |
| Radiance |
GLOW |
| Rather raucous |
LOUDISH |
| Ready to go |
SET |
| Really steamed |
IRATE |
| Rental sign |
TOLET |
| Road reversal |
UTURN |
| Roll-call response |
AYE |
| Runner's distance |
MILE |
| Schoolyard cry |
NOTIT |
| Scratch up |
MAR |
| Section of the psyche |
EGO |
| Shape of some banks |
PIG |
| Sharp pull |
YANK |
| Ship of 1492 |
NINA |
| Sinuous shape |
ESS |
| Skin-care brand |
BIORE |
| Sly person |
FOX |
| Small weight |
OUNCE |
| Smidgens |
BITS |
| Soap shape |
CAKE |
| Software test version |
BETA |
| Solemn promise |
VOW |
| Something we share |
OURS |
| Spy activities, for short |
OPS |
| Start of a Capote quip |
IDONTCAREWHATANYBODY |
| Steak order |
TBONE |
| Stitch temporarily |
BASTE |
| Stuffed, in Mexican cookery |
RELLENO |
| Suffix for leather |
ETTE |
| The ''Godfather'' films, e.g |
TRILOGY |
| Theater failure |
FLOP |
| Throw out, so to speak |
TOSS |
| To be: Fr |
ETRE |
| Totally confused |
ATSEA |
| TV news time |
SIX |
| Urban pollution |
SMOG |
| Verizon acquisition of 2006 |
MCI |
| Vintner's vessels |
VATS |
| Virginia city |
ROANOKE |
| Visualize |
SEE |
| Was a spectator at |
SAW |
| Weaving machines |
LOOMS |
| Web auctioneer |
EBAY |
| Went too fast |
SPED |
| What Capote called Henry James |
MAESTROOFTHESEMICOLON |
| Word on a nickel |
CENTS |
| Yield to a higher authority |
SUBMIT |
| Yuletide drinks |
NOGS |
| Zilch |
NIL |
| [''I'm bored!''] |
YAWN |
| __ Faire (reenactment venue) |
REN |
| __ Lanka |
SRI |
| __ moment's notice |
ONA |
| __ we forget |
LEST |
