| Letters in the sand, perhaps | 
              SOS | 
            
                    
              | Like the lamp in the Hanukkah story | 
              OILLIT | 
            
                    
              | Liquor with fictional spokesperson Tony Sinclair | 
              TANQUERAYGIN | 
            
                    
              | Lunch, e.g. | 
              EAT | 
            
                    
              | Madhouse | 
              ZOO | 
            
                    
              | Maligned additive that the FDA 'generally recognize[s] as safe' | 
              MSG | 
            
                    
              | Member of the Whiffenpoofs, e.g. | 
              ELI | 
            
                    
              | Miners | 
              PITMEN | 
            
                    
              | More cherished | 
              DEARER | 
            
                    
              | More, in México | 
              MAS | 
            
                    
              | Name in running apparel | 
              AVIA | 
            
                    
              | Neighbor of Myanmar | 
              LAOS | 
            
                    
              | On a Halloween rampage, say | 
              EGGING | 
            
                    
              | Org. that sends signals into space | 
              SETI | 
            
                    
              | Pollutants banned in the '70s | 
              PCBS | 
            
                    
              | Post-hump day day: Abbr. | 
              THU | 
            
                    
              | Pueblo Indian | 
              ZUNI | 
            
                    
              | Pupil's spot | 
              IRIS | 
            
                    
              | Queen's worker | 
              HONEYBEE | 
            
                    
              | Really embarrassed - or angry | 
              BEETRED | 
            
                    
              | Red River delta metropolis | 
              HANOI | 
            
                    
              | Salsa shaker | 
              MARACA | 
            
                    
              | Spherical cereal | 
              KIX | 
            
                    
              | Studio One genre | 
              SKA | 
            
                    
              | Subject of the book 'DisneyWar' | 
              EISNER | 
            
                    
              | Sucked in | 
              HAD | 
            
                    
              | Swedish automaker | 
              SAAB | 
            
                    
              | Switch out | 
              SWAP | 
            
                    
              | The fourth Mrs. Chaplin | 
              OONA | 
            
                    
              | The ___ (mom, pop, sis, etc.) | 
              FAM | 
            
                    
              | They may be quartered and marinated | 
              ARTICHOKEHEARTS | 
            
                    
              | Tower of stranded drivers | 
              AAA | 
            
                    
              | TV part? | 
              TELE | 
            
                    
              | Voided | 
              ERASED | 
            
                    
              | What some dieters might hold | 
              MAYO | 
            
                    
              | Work, in physics | 
              ERGS | 
            
                    
              | Yellow-fever mosquito | 
              AEDES | 
            
                    
              | You might buy a bunch of them | 
              GRAPES | 
            
                    
              | ____ d'Alene, Idaho | 
              COEUR |