| Prep for a bout |
SPAR |
| Pressed for precipitation |
ARID |
| Pretentious |
ARTY |
| Professional who spits |
WINETASTER |
| Punctuation that can precede each set of circled letters |
DOT |
| Quarrel settler, once |
DUEL |
| Raid |
STORM |
| Really impresses |
WOWS |
| Regret |
RUE |
| Requiring the least travel |
CLOSEST |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect |
PEI |
| Sailing aid in the horse latitudes |
TRADEWIND |
| Salad greens |
ENDIVES |
| Sculptors’ trunks |
TORSI |
| Singer who began her career on “Barney & Friends” |
DEMILOVATO |
| Site of a Nile dam |
ASWAN |
| Slow tempo |
LENTO |
| Small African mongoose |
MEERKAT |
| Small part for a big star |
CAMEO |
| Soapbox speaker |
ORATOR |
| Something simple |
ASNAP |
| Steep-sided plateau |
MESA |
| Structures for ceremonial burning |
PYRES |
| Tillerson who was secretary of state |
REX |
| Titanic passenger John Jacob ___ |
ASTOR |
| Tolkien’s “shepherd of the trees” |
ENT |
| Track meet component |
EVENT |
| Two-way, as a door |
INOUT |
| Valuable stock |
TROVE |
| Wearing one’s best outfit, say |
DRESSEDUP |
| Wintry coating |
ICE |
| Wintry coating |
FROST |
| Wiped out, in skiing slang |
ATEIT |
| With heels elevated, in ballet |
ONTOE |
| Words of approximation |
ORSO |
| ___ about (roughly) |
ONOR |
| ___ avis |
RARA |
| ___ frattempo (in the interim, in Italian) |
NEL |
