Related Clues:

• Word after "stand" or "down"
• Comforting gesture
• Synonym of 1-Down that's 1-Down backwards
• Light touch of the hand
• 'The Ms. ___ Show'
• "The Women of Troy" novelist Barker
• Pitmaster's coating
• Congratulatory touch, maybe
• Base missing from stone grate
• Apt anagram of tap
• Difficulty as end of stone is chipped off
• "... ay, there's the ___" (Hamlet)
• Start of royal book tours you heard to create friction
• Morita of "The Karate Kid"
• Like a glib answer