| Hole in the head |
NARIS |
| Languish |
AIL |
| Like news blogs, typically |
UPDATED |
| Lush |
WINO |
| Moves toward the middle |
AVERAGESOUT |
| Natural shelter |
GROTTO |
| Note in B major but not E major |
ASHARP |
| Off the ground |
ALOFT |
| Ones skewered in P. J. O'Rourke's 'Parliament of Whores' |
POLS |
| Parole board consideration |
REMORSE |
| Place bereft of happy campers? |
GULAG |
| Poet who won three Grammys for Best Spoken Word Album |
ANGELOU |
| Rattle on |
PRATE |
| Rock: Prefix |
PETRO |
| Rubylike gem |
SPINEL |
| Secret society brother to George W. Bush and John Kerry |
BONESMAN |
| Setting for Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' |
OSLO |
| Sixth in a series |
ZETA |
| Some pasta |
TUBES |
| Started a movement, metaphorically |
LITTHETORCH |
| Swedish university where Anders Celsius taught |
UPPSALA |
| Swore |
PLEDGED |
| Tail waggers? |
MOONERS |
| Tools with semicircular blades |
EDGERS |
| Tourist purchase |
POSTCARD |
| Tufted songbirds |
TITMICE |
| Unsuitable for locavores |
IMPORTED |
| Verily |
INDEED |
| Welcome out |
REPRIEVE |
| What may help you hang in there? |
CLOSETROD |
| Wrestle |
TANGLE |
| ___-com |
ROM |