| How some jokes are delivered |
DRILY |
| Like elvers |
EELY |
| Like lymphatic tissue |
NODAL |
| Old yarn-making machines |
SPINNINGWHEELS |
| On the go |
MOBILE |
| Open-air courtyards |
ATRIA |
| Part of majorettes' routines |
TWIRLINGBATONS |
| Perversely apt |
IRONIC |
| Pipe material, for short |
PVC |
| Polite behavior |
DECORUM |
| Popular cookie |
OREO |
| Pre-op inhalant, once |
ETHER |
| Ready for anything |
ALERT |
| Scolds (with "out") |
BAWLS |
| Screenwriter Ephron |
NORA |
| Short ___ (unsympathetic rejection) |
SHRIFT |
| Should (with "to") |
OUGHT |
| Singer Lovett |
LYLE |
| Six-stringed instrument |
VIOL |
| Slur over, as a vowel |
ELIDE |
| Some living room pieces |
SETTEES |
| Sounded a bell |
RANG |
| Spanish painter Joan |
MIRO |
| Sterilize |
DEGERM |
| Sweet sayings? |
NOTHINGS |
| Tangelo fruit |
UGLI |
| Tax expert, briefly |
CPA |
| Ten, scalewise |
IDEAL |
| Tenth-graders |
TEENS |
| Traditional |
OLDWORLD |
| Troy, by another name |
ILIUM |
| Type of alcohol |
ETHYL |
| Type of angle |
ACUTE |
| Utmost (Abbr.) |
ULT |
| ___ contendere (court plea) |
NOLO |
| ___ couture |
HAUTE |
| ___ Mesa, Calif |
COSTA |
| ___ terrier |
SKYE |
