| "Baby" or "fence" follower |
SITTER |
| "Check, mate" |
AYE |
| "Late" item |
OBIT |
| "Ring Around the Rosie" flower |
POSY |
| Abbot's underling |
PRIOR |
| Aggravate |
ROIL |
| Allied nations |
BLOC |
| America's bird |
EAGLE |
| Animated short? |
TOON |
| Arid Asian area |
GOBI |
| Bake in a shallow dish, as eggs |
SHIRR |
| Bank offering |
IRA |
| Barely sufficient |
SCANTY |
| Be successfully educated |
LEARN |
| Bear abodes |
LAIRS |
| Better balanced? |
SANER |
| Between jobs |
IDLE |
| Black, as piano keys |
EBON |
| Brownish photograph tint |
SEPIA |
| Camera shutter |
IRIS |
| Chemistry class subject |
ATOM |
| Commonly used emetic |
IPECAC |
| David of "The Pink Panther" |
NIVEN |
| Emirate or its capital |
DUBAI |
| Exterminator's target, sometimes |
RAT |
| Feature of a luxury hotel |
SPA |
| Filthy dough |
LUCRE |
| Fire insects |
ANTS |
| Flower-to-be |
BUD |
| From the beginning |
ANEW |
| Hairy biblical character |
ESAU |
| Handy thing in a grocery store |
LIST |
| Heavy hammer |
MAUL |
| Illegal gambling, to some |
VICTIMLESSCRIME |
| Indian tourist stop |
AGRA |
| Is mistaken |
ERRS |
| Like withered land |
SERE |
| Loudness measure |
PHON |