| Hoelike cutting tool |
ADZ |
| Interstice |
AREOLA |
| Italian mine |
MIO |
| Kind of batting stance |
OPEN |
| Least spotted |
RAREST |
| Like clayware |
FIRED |
| Like haunted houses, compared to ordinary houses |
EERIER |
| Malignity |
RANCOR |
| Meter readers? |
POETS |
| Neighbor of Somalia |
DJIBOUTI |
| No longer under consideration |
DEAD |
| Norm of 'This Old House' |
ABRAM |
| Nos. |
AMTS |
| Option for wings |
CAJUN |
| Oscar-winning French film director ___ Clément |
RENE |
| Paraphrase, say |
RESTATE |
| Part of a moonscape |
MARE |
| Popular dish in an Asian cuisine |
PADTHAI |
| Prophet of Thebes, struck blind by Athena when he accidentally saw her bathing |
TIRESIAS |
| Protein-rich paste |
MISO |
| Quality that's hard to express |
JENESAISQUOI |
| Reddish-brown |
RUST |
| Robert Morse Tony-winning role |
TRU |
| Seemingly silent types |
VENTRILOQUISTS |
| Smeltery input |
ORES |
| Snapped |
LOSTONESCOOL |
| Southern university whose campus is a botanical garden |
ELON |
| Spinners, for short |
DJS |
| Spoils |
LOOT |
| Tetris objectives |
ROWS |
| The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. |
KSU |
| Tree |
CORNER |
| Two-time figure-skating Olympic gold medalist Protopopov |
OLEG |
| Where the utricle is |
EAR |
| Zyzzyva, e.g. |
BEETLE |