| Hammer or chisel, e.g |
TOOL |
| Higher born |
NOBLER |
| Impudent |
SASSY |
| Instrument for a Muse |
LYRE |
| Itty-bitty bite |
NIBBLE |
| Jib or spinnaker |
SAIL |
| Joss house figure |
IDOL |
| Leveling, as roadwork |
GRADING |
| Locality |
AREA |
| Make a snake nonvenomous, e.g |
DEFANG |
| Male or female |
SEX |
| More fitting |
APTER |
| Mr. or misc., e.g |
ABBR |
| Mysterious loch |
NESS |
| Not to |
FRO |
| Olympic archer |
EROS |
| On the ___ (fleeing the law) |
LAM |
| One wet behind the ears |
NAIF |
| Onetime British P.M. Tony |
BLAIR |
| Pixielike |
ELFIN |
| Red ___ (cinnamon candies) |
HOTS |
| Regretted |
RUED |
| River to the Atlantic |
ORINOCO |
| Safecracker |
YEGG |
| Saint who founded Scholasticism |
ANSELM |
| Socially inept and bookish |
NERDY |
| Solver's help |
CLUE |
| Sports official, briefly |
REF |
| Starchy, tuberous root |
TARO |
| Suffix with "social" or "lobby" |
IST |
| Three black things |
BUFFALOCATCLOUD |
| Three black things |
BEAUTYBOXCOFFEE |
| Three black things |
ARMBANDBEARBOOK |
| Turn a ___ ear |
DEAF |
| Underworld "family" |
MAFIA |
| Valuable rock |
ORE |
| Wind instrument |
OBOE |
| ___ double take (show surprise) |
DOA |
