| Levels |
TIERS |
| Linguist's concern |
USAGE |
| Mamie's predecessor in the White House |
BESS |
| Modify |
AMEND |
| Musician Scaggs |
BOZ |
| Natural do |
AFRO |
| Newbie cop's mentor, in police slang |
RABBI |
| One-fifth of a fin |
SINGLE |
| Parcel out |
ALLOT |
| Park with great care, perhaps |
EASEIN |
| Permission |
LEAVE |
| Pert |
SASSY |
| Pitiful |
PATHETIC |
| Plenty |
ALOT |
| Political gp. headquartered in Ramallah |
PLO |
| Pouffe's relative |
TUFFET |
| Prompt's prompt |
CUE |
| Red ink |
DEBT |
| Refer to as authority |
CITE |
| Repeat |
ITERATE |
| Richard who bared it all in 'American Gigolo' |
GERE |
| Ropes, as a dogie |
LASSOS |
| Rug rat |
TOT |
| Seemingly bottomless pit |
ABYSS |
| Snakelike fishes |
EELS |
| Some national laureates |
POETS |
| Sums |
TOTALS |
| Unattractive-sounding hybrid fruit |
UGLI |
| Utters |
SAYS |
| Wall St. acquisition |
LBO |
| Wander about |
ROVE |
| Wardrobe staple in many a period piece |
CORSET |
| Wee swallow |
NIP |
| Westley's portrayer in 'The Princess Bride' |
CARYELWES |
| What a ball represents in a ball-and-stick molecular model |
ATOM |
| Worker whose stock-in-trade is spit and polish |
BOOTBLACK |
| Zebra seen on fields, for short |
REF |
| Zero, to Manchester United |
NIL |