| Figure of speech |
TROPE |
| Figure skater Kulik |
ILIA |
| Flood stoppers |
DIKES |
| Gets the picture |
SEES |
| Goose bump inducers |
HORRORSHOWS |
| Got off the fence |
ACTED |
| Handler of introductions |
EMCEE |
| Having a hard time choosing |
TORN |
| Hiked, as prices |
UPPED |
| Hot and pungent |
PEPPERY |
| Indian hardwoods |
TEAKS |
| It gets you going on time |
ALARMCLOCK |
| Item pressed in a bad situation |
PANICBUTTON |
| Legendary ark builder |
NOAH |
| Lincoln's son |
TAD |
| Long-eared creatures |
HARES |
| Matches up, as audio and video |
SYNCS |
| Misfortune |
WOE |
| Office of the U.S. president |
OVAL |
| One on the Mohs scale |
TALC |
| Open, as shipped goods |
UNCRATE |
| Places that require suits |
POOLS |
| Plies one's trade |
WORKS |
| Proceed laboriously |
PLOD |
| Pull out all the stops |
LETRIP |
| Slips by |
ELAPSES |
| Sneaker or loafer |
SHOE |
| Spacek of ''Crimes of the Heart'' |
SISSY |
| Take unfair advantage of |
USE |
| Territory returned to China in 1999 |
MACAO |
| The elder Judd |
NAOMI |
| They're out standing in their fields? |
SCARECROWS |
| U.S. spy org. |
CIA |
| Undercover person |
NARC |
| Unlike Godiva |
CLAD |
| Where papers may accumulate on a desk |
INTRAY |
| Work on the batter |
STIR |
| Zeta follower |
ETA |
| Zodiac boundaries |
CUSPS |
