| Marathon unit |
MILE |
| Minimum amount |
LEAST |
| Most important skill |
STRONGPOINT |
| New Hampshire hrs. |
EST |
| Nights before holidays |
EVES |
| Ooze slowly |
SEEP |
| Part of the eye |
IRIS |
| Pay out |
SPEND |
| Phone answerer's greeting |
HELLO |
| Point at the target |
AIM |
| Powerful ocean surge |
TIDALWAVE |
| Racetrack postings |
ODDS |
| Respond |
ANSWER |
| Scrap of cloth |
RAG |
| Serious play |
DRAMA |
| Solemn pledges |
OATHS |
| Song sung on 57 Down |
YODEL |
| Stormy weather sound |
THUNDERCLAP |
| Sugar amounts: Abbr. |
TSPS |
| Swimming-pool sound |
SPLASH |
| Swiss peaks |
ALPS |
| Switchboard worker: Abbr. |
OPER |
| Tea variety |
PEKOE |
| The ''V'' of VCR |
VIDEO |
| Trample |
STEPON |
| Tried out |
TESTED |
| Two times |
TWICE |
| United |
ASONE |
| Use a plus sign |
ADD |
| Usher's offering |
SEAT |
| Venetian-blind part |
SLAT |
| Vietnam neighbor |
LAOS |
| Volcanic flow |
LAVA |
| Well-groomed |
NEAT |
| Woolly mammal |
SHEEP |
| Woos with music |
SINGSTO |
| __ and rave |
RANT |
| __ moss (gardener's material) |
PEAT |
| __ time (never) |
ATNO |
