| ''Air'' or ''field'' starter |
MID |
| ''America the Beautiful'' closer |
SEA |
| ''Dragnet'' star |
WEBB |
| ''Hiroshima Mon ___'' (1959 movie) |
AMOUR |
| ''Psycho'' motel |
BATES |
| ''Socrate'' composer Erik |
SATIE |
| ''That's ___ shame'' |
AREAL |
| ''___ Blas'' (Lesage novel) |
GIL |
| ''___ Goat-Boy'' (Barth novel) |
GILES |
| 1955 novel made into a 1962 film |
LOLITA |
| 1970s kidnappers, initially |
SLA |
| 50 Cent piece? |
RAP |
| A perp might give it to a cop |
SLIP |
| Accessory for Mae West or Miss Piggy |
BOA |
| Alternative to whole |
SKIM |
| Animal house |
DEN |
| Annual Nile events |
FLOODS |
| Apprehend |
NAB |
| Architectural projection (Var.) |
APSIS |
| Back bones |
SACRA |
| Ballet's Odette, alternatively |
SWAN |
| Bar mitzvah officiator |
RABBI |
| Basic principle |
TENET |
| Bath accessory (Var.) |
LOOFA |
| Be contrite about |
RUE |
| Bit of a beverage |
SIP |
| Bluer than blue |
OBSCENE |
| Boxed |
ENCASED |
| Catkins |
AMENTS |
| Commotion |
ADO |
| Cosecant reciprocal |
SINE |
| Curator's hang-ups |
ART |
| Curdled soybean milk |
TOFU |
| Cut corners? |
MITER |
| Delay progress |
RETARD |
| Delectable |
LIPSMACKING |
| Entertain sumptuously |
REGALE |
| Epidermal eruptions |
RASHES |