| Lady Liberty's garb |
ROBE |
| Less filling, maybe |
LITE |
| Like some birthday parties |
THEMED |
| Loud like heavy surf |
AROAR |
| Love-at-first-sight number from Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' |
AHMISS |
| Many a character in 'The Canterbury Tales' |
PILGRIM |
| Newspaper columnist, e.g |
SCRIBE |
| Ones who are easily shocked |
PRUDES |
| Org. whose seal appears on Listerine bottles |
ADA |
| Parenthetical note from one who has added emphasis to a quotation |
ITALICSMINE |
| Paris institution where 'Whistler's Mother' is on view |
MUSEEDORSAY |
| Peer below a marquess |
EARL |
| Pledge |
VOW |
| Prior to A.D |
BCE |
| Propagate |
SOW |
| Put graffiti on |
TAG |
| Radar gun reading (abbr.) |
MPH |
| Rapscallion |
IMP |
| Risk burnout, maybe |
OVERDO |
| Rustic folks |
MAANDPA |
| Schnauzer created by Dashiell Hammett |
ASTA |
| Shakespearean father who calls ingratitude a 'marble-hearted fiend' |
LEAR |
| Some AOL exchanges |
IMS |
| Sometimes called, for short |
AKA |
| Stage in which you are close to getting a mate? |
ENDGAME |
| Stately processional dance |
PAVANE |
| Stretch dangerously thin, as a line of reasoning |
WIREDRAW |
| Sudden contraction |
SPASM |
| Take down a peg |
DEBASE |
| The NFL's Steely McBeam, e.g |
MASCOT |
| Tropical fruit with a segmented green rind |
SWEETSOP |
| Type of 'College Bowl' question |
TOSSUP |
| Underwater excavator |
DREDGE |
| Where 'Murder on the Orient Express' opens |
ISTANBUL |
| World capital in song titles by Cat Stevens and Bob Seger |
KATMANDU |