| Melt ingredient |
TUNA |
| Mill output |
STEEL |
| Minute amount |
IOTA |
| Mythical serpent |
HYDRA |
| Next in line |
HEIR |
| NNW, for one |
DIR |
| Oodles |
ALOT |
| Oratorio highlight |
ARIA |
| Paddock parent |
MARE |
| Parsley bit |
SPRIG |
| Part of a repair bill |
LABOR |
| Party spreads |
PATES |
| PBS newsman |
LEHRER |
| Playwright Henley |
BETH |
| Prickly plant |
NETTLE |
| Realm |
SPHERE |
| Rose's guy |
ABIE |
| School cheer |
YELL |
| See 61 Down |
PETS |
| Shaggy bovines |
YAKS |
| Sheets and tablecloths |
LINEN |
| Sitar tune |
RAGA |
| Slanted: Abbr. |
ITAL |
| Snitch |
TATTLETALE |
| Souvlaki meat |
LAMB |
| Sparse |
THIN |
| Stadium seater |
USHER |
| Sudden outburst |
SPATE |
| Sugar unit |
LUMP |
| Talk back to |
SASS |
| The works |
ALL |
| Times in classifieds |
EVES |
| Trojan War figure |
HELEN |
| Twist fruit |
LIME |
| Vodka partner |
TONIC |
| Web-footed mammal |
OTTER |
| West Point abbr. |
USMA |
| Whodunit kernel |
PLOT |
| With 1 Down, potted novelties |
CHIA |