| Like the frontrunner |
AHEAD |
| List ending, often |
ETC |
| Mai follower |
TAI |
| Main actor |
STAR |
| Makes a drink last |
SIPS |
| Maroons |
STRANDS |
| Meal crumb |
ORT |
| Millionaire on the Titanic |
ASTOR |
| Minotaur's home |
CRETE |
| Modern Old World money |
EURO |
| Mounds of arms |
BICEPS |
| Neither's go-with |
NOR |
| Oft-stuffed veggie |
GREENPEPPER |
| Old Japanese military leaders |
SHOGUNS |
| One from Cedar Rapids |
IOWAN |
| One who is loud at night |
SNORER |
| Out of practice |
RUSTY |
| Pi-sigma connection |
RHO |
| Pre-wedding party |
STAG |
| Prefix with "con" |
NEO |
| Pressing importance |
URGENCY |
| Quack remedy |
NOSTRUM |
| Recto's opposite |
VERSO |
| Roll-___ (some deodorants) |
ONS |
| Small brown birds |
WRENS |
| Sounds from a pound |
YELPS |
| Spread out, as fingers |
SPLAY |
| They offer controlled growing conditions |
Greenhouses |
| Tidal flood |
EAGRE |
| Time of one's existence |
AGE |
| Trojan War figure |
ARES |
| Underwater electricity source |
EEL |
| Use one's reflexes |
REACT |
| Uses the cargo hold |
STOWS |
| Vietnamese city |
HANOI |
| Was at fault |
ERRED |
| Weapon with a pointy head |
SPEAR |
| What to do after being served |
EAT |
| ___ Christian Andersen |
HANS |
