| List-shortening abbr |
ETC |
| Lone Ranger's pal |
TONTO |
| Male deer |
STAG |
| Marsh bird |
IBIS |
| Most loose-fitting |
BAGGIEST |
| Night-court payment |
BAIL |
| Nonstandard contraction |
AINT |
| Nose, so to speak |
SNOOT |
| Not as fresh |
STALER |
| Not fooled by |
ONTO |
| Novelist Deighton |
LEN |
| Ointment ingredient |
ALOE |
| On the ball |
ASTUTE |
| One's best talent |
STRONGSUIT |
| One-person performance |
SOLO |
| Painter's initial layer |
PRIMINGCOAT |
| Paradise |
EDEN |
| Party givers |
HOSTS |
| Pioneer |
TRAILBLAZER |
| Pizza seasoning |
OREGANO |
| Property claim |
LIEN |
| Ripen |
AGE |
| Sailor's assent |
AYE |
| Scandinavian capital |
OSLO |
| Search for |
SEEK |
| Singer McEntire |
REBA |
| Small songbird |
WREN |
| Start of a letter |
DEAR |
| State south of Minnesota |
IOWA |
| Suffix for novel |
ETTE |
| Undergrad degs |
BAS |
| University sports grp |
NCAA |
| Video recorders, for short |
CAMS |
| Vienna's nation |
AUSTRIA |
| Water, to Juan |
AGUA |
| White marsh bird |
EGRET |
| __ by (obey) |
ABIDE |
| __ fish sandwich |
TUNA |
| __ Grey tea |
EARL |
