| Holiday preceder |
EVE |
| House of Henry VII and Henry VIII |
TUDOR |
| Jai ___ |
ALAI |
| Key of Beethoven's Ninth |
DMINOR |
| Lacking any guarantee of being paid |
ONSPEC |
| Like right-slanting type |
ITALIC |
| Like the outfield walls at Wrigley Field |
IVIED |
| Likes immediately |
TAKESTO |
| Look through the cross hairs |
AIM |
| Make holes in, as for ease of tearing |
PERFORATE |
| Makes believe |
PRETENDS |
| Massachusetts vacation spot, with 'the' |
CAPE |
| Medium bra size |
CCUP |
| Musical finale |
CODA |
| Natural balm |
ALOE |
| New Mexico city or county |
TAOS |
| New York City's ___ Island |
STATEN |
| New ___, India |
DELHI |
| One billionth: Prefix |
NANO |
| Packing string |
TWINE |
| Passover meals |
SEDERS |
| Peels, as an apple |
PARES |
| Period ending about 9000 B.C. |
ICEAGE |
| Periphery |
EDGE |
| Peter who directed 'The Last Picture Show' |
BOGDANOVICH |
| Picnic side dish |
SLAW |
| Potatoes from the Northwest |
IDAHOES |
| Precious Chinese carvings |
JADES |
| Red Sox stadium |
FENWAYPARK |
| Rocky peak |
TOR |
| Roman poet who wrote the 'Metamorphoses' |
OVID |
| Says grace, e.g. |
PRAYS |
| Score the 3 in a 4-3 game |
LOSE |
| Seaside community NE of Boston |
SWAMPSCOTT |
| Spanish greeting |
HOLA |
| Stepped (on) |
TROD |
| Together, in music |
ADUE |
| Watergate and Irangate |
SCANDALS |
| ___ la la |
TRA |