| ''Your excellency'' |
SIRE |
| Also-ran in 2000 |
NADER |
| Ask on one's knees |
PLEAD |
| Assert |
AVOW |
| Battery component |
ACID |
| Bemoan |
LAMENT |
| Blackmore character Lorna |
DOONE |
| Boardwalk refreshments |
ICES |
| Button in Bond's car |
EJECT |
| Catty comments |
MEWS |
| Cell phone's lack |
CORD |
| City on the Rhone |
LYONS |
| Cleanser or a reindeer |
COMET |
| Clobbered, the old-fashioned way |
SMOTE |
| Coming forth |
EMANATING |
| Concert venue, perhaps |
ARENA |
| Curie or Osmond |
MARIE |
| Demosthenes, for one |
ORATOR |
| Didn't collapse |
HELD |
| Didn't take any cards |
STOOD |
| Dilapidated dwelling |
SHACK |
| Distinctive time periods |
ERAS |
| Eastern fate |
KISMET |
| Either of two wives of Henry VIII |
ANNE |
| Experienced sailors |
SALTS |
| Fell into the arms of Morpheus |
SLEPT |
| From the same tree |
AKIN |
| Go soft, as butter |
MELT |
| Good thing to have in your eye |
GLEAM |
| Goulash, for one |
STEW |
| Hawaiian island or veranda |
LANAI |
| Indian ruler, once |
MAHARAJAH |
| July 1 celebration |
CANADADAY |
| Leave office |
VACATE |
| Like many an amphitheater |
OVAL |
| Modernize, e.g. |
REDO |
| Not quite erect |
ATILT |
| One of a kind? |
TOKEN |
| Osmatic stimulant |
ODOR |
