| It's catchy |
TRAP |
| Its lowest point is the Dead Sea |
ASIA |
| Jungle creature |
APE |
| Last word on the silver screen, sometimes |
END |
| Like a .250 batting average |
SOSO |
| Like hen's teeth |
RARE |
| Like the Grinch |
MEAN |
| Man with a top hat and cane, for short |
GENT |
| Man without a country, in literature |
NOLAN |
| Mayberry's self-incarcerator |
OTIS |
| Medieval French kingdom |
ARLES |
| Merit |
EARN |
| Mortgagors' protection |
LIENS |
| Negative conjunction |
NOR |
| Odorless |
UNSCENTED |
| One way to enlarge a family |
ADOPT |
| Past |
AGO |
| Peeved |
IRATE |
| Period of note |
ERA |
| Person of equal standing |
PEER |
| Pilsner, e.g. |
LAGER |
| Poker-player's ploy |
RAISE |
| Posh NYC apartment building (with ''The'') |
DAKOTA |
| Purim month |
ADAR |
| Queen Anne's race |
ASCOT |
| Relishing |
SAVORING |
| Remove the rind |
PEEL |
| Scientist's notes |
DATA |
| Service-station job |
ALIGNMENT |
| Shop clamp |
VISE |
| Slide rule's basis |
LOGARITHM |
| Stock market maneuver |
PUT |
| Stunning |
STRIKING |
| Tommy's gun, maybe |
STEN |
| Torment |
AGONY |
| Trigonometry ratio |
TANGENT |
| Turner or Eisenhower |
IKE |
| Unfathomably large numbers |
GOOGOLS |
| Word with ''worm'' or ''moth'' |
EATEN |
