| Less common |
RARER |
| Liquid in some batteries |
ACID |
| Longfellow's timid suitor |
ALDEN |
| Merest traces |
IOTAS |
| Mideast port |
GAZA |
| Minimally |
ABIT |
| More like slush |
SOGGIER |
| Narrow opening |
SLIT |
| Nautical speed measure |
KNOTS |
| Nonstandard negative |
AINT |
| Norwegian royal name |
OLAV |
| Nosy one |
SPIER |
| Nutrition measures |
GRAMS |
| Of bees |
APIAN |
| Olympics officials |
TIMERS |
| Online message |
TWEET |
| Only inanimate zodiac sign |
LIBRA |
| Orange Bowl's home |
FLORIDA |
| Oxen harness |
YOKE |
| Partner in crime |
CRONY |
| Perfumery compound |
ESTER |
| Poke fun at |
TEASE |
| Polio vaccine guy |
SABIN |
| Printed ''Teh,'' almost certainly |
TYPO |
| Racer of fable |
HARE |
| Raft wood |
BALSA |
| Regretful feeling |
TWINGE |
| Religious faction |
SECT |
| Reverberated |
RANG |
| Reverberates |
PEALS |
| Roadside offer |
HOPIN |
| Rogue |
RAPSCALLION |
| Ruckus |
ROW |
| Ruckus |
STIR |
| San Antonio landmark |
ALAMO |
| Satisfaction seekers |
AVENGERS |
| Sector |
ZONE |
| See 53 Down |
LINEN |
| Senator Hatch |
ORRIN |
| Serration |
NOTCH |
| Sign of seatlessness |
SRO |
| Sky blue, to Depardieu |
AZUR |
| Some sneakers |
REEBOKS |
| Some sneakers |
ADIDAS |
| Sounded harsh |
GRATED |
| Spoke in jest |
JOKED |
| Start of a supposed Louis XV line |
APRESMOI |
| Sudden light |
FLASH |
| Summing-up |
RECAP |
| Take short-term |
LEASE |
| Thing on a string |
KITE |
| Thing with strings |
MARIONETTE |
| Trailblazing |
PIONEERING |
| Try to convince |
URGE |
| Two-number stat |
RATIO |
| Venom, for instance |
TOXIN |
| Verbose |
WINDY |
| Very brave |
LIONHEARTED |
| Vietnam neighbor |
LAOS |
| Well-groomed |
NEAT |
| Went awry |
ERRED |
| Wet lowlands |
FENS |
| What a cuff covers |
WRIST |
| Where the blissful walk |
ONAIR |
| With 11 Down, fine dish-towel fabric |
IRISH |
| Words of commitment |
IDO |
| Wordsworth, for one |
ODIST |
| Wozniak in ''Steve Jobs'' |
ROGEN |
| WWII five-star general |
ARNOLD |
| __ Rupert Murdoch |
KEITH |
