| Helps out |
AIDS |
| Hullabaloo |
HOOPLA |
| Labor |
WORK |
| Limerick or ode |
POEM |
| Literary device |
IRONY |
| Long-distance specialist |
MILER |
| Luke Skywalker's twin |
LEIA |
| Merman of Broadway |
ETHEL |
| Minty drinks |
JULEPS |
| Needing a massage |
SORE |
| Offend the nose |
STINK |
| Othello's foe |
IAGO |
| Poet Sandburg |
CARL |
| Price rise |
HIKE |
| Prize-filled target |
PINATA |
| Pumpernickel alternative |
RYE |
| Ques. partner |
ANS |
| Reproving sounds |
TUTS |
| RI clock setting |
EST |
| River through Alaska |
YUKON |
| Satirical piece |
SPOOF |
| Sayers sleuth |
LORDPETERWIMSEY |
| Scott of ''Happy Days'' |
BAIO |
| Sealy rival |
SERTA |
| Singer Redding |
OTIS |
| Slant |
BIAS |
| Soda seen on ''M*A*S*H'' |
NEHI |
| Some golf tournaments |
OPENS |
| Spice mixture, in Indian cookery |
MASALA |
| Steer clear of |
SHUN |
| Ultimatum word |
ELSE |
| Uncool one |
DWEEB |
| Upper regions |
SKIES |
| Utah city |
OREM |
| Verbal fanfare |
TADA |
| Where hacks wait |
CABSTAND |
| Woodwind instrument |
OBOE |
| __ apso |
LHASA |