| Kentucky Derby month |
MAY |
| Keyboard key |
END |
| Landlord, e.g. |
LESSOR |
| Nail-file material |
EMERY |
| Nerve impulse transmitter |
AXON |
| Offer lessons |
TEACH |
| Oil-producers' org. |
OPEC |
| Old Scratch |
DEVIL |
| On the double, poetically |
APACE |
| One end of a battery |
ANODE |
| Pack down |
TAMP |
| Part of a Cartesian declaration |
ERGO |
| Pliny the ___ |
ELDER |
| Poetic Muse |
ERATO |
| Rabbit's features |
EARS |
| Rainbow curves |
ARCS |
| Rocky hill |
TOR |
| Some catcalls from the stands |
BOOS |
| Some dash gauges |
TACHS |
| Space race goal |
MOON |
| Stabilizing |
STEADYING |
| Standing ovation, e.g. |
ECLAT |
| Start of a bedtime story |
ONCE |
| Stave off |
AVERT |
| Support person |
AIDER |
| Tech-heavy stock exchange |
NASDAQ |
| Tennessee state bloom |
IRIS |
| The two in a twenty |
TENS |
| Thick vine |
LIANA |
| Touch of color |
TINCT |
| Type of ad |
PROMO |
| Verdi baritone aria |
ERITU |
| War whoops |
YELLS |
| What a coach driver holds |
REIN |
| Wild man of the Himalayas |
YETI |
| Without ___ (totally lost) |
ACLUE |
| ___ fide (authentic) |
BONA |
| ___ Heel State (North Carolina) |
TAR |
