| It's most useful when it's cracked |
WHIP |
| It's mostly nonsensical syllables |
BABYTALK |
| Job perk |
FRINGEBENEFIT |
| Lady bighorns |
EWES |
| Last word of Handel's ''Messiah'' |
AMEN |
| Lennon's love |
ONO |
| Looped freeway interchange |
CLOVERLEAF |
| Material for a fiery sermon? |
BRIMSTONE |
| Materialize |
EMERGE |
| Mixologist's staple |
OLIVE |
| Mountainous area of Austria (Var.) |
TYROL |
| Nuisance of a task |
CHORE |
| Olympics feature |
FLAME |
| One of the Original Kings of Comedy |
MAC |
| Pigment from cuttlefish |
SEPIA |
| Ring exchange? |
JABS |
| Saccharine |
SWEET |
| Saturday-night special, e.g. |
PIECE |
| Seize suddenly |
NAB |
| Shining |
AGLOW |
| Shout to a hiccuper |
BOO |
| Slant, as to a specific audience |
SKEW |
| Spendthrift's comeuppance |
DEBTS |
| Stage curtain, e.g. |
BACKDROP |
| Start of something big? |
MEGA |
| Started |
BEGUN |
| Suddenly prosperous community |
BOOMTOWN |
| Supporting structure |
FRAMEWORK |
| The band's here |
RINGFINGER |
| The Magi, e.g. |
TRIO |
| Thing that shrinks when inflated? |
DOLLAR |
| Tribe once found around Buffalo |
ERIE |
| Weekend warrior's woe |
ACHE |
| Where Casey was |
ATBAT |
| Word in many songs sung in December |
SNOW |
| Word with ''of all people'' |
YOU |
| Word with ''turn'' or ''memory'' |
LANE |
| Works in frames |
ART |
| Wrench features |
JAWS |
