| Not to be messed with |
TESTY |
| Not up to the task |
INEPT |
| Obsession |
BUG |
| Of a certain network |
NEURAL |
| Oil company, in Wall Street slang |
PETE |
| One at hard labor |
DRUDGE |
| One's thing |
BAG |
| Part of many an Open |
PROAM |
| Patent |
CRYSTALCLEAR |
| Peanut-butter holder, perhaps |
RYETOAST |
| Physicist's ultrahigh-temperature state |
QUARKSOUP |
| Plywood source |
FIR |
| Portal released the same day as Windows 95 |
MSN |
| Race that gets dirty |
MUDRUN |
| Rather good |
BPLUS |
| Real thing |
ENTITY |
| Ribbon-like copper support |
RESTRIP |
| Second word of an ephemerality adage |
TODAY |
| Senior partner |
PROMDATE |
| Sheba's locale, today |
YEMEN |
| Sizes up |
GAUGES |
| Snow __ |
PEA |
| Sound from a squeaky toy |
YIP |
| Squeeze, fold and stretch |
KNEAD |
| Stars in the sky |
AIRACES |
| State-certification designation |
EMT |
| Subject to strain |
TRY |
| They now sport ''We the People'' |
TENS |
| Traded digs |
SPARRED |
| Typical carry-on |
ONESUITER |
| Warms up (to) |
COTTONS |
| What an ATM needs to know |
AMT |
| Woozy |
AREEL |
| Word from the Greek for ''point'' |
ACME |
| Word on the Asian nation list |
SRI |
| World's richest man, per Guinness |
GETTY |