| Made a grand entrance? |
BURSTONTHESCENE |
| Man with a mission? |
ABBOT |
| Mantel pieces |
TROPHIES |
| Marathoner's burden |
HILL |
| Mideast muck-a-muck |
AGHA |
| Midway alternative |
OHARE |
| More convenient |
NEARER |
| More unusual |
ODDER |
| Mother of Calcutta |
TERESA |
| Oliver and Jay |
NORTHS |
| One who takes too much interest in his work? |
USURER |
| Oodles |
ALOT |
| Oxidizes |
RUSTS |
| Parched |
SERE |
| Part of a chain |
LINK |
| Patronize a diner |
EAT |
| Pentagon personnel |
BRASS |
| Phrase of denial |
NOTI |
| Picard's counselor |
TROI |
| Pigment-deficient animal |
ALBINO |
| Pole to extend a sail |
SPRIT |
| Porcine replies |
OINKS |
| Prayer |
ORISON |
| Prepare eggs, in a way |
SHIRR |
| Prepare for romance, in a way |
DIMTHELIGHTS |
| Prepares (for) |
SETSTHESTAGE |
| Prevailed |
WON |
| Primitive homes |
STRAWHUTS |
| Printing proof |
REPRO |
| Prom corsage, often |
ORCHID |
| Public persona |
IMAGE |
| Refrain from naughtiness |
BEHAVE |
| Related to a soft palate projection |
UVULAR |
| Resign (with ''down'') |
STEP |
| Retailer with a fashion show (with ''Secret'') |
VICTORIAS |
| Rustler's rope |
LASSO |
| Ruth's mother-in-law |
NAOMI |
| Rwanda native |
HUTU |
| Shape of many six-sided rooms |
ELL |
| Shin bone |
TIBIA |
| Silk Road continent |
ASIA |
| Smaller amount |
LESS |
| Snappy comeback |
RETORT |
| Sounded like a new engine |
PURRED |
| Spanish fortress |
PRESIDIO |
| Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century |
ALI |
| Squealing rooter |
PIG |
| Stone size |
CARAT |
| Supersecretive government org. |
NSA |
| T.S. Eliot's favorite animal? |
CAT |
| Take for granted |
ASSUME |
| Test format, sometimes |
ESSAY |
| The Great and Little Bear, collectively |
URSAS |
| The Swedish Nightingale |
LIND |
| Thinker Descartes |
RENE |
| Tiger sound |
ROAR |
| Tire gauge reading (Abbr.) |
PSI |
| To be specific |
NAMELY |
| Turpentine, e.g. |
THINNER |
| TV sleuth Peter |
GUNN |
| Tweeter output |
TREBLE |
| Two on a music scale |
REMI |
| Underwater electricity source |
EEL |
| Undulating |
WAVY |
| Unsightly bump |
WART |
| Urban vermin |
RAT |
| Wade opponent |
ROE |
| Walk impeded by an injury |
HOBBLE |
| Was in charge of |
RAN |
| Whale type |
PILOT |
| Whale vs. bounty hunter flick |
ORCA |
| Winter Palace VIP |
TSAR |
| Word in a Bogart film title |
SIERRA |
| Writing on the wall |
OMEN |
| Yank's Civil War foe |
REB |
| ___ Mawr, Pa. |
BRYN |
| ___ out a living (barely making do) |
EKING |
