| It may be at the end of one's rope |
NOOSE |
| Jong who wrote 'Fear of Flying' |
ERICA |
| Leave in financial difficulty |
STRAP |
| Like a lot |
GOFOR |
| Like boorish behavior |
TACTLESS |
| Like cartoons on the editorial page |
POLITICAL |
| Long of 'Alfie,' 2004 |
NIA |
| Marsupial with a grasping tail |
OPOSSUM |
| Marx with a curly wig |
HARPO |
| Mecca native |
SAUDI |
| Merino mothers |
EWES |
| Mixed martial arts cage shape |
OCTAGON |
| Nudge rudely |
ELBOW |
| Obama's stepfather ___ Soetoro |
LOLO |
| One doing a locker room interview |
SPORTSREPORTER |
| Place to board a bus or train |
DEPOT |
| Places for channel surfers |
SOFAS |
| Pre-1917 autocrats |
TSARS |
| Relative of a dolphin |
PORPOISE |
| Rx items |
MEDS |
| Salk vaccine target |
POLIO |
| Scroogian exclamation |
BAH |
| Self-important, as an ass |
POMPOUS |
| Something to keep in a band? |
TEMPO |
| Soviet labor camp |
GULAG |
| Still competitive |
INIT |
| Summoned, as a butler |
RANG |
| Survey |
POLL |
| Take a load off |
SIT |
| Taken in tablet form, say |
ORAL |
| Talk trash about |
BASH |
| Tandoor-baked bread |
NAAN |
| Ultraliberals, to ultraconservatives |
POLAROPPOSITES |
| Underworld boss |
CAPO |
| Underworld boss? |
SATAN |
| Woman's erogenous zone |
GSPOT |
| Work with a plow |
TILL |
| ___ Clooney, human rights lawyer |
AMAL |
| ___-friendly |
USER |
