| Less cheery, to a Brit |
GREYER |
| Mag staffers |
EDS |
| Major- -- (butler) |
DOMO |
| Make at work |
EARN |
| Make dirty by trailing through mud |
DRAGGLE |
| Materialize |
APPEAR |
| Mil. enlistees |
GIS |
| Moored ship used as lodging |
BOATEL |
| More twisted, as humor |
WRIER |
| Most quickly |
SOONEST |
| Mrs. monster |
OGRESS |
| Muse of hymns |
ERATO |
| Musical clicker |
CASTANET |
| Nasty fish |
PIRANHA |
| Neighbor of Ethiopia |
SUDAN |
| Neighbor of Kenya |
UGANDA |
| Norse deity |
ODIN |
| Notion, to Henri |
IDEE |
| Octa- minus seven |
UNI |
| Octa- plus two |
DECA |
| Of the eyes |
OPTIC |
| One stealing a serpent? |
SNAKETHIEF |
| Opera parts |
ACTS |
| Opt for |
PICK |
| Outward appearance |
MIEN |
| Pare down |
PRUNE |
| Part in a play |
ROLE |
| Phil who had a talk show |
DONAHUE |
| Pinniped pedestrian? |
SIDEWALKSEAL |
| Points where rays meet |
FOCI |
| Politico Cruz |
TED |
| Popeye's Olive |
OYL |
| Praise highly |
EXTOL |
| Really peeve |
RILE |
| Region of old Greece |
IONIA |
| Reporter, colloquially |
NEWSIE |
| Retail (for) |
SELL |
| Rome-to-Vienna dir |
NNE |
| Running shoe brand |
ETONIC |
| Sequoia, e.g |
TREE |
| Sequoia, e.g |
SUV |
| Served in blazing brandy |
FLAMBE |
| Seven-Emmy Ed |
ASNER |
| Show open disdain for |
SNEERAT |
| Singer Andy |
GIBB |
| Singer doing a vocal quaver |
TRILLER |
| Slender, like stags tend to be? |
THINASADEER |
| Slow -- snail |
ASA |
| Steed native to the Garden State? |
JERSEYHORSE |
| Stephen of 'Still Crazy' |
REA |
| Suit jacket |
COAT |
| Tales of old |
LORE |
| Terminate |
CEASE |
| That vessel |
SHE |
| The absolute best burrowing rodent? |
NOGREATERVOLE |
| The same, to Henri |
EGAL |
| Thus |
ERGO |
| Time period of interest |
ERA |
| Tiny, to tots |
ITSY |
| Toby brews |
ALES |
| Totally fill |
SATE |
| Trample |
TREAD |
| Varnish stuff |
RESIN |
| Verdi opera |
AIDA |
| Vim |
PEP |
| Vital artery |
AORTA |
| Wee toddler |
BABY |
| Went lower |
FELL |
| Wicked things |
EVILS |
| Wimple wearers |
NUNS |
| Windshield-attached recorder |
DASHCAM |
| Yemen port |
ADEN |
| Young sheep from an ancient Palestinian region? |
LAMBOFGILEAD |