| Lone Star State capital |
AUSTIN |
| Lunchbox closure |
CLASP |
| Make blank |
ERASE |
| Mine extraction |
ORE |
| Mint family herb |
BASIL |
| Music's Lena |
HORNE |
| Night spot |
BED |
| On this spot |
HERE |
| Paparazzi target |
CELEB |
| Perfumery product |
SCENT |
| Pioneering automaker Ransom |
OLDS |
| Pitcher's stat |
ERA |
| Racing's Earnhardt |
DALE |
| Reached a peak, with 'out' |
MAXED |
| Sax type |
ALTO |
| Scoffing sound |
SNORT |
| Simple question type |
YESNO |
| Slip up |
ERR |
| Slow and stately |
LARGO |
| Smoked salmon |
LOX |
| Some museum workers |
RESTORERS |
| Speckled horse |
ROAN |
| Sprang |
LEAPT |
| Stage comment |
ASIDE |
| Steer clear of |
ELUDE |
| Stoolie |
RAT |
| Student's papers |
ESSAYS |
| Swedes' neighbors |
DANES |
| Synthetic fabric |
ORLON |
| Talk idly |
NATTER |
| Tea in China |
CHA |
| They may be weighed against pros |
CONS |
| Thick juice |
NECTAR |
| Violin great Itzhak |
PERLMAN |
| Western, facetiously |
OATER |
| Wheat whackers |
SCYTHES |
| Wolfish activity |
OGLING |
| Work whose second edition contains 59 million wds |
OED |
