| Homage in verse |
ODE |
| Hothead's emotion |
IRE |
| Installs, as a new senator |
SEATS |
| It's often merit-based |
RAISE |
| Jousters' contest |
TILT |
| Liquor in some gimlets |
GIN |
| Many a microbrew |
ALE |
| Marsh gas, essentially |
METHANE |
| MASH bed |
COT |
| Month with the longest day |
JUNE |
| Moral code |
ETHOS |
| Morn's opposite |
EVE |
| Nickname for TV host O'Brien |
COCO |
| Over-the-top Kentucky Derby wear |
HATS |
| PC key with an arrow |
ENTER |
| Pitcher's number, in baseball shorthand |
ONE |
| Polly and Em of literature |
AUNTS |
| Prepare, as leftovers |
REHEAT |
| Prior to, poetically |
ERE |
| Private's denial |
NOSIR |
| Promising forecast for a cookout |
FAIRWEATHER |
| Roy G. Biv hue |
VIOLET |
| Same old, same old routines |
RUTS |
| Shows curiosity |
ASKS |
| Smooth, like 007 |
SUAVE |
| Sound at a shearing |
BAA |
| Spill hot coffee on, say |
SCALD |
| Tell it like it isn't |
LIE |
| Thanksgiving side dish |
YAMS |
| The Home Depot competitor |
LOWES |
| Tool with jaws |
VISE |
| Track transaction |
WAGER |
| Travel like Amelia Earhart |
AVIATE |
| Vandalized on Halloween, perhaps |
EGGED |
| Vessels in angiograms |
AORTAS |
| West Coast NBA player |
LALAKER |
| Whips up |
CREATES |
| Word before Sea or Square |
RED |
| Yo-Yo Ma's instrument |
CELLO |
