| Lively piano tunes |
RAGS |
| Malaria symptom |
AGUE |
| Mississippi feature |
LEVEE |
| Native Saudi |
ARAB |
| One for the books? |
PAGE |
| One who hems but doesn't haw |
TAILOR |
| Perceived as fact |
KNEW |
| Pink, to a chef |
RARE |
| Place for hurdles |
OBSTACLECOURSE |
| Place where there might be a mess |
HALL |
| Pleasing to the eye |
LOVELY |
| Popular card game |
SKAT |
| Post-snowfall tool |
SHOVEL |
| Robert Penn Warren's ''All the King's ___'' |
MEN |
| Roman who recorded mythology |
OVID |
| Rope with a slipknot |
RIATA |
| Ruffle feathers |
RILE |
| Sail-extending pole |
SPRIT |
| Salad ingredient, perhaps |
CUCUMBER |
| Scandinavian capital |
OSLO |
| Sicilian rumbler |
ETNA |
| Single-masted sailing vessel |
CUTTER |
| Sis-boom-bahs |
RAHS |
| Stephen King novel |
CUJO |
| Taps players |
BUGLERS |
| Tell it like it isn't |
LIE |
| The Maldives are part of it |
ASIA |
| The sun, moon and planets, e.g. |
ORBS |
| The Three Tenors, e.g. |
TRIO |
| Tippy transport? |
CANOE |
| Traffic-jam cause |
BOTTLENECK |
| Tuscan river |
ARNO |
| Unwritten test |
ORAL |
| Valuable rock |
ORE |
| Vampire's undoing |
DAYLIGHT |
| Wanton once-over |
OGLE |
| When to say ''Nighty-night'' |
BEDTIME |
| Woman in some Sherlock Holmes stories |
IRENE |
| Word in some temperature readings |
BELOW |