| ''Bye, bye, ___ American Pie ...'' |
MISS |
| ''Get your hands off me!'' |
HEY |
| ''I'm in'' indicator |
ANTE |
| ''In memoriam'' items |
OBITS |
| ''The Audacity of ___'' |
HOPE |
| ''What's your sine?'' subj. |
TRIG |
| Altar end of a church |
APSE |
| Antler feature |
PRONG |
| Applying to ears |
OTIC |
| Argentine plain |
LLANO |
| Arranged, as Christmas lights |
STRUNG |
| Atlantic Coast dweller |
EASTERNER |
| Awkward brutes |
LOUTS |
| Baby newts |
EFTS |
| Backs of necks |
NAPES |
| Banshee's sounds |
WAILS |
| Baptisms by fire |
ORDEALS |
| Big name in lawn care |
ORTHO |
| Bodies of water numbering seven |
SEAS |
| British pens |
GAOLS |
| Broom type |
WHISK |
| Captain's charge |
BOAT |
| Chaplin contemporary |
LLOYD |
| Cliffside home |
AERIE |
| Cougar's color |
TAWNY |
| Courtship participant |
WOOER |
| Creme-centered snack |
OREO |
| Dark black hardwood |
EBONY |
| Didi who played Frenchy in ''Grease'' |
CONN |
| Elementary |
BASIC |
| Exaggerator's suffix |
EST |
| Fling with effort |
HEAVE |
| Giving it another go |
RETRYING |
| Go over old news |
REHASH |
| Got smart (with ''up'') |
WISED |
| Greeting to Brutus |
AVE |
| Grocery stores |
PANTRIES |
| Has no landlord, say |
OWNS |