| Measures of loudness |
SONES |
| Monster relative |
OGRE |
| Mrs. Garrett portrayer |
RAE |
| Night before |
EVE |
| Note-passer's sound |
PSST |
| Official emissary |
LEGATE |
| Open-handed blow |
SLAP |
| Opera performance |
ARIA |
| Part of us |
YOU |
| Permission for a search |
WARRANT |
| Piano variety |
SPINET |
| Picky start to pick? |
NIT |
| Plot of some horror films |
NIGHTINTHEWOODS |
| Poem form |
ODE |
| Prairie wagon |
CONESTOGA |
| Quisling's place |
OSLO |
| Raves angrily |
RAGES |
| Relative of 31-Down |
ENOS |
| Romantically lit |
AGLOW |
| Russell of Hollywood |
KURT |
| Self-evident statements |
TRUISMS |
| Separate |
APART |
| Shakespearean king |
LEAR |
| Shout over a dirty plate |
SAFE |
| Sit for a shoot |
POSE |
| Soldier's helmet, slangy |
TINHAT |
| Sport on horseback |
POLO |
| Storm warning |
ALERT |
| Suffix with "velvet" |
EEN |
| Take five or ten |
REST |
| The late, great Aretha's music |
SOUL |
| Tilling tools |
HOES |
| Tuskegee, for one (Abbr.) |
INST |
| Wait in the shadows |
LURK |
| Waterproofed canvas |
TARPAULIN |
| Wee barks |
YIPS |
| Worker's anticipatory time |
FRIDAYAFTERNOON |
| Writers of poetry |
VERSERS |