| ''. . . against __ of troubles'': Shak |
ASEA |
| ''Chicago'' star |
GERE |
| ''Gil __'' (Lesage novel) |
BLAS |
| ''Situation Room'' airer |
CNN |
| ''Star Trek'' officer |
UHURA |
| ''Taming of the Shrew'' women, e.g |
PADUANS |
| ''Titanic'' director |
CAMERON |
| ''Washboard'' muscles |
ABS |
| '80s IBM products |
PCS |
| A whole bunch |
OODLES |
| Adds salt to, say |
SEASONS |
| Antedate |
PRECEDE |
| Antelope that sounds innovative |
GNU |
| Arizona flora |
CACTI |
| Artist's workshop |
ATELIER |
| ATM input |
PIN |
| Basketball target |
HOOP |
| Become less stern |
RELENT |
| Bedazzle |
STUN |
| Belly |
GUT |
| Bifocal's pair |
LENSES |
| Bring __ a replacement |
INAS |
| British composer Benjamin |
BRITTEN |
| Brooder's home |
NEST |
| Burning |
LIT |
| Buttress, with ''up'' |
PROP |
| By hook or by crook |
SOMEHOW |
| C, for C major |
KEYNOTE |
| California suffix for Angel |
ENO |
| Campaign button verb |
ELECT |
| Campus housing |
DORM |
| Carry through |
ACTON |
| Ceramists' ovens |
KILNS |
| Certain emailed image files |
PDFS |
| Cervantes (1,056 pages) |
DONQUIXOTEDELAMANCHA |
| Channel that once used VJs |
MTV |
| Chicken __ (kid's ailment) |
POX |
| Chooses to join |
OPTSIN |
| Common opening hr |
NINEAM |
| Conjectures |
GUESSES |
| Covert acquisition |
INTEL |
| Daytime ABC show |
GMA |
| Digital display |
READOUT |
| Director brothers' surname |
COEN |
| Disc-flipping game |
OTHELLO |
| Dumas (1,276 pages) |
THECOUNTOFMONTECRISTO |
| Easy chair |
LOUNGER |
| Elite crew |
ATEAM |
| Emit |
RADIATE |
| Enter en masse |
PILEIN |
| Era |
AGE |
| Erode |
EAT |
| Feathery scarf |
BOA |
| Fingertip protector |
THIMBLE |
| Flat hat |
TAM |
| Flight board stats: Abbr |
ETAS |
| Forecast stat |
TEMP |
| Former Russian space station |
MIR |
| Garden plot |
BED |
| General Bradley in ''Patton'' |
MALDEN |
| Genre of the Three Tenors |
POPERA |
| Gets serious |
SOBERS |
| Golden: Fr |
DOR |
| Hauled off the road |
TOWED |
| Help to develop |
FOSTER |
| Hindu wonder-worker |
FAQIR |
| Hugo (1,472 pages) |
LESMISERABLES |
| If all else fails |
ATWORST |
| Ill-gotten gains |
PELFS |
| Interweave |
BRAID |
| Irritants |
PESTS |
