| Macaroni or ziti |
PASTA |
| Major airports |
HUBS |
| Make less tight |
LOOSEN |
| Messy pile |
HEAP |
| Money |
CASH |
| Motel room cleaner |
MAID |
| Needing a rest |
TIRED |
| No later than |
UNTIL |
| Norway's capital |
OSLO |
| Not full-grown |
IMMATURE |
| Obtains |
GETS |
| Open, as shoelaces |
UNTIE |
| Opinion piece |
ESSAY |
| Parakeet food |
SEED |
| Poems of praise |
ODES |
| Pointy New York Harbor landmark |
STATUEOFLIBERTY |
| Pointy Swiss Alp |
MATTERHORN |
| Pointy Sydney concert venue |
OPERAHOUSE |
| Previously owned |
USED |
| Raggedy doll |
ANN |
| Residence |
HOME |
| Ridesharing rival of Lyft |
UBER |
| River-mouth formations |
DELTAS |
| Shopper's splurging trip |
SPREE |
| Solicit, as new business |
DRUMUP |
| Sufficient |
ENOUGH |
| Taj Mahal's country |
INDIA |
| Tedious speaker |
BORE |
| Throw with force |
FLING |
| Traffic tie-up |
SNARL |
| Typical Saudis |
ARABS |
| Very funny person |
RIOT |
| Walk leisurely |
AMBLE |
| Whole bunch |
SLEW |
| Woodwind instrument |
OBOE |
| __ Baba (Arabian Nights hero) |
ALI |
| __ Jima (WWII battle) |
IWO |
| __ Major (Big Dipper's constellation) |
URSA |
| __ mater (alumni's school) |
ALMA |