| Long fishes |
EELS |
| Low-carb diet |
KETO |
| Messy person |
SLOB |
| Name that's another name backward |
IRA |
| Narrow cut |
SLIT |
| Norah O'Donnell delivers it |
NEWS |
| Overplay the scene |
EMOTE |
| Part of a rosary |
BEAD |
| Party, from the French |
FETE |
| Periscope glass |
LENS |
| Piece that gets checkmated |
KING |
| Place to get a pastrami sandwich |
DELI |
| Playful river mammal |
OTTER |
| Polka ___ (fabric pattern) |
DOTS |
| Prof's aides |
TAS |
| Puerto ___ |
RICO |
| Really dark |
PITCHBLACK |
| Really impresses |
AWES |
| Seeming valid |
HOLDINGWATER |
| Show joy or sorrow |
CRY |
| Skewer for roasting |
SPIT |
| Smug grin |
SMIRK |
| Snacks |
NOSHES |
| Snapshots, for short |
PICS |
| Sniff out |
DETECT |
| Someone frequently returning to a cobbler might have one |
SWEETTOOTH |
| Song at a 50-year reunion, probably |
OLDIE |
| Suffix for seven country names |
STAN |
| Tailed celestial body |
COMET |
| Tapering structure on a church |
SPIRE |
| Teensy amount of liquid |
DROP |
| The Polar Express, e.g |
TRAIN |
| They blink and wink |
EYES |
| Twelfth graders (Abbr.) |
SRS |
| Use a QR code reader on |
SCAN |
| Weaving device |
LOOM |
| Within ___ (close by) |
REACH |
| Zuma in 'Paw Patrol,' for one |
CHOCOLATELAB |
| ___ out (allots) |
DOLES |