| Letters on some American naval vessels |
USS |
| Long-bodied fish |
EEL |
| Male buddy |
BRO |
| Manage to dodge |
EVADE |
| Many an Eastern European |
SLAV |
| Many I.C.U. workers |
RNS |
| Modern viewing for couch potatoes |
HDTV |
| Morse code O's have three of them |
DASHES |
| Mountains seen in 'The Sound of Music' |
ALPS |
| Nigerian princes offering you money, probably |
LIARS |
| Observe Ramadan |
FAST |
| Opt for |
SELECT |
| Othello, e.g |
MOOR |
| Painful to the touch |
SORE |
| Piper's son who stole a pig in a nursery rhyme |
TOM |
| Place to set a baby or a napkin |
LAP |
| Pointless |
OFNOUSE |
| Prefix with plasm |
ECTO |
| Prepare to take, as a test |
STUDYFOR |
| Pretend |
FEIGN |
| Process of childbirth |
LABOR |
| Puts into categories |
SORTS |
| Rational selves, to Freud |
EGOS |
| Ready to take home, as groceries |
BAGGED |
| Reduce one's standards, as illustrated, respectively, in 3-, 5-, 7-, 40- and 28-Down |
LOWERTHEBAR |
| School grp. for moms and dads |
PTA |
| Scrabble or Monopoly |
BOARDGAME |
| Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna |
EXES |
| Set on fire |
BURN |
| Shortened word, for short |
ABBR |
| Smallest possible amount |
BAREMINIMUM |
| Spoonful of medicine, e.g |
DOSE |
| Statement of affirmation |
AVOWAL |
| Syncopated Latin dances |
SAMBAS |
| Tennis great Roddick |
ANDY |
| Vestige |
TRACE |
| W.W. I fighter pilot who is Snoopy's fantasy opponent |
REDBARON |
| World ___ of Poker |
SERIES |
| ___ milk (source of Roquefort cheese) |
EWES |