| Lord's Prayer opening |
OUR |
| Low card in a royal flush |
TEN |
| Low point |
NADIR |
| Macramé elements |
KNOTS |
| Major retail operation |
CHAIN |
| Make adjustments to |
ALTER |
| Makes amends |
ATONES |
| Michelangelo masterpiece |
DAVID |
| Minor misstatement |
FIB |
| Mormon priest |
ELDER |
| Narrow escape |
SCARE |
| Nation on the Red Sea |
ISRAEL |
| Night school subj |
ESL |
| Norman Rockwell's painter neighbor |
GRANDMAMOSES |
| Northern end of the Appalachian Trail |
MAINE |
| Not much of a challenge |
EASY |
| Novelist Deighton |
LEN |
| Of birds |
AVIAN |
| Org. for top drivers |
PGA |
| Palm fruit |
DATE |
| Part of a simplicity simile |
ABC |
| Part of UNLV |
LAS |
| Pay out |
EXPEND |
| Pep rally shout |
YAYTEAM |
| Personal quirk |
TIC |
| Pithy saying |
ADAGE |
| Portable water source |
CANTEEN |
| Postgraduate's project |
THESIS |
| Repetitive practice |
DRILL |
| Rockies resort |
ASPEN |
| Rope on the range |
LASSO |
| Salt __ (recipe instruction) |
TOTASTE |
| Savory stimulus |
ODOR |
| Seaport structure |
DOCK |
| Sidekick |
PAL |
| Small ''número'' |
UNO |
| Small musical ensembles |
DUOS |
| Small, sweet sandwich |
OREO |
| Sneaker sole pattern |
TREAD |
| Something in water or holding water |
VESSEL |
| Song superstar |
ARIANAGRANDE |
| Soon, in verse |
ANON |
| Soul singer Baker |
ANITA |
| Soup can artist |
ANDYWARHOL |
| Spot of land in the ocean |
ISLE |
| Spring zodiac sign |
ARIES |
| Subject in English class |
NOUN |
| Summer hours in Md |
EDT |
| Take the role of |
PLAY |
| Talk big |
BOAST |
| Tennis great Steffi |
GRAF |
| The Big Easy alias |
NOLA |
| Theater path |
AISLE |
| Tibet's capital |
LHASA |
| Trial software |
BETAS |
| Trident competitor |
DENTYNE |
| TV actress Falco |
EDIE |
| Type of high-rise dwelling |
CONDO |
| Unpredictable |
ERRATIC |
| Very pale |
ASHEN |
| Vigorous |
BRISK |
| Western writer Bret |
HARTE |
| What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
AND |
| Wildlife protector |
WARDEN |
| Wind instruments |
OBOES |
| With a candlelike feel |
WAXY |
| Without exception |
ALWAYS |
| Wizard's concoction |
POTION |
| Works with acetylene |
WELDS |
| __ monster (Southwestern lizard) |
GILA |
| __ nous (confidentially) |
ENTRE |
| __' Pea (''Popeye'' infant) |
SWEE |
| __-mo replay |
SLO |
