| Needing straightening |
MESSY |
| Not playing today |
IDLE |
| Orangutan, for one |
APE |
| Performed a duet |
SANG |
| Place to graze |
LEA |
| Possible reply to ''You think so?'' |
IDO |
| Pottery supply |
CLAY |
| Preliminary races |
HEATS |
| Probability stats |
ODDS |
| Ready for business |
OPEN |
| Ready to bite into |
RIPE |
| Revealed, as one's feelings |
LAIDBARE |
| Round of applause |
HAND |
| Royal topper |
CROWN |
| Salty waters |
SEAS |
| Sap of strength |
ENERVATE |
| Scot's topper |
TAM |
| Sheep in quantity |
HERD |
| Sign of the ram |
ARIES |
| Slender |
SLIM |
| Splinter group |
SECT |
| Stared at |
OGLED |
| Strong craving |
YEN |
| Susan Sarandon's monogram |
ESSES |
| Take a lease |
RENT |
| Take a spouse |
WED |
| They're needed for pouting |
LIPS |
| Thrown in |
ADDED |
| Tinseltown trophies |
OSCARS |
| Two-element semiconductor |
DIODE |
| Uncouth |
RUDE |
| Unhip one |
NERD |
| Very hard to find |
RARE |
| What one may call a queen |
MAAM |
| With sore muscles |
ACHY |
| Work on another's manuscript |
EDIT |
| Wouk's mutinied ship |
CAINE |
| Zealous |
AVID |
| [see other side] |
OVER |
