| Obligated |
LIABLE |
| Part of "FWIW" |
WORTH |
| Pertaining to the weeks before Easter |
LENTEN |
| Pick pockets |
ROB |
| Plant and animal life |
BIOTA |
| Played cat and mouse (with) |
TOYED |
| Primordial mud |
SLIME |
| Qaboos bin Said, e.g. |
OMANI |
| Reduced in intensity |
ABATED |
| Relatively cool red giant of astronomy |
DSTAR |
| Royal crowns |
DIADEMS |
| Runner Sebastian |
COE |
| Sleep-inducing drug |
OPIATE |
| Soup scoopers |
SPOONS |
| Spain's Costa del ___ |
SOL |
| Starchy food obtained from palms |
SAGO |
| State in India |
ASSAM |
| Strong forward flow |
ONRUSH |
| Sweet-smelling compound |
ESTER |
| Three points in a row |
ELLIPSIS |
| To the ___ degree |
NTH |
| Tournament type |
OPEN |
| Tried tripe |
ATE |
| U.S. spy group |
CIA |
| Underscores |
STRESSES |
| United Nations agency (Abbr.) |
ILO |
| Unsophisticated sort |
RUBE |
| Used an aerosol can |
SPRAYED |
| Utopia of Genesis |
EDEN |
| Virgil's 12-book epic |
AENEID |
| Vowel sound of "bite" |
LONGI |
| Waits patiently |
ABIDES |
| Wear and tear |
USE |
| William Cody's nickname |
BUFFALOBILL |
| Work on a stubborn squeaker |
REOIL |
| Yours truly, facetiously |
MOI |
| ___ Aviv |
TEL |
| ___ Bingle (Crosby nickname) |
DER |
