| Like an illustrator's fingertips, maybe |
INKSTAINED |
| Longtime film rating org |
MPAA |
| Lower-priced edition of a book |
BACK |
| Lunch carrier, often |
BAG |
| Major attack |
BROADSIDE |
| Make less tight, as a waistband |
LETOUT |
| Mediterranean appetizer |
MEZE |
| Microwave |
NUKE |
| Milk sources for feta cheese |
EWES |
| Minor injury for an office clerk |
CUT |
| Mtn. measure |
ALT |
| Musical riffing from Ella Fitzgerald |
SCAT |
| Need for a sobfest |
TISSUE |
| Ninny |
TWIT |
| Number on a yarn skein |
DYELOT |
| Old-fashioned newsboy's assignment |
ROUTE |
| One making empty threats |
TIGER |
| One of 10 when one 'hangs ten' |
TOE |
| Otherwise |
ELSE |
| Philosopher who posited that the simplest explanation is the most likely one |
OCCAM |
| Primer libro del Nuevo Testamento |
MATEO |
| Result of whiplash, maybe |
SORENECK |
| Series of documents that trace a path, as suggested by this puzzle |
PAPERTRAIL |
| Serum vessel |
VIAL |
| Some Japanese luxury cars |
LEXUSES |
| Something soft to sit on |
MOSS |
| Something that's 'true whether or not you believe in it,' per Neil deGrasse Tyson |
SCIENCE |
| Start for the Top 40 song titles 'Sixteen,' 'Time' and 'You' |
ONLY |
| Tests |
TRIALS |
| The Pequod and others |
WHALEBOATS |
| They: Fr |
ILS |
| Tongue ties? |
LACES |
| Toy with tabs and interchangeable outfits |
DOLL |
| University of New Mexico mascot |
LOBO |
| What's aft a ship's aft |
WAKE |
| Whole load |
TON |
| Writer Carolyn, the pen name of more than 10 authors of the Nancy Drew series |
KEENE |
| ___-slipper |
LADYS |