| Minor player |
COG |
| Missions, for short |
OPS |
| Non-starter |
SUB |
| Not a fancy place |
BRASSERIE |
| Not sweet |
SEC |
| Notes that are passed around 21 months |
ONES |
| Nyasaland, today |
MALAWI |
| Obsession |
MANIA |
| One of five popes |
STLEO |
| One of Massachusetts' state symbols |
ELM |
| Pains in the neck |
PILLS |
| Painter's accessory |
TARP |
| Part of IBM |
INTL |
| Party food |
EDAMS |
| Places for 47 Across |
ERS |
| Printing supply |
LASERTONER |
| Rush |
STEPONIT |
| Salad ingredient, perhaps |
MELONBALL |
| Salary reducer |
FICA |
| Salts and dries |
CURES |
| Short stories |
ANECDOTES |
| Small scrap |
SPAT |
| Spicy cuisine |
HUNAN |
| Spoonerizing toon |
DOC |
| Start |
GITGO |
| Strange |
NEW |
| Temple reading |
TORAH |
| Test requesters: Abbr. |
DRS |
| Thatch remover |
RAKE |
| They seldom mix |
INERTGASES |
| Tin/lead product |
SOLDER |
| Usher's destination, at times |
PEW |
| War story |
ILIAD |
| What to see at the Pompidou Centre |
MODERNART |
| While away |
INABSENTIA |
| Word from the Jamaican for ''bend'' |
LIMBO |