| Like a lot, perhaps |
AUCTIONED |
| Main point |
THRUST |
| Marimba mallet material |
RATTAN |
| Murphy, per O'Toole's Corollary |
OPTIMIST |
| Not as practical |
DREAMIER |
| Not for here |
TOGO |
| Odin's wife in 2011's ''Thor'' |
RENERUSSO |
| Of rest |
SABBATIC |
| Ottoman conquest of 1458 |
ATHENS |
| Peace Nobelist after Anwar and Menachem |
TERESA |
| Plenty of nothing |
GOOSEEGGS |
| Proteus, e.g |
SEAGOD |
| Realize |
NET |
| Salon offerings |
ARTSONGS |
| Second-string players? |
CHARACTERACTORS |
| Serving and protecting |
ONPATROL |
| Shakespearean title character |
CRESSIDA |
| Ship in a Longfellow poem |
HESPERUS |
| Sound effect |
REVERB |
| Spousal __ |
IRA |
| Stimulus |
CUE |
| Suit tag letters |
REG |
| Tchaikovsky's ''Souvenir de Florence,'' e.g |
SEXTET |
| The least bit of concern |
HOOT |
| Took in |
ATE |
| Tot's coat attachment |
MITTEN |
| Tried |
HADAGO |
| US stamp series subject of 1945-46 |
FDR |
| Venerable boarding school |
ETON |
| Video category |
ANIME |
| Waited |
SAT |
| War zones |
SECTORS |
| What botanists call ''Ambrosia'' |
RAGWEEDS |
| Works with a certain stick |
GLUESON |