| Manuscript enclosure (Abbr.) |
SAE |
| Missing from formation |
AWOL |
| Molecular bits |
IONS |
| Mustard plant |
CRESS |
| Narrow and pointed, as pine leaves |
ACEROSE |
| Nonstick coating |
TEFLON |
| Olympic statistic |
MEDALS |
| Pass, timewise |
ELAPSE |
| Pluperfect, e.g. |
TENSE |
| Quality affecting taste |
SAPOR |
| Ranch-raised ratite |
EMU |
| Red wine from Bordeaux |
CLARET |
| Run-down |
DILAPIDATED |
| Shad eggs |
ROE |
| Shark's back fin, e.g. |
DORSAL |
| Sharpsburg fighter, briefly |
REB |
| Shrek and others |
OGRES |
| Sigourney Weaver sequel |
ALIENS |
| Smidges |
IOTAS |
| Spanish dish with rice |
PAELLA |
| Stockholm denizen |
SWEDE |
| Suitable for the occasion |
APT |
| Swells up |
BLOATS |
| The luck of the Irish? |
CESS |
| The Merry Pranksters' drug |
LSD |
| The wide blue yonder? |
OCEAN |
| Thou squared |
MIL |
| Trimmed |
PARED |
| Twelve-speed |
BIKE |
| Two, four, six, eight, etc. |
EVENS |
| Uncouth |
ILLBRED |
| Vestments worn to some parties |
TOGAS |
| Vocational identifier, perhaps |
HAT |
| Was a snitch |
TOLD |
| Waver of a red cape |
BULLFIGHTER |
| What March Madness champs cut down |
NETS |
| Wheel projections |
COGS |
| Witnessed |
SAW |
