| Is furious |
RAGES |
| Je ne — quoi (elusive quality) |
SAIS |
| Jetway locale |
GATE |
| Just slightly |
ATAD |
| Kin of reggae |
SKA |
| Like scalawags |
RASCALLY |
| Literary alias |
PENNAME |
| Love, to Celine |
AMOUR |
| Make over |
REDO |
| Makes good |
REDEEMS |
| Making haste |
HIEING |
| Mannheim's river |
RHINE |
| Med. exam involving a forearm jab |
TBTEST |
| Morales of "La Bamba" |
ESAI |
| Most frigid |
COLDEST |
| Nerve-racking |
STRESSFUL |
| Noah's boat |
ARK |
| Nobel-winning U.N. agcy |
ILO |
| NPR journalist Daniel |
SCHORR |
| Oar wood |
ASH |
| Olympic runner Sebastian |
COE |
| On — firma |
TERRA |
| Ones outdoing all rivals, informally |
CAPPERS |
| Onetime TWA rival |
USAIR |
| Paul Lynde's role on "Bewitched" |
UNCLEARTHUR |
| Pigeon calls |
COOS |
| Players of LPs and 45s |
PHONOS |
| Plow pullers |
OXEN |
| Possesses |
HAS |
| Possible response to "Good job!" |
ITRY |
| Prefix with commuting |
TELE |
| Prefix with fiche |
MICRO |
| Prints messily |
SCRAWLS |
| Put a knot in |
TIE |
| Put up with |
ENDURE |
| Quality of a dirty chimney |
SOOTINESS |
| Race joiner |
ENTRANT |
| Race pace |
TROT |
| Race space |
LANE |
| Rear-end or sideswipe |
CRASHINTO |
| Result of a lucid mind |
CLEARTHINKING |
| Rip open eagerly |
TEARTHROUGH |
| Road coating |
TAR |
| Rock guitarists, slangily |
AXMEN |
| Rowdy crowd |
MOB |
| Safecracker, slangily |
YEGG |
| Savoir- — |
FAIRE |
| Secret stash |
CACHE |
| Set of values |
ETHOS |
| Sheep call |
BAA |
| Single out as especially important |
KEYON |
| Sits next to |
ABUTS |
| Skin protein |
ELASTIN |
| Sneaky laugh |
HEH |
| Soft toy bear |
TEDDY |
| Some pudding bases |
TAPIOCAS |
| Tolkien's imaginary world (that hints at this puzzle's theme) |
MIDDLEEARTH |
| Tools facilitating weapon-launching |
SPEARTHROWERS |
| Tree that's a chocolate source |
CACAO |
| Trembled |
SHOOK |
| Up to, in ads |
TIL |
| Venerate |
ADORE |
| Victory sign |
VEE |
| Wedding party |
RECEPTION |
| What a dipstick is dipped into |
CRANKCASE |
| What a dipstick is dipped into |
OIL |
| Work unit, in physics |
ERG |
| Young miss |
GAL |
| — the bud (forestall) |
NIPIN |
