| Lao-tzu principle |
TAO |
| Like a contortionist |
AGILE |
| Like the nose on your face? |
PLAIN |
| Linguist Chomsky |
NOAM |
| Marine shockers |
EELS |
| Mario Brothers letters |
NES |
| Monotonous sound |
DRONE |
| Move like a butterfly |
FLIT |
| Movie director's unit |
TAKE |
| Music groups |
BANDS |
| Nabisco wafer brand |
NILLA |
| Not out of contention |
INTHERUNNING |
| Not working |
IDLE |
| Onetime Leno announcer Hall |
EDD |
| Part of EMT: Abbr. |
EMER |
| Pass unprofitably, as time |
KILL |
| Petrol purchase |
LITRE |
| Pile neatly |
STACK |
| Plea made with one's hands up |
DONTSHOOT |
| Prying sort |
SNOOP |
| Quilter's layer |
COTTONBATTING |
| Rap's Dr. __ |
DRE |
| Rep |
AGENT |
| Rudolph tip-off |
REDNOSE |
| Shoppe adjective |
OLDE |
| Skip the bistro |
EATIN |
| Smack a homer, in baseball lingo |
GODEEP |
| Some woodwinds |
OBOES |
| Song with a cadenza, perhaps |
ARIA |
| Squeeze bunt stat |
RBI |
| Start of a childhood learning song |
ABCD |
| Strikebreaker |
SCAB |
| Syllable of rebuke |
TUT |
| Tiger's 2004 bride |
ELIN |
| TV spot |
PROMO |
| Wagon wheel depression |
RUT |
| Where Jesus turned water to wine |
CANA |
| World's second largest island |
NEWGUINEA |
| Zoo swinger |
APE |
