| "Ad ___ per aspera" (Kansas motto) |
ASTRA |
| "Cool" amount |
MIL |
| "Honest" president's nickname |
ABE |
| "It's been _____ pleasure!" |
AREAL |
| "Mail" homophone |
MALE |
| "Of course!" |
SURE |
| "To ___ and to hold ..." |
HAVE |
| Acquire |
GET |
| Acute anxieties |
ANGSTS |
| Ants, archaically |
EMMETS |
| At the apex |
ATOP |
| Attempt at a carnival booth |
TOSS |
| Attention-getting sound |
PSST |
| Authoritative pronouncements |
DICTA |
| Ballerina's movement |
PLIE |
| Beat in a debate |
OUTARGUE |
| Caps Lock neighbor |
TAB |
| Catch a glimpse of |
ESPY |
| Chicken ___ king |
ALA |
| Clean dirty money |
LAUNDER |
| Come down hard |
TEEM |
| Deli side order |
SLAW |
| Desert during a crisis |
LEAVEINTHELURCH |
| Diminutive |
TEENY |
| Dr.'s requirement |
APPT |
| Eight-track, e.g. |
TAPE |
| Elaborate party |
GALA |
| Florida seaport |
TAMPA |
| For each one |
APIECE |
| Full of anticipation |
AGOG |
| Grass home |
HUT |
| Greek getaway |
ISLE |
| Hallucinogenic drug |
LSD |
| Hardly humble |
VAIN |
| Harem |
SERAGLIO |
| Heat to just short of boiling |
SCALD |
| Home with at least two sets of stairs |
SPLITLEVELHOUSE |
| Household's mistress |
MADAM |