| It may precede ''instinct'' |
MATERNAL |
| Jazz pianist Chick |
COREA |
| Lake Como's locale |
ITALY |
| Leading |
ONTOP |
| Like some highways |
TWOLANE |
| Live and breathe |
ARE |
| Look closely |
PEER |
| Ma Bell introduction of 1959 |
PRINCESSPHONE |
| Mailing ctrs |
POS |
| Mailing-label words |
CAREOF |
| Make a comeback |
RALLY |
| Make better |
HEAL |
| Make illegal |
BAN |
| Mares, to hares |
RHYME |
| Masterpiece |
GEM |
| Military greeting |
SALUTE |
| Miniature racers |
GOKARTS |
| Modus operandi |
SYSTEM |
| Nabokov novel |
PNIN |
| Natural abilities |
TALENTS |
| No more than |
UPTO |
| Nocturnal noise |
SNORE |
| Not dressy |
CASUAL |
| Oaf |
DOLT |
| Office furniture |
DESK |
| Olympian, e.g |
ATHLETE |
| Onetime electronics giant |
ITT |
| Order givers |
BOSSES |
| Org. with many specialists |
AMA |
| Outmoded |
OBSOLETE |
| Part of AD |
ANNO |
| Pastoral expanse |
LEA |
| Pear-shaped instrument |
SITAR |
| Philippine capital |
MANILA |
| Poetic time |
EEN |
| Pointless |
FUTILE |
| Prefix for lock |
ANTI |
| Proposed explanation |
THEORY |
| Questionable |
IFFY |
| Regretful feeling |
PANG |
| Requiring no stamps |
POSTPAID |
| Runway pavement |
TARMAC |
| Sails through |
ACES |
| Satellite circuit |
ORBIT |
| Screen picture |
ICON |
| Ship's money-handler |
PURSER |
| Short snooze |
NAP |
| Sill, for instance |
LEDGE |
| Singer Guthrie |
ARLO |
| Sit right next to |
ABUT |
| Sleep phase |
REM |
| Somali neighbor |
KENYAN |
| Some choristers |
ALTOS |
| Soup legume |
LENTIL |
| Stick up |
ROB |
| Strong desires |
YENS |
| Taking care of that |
ONIT |
| Texting ancestor |
EMAIL |
| Time long past |
YORE |
| Title originally applied to Mrs. Madison |
FIRSTLADY |
| Toy piano sound |
PLINK |
| Tweezer target |
EYEBROW |
| Undisputed champ |
KINGOFTHEHILL |
| Unruffled |
SEDATE |
| Unspecified individual |
ONE |
| Vacation rental |
CAR |
| Waffle appliance |
IRON |
| Well-behaved kid |
DOLL |
| Whodunit byline |
ELLERYQUEEN |
| Wonder Woman's secret identity |
DIANAPRINCE |
| Word-game piece |
TILE |
| WWII vessels |
PTBOATS |
| Zodiac beast |
RAM |