| Matching |
SAME |
| Miner discoveries |
ORES |
| Minuscule pest |
GNAT |
| Mount Carmel National Park location |
ISRAEL |
| Needed kneading, maybe |
ACHED |
| Needle point? |
NORTH |
| Night light sources |
UFOS |
| Not natural |
DYED |
| Okla. or Dak., once |
TERR |
| Old seven-seat Volkswagen model |
EUROVAN |
| Oxidation effect |
PATINA |
| Permission |
LEAVE |
| Port letters |
USB |
| Post-college goals, e.g., or a hint to what the starred answers are progressively “awarded” |
ADVANCEDDEGREES |
| Pungent sauces |
AIOLIS |
| Python user |
CODER |
| Relations and tensions can do this |
THAW |
| Roll shape |
CRESCENT |
| Royal role in a Bollywood movie |
RANI |
| Seed covering |
EARTH |
| Service call |
AMEN |
| Setting of the sun |
SKY |
| Singer James |
ETTA |
| Spouse’s question after a business trip, perhaps |
MISSME |
| Stuck in traffic, maybe |
LATE |
| Take turns |
ROTATE |
| Tesla, for one |
SERB |
| Test figure |
PROCTOR |
| Topic of some bargaining |
PLEA |
| Tramp’s love |
LADY |
| Traps during winter |
ICESIN |
| Twin who sold his birthright |
ESAU |
| Universal life force |
CHI |
| Vulcan, e.g |
PLANET |
| Warrior killed fighting a samurai army |
XENA |
| Wear a hole in the carpet |
PACE |
| Well beyond tipsy |
WASTED |
| Where to roast a pig |
SPIT |
