| "Beats me!" |
IDUNNO |
| "Can't ___ with that!" |
ARGUE |
| "Open wide, patient!" |
SAYAH |
| "We go way ___" |
BACK |
| "Why ___ the chicken ..." |
DID |
| "___ a Woman" (Beatles song) |
SHES |
| "___ Karenina" (novel with the line, "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content") |
ANNA |
| "___ Quixote" |
DON |
| 100:1, e.g |
ODDS |
| Abhorred cross-country event? |
DETESTEDRUN |
| Actress Moran |
ERIN |
| Affix |
ATTACH |
| Align, informally |
SYNC |
| American marsupial ... with or without its first letter |
OPOSSUM |
| Apt letters missing from "dete_i_ra_e" |
ROT |
| Arm bone |
ULNA |
| Before the bell |
EARLY |
| Bonkers |
NUTSO |
| Cake decorator's supply |
ICING |
| Channel offering bargains |
HSN |
| Cholesterol-reducing drugs |
STATINS |
| Church recess |
APSE |
| Clenched hand |
FIST |
| Corn serving |
EAR |
| Cousin's father, for short |
UNC |
| Cover with cloth |
DRAPE |
| Dazzled feeling |
AWE |
| Deep cut |
GASH |
| Desktop that may run Ventura |
IMAC |
| Distracted the hen at a crucial moment? |
DELAYEDANEGG |
| Eagles' nests |
AERIES |
| Elizabethan period |
ERA |
| Embroidered, e.g |
SEWN |
| End of a threat |
ELSE |
| European peak |
ALP |
| Fearful feeling |
DREAD |
| Friend, in Dijon |
AMIE |
| Hair-protecting cloth |
DURAG |
| Hard to come by |
RARE |
