| Hardships |
ILLS |
| High cards in hearts |
ACES |
| Ideas such as "I bet I'd enjoy living in Omaha"? |
NETHOUGHTS |
| Items suspended above cribs |
MOBILES |
| Long-eared beast |
ASS |
| Loses strength |
WEAKENS |
| Mai ___ |
TAI |
| More mean, like a rumor |
UGLIER |
| Mozambique neighbor |
MALAWI |
| Native of Colorado |
UTE |
| Nods for the Best Acadia Park Ranger Award, e.g.? |
MENOMINATIONS |
| Noise from a baby's toy ... or a deadly snake |
RATTLE |
| NYC's Lexington, e.g |
AVE |
| NYSE debut |
IPO |
| Of a cultural group |
ETHNIC |
| Pole or Serb |
SLAV |
| Ready to make a movie, say |
ONSET |
| Region |
AREA |
| River that rhymes with "crocodile" |
NILE |
| Second and third editions, e.g |
REPRINTS |
| Six years, for a U.S. senator |
TERM |
| Slightly |
ABIT |
| Spewing like Mauna Loa |
ERUPTING |
| Spiraling descent |
TAILSPIN |
| Summer hrs. in Stamford |
EDT |
| Tough hike |
TREK |
| Turbulent part of a river |
RAPID |
| UFC sport |
MMA |
| Unexpected hitch |
SNAG |
| Unit of resistance |
OHM |
| Up until now |
TODATE |
| Utterly silly |
INANE |
| VERY long time |
EON |
| Word before "badger" or "mustard" |
HONEY |
| Word that Ohio State trademarked in 2022 |
THE |
| Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi |
JEDI |
| ___ Linetti ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine" character) |
GINA |
| ___ Mahal |
TAJ |
