| Historic period |
ERA |
| Lawn pest |
MOLE |
| Less common |
RARER |
| Like old lettuce |
LIMP |
| Makes a bow |
TIES |
| Massage |
KNEAD |
| Masseur's place |
SPA |
| Melancholy |
SAD |
| Mermaid's home |
SEA |
| Occasionally |
ATTIMES |
| Past plump |
OBESE |
| Pinnacle |
TIPTOP |
| Plan part |
STEP |
| Play the banjo |
STRUM |
| Plop down |
SIT |
| Rainy month |
APRIL |
| Recital sight |
PIANO |
| Sawbones |
DOC |
| Sousaphone's cousin |
TUBA |
| Spring blooms |
CROCUSES |
| Taking a sabbatical |
ONLEAVE |
| Time separator |
COLON |
| Toward the sunrise, perhaps |
DUEEAST |
| Traveling |
ONATRIP |
| Washer cycle |
RINSE |
