| Last letter |
OMEGA |
| Mideast peninsula |
ARABIA |
| Misleading quality |
DECEPTIVENESS |
| Monastery head |
ABBOT |
| Music's Brian |
ENO |
| Neither Dem. nor Rep. |
IND |
| Obdurate |
STONY |
| Open-minded quality |
RECEPTIVENESS |
| Pointer |
TIP |
| Prescribe |
DICTATE |
| Radcliffe grad |
ALUMNA |
| Reading and others: Abbr. |
RRS |
| Recent: Prefix |
NEO |
| Response to a joke |
IGETIT |
| Ryan's 'Love Story' co-star |
ALI |
| Seasonal song |
CAROL |
| Sense of self |
EGO |
| Sets free |
LOOSES |
| Snoop group: Abbr. |
CIA |
| Sugar source |
BEETS |
| Tad's dad |
ABE |
| Track events |
RACES |
| Turn aside |
AVERT |
| Undivided |
ONE |
| Very small |
MICRO |