| 'Help!' |
SOS |
| 'How -- love thee?' |
DOI |
| 'Phooey!' |
BAH |
| 'Tosca' or 'Turandot' |
OPERA |
| 1978 Burt Reynolds movie |
HOOPER |
| Agent, for short |
REP |
| Auction action |
BID |
| Authoritative command |
MANDATE |
| Baseball stat |
RBI |
| Basin accessory |
EWER |
| Black cuckoo |
ANI |
| Bob Dole, for one |
KANSAN |
| Box |
CRATE |
| Brouhaha |
ADO |
| Buy now, pay later |
OWE |
| Carpentry tool |
SAW |
| Chatter away |
GAB |
| Comedian Philips |
EMO |
| Creating a fillet |
BONING |
| Crushing blow |
KAYO |
| Curved molding |
OGEE |
| Dan Brown's output |
NOVELS |
| Drooped |
SAGGED |
| Egos' counterparts |
IDS |
| Eugene O'Neill's genre |
DRAMA |
| Fat |
LARD |
| For fear that |
LEST |
| From the beginning |
ANEW |
| Historic passenger |
ROSAPARKS |
| In the style of 'The Barber of Seville' composer |
ROSSINIAN |
| Julius or Ethel of WWII spydom |
ROSENBERG |
| Lascivious lookers |
OGLERS |