| ''--- extra cost'' |
ATNO |
| ''Be that --- may...'' |
ASIT |
| ''Let ---!'' (advice to the obsessed) |
ITGO |
| ''My Three Sons'' character |
ERNIE |
| ''Othello'' villian |
IAGO |
| ''The Name of the Rose'' author |
ECO |
| ''True Colors'' singer Lauper |
CYNDI |
| ''Two Women'' Oscar winner Loren |
SOPHIA |
| ''What's your sign?'' perhaps |
ICEBREAKER |
| ''___ was saying ...'' |
ASI |
| A few laughs |
HAHAS |
| Acetate, alcohol, bromide and ether |
ETHYLS |
| Achieve |
ATTAIN |
| Aircraft inspector, of a sort |
TESTPILOT |
| Alphabetic quintet |
AEIOU |
| Anglers' gear |
REELS |
| Apple variety |
GRANNYSMITH |
| Archer's gear |
BOWANDARROW |
| Archibald of basketball |
NATE |
| Atlantic City casino, informally (with ''The'') |
TAJ |
| Be overly fond |
DOTE |
| Beanie's buddy |
CECIL |
| Bit of ointment |
DAB |
| Blonde shade |
ASH |
| Bok ___ (Chinese vegetable) |
CHOY |
| Bring about by force |
COERCE |
| Brit. word book |
OED |
| Burdensome possession |
WHITEELEPHANT |
| Burn the surface |
SEAR |
| Business phase |
CYCLE |
| Buzzi and Westheimer |
RUTHS |
| Cabinet filler |
CHINA |
| Cable station since '72 |
HBO |
| Cairo waterway |
NILE |
| Capone's feature |
SCAR |
| Carrier of genetic info |
DNA |
| Certain Middle East denizen |
ARAB |
| Check the books |
AUDIT |
| Checked out, as a joint |
CASED |
| Christogram component, perhaps |
RHO |
| Committee type |
ADHOC |
| Common file name |
MISC |
| Companion of cry |
HUE |
| Completely |
INTOTO |
| Concerned with a specific subject |
ADHOC |
| Concession stand drink |
COLA |
| Corrodes |
EATS |
| Dorothy Lamour film, ''___ Merry Way'' |
ONOUR |
| Dwarf in ''The Hobbit'' |
ORI |
| East Indian sailor |
LASCAR |
| Engage, as gears |
MESH |
| Entangle |
SNARL |
| Estranges |
ALIENATES |
| Expression of disgust |
YUCK |
| Feathery wrap |
BOA |
| Fem.'s opposite |
MASC |
| Flies off the shelf |
SELLS |
| Floor or ceiling supports |
JOISTS |
| Flue befouler |
SOOT |
| Flying Brits |
RAF |
| Forever, to Shelley |
ETERNE |
| Form of identification |
THUMBPRINT |
| Full house sign (Abbr.) |
SRO |
| Get the gold |
WIN |
| Go ___ for (defend) |
TOBAT |
| Graceful woman |
SYLPH |
| Greek goddess of wisdom |
ATHENA |
| Grizzled |
HOARY |
| Groucho's brother |
CHICO |
| Half a bray |
HEE |
| Hawthorne's hometown |
SALEM |
| Hiding place |
CACHE |
| Honor society letter |
PHI |
| Hood and Shasta (Abbr.) |
MTS |
| How haunted houses are lit |
DIMLY |
| Hypothetical legal case |
MOOT |
| Important historic times |
ERAS |