| Lisper's hurdles |
ESSES |
| Members of a ''good'' traditional network? |
OLDBOYS |
| Mongolian wasteland |
GOBI |
| More than most |
EVERY |
| On the ocean |
ASEA |
| Operatic songs |
SOLI |
| Orderly grouping |
ARRAY |
| Overfill |
SATE |
| Piece of cake |
DUCKSOUP |
| Play to the back row |
EMOTE |
| Pocket-protector wearer, stereotypically |
NERD |
| Prerelease version |
BETA |
| Promotion basis |
MERIT |
| Rank at Wimbledon |
SEED |
| Reef in the Florida Keys |
CAY |
| Romantic interlude |
IDYLL |
| Sciences partner |
ARTS |
| Search through thoroughly |
SCOUR |
| Singer Janis |
IAN |
| Small songbirds |
WRENS |
| Some Shakespearean fare |
DRAMAS |
| Spot for the masses? |
APSE |
| Spun a yarn |
LIED |
| Start for colonial |
NEO |
| Studio prop |
EASEL |
| Subtraction word |
LESS |
| Tchaikovsky classic |
SWANLAKE |
| Thanksgiving dance? |
TURKEYTROT |
| Tiger Woods rival, Ernie |
ELS |
| Turing or King |
ALAN |
| Type of jam or pie |
GOOSEBERRY |
| Ulan --- |
BATOR |
| Vanity plate in a two-car household, perhaps |
HERS |
| Vehicle weights sans cargo |
TARES |
| Welcomed |
GREETED |
| What retailers do |
RESELL |
| Wight or Avalon |
ISLE |
| Wintry frost |
HOAR |
| Word with ''a bird'' or ''a plane'' |
ITS |