| Litmus-reddening substance |
ACID |
| Looked slackjawed |
GAPED |
| Lottery chances |
ODDS |
| Lousy |
BAD |
| Mag. bosses |
EDS |
| Make amends |
ATONE |
| Mealtime lure |
AROMA |
| Memphis-to-Nashville dir. |
ENE |
| Milk curdler |
RENNET |
| Modern address |
URL |
| Muzzle loader |
RAMROD |
| Nativity scene setting |
MANGER |
| Nobel laureate Sakharov |
ANDREI |
| Observers of the midnight sun |
ESKIMOS |
| On the up and up |
KOSHER |
| One of a noted sister act |
SERENA |
| One-seater race |
INDY |
| Optimistic |
UPBEAT |
| Out of place |
AMISS |
| Part 2 of the warning |
OUTDIRTALWAYS |
| Praises mightily |
EXALTS |
| Quarry |
PREY |
| Racy role for Shirley |
IRMA |
| Ratify |
ADOPT |
| Scope |
EXTENT |
| Sound at a fish fry |
SSS |
| Sounds of disgust |
UGHS |
| Split |
REND |
| Start of a warning to mudslingers |
HEWHODISHES |
| Storybook brute |
OGRE |
| Stout creator of Nero Wolfe? |
REX |
| Sucker |
SAP |
| Swearing-in pledge |
OATH |
| Teller's sub |
ATM |
| Territory explored by Lewis and Clark |
OREGON |
| Unit of energy |
ERG |
| Waikiki wear |
LEI |
| With great poignancy |
ACHINGLY |