| Mideast ruler |
AMIR |
| Most desirable |
OPTIMAL |
| Moves back |
RECEDES |
| Narc's find |
STASH |
| Narrowest of victory margins |
EYELASH |
| Of the blood |
HEMATIC |
| Of ___ (alike) |
AKIND |
| Old greeting |
AVE |
| One of seven |
SEA |
| Part of a court game name |
ALAI |
| Part of a nuclear research facility |
SMASHER |
| Poetic preposition |
ERE |
| Popular cold remedy |
DRISTAN |
| Praise |
EXALT |
| Professional companion |
GEISHA |
| Ready to cry |
MISTYEYED |
| Rebels |
RIOTS |
| Slangy answer |
UNHUNH |
| Smelly smokes |
STOGIES |
| Some M.I.T. grads |
EES |
| Steelie alternative |
AGATE |
| Stern reprimand |
LECTURE |
| Strictness |
RIGOR |
| Suppress |
SITON |
| Swabs' grp. |
USN |
| Tapioca source |
CASSAVA |
| The Mustangs, for short |
SMU |
| They make you laugh |
AMUSERS |
| Tlingits and others |
ALASKANS |
| Verse form used by Dante |
SESTINA |
| Whales the tar out of |
LAMS |
| When doubled, a David Merrick musical |
IDO |
| Word before 1 or 2 |
MACH |
| Worshipers at the church of Santa Maria della Spina |
PISANS |
| You can feel it |
TEXTURE |