| 'Forever Your Girl' hitmaker, 1989 |
ABDUL |
| 'I Could Write ___' (Rodgers and Hart song) |
ABOOK |
| 'It's ___ against time' |
ARACE |
| 'Shoot!' |
ASK |
| 1974 title role for Dustin Hoffman |
LENNY |
| Adriatic seaport |
BARI |
| All-natural food no-no |
BHT |
| Aromatic compound |
ESTER |
| Arrange, as hair |
DOUP |
| Atkins diet count, briefly |
CARBS |
| Basic building unit |
CINDER |
| Becomes discouraged |
LOSESHEART |
| Bug someone, e.g. |
SPY |
| Burden carriers |
ASSES |
| Burn preventer |
SUN |
| Charlie Brown utterance |
SIGH |
| Chatter |
YAP |
| Cheerleader's maneuver |
CARTWHEEL |
| City near Oberhausen |
ESSEN |
| Duck with a large white crest |
SMEW |
| Elect |
CHOSEN |
| Flight coordinators: Abbr. |
ATC |
| Folders, wastebaskets and such |
ICONS |
| For sale |
ONTHE |
| G's |
THOUS |
| Gillette product |
ATRA |
| Greek island or its capital |
RHODES |
| Hanger-on |
LEECH |
| Heroic action |
DERRINGDO |
| Huge success |
BUSTER |
| It comes before long |
ERE |
| It may be on a roll |
BRATWURST |
| It may be twisted |
ARM |
| It may get you slapped |
FRESHNESS |
| Jacob who wrote 'How the Other Half Lives' |
RIIS |
| John with a wild wardrobe |
ELTON |
| Knocks heads (with) |
SPARS |
| Line of defense |
ADE |
| Literal element of eight answers in this puzzle |
BLOCK |