| Highlanders |
GAELS |
| Hirohito's homeland |
NIPPON |
| Launch |
INITIATE |
| Less overcast |
FAIRER |
| Life of ___ |
RILEY |
| Lift for two |
TBAR |
| Like some SoHo parties |
ARTY |
| Lock |
TRESS |
| Magnetism |
ALLURE |
| More to the point? |
NEARER |
| Most insistent |
PUSHIEST |
| Most succinct |
PITHIEST |
| No longer done |
PASSE |
| Not let lapse |
RENEW |
| Not surprisingly |
ASUSUAL |
| Oceanside scuttler |
SANDCRAB |
| Parent-by-choice, of sorts |
ADOPTER |
| Patient waiting |
ABIDANCE |
| Picture: Abbr. |
ILLUS |
| Pitts of old films |
ZASU |
| Propensity |
BENT |
| Rapidly |
APACE |
| Ring decisions, for short |
TKOS |
| Sound of a lightning bolt |
ZAP |
| Squid's squirt |
INK |
| Tailoring job |
FIT |
| The Beach Boys' 'Barbara ___' |
ANN |
| Three-sided sword |
EPEE |
| Venom |
HATE |
| Walk proudly |
STRUT |
| With sadness |
BLUELY |
| Word before cry or baby |
WAR |
| World-weariness |
ENNUI |
| Yugoslavian-born tennis ace |
SELES |