| Jr. high preceder |
ELEM |
| Kid stuff |
ABCS |
| Lacking resonance |
TINNY |
| Largest human organ |
SKIN |
| Last reliever called |
CLOSER |
| Letters in the sand? |
SOS |
| Letters on some police jackets |
SWAT |
| Longtime North Carolina senator |
HELMS |
| Make a mistake |
ERR |
| Manuscript notations |
STETS |
| Md. locale |
USA |
| Meadow land |
LEA |
| Men and boys |
MALES |
| Michael Caine title role (1966) |
ALFIE |
| Mistake |
ERR |
| More raucous |
NOISIER |
| Morning line |
ODDS |
| Moved the king to safety, in chess |
CASTLED |
| Muscle |
SINEW |
| Muse of history |
CLIO |
| Myanmar locale |
ASIA |
| Natural depressions |
VALES |
| Nerve cell |
NEURON |
| NHL trophy type |
CUP |
| Not again |
ONCE |
| Not secret or hidden |
OVERT |
| Number for the books? |
ONE |
| On the ocean |
ASEA |
| One not to be trusted |
LIAR |
| One of the great five |
HURON |
| Opera solo |
ARIA |
| Piece of cake |
SLAMDUNK |
| Pined |
ACHED |
| Playing hard-to-get |
COY |
| Plush fabric |
VELVET |
| Poor reception |
BOO |
| Pork portions |
LOINS |
| Possessing prongs |
TINED |
| Pout |
MOUE |
| Powder ingredient, perhaps |
TALC |
| Printer type |
LASER |
| Raised mark |
WELT |
| Rascally |
ROGUISH |
| Really feel the heat |
BAKE |
| Remain behind |
STAY |
| Self-proclaimed ''Greatest'' |
ALI |
| Sgt. Bilko, for one |
NCO |
| Shrub of the southwestern desert |
OCOTILLO |
| Some bills |
TENS |
| Some city lights |
NEONS |
| Springboard? |
JUMPINGOFFPLACE |
| Start of a giggle |
TEE |
| Stewing |
INALATHER |
| Suburban spread |
LAWN |
| Suffix with hexa- or deca- |
GON |
| Super deluxe |
POSH |
| Superior part of Lake Superior? |
NORTHSHORE |
| Swiss river |
AARE |
| Tender spot? |
BAR |
| They may be tickled |
IVORIES |
| Thread holder |
SPOOL |
| Ties |
LACES |
| Traditional camp song |
SKIPTOMYLOU |
| Type of modifier |
ADVERB |
| Uncooked |
RAW |
| Usurp |
TAKE |
| Warrior princess of TV |
XENA |
| Way to go from Manhattan to the Bronx? |
EASTRIVER |
| Way to go in Miami? |
SOUTHBEACH |
| White House kid of the '70s |
AMY |
| Wine type |
RED |
| Winner of 324 baseball games |
RYAN |
| Word with ''cold'' or ''loud'' |
OUT |
| Word with tank or range |
GAS |
| Write up, e.g. |
CITE |
| ___ as directed |
USE |
| ___ Hopkins University |
JOHNS |
| ___-win situation |
ANO |