| Level |
SHIM |
| Life saver |
SEATBELT |
| Like one battery terminal |
ANODAL |
| Linesman, maybe? |
POET |
| Loan overseer: Abbr. |
FHA |
| Louisiana music |
ZYDECO |
| Make catty remarks |
SNARK |
| Mammonism |
GREED |
| Many a boot |
PULLON |
| Mark consisting of a series of dots |
STET |
| Measure |
STEP |
| Meting |
DOLING |
| Modern music genre |
TECHNO |
| Modern viewer's choice |
HDTV |
| More authentic |
REALER |
| More harsh |
SEVERER |
| N.Y.C. line |
IRT |
| Name preceder |
NEE |
| Nathan and others |
HALES |
| Native soldier, in old India |
SEPOY |
| Nebraska's Cornhusker, e.g. |
MASCOT |
| Nobody |
PIPSQUEAK |
| Not level |
TIERED |
| Oh-Wah-___ (game like mancala) |
REE |
| Old Blood and Guts |
PATTON |
| On the Board |
LISTED |
| One may be secret |
ADMIRER |
| One-spot |
GEORGE |
| Only now and then |
SELDOM |
| Organ repair sites: Abbr. |
ORS |
| Part of a dash |
TACH |
| PC application suffix |
EXE |
| Perry White, e.g. |
CHIEF |
| Point of writing |
NIB |
| Popular Russian vodka, familiarly |
STOLI |
| President's inits. |
JQA |
| Princess on the small screen |
XENA |
| Reactionaries of 1917 |
TSARISTS |
| Rest |
REPOSE |
| Romeo and Juliet's home |
VERONA |
| Run out |
ELAPSE |
| Said 'ah' |
SIGHED |
| Schnook |
SAP |
| Sheep's favorite movie of 1991? |
WHATABOUTBAAB |
| Sheik's flock |
ARABS |
| Sherpa |
GUIDE |
| Sister of Eva |
ZSAZSA |
| Small salmon |
COHO |
| Snake's favorite movie of 1981? |
HISSTORYOFTHEWORLDPARTI |
| Some ducks |
EIDERS |
| Some ranchers |
DUDES |
| Sound studio work |
REMIX |
| Spring locale |
OASIS |
| Start of a doo-wop phrase |
SHA |
| Step on it |
HIE |
| Superman's mother |
LARA |
| Tailoring machine |
SEAMER |
| Tall runners |
EMUS |
| Term of affection |
DEARHEART |
| The Beatles' Madonna, e.g. |
LADY |
| The Three Stooges had many |
ANTICS |
| They're found in fountains |
SODAS |
| They're tender |
SORES |
| They're unstressed |
SCHWAS |
| Title city of a Forsyth thriller |
ODESSA |
| Tour grp. |
PGA |
| Trillion: Prefix |
TERA |
| Tropical pitcher plants and such |
EXOTICS |
| Turned up |
AROSE |
| View from Vesuvius |
NAPLES |
| Wag |
JOKER |
| Waste |
DROSS |
| Web address start |
HTTP |
| What Fred Astaire danced with |
PANACHE |
| Where salts go |
TOSEA |
| Whiz's musical key? |
ASHARP |
| Wing-to-wing measure |
SPAN |
| Wool producer |
LLAMA |
| Worse |
DIRER |
| ___ date: Abbr. |
EXP |
| ___ de toilette |
EAU |
| ___ go at (tries) |
HASA |
| ___, Optimo, Maximo (Benedictine motto) |
DEO |