| Luau instruments |
UKES |
| Main ideas |
THEMES |
| Make a wager |
BET |
| Make less difficult |
EASE |
| Menageries |
ZOOS |
| Message from a sitcom sponsor |
TVAD |
| Mineral springs |
SPAS |
| Money in Mexico |
PESO |
| More frosty |
ICIER |
| Mouse-catching device |
TRAP |
| Moving about |
ASTIR |
| Nosh on |
EAT |
| Opera solo |
ARIA |
| Owl sound |
HOOT |
| Pays tribute to |
HONORS |
| Person, place, or thing |
NOUN |
| Pet-protection org |
ASPCA |
| Poet's inspiration |
MUSE |
| Prayer ending |
AMEN |
| Repair, as a sock |
DARN |
| Research papers |
THESES |
| Residence |
HOME |
| Results of sunbathing |
TANS |
| Rich cakes |
TORTES |
| Risktaker's challenging words |
DAREME |
| Sample of soup |
SIP |
| See 11 Down |
ERIE |
| Sgt., for one |
NCO |
| Social strata |
CASTES |
| Suitable |
APT |
| Suitor |
WOOER |
| Temporary alternate route |
DETOUR |
| Throat-clearing sound |
AHEM |
| Tore into little pieces |
SHREDDED |
| Upward climb |
ASCENT |
| Very strange |
EERIE |
| With 34 Across, part of Ohio's border |
LAKE |
| __ Kringle |
KRIS |
| __ time (never) |
ATNO |
