| Make the initial bet |
OPEN |
| Measure up to |
RIVAL |
| Name on many jeans' labels |
LEVI |
| Neighborhood grocery |
BODEGA |
| New York city where Mark Twain lived |
ELMIRA |
| Open-faced sandwich with cheese |
MELT |
| Operate properly |
WORK |
| Parallelogram with four equal sides (Var.) |
RHOMB |
| Part of a Copenhagen cleaning cycle? |
RINSEOFDENMARK |
| Passover month |
NISAN |
| Raccoon relative |
COATI |
| Self-satisfied |
SMUG |
| Shakespeare's river |
AVON |
| Silent |
MUM |
| Skunk's defense |
ODOR |
| Snack of Spain |
TAPA |
| Speak indistinctly |
SLUR |
| Spookily strange |
EERIE |
| Spread with cocktails |
PATE |
| Start of many titles |
THE |
| Tattletales before the age of appliances? |
WASHBOARDBLABS |
| They are clean when they come marching in? |
LATHERDAYSAINTS |
| Thickly packed |
DENSE |
| Toward the stern |
ABAFT |
| Tree part |
BARK |
| Unpleasantly difficult |
MESSY |
| Uses a towel |
DRIES |
| Veranda, in Hawaii |
LANAI |
| Walk in water |
WADE |
| West Indies island |
ARUBA |
| Wild enthusiasm |
MANIA |
| Without a name, briefly |
ANON |
| Woman from Waikiki |
WAHINE |
| Worshipped figurine |
IDOL |
| Yin's complement |
YANG |
| Young man |
LAD |
| ___ d'oeuvre |
HORS |
| ___ mater |
ALMA |
