| ". . . ___ the twain shall meet" |
NEER |
| ". . . ___, whatever will be, will be" (Day lyric) |
SERA |
| "Beauty and the Beast" character |
BELLE |
| "Could I interject?" |
AHEM |
| "Dick Tracy" gal |
TESS |
| "I, Robot" author Asimov |
ISAAC |
| "Truer words were never spoken" |
AMEN |
| "___ give you the shirt off his back!" |
HED |
| Accolades |
PRAISE |
| After-dinner party |
SOIREE |
| American Immigrant Wall of Honor's island |
ELLIS |
| Astonishing, to Uri Geller? |
MINDBENDING |
| Birchbark craft |
CANOE |
| Blackthorn plum |
SLOE |
| Blood-related |
AKIN |
| Bondservant |
SLAVE |
| Breed of cat or rabbit |
ANGORA |
| Bubbling on the stove |
ABOIL |
| Butcher-shop device |
SCALE |
| Canadian sentence-enders, stereotypically |
EHS |
| Capture in a trap |
ENSNARE |
| Causing heads to turn |
EYECATCHING |
| Cell "messenger" |
RNA |
| Censor's insertion |
BLEEP |
| Cornmeal cake |
PONE |
| Cowboy's leggings |
CHAPS |
| Delectable |
LIPSMACKING |
| Diminutive |
TEENSY |
| Display tripod |
EASEL |
| Dwarflike creatures |
GNOMES |
| Equal person |
PEER |
| Flip ___ (decide randomly) |
ACOIN |
| Forensic science tool |
DNA |
| Foxlike |
SLY |
| Grizzled sailor |
TAR |
| Homework assignment |
REPORT |
| Humdingers |
BEAUTS |
| Improved partner? |
NEW |