| Grad-school degree |
PHD |
| Hawaiian food staple |
TARO |
| Hydrox rival |
OREO |
| In a funk |
SAD |
| In the best of all possible worlds |
IDEALLY |
| Island that's home to orangutans |
BORNEO |
| James Michener opus |
IBERIA |
| Large Chinese seaport |
SHANGHAI |
| Leno's channel |
NBC |
| Living things in a certain region |
BIOTA |
| Mark with blotches |
MOTTLE |
| More robust-looking |
HALER |
| Not even ajar |
SHUT |
| One end of London |
EAST |
| One result of a gas shortage |
LINE |
| One who can't bear his family? |
MALE |
| Part of a music gig |
SET |
| Patriotic monogram |
USA |
| Patterns of experience, in psychology |
GESTALTS |
| Poetic contraction |
OER |
| Pose questions |
ASK |
| Scaly Egyptian |
ASP |
| Shelley's "___ to the West Wind" |
ODE |
| Shipping containers |
CRATES |
| Songs of praise |
PSALMS |
| Stealthy thieves |
CATBURGLARS |
| Stir up, as interest |
AROUSE |
| Tapped-out person's letters |
IOU |
| The Carolinas' ___ Dee River |
PEE |
| Three-note chord |
TRIAD |
| Tokyo sash |
OBI |
| Transpose digits, e.g |
ERR |
| Understood, as a punch line |
GOT |
| Unlawful fire-starting |
ARSON |
| Where some people request to be buried |
ATSEA |
| Writing implement |
PEN |
| Yoko who married Lennon |
ONO |
| ___ down (crouch) |
HUNKER |
| ___-serif (type style) |
SANS |
