| Former coin of France |
SOU |
| Get older |
AGE |
| Give the brush-off to |
SNUB |
| Good to have around |
USEFUL |
| Heartthrob's fan |
ADORER |
| Inherent |
BREDINTHEBONE |
| Item in short supply on the Titanic |
LIFEBOAT |
| John's ode to Yoko |
WOMAN |
| Kin |
FLESHANDBLOOD |
| Like some chess matches |
DRAWN |
| Literary tribute |
ODE |
| Long time follower? |
AGO |
| Lou Grant's employee Baxter |
TED |
| Makes minor adjustments to |
TWEAKS |
| Many-stringed Japanese instruments |
KOTOS |
| Marauders (var.) |
BANDITTI |
| Mark left by a whip |
WELT |
| Metric liquid measures |
LITERS |
| Pasture |
LEA |
| Pronoun at sea |
SHE |
| Rip violently |
REND |
| Ripped or zipped |
TORE |
| Roy Halladay stat |
ERA |
| Sea under Italy's "boot" |
IONIAN |
| Slithery critters |
EELS |
| Soothsayer's prediction |
OMEN |
| Steer clear of |
SHUN |
| Styled in the salon |
COIFED |
| Suffix with "convention" or "racket" |
EER |
| Swellhead's excess |
EGO |
| Talk show invitees |
GUESTS |
| They're never really civil |
WARS |
| Thing with a wheeled heel |
SKATE |
| Throat-clearing attention-getters |
AHEMS |
| Unit of cotton |
BALE |
| Word omitted in alphabetization |
THE |
| Word that's dramatically sighed |
ALAS |
| ___ contendere (court plea) |
NOLO |
| ___ Jones Industrial Average |
DOW |