| Like failed relationships |
OVER |
| Like overused jokes |
OLD |
| Longest reptile in the longest river? |
MILECROCODILE |
| Lord of the ring, once |
ALI |
| Los ___, New Mexico |
ALAMOS |
| Makes lace |
TATS |
| Metronome measure |
TEMPO |
| Military blockades |
SIEGES |
| Mississippi mud |
SILT |
| More colorless |
PALER |
| Not quite a circle |
OVAL |
| O.J. trial judge |
ITO |
| Office transmittal |
MEMO |
| Oft-able one |
SEAMAN |
| Often-numbered print |
LITHO |
| On the Baltic, say |
ASEA |
| Palindromic king |
TUT |
| Pool openings |
BREAKS |
| Potter's furnace |
KILN |
| Property encumbrance |
LIEN |
| Punch tools |
AWLS |
| Put down the hatch |
EATEN |
| Put hair in rollers |
SET |
| Romantic bloom |
ROSE |
| Small prayer? |
MANTIS |
| Spa soaker |
HOTTUB |
| Sphere in a scepter |
ORB |
| Splash and dash |
ECLAT |
| Splashy party |
GALA |
| Stretch the truth or stretch out |
LIE |
| Succumb to gravity |
SAG |
| The others |
THEM |
| Throw out |
EMIT |
| Wet zappers |
EELS |
| What kitty makes on January 1st? |
MEWRESOLUTION |
| Without value |
NULL |
| Yankee closer Mariano Rivera in non-save games? |
MOWINSITUATIONS |
| Yield |
RELENT |
| ___ it good (is well-off) |
HAS |