| ''Common'' word |
NOUN |
| ''Hardball'' broadcaster |
MSNBC |
| ''Name of the Rose'' figure |
MONK |
| ''Pomp and Circumstance'' composer |
ELGAR |
| ''Sound of Music'' surname |
TRAPP |
| ''Too much information!'' |
SPAREME |
| ''__ Plenty o' Nuttin' '' |
IGOT |
| ''__ Song'' (Taylor Swift tune) |
OUR |
| '70s Israeli leader |
MEIR |
| 2012 scene of Mideast unrest |
ALEPPO |
| A little wet |
DAMP |
| A/C measure |
BTU |
| Apparently do |
SEEMTO |
| Auerbach Trophy awarder |
NBA |
| Avoid |
SKIRT |
| Aware of |
ONTO |
| Babbled out |
SPILT |
| Bakery batch |
ROLLS |
| Bard's fairy queen |
MAB |
| Barely known celebrities |
DLIST |
| Between, in poems |
TWIXT |
| Branch |
LIMB |
| Buddhist teachers |
LAMAS |
| Cay |
ISLET |
| Cents before 1982 |
COPPERS |
| Clue that coffee's on |
AROMA |
| Comics Viking |
HAGAR |
| Confetti piece |
PETAL |
| Creative writing deg |
MFA |
| Cut down on |
PARE |
| DC VIP |
SEN |
| Detailed plan |
BLUEPRINT |
| Diamond strategy |
BUNT |
| Ellington contemporary |
BASIE |
| Grammar slip that's not rocket surgery |
MIXEDMETAPHOR |
| Grammar slip to carefully avoid |
SPLITINFINITIVE |
| Hard-boiled film genre |
NOIR |
