| 'Explain, please' |
WHY |
| -- Major (Sirius' constellation) |
CANIS |
| 23-Down's victim |
ABEL |
| Ailing |
ILL |
| Aptly named fruit? |
UGLI |
| Bach piece, often |
FUGUE |
| Beach stuff |
SAND |
| Beats |
RHYTHMS |
| Biblical king who had Jezebel slain |
JEHU |
| Boast |
CROW |
| Carnival city |
RIO |
| Computer acronym |
ASCII |
| Congratulatory slap |
HIGHFIVE |
| Day fractions (Abbr.) |
HRS |
| Dead ringer? |
KNELL |
| Debtor's letters |
IOU |
| Doddering, maybe |
ANILE |
| Ely's st |
NEV |
| Entrance |
DOOR |
| Evergreen type |
FIR |
| First son |
CAIN |
| From the start |
ANEW |
| G.I.'s dinner, for short |
MRE |
| Gary Cooper movie |
HIGHNOON |
| House pet |
CAT |
| In the vicinity |
NEAR |
| Infinitesimal |
WEE |
| Jungle expedition |
SAFARI |
| Life time? |
AGE |
| Lily variety |
SEGO |
| Litigant |
SUER |
| Lived |
DWELLED |
| Many millennia |
EON |
