| Noah Webster, circa 1777 |
ELI |
| Now powerless |
DEPOSED |
| Off the team |
CUT |
| Oil company, in Wall Street lingo |
PETE |
| One of Machiavelli's ''Five Good Emperors'' |
HADRIAN |
| Opposite of ''alt'' |
NEU |
| Outlet for driving ambition |
CARRACE |
| Overruns |
MOBS |
| Persistence over resistance |
SIEGE |
| Petrarchan forms |
SESTETS |
| Pool supplies |
ACIDS |
| Proscriptions |
NONOS |
| Renaissance music staple |
LUTE |
| Respond to pressure, in a way |
DARE |
| Separate |
UNHITCH |
| Seven-time Presidents Cup competitor |
ELS |
| Short stop? |
ETC |
| Showed defiance, perhaps |
GRINNED |
| Sight from the Great Glen Way |
LOCHNESS |
| Signaled |
DENOTED |
| Split open |
RIP |
| Spoil, perhaps |
DOTEON |
| Stadium cannon fodder |
TSHIRT |
| Stew |
SNIT |
| Stirring |
EMOTIVE |
| Stretches out |
RATIONS |
| Terra-cotta novelty |
CHIAPET |
| Threshold |
EVE |
| Tie down |
INHIBIT |
| Tough guy's challenge |
WHOSNEXT |
| Triangle ultimatum |
HIMORME |
| What a reader may interpret |
TAROT |
| Where it should be |
INPLACE |
| Wind up |
COIL |
| Word from the Italian for ''wine cellar'' |
CANTEEN |
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SLOAN |
