| Homes for drones |
HIVES |
| Homework shirker's excuse |
MYDOGATEIT |
| Honoring |
FETING |
| Ignorant person's excuse |
NOONETOLDME |
| It eliminates a suspect |
ALIBI |
| It's not a sign of stress |
SCHWA |
| Lange of "The Love Boat" |
TED |
| Late one's excuse |
IOVERSLEPT |
| Laziest of the deadly sins |
SLOTH |
| Leader of the masses? |
POPE |
| Lean and lovely |
SVELTE |
| Little guy |
LAD |
| Love child? |
CUPID |
| Lumbago, e.g |
ACHE |
| Narrative writing |
EPOS |
| Opposite of flushed |
PALE |
| Part of a geisha's garb |
OBI |
| Permit |
LET |
| Placate |
APPEASE |
| Poet exiled from Lesbos |
SAPPHO |
| Poison ___ |
IVY |
| Pouty expression |
MOUE |
| Puff up, as an ego |
BLOAT |
| Quakes in the cold |
SHIVERS |
| Rainfall measure |
INCH |
| Rooted in one's nature |
INBRED |
| Ship part |
HOLD |
| Site of the 2016 Olympics |
RIO |
| Sphere in a scepter |
ORB |
| Straddling |
ATOP |
| Take to the body shop, perhaps |
TOW |
| Takes the honey and runs? |
ELOPES |
| Terra-cotta piece |
TILE |
| Type of "Man" in a Beatles title |
NOWHERE |
| Unit of work |
ERG |
| Where drivers form a line, briefly |
DMV |
| Wife of Geraint, in Arthurian lore |
ENID |
| Wind up |
END |
| Worse than bad |
EVIL |
