| Long, long time for a Brit? |
AEON |
| Makes like a snake |
SLITHERS |
| Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of ___" |
MIMI |
| Master's requirement, usually |
THESIS |
| Mechanical learning method |
ROTE |
| Middle Eastern gulf |
OMAN |
| Molding type |
OGEE |
| Much-used pencil |
STUB |
| Narrow escape exclamation |
PHEW |
| Natalie Wood's sister |
LANA |
| Nerve cell impulse transmitter |
AXON |
| Neutral middle vowel |
SCHWA |
| No longer here |
GONE |
| One putting "punch" in the punch |
LACER |
| One putting words to music |
LYRICIST |
| Online filter target |
SPAM |
| Pampas weapons |
BOLAS |
| Participate in a 401(k) |
SAVE |
| Recurring blink, say |
TIC |
| Result of an overactive pituitary |
GIANTISM |
| Result of Michelle Obama's midlife crisis? |
BANGS |
| Run at the mouth |
DROOL |
| Run smoothly |
HUM |
| Salad type |
TUNA |
| Shocking, and then some |
EARTHSHATTERING |
| Shop tool |
LATHE |
| Site for big fight night |
ARENA |
| Some drink orders |
SMALLS |
| Something for a baseball highlight reel |
SHOESTRINGCATCH |
| Straddling |
ATOP |
| The mating game? |
CHESS |
| They're in pods |
PEAS |
| This and that |
THOSE |
| Turkey is a part of it |
NATO |
| Two of a kind |
DYAD |
| Unmixed, as whiskey |
NEAT |
| What tinnitus causes |
RINGSINONESEARS |
| Wide-open, as a mouth |
AGAPE |
| ___ Rock (Uluru) |
AYERS |