| 'Billy Bathgate' novelist |
ELDOCTOROW |
| 'Champagne for One' sleuth |
WOLFE |
| 'If music be the food of love ...' speaker in 'Twelfth Night' |
ORSINO |
| 'Something to Talk About' singer, 1991 |
RAITT |
| 'The Avengers' villain, 2012 |
LOKI |
| 'There is no ___ except stupidity': Wilde |
SIN |
| '___ reminder ...' |
ASA |
| 1970s pact partly negotiated in Helsinki |
SALTI |
| Acknowledges |
ALLOWS |
| Acupuncturist's concern |
CHI |
| Arcade game prize grabber |
CLAWCRANE |
| Arena |
REALM |
| Bay, for one |
TREE |
| Besmirch |
TARNISH |
| Bit of sachet stuffing |
PETAL |
| Block |
THWART |
| Bone under a watchband |
ULNA |
| Cauldron stirrer |
CRONE |
| Challenge to ambulance chasers |
TORTREFORM |
| Classic kitschy wall hanging |
VELVETELVIS |
| Classroom clickers of old |
ABACI |
| Common catch off the coast of Maryland |
BLUECRAB |
| Croupier's stick material |
RATTAN |
| Crude alternative |
OILSHALE |
| Cry of despair |
IMRUINED |
| Culmination |
ACME |
| Dickens's Miss Havisham, famously |
JILTEE |
| Ex-G.I.'s org |
VFW |
| Exasperates |
TRIES |
| Face in a particular direction |
ORIENT |
| Fiacre, to taxi drivers |
PATRONSAINT |
| Fox hunt cry |
HALLO |
| Golf commentator's subject |
LIE |
| ID clincher |
DNA |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer settings |
SHTETLS |
