| Kind of temper or treatment |
ILL |
| Land's end? |
SCAPE |
| Light in a light show, perhaps |
LASER |
| Links standard |
PAR |
| Melville's Billy |
BUDD |
| Nibble for a nag |
OAT |
| Not easy to get close to |
ALOOF |
| Official witness, of a kind |
NOTARY |
| Olden dagger |
SNEE |
| Part of R&R |
REST |
| Physiological property |
GENDER |
| Place for a pit stop in London? |
LOO |
| Place for thieves? |
DEN |
| Preparing to kick or drive |
TEEING |
| Preschooler's dread, sometimes |
NAP |
| Professor's protection |
TENURE |
| Racetrack tipster |
TOUT |
| Renowned |
ILLUSTRIOUS |
| Row with the flow |
OAR |
| Saint and a founder of scholasticism |
ANSELM |
| Scruff of the neck |
NAPE |
| Seattle landmark |
NEEDLE |
| Sentence fragment |
CLAUSE |
| Serve the tea |
POUR |
| Sharp taste |
TANG |
| Short straw drawer, e.g. |
LOSER |
| Sign for a sellout |
SRO |
| Skittish |
SHY |
| So far |
TODATE |
| Some are cracked |
SAFES |
| Subject of this puzzle's theme |
IOU |
| Supplication |
PLEA |
| Tax-deferred nest egg |
IRA |
| They probably think this song is about them |
EGOISTS |
| Times of note |
ERAS |
| Troublemaker of folklore |
GREMLIN |
| Type of matter |
GRAY |
| Water flowers |
LOTUSES |
