| "Do as I say" |
OBEY |
| "Give them ___ best" |
OUR |
| "Howards ___" (1992 Oscar winner) |
END |
| "Monopoly" token choice |
HAT |
| "One ___ or two?" |
LUMP |
| "Out, dagnabbit!" |
GIT |
| "Sir" to Gunga Din |
SAHIB |
| "___ my case" (courtroom phrase) |
IREST |
| "___ Shrugged" |
ATLAS |
| "___ to Joy" (Schiller poem) |
ODE |
| ''Batman'' actor West |
ADAM |
| ''Burnt Weeny Sandwich'' composer Frank |
ZAPPA |
| ''Goodness gracious!'' |
OHMY |
| ''Hold your horses!'' |
NOTYET |
| ''Mefistofele'' soprano |
ELENA |
| ''The Cherry Orchard'' playwright Chekhov |
ANTON |
| ''The First Wives Club'' co-star |
HAWN |
| ''Uncle!'' |
IGIVE |
| ''___ Cinders'' (1926) |
ELLA |
| ''___ Rosenkavalier'' |
DER |
| A, B or O, to the Red Cross |
TYPE |
| Accords |
PACTS |
| Acquires through work |
EARNS |
| Adult elver |
EEL |
| Algerian seaport |
ORAN |
| Alphabetized, e.g. |
SORTED |
| Alumna identifier |
NEE |
| American ___ (North Dakota's state tree) |
ELM |
| Anatomical bump |
NODE |
| Anchor's field |
NEWS |
| Area behind the choir, perhaps |
APSE |
| Ball game delayer |
RAIN |
| Barely managed (with ''out'') |
EKED |
| Baseball's Sammy |
SOSA |
| Bathtub dirt |
SCUM |
| Beaten, a la Bobby Fischer |
MATED |
| Beef |
STEER |
| Bench-clearing brawls |
MELEES |
| Beset |
HASSLE |
| Birds do it |
SING |
| Border on |
ABUT |
| Bounds along |
LOPES |
| Brazen boldness |
GALL |
| Broadcast's sound portion |
AUDIO |
| Broadway star Verdon |
GWEN |
| California wine region |
NAPA |
| Capable feller? |
AXE |
| Cask dregs |
LEES |
| Celebrity couple, in the tabloids |
ITEM |
| Cellist Casals |
PABLO |
| Certain Greek vowels |
IOTAS |
| Chairperson's plan |
AGENDA |
| Chaperon, typically |
ADULT |
| Checklist unit |
ITEM |
| Chicago-to-Atlanta dir. |
SSE |
| Color of unbleached wool |
ECRU |
| Comic bit |
GAG |
| Computer operator |
USER |
| Comrade in arms |
ALLY |
| Contaminate |
TAINT |
| Cote denizens |
EWES |
| Cotton on a stick |
SWAB |
| Country cousin of ain't |
AMNT |
| Creole cookery item |
OKRA |
| Croquet striker |
MALLET |
| Cut with acid |
ETCH |
| Diploma holder, informally |
GRAD |
| Dowdy dresser |
FRUMP |
| Drug portion |
DOSE |
| E pluribus ___ |
UNUM |
| Editorial, e.g. |
COLUMN |
| Eloquent equine of '60s TV |
MRED |
| Emotional heat |
ANGER |
| Event attended by Cinderella |
BALL |
| Expanse |
AREA |
| Fabric fuzz |
NAP |
| Fashion plate |
FANCYDRESSER |
| Fashionable English dandy |
BEAUBRUMMELL |
| Fern germ |
SPORE |
| Flat float |
RAFT |
| Form columns |
TABULATE |
| Fortuneteller's card |
TAROT |
| Fruit coolers |
ADES |
| Full amount |
TOTAL |
| Gaggle gang |
GEESE |
| Garlic, egg and oil sauce |
AIOLI |
| Get your bearings |
ORIENT |
| Give the right (to) |
ENTITLE |
| Give the slip |
ELUDE |
| Goat's-milk cheese |
FETA |
| Hankerings |
YENS |
| Hardly chivalrous |
RUDE |
| Hatchling homes |
NESTS |
| He entered the ring to ''Pomp and Circumstance'' |
GORGEOUSGEORGE |
| He lost to D.D.E. |
AES |
| Hobbling gait |
GIMP |
| Home run runs |
TROTS |
| Honk the horn |
TOOT |
| Hoops great Archibald |
NATE |
| Household cleaning brand |
SPICANDSPAN |
| How often Santa checks his list |
TWICE |
| How some stand |
PAT |
| Immobilize, at a rodeo |
HOGTIE |
| In the distance |
AFAR |
| In the manner of |
ALA |
| Inspire love in |
ENAMOR |
| It comes out in the wash |
ODOR |
| It may be bright or big |
IDEA |
| Japanese bay city |
OSAKA |
| Japanese immigrant |
ISSEI |
| Jaunty rhythm |
LILT |
| Jennifer in "Dreamgirls" |
EFFIE |
| Just a pinch |
DASH |
| Keats poem |
LAMIA |
| Kind of exam |
ORAL |
| Kind of gun |
RADAR |