| ''Are you serious?'' |
WHAT |
| ''Cato'' playwright |
ADDISON |
| ''Dear old'' one |
DAD |
| ''The Cloister and the Hearth'' author |
READE |
| ''The Life of Riley'' character |
ODELL |
| 17th Greek letter |
RHO |
| A name of God |
YAHWEH |
| Abu ___ |
DHABI |
| Aerated drink |
COLA |
| Ancient |
OLD |
| Bass-baritone Simon |
ESTES |
| Buzzing annoyance |
GNAT |
| Bygone coins |
LIRAS |
| China placement? |
ASIA |
| Conger, e.g. |
EEL |
| Davenport denizen |
IOWAN |
| Demean |
ABASE |
| Dismal state |
DREARINESS |
| Elbow-wrist connecting bone |
ULNA |
| Elmira locale, for short |
NYS |
| Engender |
SPAWN |
| Flue residue |
ASH |
| Founder of modern chemistry |
LAVOISIER |
| German poet Heinrich |
HEINE |
| Give the heave-ho |
OUST |
| Golf trap contents |
SAND |
| Horror film with rats |
BEN |
| Hullabaloo |
ADO |
| Ice cream units |
PINTS |
| Infamous Spandau prison inmate |
HESS |
| Island of central Hawaii |
LANAI |
| Land of the leprechauns |
EIRE |
| Leave unchanged, to an editor |
STET |
| Left Bank locale |
SEINE |
| Legal matter |
RES |
| Length X width |
AREA |
| Like a Stephen King story |
EERIE |
| Like Lewis Carroll's oysters |
EATEN |
| Line for a sewer? |
SEAM |