| It could be a lot or a plot |
ACRE |
| It could precede a good deal |
ANTE |
| It may look for a buck |
DOE |
| Jack |
VEHICLEELEVATOR |
| Jousting weapon |
LANCE |
| Lager kin |
ALE |
| Latakia's land |
SYRIA |
| Letter-perfect contest? |
BEE |
| Like Santa's helpers |
ELFIN |
| Major broadcaster |
CBS |
| Monstrous lake |
NESS |
| Native American of the North |
CREE |
| Of higher rank than |
OVER |
| Order to a dog |
STAY |
| Place for a sacred cow? |
INDIA |
| Plaudits of a sort |
OLES |
| Pointless weapon |
EPEE |
| Produce, as a show |
PUTON |
| Proofreaders' oversights |
ERRATA |
| Putting concern |
LIE |
| Relative affluence |
EASE |
| Result of a lack of practice, metaphorically |
RUST |
| Ricky's landlady |
ETHEL |
| Rockefeller company |
ESSO |
| Rudimentary seed |
OVULE |
| Send to Siberia, e.g. |
EXILE |
| Sierra Maestra country |
CUBA |
| Snowballs, sometimes |
AMMO |
| Something forged |
IRON |
| Strange things |
EXOTICA |
| Subject of the first law of motion |
INERTIA |
| Tab picker-uppers |
TREATERS |
| Tennyson poem |
DORA |
| Tiny amount of progress |
INCH |
| Value highly |
ESTEEM |
| Waterlogged soil |
MARSH |
| Went to the bottom |
DOVE |
| Western group |
POSSE |
