| Not easily read |
ENCODED |
| Notable time |
ERA |
| Old hand |
PRO |
| Onions partner |
LIVER |
| Oodles |
ALOT |
| Pale with fright |
ASHEN |
| Part of an airport lineup |
CAB |
| Patton portrayer |
SCOTT |
| Places for notes |
PADS |
| Play for a 30 Across |
USE |
| Prefix for nautical |
AERO |
| Prefix with log |
EPI |
| Puts an end to |
CEASES |
| Quick punch |
JAB |
| Red-beans partner |
RICE |
| Red-ink figures |
LOSSES |
| Religious offshoot |
SECT |
| Roman poet |
OVID |
| Runway surface |
TARMAC |
| Russian plain |
STEPPE |
| Rye-bottle word |
PROOF |
| Salt's ''Halt!'' |
AVAST |
| Show flexibility |
ADAPT |
| Singleton |
ONE |
| Start a volley |
SERVE |
| Surface figure |
AREA |
| Susan Lucci role |
ERICA |
| Swelled heads |
EGOS |
| Take steps |
ACT |
| Tennis pro Dementieva |
ELENA |
| Top pick, slangily |
FAVE |
| Tree of the pine family |
LARCH |
| Trojan War epic |
ILIAD |
| Tuneup pro |
CARMECHANIC |
| Turkey's capital |
ANKARA |
| Valve-moving part |
TAPPET |
| Very top |
ACME |
| Zydeco, e.g. |
CAJUNMUSIC |
| __ soda (sodium carbonate) |
SAL |
