| Mid-month date |
IDES |
| Montezuma, for one |
AZTEC |
| Night flight |
REDEYE |
| Otherwise |
OR |
| Past |
AGO |
| Pennsylvania port |
ERIE |
| Petri dish gel |
AGAR |
| Pinch |
NIP |
| Pismire |
ANT |
| Pop |
SODA |
| Prickly seed case |
BUR |
| Relinquish the throne |
ABDICATE |
| Robinson or Dalloway |
MRS |
| Sales pitch |
SPIEL |
| Sand formation |
DUNE |
| Savings-plan acronym |
IRA |
| Scrub a NASA mission |
ABORT |
| Showroom sample |
DEMO |
| Subject's follower |
PREDICATE |
| Tempo |
BEAT |
| Test the waters |
WADE |
| Third pig's material |
BRICKS |
| Time of your life? |
AGE |
| Top |
CREST |
| Track circuits |
LAPS |
| Tropical tree |
PALM |
| Unyielding |
IRON |
| Uses a taser |
ZAPS |
| Vim and vigor |
PEP |
| Visa rival |
AMEX |
| Wile E. Coyote's supplier |
ACME |
| Witticism |
MOT |
| Wrestling surface |
MAT |
