| Inventing initials |
TAE |
| Like Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 |
ING |
| Literary count, familiarly |
DRAC |
| Loiters |
HANGSOUT |
| Lucrative venture |
GOLDMINE |
| Marinates |
STEEPS |
| Material flaw |
RIP |
| Mattel game since 1992 |
UNO |
| NASCAR Hall of Fame locale: Abbr |
NCAR |
| Net |
AFTERTAX |
| Old Scottish officials |
THANES |
| One often looking down |
SNOB |
| Open-weave fabric |
SCRIM |
| Organ with scales |
PINECONE |
| Original "Burn Notice" airer |
USA |
| Platitude |
TRUISM |
| Put on a throne |
ENSEAT |
| Raise |
ERECT |
| Regulatory legal association |
STATEBAR |
| Reversible chemical process |
IONEXCHANGE |
| Runoff facilitators |
STORMDRAINS |
| Rx notation |
TER |
| Sci-fi figure |
DROID |
| Shilling spender |
SOMALI |
| Smoke, perhaps |
CURE |
| Smudge |
BLOT |
| Start of an intermission? |
ENTR |
| Summer, at times |
CPA |
| Tannery output |
SUEDES |
| They don't sound as welcoming as they are |
HOSTELS |
| Three-volume biography of Winston Churchill |
THELASTLION |
| USCG rank |
CPO |
| Well target |
CRUDEOIL |
| Wheelbarrow feature |
AXLE |
| Who's sorry now |
RUER |
| Would-be designer, perhaps |
ARTMAJOR |