Eugene Sheffer – King Feature Syndicate – Sep 14 2018
Published in Eugene Sheffer King Feature Syndicate. Tags: FLOUT, HEARTH, POEM, SMUT, TEACHERS, TORN, TOT.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘That hurts!’ | OUCH |
| ‘Waterloo’ group | ABBA |
| Aachen article | EIN |
| Actor Neeson | LIAM |
| Avoids | SHUNS |
| Baseball’s Tommie | AGEE |
| Billions of years | EONS |
| Black, in verse | EBON |
| Blackbird | ANI |
| Blue material? | SMUT |
| Bond rating | AAA |
| Borneo ape, for short | ORANG |
| Brit’s restroom | LOO |
| Business attire | SUIT |
| Carefree | GAY |
| Cauterizes | SEARS |
| Chemical suffix | ANE |
| Cook eggs in water | POACH |
| Cowboy’s footwear | BOOT |
| Custard recipe | FLAN |
| Distant | FAR |
| Easter entrees | HAMS |
| Excellent, in slang | PHAT |
| Extend a hand (to) | REACHOUT |
| Fireplace part | HEARTH |
| Foot warmers | SOCKS |
| Fruit-filled dessert | PEACHPIE |
| Funnel-shaped flowers | PETUNIAS |
| Garden pest | APHID |
| Green prefix | ECO |
| Hollywood clashers | EGOS |
| Hose woe | SNAG |
| Inquisitive | NOSY |
| Jazz great Getz | STAN |
| Like most car radios | AMFM |
| Little, to Verdi | POCO |
| Long ride? | LIMO |
| Lummoxes | OAFS |
| Mentors | TEACHERS |
| Migration of a sort | DIASPORA |
| Millinery | HATS |
| Nanny’s charge | TOT |
| Optimist’s credo | ICAN |
| Palsy-walsy | CHUMMY |
| Passing craze | FAD |
| PC alternatives | MACS |
| Percolating, as water | LEACHING |
| Persian bigwig | SHAH |
| Pool sticks | CUES |
| Post-op area | ICU |
| Recorded | TAPED |
| Scoff at | FLOUT |
| Secret agent | SPY |
| Slightly | ABIT |
| Snooze | NAP |
| Start of a spell | ABRA |
| Sty cry | OINK |
| Sun. talk | SER |
| Tarzan’s mate | JANE |
| Till bills | ONES |
| Try out | TEST |
| Undecided | TORN |
| Verse | POEM |
| Writer Didion | JOAN |