Clues | Answers |
---|---|
”Here’s to you!”, for one | TOAST |
”Hey, you!” | PSST |
”That’s too bad” | ALAS |
A Great Lake | ERIE |
A smaller number | FEWER |
Adolescent | TEEN |
Ancient fable teller | AESOP |
And others: Abbr | ETAL |
Arm joints | ELBOWS |
Ask formally to appear | SUMMON |
Baby’s bed | CRIB |
Back talk | SASS |
Beef or pork | MEAT |
Brother of Cain | ABEL |
Buy stocks or bonds | INVEST |
Buyer-protection agency | CONSUMERAFFAIRS |
Cake decorator | ICER |
Carpet fastener | TACK |
Catch sight of | SPOT |
Chop finely | MINCE |
Church sale | BAZAAR |
Commonplace | USUAL |
Competes in a marathon | RUNS |
Confront boldly | FACE |
Convent dwellers | NUNS |
Costumes’ head coverings | MASKS |
Cowboy show | RODEO |
Creative thought | IDEA |
Diamond weight measure | CARAT |
Driver of flying reindeer | SANTA |
Emphatic typeface: Abbr | ITAL |
Fedora or beret | HAT |
Fender mishap | DENT |
Flower stalk | STEM |
Forms of a verb | TENSES |
Go up a mountain | CLIMB |
Grown-up boys | MEN |
Highways: Abbr | RTES |
Holder for eyeglasses | CASE |
Clues | Answers |
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In addition | ALSO |
Informal ”I understand” | GOTCHA |
Informal language | SLANG |
Invalidate | UNDO |
Japan’s continent | ASIA |
Locale | SITE |
Major happening | EVENT |
Make simpler | EASE |
Metallic rocks | ORES |
Metered vehicle | TAXI |
More or __ (approximately) | LESS |
Most prudent | WISEST |
No-no | TABOO |
Not doing anything | IDLE |
Not fooled by | ONTO |
Outlandishly comical | ZANY |
Paper Mate’s pen rivals | BICS |
Perched on | ATOP |
Piece of lettuce | LEAF |
Portions of corn | EARS |
Pub drinks | ALES |
Red vegetables | BEETS |
Roster | LIST |
Shorthand expert, for short | STENO |
Sign up for something | ENROLL |
Singing groups without sopranos or altos | MALECHOIRS |
Spouse’s mom or dad | INLAW |
Sultan’s group of wives | HAREM |
Take a crack __ (try) | ATIT |
Thaws | MELTS |
The __ Ranger (Western hero) | LONE |
Turn out to be | ENDUP |
Underway, to Sherlock | AFOOT |
Volcano outflow | LAVA |
Watch secretly | SPYON |
Water-supply storage areas | RESERVOIRS |
Word-of-mouth | ORAL |
Yoked animals | OXEN |
__ of the above (something else) | NONE |
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