| Clues | Answers |
| 10 in river shortened with stick | INDUCEMENT |
| Between the two of us, locate no good new striplings | YOUNGMEN |
| Common complaint about antique | COLD |
| Complicated kind of relationship the Oval Office finally sorted out | LOVEHATE |
| Fashionable, but not hot | COOL |
| Fly, perhaps, one swallowed by nocturnal insectivore | BAIT |
| Following explosion initially in light on ceiling, not flammable or inflammable | FLAMEPROOF |
| Get excited, start attack | TURNON |
| Guinea inferior to former French colony? That’s slander | MALIGN |
| Intensity of feeling produced by race | HEAT |
| Month and year in which to take on one kind of state | MONARCHY |
| My son, crazy about Big Apple either way? It means the same | SYNONYM |
| Nothing in striking description that’s solid? | ALLOUT |
| One of 16, more or less, in island | MINORCA |
| One that’s not part of 1, not so unusual | COMMONER |
| Permit, or punitively deter, second name appearing in deed | SANCTION |
| Person who’s active in so many directions? Just the opposite | DYNAMO |
| Prone to be standing up to with determination | FACINGDOWN |
| Provided with food taken back to consume — best or worst | DEFEAT |
| Regular but infrequent publications from unknown, first abridged | YEARLIES |
| Removing or securing piece of paper | CLIPPING |
| Rise and fall before noon? Hell, no | HEAVEN |
| Self-absorbed — extra time in first half would make very little difference | EGOISTICAL |
| Show or conceal | SCREEN |
| Slander American woman, European female intervening | DEFAME |
| Something needed before formulating sentence, found in whatever dictionary | VERDICT |
| The end of some extinct creatures shown in useful reference books | THESAURI |
| This, of itself, is 15 | ANTONYM |
