| Clues | Answers |
| “Holy smokes!” | WOW |
| “__ Town” | OUR |
| Accomplishment | FEAT |
| Ave. crossers | STS |
| Blundered | ERRED |
| Bulldog backer | ELI |
| Car parts | DOORS |
| Cemetery spirit | GHOUL |
| Chiding sound | TSK |
| Compass point | NORTH |
| D.C. VIP | SEN |
| Essentially | ATHEART |
| Eventually | SOMEDAY |
| Fancy neckwear | ASCOT |
| Glade setting | FOREST |
| Good long-term investment | GROWTHSTOCK |
| Heavy paper | CARDSTOCK |
| High pt | MTN |
| Homer work | ILIAD |
| Humor | WIT |
| In the past | ONCE |
| Insurance workers | RATERS |
| Intensify | DEEPEN |
| Lamb’s mother | EWE |
| Like blue cheese | MOLDY |
| Like Zeus and Ares | GREEK |
| Look forward to | AWAIT |
| May honoree | MOM |
| Mediocre | SOSO |
| Melted-cheese dish | FONDUE |
| Neopagan practice | WICCA |
| Noted 1969 event | WOODSTOCK |
| Oxen connectors | YOKES |
| Pale | WAN |
| Penguin’s cousin | AUK |
| Refer to | CITE |
| Roused from slumber | WOKEN |
| Rural sights | BARNS |
| Saddle part | HORN |
| Secret lingo | ARGOT |
| Sit-up targets | ABS |
| Sparkler | JEWEL |
| Stereo forerunner | MONO |
| Strongly advocate | PUSHFOR |
| Sturgeon eggs | ROE |
| Tiny | BITTY |
| Triangular sail | JIB |
| Try out | USE |
| Wake up | ROUSE |
| Was ahead | LED |
| When expected | ONCUE |
| __ Jima | IWO |
