| Clues | Answers |
| “Why don’t we!” | LETS |
| Accept eagerly | LAPUP |
| Aide: Abbr | ASST |
| Aquarium fish | TETRA |
| Auction action | NOD |
| Battery end | ANODE |
| Before long | SOON |
| Bird with flippers | PENGUIN |
| Bob Cratchit’s son | TIM |
| Calls for | NEEDS |
| Checkout act | SCAN |
| Day in Hollywood | DORIS |
| Depressed | LOW |
| Fine | PENALTY |
| Fire | CAN |
| Glowing | RADIANT |
| Golfer Ernie | ELS |
| Group of five | PENTAD |
| Holiday lead-in | EVE |
| Imitated | APED |
| Imitating | ALA |
| John of music | ELTON |
| Keyboard pros | TYPISTS |
| Library request | SILENCE |
| Like the jack of diamonds | TWOEYED |
| Lose freshness | WILT |
| Make a choice | OPT |
| Make blank | ERASE |
| More than enough | PLENTY |
| Musical symbol | SHARP |
| Pink shade | CORAL |
| Plopped down | SAT |
| Poet Nash | OGDEN |
| Posted | SENT |
| Professor at Hogwarts | SNAPE |
| Quartet doubled | OCTET |
| Rice field | PADDY |
| Secret lingo | ARGOT |
| Selects via finger | TAPSON |
| Solving tool | PENCIL |
| Some | ANY |
| Spring forth | EMANATE |
| Steer clear of | AVOID |
| Tightly packed | DENSE |
| Travel stop | INN |
| Try out | USE |
| Wakening | AROUSAL |
| Walk in water | WADE |
| Writer Uris | LEON |
| — Kong | HONG |
