Author: by Craig Stowe
Across
Handed out, as cards | DEALT |
“Easy now!” | WHOA |
Dear ___ (advice column) | ABBY |
Permanent “au revoir” | ADIEU |
Belonging to us | OURS |
___ gin fizz | SLOE |
Parts for character actors, often | MINORROLES |
Exchange for cash and a ticket | PAWN |
Family dog, e.g. | PET |
Carpenter’s fastener | NAIL |
Legal | LICIT |
C ___ Charlie | ASIN |
Explore coral reefs, perhaps | SNORKEL |
Game pieces depicting dragons and bamboo | MAHJONGGTILES |
“That is to say …” | IMEAN |
Merest amount | IOTA |
None too pleased | MAD |
Approach | NEAR |
Kids’ request for permission | CANWE |
Liver secretion | BILE |
Come to a conclusion | END |
Chums | PALS |
Stage, like a show | PUTON |
White upper lips | MILKMUSTACHES |
Items on monuments’ walls | PLAQUES |
Garden hose problem | KINK |
Dean’s compilations | LISTS |
___ colada | PINA |
Winter malady | FLU |
Add to the poker pot | ANTE |
“Wrecking Ball” singer | MILEYCYRUS |
March 15, notably | IDES |
Head-heels connection | OVER |
Catches wind (of) | HEARS |
Flitter | DART |
Some have rows of roses | BEDS |
“New paragraph” key | ENTER |
Down
Clammy | DAMP |
Actress Falco | EDIE |
“If it ___ broke, don’t fix it” | AINT |
Sign before Virgo | LEO |
Boots up | TURNSON |
Courting | WOOING |
Shipwreck remnant | HULL |
Smelting furnace input | ORE |
Complete jerk | ASS |
Strive | ASPIRE |
Metalworker with an anvil | BLACKSMITH |
Knife variety named for an Alamo defender | BOWIE |
1983 Barbra Streisand film | YENTL |
Umbrella weather | RAIN |
“Whatever ___ Wants” (“Damn Yankees” song) | LOLA |
Slightly open | AJAR |
Stash in the overhead bin | STOW |
Evening, informally | NITE |
Not yours | MINE |
“I’m with you, sister!” | AMEN |
Private school authority | HEADMASTER |
Knife brand originally called Quikut | GINSU |
Soothing shaving cream ingredient | ALOE |
Lairs | DENS |
Frosted dessert | CAKE |
Charitable gifts | ALMS |
Doe’s beau | BUCK |
Also | PLUS |
Flamboyant style | PANACHE |
Exam for a Mensa hopeful | IQTEST |
Many Vail visitors | SKIERS |
Itsy-bitsy | TINY |
Lumberjack jacket pattern | PLAID |
Hamilton of “The Terminator” | LINDA |
Implored | PLED |
Word before “house” or “boy” | FRAT |
Entice | LURE |
Sputnik launcher: Abbr. | USSR |
Unruly crowd | MOB |
“___ been thinking …” | IVE |
Kyoto cash | YEN |