| REESE | "A Handful of Lavendar" poet Lizette Woodworth ___ |
| REESES | Family of poet Lizette |
| WISP | A handful of hay or straw; a small broom; a twisted bunch used as a torch; a strand of hair; a streak of smoke; or, one of slight or delicate stature (4) |
| BUNCH | Informal word for a group of people/friends; a handful of flowers; or, a cluster of grapes (5) |
| OLDOAKENBUCKET | Traditional song by Samuel Woodworth |
| OAKEN | "The Old ___ Bucket" (Woodworth poem) |
| LAN | Lizette Carrion on "Freakylinks" |
| EVELYN | One of the first names of the author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited |
| HEIFER | What Cher Horowitz felt like after eating two bowls of Special K, three pieces of turkey bacon, a handful of popcorn, five peanut-butter M&M's and, like, three pieces of licorice |
| ALFRED | One of a handful of Smiths in the Hall of Fame |
| LILAS | Lilac, to Lizette |
| GRAB | What kids scramble to do to the candy that falls out of a pinata (or to pick up a handful of movie theater popcorn) |
| ALFONSONIETO | Son of a multiple World Champion who won a handful of 250cc races and still works in the Motogp paddock. (7,5) |
| COUPLE | A handful of the French behind seizure of power (6) |
| LAST | Tony ___, protagonist of 1934 Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust (4) |
| ADVANCE | Promote a social event, getting a handful of classicists in? |
| EVELYNWAUGH | The author of A Handful of Dust (6,5) |
| ELIOT | Poet from whom Waugh got his novel title "A Handful of Dust" |
| WAUGH | Author whose novel A Handful of Dust was adapted into a film starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert G |
| CONFETTI | Festive bits a partygoer needs just a handful of to make it rain |
