| LANCE | "Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many ____s in vain ever to hope for their extirpation" (Disraeli) |
| CARB | John Goodman & Kevin Smith consume way too many ____s. |
| HUGESUCCESS | Entrepreneur's hope for their business |
| SLAYER | St. George, to dragons |
| LOSER | "I guess I just didn't fully grasp how many ___s there are in the world. Like I knew there were a lot of ___s out there, but the amount of ___s that would have to exist to, one, make this product feas |
| ACAI | Alternative to dragon fruit, in a smoothie bowl |
| CHINA | Country where the word for "lobster" translates literally to "dragon shrimp" |
| TRAINYOUR | Viking fantasy animation sequel, How to...Dragon 2 (5,4) |
| CATARRH | Sailor in saloon, maybe, beginning to hope for discharge |
| CINCH | Top commander's beginning to hope for certainty (5) |
| CHICAGO | Fashionable in the past to hope for hospital drama starring Hector Elizondo (7) |
| USELESS | "The production of too many useful things results in too many ___ people": Karl Marx (7) |
| ITALIAN | "...the pride taken by the ___ s in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance" -- Walter Shaw Sparrow (7) |
| HOLDOUT | Said to have succeeded in golf and to fight on |
| ESCORT | American Buckley class destroyers and British Flower class corvettes were used in convoy ____s in the Battle of the Atlantic |
| IDCARD | A 2006 Act established a national framework for ____s in the UK, but was repealed in 2011 |
| REDHOT | Can't remember if they ever had ______s in theaters, but I loved them as a kid. |
| TRIUMPH | Strong card has one beginning to hope for win (7) |
| HAIRSPRAY | With Irish on board, has to hope for a fine solution |
| KNOCKONWOOD | Handling offence, court finally seemed to hope for luck from America |
