| CHICKPEAS | And as soon as she arrives at our table, Ed always says, "___!" And that's why we don't go to salad bars with Ed. |
| CLEANSED | "And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was ____" (Mark 1:42) |
| SASH | Waistband starts soon as she hopes |
| YEE | "They always say '___ haw' but never ask 'haw ___'" (meme caption on a picture of a sad cowboy) |
| LETDOWN | We don't go sailing on the lake, a disappointment (7) |
| ENDOF | "___ story!" ("And that's that!") |
| ERICA | She arrives after morning to make it to one of the continents (5) |
| SHEAR | She arrives shortly to take off the woolly coat (5) |
| PURSUE | To us, it's pure - that's why we chase it (6) |
| DISHONOURABLE | Shameful to put dish on our table without thinking first (13) |
| TACOENO | ...looking back on it, the best part of that game was when composer Brian gave you a Tex-Mex treat. That's why we called him ___ |
| INCOMER | She arrives, providing a source of funds, right? (7) |
| ORAL | Odd extracts from our table of speech (4) |
| SIT | Come join our table! |
| PIECE | Said "Quiet!" and that's not all (5) |
| BYHEART | The way we used to learn our tables, thoroughly committed to memory (2,5) |
| GOODNIGHTLADLES | What the punch bowl always says before going to sleep? |
| DOOMMERCHANT | A person who always says that bad things are going to happen (4,8) |
| EXPELLED | Told by mistress to go and that's why he didn't learn his lesson (8) |
| ART | "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to ___": Augustus Saint-Gaudens |