| YULETIDE | It sounds as if you will get yourself in a knot by the end of the year (8) |
| INDUERE | To put on, get yourself in your glad rags, vestire (7) |
| EUGENICS | Sounds as if you start to make the race better with this (8) |
| BIRDSEYE | Of a view, as if you were looking down from the sky (5-3) |
| DEBUG | Locate and correct errors in a computer, but it sounds as if you are removing insects from, say, a greenhouse! (5) |
| ASITWERE | If you will raise tons, we will perform |
| ETERNITY | "As if you could kill time without injuring ___": Thoreau, "Walden" |
| HOOK | The part of a story that catches you before it reels you in, as if you were a creature with gills and a dorsal fin (4) |
| NICESAVE | "Way to get yourself out of trouble there" |
| ASTOR | Lady took the first seat in the house, but it sounds as if she made a bloomer! (5) |
| SUM | In addition it sounds as if it's only part of it (3) |
| STRAITENED | It sounds as if it has been put in order, but, in fact, was poverty-stricken (10) |
| TEX | S.E. Hinton novel set in Oklahoma, though it sounds as if it could be set just south of there |
| EGGS | Urges and almost sounds as if you need four to make a Queensland beer (4) |
| CANDID | To be frank, it sounds as if it's been preserved in sugar (6) |
| HUFF | Leon A ___, Philadelphia soul songwriting and record production partner of Kenneth Gamble on songs such as If You Don't Know Me by Now, Love Train, and When Will I See You Again |
| SHOO | Sounds as if you put it on to frighten them away |
| FLUE | It sounds as if it rushed up the smokestack (4) |
| CACHE | It sounds as if money is being stored in a hiding place (5) |
| KNEAD | It sounds as if one will need to work the dough (5) |
