| GREENER | Like a next-door neighbor's lawn, or so it seems |
| NOSY | Like some bad next-door neighbors |
| ABUT | Be a next-door neighbor to |
| NOISE | Late-night annoyance from a next-door neighbor |
| APPARENTLY | Put on to cover a tear, or so it seems |
| EMPEROR | Ruler in a temper, or so it seems (7) |
| LOOKS | "Down with skool!" - or so it seems (5) |
| TORSO | Trunk found in forest, or so it seems (5) |
| WASPISH | Spiteful and virulent women are snakelike, or so it seems (7) |
| ENOSIS | European Union starts to entice Norway, or so it seems |
| SETGREATSTOREBY | Build a next-door hypermarket, maybe, providing value |
| CRYSTALMETHLAB | You don't want this as a next door neighbour |
| MAGENTA | Blue's next-door neighbor, on "Blue's Clues" (she's pink so you know she's a girl ?) |
| RUCHE | A strip or pleated or frilled lawn or lace |
| DIVOT | Clod of turf dug out of a fairway, croquet lawn or polo field by a golf club, mallet or horse's hoof (5) |
| IRMA | Thirsty's wife and the next-door neighbor of Hi and Lois |
| ANDROMEDAGALAXY | Our next-door neighbor (2 wds.) |
| NED | Next-door neighbor of Homer and Marge |
| HERB | Dagwood's next-door neighbor, in "Blondie" |
| JERRYHELPER | Rob Petrie's next door neighbor, dentist and best friend |