| APHRODISIACS | Makes people hot when A/C has broken, and so I drip terribly (12) |
| SCRIBE | E.C. has broken ribs and he's a writer, too! (6) |
| POTATO | Murphy getting hot when a Tote jackpot is disputed (6,6) |
| JACKET | Murphy getting hot when a Tote jackpot is disputed (6,6) |
| RAYON | Fabric that becomes a coloring stick when a "c" is added to the front |
| ALVIN | Man's name that becomes another man's name when a "C" is put in front |
| OVERT | Word that becomes its opposite when a "C" is added to the front |
| TODIE | The Ramones couldn't be broken and so live on (3.5.2.3) |
| TOOTOUGH | The Ramones couldn't be broken and so live on (3-5-2-3) |
| MURIELBOWSER | This current mayor of Washington, D.C., has been an advocate of its statehood since taking office in 2015; in 2022, she even had 51-star U.S. flags raised along Pennsylvania Avenue |
| SEAMUSAMUSES | Heaney makes people smile? |
| CUPIDSOUFFLE | *Egg dish that makes people fall in love? |
| FACETHE | "And now the end is near; And so I ... final curtain; My friend, I'll say it clear; I'll state my case of which I'm certain," sang Frank Sinatra in My Way (4,3) |
| WHICHIM | "And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain; My friend, I'll say it clear; I'll state |
| FILMACTOR | Getting into part, I'm embracing challenge most profoundly - and so I should! (4,5) |
| INTRINSICAL | By my very nature, I can't sin and so I left, right? |
| ENDIS | "And now, the _____ near, and so I face the final curtain..." |
| ADONIS | And so I became a fair man |
| INTERPRETATION | Page: "Althea dreamt she was delivered of a firebrand, and therefore I call him her dream." Prince Harry (giving him money): "A crown's worth of good ____!" (Henry IV, Pa |
| PORTION | I need just one piece with my drink and then I get on with it (7) |
