| OLEO | Regional butter substitute (I swear nobody calls it this on the West Coast) |
| LICKING | Lacking a substitute, I go in and get a thrashing (7) |
| GCHAT | Former name for Google Hangouts (I still call it this, myself!) |
| ASPADE | The forthright call it this (1,5) |
| DETORTED | It's rotted and Ed calls it twisted the other way! |
| MARGARINE | A ranger I'm upsetting using butter substitute (9) |
| GRAM | Bring up the butter substitute - a metric amount (4) |
| WEST | Direction, named for vesper, where the sun calls it a day; or, the film actress Mary Jane "Mae" (4) |
| CORGI | The American Kennel Club calls it a "lively little herder" |
| GARDNER | Erle Stanley ?, author of 1937 novel The D. A. Calls It Murder and others featuring Doug Selby |
| MARGE | Butter substitute is the limit |
| EPIGRAM | Witty saying about very good butter substitute turning up (7) |
| OEDIPUSREX | Aristotle's "Poetics" calls it the perfect tragedy |
| BRANDNAME | What the manufacturer calls it (5-4) |
| TORONTO | Drake calls it "The Six" |
| DAWN | Whether one calls it Aurora, daybreak, cock-crow, Eos's entrance, first light, sunrise or sunup, it is nearly time for most to wake and get up (4) |
| RAT | Craig Tinker keeps one of these animals as a pet ___ and he calls it Darryl! (3) |
| CONQUESTS | "Mark where his carnage and his ____ cease! / He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace" (Byron) |
| SCINTILLATES | Sparkles as one calls it in set form (12) |
| RESIGNS | Grins brokenly outside Engineering School at first and calls it quits |
