... but no ___
Else clues• --- Aficionado (magazine with much poker coverage)*
• ... is a good five-cent ___
• 1995 Horse of the Year
• April 1 exploder
• Bell-ringer's prize, perhaps
• Brown smoke
• Burns prop
• Burns smoke?
• Castro's companion
• Castro's prop
• Celebratory smoke
• Certain Cuban
• Cheroot
• Cheroot, e.g.
• Churchill item
• Churchill namesake
• Churchill trademark
• Churchillian trademark
• Claro or cheroot
• Close, but no ___
• Colorado, e.g.
• Corona, e.g.
• Cuba export
• Cuban treat
• Cuban, e.g.
• Exploding gag gift
• Exploding joke item
• G. Burn's hot companion
• Gag exploder
• Gag that might explode
• George Burns prop
• George Burns trademark
• George Burns's companion
• Grandson of Seattle Slew
• Groucho Marx fixture
• Groucho Marx prop
• Groucho prop
• Groucho trademark
• Hall of Fame racehorse whose damsire was Seattle Slew
• Havana
• Havana export
• Havana product
• Havana smoke
• Havana, e.g.
• He smoked a big ___ (Boston)
• Horse of the Year in 1995 & 1996
• Humidor item
• It may be in a poker player's hand
• It may be made of bubble gum
• It usually has a band around it
• Its brand is on its band
• Mark Twain prop
• Marx trademark
• Mid-'90s champion racehorse
• New dad's handout
• New father's handout
• Obsolescent carnival prize
• Panatela, e.g.
• Panatella
• Perfecto, e.g.
• Pipe alternative
• Post-delivery handout
• Practical joker's exploder
• Prop for George Burns
• Prop for Groucho
• Prop for Groucho Marx
• Prop for this puzzle's featured comics
• Proud papa's handout
• Proud papa's handout, perhaps
• Puff piece?
• Puffer's pleasure, perhaps
• Puritano, e.g.
• Retreating soldier shrouded by vehicle's smoke (5)
• Reward for doing better than close
• Smokable Cuban
• Smoke
• Smoke after a delivery
• Smoke for Churchill
• Smoke for Rush Limbaugh
• Stogie
• Stogie or cheroot
• Theme of this puzzle
• Thick smoke
• Victory smoke
• What a banker smokes
• What a tabaquero makes
• You Bet Your Life prop
• A roll of tobacco for smoking