Oleo squares
Else clues• ___ down (frisks)
• ___ on the back: praises
• 2002 championship team
• 2002 Super Bowl champs, familiarly
• 2002 Super Bowl winners, in headlines
• Affectionate gestures
• Affectionate taps
• Authors Barker and Conroy
• Back strokes?
• Back supports?
• Back-hand compliments?
• Benatar and Boone
• Bit of butter
• Boone and Benatar
• Boone and Buchanan
• Boone and O'Brien
• Boone and Paulsen
• Bradley and McGowan
• Brady and Moss, e.g.
• Buchanan and Nixon
• Butter bits
• Butter dabs
• Butter measures
• Butter pieces
• Butter portions
• Butter servings
• Butter slices
• Butter squares
• Caresses
• Caresses gently
• Causes one not to draw cards (with [one] up)*
• Certain congratulations
• Comforting touches
• Congratulates
• Congratulates in a way
• Congratulations of a sort
• Congratulatory or consoling gestures
• Congratulatory strokes on the back
• Consoles, in a way
• Dabs
• Dog rewards
• Encourages
• Encourages, perhaps
• Encouraging signs?
• Encouraging touches
• Football team or some points they score, for short
• Forms of encouragement
• Foxboro bunch
• Foxboro pros, for short
• Frisks
• Frisks, with down
• Gentle touches
• Gently strokes
• Gillete Stadium players, familiarly
• Hingle and Boone
• Last year's Super Bowl champs
• Light slaps
• Light strokes
• Light touches
• Little touches
• Loving strokes
• Margarine slices
• Metheny and Boone
• N.E. eleven
• N.E. gridders, in headlines
• NE gridiron champs
• New England eleven, familiarly
• New England football team, for short
• New England footballers, for short
• New England NFLers
• New England team, for short
• New England team, to fans
• NFL scores
• NFL team, for short
• Nixon and Schroeder
• Portions of butter
• Praises for pups
• Praises, in a way
• Puppy pleasers
• Puts on a foundation
• Reassures, in a way
• Sajak and Benatar
• Sajak and Summerall
• Sen. Moynihan et al.
• Shows of approval
• Singers Benatar and Boone
• Soft touches
• Some congratulations
• Some encouragement
• Spread things?
• Squares at diner tables
• Squares in a breadbasket
• Squares on the table
• Strokes
• Strokes affectionately
• Super Bowl XXXIX champs, to their fans
• Super Bowl XXXVI champs, familiarly
• Super Bowl XXXVI champs, to fans
• Taps gently
• TD trailers
• They may be directed toward the back
• They may be on the back
• They're welcome on the back
• Three-time grid champs of the 2000s
• Tom Brady and his bunch
• Touches affectionately
• Touches gently
• Touches lightly
• Touches with affection