Latin grammar task: Abbr., 4 letters
Give a passionate recital, 7 letters
Elvis Costello's real first name, 6 letters
Elvis Costello's real name, ___ McManus, 6 letters
Apt anagram of AN ORAL EDICT, 11 letters
Unsworn statement in a legal transaction, 11 letters
A formal expression by a meeting, 11 letters
Agreed to by a vote, 11 letters
Emphatic or explicit statement, 11 letters
I'm Chevy Chase and You're not, for example, 20 letters
Indicate (usually in a home game) whether one is going high, low, or both*, 7 letters
Keep secret no longer, 7 letters
Name trump, in bridge, 7 letters
Speak at Canada Customs?, 7 letters
Speak to the customs officer?, 7 letters
Well, I ___! (southern belle's phrase), 7 letters
Make a windy pronouncement?, 15 letters
Like some goods at Customs, 8 letters
Like some items at customs, 8 letters
Named trumps, in bridge, 8 letters
Stated with conviction, 8 letters
One going through Customs, e.g., 8 letters
South, in bridge columns, 8 letters
Someone who claims to speak the truth, 8 letters
Dummies' other halves, 9 letters
Announces officially, 8 letters
Goes high, for example, in a high-low split game in which cards do not speak*, 8 letters
States emphatically, 8 letters
Announce authorization?, 15 letters
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this: 2 wds., 10 letters
Make known your plans to attack, 10 letters
Bust to a private, say, 7 letters
Lowered in social position, 8 letters
Of a lower social order, 8 letters
Reduced to low status, 8 letters
Make less threatening, 6 letters
Make less threatening, in a way, 6 letters
Make life less fun for, as a cat, 6 letters
Make safe, as a cat, 6 letters
Make unable to scratch, 6 letters
Remove the nails from, as a cat, 6 letters
Render harmless, in a way, 6 letters
Render harmless, perhaps, 6 letters
Render unable to scratch, 6 letters
Make hip-hop dancers harmless?, 14 letters
Like one who can't scratch the surface, 8 letters
Like some housecats, 8 letters
Makes safe, as a cat, 7 letters
Gradual deterioration, 7 letters
As of stored charge or current, 7 letters
A condition inferior to an earlier condition, 7 letters
Change toward something smaller or lower, 7 letters
Insist on self-financing?, 14 letters
Refused an invitation, 8 letters
Insults the Godfather?, 15 letters
Offends the Godfather?, 15 letters
Decides not to talk to the media, 15 letters
Eschew the Chardonnay, perhaps, 11 letters
A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact, 11 letters
The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages, 10 letters
Process of changing to an inferior state, 10 letters
Expressed in degrees, 11 letters
Used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere, 11 letters
The polite declining of an invitation, 11 letters
An instrument for measuring magnetic declination, 12 letters