___ reform (subject of a questionable 1995 Democratic fund-raising request), 4 letters
Assault or battery, e.g., 4 letters
Basis for a civil suit, 4 letters
Basis for a lawsuit, 4 letters
Basis of some civil suits, 4 letters
Battery, for example, 4 letters
Breach of contract, e.g., 4 letters
Breach of contract, for example, 4 letters
Breach of contract, in law., 4 letters
Cause for a civil action, 4 letters
Cause for a lawsuit, 4 letters
Cause for legal action, 4 letters
Cause of civil action, 4 letters
Civil action vehicle, 4 letters
Civil wrong, in court, 4 letters
Damages may result from it, 4 letters
Grounds for a lawsuit, 4 letters
Injury that brings you before the bench, 4 letters
It may lead to a suit, 4 letters
It's found west of Oise, 4 letters
It's just west of the Oise, 4 letters
Libel or assault, e.g., 4 letters
Libel or trespassing, 4 letters
Libel, for instance, 4 letters
Material for a suit?, 4 letters
Matter to go to court over, 4 letters
Perennial reform target, 4 letters
Reason for compensation, 4 letters
Reason for pressing a suit, 4 letters
Reason to press a suit, 4 letters
Reason to press a suit, perhaps, 4 letters
Slander or trespass, 4 letters
Slander or trespass, e.g., 4 letters
Something said while holding a bag, 4 letters
Subject of proposed legal reform, 4 letters
Suit material perhaps, 4 letters
Trespass, for example, 4 letters
Violation of the law, 4 letters
Wrong that's adjudicated in court, 4 letters
Wrongful act, in law, 4 letters
Wrongful act, legally, 4 letters
Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought, 4 letters
___ rustica (Italian dish), 5 letters
Cake, in Italian restaurants, 5 letters
Cake crammed with calories, 5 letters
Cake from central Europe, 5 letters
Cake often made with ground nuts, 5 letters
Calorie-crammed cake, 5 letters
Calorie-dense dessert, 5 letters
Calorie-rich dessert, 5 letters
Dessert cart choice, 5 letters
Dessert not for the diet-conscious, 5 letters
Franz Sacher creation, 5 letters
High-calorie dessert, 5 letters
Kaffeeklatsch treat, 5 letters
Linzer or Sacher end, 5 letters
Linzer or Sacher follower, 5 letters
No dessert for dieters, 5 letters
Patisserie offering, 5 letters
Patisserie purchase, 5 letters
Sacher ___ (chocolaty dessert), 5 letters
Originated in Austria, 5 letters
Rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts, 5 letters
Cake maker's boast?, 9 letters
Bagged Barilla product, 10 letters
Literally little cakes, 10 letters
Small ring-shaped stuffed pasta, 10 letters
Rich cakes, in Germany, 6 letters
Improvement to a dessert?, 11 letters
Attorney's favorite sweets?, 6 letters
Cakes often made with ground nuts, 6 letters
Cakes with ground nuts, 6 letters
High-calorie desserts, 6 letters
Linzer and Sacher tails, 6 letters
Rich cakes of German origin, 6 letters
Viennese table selections, 6 letters
Mexican baker's product, 8 letters
Mexican food staple, 8 letters
Quesadilla component, 8 letters
Roll it at a fiesta, 8 letters
South of the border order, 8 letters
Spanish for little cake, 8 letters
Steinbeck title ___ Flat, 8 letters
Thin unleavened pancake, 8 letters
Unleavened cornmeal bread, 8 letters
(Mexico) thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour, 8 letters
1942 Spencer Tracy movie, 12 letters
Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, 12 letters
Tale of a band of Mexican-Americans, 12 letters
Film about a messy Mexican restaurant?, 12 letters
Love handles produced from a Mexican snack?, 12 letters
Part of Pedro's diet, 9 letters
New Mexican breads, 14 letters
Study of civil wrongs, 7 letters
Fabled come-from-behind race-winner, 8 letters
Hare's opponent of fable, 8 letters
Hare's race opponent, 8 letters
Race winner of fable, 8 letters
Reason for a bad hare day?, 8 letters
Slow-moving Chicago band?, 8 letters
Storied surprise winner, 8 letters
Winner in a fabled upset, 8 letters
Winner in a well-known upset, 8 letters
Winner of a fabled race, 8 letters
Winner who finished next to last, in fable, 8 letters
Wrong European river creature with a shell (8), 8 letters
Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs, 8 letters
Worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica, 8 letters
Eyeglass-frame material, 13 letters
Mottled inlay material, 13 letters
Larvae feed on nettles, 13 letters
A cat having black and cream and yellowish markings, 13 letters
Brilliantly colored, 13 letters
The mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles, 13 letters
Materials from hawksbill turtles, 14 letters
Hybrid sheepdog that moves ver-r-ry slowly?, 15 letters
A British Virgin Island, 7 letters
Largest of British Virgin Islands, 7 letters
Largest of the British Virgin Islands, 7 letters
Classic gelato dessert, 7 letters
Dessert at an Italian restaurant, 7 letters
Dessert garnished with crumbled macaroons, 7 letters
Dessert topped with crumbled macaroons, 7 letters
Ice cream confection, 7 letters
Ice cream in Cremona, 7 letters
Italian dessert with chopped cherries or minced macaroons, 7 letters
Luigi served it to Ron, 7 letters
Rich frozen dessert, 7 letters
Rich Italian ice cream, 7 letters
Rum-enhanced dessert, 7 letters
Ristorante desserts, 8 letters
Rum-flavored desserts, 8 letters
Acts that may bring damages, 5 letters
Causes of civil actions, 5 letters
Civil court matters, 5 letters
Civil-suit prompters, 5 letters
First-year law school class, 5 letters
Precursors of suits, 5 letters
Stuff of which some suits are made, 5 letters
They may produce suits, 5 letters
They're studied in law school, 5 letters
Trespass and defamation, 5 letters
Wrongful act, in court, 5 letters
Wrongful acts, in law, 5 letters
Haitian-owned island, 7 letters
Love is reciprocal ___: Marcel Proust, 7 letters
Geneva Convention concern, 7 letters
Nails-on-blackboard pain, 7 letters
Sheer or utter hell, 7 letters
Torquemada's claim to fame, 7 letters
Use thumbscrews, e.g., 7 letters
Word famously blinked in morse code by POW Jeremiah Denton, 7 letters
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean, 7 letters
Acute mental or physical pain, 7 letters
Extreme mental distress, 7 letters
Unbearable physical pain, 7 letters
Intense feelings of suffering, 7 letters
___ with history (like the Mississippi, to Hart Crane), 8 letters
Beset by personal demons, 8 letters
Stretched much too far, as language, 8 letters
Wrenched out of shape, 8 letters
Spanish inquisitor, e.g., 8 letters
Someone who inflicts severe physical pain, 8 letters
Causes great anguish, 8 letters
A party who has committed a tort, 10 letters
Larvae are leafrollers or live in fruits and galls, 9 letters
Any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings, 9 letters
Leaf rollers and codling moths, 11 letters
California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges, 7 letters
Small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants, 7 letters
A tortuous and twisted shape or position, 10 letters