1. Taverns
5. Glove
9. Decorative case
10. Pearly-shelled mussel
11. A male sponsor for a child
12. Expectorate
13. Cousin of a gull
14. Not closed
17. A thin flat slab
20. Dynamo
21. Rodents
22. Start over
23. Formerly
24. Lyric poems
1. Pleads
2. At the peak of
3. Basics
4. Sieve
5. Mongrel
6. Received from a predecessor
7. Level
8. Shredded
14. Monster
15. Brandy flavor
16. Where a bird lives
17. Tropical root
18. Prospector's find
19. Cupid, to the Greeks