| Baltic country. |
| County Clare capital |
| What a shame |
| Hostile encounter |
| Carnivore's comment about what to eat during bad weather? |
| Accounting time |
| African country whose flag is nearly identical to Romania's |
| What's your ___?" ("When is your flight supposed to land?"): Abbr. |
| Alt.country singer Case whose "The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You" comes out tomorrow |
| Accounting word |
| Asian country |
| Himalayan country |
| Somewhat safe sword |
| Anchor who has no idea what he's talking about? |
| Jackson of country music |
| European country capital |
| Allowed as a discount |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Discount rack shorthand |
| A country's output, for short |
| French-speaking country where illegal activity runs rampant? |
| Free cash machines, but apparently only if you have a "bank account" that already has "money" in it |
| What lobsters and crabs have |
| Ahmadinejad's country |
| Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters |
| Hilarious joke or, with an acquired taste, "What's Mr. Pacino up to these days, Mr. Perry? |
| Counters |
| Arab country suffering from an outbreak of poison ivy? |
| An old man from the country. |
| Accounting-fraud company in 2001 news |