It Takes Two
You're struck by Venus's girl-next-door looks (or perhaps girl-who-lived-down-the-street-for-decades looks). She engages you in a conversation that's sweet, but unusually terse...
- Dissuade the fleet she owns (5 3 6)
- Self-absorbed person put a disguise on the face of a young nocturnal bird (7 6 5)
- It's read when a dumbwaiter dies (8 6)
- Newly-created kilt gives off energy (5 5 8)
- "Pastry made of a secreting organ, m'lord?" ("5 4, 3?")
- Wonderful green gem (5 7)
- "___, will travel (to fruity green proms or movie premieres)" (4 4 4)
- Non-extremists fire a weapon at a branchlet (9 5 4)
- Challenge issued to a raised landform that doesn't keep still (6 4 4)
- Currently smashed into pieces (3 9)
- Indian mystics that are sleazier (or more viscous) than any others (8 6)
- Debonair sweepstakes that occurs once every seven days (5 6 5)