Improve (5 letters)

More inferior (5 letters)

Prepares for more battles (6 letters)

Informal letter closing (4 letters)

Choose (6 letters)

___ May Clampett of 1960s TV (4 letters)

Common contraction (3 letters)

Like Paton's phalarope (4 letters)

"For better is a neighbor that ___ . . . ": Proverbs (6 letters)

"___ advice?" (3 letters)

Better informed (5 letters)

Poseur (5 letters)

Overdue (4 letters)

Feel contrition (6 letters)

Where Johnson beat Jeffries (4 letters)

Wished undone (4 letters)

Raise (7 letters)

Tells tales (4 letters)

Mint (7 letters)

"My country ___ . . . " (3 letters)