Crossword Clue:

an alcoholic also ALKIE

Answer	Crossword Clue
ENABLER	Person who makes excuses for an alcoholic, perhaps
LOSER	An also-ran.
ERR	Pick an also-ran

LOSES	Becomes an also-ran
LOSE	Be an also-ran
ALKENE	Compound also called an olefin
DOLE	An also-ran in '76
PUSHTHOMASFURTHERMORE	Advance an English statesman, also?
IDEMANDARECOUNT	Cry from an also-ran
LASTPLACE	Position for an also-ran.
DOLE	An also-ran in 1976

NABOKOV	Author who was also an entomologist
CCS	Also addresses, in an e-mail
HARE	Also-ran in an Aesop fable
EFOREFFORT	What an also-ran may get?
CATALPA	Tree also called an Indian bean
KIWI	Bird also known as an apteryx
HARE	An also ran in a fabled race.
CCS	Also addresses, as with an e-mail

PLUOT	Hybrid fruit also known as an aprium
CCS	Also sends to, as an e-mail
TRITONE	Musical interval also called an augmented fourth
CORSI	An also-ran in N. Y. C.
OHIO	Its postal abbreviation is also an exclamation
ESSO	Gas brand that's also an Italian pronoun
TURNTHEOTHERCHEEK	An eye for an eye, but also...
SHAW	Only Literature Nobelist also to win an Oscar

SPARROWHAWK	Species of falcon also called an American kestrel
JAVA	Programming language that's also the name of an island
ERNE	Bird that's also the name of an Irish river
PHI	Greek letter that's also an M.L.B. city on scoreboards
HIYO	Part of an old TV catchphrase, also used by Ed McMahon
GALENA	Lead ore that is also the name of an Illinois town
TIMJOHNSON	South Dakota's junior senator ... who also serves as an ABC News correspondent