Match the tragic numbered clue definitions with the actual definitions in the lettered list.

-1. How a lad eats a lollipop
-2. A lad's portable bed
-3. What Tattoo uses to hold his woodwork
-4. Reseal a soda
-5. Jib or spinnaker
-6. Manage a brilliant star
-7. Security for a delivery vehicle
-8. Iron
-9. Made the gal take notice

-a. Italian cold cut made from the neck or shoulder of a pig
-b. abate
-c. leading edge
-d. apparatus
-e. blacklist
-f. berate
-g. a strand of DNA for example
-h. a jazzy Brazilian dance
-i. seal by burning

9i. caught her eyes (cauterize)

6h. boss a nova (Bossa Nova)

2e. boy cot (boycott)

4a. capicola - cap a cola (although my Italian best friend pronounces it

gabbagool)

1g. he licks/helix

7c. van guard / vanguard

3d. device (de vice, de vice!)

Eggsactly!

8b. de-crease (decrease)

5f. Assail (a sail)

That wraps it up! Good solves