RIP

• ___ cord (parachute activator)

• ___ cord (parachutist's pull)

• ___ into (assail)

• ___ into (attack)

• ___ off (steal)

• ___ off: stiff slangily

• ___ Van Winkle

• ___-roaring start?

• ___ It Up, Little Richard hit

• As you sew, so shall you ___

• As you sew, so shall you also ___

• Let 'er ___!

• 20-year sleeper

• A mighty swing

• Abbr. on a headstone

• Actor Torn

• Annoyance for an holsterer

• Assail, with into

• Badmouth

• Big swing

• Blue jeans hole

• Boot Hill abbr.

• Boot Hill letters

• Burst seam

• Bust (on)

• Carved letters

• Castigate

• Catskill snoozer

• Cemetery etching

• Challenge for a tailor

• Cheat, slangily

• Cleave

• Clothing defect

• Clothing flaw

• Clothing mishap

• Come apart

• Come apart at the seams

• Copy a CD

• Copy from a CD

• Copy, as a CD to a hard drive

• Copy, as from CD to PC

• Cord or tide

• Criticize

• Criticize harshly

• Criticize severely

• Criticize sharply

• Critique harshly

• Cut apart

• Cut away

• Dangerous current

• Dangerous stretch of water

• Dangerous tide

• Dead letters?

• Defraud, with off

• Dryer sheet noise

• Embarrassing sound, maybe

• En-graved letters?

• Engraved message?: Abbr.

• Fabled 20-year sleeper

• Fabled sleeper, informally

• Fabric flaw

• Famous oversleeper

• Fashion show disaster

• Fictional sleeper

• Fictional sleeper Van Winkle

• Final letters

• Final wish set in stone

• First name in famous oversleepers

• First name in legendary sleepers

• Forgo scissors

• Fraud

• Funny Taylor

• Go fast

• Go lickety-split

• Go like lightning

• Go really fast

• Good cut

• Grave acronym

• Grave engraving

• Grave heading

• Grave letters

• Grave message?

• Grave trio

• Gravestone letters

• Halloween decoration letters

• Hard swing

• Haunted house letters

• Hazardous current

• He slept for 20 years

• He's Torn

• Headstone abbr.

• Headstone heading

• Headstone inscription

• Headstone letters

• Hem line sometimes

• Hit sharply

• Hurtle

• Inflation undoer?

• Initials in stone

• Inits. on a gravestone

• Insult, slangily

• Irving character

• Irving hero

• Irving sleepyhead

• Irving's Van Winkle

• It makes an embarrassing sound

• It may be carved in stone

• It may be engraved in stone

• It may be in stitches

• It may be written in stone

• It needs darning

• It's carved in stone

• It's often written in stone

• It's set in stone after death

• Job for a seamstress

• Job for a tailor

• Kind of cord

• Kind of cord or current

• Kind of cord or saw

• Kind of current

• Kind of saw or tide

• Kind of tide

• Kind of tide or cord

• Lace (into)

• Lacerate

• Laceration

• Lambaste

• Lambaste verbally

• Last letters?

• Legendary sleeper

• Let 'er ___ (hit a long drive)

• Let 'er ___ (take a big swing)

• Letters at least one person will never read

• Letters carved in stone

• Letters for the dear departed

• Letters for the names buried in this puzzle's theme answers

• Letters in stone

• Letters on a tombstone

• Letters on Boot Hill

• Letters on graves

• Letters on gravestones

• Letters sometimes inscribed above a name

• Light (into)

• Long sleeper

• Lose no time

• Lt. Masters of Rin-Tin-Tin

• Make a tear in

• Make the rent?

• Material flaw

• Material mishap

• Memorial letters

• Mender's target

• Mighty swing

• Move precipitously

• Move with great speed

• One may be in stitches

• Open in a hurry

• Open indelicately

• Pants problem

• Pants uglifier

• Paper flaw

• Paper problem

• Parting of the ways?

• Patch target

• Potential swimsuit embarrassment

• Powerful current

• Prepare for loading onto an iPod

• Pull apart

• Put a tear in

• Put down

• Put tears in

• Reason for a patch

• Reason to do patchwork?

• Rend

• Roaring intro

• Ruin, perhaps

• Sail (into)

• Sartorial woe

• Saw along the grain

• Saw in the direction of the grain

• Saw starter

• Saw with the grain

• Scary current

• Sewer's target

• Shred

• Slugger's swing

• Snorter starter

• Speed (through)

• Split

• Split apart

• Split at the seams

• Split open

• Split, in a way

• Splitting image?

• Start of ping

• Start opening presents?

• Step on it

• Storied sleeper

• Stretch of turbulent water

• Strong current

• Subject to vehement criticism

• Sunder

• Swindle

• Swindle (with off)

• Swindle, in slang

• Swindle, slangily

• Tailor repair

• Tailor's challenge

• Tailor's concern

• Tailor's problem

• Take a page from?

• Take right out of a book?

• Tatter

• Taylor or Torn

• Tear

• Tear (away)

• Tear (into)

• Tear (up)

• Tear a sail

• Tear apart

• Tear at the seam

• Tear away roughly

• Tear forcefully

• Tear, or actor Torn

• The Dixie Chicks' Let 'Er ___

• Tide type

• Tombstone acronym

• Tombstone inscription

• Tombstone letters

• Torn from Hollywood

• Torn from Texas

• Torn of Men in Black

• Torn of The Larry Sanders Show

• Torn of comedy

• Torn of films

• Torn of Hollywood

• Torn on screen

• Torn or Taylor

• Torn up on the screen

• Turbulent water

• Turbulent water stretch

• Turn into confetti

• Twenty-year sleeper or embarrassing sound

• Two-decade sleeper

• Type of cord

• Type of tide

• Unfortunate sound when you bend over

• Unseamly condition?

• Upholstery blemish

• Upholstery defect

• Upholstery flaw

• Upholstery problem

• Upholstery uglifier

• Upholstery woe

• Van Winkle of legend

• Wardrobe malfunction

• Washington Irving hero, informally

• Washington Irving's snoozer

• Washington snoozer

• Washington's sleeper

• Word before tide

• Word before cord or current

• Word before tide or cord

• Word with tide or cord

• Worthless horse

• Yank (off)

• Zany Taylor

• Zip along

• A stretch of turbulent water in the sea

• A dissolute man in fashionable society

• An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart