Drops by Niagara Falls? MIST
Unsavory pair of options EVILS [lesser of two ...]
Convertible, maybe SOFA [are they still called convertibles? I thought cars]
Old Italian bread? LIRA [not crusty]
Major in astronomy? URSA
Gives pieces to ARMS [for cops and robbers]
Bud's bud LOU [Bud Abbott & Lou Costello]
Nickname heard in Manhattan SUNFLOWER [Kansas, that is: the Sunflower State]
Ones who can barely be seen? NUDES
Reading in a disorderly class? RIOTACT [Where is it published and by whom?]
Queens stadium ASHE [tennis this time, not baseball]
Seeded RANKED [speaking about tennis...]
THEME:
1961 #1 hit for Dion... RUNAROUNDSUE [SU begins long answers and E ends them; hence SUE --- pretty clever, eh?]
Noodle BEAN [wonder how many other body parts are referred to by foods]
Never, in Nuremburg NIE [Never in Xwords. Why not Natl. Inst. of Education?]