"Triple-Double," by David Alfred Bywaters

Constructor's Comments

The original version had these clues:

BALLAD:  Commercial for a formal dance?
PUFFED:  Smoking curriculum, briefly?
BASSET:  Alien with a low voice?
WHOOPS:  Exulting epistolary appendage, abbr.?

So the editor in his mercy has spared you some at least of the suffering I meant to inflict.