2: A type of hardwood tree and sweet syrup.
5: A very bright shade of pink.
9: Bar offer, and hint to this puzzle's theme
11: Like Gen. Wesley Clark
12: McShane of 'Deadwood'
13: One of the twelve divisions of the calendar year.
18: A small hard particle; a ______ of sand.
19: Antonym of 'initial.'
27: Do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.
28: Conditions requiring relief.