EX-ESS
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

Each clue below can be answered with an expression which is missing the letter S in one of the words, but otherwise sounds familiar. For example, given the clue New York urban myth, the answer would be A troll in the park.

1. What rabbits do at the mall
2. North Pole motivational seminar topic
3. Excruciating accordion standard
4. Tormented by cashews and pistachios
5.  Sleepy British conservative
6. The need to discover, perhaps

HINT:
6. He made the first circumnavigation of the earth.

Answers:

1. Hop 'til they drop
2. Elf improvement
3. Lady of Pain
4. In a nut hell
5. Bedtime Tory
6. Trait of Magellan