- PATS
- Butter measures
- Butter portions
- Caresses gently
- Margarine servings
- NFL team that plays in The Razor, briefly
- Spygate team, for short
- Gentle touches
- Gentle caresses
- Foxboro bunch
- Brady and Moss, e.g.
- N.E. eleven
- Light touches
- Back strokes?
- Super Bowl XXXIX champs, to their fans
- Little touches
- Doesn't exactly whack
- Toast toppers, often
- Soft touches
- New England team, for short
- Butter units
- ___ down (frisks)
- Margarine slices
- Congratulatory or consoling gestures
- Affectionate gestures
- Touches lightly
- Butter servings
- 2002 Super Bowl champs, familiarly
- Frisks, with "down"
- Benatar and Boone
- Touches gently
- Butter slices
- Praises for pups
- Shows of approval
- Three-time Super Bowl winners, to fans
- Football team or some points they score, for short
- New England team, to fans
- Sen. Moynihan et al.
- Light strokes
- Bit of butter
- Sajak and Benatar
- Butter squares
- Strokes affectionately
- Taps
- ___ on the back: praises
- Squares on the table
- Super Bowl XXXVI champs, familiarly
- Squares in a breadbasket
- New England NFLers
- Squares at diner tables
- Back supports?
- Loving strokes
- Tom Brady's team, to fans
- Breadbasket bunch
- Rewards for Fido
- Squares with dinner rolls
- Touches affectionately
- Gently touches
- Is gentle with
- New England NFL team
- AFC East team
- Butter bits
- Servings of butter
- Oleo squares
- NFL team, for short
- Encouraging touches
- Puts on a foundation
- Forms of encouragement
- Bits of butter
- Encourages, perhaps
- Prepackaged butter portions
- Dog rewards
- Bits served with bread
- Prepackaged diner spread
- Small butter portions
- Butter portions for rolls
- Portions of butter
- Gently strokes
- Singers Benatar and Boone
- Strokes
- Caresses.
- Casual accolades.
- Small masses.
- Strikes gently.
- Attentions for Rover.
- Pieces of butter.
- Butter pieces.
- Mikes' friends.
- The dancing Rooneys.
- O'Malley and O'Brien.
- Light blows.
- Small pieces, as of butter.
- Small portions, as of butter.
- Butter cuts.
- Pieces, as of butter.
- Dabs.
- Taps gently.
- Inventors' papers: Abbr.
- Boone and O'Brien
- Hingle et al.
- O'Brien and Rooney
- Back compliments
- Boone and Hingle
- Hingle and Boone
- Walks with light footsteps
- Touches lovingly
- Lads from Limerick
- O'Brien and Boone
- Foxboro team, for short
- New England grid team
- Compliments for Fido
- Affectionate taps
- Foxboro pros, for short
- Boone and Sajak
- Light slaps
- Sajak and O'Brien
- New England eleven, familiarly
- Strikes lightly
- Congratulates in a way
- Encourages
- Nixon and Schroeder
- Congratulates
- Frisks
- Some encouragement
- Puppy pleasers
- Congratulations, of a sort
- Some congratulations
- Certain congratulations
- Comforting touches
- They may be directed toward the back
- Encouraging signs?
- They're welcome on the back
- Consoles, in a way
- Three-time grid champs of the 2000s
- Spread things?
- Super Bowl XXXVI champs, to fans
- Some dog rewards
- New England squad
- 2015 Super Bowl winners, familiarly
- Gently strokes, as a dog
- Brady bunch, in headlines
- Consoling gestures
- New England football team, informally
- Super Bowl XLIX champs, to their fans
- A.F.C. East team, informally
- Apt anagram of TAPS
- Super Bowl LIII winners, informally
- Last year's Super Bowl champs
- Brady bunch?
- Congratulates, maybe
- Jets' rivals, familiarly
- New England's N.F.L. team, for short
- TD trailers
- They may be on the back
- Back-hand compliments?
- Units of butter
- 2019 Super Bowl champs
- New England NFL team, informally
- Rewards for "good boys"
- Brady's longtime team, for short
- Tender touches
- ___ on the back (encouragements)
- Butter dabs
- Sajak and Summerall
- Reassures, in a way
- Tom Brady and his bunch
- Super Bowl LI champs, informally
- Tom Brady's team, in headlines
- Tom Brady's team, for short
- Gently taps
- Positive feedback on the back
- Boone and Paulsen
- Praises, in a way
- 2002 Super Bowl winners, in headlines
- N.E. gridders, in headlines
- Consoling touches
- Squares of butter
- Light touches, and an apt anagram of "taps"
- Gillete Stadium players, familiarly
- Foxborough gridders
- Gillette Stadium squad
- Brady's bunch, familiarly
- Five-time Super Bowl champs
- Foxborough squad
- Deflategate squad
- Brady's bunch
- Six-time Super Bowl champs
- New England footballers, familiarly
- Deflategate team, familiarly
- Foxborough gridders, familiarly
- Gillette Stadium squad, familiarly
