| Hidden resource | 15 |
| The Red Baron, belowdecks? | 26 |
| Attila, for one? | 16 |
| Score very well on a test | 25 |
| Nail a test | 11 |
| Nail the test | 13 |
| Get 100 on a test | 17 |
| Cream the final | 15 |
| Succeed big-time on a test | 26 |
| Succeed at something big-time | 29 |
| Score perfectly on a test | 25 |
| Score 100 on a test | 19 |
| Play a par-3 perfectly | 22 |
| Nail the final | 14 |
| Nail an exam | 12 |
| Kick ass, as on a test | 22 |
| Have great success | 18 |
| Get 180 on the LSAT, say | 24 |
| Do great on a test | 18 |
| Crush the final | 15 |
| Completely crush a final | 24 |
| Completely cream a final | 24 |
| "Do well!" | 20 |
| 21 combo | 8 |
| Some high-speed trains | 22 |
| Amtrak speedsters | 17 |
| Field where Judas died | 22 |
| Topnotch ring of flowers | 24 |
| Like some bridge hands | 22 |
| Rare batteries | 14 |
| Rare battery varieties | 22 |
| Flashlight components | 21 |
| Lacking the basic structure of life | 35 |
| Card manufacturer? (or heart device missing a piece) | 52 |
| Lacking a middle | 16 |
| Without a middle | 16 |
| Not in the middle | 17 |
| "___ Cakes" (Food Network show) | 41 |
| ___ spades | 10 |
| Within an ___ (very close) | 26 |
| The ___ spades | 14 |
| PBS's "Reilly: ___ Spies" | 39 |
| Food Network's '-- Cakes' | 37 |
| -- clubs (certain card) | 23 |
| ___ spades (top bridge card) | 28 |
| ___ spades (highest card in a deck) | 35 |
| ___ hearts | 10 |
| __ Base (pop group) | 19 |
| "The Sign" band | 25 |
| 'The Sign' band (1994) | 30 |
| '90s Swedish pop band | 25 |
| Black suit topper | 17 |
| Tiger Woods? | 12 |
| Isn't Nicklaus a card? | 26 |
| Golf pro? | 9 |
| Card for Casanova? | 18 |
| Part of some royal flushes | 26 |
| Reilly | 6 |
| Era of the Red Baron? | 21 |
| Without a chief | 15 |
| Draw-poker variations | 21 |
| Embittered | 10 |
| Made sour | 9 |
| Makes bitter | 12 |
| Annoys someone | 14 |
| Bitter untruth? | 15 |
| Spanish steel | 13 |
| Barbados cherry | 15 |
| Hornless | 8 |
| What you may notice about the puzzle you are doing, part 1 | 58 |
| P.D. James novel | 16 |
| Arctic Monkeys jam off debut | 28 |
| Triumphs academically | 21 |
| Scores 100 | 10 |
| Does well during finals week | 28 |
| Boosts one's grade, perhaps | 31 |
| Elevens, not ones, in blackjack? | 32 |
| 1977 Plummer film | 17 |
| Gets 100 on a test | 18 |
| Scores 100 on a test | 20 |
| Succeeds completely | 19 |
| Scores perfectly | 16 |
| Nails the exam | 14 |
| Gets no answers wrong on the test | 33 |
| Gets 100% on an exam | 20 |
| Gets 100 on the final | 21 |
| Does a perfect job | 18 |
| ... scrambled to produce poets laureate work about the web? | 59 |
| Prevails against, in slang | 26 |
| Gets the better of, slangily | 28 |
| Gets the best of, in slang | 26 |
| Defeats easily | 14 |
| Cheats (of), slangily | 21 |
| Beats, as the competition | 25 |
| Beats easily | 12 |
| Winning full house, for short | 29 |
| Start of a full house declaration, maybe | 40 |
| Certain full house, in poker lingo | 34 |
| Best kind of full house | 23 |
| Good, not great, poker hand | 27 |