| ___ question (inquires) | 23 |
| ___ question (drills the lecturer) | 34 |
| ___ favor (requests) | 20 |
| Makes extraordinary demands | 27 |
| Makes daunting demands (of) | 27 |
| Demands much (of) | 17 |
| Makes general inquiries | 23 |
| Gets several views | 18 |
| Does a bit of informal polling | 30 |
| Doesn't know when to quit | 29 |
| Pushes the boundaries of propriety | 34 |
| Requires from | 13 |
| Requests a favor from | 21 |
| Requests (to) | 13 |
| Expects from | 12 |
| Desires from | 12 |
| Invites to the house | 20 |
| Invites for a social call | 25 |
| Invites for | 11 |
| Invites out for | 15 |
| Invites, as to an apartment | 27 |
| Invites to the top floor unit | 29 |
| Use a lifeline? | 15 |
| Push it, in a way | 17 |
| Help desk invitation maybe, | 27 |
| "A sea of lead, ___ of slate": Symons | 47 |
| " . . . ___ of slate": Symons | 39 |
| "Now I ___!" | 22 |
| "Buddy on ___" (Buckethead song) | 42 |
| Abate, old style | 16 |
| Cocktail made with sloe gin | 27 |
| Comparatively bulky | 19 |
| Workaholic trader? | 18 |
| Drooling | 8 |
| Prog-metal band Animals ___ | 27 |
| To ace Electrical Engineering, don't fall __ | 48 |
| Song of warning for sailors | 27 |
| Sailor's favorite tune? | 27 |
| Classic 1890's song that ends "Sailor take care! ... Beware!" | 75 |
| 1890s warning song for sailors | 30 |
| "Stormy the night and the waves roll high..." | 55 |
| "Many brave hearts are ___" | 37 |
| Like a workplace slacker, maybe | 31 |
| Far from attentive | 18 |
| "I had ___ not be . . . ": Cassius | 44 |
| "And ___ is to the living . . . ": M. M. Dodge | 56 |
| ___ as a feather | 16 |
| ___ as two peas in a pod | 24 |
| ___ as two peas . . . | 21 |
| ___ not (probably) | 18 |
| ___ not (in all probably) | 25 |
| Perfectly matched | 17 |
| Odds of Alda winning an Oscar? | 30 |
| "There's ___ chance of that" | 42 |
| "Snap into ___ Jim!" ("Macho Man" ad line) | 62 |
| ___ as a wet rag | 16 |
| Having the same reach | 21 |
| Of equal length | 15 |
| Equally epic | 12 |
| Comparable in reach | 19 |
| "___ as skies are blue . . . ": Shelley | 49 |
| "___ as I Live," 1934 song | 36 |
| ___ as (until) | 14 |
| Constitutional comment (Part 1) | 31 |
| ___ as a goose | 14 |
| Spilling over | 13 |
| Comparatively noisy | 19 |
| What William Tell did | 21 |
| One way to China | 16 |
| "___ would have it . . . " | 36 |
| Arena gathering | 15 |
| In _____ (batting poorly) | 25 |
| In ___ (struggling) | 19 |
| "He's ___ fox" | 28 |
| Military weapon: abbr. | 22 |
| Missile type: Abbr. | 19 |
| A U.S. weapon | 13 |
| Comparable to a wet hen | 23 |
| Comparable to a March hare | 26 |
| ___ as a March hare | 19 |
| Equally irate | 13 |
| Equally hot | 11 |
| Comparable to a hornet or a hatter | 34 |
| ___ as a wet hen | 16 |
| Equally ticked | 14 |
| Equally displeased | 18 |
| Comparable to a wet hen? | 24 |
| Comparable to a hornet or a march hare | 38 |
| ___ wet hen | 11 |
| Positively bonkers | 18 |
| John Mellencamp "I was born in ___" | 45 |
| David of Fox News | 17 |
| An equal number of | 18 |
| The same amount | 15 |
| That same number of | 19 |
| From the capital of Eritrea | 27 |
| " . . . such ___ little craft": Gilbert | 49 |
| Quite the hit | 13 |
| Quite the success | 17 |
| Crowd-pleaser, as plugged on the marquee | 40 |