| Recipient of a right, in law | 28 |
| Legal recipient of a liability | 30 |
| Delegation targets | 18 |
| Professor, re homework | 22 |
| Alloting | 8 |
| School handout | 14 |
| Reporter's stint | 20 |
| One transferring property rights, in law | 40 |
| Inaudible | 9 |
| Smooth ___ | 10 |
| As smooth ___ | 13 |
| Do as the Romans do, as it were | 31 |
| Words after ugly or guilty | 26 |
| Guilty ___ (definitely not innocent) | 36 |
| Guilty ___ | 10 |
| As ugly ___ | 11 |
| As guilty ___ | 13 |
| " . . . as ugly, ay, ___" | 35 |
| Hollies | 7 |
| Seated in a chaise | 18 |
| St. Francis, e.g. | 17 |
| Ever so simple? | 15 |
| Certain Italian embroideries | 28 |
| St. Francis, e.g.? | 18 |
| Attorney's helper | 21 |
| Watson, to Bell | 15 |
| Malamud novel (with "The") | 36 |
| Many a "Law & Order" character, for short | 55 |
| TV's Jack McCoy, for one | 28 |
| RIGHT-HAND MEN | 14 |
| Some college personnel | 22 |
| Helping people | 14 |
| Aid an Italian town | 19 |
| Type of living | 14 |
| Gave some help | 14 |
| Living predecessor? | 19 |
| Helped out on a goal | 20 |
| Helped in or out | 16 |
| Emulated a Boy Scout | 20 |
| One aiding | 10 |
| Help with, as a project | 23 |
| Help out with | 13 |
| Electrical device that may blow | 31 |
| Judicial inquiry | 16 |
| Judicial inquest | 16 |
| Legislative ordinance | 21 |
| Fixed standard | 14 |
| Court sessions | 14 |
| British trial sessions | 22 |
| Hank Williams III's death-metal band | 40 |
| Resembling a pack animal | 24 |
| Comparable to molasses | 22 |
| Commercials for donkeys? | 24 |
| "Its fleece was white ___" | 36 |
| Co-worker: Abbr. | 16 |
| Ace, in Apulia | 14 |
| "___ often happens" | 29 |
| "___ di Picche," Italian comic strip | 46 |
| ___ as a judge | 14 |
| Bob Woodward, at the Washington Post | 36 |
| Business partner | 16 |
| Person who's not yet a full partner | 39 |
| Hobnob | 6 |
| Partner-to-be | 13 |
| Law firm newbie | 15 |
| Junior employee | 15 |
| Connect in the mind | 19 |
| Objective of some two-year plans | 32 |
| 99 LEAGUES | 10 |
| Hobnobber's activity | 24 |
| Formal organization | 19 |
| Guilt by ___ | 12 |
| Pardon, once | 12 |
| Pardon, in Chaucer's day | 28 |
| Resemblance of sound | 20 |
| Relative of alliteration | 24 |
| Alternative to rhyme | 20 |
| ... using ___: “Gladys had a bantam lamb / Its hide was white as rice” | 78 |
| Result of poetic license? | 25 |
| Not quite rhyming | 17 |
| Having vowel rhyme | 18 |
| Vocally similar | 15 |
| Onager treading insect? | 23 |
| Like small talk? | 16 |
| Having the same vowel sounds | 28 |
| Resembled in sound | 18 |
| Part of ASAP | 12 |
| Part of A.S.A.P. | 16 |
| ASAP part | 9 |
| "Come ___ as you can" | 31 |
| ___ as (when) | 13 |
| One who classifies things | 25 |
| They classify | 13 |
| Selectors | 9 |
| Acts of classifying | 19 |
| Antipastos, e.g. | 16 |
| Arranges | 8 |
| Puts into piles | 15 |
| Groups | 6 |
| Puts in like piles | 18 |