| As you wish | 11 |
| As one pleases | 14 |
| Plot device, perhaps | 20 |
| Kismet kink? | 12 |
| Moving jerkily | 14 |
| Nervously excited | 17 |
| Answer to the conundrum | 23 |
| Margaret/Joanne | 15 |
| If all else fails | 17 |
| Under truly awful circumstances | 31 |
| Pessimist's hypothetical | 28 |
| Least optimally | 15 |
| Least favorably | 15 |
| If everything fails | 19 |
| Under the least favorable circumstances | 39 |
| On one extreme | 14 |
| Most unfavorably | 16 |
| Least desirably | 15 |
| In the least favorable case | 27 |
| If everything goes as badly as possible | 39 |
| If everything else fails | 24 |
| If all goes wrong | 17 |
| If all goes awry | 16 |
| End of the confession | 21 |
| Periodic table no. | 18 |
| Na, Ne, or Ni no. | 17 |
| 1.008, for hydrogen: abbr. | 26 |
| Silver's is 107.87: Abbr. | 29 |
| Number under a chem. symbol | 27 |
| No. on the periodic table | 25 |
| No. on a periodic table | 23 |
| No. on a certain table | 22 |
| No. in chemistry | 16 |
| No. for Na or Ni | 16 |
| Meas. of an element | 19 |
| It's just under 27 for Al | 29 |
| It's just over 1 for H | 26 |
| Elementary figure: Abbr. | 24 |
| Elementary abbr. | 16 |
| Elem. number | 12 |
| Chem lab abbr. | 14 |
| Chem class abbr. | 16 |
| Certain soap, initially | 23 |
| Bit of elementary knowledge?: Abbr. | 35 |
| Al's is almost 27 | 21 |
| 4 for He, e.g. | 14 |
| 12, for carbon: Abbr. | 21 |
| 1.008, for hydrogen (abbr.) | 27 |
| 1.008 for hydrogen, e.g. | 24 |
| 1.0079, for hydrogen: abbr. | 27 |
| 1, for hydrogen: Abbr. | 22 |
| "DOOL" and "GH" kin | 39 |
| Periodic chart data: abbr. | 26 |
| Buckley's "God and Man ___" | 41 |
| "___ service" (waiter's phrase) | 45 |
| Being supportive | 16 |
| Where a loyal friend may sit | 28 |
| Sitting loyally | 15 |
| Star variety | 12 |
| Of ___ (similar) | 16 |
| Against expectations | 20 |
| Phrygian deity (Var.) | 21 |
| Where many countdowns end | 25 |
| Morning music | 13 |
| Sunrise song | 12 |
| Nocturne's opposite | 23 |
| Morning love poem | 17 |
| Troyes's department | 23 |
| Dawn, in Dijon | 14 |
| Dawn, in Arles | 14 |
| Cote-d'Or's neighbor | 28 |
| French operatic composer | 24 |
| "Fra Diavolo" composer | 32 |
| French composer of 49 operas | 28 |
| The color purple | 16 |
| Illustrator Beardsley | 21 |
| Victorian artist Beardsley | 26 |
| Silver Slugger Huff | 19 |
| Huff of the Devil Rays | 22 |
| C. ___ Smith of old films | 25 |
| "Parks and Recreation" actress Plaza | 46 |
| Famed English illustrator: 1872–98 | 41 |
| Bo Jackson and others | 21 |
| Neoprene produced at an Alabama university? | 43 |
| Galosh that's a reddish gold color? | 39 |
| Reddish browns | 14 |
| Moderate brown shades | 21 |
| Certain hair colors | 19 |
| Southeastern Conference mascot | 30 |
| Certain Southeastern Conference mascot | 38 |
| Colorful clumps of grass | 24 |
| Primitive S.A. Indian | 21 |
| Chilean Indian | 14 |
| Speed skating medalist Susan | 28 |
| Skater Susan | 12 |
| Ford of the red stream: Scots | 29 |
| New Zealand's most populous city | 36 |
| Home of Sky Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere | 81 |
| Lost tour group in South Pacific site? | 38 |
| French folk song | 16 |