| Mafia runners | 13 |
| Coercive collectors | 19 |
| British drummers | 16 |
| Turkish bathing house | 21 |
| Red-light building | 18 |
| "National Velvet" author | 34 |
| "___ Bones" (Stephen King novel) | 42 |
| ''___ Bones'' (Stephen King novel) | 50 |
| Stephen King book about a group of long-winded people? | 54 |
| Beginning magician's arsenal? | 33 |
| Artifice arsenal | 16 |
| Houdini's grip? | 19 |
| Clever repertoire | 17 |
| Clever person's resource | 28 |
| Heavy load for Santa? | 21 |
| Skirler's need | 18 |
| Scot's squeeze | 18 |
| Noisemaker in Dundee | 20 |
| It's blown in Scotland | 26 |
| Instrument with a chanter and drones | 36 |
| Instrument played standing up | 29 |
| Droning instrument | 18 |
| Aberdeen instrument | 19 |
| March parade performer | 22 |
| Performer in plaid, perhaps | 27 |
| Performer in a kilt | 19 |
| Performer featured on Peter Gabriel's "Come Talk to Me" | 69 |
| Highlands musician | 18 |
| Favorite marching band musician | 31 |
| Marcher's instrument | 24 |
| Some reed instruments | 21 |
| Highlands wailers | 17 |
| Highlands instrument | 20 |
| 3/17 musicmaker | 15 |
| Rendition at some Scottish funerals | 35 |
| Quits, slangily | 15 |
| Quits trying, informally | 24 |
| Brings along one's lunch | 28 |
| Coin-counter's fodder | 25 |
| Garment worker's largess | 28 |
| Boulangerie basketful | 21 |
| Cloaked caterpillar | 19 |
| Manama is its capital | 21 |
| All the writings of a Persian faith? | 36 |
| Some Persian believers | 22 |
| Members of an Eastern sect | 26 |
| Members of a certain worldwide religion | 39 |
| Believers in the spiritual unity of all people | 46 |
| Believers in the essential worth of all religions | 49 |
| Lawn option in warm climates | 28 |
| Mixed drink with rum | 20 |
| Cocktail with rum | 17 |
| Rum cocktails | 13 |
| Island sleepwear? | 17 |
| "Who Let the Dogs Out" group | 38 |
| 2000 flash-in-the-pan band from Nassau | 38 |
| "Who Let the Dogs Out" band | 37 |
| New Providence resident | 23 |
| Nassau native | 13 |
| Resident of New Providence island | 33 |
| New Providence residents | 24 |
| Nassau natives | 14 |
| Town in Iran | 12 |
| Bad review of a rich cake? | 26 |
| Exclaimed one's disdain | 27 |
| Eastern tree | 12 |
| Mideast believer | 16 |
| Fortune, to a gypsy | 19 |
| Nassau residents | 16 |
| N.F.L. kicker Matt | 18 |
| ___ el-Azraq (Blue Nile) | 24 |
| ___ el-Azraq (African river) | 28 |
| ___ el Azraq (Blue Nile) | 24 |
| Persian Gulf sheikdom | 21 |
| Arab League nation | 18 |
| Manama's locale | 19 |
| Country in the Persian Gulf | 27 |
| Its capital is Manama | 21 |
| It's joined to Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway | 57 |
| Gulf sheikdom | 13 |
| A sheikdom | 10 |
| "For Christmas my uncle gave me a palm-tree coffee mug from ___ ..." | 78 |
| Really tough puzzle, in Manama? | 31 |
| Sink outlet in a Persian Gulf nation? | 37 |
| Cold spell in Manama? | 21 |
| Nonsense from Manama? | 21 |
| Impostor in a sheikdom? | 23 |
| Imposter pretending to be from Manama? | 38 |
| Island in the Persian Gulf | 26 |
| Persian Gulf nation: Var. | 25 |
| Island in Persian Gulf | 22 |
| Old French chests | 17 |
| ___-Mare, Rumanian town | 23 |
| Sea inlet: Fr. | 14 |
| Gulf, to Renoir | 15 |
| French gulf or berry | 20 |
| ___ Comeau, Quebec town | 23 |
| Quebec town whose sign boasts a giant canoe | 43 |
| Bundle of bills for freeing a jailbird? | 39 |
| Color offered at the jail salon? | 32 |