| Become ragged at the edges | 26 |
| Wear on, as the nerves | 22 |
| Unravel, as rope fiber | 22 |
| Start unraveling, as a towel | 28 |
| Piano-driven Denver band | 24 |
| Wears away by usage, as cloth | 29 |
| Control ___ (obsessive type) | 28 |
| Word after control or neat | 26 |
| Random, as an occurrence | 24 |
| High school categorization | 26 |
| Control __: obsessive type | 26 |
| Carnival sideshow feature | 25 |
| Ardent fan, informally | 22 |
| __ of nature: rare event | 24 |
| Mr. Rogers' first name | 26 |
| Baretta's pet cockatoo | 26 |
| Wilma Flintstone's hubby | 28 |
| Wilma Flintstone's guy | 26 |
| Rogers with a neighborhood | 26 |
| Premium bottled water brand | 27 |
| Pebbles Flintstone's pop | 28 |
| Neighbor of Lucy and Desi | 25 |
| N.F.L. receiver Biletnikoff | 27 |
| Mister Rogers, for one | 22 |
| Limp Bizkit's Durst | 23 |
| Landlord of Lucy and Ricky | 26 |
| Frederick, to his friends | 25 |
| Ethel's sitcom husband | 26 |
| Ethel Mertz's spouse | 24 |
| Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew | 29 |
| Dance-pop trio Right Said ___ | 29 |
| Basset hound of the comics | 26 |
| Barney's best buddy | 23 |
| Barney's Bedrock pal | 24 |
| Barney's Bedrock buddy | 26 |
| Banting or Eaton, to friends | 28 |
| Skytrain entrepreneur (NBA) | 27 |
| Western artist Remington | 24 |
| Middle Corleone brother | 23 |
| The middle Corleone brother | 27 |
| Feckless Corleone brother | 25 |
| Unoccupied, as a theater seat | 29 |
| Welcome word to the miserly | 27 |
| Provided without charge | 23 |
| Big word in advertising | 23 |
| Word with port or lance | 23 |
| Word with hand or boot | 22 |
| Word with born or scot | 22 |
| Word before range or trade | 26 |
| With 52D, carte blanche | 23 |
| Type of throw in basketball | 27 |
| Paul Rodgers' band | 22 |
| Part 11 of a Canada Day quote | 29 |
| Not previously engaged | 22 |
| Like water, at most diners | 26 |
| Like things on the house | 24 |
| Like some stuff on Craigslist | 29 |
| Like butterflies in drama | 25 |
| Kind of verse or trade | 22 |
| Kind of press or verse | 22 |
| Key word in direct mail | 23 |
| Inexact, as a translation | 25 |
| Elsa's birth state? | 23 |
| Center square of a bingo card | 29 |
| 1965 Physics Nobelist Richard | 29 |
| "... get one __!" | 27 |
| Word search technique? | 22 |
| Psychoanalysis technique | 24 |
| Freudian therapy technique | 26 |
| Tiny shampoo bottle, e.g. | 25 |
| Prize in Cracker Jacks, e.g. | 28 |
| Rock and roll DJ legend Alan | 28 |
| Released from contract | 22 |
| Got out of stocks or bonds | 26 |
| Revolutionary's cry | 23 |
| Nat Turner's quest | 22 |
| Fourth of July principle | 24 |
| You've got that right | 25 |
| One of F.D.R.'s four | 24 |
| Notable train of yesterday | 26 |
| Cosmetics come-on, perhaps | 26 |
| Ad come-on, redundantly | 23 |
| Redundant marketing come-ons | 28 |
| Former FBI director Louis | 25 |
| Clinton's FBI director | 26 |
| Former F.B.I. chief Louis | 25 |
| Drawn without mechanical aid | 28 |
| Courtroom artist's skill | 28 |
| Self-employed, as a writer | 26 |
| Self-employed professional | 26 |
| Like self-employed writers | 26 |
| Hippie's doctrine, maybe | 28 |
| Countercultural movement | 24 |
| With no strings attached | 24 |
| One released from bondage | 25 |
| Miss Daisy's Morgan | 23 |
| Author of Lee biography | 23 |
| Member of a secret order | 24 |
| Middle Ages stoneworker | 23 |
| Member of a world-wide order | 28 |