| Popular Southern vegetable | 26 |
| Fergie, for one | 15 |
| Southern cuisine tidbit | 23 |
| Truce after a fistfight? | 24 |
| Arctic explorer post-fight? | 27 |
| Barroom brawler's court statement? | 38 |
| Result of an old-fashioned one-two-punch knockout? | 50 |
| State flower of Maryland | 24 |
| Maryland's state flower | 27 |
| Maryland state flower | 21 |
| Flower with a dark center | 25 |
| A state symbol of Maryland | 26 |
| Flowers given to the Preakness Stakes winner | 44 |
| Coneflowers | 11 |
| State flowers of Md. | 20 |
| Sarandon and Sontag after a fight? | 34 |
| Sarandon and Anton after a fistfight? | 37 |
| Neckwear for a Preakness winner | 31 |
| Maryland state flowers | 22 |
| Flowers-of-an-hour | 18 |
| Certain wild flowers | 20 |
| Shiners | 7 |
| Marks of shame | 14 |
| Snapper or whitefish | 20 |
| "TV Party" punks covering some '80s Hollywood glam metal with "Scrape" punks? | 101 |
| Mont. tribesman | 15 |
| Great Plains native American | 28 |
| Great Plains buffalo-hunting tribe | 34 |
| Dark ottoman? | 13 |
| Wooded region of Germany | 24 |
| Famous Wall Street panic | 24 |
| Color + color = oil | 19 |
| 1924 Kentucky Derby winner or a 1947 Anthony Quinn drama | 56 |
| Former Italian secret criminal group | 36 |
| Villain, in oaters | 18 |
| Villain, figuratively | 21 |
| Villain in a western | 20 |
| Symbols of villainy in oaters | 29 |
| Shrub of honeysuckle family | 27 |
| Sauk war leader, 1832 | 21 |
| Sauk chief | 10 |
| Fox and Sauk Indian leader | 26 |
| Ewan McGregor movie | 19 |
| 2001 Josh Hartnett film | 23 |
| 2001 film set in Mogadishu | 26 |
| Windy City skaters | 18 |
| Bad gift for students? | 22 |
| Mount Rushmore location | 23 |
| Dakota attraction | 17 |
| Very attractive body? | 21 |
| There's no escaping this | 28 |
| There's no escaping it | 26 |
| Term popularized by physicist John Wheeler | 42 |
| Result of a star's collapse | 31 |
| Nothing can escape from one | 27 |
| Hawking's astronomical body | 31 |
| Gravitational collapse consequence, in theory | 45 |
| Escape-proof gravitational field | 32 |
| Dark spot in outer space | 24 |
| Calcutta dungeon | 16 |
| Astronomical body | 17 |
| They have extremely high gravitational fields | 45 |
| They contain high gravitational fields | 38 |
| Great voids | 11 |
| Inaugural parade unit | 21 |
| Satirical style featured in "Dr. Strangelove" | 55 |
| Jack's custom car accessory? | 32 |
| Comment about actor Jack, racially speaking? | 44 |
| Table staple, of sorts | 22 |
| Convention site for gamblers? | 29 |
| One getting hit in Vegas | 24 |
| Twenty-ones | 11 |
| Where some deals are made? | 26 |
| Dark Humvee? | 12 |
| One of three dozen on a piano | 29 |
| Van Cliburn's ebonies | 25 |
| Piano's sharps and flats | 28 |
| Akron, Ohio rock duo, with "the" | 42 |
| It's often the second piece moved in a chess match | 54 |
| They have chocolate relatives | 29 |
| 1954 monster film setting | 25 |
| Biker jacket material | 21 |
| 1936 Humphrey Bogart film | 25 |
| Ultraviolet glower | 18 |
| Infrared beam | 13 |
| Vader's psychedelic weapon? | 31 |
| Ostracize | 9 |
| Secretly ban from employment | 28 |
| Top 10 single on the 1970 album "Abraxas" | 51 |
| Santana smash | 13 |
| Colorful Santana classic | 24 |
| 1971 hit by Santana | 19 |
| 1970 Santana hit | 16 |
| Film murder motive, perhaps | 27 |
| Supreme letters (1937-71) | 25 |
| Film murder motive, sometimes | 29 |
| Africa's longest venomous snake | 35 |
| Highly venomous snake | 21 |
| Actress Honor ___ | 17 |
| Paddy wagon | 11 |