| Part of the White House | 23 |
| Jake and Elwood | 15 |
| Belushi/Aykroyd duo | 19 |
| Kids' show starring a colorful pooch | 40 |
| Popular kids' show | 22 |
| 1990s-2000s kids' show starring a pooch named for its color | 63 |
| "Between the devil and the deep ___" | 46 |
| '75 Grateful Dead studio album | 34 |
| "___ the Night," 1941 song hit | 40 |
| Popular song of yore | 20 |
| Johnny Mercer lyric | 19 |
| Arlen-Mercer hit: 1941 | 22 |
| 1941 Priscilla Lane film whose title was a #1 song | 50 |
| Economic regulation | 19 |
| B B | 3 |
| Most azure | 10 |
| Most melancholy | 15 |
| Most downhearted | 16 |
| Saddest | 7 |
| Most sad | 8 |
| Most depressed | 14 |
| Deepest azure | 13 |
| Heavenly body such as Rigel | 27 |
| Rigel and Spica | 15 |
| Democratic territory / Cardinal, e.g. / "Over the Rainbow" flier | 74 |
| Left-leaning ones | 17 |
| Bush-whacked regions? | 21 |
| Prairie grass used for forage | 29 |
| Literary woman of 18th C. England | 33 |
| Pedantic women | 14 |
| Perkins classic | 15 |
| Elvis tune of '56 | 21 |
| Elvis hit song | 14 |
| Carl Perkins hit, 1956 | 22 |
| 1956 Elvis song | 15 |
| Vermin gets in an Elvis song? | 29 |
| Like B.B. King's music | 26 |
| Like Muddy Waters's music | 29 |
| Like Muddy Waters' music | 28 |
| Melancholy, musically | 21 |
| Like Muddy's music | 22 |
| Like Ma Rainey's music | 26 |
| Like Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" | 50 |
| In a jazz-like manner | 21 |
| Tufted flower | 13 |
| Sky-hued flower | 15 |
| Sky-colored blossom | 19 |
| Plant with four-lobed flowers | 29 |
| Flower called innocence | 23 |
| Delicate meadow flower | 22 |
| European songbird | 17 |
| Hi-tech movie helicopter | 24 |
| Small European warbler or, alternately, a wreath for the rear? | 62 |
| Small cobalt-colored bird | 25 |
| Bird that, curiously, has a yellow breast | 41 |
| Meadow flowers | 14 |
| Flowers of the madder family | 28 |
| Democratic sweep? | 17 |
| Ryan Gosling movie | 18 |
| Laura Dern film of '86 | 26 |
| 1963 hit for Bobby Vinton | 25 |
| 1963 chart-topper by Bobby Vinton | 33 |
| "Rolling Stone" called it "a doleful prom anthem" | 69 |
| World's largest mammal | 26 |
| Krill-eating creature | 21 |
| Earth's largest mammal | 26 |
| Largest living animals | 22 |
| French tricolor | 15 |
| Derby runner-up, 1886 | 21 |
| Informal erotic reading? | 24 |
| Held a poker face | 17 |
| Almost see Letterman rearing ducks (6) | 38 |
| Poker table? | 12 |
| Steep banks | 11 |
| Some poker ploys | 16 |
| High, steep banks | 17 |
| They may be called | 18 |
| Represents a flush, say | 23 |
| Council ___ | 11 |
| Broad-faced banks | 17 |
| Bargaining ploys | 16 |
| Wash whitener | 13 |
| Léon ___, former French P.M. | 31 |
| French statesman: 1872-1950 | 27 |
| French statesman, 1872-1950 | 27 |
| French Premier | 14 |
| France's Léon | 20 |
| Former French prime minister | 28 |
| Former French Premier Léon | 29 |
| 1930s French premier, whose name is a homophone of "bloom" | 68 |
| 1930s French premier Léon | 28 |
| 1930's French P.M. Léon | 30 |
| Judy who wrote "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" | 56 |
| Flower, in Berlin | 17 |
| "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" author Judy | 53 |
| "Double Fudge" author | 31 |
| "Blubber" writer | 26 |
| "Blubber" author Judy | 31 |
| "___ in Love" (1973 film) | 35 |
| ''Superfudge'' author | 37 |