| Hare-hunting feline | 19 |
| Beginning Cub Scout | 19 |
| University of Ohio athlete | 26 |
| Texas State athlete | 19 |
| Spotted lynx | 12 |
| Small North American lynx | 25 |
| Ohio University mascot | 22 |
| New Cub Scout | 13 |
| Mountain feline | 15 |
| Lynx's kin | 14 |
| Lynx variety | 12 |
| Hope's feline? | 18 |
| Death Valley prowler | 20 |
| Black-spotted feline | 20 |
| Bay lynx | 8 |
| Weird-voiced comedian (short one letter) | 40 |
| Peace treaty between a predator and its prey? | 45 |
| Charlotte hoopsters | 19 |
| Michael Jordan's team (for the time being) | 46 |
| Lynxes | 6 |
| Lynx family members | 19 |
| Charlotte basketballers | 23 |
| Two NBA teams | 13 |
| NBC Sports personality | 22 |
| "Fair Ball" writer | 28 |
| Scrooge's underpaid clerk | 29 |
| POOR MAN | 8 |
| One who worked in a "dismal little cell" | 50 |
| Head of a hard-up Dickens family | 32 |
| Cheerful fictional clerk | 24 |
| Jazz-band singer | 16 |
| Pageboy cousin | 14 |
| Do for a flapper | 16 |
| Sitcom star busted for pot in 1998 at his home in West Virginia | 63 |
| 'Gilligan's Island' star | 36 |
| Woody Guthrie protege | 21 |
| Winner of a 2008 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture" | 122 |
| 2000 Best Song Oscar winner | 27 |
| ''Knockin' on Heaven's Door'' singer | 60 |
| "Rapid Robert" of no-hit fame | 39 |
| Take part in a Halloween tradition | 34 |
| Participate in a Halloween game | 31 |
| Have some Halloween fun | 23 |
| Denver pushing McIntoshes? | 26 |
| Longtime Pirate pitcher | 23 |
| Oprah's longtime personal trainer | 37 |
| 1994 honoree | 12 |
| Legendary USO show performer | 28 |
| Entertainer born May 29, 1903 | 29 |
| Late, great entertainer | 23 |
| Entertainer of 11 presidents | 28 |
| Comedian-actor born May 29, 1903 | 32 |
| Comedian given a 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom | 51 |
| Burbank's airport is named for him | 38 |
| Boxer Packy East | 16 |
| 18-time Oscars host | 19 |
| "Road" movies star | 28 |
| "Road to Rio" costar | 30 |
| 'Road to Rio' co-star | 29 |
| ''Road'' star | 29 |
| Not 'Road to Rio,' but the 1998 romantic drama ... | 58 |
| Comedian-actress match | 22 |
| Late, great entertainer, when in despair? | 41 |
| "Captain Jack" star | 29 |
| 2005 "American Idol" runner-up to Carrie Underwood | 60 |
| 2005 "American Idol" runner-up | 40 |
| Heavyweight of the 70's | 27 |
| Golfer | 6 |
| Late beloved entertainer | 24 |
| Yankees manager of the '70s between two Billy Martin stints and of the '80s between two Gene Michael stints | 115 |
| Cleveland Hall of Famer known for his sinkerball | 48 |
| Dreaded musician? | 17 |
| Lead singer for The Wailers | 27 |
| Decathlon star | 14 |
| N.B.A. scoring leader, 1974-76 | 30 |
| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| Former Ohio congressman released from prison in August 2008 | 59 |
| One half of "Mr. Show" | 32 |
| Brand of pizza crust | 20 |
| Big name in pizza crust | 23 |
| Songbird with a long winter migration | 37 |
| Migratory blackbird | 19 |
| Common migratory songbird | 25 |
| P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones | 26 |
| Migratory songbirds | 19 |
| Oregon senator who resigned in 1995 over sexual harassment charges | 66 |
| Title character of a failed Jason Alexander sitcom | 50 |
| 1992 Tim Robbins title role | 27 |
| Painter best known for being tall and stringy? | 46 |
| "The Joy of Painting" artist | 38 |
| "Happy little trees" painter | 38 |
| Rather short-term follower? | 27 |
| Pole-vault winner: 1968 | 23 |
| Pole-vault star: 1968 | 21 |
| Singer with the 1980 #1 album "Against the Wind" | 58 |
| Raspy-voiced "Like a Rock" singer | 43 |
| Actor Newhart's cookout fare? | 33 |
| Hope on a slope? | 16 |
| Rope holding down a bowsprit | 28 |
| Rises suddenly, as a buoy | 25 |