| McManus caper | 13 |
| Replace staff | 13 |
| What you might do to help a friend with pressing needs? | 55 |
| Throw heat, in baseball slang | 29 |
| "Give me your best shot!" | 35 |
| Bellicose challenge | 19 |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh book | 26 |
| Execute successfully | 20 |
| Take along your Aretha Franklin records? | 40 |
| Takes here | 10 |
| Comes with | 10 |
| Raises, as a subject, with "in" | 41 |
| Offers breakfast to students before first period? | 49 |
| Submits, as a verdict | 21 |
| Induces | 7 |
| Accentuates | 11 |
| Avenges | 7 |
| Delivers to a cabinet department? | 33 |
| Trails everyone | 15 |
| Lags | 4 |
| Is in last place | 16 |
| Is farthest from the front, in a race | 37 |
| Present at the offices of a drug company? | 41 |
| Use pressure | 12 |
| Mother a pasty vassal? | 22 |
| Come in last (and an alternate title for this puzzle) | 53 |
| Be last in line | 15 |
| Pub sign (Part 2) | 17 |
| Transvestite Maxwell with a Martha Stewart-like show on the Style Network | 73 |
| Highest in salt, perhaps | 24 |
| David, who said "Good night, Chet" | 44 |
| U.S. status during the Cuban Missile Crisis | 43 |
| Soft rolls | 10 |
| French breads | 13 |
| Singer/film composer Jon | 24 |
| Experimental artist Gysin | 25 |
| Grill item | 10 |
| Barbecuing block | 16 |
| Kindling block | 14 |
| Block of charcoal | 17 |
| Block party block | 17 |
| Pile in a grill | 15 |
| Cookout needs | 13 |
| Jewish ritual | 13 |
| Rite performed on the eighth day of life | 40 |
| Jewish rite | 11 |
| Ceremony performed by a mohel | 29 |
| Rite performed by a mohel | 25 |
| Rite for a newborn Jewish boy | 29 |
| Jewish event that might include cutting remarks? | 48 |
| Event that is very difficult for new fathers, let me just say | 61 |
| Eighth-day rite | 15 |
| Cutting ceremony | 16 |
| Explosive effect | 16 |
| Cap. of Queensland | 18 |
| 1993 series "The Adventures of ___ County Jr." | 56 |
| "Law & Order" detective Lennie ___ | 48 |
| More invigorating | 17 |
| Most peppy | 10 |
| Braised dish | 12 |
| BBQ dish | 8 |
| BBQ choice | 10 |
| Spring-y chicken? | 17 |
| In an animated manner | 21 |
| In a quick and lively manner | 28 |
| How a cool wind blows | 21 |
| Energetic way to walk | 21 |
| Sharpens, with "up" | 29 |
| Market activity, in winter business | 35 |
| Bubby of the N.F.L. | 19 |
| Tense up | 8 |
| Display irritation | 18 |
| Unshackle the hackles | 21 |
| Stiffen with resentment | 23 |
| Stiff prickly hair | 18 |
| Show some irritation | 20 |
| Reply defensively | 17 |
| Get angry and defensive | 23 |
| Brush part | 10 |
| Brush component | 15 |
| Betray discontentment | 21 |
| Got one's hackles up | 24 |
| Got one's dander up | 23 |
| Got one's back up | 21 |
| Took offense with | 17 |
| Reacting angrily | 16 |
| Getting stiff, like quills | 26 |
| One of the Palins | 17 |
| English seaport | 15 |
| English port | 12 |
| Town on the Tennessee-Virginia state line | 41 |
| New Brunswick town and British namesake | 39 |
| Largest port in Gloucestershire | 31 |
| Form of cardboard | 17 |
| Connecticut headquarters of ESPN | 32 |
| Connecticut city that's home to ESPN | 40 |
| City in Connecticut | 19 |
| British university city | 23 |
| Pharmaceutical company that's bogged down? | 46 |
| Place where blokes and birds sun? | 33 |