| Knot in yarn | 12 |
| Knot in wool | 12 |
| Folk singer and entertainer Ives | 32 |
| Balladeer Ives | 14 |
| Veneer source | 13 |
| Small knot in wood | 18 |
| Rounded tree outgrowth | 22 |
| Mr. Ives | 8 |
| Lump in cloth | 13 |
| Ives who sang "A Holly Jolly Christmas" | 49 |
| Ives of song | 12 |
| Ives of folk music | 18 |
| Folksy Ives | 11 |
| Folksinger Ives | 15 |
| Folk-singer Ives | 16 |
| Arboreal outgrowth | 18 |
| Actor-singer Ives | 17 |
| Actor Ives | 10 |
| "Blue Tail Fly" singer Ives | 37 |
| Spud sacks | 10 |
| Certain bags | 12 |
| Some sacks | 10 |
| Sack materials | 14 |
| Potato-sack fabrics | 19 |
| Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," e.g. | 47 |
| Show-biz category | 17 |
| Like Ives? | 10 |
| Kind of vaudeville | 18 |
| Gypsy Rose Lee's milieu | 27 |
| Vaudeville "royalty" | 30 |
| Travesties of a sort | 20 |
| Makes fun of Ellery? | 20 |
| 'The Big Country' co-star | 33 |
| Tree growths | 12 |
| Tree bumps | 10 |
| Oak or elm growths | 18 |
| Knots in wool | 13 |
| Stout and strapping | 19 |
| Like Schwarzenegger | 19 |
| Like Paul Bunyan | 16 |
| Asian columnist? | 16 |
| Rangoon matriarch was successful? | 33 |
| Allied supply route to China during W.W. II | 43 |
| Sponsor of the ad | 17 |
| Provider of the verse | 21 |
| Old maker of sequential highway signs | 37 |
| Dark brown cat | 14 |
| U Thant, e.g. | 13 |
| U Nu, e.g. | 10 |
| Residents of Rangoon | 20 |
| Nationality of U Nu | 19 |
| Like U.N. secretary-general U Thant | 35 |
| Language spoken in Yangon | 25 |
| Cuddly cat | 10 |
| Cats from the land of U Thant | 29 |
| Asian language spoken by 32 million | 35 |
| Exotic reptile wreaking havoc in the Florida Everglades | 55 |
| 'Peace Train' singer, in Rangoon? | 41 |
| Blowtorch the exterior of your launch vehicle? | 46 |
| Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
| Overdone, to a cook | 19 |
| Victimized by a scam | 20 |
| Incendiarized | 13 |
| Got mad | 7 |
| Punish Mr. Harris in a medieval way? | 36 |
| Like some unpopular leaders | 27 |
| Dissipated, as morning fog | 26 |
| Couldn't turn back | 22 |
| Kaput, as an engine | 19 |
| It can't be switched on | 27 |
| ...so the chef got a job at the tire factory, but he... | 55 |
| Obliterated by fire | 19 |
| Pot spot | 8 |
| Stovetop feature | 16 |
| It may be tightly coiled | 24 |
| It converts trash to ash | 24 |
| Gas log, e.g. | 13 |
| Bunsen's creation | 21 |
| Bunsen ___ (lab device) | 23 |
| Stove parts | 11 |
| Hot meals may be on them | 24 |
| They're at home on the range | 32 |
| Incinerators | 12 |
| A hot meal is on them! | 22 |
| Symbolically destroy at a public rally | 38 |
| Red-faced condition? | 20 |
| Hot pink complexion? | 20 |
| Mount Sinai phenomenon | 22 |
| It appeared before Moses on Mount Horeb | 39 |
| Gas plant | 9 |
| Arson? | 6 |
| Torching | 8 |
| Crucial topic | 13 |
| Hot topic | 9 |
| Annual desert festival whose name describes its closing ceremony | 64 |
| Zealot's motivation | 23 |
| Arsonist's pursuit? | 23 |
| Crucial issue | 13 |
| Urgent matter | 13 |
| Urgent issue | 12 |