| Clear dish | 10 |
| Broths | 6 |
| Prepared the first course? | 26 |
| There's only one in Iowa | 28 |
| Strong majority? | 16 |
| R&D? | 8 |
| Letters, for the most part | 26 |
| Groups in joint ventures | 24 |
| Keeping company | 15 |
| Royal spouses | 13 |
| Ones who sleep with queens? | 27 |
| Jailbird types? | 15 |
| Grist for a Dan Brown novel | 27 |
| What this puZZle has | 20 |
| Sheen-Sutherland thriller of 1997 | 33 |
| Result of plotters' get-together | 36 |
| Plot together | 13 |
| Plot in secrecy | 15 |
| Join a cabal | 12 |
| Emulate Brutus and Cassius | 26 |
| Joins a cabal | 13 |
| Occasionally amended doc. | 25 |
| Syst. of laws | 13 |
| Building business, for short | 28 |
| Building bus. | 13 |
| Wanted: Lad to assist British police | 36 |
| Actress Bennett | 15 |
| A Bennett of films | 18 |
| Steadfastness | 13 |
| Unchangeable | 12 |
| Not changing | 12 |
| Never varying | 13 |
| M. Kennedy's "The ___ Nymph" | 42 |
| Like the speed of light | 23 |
| It stays the same | 17 |
| e, e.g. | 7 |
| K.d. lang forever slicing the turkey? | 37 |
| Start of an Elbert Hubbard quote | 32 |
| Eponym of the city now known as Istanbul | 40 |
| Now Istanbul | 12 |
| Pestering, redundantly | 22 |
| Metermen | 8 |
| Pi and others | 13 |
| Unchanging entities | 19 |
| Things that don't change | 28 |
| They're not variable | 24 |
| Fixed values | 12 |
| Mozart's bride in 1782 | 26 |
| Leo, for one | 12 |
| Leo or Libra | 12 |
| Big Dipper, for one | 19 |
| Aries or Orion | 14 |
| Fill with anxiety | 17 |
| Fill with anxiety or dread | 26 |
| PHYSICAL MAKEUP | 15 |
| Leading Georgia newspaper | 25 |
| Daily health walk | 17 |
| A walk around the deck, e.g. | 28 |
| Walks once taken by Truman | 26 |
| Daily health regimes | 20 |
| Impose limitations | 18 |
| Hold back by force | 18 |
| Shackles are put on chain gangs? | 32 |
| Made narrower | 13 |
| Boa ___ | 7 |
| Home business? | 14 |
| Interpreter of the Constitution | 31 |
| Certain jurist | 14 |
| Certain interpreter of laws | 27 |
| Erector set | 11 |
| Roadwork alert | 14 |
| Where plastic surgery is done? | 30 |
| Cranes may be perched here | 26 |
| How to give criticism | 21 |
| Step 3 | 6 |
| Explain the sense | 17 |
| Took to mean | 12 |
| Individual debtors pay it | 25 |
| Regarding foreign officials | 27 |
| Of a foreign service | 20 |
| Government building | 19 |
| Foreign office | 14 |
| Chancellery settings | 20 |
| State workers | 13 |
| Some embassy members | 20 |
| Representatives in a foreign country | 36 |
| Representatives abroad | 22 |
| Embassy members | 15 |
| Diplomatic group | 16 |
| Advice-giving insect? | 21 |
| Chiromancer client, e.g. | 24 |
| Uses references | 15 |
| Seeks guidance from | 19 |
| Refers to for information | 25 |
| The no-longer-hungry moth was ___ | 33 |
| Advertiser's target | 23 |
| Shopper, e.g. | 13 |
| One aided by Nader | 18 |
| Nader is his advocate | 21 |
| Many a pollee | 13 |