| Unscrambles a secret transmission | 33 |
| Solves a cryptogram | 19 |
| Reads with effort | 17 |
| Emulates a cryptographer | 24 |
| Remove carbon | 13 |
| Low neckline on a dress | 23 |
| Bleach | 6 |
| Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster | 36 |
| Break down chemically | 21 |
| Rotten tunesmith? | 17 |
| Radioactivity cleanup, briefly | 30 |
| Radioactivity cleanup process, for short | 40 |
| Radiation cleanup, for short | 28 |
| Purification process, briefly | 29 |
| Cleansing, in a way | 19 |
| Activity for the E.P.A. | 23 |
| Radioactive cleanup | 19 |
| One goal of the E.P.A. | 22 |
| Cleanup of a sort | 17 |
| Make unregulated | 16 |
| Liberalize | 10 |
| Put ornaments on | 16 |
| Place a medal upon a hero | 25 |
| Give a medal to | 15 |
| Wearing medals | 14 |
| Highly regarded, militarily | 27 |
| Given the Medal of Honor, e.g. | 30 |
| Pre-Christmas preparation #1 | 28 |
| Get ready for 12/25 | 19 |
| Working on interiors | 20 |
| Interior work | 13 |
| Coordinate? | 11 |
| Another name for this day | 25 |
| Honored soldier's collection | 32 |
| Interior design whiz | 20 |
| Interior ___ | 12 |
| Hiree after a move | 18 |
| Embellishers | 12 |
| Showing propriety | 17 |
| Showing good manners and taste | 30 |
| Marked by dignity and taste | 27 |
| Correct and polite | 18 |
| Civilized | 9 |
| Esprit ___ | 10 |
| Good form | 9 |
| Politesse | 9 |
| Appropriate social behavior | 27 |
| Proper conduct | 14 |
| Dignified propriety | 19 |
| Requirements of polite behavior | 31 |
| Technique of decorating with lacquered cut-outs | 47 |
| Gluing craft | 12 |
| Art coated in varnish | 21 |
| They employ red herrings | 24 |
| Was diminished | 14 |
| Ironed? | 7 |
| Making pronouncements | 21 |
| They lay down the law | 21 |
| Seedy | 5 |
| Broken-down | 11 |
| Broken down | 11 |
| Tumbledown | 10 |
| Really run-down | 15 |
| More than run-down | 18 |
| Infirm with age | 15 |
| Condemnable? | 12 |
| Without youthful vigor | 22 |
| Waning, as the moon | 19 |
| Papal letter | 12 |
| Canon-law expert | 16 |
| Noisy censure | 13 |
| Noisy censures | 14 |
| Severe critic | 13 |
| Person denouncing | 17 |
| Open condemner | 14 |
| Belittlers | 10 |
| Criticizes openly | 17 |
| Put down toddlers? | 18 |
| Publicly condemning | 19 |
| Solve the code | 14 |
| Crack, as a code | 16 |
| Break a code | 12 |
| Breaks the code | 15 |
| Cracks a code | 13 |
| Converts code into ordinary language | 36 |
| Winter mos. | 11 |
| Infamous 1941 date, briefly | 27 |
| Holiday mos. | 12 |
| Holiday months: Abbr. | 21 |
| Fourth qtr. enders | 18 |
| Christmas times: Abbr. | 22 |
| Busy mos. in retail | 19 |
| Secretary General Javier Pérez ___ | 37 |
| Multiply by ten | 15 |
| Like some races and hopes | 25 |
| Acted feeble-mindedly | 21 |
| Comes after The Police's "De Do Do Do" | 52 |
| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| "Ulysses" hero Stephen | 32 |
| Within, in Dijon | 16 |