| Do a private eye's job | 26 |
| Smell out | 9 |
| Emulate Magnum | 14 |
| Do some sleuthing | 17 |
| Do a sleuth's job | 21 |
| Do a gumshoe's work | 23 |
| Radar, for one | 14 |
| PI | 2 |
| Spade or Spenser | 16 |
| Spade or Marlowe | 16 |
| Private investigator | 20 |
| Peter Gunn e.g. | 16 |
| Dorothy Sayers products | 23 |
| TV's Briscoe and Green | 26 |
| A magnum of ... | 15 |
| Training for PIs | 16 |
| "Sleuth" | 18 |
| Big scale manufacturer | 22 |
| Big name in bathroom scales | 27 |
| Airport security device | 23 |
| Lie or smoke follower | 21 |
| Lie ___ | 7 |
| Sensors | 7 |
| Warming periods | 15 |
| Lessenings of tension between nations | 37 |
| Relaxations of international tensions | 37 |
| Periods of warming ... or cooling off | 37 |
| Periods of de-escalation, perhaps | 33 |
| International easings | 21 |
| International breathers | 23 |
| Easings of tension | 18 |
| Easings of political tensions | 29 |
| Easings of enmities | 19 |
| Diplomatic successes | 20 |
| High-schooler's punishment | 30 |
| After-school punishment | 23 |
| Watchmaker's parts | 22 |
| Movement-locking catches of clocks | 34 |
| Dissuade people from using a bridge? | 36 |
| Wash or wipe off | 16 |
| It has "rot" and "die" inside | 49 |
| Fixed, as a number | 18 |
| Judgmental winner of 1954 Derby? | 32 |
| Fix authoritatively | 19 |
| Derby winner: 1954 | 18 |
| Derby winner, 1954, or decide | 29 |
| Decide upon definitely | 22 |
| Not willing to give | 19 |
| Headstrong, perhaps | 19 |
| Decision maker | 14 |
| What U.M.W. pickets do | 22 |
| Discourage U.M.W. work? | 23 |
| Hoped-for effect of having a big military | 41 |
| Hindrances | 10 |
| One who discourages | 19 |
| Person feeling abhorrence | 25 |
| Grimace maker, maybe | 20 |
| Hateful ones | 12 |
| Those who loathe | 16 |
| Bigots, e.g. | 12 |
| Hate swimming? | 14 |
| Mal ___ (headache in Le Havre) | 30 |
| ___klok ("Metalocalypse" band) | 40 |
| Fictional band on the Cartoon Network show "Metalocalypse" | 68 |
| Fictional band on Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse" | 60 |
| Make roses safe to handle | 25 |
| Remove a monarch | 16 |
| Take the championship from | 26 |
| Remove, as a monarch | 20 |
| Remove from high office | 23 |
| Oust from authority | 19 |
| Toppled, in a way | 17 |
| Usurps | 6 |
| Free of mites | 13 |
| Remove stannic coating | 22 |
| Remove a metal plating | 22 |
| Remove a metal coating | 22 |
| Sch. punishment | 15 |
| Set off, as explosives | 22 |
| Set off, in a big way | 21 |
| Set off the charge | 18 |
| Set off an explosion | 20 |
| Set off a charge | 16 |
| Push a certain plunger | 22 |
| Explode with suddenness | 23 |
| Explode violently | 17 |
| Set off dynamite | 16 |
| Bomb device | 11 |
| Percussion cap, e.g. | 20 |
| Ka-boom! maker | 14 |
| Fuse, e.g. | 10 |
| Warning to motorists | 20 |
| Changed course | 14 |
| Took the long way home | 22 |
| Went circuitously | 17 |
| Used the long route | 19 |
| Used an alternate route perforce | 32 |
| Took an alternate route | 23 |
| Redirected | 10 |
| Word that could mean “force vacationers to vacate” or “one who takes alternate routes” | 102 |