| Lower on the Beaufort scale | 27 |
| Certain financial counselor | 27 |
| Cause to withdraw gradually | 27 |
| No longer reliant on mother | 27 |
| Makes independent, in a way | 27 |
| Disengages, as from a habit | 27 |
| Get folks to give stuff up? | 27 |
| "What Not to ___" | 27 |
| "All ___" Warlock | 27 |
| Winning over by persistence | 27 |
| Evade, with "out" | 27 |
| One concerned with clemency | 27 |
| Drive dangerously, in a way | 27 |
| Moved in and out of traffic | 27 |
| Cause of a fly's demise | 27 |
| Telarian's construction | 27 |
| Home to many new businesses | 27 |
| Jack of "Dragnet" | 27 |
| 'Dragnet' star Jack | 27 |
| Jack who played Sgt. Friday | 27 |
| "Dragnet" creator | 27 |
| "Our Town" family | 27 |
| Pop composer Jim and others | 27 |
| Like an arachnid's home | 27 |
| It tops many laptop screens | 27 |
| Devices for streaming video | 27 |
| Big name in barbecue grills | 27 |
| Composer Carl Maria von ___ | 27 |
| "Oberon" composer | 27 |
| Site with a Symptom Checker | 27 |
| They have tags and get hits | 27 |
| Surfers' stops, perhaps | 27 |
| "___ Work It Out" | 27 |
| Group's anxious comment | 27 |
| Jump the broom, so to speak | 27 |
| Get "altarations" | 27 |
| Matrimonial tie that binds? | 27 |
| It can give a golfer a lift | 27 |
| Choice for a sand trap shot | 27 |
| Shoe with a triangular sole | 27 |
| Shared wedding vow response | 27 |
| Small, to a bagpipes player | 27 |
| Super Bowl III coach Ewbank | 27 |
| Did some work in the garden | 27 |
| Like a well-maintained lawn | 27 |
| Garden "crashers" | 27 |
| Unsightly in a certain way | 27 |
| Rife with dandelions, maybe | 27 |
| Populated with pesky plants | 27 |
| Like a neglected flower bed | 27 |
| Longtime classroom magazine | 27 |
| Cotton farmer's concern | 27 |
| Start of Robbie's grace | 27 |
| 5th century Chinese dynasty | 27 |
| Serious thinker's diet? | 27 |
| Hallowe'en golfer Mike? | 27 |
| Wacky Olympic skiing event? | 27 |
| Gateway to a strange place? | 27 |
| ___-Bilt (power tool brand) | 27 |
| Debt disregarders, slangily | 27 |
| Goes back on one's word | 27 |
| Invites in enthusiastically | 27 |
| Use a blowtorch on, perhaps | 27 |
| Do the work of a pipefitter | 27 |
| Some construction junctions | 27 |
| Social worker's concern | 27 |
| Hardly rare, in restaurants | 27 |
| "Let me think..." | 27 |
| Words of apology — NOT! | 27 |
| Like a samaritan's help | 27 |
| Versed in the classics, say | 27 |
| "They crushed us" | 27 |
| "They creamed us" | 27 |
| Like Dylan Thomas, by birth | 27 |
| Certain pugilist, for short | 27 |
| Painful paintball souvenirs | 27 |
| ___ one's way (proceed) | 27 |
| Late playwright Wasserstein | 27 |
| Start of a frank discussion | 27 |
| Memorable crosswords editor | 27 |
| "What ___ wrong?" | 27 |
| Took a chance with a dance? | 27 |
| American Airlines stock ___ | 27 |
| The tenacious candidate ___ | 27 |
| Carroll's Walrus did it | 27 |
| "___ number one!" | 27 |
| Contraction with number one | 27 |
| "As you ___ ... " | 27 |
| "--- number one!" | 27 |
| "___ not worthy!" | 27 |
| Cellar dwellers' lament | 27 |
| Negative verbal contraction | 27 |
| It's not always a beast | 27 |
| Horror film creature, maybe | 27 |
| HeÂ’s not always a beast | 27 |
| Mineral resembling feldspar | 27 |
| Don of the '60s Tigers | 27 |
| Horror film director Craven | 27 |
| Former Mets manager Westrum | 27 |
| Director Craven or Anderson | 27 |