| Break followers | 15 |
| On the cheap end | 16 |
| Move to a lower gear | 20 |
| Worked a manual transmission | 28 |
| Cut staff | 9 |
| Underwent reduction | 19 |
| The cotton shirt in the washer got ___ | 38 |
| Smaller now, in corporate-speak | 31 |
| Activity of duvet makers? | 25 |
| Where some Yankees winter | 25 |
| Where snowbirds head, redundantly | 33 |
| In Georgia, e.g. | 16 |
| Toward the audience | 19 |
| Nearest the audience | 20 |
| Closer to the audience | 22 |
| Actor's area | 16 |
| Toward the southern border | 26 |
| Southern New York, e.g. | 23 |
| Like New York City, to Albany | 29 |
| Like New York City, e.g. | 24 |
| With the current | 16 |
| How things flow | 15 |
| Lost for good | 13 |
| "Take care of things while I'm gone" | 50 |
| "Carry on in my absence" | 34 |
| Eat all one's leftovers? | 28 |
| Like strike one | 15 |
| For a worthless purpose | 23 |
| Where future motorists get together? | 36 |
| "Luckily, things did get better ___ ..." | 50 |
| School-traffic violation | 24 |
| '-- Abbey' | 18 |
| TV series about the Crowley family | 34 |
| Nearly destitute | 16 |
| Where to drop, during a fire | 28 |
| How some very casual races are timed? | 37 |
| Directions for a basement escort? | 33 |
| Petula Clark hit | 16 |
| Petula Clark classic | 20 |
| Where the activity is | 21 |
| Where some major arteries go | 28 |
| Urban business center | 21 |
| Main Street beat? | 17 |
| 1965 Petula Clark hit | 21 |
| Rod Stewart hit | 15 |
| 1989 Rod Stewart hit | 20 |
| Oppressed by people in power | 28 |
| Worsening, as of business activity | 34 |
| Market decline | 14 |
| Economic decline | 16 |
| Business decline | 16 |
| Kind of mobility | 16 |
| Spiraling direction | 19 |
| What the four longest entries in this puzzle (except this one) are examples of | 78 |
| Words from an old song | 22 |
| Song hit by J. Flynn: 1889 | 26 |
| Anti-Establishment words | 24 |
| Fabric softener made by Procter & Gamble | 44 |
| Popular fabric softener | 23 |
| Soft and fluffy | 15 |
| Fluffy | 6 |
| Kind of woodpecker | 18 |
| Soft, like cotton | 17 |
| Soft, as fabric | 15 |
| Soft and feathery | 17 |
| Like fluff | 10 |
| Fabric softener brand | 21 |
| Extremely soft | 14 |
| Wagonfuls of feathers? | 22 |
| Demand for fabric softener? | 27 |
| Winged black-and-white driller | 30 |
| Flying version of a pneumatic drill | 35 |
| Admonition to a miracle worker? | 31 |
| Have less success (than) | 24 |
| Go from A to B? | 15 |
| Bridal goods | 12 |
| Startup funds? | 14 |
| Brides' portions | 20 |
| Brides' bestowals | 21 |
| Gives, old-style | 16 |
| Well wishers? | 13 |
| Uses a divining rod | 19 |
| Seeks water, in a way | 21 |
| Searches for water | 18 |
| Uses a hazel tree branch, maybe | 31 |
| Performs rhabdomancy | 20 |
| Locates an aquifer | 18 |
| Hunts water | 11 |
| Emulates a rhabdomantist | 24 |
| Song about New York City and its investors? | 43 |
| Presentation of a Wall Street index? | 36 |
| Suffix meaning belief | 21 |
| Part of an Eastern hymn | 23 |
| Religious views | 15 |
| Hymns praising God | 18 |
| Religious view | 14 |
| Religious opinion | 17 |
| Kept woman | 10 |
| Ending for hetero or ortho | 26 |
| 1977 ELO hit | 12 |