| Political bloc that probably won't form | 43 |
| Saw in the dark? | 16 |
| WHAT HE SAW | 11 |
| 1976 Gary Wright hit | 20 |
| Universal competitor | 20 |
| Studio co-founded by Spielberg | 30 |
| Studio behind "American Beauty" | 41 |
| "Amistad" studio | 26 |
| Gorgeous resident of Rome? | 26 |
| More cheerless | 14 |
| More like Poe's midnight | 28 |
| More dispiriting | 16 |
| Less cheerful | 13 |
| Least sunny | 11 |
| Least pleasant, weatherwise | 27 |
| Without much cheer | 18 |
| With listlessness | 17 |
| Dismal state | 12 |
| Role in The Naked Gun | 24 |
| ''Naked Gun'' hero | 34 |
| Toxic assets invested in worthless merchandise? | 47 |
| Child of a pre-Civil War trial figure and former E! host Jules? | 63 |
| 1993 rap hit with the repeated lyric "Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay" | 79 |
| 1993 rap hit in which Snoop Doggy Dogg popularized the term "bootylicious" | 84 |
| Unearthed, with "up" | 30 |
| Unearthed (with "up") | 31 |
| Scraped the bottom of | 21 |
| Dipped in flour | 15 |
| Coated in flour | 15 |
| Gold diggers, at times | 22 |
| Searches the river | 18 |
| Giant silt removers | 19 |
| Scrapes the bottom | 18 |
| Scoops up river sediment | 24 |
| Land-reclamation machines | 25 |
| Earth-moving machines | 21 |
| Deepens, as a canal | 19 |
| Deepens a channel | 17 |
| Scooping up a river bottom | 26 |
| Using a dragnet | 15 |
| Scott and others | 16 |
| Subject of an 1857 Supreme Court decision | 41 |
| Central figure in an 1850s case | 31 |
| Suffer, in Scotland | 19 |
| Endure, in Edinburgh | 20 |
| Endure, in Scotland | 19 |
| Tedious, in Scotland | 20 |
| Tedious, in Glasgow | 19 |
| Suffer, in Glasgow | 18 |
| Suffer, in Angus | 16 |
| Endure: Scot. | 13 |
| Endure in Scotland | 18 |
| Dreary: Scot. | 13 |
| Dreary, in Dundee | 17 |
| Dreary in Dundee | 16 |
| Dismal, in Scotland | 19 |
| Deplete: Dialect | 16 |
| Former Dutch prime minister | 27 |
| Endures: Scot. | 14 |
| Endures, in Scotland | 20 |
| Endures, in Inverness | 21 |
| Endures, in Edinburgh | 21 |
| Detergent brand in a pink package | 33 |
| German count of bottles under the kitchen sink? | 47 |
| Toys with shins | 15 |
| They have shins on only one side | 32 |
| 1/4 Dutzend drinks? | 19 |
| Threes, to Gerhardt | 19 |
| German numbers | 14 |
| "Sister Carrie" author | 32 |
| Author of "Sister Carrie" | 35 |
| He wrote "Jennie Gerhardt" | 36 |
| "Sister Carrie" novelist | 34 |
| "Jennie Gerhardt" author | 34 |
| "An American Tragedy" writer Theodore | 47 |
| "An American Tragedy" writer | 38 |
| ''Sister Carrie'' author | 40 |
| ''An American Tragedy'' writer | 46 |
| Yiddish "trash" | 25 |
| Heavy rainfalls | 15 |
| Like a downpour | 15 |
| Soak browned bread? | 19 |
| Water balloon battles? | 22 |
| Dummy up? | 9 |
| Ceremonial military outfit | 26 |
| Actress Fran | 12 |
| Fran of TV's "The Nanny" | 38 |
| Fran of "The Nanny" | 29 |
| "Happily Divorced" star | 33 |
| German drill master | 19 |
| Common prom night stain? | 24 |
| Three sun followers | 19 |
| Military attire | 15 |
| Marines' formal wear | 24 |
| Formal military attire | 22 |
| Skirt hoop, in a way | 20 |
| Parts of opera houses | 21 |
| They may ask you to keep things formal | 38 |
| Details in employee manuals | 27 |
| Give feathers a glossy finish? | 30 |