| Mystery writing awards | 22 |
| Mystery writer's booty | 26 |
| Mystery writer awards | 21 |
| Mystery prizes | 14 |
| Literary awards | 15 |
| Donald Westlake has won three of them | 37 |
| Dick FrancisÂ’s three | 24 |
| Bergen and Poe | 14 |
| Bergen and Burroughs | 20 |
| Awards with a "Best Fact Crime" category | 50 |
| Awards since 1947 | 17 |
| Awards named for a writer | 25 |
| Awards for Stanley Ellin | 24 |
| Awards for P. D. James | 22 |
| Awards for Dick Francis | 23 |
| Annual literary awards | 22 |
| He wrote "Red Star Over China" | 40 |
| Suburb | 6 |
| It both aids and hinders | 24 |
| Teetotaler | 10 |
| Found a spot | 12 |
| Entered obliquely | 17 |
| Entered by creeping sideways | 28 |
| Added slyly, as a comment | 25 |
| Added just before time ran out | 30 |
| Money earmarked for neatening up one's hairline with a razor? | 65 |
| Like an epee | 12 |
| Stevie Nicks "___ Seventeen" | 38 |
| Soap opera with 7,420 episodes, with "The" | 52 |
| Squeaks by | 10 |
| Beats by a whisker | 18 |
| They snip and clip | 18 |
| Popular name for a seaside hotel | 32 |
| One way to get a word in | 24 |
| Word often following "word in" | 40 |
| Not straight on | 15 |
| In an irritable way | 19 |
| Sign of nerves | 14 |
| Nervy quality | 13 |
| Tendency to push the envelope | 29 |
| Avant-garde quality | 19 |
| Decorative border | 17 |
| Hem material | 12 |
| Neatening a lawn | 16 |
| Curtain detail | 14 |
| Beating by a little bit | 23 |
| Trim, e.g. | 10 |
| The rough vis-Ã -vis a green | 30 |
| Rickrack | 8 |
| Mower's task | 16 |
| Landscaping task | 16 |
| Inching forward | 15 |
| Garden purchase | 15 |
| Garden container? | 17 |
| Border, as of lace | 18 |
| Beating in a photo finish | 25 |
| Garden borders | 14 |
| Lace trimmings | 14 |
| Lace and rickrack | 17 |
| Hem finishes | 12 |
| Border decorations | 18 |
| Neurotic Martin Short character | 31 |
| Old-English letter | 18 |
| Thorn of yore | 13 |
| Th, in Anglo-Saxon days | 23 |
| Phonetic alphabet symbol for "th" as in "the" | 65 |
| Old Saxon letter | 16 |
| Old letter with a "th" sound | 38 |
| Old English letter still used in Icelandic | 42 |
| Old English fricative | 21 |
| O. E. letter | 12 |
| Letter in runes | 15 |
| Defunct letter | 14 |
| Dead letter | 11 |
| Crossed "d" letter | 28 |
| Anglo-Saxon fricative | 21 |
| "Th" in Anglo-Saxon days | 34 |
| ''Th'' in Old English | 37 |
| He plays Andy Bernard on "The Office" | 47 |
| "The Hangover" co-star | 32 |
| "The Hangover Part II" actor | 38 |
| Icelandic letters | 17 |
| O.E. letters | 12 |
| Radish, for one | 15 |
| OCA | 3 |
| Mealtime prayer result? | 23 |
| Tasteful bedclothes? | 20 |
| Like a bull | 11 |
| Widow of Ernie Kovacs | 21 |
| Tony winner for her Daisy Mae portrayal in "Li'l Abner" (1956) | 76 |
| Singer in old Muriel Cigars ads | 31 |
| She won a Tony as Daisy Mae in "Li'l Abner" | 57 |
| She eloped with Ernie Kovacs in 1954 | 36 |
| Monica Crump portrayer | 22 |
| "Li'l Abner" Tony winner, 1956 | 44 |
| Actress who was in "Oz" | 33 |
| Built up spiritually | 20 |
| Enlightenment | 13 |
| Uplifting enlightenment | 23 |
| Spiritually uplifted | 20 |