| "A Passion for ___": Peters-Austin | 44 |
| Title for some dignitaries | 26 |
| Wonderful | 9 |
| Utterance from Mr. Burns or Wayne and Garth | 43 |
| Be superior: Lat. | 17 |
| Padding material | 16 |
| New York's "ever upward" motto | 44 |
| New York state motto ("ever upward") | 46 |
| Fine wood shavings | 18 |
| Gloria in ____ Deo | 18 |
| Rule thwarter | 13 |
| Wondergarment? | 14 |
| Backstage visitors without passes? | 34 |
| Doesn't count | 17 |
| Third line of the verse | 23 |
| Sound bite, e.g. | 16 |
| Selected passage | 16 |
| Selection from a book | 21 |
| Sample passage | 14 |
| Quote in a book review | 22 |
| Pull quote, e.g. | 16 |
| Except having Republican passage from a book | 44 |
| Book jacket bit, often | 22 |
| Bit out of a book | 17 |
| Quoted (from) | 13 |
| Like pull-quotes | 16 |
| Selected passages | 17 |
| Selected parts of longer works | 30 |
| Quotes in book reviews | 22 |
| Superfluities | 13 |
| Overindulgences | 15 |
| Overages | 8 |
| Much intemperance | 17 |
| Immoderate indulgences | 22 |
| Acts of unrestrained hedonism | 29 |
| 2? | 2 |
| Too much guitar work by a professor's helper? | 49 |
| Why the musical was R-rated? | 28 |
| Switch in an orchestra section? | 31 |
| Two dollars per pound, say | 26 |
| Currency differential | 21 |
| Bandying nouns and pronouns | 27 |
| Former grocery clerk? | 21 |
| UK's Treasury Department | 28 |
| National treasury | 17 |
| Former supermarket employee? | 28 |
| National treasuries | 19 |
| No longer working for the Company | 33 |
| Like some retired agts. | 23 |
| Like De Niro in "Meet the Parents" | 44 |
| Removed surgically | 18 |
| Government levy | 15 |
| Whiskey Rebellion impetus | 25 |
| Surgical removals | 17 |
| Easily enthused | 15 |
| Like drugs that stimulate | 25 |
| Bygone award? | 13 |
| What some speed demons crave | 28 |
| What many fans generate | 23 |
| " . . . Passion, or the ___ of the heart": Poe | 56 |
| Auxiliary generator | 19 |
| 2001 Depeche Mode album | 23 |
| They'll get you going | 25 |
| Theme-park rides, often | 23 |
| Like a roller-coaster ride | 26 |
| Type of afferent nerve | 22 |
| Opposite of incl. | 17 |
| Say "Holy cow!" or "Hot dog!" | 49 |
| What Kasparov might do after a good move? | 41 |
| Says "Bah!" or "Ah!" | 40 |
| Lets loose with | 15 |
| Abrupt excited utterance | 24 |
| Point of many ads | 17 |
| What a spot! | 12 |
| Rats! et al. | 12 |
| Pointedly punctuated | 20 |
| Thing to negotiate for | 22 |
| Think out | 9 |
| Support payment query? | 22 |
| Ouster of a sort | 16 |
| Ostracism of a sort | 19 |
| Email from an old flame? | 24 |
| Retired hams? | 13 |
| Scammers gone straight? | 23 |
| Record holders? | 15 |
| They're out now | 19 |
| They're no longer inside | 28 |
| They have records | 17 |
| Ones with records | 17 |
| Former insiders | 15 |
| People on parole | 16 |
| Denounce violently | 18 |
| Discharge waste | 15 |
| Eliminates waste | 16 |
| Former Wrigley athlete | 22 |
| Clears of blame | 15 |
| Out of court | 12 |
| Ski-weekend specials | 20 |
| Apology, to Pablo | 17 |
| "May I be ___?" | 25 |