| Shattering grenades, for short | 30 |
| Wounds with a grenade, in slang | 31 |
| Kills temporarily, as in video gaming | 37 |
| Kills an enemy, in some video games | 35 |
| Crème ___ (dessert topping) | 30 |
| Scairt | 6 |
| "___ not" (informal denial) | 37 |
| "Yep, that's the way it is" | 41 |
| "Yep, unfortunately" | 30 |
| "Yep, alas" | 21 |
| "Yeah, unfortunately" | 31 |
| "Yeah, sorry" | 23 |
| "I wish 'twere otherwise" | 39 |
| Cowardly one | 12 |
| Yellow-belly | 12 |
| Yellow one | 10 |
| Scared one | 10 |
| Person who spooks easily | 24 |
| Cowardly critter | 16 |
| Nervous Nellies | 15 |
| Chickens, to kids | 17 |
| Scottish flattery | 17 |
| Not so stout | 12 |
| Not so hardy | 12 |
| Not as robust | 13 |
| More likely to break | 20 |
| Wanted: Clothing store worker who's not so robust | 53 |
| Least robust | 12 |
| Least likely to last | 20 |
| Fruit baskets | 13 |
| Baskets for holding dried fruit | 31 |
| Delicateness | 12 |
| Hamlet's "___ is woman!" | 38 |
| Strawberry: Fr. | 15 |
| Neck ruff in Shakespeare's day | 34 |
| Creme de ___ (strawberry liqueur) | 33 |
| French strawberries | 19 |
| Made to take the fall | 21 |
| Made to look guilty | 19 |
| Falsely incriminated | 20 |
| Set up, perhaps | 15 |
| Set up to take the rap | 22 |
| Put in the picture? | 19 |
| Pinned it on | 12 |
| Like some photos and suspects | 29 |
| Incriminated falsely | 20 |
| In a jamb? | 10 |
| Falsely accused | 15 |
| It has a wood skeleton | 22 |
| Mood, and a literal feature of the answer to each starred clue | 62 |
| Founding Father listed on a popular computer? | 45 |
| Madison was among them | 22 |
| Whodunit plot elements | 22 |
| Theoretical structures | 22 |
| Artist's activity | 21 |
| Pre-hanging activity | 20 |
| Skeletal structures | 19 |
| Rock musician Peter | 19 |
| Kukla, ___ Ollie | 16 |
| Lingua ___ (way to overcome a language barrier) | 47 |
| Lingua ___ | 10 |
| AWOL in Arles? | 14 |
| Oscar winner McDormand | 22 |
| Willard or Perkins | 18 |
| Opera star Alda | 15 |
| Fort ______ | 11 |
| Farmer of cinema | 16 |
| 1973 Pulitzer winner FitzGerald | 31 |
| Tennis player Schiavone | 23 |
| D'Annunzio's "___ da Rimini" | 46 |
| Temperance advocate | 19 |
| The Secret Garden author | 24 |
| Scottish post-punk band exchanged for old French currency? | 58 |
| Pro sports team, e.g. | 21 |
| Many McDonald's restaurant owners | 37 |
| Someone to build a team around | 30 |
| Individual stores of chains, often | 34 |
| Paris's land, in Spain or Italy | 35 |
| The 1st Viscount of St. Alban and author of “New Atlantis” | 66 |
| He should have written "Green Eggs and Ham" | 53 |
| Frequent collaborator with dramatist John Fletcher | 50 |
| Order founded in Assisi: 1209 | 29 |
| JunÃpero Serra, for one | 26 |
| Friar from Assisi | 17 |
| "San ___," Gable film of 1936 | 39 |
| Late Spanish military head of state | 35 |
| Spanish painter (1746-1828) | 27 |
| Nobelist who co-discovered the structure of DNA | 47 |
| Famed English admiral | 21 |
| A piratic quack's lady? | 27 |
| Ball-park fan | 13 |
| First emperor of Austria | 24 |
| The last Holy Roman emperor | 27 |
| St. ___ Assisi: Oct. 4 | 22 |
| Italy's patron saint | 24 |
| Writer of jazz anthems? | 23 |
| Key for a certain song | 22 |
| Witness to Fort McHenry's bombardment | 41 |
| Poet inspired by Old Glory at Fort McHenry | 42 |
| Md. lawyer who dabbled in verse | 31 |