| Prepare for reuse, perhaps | 26 |
| Wipe off a chalkboard, say | 26 |
| Start to correct, in a way | 26 |
| Clean off, as a blackboard | 26 |
| Helped with the blackboard | 26 |
| Most golf pencils lack one | 26 |
| They help get the lead out | 26 |
| What a smudge may indicate | 26 |
| Puzzle solver's smudge | 26 |
| Between quod and faciendum | 26 |
| Calliope's sister muse | 26 |
| Sister goddess of Calliope | 26 |
| Greek Muse of lyric poetry | 26 |
| Wagner's Earth goddess | 26 |
| "Rheingold" role | 26 |
| Solid ground, in Stuttgart | 26 |
| Two-way poetic preposition | 26 |
| Before, in an old syllable | 26 |
| "___ I saw Elba" | 26 |
| You may see it before long | 26 |
| Lyrical "before" | 26 |
| Vague time frame indicator | 26 |
| Poet's palindrome word | 26 |
| Byronic "before" | 26 |
| "Before" of yore | 26 |
| Palindrome in a palindrome | 26 |
| Double-bladed ___ II razor | 26 |
| "Heir" homophone | 26 |
| "--- I saw Elba" | 26 |
| Demonstrating good posture | 26 |
| On twos, rather than fours | 26 |
| Ready for action, in a way | 26 |
| Construct, as a skyscraper | 26 |
| Constructor's activity | 26 |
| Budding engineer's toy | 26 |
| Kid's construction kit | 26 |
| Future architect's toy | 26 |
| Part of a noted palindrome | 26 |
| Prior to today, bard-style | 26 |
| ''___ Tu'' | 26 |
| "Tu ___ mi amor" | 26 |
| Romantic '70s hit song | 26 |
| "Cogito ___ sum" | 26 |
| Consequently, to Descartes | 26 |
| Word before sum, sometimes | 26 |
| Word after a minor premise | 26 |
| Logician's conjunction | 26 |
| "Cogito --- sum" | 26 |
| Problem for a grain farmer | 26 |
| This causes rye to go awry | 26 |
| Physicists' work units | 26 |
| Physicist's work units | 26 |
| Renato's aria ___ Tu | 26 |
| "___ tu" (Verdi) | 26 |
| "___ Tu?" (aria) | 26 |
| "South Park" kid | 26 |
| "South Park" boy | 26 |
| Former Flyers star Lindros | 26 |
| Szmanda of "CSI" | 26 |
| Bana of "Munich" | 26 |
| Stoltz of "Mask" | 26 |
| "Hulk" star Bana | 26 |
| Name of 14 kings of Sweden | 26 |
| Legendary newsman Sevareid | 26 |
| Julia Roberts' brother | 26 |
| Holder of a high position? | 26 |
| Explorer Leif's father | 26 |
| Susan's Emmy soap role | 26 |
| Susan Lucci character Kane | 26 |
| Von Stroheim of the movies | 26 |
| Monty Python troupe member | 26 |
| Skaters Lindros and Heiden | 26 |
| Rockers Clapton and Burdon | 26 |
| DeWitt Clinton's canal | 26 |
| Part of the mnemonic HOMES | 26 |
| City on its own Great Lake | 26 |
| The "E" in HOMES | 26 |
| Site of Mercyhurst College | 26 |
| Ashtabula's waterfront | 26 |
| Railroad chartered in 1832 | 26 |
| Canal with a mule, in song | 26 |
| Admiral Perry victory site | 26 |
| Warmest of the Great Lakes | 26 |
| Strange-sounding waterway? | 26 |
| Niagara River's source | 26 |
| Cleveland's waterfront | 26 |
| City in the Keystone State | 26 |
| Toledo's body of water | 26 |
| Site of many eerie mishaps | 26 |
| Sandusky County's lake | 26 |
| Part of the HOMES mnemonic | 26 |
| Ohio county north of Huron | 26 |
| Niagara River's feeder | 26 |
| Lakeside Pennsylvania city | 26 |
| Lake bordering four states | 26 |
| Lake along which I-90 runs | 26 |
| Lake ___, 1813 battle site | 26 |
| High-snowfall Eastern city | 26 |
| Gannon University location | 26 |
| Creepy-sounding lake name? | 26 |