| This gently weeps, in song | 26 |
| Solzhenitsyn novel setting | 26 |
| Periodontist's concern | 26 |
| Underside-of-the-desk gunk | 26 |
| Botch, with "up" | 26 |
| Charcoal artist's tool | 26 |
| Seek, with "for" | 26 |
| "Smoking" object | 26 |
| Kipling's water bearer | 26 |
| Actor Moses from St. Louis | 26 |
| They're held by stocks | 26 |
| Hindu religious instructor | 26 |
| Spiritual mentor, in India | 26 |
| Virgil Grissom, to friends | 26 |
| Edwards of vaudeville days | 26 |
| Communist Party's Hall | 26 |
| Augie's other nickname | 26 |
| Anemometer's recording | 26 |
| "Go for the ___" | 26 |
| Sailboat's propellants | 26 |
| Instinctive, as a reaction | 26 |
| Bar habitue's giveaway | 26 |
| Gunpowder Plot conspirator | 26 |
| Singers McCrae and Stefani | 26 |
| Class for making sweaters? | 26 |
| Class that makes sweaters? | 26 |
| Where Joe gets a six-pack? | 26 |
| Palestra's mod. cousin | 26 |
| Business dependent on reps | 26 |
| Where people get pumped up | 26 |
| Places for H.S. basketball | 26 |
| Plaster of Paris component | 26 |
| Leaf-eating insect scourge | 26 |
| Greek restaurant offerings | 26 |
| Lukas of 'Witness' | 26 |
| Golfer Jay or his son Bill | 26 |
| German composer Joseph ___ | 26 |
| A bad one should be kicked | 26 |
| Common practice for a nun? | 26 |
| Breaking a bad one is good | 26 |
| They may be tough to break | 26 |
| They can be tough to break | 26 |
| The mark on the C in Capek | 26 |
| Rooster's neck plumage | 26 |
| "If I __ Hammer" | 26 |
| Tried, with "at" | 26 |
| Where the Phlegethon flows | 26 |
| Inclines from the vertical | 26 |
| "___ but known!" | 26 |
| "--- but known!" | 26 |
| "___ only known" | 26 |
| "__ only known!" | 26 |
| '-- but known ...' | 26 |
| Welcomed to one's home | 26 |
| Reached the breaking point | 26 |
| Pilgrimage to Mecca (Var.) | 26 |
| Religious duty for Muslims | 26 |
| Ihram wearer's journey | 26 |
| Invited to one's place | 26 |
| It's kept in the Bible | 26 |
| Couldn't get out of it | 26 |
| "Macbeth" figure | 26 |
| Miss America she's not | 26 |
| Scruffy comic strip Viking | 26 |
| Three-time Tony winner Uta | 26 |
| Anti-formalist actress Uta | 26 |
| "Dallas" co-star | 26 |
| The ___ (Netherlands city) | 26 |
| The ___, Peace Palace site | 26 |
| "When pigs fly!" | 26 |
| "I told you so!" | 26 |
| "You wanna bet?" | 26 |
| Expletive expressing doubt | 26 |
| "Oh, very funny" | 26 |
| Sound heard after a crack? | 26 |
| Reaction to a knee-slapper | 26 |
| Music to Carson's ears | 26 |
| Comic's favorite sound | 26 |
| "Yeah, I get it" | 26 |
| "That was funny" | 26 |
| "Funny ... not!" | 26 |
| Sound of feigned amusement | 26 |
| Jessica in a 1980s scandal | 26 |
| Jessica of a 1980s scandal | 26 |
| Nuclear fission discoverer | 26 |
| Jessica of the PTL scandal | 26 |
| Words of contempt, perhaps | 26 |
| Japanese for 'yes' | 26 |
| Eastern Mediterranean port | 26 |
| British marshal of W. W. I | 26 |
| Chief of staff under Nixon | 26 |
| 17-syllable form of poetry | 26 |
| Evocative three-line verse | 26 |
| "_____, Caesar!" | 26 |
| ___ fellow (genial person) | 26 |
| Ethiopian emperor Selassie | 26 |
| Big name in Rastafarianism | 26 |
| Like taxis on city streets | 26 |
| "Airport" author | 26 |
| Catches a cabbie's eye | 26 |